it is the buttressed shoring excavation contract. the shoring wall will surround the area, will be 110 feet deep. the bottom of the wall will be 15 feet below the bottom of the excavation. the wall will provide a key below the water bearing sands, thus limiting the need for watering during subsequent excavation. by limiting this, the tjpa would lower the risk of lower water tables around surrounding buildings and avoid any settlement. shoreham will contain 330,000 square feet of cement with steel i beams. the shower wall is the first item of work of the major items in the contract. the contractor will start work drilling in the shoring walls in june 2011, and they should take nine months to complete. the next major item is the buttress. that is there to minimize any potential settlement with the adjacent mission street tower. the tjpa will build a buttressed in the foot of the transit center below excavation. the buttress will consist of 32,000 feet of 70-foot diameter drill shafts filled with concrete. there will be approximately 21

it is through the excavation co- head where all the boxes require some sort of excavation to be able to set them and the concrete. there is regulation of those facilities. supervisor maxwell: i have a hard time getting internet consistently. like anything else, i think we can do it better, and we regulate. and we have an obligation in the city. this is a beautiful city and we are known for our duty. we are known for how gorgeous is and what you can see in our neighborhoods. we have an obligation and responsibility to make sure that we understand that. our tourist dollars depend on our duty. it is about finance and it is about our city and the fact that it is a lovely city. we have to do everything we can to make sure that people respected ha. -- it. w tha is what this is about -- that is what this is about. >> i think the amendment today was substantive. i didn't know

we also had a bid for the budget excavation package. that is also before you today on the regular calendar for approval in terms of additional activities through the month of november and on going through december, we continue with our pre-bid meetings for the various packages you see. also, there is a correction on the upcoming bid openings for 4.1 and 4.2. that is happening tomorrow and will be before you for approval. >> now i would like to have steve from turner give our monthly construction update. >> good morning. turner construction. another great month. work getting done on the demolition contract, something to celebrate. over 20,000 craft hours without incident out there doing have a demolition. we think there are a abnegate trend. we continue to salvage work. we continue the existing terminal building abatement. a couple of small issues there but we are getting past those. we completed the demolition across first street, the overpass, so that is all done before the holiday moratorium took place on the streets. as the executive

that means no dense gouges or other physical indications consistent with excavation were observed. now, additional, it says no physical evidences suggests that a preexisting leak occurred and ruptured pieces. jackie speier says in some ways enough is already known about what happened. >> eight people's lives were  lost. i think that speaks for itself. >> reporter: an earlier finding by the ntsb might tell the public where the investigation is heading, and there's a suggestion that the gas volume in the pipe might have had something to do with the r upture. the ntsb said 375 pounds gauged. in the october report, ntsb says pg&e was operating a 30- inch seamless line above that maximum standard set by the nss -- n tsb's gauges. >> we've now ruled out c orrosion, a preexisting leak and a piercing of the pipe by some excavation. so we know move on to looking for yet another cause. >> there's no outcome as far as, you know, what caused this horrific disaster in our community. but in fact, it's -- it's another step in the progression to find out what did. they have eliminated a few thin

shoring work needs to be completed before we can move into excavation. we have looked at the critical path submitted by webcor. that represents a day for day delay on the delivery of the project. if we were to wait one month to vote on the item, we would be delayed the entire project by one month. also, in the event that there might be a delay, looked at the baseline schedule to see if we could we sequence work to take this off of the critical path. we have got through exercises and found that there is no way to get the shoring wall off the critical path. at this point, any delay is an overall delay in the program. >> which means money in the project. chairman ford: the overall project length? >> seven years 255 days. >> yes, but it is still money. as you know, we are tight on monday. there is no reason to delay it. -- on money. >> while construction does not begin in june, we're looking at a two phase of notice. the first would happen immediately after your vote, should you vote to approve this contract. balfour beatty would need to be ready for constru

