hardly a green building. there's also a special about durability in terms of the materials to make it up. i am having a meeting next week with folks about the construction of buildings. right now, there is a requirement in the san francisco building code required to take your demolition construction debris to a registered facility, and they are required to do a recovery of some percentage. >> 65%, and you need a registered for any thing greater than a single axel picked up. >> of their committed to a recovery rate. we have recovery, but we're talking about deconstruction come up with the park that will be reused. -- the construction, -- deconstruction, with the part that will be reduced. so there is a regulation, and they put it in place, and that is all. especially with the green toad. san francisco's green building ordinance, and we both word about the -- wrote the ordnance and dealt with implementation with a small number of people, and it primarily relates to new buildings. i will go through the ordinance

green. >> my own direct experience, generally, the buying public will not pay more if it is green. maybe that is something people don't want to hear. it is the honest truth. that is my own direct experience. i think it is absolutely -- what will happen with the current green movement in building, is that it will become standard. it is becoming the standard. ultimately, it will be frowned upon when a house does not have these features, i think. i think that is how it will migrate into society, in that way. it is a good thing. it is becoming an awareness of all of these things, your appliances, your window rating, things like that. it is something that happens over time. people like to talk about it. i have sold properties where they are solar-ready, which means they have all of the equipment installed to bring the solar down, the solar energy from the roof, down into the sub-area, to then transmitted to the electrical outlets and things, but the panel did not get installed yet because maybe the person did not want to spend the extra $20,000 or $30,000. it is a promise it is coming.

green builders. >> just to name a few resources in town that are low-cost, there is a monthly green building professionals meeting that typically is posted at the department of the environment, but it is by building it green, open to any interested parties. you go to builditgreen.org and ask to get on the mailing list, and there is a lot of information on the web site. they have the mission to facilitate overall change in the market to institutionalize standardized green buildings and practices, so there is not only information for how to verify. how to identify green materials, there is a database to resource system, so there is -- >> the energy resource center is at howard street. >> yes. they typically host in the neighborhood of 100 to 200 class's each semester, so basically twice that many a year, and they are affiliated with other programs throughout california streets of san francisco and stockton trading centers are the biggest, and they tend to focus in san francisco on commercial construction and building related issues, documents been focused on small-commercial and residential, a

gem, red and green petite oak, and red and green tango, all 3 of which were researched and developed to meet both the company's standards of quality and the consumers' needs for taste, color, and texture. >> well, if we see--u just gotta look to the past. it was iceberg. it took a long to get to romaine. it took a long time to get to the spring mix. it took a shorter amount of time here. i think you're just gonna see more of these type of products. much like the electronics business, just the speed of technology's, you know, exponential. it goes faster. and so that's it--we've always got to be out in front trying to find out what is that next thing that the consumers are looking for. >> and at the top of most consumer surveys is convenience. the variety of lettuce in each package eliminates the need to buy a lot of different heads of lettuce, and thus allows for customized blends. also, the petite size and shape of each artisan lettuce head lets folks have a quick and easy preparation as well as flexibility in sizes and cuts. in fact, the lettuce only needs two cuts, a quick rinse in

the incredible life of mom greene. >>> record warmth today. what about that record high for the weekend? we'll bring that to you next. >>> some east bay firefighters are working tonight with a heavy heart. a woman who has served as an inspiration for years lost her battle with cancer. ktvu's rob roth joins us now. he has more on the remarkable life of cora green, rob. >> reporter: julie, to the oakland firefighters, police officers, and perhaps the thousands of people she helped feed and clothe cora green was like a mother. in fact, everyone just called her mom. firefighters still have their job to do today, but they said they are doing it in sadness. >> she was playful. she was respectful. she was just a wonderful lady. she was our mom. >> reporter: cora mom green died last night of cancer. she was 77 years old. for the past 35 years, mom green provided food, clothes, school supplies and motherly love to whoever needed it whenever they needed it. >> i used to worry that, oh my god she's doing so much, it's going to be overwhelming. but i didn

