how about mta. is mta here? >> good afternoon, supervisors, steve lee, mta. >> commissioner: good afternoon. >> let me begin by saying we agree with the report and believe our numbers are in assign with what our needs are and we take it very seriously. over the last several years we have reduced numbers from 32 to now 23. we really have been struggle the fact that we cannot supply with this ordinance and never will until we see amendment address our concerns and city wide. >> commissioner: you have none allocated you have 23 vehicles that are take-home vehicles. they're not in the pool. and i'm wondering who are the people who drive the 23 vehicles and take them home? >> the vehicles are assigned to top-level executives who are responsible for 24/7 response as well as like enforcement directors who have to show up for parking events or safety issues related to traffic. when we looked at it it isn't the actual person. we looked at the function of the position itself. for instance, we have the director of transit,

we believe the mta and we are in big trouble. we would like to -- in the supervisor can take for us and give us a favour and take the medallion back and we can have our money back. we don't want to -- medallion can take my life. sousupervisors of san francisco take metal-i metal medallion aws before. i'm not able to drive and my health is not healthy like 15 years ago. in 2014, i my name on the list, take about three or four months to sell the medallion and it never happened since then. we making better service and no money. i wish the supervisor of san francisco take care of us, please. thank you very pitch. >> thank you for your comments. >> next speaker, please. >> 30 year driver. i look into you your guy's faced i don't know your reaction. guilty, the previous supervisor. they forced us, forced me to buy the medallion. we do it for their rule. i wait almost 18 years. i have a van and they force me to buy the medallion. they say do it. i did it. they force us to buy the medallion. this is a crime. they have to get punish and t

is mta here?it seems you have had a 10.5% increase in overtime hours and we're not taking into account into the current year. what is your response to whether or not the 25% cap exemption has been granted to individuals and do you have any employees that have exceeded the 25% cap and i think you're supposed to let the controller's office know and they have not had a response. >> i'm the acting human resource director for sfmta. i see we did not respond or have a figure for the exemption. i know it has been done in the past. at this moment i do not know why this assumption wasn't done for fiscal year '17, '18. i'll find out what happened. the brand new ceo made it a top priority to look at the current overtime figures as well as the overtime exemption report. at this time i don't know why we did not report the numbers. >> commissioner: tell me what the average overtime for drivers are? >> i don't have that total with me now. the transit operators have a scheduled and unscheduled overtime. scheduled

i don't see any tension between them and the mta board.i think they blindly support everything and for people who blindly support mta policies without debate, i have a definition. i call them muni-acs. i'm not going to point out who the muni-acs are. they define themselves by their own statements and their own advocacy. basically, the muni-acs are in conflict with the public and this board does not sufficiently represent the comments and sentiments of the public. they ram everything through over public opinion. and that does not serve the public. what happens is, it will blow up because eventually someone will get on the case of mta. it can be the grand jury, it can be the mayor, it can be all sorts of parties. but there is a potential for long-term disaster for this agency. so please, my warning to the muni-acs, please debate things in public so we can at least hear all sides of the debate. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> charles, norma and bernard. >> good afternoon, directors. charles rath bone with the medallion holde

three months ago, mta began restricting k medallion services. the city's board of permit appeals te declined jurisdiction with the authority and now we have lost our due process rights in the city system. 1978 applicants swear their intention to drive a cab. regulators of trans substantiated this into -- (inaudible). >> this misinterpretation violates the disability act. we ask your board to sponsor two amendments. one, all taxi permit holders have board of appeal right and two, no medallion driver of age 60 may drive as a condition. we ask you to this in the november ballot but we're searching hard for a supervisor to step forward and do it. we acts thawe ask that you helpk you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i, too, am a medallion holder and i, too, am an immigrant. i came here in 1978 as a single father and i became a taxi driver because i was too old to start again in san francisco. this is a familiar tale to everybody. tout i am now 80 years old and the mta is going to take away my medallion because i cannot driv. i'm frightened of drivin

