we think it will draw people out on the terrace, they will see the big cone and say what is that. then as they approach the cone tell hear these very unusual sounds that were obtained from the cornell orinthology lab. >> we have the largest recording of birds, mammals, frogs and insects and a huge library of videos. so this is an absolutely perfect opportunity for us to team up with a world renown, very creative inspirational artist and put the sounds and sights of the animals that we study into a brand-new context, a context that really allows people to appreciate an esthetic way of the idea that we might live in the world without these sounds or sites. >> in the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. we get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what it was. >> when i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york, manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. so, just getting people to wake up to what was just literally there 200 years ago, 150 years ago. you see the object and say what is that. you come ou

the other cone at 45 degrees depicts the breadth of view that mr. low has from his penthouse with our proposal in its current form. this diagram shows the point at which we've taken these lines from and extrapolated out. and as you can see from within mr. low's penthouse we have been reasonably conservative from the point at which we have taken these view lines. as you move west towards his -- towards the rear of his building, this cone expands and expands his field of view. in addition to this, both of our north and south abutting neighbors have eight foot rear yards and this includes mr. low's building. our proposed addition has between 15 and 22-foot rear yard.

the other cone at 45 degrees depicts the breadth of view that mr. low has from his penthouse with our proposal in its current form. this diagram shows the point at which we've taken these lines from and extrapolated out. and as you can see from within mr. low's penthouse we have been reasonably conservative from the point at which we have taken these view lines. as you move west towards his -- towards the rear of his building, this cone expands and expands his field of view. in addition to this, both of our north and south abutting neighbors have eight foot rear yards and this includes mr. low's building. our proposed addition has between 15 and 22-foot rear yard. with two minutes remaining, i was wondering, toby, if you have anything. thank you. >>> thank you, commissioners. i guess i would address some of the concerns that have been raised so far. >> do you wish to state your name? >>> sorry, toby morris of toby morris architects. parking in this neighborhood is an issue. we are proposing a curb cut that is adjacent to another curb cut so it will

ice cream cone. yep, i like ice cream cones. yes, but also learning-- learning how to think, to reason, to absorb ideas and process information, to recognize and solve problems. for the whole child, especially at this age, learning isn't work. it's a joy, a pleasure, and something to look forward to every day. woman: why does his nose go up and down? woman: where else have we seen tadpoles? child: there's grass in there. hendrick: this is especially true as more and more teachers combine the more conventional and traditional styles of teaching with the new and creative learning techniques-- techniques that emerge when the educator teaches by collaboration rather than by instruction. woman: is it dark in there? hello. i'm joanne hendrick, author of the whole child and your guide to this video series. in this program, we're going to look at what we call cognitive development and what we can do to enhance our children's ability to think, reason, remember information, and solve problems. we'll observe children in a number of differe

they're picking up the cones and moving the road crews from the area north of hyde street. that's a distraction. and we'll show you on the map, approaching the area from the north. 980 towards high street, a similar situation with the crews moving the cones away from the road. we should have a smoother flow in the next half hour. right now, it is slowing because of the crews. heading towards the bridge, no problems. a live look shows you a nice flow of traffic. >>> boaters came within several feet of two adult whales this past sunday afternoon. >> touching the boat. >> kind of pushing them around. don't need that motor. the whales gently slided through the water. nice way to put it. even spraying them with a little bit of water. >> we freshing. >> that's amazing how close. this time, the whales can be seen passing through the area during their annual migration. i don't know if i've seen a mall boat so close. >> that's cool about it. wonder if they spray that water out, do they have bad breath? >> like shamu. >>> 4:57 right now. your night on the town is about to take a high

make a cone. >> a cone. >> beautiful.our ingredients, and you can add extras if you want. >> add whatever you like. but there's a base four ingredients. >> i have three little boys under 10, and they love it. they love getting involved. customize it to what your family likes. >> how long do you bake it for? >> 375 for about 35 minutes, and -- >> beautiful, by the way. >> this is what -- >> look at it. >> it's adorable. >> it looks so good. >> you'll be amazed what you can make with those few ingredients. don't think four ingredients, no flavor. flavor is the most important ingredient. >> depending on what else you have in your refrigerator. >> tell us about the next. >> okay. this isn't four ingredient. this is just three ingredients. >> what do we put? >> tomatoes, and before you ask whether they're plain or flavored, whatever is on sale. whatever is on sale. saving time and money. that's what we're all about. onions and butter. put those three ingredients into a pot. >> why did you put the onion -- >> put it in water. i

