. >> monday eesz accident happened at 36th avenue and sloat boulevard. lyanne melendez is live on sloat boulevard to dache for the cityd the state. people drive as if it were one big highway. in fact, it is a highway. hhway. there have been six pedestrian deaths in the past ten years on sloat boulevard, the latest earlier this week, a 69-year-old man crossing at sloat and 36th avenue when a car hit him. the hawk beacon crossing system was in place. it's a safety design made to protect pedestrians, but most agree because it's new it can be confusing. >> people really didn't get it, you know, like what am i

as a matter of fact, i think there's several on sloat. caltrans installed five, and there's other systems elsewhere. >> supervisor yee: i'm just curious if there's other places in the city where they're installed. i guess not. [inaudible] >> supervisor yee: okay. thank you. i'll make sure that we give you more opportunities to show this video in the neighborhood. we should go to some of these neighborhood associations and show it there. >> we have plans to show it to the board so they can distribute it to their staff, and we have a list of senior schools and especially schools in the area. the population swells when lowell and the other schools are in session in that area, so we're going to do outreach to those, as well. >> supervisor yee: all right. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> supervisor yee: anybody else presenting on this item? if not, then any public -- i think there's a part for public comment here for item number four, which is andy gonzalezs r cabrillo. >> good morning, commissioners. my name is andy gonzales cabrera. fir

. >> monday eesz accident happened at 36th avenue and sloat boulevard. boulevard to dache for the cityd the state. people drive as if it were one big highway. in fact, it is a highway. hhway. there have been six pedestrian deaths in the past ten years on sloat boulevard, the latest earlier this week, a 69-year-old man crossing at sloat and 36th avenue when a car hit him. the hawk beacon crossing system was in place. it's a safety design made to protect pedestrians, but most agree because it's new it can be confusing. >> people really didn't get it, you know, like what am i supposed to do, it's flashing yellow, flashing red? >> reporter: here's how it works. the pedestrian presses the crossing button. that activates the yellow lights that tell the driver someone is ready to cross. a few seconds later red lights start flashing, then the signal turns solid red, drivers must stop. chenn this case, crossing tientt without using the hawk system. once the pedestrian is done crossing, the signal goes to flashing red, which means they can proceed with caution. bu

the accident happened tuesda morning at 36th avenue and sloat boulevard.ltrans recently installed a high intesity activated crosswalk system.. or hawk beacon... which is meant to make it safer for predestrians to cross streets. ( james ) one person has died following a motorcycle crash in santa rosa. the motorcyle was traveling along wiljan court yesterday when it tried to go around a slow moving car -- by crossing the double yellow lines. but that's when it hit an oncoming van. the motorcyclist was killed. the driver of the van was not injured and is cooperating with police. ( darya ) in the east bay... the city of martinez has had 6 water main breaks... and people who live there are fed up. the latest break happened yesterday on shell avenue and orange street. it flooded a few front lawns. water pressue remained low until about 5 o'clock last night. public works crews repaired the pipe... that they say dates back to the 19-50's.

. >> the chp officer jonathan sloat is on the telephone. can you hear us, jonathan? i can hear you. >> thanks for coming on. can you give us an update on what's happening on the highway and how long it might be closed? >> estimates of maybe 50 minutes. it's totally up to what happens at the scene. we don't have a lot of information we know about what you know, sort of leaked from an oxygen tanker. we have right now north and southbound 101 closed between river road and mendocino avenue, and same on the old railroad side. traffic is extremely congested in the whole northern santa rosa area. expect delays or find an alternate route. >> especially this time of day. anything about any injuries or, you know, repercussions that way? >> no information on that yet. this is barely in the city limits, they're handling the incident, santa rosa police and fire. >> what is the danger from an oxygen tanker truck? what kind of leak are you expecting or trying to deal with? >> you might want to talk to the hazmat experts. oxygen is flammable. we don't