christina-taylor green, the youngest victim of that shooting in tucson last january, loved little league. her teammates loved her, too and now their making sure she's always with them on the diamond. here's chris connelly. >> reporter: in the canyon del oro little league, just northwest of tucson, arizona, this has long been known as field 1. these young ballplayers know that someone is missing -- their teammate, 9-year-old christina-taylor green. what's it like to come back out and play baseball? >> it feels good but without her, um, it's a little bit lonely. >> reporter: on this baseball diamond, christina-taylor green would make the long throw from third base and sing beyonce songs in the field. mae sinclair was the only other girl on the team. >> she would stand up to the boys, if they say, she's a girl, she's not allowed to play, and stuff, she showed those boys how to play baseball. >> reporter: supported by her

notice a lot of green on the maps. drivers zeroing in on the outer loop from 95 all the way out to 270. tracking a little bit of a wet commute. overall, still moving at a great pace. back over to the real time graphics. want to zero in to 270, better news out here going northbound in the local lanes, the accident has cleared. looks like a couple of raindrops on our camera here. overall, you'll want to watch your speed this morning because of the rain. going to want to watch the spray past father hurley down to the split. 66, you're in the green. ten minutes from the fairfax county parkway to the beltway. dulles toll road checking out fine approaching 495. it looks like you're doing ok from the beltway to the 11th street bridge. a look at the gw parkway. that's still ahead at 5:10. back to you. >> thank you, angie. >> highway deaths have reached their lowest point in more than 60 years. >> new figures released this morning suggest seat belt and the constant antidrunk driving message is actually making a difference. >> j

there's a policy of creating green at the streets. policy 5.3.7 says to develop a comprehensive plan for the mission district. that is what we have done. we held a number of public workshops over two years. we have done extensive outreach to community and merchant organizations. we have worked closely with our partner agencies in formulating the plan. the plan includes a framework for how we might improve the mission district streets. this was the starting point. we will focus on streets that have a strong identity such as mission or folsom or major connections. we talked about how to create screen connections -- green connections that connect to open spaces. we talked about how to create public life on the streets, of proceeding, pauses, as sector -- etc. for residential streets, we looked at calming traffic. we identified a number of streets for improvement out of the range of types of streets. we wanted to build on projects that already had some community- driven effort going as well as interagency plans. we wanted to the places we

the name is linda green. on thousands of other mortgages, the style of green's signature changed a lot, and even more remarkable, szymoniak found that linda green was vice- president of 20 banks, all at the same time. >> szymoniak: all within the same week. i mean, this is a very, very active person. >> pelley: where did all those documents come from? we went searching for the linda green, and we found her in rural georgia. she told us she's never been a bank vice-president. in 2003, she was a shipping clerk for auto parts when her grandson told her about a job at a company called docx, d-o-c-x. docx, once housed here, in alpharetta, georgia, was a sweatshop for forged mortgage documents. >> szymoniak: they were sitting in a room, signing their name as fast as they possibly could to any kind of nonsense document that was put in front of them. >> pelley: docx, and companies like it, were recreating missing mortgage assignments for the banks, and providing the legally required signatures of bank vice-presidents

, green, will be the business to start. okay, the truth is they come up with a good green idea for a business. is that going to be well-met? is that going to -- can they live on it? are they going have to live at home with mom and dad? it's like anything else. has to be a good idea. uh-huh. >> well-thought out, picturive, works for people. -- effective, works for people, it's marketed correctly, the business model is in tact. it's not a matter of coming up with something and calling it green. >> will they know more of that in terms of the get-informed mission? get informed. they can take your course and read your books. they can go to our web -- your website and select another one or two websites that are good. do you have any favorites that keep us informed? and they don't have the time. >> that's true. >> to sit there hours and hours and hours. some pem are trying to get a job and save their homes and there is all kinds of things going on in people's real lives. >> we're busy. >> sure. >> and that is where people come in

