Folks may be planning to go to work today and see how the outages go. That may be the case. Well see how the morning progresses. There are no major problems getting toward the bay bridge but again the early backup shows coming off of the maze, a smooth drive through Contra Costa County, and from the north bay, both across the carquinez bridge and the golden gate bridge. No problems through the south bay or peninsula and disabled truck well talk about that counter commute, guys, coming up. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. Back to the red flag warning set for later today in the extremely high fire danger, and noon, pg e will announce exact areas where they will shut off power later today. Pg e says the move just like two weeks ago will prevent downed power lines from starting fires. Impacted areas include parts of san mateo, napa, and sonoma counties but the south bay and east bay will not see shutoffs and that doesnt mean people should not stay on alert. Bob redell joins us live in wa
Good morning, everyone. I would like to welcome everyone, especially those that are up this morning and watching remotely. Good morning. Thank you again for being with us, and also to my colleagues in the audience. Welcome. Next thing on the agenda, please. Number 2. General Public Comment. Are there any Public Comment . I see none. Next, please. Three Consent Agenda approving the minutes of the june 18, 2019 meeting. I move approval. So moved. Second. All in favor. Item 4. Ybi ramps project update. Hopefully you can hear me. Eric cordoba with the San Francisco Transportation Authority. I will give you an update where we stand with improvements. I have a slide show and then we will get into questions. First a little context. The Transportation Authority led the ybi westbound ramps project. We opened in october 2016. That was approximately 100 million in total primarily funded with highway Bridge Program seismic retrofit funds as well as proposition 1b seismic funds. Something we are pr
Please. Number 2. General Public Comment. Are there any Public Comment . I see none. Next, please. Three Consent Agenda approving the minutes of the june 18, 2019 meeting. I move approval. So moved. Second. All in favor. Item 4. Ybi ramps project update. Hopefully you can hear me. Eric cordoba with the San Francisco Transportation Authority. I will give you an update where we stand with improvements. I have a slide show and then we will get into questions. First a little context. The Transportation Authority led the ybi westbound ramps project. We opened in october 2016. That was approximately 100 million in total primarily funded with highway Bridge Program seismic retrofit funds as well as proposition 1b seismic funds. Something we are proud of in that regard. What we are starting to move towards is the south gate road realignment which i will get into more details as well as the west side bridges project. Very happy to, frankly, announce we have requested the Construction Funding ph
Subapplication approved this year. We want to make sure there is population builtup on the island in order to make this area a success. That leads to a schedule question. When is this coming online . Most of that is in the third subphase that was approved. We are in permitting. We will Start Construction next year. When you map this out because of the length of the geotech any cal program we are not until 2025 at earliest. We have time until we talk to potential tenants. Now is the time for that conversation to see if any adjustments in the plan are warranted. We have a retail plan for the whole island. We are maybe a quarter built out, then transitioning. We want to think about in earnest what is going to be there day one. We have a check ken and egg problem chicken and egg problem. This will be well before traditional retail is viable. We are working on strategies along those lines. Our solution to this challenge, this is phase zero, what will be there day one when the first resident
Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im anmarie green. Federal investigators are trying to determine why a small plane carrying Dale Earnhardt jr. Ran off the runway and burst into flames. Cbs news obtained this video of earnhardt being treated at the scene in east tennessee yesterday. He, his wife and young daughter as well as two pilots were on board. They were taken to a hospital for evaluation and then later released. Laura is here in new york. Youve been following this story. What do we know so far about this crash . The National Transportation safety board says two representatives are on their way to begin investigating the cause of the crash. At this point we dont know why what should have been a normal landing turned into an emergency situation. Dale earnhardt jr. And his family can be seen running from the fiery plane wreck just moments after it ran off the runway in tennessee. You hear the saying the lord wor