so, we're thinking about building a building.s going to hold our operations center and our emergency operations center for things like earth quack. that building had to be immediately occupiable. great. but we can do better than that. so, this new technology that we ended up using was a concrete building that straps basically, that goes through the interior of the building and allow the building to turn or twist as part of an earthquake as it corrects itself. >> in the course for the puc building, we've actually incorporated in addition to that steel that's embedded in the monolithic concrete, specialized high strength cables that are not bonded to the sound concrete, but are threaded through essentially hollow conduits in the cast concrete. and when those cables are spread, they're actually anchored and they're actively in other floors and pressing down, forcing that concrete wall into a state of compression. and that's the characteristic which allows the building to shake, absorb energy from the earthquake, deform, and also com

between building a building from scratch, where you can design at will features from the ground up and the marginal cost then when you take an existing building. you were talking about major changes. i presume that has a major impact. >> we don't own the building. so the landlord gave us an allowance. we had to make a bigger commitment. there's actually, sala might want to share about that. we had to convince the landlord in many cases. not everything that's green is about our tenant space. there's the restrooms, which the landlord had control over. making decisions about the mechanical. it was part of our strategy, whenever we started to raise the green flag, the landlord would say wo. >> it was part of that, i love that that leed stands for is leadership it energy and environmental design. part of leadership is bringing people along and having them see the benefits. at least for their own pocket book. that was part of our strategy to have the landlord buy into the some of the strategies, but how it's making sense for them as business owners >> the long time returns, how many years yo

it's not in the building code. it says the levers have to return to close to the face of the door so that you don't, as you are walking out, you don't get caught on the doorknobs by the lever sticking out. this was $29.95.ñr is this considered readily achievable in a building? i would say yes, of course. 30 bucks, change your doorknob to a lever hardware, one that's actually complying with the fire code, that's readily achievable. and if you don't do it, it's a problem. the ada says you should be making these readily achievable barriers disappear. here is something we see all over san francisco. power door operators. so this business has a slight gentle slope up to the door and they could not put a level landing in in front of that door. and on the inside of the door, if you can see this, there is a ramp on the inside. can you see that on this slide? the ramp begins right at the door and goes up. the way that they have achieved compliance in san francisco is to use an administrative bulletin that we allow people to

capitol building. not far from the hart senate office building.o you can see what's going on there. dana, i assume they've moved the majority leader, as you say, into the some sort of more secure part of the u.s. capitol? harry reid? >> you know, we don't know where harry reid is right now. can't confirm where he is at all, so we're not sure about that. one thing i can tell you in terms of move people, deirdre walsh just e-mailed that there are large crowds of people, meaning tour sists on the first floor. they're being moved down the escalators into the capitol visitor center. she reports that people are calm and it's very orderly, but the capitol visitor center which is kind of in the basement underneath the capitol complex is in lockdown as well, not just those of us above and inside the capitol and inside the buildings. >> getting word also that the united states supreme court building, which is literally a block away from the u.s. capitol, from the hart senate office building, that building across the street from the capitol is now closed. no

building rested on 5,000 pylons.ch one 80 feet long and 60 feet in diameter. arches beneath the water line gave support to the structures above it. the perry building would soar to heights far above those required by a certain terminal. this was to be a welcoming station well beyond the expectations. inside passengers would be greeted by the grand nave. the power not with standing per happen it is ferry buildings most eloquent statement. 659feet long by day bathed in natural light from above and by night softly transformed into a magical night. >> they would turn pink and peal green. they would change them to any color you would want if you had $50 and were having a party. >> reporter: people would step out of the ferry buildings, smack into the broad faced exuberance of market street and be greeted by still more trains. >> that was the first thing you would see when you walk out of the ferry building were these streetcars. munni railing and both had the tracks. >>> and all of it being fed by the ferry boat. the ferr

and the architects and the building experts, have all evaluated the building.nd it meets the seismic standards. >> okay. >> i am really bothered by the earlier number that i talked about in your presentation. and i am really bothered by the fact that it is, that it is 132 patients that 123 of them are going to have to travel much longer distance. of the 97 that 92 are going to have to travel a much longer distance. and so can you walk me through the steps of you know, how, did you explore the possibility of staying at sfgeneral and sort-what did that exploration look like? >> absolutely. so, if we had it within our power the facility will remain at sfgh, meaning that if we had the space to put it and i know that both of you have been to sfgh and done tours, and we are definitely landlocked so some have said, well when the new hospital opens why not move the center into part of the old hospital? which is a valid question. and which, could probably work. however it is going to be a matter of timing, the new hospital is set to begin operations in december of 2015.

