in san francisco to improve the street safety for all user and we're a multiple transit first city and our policies and ordinances needs to reflect that national association of city transportation officials is a nonprofit association that represents large cities on transportation issues of local regional and national significance it is advances the educate interests of urban areas all too often blanket standards are suburban and that represents the urban residents in transportation designs and san francisco and new york and portland and wondering are a all members and the current president is our transportation guy edward reiskin and this is being held tent on the other hand, at the end of this month they have particular and educate challenges in designing safe streets we've learned unfortunately san francisco still suffers from bad road designs decisions made in the 950s that make the streets dangerous for pedestrians and bicyclists encouraging speeding helping to you fuel the especially desk injuries we have foifrnd our commitments for the major problems would the pedestrian accidents and the collisions a great work is happening for long term and near cons

next thing i wanted to mention, the national association of city transportation officials of which i am currently president, it's an association of folks from the largest city in the country really trying to focus on how to improve street design and urban mobility in our cities. i think we found that there's a lot we have in common in our different cities and an organization bringing best practices to bear in term of how to improve transportation in cities. the organization whose acronym is nacto is holding its annual conference here in san francisco. 3 it' called designing cities conference and it will be here october 22nd through the 25th. it's going to be taking place down at the park 55 hotel. it will have really the best minds of urban transportation from across the country. city transportation folks, other academic and professional consultants, really the best in the country will be converging on san francisco. so, it's pretty exciting. themes will include reimagining rights-of-way, he economic benefits of sustainable streets ~, bike and car sharing, pedestrian and bike safety,

of an important conference to highlight the street, redesigns and i want to congratulate and thank, commissioner weiner and the board for passing, the legislation, that establishes the standards and this is a national association of city officials, and important, sustainable streets standards for san francisco, as far as city policy. this will mean that fung agencies not only the sfmta and the planning commission and the fire department and the dpw and other agencies puc that have responsible for the street design and management are meant to now follow these safe standards and these standards that will promote sustain able street design. let's see, moving on in the related point on the and i really want to thank, david and eric young, the deputies for a planning and the communication's officer, because it was just a tremendous opportunity to highlight all of the great work that the city is doing and i appreciate the work on that. >> on the brt projects both van ness and geary are making the steady progress, they expect to reach, 65 percent design by the end of this month and to begin the construction, near the end of next year and on geary, we are also working with sfmta, but also in the package of early improvements

of the indicators, increase maintain level of funding, not met by 33 states. the same trends can be found at the local level. the national association of county and city health officials reported that over one quarter of local health departments experienced not met by 33 state. a budget cut in thebe found current fiscal year and this has happening over the last six years. almost half of these had services. in overall, the boots on the ground, providers of public have lost over 51,000 jobs since 2008. publicpresents 20% of health jobs, at the state and local level. ebola is a frightening disease with horrific symptoms and concern is naturally high that spread may occur in the u.s. highly, this is unlikely. to become infected, you must have physical contact with bodily fluids from someone with symptoms. we know how to stop barriersion, by using nursing practices such as gloves, disinfectants and patient isolation. unfortunately, many countries in africa do not have the resources for these precautions. ebola is a major concern for the affected countries, and the fear loss of life are devastating. the danger is that we will be fixated on this virus and no

the university evaluate its communications and decision-making practices. >>> center city's reading terminal market is being named one of the nation's great places. the american planning association will honor the market this morning as one of the ten great public spaces in america for 2014. the apa says the places that make the list represent the gold standard in terms of culture and historic interest as well as community involvement. >>> if you're looking for a job, dozens of businesses will be looking to hire some new workers today. the willow grove chamber of commerce is hosting a free job fair. if you plan on going, organizers say bring your resume and be ready to network. stop by between 10:00 this morning and 3:00 this afternoon at the williamson banquet hall in horsham, montgomery county. >>> atlantic city is trying to put the brakes on sudden hikes in parking fees for concerts and special events. tonight city council will vote on a measure that would slap casinos and parking lots with bigger fines if they suddenly raised their rates without notifying the city. this, of course, comes after a couple of big concerts -- blake shelton, lady antebellum -- over the summer in wh