our main concerns at this point are the large-scale excavations of naturally occurring asbestos and the effects of the traffic cuing which have obviously been talked about. in terms of traffic, it has been acknowledged from the planning department that the traffic study did not take to win into account -- not take queuing into account. we have not seen ways to eliminate it. just a list of possible measures. we assume this means there will be queing for up to a year as this is worked out and there will be a huge increase in traffic around our area, and traffic idling, which will lead into an increase in airborne pollution from car exhaust. since this was not taken into account in the traffic study, i assume the was not addressed in studies. this is probably going to push our pollution level beyond anything that is acceptable. all residences which he fumes. personally, i'm very concerned about emergency vehicles being able to access the building in a timely manner. we have had one large fire in our building so we are incentivized to have at fire trucks able to get to us. we have not seen

you go in, and you begin to work, excavate, play with the dancers, and then things began to emerge. you may have a plan that this is what i want to create. here are the ideas i want to play with, but then, you go into the room, and there maybe some fertile ideas that are becoming manifest that are more interesting than the idea you had initially set out to plan. so there has to be this openness for spontaneity. also, a sense that regardless of the deadline, that you have tons of time so the you can keep your creativity alive and not cut it off and just go into old habits. it is a lot like listening. really listening to watch what is going to emerge. i like this thing where you put your foot on his back. let's keep it. were your mind is is how you build your life. if you put it in steel or in failure, it works. that works. it is a commitment. for most artists, it is a vacation and a life that they have committed themselves to. there is this notion that artists continue to do their work because of some kind of the external financial support. if that was taken away, artists would still

you walk up to these properties and then further up the stairs, during the excavation, these astaires were demolished. there had been in easement at this point. when the property was under the ownership, it was expressed by the property owners. now the project has been at the front of the rear. access of this property is provided on this property. you might have to provide for access from another property. >> if you can put up exhibit b which to show is the proposed -- then you can show how one access of the rear unit. >> >> there is more conditions than just that one. >> there were numerous other conditions that restricted the development. this was basically just the commission the. they are usually presented a project which is different from what they want. in their decisions, they provide guidance. the commission has looked at this again and under the building permits, they approved a new project which really wipes away any previous conditions that they opposed on the project which has been abandoned. >> once someone started on the permit, those conditions needed to be met. >> thos

it needs to be excavated. in likelihood, which will not need that property for another six or seven years. >> he testified that he will no longer have a parking access. the parking enters on natoma, but that is another devaluation of the building. i understand the value of money over time. it is difficult for everyone. >> to recognize taking the property values its. we are purchasing that by acknowledging the change in values of front, richard up f-- up front. >> he retains the units. >> correct. >> i do appreciate your willingness to talk about the bigger issues. it does seem like a difficult set of circumstances. supervisor alioto-pier: continuing the conversation, if you are having a problem renting out for selling the unit as a result of the city's movement and actions and negotiating, we are incumbent to help him, so i would like to reiterate what supervisor duffy has said. if there is something we can do, i think we should do that. it is clear our actions are impacting the ability to rent or sell this. s

. >> because you get to that point of origin, you have to excavate, and hand excavate, sometimes with hand shovels, hand tools. then we work from least damage back to most damage. and much of the time, that gets us to our point of origin. >> reporter: he says starting the investigation quickly is critical. >> the further you separate, the time of the fire from the beginning of the investigation, the harder it is. we're lucky in the city. we staff our fire investigation bureau 24/7. >> relatives tell wjz, the family did use space heaters and recently smelled the strong odor of gas in the home. >> they didn't find where it came from and left it at that. it's crazy. it ain't hit home yet. ain't hit me yet. >> you really to have been a clean slate and be open-minded until all of the data is revealed. >> reporter: it's unclear how long that will take. >> we always going to wonder how it started. >> reporter: and mr. obra hi is also in charge of fire prevention in the city. he calls this fire a failure in prevention because there was no evidence of working smoke detectors in the home. repor

