Director rubke and director nolan is absent with notification item 3 please silence all electronic devices. Any person responsible for disruption may be asked to leave the room. Cell phones set on vibrate can cause interference with the microphones, we respectfully ask they be turned off. Item 4 approval of the minutes. Do we have any Public Comment on the minutes. No members of the public have come down forward wait herbert wiener. Mr. Wiener 2 minutes please. Herbert wiener id like the minutes to amend the following when stated i took you know the bus lets say i had to walk a block to the ophthalmologist on Mission Street yesterday id like to add this and it makes it somewhat rocky on the minutes i want to a traffics of the eliminates of the accumulation of bus stop and outlines mta can truly be called the broker of passengers they might as well be sold as commodities on the stock exchange. Thank you, mr. Wiener. Normally in the minutes would we include something that was more opinio
Thank you. Let turn to laura anthony. And lets start with you. Those School Closures are unprecedented there. They are. That is why many parents are now scrambling to find child care alternatives. This isnt an ordinary wednesday, but the start of a fourday weekend. Im going to miss my friends and teacher. Novato unified cancelled classes tomorrow. And parents debated this decision. Finding day care is going to be rough. Grandmas are great. The downtown shops have sandbags on sandbags. Were getting nervous many residents felt the same way. Daniel marino managed to fill seven. 2 or 3 years ago there was water at his door. Crews cleared sewers geared up for weather and emergencies. They expect will follow. The chp has advice for everyone in marin tomorrow. You dont veg out if its if there are options to telecommute or you have an understanding employer and have ability not to go in, this may be a situation where its best to avoid the roads. Everyone is preparing for the worst but hope for
Flood stage. Good evening. We begin with abc 7 news weather anchor Spencer Christian whos watching the storm. Heres live doppler 7 hd. We have rain in falling forcefully in the bay area. This is the beginning. It will be more forceful overnight. Right now heavy rain spreading from the coast inland across sonoma, marin and napa county. The pattern is surging west to east. Mainly in the north there is lighter rain. In other parts of the area. Some light rain in San Francisco right now. Look at the tolls so far. 4400 of an inch so far. The storm is just getting started. Pull back and give you a wider view of the storm as it pushes in to the bay area right now. This is the strongest storm we have seen in the bay area in nearly seven years. Theres a high risk with the storm tonight an tomorrow for urban flooding, mud and rock slides, power outages. We expect ten inches of rain in Higher Elevations winds gusting from 50 to 80 miles an hour at their peak. Heres the forecast animation. Startin
Throughout the bay area. Giving you a good view of the rain, its been raining there several hours. And this is between santa rosa and sonoma into napa county. Well give you an image of the storm. You can see this is going to be very powerful. And there is a high risk of flooding at times. Notice by 11 00 well see more wide spread storminess. Light rainfall witness hill areas south and east and by 9 00 through San Francisco, by 11 00 and continuing south ward by 1 00 in the afternoon. Well give you more in just a few minutes. Thank you. Let turn to laura anthony. And lets start with you. Those School Closures are unprecedented there. They are. That is why many parents are now scrambling to find child care alternatives. This isnt an ordinary wednesday, but the start of a fourday weekend. Im going to miss my friends and teacher. Novato unified cancelled classes tomorrow. And parents debated this decision. Finding day care is going to be rough. Grandmas are great. The downtown shops have s
Peter albert i know well have another opportunity to talk about transportation but first of all, when i came to you before about the waterfront assessment the green blue way we were looking at that it was actually an easy challenge at mta to look at the site in terms of the connection weve been doing that for a year and a half were looking at the continuity of the embarcadero project it was underway at mta and separate bicycle investment sort out part of the infrastructure itself working with the street group and part of the combined events and the warriors i dont know if i want to try to talk about the details until we have the if you recall plan conversation but maybe at a later date. I think as we go forward the other thing curious if theres a thought to the parking space underground on nonevent days do 43 they really over and turn into Office Spaces and serve as double duty with the idea of maximizing our real estate resources. Thanks for the question jessie with the warriors proje