gil diaz, cbs 5, pacifica >>> women's groups, unions and hotel housekeepers teamed up for a protest rally outside two bay area hyatts today. they claimed the hotel chain mistreats women workers. protestors at the hyatt santa clara say two housekeepers there were fired this past october after objecting to pictures posted on a company bulletin board that showed their faces on women in bikinis. >> the hyatt has said that they were in celebration of housekeepers appreciation week but i can say for certain that neither martha for lorena felt appreciated by the depiction of them. >> the hotel chain claims the women were fired for taking long lunch breaks. today's protests which coincides with international women's day also features a clothesline project with messages and stories of struggles of women that they face in the workplace. >>> up next what experts say is needed to make flying affordable. >> and why some lawmakers say the u.s. should be wary of engaging syria as the country cracks down on anti-government forces. >> get them to start thinking the possibilities. >> an east bay woman make

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if employers comply with the housekeeping standard, then they have eliminated dust, and you cannot havebut the plants are exploding, mr. secretary. that's the bottom line here. people are dying. >> it comes down to--it's the employers that are responsible for complying with the standards. >> why aren't your inspectors making the employers comply? >> well, we do when we go in the inspection. we cite employers all the time on combustible dust. >> we reviewed osha's own records and discovered that of 67 factories hit by dust explosions, only one of them was cited for a dust hazard by osha inspectors before the blast. in one case, a factory exploded just three days after a visit by an osha inspector, who found no problem with dust. [machinery whirring] 20 years ago, osha did deal with one kind of explosive dust: grain dust. grain elevators used to blow up regularly. osha fixed the problem with a new safety standard limited to grain dust. carolyn merritt says it had a dramatic effect. >> fatalities were reduced by 60%, and incidents were reduced by 42%. >> it was a big success. >> and indust

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. >> we have one housekeeping item. it is an appeal no. 10, a protest of a site permit on eureka street. that matter has been withdrawn and will not be heard this evening. we move on to item number one, general public comment. is there any member of the public who would like to speak on an item that is not on tonight's calendar? seeing none, item number two, commissioner comments and questions. commissioners. seeing none, we will move on to the adoption of minutes, item number three. for your consideration are the minutes of the board meeting of march 14, 2012. president garcia: i move that we adopt the minutes as written. >> thank you. is there any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, if you could please call the roll. >> on the motion to adopt the march 14 minutes. commissioner fung: aye. commissioner hillis: aye. commissioner hurtado: aye. >> the vote is 4-0. those minutes are adopted. >> thank you. we are going to call item no. 9 out of order. the parties of that matter have settled and would like to ask the

recommended because of variants is the soul of jurisdiction of the zoning administrator, we just have housekeeping items to take care of, and i suggest you take care of those, and you can adjourn. the zoning administrator would hear the variance for 89 belgrave. with that, we will take it out of order. i guess it was your joint hearing on march 8, but was actually canceled, and your regular minutes from march 1, 2012. >> i have a change from the march meeting, and that is the spelling of my name on the second page. >> we will correct that. commissioner borden: on the march 1 ministersutes, it says n peperal, and is a pep rally. >> pep ralley. >> the grammar is all screwed up, but we will figure that out later. >> to correct the name and to correct a pep rally. any other modifications? >> move the minutes with corrections was noted. >> on the motion? [calling votes] thank you, commissioners. are there any other commission matters? directors report, directors announcement? >> are want to mention -- i want to mention i have several questions about the proposed new board -- billboard on the building t

good one more housekeeping details. for those of you who find it difficult to follow the economy, i would say if i am only allowed to look at one thing to figure out what is happening with the economy, i thing many of us would tell you to keep your eyes on jobless claims, a weekly. what you will see is jobless claims laid on top of gdp growth. when you look at weekly jobless claims that come out, they are very noisy, but they echo a lot of the theme's going on in the economy, and if you will watch these carefully you will note it is 90% of the story. the picture is showing year it is coming down. just to give you a benchmark, 300,000. and we are now at the 350,000 level, so we are getting there. the pace is coming down, and this is why the tone in the economics community has turned more upbeat. we smell something coming. where are we in the rhythm of life? we have a lot of experience stumbling and getting back on our feet. this is trying to give you an idea of where we are. we are kind of in the second inning of an econ

they say it's point of contention the way these housekeepers were being treated.well win the republican nomination for president but the longer the race continues, the more damaging it could be to romney. gop officials from several states say they worry that continued attacks on rome me may up flict wounds -- inflict wounds that may not heal by november. >> if he wants to get out, i'm all for him getting out. i'm for everybody getting out. that is not going to happen. so the idea is let's let folks decide what they think is best. somebody is going to put this country on the right track. that is why i'm running. that is why i'm still in the race y newt gingrich's poor showing in every super tuesday state except jim moran gives him an increasingly marrow path to rein the nomination that. now depends on him doing well in the south. he has canceled plans for kansas and is zeroing in on mississippi and alabama. >> i believe with your help, we can win an extraordinary victory. if we win both alabama and mississippi next tuesday night, this is a whole new race for i thin

