commissioner chen: my comments are brief. i would like to welcome matt lee to the transportation authority and thank them for hiring him. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you for adding to the welcome. if there are no further comments, colleagues or discussion, the meeting is now adjourned. have a good rest of the day. >> i have been a cable car grip for 21 years. i am a third generation. my grand farther and my dad worked over in green division for 27. i guess you could say it's blood. >> come on in. have a seat. hold on. i like it because i am standing up. i am outside without a roof over my head and i see all kinds of people. >> you catch up to people you know from the past. you know. went to school with. people that you work with at other jobs. military or something. kind of weird. it's a small word, you be. like i said, what do people do when they come to san francisco? they ride a cable car. >> california line starts in the financial district. people are coming down knobbhill. the cable car picks people up. takes them to w

commissioner chen: my comments are brief. i would like to welcome matt lee to the transportation authority and thank them for hiring him. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you for adding to the welcome. if there are no further comments, colleagues or discussion, the meeting is now adjourned. have a good rest of the day. >> in this fabulously beautiful persidio national park and near golden gate and running like a scar is this ugly highway. that was built in 1936 at the same time as the bridge and at that time the presidio was an army and they didn't want civilians on their turf. and the road was built high. >> we need access and you have a 70 year-old facility that's inadequate for today's transportation needs. and in addition to that, you have the problem that it wasn't for site extenders. >> the rating for the high viaduct is a higher rating than that collapsed. and it was sapped quite a while before used and it was rusty before installed. >> a state highway through a federal national park connecting an independently managed br

commissioner chen: my comments are brief. i would like to welcome matt lee to the transportation authority and thank them for hiring him. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you for adding to the welcome. if there are no further comments, colleagues or discussion, the meeting is now adjourned. have a good rest of the day. president olague: good afternoon. this is the regular meeting of the san francisco planning commission for march 24th, 2011. let me ask everyone to turn off their cell phones, pagers or any electronic devices that may sound off during the procedures. [roll-call] we do have a quorum. commissioners, the first category on this calendar -- if i may just take one moment to announce that for the next few weeks, your calendars will look a little strange. they will not follow your regular order of business. to allow us to test out this new early start -- when you talk about your rules and regulations, you changed your start time from 1:30 to 12 noon. unfortunately, all of your cases have been advertised for 1:30. we need

at sfo, sharon chen, cbs 5. >>> and google is helping people find relatives now in japan. searchers can look up missing people by name on google's people finder. again, to get an update on the status, so far there are 161,000 people in that system. >>> cleanup has begun in the santa cruz harbor. hundreds of boats there were damaged when tsunami surges hit northern california. more than a dozen others are now deep under water. christin ayers shows us recovering them will not be easy. >> reporter: after a deserve stating tsunami that drowned boats and destroyed docks on santa cruz harbor, a daunting task. >> this is a big job for us. >> reporter: a big job that has only just begun. divers called out four vessels over the weekend, 18 are still submerged in the harbor, and getting them out is tedious. >> the divers have to go down and they will have to attach float bags and equipment to the stern of the vessel and drag it into the boat ramp here. >> this is one of the boats that will be pulled out of the water today. authorities tell us they are facing two major challenges. on

sharon chen, live in san francisco. thanks, sharon. >> they all sound good right now. >>> cal train police stepping up security at a redwood city station after an assault and robbery and police say a mob between 9 and 15 suspects attacked a man as he waited for a train friday night and left him on the ground badly beaten. and the 47-year-old still is in critical condition. transit police are asking now for any witnesses to come forward. >>> the bay area's next express lanes could be in silicon valley. the new lanes are proposed for interstate 880 and highway 237 in millipitas and north san jose. that's where those two freeways connect. they would be free for car pools and open to solo drivers willing to pay a toll. the vta will hold a public hearing this afternoon. >>> and the first flying over a proposal to require dogs in the golden gate national recreation area to be on the leash. and many dog owners have been upset because the animals are allowed to run free for years. protesters plan to set up at this afternoon's h

