Good morning and welcome to San Francisco county Transportation Authority. Im scott wiener the chair and well call the roll. Item 1, roll call, commissioner avalos, present. Commissioner breed, present. Commissioner campos, present. Commissioner cohen, present. Commissioner farrell, absent. Commissioner kim, absent. Commissioner mar, absent. Commissioner peskin, present. Commissioner tang, absent. Commissioner wiener, present. Commissioner yee, present. We have quorum okay, i want to thank sfgtv for broadcasting todays meeting, leo [inaudible] and also colleagues supervisor farrell has asked to be excused in adivision supervisor kim is ill and unable to attend so can i have a motion to excuse commissioner farrell and commissioner kim . Motion by commissioner cohen, seconded by commissioner compose and do wree need roll call on that or take that without objection. Take without objection. Item number 2 chairs report. This is a information item. Colleagues we have two pieces of good news
Equal. Here are the numbers for thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 217 points. It finished at 17,141. Nasdaq notched an 87point gain. And the s p 500 was 29 points higher. As for that iffy Economic Data the Labor Department said its index of Consumer Prices fell a seasonally adjusted. 2 in september. Its not much, but its the biggest drop in eight months, and it leaves inflation well below the Central Banks 2 target. Now, the reason for the decline is primarily because of falling gasoline prices. And it is that drop in gasoline prices that caused millions of Older Americans to get some bad news. The federal government today made it official, that Social Security beneficiaries will not get an annual raise in benefits next year. Prices arent rising enough to justify one. And as Social Security benefits remain flat, nearly 1 3 of medicare recipients could be paying a lot more for their monthly premiums. Hampton pearson has the story. Reporter there will be no cost of living i
Equal. Here are the numbers for thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 217 points. It finished at 17,141. Nasdaq notched an 87point gain. And the s p 500 was 29 points higher. As for that iffy Economic Data the Labor Department said its index of Consumer Prices fell a seasonally adjusted. 2 in september. Its not much, but its the biggest drop in eight months, and it leaves inflation well below the Central Banks 2 target. Now, the reason for the decline is primarily because of falling gasoline prices. And it is that drop in gasoline prices that caused millions of Older Americans to get some bad news. The federal government today made it official, that Social Security beneficiaries will not get an annual raise in benefits next year. Prices arent rising enough to justify one. And as Social Security benefits remain flat, nearly 1 3 of medicare recipients could be paying a lot more for their monthly premiums. Hampton pearson has the story. Reporter there will be no cost of living i
For stocks, all other news being equal. Here are the numbers for thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 217 points. It finished at 17,141. Nasdaq notched an 87point gain. And the s p 500 was 29 points higher. As for that iffy Economic Data the Labor Department said its index of Consumer Prices fell a seasonally adjusted. 2 in september. Its not much, but its the biggest drop in eight months, and it leaves inflation well below the Central Banks 2 target. Now, the reason for the decline is primarily because of falling gasoline prices. And it is that drop in gasoline prices that caused millions of Older Americans to get some bad news. The federal government today made it official, that Social Security beneficiaries will not get an annual raise in benefits next year. Prices arent rising enough to justify one. And as Social Security benefits remain flat, nearly 1 3 of medicare recipients could be paying a lot more for their monthly premiums. Hampton pearson has the story. Reporter
Right now we are 40 degrees in philadelphia, but already below the freezing mark in pottstown at 31 degrees. 34 in wilmington. We have some wind and so it feels like 27 in wilmington. 29 Atlantic City international. We had a few snow flurries come down from the north. You can see poconos, Lehigh Valley, but they have totally fallen apart. In the meantime, that area in western pennsylvania is expected to fall apart later on tonight. So its just the temperature tonight going down into the 20s, even in the city, and closer to the teens in some of the suburbs. Well see how much it warms up this week and when the next rain is coming for the seven day in a few minutes. Breaking news right now, a car fire were telling you about. This is on 295 north, just before the columbus exit. As you can see, the car there on the shoulder of the road, the emergency crews treating that car, and as you can see, traffic is going slowly. Again, this is 295 north before the columbus exit, a car fire. To more b