i have it's a 5 unit building. so the supervisor may want to look at the different rules for o m i evictions where your take a look the entire building off the market but not knowing enough about the rent ordinance i would defer that to later discussions with the supervisors >> yeah, i can speak briefly it that are the language we proposed to the city attorney it specifics several categories of the types of evictions in section 25.9 of the admin code and sections 8 through fourteen that outlined a number of different types of eviction. a couple of the ones is the tenant was evicted so the landlord could carry out remodeling and it's in violation if it's not offered back to the renters. so they're doing rehabilitation and not returning it to the tenant that were yeah, the different acts versus o m i. we'll be interested if looking at that. that will take important expert minds than mine >> thank you. i think for the most part and this is a little bit kufgz but for the most part i'm supportive of it. i have one quest

the building just to the northwest of our building is the garden building and just to the north well i won't say north technically west it's adjacent to us and that's the wall of all the windows on the property line i mentioned earlier. so this is our proposed site plan. you can see we tried to accommodate those windows so none of those windows will be blocked and we're meeting the open space of the garden area with our building to the left in the image. here's the ground floor plan. as you'll see the step back on the parking. one thing all the bicycle are assessable to the lobbies and to the entrance and exits of the building. this is the open spates it shows you the podium level courtyard pa has our rear yard it will be mostly green and pretty open. you can see on this one we stepped down down to 40 feet the new zoning requires a 40 foet foot set back so we go from 40 to 48. the vertical is what you're seeing is to try to mimic >> thank you, sir your time it up. >> any public comment open this item. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. opening it up to commissioners. >> i have

the proximity of these buildings, the building and the senate office building, the supreme court, they abut the streets we're talking about. we're basically looking into the car at this point. the u.s. capitol police, some 16 hub officers here giving an indication of how practiced they are at this, how well trained and unfortunately how many times they've been through this incident and these sorts of scares that turned out to be a serious threat and at one point in 1998, the killing of two police officers and the number of false alarms after that. the earlier guest mentioned in the wake of 9/11 and the plane of the governor of kentucky violating the air space and i remember it very well. we were preparing for ronald reagan's state funeral when that happened. at any rate these officers to give you an indication of how prepared they are, i talked to one member of congress who was walking up from union station a couple of blocks up from the heart building. heard the shots, was wearing his lapel pin that members of congress do wear to capitol police, ironically, when on capitol grounds. he

this was held in the community right behind ycd build. they had an opportunity to hold this -- to host this in our backyard. you can see the posted, those were opportunities for individuals who participated in the sharet to give their feedback according to which section and what they thought the changes should be or what updates should be made. so just an example of some of the feedback that we got from the design, sharet and kevin is going to talk about this when he presents but comments like the building mass is too heavy, response to curved and center landmark element, colorful wood, flat screen with gaps and the response was more transparency as screen and too much feel and then the introduction of the recess and the response was building a mass too heavy. you'll see some of those responses and the changes will be presented in the design presented before you. but i want to highlight the partnership with m-cal and the rest of the team as we move forward to provide this opportunity for the resident and the community in regards to the sh

capitol building around the dirksen senate office building. about a block across the street from the u.s. capitol. senator bob casey of pennsylvania, very calmly told us a few moments ago he heard at least three shots fired. senator shared brown was also walking there. police officers told the senators to get down under vehicles nearby. and they eventually made their way back into the u.s. capitol. which, david, it is on lockdown. we're on the senate side of the capitol. a lot of police activity outside and senior senate aides are telling abc news, that one capitol police officer was shot. not confirmed, but a senior senate aide is telling us. zbl reiterate that point. we believe that one person has been shot, jeff? zbl a senior senate aide told me a short time ago that they believe one capitol police officer was injured, was shot in this police activity. we do not know the severity of that. that's what a senate aide arks very high hn level source told me a few moments ago. david zblxt we believe we have the sound of it giving details of the p

