the mall are closed and around driving downtown is not a great idea.have some options on metro. there are some closed stations. archives is closed all day. mount vernon square is closed as well as the smithsonian station. if you have tickets for the inauguration use the union station, judiciary square, capitol south, a federal center of southwest stations. if you don't have tickets, use the l'enfant plaza station delaware replaced metro center, not a bad whaalk. the parking lots for metro stations will be filling up quickly and very early. anticipate that. have a backup plan in place. you can see the closures. if you have to drive downtown as far north of k street east and west to avoid all the closures. the closer you get to k street and massachusetts you would be right next to all the closures, and that would make it slow trying to get through downtown. back to you. >> thank you. a controversial pet making a comeback. >> and controversial technology figure during a comeback. kim dotcom has just launched mega, a new unscriptedencrypted sequence. sharp

we have seen hundreds downtown. making sure the crowds are moving in the right direction of where they need to go. if your car in to head down here, go ahead and get that start. -- if you were going to head down here, go ahead and get that start. certainly starting to see big backups throughout downtown. people are waiting to take part in the inaugural festivities. back to you. >> one difference we're seeing this time around the license plate on the limo is different. d.c. city council members went to the white house and lobbied for it yet again. the one. -- they won. they were surprised. we want you to stay with abc 7 for this continuing coverage of the big day. we have your inauguration guide as well at wjla.com. that will include a full list of road closures, metro information and everything you need to know if you're coming down here. >> think you. checking news around prince george's county, one person hospitalized after severing hospital arrest. -- thank you. investigators tried to figure out what sparked the

one in downtown san francisco near the u.s. mint. this will be the third driest january ever in downtown. and likely it will be the driest january ever since we have been keeping records at sfo. it has been that dry this january. dry tonight clear skies chilly again in fremont 39. concord 39. fairfield 36. in the city down to 48. oakland 45. and san jose you will drop down to 42 degrees overnight tonight. i have established the pattern for you over the past couple of days. big ridge of high pressure over northern california so the only question is, when will this ridge break down and our forecas change? not tomorrow through sunday. we are going to stay sunny and mild for a while. storm track stays up to our north as high pressure doesn't move. so the weather that you enjoyed today or maybe you were stuck inside the office, you're going to have it all the way through the weekend. so don't fret, you'll be able to get outside saturday and sunday. changes next week. rainfall for now remains to our north but the whole pattern will shift t

this morning headed into downtown. if you are traveling, which i strongly suggest you do not do traveling in towards the festivities, 66 coming across the tr bridge, the bridge remains open but you can't get any further than 23rd street. so others you come off the bridge, there is nowhere to go. -- so, as soon as you come off the bridge, there is nowhere to go. keep in mind the memorial bridge will be closed offer to pedestrian traffic only. pedestrian traffic only coming across the memorial bridge. 66 remains open but where are you going to go from there? the freeway is open in each direction but the third street tunnel and the ninth street tunnel and 12th street tunnel have been closed off. i see a lot of people headed over towards metro to use that as their means of transportation headed into downtown. keep in mind, the service has been suspended on marc this morning because ever the festivities. there is a special inaugural traffic pattern if you will for those traveling on the penn line. make note of that if that

and they need to get to the downtown area to go to work in most cases. some of them will go to noe valley or the mission if they get call. so, it's a concern if you allow the left turn going north on sixth street at harrison and then you've also allow for the parking on the east side of 5th street, you are creating much more gridlock. * calls almost to the point where you're going to get huge levels of service by up to e or f, and i am very concerned what you're going to do and how it's going to affect cab service because of the fact it's going to cause more gridlock on that street. please, you all, i invite you all to drive that all in an afternoon, particularly let's say on a thursday or friday, how to get into the city. and you know the cabs -- again, where the cabs are situated when there's a change of shift. so, if you want to harm service in the downtown area or in north beach or in nob hill, then go ahead and make traffic on sixth street going northbound worse. and this is what does it. thank you. >> thank you. >> mr. chairman, before you proceed,

