now here is captain luke martin who in june was appointed to head that division. >> right now we're prioritizinghe areas we see the most. the most affected areas. but we could certainly use more staffing. >> reporter: now here is what the city says will help. more enforcement, as you just heard, calming left turn traffic, meaning adding features that would force drivers to reduce speed when making a left turn. the city is also looking into limiting right turns on red, another feature extending the time of walk signals especially for the elderly and, of course, continue to make crosswalks more visib visible. now there are few things working against us. police say people are speeding more. you also have more people living in san francisco, more cars because of the lyft and uber factor and, of course, as i mentioned you have more homeless people in san francisco. again, the reality is that so far this year 22 people have died on our streets. i'm live in san francisco, lyanne melendez. >> do you think san francisco might follow new york, no right-hand turns on red lights, even though you said the le

my name is luke martin i'm the current acting captain at traffic company. so you want to know a little bit more about the unit we're starting just to give you a background. i've been with traffic company for two years now. so i've been monitoring a different capacity. this june, i took over as the captain, as our former captain was promoted and after kind of examining the numbers i noticed a steady decline in traffic citations. we were hovering just right about 50% on focus of the five violations. i think there's several factors that have contributed to the decline and citations, i'm more focused on how to improve. the first thing i looked at doing was forming a small group of our officers and took away some of the you've tasks tha ote detailed to. we investigate collisions. we respond to different protests and demonstration and other events that happen in the city as well as help out other districts with traffic control and things like that. i took all those responsibilities away from this small group of officers and just had them go out to high-injury cor

martin bashir sent this report from madagascar. braving blustery conditions on the outskirts of the capital, antananarivo, crowds were overflowing for an open—air mass. quoting from the gospel of luket for both people and the planet — an urgent message for this part of the world. translation: this demand encourages us not to dilute and narrow the gospel message, but instead to build history in fraternity and solidarity, in complete respect for the earth and its gifts, as opposed to any form of exploitation. across the landscape of this country, the world's fourth—largest island, 40% of its forest has disappeared in the last 60 years. the environmental danger is aggravated because 80% of madagascar‘s plant and animal species are not found anywhere else on the planet. this visit has come at a moment of rapid growth for the catholic church in africa. the pope's trip to africa was intended as a pastoral visit to encourage the growing churches here. but it quickly became political, with his condemnation of the plundering of natural resources. and, for the thousands who came out to greet him, they encountered a pope who is as much a conservationist as he is a christian. coming up at 6:00

martin bashir sent this report from madagascar. braving blustery conditions on the outskirts of the capital, crowds were overflowing for an open air mass. quoting from the gospel of lukerist demands respect for both people and the planet — an urgent message for this part of the world. translation: this demand encourages us not to delude the gospel message, but instead to build history and solidarity and complete respect for the earth and its gift. as opposed to any form of exportation. across the landscape of this country, the world's fourth—largest island, 40% of its forest has disappeared in the last 60 years. the environmental danger is aggravated because 80% of madagascar‘s plant and animal species are not found anywhere else on the planet. and it isn'tjust foreign companies who see money in hacking down madagascar‘s trees. conservationists say local businesses are also to blame. and welcome the pope's intervention. it was a very good and strong message. the civil society was there. felt very encouraged and invigorated in listening to the pope. this visit has come at a moment of rapid growth for the catholic church in africa. the pope's trip to africa was intended

martin bashir sent this report from madagascar. braving blustery conditions on the outskirts of the capital, antananarivo, crowds were overflowing for an open—air mass. quoting from the gospel of lukelanet — an urgent message for this part of the world. translation: this demand encourages us not to dilute and narrow the gospel message, but instead to build history in fraternity and solidarity, in complete respect for the earth and its gifts, as opposed to any form of exportation. across the landscape of this country, the world's fourth—largest island, 40% of its forest has disappeared in the last 60 years. the environmental danger is aggravated because 80% of madagascar‘s plant and animal species are not found anywhere else on the planet. and it isn'tjust foreign companies who see money in hacking down madagascar‘s trees. conservationists say local businesses are also to blame and welcome the pope's intervention. it was a very good and strong message. the civil society who was there felt very encouraged and invigorated in listening to the pope. this visit has come at a moment of rapid growth for the catholic church in africa. the pope's trip to africa was intended as a pastoral vis

martin, 14. nick, 17. aaron, 37. jamie guttenberg, 14. chris hixon, 49. luke hoyer, 15. gina, 14. cara, 14. joaquin, 17. alain that, 14. meadow, 18. helen, 18. carmen, 16. peter wang, 15. every one of those 17 who were killed at stillman douglas will never be older than that age on the day they were killed. i understand the importance of the second amendment, but how it is that he about we can have a hearing where one of the witnesses compares these weapons to shoes is just beyond me. we're going to give a list. i've got another list. how about this list. dayton, nine killed, 17 injured. las vegas, 58 killed, 422 injured. orlando, 49 killed, 53 injured. sandy hook, 27 killed including 26 and 27-year-old babies, two injured. southerland springs, two killed. el paso, 24 killed, 22 injured. stillman douglas, also 17 who were injured. i understand this is not easy for everyone but i want everyone to understand how for the lives who have been ripped from the face of this earth for their families, it will never be the same. and when we're looking -- what we're trying to do here, the reason this hearing is so