my name is sylvia hong and i am a real estate broker, i have known benny yee since i was a teenager, he has been a long time public servant, state commissioner for more than 30 year and is is still a states commissioner, he also served on redevelopment agent for 13 years as commissioner, vice-president and as president. he understands all too well the issues and challenges that come with change in diverse communities, especially in such a diversity like san francisco and the importance of the notifications, processes and outreach to communities for projects. mayor ed lee's special [inaudible] in southern china, he's an active member in the irving street merchant's association and has been for over 20 years. i know him as a fair individual and very proactive so when he and his family spoke about what's happened to the side of their building, i knew that something didn't sound right. we live in the technology age, business transaction relied upon e-mail as form of communication. we also recognize that we cannot take for granted that an e-mail has been received by the other party for im

and benny did not survive the crash. the services for benny took place at mary akin's house. they went to concord to bury benny but jane did not attend. she was very grief-stricken and could not make it to the final procession of the funeral. jane was very sick most of her life. she's been referred to as tubercular. >> extenuating circumstance, you describe her beloved only surviving child dying right in front of her eyes. anyone can appreciate how devastating that would be. >> yes, indeed. >> so, how did she take this grief to the white house? how did she approach her responsibilities there? >> she cast aside her responsibilities really. but fortunately franklin had a good secretary and she also had a mentor that was her aunt, abigail kent, who took over her duties. >> the white house was in mourning. we learned how incredibly social washington is. and how politics gets done in social interactions. >> yes. >> so here we have a critical time in the country and a white house in mourning. does that have a political impact? it would be difficult for franklin pierce to romance me

and benny did not survive the crash. the services for benny took place at mary akin's house.hey went to concord to bury benny but jane did not attend. she was very grief-stricken and could not make it to the final procession of the funeral. jane was very sick most of her life. she's been referred to as tubercular. >> extenuating circumstance, you describe her beloved only surviving child dying right in front of her eyes. anyone can appreciate how devastating that would be. >> yes, indeed. >> so, how did she take this grief to the white house? how did she approach her responsibilities there? >> she cast aside her responsibilities really. but fortunately franklin had a good secretary and she also had a mentor that was her aunt, abigail kent, who took over her duties. >> the white house was in mourning. we learned how incredibly social washington is. and how politics gets done in social interactions. >> yes. >> so here we have a critical time in the country and a white house in mourning. does that have a political impact? it would be difficult for franklin pierce to romance memb

benny yee for over 20 years. he is a very responsible landlord. once when i received a notice from -- about the smf and last year on april 19th, i gave the notice to mr. yee and then he did not receive anything before that, so he -- he's hoping to go to the hearing against having the smf there, but obviously he did not get any notice about the hearing. i was very surprised too when in february when i received that humongous -- saw that humongous thing pop up on the street and i was outraged and went to his office and everybody is talking about how those things are blocking people's ways to get in and out of cars. i have a picture, you have a better view of this. >> turn it over so that it's facing you. could you turn it so that you're looking at it. perfect. >> so, do you see that thing? the smf? it's blocking people, how people cannot get in and out of their car, and then do you see that big truck parking there, the post office truck is always in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening, it's parking there to unload their stuff and this is -

let's go back to you. >> dave, do you have an advertising contract on the side with benny hana? i'm curious. >> me mening t at least worth two free mooeals. if they're free, i'll take you for one. >> sound great. >> it is dinnertime, isn't it? >> just about. >> one last look at weather. >> if you're outdoor dining around the east bay, looks nice. warming up close to 90 inland tomorrow and more to come off and on through the seven-day forecast. looks a lot like summer there. 70s on the coastline there by tuesday and wednesday. >> rob. thanks for choosing nbc bay area news at 6:00. >> we'll see you back here at 11:00. until then have a good night. >>> welcome to the show. i am lawrence scott. a lot in store on this edition. so les get started. it has been an eventful first month of the season and all began with several ceremonies. giants reliever jeremy afelt got miked up during the world series ring ceremony to te u the festivities at at&t park. take a look. >> i asked. i asked to give adve it. so i kind of gave my input. i don't know if they did anything with it. >> if i was car

