[bell] president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. >> my name is susan land, and i am speaking in favor of the appeal. i also sincerely hope that the board of supervisors will agree to the need to return those areas to mostly single-family homes to the original rh-1, rh-2 plan. i have lived here for years. it is difficult. there were always owners who wanted to have variance is to increase heights, bill dix, use open space, and affect the sidewalks, even though it impacted on the quality of lives of people on the street. there are a sad stories, but time does not permit. will happen to my neighborhood with the new plan? how many mega mansions, like the one on the corner of broadway and divisidero? the high wall areas and jut out from the set back line of the adjacent houses. down the divisidero side of the property, they have built planter boxes 8 feet with the property line. it is 4 feet high. there is a sign on one planter box reading, "private property. do not sit." how inviting, neighbor. with the current rh-1 and rh

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[bell] president chiu: thank you.hat wish to speak in general public comment? if not, general public comment is closed. colleagues, if we could go back to items 10 and 11, the public hearing regarding the report of assessment costs for blighted properties. if i could ask the representative from d.p.w. to please step up to the microphone do you have resolutions of the cases that were discussed? >> board members, the department is working with those individuals that stated opposition. we're working with each individual on a case-by-case basis. president chiu: thank you. supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: to d.p.w., please. appreciate all the efforts you are in working with these folks. one property on hate street i don't see on here that the gentleman from arton max testified. >> that was brian maloney representing rich schumacher. supervisor mirkarimi: it's not on here. >> those properties you have in front of you are people that have already paid just in the last few days and that's why we've asked those to b

let us -- [bell] president chiu: thank you. next speaker? thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors. we are here actually today to talk about the sufficiency, the accuracy of this eir, and i would ask up-front that you approve the motion of item 14, which would reverse the certification of the 2004 and 2009 housing element in remand them back to the housing for adequate review. the court stayed the 2004 neg dec. actually, it was -- let me see if i can see my updates here. the appeal was filed in november of 2004, and everything was stayed until there was a finding in may 2009, but yet, in the meantime, there were very major plans past. balboa, eastern neighborhood, etc.. major revisions in both-and balkan and zoning. that was essentially a legal, because that was stayed according to cequa, chapter 31, 31.16. the superior court ordered the city to refrain from enforcing or implemented policies and objectives identified as changing from the 1990:. therefore, the 1999 element was or is a baseline for the evaluation for 2004 and to of

[bell] president chiu: thank you very much. thank you, next speaker. >> patricia voy, marina holland neighbors and merchants. supervisor wiener, the superior to this is that we live in the united states and they're denying the public the right of process. that's number one. number two, this housing element does not take in tourism. it just does not take in the value of tourism. people can look across from sas leto and see the waterfront and the bay. we're going to lose this beautiful city without proper planning. it is the plan, the housing element, also does not take into consideration middle income people. it was planned by the previous mayoral office for high-end. it was put together by developers. the advisory committee almost made me sick. i really think that this thing should be sent back. i think it should be reworked and i think it should have a across-the-board committee and not just predominantly builders. this particular plan was tried to be put through in 1976, just under another auspices and that's how we got prop

[bell] >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am the director of operations, and on behalf of the agency, i went to star offensive basically we are in full support of the executive neighborhood plan -- i want to start off basically saying that we are in full support. we all know that change is inevitable. i realize my hair is not going to be black forever. we call the the gateway to the city. -- we call it the gateway. to see it take heed and take grasp. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisor:, good afternoon, supervisor marc, good afternoon, supervisor -- supervisor mar, good afternoon, supervisor cohen. the second thing is about housing. reducing the unemployment rate, it is really high in this part of town. so they can benefit from the housing development. but i urge you to please move forward. this is taking too long. thank you very much. supervisor cohen: the last two. >> walter, i have graphics, please. ♪ through the city park years, you never let us down i love the parts you have made in town through the years, we love

