i live at 801 castro. the structure -- i want to say, first of all, when they proposed to building this plan nine years ago, we were for it, and i personally feel that everybody should be able to develop -- i'm not proposing that they don't. but when they came back to us with this new structure, it was very overwhelming to the neighborhood, and one of the issues that i have, the structure is inconsistent with the neighborhood, and in our opinion, oversized for the lot. well, the roof line was presented as being consistent with the pitch of the street, which is true for only the center point of the top level. the proposal is not consistent with the pitch roof downhill for several reasons. a, the building would be rectangular flat roofed structure, blocking more of our view than a pitch. b, the footprint encroaches further out towards the street than pushing in to the view. c, the proposed roof top deck would add further to the height of the neighborhood view, obstructing of the building. after living in the

do you think that fear is one of the legacies of the generation of el che and fidel castro and raul castrong for a new political system in cuba are the ladies in white. originally formed by the wives of political prisoners, their weekly protests to call for free elections are often broken up by the police and state security, the organisers arbitrarily detained. libertad, libertad! they say they're calling for greater human rights on the island. the cuban government accused them of being mercenaries funded by right—wing anti—castro groups out of miami and washington. certainly the cuban government allows them no room to operate. this was their protest on the eve of a visit by president obama in front of the world's watching media. when our cameraman tried to film a weekly protest outside the lady's house, the police intervened. he was told he couldn't film there. and the police removed the camera from the scene as the mood began to heat up. what happened next was predictable and swift. a number of women were detained that day. it's a side of cuba thatjars with a new hip image of the island

history walk is specific to castro street and it's not -- i would love that. i think that's great, but all of a sudden, we're introducing a new kind of way to identify historic buildings when we take the physical presence away, which required a hell of a lot more -- >> there are plenty of e.i.r.s that include interpretive displays -- >> those are office buildings or residential building that has a lobby and -- >> some are on the outside. it's not unusual. >> all right. i think it required a lot more conversation to figure out what that is. >> commissioners, to provide some background on what this mitigation may fulfill, as part of the e.i.r., there will be a mitigation monitoring plan that identifies who is responsible for what part of the scope. so one of your comments may be to flesh out that plaque or history walk or whatever to make sure there is somebody who will administer that program over time either on a website or part of a publication or on the exterior of the building. it could be helpful to provide that clarification that somebody will be responsi

but the castro is an amazing place and i don't think he realized what the castro would become when he built a hotel then, so being a part of the city and seeing it through the changes and wonderful things and guessing and predicting where the castro and city will go is an exciting aspect. i'm excited my business is located in san francisco and we will hopefully be there forever. i am thankful for this opportunity and i hope you approve us to move forward. >> awesome. thank you foregoing -- for going through the process. come on, now it's been done. you aren't the first, you can be next in line. >> [off mic] >> you can come up together, it's a party. >> my name is marko paz, i'm owner of one twenty for hair. we have been in business since 1985 with my wife edith, she is now taking care of the business while i'm here with my daughter rosie. we have two locations. 120 howard street, that is where the name come from, one twenty for hair. and we move around the corner to 155 main street, which is just around the corner so we don't lose the clientele when we move from one place to another o

castro: it is bad for taxes and bad for americans.e will raise taxes on millions of middle-class americans, double blow up the deficit. at something like $1.5 trillion. it is a bad deal for the country. shery: how can the democrats do anything at this point to influence the debate? chuckastro: i'm sure schumer and everybody over there is doing everything they can to stop what is a home run this bill, but we will have to see how it turns out. vonnie: what are you constituents telling you and what you telling them? rep. castro: i told him that i tried to do ever been possible to stop this bill from becoming a law. at theve looked demographics in my district and the fact i have a working-class district, this would hurt many families in san antonio. in the long term it will hurt more and more americans in the out years, the later years. as democrats we resolved to do everything we can to stop it. republicans have a clear majority in the house of representatives and the senate, went so if they can call their 50 votes together, 51 votes tog