. >> reporter: a 69-year-old man was killed by a driver while crossing sloat boulevard and 36th avenue10 years, six pedestrians have been killed. it occurred despite caltrans installing a hawk beacon safety system. it's supposed to protect pedestrians and because it's new, it can be confusing. >> people didn't get it, what am i supposed to do?

the local press is more interested in princess rima been to bandar on sloat she's the first female president of the saudi federation for community sports a government body. that is a sports authority we're very proud to not only include women as athletes but also as a woman it facilitates for the athletes my teammates if you see the designers that i brought in the freedom that used to ride the bicycle that i had to. the clothing might look a little unusual from a western perspective but here it's a creative way of loosening the shackles of convention as selma sheet explains. if you're a woman in saudi you become creative in the way of how to do it to do things even if there are restrictions whether it's you know laws or social researchers but you . just become creative how do i accomplish that how can i get things done. with. saudi arabia maybe affluent but poverty exists here to. some or all rashid is a project manager with an aid organization called al not. today she and a social worker of visiting a family that the project supports. so. she is in her late forty's and lives with her two da

i'm lori sloate senior director for global health. can you hear me? is the mic on? okay. wait until it turns on. is that better? they assured me i didn't have to touch a button. okay. is that better? okay. hi. good morning i'm lori sloate i'm the senior director at global health foundation in d.c. and thrilled to it be moderating our first panel this morning. so following on senator mcconnell's comments this morning, you can see the u.s. world involvement in polio eradication has been critical. he mentioned it's about half a billion in appropriations about but about $3 billion over all so large es to the initiative. and when you think about the global polio initiative itself, it's a na nam nal public health movement really in terms of harnessing governments, u.n. agencies, foundations, volunteers partners worldwide. and so if you think back in 1988, and he mentioned this as well, another statistic i like to think of that i think is amazing, as advocate for this initiative, is that in 1988 there were 20 polio cases occurring worldwide every half hour. and in 2017, there we

. >> reporter: a 69-year-old man was killed by a driver while crossing sloat boulevard and 36th avenue. in the past 10 years, six pedestrians have been killed. it occurred despite caltrans installing a hawk beacon safety system. it's supposed to protect pedestrians and because it's new, it can be confusing. >> people didn't get it, what am i supposed to do? it's flashing yellow. is it flashing red? >> reporter: the supervisor says people need to understand how it works. another supervisor, katy tang, posted on her facebook page she wants pedestrians and drivers to become more familiar with the hawk beacon. the pedestrian activates the button that someone wants to walk and then it starts flashing and the signal turns solid ride. drivers must stop. while most did, a few impatient ones drove off while it was red. and we saw some, the children in this case, crossing without using the hawk system. once they are crossing, it goes to flashing red meaning they can proceed with caution. drivers didn't know what to do. because it's technically state highway 35, it's maintained by caltrans. the a

the accident happened tuesday morning at 36th avenue and sloat boulevard.led a high intesity activated crosswalk system.. or hawk beacon... which is meant to make it safer for predestrians to cross streets. ( james ) one person has died following a motorcycle crash in santa rosa. the motorcyle was traveling along wiljan court yesterday when it tried to go around a slow moving car -- by crossing the double yellow lines. but that's when it hit an oncoming van. the motorcyclist was killed. the driver of the van was not injured and is cooperating with police. ( darya ) in the east bay... the city of martinez has had 6 water main breaks... and people who live there are fed up. the latest break happened yesterday on shell avenue and orange street. it flooded a few front lawns. water pressue remained low until about 5 o'clock last night. public works crews repaired the pipe... that they say dates back to the 19-50's.