. >>> the hearing loss association of america hlaa walk for hearing is the largest walk of its kind taking place in multiple cities across the country. according to the national center for health statistics, 48 million americans or 20% of us have some degree of hearing loss making it a public health issue third in line after heart disease and arthritis. joining us this afternoon is barbra kelly. she's deputy executive director of the hearing loss association of america and with her is katherine pulowski. she's 8 years old. she does have a hearing loss. she's from northern virginia and katherine is the walk for hearing ambassador. thank you both for being here. while we get a microphone on catherine, barbara, i'm going to ask you, talk to me about the walk on saturday, this saturday. >> that's this saturday on the national mall. we're meeting at the sylvan theater stage. registration is at 9:00 in the morning and at 10:00 we start to walk. and we are thrilled to have katherine as our ambassador this year because she represents a lot of children and their parents who also walk in the walk for hearing. sometimes if a child wears a hearing aid or cochlear implant

i'm a member of the new york city bar association's committee on nationality law. hello, nisha. this has been a great panel. we've heard a lot of what cities and states are doing, have doing, may do in the future. i wanted to probe the issue of what we can refuse to do. i'll point this question to you if i may, commissioner. i'm specifically interested in the state of play, our committee in new york has recently testified before the city council regarding noncompliance with ice detainers. there's one example of what can be done. i'd be interested to hear you talk about state of play in new york. if other panelists have ideas of what states and cities can be sure to do. >> sure. so the current state of play is that the council leader has introduced legislation with the extent to which that the city complies with ice detainers. specifically the law would require judicial warrant for any honoring of a detainer and then even then would require a serious or violent felony conviction within the last five years. this is very different from what was possible in the prior administration w

fighting chance to stay and work in san francisco in the city he love over the next years you'll see on page one of the agenda the national association one our our affiliates has donated 60 thousands for the residency program in sfusd i'm delighted that's the kind of work we should be doing in partnering with the district we would like to do more but at this point in this stage of negotiation with this uncertainty we can't expand and build on that partnership with the people that do the work are not replaced let's get the contract settled and keep our educators in the schools where they want to be and let's resume a partnership that works thank you thank you, ms. solomon. >> annabel okay public comment is closed item k any committee appointments seeing none, all oh, yes and commissioner. >> david hernandez to the bilingual community thank you thank you very much item l special order of business number and n discussions of educational issues straightjacket i believe we have a congratulation update. >> thank you president fewer yes. i'd like to ask interim executive director susan koffman to come down and do the presentation for us. >>

the autonomy or leave it to the cities like solutions? >> in the united states, the only western democracy where there is any question about climate science. the national academy of science is here. the american associationhe advancement of science, the royal soft, which is there in britain, their science academy have all looked at this and found that the certainty that humans are causing climate change is about the same certainty that smoking cigarettes caused lung cancer. we are the only country in the world that's a western democracy that has this kind of debate. now to your specific point, i think they need a partnership of federal government, state and local governments and the private sector. for instance, as we were talking about earlier, when the president sets these carbon pollution limits for power plants, that will help drive investment into solar and wind. colorado has its state policy that requires a lot of renewable aeelectricity. colorado is in the top 10 in the u.s. partnering in innovative utilities standard challenge is so big, we can't say we don't need you. we need the federal government, states, cities and private sector all working together. a lot of this is like president obama tod

of philadelphia judges. nbc 10 at city hall last night as 13 judges were sworn into the national bar association's judicial council. the council mission is to end racial bias. >>> a picture that can be seen from space or a tall ladder. >> it's cool. the national portrait gallery unveiling a giant picture of a young man created in the landscape of the national mall in washington. the portrait takes up six acres. it's made of sand and top soil. the artist created it as a compilation of american faces after photographing 30 men in d.c. called out of men one. visitors will be able to see it tomorrow. crews continue to work on the condition of the grass on the national mall. after decades of rallies, marches and festivals, the grass is in horrible shape. it will take 18 months to get the job done. >>> some experts want to make pluto is planet again. the former ninth planet which is 3.5 billion miles from the sun was relegated to dwarf planet status. some argue that pluto is a planet based on definition of the word. no word on where they are now just arguing this eight years after. it orbits around the sun. it's round o

of both companies received high honors in center city. that's nbc 10's vice president andrea williams accepting the trailplayser award from the national association for multiethnicity in communications. inspiring leaders for their commitment to diversity and inclusion in the communications industry. nefertiti jaquez served as the host. david cohen accepted the paragon industry award. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist sheena parveen. >> well, a nice day today. temperatures were on the school side and they're still like that for tonight. starting off with your morning tomorrow, we will stay cool. temperatures waking up to in the 50s. then as we go into the weekend, we're talking about some rain. that will start off your weekend. but behind the rain we have football weather moving in. temperatures behind the rain will be topping out in the 60s on sunday. i'll show you that forecast in just a minute. current temperatures right now already in the 50s in pottstown, 59 there, 60 allentown, philadelphia mid-60s, up and down the i-95 corridor mid-60s. tomorrow morning we'll be in the 50s. right now, though, we are dry. we expect t