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there was a cone that had formed in the center, and the grain was flowing down that cone.y knew enough to sort of stay away from that flowing corn. but the supervisor of the facility opened up a second hole. and a second cone formed. and the flowing grain caught wyatt first. he was pulled under. alex and will tried to pull him out. they also were caught. wyatt went completely under the corn. alex followed. and will was caught up to his neck. he tried to keep the corn away from alex's face but was unable to do that. >> warner: how does o.s.h.a. -- what does o.s.h.a. do with these cases and how do they explain the fact that the initial fines they levy are so often reduced dramatically? >> well, in this case the fine of $555,000 was one of the biggest ever that o.s.h.a. levied. then it cut the fine more than 60%. what we found in our investigation was that that is par for the course. o.s.h.a. cuts fined about 60% of the time in these cases when workers die. the average fine is cut by 50%. and this is a system in which o.s.h.a. operates, other government agencies basically do

y quÉdese cone nosotros viene el "noticiero univisiÓn", nos vemos maÑana a las 6 con mÁs informaciÓn.bado 30 de marzo y acá las principales noticias,. >> hoy en la vigilia pascual en el pontífice sorprendió con gestos. >> la semana santa sirvió con los símbolos calvarios en la frontera. >> corea del norte se declara en estado de guerra, estados unidos y corea del sur en la mira. >> le diremos por qué el ganador del "power ball" tendrá que presentarse en corte, vamos con la información. >> este es su noticiero univisión fin de semana con félix de bedout. >> buenas noches y bienvenidos al noticiero de univisión del fin de semana. >> como la evolución de la humildad ha sido calificada por especialistas el camino del papa, hoy en vigilia pascual estuvo marcada por nuevos gestos. >> el papa francisco estuvo en la vigilia pascual, de esta manera el sábado santo significa el triunfo de la muerte. >;> con pocas palabras y sencillas nos transmite mucha humildad. ,>> mucha espiritualidad y eso nos reconforta mucho. >> el papa es una cosa fuera de serie. >> el nuevo papa bautizó a cuatro jóvenes

this time he is in japan, standing in front of an ice cream shop that offers this enormous ice cream cone they do hand it over to him, it stays together really well. look at the clerk in the background, too. >> she is laughing. >> he is using two hands? >> yeah, he is going on the side. >> he is getting all of the flavors before they get soggy. >> how is he not getting brain freeze. >> thank you, my teeth would hurt -- you can hear him complaining about how much it hurts. >> i think i could eat that. ice cream, i could down so much. >> i love it, but even for me that's a lot. >> the giant panda is an endangered species. they only have a three day cycle a year. but at the breeding base in china, there was problems because 5-year-old field, colin, was not feeling her male. the staff was worried, so they had an idea on how to make yongyong and colin get it on on. so what they did, is they played a video of other pandas doing it. from the san diego zoo, a successful mating process, they played the video. and guess what, the people at the panda breeding research center said now there's no stop

bill cone asked to the auditors does this affect shareholder equity or earnings? he said no. he approved it five years in a row. it was clear they are getting pressure but circle that there was no effect on earnings so what is the difference? so it is clear that spitzer one aig over then paid $1,600,000,000 that led to a class action suits. think about what this man did. national television, accused me of criminal fraud without ever having invited me me, presenting any evidence. john whitehead wrote the op-ed in "the wall street journal" commenting how can the attorney-general do this to america's leading co? spitzer called and threatened him after that. clearly in corporate america the boards lost power, a ceo hp, the board's took over responsibility was that good for the economy? it is one of the reasons i have written the book. we're at a crossroads. it is disgraceful what they have done. i would not settle for a dime. i will not do that. we're in the courts of appeals the highest court in new york of the martin act as currently written and being used is constitutionally p

get it over with. >> get you an ice cream cone. you don't like ice cream?am. >> take the shot, i'll get you an ice cream, hot dog. before i leave here today, you're going to take the shot. you've got to take the shot. i don't know why today you feel like you don't want this shot but you have to take it. you can make it hard or you can make it easy. you're still going to have to take it. i don't have no choice.