sharon chen in san francisco. >> good news it is not raining.nt rain but we may get a little. >> i don't know if it will be so much here in san francisco but that is not until later this evening. we will stay dry. windy, wind gusts upwards of 40, 50 miles per hour some locations most of us in the range of 20 to 30 that will be the case through much of the day today. yes, it will stay dry for most of the daylight hours, this warm front coming through later on tonight it will bring with it light scattered showers again golden gate to the north most likely going to see it. out the door, mild temperature wise but factor in the wind and it sure does feel down right chilly in some locations this afternoon temperatures cooler than yesterday, 3 to 5 degrees cooler, gusty winds throughout much of the day. a check of your morning commute, checking with giana. >>> all right taking a drive right now, we have a couple things going on wind advisory in effect for the bay bridge. use caution. live now we are seeing a bit of a back up meeting lights on -- meteri

sharon chen live at san bruno. thank you. >>> a harmless prank or something more sinister. a student at burlingame high school has been arrested on suspicion of making terrorist threats. the 17-year-old taken into custody yesterday, after the fbi said they found an online posting threatening a school rally. when authorities searched the student's home, they didn't find anything suspicious. and there weren't any problems at the rally. the student says it was just a prank. >>> a nine-hour standoff coming to a deadly end in berkeley. a man with a gun barricading himself inside a house on lauren avenue in north berkeley last night. at one point he fired his weapon. that prompted the s.w.a.t. teams to respond. the negotiators talked to the man on the phone through the night but when negotiators went through the building early this morning they found him dead with a self inflicted gunshot wound. no one else was hurt. >>> things are back to normal in muni san francisco after a nasty commute. there were big delays. the agency says mechanical problems caused the outbound muni metro

chen absent -- cohen present. elsbernd. elsbernd present. commissioner fairly. present. commissioner kim absent. commissioner mar, absent. mirkarimi, present. >> weiner present. we have a quorum. commissioner mirkarimi: read item two. >> approve mendoza of the january 25 meeting. action item. commissioner mirkarimi: motion to accept minutes by commissioner campos and seconded by commission farrell. >> item two, commissioner avalos. >> aye. >> campos, aye. >> champion chu. >> kwlie. elsbernd, aye. roll call. >> there are eight eist, and it passes. commissioner mirkarimi: would you read items three and four? >> chair's report, item four, executive director's report. information items. commissioner mirkarimi: i have brief brief marks. this meeting will be brief. we had another busy month at the authority. there has been quite a bit of activity in sacramento as i am sure you have been hearing and reading about relating to transportation funding as the can he bait over the state budget continues. what we have seen so far in ferms of the governor's proposal is encouraging. the

chen, yushon banks, marisol bivac, theresa neighbor. >> [speaking spanish] >> good afternoon. my name is manuela, and i am a member of power. i ask that in honor of love and valentine's day you open authorize the test passes for youth. i ask that we think about -- if we really love our youth, make this free for youth. make transit free poor youth. it should not just be provided to the more low-income children. that creates a stigma for them. that is a type of racism. i wish for this day that the test passes be implemented not just for the next three months, but the we can have free transit for youth for the future. i understand at this hearing that the implementation of the fast pass it is expensive, but we need to make it free for youth between the ages of 5 and 18 who ride the buses every day. they should not have to show a fast pass. they should just be able to get on a bus, just being used. i think about my own children, who i give money to ride the buses sometimes. instead of buying their transfer, they end up buying candy, and they do not know the consequences of these d

. >>> sally chen left her pet in her car while she had lunch at 8 8th and brennon on march 1st 1st. when she got back to her car, someone smashed her back window and she is missing. she adopted the dog from an animal shelter and thieves may consider her valuable. >>> the san francisco public defender released another surveillance tape that shows police narcotic officers conducting an illegal search. the latest tape is december 2 december 2nd, and they show police framing an unnamed african american man. during a drug bust at a hotel, plain clothed officers falsely link him to a jacket full of crack cocaine. officers arrested him and three other people. >> without the video tape camera, he would be in jail now and likely on his way to prison. >> the d.a. released the man. this video wasry lease affidavit several investigations were launched last week into the six plain clothes officers making drug busts on three other separate surveillance stays. >>> a -- tapes. >>> a grew of senators say they have reached an impasse on talks for the $26.5 billion deficit. it was just hours after the

