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also, we are all to doing graffiti letters. if you one other taggers to respect our, you have to respect graffiti art. >> if you had a lot of characters in it, you will get more respect from business owners and stuff like that, but letters will give you the respect of the graffiti artists. i have actually had in my name in this patch of seaweed. >> what if we did it a giant blue whale? >> i was going to do a puffer fish. >> the program for the children is just so important. this is important, too, but you have to get at the kids to find out why they are doing it and direct them in more positive ways. i think what you are doing is great. >> have a good day. see you later. >> dana has been great, she has been a sport about the project. it was cool for her to see it and actually like it. as an artist, it means a lot to us. we are going to make it look really clean today. then it should be done. we have had this mural of for about six years and it has not been tagged. it really works as a deterrent. a lot of us graffiti artists hav

doing graffiti. >> the city is art, other people who have their names tag -- >> [inaudible] our unit there are 2 sections we are doing one is abating and others are notice of violation to private property. all the utility boxes in public right-of-way we abate. >> we abate calls that come within 48 hours. >> we are a small group in g f graffiti. we don't have enough help. >> i have a group in town down and china town and the north tunnel. [inaudible] the graffiti we abate everything is coming up to the areas now. >> i'm willing to take it on. i think -- >> you are telling me you are ready for this? >> i think so. >> okay. >> there you go. >> all right. >> all right. >> ready to do it. let's go. >> want to get the gray signses this over here and the garbage can and normally we don't do private property since it's on the corridor route you can come with me we will use black. >> we had a lot of changes in the graffiti unit. we do private property if someone moved we remove it and send it to the attorney's office and they take appropriate action. >> damage their property there. it's impor

they are cooking up graffiti artists with business owners. today, we are trying to get a lot of this wall buffed out and covered it. then we will spray on some sketches of what we are going to do. the rain is coming tomorrow. it should be here for a few days. we want others to know that there are artists working on this wall. the owner of this building, she has had to pay a lot of money to keep on paying over these attacks. >> we have paid as much as $400. the fed typically have been talk about four times a year. typically, it happened right after we have been notified that we need to remove it. the painter will go up there and paid over the graffiti and make a perfect canvas for the tigers to come back. this program appeals to me because we were looking for a way to stop the taggers and the ugly graffiti. this program

they are cooking up graffiti artists with business owners. today, we are trying to get a lot of this wall buffed out and covered it. then we will spray on some sketches of what we are going to do. the rain is coming tomorrow.

next conditions are graffiti conditions. graffiti shall be removed from the premises and parking lots within 72 hours of application. if it occurs on friday or weaken day or holiday, the licensee shall remove it within 72 hours following the beginning of the next week day. the exterior of the premises shall be equipped with lighting and power. additionally, the petitions, disturb the normal privacy of any neighboring. we would recommend the application for approval. the applicant does concur with these conditions. supervisor chu: this is a situation where the existing business that will be acquiring the tide 21 already does have a tight 20 license. >> that will get surrendered once it goes through our process. >> so they are simply taking over the tight 21 license from across the street, during their existing type 20. >> correct, and i would point out that the current tight 20 has no conditions -- the current type 20. supervisor chu: ok, are there any members of the public that wish to speak on item 1? seeing none, the item

richmond police discovered the graffiti on saturday and have no suspects or leads. as of this morning, the graffiti had not been cleaned up but school officials say it ell b removed soon and such behavior will not be tolerated. >> i'm saddened and also sickened by this disgusting behavior. obviously, we have to make sure that we find the culprits and bring them to justice. we cannot have people putting swastikas or writing "white power" on any of our facilities. >> rich mopped police say the vandals face felony vandalism with a hate crime enhancement if caught. >>> tonight the state of alaska mourns former senator ted stevens. as leanne gregg reports, a high-profile nasa official was also on board. >> reporter: 86-year-old ted stevens was on a fishing trip with eight others when their small plane crashed in a remote area in alaska. stephens and four others died. >> it's with deep sadness that i acknowledge the loss of senator ted stevens. >>. >> also on board, former nasa murder trial, shawn o'keefe. he and his son are reportedly among four survivors now being treat

. >>> caltrans is trying hard to keep up with graffiti artist. you may have noticed the big green highway signs hidden behind tons of graffiti. summer, it turns out, is a busy time for those graffiti fighters. damon is live in san jose where crews are seeing a lot of vandalism. >> reporter: that's right. signs like the one behind me are clean now because caltrans has spent the last few days cleaning them, removing that graffiti. but how long will that cleanliness last? they leave the evidence behind after tagging the signs and walls of bay area highways. caltrans cleaned this sign only tuesday on highway 87 in san jose. we're going to tweak our video to show you how it potentially looked after taggers attacked it recently. >> i know what exit i'm coming off of. but people here from out of town, they're not going to know what exit. >> reporter: summer months are usually their busiest because kids are out of school. they'll scale security fences protected by razor wire and dang frel a rope or other instrument more than 100 feet off the ground. >> i

