so we use our interpretation under powers of section 104 which the building official has. however chapter 34 deals with existing buildings. chapter 34 deals with substantial alterations, structural additions and alteration and repairs and there are triggers for the implementation of seismic upgrades to buildings when those sections of the code are affected. in initial review of this permit we had zoning permit and based on the work to repair wall and basement, replace retaining wall and basementcious , it was not identified as substantial replacement. there are triggers that there are two-thirds of the walls are floors in the being being altered. there are language that our civil engineers will use to evaluate the scope of the work. the scope of the work is what defines that substantial alteration. the dollar of the amount that was mentioned $250,000 there was no financial trigger that says a certain amount we need to have this notification. there is interpretation judgment exercised when the permit is reviewed and there would have been probing questions and the plan in re

shall apply: any person filing an application substantially alter as that term is defined by the building official and the department house or residential hotel as defined in 41 section point 4 of the san francisco administrative code, that contains 5 or more dwelling units. this one contains 12. shall pose a fine of 15 inches by 15 inches, 381 millimeter times 381 millimeters in a conspicuous common area for at least 15 days with the following information. notice that the application has been made. the nature of the work to be performed. the means of object obtaining information from the department and the procedure for appealing the issuance of permit. it kind of goes on. >> do you have the cross-reference to substantial alteration as defined in the code? >> i think chief deputy can answer that. i searched. he said it's a case by case. our argument is that this is substantial alteration because they are changing the bearing wall. >> something you said about this section, the spirit of this section was intent to communicate, make sure that the tenants, not simply the owner would beware of the wor

enough to stay and we have been focused in trying to define what that means and you as a former building official knows better than anybody the code says if an earthquake happens it won't kill you but doesn't necessarily say that can you stay in your home and we set out to define what that might mean and you know because you built this house we're in now and this shows what it's like to be in a place safe enough to stay. it's not going to be perfect. there maybe cracks in the walls and not have gas or electricity within a while but can you essentially camp out within your unit. what's it going to take to get the housing stock up to this standard? we spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about was soft story buildings and the ground floor is vulnerable because there are openings for garages or windows and during the earthquake we saw in the marina they went right over and those are -- >> very vulnerable buildings. >> very and there are a lot of apartment buildings in san that that are like that. >> and time to. >> >> retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them a

loader was that officials say backed into a pedestrian on this walk way near the fine arts building. officials have not given any details of the victim but sources say it was a female pedestrian who was hit. but no one is saying anything else as if she was a student or incoming. workers understandable by shocked and one person said she wondered if the woman was walking where she shouldn't have been. workers were putting in an underground water valve. >> they could have been more cautious, but this is not an area you go through. >> how about for you? are you going to be more cautious? >> oh, yes, definitely i will be for sure. >> it's just a water line and it was just being drilled underneath the lawn and that actual part of it had nothing to do with any of this. >> what was the tractor doing at the time then. >> he was just taking a load of dirt over to one corner of the job site. that's it. >> again the victim was taken to valley medical center after being given cpr at the scene but died at the hospital. the chancellor said they are working closely with investigators to determine what happene

and on the ka do side, for tom hewey, he is a certified building official. and he is also registered civil and structural engineer. and he has so many other certifications and that it would take up the afternoon and i say that in one sentence but he also has the amazing experience in the private unpublic sector, and you heard something about the work with dbi. and on the will do, is more about about it, if you look at his career, and he is also a member of the professional organizations, and the north american structural engineers and the north american society of civil engineers as well as the work that he does here in dbi and the public advisorry committee and so tom is highly motivated. and the last one, how fit, in most recruitments circles is found to be the most difficult. how do you, get this information or individuals to fit well into the organization? >> and i have a experience of coming here on the side of many occasions and one of the things that i have noticed over that period of time is tom hewey walking around and i said to him on occasion, tom

the demolition will make the building crumble away. officialsecided to implode the building to keep dust to a minimum. >> you have the same quantity of dust but dust is limited to minutes. on a given day at a known time. proper planning of the so that that same quantity and type of dust can be dwelt he yek yekt -- effectively. >> geologists placed 600 sensors around the east bay to measure movement. the blast will have energy as a 2.0 quake. >> interesting about the dust, too. money matters cisco and walmart drag down the stock market. the dow took a nosedive today. and cisco fell 7%. walmart fell after cutting profit forecasts today tlchl has been activity, however in the bay area real estate market. july sales up 18% making it best month in almost seven years. data quick service reports the supply of homes for sale is finally growing to meet pent up buyer demand. >> warren buffet is bullish on general motors. his company increased it's stake in gm and slashed it's holdings in the kraft food company by almost 90%. >> it's being called ayk[i wa