green. >> yes, we will include that comment, green is a part of it and we talked about the integration of transportation, and have to include what we are facing with climate change. and more and more we are doing work with them as addressing the climate change issues. and that's futures are we won't be able to separate transportation from environmental. >> and i think she meant literally the hall and it's a light green color and we are firming up a city wide policy of a plan of bringing those out in the areas. >> and i took that opportunity to steer back to the green message. >> i am isabell and from the department of public health and working on a child issue and including the children in the thinking and planning, and mr. albert, you said in comments about pedestrians, that we are adults and remember that some of us are not adults and we are going through different stages of development and have our own challenges and needs. >> when i said that, that's why we set an example, and we model the behavior. when we jump out in front of the car, and bridget reminds me and it's a red light a

>> green this is the weird one and i should have gotten to you last and she is green because she is walking. very good. this patient. >> (inaudible). >> very good. >> we tagged red. >> because? >> not responding -- >> very good and tagged red correctly. triage and i hope you guys can do it and 32 can do and divide the reds and the yellows and th greens are walking wounded and blacks are dead and simple as that and how long should you be with a patient? not more than 15 seconds and ho long does it take to check breathing? and you know right away and couple seconds to ask for a command and 22nds to check this and 15 seconds with a patient at the most and common injuries are brucing bruising, lacerations and sprains and si signs and symptoms that you wil see is pain, di discoloration, e deformity and some of the treatments and you want to see the wounds and see blood and ri open the shirt so you can treat it and y

the environment and public works; our governor, arnold schwarzenegger, who is a leader in reducing green house emissions, and our legislator don perada and gerald huffman who you will hear from later on in the program, and of course our mayor, gavin newsom. gavin newsom has been a leader of the environment before it was the sexy thing to do. he has been responsible for putting solar power at moscone center; responsible for putting power at san francisco international airport; responsible for putting solar power at the waste water facility in the bayview hunter's point. he will be responsible for putting power on our libraries, on our schools, and everywhere possible in the city and county of san francisco. we're very fortunate that this mayor has been the first mayor to create a climate action plan that will reduce the green house emissions by 20 percent by the year 2012. this mayor has also been a leader and innovation and we're looking at creating -- in harnessing paddle power below the golden gate bridge and that will be done under gavin newsom's leadership. so please put your hands t

we need to create hope and green spaces.

green said he was going to come over and pick up their 3-year-old daughter. investigators later found his car in front of her home but no sign of him. >> i found it quite odd that someone would just disappear and leave their drums, which is their main possession. he just wouldn't do something like that. >> reporter: green also never showed up for work. police say there's no paper or money trail. it's as if green vanished without a trace. >> we ore not happy the way it ended or you it's unresolved. we would like to have some kind of closure and know what happened. >> reporter: penny lopez feels something bad has happened to him. she says he's not just the type to walk away from anything, especially his daughter. >> i believe he did not leave on his own. he would have never left his daughter. he's a great father, very active in her life. there's no way he would have stepped away from her. >> reporter: this weekend, they're dedicating their music to green, a tribute to a man whose music and life touched so many. >> i really wish he could come back and start play

any new development area, shown in green, -- in the new development area, shown in green, there are the areas adapted to sea level rise. the areas on the perimeter of the island, it is not a levee- protected environment. we need to protect ourselves from waves. we've taken the perimeter and figured out what the elevation seems to be, taking in account tsunami is, storm events, and added 16 inches to the protection. then we have enough room around the island in order to adapt the perimeter over time as more and more information is available. we can adjust that perimeter area to protect. 50 years up, we can then understand what the sea level rise is going to be increate that perimeter protection -- and create that perimeter protection. commissioner torres: is this area vulnerable to a potential tsunami? >> no. it is protected by the golden gate. we can get into a lot of detail about tsunamis. commissioner torres: so, you're perimeter that you articulated would take care of that? >> yes. president vietor: you just said 55 inches by 2100. we are anticipating a minimum of a 55-inch sea level

