you have to be assessed for that. i think that is a very green thing to do because you do not have to add building. do you have anything to say about general improvement? >> it is a big additional we are talking about attic space. when you are retrofitting for earthquakes two stories up in an edwardian, the expense involved, i think, would be hard to justify in most neighborhoods. >> it is hard to get enough windows with dormers, etc. >> how about converting the attic into storage? >> you said you recently did that, alice. >> that is fairly simple. i would get a permit. and you are allowed a certain amount of space. you have to have ventilation. i do not remember all the rules. >> will the property tax increase? >> i do not think so. >> to convert an existing empty attic into a storage attic? that does not sound like you are converting it into the living area. the a sensible addition would be converting it into a living area. >> it is usually by a letter that pulls down. a staircase would have to be deliverable area w

-- concerning the assessment. the last five years, cbd spent over $2 million of our tax money. half of that winter janitorial service. half of and on and administrator that was spending his time doing his own business -- half of it on an administrator that was spending his time doing his own business. we're not interested in rejecting the proposal, this legislation, but serious amendments. right now, one of the things that really concerns me is the presentation. the board is supposed to be presented by individuals. somehow, some individuals on the board decided to have one of the largest real estate owners to have veto power of the fillmore center appeared in my opinion, as the largest property owner, is probably the major reason for the major underdevelopment of the economy of the fillmore and particularly the black community. does not matter to me whether they have some closer relationship to have them. it is your responsibility if you are governing us to make sure that -- [bell rings] supervisor chiu: thank you

has there been a needs assessment done of what officers would like? and needs assessment? >> i know i would like to have something done for returning vets. mhn does cover a whole veterans section, but it is not in our contract. i would like to have our returning vets be mandated to come through a process before being sent out again to the war zone, and something like that, i know they do get their psychological assessment prior is more thorough, and something like that i think would be very valuable, and i think that protecting our officers from sending them right out to places that would reinforce their trauma would not be in their best interest. i think we need to take care of them and give them a break, but i think that would be something i would like to do. commissioner chan: a needs assessment has not been done? >> i think they have done a good job think that we could give them more support. commissioner chan: i would like to come back and have a potential action item to find out what we can do to support furthering the unit, and also, i think we should probably condu

be violation should never have been assessed -- the violations should never have been assessed. we are asking that it be remedied today, taken away. thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> thank you. my name is ethan. this is regarding 215 noey street. this goes back to 2003. the owners bought the apartment complex in 2000, and there was a complete by a neighbor in 2006. the owners got a permit. they wanted to see if they could replace the tenants in a different location. they were unable to do that. be permit lapsed. they got the permit reinstated at the end of 2006. dbi gave them more time to do an eviction. the tenet that the san francisco board of appeals -- tenant got the san francisco board of appeals to stay the permanent. since then, there has been no action. there has been no action by dbi. dbi issued a fine for non- compliance. our clients are between a rock and a hard place. the cannot fix the unit. the need to either get a permit and suspended or get other people into the property, and that is what we're looking for. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> go

the damage assessments just now starting. emergency crews need to keep in mind their own safety before they venture out. something they are keeping in mind in the state of maryland as well. here's the governor there. >> our latest count is about 158,000 people without electricity in our state. the crews have been out there working as best they can even as the storm intensifies and comes closer. we are reaching a point where emergency personnel, even our state highway crews and also the people working on power restorations will have to come in themselves and will not be able to be out there. >> bill: doug was live in ocean city yesterday bracing for the worst, today the dawn of a new day. how is it? >> aloha from ocean city. what a contrast. good things await you in new york city and tkwropbd the new england coast if you can hold on a little bit longer. it is a delightful day here in ocean city. look at the surf today in contrast to the -- to the churning seas we had yesterday. the surfers are out enforce today. big, beautiful

i was taught -- involved in the assessment of the breakdown. one thing that was very obvious to me -- there had been breakdowns in police leadership, but also in the whole criminal justice system. the prosecutors were too willing to hear a story that was not believable. there were members of the defense that did not do their job the way that they should have. and they should have been more circumspect about what was being presented. one of the main reasons i am here today, is because i have this very strong commitment to the reef formation of the system. any system that incarcerates people at the rate that we do in our country and our state -- the implications that this has had in minority communities, 70 people -- 70% of the people that we incarcerate -- this is a system based on punitive measures. this indicates that we have to fix the system and that is why i am here today. we have to fix this. >> john ray is a direct question. if you are presented with evidence that the police officers have committed perjury, or if you have this attorney in