usually on a sunday evening downtown is pretty quiet.ou can see there are tons of people out, even at this hour. and if you were hoping to get one of those special smart trip cards at this point, it's too late. >> any day you want all day long. >> reporter: at metro center downtown people waited in line to get these, the commemorative obama inaugural smart trip cards selling for 15 bucks apiece. >> i have been to two different metro stations before getting here, and i got them. >> how many? two? >> reporter: the cards sold out across the system around noon, but word spread that there were a few thousand left still for sale here. metro ordered 100,000 standards, more than what sold in 2009. >> i think it's a collector's item, but i have family here, so i use them every time i come back. >> reporter: it's been a busy day for metro and it's not even inauguration day yet. officials say as of 3:00 p.m., 167,000 people had taken metro, about double the ridership compared to last sunday. >> it was pretty busy. kind of crowded, but not too bad.

parking downtown, it's waiting for me tonight. parking downtown, the garage and parking is waiting for you. >> thank you. are there other members of the public who wish to speak on items 1 or 2? seeing none, public comment is closed. we have two these items before us. if there are no other questions i do have a few comments to make on them. i do appreciate the folks who have come out to speak and i absolutely understand why it has become part of the fabric of some of the community where's they do exist. so i do want indicate that comment or register that comment. there are a few things that make me uncomfortable with this item and these were two pieces of legislation that i thought would be pretty easy, but as i started to speak to individuals about, it i became less comfortable in the two items and supporting them at this time. one, i'm still not quite convinced with regard to the transfer of the $2 million. these are funds that i know you had indicated not necessarily for capital, but for operations and the fact that that would

i am an event planner and i'm in and out of downtown all the time. one of the reasons this is of interest to me is that as we know, the lines in the coffee shops as was spoken before are quite long. one of the issues that i wanted to bring up. that my understanding is that the hours of operation for expresso subito is from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on two locations and varying between the 2nd street location and the other location. so i do understand the issue of parking. i do understand downtown being really tight. i definitely understand people's concerns. but we are talking about 6-10 in the morning. i understand, i have seen the truck in operation. he is in and out of that spot in about 15 minutes after he is finished. so a lot of the concerns that people have seem to be more during the day. and i feel that mr. goldstein has tried to do his best to make this work for everybody. i did want to show one of the issues i heard through frequenting his current truck is the issue of royal exchange. and everybody has concerned about royal exchange. no. 1 th

rises in downtown san francisco. i can't stress enough how our members feel the value this room brings to them and when the giants wins and the parade goes down montgomery room we will be in this room and our members that have jobs and will volunteer. why? because they see that value. the value is there is information that we can deliver and where we exist downtown mostly and information here at the city level that can be delivered to us and vice versa. that the absolute value of this room and i can't wait to be back here actually. how does this public-private partnership work? well, for us we started off with our members via emergency preparedness committee and there were many people and it's a hard subject to talk about and everybody is busy. they don't have a lot of time. they're managing buildings and dealing with things and it's tough but we managed to do it and only because sfpm, the police department, fire department and the mayor's office has helped us and jim where are you? he's the private sector liaison an

there is road work near downtown that is being picked up. if you are driving from livermore to castro valley it has been a pretty nice drive. let's go to steve. >>> thank you, sal. a very good morning. you can see a ridge of high pressure. i'm standing right over it. under it so to speak. keep an eye on things. people e-mail me. is the pattern going to change? it's a very classic pattern this time of year. it's not happening any time soon but there is hints of it maybe next week. we'll keep you updated on that. right now it will be clear. although patchy fog looks like it's about ready to form. not much in the way of breeze yet. there is enough of a component of a north breeze for some. most locations are calm half- moon bay north at five. temperatures 20s scene 30s. nothing different than what we have seen in the past couple mornings. sunday was the coldest. it's beginning to be wall to wall sunshine today. temperatures coast and bay are coming up a little bit. inland you still get that east breeze. it makes it tough to warm up some. a hit

rises in downtown san francisco. stress enough how our members feel the value this room brings to them and when the giants wins and the parade goes down montgomery room we will be in this room and our members that have jobs and will volunteer. why? because they see that value. the value is there is information that we can deliver and where we exist downtown mostly and information here at the city level that can be delivered to us and vice versa. that the absolute value of this room and i can't wait to be back here actually. how does this public-private partnership work? well, for us we started off with our members via emergency preparedness committee and there were many people and it's a hard subject to talk about and everybody is busy. they don't have a lot of time. they're managing buildings and dealing with things and it's tough but we managed to do it and only because sfpm, the police department, fire department and the mayor's office has helped us and jim where are you? he's the private sector liaison and thank