how about mta. is mta here?> good afternoon, supervisors, steve lee, mta. >> commissioner: good afternoon. >> let me begin by saying we agree with the report and believe our numbers are in assign with what our needs are and we take it very seriously. over the last several years we have reduced numbers from 32 to now 23. we really have been struggle the fact that we cannot supply with this ordinance and never will until we see amendment address our concerns and city wide. >> commissioner: you have none allocated you have 23 vehicles that are take-home vehicles. they're not in the

how about mta. is mta here?> good afternoon, supervisors, steve lee, mta. >> commissioner: good afternoon. >> let me begin by saying we agree with the report and believe our numbers are in assign with what our needs are and we take it very seriously. over the last several years we have red

i don't know why they can't get the mta staff to get things done.ports you do are fine, but if they don't have action and help lives, they don't mean anything. the other thing i'm concerned about, the mayor wants to have all these protective bike lanes. there is one on polk street. my wife and i go to the eye doctor and my wife has a hard time walking. if there is a protected bike lane in front of the eye doctor's office, how is my wife supposed to get there? are we supposed to park the car in the middle of the street and then walk across the bike lanes to get into the doctor's office? we all have to live in this city and work together and the final thing is i don't think mta muni should have a veto over pedestrian safety issues. i found out they're being blocked by muni staff and i don't think that's right. and thank you for having this hearing today. >> co-chair senhaux: thank you, richard. thank you for your comment. i'm going to go ahead and close public comment. we're going to go to item number 8, informational item, san francisco recreation --

. >> i want the mta to begin to develop a plan within a months time to make sure that within the next build 20 miles of protected bike lanes throughout san fransisco. >> they are needed. so far this year, there have been 12 bicycle related deaths on san fransisco city streets. the mayor is asking mta to keep bike lanes as clear as possible. >>> former soccer star david beckham has been banned from driving after he got caught his phone behind the wheel. beckham pleaded guilty to the offense and additionally received a fine of 750 pounds. he has had speeding offenses in the past. now beckham has been banned from driving for six months. >>> some people in japan are writing out an earthquake reported just a few minutes ago. this is a preliminary magnitude of 6.3. it hit off the coast of southern japan. no tsunami warning was issued, and there were no immediate reports of any damage according to the japanese meteorological agency. the quake struck about a: 48 a.m. local time. 8:48 local time. again, no reports of any damage , but people did feel it. the u.s. geological survey has put the m

next, we've also been involved in giving feedback around the light rail vehicles with mta. there are, in the phasing and design process. the next phase of the lrv. so the mayor's office on disability with the help of the members of this council gave feedback. i want to encourage everyone that public comment on transportation is always welcome at the mta board meetings and we especially want to be hearing from people with disabilities on their concerns related to accessibility in transportation. so please keep that in mind. just a few other things. one that is new to this group for today is that mayor's office on disability is now engaged in the initial conversations on the 2020 census and the best ways to make sure we're engaged and counting people with disabilities. as we know, the census is very important. we want to make sure we're counting everyone. and this data can be used to help us determine, not only our population of people with disabilities in the city, but we can then extrapolate and understand the kinds of services and funding that we need as well. so the 2020

first dragging her along the ground and underneath the train then onto the tracks pure" sf mta transit director says the agency has worked to improve the muni train doors since the incident. they now have three sensitive edges to detect objects in the door versus just one. >>> a live look at the white house where a meeting between the president and top democrats fell apart in minutes. they were supposed to talk infrastructure but ended up in a war of words. natalie brand live on capitol hill with the toff talk the tough talk, natalie. >> reporter: the hope was for a bipartisan meeting today but instead it turned into a day of dueling news conferences the president lashing out against house speaker nancy pelosi after she made comments saying she believes that the president has engaged in a coverup. >> reporter: the president held a press conference at the white house wednesday after walking out of a meeting with top democrats. >> instead of walking and happily into a meeting , i walk into look at people that are just saying that i was doing a coverup i don't do coverups. >> reporter: so

