goals and provide the recommendations to improve our methods of collecting data and on our performance itself there's been a number of important changes since the late quality review in the handing and reporting ever data there's now a dictated performance team at the sfmta that oversees the transit that is a tool that allows the the virtualtion analysis using this tool sfmta has revised their metric implementing the recommendations from previous audits we thong the state staffing in terms of performance we see a number of trend and i can indicate where your heading since the audit period there was a decline in the on time performance during the audit performance that fell short of goal since the end of the goal the audit trends have been improving it appears the 80 on time remains aloof there was a delivery target we've made short of prop e target but since the first time we've done those audits it exceeded the start in some months and the 2014 trespassed is positive bunch and gpa the frustration of all muni riders they come in bun

supervisor yee the sfgov project will fund sfmta to upgrade the traffic you can see some of the improvements for the signal infrastructure and for transit the 3 year for the entire van ness including the brt and kwoerptd with the larger initiative and the improvements for the van ness corridor okay. the franklin upgrade requested funds to upgrade the traditional along franklin street and the divisadero street corridor for it to be upgraded like poles and larger more visible signals and the pedestrian consultant u compound signals here we have the potrero hill and traffic stop improvements project the june's project agenda included an item for the potrero hill transportation plan this request for the improvement capital funds help to fund one of the recommendations and leverages almost $500,000 in lifeline programs for the preparation and improvements that accommodates the traffic and increases the pedestrian safety is on 5 intersections shown on the screen those could be eyed to provide space for elevated complafrmd and bulb outs lombardi street corridor a request for nearly 8 hundred 50 tho

supervisor yee the sfgov project will fund sfmta to upgrade the traffic you can see some of the improvements for the signal infrastructure and for transit the 3 year for the entire van ness including the brt and kwoerptd with the larger initiative and the improvements for the van ness corridor okay. the franklin upgrade requested funds to upgrade the traditional along franklin street and the divisadero street corridor for it to be upgraded like poles and larger more visible signals and the pedestrian consultant u compound signals here we have the potrero hill and traffic stop improvements project the june's project agenda included an item for the potrero hill transportation plan this request for the improvement capital funds help to fund one of the recommendations and leverages almost $500,000 in lifeline programs for the preparation and improvements that accommodates the traffic and increases the pedestrian safety is on 5 intersections shown on the screen those could be eyed to provide space for elevated complafrmd and bulb outs lombardi street corridor a request for nearly 8 hundred 50 tho

that are envisioned by this project are the improved traffic lights to provide the traffic light priority for vehicles and which will be rewanted to maximize the north south traffic vehicles that will speed up the

as a result of the audit, the revised policies and improved internal controls. thus when we conducted the audit and 2015, we found the internal controls to prevent duplication of benefits were adequately working as intended. we also implemented an electronic implementation for hurricane sandy survivors. the office did not anticipate the surge of workload which created a backlog of over 20,000 applications. excuse me. there was expedited processes and that included credit scores and verified incomes. we found a way to reduce processing time but the exit budded -- but the expedited process did not resort in any savings. we have identified challenges to meet our goals will we get high application volumes. the fact that we need to in crew -- improve significantly our staffing levels as well as the need to mobilize and stave -- train stuff quickly. we notice the spa reported an improper payment rate in its program from 2014, which is a significant reduction from the 18.4% reported in the prior year. we believed the improve rate -- improve rate is due to a number of th

the region. this will include further security desk physical security improvements in and around the tunnel and wider poor areas -- this will include further security improvements in and around the tunnel and wider port areas. the situation we are facing in calais is the result of a global migration challenge and that is why our two countries will continue to work closely together to make sure the rest of the european union and the transit through which migrants are coming are also playing their part in solving this problem. we must also relentlessly pursue and disrupt the calais criminal gangs that facilitate -- callous criminal gangs that facilitate and profit from the trafficking of people, often with disregard for their lives. today, we commit to even greater cooperation to combat this organized criminality. we have formalized arrangements on intelligence sharing, coordinated operations on both ides of the channel, and joined work to bring prosecutions. we will appoint commanders to direct the law enforcement response against the criminal gangs, create single liaison ,oint for intelligence sharin