in an effort to return to the dominance they once had asthma bell. >> yes, really to -- as ma bell. >> yes. we're here to talk about at&t today, they have used their market power to attain exclusive deals on handsets. there's no doubt. i think you mentioned one earlier. for that particular device it was a four-year period of time. you have the handsets, you have the special access issue that dan talked about a minute ago, that huge advantage they have there. you have the roaming issue which at&t, verizon, all of us, all of us have been there and used roaming agreements to make sure we had a vibrant product for our customers to use for many, many years, for decades. and when at&t and verizon reached a size where it became -- it wasn't in their favor to offer those readily, then they began to become -- it became very tough to negotiate with them on that. and we do have g.s.m. technology and we have not been able to get a data rolling agreement in place with them. so you have special access, you have the scale over devices, you have roaming issues and also next generation technology ,

he said, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way." i said, not to that kind of new year.ng. [singing] [singing] he said, ok, bye. because he was my older brother, i let him go. i said, i will see you in nine months. persia in new year is the beginning of the spring, everything refreshes. we also refresh just like the earth. we refresh our friendship even with our enemies. we forget our sorrows and we look to the new year with bright eyes and full of hope, full of hope. let me see what i have in this bag. ah-ha! my brothers, he forgot. in the persian new years, we put seven items on the table. we start with the letter "s," which represents the goodness of the earth. everything that comes from the earth. we celebrate, we celebrate these blessings, we love these blessings so we represent them with seven "s's." this is a sign of health, the apple. please, can you put it there on this table? next, we have --, this is sour but it is good for your health. this comes from any other fruit. this is the vinegar. it was very hard to carry out. oh, -- is good for many things. persians

during our filming, two men rang the bell. because this is considered a disgrace, we did not film the ringing of the bell. they'll have enough trouble forgetting that moment. they do this exercise over and over in any kind of weather including storms that raise 6- foot waves. >> we have one down, one down. in a two foot wave, unbelievable. >> looks like they beat you half to death, is the idea to get you to be discouraged. >> to make you a harder individual when the time comes, this is what's going to happen in the future. when we get in a team, just to make you more fair when it happens, so you'll be mentally aware of it. >> reporter: are you a naturally behave guy. >> yes, sir, i would like to think so. >> reporter: you know some of these guys aren't going to make it. are you going to be one of them. >> i try not to think of it. i take one step at a time, day by day. sometimes it might be hour by hour. >> reporter: after an hour of physical activity, a man might like to have a nap before lunch, what you will get here instead

you have to give the public -- [bell] thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is ann harvey. i live. president chiu: pull your microphone closer. >> i live in cal hollow near union street by the 45 bus line. my husband and i have owned a home there for 23 years. i'm there in his behalf. he's a tenured professor for 40 years at the university of san francisco. i've always talked to my sons. one son's a fourth year medical student at university of california, spent his time today talking about this, as well as my other son who lives with us and is right now overseas on a federally sponsored graduate fellowship from morocco. we've lived in san francisco since 1978. we've lived in two-unit buildings, we lived for 10 years in the western division in a highrise. i know the city well. we loved our place in the western edition. it was a 60-unit complex, i was on the board. we moved, i brought my father out, a disabled veteran, not enough room there. that time, our sons were born here, we had a choice of moving. we looked outside the city. we we

my bible said he made him to be sent -- [bell rings] supervisor chiu: thank you.t speaker. >> i would just like to applaud the efforts of the supervisors and nearly -- and mayor lee for bringing high-tech into soma and the market street area. i hope more of that continues. thank you. supervisor chiu: let me ask if there are any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public comment? seeing none, general public comment is closed. madam clerk, could we go to item 22? that item 22 is the motion that the board of supervisors convene in closed session on may 3, 2011, with the city attorney for the purpose of conferring with or receiving advice from the city attorney regarding threatened litigation, potentially arising out of the proposed parkmerced development project. supervisor chiu: calis, could we have a motion to go in a closed session? -- colleagues. are there any members of the public that wish to speak on whether we should go into closed session? please step up. >> i will not reiterate my earlier points. i would though note that the reference