they say they fired two women because they objected to the posting of housekeepers in bikinis. >> abuse against women and their bodies. >> we create an incredible work environment. >> the spokesman did not comment directly on the incident at the hyet but said the company treats its employees with dignity and respect. >>> a women's day event in san francisco honored the mayor as man of the year. >> we have to continue moving forward. >> mayor ed lee challenged women to continue speaking out and advocating for equal rights. he was presented with a painted portrait that was sponsored by global arts and education. >>> in oakland, members of the nation's first black sorority met with mayor jean quan. leaders wanted to hear about local issues from the mayor and share what they are doing to empower women. they were founded in 1908. >>> officials approved a plan to help thousands of californians better understand their power deals. pg&e will offer bills in spanish or chinese to customers who request them. >>> several school districts received thousands of kls to fund science programs. they dona

./// what the housekeeper... missed. 3 if you have common sense... and a g-p-s...ir gps &pinstructiins.... and drove directly through moretonnbay. one studenttwas quoteddas saying.....the ps told us we could drive there.ok, ittwas low tide... bbt come on. we've heard lots of stories about t-s-a patdowns that lack common sense.and here's another one.a 3 year old... inn a wheelchair....on the way to disney world..... gets swabbed for explosives by the t-s-a. the little boo was in a body cast for a broken leg.he was singled out by security at chicago's o'hare international airport. one agent asks if he can lift he boy's shirt (he did offer a private screening room).dad recorded the whooe thing.. and posted it n youuub. common sense says yoo shouldn't send packages featuring wire-wrapped digitaa clocks with unsigned messages that say "your time is running out".apparently the people at convar deutchland, a german data security company..... don't have much common sense. they thought that mailing out 40 hard drivessgluee to alarm clooks would attract new customerr. instea

travelers say they use everything from disinfectant wipes the toilet paper to clean up with the housekeeper may have messed. >> my wife brings her own sheets sometimes. >> if you are headed out today, a little bit chilly out there right now but dry at this hour. into the 30's inland, '40's in the bay. mostly cloudy skies outside but no rain drops right now. by the afternoon, staying mostly cloudy. bought as much wind today so it will probably feel a little bit warmer than it has. high-pressure trying to build in here right now. we will dry things out briefly. another storm system to the north could drop right over the ridge and might bring some light showers to the bay area mainly to the north. the computer models, picking up as we head through the day. late tonight, the chance of a few light sprinkles. not a really big weather maker. a lot of clouds in san jose, 57 degrees in hayward. east bay temperatures in the '50s and '60s. a bit of a sea breeze, 52 s. stinson beach. 50 degrees in santa rosa. the weather will stay unsettled, no major storms on the horizon all the we do have a chance of

a couple housekeeping note. there is a statewide tornado drill tomorrow for virginia. so don't forget if you get some messages on your pdas. it's 8:45 -- excuse me 9:45 in the morning we'll send out the fake alarm, make sure everything is working. if you're in the city or municipality, you might hear the siren go off. we are looking at essentially a warm week, a little unsettled. let's start first with what happens tomorrow morning at 1:14, the vernal equinox, sun directly overhead of the equator, essentially equal day and night in both hemispheres. we, of course, go into spring and our friends in the southern hemisphere go into fall. we're looking at essentially equal day and equal night, not quite the sunrise and sunset times do not match. you can check out my blog tomorrow on our website as to why they don't match exactly on this day. it starts officially tomorrow at 1:14 a.m. it feels like spring now. here's a live look outside with our weather cam by michael and son. it is really nice. temperatures are in the mid- 70s. yeah, we got some cloud cover, but nice downt

the housekeeper found him dead sad in -- saturday in his home. his death comes as a shock.ials say an autopsy could be conducted as early as tomorrow. >>> apple reached the milestone with more than 25 billion apps downloaded from the app store. apple says it has paid out more than $4 billion of developers. the man in china downloaded the 25th billion app on his iphone. he received a gift card for thousands of dollars. >>> the seven hour outage today brought some businesses to a stand still. >> we can't pick anything up. >> reporter: this insurance agent's computer was down all day. that was the start of the day. >> we can't email anybody, talk to clients through email or phone. my cell phone is gone too. i can't contact anybody. >> reporter: this afternoon when lopez started calling his mother in morgan hill, the line just rang and rang. when he tried calling his, the mobile cell phone, this -- >> it started thissen monthing when a construction crew accidentally cut a verizon fiberoptic line while working on the boulevard construction project. >> we haven't had calls to 911

. >> before we get started, a couple of housekeeping things. if you have not filled out your dinner request, you should. it is always a pleasure when this can be done for us. the next item is the approval of minutes. we have gavel-to-gavel coverage of our meetings now available on the web. if you want to know what the tenor of the discussion was, who said what, you can get it from the web in a way you can never get it from the minutes anyway. what we have tried to do is to get the important pieces into the minutes. i would encourage the public and the commission as to get used to this format, this is a work in progress and it can be a change. i think this captures this. do we have any conditions are comments on the minutes as he did? the have a motion? >> approved. >> moved and seconded. all those in favor -- the minutes are approved. the next item is public comment and this is a chance for members of the public to address the commission on matters within the commission's jurisdiction but are not on today's agenda. >> we have no speaker cards.

