commissioner stephenson? >> i agree about what wald said about keeping the agenda small and i think that in the out reach efforts it will be great if we threw some questions out there to get the people thinking about if they want to come and i don't want to have a tiny agenda and not have a fruitful discussion and this is a second thing is that it might be a little picky point but i believe when we approved the budget for our commission meetings to be televised, that there was an additional cost if we did it in a community site and i don't know if we have to approve that before we go out there to do it or we can slide that under. >> nice catch. >> we talked about that for a long time. >> so i want to make sure that if we do have to approve it we do it. >> right, okay. >> and on that point, too. one consideration that we talk about what commissioner san franciscos said and if the facility.. and saves the department 600 bucks on the added cost for the remote. i want to say monica that you have the mind for all

ktvu david stephenson live now in the city with late details. >> prosecutors aren't talking right now, but we've learned the suspect in this case turned himself in at about 2:00 to this jail and was booked at about 3:15 on charges of felony vehicular manslaughter and felony hit and run. the 58-year-old san francisco recreation and parks gardener was arrested september 5th. police say he ran over christine as she lay sunbathing with her then ten month old daughter in a park. the baby was not injured. after hitting her, he continued driving to a nearby rec and park building. he was arrested that day and freed on a $25,000 bond. now, the district attorney's office previously indicated to ktvu it's been awaiting the results of toxicology tests before filing any charges. the death brought complaints from holli park neighbors who said other park workers frequently veered from paved paths to drive across the paths. rec & park officials told ktvu there have been only four incidents in the past two decades involving pedestrians and park vehicles. again, at this hour, he is inside the jail that

up in the policy committee and i just throw out there that this is something that commissioner stephenson is interested in in the top priorities that if commissioner wald is into the idea to think about agendaizing all of the policy committee meetings because you never know when we might want to engage and show up and it will be properly noticed to have more than three commissioners present. >> if we could do that i would have absolutely no objection to it and i assume my fellow commissioners would not either and we would welcome the attendance of others. >> so we can do. >> i agree. >> commissioner josefowitz agrees. what do you think? >> fine with me. >> all right. >> all right. >> so, public comment on this item? >> and seeing none, and dr. jackson just came in, dr. jackson no comment on the policy report, okay, next item is number 1 4. >> commissioner secretaries report and commissioners in your packet you have a copy of the report and since the last meeting and in addition there is a correspondence log of all correspondence received and status to date. the break was in august and so,

at&t ceo randall stephenson says the mere discussion of default poses great risk to the economy. also, thousands of tourists from china. who traveled to the u.s. for the chinese holiday known as golden week, are being greeted with closed parks and monuments closed due to the government shutdown. almost all of the 350-thousand furloughed department of defense workers will return to their jobs this week. defense secretary chuck hagel said over the weekend that the recently passed pay our military act allows him to recall employees who provide direct support to the military. the move prompted lockheed martin to reduce the number of emplyoees it planned to lay-off to 2-thousand from aroud 4,000. sikorsky, the maker of blackhawk helicopters has canceled temporary layoffs for 2-thousand of its workers. meanwhile-- 400-thousand civilian government workers are now in their second week of furloughs. banks are making preparations for when the economy recovers and people start pulling money out of safe, low-paying accounts. since the financial crisis, cash has poured into banks as safe have

have a complete report later today on our 5:00 and 6:00 news, for now live in san francisco david stephenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. >>> more news on the comiewft, people began lining up at 4:00 a.m. at the station to board free charter buses going into san francisco, bart is providing 140 buses that pick up from nine east bay stations. >>> the lines were long at times but the last bus of the morning was only half full when it left walnut creek. commuters were frustrated but some don't blame bart workers for walking off the job. >> everyone has their right to do strike, argue, so forth, so on, a lot of us just have to get to work. >> for the commute home from san francisco this afternoon bart is also providing charter buses that will pick up commuters near the transbay terminal starting at 3:00 this afternoon. >>> bart riders also turned to ac transit to get to work this morning. commuters started showing up at around 4:30 a.m. at the 20th street bus stop at broadway and oakland. to make sure they would get a seat. lines started getting heavier around 6:00. commuters waited betwe

reporting live in san francisco, david stephenson ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a police chase in san bruno ended when an officer shot and killed a suspected car thief. it happened a little after 2:00 this morning when an officer spotted a stolen vehicle and tried to pull the driver other, but the driver refused. officers pursued the suspect on a dead end street. while trying to arrest him, the officer said he felt threatened and fired his weapon. the suspect died at the scene. a passenger said the suspect's vehicle was taken into custody on an unrelated warrant. >>> in alameda county, investigators say union city police were called to an argument between neighbors on saturn way. police learned one of the suspects was a parolee with outstanding warrants. he was armed and threatened them. one office shot the suspect who later died at the hospital. the officer is now on administrative leave as part of department policy. >>> san francisco supervisors voted to allow the chair of a state grant to help build a new jail. sheriff ross mirkarimi wants to build a 640-bed jail at this mcdonald's next