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street and lincoln to increase the reliability and robert worked with several agency for the bacteria's improvements on the highway and protocol in addition to 9 traffic engineering responsibility has taken a key role i should say within the constitutional internship program helps po to recruit some of the best engineers on the internship program in the country and beyond roberts clerns in public and private sector has helped him in his development and sfmta has been among the fortunate recipients and to the engineering profession is much appreciated robert (clapping.) thank you directors i have a lot of people people it takes a village so i'll take if i go over two minutes on behalf of the best team in the world the senate it and greatest folks this is through great leadership and a great boss and leadership that care about their employees thank you sheryl and julie and victor and tom i want to thank my family if their noting in the back my parents and grandparents are in the audience they haven't seen me speak since high school. >> robert have them stand to be recognized. >> (clapping). >> i want

--believed the improve rate improve rate is due to a number of things. due to aed rate is number of things. this is primarily due to hurricane sandy. they also implemented multilayer reviews at the distribution center to identify and prevent improper payments as well as performance rating factors for reducing improper payments were included in performance evaluations of all staff. the improper payment rate continues to exceed the 10% rate. hence, we consider this an ongoing challenge. in closing, we acknowledge the challenges that the office of disaster assistance faces in providing loans to disaster prone -- disaster survivors. emphasizentinue to priority inms as a her office. thank you for the opportunity to participate today. sen. vitter: thank you very much, and next is tee rowe. president rowe: thank you very much, chairman, and i appreciate very much being here. centersican sbdc has nationwide, so when a disaster hits, we are there. we are there because it is our neighborhood, it is our clients, it is our community. in every case, in particular with

the president's proposed common sense solution to improve the solvency in the short run to americans who rely on it will continue to receive the benefits they need. it's vital that congress move forward to maintain the integrity of this critical program sooner rather than later. once again, these reports demonstrate how the affordable care act has bolstered medicare and shored up finances. when the president signed health care reform into law, the trustees projected it would extend the life of the trust fund by 12 years from 2017 to 2029. since then, the affordable care act has helped reduce the rate of health care price increases to their lowest rate in 50 years. as a result, the trustees have over the past several years revised down their projections of medicare costs and the projected life now extends to 2030. even further than estimated when the affordable care act was signed. it put medicare on more stable footing by eliminating waste, cutting patient costs. of course there's more work to do to fix the finances of social security and medicare. as the president pointed out in las

the muni serve from our director in terms of the things in terms of service improvements rngz in terms of the street improvements to reduce the delays in muni what we talked about a little bit late in our capital plan the infrastructure improvements that are equally as important in improving muni service particular the subway service to that end a couple of projects in the capitalized budget in the last 92 few years our replacement of our radio and our - i'm pleased so say we're heed to start construction that's the good news the challenges to work on sunday in the subway we need to expand the amount of time that is available we have a short window between 2 and 4 in the morning when the subway is not running with you do our routine maintenance to replace the emergency system extensively system and the radio system both of which are decades old and need of replacement so in order to do so starting at the end of this month and running through the end of the year we will be closing down the subway early in the evenings not not evenings with you crossing from 10:00 p.m. to th

street and lincoln to increase the reliability and robert worked with several agency for the bacteria's improvements on the highway and protocol in addition to 9 traffic engineering responsibility has taken a key role i should say within the constitutional internship program helps po to recruit some of the best engineers on the internship program in the country and beyond roberts clerns in public and private sector has helped him in his development and sfmta has been among the fortunate recipients and to the engineering profession is much appreciated robert (clapping.) thank you directors i have a lot of people people it takes a village so i'll take if i go over two minutes on behalf of the best team in the world the senate it and greatest folks this is through great leadership and a great boss and leadership that care about their employees thank you sheryl and julie and victor and tom i want to thank my family if their noting in the back my parents and grandparents are in the audience they haven't seen me speak since high school. >> robert have them stand to be recognized. >> (clapping). >> i want

street and lincoln to increase the reliability and robert worked with several agency for the bacteria's improvements on the highway and protocol in addition to 9 traffic engineering responsibility has taken a key role i should say within the constitutional internship program helps po to recruit some of the best engineers on the internship program in the country and beyond roberts clerns in public and private sector has helped him in his development and sfmta has been among the fortunate recipients and to the engineering profession is much appreciated robert (clapping.) thank you directors i have a lot of people people it takes a village so i'll take if i go over two minutes on behalf of the best team in the world the senate it and greatest folks this is through great leadership and a great boss and leadership that care about their employees thank you sheryl and julie and victor and tom i want to thank my family if their noting in the back my parents and grandparents are in the audience they haven't seen me speak since high school. >> robert have them stand to be recognized. >> (clapping). >> i want

