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Months by pope francis and the world meeting of families. Now including not one but two parades featuring the pontiff. The first parade which will take the holy father from eakins oval to and around city hall will be prior to the start of the festival of families on saturday, september 26th. Reporter second parade happens just before pope francis gives mass on the ben franklin parkway september 27th. Organizers also announced 30,000 tickets for key papal events including 10,000 to see the pope a...

Is it auto lanes . So, how is that going to be balanced . Because we may create better traffic patterns for the bicyclist, but then we have more congestion for autos if we have to give up space. So, i think thats going to be a real consideration because it is already congested for autos regardless whether you have bikes or not. Agreed. I think thats why we wanted to take the idea of developing a conceptual design through this public process rather than load onto ceqa and the other implementation...

Have implication for onstreet parking along the embarcadaro, but you know, its too early to tell beyond that framework. I mean, what exactly that you can expect. That leads into a question, i guess, because there is only so much space. If we want to dedicate more space to bicyclists, i guess whats the give . Is it parking . Is it auto lanes . So, how is that going to be balanced . Because we may create better traffic patterns for the bicyclist, but then we have more congestion for autos if we ha...

Firefighters are hurt after an accident on the job this morning. There ladder came into contact with power lines after a fire in north philadelphia. Vernon odem is at the hospital where the firefighters are being treated at this hour. We begin david henry at the scene where they were injured. Reporter sayer ra, first the sarah first the good news the injuries are nonlife threatening. An investigation is underway. The fire was out and the firefighters were breaking down an aluminum ladder when it...

Surveyed School Districts around the country and they said they have found thats not the case. Fept to hear from many more families. Based on their options and the recommendation now from dr. Star, they will come back to the school board in the spring with a time plan and if approved, tom, this would take effect in the 20152016 school year at the earliest. Bob, you know, there are concerns out there that what you just said, kids are going to milk this and try to stay up late. Did you get the sen...

Connector road really are not ideal are the best options we have in terms of maintaining that bridge with the funds we have in terms of facilitating a station and maintaining local access. And in terms of facilitating other land use activities in the area. Those include the pc but go into a little more detail. We also included in this package of improvement and city project for the connector road a vacation of the northeastern portion of quint street. That is in the diagram, the red area. That a...

As well as a temporary basis during construction. Weve started to take a look at that and will continue to look at that in the next phase of design with our funding request today. But essentially, weve looked at all three options, all bridge replacement options would require a temporary short term closure of access through the area for construction staging. What well continue to look at and weve looked at a couple options including the building and connector road first, well continue to look at ...

For Public Comment and minutes. Well close Public Comment. Motion from commissioner farrell and seconded by commissioner cohen. Item number four. Committee report, this is an information item. Item number three. Good morning. Since the Advisory Committee did not meet in november. Any comment or concern sure this meeting will be shared with the board at the december 11th meeting. Close Public Comment and move to our next item. Item four, this is Advisory Committee. This is action item. Good morni...

Lectured by the Vice President of what it means to enforce the law of our country. You did not lift a finger with the first step back on capitol hill. Jon more on all that coming up, but the rest of the debate season is up in the air after President Trump said there was no way that he would take part in a virtual debate next week. No, im not going to waste my time on a virtual debate, thats not what debating is all about, you sit behind a computer, that is ridiculous and then they cut you off wh...

Looking like it was coming in too low and hit the rocks at the edge of the runway. Late this afternoon was the first time we heard approximately 60 people are unaccounted for. So we asked the fire chief to clarify that number. Still very active in terms of coordinating all the numbers and so forth. Im told the information we received from Asiana Airlines manifesto, 291 passengers, 16 crew. For a total of 307. Our thoughts and prayers are with all of the passengers and the Asiana Airlines flight ...