. >> the sfmta says the good news is, they were able to get everything back up before the meat of the morning commute, but does apologize for all the delays that did happen. meantime, it is looking into a cause the equipment failure that led to the power outage here at the junction, but says it doesn't happen often, the last time was well over a year ago. stephanie chuang, nbc bay area news. >> thanks, steph. >>> new developments in the middle east this morning. a three-day cease-fire between israel and hamas militants in gaza appears to have ended just hours after it started. nbc's richard engel has more from goza city. >> reporter: a cease-fire was supposed to go into effect today for 72 hours to try to end this conflict. instead, we're seeing an escalation. the israeli military announced that one oifts soldiers is missing in the gaza strip. feared abducted, kidnapped. his family has been notified. a source told nbc news that this happened around 9:30 in the morning, in the southern part of the gaza strip. israeli troops were conducting an anti-tunnel operation when suddenly they ca

we just got an update from the sfmta which says the power out saj not fixed. what that means is they are running the metro lines to church street station from there it picks up with shuttle bus service all the way to the embarcadero street station. again, could be a serious impact this morning. we did get video this morning around an hour ago when a second truck pulled up. we saw at the junction where crews are working to restore that power lines for the inbound lines. we were unable to see the work because it is an underground tunnel. it's right by the safeway if you're familiar with the area. so you have the jew da and j church lines that meet there. they meet with the k, l, and m lines. this means none of the lines are getting past church. you can't get to downtown, montgomery through to the embarcadero. again they're running shuttle bus service. so from the church street station to the embarcadero station. last night they ran them from the castro street station. that's the latest from here and we'll keep you posted, hopefully getting this service back so w

the sfmta board will make the final approval based on today's hearing. >>> remember this? this is interstate 280 in san francisco over the 4th of july weekend during majorette tro fit construction. more construction closures are coming over labor day weekend. northbound interstate 280 will be closed from highway 101 to downtown san francisco. the closure begins next thursday afternoon at 2:00 and will continue until 5:00 tuesday morning, september 2. >>> more developments in the aftermath of that brutal killing of james foley. there are now growing concerns about the threat of isis, the terror group that's claiming responsibility. cbs reporter craig boswell has more on the plans by the obama administration. >> reporter: top u.s. officials say the islamic militants isis poses a terror threat unlike anything they have seen. >> they are an imminent threat to all our interests whether in iraq or anywhere else. >> reporter: armed with plenty of money and a brutal ideology, the group now controls territory in syria and iraq. in mosul, the militants stoned a man to death for adul

va al trabajo y regresando del trabajo tambien es un retraso para ellos" kristen holland/ portavoz sfmta la portavoz del muni, por su parte, afirma que el conductor de la unidad no operara ningun vehiculo hasta que las investigaciones concluyan y le practiquen un examen de drogas y alcohol, lo que es estandar en estos incidentes. noemi "las personas tienen que sujetarse a lo que establece la ley mas cuando hay transito de personas o vias publicas asi en ciudades, pero bueno no hay respeto" andres el conductor del trailer aun no ha sido citado por las autoridades hasta el momento... alrededor de las 5 y 30 de la tarde ya todo el servicio de transporte publico volvio a funcionar con normalidad... topvo cesar ---pero esos incidentes no fueron los unicos que afectaron las operaciones del muni de san francisco... ---mas temprano, poco despues de la una de la madrugada, se registro un apagon en la estacion "duboce junction" del tren ligero en el distrito castro... ---varios autobuses transportaron a los usuarios a otras estaciones para transbordar... blanca ---el servicio del bart en la estaci

again, public works here on scene trying to move as fast as they can so the sfmta can get this line back up and running. right now, we don't know what caused the tree to come down. police say it was due to natural causes. thankfully, no one was hurt. but just keep in mind that this intersection of columbus and vallejo or columbus and green, this area is going to stay blocked until crews can clean up this mess. right now, there's no word on when that will be. live in san francisco, cristina rendon, ktvu channel 2 news. >> all right. 7:34. it's been a rough morning for muni riders. an overnight power outage forced riders to take shuttle buses between the castro and embarcadero stations in san francisco. the power was restored about an hour and a half ago, though riders are still -- you will see some delays. >>> happening today -- shuttle buses for google and other corporate shuttle buses, you are gonna have to start paying to make stops in san francisco. it's part of an 18-month test program by the san francisco municipal transportation agency. the san francisco chronicle says 11 shuttle o