sharon chen on how the prosecution tried to form the former slugger lied. sharon? >> reporter: frank and sidney, the testimony this morning has been dramatic at times. it sounded like a soap opera. this morning, in the perjury trial, barry bonds sat stone- faced avoiding eye contact with ex-girlfriend kimberly bell as she described her nine-year romance with him since 1994 and then to 2003, and a relationship that continued when he got married in 1998 to someone else. and testified in 1999, she asked him about a lump on his arm and he told her it was because he used steroids and it caused muscles and tendons to grow faster than his body could handle and the physical changes that happened at that time and his overall body grew dramatically and acne on his back and hair was falling off and he shaved it. and organs that changed sexual performance and bonds mental changes and increasingly aggressive, irritable, and agitative and almost violent and threat ton cut her head off and throw her in a ditch and cut off the breast implants he paid for her and then burning down

s chen. bottom four, buster posey matches ross with three homers. ripped here.rey huff would later get his fourth of the spring. an mri revealed brian wilson has a strained oblique muscle. early concern was he could possibly not be ready for opening day. but the latest is that he will be shut down until monday and then reevaluated. wilson said today he doesn't think it's bad enough that he would miss the opener. into next week we will know more. >>> the a's facing the white sox. nice day here. ryan sweeney adds a homer. 8-3, oakland wins. >>> special guests on the farm for the first round. condoleezza rice making the scene. one of stanford's professors before becoming secretary of state. active off the jump, 12 points in the first half, leading the charge for the cardinals. now into the second half, stanford well in control. with a 20-point lead. >>> the masters is fast approaching. here on nbc, we had the third round of the transitions championship in florida. plenty of birdies, a few eagles and then this winged creature in palm harbor. could be a taradaktile.

because if it was an explosion coming out of containment dome then it won't go as high as it did by chen noble and so it won't spread so far but that means that the radiation will be a lot more intense in the actual area so it's good that they're evacuating at the moment but it's really not enough because the area is much larger that we're talking about that will be contaminated. and a professor of economics at the university of nottingham believes the financial cost of friday's disaster will have consequences beyond. there is already you know really a terrible situation under five years of crises you can struggle really cagr a. crisis is over the last two or three years and just. one army and it is clean just going through he didn't even bother it's very difficult to assess the problems or you're going to do stage i assume the impact will be significant but i hope it really is going to be called. no you just do it in your question because it let me know if you just heard it locks up tomorrow in the middle east is going to cost the lives in prices of oil in other words you knows and also

arab world toppling routines should other governments worry about the same fate some speculate that chen it is concerned the democratic happening in the middle east may soon visit its more doors others observe such worries are overblown the russian public opinion research center asks citizens who is behind them as demonstrations across the arab world thirty three percent say it is the entire population of the country alone think the protests are bad by those fighting for their rights eight percent see the poor speaking out. garner six percent and the five so could they then send the arab middle east have far reaching implications. ok brennan i can go to you again and london i mean where do we go from here because a lot of people in north america right now at least these are protests in their various from country to country they're not overtly anti-american or anti western you can certainly see some elements of it maybe just as many islamic elements of my morton minority opinions right now but if there is a western intervention to try to determine outcomes now because a lot of people on t

the secrecy particularly in regards to nuclear power clone what dr chen let's talk about this the so-called secrecy that you refer to because in your article you make a reference to another story in the new york times that says the warnings were stark and issued repeatedly as far back as nine hundred seventy two about the cooling systems of these g.e. general electric made nuclear power plants so we're saying that the warnings were there for the cooling systems if they ever felt going back to all that a nine hundred seventy two so is there a level of secrecy here why why i have to speak has this been just put aside ignored i believe it is not only limited to the japanese government in total secrecy in all its nuclear power will notice also united states cheveley will not while on. a plane nor on one nineteen it's nearly all it's cheaper and smaller needs to appeal their reason the reason it's preferred to build new. poll only it's. really hard to even do you or. me or our. hearts are not built to endure as you say an earthquake or tsunami damage or. is it private companies such as general e

chen gulfan and her husband showed me a picture of their son. he is living back with his grandparents. they see him once a year, so that they can work in the factory, making $14 a day, $270 a month. clothing workers here, $88 a day, $1,760 a month. how could we ever compete with those socks and other items? would we want to? >> i'm not sure it's feasible to compete with china. what we are good at is the production of advanced goods. >> reporter: when it comes to clothing, he means labs like this one at the north face in california. testing the latest in waterproof jackets. windproof. winter proof. the kind of advanced clothing foreign competitors can't match. in fact, 400 people have jobs because of this one lab alone. and back in that very public lab we created, one couple, determined to find american. even the t-shirt, she said, "honey, take it off." >> haiti. >> haiti. >> well, i got to confess, david, i wouldn't have done any better than them with your test. but i'm determined to try. and you did find some real hope out there, too. >> report

