Saturday. This man was on board as they pulled into the bart station before they went to San Francisco. He pulled out a gun and shot a passenger numerous times before leaving just as the train doors opened. The suspect fled and we spoke to the police chief who has acknowledged that there is a lot of unanswered questions. Who is the victim or the suspect . Police dont even have a motive. At this is a pretty brazen, random act. We have a number of bart personnel assigned to patrol every couple of stations. We have a special team funded by the federal government that is responsible for safety and security. Reporter police are saying as soon as they know who the victim is they may be able to piece together whether or not he knew the gun man. They dont know whether they know each other, there is no motive and they cant even say if it is random or targeted. Lots of unanswered questions. One question i have that i dont know if the chief answered, in regards to the gun man and the victim, we k
Department again our authority is with the commissions ability to permit not the Police Department. Campaign and others im dave from the San Francisco Police Department i want to say this is beyond the scope of what we were working on today what the purpose let me back up first of all, the Police Department is coming up a lot we have not spoken yet this is not driven by the Police Department it is coming from our commission and legislation section 1060 plus states you have this vehicle available if you want to act on that jocelyn was trying to be prudent i thought about identifying the days not the process i totally get everyone saw 40 days we dont like that number i completely get that you think weve learned about the business every application stands on we can knock out in a week or a day i thought wisp hear to discuss the first displease of this the eight or nine days we identified as the types of dates we could meet the criteria the next step will be the process thats where clearly
The streets weve on up a Navigation Center to better move people off the streets into housing and services and answering the challenge from president obama i wanted San Francisco to be the first city in california to end chronic homelessness for veterans clapping and working with supervisor campos and Supervisor Scott Wiener we will fully fund a special shelter for the lgbt homelessness pops clapping and but friends you knowe. Poverty in our city doesnt mean spending for money we make record investment and in our safety net that wont change its not progress to keep people trapped in Public Housing and trapped in joblessness and trapped in despair we know the outcome we saw a terrific example of this tragic murder of 4 young men no, my friends a real commitment to ending poverty mens trurps the transfer from parent to child child and generation to generation it means Better Outcomes of pathways for people to a better life for themselves and their family the cold banks and bodies im talk
Good afternoon. And welcome to the Transbay Joint Powers Authority board of directors meeting for friday, january 16th. I wanted to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who make each of our meetings available to the public online and also transcribe our meeting. And recognized Jessie Harlan and egan. Do we have any announcements. Ly call roll. Director lee. Here. Lee present. Director nuru. Present. Director reiskin present. Director harper present. I will note for the record that director sartipi will not by able to join us today due to scheduling conflict. Do we have any communication or board of directors old or new business . Seeing none well move to the executive directors report. Good afternoon everyone and happy new year. We start with some good news today, having to do with our bridge loan that we reported on last moment we will be closing next week, that is a great achievement. Also we had reported to the board that were looking at syndicating the loan. It turns out that we no longe
Thank you, doug. New information tonight about smoke in the metro station that led to the death of one woman and injured dozens. Right now about 12 people are still in the hospital and the investigation is just beginning. Horace holmes is live from the Lenfant Plaza metro station in southwest washington with the latest. Horace . Maureen, as you just told us just a couple of minutes ago the d. C. Medical Examiners Office late this afternoon released the identity of that woman who was killed in this incident here at the Lenfant Plaza metro station. Her name and we do have a picture of her also that well put up on the screen carol glover 61 years old from alexandria virginia weve been in touch with her family. They say that she was making her way home from work downtown here yesterday to alexandria when unfortunately, she was trapped in that metro car with dozens and dozens of other people. Right now the ntsb is in charge of the investigation into exactly what happened here. They said we