. >>> sfmta tweeted out the 9th and irving is going out of service due to a power issue with the train. they should keep us updated on whether the situation's going to be gone. 9th and irving going out of service. a toll plaza this morning, this was getting better until just recently. there is an accident involving a big rig and a white van blocking the right lanes before the toll plaza. traffic could be backing up momentarily. south bay, 101 southbound looking really good this morning on the 280/880 split. looking good in the south bay besides the traffic that you typically see. and pittsburgh bay point area, and pass the willow pass grade and then there was an accident before the richmond, san raphael bridge involving a carrot right you shoulder -- car on the right shoulder now. at 7:33, let's go back to the desk. >>> brian thank you. we have an update on developing news in hawaii. they're feeling the full force of tropical storm iselle. we've got a web camp. the storm hit and made land fall about an hour ago on the big island. these are live pictures from the napoli sunset beach fro

sfmta was telling us even though they had identified the problem the reason there will be gaps in services because they are trying to work out the kings and make sure they have balance restored to all of those lines. so again people, commuters can expect delays and some gaps in service. but again hopefully this will all be cleared up very soon so there won't be top of a headache on your morning commute. we are expecting to learn more in the next half hour. live in san francisco cristina rendon ktvu channel 2 news. >>> turning to developing news in antioch where police are dealing with another shooting. there have been four shootings in antioch in just over 48 hours. city leaders have vowed to crack down on the escalating violence. tara moriarty is live in antioch with information about these recent shooting victims. >> reporter: police tell me a young military vet was on his way back from the store when he got into an argument with someone on the sidewalk. the clean up crews are here. basically the victim was behind where that car part is. he dropped his groceries, ran around the corner to

cup and then further the assessment that the sfmta is now carrying out today. and so, we realize that there is always, still new opportunities for how we can, and improve the transportation needs and respond to the needs that the people have for today, but it is important for the public to understand that there has been a tracking of this issue for many years. and a few weeks ago, we were here before you to brief you on the enhancement project and that is the latest, initiative that we were working on with sfmta to bring forth safer and better bike access along the embark der row. and with that, i think that i will turn it over to brad, and he will give you a overview on the development project, and the capitol improvements. >> thank you, diane. >> and thank you commissioners. brad benson, and director of special projects. this is been, you know, an amazing effort of the port staff to put together this report, across all of the ports divisions. and i just want to say that what a pleasure it has been for me and i worked with bar, and buy ron and all of the port

. >> yeah, and we actually have to your earlier comment, and i think that i mentioned, working with sfmta staff and so we have a meeting set up with that we are scheduling now in september and we are scheduling a meeting with them in september to talk about that. and that is the one that your consultant did not use and i mentioned it a couple of times and and it was the (inaudible) on the sand and (inaudible) not a bay, or an ocean, but it seems to be very effective there. and i mean, that i, some of us, much prefer them taking a taxi. >> yeah. >> not exactly of the most pleasant of attitudes sometimes. >> thank you, very much. for a great report. >> and i am really happy to hear that the current operators are having success and i think that it is wonderful that we are looking at expanding because it is very much needed and i think that the consultants did a great job and so i really look forward to working with the commission and the staff, in increasing quickly, the new stops, along the water front, because i think that this can be a great service. so thank you. >> thank you, it is very

elementary school safe roots to the system we were able to feature this in the local papers thank you sfmta for delivering this it project will includes a speed curb on and russian island a large round about. we were trying to draw altercation to those projects to comfort on the clarifying delivery and design to insure they continue to move forward this fall we expect to see chinatown and other promotions move forward. for more information on those types of project please vital sf and contact courtney at the transportation authority. the project for the nsb r project we thank the arts and civic design domino for their approval of the brt designs they have jurisdiction over the urban design and expressed their appreciation to coordinate across the departments. so thank you for that and pleased to see that move forward >> now with the completion of that milestone we're going to position quarterly on the reports. you have the geary project this continues with the circulation of our administrative draft and we're prepping to circulate that to the mta and to the public in the october formulate a