can get pretty close to my 50% parking on my ground floor behind my commercial, and it eliminates excavation and spending a lot of money on unnecessary parking structure, which i think is kind of the goal of the new parking mandates in the city, so i currently am proposing to provide 54 spaces for residential. 52 are my car sackers, and two handicapped accessible. due to space constraints, i can only set in two, which again, i'm required to do one. so i'm dropping my total request from 69 down to 56, which is 13 less cars, and that is the reason we redesigned our parking proposal. if there is any questions i can and sit on the parking, or i will move on to the inclusion very aspect -- any questions i can answer any parking, or i will move on to the inclusion very aspect. my partners and i agree that we would do the include jerry housing requirements, which would be 17 units at 100% of ami onsite. again, after looking at our project and analyzing the best way we could move forward, given the fact that i am involved in another site that is close by, i feel an opportune spot to build some of si

at 9:30 this morning they were excavating to cap off the line and no evacuations were necessary. just north of there crews shut down a stretch of highway 101 overnight while they bull dozed debris triggered by a mudslide and reopened it at 5:30 this morning. the mudslide was actually a lot closer to pacifica than reported earlier. >> it looks rough out there. thanks for that report, and try to stay warm. >> is it over? possibly more rain in the forecast? our meteorologist has been a busy man. >> the wind is still there, but it depends. for some areas they've clouded up, and we get brief downpours. the rain was impressive. the wind continues to be a big story. we're not done with the showers, but done with the raining per se. we'll have details in a few minutes. >>> a search for a missing woman who disappeared while snowboarding in al pines ski resort. she became separated from her friends around 1:30 yesterday afternoon and was last seen going past the boundary signs on an advanced slope. the sheriff's department search and rescue team is looking for her. >>> the weather in the s

these are the cuniform tablets that were excavated in the late 1880's and early 1890's by the university of pennsylvania. tens of thousands of fragments of cuniform fragments. the story of anana starts in her adolescence. it travels through her journey as a queen and a goddess, and much of her story is devoted to the love, a very passionate love, for dimusi, who is a shepherd who she takes as her husband, lover and king. and this is called the return. a lament was raised in the city. my lady weeps bitterly for her young husband. anana weeps bitterly for her young husband. woe for her husband, woe for her young love, woe for her house, woe for her city. dimusi was taken captive in aruk. he will no longer bathe in aradu. he will no longer treat the mother of anana of his mother. he will no longer perform his sweet task among the maidens of the city. he will no longer raise his sword higher than the kugar of priests. great is the grief of those who mourn for dimusi. anani wept for dimusi. gone is my husband, my sweet husband. gone is my sweet love. my beloved has been taken from the city. o

there were no signs of pre-existing damage or damage from excavation in the area before this fire and explosion. those were some of the theories being tossed after the september 9 disaster that killed eight people and destroyed 55 homes. some of these theories are being ruled out n.t.s.b. did release information about a discrepancy in what pg&e said about the pipe and what they found in their investigation. >> pg&e has always identified this pipe as being seamless. the evaluation shows it's not a seamless pipe, it's seamd and welded at number of judges. >> does midnight those were a factor in the explosion or fire? too soon to tell, but congresswoman said there is a difference in the inspection done on seamed pipes and seamless pipes. the first report came out in october. the full findings of the government panel which investigates disasters is still months away. that is what we're going to find out exactly what happened. in the meantime, time the investigation continues. live in san mateo, eric thomas. >>> yahoo is laying off hundreds of employees this holiday season fourth round for