when we do talk about families i mean, i live on off of - the parents on my street put cones in the middle of street to kind of help with the congestion so the kids can play in the street on saturday. it would be lovely if they didn't have any cars on the street which is the nice luxury that people have in this neighborhood. i understand when you hear the general plan that everyone thinks particularly of their neighborhood. but we have a larger charge at looking at the city as a whole. and the reality that we have people moving here and we can't prevent people from moving to san francisco and housing prices are all an all-time high. i have a friend who has to look in the million dollar rage. do you live in a 3 unit building do people live above you? so there's a rile need to provide this type of development. it's been respectfully to the way it's been the way it impacts the city. i think this is a really respectful project. so i know that for this scale of, you know, the impact that it's going to have they're going to be more cars and construction i i know that's a huge inconvenience but i

cone oi shakes park is one the city's best kept secrets on lake twin peaks it's hardly crowded on a day any day you will run into a new lolls and hop on a bus to get there without any parking worries and lolls bring their four-legged fronds run freely with other dogs and a small touch of grass for the small dogs and wild flowers carpet the grasslands keep on the look out nor hawks and ot >> at the san francisco recreation and parks department we offer good quality day care of your child will

cone oi shakes park is one the city's best kept secrets on lake twin peaks it's hardly crowded on a dayny day you will run into a new lolls and hop on a bus to get there without any parking worries and lolls bring their four-legged fronds run freely with other dogs and a small touch of grass for the small dogs and wild flowers carpet the grasslands keep on the look out nor hawks and ot [drum roll] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> good evening, everything. why don't we give the cyc dragon dancers s a big round of applau. first i want to wish everyone a happy lunar new year. and we are happy to host you at this event at city hall. there are a number of people that i want to recognize before we start. and a number of people that will be speaking. we have supervisor malia cohen. of course our very own first lady, mrs. anita lee. i see a number of other dignitaries who are here with us today. council general gao and council general hawk of china and singapore. and to our many department heads who are here. we have harlen kelly with puc and mrs. kelly, the city administrator. and chief white. an

. >> as we take you over to oakland, we have construction with the cones to be picked up shortly. northbound 880 between 66 and high street we had a few lanes blocked, but, again, the cones should be picked up and traffic is moving okay in that area. i will take you outside. here is a look at your san mateo bridge making the drive away from hayward, and it will be clear conditions out this with a few extra tail lights in the westbound direction and hold lights are moving east and everything is all clear. >> next, malled by a tiger while on the job and a zoo cooper -- keep are narrowly escaped death the. >> more of us are worrying about sea levels especially in the bay area because of climate change. but here is america's money report. >> new milestone on wall street, the s&p 500 index hit a new high after gaining just over six points. the previous high was october of 2007 before the start of the recession. the consumer financial protection bureau says bank of america accounts for a need of the complaints about mortgages saying that all the complaints have been resolved according t

the cone probably stood for a unit of grain, a small unit of grain. the disc probably for an even larger unit of grain. one animal -- and one animal meaning in the middle east one goat or one sheep. so how do the tokens lead to writing ? well, it took a long time. keach: it took nearly 4,000 years. but around 3500 b.c., in a culture known as sumer, the world's first cities emerged. now, a more complex economy required more complex record-keeping. accountants took a ball of clay which they poked inside with the fingers to make a cavity. you know, it's just like a tennis ball of clay or even smaller. and once they had a good cavity, they would put inside tokens, and then a flap would be put on top, and all of this was closed. and we are in pre-writing time. and at that time every sumerian had a seal. and when the stone is pressed onto the surface of the envelope, it leaves then a design which is then the mark of the person or the administration involved. keach: with these seals, up to four parties could sign a transaction. these envelopes could hold sev

cone oi shakes park is one the city's best kept secrets on lake twin peaks it's hardly crowded on a day any day you will run into a new lolls and hop on a bus to get there without any parking worries and lolls bring their four-legged fronds run freely with other dogs and a small touch of grass for the small dogs and wild flowers carpet the grasslands keep on the look out nor hawks and ot >> bonnie banks. bonnie banks. my definition of noise is uncontrolled music. without format. pretty simple affair. pancakes, and you're -- people get up on sundays around noon, weekends or whatever. should not be too hard to walk into place. have your audio alarm clock go off for two hours waking your up while you are eating breakfast with many interesting visuals once in a while. improvisation. listening or not to the person you're playing up against or people or machines. trying to get as many different people in as possible. different genres, experimental noise, electronics, dissonance some drums.a tiny bit of ambient -- the first noise pancake shows, 1999, the first waffle noise, 2001. god-waffle no

