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Very quickly. We were lucky. They got the call a little after 1 30 to come to oregon street in berkeley and eight people lived here and not Berkeley Students and they say that the man who died lived here for 20 years. They say he was a smoker and he likes to light candles and some of the residents wonder if possibly he fell asleep and left something burning. Firefighters do not know. They do not know if the residents can move back in. There is a lot of damage inside on the second floor, where th...

Wageses so we can go home and support our families. So, we are at a track Maintenance Department true Civil Servants of the city of San Francisco. We thank you, Board Members for doing your job. If you werent doing your job, we wouldnt have a job. So, thank you very much. applause id also like to thank the board and mr. Rifkin and mr. Haley for giving me the opportunity to lead young and also the maintenance crew. Again, to reiterate what young said, its the guys, the boots on the ground that re...

This corridor, is very noted for its higher than average pedestrian and collision accident history. So, the proposal was to test pilot a removal of the towaway on the east side of the street for the blocks from folsom to market to allow parking there during the peak. And it had several benefits. One is that it physically narrows the street a little bit to allow a shorter crossing distance for the pedestrians crossing sixth street. It provides a very useful and beneficial buffer between moving ve...

And once again there are many events going on here in the bay area this weekend. The niners open the season at the stick. A sellout good morning im marty gonzalez. We want to start out in the Weather Center this morning janu, 2nd day of this first . Is another hot one. We can see the cooler conditions along the immediate coast. However, it is going to be another scorcher, inland. Temperatures are cooler. Compared to where we were yesterday. 54 degrees in santa rosa. 50s in vallejo. And 50s in sa...

Under mandatory evacuation orders. The good news, in just the past hour, we have noticed less smoke coming from the fire zone. Heres new video still pockets of there are still many pockets of intense flames. You can still see black smoke mixed in with the thick white smoke coming from these areas but again, it looks like crews are making some progress. Cal fire dc10 has joined the firefight. Earlier chopper 5 spotted that plane dropping retardant made a couple of passes. Cal fire using two plane...

Expected to unveil a new i phone. Will it meet Consumers Expectations . We are waking up to a mile to a cool morning. The temperatures are in the upper 50s. We do have pretty dense fog. As we head into afternoon you can expect a sunny day. It will be made 90s in line. As we focus on was born on at mount diablo the temperatures are going to be about the same and will lead to know what that would do for firefighters. It has been pretty quiet for the chp but things are changing. There is not a stal...

One 25 million. Yes can you describe why its more than the actual budget . Yeah, when we came back i think last time we were up here in front of the port commission, one of the other projects came into be on our contract. That was the americans cup infrastructure improves on some of the other pier and is that is 14. 7 million. So when we come back to talk about the increase for turner, we have to consider that its on top of that 14 million although its not for this project. So, there are contrac...

There a motion to adopt the minutes as amended . So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. Aye. That is a question, i was not present, should i abstain . Pardon me . Not an option, you have to vote. X i will vote in favor the next item on the agenda is the executive directors report. Just one highlight this month. Again, bringing up the report that was done by the board of supervisors budget analyst comparing the San Francisco and Los Angeles Commission procedures. In order to bring that to a commiss...

Through that agonizing slow down. So, very grateful for young and his crew for that project. And weve also the signal crews which terry here is to represent, led the upgrade of the automatic train control system, the signal loop. A loop of wires that run through the subway that basically provide for the communication of the automated train control system. When our trains are in the subway, they operate on an automatic mode that allows them to move much more quickly and efficiently than they woul...

As i mentioned before, i have been in conversation with president chiu about this. Ive been in conversation with mayor lee about this. Our sense was as i said before, the city family can come together and marshal the resources to try to make this happen. And if we have a willing party in terms of the property owner, i think it is possible. We have evaluated the level of Environmental Review that we believe would be required. We believe that its doable in that timeline. The other approvals we bel...