>> i think that's the plan for a local build. that's an area whe we saw a lot of mutual interest across the board from policy makers. to try to put more detail to that, is what the general manager has asked us to do. so that's what we are engaged in at this point. >> part of my concern is the fact that we are trying to move the this program forward has really forced pg & e to finally step up to the plate and provide a product that they have had a long at a particularly competitive rate as well. i do think that we need to continue to push forward as aggressively as possible so we need to figure out a way to do that. i personal would prefer that we not do a comparison in terms of well, we have this money available but we need it for the rim fire to pay out and fix what we need to fix because we don't have the money to fix it because this money was earmarked for a purpose to provide for clean power. imagine if that were not the case, then we would look for other money resources to fix the damages from the fire. i don't want to keep

we're not building hotels we're building full friendly units. if mr. king you're the one chronological to speak >> shawn on behalf of the project spokesperson. we view those as welcome good thought-out ideas. so far as the encroachment the promise sponsor will have the standards and protocols and we'll seek out the ideas and flipping the planters is something we'll look at. whether the planter is 2 and a half or 3 and to keep the view to protect the ground floor unit. i'm absolutely delighted to hear the continuation of last weeks meeting ultimate i resulted in going forward >> i'm happy with those suggestions. i just said to talk about the sidewalk with i'm not sure i trefrpt iowa what commissioner moore said but we have to have a wider sidewalk to anticipate future density and more communication hopefully with mission bay and many of our swauksdz in many parts of the city are not as generous. i i know that 16 the street is going to be a major corridor and allowing room for bus transit would restrict it a little bit more but on 17th street it wouldn't

capitol building.e understand there was an extremely -- there we go. we've got the picture up. thank you. you can see police presence. we understand the capitol building is now on lockdown. again, the news -- and it is just coming in right now, folks. is that there have been shots fires at the capitol building. you can see an exceptionally heavy police presence. the capitol building, we understand it, is indeed on lockdown at this moment. so this all just happening right now, coming in the shadow of the federal government shutdown. and as we've talked about, many of the monuments, many of the parks that are in that area have also been closed. not sure if the police presence has been reduced at all, but you can see from that video that there is an exceptionally heavy police presence right around the capitol building. so, again, just getting in, shots fired from washington, d.c. obviously, we've got full team coverage. eamon javers in washington, d.c., all the resources of nbc universal news, msnbc as we

if you are in a high-rise building you just can't anchor your building down because there are no anchort at that point, the tenant should be asking questions of the owner's and the managers about earthquake preparedness >> and don't take the easy answer, oh, our building is safe it was designed to code. that is not the right answer, ask the tough questions and see if you can get a report that has been given to you. >> what is the right question? will i be able to stay in my home after the expected earthquake? is that a good question to ask? >> yeah, you may be more specific if you talk to the owner, if it is not a recent building, if it is ten or 20 years old see if they had an inspection done and there you will have a written before that will tell you all about the structure. >> thanks, pat. >> thanks, harvey. and thanks david for joining us and thank you for joining us on >> good morning, everyone. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting fo forethursday i'm joined by supervisor eric mar and supervisor john avalos. thank you to the staff >

we have the preservation of 8 historic buildings. the plan incorporated o incorporates new planning space to encourage the entrepreneurs to become markers. their ref worldwide claim that make sure they have a product worldwide market. the plan provides 15 acres of open space 2 and one half a million open space. and just up 3 street the promise is striking a similar balance providing public amenities including an 8 acre park while phil in the empty lot with office space and a retail. as you'll hear from jack bear the giant are thinking big on how to engage our community that's the giant. you all know what's coming next the warriors arena. and we're blessed to have a world-class waterfront. it's x larter to have an exceptional project on piers thirty and 32. we're much more than this we have transformed over half the space so people can access and enjoy the by the way. wouldn't we like to see that than a crumpling parking lot that's there now walls off behind a fence. we're providing a new home for the san francisco fire boats and crea

building owners and managers association. we really encourage building owners to sun meter so they can hold owners accountable. you had another point. as far as really knowing how much energy the building uses, we also encourage seeing in design is reality. then make the tweaks necessary or fix the problem. >> don't touch that bike. >> we have bicycle racks and what other features in our kitchen? >> we have the motion censors. daylighting >> motion censors are required now. when you walk in, you are triggering a light. it's not like switches. that allows the lights to go out when it senses nobody has been moving for a while. what if i fall asleep at my desk. >> these actually have sonic detection as well. if you are sitting very still, it will still pick it up >> we have sky lights. and these light fixtures are a really great sustainability story. they are old traffic lights that have been recycled. to get consumers to reduce draws. all the cabinets are ago materials. this is another sustainable material. it's a renewable pro

it's near the treasury building. so that would make it just down pennsylvania avenue from the capitol, about 12 or so blocks from the capitol. about 14 blocks from where the shooting happened. so the driver tries to ram the check point. secret service officials, we believe, uniformed secret service officials began to pursue this car. the driver of the car continues on up, gets -- goes past the u.s. capitol building, keeps going another block or so, and then that's when the shooting happens at 2nd and constitution. you're looking at it now -- or 1st and constitution. i assume this is a picture of the gate at the white house, it looks to me like. it's very hard to tell from how tight the shot is. it looks like one of the security gates at the white house. so perhaps that's where this started. i can't be sure. >> you know what -- >> in any event, that's the sequence of events here. >> it's interesting you say that. this has been our vantage point for pretty much the entire hour. this was the vantage point where much of

