cars, buses, airplanes, equipment and various rooftops, people talking. to the extent that the ambience was measured by our firm or others, it changes depending on the time of the even. vice president garcia: you took how many readings? >> we were at the bar for an hour or so. vice president garcia: mean you were outside, in front of the bar? >> we were across the street for a portion of that time. vice president garcia: what was the range? >> in our report, the outside measurements were about 63 dba or so. vice president garcia: that would be a medium or a mean. what was the range? >> i do not have that information. vice president garcia: did you choose the figure you chose? >> that is what is typically done in environmental measurements, what is known as the leq of the time we were there, the term. it is used in planning analyses to arrive at the contribution of a particular noise source as compares to the already existing noise sources. if you have a freeway, for example, and want to add more lines of the added traffic, what does that do to the overall

the district with open space requirements and direct connections to the rooftop park. in terms of historic resources, the planning department did engage in a historic resources survey during the planning process. i believe in 2008 or 2009, the landmarks board did adopt survey findings that covered everything, essentially, from market to fall some -- folsom, out to third street. it recommended certain potential landmark buildings and a recommended expansion of our existing second and montgomery conservation district. you can see on the next map that the plan does propose the second new montgomery concentration, to take up plants that were left out of the initial conservation district, as well as to review and upgrade a lot of the ratings for the buildings in the district. the plan also identified for bang buildings that could be potential new article 10 landmarks. there are pictures of three of them on one of your slides. there is a more daring union hall on second street, one of few examples on the city, with spectacular art work. the hotel, a poster of quick residenti

rory attempt on sunday were going out live to the scene >> officers are on the ground as well as the rooftoponterey this situation they reopened the 589 this morning they contacted a construction company that placed a 1 in. still collect plate right in front of the hotel room of the suspect 580 is moving up in both directions negotiators are on the scene talking to him there are not sure when and they had their last dialogue no timetable when this will and they admit they have not been able to have contact this woman to see if this woman is safe it is just the way in see right now they're hoping that he gives himself up peacefully. >> we will check back with him surely >> as we continue our team, 580 is back open in san raphael let's go to greg sklar live at the toll plaza >> looking very good at the toll plaza west bound quite a different story than last these are pictures from last night. that left people at a standstill. sometimes moving as little as 10 mi. per hour. they did not expected as they were heading over the traffic is now free flowing. most riffle they're not facing today what

there is a small love -- amount of rooftop features that are also required. stairs to the roof and elevators, and penthouses. mechanical rooms. they are very small percentages of the route space. you are allowed up to 20%. we are below 20% of the roof space. the only thing that goes up to 16 feet is the elevator penthouses. >>> commissioner antonini: let's try to keep the design so the more we can ask these elements, the better. if you are high enough looking down you will see them but someone at the same height or from a distance away on ground level, the more we can ask these, the better. whatever you are allowed to do with parapets is welcome. comments were made upon the unit sizes and they talked about 700 square feet as being an average. i assume there is a distribution here. i do not know that there are a three-bedroom units. it would be nice if we did have distribution to allow for units that would accommodate people with children that needed more bedrooms and if that can be worked out as part of the plan. i think if it is done in the right way, it can

there is a small love -- amount of rooftop features that are also required. stairs to the roof and elevators, and penthouses. mechanical rooms. they are very

typically most residential systems gone on rooftops. in urban areas like this, we don't have big yards. they will go on rooftops. you need to have good southern access to sun. things that can impact your solar access are buildings in your vicinity, big trees, things that will keep the sun from

people had to flee to their rooftops. reporting live in north carolina, back to you. >> parts of washington d.c. are vulnerable because they're not properly prepared. what areas, what cities in particular are vulnerable? >> reporter: new york and that's because they're not sure what's going to happen as far as that storm surge. it's going to come in about the same time as high tide. they did have those mandatory evacuations. and norfolk, virginia. philadelphia, parts of new jersey where they have 1 million people already evacuated. so truly, all the way up this eastern sea board. they haven't dealt with a storage this huge in quite some time. really trying to get out in front of it. >> thank you for braving the storm for us. farther north, new york city is bracing for what could be a direct hit. the buss and trains are shut down. the storm surge could send water flooding into lower manhattan, into the burros. it's the first mandatory evacuation ever in new york city. >> if you haven't left, you should leave now. not later

if you look down wind you can see there are power lines, rooftops of buildings in that area so firefighters will work to keep the fire from reaching that. we will keep you posted on what is going on there. >>> a young mother and her friend became the city's latest homicide victims. >> lovely person, always go to church, happy. always take care of her kids good, you know? hurtful. >> rose mcfadden and her friend were driving into her apartment complex this morning when someone opened fire on the car. she died that scene. her boyfriend, or friend, died this afternoon. they became the 22 and 23 homicide victims of 2011. there were 21 in all of last year. neighbors and community leaders say the violence must end. >> we will have to step up the pace in stopping all cars when we have problems as guns coming into our area. i know people think that's profiling but i think that it can be done in a positive way. >> police say the victims were doing nothing wrong that time of the shooting. detectives have no motives and suspects. >>> dozens of oakland police officers going back to work. ktvu's john sa