the need to improve the stores, improve their merchandising -- pimm: who should they be looking to to emulate? this worldd there's of online shopping and walmart is trying to get that right compared to amazon. macy's also gets online for film and with in-store purchases. if they don't have a specific item, they will say we can ship it to you and it can be a your house the next day. in-storeas to combine sales with online for film and, yet they do not have the staff for that. terry lundgren fan. i think he's done a great job. still ahead on the bloomberg market day, the future of your automobile is not going to be built around its engine, but the maps used to navigate. who is ahead in this game? we will give you the details. ♪ olivia: welcome back to the bloomberg market day. i'm olivia sterns. pimm: and i'm pimm fox. olivia: makers of memory chips are sliding today. julie hyman has the details. micron is affected by the downgraded its the worst performer on the s&p 500 today. downgradingica is the group, saying they are spending too much money on capital expenditures and that they lac

weir very excited to see -- we are very excited to see the improvement. >> the improvement is also important because holiday shipping season hits the peak within the next month when large retailers start bringing in merchandise. >>> a strong jolt followed by rolling and it was felt by the ktvu fox 2 news morning view here. >> oh, my gosh. earthquake. oh, my goodness. oh, my goodness. this is a good one. all right. >> you could hear it there. live on the air when the 4.0 magnitude earthquake hit. it happened before 7:00 a.m. this morning and as you can see it was centered in the east bay, north of piedmont. ktvu's john sasaki went to piedmont and talked to people there who felt the earthquake. >> reporter: the market was packed at lunchtime. conversation topic number one was the 4.0 magnitude earthquake. >> standing in my kitchen and felt the strongest jolt i felt. [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: the staff here shared with us surveillance video. a worker describes what happened. >> my body is shaking. scared. i felt this before. today was a big one. >> reporter: across the street is a church w

the railroad. and in my 31 years i've seen safety improve year after year. 4 bnsf and the rail industry achieved bet-ever safety results an you can see the trend over the last decade. technology has clearly played a role in this success. while technology is the focus of today's hearing, investment in rail infrastructure and an in collusive safety culture for all bnsf employees are critical contributions as well to our safety results. investment in maintenance and renewal of the rainfall, the orange bars on this chart, is an important piece of safety. the bnsf invest significant amounts of this kind of capital into the network to contribute to safe operations and to ensure reliability of our network for our customers. this is the largest component of our $6 billion of capital spend in 2015. the nation's rail operations are basically 140,000 mile outdoor production line. this cope and complexity means that infrastructure and equipment sometimes fails. or that human error can occur. because of this, bnsf focuses on a risk-based initiative for all aspects of our

have the dialogue and discussion so - >> increase in strategy plan you've approved under goal that the improve the quality of life in san francisco and objective 3.2 to increase the impact to the economy before we need to know that we need the bottom line this effort to study the baseline we hired. >> consulting firm economic planning system one the premium planning groups in the area to assist us in this effort so i have jason moody a exfoliate that works on this i'll pass it over to him and we're both here to answer questions. >> good afternoon mr. moody. >> thank you. i'm jason with the economics and planning wear a real estate consulting firm with offices in oakland and sacramento and los angeles to build on what was said the person of this analysis to look at transportation in a really big picture from a return on investment or cost benefit flafls to look at muni services it is kind of a surprisingly kind of par.com transportation is looking at more and more those on the from the forehead level comparing the benefits to the costs the traditional formula for funding transportation in this

the improvement slows down? >> that is what we are expecting. >> thank you i had to hear that in my own words. >> comments? ready to go to public comment? ladies and gentlemen of the public, it is your turn to comment on moretality projections, scales, assumptions, suggested changes. seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you very much for your thorough presentation. at this time lets take a 10 minute bathroom break and we'll reconvene at let's settle down and get back in our seats. let rr get started again. so, we left item 13. thank you very much. >> approval of recommended revisions regarding qualification for dependent adult child or [inaudible] >> caryn are you making this presentation? >> i can. these are very simple changes. when the policy was firs adopted we didn't have plans relate today the sheriff and [inaudible] and the changes include them >> thank you very much. can we accept this report as submitted? >> i move we adopt staff recommendations. >> second. >> thank you very much. all in favor, a