we are not going to do that. >> benny says alexander stations missed the point.s is not about the character of his former nsa colleagues it's about the possibility that the government's stunning new capacity to collect, store and analyze data will test less than normal leaders if not now, than in the future. >> really a turnkey situation where it could be turned quickly and become a totalitarian state pretty quickly. the capacities to do that is being set up. if we get the wrong person in office or in government, they could make that happen quickly. >> life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. we balance those three virtues all of the time. the question milike me ask the american people, how much more do you want me to do? >> what can a government computer know? how can it know it? but the nsa mum we go to silicon valley for answers. a little later... >> how many of you have an iphone, an android, a galaxy. >> teaching kids how not to ruin their lives with a smart phone. join us at projectluna.com to tell real people about our new 15 under $15 menu! oh my goodn

. >> investigating the investigators with our panel, representatives bennie thompson, marsha blackburn, debbie wasserman schultz and jason chaffetz. plus, kicking back after a rough couple of weeks, the president headlines the white house correspondents' dinner. >> i've got 99 problems and now jay-z's one. >>> i'm candy crowley and this is "state of the union." first, we want to go to the latest on the boston bombings investigation. a u.s. official says russia wiretapped a 2011 conversation between the mother of one of the accused boston bombers and someone who may have been one of her sons discussing jihad. russia turned over the information to the fbi within the last few days. meantime, the fbi has wrapped up its search of a landfill near boston. investigators were looking for a laptop supposedly used by bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev. it is believed the computer could hold information about the planning of the attack. the obama administration is defending the decision to inform the surviving suspect of his miranda rights. attorney general eric holder spoke with cnn last night. >>

this is what kilroy and benny hop do to be great leaders in our city. it's fun for all the right reasons. look at building, you see engineering suggesting that they can building a lead platinum building in the center of our town and continue as i go to other countries, i can brag about, not necessarily the 27 cranes that are up because some of the other countries have more cranes that we do. but we can brag about them. that they are the state of the art. they are going to be the greenest building here and that's going to continue our leadership in providing the greatest greenest buildings. it's the highest standard that you can get and to have everybody focused on that, i think the employers will find this to be a wonderful welcome. i'm celebrating this not only for the jobs, not just economics but the quality of lie -- life we all want to have in this city. now i want to support this. i'm excited that we see another building in the kilroy fashion. we always joke because i'm a big motion picture film. kill roy was here and will always continue to be her

moving on then to item 5, appeal number 13-019, benny yee versus the department of public work, bureau of street use and mapping, property is multiple locations along 22nd avenue and irving street protesting the issuance on february 12, 2013 to sbc pacific bell engineering, utility excavation permit. permit number 13exc-0820 for hearing today. we will start with the appellant's agent, you have 7 minutes. >> thank you, my name is george lea, i represent benny yee, mr. yee is a s owr and one of the owners of the affected properties. he is a well known community leader, a member of the sunset outer merchant's association and has served on the san francisco redevelopment agency in the city and county for 13 years. there are two issue that is are raised in the appeal, one is one of notice and one is one of -- as to the merits of the matter on the placement of this surface mounted facility or smf and one is tempted to think of the notice issue as simply procedural, but we would urge that it is more than procedural, it is substantive because the appellant as we will find out throughout today,