we want to figure out if there is a way to do that with mta also. not managed by signals, because if you know the area, it backs up heavily going southbound on the north side of market. so one thing that everyone was adamant, we need to have people get out of the financial district so they can be just as competitive as the people in soma or the greater rincon district. connecting people to resources. that is something that i think every cbd is trying do. securing safe passage of employers. re-branding the historic nature of the cbd to remain competitive with the massive development south of market. and retaining staff to oversee new services and ensure effective practices are being deployed. so the final map now that we agreed to was, one, we made an adjustment for chinatown. supervisor peskin, as you recall, we put the boundary around there. we also have, it looks like a missing tooth on the south side of market. that's the federal reserve building because we knew it would be difficult for them to pay into the district and we want didn't to -- didn

we just want to sort of it on the mta board's radar. so the community business district is not taking any condition on bus terminous. they would prefer for changes to the 1600 block of jackson street to be considered in conjunction with the 12 and proposed changes to the route 12. this community is experiencing impact as a result of the extended construction which has in part caused the 12 to -- to be cited on the same block which is now sort of being a part of a switcheroo where the 12 is moved to the current 27 and the terminous is moved down the block and we want to emphasize the big picture. we would encourage the smta board to consider changes on that block in conjunction between the two routes because as we're hearing from residents and some of the businesses along that area, it's actually multiplying as a result of two bus termini for that block. thank you for the opportunity to speak. >> thank you. >> i've had some experience taking the 27. sometimes the bus is missing and sometimes i'd have to walk a long distance because of th

the san francisco mta says they're estimating that the new permits with quadruple bike shares on the streets to about 11,000. the new permits, what's interesting here, are for dockless bikes. you can essentially leave them anywhere and pick them up anywhere. jump is the only company allowed to have stationless bikes around the city. the mta plans on making its selections in july. >>> next, a historic accomplishment by a med school student in the city. >> i'm incredible proud and humble and grateful to be here. >> up next tonight, we'll meet the first undocumented student to graduate from the ucsf school of medicine. >> and the warriors got in a practice session today ahead of game one of the nba finals. what it takes the to achieve greatness. greatness. >> and the blaring of overnight train horns possibly sparking legal action in the south bay. see who is sounding off. nding off. >>> no to our top stories robert mueller made his first public comment on russian interference in the 2006 election. special counsel did not clear president trump of his obstruction of justice and hinted tha

we are not investing there, but we are investing in places like mta here in the city. sort of grouses delays and lines that break down come of it in the grand scheme of things anything about what the mta does, they are responsible for avoiding 7 million metric tons of greenhouse emissions. taylor: quickly, we are also seeing a ton of rain in the great plains and the midwest, which is hurting some of the commodities. what does that mean in terms of how you are investing to protect against climate change? eric: climate change is really important to the way in which we invest, inherent to the way we engage with issuers and how are monday's polities -- and how our municipalities are becoming resilient to climate change. we have decided in some instances to make investments where we restrict our maturity up to five years to protect us in terms of climate change. in others with long maturities, in coastalxample cities. taylor: thank you. that is eric glass, alliancebernstein portfolio their impact portfolios. vonnie: thank you. still ahead, special counsel robert mueller wil

. >> i want the mta to begin the process now of developing a plan within a month's time to make sure that within the next two years we protected bifrancisco. >> reporter: sometime next year a major project on market street will finally break ground. it as been more than a decade in the hang. she said she wants to keep the bike lanes as clears a possible. jackie ward, kpix 5. >> a bus driver hailed as a hero. how she kept a strawed from stepping into the path of danger. >> could they be losing kevin durant because of an injury. >> i'm tracking a system that could bring a few showers and an isolated shower. i'll tell you the locations with the best complns of seeing that coming up. to simone, i leave the van gogh. to harrison, the wine collection. grace, you get the beach house, just don't leave the lights on, okay? to mateo, my favorite chair. to chris, the family recipes. to craig, this rock. to jamie, well, let's just say, enjoy the ride. the redwoods to the redheads. the rainbows to the proud. the almonds to walter. the beaches to the bums. and the fog to, who else, karl. i leave t

