Its a great time to download the nbc washington app and turn on weather alerts. Chopper 4 is live over some breaking news in Montgomery County. At least one person stabbed at the Westfield Wheaton mall. Were working to find out more details. We dont know the extent of the injuries or whether police have made any arrests. There is an Incredible Police activity going on there right now. Its also impacting metro. There are delays right now on the red line in that area due to all the police activity. Were going to continue to follow this story. Were also following breaking news from Prince Georges County where a former Council Member is pleading guilty in a federal corruption probe. Will campos used taxpayer money to line his own pockets and accepted bribes. Tracee wilkins is live in greenbelt. Reporter we know this is all related to the arrest we saw yesterday with the Prince Georges County liquor board. And today just inside of that building the us attorney for maryland laid out the case
J. R. pam and stevethere are an average of 20 accidents a day on the i80 cooridor. Officials believe that new signs like this could help reduce that number by 25 percent. These smart designed traffic information boards along the i 80 cooridor are now on. Part of a project to try and reduce not only traffic but traffic accidents from the carquinez bridge to the bay bridge. Four things will happen during this project. Onethere will be adaptive ramp meters that adjust depending on the traffic. Two, overhead signs like these will soon look like this. Allowing officials to lower speeds at times and warn drivers of upcoming accidents with red xs. Three, traffic information boards will show travel times and alternate route information. Four, these signs on nearby local roads will help navigate detours when conditions change. As i drove the westbound lanes of i80 on wednesday all overhead signs were turned off. Something that will likely change by labor day. J. R. this is a project that is cos
Are routine and any of the consent calendar items may be removed ask considered separately. Would anyone like to sever any of these items . Okay. Seeing none. Is there a member of the public that would be interested in severing these items. Okay, seeing none. We call item number 5. Can we get a motion for the consent calendar. Get a motion to approve the consent calendar, second by tang and motion made by chew. This motion passes, can you call item number pa. State and federal legislative update. This is an action item. Great, my favorite update, how are you . Fine, thank you very much. We need to buckle down because we have a lot of work to do right now. We do. A lot of the work has been done, so ill make it as easy as possible. February 27th was the final date for introduction of bills and there was something over 1,000 bills so we sifted through them but beyond that, we have six we want to recommend for your consideration to support. Support if amended and we have four that we want
Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the Transportation Authority finance committee and im cohen and to my left are katie tang and commissioner david chew. The clerk of the committee is mrs. Erica chang and id like to take a moment to acknowledge and thank jim smith and nono for their wonderful work at sfgovtv and helping broadcast it meeting. Are there any announcements . No announcements. Could you call 2 of 4, the consent calendar. Items 2 and 4, these items are routine and any of the consent calendar items may be removed ask considered separately. Would anyone like to sever any of these items . Okay. Seeing none. Is there a member of the public that would be interested in severing these items. Okay, seeing none. We call item number 5. Can we get a motion for the consent calendar. Get a motion to approve the consent calendar, second by tang and motion made by chew. This motion passes, can you call item number pa. State and federal legislative update. Th
Ask considered separately. Would anyone like to sever any of these items . Okay. Seeing none. Is there a member of the public that would be interested in severing these items. Okay, seeing none. We call item number 5. Can we get a motion for the consent calendar. Get a motion to approve the consent calendar, second by tang and motion made by chew. This motion passes, can you call item number pa. State and federal legislative update. This is an action item. Great, my favorite update, how are you . Fine, thank you very much. We need to buckle down because we have a lot of work to do right now. We do. A lot of the work has been done, so ill make it as easy as possible. February 27th was the final date for introduction of bills and there was something over 1,000 bills so we sifted through them but beyond that, we have six we want to recommend for your consideration to support. Support if amended and we have four that we want to oppose as they are written presently. So if you i can walk thr