framework and the water front transportation assessment, effort that is being led by peter, and others at sfmta. and with that, i am done and i would be happy to take your comments and questions. >> thank you. >> we could have the public comment, and maybe this is the time for the operators to come to speak. >> hello. i am dave thomas and owner of san francisco water taxi and i would like to say thank you. for letting us win that contract, we have never had a quicker way to spend money more creatively than after we got that, and our rider ship goes up every month, we have been running steadily since march and we had some shake down issues to get a new boat on-line and right now we currently have two different boats and two different boat yards and we have learned one thing and we don't want to be promised anything and we hope that late september and at least one of thefm will be on-line, by november, and by, after a rocky start, i think that the port staff has done an amazing job come ng and helping us tweak the traffic signs on the seat which has given us an increase in the customers coming of

. >> and, the sfmta has five open recommendations from cfa's audit of this sustain able street division and two recommendations asked mta to develop, the standard job description and compensation divisions for management parking facilities, reports being in the process of finalizing the job description can the non-profits that manage the parking facility and the other three recommendations asked mta to develop the traffic sign inspections and procedures, and maintain the asset listing of the traffic signs and mta reports that it has implemented a new enterprise, asset management system which is customizing each unit in the department and anticipates rolling out this system to the units responsibility for the traffic signs by the end of 2015. and we were quite aware that the system is being implemented and it is taking some time to procure. and again, once they have implemented the system in a year out we will go back and do auditing and so it is on the audit plan to go back to this particular project. >> okay. >> and of the 152 recommendations cfa made to the sfpuc in the physical year,

the city and moor our streets and road are safe thank you to the county transportation authority and sfmta for being part of this along with the community advocacy groups that i encourage more and more to be vocational who else is going to do help educate the public if we don't have the community-based and working closely with our sfmta and mta commission working closely with our police department in every accident making sure we study this carefully and make sure we teacher of the aspects and making sure everyone is safe in the city this nominate is more than a traffic signal but an expression we want to be competitive in our approach for a higher level even if safety vision zero for the city interest thank you for joining us and being here soon, we'll take the switch i signing the bond for the $500 million of obligation bonds we want to have before the voters in november of this year thank you very much (clapping) >> thank you mr. mayor and our leadership in supporting the bond and vision zero and the water work of making our streets safer. one of the things the mire said is sunset boule

i didn't know that the sfmta reviewed this project and i was told i was begin of everything there was. there are things from the shadow study where -- long story short the planning department never complied with the request and when they were supposed to before the referral to you, the ethics commission, the senator terms i -- the search terms and from that staff and i found out about it last time and there was minimal files on there. what happened jonah for the fourth time for department of technology and decided to ask for the right search terms but only the deleted emails and not everything that i asked for but only the deleted ones and i found that out from the report to you. the planning department has minimally complied with these requests repeatedly and they kept saying you have everything there is. >> what is the volumes of documents you received from them all total? >> the volume of documents? >> yeah, what are we talking about? >> they were all cds. for instance the one i received last time the last file was cut off so i never got anything there. there's only so much room on

adopting a policy for placement of wireless facilities on sfmta owned and managed real estate assets; approving the master license agreement for placement of pole-mounted wireless facilities on sfmta-owned poles form; authorizing the director to execute master license agreements with wireless telecommunications companies; and waiving section 10 of the sfmta board of directors' rules of order as to notice of this action. >> all right, an accident written presentation in front of us this afternoon. anything to this added? >> i think that i agree that this presentation was, the report was very well written and i think that it is the result of very good staff work to get us to this point, and we have a dynamic market place with a lot of demand for this kind of license and i think that it is a thoughtful process, working with the industry, and with our own infrastructure folks to come to a workable agreement and maybe we will have the staff here to answer any questions. >> yes, howard is the only person who has turned in a speaker card. >> it is wireless, enjoy. thank you. >> all right, me

do we have anyone from sfmta to speak on this item? >> good morning. i'm louis [speaker not understood], senior light rail engineer for muni. thank you, supervisor mar and chair farrell for allowing us to present this project to overhaul 16 of the muni historic [speaker not understood] streetcars. [speaker not understood] and they've been in regular service since then. just due to normal wear and tear, they need to be overhauled again. this overhaul will be a ground up restoration so the cars will be essentially new when they come back and we expect to get another 20 years out of them. we're only going to be taking four cars out of service at a time, so, service won't be affected during the project. the contract is with brookville equipment, contract value is $34.4 million. and if you have any questions, we'd be glad to answer them. >> okay, thank you. colleagues, no questions? mr. row, can we go to your report, please? >> yes, mr. chairman, supervisor mar. on page 4 of our report, a budget for the proposed project costs will be 34.5 million as shown i

