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As it tries to push south. Mostly sunny skies today with the possibility of occasional clouds. 48 degrees this morning which is certainly cool but these numbers are a lot better than yesterday. 45 in allentown, 44 in reading, 43 in wilmington, 52 in sea isle city. Remember how allentown was in the mid20sest morning . Mid20y morning. Were 18 degrees milder in allentown right now and 12 degrees milder in philadelphia than this time yesterday so that milder change that we talked about yesterday is ...

The of the San Francisco Transportation Authority im scott wiener the chair of the authority and we want to thank sfgovtv leo and phil for broadcasting todays hearing i want to also welcome our newest and returning Member Commission peskin so Welcome Commission and calling supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos absent supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim absence commission peskin and commissioner mondejar absent supervisor wiener present supervisor yee present we have...

Safety we appreciate the cooperation of the outline network and folks that provided that technical and will be sharing the fgsdz bicycles on Market Street are growing the bikes weve xrementd complemented with mta counted a million trips in 2015 great milestone it is nearly 20 percent over this time last year and since the installation of those counters in may of 2013 we have counted over 2. 3 million trips and see a growing and sales tax were adrc more locations Market Street between hayes valle...

Station reopened after the shooting so if you are just waking up, all is back to normal. More now open shooting at the part station, a man is in Critical Condition after Authorities Say he shot himself during a a police. The officers confronted the map smoking on the platform and he resisted and they tazed him. Police say he shot himself in the stomach trying to get his gun. The officers are both wearing body cameras and the footage is being reviewed. The bart station was closed for several hour...

Ballot that will be thrown out. Plea silencer cell phones so we can have your full attention this morning. We want this to be a lively discussion and we want to hear from you this morning. So we would welcome your comments, your questions and your feedback via twitter, hashtag in j. Day after. We will also be accepting questions via twitter seize our moderators will have ipads in hand. Going to pose your question that way thats fantastic. We will also be circulating with microphones during the e...

Economy and would improve Business Conditions here in the United States. And make sure that american born workers arent undercut by workers who are undocumented and arent always paid a fair wage and as a consequence employers who are breaking the rules are able to undercut folks who are doing the right thing. We got a bipartisan bill out of the senate. I asked john boehner at that point can we pass this through the house . Is there a majority of votes in the house to get this passed . And Speake...

They want to come here and Work Together to solve problems and move the country forward so that the future is bright for american citizens. All right, are there any questions . Several new women were elected. Number offairly small republican women. Are you satisfied with the results . First of all, i would say that the women who are coming in are a very talented group. They will help us grow the women members we have in the next cycle. That is why i said we have only just begun. There is a lot o...

Administration. But i dont know if you saw the morning talk shows, but there were several potential candidates for 2016 who were out there already. Is the clock ticking . Are you running out of time . How much time do you have left . And what do you make of the notion that you are now a lame duck . Well, traditionally after the last midterm of the twoterm presidency since i cant run again that is the label that you guys apply. Here is what i tell my team. I told them this last week and i told th...

First of all, lets not make too much of this. A majority of the people who vote yesterday were female. It was 5149. But it was less than we a point or so less, but it wasnt like there was a huge shift in the gender balance in the electorate that voted yesterday. Women have a tendency to place a higher priority on issues like education and health care and i think any politicians, republican or democrat who hopes to appeal to women has got to have something intelligent to say about both of those i...

Existing lets say retail space and you are spending 100,000 and you are going to trigger improvement for ada access. It almost seems like this should be an economic factor where its a per square foot or how do you want to say, per square foot number and that triggers a 10 per square foot has to go towards improvements of the building. It would seem like we have something pretty set so its not arbitrator. It would seem that can we say a calculation is made per square foot gets more in rent and th...