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activist videos on the internet said there were even gunmen on rooftops to keep people off the streets. the tanks seemed to meet little resistance as they ground into the city center. the president said the attack was unprovoked. >> today, and the morning, 5:00 a.m., lines formed. internet has been dropped completely. we heard tanks and bombs. >> the action seems to have put the government back in control. even before the final assault, the city was burying its dead. no one knows how many died today, but the last time our boat was crushed their and 1982, it is many thousands. bbc news, barrett. >> for more on the contamination -- condemnation united nations gave syria, i asked about the impact on me al- assad regime. >> we need to see. today the security council presented a united and clear condemnation of the violence against the syrian people. a call for an end to the violence, the respect for human rights, an increase of four political protests he began. that is at very clear signal from the international community. i think it is really important that the syrian regime looks at this

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snipers on rooftops have targeted protesters. >> but human rights council is expected to issue a resolutionondemning the attacks and calling for a u.n. investigation, something syria has rejected outright. >> the resolution will cause the crisis to lengthen and will only cause more instability. on this basis, we call upon the council not to support the draft resolution in order to maintain peace and security in syria. >> all this comes a week after the president a short the you and that military operations in syria had ceased. in a statement, it is troubling that he has not kept his word. world leaders have been telling him to halt military operations, killing his own people. if the ongoing situation is to be believed, that maybe somewhere else. >> the first hurricane of the atlantic season has gained strength as it passes north of the dominican republic after causing widespread damage in pr. -- puerto rico. it is generating winds of more than 150 kph. he joins us on the line. thank you so much for joining us. first of all, how dangerous is this hurricane? >> earlier this evening, our aircr

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we love the seller on the rooftop but it costs 23.5 cents to produce it. we're able to sell power here at 11 cents. we cannot buy at unless you want to go ahead and subsidize that. that is not the way it will be long term. we will start to own our own infrastructure as the world changes. there will be a difference and the green power will be reduced in price. green power is more expensive. >> shell oil is coming to the rescue? >> they will by wind. -- buy wind, the chepaeapest is wind. even with that, it is still more expensive than your basic what they call brown power which is the majority of what is produced and should be by pg&e. >> we have discussions with shell about the values and compliance. we would -- my concern is the results from conversations surrounding pg&e. i am not so sure at this point that shell oil has been sufficiently vetted but i do not know. >> shell oil is internationally known. some of the similar questions were raised when iran energy selected shell oil. and it is a large corporation. the only one that would step forward. it is o

activist videos on the internet said there were gunmen on rooftops to keep people off the streets. the tanks seemed to meet little resistance as they ground into the city center. residents said the attack was unprovoked. >> always of communications, landlines, telephones, internet's have been dropped completely. we start to listen to bob's and tanks. >> the action seems to put the government back in control. the 700,000 or so people seem to be more or less behind the uprising. even before the final assault, hama was already burying its dead. nobody knows who died today. >> the violent crackdown in syria continues. mubarak made his court appearance in cairo. he pleaded not guilty to charges of corruption and ordering the killing of hundreds of demonstrators. mubarak, 83, remained on a stretcher throughout the proceedings. >> it was to be a day of reckoning. soon after dawn, as the preparations were completed and the demonstrators gathered, the ex-president mubarak was brought from his hospital to the cairo police academy that used to be named after him. the egyptian press was full o

was calling out to residents in the area to switch off the water supply so that their tanks on the rooftop do not get water from the state. a lot of rumors flying around. i would dismiss them as rumors. however, people have taken it very seriously. we saw a rush of men running to their homes and switching off the water motors. they have taken a sample of the water to one of our clinics. they said they will be testing it to see whether it is true or not. people still on edge despite the scenes of celebration. there was some money gunshots being fired and everyone celebrating. a similar scenario to what we're seeing on the screen. i presume it is green square. people still worried about what this regime is capable of and i heard an exchange on the streets outside between two men saying, one person dismissing the water poisoning as a rare and the other telling him, you know what, you can expect anything from this man. >> now that the rebels appear to be strengthening their grip on tripoli, attention is turning to the grouping that takes charge of libya. the national transitional council is wa

the troops appeared to be on the rooftops and in the streets in the third largest city. several civilians were killed here. there was trouble in the suburbs of the capital of damascus. civilian deaths were reported here. at the united nations and elsewhere, patience is running short. the president agreed to allow a humanitarian mission to visit the trouble spots. it hopes to go this weekend. >> we will concentrate on the places where there have been reports of fighting to see for ourselves exactly what has been going on. >> the pressures on mr. assad are building up. the european union is tightening sanctions on people close to his regime. the president told his faithful this week that syria would stand firm, whenever the pressures. he blames armed terrorist gangs for all the trouble. cox newspapers have shown footage -- >> tv and newspapers have shown footage of people with guns and knives attacking the police and security. there has been affected. for some reason, the west will only see with one eye and will only listen with one ear. >> the turks have not supported the