time, had a non-original aluminum windows that were installed in the 1970's, both in the top and bottom units. that was the existing conditions that we are considering here. both units had non-original aluminum windows. currently, the planning department has two permits under review. this is one of them and the other is my permit for wood windows in the lower unit. the question is, what is more appropriate for this building? the lower unit having wood windows, original detailing, a historic profile, or should we have the aluminum-clad windows at the top? clearly, from reviewing these standards, it would be far more appropriate to help would windows. it is undeniable. we are going to go through those standards in a moment. briefly, last week, this was heard as a matter of continuance at the board of appeals last week. there was some talk about how beautiful the window -- how beautiful the windows are on the inside. we are here today to talk about how they look on the outside. this is what we have at 62 collingwood. this is what i look at. the reason that you do not see this on our street is be

our client owns the bottom unit in the building and this is an extensive remodeling of the second floor unit. there has been extensive work to the floor as well as work in the garage, construction equipment has been in there so there has been blockage of both the garage as well as some of the egress to the actual condominium unit. i have pictures of that as well. this is one item that has taken place -- there is a port-a-potty on the right hand side that still remains even know the permit was put on hold. there are construction vehicles that have been blocking the ingress-egress, the brown rot on the left-hand side. -- the brown garage on the left- hand side. the final picture shows the usage pri is a little bit burglary. i am sorry for that. this is the outline of a car and the entire garage area is being used for construction. we would ask that this permit be revoked. thank you. president garcia: when you come back for your three minutes, would you be prepared to talk about something aside from -- most of these are technical issues having to do with lot numbers and problems that you t

the fire started in this bottom unit where it's boarded up. the fire was so intense it melted the paint off one side of the building. and if you can see the whole there, that's where it shot through the roof. the veteran firefighter severely burned his hand when his glove slipped off and the only thing that saved him -- >> this was the ventilation hole, where our firefighter went in. we were able to grab him. >> reporter: when the fire broke out at 3 3::00 this -- 3:00 this morning -- >> the window broke. flames everywhere. >> he saved her life. that's where the fire started. if no one got her out -- she was asleep or unconscious. >> reporter: the man mock -- knocked on every door. >> we saw smoke in the apartment. my daughter natalie, is 7. i was awake and she woke up and yelled fire -- yelled fire. >> reporter: investigators believe this fire ignited because of a candle left burning overnight. again, the firefighter is at valley medical bush center. again, we'll get an update on his condition later. but he's expected to survive. you can see

since this building is a condo and that the agreement is that the bottom unit gets the rear yard and the top unit gets the roof deck -- most of us in multiple units in san francisco use the rear yard for our open space. but it has become very popular to have roof decks. i am sure it is not only just for you, but they had been above, which critics assert an atmosphere. -- which creates a certain atmosphere. i am not above requesting it be set back. president garcia: how much would you propose? commissioner fung: i would say probably a foot, foot and a half. commissioner hillis: i guess my only issue on that would be that the light well adjacent to the double doors -- i get the point that it starts to impede into this 2 foot 10 area. would you be able to set that back? would you be able to set that back? i do not know if we can do that. they need the space for egress. commissioner fung: we can ask the building department. i am not sure i agree with her interpretation, to see that as the required egress. >> i did hear that comment. the the 6 inches, when we are talking clear with -- 36 i

. >> reporter: no other injuries, firefighters or occupants this started in the bottom unit.you have a theory as to what happened? >> we believe it is accidental in cause it might have been an unattended candle. as you saw by the time we got here it was well involved. >> reporter: it was quick action of a neighbor that might have saved lives? >> absolutely a neighbor was knocking on doors one of the persons i spoke to said the person saved her life. >> reporter: it took an hour to get it you. talk about the firefighter and where it stands? >> it went to a third alarm almost 70 including command staff. as you saw in the pictures with that much volume of fire it takes a lot of resources to get control it did take about an hour now we are in the overall salvage phase trying to -- overhaul salvage phase trying to save people's belongings and making sure there is no fire in the walls. >> reporter: thank you captain. we'll bring any updates as they become available. katie marzullo, abc7 news. >>> the american soldier accused of a killing spree in afghanistan leaves the country. nex