a lot of the focus is downtown.now my district is not necessarily going to get a huge increase in funding for streets, for parks, for public safety. we'll get a little bit of a bump, but we're not going to get a bump that's going to actually be commensurate with decisions we're making here today. because we're going to come back with another, another huge general fund support for our local economy for downtown businesses and it's going to be the other part of what we're gaining in terms of [speaker not understood] increasing going back into the place where people feel that we have to provide the greater support for our local economy and our neighborhoods don't get that kind of commensurate support. i understand that's the reality i work in, we live in. i also thank -- i owe it to my constituents and district 11 that we need to be thinking about how we can be much more deliberate about supporting the needs and focus of neighborhoods outside of the downtown corridor. i would lump in the sunset and visitacion valley, b

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you won't have problems getting downtown using the jfx. normal conditions 11 minutes southbound from the beltway all the way down to fayette street. that's a look at your traffic. now over to you. >>> smoking is more deadly for hiv positive patients than the virus itself. researchers looked at nearly 3,000 hiv patients from 1995 to 2010 a found risk of early death from cancer or heart disease was higher among those infected smokers than those not inspected -- infected. >>> when you made the new year's resolution to lose some pounds you may not have to because being slightly overweight may help you live longer. researchers looked at data on nearly 3 million adults around the world and it compared the body mass index measurement of weight in relation to height to the risk of dying younger. and the study found that a little extra weight they had people with that had a 6% chance of theory being of dying -- risk of dying young than those with a considerable normal weight. >>> so when you are in your 60s, you may think about retirement but an au

it's a small school downtown. police say the shooter is in custody, which also is an interesting development because that tells you the gunman survived the self-inflicted gunshot wound which we understand is a wound to the chest. both victims have been taken to the hospital. it's a st. louis university hospital. the situation seems to largely be over. still, you have a large police presence at the location. the informs is still developing. >> shepard: mike tobin, thanks. we'll be right back. almost tastes like one of jack's cereals. fiber one. uh, forgot jack's cereal. [ jack ] what's for breakfast? um... try the number one! yeah, this is pretty good. [ male announcer ] over a third of a day's fiber.

the question before you is for requests for the projects within the downtown area plan and the downtown planning zoning district. is project proposes the demolition of the old building and a new building containing 3 thousand 3 hundred square feet of ground floor space. it will have student housing projects. and the remainder will have other units that could be converted to areas for stunt. it would include bicycle parking spaces in the basement. first, i want to touch on the regulation policies. the granting of sections the code permits that the project meets certain finding. the reduction of ground level wind areas. and that it is in your packet. i would be happy to discuss any of those issues. the project also requires to exceed the - allows more stunt unit for a minimum of - again, i would be happy to discuss the project and the staff requests that this is because of project for student housing. and variances from section 1 to have exposure on the courtyard. and to allow access to the washburn street and to allow are you e reduction of the areas around the street. it is also worth n

it could get a little colder. 48 downtown. we will be tracking the temperatures through the morning. upper 40's and low 50's this afternoon. then the clouds will come back this afternoon. it is above normal. details in the seven-day forecast. >> we are starting out with several problem spots including at the fort mchenry. there is a disabled vehicle in the right tube. there is a problem northbound on the j.f.x. just past coldspring lane. stay to the right and you should be ok. a closure of the northbound harrisburg expressway. all lanes are closed in the northbound direction past belfast. all lanes are closed at route 99 in ellicott city. great shape on the southbound b- w parkway, 55 miles per hour. traffic is flowing well on 95 out of white marsh. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> education week magazine has named maryland the number 1 school system in the country for the fifth year in a row. >> maryland received a final overall grade of b-plus, the best in the nation. >> we are delighted that maryland has been iden