side of the capitol building, what can you see? the chasecribed how ended. the barricades went up review can look behind me down constitution. the white barricades blocking the road say stop. and thece evidence van black are the suspect was driving. you can see the door is open. shootinghere the happened. right here in the middle of everything, all of the gunfire. we have new video of what was going on at the capitol building. people running for safety. this place was put on a lockdown. police to not know what was going on. it was a nightmare sonority of. they told everyone to lockdown. we want to play you sound from people who witnessed parts of the incident. >> he wouldn't stop. they were going around the roundabout. the cops boxed them in. it looked like they were trying to drive up on the sidewalk. that is when the shooting started. let's go to the news conference. >> we expect to hear from the chief of the capitol police. >> the vehicle fled east on pennsylvania avenue. multiple crime scenes as a result of the vehicle fleeing.

it said build a new vocational technology building. >> so instead of replacing the rundown classrooms, trustees and administrators approved these plans including a knew theater and media art center. >> the voters were sold a bait and switch. >> you're sure? >> i know they were sold a bait and switch. all you have to do is look at the ballot. >> you know they're not happy. >> they made it clear to you and me. >> this chancellor supported the bond and supported the spending decision since voters approved the money. >> so if they didn't get exactly what they want, of course they're not happy. >> the numbers in this internal report show why several instructors or students are not happen. the rundown tech building will not be demolished and rebuilt. instead the district will spend $7 million to refurbish and renovate. in contrast the district will spend more than three times that total, more than $22 million on a brnd-new build, the new theater and media arts center. >> they're saying that this bond was a bait and switch. >> that is not fair. that is not accurate and i think that that kind

but the building was burning. how much time it took to restore it to your pocket blank cells cause such damage on their. deputies get together in the conference hall on the fifth floor where there are no windows as they hold their last session it becomes perfectly clear that the army will not back the supreme soviet room as soon circulated that yeltsin had. security service. the safety was. a secret unofficial request we were told given the chance to do them both and instead of arresting them. we didn't get the chance they were just too many witnesses. the deputies were saved by members of the counterterrorism unit which had once been under k.g.b. control. they were accustomed to working in political hot spots along the borders of the former u.s.s.r. now they were called upon to stop a civil war at home in the capital. in the afternoon. again negotiations with the deputies inside the white house. down and started waving our arms asking them to cease fire. don't shirts are lieutenant colonel is going to talk to you

all new buildings are supposed to have all of their entrances accessible. in this case they say, go around the corner. in many cases in san francisco there are occupancies, commercial businesses on lower floors, basements, second floors, they are simply not accessible. what reasonably can we do? . >> there are probably cases where there simply is nothing you can do. >> there are things we could do. >> put in an elevator. >> and rail that comes up, flattens out at the street line and turns around into the wall so you have something to hold on to, one on each side as is required for commercial stairs. we could make sure that it has the tread parking that we've been talking about. they have a little tiny tread mark that looks like it's an inch wide. more contrast. >> the reason for turning the hand rail back to the building or back on to yourself is so your sleeve doesn't catch on it and pull you down or pull you over. it's actually a safety issue. when you have stairs like this that look relatively steep, the last thing you really want to do is trip one of yo

on the outside of the building. reports of shots fired now in washington, d.c.s you recall, shots were fired in the naval yard in washington, d.c. this all started now from a car chase apparently at the scene of the capitol. so what is the connection between some sort of a car chase now that happened near and around the capitol in washington, d.c. and shots being fired as you can see more than a dozen police cars there on the scene trying to figure out what is going on there. capitol on lock down at this hour. 2:30 on the east coast as shots appeared to have been fired outside of the capitol building in washington, d.c. as we continue to watch inside of the floor there. whether or not they are boeing going to be evacuated at this time. we are getting one of our reporters in dc to give us more information. originally the reports came across that there could have been shots fired inside of the capitol building. but that was corrected on the wire here. no activity there as you continue to wash on the left side of your screen. not sure if people have been evacuated