some upcoming ones -- castro, we'll be returning to knowy park later this month. some members love the shop and dine, so they'll ask if they can do a shop and dine with the merchant branding. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> all right. do we have any members of the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, any closing comments? >> no. this is a great program, and we're looking forward to mayor's walk tonight in the castro. i know we're going to cliff's, but his other favorite place, which is hot cookie. i know i'm going to get in trouble for saying that, but that is his favorite spot. >> all right. all righty. onto the next item. thank you, marianne. >> thank you. >> clerk: all right. item 7, update on board of supervisors item 171042, various codes, regulation of cannabis businesses, ordinance amending the administrative business and tax regulations health and police codes to comprehensively regulate commercial activities relating to the cultivation manufacture distribution testing

my parents came from cuba, they were fleeing the castro regime. my father at the time was in prison under fidel castro. he was a political prisoner. he basically fought to help free cuba, when obviously the dictatorship came in in the late 1950's. he served time in jail, and it was a trying moment for my family. they came to the united states, and it was one of those things where they started with nothing. my father, being the entrepreneur and hard worker he is, teaching his kids their values, he started working as a carpenter and electrician. he made ends meet for his family. it was those lessons around the table with my father in particular, who would constantly remind me of the importance of freedom and democracy in america, and how we have a responsibility to preserve these values. taughts something i have to my kids about as well. steve: your parents are still alive? mercedes: they are. in my family, he was one of the earliest supporters of president trump. he would tell us, you know, he just speak his mind, and i respect my command have to s

year, ((karen castro))that endeavor.)) fit to assists us in that endeavor.))ear, team up with spotters at a number of metro is also their two quick response teams into groups.but sheriff lombardo says they're doubling their numbers and will be ready action in case of an emergency.((sheriff joe lombardo - clark quick response team will respond and form a team and eliminate the threat as soon as possible.)) k9's will be conducting sweeps of the strip and fremont street.metro will have more than 15-hundred officers on duty throughout the new year's weekend. when it comes to pedestrian safety, public transportation buses will be used to block intersections on the strip.this is in addition to 42-hundred barricades áandá the 8-hundred bollards installed along sections of las vegas boulevard.but despite the added security measures, sheriff lombardo says they can't do it alone. ((sheriff joe lombardo - clark county: we're asking each and every individual to include the employees of the casino environment to provide us any information that will beneficial for us for pr

abc 7 news anchor jessica castro has the jessica? >> natasha, investigators think the deadly fire was started by a child playing with a stove. it's the worst fire new york city has seen in 25 years. an apartment fire in the bronx neighborhood claimed 12 lives, including a 1-year-old child. initially, a gas leak was thought to be the cause, but now investigators say it was all sparked by a 3 1/2-year-old child playing with the burners on a stove. >> the mother was not aware of i, was alerted by the young man screaming. she exited her apartment with these -- her 2-year-old and 3-year-old, and left the door open. so this fire quickly spread up the stairs. >> reporter: the stairwell then acted like a chimney and spread the flames in minutes. >> to the window -- >> came out through the window? >> yeah, there was smoke everywhere. >> reporter: the details are horrific. people ran for their lives from the five-story building thursday night. parents screaming for help, children crying. >> burned. burned. little kids. the structure burned. it

my parents came from cuba, they were fleeing the castro regime. my father at the time was in prison under fidel castro. he was a political prisoner. he basically fought to help free cuba, when obviously the dictatorship came in in the late 1950's. he served time in jail, and it was a trying moment for my family. they came to the united states, and it was one of those things where theyrt

i drive down castro driving to my favorite place. you all know where that is, and i'm really concerned about the facade of this street. there is a three quarter of a million dollar variance, a three quarter million dollar top floor penthouse chlts there's $2 million of greed in this house. the front building was built in 1909 as a grocery store with a unit in back. my unit lived in this one. she was the owner of the one around the corner on castro and 22nd, i believe. there was a permit in 1980 to enlarge the office. they didn't mention the unit there, so this unit's been there for a long time. in 2005, the project sponsor got a cu to remove the unit. i ask for a cu to demolish a building, how is that in the best interests of my community or anywhere in the city, to demolish real affordable housing to build a five level mcmansion? how is it in the best interest to tear down a modest housing or how is it in the best interest -- i have no problem with this guy building modest housing, but five levels? finally, ask the commission not to