meganngilliland is livv from an emergency shelter downtown with some tips to ssay warm out there. p3 good mornniggguys,we'reelive at the weinberg housing andd resource center along fallswwy. this shelter is open 24 hours a day nnw... and can serve 275 3 folks who need to step issde and gettout of the cold. freezing... ann the wind only makee it worse..ecause of that....the city issued a codd blue warning last night.it -3 will emain in effect through sunday evening..hat meann many sheltees will have extended hourr..- hours.for a list oo the 14 shelters currently operating in the city... you can go o -3 fox-baltimooe dot com slash &pnewslinks... or call 3-1-1 3-1-1if you do have o head wear mulitple layers of loose fitting clothing.grab a at - and scarf.drink plenty of fluids.don't forget to check -3 on those who are elderly... and keep your pets warm too..f you're using a space heater inside... rememmer to keep them away from curtains... furniture and even clothing. 3 be careful ut here today.live ii downtown, i'm megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. a coalltion of labor and community

under the proposed resolution on termination of the lease agreement with downtown parking corporation, mta would assume all the administrative and oversight responsibilities for the 5th and mission garage, including the existing vendor and subtenant agreements. the mta actually estimates the savings of and the savings from reduced administrative costs carried currently by downtown parking corporation of about 200,000 a year. and we recommend approval. >> okay, very good. thank you very much. we can open up this item for public comment. any member of the public would like to comment? seeing none, we'll close public comment. and this item, can we -- we'll reserve -- we'll go when the chair comes back. we'll skip item number 15 -- i'm sorry, we'll skip item number 14 and go on to item number 15, please. >> item number 15, resolution authorizing the 2012 south of market community stabilization fund program and authorizing the mayor's office of housing to expend soma community stabilization fund dollars in the amount of $760,000. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. i've introduced a resolutio

we are finding that we have closures downtown. southeast-southwest freeway is open but you are denied access to the third street tunnel, the ninth street tunnel and 129th street tunnel. independence, constitution all closed off. we've heard from folks who said yes, i'm going downtown. they are making their way over towards the metro. that is the way to go because of the limited parking. there is a number. streets that will be closed off right now because of the festivities throughout the day. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. ime traffic. >> thank you. >>> up next, today is the big day but there were plenty of events and festivities leading up to this inaugural weekend. >> all right. coming up next, today is the big day. there were plenty of events leading up to it. >> we'll show you how a group of future voters geared up over the weekend. fox 5 morning news will be right back. right back.  oh! progress-oh! -oh! -oh! oh! oh! ♪ what do you know? oh! ♪ bacon? -oh! -oh! oh! [ female announcer ] with 40 delicious p

we will be shielded by the mountains. 37 downtown.s have dropped into the upper 20's. most of the precipitation has been evaporating before it hits the ground. very dry air in place. dew points down into the teens. a little chilly today and the wind will be 7 miles per hour today. temperatures near 40 degrees. we will start out with clouds than clearing into the afternoon. temperatures are basically flat lining the route the week. a brief warm up to 44 on saturday. at night, the temperatures drop into the 20's. >> a big byproduct of the holidays is a lot of trash. >> how much of it winds up in landfills. >> trying to sort out the good from the bad. this comes from the recycling bins we put out by the curb. thomas picks up the boxes and wrapping paper leftover from christmas mornings. >> customers coming out and trying to refill customers with paper and other boxes of gifts that they received during christmas. >> the key is knowing what is recyclable and what isn't. >> you have the paper box container. that is all recyclable. there cou

no problems whatsoever heading downtown.oing to take you just 14 minutes to travel from the beltway all the way into the city. 695 also going to be in great shape. no problems from parkville all the way up to towson and as we check in and take a live look outside here at hunt valley 83 traffic moving right along. but you won't have any problems once you make your way on to the jfx and head all the way downtown. that's a look at your abc2 timesaver traffic. megan and charlie, over to you. >>> ten minutes after 5:00 right now. and another country is taking a stand against overly thin models. >> yeah, which nation is now taking the latest ban on teeny tiny models and what requirements they must now meet if they want to walk the runway. >> frosty the snowman just got supersized. we're going to show you a man's giant snow creation complete with tires for buttons. let's say you want to get ahead in your career. how do you get from here... to here? at university of phoenix we're moving career planning forward so you can start figur