after the loma prieta of 1989, the water agency started on a $350 million program of seismic improvements. one of the signature accomplishments, the massive claremont water tunnel that crosses the hayward fault and will actually flex in the event of a big quake. >> that it can move with the fault line. so if there was a large jolt on that fault, we should be able to withstand it or at least not have the level of damage we would have without the improvements. >> reporter: east bay m.u.d. relies on five local reservoirs which hold a six-month supply of water. in a disruption in the main aqueducts that bring water in from the sierra. >> we don't know how long we'll have water when the big one hits. >> reporter: major earthquake infrastructure improvements are also under way on the hetch hetchy system that crosses the hayward fault near sunol. that project also includes replacing huge pipes next to the dumbarton bridge which bring water to the peninsula and san francisco. mark sayre, kpix 5. >>> a stockton woman was surprised while fishing in the delta. this is what she caught. not one but tw

have the dialogue and discussion so - >> increase in strategy plan you've approved under goal that the improve the quality of life in san francisco and objective 3.2 to increase the impact to the economy before we need to know that we need the bottom line this effort to study the baseline we hired. >> consulting firm economic planning system one the premium planning groups in the area to assist us in this effort so i have jason moody a exfoliate that works on this i'll pass it over to him and we're both here to answer questions. >> good afternoon mr. moody. >> thank you. i'm jason with the economics and planning wear a real estate consulting firm with offices in oakland and sacramento and los angeles to build on what was said the person of this analysis to look at transportation in a really big picture from a return on investment or cost benefit flafls to look at muni services it is kind of a surprisingly kind of par.com transportation is looking at more and more those on the from the forehead level comparing the benefits to the costs the traditional formula for funding transportation in this

the bay. bart says people should expect delays. >>> keeping people safe and improving the commute is the goal for transit officials and they want to improve bus service along vanness. in was a hearing about it at city hall last night. >> we protect about 60,000 riders will be taking this service when it's all said and done in 2019. it is something that will approve transportation. >> i don't agree with that. >> the project is scheduled to start early next year. >>> time is 5:09. a special honor for the three americans who took down an armed man on a train in paris. coming up in 20 minutes the special honor they will receive from right here in the california. >> but first a new call center is looking to hire more than 100 people in the south bay. the skill they are looking for in hopes of reinventing their industry. >> sig alert along the dublin interchange. 580 westbound. they are make progress. we'll give you an update on what is going on. aa chance to try somethinglook. different. this summer, challenge your preconceptions and experience a cadillac for yourself. take advantage of our summer

laguna and we'll have that when the next meeting pertaining to the possible timeline for the demonstration of improved procedures for the issues that impact the safety with the safeties network finances it, too it was a very good meeting my colleague want to add anything >> no. >> okay. thank you. >> again next item, please. >> item 10 a committee agenda setting october 1st is the meeting. >> have we determined when the joint meeting with the planning department planning commission is. >> the date we decide on for you all october 17th i believe i haven't heard back if the planning commission i'm sorry october 22nd their secretary was out of town maybe back today i'll let you know as soon as i know. >> the next item is a vote for a closed session consideration for closed session. >> any public comments on the closed session. >> no there are not. >> so we're ready on whether to have the closed session. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? >> the commission willyou. >> so it's a vote to disclose or not and then adjournment. >> so have them coming out of closed session the motion to disclose or not d

let me talk about the new childrens improvements and what they'll include. the new taught lot, there is new tot lot for babies and toddlers with specialized tot friendly surface, age appropriate play quilt. a new tot lot has a metal gate and secure so little ones-you can't get in our out easily without the help of a parent and a new section of the learning garden. this tot lot will occupy a area improved with lawn and landscaping close to the ice skating rink. a new expansion of the fot lot is expected to start in august of this year and be completed in a few months. also the new improvements include a redesign learning garden with larger specialized planning areas a sloped lawn amp theater with seat wall, new fenceic installed to separate the larger childrens uses from the mu sconey use. the new walk way will connect the childrens gaurd toon the alley or per seo from 3 street between howard and folsom and third street is on the right side of the map. you can see where posayo starts and also see where the new restrooms are in the corner-the left hand sorn-cor

