and so i'm excited about the improvements that are coming to geary boulevard.the population in our city continues to climb, our city is getting more congests and, we have to double down on our efforts to make our streets much safer and improve the transportation infrastructure. one of the exciting parts for us is while we are improving the transportation infrastru infrastructure, we are going to be improving many of the sewer and water lines along geary, which will be ensuring the customers and businesses that you will continue to have quality utilities. the geary b.a.r.t. -- b.r.t. is making safer crossings, making greater visibility between traffic and pedestrians, and slowing the traffic down in our city, which is something our city really needs. we will also be repaving a significant part of geary so that people who drive will have a much smoother and safer experience while they're driving on geary -- on geary boulevard. this project is a major undertaking, and we heard that many agencies are involved, but also, a huge partnership with the community, so --

at 3944a geary boulevard for change of use. cosmetology and beauty salon with accessory foot chair massage use to massage establishment with the second floor of a two story commercial building. in 2009, a permit application was issued to allow the use for the message. it will be a planning enforcement case for the proposed use. they had the team state certified licenses for the california therapy california which allowed them exempt from the requirements. as far as issues and considerations the project sponsors conducted outreach efforts and the petition with 48 signatures. to date the planning department received one e-mail in support of the project. in addition the project sponsors conducted a neighborhood survey of the business within the 3900 to 4400 blocks of geary boulevard and most are restaurants, automotive, banks and real estate offices. only one other massage use on this portion of geary boulevard. the other one is on third avenue. the project sponsors have a massage permit in good standing with the department of pub

well, my dream project is to go underground on geary boulevard, but the money is not necessarily thiso do that. but we're doing the next best thing. we're providing bus rapid transit service on geary boulevard with the goal of improving public transportation on one of the busiest corridors of our city. it's going to make an impact, and i'm excited because it's going to be a challenge. congestion is a problem in san francisco. people are frustrated. there's a lot of construction that's happening. and what i want people to know is i gueet that we have challenges, and we're going to be doing some short and long-term fixes to address those challenges. but just imagine before any of us was born, some of our leaders made a decision to go underground then and were inconvenienced at that time how we would be dealing with a better transportation system now. we have to make some tough decisions to improve transportation for future generations. that's what this is about, improving our system for the future so that the future generation of san franciscans are not pointing the finger at us and bla

a shelter-in-place order has been issued tonight night for the area around 17th avenue and geary boulevard san francisco because of police activity, emergency officials said. the order was in effect as of 10 p.m. there are little details availalble. as soon as we learn more we will let you know. (ken) the trump administration will fight a court battle about how we preapre for war. the admitexas federal court ruling examining the male only military draft system. as our washington d- correspondent anna wiernicki (war-nik-ee) reports... the justice department says drafting women would be "problematic" while proponents of a unisex draft argue the current system discriminates against men. --take pkg-anna wiernicki: if there were a national emergency, former marine jude eden says america needs its best soldiers out front.jude eden: and women don't have an equal opportunity to survive in ground combat against men anna wiernicki: she says she's seen first hand women aren't fit to fight.jude edenus marine veterantake cg @ 0:16- 0:24there's a lot of roles in which women excel, it's just in the comba

and work is starting on geary boulevard up where i live. diane was going to ask bridget to have a calfresh flier available for commissioners. were you able to do that or did she not ask? >> she did not ask. >> okay. okay. very good. so that's my presentation. i'll be glad to answer questions if i can. >> president serina: thank you, eleanor. any comments or questions from the commission? >> yes. which are the two nutrition sites you people visited? >> i don't know because i never -- we ran out of time. they were not presented. >> president serina: any other comments or questions? any comments or questions from the public? all right. thank you very much, eleanor. >> you're welcome. >> president serina: and earlier, going cam to cindy kaufman's presentation, i want to echo her warm praise for the allocation plan on the dignity fund. i've been on the board since its inception. i know the work that's gone into it, what an exceptional attempt is being made to rectify equity issues and to get as much data for underserved populations as available.