some reported a suspicious package near an apartment building. officials say no one was hurt and no evacuations were necessary. >> 6:10. wone know three people the big powerball jackpot. >> maryland did have one bank winner. next week all marylanders will be winners. >> we still have some rain in the forecast today. >> we will also show you the morning commute. no problems here on the j.f.x. >> welcome back. 6:14. the lights are still on at the stadium from the concert last night. jay-z and jt. i am that cool. there was a stan stovall siding last night. >> in the traffic. >> we are still watching the same cold front inching its way over towards the east coast. i do not think it will go through here until tomorrow morning. it will be warm and humid. see scattered showers and thunderstorms develop. things will get better over the weekend. the dew points are in the low to mid 70's. a kind of feels very tropical to start the day. i do not expect a lot of precipitation for the morning commute. just a couple of of sprinkles in the far northern suburbs. maybe a f

loader was that officials say backed into a pedestrian on this walk way near the fine arts building. officialsy details of the victim but sources say it was a female pedestrian who was hit. but no one is saying anything else as if she was a student or incoming. workers understandable by shocked and one person said she wondered if the woman was walking where she shouldn't have been. workers were putting in an underground water valve. >> they could have been more cautious, but this is not an area you go through. >> how about for you? are you going to be more cautious? >> oh, yes, definitely i will be for sure. >> it's just a water line and it was just being drilled underneath the lawn and that actual part of it had nothing to do with

there is a visible crack in the building's base. officialsitoring the situation. >>> we are following a breaking story, las vegas, police are investigating an off duty officer involved in a shooting. this happened around midnight our time, all the officers ip involved in the shooting are doing okay. they are not giving details about the circumstances that led to the shooting. follow us at abc 2 news. >>> he is the face of the orioles franchise, always there for a great sounds bite sharing thoughts on topics. a nu

firefighters rescued folks trapped on the upper floors of the burning building. officialsas leak may have sparked the blast. brazil. police took an endangered monkey from its apparent owner in south pal low. the 71-year-old claims she has had the threat poor more than three decades. police say it's illegal to keep wild animals. thousands of folks have signed online petition demanding that the cops return the monkey to that woman. china. cyclists raced six miles from the mountains of tibet to promote environmentally commuting. ancient festival. the winner tackled the challenging course in less than 30 minutes. and that's a wrap on this fox trip around the world in 80 seconds. >> shepard: archie's number two and three sons are very good at a lot of things. they play a lot of football and play very well. now we know maybe what they are not so good at. we will show you that in a moment. plus, are you tired of cutting the grass this summer? not these guys. ♪ ♪ >> shepard: in fact, it's what they live for. >> sheep make great lawn mowers. >> shepard: it seems more ground keepers

two weeks ago, government officials said that hundreds of tons of groundwater flow from a mountain through the site every day. 400 tons filters into the reactor buildings. the officials estimate that 300 tons makes its way through a contaminated area below, becomes radioactive, then seeps into the ocean. experts from the nuclear regulation authority were firm about resolving the problem quickly. >> translator: we must find a way to stop the groundwater from leaking into the ocean, right away. >> reporter: managers of tokyo electric power company, tepco, are planning a longer-term measure, considering building a network of pipes around the plant and running coolant through it to freeze the soil. that, they say, would create a dam to block groundwater from reaching the contaminated area, but the project would take one to two years to complete. one expert is questioning the way the government and tepco have been handling the problem. a professor has been studying the effects of radiation on the sea ever since the fukushima accident. he says tepco is slow to respond to the crisis by refusing to admit the leaks were even happening. >> translator: we should

in slow motion you can see the chunks of metal start flying out of the building. officialsy sliced through a fence that was there to keep spectators safe. that was 1,000 feet away. a police spokesman says he isn't sure how crews decided that would be a safe distance. an update -- no update on the condition of the 43-year-old man who had his leg chopped off. a couple of hours to the south of there. bloodstained the famous boardwalk of venice beach after somebody drove a car right through tourists and vendors. happened on saturday, 6:00 in the evening. the boardwalk was packed. thousands of people. surveillance video shows the man taking off in a black dodge avenger and seconds later plowing through the crowd. look at that witnesses say he hit speeds of more than 40 miles per hour during a quarter mile rampage along that boardwalk. >> i look down and i see this car driving through like there is a girl latched on to the hood of the car. is he swerving and he knocks the girl off of the car. and then he is just like running into crowds of hundreds of people and re going out of h