. >> the september ninth explosion was not caused by a preexisting leak or excavation damage. that's according to the ntsb. >> we move on to looking for yet another cause. >> reporter: jackie spears says this update from the ntsb does raise serious concerns about pg & e's records. >> we know that they didn't know what they had under the ground at this location. >> reporter: the pipeline examined by the ntsb had many welded seams, but pg & e had reported to investigators that this was a seamless section of pipe. >> we know there's a discrepancy there, and we're working to look at all of the records for that pipeline. >> reporter: pg & e offered no reason why they had differing reporting. a final report is due late next year. in the meantime rebuilding a neighborhood where eight lives were lost continues. and some lawmakers say until we have answers,pg & e should restrict use of neighboring pipelines. >> one of those pipelines is 10 years older than the one that ruptured. i think we should have evidence before we start raising that pressure again. >> reporter: while this report

that would suggest it was hit with an excavation of equipment. no evidence of a preexisting week. this supposed christine conley as a look into the report and new details revealed about the pipe in christine what did you find three >> if pg&e reported this was actually a seamless pipe and that it did not scenes in it. we found out that's not the case but that the pipe was riddled with seems that it's important to note that pipes was scenes are not uncommon the questions are being raised today about exactly why piccinni didn't know the pipe was seems. if that could change how they would events but to the pie. but show you what congresswoman jackie's there had to say about this today. >> some of those teams were only weldon from the outside of the pie. and a news conference after the report was released congresswoman's jackie's beers said the pipeline safety regulator to probe how pg&e and inspected the pipe and question of the needed to use more high-tech methods like sending a robot into the pie. >> i do believe will find out as the inquiry continues, that there is a more rigorous

there were no signs of pre-existing damage or damage from excavation in the area before this fire and explosion. those were somof the theorie being tossed after the septemb 9 disastethat killed eight people and destroyed 55 homes. some of these theories are being ruled out n.t.s.b. did release information about a discrepancy in what pg&e said about the pip and what they found in their investigatio >> pg&e has always idtified this pip as being seamless. the evaluation shows it's not a seamless pipe, it's seamd and welded at number of judges. >> does midnight those were a factor in the explosion or fire? too soon to tell, but congresswoman said there is a difference in the inspection done on seamed pipes and seamless pipes. the first report came out in october. the full findings of the government panel which investigates disaste is still months away. that is what we're goin to find out exactly what happened. in the meantime, time the investigation contues. live in san mateo, eric thomas. >>> yahoo is laying off hundreds of employees this holiday season fourth round for the sunnyva based

the only thing that i would mention is that any substance that is a revision is the excavation at the corner of market and delores. that is the change that has occurred as part of the finalization of the final review documents. thank you. >> before 7:00 a.m. would be our preference. it would be extremely difficult. >> we have talked about the noise of a loading. it sounds like to me that that window sat like the time there was a lot of traffic coming down the street. i have another question, this is in regards to the non automobile patronage. this is what i have heard. this store is slated to be around 30,000 square feet, is that correct? okay. i believe that your store at fourth and harrison is 48,000 square feet and half of the page as to not use vehicles. >> i would say that that is correct. this is 38,000. >> someone from your group has that information and that is what has been represented. on the franklin california store, 32,000 square feet which is a little bit larger than this. that is about 51%. when we look at these issues of problems with parking, i think we have to look a

any signs of corrosion were no signs of dance or gouges suggesting that the pipe was struck by excavation equipment. andorra's no physical evidence of an external leak. the report did confirm that the 30 in. pipe was you see here it was riddled with welding seems which is the opposite of pg&e reported. if they said the pipe was seamless. the report also indicated that some of the seams were only fusion welded from the outside of the pipes. as it is the report was released congresswomen jackie spirit who represents the san bruno area held a news conference. >> if we all knew as soon as the explosion occurred in the to the pipe at of ground were plenty of seems. in fact, there was a patchwork of seems in that type. >> pg&e held a news conference regarding off findings over the fall but could an answer why they did know the pipette scene started >> we know there's a discrepancy among working to look at all of our records for that pipeline and make sure that we turn that information over to the ntsb as part of the nine exhaustive search. >> what will likely to get the full report? >> it could