deck and we are only going two feet further closer to her blank wall. so i don't understand the concern that she has other than you know we did have a meeting with her and we did, state what i thought was a very effective approach to her concerns about the safety, which i would like to say that i think that it perceived and i don't see how no one could get up the yard and climb up the stairs or the proposed stairs and climb on to her deck, that could be easily solves that was the only thing that was brought up during the hearing and that was her certain, not whether or not it impacted. we have got at least two, adjacent neighbors, that are in the mid block of open space that are approving this. and i want to see it happen because we are having most of an impact on the mid block open space. and that could clearly see in the photographs that are in my brief. so, thank you. >> i have a question. do you want to... >> the presentation? >> okay. >> good evening, my name is kevin and i am the own of 2521 post. well i just wanted to say, we have owned this for

the current deck is only 2 feet away from that blank wall. all that we are proposing to do is to move it two feet closer. our deck is not radically different in size. those measurements that are in my brief are correct. what i am doing is i am talking the stairs into account for the massing and that is appropriate. so that structure is that square feet. and what we are proposing, is only 65 square feet more as far as massing goes. and in addition, the deck that we are putting on the top, is smaller and the ter aces down and everything tar aces down to the main mid block open space and anyone who is impacted by this would be those adjacent neighbors and the owners have letters of support for that. so let me just go through some of the illustrations on this and speak briefly to them. let's see. i also brought the code book with all of the sections that it is code compliant for. egress and as far as the egress goes the proposed stairs are much more in accordance with the permit building code and much better stair. for egress. a couple of misrepr

the current deck is only 2 feet away from that blank wall. all that we are proposing to do is to move it two feet closer. our deck is not radically different in size. those measurements that are in my brief are correct. what i am doing is i am talking the stairs into account for the massing and that is appropriate. so that structure is that square fee

the director of photography to create an interesting and unusual lighting pattern on an otherwise blank wall. and would create interesting psychological effects, depending upon the way they were slanted and adjusted. (romantic music playing) almost universally in noir film you see a tremendous sparseness in the production design. sets have very simple and functional furniture. the walls tend to be just painted flats. you have the visual environment to create a tremendous sense of dramatic isolation and alienation. and that was part of the whole conceit of noir, of using lighting techniques to alter space psychologically. you can't underestimate the german influence in it all. and all the german expatriates who were filling the ranks of the hollywood crafts as well as director and writer. and they brought with them a dramatic and visual tradition that was very different from the more vaudeville or the more showman tradition of american films of the time. (john bailey) fritz lang did a trilogy of early gangster films, of the mabuse trilogy which had tremendous influence, not only in german cin

just having a full storefront instead of a blank wall where loitering loiter. having people making it illegal to loiter in front of that storefront would help the neighborhood. i hope that you approve this, thank you. >> thank you, ma'am. >> next speaker? >> hi, i'm quan sxim also a resident and i am also a urban planner and so i invested in the neighborhood knowing about the issues, but thinking about the potential. and knowing that mid market, efforts that the city is going through. and i wonder, you know, if you really as a city want to push this, this is the beginning. you know, you are starting to get residents, but you also need the businesses. and you know, and right now it is an empty space. there is no tax benefits that the city is getting and the littering. and there are children in our business and you know, i just wonder what do these children see? you know? this is not an environment that we want to raise the children in. you know? the drug dealers, the constant drunkenness, the public defication. every time that i walk down the walk i have to look

the property in the rh one district the property directly across the street is a church it's a blank solid wall. so this project will be a helpful counter point to that non-xhovrm building. the applicant has to to demonstrate extraordinary circumstances. in fact, they will have much greater access to light than is the case for most homes throughout the city because they have a rear yard buffer. the rest of our time i'd like to give over to our architect who can tell you more about the neighborhood. >> hi i'm george i'm the architect. i'd like to highlight first before the department approving this design we modified this plan. some of this strategy >> excuse me. sir, by the time for the project response has expired. >> you can have 3 minutes. >> some of the modifications did have about 4 steroids down the street rises up so that the two stories is the same height. we work with the front facade articulating it and we did things like increase the street trees were - we came up with a slieks that was not

