has mta looked into the possibility of increasing the size of the trains for the n judah? >> you mean increasing the physical size -- well, . >> well, first of all increasing the size and if new trains are purchased? >> to answer that question. right now we're in the process of scoping the replacement vehicles that will replace them so we're in that process so we will look at the size of the vehicles and the number of seats in the vehicle. that is being worked on right now. that is in anticipation of purchasing 24 additional light rail vehicles for the central subway when it comes on line and that if for the vehicles that we'll need with that and deal with overall growth at this point in the overall muni network. on top of that we are looking at -- i believe the fleet plan calls if -- i am just guessing, 40 to 50 additional vehicles needed based on the overall growth of the city and deal with the crowding within the network. i know john hailey has been here a couple of times and for the new members just to tell you we don't have enough vehicles today. we have barely enough

in terms of delivering on time and on budget the most critical to watch is the n-judah customer first project. we helped partially fund a similar project on the [inaudible]. these are critical. it's really the first wave of implementation. these are not subject to the eir. they're accomplishing many of the same things and once it's approved it will make changes to that as well and that is what we will report back to you and on performance benefits as well. >> thank you. i am sure supervisors -- when it comes to that it's a big priority. thank you. >> commissioner breed. >> thank you. i just had a few questions. so this -- i notice that there weren't -- this increases efficiency. do you have percentage wise in terms of what the results of the increased efficiency is as a result of this project? >> i believe our understanding is that these specific improvements will result in one minute travel time improvement and the transit effectiveness project will contribute additional minutes on top of that. shawn kennedy is here from the sfmta. he is the project manager. if i could i would like t

the sfmta has requested this funds from prop k for the design and construction of the n-judah customer first and improvements to the light rail and around the corridor. you can view a project map on page 98. these share similar objectives to the project and aim service reliability and customer increase and decreased time and increased rider ship. this includes dedicated lanes and selling signs and branding and install identification transit only cameras. this is matching a federal grant of about 4 million from the metropolitan transportation transportation commission. their grant program places a heavy emphasis on project delivery of 24 months of grant award. we are recommending a multi- allocation to meet the project completion deadline. the sfmta has requested funds for the d of this project. this begins on page 96 and for future corridor work and signals and accessible pedestrian signals and other locations. you can view a map of the locations. the sfmta has has plans to review the conduit conditions at 10 additional locations along this street with pedestrian counsel down the signa

there will be extra muni service for the l-taraval and n-judah lines. the subway will also stay open late - until one a-m. >> an attempted strong-arm robbery on bart. foiled! all because an off-duty san jose police officer.who was in the right place at the right time. it happened onboard a train at the fruitvale stop in oakland. that's where sergeant fred kotto. a former olympic- level boxer. took down a would be robber after a scuffle broke out. today, sergeant kotto spoke about how the incident arrest started and the surprising end to the incident outside san jose police headquarters. >> i got closer after she yelled, he's got my purse! and i showed my badge, and i put them in the control hold. initially, there were still trying to get away. and to just reason with them. to my surprise the entire train". really really nice." >> pam: sgt. kotto and his fiance' were on their way to san francisco to get a marriage license, when all this happened. after bart police arrived to take the suspect into custody, the couple continued on their way. >> pam: the sh

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. >>> in san francisco improvements are coming soon for muni's n judah line. san francisco municipal transportation agency will spend almost $6 million on the upgrades. they include installing more travel prediction signs and painting a transit only lane to keep cars from blocking trains. traffic signals will also be changed to give those trains priority. work should be finished by june 2014. >>> time is 5:25. let's go back to sal. you are following crashes and other things. >> we are looking at a crash on 680 southbound. let's go right to the maps. still a sig alert there because of a crash on 84 blocking a coupleover -- couple of lanes. i do believe we do have a picture of it here on round top. you can see southbound 101 these are the first live pictures we getting. i'm not sure if we will be able to put them up. our reporter claudine wong these are pictures of the crash. it looks like they are making a little bit of progress here on the crash. southbound 101 just after cesar chavez. claudine wong will is a report coming up in a few moments. let's go to stev

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there will be extra muni service on the l-taraval and n-judah lines. the subway will stay open late - until about 1-am. and there are numberous muni bus lines that will be re- routed because of the parade. >> reporter: for the millions of people that are all out here you are going to see a lot of this it is clear. 300 lbs. of glitter on all of these folks. you can see in the distance, the final touches been put on the slopes. this is just one of many. of these cloud floats --they would line up to one- quarter of 1 mi.. this evening. some are still being worked upon. in the distance, they are still working on the floats.. over 2 mi. of shiny paper in addition to all that glitter. this is a big production. and you say that this is the mcdonald's floats and these three children are the child pictures of the adults that actually assembled this float we will hear from the creators of these that is coming up at 8:00 p.m. reporting live, j.r. stone, kron 4 news. >> jacqueline: clear skies but we do have the increase clouds with a system overnight. it looks li

in san francisco, improvements are coming soon to muni's n- judah line.ansportation agency will spend about $6 million to upgrade that will include more travel prediction signs and also painting a transit-only lane to keep cars from blocking those trains. traffic signals will be changed to give trains priority. all of those upgrades should be completed by june of 2014. >>> time to check your traffic and sal says there's fog out there. >> yes, there is. >> a lot of fog. it moved in rather quickly. we went on the air at 4:30 there was not a lot of it. now you can see it's pretty foggy in oakland and you also can see some traffic there. the visibility may not be great. the fog has moved into san francisco earlier we were able to show you 101 but we can't. it's pretty thick out there. we used our tools at our disposal. let's take a look at the bay bridge. it's improving. it's a 15-minute delay. maybe more like 10 as traffic time is getting less and less. contra costa county, concord to walnut creek, some slow traffic there on 680. it's improving a little bit.

. >> congressmen, or a local account we would lay heavily on the air force and army judah forces overseas. but also returning equipment at home, the reset program and is program unassertive backlog will further delay equipment to armories to be utilized in the home and to respond to domestic disasters. additionally, the current cr is working closely with mark welsh to get back into death of maintenance and i will have to be parked on the rant this year because abilities transferring this money to the air force and air guard. probably the more immediate impact will see as the backlog in schools basic training, pilot training the services need money to keep school slots open. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> mr. granger. >> mr. chairman, topic of today's hearing as deities fiscal challenges that we agree is the reason is to provide resources not only for equipment, but for people needed to defend this great nation. today we discussed burger challenges and i were to focus on veterans to more fighters because they should be our top priority and how we fund for critical services for s

jesus was not a levite, he was not descendent from aaron, but from the tribe of judah.emember that strange person in the book of genesis, he was a high priest, he was a high priest of the caananite god, but they offered a tithe tithe to him, to the priest, the normal tides to the temple, and he said not animal abraham, but aaron offered a tithe to him because he was in the loin. eventually, he'd be born in the line of abraham to through that connection, he found a new kind of priesthood, and jesus is in the line of him although he can't be in the line of the levites. to this day, catholic priests are ordained into the order of him as a priest forever. even though the letter to the hebrews had said jesus is going to do this just once. our sacrifice is better because it's a one sacrifice for all time, for all people whereas the high priest comes in annually and offers sacrifices over and over and over year by year by year for sins accumulating. even the letter to the hebrews did not imagine jesus was setting up a line of priests who would follow him, so through of series