[bell ringing] we ask our large and enthusiastic audience to limit applause so we can devote as much time as possible to the candidates. let's get started. governor pawlenty, president obamma was at ground zero today, he received praise of city leader there is, as well as newschannel families for ordering the special ops mission that killed the world's #-1 terrorist, osama bin laden. one month ago, you said about president ork 'bama, quote, he doesn't understand america's place in the world, america's place in history. he is weak. does he still look weak to you today? >> first of all, bret, let me thank fox news and the republican party of south carolina for hosting this debate. i think it's an important discussion about the future of america. i want to thank the other contenders here with me on this stage for showing up and being part of this important discussion and to the see of greenville, the hospitality they have extended to all of us. i do congratulate president obama for the fine job that he did in taking some tough decisions and being decisive as it related to finding and ki

lastly i would say -- [bell] president olague: thank you. we have the comments. we have just half a page least -- left here. so thank you. and we did call the names out so please if you heard your name if you can start coming to the mike. >> i beg your pardon. apparently i missed my name when it was called. president olague: ok. that's fine. >> i'm dr. stanley sey frmplet --fried. i'm a psychiatrist practicing in the bay area for 43 years. i am here on behalf of the physicians organizing committee of which i am a member. the primary issue for me as a psychiatrist is that whenever the sutter hospital corporation does anything with a hospital, psychiatry vanishes. that has happened repetitively in my experience and so that one of the real issues for me is that what is happening in community psychiatry or psychiatry that is in the community i should say is that as the number of inpatient beds is collapsed, what happens is that when the police officer picks up someone who is seriously mentally ill, the only option they have is to put that individual in jail because t

ivalice boneja, villanueva, donald cisc, joseph bell -- i am sorry. josiah bell. dennis kelly. as you can see, we have quite a few speakers. i would like the students to come up first. please be respectful for the time. come on up, students. come on up, students. state your name first, and press the button to speak. >> my name is thomas marks. i am a graduate of a traditional high school. i am here to speak on behalf of my teacher, ms. emily van dyke. she is our teacher. i just wanted to say that going into my senior year of high school, i did not want to take an art class, mainly because it was not a topic that i liked very much. but as soon as i walked in, ms. van dyke was there to help me. she was not just my teacher. she became a very good friend of mine. not just to me, but to everyone who has her, 150 students per year -- everybody knows her well and is a good friend of hers. when we all heard she received a slip, you could have heard the entire gymnasium. we went off chanting her name. you could see the connection she has with the students at the school. so i do not like

but after the opening bell, the price shot up to $83 so will it all last? is this the beginning of another bubble? >> whether or not there will be a bubble remains to be seen. if these companies can prove their value down the road and make money increased revenue and profit, then they could pass this without any sort of bubble being formed. but some people will be concerned when they see so much money flowing at one particular time. >> you guys are smiling. you must be millionaires. >> no comment. >> reporter: the one who talked briefly was a former employee who left the company a year and a half ago with no regrets. >> you could have had a huge payday today, no? >> today, no. not today. maybe in a year from now. >> reporter: linkedin is not expected to make a profit this year. analysts say they will have to prove their worth what everyone says they are, $4.25 billion. but for now, they are enjoying the ipo honeymoon while it lasts. in mountain view, kiet do, cbs 5. >>> and taking a look at the big board right now dow up 29 points. some conflicting economic

plaza development and not in support of building along the empty areas along their neighborhoods -- [bell rings] supervisor mar: [reading names] >> good afternoon, supervisors. draft 3 of this housing element, which is before you, spells of the city's character for money in the form of grants were going the extra mile in establishing a policy to densify a city that is already denser than any other major u.s. city other than new york. you ought to exercise your power to protect your city and its residents from planned degradation by refusing to accept this housing element and sending it back to the planning department to be redone. this element has been doctored by spur with the connivance of the planning committee. without environmental review or public street to cater to ideologues, densifying interests to sell the city sold for quick cash. i call on you to reject this temptation and insist that this draft 3 of the housing element be dropped and draft two, the only thevetted by the eir -- the only version vetted by the eir, been adopted. anything would be possible, and it could be totall

