Its a different world view. Most effective . I think the thing we did really well in 2012 in particular was applying best practices from large scale ecommerce to making donation process as efficient as possible. Its not super sexy but its things like speed kills. The faster the system is, the more people donate. If at any point in the process there is any kind of lag, you are just introducing an opportunity for people to get bored. Speed matters a lot. We used to joke about making the process as easy so easy that if people tripped and hit their head on the computer they would give us money by mistake. Preferably more money. Ideally. And doing things like amazon and large ecommerce retailers have allowed you to save Payment Information for a long time. You can buy with you go on. I want to buy that. Shipped before you even had a chance to say maybe i dont need that. We like that idea. When people get inspired about something, we dont want to introduce barriers to participation. So thing
To house their operational staff and service their vehicles are in a marginal poor state of repair. Are these facilities a threat to the health and welfare of our transit workers . First, i think i should be clear that we believe the systems are safe. Transit is one of the safest modes of travel we have available to us in this day and age. We also believe strongly there are steps that need to be taken in order to address the safety, not just of the general public, but the employees that work for the agencies as well. Theres no question, when you are dealing with an aging infrastructure and the needs required to maintain that infrastructure, employees are going to be working in Hazardous Conditions with moving vehicles and things of that nature that can make for an unsafe situation. But there are steps that transit agencies take and do take, and i know from my own experience, we focus closely at cta on making sure the operators have appropriate training, appropriate tools, the appropria
The fbi has blocked off several blocks in the russian hill neighborhood. Agents focusing on an Apartment Building on jackson street near polk. A hazmat team is also on site. Kimber Kimberly Tere has more on this for us. Reporter the building has been shut down since this morning as the fbi executes a search want on polk and van ness. Its part of a criminal investigation. But they would not elaborate. The agents are bagging up evidence. San francisco fire and police are also here to assist. The bomb squad was here earlier. The fbi spokesperson says there is no threat to public safety. The protective equipment is being used for the safety of the agents. Theres still a lot of activity going on here. And were still getting more information. But right now, again, jackson street is still shut down between van ness avenue and polk street. Well stay on this story. As soon as we get more information, well pass it along to you. Live in San Francisco, Kimberly Tere, nbc bay area news. Hundreds of
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Forecasters are watching two storm systems tonight that are expected to team up and hit the east coast as something of a super storm. One storm is moving in from the west, the other is Hurricane Sandy, now over the bahamas and heading north, highest sustained winds, 105 Miles Per Hour. This is how the hurricane looks from space. Here is what its doing on earth. Flooding streets in haiti, sending waves crashing on to the shore in cuba, and knocking down trees and buildings. Where this cuban is walking, a house once stood. Sandy is blamed for at least four deaths in the caribbean. Meteorologist David Bernard is our cbs news hurricane consultant. And, david, where is sandy headed . Reporter thats a milliondollar question right now, scott, that everybody wants to know. As you mentioned, lets look at where sandy is right now. Its in the bahamas. Its a powerful category 2 storms with 105mileperho
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