that is the most important thing to do when you're trying to improve public schools. this jives with the research and say we know works and 67% that expectations for what students should learn. who is teaching our kids. what are we teaching our kids. what are we expecting of them. i am surprised that more folks don't make the connection between the principles and the quality of teaching. that is something that needs to be probed on a little bit. the report areo on the website, look at the differences between different i'm -- demographic groups on this indicator because we do see some differences. quality of teachers. that continues to loom large. we did disaggregate this one. everyone -- this breaks out african-american respondents. quality of teachers looms large. note, the 30% that support using test to measure what students are learning. this is just one example i pulled out. note that 30% of african-american respondents say that using test to measure what students have learned is a very important fact in improving public schools. 19% overall. you see a lot of those

the improvements will allow ba are rt to speed up service. the train will shut down again in september for the three-day labor day weekend to complete the remaining track improvements. >>>s as we move along to -- a lot of the people who took the ferry ridership nearly doubled on saturday between oakland, on a typical saturday about 4 ,000 passengersers ride the ferry but during the closure nearly 9 ,000 people boarded. >>> now, then let's take a look at the bay bridge total plaza you can see traffic is moving along pretty well. it's nice and early. in the east bay the traffic still looks good on interstate 880 north and southbound this both directions. we haven't seen a lot of stuff going on. so on 402 we're going to to say it back to the desk. >> thank you. >>> we are following developing news across the state. more than 9,000 firefighters are actually battling wild fires but right now there are 21 major fires burning this california, and as you see on the map they're all the way from the oregon border to the cleveland national forest. the gr

brazil's economy continues to slow and the government is mired in scandals, there is hope that the improvements will continue long after the games are gone. >> and if you want to get more on all those stories head over to www.aljazeera.com. >> this is techno. a show about innovations that can change lives. >> the science of fighting a bomb fire. >> we're going to explore the inner section of hardware and humanity and we're doing it in unique ways. this is a show about science by scientists. tonight "techknow"

xfinity is the destination for all things taylor swift. ♪ emily: he got his start as an improv comedianperforming on one of the most famous stages in chicago. but when comedy could not pay the bills, he dusted off an old skill -- coding. he founded three companies before he even moved to silicon valley. then he took a chance on a fast growing startup getting an unusual amount of attention. that startup invented the tweet. once mocked as a way to describe your breakfast in 140 characters, it is now a $30 billion public company. the darling of celebrities and presidents worldwide, yet subject to the whims of wall street. joining me today on "studio 1.0," twitter ceo dick costolo. dick, thank you so much for joining us. dick: thank you for having me. emily: twitter has 300 million users. 500 million tweets on the platform every day. some hilarious, some illuminating. dick: mine hilarious. emily: yours are always hilarious. some wildly inappropriate, yours only sometimes. but always hilarious. some world changing. how do you deal with that on a daily basis as a ceo? dick: i don't have to re

back analysis how to better utilize this data and think about how to bring alignment with the goal of improving the equality of charity care, the reimbursement question and the on the challenges the hospital council will like to ask that the commission direct staff to deem it as you see fit and interested parties meeting with the hospitals and have that dialogue and report back to you whatever you deem 6 months operate or so thank you very much. >> good afternoon commissioner i'm barry the director of community health clinics at as far as i am concerned in san francisco i want to thank mabus and colleen and lucy for the pleasure of working with them it is of the in the posted report we saw in the web site i want to add my voice you consider requesting us to work six months with the did you want to explore information that is already required as residents of the new emerging california requirements after the affordable health care act what mabus alluded to the identification of concern populations that have not made the transition in the affordable health care act and what opportunities there wo

the prm which has changed and improvedver time. thisthis incident and these incidents have elevated the importance of some procedures requiring more direct oversight and review which we will address if there is a broad question about how many labs. important andimpt critical policy questions. the federal enter agency has an important role. cdc will contribute. when consensus is achieved what direction is given we will follow the instructions >> the mission is worthy and salvageable? >> absolutely. >> dugway has had problems in the past. it has been referenced body of times. in summation how does this continue to keep happening and how do you see us getting out of the cycle? >> this falls under the army the army takes this seriously at the highest level which sounds easy to say,say, but my interactions with them, this is taken personally and seriously. the secretary of the army on down is taking action. they will look at issues specific to dugway but not limiting it to that. it is not just that this can be a better reportin