is on the scene directing the left lane only getting by, with cones and flares out. the coroner is on the scene. it will be some time before this is cleared. it is a fatal accident, south 280, the alternate as the commute is underway in earnest is taking south 280 to north 880 and north 880 to south 101. the other sig-alert, a big problem getting out of marin county, boulders are in the lanes and several cars have hit the big rocks and all lanes, now, are shut down, southbounds with no, a says to the golden gate bridge and you want to take a ferry or the richmond san rafael bridge to get around and we will follow this with c.h.p. on the scene to flare off and get one lane open but right now, no access southbound 101 into san francisco. >> tough morning on the roads, we will check back with sue later. >> still ahead, thieves target a popular recreation facility at uc berkeley and students could be unwittingly helping the thieves. >> pitting neighbors against a school district. a community does los altos, antioch, petaluma and all the bay area this is abc7 news. >> goo

the right lane is coned off. it is the counter commute direction.your trip through the altamonte pass coming out of tracy. it is heavy on 205 from 11 merging to westbound 58 0. >> 32 minutes from tracy to dublin. slow on high way for work in the construction. westbound heavy at antioch working toward pittsburgh. it looks good on the bay point side and to concord. 17 minutes from antioch in to concord. >> as erica mention we are dealing with visibility issues. because of the dense fog. most of the bay area bridges are cover and fog watch your speed and be careful. a bit of a back up for so the cash lanes. the lights are off less than 10 minutes from oakland into downtown san francisco. you can hardly make out the shot. it is the san mateo bridge. traffic at the limit. watch your speed. at your head lights and wipers on. 14 minutes between hayward and foster city. >> the golden gate bridge has all is well. 21 minutes fromnavaro into downtown san francisco. >> the first 49ers free agent to go is a tight end dklanie walker. who signs a four year call it

. >> reporter: some people are worried more about their chords and cones than keeping their eyes on their road. and this is what happens when they don't. >> in terms of the crash risk when you're texting or talking on the phone, is that task is comparable to driving with a 0.5 blood alcohol level. >> reporter: an estimated of 80% of accidents are due to distracted driving. but it turns out something you might do every day, driving with kids in the backseat, is an even worse distraction. and one you might not even realize. in a first of its kind study, australian researchers found that children accounted for 12% of all potentially distracted activities, more than talking to a front seat passenger, more than adjusting a seat or seat belt. drivers are breaking up fights and calming fussy babies. laura has been there. >> can you get in your seat please? >> reporter: as mom of two active twin boys, laura experienced the added level of distraction that can often come with pint sized passengers. >> i think my kids are more distracting than talking on the phone, maybe because i feel more obligate

we had cones overnight blocking a couple of lanes. a couple of caltrans trucks, they have all cleared. it was the road crew clearing from the approach. a smooth drive as we see a few more cars. it is still very early at the toll plaza. we will take a look at another bridge. this is the foster city side of the san mateo bridge with an easy drive westbound. flashing, twinkling lights over towards the bridge. south bay, same map. construction sites typical. 880s, 101, 680 northbound. reports of a crash there. i thought maybe the same incident. i will check with chp and get you verification. last i heard, there were no links blocked on the freeway. >>> the plans to put new seats on b.a.r.t. trains are going to take a little longer than expected. so far, b.a.r.t. has outfitted 250 of the 269 cars with new vinyl seats. it is scheduled to finish up the work on 50 more soon. the agency contracted with the company to rae plays the seats in 139 more cars. the company hired to do the work sudden suddenly backed out. b.a.r.t. has to restart the b

elsewhere in the oakland area, north 880 from 66 to high you will find cones blocking the lane. >> thank9. we have developing news from san francisco where police are investigating a grizzly accident in an elevator shaft at a bart station. you saw the story first right here on abc7 news. our reporter, amy hollyfield, is live at the park with the very latest on this bizarre situation. amy? >> firefighters are now saying it appears the man was sleeping on top of the elevator and they found personal belongings including bedding. last night it was at 9:35 a man was taking the elevator from the muni platform to the concourse level on market street and he says he heard a scream and a crunching sound. firefighters found the man in the elevator shaft. he was dead. he was smashed to death. they don't know how he got in there or how long he was sleeping in there. they will investigate that later today. it didn't cause any delay on the trains. there were no delays last night or this morning. it was focused on the elevator hours. it took several hours for investigators to trying how -- to try to fig

gate bridge which looks nice right now and also the view with those lights across the span moving the conesn half an hour. we'll talk about something a little farther north. you see the construction marked on north side of the bridge but

cone oi shakes park is one the city's best kept secrets on lake twin peaks it's hardly crowded on a day any day you will run into a new lolls and hop on a bus to get there without any parking worries and lolls bring their four-legged fronds run freely with other dogs and a small touch of grass for the small dogs and wild flowers carpet the grasslands keep on the look out nor hawks and ot ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the san francisco playground's history dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for $27,000. in the 1950s, the center was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, the sunset playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. >> here we are. 60 years and $14 million later, and we have got this beautiful, brand-new rec center completely accessible to the entire neighborhood. >> the new rec center houses multi-purpose rooms for all kinds of activities, inc