>> commissioner stephenson? >> i am just wondering how many graduates graduate thised year in the program? >> so the question was how many graduates from this first wave of graduates? >> we started with a class of ten and i would say, 8 from the first class, we have had 13 total and presently there are 16 apprentices at rec and part. and this is a fabulous program and everybody should be sort of commended for it. i was wondering if there was an opportunity to expand to this other trades that are around, sort of one could also the city could also partner with with the local around other sort of building related activity. >> thank you for your question, commissioner. the apprenticeship, it is kind of standardized by the state department of relations and generally speaking, the construction trades, this situation was very unique because we were able with mayor newsome and lee to sign-off on the apprenticeship that never existed actually it does not recognize the journey level that we represent, they recognize a dif

for now, rorth live in san francisco, david stephenson ktvu channel 2 news. >>> continuing coverage now, bart trains are running again, and this evening commute is proving much smoother than the morning commute. bart promised lechlted service at 4:00 a.m. but stations didn't open till almost 6:00 a.m.. at this hour, bart tells us service is now fully restored, and all the scheduled trains for the evening commute are running. as the system works to get back to normal, the ntsb is updating us on that deadly bart accident that killed two workers over the weekend. ktvu's ally rasmus is live in walnut creek. here's the ntsb briefing underway. >> i also have with me again on this team. mr. hickston works from indiana, and gorgetta gregory is our division choef out of washington, as well. this is my third and will be my last press briefing while on scene. once again, on behalf of the ntsb as an agency and myself and my team, we express our sincere condolences to the families, coworkers and friends of the deceased in this accident. last evening, ntsb investigators held another progress meeting

andrew stephenson. >> tran one. -- tran one. in the town where i live on -- unemployed is down and small businesses are flourishing. however, traffic congestion is holding back the economic growth of the area. will be prime minister join with me in welcoming the start of a six-week consultation that would address this problem? >> i very much welcome what my audible princess. he's right. the need for building bipartisan and roads in a country, that's why we're spending 3 billion pounds over this parliament a major upgrade. i welcome the consultation on the cole bypass and it comes as he says at the same time is very good news on unemployment where we have 1 million more people and working -- and work in our country. >> thank you, mr. speaker. on this day 20 years ago the provision of either a brutally murdered innocent man, woman and children. will the prime minister join with me and my right honorable and audible colleagues, ensuring that no one is in a civilized society will ever take innocent victims with guilty murders? >> i

. >> avoid the area use stephenson or pike heights or falls road do that because of this issue. towards dulaney valley road towards 83 it's a mess on the north side of the beltway. fog another big issue. we will talk about a lot of fog. look at tidings bridge that's covered and smoothered and speed restriction this is morning because of the fog. it's gorgeous sunshine 9 # at bolt baltimore national pike. west side of the parkway jammed here's lynette. >> and now abc maryland's most accurate forecast. >> yes we do have fog this morning we can see it in ijamsville. going through the rest of the morning plenty sunshine in the forecast for us so enjoy it. there are a chance for isolated showers rolling in for today. but all in all mainly everyone should stay dry. in terms of temperatures 66 degrees right now in ijamsville and what we will have this afternoon around 58 degrees. as we head towards -- 85 degrees. heading towards the weekend we will watch tropical storm karen. >> we will bring you breaking news throughout the morning and have more at abc 2 news.come. the doctors is up n

union general john stephenson takes a division of men how to monroe louisiana.it ends up being a very short expedition because he gets to monroe and the next day he gets called back to the mississippi river. so they are not there very long. in that group is a man named major john davis. he was an officer in the ninth louisiana with milliken's bend and he made it his special mission to try to find out what happened specifically to captain corrigan heath who was captured at milliken's bend. they hadn't heard anything about him or where he was and whether he was formerly a prisoner or what. as a result of the questions that major davis was asking in monroe talking to confederate soldiers in the confederate hospital there, that he was talking to union loyalists. he received testimony that corrigan heath dr. corrigan heath and the lieutenant from the 11th louisiana which turned out to be george conn had indeed been executed there in monroe. now at the time like i said they rape got recalled immediately to go back to the mississippi river so that is kind of as far as

and 65 in pasadena and 63 in edgewood. 65 in norrisville and stephenson coming in right around 64.ere. but we're also seeing plenty of sunshine and also the key bridge back there. no worries in terms of fog not dealing with that this morning. across that area. and in terms of temperatures, well that high temperature coming in at 85 degrees by this afternoon. and the seven day forecast, well, brings some much-needed rain in here as we head towards the beginning of next week. let's get a check of the traffic with mike. >>> thanks lynette. good morning everybody. west side of the beltway getting slammed ride now. the drive times and you can see down near 10 and around 15 and it picks back up beyond 70 in the park and go. live shot volume picking up on the outer loop at this hour. some issues and it's also the north side this morning unusually congested and this is about a mile or two as you go up towards three park up towards the randy valley road. another shot and a car fire really quickly and share that to you coming up in a little bite. >> we're out of time and going to send you ba

one of the things you find in the book is politicians from eleanor roosevelt, adelaide stephenson touncil, because of that candid he gave them, it was always caring, warm in a way, but boy was it bracing. he pulled no punches. >> the letters are strikingly honest, strikingly honest, many of them. and it provides you a window into the lost art of letter writing. i don't know whether people are going to be putting up several books of e-mails in the future, but the expressions of the letters are really unique. arthur schlesinger wrote jackieden kennedy after her husband was assassinated. dearest jackie, nothing i can say request mitigate the shame and horror of this day, your husband was the most brilliant and able and inspieshing member of my generation. he was the one man to whom this kund u country could confide its destiny with confidence and hope. he animated everything -- he led with passion and wit. your family and one small slice of his life, yet, it evoked such emotion in him, both with the president and with robert kennedy and i'm wondering, what impact that had on the two of