i think what they all echo is that we've had an extremely difficult six to eight-month period while mta is clearly in a period of transition, that doesn't mean we haven't let our customers down. and we do take that extremely seriously. we are struggling to put service on the street because of our operator shortage and i am going to speak to that. we are in the process of replacing the entire muni fleet and experiencing some of the growing papers that are inevitable during that process. but i think what we heard at the transportation authority board, we haven't done that with enough transparency u.s. policy mak mas that our public would expect. we're dealing with a core system that is in need of major upgrades, not only to meet the needs of a growing city but more importantly, to meet the needs of our customers now. my approach today is not to tell you everyone is fine with me. it's clearly not. but i do want to tell you that i am personally committed to doubling our efforts, to improve the service and also that i do think that we have some important building blocks in the process ces th

students spoke to the mta board and asked for better service to get to school. >> geography is one of some don't want to attend lowell because lowell is pretty far awa >> the mta says it will look at providing an express or limited stop bus service before and after school starting in the next school year. >> did you see it? history made at the oakland coliseum. >> and six months after the campfire a look at the progress to rebuild in butte county. >>> here at the live desk i'm tracking the investigation into that deadly school shooting in colorado. and because redfin.com is america's #1 brokerage site our agents get more eyes on your home so you sell for thousands more than the one next door. don't get stuck in the past. sell with a redfin agent. >>> and right now at 6:30, the breaking news everybody is talking about this morning, our first look at baby sussex and now a closer look at the newest member of the royal family. >> reporter: uber and lyft drivers will strike at noon today. i'm jobina fortson live at sfo this morning with what travelers and riders should be prepared for. >>>

since we've installed these cameras in 1996 mta spokesman paul rose says since then the city has continued to review collision rates. >>and has added or deleted cameras where they see fit we look at every other measure would try to stall every other measure we can at these intersections before we consider red light camera. >>so these are one tool in our tool box and helping prevent a injury collisions and when everything we can to get oracle's officials to limit traffic 2024. drivers are kind of crazy. >>so i come out for it every now and then. >>o so to the person we caught running one to be glad there's still a 30 day grace period. the 4 citations are issued about a $500 fine when you include all >>court fees in state news. >>has a person who has had to pay that $500 fine myself for running a red light several years ago i suggest all drivers pay attention a matter what intersection it you're going through again of the wanted harrison and a 4th is the only active one right now the rest will be completed by this summer live in san francisco. noel bellow kron 4 news alright noel, thank you

- the second one is that you mentioned that you work for the government, right, the mt -- >> right, mta council member madrid: san francisco muni department, right? so my question is, i know that state law are changing the policy to help you guys work with city policymakers to maximize to change some laws that you're trying to implement instead of waiting for this date. so that's my questions. >> i think we wanted to clarify the first question. it was -- >> council member madrid: so my first question was i know that you been around for five years. i didn't quite understand or hear anything that you guys have done within five years to minimize some of our fatalities. disability and accidents. >> so, one of the things that san francisco was the first in the country to do was to link police and hospital data to inform the vision zero high injury network. and that's the map, 13% of city streets, where 75% of severe or fatal injuries are targeted. that was completed two years ago now. and that map is what -- i'm with the health department. we work with them to develop the map and then shares

this is from complaints from supervisors, from the community itself, from mta, from my officers' own observations of dangerous locations. so once you start doing that, you're kind of sending a message that the tncs, everybody needs to slow down and pay attention to pedestrians. do i think that we need more? yes, i do. and i hope that once we build our numbers at district stations, that we're able to partner more and do more of this work. >> commander, there's been a real spike in fatalities this year. it's just hard -- i think it's hard for us to understand what's happening. i'm wondering if you have a sense of what's going on. >> everyone is in a rush. everyone -- there's a lot of people that they made really bad judgment call in trying to get to where they're going quickly. some people are distracted. it's -- everyone needs to slow down, whether it be you're in a vehicle, when you're crossing the street, please look. if you're a cyclist, stop at the stop signs and the lights so you don't become a fatality. i don't have a good answer, but the turning is something that we're definite

