With making muni work for San Francisco and right now in many ways, muni is not working for San Francisco and its not reliable enough, it is not fast enough, it is not predictable enough in terms of when its going to arrive and how quickly and officially its going to travel. One of the reasons on why it is not predictable and reliable is because of the intense mixture of buses and traffic. It is almost impossible to predict with any significant degree of accuracy whether a bus will stick to its schedule because itll get caught in every single traffic issue we have, whether its a double parked car, traffic jam, accident whatever it might be. We absolutely need to move decisively forward with brt, with van ness as the first example and we cant stop at van ness. We need to have more bus Rapid Transit lines and we need to have a political will to do that. I do want to comment on the comment that was made about the 7 minute issue, which i think will probably get quoted in the press and ther
Right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening, trying times in the south tonight. Fire, water and tornadoes, part of twin deadly disasters that have struck over the last 48 hours. Violent storms spawned twisters overnight, killing five people in two states, including tennessee. Which is still reeling from the firestorm that exploded the night before in the great smoky mountains. And today we learned three more bodies have been recovered from the scorched ruins, bringing the death toll to at least seven. Weve got it all covered, starting with nbcs jacob rascon in stormdamaged alabama, jacob, good evening. Reporter lester, torpedos reported in six states and nowhere was hit harder than here in rosalie, alabama. Im standing inside what used to be the towns only shopping plaza. The owner climbed out of the rubble alive, while several of his neighbors did not survive. Barrelling through the southeast, dozens of tor
Fly gra flagrant violations of the rules. And ivan watson is in beijing. And the president tweeting about it noting that we are not in a trade war, but china of course taking this issue to the wto. Fill us in. Reporter clearly china is making it clear that it will retaliate for any tariffs imposed by the Trump Administration by as it puts it the same scale and same magnitude. So it announced tariffs for 25 slapped on 50 billion worth of u. S. Goods. Among the sectors that are targeted are soybeans, aircraft, cars and chemicals. Soybeans and aircraft are two of the biggest. And those would theoretically get the 25 tax if china goes ahead with it. And it says that the time of the imposition of these tariffs has yet to be determined. Top officials saying that now is the time for negotiation. They are responding of course to the Trump Administrations imposition of a 25 tariff on 50 billion worth of chinese goods. And the list is some 1300 goods that includes everything from artificial teet