Oh, my goodness. A beautiful picture there. How did you figure it out i saw it on twitter. Beautiful shot, sal. It is. Tuesday. I feel good on a tuesday. Dont you guys . Its not monday. Better than yesterday. Its not friday. We are getting there. I notice you are wearing blue. That could be the color of a gender reveal. People are not feeling these gender reveals any more. And they do this if you are having a baby or not. It appears that the big gender reveals are trending down. Issues of gender identity are evolving. A portland journalist says some transgender people wonder how to handle invitations where the focus is on the babys assigned pronoun. These parties took off about a decade ago but since then they cooled off in popularity. I have to say that some of these gender reveals have gone wrong like the car that blew up in australia. Like fireworks, igniting a grass fire. Even before the safety concerns i think some things are better handled in person or left as a surprise. Can i m
Stories of pedestrians on city streets. Traffic crashes have killed 21 people so far this year. Compare that to 23 in all of last year. The most recent death happened sunday afternoon on ofarrell and taylor streets. A couple visiting the city for their anniversary can be seen in the upper lefthand corner of this surveillance video. A black tesla hits them. We stopped the video before impact. But it claimed the life of benjamin dean. On thursday, 54yearold Michael Evans was hit while crossing the street a few blocks away. Advocates hoping declare a state of emergency will free up funds to make changes to high risk neighborhoods. Like the tenderloin. One idea theyre pushing for, take away all the oneway streets here. Its proven that when you have traffic, cars stretch much more slowly. And thats something that can save peoples lives, when speed is such a factor in fatal collisions. We want to lower speed limits in San Francisco. We believe in neighborhoods like the tenderloin that has th
No word on whether there were any smoke detectors inside the mobile home. At least 20 people are out of their holmes tonight because of this fire at an apartment complex in gaithersburg. Broke out about 1 00 this morning. It moved quickly. Sending flames shooting through 2 windows. No one was injured. Theres still no word on started it. To the latest the Government Shutdown. Day eight. Some House Republicans hinting they mate be willing to pass a shortterm measure, reopening the government and averting a default. In the senate growing outrage tonight that the shutdown has led to the denial of benefits to the families of fallen soldiers. President obama made another call today for the Government Shutdown to come to an end. During that hourlong News Conference late this afternoon, the president said he talked to House Speaker boehner today, telling him furloughed workers need their paychecks now. Lets stop the excuses and take a vote in the house and lets end the shutdown now. Lets put p
And theres no plan to keep us from going over the fiscal cliff. Broken record, broken record. Im Christine Romans in today for john berman. And im zoraida sambolin. Up first, president obama standing his ground over the fight in the fiscal cliff. Americans face crushing tax hikes and severe spending cuts in 27 days if democrats and republicans cannot come together on a deal. By the way, congress breaks for the holidays in ten days. Slash that number. In an interview with bloomberg news, the president made it Crystal Clear hes not about to blink on the issue of tax hikes for the wealthiest americans. Well have to see the rates on the top 2 go up. And were not going to be able to get a deal without it. White house correspondent dan lothian joins us live from washington this morning. Very nice to see you, dan. Good to see you. Heres the deal. We have republicans pitted against democrats. Now we understand there are issues amongst republicans as well. Thats right. Theyre in a tough spot he
Evening commute. Good evening, im Gasia Mikaelian in for julie haener. Im frank somerville. And electrical problem has stopped all muni service in San Francisco. The problem started right at the height of the evening commute. So far, its unknown if the problem can be repaired in time for tomorrow. More now from amber lee, live in the city, where she just got an upclose look at the blown transformer causing the outage. Reporter right now, you can see the caution tape is up, keeping passengers from trying to get inside the train station. Its a blown fuse. Reporter john haley, muni director of transit showed the blown transformer. He says crews will be working through the night to try to fix the problem before tomorrow mornings commute. We know its not the outside feed from pg and e, and we know the problem is within our hardware. Reporter as for commuters tonight, it was a headache getting to their destination. As late as 8 00 p. M. , we found passengers still at a loss. I didnt know the