example of the sfmta who does not really involve themselves in the small business but is concerned about the small business, and i was told by the end of the census that because we are doing construction and things are going on does not mean that it should hurt the business owner, and we really appreciate the togetherness that the department came together for to help small business create parking for their customers otherwise, we would have been in a lot of trouble. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next, please? >> howard, straner followed by dave, snider and tone lee, and those are the last people. >> directors, this is howard, and i want to give you another update on driverless cars and so now it seems that google is in sacramento trying to develop the state rules for these cars. and now they have a prediction, perhaps in ten years these cars will be available with no driver, no controls, no nothing. and but very good, and this is difficult as all of those algarhythms are and tying all of the camera work and everything into the controls of cart and probably one car talking to anot

. >> thank you for the opportunity to speak, carly pain, sfmta. and excuse me. in developing this pilot program, the city shuttles and the regional shuttles and what we found is that 80 percent of all of the stopping events, on an average day are made by the intracity shuttles, and that includes mission bay, and that includes, others that either by choice, or by planning department requirement, are operating or contracting out their operations for the shuttles, and they tend to be last mile shuttles. and these, for us, one of the great purposes to remind ourselves about the pilot is that we are trying to minimize the impact on muni and the other users and they are agnostic to where the shuttles are going and a shuttle that is stopping in a muni zone and potentially impacting the operations. is having that impact whether it is going to silicon valley or whether it is going two miles. and just somewhere, within san francisco and so, we have made the specific decision not to treat them driftly, and there was a discussion and about at one point whether it was fair o

said an overgrown people through trash there we decided to put it a public space we've worked with the sfmta to get bulb out and crosswalks and a huge amount of pedestrian traffic and directly north of mr. michelle's establishment is the northeast medical center that serves thousands of low income people to get health care and across the street is the family connections which again serves hundreds if not thousands of families in the neighborhood. this street has two busy business lines that go back and forth people are not just stroerl not paying attention they're busy trying to get somewhere. where this box would be that would restrict the pedestrian traffic and stroerts and which were in tow the different people trying to get to a bus stop and the elderly population that's huge in our neighborhood. plus we think that the mitchel's have been helpful in expanding our straightaway streetscape this area where they put their chairs out it is only outdoor seating space that any of the businesses in the neighborhood have provided. the neighborhood association has worked hard to get >> number of g

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those i'm not sure if oars other leaders here but thank them and pleased to welcome up the chair of the sfmta tom northern california we have 6 here and hope to have 7 shortly we've been on the front line and people have talked about this and we've licensed. my job sorry about that an important with an we were told i had no reason to know that but boring machines are named after great women and ms. chronically is represent by her naive and would you come forward so we can see you clapping thank you very much for being here. dr. changing margaret was the countries first chinese-american physician and a sincere arrogant mother this is an identical boring machine the big optional let it had a constricted tunnel and representing her family is a family member come down and glad to be here on behalf of our board. (clapping.) >> thank you, mr. chair so one the great leaders the policing political leaders the folks behind me make a project happy someone got to do the project like all phases of the project the planning and design and construction is a collaborative system we've got a core team but the

so a little bit about the schedule the environmental document was approved by the sfmta and even though lead of the project contributed to the sfmta and peter has been leading the effort and mta implemented the design so it's underway a new project cac was formed and they've met on june 26th a new group of people some people from the environmental cac were there the final design takes us stilettos sum and construction beginning in early 2016 with revenue options in the mid of 2018. with the completion of thirty percent design in the conceptual engineering report there was a new cost estimate to increase to $162 million it's completely fund through the recreational and was the federal small start fund. the c e r identified a few challenges with the project technical and otherwise they've found first they're focused on the station design so one of the goals of the projects is to achieve the level boarding where the doors line up with the platform and there's issues with the vehicle prosecute curd the lug nuts stick out they'll scratch a platform and in addition trying to achieve vertical