yesterday by the icelandic government because later for their role in the banking collapse in addition the chen goods brothers offices in london were seized and seven other people were arrested for their roles in massive bank fraud so should we be taking notes over here and going after our banks there is to your offer is take as john birt director of the center for investors and entrepreneurs at the competitive enterprise institute john welcome thanks for having me on tom great thank you for being here with us shouldn well actually let me let me just start this thing out last night on rachel maddow show us and we see michael moore was on and he had this to say to the banks take a look at this i'd like to anybody who works on wall street a.b.a. works for the base just a good thing to look at this ok because this is what this is what's coming is what's coming for you because the people are going to take it anymore but people are going to demand justice they're going to me and they're going to be if your ass is in jail you've taken our money we want the money they're taking our jobs overseas we wa

legislature ten provisions that should worry many wisconsinites let's take a look at those here's the chen provisions very straightforward number one the very first provision of the wisconsin g.o.p. agenda huge cuts to medicaid appointee the way that this is going to happen is the governor wants to take the guy who's in charge of medicaid and make it and take him from being a civil servant to making him a political appointee so he can just decide because he's the governor's guy he can just to say oh you know medicare recipients we're just going to cut your benefits rather then you know being a civil servant who has through his or answerable to the entire legislature the second one. they're going to sell off public utilities with no bid contracts i mean this is really incredible this is arguably insane there are. koch industries the big companies in the state would love to get these public utilities and they'd rather get them for a song so that they can have the consumers by the throat shall we say but this is what they had to have the governor say this is what he's going to do this is how

on january 24th, 83-year-old juan chen was attacked and beaten by a group of unmen. he died from his injuries two months later. there's a $100,000 reward offered in the case and police are asking anyone with any information to give them a call. >>> two men are under arrest in connection with that beating at a redwood city caltrain station. a 47-year-old san jose man was beaten and robbed last friday night. he remains in critical condition. the two suspects are both teenage boys, a 19 and 18-year- old boeing from redwood city. as many as 15 people took part in that attack. >>> the next time you ride bart, make sure to keep an eye on your ipod or kindle. the number of electronic devices stolen onboard the trains doubled between 2009 and 2010 to 166 thefts. the top four most stolen devices -- bart says most victims usually involve passengers, not paying attention to their belongings. >>> good morning to you. giving you a live look at all that bright sunshine over the estuary this morning. light winds outside our door. waking up mostly cloudy, santa rosa waking up with m

chen zhu told the newshour the government will keep a close watch on radiation levels. >> we have thenese c.d.c. which has the monitoring system for radioactive contamination in water and food. in addition, at the level of the border inspection, the agency is also increasing the inspection of the imported food from japan. >> we would like to see the monitoring data fully disclosed. >> reporter: environmentalist ma jun, who heads a beijing non- profit group, says he wants both governments to make public the information they collect. >> we did have some experience in the past, when local governments tried to cover up some toxic spills and endemic diseases in sars. >> reporter: as a result of the crisis in japan, china is reassessing its own nuclear power policy. the nation is in the process of building 37 new nuclear power plants, and is now re-examining safety standards. in addition to concerns about their own welfare, some chinese have been collecting money for earthquake and tsunami victims. ♪ this evening at a beijing nightclub, the entrance fee went to raise money for the red cross

sharon chen gives us the dish on the food truck frenzy. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. half dozen tents parked out here outside the department of public works new guidelines take effect making it easier to get a food truck permit in san francisco. these folks want on the first when doors open 8:20 a.m. the food truck permits will be more affordable, $3,000 instead of $10,000, it is first come first served for coveted spots like financial district for lunch and outside bars and clubs for late hour crowd. back in november, board of supervisors stream lined the process making public works the one stop location for permits. the city has 100 food trucks now and that could double. they started camping out four days ago eating junk food braving the cold, rain and wind to keep their place in line until the doors open this morning. >> the sense was that there would be a rush they are opening 8:20 a.m. monday and probably people are going to be applying for the same spots. >> all about location there are spots in the city that are going to be up for sale which could make or break