. >> i was out on my bike today with my good buddy benny and we would hear these yells from other bike riders saying, i thought you said it was going to be sunny today. others said i thought you said it was going to be rainy. [ laughter ] >>> today's highs were not far off of their mark. when you welcome at that 67 degrees in livermore and san jose, that's pretty much where we should be this time of the year, but the winds did increase during the daytime hours. a little bit of precipitation being noticed now backing through the bay moving due east. this is very light precipitation. the heaviest rainfall is from crescent city through the mown shasta area. this has been the scenario and i had to recheck it, and it is spot on. overnight tonight with mostly cloudy skies and a veil of fog along the immediate seashore, the winds are finally dialing back. tomorrow morning sunrise at 6:48, not going to see it, mostly cloudy conditions. we will have sun, cloud intervals. the seven day forecast calling for sunny skies. watch here, the bands of rain along california. the jet stream is further sou

swab for your leadership in doing so and also benny, i know he's a personal friend of yours, i wish i knew mr. fisher better as well but we are going to enjoy this wonderful collection and so thank you for the modern art and bob for all your leadership for doing this. this would not have happened without that occurring. it is a win win for the city. this station, supervisor kim has just arrived. i want to please welcome her up. we have been doing a lot of openings in your district, supervisor. we just did another one at the entrance transbay center. it's a gold standard, lead gold, i want to thank webcor for their leadership in getting this built and making a smooth transition. i want to thank the fire fighters because it's really the home of the alley cats and they are proud of it and they are proud of the family that they have built here because this is one of the busiest fire stations, firehouse 1, will get those calls, you know that. in fact don't be surprised if a call is made even during a time we are here because there is so much activity going on. but we know they are in a saf

he moved to new york city in 1948, where benny goodman hire him and he became very famous in new york at the time and he died in new york in 2001. one of the pieces of my ticket to ride is how many cubans of irish ancestry are there. because this connected to my family, that's why i wanted to read it to you. in the 40's, my father moved to new york in search of his destiny. he learned to make brillantine in red, blue and golden colors to give a beautiful sheen to the hair. in his spare time, when he could break free from his alchemist's captive vit, he would go listen to cuban music at the park plaza hotel in manhattan. those were happy times and years later became a happy tomic with me, convinced early on that my father inhabited a magic world. a few years ago, while listening to a recording of cuban blues by chico, i remembered in new york in those stories of the 40's that chico and my father met at club cuba in manhattan and again in havana in the mid-50's. the sessions of chico's house in our neighborhood became so famous that even my father, not particularly fond of cuban jazz, c

. >> let me bring in congressman benny thompson, democrat of mississippi and a member of the homeland security committee. congressman, good morning. i know you will be briefed today. what can you tell us right now? >> well, i think we can assure the public that congress is monitoring the situation. we're working with state and local partners to make sure we get all the evidence and i think the system worked. our responders were there. police, fire, health personnel. what we're now doing is collecting the evidence to try to get to the bottom of what really happened. >> is there any doubt in your mind at this point that this was likely an act of terror? >> well, i think before we tie it to an act of terror, it was a bad deed. whether it's a lone wolf, international terrorist related organization or what, we have to find the individuals involved. and then we can let the information we receive call what it is. so, our state, federal, local individuals doing their job. let's make sure we catch the perpetrator or perpetrators who did this dastardly deed and let the facts drive us to an assu

swab for your leadership in doing so and also benny, i know he's a personal friend of yours, i wish i knew mr. fisher better as well but we are going to enjoy this wonderful collection and so thank you for the modern art and bob for all your leadership for doing this. this would not have happened without that occurring. it is a win win for the city. this station, supervisor kim has just arrived. i want to

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believe it might be that the best location, i'm familiar with the sunset and i have donut from uncle benny's donuts, and just like the food cart and just like the food truck, i believe that evidence of the location, i believe that that probably is a good location, but we're taking the word of the vendor and it may be something like commissioner fung has suggested, that the procedure, so that there is a radius so it shows some type of written evidence that alternative locations were looked into and it sets a precedent that we might be hearing much more of these cases unless something like that is taken into consideration, and so for that reason, i am leaning towards denying the permit as well. >> imd make a motion to uphold the permit based on the findings in dpw's order. >> we have a motion then from commissioner hurtado to up mold -- uphold this permit as stated in the dpw order. >> do you need the order number? >> no, it's fine. >> okay. >> on that motion to uphold, commissioner fung? >> no. >> president wong? >> aye. >> vice-president lazarus? >> aye. >> and vice-president honda? >> no. >