the proposed location of van ness and geary and maintaining of women and children's services and mid wivery program will increase access to ob/gyn services. in addition, the centralized location is definitely much more accessible than california street. in conclusion, i support building cpmc and ask you to do the same. >> if your name was called, feel free to just walk up. >> good evening, my national is dr. laura nmp orel. i have been a practicing ob/gyn for the last six years. so this is from dr. kirsch. as chief to have st. luke's medical staff i'm writing to express support for the master plan. served as a member of the blue ribbon panel and can confirm they have revised plans to reform to the recommendations of the panel. in particular, cpmc has committed $250 million for the initial phase of rebuilding the st. luke's campus prucking an entirely new in-patient facility. it is also important to know that -- these recommendations were based on the analysis expressed by the community outreach task force as well. we who practice at st. louis -- will vastly improve the health care re

larger agency efforts working on them which includes market street, a jury, of van ness -- ger -- geary and van ness. we have really had an opportunity to reduce travel time across the rapid network. the service improvements are the second largest set of initiatives that the implementation strategy addresses. these would occur over a key the state budget cycles. we estimate now that the changes would represent about a 5-10% increase in operating dollars. the reason that this is an increase in service hours and not budget neutral have to do with all of this service reductions that we saved since the original proposals were developed. the frequency changes are flexible enough that they could be modified based on the resources we have. for example, while the plan calls for the 22 fell more to improve, if there was less available, we could have a seven minute headway. -- while the plan calls for the 22 philmore to improve. in the implementation strategy, we also had updated all of the route proposals to account for the changes that have already occurred. for example, the original proposal h

few seconds after contact with got in was lost what caused this disaster over forty years later no geary's conclusive an important question of still remain. on the morning of april twelfth one nine hundred sixty one get a good get and woke up at half past five in the morning is breakfast space food from tubes even joked about it saying it was only fit for a man in orbit meanwhile the us still crockett was sitting on the launch pad ready to catapult him into outer space. approaching the night lost track of that night as it gradually blended with the. normally i would have woken up in the morning and headed for the launches. are you who i thought about that night i didn't sleep in your new shoes needless to say. at any rate many myself included were found more agitated than hearing got a shim you. were good after final medical checkups good got in was helped into a space suit a bus transported him in his back up to the rocket this known footage shows chairman of the state commission. and me walking from the bus towards the spacecraft's chief designer sygate co you know what are you and other

soma, downtown civic center, along the geary corridor, mission corridor, 19th.ervisor mirkarimi: some of the point you are making are stimulating some questions and queries. supervisor campos: just a quick question. in terms of why the environmental factors are not reported -- are not recorded, actually, in the report? >> there is a point about the cultural responsibility about pedestrian safety.

one of the biggest investments we'll make is in the geary b.r.t. and might be the biggest investment we make in the city's rapid transit network. commissioner an tony, i wish it could be rail but probably will be bus and hope it carry as lot more people and this project is about a block, block and a half from the geary street corridor, and i can't think of a better place to put a project like this. there will be very good 24-hour public transit access to the folks who need to get to and from this center. so, you know, maybe some design refinement but urge you not to knock stories off this project. we think the urban design plan said buildings should step up to the top of hills. it is pretty good. and we urge you to go forward but also urge you to think how we do density bonus. it's a one by one thing and drives project sponsors crazy. we need to do better. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners, katherine carr here representing the laurel heights improvement association as well as representing myself. i am a neighborhood. we sent a letter t

soma, downtown civic center, along the geary corridor, mission corridor, 19th.ervisor mirkarimi: some of the point you are making are stimulating some questions and queries. supervisor campos: just a quick question. in terms of why the environmental factors are not reported -- are not recorded, actually, in the report? >> there is a point about the cultural responsibility about pedestrian safety. historically, we have seen that we have not identified the environment as a cause of traffic fatality. we said, here is the system. we have designed it for moving cars faster which creates a risk for pedestrians, but what we have not identified is speed and that traffic flow is a cause of a hazard. it is either the pedestrian making a mistake or bad behavior, or the driver making a mistake or bad behavior. so culturally, we have not seen this as an environmental problem, as we should. so with all of these factors, it is very important we not look at one factor in isolation. is it just crosswalks, speed, flow, bad behavior? unfortunately, a lot of the ways research looks

