SACRAMENTO — Traffic safety advocates say the growing number of people being killed in crashes on Sacramento streets is a public health crisis. On Tuesday, a committee of Sacramento city leaders unanimously approved declaring a state of emergency to help make immediate changes. Julie Berrey is a bicyclist familiar with the dangers on city streets.

Councilmember Caity Maple proposed that the city of Sacramento declare a state of emergency for pedestrian safety after an uptick in injuries and deaths.

An emergency declaration in response to the number of pedestrian and bicyclist deaths on Sacramento streets cleared another hurdle and is being prepped for City Council. The city's Law and Legislation Committee voted to move the proposed emergency declaration forward Tuesday.

On Tuesday, a committee of city leaders unanimously voted for city staff to start working on a report to present to the council.

In his first Daily Show monologue in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s presidential election win, Jon Stewart grappled with the question of why things went so poorly for Democrats. He showed a montage of clips of news pundits arguing that Democrats lost because they had gone “too woke.” “I only have one problem with the ‘woke’ theory,” Stewart replied.