Former Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy were last seen struggling in a canoe on chesapeake bay. The final honor for nba legend kobe bryant. The Los Angeles Laker icon is a member of the Basketball Hall of fame. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, april 6th. We do begin this half hour with that grim outlook from the u. S. Surgeon general warning of the hardest and saddest days ahead. As the u. S. Death toll from the coronavirus nears 10,000, President Trump is repeatedly touting a drug used for treating malaria and other diseases. But doctors say there is not enough evidence to show that hydroxychloroquine can effectively combat the virus. This week every new york City Hospital is expected to be at or filled to capacity as the state appears to be close to hitting the peak. Theyre also expecting to hit the apex in detroit where a Convention Center has been converted to a Field Hospital for patients with covid19. A hopeful sign from washington state, sending back 400 ven
We had reports of a couple of snowflakes in areas of Edison New Jersey and recorded the first trace of snow this season. Were in a bit of a lull here in the city and across long island. There is another batch headed to portions of new jersey that will be overspreading the area. There is a lot more moisture to the southwest here and that will be moving in a as we go through the overnight hour. A critical thing to note will be temperature over the next several hours. Were at orer that the freezing mark. That is where we are getting a bit of a picks mixture coming in north of the city. Readings in the 36 in a poughkeepsie, sussex, and monticello at 25 now. In the city, mid 30s. Same thing in montauk, bellmawr, 43 degrees for you, and expecting it to be mainly a rain event for the jersey shore. The Winter Weather advisory mainly for northern and northwestern sections into new jersey and sussex, warren and passaic counties and the Hudson Valley like rockland, putnam, again a mainly icy cont
we re still looking forward to build outs and signals on leavenworth and jones and cost-effective sidewalk widening options like [speaker not understood] acknowledging that sidewalk widening can be very expensive here in the city. and, so, just extremely pleased that we are able to use some of our regional dollars to support some local planning efforts and really some of our low-income and most impacted neighborhoods. and, so, yesterday we did supervisor yee, wiener and i did hold a hearing on pedestrian safety where we talked a lot about how we needed we had a need for our agencies to work together more and communicate more, deliver projects. but i think this is really an instance over the last several months where our office was able to work really closely with a variety of different agencies to hammer out a solution to these funding gaps. so, i just wanted to appreciate that that was able to occur and it really did happen. and i also want to recognize the southeast asi
help continue these pedestrian safety efforts and really one of the most dangerous neighborhoods to be a pedestrian. so, really excited. i think that this project is really good candidate for the life line transportation program and will go a long way towards fulfilling the promise of the eddy ellis traffic calming improvement project which is a key part of this plan. and just also want to recognize when director reiskin came into office last year, he really did find a way to make sure we start the two-way efforts. went ahead on mc allister and immediately worked to get things back on track. we re still looking forward to build outs and signals on leavenworth and jones and cost-effective sidewalk widening options like [speaker not understood] acknowledging that sidewalk widening can be very expensive here in the city. and, so, just extremely pleased that we are able to use some of our regional dollars to support some local planning efforts and really some of our low-income an
[speaker not understood]. i m happy to answer any questions and i believe mta staff is here to answer. any questions? thank you. i see no questions from my colleagues. let s open this up for public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? and we have ms. saks from the cac. one thing this item was brought up at the last cac meeting and one item one thing that i brought one point that i brought up was with the conversion of eddy and ellis being two way streets, whether that would interfere with the way the buses are running now. with the overheads and this sort of thing, you have to take that into the station. the buses are running now and the overhead wiring, you have to take that into consideration as well. but thank you very much. thank you, ms. saks. is there anyone else from the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] colleagues, can we move this forward without objection? so moved. [gavel]