as we move down toward the geary boulevard entry, you see it as it is today. it is a bit ominous along the bl boulevard, but it's a great opportunity to open up that stairway. we have that butterfly stair gives a larger opening, and we thought art would be appropriate on that wall, and then, the parapet, thinking about it in a little bit different way, perhaps a screen on that to give it some cultural tie. this starts to become really more of a welcoming wall as opposed to what it is today. and we start to think about materiality, though we're still in concept phase. this site will have predominantly concrete paving. we really think the warm tone is important. if you've been there today. it doesn't feel warm, so any paving that we introduce, we do want to think about in this way? but in the lower plaza, we may have an opportunity to do some interesting paving expressions, so this could come through with stone paving or precast concrete. thinking about the wood terrace and other wood elements is really important. and then finally, all the walls throughout the s

police say that there was a person who was thinking of committing suicide there at 17th and geary boulevard. he locked himself in his home. they were trying to get him out. they called in the hostage negotiation team although there was no one else in the home. at 2:00 this morning, they decided to back off and they're monitoring the area. >>> we want to get you up to speed on a breaking news story in colorado. taking a live look over the city of lakewood. that's the suburb of denver. there was a fiery crash overnight. multiple people about have died and it looks like it started with a semi truck speeding on the shoulder of the road and all 12 vehicles were involved. i-70 shutdown. we are looking at the backup that that's causing in the morning rush hour. officers in denver are going to have an update for us in an hour on that. back to you. >>> i'm jackie ward in sunnyvale. back at the scene where a man crashed into a crowd of people earlier this week. he's facing a judge for the first time later on today. police say the 34-year-old isaiah peoples was bringing food to his bible study group w

outside the japanese buddhist church near the target on geary boulevard a viewer sent us a picture of what the palm tree looked like before on the left side of your screen. and what it looked like after the high winds on the right side of your screen. no one was hurt. the power was out in this area for several hours but still the main part of that story is still standing there tonight now by meteorologist murray so rodriguez. >>you look at that picture wild stuff out there, but believable because it was it was powerful out there yet very gusty day today in the bay area downtown san francisco actually got a reported wind gusts of around 45 miles per hour so that's near a wind advisory level. >>but the national weather service did not issue any wind advisories for the bay area just because most of the bay area is relatively calm compared to downtown san francisco. >>right now tracking sustained winds and that 30 mile per hour range oakland 20 mile per hour sustained winds and future wind gust will show even tonight right along the coast, still keeping an eye on 20 mile per hour wind spe

outside the japanese buddhist church near the target on geary boulevard viewer sent us a picture of what the palm tree looked like before on the left side of your screen. what it looked like after the winds knocked it down that's on the right side of the screen. no one was hurt. the power was out in this area for several hours. >>and now for a check of your 4 zone forecast downtown san francisco. actually saw wind gusts reported at around 45 miles per hour earlier this afternoon, but right now tracking noticeably. calmer conditions 23 mile per hour sustained winds. the gusty us winds right now over the downtown san francisco area but throughout the coastline of the bay area. i am tracking wind gusts in the 20 mile per hour range, but then by your sunday morning. calmer conditions could see gusts. so by your sunday afternoon for easter sunday at around 20 miles per hour or less with a nice warm-up heading our way as well but mild temperatures from now until then live look outside from city hall out in downtown san francisco in temperatures widespread low to mid-fifties turning into upper

afternoon, and natural gas explosion triggered a fire that engulfed a dim some restaurant on geary boulevard, at 1:00 p.m. on that wednesday afternoon, after we got those initial reports of the fire, our parking control officers and signal staff sprang into action and provided tremendous service to the public to ensure public safety before capturing, and after the fire was cleaned up. we had 17 parking control officers at an assistant director on the scene rerouting traffic even as a fire department gained control of the scene and battled the flames. after the fire was extinguished at 4:15 p.m., we remained on the scene and supported the reroutes to make sure the 38 geary could get through during the evening rush hour and the next morning's rush hour. the cleanup from the fire was extensive and continued into the next morning. our -- our signal shop, many representatives are standing behind me, 12 members of our crew stayed all night to investigate, test and replace the signal equipment that literally burned to a crisp on that corner of geary street. i've never seen a traffic signal in quite