the tricky part when you remove the graffiti you replace the varnish. with tile it's easier to remove spray paint because you can use solvants and remove the paint. not -- i had 3 projects that have been vandalizede and one o the murals. >> people have done things. on the back of the mission the safe way market safe way. and that has been tagged very infrequently. it's another example of a cared for space. it has been deemed by shopping carts. it needs tlc. she works with a guy who has done a lot of technical fundraising. his strategy was to have sort of the mural printed up in a long form and they sell that as a package that has the history of the mural on the back and who everybody is. we gets on the muni line that goes past the safe way and talks about the mural to muni riders and sells that package. it's a wonderful spiral it gets the money for the maintenance and it also makes more people aware of the mural and the neighborhood cares about it and it's a community benefit. and i always liked that idea. so, we actually funded them to do some they rec

someone painted graffiti and some racist comments are mixed in with the graffiti. ktvu was told the district was not notified about the vandalism until this morning. police say they are also investigating. >>> wall street has been anxiously waiting to hear what the federal reserve announced last year. we'll tell you what was said. >>> a customer banking badly caught on tape. a woman really, really wanted some chicken nuggets. ♪ ♪ yes! ♪ look, they fit! oh my gosh, are those the jeans from last year? how'd you do it? simple stuff... eating right...whole grain. whole grain? [ female announcer people who eat more whole grain tend to have healthier body weights. multigrain cheerios has five whole grains and 110 lightly sweetened calories. more grains. less you! multigrain cheerios. >>> the main reason those numbers are coming back a bit, you saw the dow just now, the federal announced in the last hour, it will maintain current interest rates and try some new policies to spur the economy. the reserve will use money it earned from the t.a.r.p. bond investments in mortgag

the example about graffiti. the person who has to do that, even taking a few steps further, he or she may have had a do-over time. have the kids come in. what is that like? it is so far reaching. but i think he would agree, kids, empathy, really getting to the core is empathy. what we have seen with the most hardened criminals. those, against all odds are capable of doing that. commissioner maufas: a lot of the adults say -- sorry. so my last comment or a situation, this is where we unfortunately sent it through 12th grade, so we have a school that has a mix mashed of kids. we have been trying to kind of balance that out. we are trying to get them to continue with their studies, and the classes are constructive, just a variety of things going on. for all of the students that are there, i.d.'s wonder what that looks like. all of the men have had some type of violent behavior. not all of our kids have violent behavior. how do you work with students of different age, with different histories, with different violati

. >> some stayed home because of a graffiti thre that said an explosive would be set offn campus today. >> theresa garcia joins us from the schoolhere there's a very noticeable police presence. theresa. >> well, even though almost half of the students did stay home today, briarwood is open as a normal full school day. there is an obvious difference. you see multiple police cars parked out front. it is a day of high alert but hopefullan uneventful one. it was scrawled out in an amateurish xhie amateurish style. >> the scol district says the graffiti was discoved more than two weeks ago and hopes or not, police have taking it seriously investigating and preparing for this day ever since. >> earlier ts morning we had one of our canines that trn to detect explosives sweep the school. >> the police canine didn't pick up any explosive material but out of an abundance of caution there are extra officers in uniform and some under cover monitoring the resintial area around the 12 acre towns and avenue campus. >> we can understanding some of the anxiety it the anxiety showed in the attendance nu

but carnival ads and graffiti.nd the city has a bunch of old gas stations. >> rarer. >> and this is bay shore boulevard. >> (inaudible) next to the plant. thank you. and these are something whose time is come and gone. you don't see too many of these unless you are driving in rural idaho driving and i like this and who is the designer? the designer is it owner's son and we have permanently recorded. >> in the good days you didn't need to be an architect to design something. >> that's right. owner's son. >> he didn't even have a name. >> he didn't need one. >> here is another one. >> portero. >> and built for $600 and a steel frame building and used as a shop. they don't sell gas there and but it's there and according to the records and we have all these old records. let's see where do we go? and this one -- >> and that's the best one. >> okay. this is down at howard field. what's up dog? >> used to be on pacific and they wanted to tear it down and everyone went up in arms and they cut off the bottom and dragged it

the graffiti message threatened a device set off tomorrow august 20th. school officials are taking seriously. the district superintendent sent parents a letter advising them of the threat and the extra security cautions they're taking. in addition to the usually assigned officers at briarwood, extra police will also be monitoring the area around the 12-acre campus. and briarwood elementary will remain open tomorrow and joke or no joke, certainly the parents of the nearly 400 students who attend here will be on high alert. live in santa clara, theresa garcia, abc 7 news. >> thanks, theresa. a major sign the war in iraq it closing down. the last combat troops left last night crossing the boarder into kuwait for flights back into the u.s. that doesn't mean the violence or troop deaths will stop. john hendron is live in washington with the latest. good morning, john. >> hi, terry. good morning. as the u.s. military leaves iraq, the obama administration plans to fill the void with civilians. the last combat brigade is gone from iraq. >> we're going home! we w