haa ha ha! ha hha ha! [snortg] >> good morning. to date is july 21, 2010.s is a meeting of the abatement appeals board. first item on the agenda is roll call. [roll call] we have a quorum. the next item on the agenda is the oath. anyone giving testimony today, please rise and raise your right hand. do you swear the testimony you are about to give it is the truth to the best of your knowledge? thank you. new appeal order of abatement case. the owner of record is karen. action requested this be abatement be ordered and the cost assessment fee be waived. >> good morning, commissioners. i am a senior housing inspector. let me give you the time line of the case. this is a single-family property. basically, our division responded to a complaint in august 2002, an anonymous complaint that a deck had been built without the proper planning department approvals. inspections confirmed this in 2002, and a check on the permit history, the inspector notice of violation of earlier in the year, notifying the owner to get the proper permits. on october 4, 2004, the housing

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has been out of work since 2005. her unemployment benefits ran out four years ago, and even though she has two years of college, she haas hasn't been able to find work. the cnn "newsroom" continues right now with tj holmes, he's in for ali velshi. and tj, someone just asked me, did you guys coordinate your outfits? we didn't. we're going to confuse the viewers. >> don, let's be honest. we did. we did coordinate. >> don't tell anybody. >> appreciate you as always. i'm tj holmes sitting in for ali velshi today, and joined by chad myers. we have a storm. carl, we thought this was going to -- it got a little weak, but this is starting to pick up some steam once benefit. >> yes, and now it's on shore so it's going to lose steam, that's what happens when it blows dry air here. this is all desert, basically, mexico. but here is the scary part, right there is the city of veracruz, under the southern part of the eyewall. now, i know we always talk about this part of the eyewall coming on shore, blowing storm surge into -- this will have storm surge at 20 or 30 feet. the great yus is, not very many people live right there, but there are going to be winds through veracruz and dlu boeka dell rio, meaning mouth of the river. this is my google map of this town itself, the eyewall is up here, but the winds are blowing in this town of veracruz, 711,000 people, plus another couple 100,000 down into boca del rio, and tearing this city apart right now. this thing -- this storm karl, made a slight jog to the left where it should have been up here another 50 miles, didn't do that, it's coming this way now, and as it comes on shore, that's the latest and greatest radar. we don't get many radars out of mexico. but there it is right there, that's the city i showed you, right under the southern eyew l eyewall. >> how long are they going to be under fire, if you will? how long before it moves out of there? >> moving pretty fast. i would say that's probably an hour from now. here's two hours from now, here's three hours from now, and by that time the winds will be down to tropical storm force. but right now through the entire city of veracruz, winds over 100-mile-an-hour sustained. >> how many people are we talking about? >> 111,000. >> that's pretty big. >> yes, it is. and i can show you what happened with this storm. here is the yucatan peninsula and cancun. something we haven't talked a lot about, and maybe we'll get to later on. there are an awful lot of oil production right through there. you talk about, i don't know what, 120 miles per hour, trying to keep a oil rig steady or whatever these pumping rigs, whatever. there may be some oil spilled in this bit right now with that -- i haven't seen any kind of oil prices doing any of this, but we always know about oil prices in the northern gulf of mexico. a lot of oil right there. >> chad, we know you're keeping a close eye on this. and we've still got igor and julia out there somewhere. we'll get into that stuff -- >> we'll talk about that in a little bit. >>> we're moving on to a story everybody has been keeping an eye on this past month or so now. it's this human drama, the miners in chile, 37 miners have been trapped under undground fo over a month now, since august 5th. we were all told they wouldn't be able to get them out until maybe as late as christmas. they were trying to move in this new equipment and new drill to try to get these guys out, but it was going to take all this time. well, now, a break through. one of the drills has made it down to where the miners are. this is good news, but it still doesn't necessarily mean they're coming out any time soon. our karl penhaul is on this story for us, live for us in chile right now. karl, ebbs plain that part. yes, this is a breakthrough, but this doesn't mean we'll see them out of the hole any time too soon. >> reporter: exactly. let me put it in perspective, tj. first of all, a few moments ago, we talked to members of the rescue team working on the so-called plan b that mae made contact with the miners this morning, about t

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