-- sixth and geary. a lot of issues in our neighborhood tend to be graffiti, carbos thing. sometimes, there are robberies, and on occasion the occasional killing happens. but it is nowhere near the other problems that other districts have. i often what the district with the police captain and look at the data that comes out to look at where crimes happen within the district. there is often different types of criminal activity that happen, but the police, i think, are very sensitive when residents call to really hone in on key areas and no one crime may happen, but it is a very primitive and proactive approach. i do think that the police department is one of the most community sensitive in our district as well, so they often are, with community meetings, and building a community advisory committee, our officers work closely with our police department to ensure that our neighborhood is safe. >> governor brown proposed eliminating funding for redevelopment agencies. talking about your opinion of this plan.

target has indicated it wants to open up on masonic and geary. that process is just starting. i am quite confident it will come to the board of supervisors. if i take a position on that, i will be prohibited from voting, and i want to be able to vote on that one. target has a lot of pluses. we also know it has done a lot of bad things, when it contributed money to one of the horribly a homophobic politicians in the country. target has a lot of explaining to do about that one. i do believe our city government has been more and more proactive about bringing businesses to the city and creating jobs. i do not know if mayor lee wants to talk about our plans for job creation in the city? mayor lee: as you know, i have been going all over the city, and everyone has been asking me to make sure i focus on job creation. jobs, jobs, jobs. no matter what ethnicity, and come. everybody needs jobs. the only way we can merely create jobs, and knowing this fact, that last year in california, not one new job was created. we lost jobs. we lost them to texas, to florida, all the other places. we

director heinicke: in terms of the immediate travel times, i appreciate your explaining that geary was not on that. another that gets a lot is j- church, perhaps signaling or some sort of effort to prioritize j-church is something i know a lot of people would favor, and the reason we high -- have the m and the n is that they have higher ridership. service improvements. i will ask a sort of blunt political question here. you have it done so it is going to cost us money. you have been planned so it will cost money, and i think we all know the situation we are in with an uncertain funding efforts to rebuild our reserves, that sort of thing, and you said, i think i heard you say, that it could be re-done, that we could take it from under serving lines. a question to you, if we design both a cause plan or a plan that costs money in a more revenue neutral plan, which that jeopardize our ability to get funding and if we had a plan that would not cost us that much money, do we run a risk? >> it could be flexible, but i do not think there is as much opportunity to redistribute as you had indica

again geary road at bus kirk. this is a look at the san mateo bridge that traffic looks good to the high-rise. westbound 580 livermore valley no major problems there getting out to fremont if you're driving on 880 southbound traffic looks good. 51:00. let's go to mark. >>> hi, sal. good morning to you. we have quite a few clouds in place once again. even a few showers. now the main shower activities basically moved out of the bay area but still a few lingering cells here primarily focused in parts of the south bay and also parts of the east bay. over the next hour or two this will gradually shift out of the region and that will set the stage for a fairly nice day across most of the region. cooler this morning with temperatures in the 40s showing up in santa rosa, san raphael and napa. even fairfield. hayward right now 52. and san jose 51 degrees. here's the system moving through as showers winding down over the next couple hours and at least maybe still some clouds and drizzle out there. we'll take this into the w

they range from the regional center, which is downtown, the geary neighborhood. other areas are downtown oakland and san jose. these are more mid-range centers of economic activity, and are generally geared to providing a lot of housing in proximity to transit. urban neighborhoods in the city, octavia, hunters point. an excuse corridors, -- in mixed use corridors, these are quite important. looking at el camino, some other key corridors that are served by bus and will need you to be served by bus rapid transit. the task at hand is to find projections to meet the projected population growth for the region of roughly 2 million people in a way where we no longer assume people will drive to manteca and find a house they can afford. and to do that in a sustainable way where people will drive less. if you look at the chart on the screen, you will see the 2035 regional plans. that is our forecast. that is already heavily focused on transit-served areas. then you see the growth. our path was to accommodate the growth increment. unsustainably as possible. the road beneath

these wonderful old signs that represent our history, the wis burgers, the cable car burgers out on geary, lovely stuff and well maintained and the signs are still part of the business. one of my favorite signs is this motorcycle shop sign. i think it's an old honda dream something like that up there flying. this is a sign out in mission for something called "light". i don't know what it is. there are lots of people hanging around. looks like a cultural center. i was going to ask you about the supplementary pieces on the building and the cigarette ads and what of that is allowed? >> generally the clutter is not allowed. we had cases in north beach and had to remove them and could be advertising cell phone companies and had the banners and that could be considered a general advertising sign depending how much they have and we have to look at that and the zoning and whether it's allowed. >> but that seems to add to the character of the neighborhood? what do you think? is it part of the character? >> yeah, i think about that a little bit, and it is like art to the degree that it asks you to