it said, please instruct the planning department to come up with a plan that will concentrate -- [bell rings] that is what we're missing. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm here to speak against the third revision of the 2009 housing element. i want to let you know that i hate change for density housing to density zoning. neighborhoods throughout the city hate this new density zoning, and they hate the way the planning department did it also, as well. i have seldom seen the neighborhoods so unified. we are at a point where another gentleman was talking about only changing 30 words. i think we are at a point where we are also going to be linking general obligation bonds, parcel taxes, and we will be changing maybe just one word -- maybe from yes to no. i wanted you guys to understand how strongly the neighborhoods feel about this and how this is going to have a much bigger impact than simply we got the planning element out. it is going to impact your revenue, your ability to generate revenue. it will not be hard under 2/3 vote to stop something now, so thank you very much. again, i am

however we are dealing with a very serious accident up in bell camp. but as we look at the beltway, 695 on the west side at liberty road, it's to have a fairly good start on the outer loop lanes on the left hand side, volume slowing things down just a tad. but no major delays as you head towards i-70. the baltimore national pike and down further towards 95. we have an accident like i said bell camp temporarily blocking riverside highway at pulaski. expect delays through that area. reisterstown at worthington road and timber knoll road an accident reported there as well. >>> 6:28. mastermind behind the septemberlenth attacks is dead. -- 11th attacks is dead. the president announced that osama bin laden has been killed. according to white house, the -- to the white house, the president gave the go-ahead to kill bin laden. at 3:50 yesterday afternoon, president obama first learned that osama bin laden was tent. identified. amonth dead at the compound raid outside pakistan's capital. the u.s. and pakistani official say four helicopters launched the raid. t

>> we're in the bell-ringing chamber here. there are eight bells above your head. they weigh a grand total of 7200 pounds. >> reporter: wow. >> the stairs you're to be climb were built in 1892 when the bells were restored. so these stairs do not reflect what it would have been like to climb up here in 1775. they're actually a relatively stable version. >> reporter: i find that hard to believe. is this it? >> this is it. we are up at the spot where the lanterns were hung. >> reporter: so which window was it? >> it was this window, the northwest window, facing towards charlestown, which is where the militia would have been waiting to see the signals as arranged with paul revere. >> reporter: are these the actual lanterns? >> they are definitely not the actual lanterns. we use them for the celebration. >> reporter: the actual hunt for clues continues downstairs. thinking plaque here in the washington courtyard is one of two out here that tells us one of the sides of the story. this particular one was placed by the daughters of the american revolution and tells us it w

that was just ornamental, so there was no metal going on at all other than imported bells. >> and the shells, they went down to cortez -- not lake -- the cortez sea to get, was that mostly hard or brittle? . >> it was hard but not tool hard. the colorado plateau is covered with chert, a glassy rock that is really really good for making tools, making very sharp edges. you find there are pieces of chert all over the place and you can still cut your skin open very quickly with it and it's been sitting out in the open. >> where does chert come from? . >> it's a marine rock that's mostly silica. you find it in these layers, sandstone layers. if you are especially in a marine or water environment, you will find this layer of chert. it's in all colors, purple, green, red, blue. it's a beautiful rock. . >> one thing i wanted to ask you, the review in the paper recently on sunday said that your book is different from all the other books about the anastazi because you brought out some of the non-flattering parts of their culture like violence. how did you conclude that they were a violent cultu