assessments will be made by others. we have heard some positive ones, but as the president said yesterday an administrator fugate said today, this is not over. there's a lot of work are free to be done -- there's a lot of recovery to be done. >> the president has given at least half a dozen jobs speeches this year. what is different about this speech? >> you make a good point in that the focus on jobs has been unbroken in this administration since the day he was sworn into office, i am not with the american economy experienced more than 700 -- in a month with the american economy expands more than 700,000 jobs lost. the first quarter of 2009, the economy contracted at i believe over 8%. an incredible amount of shrinkage. this has been the primary focus of this president and administration since we came in january 2009. we're constantly looking at ways to continue to grow the economy and grow jobs, and we obviously, for a variety of reasons -- the economy slowed an experienced head winds and we have not been chipping awa

we don't know; we're still assessing. a lot of the states are just finishing the response operations -- are beginning that, particularly the further south you are, as you move north. but in vermont and in new york, they're very actively still engaged in response operations, as well as massachusetts and new jersey -- which are also experiencing flooding -- new hampshire and maine. so with that i'm open for questions. >> do you have any figures to attach to the damage yet, any idea how much the storm will cost? >> no, and i don't really estimate -- i don't like to give estimates, because one of the things you're looking at is a lot of power outages. you see a lot of damages that are not going to be covered by federal dollars -- we don't cover insurance losses. so some of the numbers you'll get from, like, insurance industry projects are actually what their exposure will be. those won't translate into what the federal cost will be. so this will be -- we do formal damage assessments with the states. we go in and look at those

so, we're still doing damage assessments. with that storm surge being 7.5 feet, one of the highest on record, we're expecting widespread flooding damage, but we're still getting those estimates in. it's still early. >> all right. governor, thank you very much. good luck to you and all your emergency response folks in your state. thanks for joining us this morning. one of the remarkable aspects of this storm is that it's been a couple of decades since major metropolitan centers along the eastern seaboard have been affected like this. we've talked about new york city. joining me now is michael nutter, the mayor of philadelphia. mayor, what did your region wake up to this morning? >> david, we expected about seven to nine inches of rain. we have significant flooding. both the schuylkill, the delaware, creeks and streams all throughout the city, road blockages, trees down, about 297,000 people without power in the philadelphia region. in philadelphia, about 21,000 without power. pico, our power company, our energy company, they'r

that was the assessment of three british doctors. the british government has come under huge pressure because it's been said, not proven, but it's been said the british government was put under pressure by libyan officials to break up business contracts, britain would lose a lot of money if they didn't cave in and hand back megrahi. gadhafi wanted megrahi because he needed to get him back to the tribe, an important tribe he had here he needed to keep loyalty with. now even british officials are saying, look, perhaps there is good reason. now he's lived another two years. he should go and finish his jail sentence in scotland. i asked his son about that. his son said, look, we want him to finish his last days at home. he's going to die. here or in scotland, but he's going to die. let him finish his last few days here. interestingly the national transitional council here, government of the rebels has said, okay, if we find him and we haven't found him yet, they're saying, we did, they're saying they haven't. rebels have looted his house

today is assessment day in north carolina. governor bev purdue is traveling to various parts of the state along the coast to see how things fare. already early assessments are that the communities seem to have done pretty well. the damage is much less than certainly was anticipated. but nonetheless, there have also been some deaths associated with this. hurricane irene is responsible for the deaths directly of two people in north carolina. hurricane irene made first landfall just south of the outer banks on north carolina's coast. winds in excess of 100 miles per hour ripped apart unsecured siding. tilted electrical poles and church steeples, downed trees. and unconfirmed tornado is believed to have touched down in bellhaven. damaging waterfront businesses. while the storm surge flooded roadways, waves, eight to ten feet with the occasional 17-footer hammered the atlantic beach pier. this is what the pier looked like before irene and now after. the final section is gone, washed out to sea in the early-morning hours. north caro

so we are working with the governors now as they begin the assessment.tion i have been getting a lot is how much? how much damage? we don't know. we are still assessing and a lot of the states are finishing the response operations and particularly the further south you are as you move north. but in vermont and new york, they are actively engaged in response operations and including massachusetts and new hampshire and maine who are experiencing flooding, and with that, i'm open for questions. >> do you have any figures to attach to the damage? any idea how much the storm will cost? >> i don't like to give estimates, because one of the things that you are looking at is a lot of power outages, and you will see damages that are not covered by the federal dollars. we don't cover insurance losses, so a lot of the numbers of the federal numbers will not translate to insurance numbers. we go in and assess with the states the things that are the responsibility of the state and the local government and look at those damages and primarily at the uninsured losses. s