more conservative i don't see that certainly would propose real estate i don't think it's bottom of the united states and certainly you know if you're living in canada or australia or china or even the u.k. and there's a huge huge property bubble is there real estate you know i would i would not say tie yourself down to real estate maybe you need to move at some point you don't want to be tied down to real estate that's for having twenty five percent gold i think that's right in the market my own personal belief is somewhere between ten and thirty ok what's called. and the moon. for those who want a little bit extra twenty five percent is certainly not a bad way to go and as for the rest i would just say you know wait for better times i did a blog post earlier today saying you know there's there's a lot of merit just recognizing there's very little value anywhere it's very little value in real estate has very little value in equities there is very little bit how you can junk bonds so you know what's wrong with just having a high percentage of cash i mean that would be my answer back from mark

and that works out to about 8,000 per tax paying unit in the bottom 90%. it works out to $800,000 for each tax paying unit in the top 1%. i would suggest a simple criteria, while that is happening the relative tax burden on the top 1% shouldn't be going down. you can argue if you have more equ equality you have more distribution and more people are more oriented to having more distribution. but it is hard to understand why we should have less. and the least honest advocacy in the town where there is a lot of dishonest advocacy is the people who say that the top 1% are paying a higher fraction of the taxes than they did before. therefore, the tax system has become more burdensome to the rich, and neglecting the overwhelming reason why they are paying more than they did before which is that they have twice as much income. >> so on the income and equality, you have talked about that a lot and mentioned it coming in here. in addition to policies is there anything that we should do with globalization and policy change that are causing it to get worse? >> there's

the crisis, drawing its conclusions, and trying to move towards a future of a politically united europe. the bottomine is we want to avoid by any means that a crisis like the current one will ever repeat itself, and with the fiscal compact will make sure is that countries will have debt limits in their constitutions, and that is a first start. >> the summit going on in brussels has been mainly focused on growth. have we heard what kind of progress is being made there? >> the fiscal compact angela merkel was saying is only the starting point, if you will. the core element of what needs to happen because they want to get europe back on track, that jobs will be created, that europe gets back on track towards growth. angela merkel made clear that what was important now was that the eu leaders also made sure that they were using that time that they have now at their disposal because they have all the words now -- that is something the prime minister cameron said -- they have all the words now, but they need action. they are implementing some targets, but they are saying they need to be in the internal m

and now they get 20% of all income your and that works out to about $8000 per taxpaying unit in the bottom 90%. and it works out to about $800,000 per taxpaying unit in the top 1%. i would just suggest to you a simple criteria, while that's happening, the relative tax burden on the top 1% shouldn't be going down. you can argue about whether, when you have a lot more inequality you should have a lot more redistribution or not, every symbol argument. people more progressive will be more oriented to having more redistribution. but it's very hard for me to understand why we should have that. and the least honest advocacy in a town where there's a lot of dishonest advocacy is the people who say, the top 1% are paying a higher fraction of taxes than they did before. therefore, the tax system has become more burdensome to the rich. neglecting the overwhelming reason why they're paying more than they did before -- >> they had twice as much income. >> on income inequality, you talked about that a lot and we mentioned coming in here. in addition, it would talk about it today, in addition to thinking

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made a concerted attempt to assassinate the saudi arabia ambassador right here in the united states with a car bottom of all things. not a weapons system that would be used in a surgical strike. we really need to get focused and get down to some tough business, but get focused about addressing this very powerful threat posed to our nation. finally, you've done a great job since 9/11. all of you on this committee, and your predecessors, in keeping america safe. our military has done a great job as keeping us safe. our law enforcement and public safety personnel have done a tremendous job keeping us safe. i believe like many experts in this town that we're involved in a war unlike any we've seen before. it's a long war. unlike any other war there comes a time when you need to make mid-course adjustments. i think that's what we're facing right now. there are some things we need to shore up gaps and i like forward to addressing those in this hearing. >> thank you very much for your testimony. next witness, dr. matthew levitt. in 2005, and 2007, doctor levin served as deputy secretary for intelligence and

and once the fire started on that one unit on the bottom floor it quickly spread up into the attic and that is where it spread to the three apartments on the second floor. and we talked to one woman who is not of her home. there was fire coming out of the top cell i saw that's. but the water and the small, they said was destroyed. they got as much as they had no. >>> it that women have a baby in her hands. that baby is 7 months old. she also got her a story that baby was 7 weeks old and she and her seven year-old daughter at as well. neighbors went around and knocking on doors. coming up at 630 we have pictures up inside the burned out building. back to you. >>> he said 70 firefighters were on hand? >>> yes. a very large response from the san jose fire department and originally the call had come in and that's one of the people who had lived in the apartment buildings were injured and that is why they sent a lot of resources year to this drive md things are wrapping up here at this point. >>> 603 now and southbound highway 13 shutdown. just after a tree fell on the roadway killing its d