joe green -- here's the real joe green -- was mark zuckerberzuck roommate at harvard. now he's the author of causes, a facebook app which encourages people to contribute to charity. for instance on your birthday you can ask facebook frien ngs to donate a few bucks to the local food bank. causes has raised $335,000 in relief just for japan. anyone can use causes. newark mayor cory booker for instance raising money for an animal shelter in new jersey. joe green has been trying to change the world since high school when he joined the school board at 17. in his words, this is my generation's chance to prove we don't suck. let's get the zuckerberg stuff out of the way. you were one of his roommates at harvard. was that a good guess that it was you in the back? well, your character? >> you could. >> all right, good. for anyone who's seen the movie -- go ahead, sara. >> you chose not to partner with mark, correct? he asked you to be part of facebook and your dad said, don't get involved with that mark zuckerberg? >> and do you still talk to your dad? >> i do. >> just kidding.

also spotted kate's sister pip pippa, wearing a green evening dress. it is reported that a pretty raucous affair happened that night. so much be hobb inr prince harry is hosting a so-called survivors breakfast and morning. >>> vips may be hobnobbing in london this week. we are giving away two tickets and a meet and greet with hugh jackman when he performs on thursday may 5. to enter send your e-mail with your name, address, e-mail address, daytime phone number, to contest at shnsf.com. please include the word swin in the subject line. you can check out our facebook page, just type in nbc bay area morning news. the contest ends tuesday night. good luck. if you have a spare moment today, you could use it to get on the show minute to win it. it will be at the livermore wine country festival from this morning to 3:00 this morning. there will also be a casting call for the nbc show minute to win it. check out nbc.com. for more in >>> will have you ever wished that there were more hours in the day to get everything done? for some people, there really are man

it's green texas well.e up with a way to save energy at computer data center an plans to share this with others. david has the story from palo alto. >>reporter: these are the power hungry server that store data and route internet traffic using megawatt of electricity. one megawatt can power almost 1,000 homes. >> this is an industry that is consuming increasing amounts of energy and that's something that no of these companies are willing to talk b.the exact number. >>reporter: facebook reveals it has come up with major advance in the design of huge data centers that save power. it came up with a way for consumer to convert ac to dc only once instead of 4 times pro-says that loses power. and came up with a new model for cooling down the heat generated by the rows and rows of equipment. >> server don't need to run at 70 degrees when i got into the business pl years agatha was expected norm. you can run server up to 100 degrees. >>reporter: idea came to facebook engineer in the middle of the night. grabbed the

any new development area, shown in green, -- in the new development area, shown in green, there are the areas adapted to sea level rise. the areas on the perimeter of the island, it is not a levee- protected environment. we need to protect ourselves from waves. we've taken the perimeter and figured out what the elevation seems to be, taking in account tsunami is, storm events, and added 16 inches to the protection. then we have enough room around the island in order to adapt the perimeter over time as more and more information is available. we can adjust that perimeter area to protect. 50 years up, we can then understand what the sea level rise is going to be increate

the statue of an angel in honor of 9-year-old christina taylor green will be unveiled in tucson later this afternoon. pieces of steel from the world trade center and the pentagon that was from flight 93 was used in the creation of the statue. it will be placed in a park where green played little league. >>> truly disturbing remarks coming out of arkansas war school nurse -- where a school in your has been fired. according to a letter written by the superintendent. maryland snyder told staff and faculity members all special ed student need to be euthanized and wiped off the face of theearth. parents are outrage and paul has been -- has an 8-year-old son with a tim. listen. >> the thought that he should be put to sleep like a dog, wow. >> the public school board held a hearing and voted unanimously to fire the school nurse. snyder says it was a bad choice of words and her quote, heart

