. >> good morning those of you in the chambers and welcome to the monthly bic meeting. first off, i want to start off with some categories in which i could -- i would like to commend some of the staff members who were recognized by a guest in the city, a realtor, who had basically sent a letter of appreciation to our director saying that raymond barrios, cheryl aldridge, and others did a great job providing all the services and everything that she needed. everything that she had anticipated, and exceeded, for her, those services. next would be my apologies for the lack of timely posting of the bic meeting minutes. it was during the transition in the early part of the summer where we are getting up to speed. we will begin to deliver those in a more timely way in the next few weeks. last but not least, the categories and by which the information on our packet has seemed to have fallen off in being delivered in a timely manner, the material content of that should be in our hands early enough so that we can review them in a timely way so that we can properly give it the rig

of the producing and performing through your mentoring and the category of the challenges that the bic secretary undertakes. we know that you will do a good job. more importantly, that you will always protect our backs. >> thank you. i would just like to thank the commission for the opportunity to serve. i have the honor of being trained by one of the best in ann aherne. i look forward to carrying her porch and working diligently with the commission. commissioner hechanova: thank you. >>item 8. commissioner's questions and matters. 8a. at this time, commission may make inquiries to staff regarding various documents, policies, practices, and procedures, which are of interest to the commission. >> is there any public comments? seeing none. 8b. at this time, the commission may discuss and take action to set the date of the special meeting and to determine those items that could be placed on the agenda of the next meeting and other future meetings of the building inspection commission. the next meeting is on september 23, i believe. commissioner murphy: the third wednesday of the month. co

again, welcome to the bic meeting. that is it. >> item 3 is public comment. the bic will take public comment on matters within the commission's jurisdiction that are not part of this agenda. >> good morning. my name is sandy burnback. i live at 570 o'farrell. as i explained last time, we have had some problems. nov's are issued and then there is no follow-up. to emphasize my point, an nov was issued on 5/24 regarding the water heater. on june 16, a second issue wanos issued, along with a certified letter to the landlord stating, and i quote, you are directed to fix the unsanitary conditions. as of the close of business yesterday, nothing had been done. the last thing mentioned on the complaint database was 6/27, where the landlord asked the inspector for an additional two weeks. this is now four weeks later, and nothing has been done. it i will ask ms. day, since it is on her letter had, what this means? >> staff can address to later, but they are not allowed to respond to your public comment. >> we are over two months, and nothing has been done. the last thi

next would be my apologies for the lack of timely posting of the bic meeting minutes. it was during the transition in the early part of the summer where we are getting up to speed. we will begin to deliver those in a more timely way in the next few weeks. last but not least, the categories and by which the information on our packet has seemed to have fallen off in being delivered in a timely manner, the material content of that should be in our hands early enough so that we can review them in a timely way so that we can properly give it the right attention. that is my opinion and would like for other members of the commission to express that. >> i have been on the commission for over six years now. i remember a time when we had our meetings on monday morning and our agenda packages would come to us on friday, as they do now. the agenda packages were really thick. i spent a lot of time on the weekend just reviewing the package getting ready for the monday morning meeting. i remember at that time the agenda item package was so big, we decided we needed to move the meetin

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for getting girls' numbers. [ click ] ok, i'm getting 'em for one reason. [ male announcer ] buy 2 bicducts and get one free. only at staples. that was easy. >>> quick trip out of marin county. we'll check roadwork coming up. grace? >> 5:10 now. officers still looking for two suspects after an armed carjacking that shut done an east oakland neighborhood for several hours. police cordoned off streets between 84th and 88th avenues yesterday. they were searching for four men who allegedly stole a jaguar. one officer chased the suspect until he crashed and took off on foot. one of the suspects reportedly pulled a gun. an officer fired at him but missed. they do have two men in custody. >>> one of the suspects in the murder of a 3-year-old in oakland earlier this month is in court this afternoon. 22-year-old willie torrence from oakland is being arraigned on murder. he is accused of driving the car involved in the shooting that killed carlos nava. torrence was arrested in las vegas and he has now been returned to oakland. >>> word has spread to the prostitution industry that the san jose po