all have national health care systems ireland portugal even slovenia and here's the united states down at the bottom in terms of life expectancy and at the same time you get these guys around but we do something about the about social security because social security is going down in flames because we're about to run out of money and then infant mortality just perth thousand live births infant mortality this is incredible mexico the deaths per live births fairly high you know where you would expect this from a developing nation that has a real crisis and turkey is fairly high chile is fairly high and there's the united states this is infant mortality now who's doing better than us in terms of in for more you zealots of the united kingdom australia know what's in common with all these countries. national health care systems musial of the united kingdom australia israel korea italy japan slovenia. it's time for us to say that health care is a basic human right that it's time for us to take health care out of this whole political nonsense of is a left is a right is it is that the free market or at the

because bottom line, the question will be can he unite the party as the nominee? >> let's swing east to the white house. president obama chose this super tuesday of all days to take on his gop rivals who have been criticizing him on the campaign trail over the issue of iran. savannah guthrie watched the president with us earlier today, part of our politics team here tonight. interesting day in the briefing room. >> yeah, and as you mentioned the white house knew this super tuesday news conference would get more than the usual attention, as you said. the questions dealt mostly with foreign policy but with the presidential campaign at home, clear tli backdrop, the president sounding off on republican rivals who have been talking tough on iran. at a news conference that coincided with the gop's marquee primary night the president lashed out at republican candidates he accused of, quote, popping off with with loose talk of war. >> those folks don't have a lot of responsibilities. they're not commander in chief. this is not a game. there is nothing casual about it. >>

civil war, with its huge concentration of wealth at the top and abject misery at the bottom, boies penrose was a united states senator from pennsylvania bought and paid for by the railroad tycoons and oil barons. they could count on him to deliver the goods. "i believe in the division of labor," he told his wealthy paymasters. "you send us to congress, we pass laws under which you make money, and out of your profits you further contribute to our campaign fund to send us back again to pass more laws to enable you to make more money." boies penrose would be right at home in politics today. crony capitalism -- using government to deliver favors to your pals in the business world -- is alive and well. the rest of us pay for it. we pay for it at the grocery store because of sweetheart deals in congress for the dairy industry and sugar lobby. we pay for it at drugstore because politicians rented by giant pharmaceutical firms block competition. we pay for it in lowered returns on pension plans bailed out banks speculate with taxpayer money. we pay with the loss of jobs because of trade deals bought and paid f

last twelve league games and elsewhere leaders manchester city beat second bottom also to nil five points clear of manchester united not running down persie scored twice including the stoppage time went on as arsenal cemented full sponsored by coming back to trying to run at liverpool's but then grabs a late one one draw with aston villa kewpie also drew one one with everton now he has internet in stoke late went out against norwich while the guilty citizens double ten months one zero victory at wigan. on two ice hockey and city's potion net is the all important overtime gold. a street to winners i would discuss in petersburg the capital club putting one back in a best of seven contest through trial to one scott entered the match sitting on a comfortable two no series lead and was a little tired of it to secure their road again feel free. to think out scoring minutes of each other every day and the run off it was the first of the rebalancing . of the opening period that struck the goal causing more commotion in the sport on mouse and. in first person converted on a power play to make it to road race to the second q

united states. that's the bottom line. >> thank you all. i wish we had more time. michael, thank you.et back to talking to you many fans on the radio. >>> coming up. >> grits and biscuits and gravy. seems like they're trying to talk it up to us. >> romney's trouble down south. nbc team point out that romney could lose tonight due to the demographics, the lay of the land. if romney turns out to be the gop nominee, what are the republicans going to say about him down south. >>> comments from eric holder about the justice department striking down t voter i.d. laws. it could harm hispanic voters the most in texas. going to talk to sheila jackson lee. >>> eating amount of red meat will greatly increase your chance of an early death. is this just one of these things meant to scare us? we'll take a closer look. join the conversation on my twitter page. [ todd ] hello? hello todd. just calling to let you know i'm giving you the silent treatment. so you're calling to tell me you're giving me the silent treatment? ummm, yeah. jen, this is like the eighth time you've called... no, it's fine, my