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transients setup house inside this abandoned building on tee visit a dare or between okay barrel and geary street. outside a group of protestors want to make sure they stay there. >> i want people to know that this building has been sitting vacant for a number of years and it could be used for housing. >> reporter: according to the protestors there's twice as many abandoned buildings in san francisco as homeless people. they want the city and the property owners to make ty a ban donned buildings transitional housing. >> i think there are several people willing to take arrest over the issue. >> reporter: bruce alston has been arrested 567 times for squatting in aidan bond buildings. some of them, he says, were brand new. >> tubs looked like they have been just installed a week ago. lights been working. >> if you're going in you're staying in. >> reporter: police have been standing outside this building. not many people go in or out. they are waiting for the landlord for news on whether they can actually go in and make arrests fortress passing. in a statement kaiser said the build on devisad

target has indicated it wants to open up on masonic and geary.

geary and was born and raised in alaska like many alaskans he refers to other states as in the lower forty eight gary is sure that americans have a poor impression of the forty nine most people in the lower forty eight don't know that alaska is part of america some believe it or russia but many believe that it's own country and they wonder what kind of money they're going to have to use when they're here and. i've actually had people compliment me you sound just like in america. gary has lived in the small settlement of. since birth there are more than twenty school cos here his grandfather knew a few english words gary however doesn't speak russian my grandfather passed away a couple of decades ago and my grandmother. passed away soon after that just some distance from here my father's buried and most of my relatives and one day i will be too. right after the peninsula was sold to the americans the village and he'll check was built on the sea shore all of the employees of the russian american company who refused to move to russia had been banished here by the us government one of th

. >> i'm here to make a picture of the institute on aging, that brand new building on geary. they have a wonderful crosswalk right in the middle of their blocke. if you believe the lines, it says that is where you can cross. the problem as it is in the middle of the block, and there are no stop signs. there are no lights, and the traffic goes fast there. i know institute on aging is asking for some kind of like in the middle of that block to slow people down because of all the seniors -- some kind of like -- some kind of light in the middle of the block. it is a treacherous place for both the seniors and children. district 1, i believe, also needs some attention. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: good point. thank you. next speaker please. >> good morning. i have been fighting this. back in april 2004, i contacted judy cohen, and she came out with a supervisor and told me that area right there, that crossing, there is a break in the road, that it is a legal crossing, regardless of whether the sign is there or not for the marks. they went ahead and submitted it to their supervi

member of the commission looking into what caused the guidance death according to one of the initial geary's bad weather could have been responsible for the crash that you do trouble was that they were flying between clubs when an aircraft isn't thick clouds and also difficult to put out of a spin matters become even worse considering that the pilot mike me and it's taken such conditions. no other air crash investigation in soviet history and receive such attention even the tiniest plane fragments were collected from the site but investigators could glean only a small amount of information from the wreckage besides in the one nine hundred sixty s. an aircraft were not equipped with flight recorders the lack of data he rise to a multitude of theories explaining what had caused the tragedy. culture is that so much different if it usually is an issue apparently finding the market opening the door to tear the al qaeda franchise has been largely absent from the arab awakening following that up in a hot. humid. space is the backbone of our national security there is no substitute and there is no a

in the late 1800s, local flower growers pould pedal their goods at lotta's fountain where market, geary, and kearny streets converge in downtown san francisco. today local growers continue to supply the mart with bushels of bouquets, providing the first crucial step in a day in the life of how flowers get to you. >> people that i know, most of them don't even know that the flower market exists. and if they do, they have no idea that it goes on in the middle of the night. >> and i think that anybody that comes here and sees what goes on in the early mornings, they can see the spirit and how everybody really enjoys it. just look at all these beautiful flowers. this is the larst flower market in the world. it's got every variety possible. and if you can't find it here, it's not available or it's not in season. you're helping your dad today, huh? >> a little bit. >> yeah, that's good. don't forget to go and have a piece of cake over there. >> what's the celebration? >> anniversary, 48 yearsyeah. >> congratulations! >> i started out going to the flower market at 12 years old. i'm giving my a