. >> how about 1916 chen charles evans goes to california running against richard wilson. the pier is plight between conservatives and progressives. he meets with the conservatives and either through a miss happen or deliberate conspiracy he misses a meeting with a highly prickly man who sits on his hands, california lost by 5,000 votes, don't hold me to that and those electoral votes goes to the presidency. >> charlie: what was it that ray bradbury said. >> it was a short story i think of the sound of thunder. >> charlie: and he talked about on time. >> then he goes back in time to hunt dinosaurs. the time of travel agency builds him a platform so he doesn't touch anything. he kills a butterfly by accident and comes back to find it incredibly coarser and leaders leading the country because that butterfly over the course of millions of years lessened amount of grace and beauty in the world. that's the really butterfly effect as far as i'm concerned. and that's a short story that i went back and read to kind of just primed the pump. >> charlie: what didn't you include if yo

as heather said, i'm tina chen. staff to the first lady and last years have been executive director of the white house counsel sill on girls. it's fitting march women's history month we celebrate the report and its release and wreelly celebrate the anniversary of the council of women and girls. it's a special pleasure to do it with the culmination of this project. the project itself i have to say is really representative of the theory of the case behind the council. that is as the president said when he signed the executive order that this is the council intended to convey the message across the entire federal government that every part of the federal government has to the federal government has to think about women and girls.

during the chen he plays several phone calls, he told police he wanted to get his life in order, before he pulled over to surrender. it lasted 40 minutes. police looking for a car jacking suspect, here's what it looks like at the interest section. the vehicle that cause the accident was a car that was carjacked on march 10th. the driver ran to stop sign colliding with the vehicle. the carjacking suspect made off on flood, the other people in the vehicle did not have any life- threatening injuries. an attack over richmond woman in our own home have people police looking for the attacker. daniel has spoken with the richmond fleecing.police. >> reporter: it was here were a woman was attacked by a man. 9:00 a.m. february 5th, she answered a knock at the door. it turned out to be a man who was there to attack her. he demanded money forcing himself into the house. he beat her unconscious. >> she was rendered unconscious two times, the second time he cut her throat. he then fled. >> reporter: she was able to crawl outside for help and now they are trying to find the attacker. they're described

as heather said, i'm tina chen.taff to the first lady and last years have been executive director of the white house counsel sill on girls. it's fitting march women's history month we celebrate the report and its release and wreelly celebrate the anniversary of the council of women and girls. it's a special pleasure to do it with the culmination of this project. the project itself i have to say is really representative of the theory of the case behind the council. that is as the president said when he signed the executive order that this is the council intended to convey the message across the entire federal government that every part of the federal government has to think about women and girls. everything dwow affects the lives of women and girls and we must all work together do that. collaborative effort that becky and preeta led and katherine and all of our agencies that you saw really demonstrates strength of that and i think really power in numbers that we have with everyone concentrating on it. it also evidenc

there's a federal court judge in san fransisco, ed chen. he's renown, but blocked from confirmation because he was a lawyer for the aclu. not because of his current views, but because he worked for the aclu. when the democrats were filibustering the most conservative of the bush nominees trt federal judiciary, the republicans responded with the nuclear option. eliminate the filibuster entirely unless the democrats agreed to not use the filibuster unless extraordinary circumstances and confirm the most three conservative bush nominees. democrats confirmed those three nominees and agreed to the to use the filibuster. the republicans used the filibuster in the last two years more than any group of senators have in all of american history. you can see the statistic about it, but the democrats are threatened with a nuclear option and took similar steps. i don't put the blame just on president obama, but for the senate as well. >> we have two microphones that are over here if people would like to come up for questions. throwing one more at you an

commissioner chen: my comments are brief. i would like to welcome matt lee to the transportation authority and thank them for hiring him. commissioner mirkarimi: thank you for adding to the welcome. if there are no further comments, colleagues or discussion, the meeting is now adjourned. have a good rest of the day. there are so many ways that the internet provides real access to real people and resources and that's what we're try to go accomplish. >> i was interested in technology like video production. it's interesting, you get to create your own work and it reflects what you feel about saying things so it gives perspective on issues. >> we work really hard to develop very in depth content, but if they don't have a venue, they do not have a way to show us, then this work is only staying here inside and nobody knows the brilliance and the amazing work that the students are doing. >> the term has changed over time from a very basic who has a computer and who doesn't have a computer to now who has access to the internet, espec