Joining us tonight on kron, 4 news at 5 oclock. Im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis protesters around the world have been calling for a ceasefire in gaza for months now. Kron fours rob nesbitt joins us live in studio with reaction from both sides on the idea of a ceasefire deal. Rob vicki and grant when i reached out to a local Jewish Organization and those who have organized ceasefire, protests in the bay area. I was expecting more celebration. Both sides seem skeptical that a deal will be reached. Since israel wage war against the terrorist group hamas. 7 months ago, weve seen the impacts of protests from College Campuses to the Golden Gate Bridge. Samara, robbie, with the arab resource and organizing center has taken part in demonstrations, calling for a ceasefire and was relieved to hear the update monday that hamas accepted an egyptian qatari proposal for a ceasefire. A little bit of hope and some relief, right . The idea that maybe all of this carnage. A tense up can finally end
President aaron peskin, supervisor myrna melgar, supervisor rafael mandelman. Thank you for being here. [applause] i would like to recognize our police commissioners, commissioner walker, commissioner yee and commissioner benedicto. Thank you commissioners. [applause] i would like to also recognize the mayors chief of staff, shawn elseburn and also i like to thank from the mayors team, ivy lee and martha for making sure everything is perfect. [applause] thank you martha for getting us all organized. I see in the crowd as well, rodney fraung from the chamber of commerce, thank you rodney for all your support. What is exciting about this ceremony every quarter is the list of sponsors continues to grow and we cannot have this event unless we have sponsors willing to step up and support us. First i like to start out with the bxp team. Steve colvin, rod dale, of course our former chief of police greg sur and deputy chief john loftus. Thank you for being here for your sporelt. Also like to t
They showed a pretty good perspective of what happened. Many questions still remain tonight, about the future of Autonomous Vehicle technology, and whether it can prevent incidents like this in the future. Video from frisco live at 415 shows First Responders soon after they extracted a woman trapped underneath the crews robo taxi. Authorities a humandriven car struck the pedestrian before the driverless crews vehicle applied brakes. The av did not stop fast enough, and the woman got run over. Velocity and speed and actuation of brakes and Vehicular Technology can only happen so quickly in these emergency situations. Reporter billy riggs an autonomy transportation expert and professor at university of San Francisco, studying the safety and expansion of rubble taxes across the city. I dont think this is a significant issue for crews. Reporter riggs believes this is a result of human error. Police are mitigating the incident as a hit and run, as the human driver fled the scene. Kreuser sa
That shows our rich history which were proud to celebrate with all of you. While were so appreciative of the city of San Francisco for allowing us to host this event in this mag any my sent building and it makes honor to this beautiful song like San Francisco open its golden gates, thank you so much. Before i give our floor to our wonderful mc, i want to recognize the president of the brazil and consulate general of brazil. And local 7sciu. Thank you. [speaking spanish] muy buenos tardes. This is a great hon hor ob able to stand in front of you but especially that were all coming together as a city, our great leaders and our consul general to my left here. Its a beautiful moment when San Francisco gets to celebrate the joy, right . Am i right . [applause] so were going to practice a little just to warm all of you up, in case the margarita did not do it. Right . Que viva mexico. Viva que viva london breed . So thats a good warm up. [speaking spanish] que viva. Our lieutenantgovernor wil
All right. Good morning, Everyone Welcome to the september 12 meeting of San Francisco county Transportation Authority board. Im supervisor mandelman im chair. Vice chair is melgar. I want to thank sfgovtv. That is who im thanking and our clerk is elijia seaneders. Commissioner chan. Present. Commissioner dorsey. Present. Commissioner engardio. Present. Why chair mandelman. Why present. Voice chair melgar. Present. Commissioner supervisor peskin. Present. Commissioner preston. Present. Why commissioner ronen. Present. Commissioner safai. Absent commissioner stefani. Present. Why commissioner with theon. Present we have quorum thank you, mr. Clerk and commissioner safai is excused and im going to excuse him. And i think you have a Public Comment announcement. I do, thank you. Members of public interested in participate negligent Board Meeting we welcome you in person in the chamber room 250 in city all or watch cable 26 or 99 and stroll it live on sfgov. Org. For those wish to comment r