the bic will take public comment on matters within the commission's jurisdiction that are not part of this agenda. >> good morning, city resident for 39 years. first of all, i want to wish ms. day with her medical issues. i wish her a speedy recovery. i have been here four times in the past. three times in the past i have accused ms. day of malfeasance and lack of communication to staff. let us make it four. you guys have done nothing. the taint of malfeasance is now on you. accordingly, i have sent a letter to the mayor and the president of the board of supervisors requesting all of your replacement. maybe in a normal year they ignore me. as this is an election year, i think they may be inclined to do something about it. i have also cc;ed:ed numerous ma organizations regarding this issue. i am sorry that you have not listen to me in the past. i will see if i can fix this problem on my own. and i will not be back. thank you very much. >> good morning, commissioners. i just wanted to come to say goodbye. i am ann aherne, secretary of the commission for 13 years. i recently retired. i w

here in california, it's become a hot kmod itty in the art world, hanging in museums and selling for bic bugs. as nbc's lee cowan reports, that's reporting some to wonder where to it draw the line between one man's vandalism and one's artistic expression. >> reporter: when with an lapd detective a cop, he never thought he would be an art critic. but as a member of l.a.'s graffiti task force, he now polices the vast canvas that is the inner city. >> there have been some cases made out of fingerprints from -- rnc >> reporter: off the cans. >> yeah. >> reporter: to him, graffiti is vandalism, even though sometimes it's a tough call. it the issue is permission. >> reporter: last year l.a. sprayed over millions of graffiti. just p keeping up is no easy task. and it's not just los angeles. cities all around the country are seeing a graffiti surge like florence, alabama and the statehouse in tennessee. >> when you see its way making its way into important museums, that gives you an idea of how big it is. >> reporter: at this gallery at the sunset marquise hotel in west hollywood, graffiti is bi

a bic look for the track of the storm. it isn't going to change. over a good part of long island and on to connecticut and beyond. david? >> that's exactly as you had forecasted it. sam champion, we'll see you in the morning. >>> that's going to do it for "world news" this saturday. our team following the storm all night long at abcnews.com. the entire team in the morning. diane sawyer right here tomorrow night. have a good evening. stay safe. >> hurricane irene makes landfall, pummeling the shoreline. >> get the hell off the beach. >> a warning from new jersey's governor as that state and several others brace for irene's arrival. also -- preventing violence at candlestick park.

. >> so one of the things that came up for me while you're talking is idea imaginities by den bic anderson. >> oh, geez. >> sorry to go a little academic on you where a national collectiveness was created by print culture. that thinking of ourselves as americans happens because we read newspapers that call us that. >> uh-huh. >> and so i'm wondering, how decentralized underground papers helped create a national sense of the movement, the '60s. >> uh-huh. >> and then if the common denominators went beyond rock 'n roll, drugs and so on, particularly then what relevance that collective weness might have had for the groups that you said kind of left. >> uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. >> lesbian separatists or feminists or what not. >> when i describe them as decentralized i'm talking about the decentralized of newspapers. there's exception like the berkeley barb and the free press were actually run by vehicles in a hierarchical way but all newspapers were in federation of two organizations there's one called liberation news services which placys a role in the book. they'd send out these news packets

it's a picture of me asking my wife out for a date from that moment and her saying no and there was a bic picture taken. >> of the moment of rejection? >> of that moment. and a closeup. because she was the prettiest girl in the joint. and i'll show it to you right now. >> i know. >> i carry it. this is my prized possession. and you'll say, why did i fall in love. >> look at that. >> isn't that wild? you can see -- >> absolutely. >> that is the moment -- >> that's the picture? >> those are the first words that i ever spoke to my wife asking her out and her answer was no. >> that is absolutely extraordinary. >> and it shows how pretty she is with her two black eyes. how did she get those black eyes? >> a car accident. >> when i think was she the right woman and there's no question. >> why do you think you've been able to have such a happy, sustainable marriage in a business in which is t is so littered with failure in that department? >> luck i'm sure has a lot to do with it. my parents were very and we developed a practice of leaning into those tough times. here's an opportunity for us to