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injuries are reported to ed brad bell was on the scene live. >> we can't tell you that the collision happened down here, on stringtown road. it is a narrow roadway with limited his ability. there were as rain at the time. it all probably played a role current >> the collision happened just before 9:00 a.m., has two buses attempted to pass each other on a very narrow stretch of stringtown road. according to sources one of the buses was across the yellow line. the side view mirrors on the boss's. to take evasive action, one driver headed off the road and slammed into a tree. >> i heard a bang. stringtown road is a dangerous road. i looked out the window and saw a school bus. >> another motorist stopped amazingly a principal at another school, who did everything she could to help but was amazed by the driver and the students. >> they were amazing, a little shaken up, but over while -- overall, ok. they did a great job. >> in all 10 people were transported to the hospital for checkups on very minor injuries. a school spokesperson says it is amazing when you see the damage, but the bosses

>>mark: we will be back with the opening bell.nd then all lot of that, bell is being run by rembrandt. china's largest social network. at a future and has been mixed, naked it is regarding private payrolls. the numbers will be brought in through the morning. >>darya: at triple live look at the conditions this morning. you can tell by the shot how it will be. we can break a lot of records. >>james: look how one man is in napa, fairfield and antioch. upper 60s for some of these spots. it is 6:30 a.m.. pretty incredible. san francisco is up 56 degrees. oakland and south bay is 53. the only colt spotted santa rosa and half moon bay at 40. let us show you how hot it will get. in the north bay, petaluma is 34, a petaluma is 34. 80 degrees, sunny. a lot of folks will take their lunch out side. across the bay is equally nice. plenty of sunshine, blue skies, 87 in fremont. as be toppled for the oakland hills you will see 89 degrees. pleasant 10 it is a nice day as well. look at cupertino. showing off. 92 expected. quit check at the seven d

csouth san jose they rang the opening bell. shares traded at 18 dollars and closed up at 20.71. and the company is involved in transplanting sugars into oils and raising money to finance research and development and there is that tronn tron bell ringing. - electronicble ringing. >> wall street got an increase in consumer confidence. dow gained 38 points and a hundred points for the week. nasdaq went up 14 . s&p 500 added five. >> port of the oakland used new plug in technology that will greatly reduce the amount of the pollution that is produced there. they are shutting down the diesel engines while docked at port. they are plugged in enormous electrical cable to power machinery and lightting. >> only when all of the system is clearr does the chief engineer commence the transfer from the diesel generators to the shore. generators are shut down. >> in a 24 hour port call, shutting it down and reduce smog and emissions by thousand pounds. if you plan to drive over the bay bridge or ride bart expect delays and detours. cal tran is making change to the eastbound lanes to the bay bri

the new york stock exchange a lot of hugs and handshakes as they ring the opening bell. the initial offer is $45 a share and they are offering 7.8 million shares to generate cash. they are worth about $4.25 billion. and they were founded back in 2002. now, they are focused on and used mainly by business professionals as networking tools. they boast 100 million users and have executives from every fortune 500 companies. it's not about the number of connections but the quality of those connections. >> on linkedin the connections are much more directed and they are typically there for a reason in terms of the benefit that people get from a networking relationship so linkedin really is a networking platform where facebook is less so a networking platform and more so a social media platform. >> reporter: so does this mean the floodgates are going to open up for ipos here in the silicon valley. well, it's hard to say about facebook, twitter and zynga but it's got people optimistic and they say that the tech sector is very fertile and that 2011 is going to be a great year. so t

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we're starting to get bidsier, we have two accidents, the worst one in bell camp on route 543 on 40.ecting traffic. a second accident, watch for that one on worthington road at kim better land noel. we also have that disabled vehicle and a water main break at northbound maryland 2, 295 southbound delays in place already from 32 to 197. no delays know just yet on the beltway. here is a live look outside at 95 at 5:43. looks like that disabled vehicle just cleared the scene. that's going to be the west side of the beltway at old port road getting busier. no delays just yet. a look at 70 at 29. brought to you by your toyota dealer where you find quality cars and trucks. buy a toyota the first time and you'll save money, moving forward, back to don. >> i was gonna ask one question with pete collier and jay davidson. >> all right pete, jay, welcome to the "eyewitness news" morning. nice to have you here we're going to be doing a really intense web extra which we'll ask you to go to after you see this copy which will be answering a tremendous amount of questions. it's just an ounce, going