they include a way out on top fire escape balcony. the fire escape balconies. the ladder from the lowest balcony to the ground and a way to get on to the roof. i think those are the main elements of the fire escape. >> yeah. >> okay. and we're going to look at a bunch of different ones. this is a good example across the street. so first of all, how do you get out on to the fire escape? you can't have to climb out on a little window. we can see there are large, openable window pain doors, >> they did allow them to climb out windows and those are grandfathered in. >> as bill mentioned, there's an important part of the codes, they are not retroactive. you had to bring them up to today's standards. it's allowed to be maintained in the original construction. that's one of reasons we have old fire escapes. they are not required to be upgraded. >> if this was built today, a fire escape would not be allowed. they do not meet the second means of egresscode. >> but in all the existing ones like this one, you have to maintain them and keep a second means. according to the

our guy does a good job and makes sure the balcony is stable. it's so much nicer to be outside. you yell at the guy. we need more water and pressure. in my eyes, it's a better system. this one here is dry. some of them are wet. >> what's the difference between wet and dry? >> wet would be connected to the water system. typically on a smaller building, they would use this as their riser to be their sprinkler system inside. it's wet. it has 60, 65 pounds of pressure. it isn't really enough to fight the fire. but we already have water. we would still need the engine to hook up to get water pressure we needed to that floor. >> how much pressure do they need? >> well we aim at 100 pounds at whatever floor you are at. you lose 5 pounds for floor. it's up 15, you would lose 15 pounds. >> do we usually have a stand fire escape? >> usually. it's probably because they have so many stand pipes. and may be it was one of far ones we didn't see. it's a great thing. on residential, you always see it. >> any questions on stand pipe and connections? >> we're going to walk right around the corner

forge to have with -- "fortune" to vo with us some guests who are going to speaking to us about balconies and problems and what maintenance issues you should be paying to. we have dave from lynnagain, associates from what you normally would call a termite inspector. it's actually a structural pest control company. is that right? >> that's right. >> we'll talk more about what license pest control folks do and why it's so important to know them and to know dave. and a structural engineer who looks at lots of decks and balconies and tries to figure out ways to fix and solve problems. and sometimes looks at the reasons that problems occur and called in to do the forensic investigation of that failure as well. and of course, harvey is here with pat. thanks for joining us, harvey. and i'm chief building inspect, lawrence cornfield. we have a bunch of slides we're going to go through today that i hope will give us sort of a basis to ask questions and focus our discussion. most of the decks that we see that we're going to talk about are made of wood. san francisco is a city built primarily of woo

. >> [laughter] >> with a big balcony deck on these giant beams that projects from the building. >> these are low beams and the real structure is hidden inside and for that quality of construction, they probably have pretty good flashing details. >> tremendous problems with water intrusion when you have that many horizontal members. because the water's going to want to get in to each and every one of those cracks between the horizontal boards of this. -- log building. we have a variety of different kinds of balconies and decks here, all of which have extreme waterproofing issues. it's a very, very modern one on the right. requires a very highly sophisticated flashing and waterproofing detail. >> i would say the one in the middle. and i know that building. i don't know if that particular building has been inspected but i've done a lot of those buildings that have these concrete balconies with the precast concrete, balustrade. and the corrosion that you see in those, the structural steel corrosion you see on those, i've worked on one on golf street. we had to store shore it up. there's 10,0

today his balcony overlooks what's being called the zone of devastation. it's one of the last houses standing on the edge of a ruined neighborhood. the explosion ripped a 28-foot-long section of gas pipeline out of the earth. a 30-inch high pressure transmission line that ran right under the neighborhood. did you have any idea that pipe went so close to your house? >> no, i did not, no. >> reporter: pacific gas & electric, the utility that operates the pipeline has almost 6,500 miles of major transportation pipelines in california. the utility has been ordered by state regulators to inspect all of its gas pipelines in the state, making those in heavily populated areas a priority. pacific gas & electric is setting up a $100 million fund to help those who lost their homes in the devastation zone here recover and rebuild. john blackstone, cbs news, san bruno, california. >>> out in the atlantic this morning, hurricane igor has weakened slightly but it still remains a huge category 4 storm. sustained winds now at 140 miles per hour and it may strengthen again.