what the united states is the best in the world at is intellectual development. now you hear about we have bad schools. you have a bottom. the top schools are incredible. the economists just spriprinted best mba schools in the united states. none in middle east, china, india, nowhere else. we are masters of intellectual development. if you put 1,000 kids out in front of educational psychologists in this country, they can rank order them one to 1,000 with iqs, sat scores and everybody will agree. we really know iq. and that's how we'll find people even in lower income or mississippi or western nebraska or whateverever it s they test . we give them a scholarship to go to the university of nebraska or mit or wherever it s it is so intentional that once they graduate from mit they go on to nasa. see how we do that? nobody in the world has mastered intellectual development like the united states of america. but i don't know what the example is. it's a hammer and nail when you hammer everything, you think everything is a nail. so we do that so well when we're in a big problem like we are now, we say billions and billions and

of their last twelve any games elsewhere leaders manchester city second bottom bolton to nail go five points clear of majesty united want robin van persie scored twice including the stoppage time without as arsenal cemented full support of michael. actually trying to want liverpool's but then grabs a late one one draw with aston villa q.p.r. also drew one one with everton mathieu answering to netted stoke late went out against norwich molecule fisa goodson's double a ten ounce one zero victory at wigan. and so i stuck it in these potion net is the all important overtime gold it's a scam moscow a street to win a time discussing petersburg the capital club playing one back in a best of seven contests to try also one else got into the match sitting on a comfortable two no series leave the last little time to secure their. three. scoring minutes of each other i think that day and the run off it was the first of the rebound. in period that scrappy go causing for commotion in the small goal mouth and them. last person converted on a power play to make it to move it way through the second. assist in this one i expect taki

the 3.4 ounces goes back to august when a group of terrorists in the united kingdom actually took sports drinks and drilled the bottom out and drained out the sport aid drink and filled it with liquid explosives. the purpose of that is when two types of liquids combined on the plane, it would cause an explosion. prior to that we didn't have those limitations. that's what we are dealing with. in certain amounts, that terrorists can combine them in a way that would potentially cause a catastrophic event on an aircraft. when we look at multiple small items, it becomes an issue of how effective is that? if they are the equivalency of the same larger amounts, there has to be a point where we look as much and part of the risk-based model is to look as much as a person as the items they are carrying. part means that that's where the detection and the prescreening comes in. we have a list of prohibited items that some of them make a lot of sense and some we are revisiting to see whether they make sense as we further deploy the risk-based security. there is again, a lot of challenges and students in there. . >> how do you jus

campaign was so successful i think it was very successful because when during the bottom of the ocean so for those actions were united russia lost the vote the force of the street for being taken in by your position demonstrates or so everybody was like sleeping where he's. from is what you're doing and finally two very big meetings overture of the cupertino so finally he assembled you could see you could say that you took this trip back to him so i see him go this way you made a very good campaign because he was a pretty you wrote them many articles seven i guess for very interesting and very a sober house showing that so you. more or less understood what was going on in the country. a lot of the vote a lot of people have voted for putin snowden could be seen just as protest votes. do you think what you think is going to happen if putin does get in if he is declared president at the end of almost those protests most are gone and i think that's we will have in the next month is the go to more demonstrations in the streets. maybe tomorrow will be the bigger one and then what i think it will finally disappeared because

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the bottom line is neither israel or the united states say they will accept a nuclear armed iran, but they don't agree on who when to intervene. they those today to repeat warnings about possible quote activities including a containment chamber used for explosive tests at iran's site. inspectors have been denied access to the site in recent months. the head of the iaea says -- with worries about iran causing oil prices to rise, can president obama keep israel from military action? will sanctions work? that really is perhaps the most crucial question we are facinging right now when it comes to iran. netanyahu's former chief of staff wrote an op-ed this weekend, the iranian american journalist is also -- you are side by side. let me start with you, neftali. obviously, this has been much reported on, leon panetta saying iran could be prepared to strike this spring. >> i think the good news from this summit is that obama made very clear that iran is a mortal danger to america's national interest and the entire world and that he's now adopting the doctrine of prevention rather than accepti

the president of the united states actually said that. no impact on price. >> neil: bottom line, amilya, i think the message is pretty clear that the timing of this. petrol china becomes the number one single producer, accidental, but not even an issue. that's what's kind of unsettling. >> a huge issue here is leverage. we are losing leverage by the day, with this administration. how much more are we going to give to china? how much are are we going to be able to destroy the businesses we built this country on by now slipping to number two? who wants to be number two? not me. >> you know what's interesting, adam. petro china didn't exist a little more than 13 years ago. i know you're a big believe in let's back solar and green technology and batteries, backed up by crickets running fast, but i'm saying-- >> i think you're on to something. >> you can't pick and choose. we're only going full throttle on half. >> i've had an interesting observation recently, a lot of people in the debate are for global sayings. we're confusing issues, too, petro china being the largest produce