And muggy, get ready for today it will feel even hotter. If youve stepped outside so far this morning you will know that is true. Good morning and welcome to nbc 10 news today, im katy zachry. Just after 6 00 a. M. On your hot and muggy saturday. Lets get started with first alert meteorologist karen thomas with your neighborhood forecast. Hot and muggy, i like the way you go with that description, yes, hazy conditions, areas of fog this morning, but heat and humidity will be continuing today. Scattered showers and the possibility of some thunderstorms later today. Temperatures right now on the warm side, 72 degrees in Atlantic City, we have 73 in vineland, 73 in philadelphia. And close to the mid 70s here in wilmington, 75 in dover. And we do have that humidity out there, dew points are kind of high. We do have a lot of moisture in the area, you know, even if youre not having rain in your neighborhood, its feeling quite steamy out there. As i mentioned areas of fog developing just simp
Very often. It is groundhogs day. Guess what . This dude did not see his shadow this morning, meaning spring is right around the corner. That is according to the fork will the fork low. The folklore. While the u. S. And below average temperatures in the february temps went above average in march, and the great news is this time the groundhog didnt bite the year off remember . Hes like, let me hear what youve to say. When you think to get him think to not put a groundhog up to your ear . We got meteorologist tim studebaker. Good morning. A lot of time its east coast centric, so keep in mind when we have a warm up on the east coast, that often leads to a cooldown on the west coast. If hes right on the east coast, well see what happens in the west. 34 degrees for the high in renosparks. Probably not very high impact. In nature. Better chance tomorrow. 19 degrees in town right now. Partly cloudy skies. Call winds and 74 percent humidity. Air quality in a moment in the moderate category. No
Director ripke has a comment. I think there is a potential conflict for me on this item because my firm represented a client that may be affected by this, so im looking for your consideration to sit this one out. Board policy, we would have to vote on that so i would vote we excuse director ripke from participating and acting on this item. Is there a second . Second. All in favor say aye. Thank you. Okay, director ripkin. Jerry robins from our Sustainable Department has been working on this for quite some time has a brief presentation we want to lay out before you which is how do we address the challenges we are facing, people in the Alamos Square are facing. Good afternoon, jerry robins, i have a brief presentation on the background on Alamos Square. Get the presentation going. Its a very popular destination for visitors to San Francisco. In the last several years we have seen a big increase in the hop on hop off tour bus industry, these are busses that sell individual fares and allow
The residents in the building nearby have complained about noise and vibration from the busses and they would like to see the zone removed. Parking loss is also an issue. So some of these enclosed busses are still operating around alamo square. The picture on the left is pierce street along ida b school. The busses there seem to think its okay to stop and block traffic. The busses here have stopped and you can see people crossing the street. Theres really no place for the busses to park legally at alamo square right now and some of the hop on hop off busses have returned since we did our Data Collection in june so some of those double decker busses are back. So we have two proposals for your consideration today. Option 1 is the request from the Alamo Square Neighborhood Association that all streets within that shaded area be restricted to commercial vehicles with 9 or more seats with the exception of employer busses, the Neighborhood Association does not want to prohibit the google typ
Challenges we are facing, people in the Alamos Square are facing. Good afternoon, jerry robins, i have a brief presentation on the background on Alamos Square. Get the presentation going. Its a very popular destination for visitors to San Francisco. In the last several years we have seen a big increase in the hop on hop off tour bus industry, these are busses that sell individual fares and allow people to get on and off the bus at particular destinations and get on a later bus. Its become very popular. Four or five Different Companies that operate this type of service in San Francisco. In september of 2011 the Alamo Square Neighborhood Association requested a prohibition of all commercial vehicles with 9 or more seats in the alamo square area similar to restrictions in other parts of San Francisco. Some of the issues raised is the busses often stop at the viewpoint at hayes street just east of pierce street so people can see the view and take pictures of the painted ladies victorian ho