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Going nowhere. Holiday travel on hold as a wet and nasty winter storm slams the northeast and strands thousands of airline passengers. And tornado terror, this christmas twisters fury captured on camera as it tosses a pickup truck like a toy. And just five days until the fiscal cliff. President obama catching a flight back to washington where theres doubt that a deal can get done in time. Good morning, everybody, for a thursday morning. Very early, 5 00 a. M. On the east coast. Welcome to early start. Im alina cho. Im drew griffin. John and zoraida are off today. Its 5 00 a. M. In the east. A ...

Them in between, to be on foot as well because its a nicer way to enjoy the city. But if we want people to be out and walking, we need them to be safe. We want them to feel safe, and thats what were here to talk about today. And none of that will happen without great leadership. So, without further ado, happy to bring up our great leader, the mayor of the city and county, ed lee. applause thank you. Thank you, david. Im the other ed. Happy holidays, everybody, and thank you for being here. We are initializing our Pedestrian Safety, pedestrian strategy, and weve had a task force that have inclu...

Of what it is on the collision as well as injury rates and reminding us that a healthier city could be one that we reduce the fatalities that happen with pedestrians. So, this is part of that whole strategy. We will consider areas of the city that we will have to lower the speed limit and enforce it and educate people around it, as well as more serious and higher and deeper ways of educating the public and the drivers as well as pedestrians themselves. This is all part of i think a good strategy, one that im very willing to lead and make sure every department and all of the store fronts along ...

The program and we are getting people out to have fun in this beautiful city. Rec and parks womens Volleyball Program is available at richmond rec center. Please visit us onli okay, good morning. Thank you all for coming out today. Were very happy to be here. My name is ed rifkin, im the other ed, director of transportation. And as the transportation director, i oversee the sfmta which is the agency that is charged with implementing the citys transit first policy. And what our goal, what the citys goal and the transit first policy is is to make sure that everybody can get around San Francisco,...

Theres a lot of different city staff and other members of the city family that work every day to try to make San Francisco safer. Youve heard some of it, the 15 mile an hour zones. Were enhancing crosswalks around the city. Were bolding out sidewalks to make crossing distances smaller. Were using automated were using red lighten forcement, photo red lighten forcement. A lot of things that many of the planners and engineers at the mta are doing to try to make the city safer, and will be the ones in whose hands a lot of the execution of the pedestrian strategy lies. So, i do want to acknowledge ...