cone oi shakes park is one the city's best kept secrets on lake twin peaks it's hardly crowded on a day any day you will run into a new lolls and hop on a bus to get there without any parking worries and lolls bring their four-legged fronds run freely with other dogs and a small touch of grass for the small dogs and wild flowers carpet the grasslands keep on the look out nor hawks and ot >> we're ready to begin the meeting, everyone. good morning. today is wednesday, february 20th, 2013. this is the meeting of the abatement appeals board. i would like to remind everyone to turn off all electronic devices. the first item on the japed is roll call. president clinch? >> here. >> vice president mel berg? >> here. >> commissioner lee? >> here. >> commissioner mar? >> here. >> commissioner mccarthy? >> here. >> and commissioner walker? >> here. >> and commissioner mccray is excused. we have a quorum. and the next item is item e, the oath. would all persons that may be giving testimony today please stand and raise your right hand? do you swear that the testimony you are about to give is the tr

work crews put out barricades and cones tonight to redirect the traffic from the final step in the construction. they expect to complete this traffic by monday morning's commute. it's the most important part of a 238 corridor project. >> well, titans on the move. the unlikely city that's sprouting its version of the valley. >> you never know what's going to get left behind. and you never know what somebody else is going to find interesting in 50 years. >> also, a rare chance to walk through bay area history. how you can see millions of artifacts almost never shown to the public. >> and he's known for his humility. the simple act of pope francis i did catch everyone off guard. >> right after the break, a reminiscent of the cold war era. what has the white house building um missile defense on the west coast. >>> the united states is bolstering its defense system. the pentagon will spend a billion dollars to deploy the additional interceptors in alaska. officials want to act soon because they do believe that north korea is further along in its nuclear program than first thought and that north kore

way to vallejo and the east 37 ramp to westbound 80 is closed due to construction and you will see cones in the last lane moving beyond the village over into strawberry and that should be picked up by 6:00 this morning and thick fog across the golden gate bridge if you are coming into san francisco. northbound 880, rather, both directions, there is road work until 6:00. kristen and eric? >> on capitol hill the house committee on homeland security is set to hold a hearing today on changes to what airline passengers can bring on board their flights. there is concern among many lawmakers and several airlines over the t.s.a. decision to start allowing passengers to bring small 9s on to jetliners. some lawmakers say the decision appears to have been made without input from flight crew members, air nationals -- air marshals or other staff. they confiscate four tons of the 9s that do not pose a catastrophic threat. >> china has a new president. he picked up the title today in an overwhelming vote of the people's congress. the president is the least permit of the three titles he carries. his tru

he didn't knock down one single orange cone. perfect driver. so much fun. that's in alameda county at the fair ground. >> he's good. >> he's very good. thanks, bob. cal fans basking in blue and gold glory, men's basketball team gearing up for the ncaa tournament after pulling up a big upset win. cal bears put on a show in front of the home crowd at hp pavilion. holding a last-minute rally for unlv. cal will play number four ranked syracuse at 6:40 tomorrow at hp pavilion. the winner makes it to the sweet 16. needless to say fans are on cloud nine. >> so happy that we were able to win a tournament game and be in the tournament. the last two minutes were two of the most excruciating minutes ever. >> top 32 though. >> meantime st. mary's is now heading home. the gaels knocked out yesterday. the team fought hard against memphis but couldn't get that last-minute bucket shot to win the game. it was so close. st. mary's loses to memphis 54-52. >>> harvard is proving to be a real bracket buster in this tournament. harvard beat number three seed new mexico to clench

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foster city and elsewhere we will look at the road work southbound 101 you will find the left lane coned off by the village. also, down do one lane approaching the golden gate bridge because of road work there in the process of being picked up now. >> contra costa county is taking job applications, with openings right now for agents to help california enroll in health care insurance under a new federal mandate taking affect in january. the "contra costa times" reports that 180 new positions are open at the recently approved health exchange call center to be located in concord. the salary is between $31,000 and $45,000 a year depending on expense. candidates can apply online at the contra costa county website until april 5th. >> if you are looking if a job, abc7 news could be able to help hosting a job fair player today with our partners at the jobdown, with the event from noon to four at 8th and market in san francisco, and at&t, or a california and home depot and the santa clara sheriff department will be there with more details at abc7news.com. >> coming up, he is not even old enough t