street and lincoln to increase the reliability and robert worked with several agency for the bacteria's improvements on the highway and protocol in addition to 9 traffic engineering responsibility has taken a key role i should say within the constitutional internship program helps po to recruit some of the best engineers on the internship program in the country and beyond roberts clerns in public and private sector has helped him in his development and sfmta has been among the fortunate recipients and to the engineering profession is much appreciated robert (clapping.) thank you directors i have a lot of people people it takes a village so i'll take if i go over two minutes on behalf of the best team in the world the senate it and greatest folks this is through great leadership and a great boss and leadership that care about their employees thank you sheryl and julie and victor and tom i want to thank my family if their noting in the back my parents and grandparents are in the audience they haven't seen me speak since high school. >> robert have them stand to be recognized. >> (clapping). >> i want

emily: i imagine people screaming at you in the annoyance theater. i wonder if improvs good training for dealing with wall street. [laughter] dick: i will say this. i remember, when you are improvising, people are constantly yelling at the stage and so forth. i did this show. about three minutes into this hour-long show, these delightful, drunk australians started yelling, you know, "you suck. get off." emily: so you went into consulting. dick: the internet took off. this is early 1993. i remember us getting the ac.com domain for anderson consulting. i just went off with a couple of friends and started one of the first, you know, web design and development shops. sold that. started working on what ended up being an early group-based blog -- we did not call it blogging back then. and sold that. and then started spyonit which was an alerts platform. amazingly, we sold that on september 12th, 2000. we had a one-year restriction sort of restriction on the stock in the sale. and my birthday is september 10. so i had this weird set of days on 9-10-01, being out to dinner and

street and lincoln to increase the reliability and robert worked with several agency for the bacteria's improvements on the highway and protocol in addition to 9 traffic engineering responsibility has taken a key role i should say within the constitutional internship program helps po to recruit some of the best engineers on the internship program in the country and beyond roberts clerns in public and private sector has helped him in his development and sfmta has been among the fortunate recipients and to the engineering profession is much appreciated robert (clapping.) thank you directors i have a lot of people people it takes a village so i'll take if i go over two minutes on behalf of the best team in the world the senate it and greatest folks this is through great leadership and a great boss and leadership that care about their employees thank you sheryl and julie and victor and tom i want to thank my family if their noting in the back my parents and grandparents are in the audience they haven't seen me speak since high school. >> robert have them stand to be recognized. >> (clapping). >> i want

southbound you can't see the restriction no will not sign because the vehicle blocks the signs so hopefully, they'll improve the student they'll up to the time put the traffic signs near the signal we'll hope that the mta's implements a policy similar on mission street in terms of allowing a left-hand turn ann at third and fourth like taxis and buses can efficiently serve the public that provides a good balance for the public in my opinion i'll oppose the restrictions but implement left-hand turns for taxis and buses that will strike a healthy balance you know after the games it is common for guests staying in the w hotels you know the enter continental on howard they like to take it to second and howard and vegetation time like the moscone center i know fulsome they went to get to the moscone center and second street a viable route to what's what i like the project is a great idea but taxis should be able to make left-hand turns. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> herbert wiener one question i have about the project about the access of automobiles if second street to interstate 80 ryan right now it is

analysts say the increase is improved relationship with creditors. and waiting for national parallelment to approve the deal as well. and those are your top headlines. another big story, fed minutes are out tomorrow and we are looking if chairman yellen will raise rates. what do the minutes actually mean? joe: you think you have a meeting, a board meeting, someone takes some notes and you get to see what happened. it's not the case with the fed minutes. it is a loose summary and not very specific and they can be edited afterwards and people can make complaints and some stuff gets taken out. it's another way of what the fed is thinking, but not a strict definition. alix: they can go through three revisions and all the members can approve it as well as the fed chair. joe: people get obsessed about specific lines in the minutes. alix: what people are actually for? i was looking through notes, things that the minutes will show a preference one way or the other for september or december. the minutes for the meeting is having that good employment data and c

