People access the station and moving within the station. They have a study underway and theyve done counts within i think it was a week period. And then, preliminary studies show they dont see a lot of crowding from the entrance to the mezzanine, so theyre developing their final recommendations and cost estimates, and the hope is that some of these recommendations could be added and potentially funded with some of the impact fee money for the transit category. And the last study that ill mention is the community stablization strategy. Its an effort that the project that the department initiated in 2017 really recognizing that the city is in an Affordable Housing crisis. The department wanted to better understand what the citys doing with respect to the preservation and that protection with residential and commercial tenants. Its slated to come out later in the summer, and this is a citywide strategy that could be applied to neighborhoods such as that. So ill quickly walkthrough where w
Its thursday, 29th of february. Our main story. A group of mps have urged ministers to consider the implications for the uk, if assisted dying is legalised in the isle of man and jersey. The Health Select committee has published a report, which it hopes will provide evidence for future debates about the law. Opponents say the current legislation prevents people from coming under pressure to end their lives. Heres our medical editor, fergus walsh. The mps dont Make Recommendations for or against assisted dying. Rather, the aim of their report is to serve as a basis for debate on what they call this difficult, sensitive, yet crucial subject. More and more countries in europe have legalised assisted dying in some form, along with new zealand, australia, canada and ten states in the us. The mps say they saw no evidence that palliative and end of life care had deteriorated as a result, and in some instances it had improved. The Committee Calls for more money for hospices in england, which o
Into the infected blood scandal, widely considered to be the biggest Treatment Disaster in the history of the Uks National Health Service , has identified a catalogue of failures by the nhs and successive governments. A reminder of key points. 3,000 people have already died, while others are still living with the ongoing effects of infection. In this hour were going to speak to some of the people directly impacted by this. Sarah and Antonia Akoni in hertfordshire. Sarahs husband and antonias dad, 0mololu akoni, received Blood Transfusions for sickle cell in the 1980s, before discovering that he was infected with hepatitis c via the transfusions. Thank you both forjoining me here. Good to talk to you. I wanted to ask you if you could tell me a little bit more about what happened to your husband and dad. He bit more about what happened to your husband and dad. Husband and dad. He had Sickle Cell Anemia. Husband and dad. He had Sickle Cell Anemia and husband and dad. He had Sickle Cell An
Hurricane looks and sounds like with a direct hit. This is one of the strongest recorded storms in history. This is our first look at the damage by Hurricane Irma in barbuda where the Prime Minister says 90 of the buildings have been destroyed. Its going to get worse before its better, irma is just getting started. The big story on action news is the path of destruction carved out tonight by Hurricane Irma. Puerto rico was not taking a direct hit but with the eye 55miles northeast of san juan, the island feels under assault. 600,000 people lost power, 50,000 are without water. On the u. S. Mainland florida is getting ready for landfall sunday. The governor plans to activate 7,000 guard troupes. The path is uncertain but the miami could be a bulls eye. People are emptying store shelves and filling their gas tanks. 2500 people have evacuated the keys. Farther north, evacuations are mandatory. Cecily, the wind are potentially catastrophic. We have a worst case story developing. Irma is ge
Getting ready for landfall sunday. The governor plans to activate 7,000 guard troupes. The path is uncertain but the miami could be a bulls eye. People are emptying store shelves and filling their gas tanks. 2500 people have evacuated the keys. Farther north, evacuations are mandatory. Cecily, the wind are potentially catastrophic. We have a worst case story developing. Irma is getting stronger and bigger. Its about the size of texas. We have the story from the National Hurricane center, 185 Miles Per Hour an hour, 130 Miles Per Hour for hours. It looks like a buzz saw, 315 mimes southeast of grand turk. Its passing north of the Dominican Republic tomorrow. Theyll be scraped with Tropical Storm force winds. It will not weaken. It will hit the turk and cake coast islands tomorrow night, direct hit. A storm surge up to 20 feet and enter the waters north of cuba. These are deep and very warm, temperatures in the upper 80s. Even the storm will be interacting with land masses. That water is