the property is located in the 1,500 road of geary road off main street. eric rasmussen is live. neighbors say this place has become quite an eyesore. >> reporter: it sure has. the chain is all coming down when the new owners put a new grocery store here. >> i remember shopping in this building as a child with my mother pushing me around in a grocery cart. >> reporter: now the new opener says he's ready to rebuild a new henry's market. >> they are a competitor that's closer to whole foods i would say than safe way. >> reporter: many neighbors tell us it's good news. >> i'm very excited. it's been this way for a long time. it's such an eyesore to go by every day. >> reporter: they say for six years, this building has been a black eye for walnut creek, a building not known for blithe. >> how does a building go empty for 30 years like that? >> reporter: some have raised concerns about more impact to traffic and whether there'll be enough parking. >> this will be a changed community and very much for the better we think. >> reporter: city council members just signed off on zoning cha

the property is located in the 1,500 road of geary road off main street. eric rasmussen is live. neighbors say this place has become quite an eyesore. >> reporter: it sure has. the chain is all coming down when the new owners put a new grocery store here. >> i remember shopping in this building as a child with my mother pushing me around in a grocery cart. >> reporter: now the new opener says he's ready to rebuild a new henry's market. >> they are a competitor that's closer to whole foods i would say than safe way. >> reporter: many neighbors tell us it's good news. >> i'm very excited. it's been this way for a long time. it's such an eyesore to go by every day. >> reporter: they say for six years, this building has been a black eye for walnut creek, a building not known for blithe. >> how does a building go empty for 30 years like that? >> reporter: some have raised concerns about more impact to traffic and whether there'll be enough parking. >> this will be a changed community and very much for the better we think. >> reporter: city council members just signed off on zoning cha

watched the chp do a traffic break because there are boxes or were boxes in the right center lane near geary 680. traffic signals are out around the civic center and the intersection of ha yegs and geoff. accident reported 580 and lots of debris in the lanes there. be forewarned. >>> just ahead, wild weather here on earth today how it could have an impacts on nasa's plans. >> and the announcement that could have you check your wallet and rushing to blockbuster. >> and a preview and look why the a's opening weekend will be more than just baseball than just balls and strikes. never in my lifetime did i think i could walk 60 miles in 3 days. 60 miles in 3 days-- i can do that. 60 miles compared to what a cancer patient goes through is a walk in the park. from the moment i registered, people started immediately supporting me. we had an outpouring of-- of support. i wanted to do something bigger than myself. the 60 miles-- it makes a statement. i know i'm stronger than i was before, both mentally and physically. i walk with my sister. our relationship has gone to a whole new level because of trai

the tenderloin area is much larger and includes match of geary street just two blocks from union square. >>> more fall-out tonight from last week's incidents involving a southwest airlines jet liner. tonight a new federal aviation administration order is in effect requiring inspections on certain types of 737s. the new order means about 175 planes must be inspected immediately with 79 of those jets belonging to southwest. southwest says so far its own inspections have found five planes showing cracks. a crack in the fuselage of the southwest 737 is suspected of causing a five foot long hole to open up as the plane was in flight last friday. today federal investigator where is examining that piece that broke off. this is new video our washington, d.c. bureau shot today at the national transportation safety board lab. investigators are trying to find out why the jet ripped open in flight. >> this about four foot section was adjacent to the ruptured section. and both were removed. so this rupture occurred on the left side of the fuselage. >> investigators say the plane involved in last fri

last august by a stray bullet during an apparent shoot out among rival gang members on mason near gearystigators say it happened after altercation after hip-hop parties. hundreds of young people attended the event. security video shows them running for their lives during the shootin shooting. arrest made shortly after the murder. but the suspects were rae leased. district attorney harris said there was insufficient evidence. >> make an avrment make a conviction. let's get these guys. >>reporter: this taxi driver who still does not want to be identified chased the car which police believe carried some of those involved in the shooting. >> i'm sad by the fact that the killers haven't been brought to justice yet. >>reporter: his wish may come true. investigators tell abc 7 news in the last several months they have come up with more evidence which they believe will lead to arrests. >> he wants justice but quoted as saying he bears inform grudge against the city. union square merchant want to make sure he gets a big heart felt welcome. this chain providing a? a complimentary stay at one of t