san francisco police are set to hand out tickets tomorrow to pedestrians, drivers and bic sifts who break photograph of laws in the south market. yesterday they passed out flyers encouraging people to be safe. they say accidents last year injured more than 200 people near 5th and market. the highest rate in the city. they plan to increase patrols tomorrow. the safety campaign will expand in the coming weeks. >>> the crack down follows a hit and run involving a young philadelphia phillies fan. the 9-year-old is still in critical condition after being struck by an alleged drunk driver. he was walking his family after the game. the suspect andrew vargas will appear in court on tuesday. >> alameda sheriff's deputies looking for a man involved in a police chase. it happen just after one. deputies tried to stop the driver of a car they say was driving recklessly through a residential neighborhood. instead of pulling over the driver took off and led police on a chase. that chase ended when the car crashed. three men inside jumped out and ran away. deputies arrested two of them and they are still

>> try to make himself be bic r bigger than what he actually was. >> reporter: but now police say they have the evidence to prove that carlson killed tina 27 years ago. and carlson's father did not want us to put out his name but did concede he has not spoken to his son in 20 years. when we approached police and told them what his father said, that they have the wrong man, police said, no comment. we're live, nbc bay area news. >> damian, this is fascinating. take us back in time here. 1984 in pleasanton when this happened, was steven carlson a suspect at that time and why was he exonerated if he was? >> reporter: well, police questioned him for some period of time. he was a person of interest and went on to school telling people that he did kill the victim in this case but apparently police did not have the proper evidence at that time. now they believe they have the dna to confirm, they say, that he in fact did kill the victim. >> okay. very compelling. damian trujillo, thank you. >>> new tonight at 6:00, a hangout among the giants' fateful is helping a young phillies' fan who was hu

cook is a 14-year apple veteran and he's worked for some of the bic competitors like compaq and ibm. he's largely responsible for the way that apple products look and feel for the last 10 or 15 years. schiller became chief inventor takes his place on the stage. and then we have scott. he's currently in charge of iphone software. jobs is being called as a modern-day thomas edison. many are concerned with how the company will fair without him. we asked one apple watcher for his best guess. >> he's put together a very good team and i think a team of people could fill his shoes. i think they have enough of a skill set to sort of proximate a team-based steve jobs. >> jobs made his most public recent appearance back in june and, of course, andrew, as we all know, there's been a lot of speculation for years hanging over when jobs could be resigning as ceo of the company. we now know he has done so. >> yeah. as you say, enormous shoes to fill, nina. tim cook certainly has his work cut out for him. it was steve jobs that created things that people didn't even know they wanted. when they saw t

. >> well, you know, it sounds like that and, yet, you know, bush moved heaven and earth he likes bic perry. i talk it up to he is on the stage for the first time. >> laura: are bush loyalists trying to sabotage a perry candidacy? joining us now from d.c. with the inside story. james rosen, fox news chief washington correspondent. -- >> the bushes versus perry, the old next versus the slightly newer texas. is there anything here? i was watching that karl rove interview. it seemed to be that he was pretty preteshed over the fact that perry wanted to distance himself from george w. bush because the comparisons are coming pretty quickly on the campaign trail. what's going on here. >> right it was governor perry's answer, laura, to our question posed by our own carl cameron this week in des moines that riled loyalists. asked about these similarities between himself and the last texas governor with presidential ambitions and governor perry said in essence i'm paraphrasing that we're not all carbon copies down in texas. one way easily distinguish between us he went to yale and i went to tex

for getting girls' numbers. [ click ] ok, i'm getting 'em for one reason. [ male announcer ] buy 2 bicstaples. that was easy. ♪ ♪ hershey's chocolate syrup. stir up a smile. >>> welcome back. apple's biggest competition this upcoming holiday shopping season could be amazon.com. industry analysts predict amazon will sell 3 to 5 million tablet computers between october and december. they say if amazon prices them just right and has enough supply to meet demand it could give apple's ipad a run for its money. >>> hewlett-packard announced earlier this month it was getting out of the tablet and smart phone business to focus more on selling to corporation. but the company dropped tablet prices significantly and said there was a stunning demand for them at that price of $99 so hp will produce another run of touchpads to meet the demand. still unclear though if it will be sold for $99. >>> all right, all you hackers who can break into facebook, you can earn a couple of extra bucks. the social media site wants hackers to find security holes in their system and they are going to pay some money h

