[ drums . drums drums drums drums . drums . [cheers and applause] drums . [cheers and applause] whatowhat do you think . Wow, right . Lets give another round of applause to lion dance we lets thank norman chow and sammy yung. Thank you very much [cheers and applause] my name is carmen chu and as your emcee the first to say to you and your loved ones a happy Lunar New Year. speaking chinese . [cheers and applause] i am so very honoured to welcome you today to San Francisco city hall. Holding this event here in the grand rotunda is not only beautiful, but it is also appropriate and it is symbolic. It is symbolic if that in the very seat of local government decisionmaking, we have a very public welcoming and a very public recognition of the diversity and cultural celebrations of our great city. Lunar new year, as you know, is one of the most celebrated and important holidays, celebrated within the Asian Pacific community and it is a time we start a new with fresh hopes and wishes for the
Far is the muted response from uc leaders. Also Michael Cohen returning to the hot seat and former President Trumps hush money trial. Were live in washington with word from an inside source on the topics that may be center stage today. This is today in the bay good morning to you. On this thursday, im Marcus Washington, im laura garcia. Were going to check in with mike with that morning commute in just a little bit. But first lets get a look at the forecast. Meteorologist kari hall what can we expect. Its going to be another really nice day and starts out cloudy and then shapes up to be a very pleasant afternoon. So were setting the weather on repeat and it will continue into the weekend as well with temperatures coming down a few degrees. But today well have warm inland temperatures and cool coastal temperatures. Tomorrow the mild weather sticks around and then for the weekend well see those temperatures mostly in the 70s. But today a few low 80s in san jose, 81 there and 82 in los ga
Morning to you. Thanks for starting your morning with us. Im marcus washington, im laura garcia. Were going to start out with traffic this morning, because mike has been following some breaking news that certainly impacting the morning commute huge impact the nimitz as you travel through hayward really jammed up two separate crashes weve learned involving six vehicles total. But two of those vehicles reportedly on fire. Now the good news i got word there are no major injuries. Major impact to the traffic, though for a short period of time, we had all southbound lanes blocked. Just about whipple, just past there. So alvaradoniles, lets talk about that. If you enter the freeway south of alvaradoniles into union city and fremont, youre okay heading south. If youre north of there, things will jam up as you approach 92 with the build coming off the castro valley. Y hyperion is a big surface street transitioning onto union city boulevard, but you see that a lot of traffic is heading across t
An chair peskin good morning and welcome to the transportation meeting for december 5, 2017. Our clerk is alberto quintanilla. If you could please call the roll. roll call we have a quorum. Chair peskin after we hear from the cac and pass the Consent Agenda i would like to take item 13, the report for the vanness bus Rapid Transit out of order to accommodate the schedule of mr. Ris ken who is here with us this morning. If you could call the next item. Clerk information item number two. Chair peskin mr. Larson. Good morning. I am john larson representing district 7. I will present the cac report today. Item 67 on the again item 7up date on the San Francisco Management Study brought concerns about the use of the hov lanes. They questioned the issuians of the clean air stickers on the use of the lanes giving increasing popularity of the vehicles in the bay area. There was concern that private shuttle buses would reduce the lanes effectiveness. This concern was more voiced during the Publi
Through the chair, we are monitoring the traffic flow carefully that we didden game significantly with our open traffic engineers as well as caltrans in identifying and approving the road configurations and communication plan, signs for them. As needs if we need resources such a pco or Police Officer at any particular location that is something we will moptor and put monitor and put in place. I am not aware of plans to do so. If there are areas that you see are concerning we would welcome that feedback. Would you explain how you monitor and make decisions around those kinds of issues for this particular project . The decisions around those issues we have a group of folks within our Traffic Engineering group that focus exclusively on these changes that relate to construction. They will analyze what the contractor is proposing. They informed development of the specs and they review the Traffic Management plans the contractors submit. There is a lot of it involved because we need to make