and of course this is a picture of castro and kuz tish. i never met castro but i did met cast trif. so here is castro visiting moscow just prior in '61 to the cuba missile crisis. and when america discovered that russia had placed inter continental missiles on cuba, he went before the united nations in september of '61 and said we had to meet the challenges of our age and put into effect policies that dealt with berlin, the wall, berlin, germany, laos, suit vietnam and so forth. but america was introduced to the atomic bomb because missiles so close to the u.s. this was a picture in los angeles of school kids being taught about the febts of teffe bomb and how they had to run into the hauls and protect themselves. and to me it kind of shows you this duck and recovery situation that we were all being educated to the effect of nuclear weapons, not in japan or in some other place in the world, but right here at home. in '62, kennedy made this speech concerning the soffit missiles in cuba to the nation. this is a picture taken by ralph crane of "life" magazine. and it wasn't long after t

my parents fled the castro regime. my father at the time was in prison under fidel castro. he was a political prisoner. fought to help free cuba, when obviously the dictatorship came in in the late 1950's. jail, and ite in was a trying moment for my family. states,e to the united and it was one of those things where they started with nothing. father, being the entrepreneur and hard worker he he started working as a carpenter and electrician. he made ends meet for his family. it was those lessons with my father, who would constantly remind me of the importance of reagan and democracy in america, and how we have a responsibility to preserve these values. this is something i talked to my kids about as well. steve: your parents are still alive?e mercedes: they are. they are proud americans. if you asked my father today, would you go back to cuba? he would say no, i am a proud american. he loves this country. he loves the opportunities that this country has given him, being able to come in and grow his business. to raise his family. in my family, he was one of the earliest suppo

chris nguyen is in castro valley but start with jonathan bloom at alameda coroner's office with what we know to date. >> reporter: we've learned that officer's body was brought here after he died at scene last night. seen chp officers come and go and crime lab as with the. autopsy likely to be performed tomorrow. and then procession of officers will likely escort the body to funeral home. other officer in the car was injured as was the driver. police say that driver may face felony charges. this is not the way we wanted to celebrate christmas day. >> 33 years old. been with the highway patrol a year and four months before the accident. >> impact so severe it turned utility vehicle into very small compact. >> reporter: on a maximum enforcement patrol on the 880 looking for drivers under the influence. tragically, that's exactly what they encountered. >> this person, 22-year-old from hayward chose to drive under the influence of alcohol and also drugs. this needs to stop. >> reporter: officers say a red cadillac veered off at high speed and struck them from behind. other officer had se

. >> the predominant emotion is shock this morning and we have team coverage, jessica castro continuinghat live at city hall. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the whole crew there in the studio. i was just listening to carolyn talk about how this was is up a sudden passing here of mayor ed lee and there's proof of that here this morning at city hall where things are running as they would as any other particular week. you see a worker here cleaning the streets right in front of city hall, something that they do regularly, and the evidence of that shock that people are not out here quite yet. this is still very early, city hall only opens at 8:00 this morning and right now things are quiet. the flags are not lowered yet as we expect them to do later today in respect of mayor ed lee's passing. this happened in the middle of the night as we've been mentioning around 1:00 this morning and, therefore, people are simply waking up now and learning of the passing of mayor ed lee who was mayor here in san francisco since 2011, leaving behind a long legacy as carolyn just talked about, so

castro's brother raul is already a self-proclaimed communist. his associate, che guevara, participated in the unsuccessful rev pollution guatemala but in the revolution, few cubans, even in the middle-class, believe that fidel castro will turn communist. he believes in the rights of citizens. but the elections never take place and the government becomes an instrument of coercion. the takeover is a success. berlin, 1961, our road has almost reached the present. why have the russians built this wall? why are all people denied the right guaranteed them under the international agreements to pass freely from zone to zone within berlin? the communist explanation is simplicity itself. according to them, west berlin was a base for intrigue and imperialist assaults on east berlin and east germany where a man has a chance to enjoy the finer things in life. but things were going the other way, east to west, and so has every other casualty at the wall. no one can be sure of the real reason, but prior to the erection of the wall, almost anyone who could get