the pressure will be on the building owners to retrofit old buildings before it is too late. >> reporter: a lot of the buildings were built to code but decades before anyone knew what would happen to that rigid concrete in an earthquake. back to you. >>> heavy rain put a damper on day three of the music festival. this area is now a small pond. the water was knee-hight. thousands of music lovers were forced to make other plans. >> i was having a blast. but, it is definitely a buzz kill. not a -- don't have to do that sunday. >> we will find something to do. it is not, you know, really exciting about today. today was going to be the best day. >> not anymore. would-be concert goers will be getting a refund. >>> we had lovely fall weather. >> we did. and now, even talking about the buildings in on los angeles and san francisco has it, too. the concrete they thought would last forever but along comes the quake in '71 and '94. it is not good. so, boy, we have our own problems as well. >>> outside the weather is not a problem here. the temperatures in the 50s, 48 degrees in santa rosa, concord,

had a green building code or ordinance before there was a green building code so there there was no code to modify, so we brought it into the building code as the green building standard portion of the building code, but since california now has a green building code and that's mandatory in california, we're able to amend it just like we are mechanical code, electrical and plumbing code. minor changes -- building code wise -- >> i don't think we need to go through minor changes. >> that's it then if you don't mind. any questions? >> i don't think so. thank you for the presentation. so we will now open up items five through ten to public comment. is there any public comment on these items. seeing none, public comment is closed. and can we forward items five through ten with recommendation? that will be the order. madam clerk can you call item number 11. >> ordinance california commemorating the location with a plaque. >> okay. this item was amended and continued. it is before us again. we received a presentation at the last hearing and so if there are no comments or questions we'll o

it said very clearly and distinctly, build a new technology building. trustees anded a min traitors approved these plans. >> voters were sold a bait and switch? >> shaur. all you have sood is look at the ballot measure. >> you know they're not happy? >> sure. >> that council member supported the bond and votapproved the improvements since the bond. >> reporter: the rundown six decade old buildings are not be demolished and rebuild. instead, the district will spend $7 million to only refurbish and renovate. in contrast, the district will spend more than three times that total, more than $22 million on a brand-new building. the new theatre and media sarts center. >> they are saying that this bond was a bait and switch. >> that is not fair. that is not accurate. and i think that kind of language is destructive. >> the chancellor defended the decisions saying voters were not misled. >> i feel very confident that we've done nothing that is inconsistent squint with the language here. the language doesn't say a new theatre anywhere. >> no, the question is does

and within slip way four, we are talking about using ship building kiel blocks for ship furnishing and could be used for the ramps down into the slip way and this is the park entrance through the building, 109 and where we are talking about having a park, pa vif on and a shelter and park and a boat storage and the space for ship building artifacts. and then, this is what it would look like at the end of the slip way four, and looking back towards the mari time fields in building, 109, and then, lastly, in an ariel perspective of how we are talking about reintroducing slip ways, 1, 2, 3, and allowing the bay to come up into the site and have enter tidal plant and so it is a soefter shore line edge. >> for the park the total projected budget for the project right now is about 45 million dollars in total. that is about 5 million dollars in acre, which is on scale, with the amount of money, the cost associated with improvements and the other parks city wide. and the doloris park, for example is 7 million dollars an acre to rehab tait it and the mission bay are running 3 million an acre in

>> they'll go to the building management and building management will go to the office of commission infra stuk structure and we'll work with mow. mow would be the probably owning the property at that point in time because we have to transfer all of the affordable housing sites to moe upon completion, so it would have to be both agencies working together. >> my question is further to that is what i thought, moh is part of the mayor's office, right. and so do they have a separate process for amending their designs and implementing that development than we do so we know the successor a we're pretty independent in approving designs and approval development agreement and contractors, and the mayor's office works through the housing development to get things done, so my question is, is that true and i sort of question the ability of that part of the resolution to really be affective. i would kind of think why don't we just evaluate right now that design would have any quality of life issues and if they do fix it now rather than waiting to have the building management who will have to go t

and building and building. >> firefighters back away from the flaming tanker. >> all units evacuate to,000 feet. 10,000 feet evacuation for engine two. imminent explosion. >> we got about 200 feet of it out, and unbelievably, it got louder. it got so loud. >> before firefighters were able to get to a safe distance, the propane truck erupts into the biggest explosion many have ever seen. >> whoa! holy smokes. i hope everybody's okay. >> i thought to myself, i'm going to die today. the second thing right after that was, did i kiss my boys this morning? >> oh, my god! >> it made me feel like my whole chest just got socked in the chest, like i got socked in the chest really hard, like just powerful, so powerful. >> get down! get down! >> it was incredibly bright and forceful. it was almost like somebody shoving you off your feet. >> oh, my god! >> oh, my god! >> people see, hear and feel the blast for miles. >> whoa! >> it was so huge. it was unbelievable. >> you can feel the heat wave and the shock wave. >> holy smokes, i hope everybody's okay! >> the axle from the propane truck launches

