Pattern doesnt continue into the future we need the entire city family and community all of San Francisco to come together to achieve that important vile important goal and make investments and the leader to bring this Community Together as well as identifying the dollars that are going to enable the investment we need in order to make our streets satisfactory is mayor ed lee please welcome him. clapping thank you for your leadership at sfmta its teacher that we are having to face an unprecedented number of accidents fatality and serious injures about one hundred a year has been the average we want to curtail that and seriously do something about that weve joined together the supervisors along with our office and the sfmta Police Department and others to suggest that we can end it we have to that r that goal of vision zero in 200240 to make sure were serious today is another effort here anothers e. R. By a street has been a tragic we hoped not to have happened but also in you ride alon
Folks but realizing their spirit and their capability to become the entire Community North and Market Street and congratulations to our your success clapping come on up here i know what we ought to do is, of course, announce her coming up to this stage im not going to reveal her age can you hold on for a second. Oh, you have and oh, my god. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear candice laughter happy birthday to you. clapping. birthday girl thank you. Thank you, thank you for having this on any birthday. I had a sign up party by this has completely maid for this. The mayor talked about our vision for midmarket im sure youre aware of which of you were part of the conversation when we talked about revitalization of Market Street we had the highest vacancy rate and the highest unemployment it was not an easy confidence to have we understood there were businesses that left the tenderloin and have called it their home. When we saw the jobs we talked about the Tec
Advantage that the democratics say almost twothirds the legislation we can only dream of so thanks so clapping. i think we have more companies anywhere in the United States its at the amazing statement were not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn your your back and just so the orchestra. The most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think hes a camera come important he become ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think were not acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he was a great influence on the harmonic language on the contemporary up to now. I thought it would be interesting because they have e he was contemporary we use him on this and his life was you kill our wife you get poisons all those things are Great Stories for on opera. I was leaving behind a little bit which those collabor
Other things we do including the reduction of speed here on the sunset boulevard thats been at 35 mileperhour historically and is now we are reducing it to thirty mileperhour and at the same time, we have two additional streets where is it will be merry rag and marion by the end of next year. Those combined with the reduction of speed here but with a constant education from not only our supervisors and sfmta our walk sf first and Police Department but also the entire city has to Pay Attention to this whether its a street if district 6, in selma or downtown in the tenderloin or in the sunset were committed to get this done and make sure that everyone that used our street particularly those who are walking their dogs and families are feeling safe in the street we have to educate everyone who goes and utilizes the author fair and sunset boulevard to cyclone not only because there are multiple schools ever other block but people using it more and more and as we invite people to live in San
An incredible feat as a blind athlete takes on the toughest competitions in the world. The ironman. She is hours away from history. Today is saturday, october 11th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good saturday morning. Welcome to today. Im lester holt. Im erica hill alongside Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. Dylan is following the typhoon off the coast of japan. High tides being seen. Dylan will update us on the path. Busy in the pacific. Nothing in the atlantic. This is getting a lot of attention online as reaction comes in after microsofts ceo said that women dont really need to ask for a raise at work. We will have the latest. And dylan has another great story. We are putting her to work this weekend. This was hard to work. She went to meet baby cheetahs on the endangered species list. They purr. I love it. People can get involved in naming them . Three dont have names yet. You can help name.