the demolition will make the building crumble away. officialsecided to implode the building to to a minimum. >> you have the same quantity of dust but dust is limited to minutes. on a given day at a known time. proper planning of the so that that same quantity and type of dust can be dwelt he yek yekt -- effectively. >> geologists placed 600 sensors around the east bay to measure movement. the blast will have energy as a 2.0 quake. >> interesting about the dust, too. money matters cisco and walmart drag down the stock market. the dow took a nosedive today. and cisco fell 7%. walmart fell after cutting profit forecasts today tlchl has been activity, however in the bay area real estate market. july sales up 18% making it best month in almost seven years. data quick service reports the supply of homes for sale is finally growing to meet pent up buyer demand. >> warren buffet is bullish on general motors. his company increased it's stake in gm and slashed it's holdings in the kraft food company by almost 90%. >> it's being called ayk[i waur billion

and those same supporters torched not one gut two government buildings just across the river from cairo. ofwards, national security officials in egypt gave police the okay to use deadly force to protect themselves and those buildings. health officials reporting as many 5s 25 people died, nearly 4,000 others hurt, after the military made good on its threat to clear out protest camps in cairo and the muslim brotherhood demonstrators fought back. yesterday was the deadlyiest diin egypt during the arab spring that tommed. hosni mubarak. now president obama just cancelled the scheduled joinmilt previously served as a haulmark of u.s. relationses with our mideast ally. the president got criticism from both sides of the conflict. >> he did, shepard. he told the egyptians they have to solve their own problems. muss lick brotherhood members credited the u.s. for not cutting off ties for the egypt egyptian military, and the supporters of the coup says we have not can depend the attacks. died president obama -- >> we have been blamed by supporters of morsi. we have been blamed by the other side as if we are supporters of morsi. that k

that was the building that collapsed according to fire officials here in lake county at around 3 thisng. there were 20 residents inside the building at the time of this collapse. they described hearing loud bangs and windows breaking around midnight. we spoke to a person who was out here a short time ago as you can see the video of the building absolutely leaning over to the right. the collapse started at the back of the building. 20 residents signed the building had to be quickly evacuated and also residents of a nearby building or villa at summer bay resort also had to be evacuated. we are hearing there are several power outages because officials had to shut off the power because there were gas leaks and a lot more chaos happening in this particular area. many residents we were told here on scene had to actually jump out the windows in order to escape. a lake county fire rescue tells us at last check the sink hole is about 60 feet wide in diameter and 15 feet deep. we are waiting for the building inspection code officials to arrive on scene. they will be coming here around daybreak

they showed how the blast wave knocked down trees and buildings as it spread out. officials at the nagasaki atomic bomb museum say the photos are the earliest taken for scientific verification of the a-bomb damage. they say the university team took them before japanese government officials and the u.s. military started full-fledged studies. >>> executives at the japanese cosmetics firm kanebo are fielding complaints from more and more customers. they've confirmed over 1600 more cases. and the total number has reached nearly 6,000. kanebo executives say more than 10,000 customers have complained of skin problems such as white blotches. they've been interviewing those customers and checking their skin. they say they've confirmed 1,641 new cases. that brings the total to 5,702. problems with kanebo's skin-whitening products are not limited to japan. people bought them in ten other countries and territories, including taiwan and south korea. company executives say they've confirmed 65 of those people have skin trouble. they recalled all of their skin-whitening products using a s

building. there is no official definition. this is just not a high-rise building.the same code on the peninsula and the central valley and everywhere and at los angeles. >> from the time when the permit is issued and the plans are drawn. >> how long will it take to build these? >> two years apiece. >> that is fairly basic. >> about 22 months for the smaller one and 24 months for the bigger one. >> any idea how long it took to get the permits? >> i have been working on this project since 2002. we submitted to planning in 2004 probably. we actually reconfigured the building once. it took us about three years to get the title and design and about one year to get the building permit. >> that sounds like a traditional san francisco building, and that is fairly quick. we think about the process you have to go through to approve the use of the space. is not just the technical issue, but just the use approval is complicated. in this case we probably did not have many appeals. in many cases we have neighborhood involvement where there are appeals and changes. only reconfigu

