it is completely undergrounded. the utilities were in such bad condition that the gas lines underneath the sidewalks leaked so much that they killed the street trees. that's how bad it was. our problem is nothing compared to this and it needs to be dealt with. please make a priority of it. thank you. >>> good afternoon, president chiu and supervisors. i have graphics. i know president mandela hasn't been well, but january 1999 he had answered [speaker not understood] on this letter, here it is. and he noted the supportive nature of my letter and appreciated it and wished me the best for the future. and i wished him luck and sent him things, the administrative secretary. hope he gets well soon. and congratulations to nick [speaker not understood], across the grand canyon on tight rope. ♪ and it's going to be a grand canyon morning after if we can hold onto the wire why don't we cross the wire [speaker not understood] together and we'll escape the darkness and we'll be searching way up high it's not too late not while we're living

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there aren't actually any vertical elements in the streetscape there, but the placement of the underground utilities and water mains and driveways means that [speaker not understood] any opportunity to do street trees. i think streetscape clutter can also mean looking at what's happening underground as well. and the better streets plan, this is the cover, provides specific guidance on how we should be designing our streets too achieve the opposite of streetscape clutter, basically a coordinated approach to streetscape design. and here is a policy lifted directly from the better "street signs". minimize visual clutter in the streetscape environment. and there are a few strategies that it discusses in order to achieve this. the first is to minimize unwanted or not unnecessary elements. so, think about what we're putting out on the streetscape, whether it's necessary, whether there are other places it could go like on private parcels, and really being conscious about what we put out there. the second would be to consolidate or share different elements as possible. this could mean utility [speaker not u

randal brew baker and i'm here on behalf of an organization, san francisco coalition for undergrounding utilitiesthe subject, appropriate to show the picture. i actually took this picture from the front window of my home. it's not often you see repair out there. unfortunately, every day we have this ugly apparatus in front of us that's embarrassing to us and the city. we are a coalition of neighborhoods. we're growing. we want this stuff to disappear. [speaker not understood]. we'd like to see the job finished. now, i want to move on to another document which i trust you are already aware of. if you're not, i definitely want to have you know about this. [speaker not understood] submitted to the san francisco board of supervisors by its own task force in 2007 with recommendations on how to deal with undergrounding, how to make it happen in san francisco. and if it's on the internet, it has to be in your file someplace. i prefer it be on top of your de. these are recommendations out of that document. the key notion is that undergrounding would be taken over as a project of the city. it would be adm

i'm here to request that we underground our utilities out here in the richmond district. pg&e has a schedule to do it, we're not even on it. we've heard about senior citizens and the number of us in san francisco -- i'm over 60 -- so there is a certain sense of urgency to get them done so i can see it before i die. also, speaking of transportation, eric mentioned that i'm an advocate for that. i'd like to see us build a subway, lrt system out here, extend the central subway out to our neighborhood. no one has ever built a subway in any community and regretted it later on. is that on the time? thanks very much. (applause) >> thank you. [speaking through interpreter] >>> my name is shu wow lee. [speaker not understood]. i'm a district resident, ihhs, and seiu. i currently take care of an elderly person in district 4. the person i currently take care of, his son is away from home and so it's very important for us to make sure they take their medication on time, that their needs are met. with the limited income that we have, we really hope that there's more funding to our inc

bay north, that is the company that keeps track of all the underground pipes and lines for various utilities here in northern california. east bay mud is going to let them know about that in hopes it will help avoid accidents like this in the future. >> several homes in oakland were evacuated after a minivan crashed into a house and caused a gas leak. it happened on the coroner of allison and 7th streets. you can see the front of the vehicle is really all the way into the two-story home of them shut off the gas before the car could be removed. authorities were concerned could it spark a fire. male driver was taken to the hospital. his injuries are described as non life-threatening. no one in the home was injured. >> carolyn: spanish media is reporting excessive speed may have caused a train to derail in northwestern spain killing at least 60 people a more than a hundred passengers were injured. every car derailed. one car was torn apart. this high speed train was heading to madrid to coastal city. spain's prime minister is holding an emergency meeting tonight. officials say they do not belie