and the capitol building between constitution and independence avenue, where three house office buildings sit and we are at the top of capitol hill in the cannon house office building. >> congressman i have to ask you, i know you have not been there for very long, have you ever experienced anything like this? what was it like? >> it was a tense week, because of you know the shut down and my staff and the staff on the hill has been here late into every evening, so it has already been tense. you know this escalates it. i was here as a intern on september 11th, 2001 when i worked for allen tosher and it just gives you that feeling you know of anxiety and just you know being on high alert and mindful of your surroundings. you know in 1998, july 24th, 1998, capitol hill police officers, two of them, were killed and we are learning right now that at least one was shot and was med-evac'd out of here and you know they keep us safe every day and am certainly pulling for the officer or officers who were shot in this incident. >> yeah, that -- that certainly you know makes it -- puts everything in p

we spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about was soft story buildings and the ground floor is vulnerable because there are openings for garages or windows and during the earthquake we saw in the marina they went right over and those are -- >> very vulnerable buildings. >> very and there are a lot of apartment buildings in san that that are like that. >> and time to. >> >> retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them after the earthquake. >> what do they need? do they need information? do they need incentives? mandates? >> that's a good question. i think it starts with information. people think that new buildings are earthquake proof and don't understand the performance the building will have so we want a transparent of letting people know is my building going to be safe in it after an earthquake? is my building so dangers i should be afraid of being injured? so developing a ranking system for buildings would be very important and i think for some of the larger apartment buildings that are soft story we need a mandatory program to fix the buildings,

it's a four-story building.t we are hearing from red wood fire is there may be several people hurt but no word on the extent of injuries or even how many people may have been hurt because the focus is getting this fire under control. red wood fire, menlo park fire, agencies are coming from all around the area to help out and try and get this under control. one of the things may be tough to see from the chopper, but there are several buildings which are very close to the side of this apartment building, so not only do they have to try to contain the fire in that building but keep it from spreading. there are a lot of folks on the street watching this fire, some live in the building. they told us that they heard alarms going off, they heard firefighters apparently here quickly knocking on doors and getting people out of the building. we are waiting to confirm how many may have been hurt but this fire does not seem to be showing signs of slowing down. intense fire and we'll be on the scene, hopefully bring you live

half a dozen reactors come buildings about the size of a cruciate. this is where the processed, a big plutonium in a series of chemical baths to get down to a little bit of plutonium. the american army corps broke ground on hanford plant in 1943 and kgb generals broke ground in 1946 on the soviet plant. first they thought they're going to build for militarize labor and this is a picture of the first residential camp at hanford that house 60,000 construction workers who were there to build the plant. they called it camp hanford. it at all the charms of a minimum security prison. but also at all the social problems. single migrant workers fought and stole and raped and murdered, it was heavily guarded. this is a fiction -- a picture of the women's section. you could almost see -- the guards are there. you could see a woman carrying a package. they are there to keep the women say from the men who were running around trying to rape them. this is the kind of place it was. despite a very good pay, people hated camp hanford. at the peak of construction in 1

flames and smoke billowing from the building.ed the videotape, there was a piece of wood impaled into the ground. looking at that piece pof wood was like, holy cow. the combustion of the explosion was immense. >> 20 minutes after the blast, officials believe dozens of employees may still be trapped inside. firefighters search desperately in the thick, black smoke. and then a worker manages to climb out of the devastation. firefighters help the badly burned man down from the hot roof. with other workers still missing, rescuers have to jump right back in. >> they are still searching for people that weren't accounted for. we going to stay until the job gets done. >> rumors were everywhere, that people were trapped inside and dead. >> one hour after the start of the fire, authorities know the prospect of finding survivors is grim and that's when they see a sight they can hardly believe. >> the wind kind of shifted and started pushing smoke a different direction and all of a sudden he appeared out of the smoke. everybody was speechles

build a new theater. it said clearly, build a nouveau cational technology building. >> reporter: instead of replacing these classrooms, administrators approved these plans, including a new theater and media arts center. >> the voters were sold a bait and switch. >> you're sure? >> i know for sure. all you have to do is look at the ballot measure. >> you know they are not happy? >> of course. >> the chancellor supported the bond and supports the decisions. >> if they didn't get what they want of course they are not happy. >> reporter: and the numbers show why several instructors and students are disappointed the run down vo tech building will not be demolished and rebuilt. instead the district will spend $7 million to refurbish and renovate and spend three times that total, $22 million to build the media and arts center. >> they are saying that this sbond a bait and switch. is that accurate? >> that is not fair. that is not accurate. i think that kind of language is disruptive. >> reporter: and the distric