. >> it's an empty blank wall with an opening of garbage. >> reporter: developers want to change it intothis. retail spaces on the first floor and apartments on the next 17 floors. >> we'll help bring, you know, more people living into downtown and ultimately bring, you know, more activities, better retailers and create a more vibrant downtown area. >> reporter: it's a bold idea for downtown berkeley at 180 feet high, the tallest. the last time a building of similar heights got built was in the '60s. >> i hope it doesn't happen. >> reporter: some residents not happy. >> great big thing sticking over -- hanging over everything, very unpleasant idea. >> i think it would change the character of berkeley, which i'm against. >> it would be less of a problem obviously at 60 feet shorter. 180 feet is a lot. >> reporter: many berkeley city officials support the project. voters two years ago asked for new development in downtown bypassing measure r. >> critics people who don't want to see change. if you don't change you die. >> reporter: a handful of similar high-rises is in the pipeline creating

when communism collapsed, the wall served as a blank space for artists who flocked with paints and brushes. their work came to symbolize the new freedom and this became known as the east side gallery. in the early hours today, developers moved in and took out sections to get access to a site for new apartments on the banks of the river. >> the builder decided to continue construction work here early this morning and means to continue with the opening of four sections from the east side gallery. we are here on the one hand to enable him to continue his work and on the other side, we want to welcome people who want to protest against this and finally allow them to stage their protests peacefully. >> ♪ i'm looking for freedom ♪ >> there has been protests including the actor david hasselhoff who starred in the american television series "baywatch." this is the image they all come to see, the soviet leader locked in a kiss with the east german leader. of the past mbol but the issue is how long you hold on to the symbols of the past and it gets richer and the demand for land rises. it's a contin

. >>> from a bullish comeback on wall street to o'reilly calling bull blank.o it while you're alone. >> that's your tip of the day. >> obama thinks he can wipe out his shameful record of never visiting israel by visiting israel. >> our goal here is to cut spending, not to shut down the government. >> if they tell you everything's awful, tell them no it's not. >> we're back, baby. it only took wall street and the industry five and a half years to self-repair the gaping wound they self-inflicted. >> about half of the people infected die. >> i'm hopeful the senate democrats will work with us to make sure there's no threat of government shutdown. >> we will preserve the spending reductions of the sequester. >> let's get specific rather than this b.s. >> this budget has adopted a notion that austerity is a goal. >> they're going to shut off white house tours. >> who's being laid off at the white house? >> so childish. i mean, really? >> entiemts, you're lying here. >> we welcome the people to come to the capitol. >> can we get back to the old model of discriminatin

wall street journal, few others do. that means that many americans have no blanking clue about this troubling issue. this is what happens when the press acts in concert with a political party. want another example? let's go out to colorado. there are the democratic party will not put jessica's law up for a vote even though 44 other states have passed harsh mandatory penalties for child rapists, but the press in colorado is covering for the democrats. >> no one in law enforcement in colorado. >> no one? >> supported it in 2007. >> no one? >> 2009 or again this year, in fact, it's only brought up when the republicans are in the minority in colorado, not he when they had the majority. it's been used against democrats as a wedge issue politically. >> bill: you don't know whether you support it or not. all you-- >> believe me i'll get law enforcement from colorado on here and it will make you look foolish on that statement. and in a moment, i will fulfill that promise, but the bigger picture is this: the founding fathers gave the press challenge the political power to be skeptical about the power and to

blanks, tell him something he didn't know about khallad being in southeast asia. did you learn any more about what had gone on >> no. >> smith: soufan ran into what agents called "the wall." routinely, the justice department prohibited fbi agents doing criminal investigations from access to some types of cia intelligence. but often, definitions were unclear. at the time soufan was in yemen, there was a lot of confusion. >> there was misunderstanding of the attorney general guidelines of the time period that brought this interpretation that intelligence cannot be shared with people who are working on criminal investigations. we never had this problem to that extent in previous investigations. it didn't make any sense to me. >> smith: working on his own, soufan would continue to uncover more details, including the fact that, before the bangkok meeting, khallad had called quso from a phone number in malaysia. soufan wondered what khallad was doing there. so you went back to the cia. you say, "we've got this phone number..." >> yeah. >> smith: ...in kuala lumpur. >> right. >> smith: "do you know anythin about it?" >> yeah. >> smith: and they said? >> no. >> smith: they said

trading that produced these whale trades damage the single blank but the whale trades expose problems they reach far beyond one london trading desk or wall st. office tower. office tower. the american people have parties suffered one devastatidevastati ng economic assault rooted largely in wall street access and they cannot afford another. one wall street plays with fire american families get heard. the task of federal regulators and this congress is to take away the matches. the whale trades demonstrate that this task is far from complete. senator mccain. >> thank you mr. chairman and let me begin by saying what an honor it is to serve on the subcommittee which has a long history of bipartisanship and a celebrated legacy of covering waste, fraud and abuse and outright corruption before it moved forward i want to express my gratitude to you and the members of your staff for your unyielding and dedicated efforts to this investigation. i would also like to recognize the work of my predecessor on the subcommittee. senator coburn for his contributions prior to my arrival. this investigation into the so-called whale trades at jpmorgan has rev