for a balcony, what you would expect to see is half inch tempered glass. and that's really not very expensive. and but the thing there is, you're going to have to probably do it in pieces so that, in case one of those pieces broke, you'd still have that handrail that goes across the top of that, keeping you back so that you aren't falling over with the broken glass. >> right. and the code talks about other types of protection. you can't just have a single piece of glass, without some other type of protection, and it's in this handout that you have here. >> that code may change with the advent of special materials. eventually, we will come and say -- and it's been supplied in different cities, where we take a century -- it's called century guard, whereas there is this piece of plastic in between a couple of pieces of one eneeled, and one heat treated and the other tempered, so that even if it broke it stays together and stays rigid. so there really isn't reason then for that top handrail. >> the building code in san francisco says that we can approve produc

the 11th floor inside the apartment and authorityings say that one man attempted to jump over the balcony before being arrested. the entire search took two hours but it was a job well- done by all officers involved. >> and that is an outstanding job. they were professionals and on top of what they needed to be doing and was so proud of them. >> reporter: two persons of interest were taken from the building and handcuffed. at this point, charges have not been filed. matt ackland, fox 5 news. >> and police say they would rather continue to search the building until they find the weapons. the identification of the victim is not made public. >> and d.c. police looking for a gunman after a deadly shoot at northwest and that is in the 4400 block of georgia. david westin of southeast was on the ground suffering from gun shot wounds and pronounced dead at the hospital. >> the news edge in virginia. a mother died. the community is still hurting tonight and on wednesday morning, the family's townhouse caught fire. the mother was able to save three of the children but died with two of the sons, her

and basically i was out on my balcony and all of a sudden you see a normal planes flying by, right whent gets past the tree line, an explosion hits and you see these flames coming up above the tree line as the plane is going down. >> what kind of plane. >> i would say a private jet maybe? it wasn't like the jumbo jet. it was more like a private jet or something of that nature. >> do planes normally fly above the tree line near your home? >> oh, yeah. you hear planes all the time. most of the time, you know, you look up, you see a plane, no big deal. so living near the airport, we have the fear that they might come down because the flight plans aren't as strict. >> did you hear any unusual sounds? >> no, that's the weird thing. you look up and see planes all the time, helicopters, whatever. and then all of a sudden, as the plane -- i mean, you look up you see the plane you don't pay much attention to it but once it got past the tree line i saw that explosion and then there was like the flames jumped up after that. and then you feel the shockwaves, you know, where just hits everybody all

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getting you all here on the balcony in city hall. i want to welcome my friends from spain. thank you. thank you for your leadership. i want to pay particular note and complement to supervise a david campos for his hard work and tenacity and commitment to this sister city. he has been talking about this for months. i want to congratulate him on a job well done in helping to organize this and being a good steward in the process. i also want to thank --where is he? but they acknowledged supervisor bevan dufty. there is jose cisneros. we thank him for his strong support. as well come a department head, commissioners assembled. this is our 18th sister city. formally, our relationships go back to 1957. the idea behind sister cities began when then-president dwight eisenhower recognized we need to reconcile that there were agreed -- disagreement between nations coming out of world war ii and the best way to reconcile the disagreement was people to people that love to say. people, representing cities, perhaps could get it right. that is when the sisters to the movement began. hear,

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the man grabbed his camera just after hearing explosion and headed for the balcony to capture these incredible pictures of this huge ball of fire. fortunately the man was able to get out of his home and was allowed to return to it yesterday to inspect for damage. >>> and this new video was taken by a surveillance video at a gas station at glenview drive and san bruno avenue. watch what happens. it's a couple of miles away from the explosion. but you can still see the intensity of the flames and the reaction of the people. a woman there with her baby running across the street. some, though, actually drove toward the glenview neighborhood while the explosion, as you saw there, sent others running for their lives. >>> pg&e announced today it's creating a $100 million fund for the victims of the san bruno disaster. the utility says it will help residents with immediate cash paints and pay for costs not covered by insurance. starting friday, homeowners will get individual checks between $15,000 and $50,000 depending upon the extent of the damage to their homes. pg&e says that residents won't be ask

board of supervisors prohibiting smoking in common areas of apartment complexes like patios and balconiesans smoking inside of apartment units built after the first of the year. and the new law, keep in mind applies to medical marijuana. the new ordinance includes langage to protect land lords as long as they meet requirements in the ban. >> cuts just got deeper at uc berkeley. five sports will be cut at the end of the year. that announcement made today by the chancellor of the university. baseball, men's and womens gymnastics and rugby will be dropped. rugby will transition to a varsity club sport and attempts to become sustainable without university funding. >> the costs of delivering our program have been rising. requiring growing financial supports in the budget now exceeding $12 million annually. >> and this will save the university $4 million. the number of sports will be reduced from 29 to 24 under ts plan. >> oakland raiders hosted an event to help teenagers learn about the dangers of steroids. about 100 students from several high schools ended a day long seminar at raiders headqu

quarters office and they don't know what your talking about if you're looking straight ahead, there's a balcony that goes around the upper level and on the far left side there's a column that comes down from the call connie and it's at the base of that column that you can direct the researcher to go to get these micro films. >> talk about secrets of city government. that's great. >> i guess that's what i had to say. there's a little secret document out there. >> in terms of working with these agencies and little places where all this information lies, just as i was talking about how excited people are at the public library history room to help you you will find there's agencies not there to help you research your home as you might find. the assessor is thinking their job is to asses your home for taxation so your interest is not their concern necessarily. we talked about the property card each property has. this building card. most clerks when you approach them and ask for that they will send you to a computer monitor so to see what they have on-line. stand firm. you want to see the source docu

