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Axelrod good evening. Scotts off tonight. Im jim axelrod. Well, youve got to admit, nature has lousy timing. Just as Many Americans headed out of town for thanksgiving, a massive storm headed up the northeast. 40 Million People are in its path. Some places are getting two inches of snow an hour. Along the coast, its pouring rain. The northeast weather helped cause more than 4,000 flight delays and more than 700 cancellations today nationwide. Transportation correspondent jeff pegues begins our coverage. Reporter it was tough going on the highways in the northeast from new york to pennsylvania ...

This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Axelrod good evening. Scotts off tonight. Im jim axelrod. Well, youve got to admit, nature has lousy timing. Just as Many Americans headed out of town for thanksgiving, a massive storm headed up the northeast. 40 Million People are in its path. Some places are getting two inches of snow an hour. Along the coast, its pouring rain. The northeast weather helped cause more than 4,000 flight delays and more than 700 cancellations today nationwide. Transportation correspondent jeff pegues begins our coverage. Reporter it was tough going on the highways...

Predicts i think we are now the second more dense city in the nation in San Francisco and the Planning Department predicts new 80 new president s and 97 now Housing Units in the next 25 years. It is very nert esting to note that i think since 1994since 20s 0491 percent of all new Housing Units created in San Francisco were 10 units or more. 91 percent of all new Housing Project are 10 units or more, which means no more back yards are built so the parks matter. If we can flip to the presentation and the first slide. I think we are there. Supervisors you may have these slides in front of you. We...

Professionals from big cities around the word, 20 Different Countries from every state in the country to a conferencethality happens every 2 or 3 years on urban parks and it is what we talked about for 3 orfore daze. The chalthss with big cities are not unique, but because of San Franciscos growth we find ourselves faces some of the challenges as critically as anyone. 85 percent of america lives in a urban core. 95 percent of california lives in a urban core. Our Planning Department predicts i think we are now the second more dense city in the nation in San Francisco and the Planning Departmen...

More serious or responsibilities to manage the land. With new growth and hopefully now families moving in and our growing senior population, the demand for Recreation Services is as intense asench. We want to improve cust mur service and efficiency and accountsability. We should be the most technologically probust Parks Department in america. As some that interfaced with our system probably can attest we are not there yet, but it is where we need to go. Our failing play Ground Campaign presents with a opportunity. A task force following 15 and a half millin in public funds. A Community Task fo...