even 26 downtown. as we talk about the wind gust, still gusting up to 24 miles per hour in manassas and 26 miles per hour wind gusts downtown. that means it feels like it's in the low to mid-teens. feels like 14 in gaithersburg, 14 downtown and 14 in manassas. so tonight yes, dry and cold. 8 to 18, clear skies. some high clouds will be coming in by dawn and low temperatures 8 to 18. northwest winds at 10. we'll come back and talk more about the specifics of the storms. how much will fall and a look ahead to the fall next week. >> okay, topper. >>> metro has big dreams. extensions that are out to virginia, maryland suburbs. new tunnels, maybe a new station in one of the oldest parts of the city. bruce leshan, he's got the big reveal and the big price tags. >>> metro's packed platforms here at rush hour and then imagine it many times worse. in the next few decades, they predict another 1.6 million that will move here. >> they are putting the city aside in the middle of the region. >> reporter: the curren

now, how is the trip getting downtown this morning?check in with karen gray houston live at gallery place metro stop. just a few blocks from where we are. karen, good morning. >> reporter: hi, allison and tony. it's a little hard to hear. lots of bus and traffic on the street on actual h street. you can't see much going on, on 7th street. national guard has that blocked off. a lot of pedestrian traffic. these folks are walking. i'm not sure where the ones going down h street came from. but coming up out of the yellow line, lots of folks getting off the train and walking to the mall. here's the latest we're hearing from metro headquarters. rail station in southwest starting to see heavy crowds. only people with inauguration tickets should be using that stop. also metro's parking lots are starting to fill out. still some spaces at most other lots. they are at about 70% or below capacity. metro says things are running smoothly and they are ready for the crowds. >> i will perform the duties, of a special deputy united states marshal. >> 15

mid '40's for downtown san francisco and san mateo.n the freeze warning and frost advisory expires at 8:00 a.m. this morning. another one has been issued for overnight saturday. temperatures will continue to drop as we approach sunrise icy wind chill's black ice forming could be a possibility. bundle up is the best advice. a look at where the numbers are expect to go in my next report. good morning robyn. >> good morning erica is nice and quiet no hot spots are accidents. let us look at traffic heading across the golden gate bridge it is nice and smooth into and out of san francisco. 21 minutes for your total dry time between downtown san francisco and navato. >> no problems of the south bay and east bay. 101, 280, 380 doing good along the peninsula. i will traffic check in just a bit. >> now to our developing story out of the north bay marin county 17 euro has been shot reportedly in the 2300 block of cole drive kent ausolito. >> we have mike pelton on seen with investigators. mike what you're learning? >> mike are you able to hear me

parking corporation board. * david i'm working with the board, san francisco downtown parking board to finalize use agreement for the 5th and mission garage. i've been speaking the last several days with the city attorney's office and actually this afternoon with mr. roberts and mr. katari. we have a few remaining issues with respect to the lease termination. it is the expectation those remaining issues will be resolved and the language finalized no later than friday at 12 o'clock. i've discussed that with mr. katari. the staff recommendation as the board understands it is to approve the lease termination subject to the ability to ratify the language provided that it remains substantially similar to the agreement before the board and we agree with that recommendation. >> sir, thank you. anybody else care to address the board? if not, we need to do the amendment first as described. there is a motion to approve the amendment. is there a second >> second. >> discussion all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed? okay. [laughter] >> okay. the man is willing to wait three hours to tell us

this is downtown temps. relative humidity is drying out. 34%. but the indoor relative humidity, which you have to calculate at this time of the year because we keep our house at like 70 degrees. it's about 5%. winds are dying down, north- northwest at 10. the snowfall totals are an inch and a half at dulles. southeast came in at an inch. reston an inch and fredericksburg came in at 2 inches. real fluffy show as we talked about it being sweepable, not so much shovable and that's the deal. sort of the same snow coming tomorrow. maybe not quite as dry. 21 at bethesda right now. 19 already at germantown. 22 in reston, 21 in fairfax. 23 in college park, even 22 for the friends down in waldorf. all right satellite picture radar combined with another clipper in the northern jet. that's going through the great lakes, upper ohio valley and north of us. another storm is coming out of the plain states and the southern jet such as it is, which will go through the tennessee valley and then south of us. we'll be caught in between systems. consequently no one