we do have requests for some power assessment teams. the u.s. army corps of engineers teams are going in. north carolina had requests for generators. we're working on that. we're getting those kinds of requests now. fortunately, we have not had to deploy a lot of the search and rescue teams we have had on standby. this goes back to the team effort. a lot of this is being done by local and state responders. we brought in extra teams just in case they were needed. we're still standing by until the state's release us. >> do you have more specifics on the actual damage details in particular cities where it seems to be the worst? >> we're just beginning that assessment in terms of numbers and dollar amounts, it is still very early. we're still concerned about rescue operations. as we get better conditions and have the emergency part of this taking care, we're starting the damage assessments. >> the next question is from allison with "new york daily news." >> this question is directed to bill read. what changed with the storm? do you know when the sto

is assessing the damage. here is mayor gray who talked with alex witt in our 8:00 hour just thunderstorm. >> i think overall we fared well. the storm could have been a lot worse. the folks who work with the city have done a great job. we have power outages. which our electric company, our power company is starting to work on. we've got between 40 and 50 trees down. >> cnbc's eamon javers is live in washington, d.c. he's running down some issues, but we also know the dedication of the martin luther king memorial postponed, some 250,000 people would have been there marking that moment today. what's astonishing to me here is how quinnly it's changed. we've had drenching rains, really intense winds, and now we have clear blue sky and bright sun. what we need now is a pair of sunglasses. it's turned into a gorgeous day. it's a shame for those who canceled the dedication. they probably could have gone off without a hitch if they had had something later in the afternoon. the real challenge is all the power outages.

it appears in the special assessments midsection. i think there was more than one year for this property owner. had he closed those cases out -- which we are now doing for him -- going back to the tax collector to see if he paid those taxes. it had to do with his lack of response for paying for our time to get us to do extended code enforcement. >> is there any additional public comments? >> just in hearing the issue with q-matic, something that came to mind. i have answered a lot of questions about surveys, new things in the housing code, things that we have to implement. seeing the responses from our customers, one thing that may need to be considered, i know that there are mine turns on some floors of the department. one thing that was very effective with the brown bag lunches for the videos that were done, which were then displayed on a loop, at any time something new occurs. they can say, this is a new program. it will go through a five-minute loop, and you could also do it in different languages. that would help our customers a

damage assessments are already under way. i spoken to the governor of north carolina to determine the area impacts and the next steps that need to be done in the response and recovery process. we have a ways to go, but i think it is safe to say that the worst of the storm, at least up to and including new york managers the has passed. the storm will proceed up to new england this evening, and out of the united states by late tonight, early tomorrow morning. with that, i would like to turn this platform over to bill read, from the national hurricane center, to get the estimate of the storm. >> thank you, madam secretary. you did a great job of capturing the forecast for the storm. we were very fortunate to be able to get a unique opportunity. we actually have the hurricane aircraft from the air force reserves fixed at the center of the storm as it was coming into new york city earlier this morning. now it has come passengers here on the connecticut/new york state line, but we still have the onshore flow with a high sir, tropic

i wanted to open up with just an assessment, your assessment of the violence and the current state of not just the violence and the scale of it, but also what you can tell us about the opposition and how they are doing and how we can be most effective and most helpful meaning the united states congress. >> thank you very much, senator. it's nice to see you again. first, if i may, i'm very fortunate to work with a small but very dedicated team at the u.s. embassy in damascus, both americans and syrians coming and one of my team is here. she actually interrupted her vacation to help me during these few days of meetings i had in washington so i would like to introduce joann cummings. joann works on economic and political issues in damascus. she lives in damascus without her husband who was evacuated because of the deteriorating security situation of our american staff lived there without their families, and it is a really super team and it is a team effort. >> thank you as well. >> cementer, with respect to the violence getting worse, the syrian government's constant brutality, its refus

mark, talk about sort of the assessment process that goes on right now. it's important to find out exactly where the problems are, you know -- you think you know where most of them are. really, until the sun comes up and you can actually eye ball the things, it's difficult to get the big picture, isn't it? i think we may have lost him there. >> i'm having a hard time hearing you. i had activity in the room that drowned you out. the question was? >> until the sun comes up and you get eye balls on the situation, you can have a good idea of what's going on but you don't see the true total picture until you can get out and visualize it, is that right? >> that's exactly right. we're in the lull period as far as activity, incoming 911 calls. we do fully anticipate when everybody wakes up and the sun rises and people see the damage, they're going to call 911 or call the hurricane hot line and report those damages. we'll be as busy, if not busier, during the recovery period than we were today in dealing with the actual storm. we are geared up. we have personnel o