someone who went by the name mom green. ♪ cora green was oakland's mother and spent decades feed caringhe poor and collecting blankets for the home install strite light in neighborhoods where were there none. she received honors that filled a wall. the people's whose lives she touched after being diagnosed with lung cancer fill the church. >> she didn't want you just to serve but understand the people she served. ♪ [ singing ] when oakland police and firefighters found someone in need of help they knew who to call. >> mom green did that for the entire oakland community every single day of her life. >> and when mom green found someone in need she knew who to call. >> i recall the day i need you. i will say when, ma. she said now. she said i working. >> i know. i need to you drop off. >>> and she leaves behind a legacy and motto to live by. you can't help everybody but you have to do what you can. in oakland abc 7 news. >> and we now have more video to show you of the sudden hail storm on highway 80 in fairfield. one of our camera crew was caught in the middle of all of it you can imagine

final goodbye to a woman as mom green.a green is the first civilian to receive a military service. he - she volunteered at schools and cared for the homeless and worked closely with the police and firefighters. >> the amation thing about mom green, is that mom green did that for the entire oakland community every day of her life. >> one of her mottos, you can't help everybody. but you have to do what you can. mom green died following a long battle with lung cancer. >> a project that led to cutting down oak trees led to restoring project. they are trying to preserve the eco system. vol tierce are make happen. >> these native grasses are part of a big dream. >> today, we are planting hopefully 10,000 grass plugses. >> this is the latest round to turn an old range and vineyard . >>> and the project is happening because caltrain decided to widen intersection. that meantime cutting down 117 oak trees. state law requires them to do something to predo the environment. >> we negotiated instead of counting trees, let's use the fund

>>> in arizona, a statue of an angel honoring christina taylor green, the youngest victim of the tucson shooting will be be unveiled at a baseball field. the statue was made from materials recovered at the world trade city after the 9/11 attacks. green was born on 9/11. >>> and today marks the anniversary of the ban of cigarette ads on tv. richard nixon, an avid pipe smoker sign today legislation. >>> all day long, you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stories and others as they break on msnbc. and tonight be sure to watch brian williams with nbc "nightly news." >>> and, finally, here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. new photos of lindsay lohan outside a new york nightclub caused a stir about whether she was drinking, a violation of her probation. >>> and one woman's plastic surgery nightmare. she went in for an eye lift and she came out unable to blink. >>> now keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports and more. i'm veronica de la cruz. thank you so much for watching "early today," just your first stop

it also includes the green building specification that would be required of all developers. we have done a tremendous amount of due diligence ha working with the engineers on various components of the project. and also investigations into a different third parties and the ability to deliver certain pieces of the infrastructure. we are looking at an automated waste collection system, we would make a decision prior to the first major phase as part of the horizontal infrastructure. the possibility of the heating and cooling plant, there is a tremendous amount of feasibility and analysis that has got in. moving on to the actual plan itself, is similar to the 2006 plan that focuses on individual resource areas. it really looks at the social component of the triple bottom line. we will talk about. and getting into the more concrete environmental aspects, energy waste and water. [unintelligible] each chapter has up front, a system and ability at a glance table. the strategies to achieve the target and the metrics that are laid out, the benefits that are provided by reaching those t

and they came here illegally and applied for a green card. no one told them it would take 10 years to get it. my grandmother is a u.s. citizen and today my parents and my sister, my entire family here are citizens. i am the only undocumented in my family. that is because immigration officials refused to follow the law. i will explain why. it took so long to get my parents residency that i aged out. they do not care when you turn 21. they tell you to get in the back of the line. even waiting nine years, they are asking me to go to the back of the line again. i will be 23 by the time i can immigrate to the country legally. in the meantime, growing up, my parents had no idea this would happen. i graduated from college with a bachelor's in political science with a master's i as well. we fought hard to stay in the country. according to the law of the land, i am supposed to be able to use my old date for filing for immigration to the country, but so far immigration is refusing to let me use that old date, so i am in a month now. i cannot go back to