let be sure we keep our eye on the build out but let's do this. then the mayor and the commission of sf puc put a hold on everything when even the advocates said wait a minute, we are no longer saying wait a minute. we are on the same page now. it really chushl -- crucial that we move this forward. really what this boils down to, that even though the staff is now doing some really important stuff. when you've got people in the drivers seat that are not with you, that's a problem. what i think this is all about is who is in the drivers seat. in 2004 when at that time the staff wouldn't do an implementation plan, the lafco did one. in 2011 when the sf puc wouldn't work on the build out plan, the lafco started the process and now we need lafco to take charge and lead the way and complete the work that was on the table before it got stopped. thank you. >> good afternoon, bruce wills, a neighborhood of the san francisco clean energy advocates with the rest of my colleagues here. i just wanted to say that mr. freed's report was spot on. everything he sa

we will represent mostly construction workers and build the buildings and sometimes we have a falling out with our friends in the environment and often times we find the common grountd and talking about the public sector workforce. i am proud of the people that we have been able to graduate and how we have been honest about the people who were not committed to doing the work for 30 years or so, and that was kind of the key, and earn these jobs and respect your duty and take care of this important business, my hope is that you will all take interest in this program moving forward that you will accept our invitation to come on down and that you will recognize that nikki, and teresa and romon and joan are the people that really put this program together and unlike most of the other trades, women really find opportunities in gardening. and that is something that you don't hear from the labor unions in the building trades. that the woman are the muscle and i know it as well as anybody. >> i know it. >> and thank you so much, commissioners and so obviously, i am speaking in favor. >> thank

the earthquake was a powerful, the tremors were building that's bringing down buildings up to 100 kilometers away from the epicenter. it is taking authorities some time to work out just how many casualties there are and how many buildings have come down. the first report came from the biggest city in the region, said blue, second-largest in the philippines. a number of buildings came down and people were killed by collapsing concrete slabs. some of the philippines' oldest and most historic churches dating back to the days of spanish colonialist, they have also completely collapsed as well. it is taking authorities quite all theime to assess small towns and villages. the island of bohol, web epicenter was, had no power at all today. they are facing a lot of logistical difficulties. and i think it will not be really clear how big the damage is probably until sometime tomorrow. >> any idea how deep this earthquake was? obviously this is not a part of the world that is immune from earthquakes or not used to them. although it is a geologically active area, it has not had a lot of earthquakes. the

and that isn't just the labor to build the buildings, but obviously these buildings had to be maintained continuously. they had to be replastered and repainted, protected against the weather. so this was an ongoing and continual process, a constant investment of considerable labor in this complex. keach: but it was not entirely a one-sided relationship. royal construction projects took place in the dry season, when people could not farm. in return for their labor, the king provided his subjects with food. archaeologists believe the king of each maya city probably controlled a large piece of the best farm land -- land that could produce a surplus beyond the needs of his royal household. but no maya king controlled a large food producing system like the aztec chinampas. consequently, the real power of maya kings was limited. so it was natural that they sought to control their subjects in other ways. one of those ways is being explored by honduran archaeologist ricardo agurcia. agurcia is tunneling in the ruins of a huge pyramid built by the last king of copan. he believes the pyramid may c

fearing the worst, authorities evacuate the building and other buildings in the air. the busy street is cordoned off and camera crews record the scene from both sides of the street. then, just a few hours after everyone gets out of the building, it falls over. the building brings down power lines and kicks up a huge cloud of dust and debris. the collapse leaves a mound of rubble about half as high as the original structure. no one is injured. an investigation determines that flawed design and faulty construction, particularly with the building's foundation, are the main reasons for the collapse. across the globe, a much older and smaller building, a 122-year-old brick firehouse is built to a new location when something goes terribly wrong. the historic firehouse crumbles into a pile of rubble. august 21st, 2008, peekskill, new york, after months of planning, workers begin the slow and delicate operation of moving the firehouse. the firehouse, built in 1890, is home to the centennial hose company. it serves the peekskill community for 90 years before closing in 1980 be