the size of seattle. weather conditions did improve over the weekend. the fire is still being fueled by dry vegetation in the area. and very unpredictable winds. >> reporter: the rocky fire has started on wednesday afternoon and has grown since then. at one point it doubled in size at a five hour period. firefighters with decades of experience are surprised this fire doesn't teem to be following the latest fire. pam. >> all right, thank you. >>> 5:08 is the time. there are a number of local firefighters at that rocky fire. vallejo fire tweeted this photo in the distance. take a look at the black smoke. huge plume. it shows just how big this fire is. >>> in other news this morning another whale has washed up on to a bay area beach. what appears to be a hump back whale was found yesterday morning just south of muscle rock park. this is the third to wash up on the beach this year. several other whales have washed up on other bay area beaches over the last few months and no one seems to know why. >> wonder how it got there and i bond we are it's going to go

some of those kids pick up on that and i see the improvement in them. >> one thing that i knew but the class helped reinstate is that you have to check yourself. we are all grown adults. >> i try to be motivated in everything i do in my life. if you don't encourage yourself to do something or do things for yourself you can't expect somebody else will do it for you. some people didn't make it to class because they have a bad attitude and decided it wasn't worth it. >> when you do something you have to understand why you are doing it and you can't say and come in and say, i will make good money. construction's not like that you have to want to do it because it's not aedz work. you have to want to get up and go to work and do physical labor for 8 hourses. >> i lived next to biotechnology companies and was a recruiter. i was getting tired and felt sluggish. >> i knew from the first day we were outside being outside having fun, climboth ladder and hammer and the physical labor i knew it was something i would enjoy. to say i put 15 years into this and not retire a multimillionaire but retire

and in my 31 years at the railroad, i have seen improved safety. in 2013, we achieved the best ever safety results. you can see the trend that we achieved over the last decade. technology has clearly played a role in the success. while the technology is the focus of today's hearing, the investment in rail infrastructure and the inconclusiinclusive safety. they invested significant amounts of this type of capital into our network to contribute to safety operations as well as to ensure the reliability of our network for our customers. this is the largest component of our $6 billion of capital spend in 2015. the nation's rail operations are basically 140,000 mile outdoor production line. this scope and complexity means that infrastructure and equipment sometimes fails or that human error can occur. because of this, bnsf focuses on a risked based initiative for all aspects of our operations. this shows the measures and countermeasures that we put in place. there are complicated processes as well as technology. while you're very familiar with the impleme

so far about 45 designs have been sold. >> translator: i am amazed at the improvement in design. i'm increasingly confident in the talent of the women and i thought it would make seven years to make a profit but we're one or two years ahead of my earning plan. >> reporter: last year she opened a store developed other products in house. the goods prized to be affordable for local customers. she tries to motivate the designers for company's brochures and posters and plans to launch in the cambodia capital this year. >> translator: their dream is to reach people worldwide and love to help their dreams come true and i want them to know the level of competition people around the world must go through. the production, instead of thinking about it, we will succee succeed. >> reporter: they are having ca cambodia women shake her hand and say thank you. >>> people in indonesia are marking 70 years of independence. the president joined representatives from ethnic groups as well as ambassadors from other countries. it was time that indonesiindone first president declared independence since 1

the employee experience. we know we have no hope of improving the veteran experience until he improve the employee experience. it's the employees who actually care for veterans. we are working hard to provide the right training, the right leadership, and do all the things we need to do to empower the eight employees -- v.a. employees. third, our i.t. services are often outdated. the system in phoenix dated to 1985. when i was in phoenix i worked on it myself. is like working on a green screen with ms-dos. our financial management system, believe it or not, is about 20 years old and is written in cobol. a language i less programmed in 1973 on the west point computer. we have work to do to improve our support services. number four, when you establish a culture of continuous improvement. to do that we are training employees and something called lean six sigma. is the way that employees take charge of the systems that work on. they are given the tools to change the systems. and as i say do employees, let's try to be the change we want to see just like gandhi said. number five, strategic partnerships which i've ar