five-story building here, not the 13 story building that was here. that new building expected to be open in 2015. >> ryan, school officials said it was cheaper than to demolish that building. do you know how much they actually saved? >> it was twice the price and it cost $50 million to demolish. it was really in bad shape. >> ryan, thank you. >>> a 43-year-old man critical injured during this demolition of a bakersfield power plant make keep his leg after all. he was among five people injured when shrapnel went into the crowd. his leg might be spared after he under went 11 hours of surgery. his lawyers will say it's too early if he will be able to use his legs. state authorities are investigating the incident. >>> a chaotic day on the best of the 13 louis vuitton race. there was a scary moments when new zealand tore its tarp. italy's lunarosa withdrew. >> race two was postponed because conditions are just too windy. >> and this is a look at the clouds in the sky overlookand. this is a muggy side all over the bay area, and the chance for thunder showers. >> we fire up our live doppler radar and we have nothing to be seen r

civilians and for supporters of ousted president morsi to stop torching churches and government buildings. officials in egypt is getting worse, but they are afraid they wouldn't have any influence at all if they acknowledged the military takeover was a coup and trigger a u.s. law that would require them to cut off aid, and they may cancel a joint military exercise. bill: what have we been doing about the violence, wendell? >> reporter: well, he's being briefed, as aides say, by national security adviser susan rice who is here with him and his senior diplomatic and military advisers are in contact with their egyptian counterparts and other countries in the region. they're trying to convince the egyptian military to make good on its promise to quickly transition to a civilian government, but the president's spokesman said it's also clear that the egyptians are going to have to do this on their own. >> this is something that egyptians are going to have to resolve, and what we're hopeful is that we're going to have an egyptian government that actually does reflect the will of the egyptian people. that's

broke up and said government sit ins and islamist riders retail you know by setting fire to official buildings and attacking christian churches are just beltran has been witnessing the mayhem in cairo at first hand. well the tensions are palpable here in the capital cairo as today marks the start of what the morsy supporters have called departure the coup week which is that we could long series of protests and rallies in the capital and across the country particularly yesterday we had this twenty four hour standoff between morsy supporters and security forces which resulted in a very bloody gun battle yesterday afternoon as hundreds of protesters had basically been trapped in a central cairo mosque. with the injured which had been turned into a field hospital on friday afternoon so this finished saturday afternoon but with security forces essentially storming this building and the protesters there most of them being arrested now since wednesday when the security forces violently cleared that two encampments in cairo they have used a lot of force against any more protests already including on f

security forces broke up anti-government sit ins an islamist rioters retaliated by setting fire to official buildings and attacking christian churches. trues been assessing the mayhem in cairo it firsthand . well the tensions are palpable here in the capital cairo as today marks the start of what the morsy supporters have called departure the coup week which is a week long series of protests and rallies in the capital and across the country particularly yesterday we had this twenty four hour standoff between morsy supporters and security forces which resulted in a very bloody gun battle yesterday afternoon as hundreds of protesters had basically been trapped in a central cairo mosque. with the injured which would be turned into a field hospital on friday afternoon so this finished as saturday afternoon but with security forces essentially storming this building and the protest is that most of them being arrested now since wednesday when security forces violently cleared that two encampments in cairo they have used a lot of force against any protest all rally including on friday we saw live ammunition

building in china has started taking it down. crews started dismantling the private mountain peak this morning. chinese officials gave him 15 days to take down a project he took six years building. the property owner hauled rocks, trees, and bushes to the top of his 26-floor apartment in beijing. government officials called his creation outrageously illegal and cracked down on it after people complained that the landlord was getting special treatment. >> he had the money to do it. >> yeah. >> it's coming down now. bye-bye. >> f >>. >>> friday is here. what do we have in store? >> good morning, everybody. let's start with -- well, let me go over here and see if i can get the computer started correctly. for some reason it didn't start right. all right. what you're looking at, i guess, would be the seven-day forecast. now we're showing a nice shot. this is a -- going to work. e. there we go. showing the visibilities and what we're looking at our visibilities up from this morning. all of the fog is gone. we have low clouds around the coast and the visibility definitely different than it was during the morning commut

regular basis by our records management division, and again, the three-hour report is a listing of official building permits and history of property based on building department records. and they are independent of many other city departments, so many times, we have a procedure where someone will submit to our department a collection of documents assessor and the department and the maps and the electric bills, and old maps and anything that they can do where they refined the discrepancy in the three-hour port listing there building as an xnumber of units and yet all of the evidence that was documented was showed that there was actually a residence there for many years and so those documents are submitted to our records management division and they have been reviewed and without the issuance of a permit, the records would be corrected and updated. and that is the one scenario. and the other option, in changing a record is if we feel that the person and applicant, or a property owner, is there a discrepancy in the records and we believe that they are increbt we will send out an inspector to look out a