in many ways that building illustrates some of the problems. we're trying to we've likely expand from that 7 thousand feet to roughly 15 thousand feet. yo tell you exactly where the building is because i'm competing with bloody releasing. it was original the building that made ail the watertank for the city and county of san francisco. it's not cheap and really the transplant is so expensive, you know, if you express the cost of releasing at the cost of talent it's not bad but it's extensive to do what we do >> can you say what kind of prices you've been quoted. >> this is actually why i'm buying buildings now instead of renting effectively the mortgage rate is three to four bucks. >> a 125 and 3ish. >> yes. got you. >> are you movie. >> pardon and a no, i hope not. we're looked e located with the tech shop and we're crammed into a small space we're not manufacturing we're kin dressed folks we actually get a descendent flow of entrepreneurs having innovated products if there's no room we'll go back to where we started with other manufacturers m

the building from 84 feet up to 1 hundred and 36 feet.ght of 6 stories along embarcadero and payment for the housing fund a public park and open spaces and sidewalks on at least 20 percent of the site and new case to the waterfront and ground floor retail and cafes and under gown car and bicycle parking and increased revenue to the port and city. if you vote yes open prop b you want to approve the 8 development site if you vicinity no on prop b i don't want to approve the washington street development project. i'm here with alec the proponent of propose b and c ambassador we're also joined by on opponent of the measure >> i'd like to a start with mr. barb why are you for this as opposed to. >> i'm for the proposition because i cared about the san francisco project & using the waterfront i see this as an opportunity to open up the waterfront by opening up streets that were closed in the dark redevelopment stage when the freeway was here blocked by fence and further made ugly by a parking lot. we need in this 3 blocks open vitality spates h

buildings. the head of a state apartment owners group says landlords are reluctant to retrofit the buildings with sprinkler systems because of the cost. officials say large buildings without sprinklers represent a significant hazard to occupants and firefighters especially those with floors more than 75' above ground. >> if you are headed to the beach, the national both service says strong rip currents will make for trenchous conditions from sonoma to monterey county through tomorrow afternoon. you are warned to watch out for sneaker waves that can reach further up the beach. >> leyla gulen, it is early. how bad is it? >> not quite so pad. we are here anticipating a busy morning. as you look behind me we have lots of green indicating we have top speeds on all of our roads. here is a sampling of the traffic. southbound along 680 from walnut creek to dublin/pleasanton it is 17 minutes. 101 is good through the santa cruz mountains and along highway 17 northbound. you are at 23-minute drive. to our

build a new theater. it said very clearly and distinctly, build a new vocational technology building. >> reporter: instead of replacing the 60-year-old rundown classrooms, trustees and administrators approved these plans including a new theater and media art center. >> the voters were sold a bait and switch. >> you sure? >> i know for sure that they were sold a bait and switch, and all you have to do is look at the ballot measures. >> you know they're not happy. >> of course, they made it clear to you, they made is clear to me. >> reporter: this chancellor supported the bond and supports the spending decisions made since voters approved the money. >> so if they didn't get exactly what they want, of course they're not happy. >> reporter: and the numbers in this internal report show why several instructors and students are disappointed. the rundown six-decade-old votech buildings will not be demolished or rebuilt. instead the district will spend $7 million to refurbish and renova renovate. the district will

this is a huge apartment building fire. redwood city. sal has been mentioning roads are closed around there. you can see it from some of the major roads as well. again, this is a live video of this fire. just a huge fire going on right now. and we understand that this could be some very serious injuries, possibly worse. we are going to get an update in just a moment. that is our breaking news right now. >>> it is thursday, october 17th. i am pam cook. >> good morning everybody. i am brian flores in for dave clark. let's get started with weather and traffic. steve, pretty sunny today? >> very nice day again on tap here. 41 to 42. santa rosa, napa a little cooler. a few upper 50s choser to the -- closer to the coast. some areas are in the 40s depending on a northerly or easterly breeze. san francisco 79. high pressure again. sunshine today. slightly schooler near the coast but only i think a couple of degrees, another mild to warm pattern for us. if you enjoyed the last couple of days, you will enjoy today. here is sal with an update. >>>

>>reporter: thousands of city records and building permits were looked at, and questionable buildings were identified that are concrete columns that are rigid. >> if it's brittle once it cracks, then it just comes apart. >>reporter: that's what we saw in the 1994 north ridge earthquake. >> those older concrete frame buildings will lose their columns and you'll see floors slam on top of each other. generally people do not survive that. >>reporter: he also believes many could be fixed just like this one. >> if we added all these walls, and this is where the load is taken, and the wall is here, no longer the column. the building owners don't want to have this news that now they would have a major disruption with major expense. >>reporter: he wants to see a government registry where anyone could ask how any buildings stacks up and the pressure will be on enters receipt fit old concrete buildings before it's too late. a lot of them were built to code, but that was decades before anyone knew what would happen to rigid concrete in an earthquake. >>> the movie 50 shades of gray is missing its