so the mta painted over it again. so the vandal came back again. so the commuters complained again. how annoying graffiti has to be for new yorkers to complain about it [ laughter ] i've never once called to complain about graffiti. and last week i saw this [ laughter ] so finally, police got involved. and they decided to solve the problem the only way the only way that made sense. they built a fake wall and hid behind it. that's right to catch a trump supporter, they built a wall [ laughter ] this is the kind of story we need right now trump has been trying to build a wall for a year and a half and he has nothing the nypd built this majestic thing in one day [ laughter ] they built it. they painted it. they even added a little door and a padlock to make it look like it led somewhere. [ laughter ] apparently they got the idea from this official police training video ♪ [ laughter ] >> seth: once the wall was built, the wall that i can't stress enough was built in one day, police officers took turns hiding behind it this is the kind of story we need right now police show up to work ev

it comes after at risk and step down as head of the mta ending an eight year tenure. mooney is facing a investigation over mechanical issues with his trains. including an incident in which a woman was caught in a train door and drag text coming up thieves taking the bait. >>> and east bay police department gets creative to fight car burglaries. the trap criminals are falling for. >>> an endangered seal pup is killed by an off leash dog. the search for the owner who ignore the rules. >>> a billionaire ponying up $30 million to solve san francisco's homeless crisis. what he hopes to accomplish in five years. >>> >> >>> an endangered waterloo bay seal pup killed and wildlife are searching for the dog's owner. >> the attack happened in an area where dogs are not supposed to be running free. the attack happened last monday at north beach not far from the lighthouse. the dog off leach attacked a seal pup and the visitors saw that attack and call the marine mammal center. but it was too late. >> it was confirmed that the dog actually killed the seal. this is a guadalupe firs

. >> mta cautions that it may be too soon to say what the long- term effect may be on gas prices in california. >>> an effort to expand offshore drilling. diane king hall has those stories in today's money watch report. >>> wall street will try and bounce back to finish the week. yesterday, the dow dropped 122 points. the nasdaq fell 12. and the s&p 500 lost 6. but investors did have an appetite for beyond meat. shares of the vegan burger maker more than doubled in its nasdaq debut thursday. beyond meat ended the day up 163%, finishing at just over $65 a share. >>> in an effort to expand drilling off the u.s. coast, the trump administration is easing safety rules adopted after the 2010bp deep water horizon spill. the secretary of the interior says revising the unnecessary regulatory burdens. 11 people died and more than 3 million barrels of crude oil spilled into the gulf of mexico when the rig exploded. >>> and e-scooters are causing a scare. the cdc and the austin public health transportation found there are about 20 injuries for every 100,000 trips with electronic scooters. some of the time

it is still unclear if the company cleared the new service with the sf mta and we were sent to the agency for comment and have yet to hear back.>>> a delay for san francisco's $1.6 billion subway project. the examiner reported that the expected opening date has been pushed back to february 2020 instead of december of this year. the agency says that the problem with the contractor, where the contractor sets at the agency is responsible for delays and cost overruns. a spokesperson that they are still targeting december but acknowledges there are risks to achieving that schedule.>>> a grand jury is calling for any wildfire tax to help pay for fire preparedness. the marin county civil grand jury is recommending a quarter cent sales tax as well as the creation of a joint powers authority to coordinate preparedness efforts. the jurors report referred to butte county's deadly camp fire last november as an example of what they want to prevent. other recommendations include a countywide vegetation management plan and, hiring at least 30 new vegetation inspectors. >>> we are finding out there was t