targeting those very same institutions and you are seeing an evolution of weaponry in the underground that would be utilizedld bank and cooperative study in 2005 about cyberattacks but at the time it was not in the lexicon for many of these banks, now, today called a major players are participating. sifma the ones running the show. what does that say to you about how bad these attacks have been? >> i would complement the industry for an president information sharing with the government and by lateral fashion. however, we usher in a new era where in the modern day da on gillette -- john mallinger gangs are cyber and not just focused on stealing money but things like market manipulation, front running, insider-trading, broker compromise and impacting liquidity of markets to incur capital flight out of the u.s. economy. it is not just individual actors but regimes like iran who are behind many of the attacks we have seen. cheryl: i have heard it called low war game. i remember the movie from the 80s with matthew broderick but this is basically what is happening right now. take us behind the scenes of what sifm

and many utilities can identify with the struggles that come with maintaining underground assets to support a growing population. one of the most common issues that municipalities share is water loss. melosi: because it's not a catastrophic issue, we don't think much about it. but there is a 10%, 20%, 30% water loss or leakage in some systems. allbee: already treated water that you've invested money in, you're losing before you actually delivered it. narrator: so many utilities are employing the business strategy of asset management. it's a paradigm shift in the approach of attaining a sustainable water infrastructure. man: it's not construction of new pipelines. we are talking about maintaining, sustaining the infrastructure we have. you've got to know what you have, where it is, what condition it's in, and how long you can expect it to last. melosi: we have very little choice because we've invested in a system that cannot be readily changed. we don't leave a lot of flexibility to dig that all up and replace it with something else. sinha: so we have to also teach our students, the workforc

underground tunnels. high levels of radioactivity has been reported since may. the utility reported that contaminated water from the facility is leaking into the sea. the nuclear regulation authority told tokyo electric power company, that wastewater could seep through gravel under the tunnels. the water is believed to be coming from turbine buildings. the structures are highly contaminated, as large amounts of water have been used to cool nuclear fuel in nearby reactor buildings. tokyo electric says it will start injecting chemicals into the gravel to block the water. it says it will decontaminate the water by circulating it through a purifier from september and drain the tunnels from next april. the firm has yet to come up with measures to stop the original leak from the turbine buildings. it also has not found a site to store the drained water. >>> north korean authorities celebrated the 60th anniversary of what they call victory day over the weekend. people filled the capital, pyongyang, to commemorate the korean war armistice. kim jong un appeared on a balcony to salut

underground water is seeping into the ocean. about 100 fishermen attended a private briefing session by tepco. officials from the utility reportedly said the spread of the contamination is limited. they also explained their plan to build walls along the coast to prevent tainted water from leaking into the ocean. some fishermen reportedly said tepco officials may have deliberately concealed the information. others said they cannot trust the firm. >> translator: i've lost hope. >> translator: i feel nothing but anger. >> the fishermen are worried about the impact on their plans to resume fishing on a trial basis. the head of a local fishery's cooperative said the announcement is a serious blow. a tepco official expressed his sympathy. >> translator: the issue of the contaminated water is a real concern for the fishermen. i can't apologize enough. >> he also said that tepco will take a series of measures to try to rectify the situation. officials at japan's nuclear regulator are also angry at tepco. they say the utility was too slow to react to the problem. highly radioactive substances have been detected in the plant's mo

utilities excited now. >> reporter: the idea for modular nukes grew from the merchant marine and nuclear ship savannah, a compact system built in a factory and shipped to the site, would be installed mostly undergroundng terrorist threat with safety systems designed to eliminate a fukushima disaster. >> we analyze the events of fukushima and laid it against the mpower design shortly after the event happened. mpower would have ridden out a fukushima, even an incident as severe as fukushima. >> reporter: taxpayers have a big stake in the outcome. the government pledged a half billion dollars for research and investment. mpower received 79 million already. critics see the nuclear version of solyndra. >> this administration is giving to the nuclear industry the potential to lose us way more money than we lost with solyndra. this is the industry, the administration picking winners and losers. >> reporter: the developers admit there are a lot of unknowns, but pledge they'll be responsible stewards of the taxpayers' perks. >> we're going to watch it closely, work hard, stop it at every point, make sure it makes sense. >> reporter: supporters of the technology say there's huge potential for exports and the

there aren't actually any vertical elements in the streetscape there, but the placement of the underground utilities and water mains and driveways means that [speaker not understood] any opportunity to do street trees. i think streetscape clutter can also mean looking at what's happening underground as well. and the better streets plan, this is the cover, provides specific guidance on how we should be designing our streets too achieve the opposite of streetscape clutter, basically a coordinated approach to streetscape design. and here is a policy lifted directly from the better "street signs". minimize visual clutter in the streetscape environment. and