we had an elderly individual that was crossing the street at 36th and sloat. he was struck by a vehicle. although there were c.p.r. -- c.p.r. was performed at the scene, unfortunately he did not survive his injuries. so we are committed with vision zero, and we do, from time to time, unfortunately see pedestrian accidents a lot of times involving elderly individuals who can't get across the street quickly, and this is something that we definitely continuing to focus on. one of our traffic violations that we focus on are our pedestrians that cross in the crosswalks, so our focus is -- this is still a very big part of our strategy to reduce traffic collisions. last year, we did very well. i think we had the lowest number of traffic deaths in many, many years in san francisco, so hopefully, we can continue that trend. but to the public, i'd like to say, you know, we all have to do our part, and pedestrian violations oftentimes, we see people that totally ignore traffic signals, and a lot of the pedestrians that do end up involved in traffic collisions is totally

officer sloat, thanks for joining us andiv u a t othe siat and bng yhe latest as we learn more about what's happening. when the roads will reopen. the backup is already beginning from this. >> on 101. the officer said, maybe 50 minutes, but who knows if that's the case when they can actually get this cleared? in the meantime, with every passing minute the traffic gets that much worse especially this time of day, we'll continue to keep you updated during this hour. >> for now, though, good afternoon and thank you for joining us today, i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley. the fire has more than doubled in size since monday, charring more than 10,000 acres of land near yosemite national park. one firefighter killed, two others injured. >> the worst case scenario would be a blaze that stretches into yosemite west and south into the mountains. here's abc news reporter mark remlard. >> reporter: at one of the nation's most celebrated national parks, smoke obscuring these speck lack tar views. >> we've seen a lot of smoke, the smell of smoke. when we went back to the hotel last night, our

it happened tuesday at sloat and 36th. this is the same intersection where a car hit and killed a man last halloween. it's not clear if the man activated the hawk system. here's how that works. there are three lights. when triggered the lower light starts to flash yellow and then solid yellow followed by two solid red lights on top. the two red lights start flashing like a railroad crossing signal and supervisor tang sent her condolences to the family on facebook. dozens posted frustrations saying drivers don't pay attention to that hawk system. >>> president the majority of the u.s. spends time watching shows and movies on-line but lawmakers want to make a major addition to your streaming so, i needed legal advice, and i heard that my cousin's wife's sister's husband was a lawyer, so i called him. but he never called me back! if your cousin's wife's sister's husband isn't a lawyer, call legalzoom and we'll connect you with an attorney. legalzoom. where life meets legal. with advil liqui-gels, what bad shoulder? what heada

>> and his girlfriend, alison sloat, bought the company, recipes and all, over ten years ago for just1,200, and have grown the business from selling pies on the side of the road to having their key lime pie named the nation's best pie by the american pie counsel. even though they generate $1.4 million in sales, they have yet to turn a profit. >> we really are a victim of our own success right now. damn it, i'm tired of this! >> and they've stretched their resources over multiple locations, including a shipping facility that's not making any money. >> today, i'm losing $1,000 by not being able to deliver pies. i can't do this every week. >> jim and alison have a staff of employees that are beyond dedicated. >> order it today, 'cause we need to get it into stores, 'cause we're very low on that [bleep]. >> i know, i know. >> with increasing debt and mounting losses... >> there's, like, three weeks of outstanding bills here. you owe 2,400 bucks. >> key west key lime pie company is facing major cutbacks. >> i don't want to see the company destroyed. at 56 years old, what do i start over wi

good morning, i'm lori sloat, the senior director for global health at the foundation in d.c. and i'm thrilled to be moderating our first panel. following on senator mcconnell's comments this morning you can see that the u.s. role involvement in polio eradication has been critical with he had mentioned that in the last decade, about half a billion dollars of appropriations, but it's also been about $3 billion overall. the largest government donor to the initiative. and you think of the global polio initiative itself, it's a phenomenal global public health movement, really. in terms of harnessing, it's massive harnessing governments, u.n. agencies, foundations, volunteers, partners worldwide. if you think of back in 1988, there's another statistics, i like to think of that i think is amazing as an advocate for this initiative. is that in 1988, there were 20 polio cases occurring worldwide every half an hour. and in 2017, enter were 22 cases for the whole year. we can't lose sight of the successes that the unique public partnership has brought us. at the same time we have to fac