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. >> they let you go on this upper balcony above the altar. i shot three the grate into the south, gaining a sense of depth by the size of the people. this is an amazing place where amazing grace is found by many. >> reporter: the pews at a church in brazil. >> i liked the image of light, and inviting light and inviting people into the church for prayer. there's lots of images of light in the scriptures. christ, the light of the world. the light that enlightens us in our hearts and minds. >> reporter: you take a lot of photographs of children. >> they're natural. they don't have to pose. people feel that if you got everything lined up, it will be good. st. thomas talks a lot about order as reflecting god's presence. this is a fun moment, and yet we can interpret it as a way of seng life. i amourished byaking picres. yes, it's a spiritual exercise in that i don't just take a picture and store it. i will reflect on it. entering into these moments of photograph is a conviction that i'm seeing something that i didn't make, the other people didn't

if you have this bubbling, tense situation, is it is advisable to stand on the balcony and say, if youant me godgone, kill me. >> mr. correa is a very combat ative figure. chavez and he shared political visions. it is true to say that probably was not the most well advised step, but what he was trying to do is talk to the people holding a protest -- policemen -- and tried to reason with them. it went badly wrong. teargas was fired and he ended up in a military hospital. as in terms of whether he has control of the country, what is -- there are 150 military personnel that took over the airport. but their commanders, the head of the armed forces, are still by the president's side. that will be crucial in the coming hours. >> the indian prime minister has after ad for cfaaolm court ruling. whether the site of a mosque belongs to the majority hindus or the minority muslims. the decision is that it will be divided between the two groups. judges is set the site where hindu activist tore down the mosque in 1992 should be split three ways. >> it is the verdict that has had india on a knife's e

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the footage was taken from a house balcony just behind the pipe. as investigators tried to learn what caused the explosion questions of service about the pge pipe that blew out. a document outlining costs to replace the pipes says the likelihood of failure makes the risk of failure at this location unacceptably high. >>> a suspected drunk driver is accused of hitting a bicyclist, then smashing into a liquor store. much of the dramatic scene caught on camera. the driver of the car plowed into a vw bug with the woman an her child inside. her husband was in liquor store when the car came barreling through that store. all three were uninjured but the bicyclist did not survive. >>> president obama is taken to the nation's airwaves again. this time will address the america's school children which he will tell them nothing is impossible as long as they dream big, work hard and focus on learning. the president will make that point today in philadelphia at a school when he delivers his second back-to-school pep talk. the white house released the text a day

offer a good view of the kremlin for most of the apartments some of them boasted enormous recessed balcony. as a student of the italian school of architecture wanted to get as much from the rare sunlight here as possible. to that and he designed a vast verandas like this one a groom only get out it's very large indeed. there are even larger of around as elsewhere boards legend has it that in winter time water was poured over them so that people could skate there was a couple many modern day businessmen by apartments here but they don't live in them instead they regard them as a profitable investment in real estate others move into the building for the sheer prestige but the descendants of the victimized tenants make it a point of not walking anywhere near it if an apartment has new plastic windows this is a sign that it was only a short time ago the few descendants of eminent ancestors prefer old frames made of wood but their numbers are on the decline. some people living in this house might keep in touch some hall but as a rule there are no close relationship the atmosphere is guns that's

the footage was taken from a house balcony just behind the pipe.investigators still have no cause for this explosion yet. we'll be right back. my commute home to the eastern shore every night only takes an hour but that's more time than congress spends reading massive spending bills, it's crazy. that's why i wrote a law that requires 72 hours to read every bill. i read the big bills and i said no. no to the $3 trillion budget, no to the bank bailout, and no to the health care bill. at home you would never pay a bill without reading it neither should congress. i'm frank kratovil and i approve this message because i'm proud to be ranked one of the most independent members of congress. >>> who is going to be in charge of protecting our city? will it be jessamy or bernstein? >> who has a chance to be the next baltimore county prosecutor? bartonfelder or kaminetz? >> they are not gone. so make up your mind and play football. we do what we do best. not let them spoil it. >> and revis and butthead load of mistakes by the jets as the ravens win the first o

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. >> reporter: one resident, walter mccaffrey, shot this cell phone video from his balcony after warning his wife and children not to come home. today his is one of the last houses standing on the edge of a ruined neighborhood. the explosion ripped a 28-foot- long section of gas pipeline out of the earth. a 30-inch high pressure transmission line that ran right under the neighborhood. did you have any idea that pipe went so close to your house? >> no, i do not. no. >> reporter: pacific gas & electric, the utility that operates the pipeline, has almost 6,500 miles of major transportation pipelines in california. the utility has been ordered by state regulators to inspect all of its gas pipelines in the state, making those in heavily populated areas a priority. and pacific gas & electric is setting up a $100 million fund to help those who lost their homes in the devastation zone recover and rebuild. katie? >> couric: john blackstone in san bruno tonight. john, thank you. there's also growing concern over one way they drill for natural gas, it's something called fracking. several companies

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