>>> the weather continueses to improve. we had a lot of records set on sunday and also a record set yesterday in mountain view with high of 85 degrees. but once again the weather continues to improve as we go through each day. it will still be warm. in san jose, a high of 91. mountain view, 81. the castro will be at 72. and highs reaching into the mid 78 r 80s in the north bay. fremont, 88 degrees and 96 in livermore. at least we don't have 1 100-degree readings in the forecast. >> kids are going back to school. northbound 101 here boggs down. look at the map. we had a crash and in the back of it sounds like we had a can second crash. it's starting to recover. a little bit of relief for 101. 87 not really a problem right now. 880 moves smoothly. it's 84 westbound coming out of livermore because of a crash. we have activity where they come together. a mot motorcycle was taken off injury. the metering lights are on. look at the north bay. eastbound 137 has one lane open, one lane closed. here's san rah fall for your southbound

the bronx. lou young, cbs2 news. >>> a developing story. new safety improvements in place tonight at a dangerous intersection in brooklyn. the junction of atlantic, washington, and underhill avenues near barclay center has been the scene of many accidents. today the city department of transportation unveiled the changes meant to keep pedestrians safer. they include expanded pedestrian islands, restricted vehicle turns, and more time for people to cross streets. a pedestrian who was injured at the intersection two years ago talked about the changes. >> i have crossed this intersection now since they finished the job in every way you can. in every single way it feels like night and day. so much safer. >> the improvements are part of mayor de blasio's vision zero safety plan. >>> a long awaited day of joy for tracy morgan. the actor and comedian married his fiancee on sunday. this was morgan's second marriage. the ceremony came 14 months after he was seriously hurt and the fellow comedian died in a crash on the new jersey turnpike. the former "30 rock" and "saturday

all of the capital improvements we are proposal reflect the previous work we have done with other city agencies as well as with other community stakeholders. this was a exciting opportunity when we were seeking and frying to find projects that were shoveal ready and had community feedback and in line with the preechbious redevelopment plan and talking with community steakholders and other city departments, the department of public works was in the midst of streetscape improvement plans which is in the project boundary and in the process of houstic community meetings where they were looking at repaving, adding traffic [inaudible] and several other butte fiication elements and possibility for public arts as well as additional bull bout squz planting of street trees. as part of that community process, dpw came forward saying there is a interesting project at theert insection and i have exhibits dpw staff walk ed through with you is jen asian jenings and [inaudible] improving it so it would not be a area of flight. so, with that, i think i would like to start our presentation. with me toda

the bigger building we want to encourage them to come in [inaudible] how to improve the water proofing situation. water proofing is a issue eerfben 20 or 30 years ago i remember when was outside, evethen roof before they were [inaudible] water migration into the building that is why the roof want a quarter inch per foot otherwise they don't guarantee [inaudible] your water won't come in. it isn't a new things it is a old thing but they come back again and again and we learn from it. >> i see the point where it can be a challenge to document all the balconys and stairs and decks for single family home jz duplex but it is incumbent on the property owners to take a look at their buildings. since the tragied in berkeley, i look around at the build squgz i see small single family homes with whault i call decorative balconys. they are just metal looking balconys and not real bal conys just bolted on the wall and see people standing on them and they are smoking. i have seen a case where they are bbq. maybe single family home people don't know that structure is safe or not and it is incumbent

back analysis how to better utilize this data and think about how to bring alignment with the goal of improvinghe equality of charity care, the reimbursement question and the on the challenges the hospital council will like to ask that the commission direct staff to deem it as you see fit and interested parties meeting with the hospitals and have that dialogue and report back to you whatever you deem 6 months operate or so thank you very much. >> good afternoon commissioner i'm barry the director of community health clinics at as far as i am concerned in san francisco i want to thank mabus and colleen and lucy for the pleasure of working with them it is of the in the posted report we saw in the web site i want to add my voice you consider requesting us to work six months with the did you want to explore information that is already required as residents of the new emerging california requirements after the affordable health care act what mabus alluded to the identification of concern populations that have not made the transition in the affordable health care act and what opportunities there woul

with the improvement in the economy things are improving at aib and we are seeing profits back over one loans and the mortgage book improved. there are significant legacy problems within the banks. they're coming down and they are still significant that having said that it does look like they put the banks on course to move back into private hands. their performance has been helped by the fundamentals of the irish economy. what does it tell us about how the irish economy is doing? know is the irish economy is the fastest-growing in the eurozone. clearly we are seeing an increase in the jobs numbers. back upment has prices again about 10% year on year. in terms of where this gets back into private ownership the thernment has talked about senate -- selling a stake a soon as november but that looks unlikely. a lot will be determined by the elect oriole timetables. keen to get some money back so we could see some kind of deal on the back of improving the irish economy. caroline: thank you very much indeed. let's take it back to what is arguably thought to be the most important piece of data