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for getting girls' numbers. [ click ] ok, i'm getting 'em for one reason. [ male announcer ] buy 2 bic products and get one free. only at staples. that was easy. in custody, for his part in a san francisco murder that happened 45 years ago. federal agen asher the third" in >>> a fugitive is in custody for his part in a san francisco murder 45 years ago. federal agents rearrested william asher iii in stanislaus county last week. he received a seven-year to life sentence for his role in the 1966 robbery which a bartender was shot and beaten to death. he escaped from an el dorado county inmate camp in 1975 and had been on the run ever since. >> it was a cold fugitive case it was getting passed around a little bit so technically wasn't a big priority. >> before asher's mother died in 2005, she asked relatives to use a secret phone number call her son. investigators used her phone records to eventually track him down. >>> a man set to be sentenced today in napa for the murder of a psychiatric technician. he pleaded no contest earlier this month in connection with last year's strangulation d

for getting girls' numbers. [ click ] ok, i'm getting 'em for one reason. [ male announcer ] buy 2 biccts and get one free. only at staples. that was easy. i'm frank mallicoat. and i'm grace lee time is >>> cup of coffee number 2? >> at least. >> three. >> armando is on number four. >> good morning, i'm frank mallicoat. >> i'm grace lee. >> i have the caffeine iv in now. if you are heading out this morning good day for coffee on hot chocolate. a little cloudy out there now but by the afternoon, fantastic sunshine, temperatures up in the 60s into san francisco, 70s and sunny in oakland, 80s in san jose. >>> we have slight delays approaching the bay bridge toll plaza. nothing too big. metering lights are off and overall we are accident-free across the bay area. what we have is roadwork. we'll tell you more about that coming up in just a few minutes. >>> thanks. lawrence, thanks. 5:31. the murder of a toddler caused outrage in oakland over the city's struggle with violence. oakland community leaders have made a proposal to help curb the violence but it's facing some rather stiff oppositio

for getting girls' numbers. [ click ] ok, i'm getting 'em for one reason. [ male announcer ] buy 2 bic products and get one free. only at staples. that was easy. twizzlers. the twist you can't resist. sea from hurricane irene. parts of the east coast are now r storm watches. tha >>> the u.s. navy is checking ships at sea from hurricane irene. parts of the east coast are under stormwatch that's all ahead of the biggest atlantic storm to bear down do the -- to bear down on the u.s. since 2005. irene forced thousands to evacuate in the dominican republic. the first official hurricane watch for the u.s. was issued for north carolina's outer banks. it will hit the state over the weekend. also a tropical storm watch has been issued for much of south carolina's coast. hurricane irene could make it all the way up to maine. >> obviously, every three hours we know more than we knew three hours ago. and we are just trying to stay on top of it to figure out what's going to happen. >> the storm's satellite image, look at this 800 miles across. irene is expected to become a category 4 storm later to

. >>> hurricane irene is threatening this weekend's bic ceremony in washington for the big mf k memorials achievement. the floor is yours. >>> as washington celebrates the debut of the martin luther king memorial i am hummabled knowing there is much work still to be done to realize dr. king's dream. emerging from a stone of hope symbolizing hope emerging from a mountain of despair as mentioned in his "i have a dream" speech. prnlly, i see it as looking a bit unfinished, symbolizing his unfinished life. his unfinished work and our unfinished efforts to ensure our children have every opportunity to listen out the american dream. i see it as a call to fight for educational options for our children. for fewer barriers to innovation in the education system and inspire our young generation to serve this country, especially through teaching. i see it as a reminder that the path from poverty is paved with education and that as america's children deserve it grow up knowing they can create prosperous lives for themselves through hard work, education and determination. we cannot be complacent. we c