she was the owner of the one around the corner on castro and 22nd, i believe. there was a permit in 1980 to enlarge the office. they didn't mention the unit there, so this unit's been there for a long time. in 2005, the project sponsor got a cu to remove the unit. i ask for a cu to demolish a building, how is that in the best interests of my community or anywhere in the city, to demolish real affordable housing to build a five level mcmansion? how is it in the best interest to tear down a modest housing or how is it in the best interest -- i have no problem with this guy building modest housing, but five levels? finally, ask the commission not to reward the project sponsor who refused to rent or acknowledge and fought to keep this unit off the book with permission to demolish rental housing and building something that we all know will never be rented, will be only for the 1% of the 1%. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. please. >> hi. i agree with the tree on the castro, as someone who rides that bus all the time. it's difficult for me to understand how thi

his say deeming this crunching tackle a red card offense window was off for an early shower while castro joined filip on the doctor's examination table. come the second half dome and had the better flow and combined well the graph again and under his sure sure letendre malenko one one in the seventy five minutes the but the pressure on bush began to lets up but he would have had a scare as later cruisin came frighteningly close with two minutes left to go the booming kept fighting for their coach and made one final push in the dying seconds of the match to grab all three points but to no avail. frustration on the pitch as the game ended all even and peter bush he's still in the job at least for the time being. the boss is still in a job but the bonus they get seems to have its fourth coaching casualty of the season. on the brink of leaving cologne his side behind him so the thanks to a good job worked on the opener in the thirty sixth minute in the second half. here i see pulled one back for the billy goats but it was a back and forth battle. chokers amine hurry took the lead back. five

i was in one of cuba's most prominent schools when i made a joke about president fidel castro. that slept on the bunk bed on top of me recorded our conversation and i was expelled from school. my mom said the only choice is for us to leave cuba. i'm a businessman. i've lived in miami for 35 years. it's my home base. i come back and forth to cuba. i've been coming to cuba for over 20 years. i mean, cuba is a communist country in economic transition. fidel castro allowed cubans to establish more businesses. there are people that are making money. there are people that have created a tremendous amount of wealth. >> anthony: people with family connections to the states, people tied to the exploding tourist industry, small business owners, taxi drivers, people operating in ever-changing gray areas of what is permissible. how's it work right now? if you're cuban, you can sell your property to -- >> hugo: another cuban from cuba. and that's what's happening right now. a lot of cuban-americans, a lot of cubans living abroad are now coming back, and through relatives, are buying propert

until april two months longer than planned due to the damage caused by hurricane castro and his late older brother fidel have ruled the country for nearly sixty years. british foreign minister boyce johnson has confronted his russian counterpart over the annexation of ukraine and russia cyber hacking so gay lover of told him relations between the two countries were very low johnson's visit to russia is the first by a british foreign secretary in more than five years. russia's sports minister says the country will host an alternative competition following its banned from february's winter olympics in south korea that suspension came after the international olympic committee found evidence of a quote unprecedented systematic manipulation of the anti doping system. in less than fifty day use around two and a half hours and athletes would descend on pyong chang for the twenty eighteen winter olympics the question is how many russians will be here among them earlier this month i.o.c. president thomas bach amounts to ban on russia because of state sponsored doping. the launch now appearing

man's fourth goal in four games both sides took a hit when when dale wiped out don't miss gonzalo castro the video referee had his say deeming this crunching tackle a red card offense when del was off for an early shower while castro joined filip on the doctor's examination table. come the second half dome and had the better flow and combined well. again and under his shirt sure to under a malenko one one in the seventy third minutes ago the pressure on bush began to let up but he would have had a scare as later couzin came frighteningly close with two minutes left to go. dormant kept fighting for their coach and made one final push in the dying seconds of the match to grab all three points but to no avail. frustration on the pitch as the game ended all even and peter bush he's still in the job at least for the time being. rb livestock had a chance to read and lake leaders byron munich with his victory over hoffenheim and their opponents had been in a rut for the last two months. with just one win in seven games yulia novels man was looking for a strong response and while much the stars