you know, the theft of the curbside material, it is primarily a curbside issue. you know, we have hundreds of thousands of commercial customers in apartments that we go inside to get, and that is not really a problem for them. it is the folks that bring their material out to the curb that are impacted by this. we asked folks to try and bring their bins out as close to the election time as possible to give people less time to get into them or to do it in the middle of the night. it really is a curbside issue, and it is based in just about every large city. the blue cart recycling program still continues to thrive, and we generate 500 tons to 600 tons of material every day. that goes to pier 96 for processing. we will continue to work in partnership with all these city agencies. dpw, dph, and others to find new ways to address issues such as this while continuing the quest for 101 4th street -- for zero waste. this is the first six months of complaints for this year, and these are the 2011 complaint. about 1000 planes a year that we receive, either the website for

our curbside program done residential, about 20%. city government, we generate a fair amount, and we represent about 15% of our total. and the crv program ranges between 5% and 9%, to give you a context of what our total effort are to achieve the version. notwithstanding all these great efforts in san francisco, there is still about 400,000 tons per year still going to a landfill. about 150,000 tons of organic going into the black bins still. 50,000 tons of paper still going into the black bins. about 5,000 tons of crv containers are still going into the black bands. so there is still rising again amount of work that needs to be done to achieve the zero waste goals that san francisco has. there are a couple of options that certainly our office is working on. we need to continue our programs. we need to work with manufacturers to find solutions for products that

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it does very little to the curbside stops. there are no lighting reassignments. this is somewhat similar to the current conditions. the rapid option has more reduction. not much impact on the curb stops, but also includes a fairly robust look at the lane assignments for the transit lines. in terms of private automobile access, we have three options on the table. additional access changes means that we are building upon the required right turns in place now at 10th and sixth in the eastbound direction. looking at other key points for we could implement similar strategies. limited vehicle access builds upon that same idea. it also includes potential car- free zone between fourth and fifth, where we have the highest pedestrian volumes. a fairly constrained right of way with the placement of the board -- bart portals. the car-free option proposes no private automobiles east of franklin. that is the most robust option. in all three cases, we are testing these options to see which accomplish our transit goals. to decide which of these is the best strategy moving forwar

it does very little to the curbside stops. there are no lighting reassignments. this is somewhat similar to the current conditions. the rapid option has more reduction. not much impact on the curb stops, but also includes a stops, but also includes a fairly robust look at the lane

we have curbside service where we put a bill and someone from the store will come and do the transaction, we are reduced to having to do that. the problem is as i said in the state law with the way that damages are abused by this attorney because he has -- there will come as a husband and wife and come four or five times. instead of $4,000 is $8,000, or you get $32,000. quex have seen this before, a sign in the front saying where there is some impediment, a sign saying, let us know if you need, we will come out to you. >>is that typically a good defense? >> that is readily achievable. if you can i get a ramp or -- you can get a ramp or gain access to the store through a ramp because of the building code, the barrier is not readily achievable. if it costs $150,000 to do, you will not able to do it. something that is considered a readily achievable solution. in some instances, the slopes are too much. supervisor mar: if it is a $5,000 physical fix and you decided that the board -- the doorbell approach -- >> it is usually because you cannot get a ramp on in there. the building code will no

however, in these cases from when the curbside -- where we typically call the furnishings down -- furnishing zone, in other words, trees and other such things, specifically as it relates to access, we want people to keep it clear for there to be access to the sidewalk. we believe this to be a well thought out piece of legislation. >> thank you. unless my colleagues have questions for you, i do not have any. again, i want to thank you, and especially mr. nuru, who has been very helpful to us in getting as information. i would like to call on carla johnson, who is with the mayor's office of disability. and if i might add, a bernal heights district resident. i think it is important for her to be here because this legislation and the issue of accessibility to white zones has a specific -- special significance for that community. i wonder if you can speak to that. and again, thank you be -- for being here, ms. johnson. >> thank you for inviting me to speak before the committee this morning. i'm carl johnson, director of the mayor's office on disability. i'm here to speak in support of this legisl

curbside. >> reporter: the olympic ceremony's kickoff is friday. the city is getting ready. >> thanks for joining us tonight at 10:00. here's brian now with the news edge at 11:00. breaking news out of laurel, maryland where the search for an apparent drowning victim just ended, sky fox live off stagecoach road. a teenager went for a swim and never came back. rescue crews were called and the teenager was found a short time ago. fox 5's karen gray houston is live with the latest. >> reporter: it was a very intense, very dramatic search here next to the willow lake apartment complex in laurel right off stage coach road. that search went on for about an hour and a half and now joining me to talk about exactly what happened, mark brady, the spokesperson for the prince george's county fire department. thank you so much. what can you tell us about the person who was found? >> we can say now that he's a teenage male. he was located on the pond floor at about 10:20 approximately by the rescue personnel that were wading or walking through the water. he was

trucks will check limbs up to 4 feet long and 4 inches in diameter, and up to 45-pound bundles on the curbside for the next few weeks. bigger debris should be brought to the facility and transfer station at route 355 and shady grove road, at no charge. we have more information about pickup and dumping debris throughout the suburbs and maryland and northern virginia on our website at nbcwashington.com. reporting from montgomery county, chris gordon, news4. >>> i would have to say that's a lot more than 45 pounds. that will take weeks and week. >> indeed. the weather is not helping the utility crews who are working hard. >> no, it's not helping we had storms down last night, too. i think we could have another round of strong to severe storms coming through a bit later on this evening into the overnight hours. once again, a few storms could be quite strong. we also had another storm develop last night, with winds upwards of 68 miles an hour, and moved right across the river, where we saw 1-inch hail in that area. that was overnight. you probably got woken up by that. 99 degrees is the current tem

the weekly event that brings gourmet food curbside. . >>> nice weather and gourmet food was on the menuight in oakland. bites off broadway was once again parked along 45th street. the weekly event features six food trucks offering a variety of food. organizers say it happens every friday from 5:30 to 8:30. it runs may to october. >> mark is off. fred is filling in. exciting game at at&t park. unfortunately didn't work out the way we wanted. >> it was good drama at least. you can say that. its been a month but it seems like only yesterday when the dodgers came to san francisco and got shut out in three straight games, you didn't think this was going to happen again did you? when the giants host the dodgers, people calming -- and saying we are on tv, she isn't myi. i don't even know her. man. giants led until the 5th when la scored twice off. matt cane. mark saying -- hairston scoring the go head run. no shut out tonight and -- giants -- hang on. giants trail in the 8th when belt clutches third hit of the game. cabrera scores, we go to extra innings, the dodgers are healthy now. they just

for $99, they'll offer you a ten-minute curbside wedding wherever you want to get married along the streetnister, flowers, launched just last week. already had four pairs of customers. $99. that is reasonable wedding. >> we need to have a wedding on "world news now" live. >> you'll bring her the show and have a live -- >> no. >>> if you're a big fan of butter and crustaceans, this story is for you. a 21-pound lobster was caught off of the coast of cape cod, basically they put it up for auction for a raffle. the winner wanted the lobster adopted to the aquarium. you want to steal it. >> after a raffle, in new orleans. >> not in new orleans. >> in orleans. >> the wasn't in new orleans. caught off cape cod. >> the raffle was in new orleans, the second sentence of the story. >> spared that thing's life? >> there was a 35 pounder at the same aquarium in the 1980s. >> wow. huge. >> claws -- >> can you imagine? that would be delicious. >> so good. >>> also, we hate flies. we have so many because of the crazy weather. this guy has come up with something, very cool here. a salt-shooting gun that ki