there have been some housekeeping issues on the lease. they now pay us rent at 3.3% of the revenue. there is still a rent credit paying out. it is how they're getting back some of the funds from the dry dock upgrade. the annual minimum guarantee will increase in january of 2013. in general, even with the rent credits, the rent has been above the guarantee. this gives you a sense that if we took this slide back even farther into the 1990's, it really was hit. they were able to grow their revenues, the slow-down in 2006- 2007 is when they have the upgrades, and they had a strong growth rate. we hope that continues to succeed. what we're looking to do in this lease amendment is any number of things. the main one is executing that letter of intent. brad has walked through those terms. we are establishing one of the more successful partnership things we did last summer, dredge so ships could get in to the dry dock. we had agreement then of how we would share costs with future dredging. it was in the plan where we were hoping to move it on to the schedule, responsibilities being part of t

the housekeeping hasn't been done. a fire can start in there. also, the fire spreading. no one even called us in the beginning. >> reporter: anne makovec, cbs 5. >> no sooner had firefighters gotten the bayview under control, they were called to another fire in downtown san francisco. this one at california and hyde streets. firefighters got it under control within minutes. two adults were displaced and there were no injuries. >>> a natural gas leak forced the evacuation of a couple of apartment buildings. it happened at 2:00 this afternoon on gary boulevard between larken and high streets in san francisco. a construction crew was working on the sidewalk when it hit a 1-inch gas line. the street was blocked off as precaution, while pg&e worked to fix it. >>> police in east oakland are on the hunt for whoever shot a man and then ran over him. officers responded to a shooting on 88th at 3:00 this morning. when they got there, they saw several cars take off. officers found a 51-year-old man who had been shot in the head. he had also been run over by a car after being shot.

commissioner mccarthy: ok, so we are cleaning this up for housekeeping. any questions from the commission? seeing none, can you call the question, please? >> we need to have a motion. >> motion to approve or support. >> second. >> call the question. >> who did the second? >> i did. >> ok. this is a vote for the motion to support this legislation. are all in favor of this item? are there any opposed? seeing none, the motion carries. item number 11, discussion and possible action regarding proposed changes to the san francisco building code sections 106a.3.7 applications expiration, 106a.3.8, disapproval of application, 1 06a.3.8.7, withdraw the application, 106a.34.4, a permit expiration, and corrections. >> this came from our public advisory committee meetings and the need for a permit applicants and permit holders to have a longer time span to complete their work in this economy. and what it does, on the larger projects, it extends the time limit for the amount of an extension that can be formally granted from one year to two years. so that the larger pr

it we have realistically look at all of the numbers and the structure makes some housekeeping changes, but the important thing is we preserve the integrity of the program and it kept it attractive to candidates because without participation, it doesn't mean much. i will leave it for any questions that you have. >> i know one of the issues we talked about was the actual number for the ceiling for the board of supervisors. i wonder if you could speak briefly to those numbers? >> the board of supervisors races, we have races going back to 2002. we have a lot of numbers to look at and be an proximate increase from a cycle to cycle, projecting that ford, what it is going to cost to run a viable supervisor program -- for the mayor, we only have one race which does not produce empirical evidence, but we took the empirical numbers from the board and tried to use at as an indicator of what does it cost to run a viable when mayor's race with the idea of public financing is trying to reduce the overall money. what does it take to run and when and how can we keep that at a minimum while maintaini

. >> that is a fire hazard, number one, housekeeping hasn't been done. a fire can start in there, and also the fire started spreading. when the building's not occupied, there's no one to call us in the beginning. >> firefighters had just gotten the bayview fire under control when they had to fight another fire in downtown san francisco. now, this one was at california and hyde streets. firefighters got to under control within minutes. two people were displaced, but there were no injuries. >>> a couple of apartment buildings in san francisco had to be evacuated because of a natural gas leak. it happened at 2:00 this afternoon on geary, between larken and hyde streets. pg&e says a construction crew was working on the sidewalk when it hit a 1-inch gas line. the street was blocked off as precaution while pg&e worked to fix it. repairs were finished and the street reopened by 3:30. >>> the millberry police department is no more tonight, but that doesn't mean criminals are off the hook in that bay area community. just after midnight, the san mateo county sheri

number one the housekeeping hasn't been done. a fire can start in there. and then also the fire is actually spreading. this building's not occupied. >> reporter: in san francisco ann m cbs 5. >>> tough talk about iran nuclear ambitions from both president obama and she monday peres. erased in the bay area. >> reporter: the president's visit comes as israel's most powerful advocates mount a campaign to pressure president obama to take a harder stand on iran. she monday perez was sheared in washington before he speak to the public affairs committee it comes on the eve of president obama's meeting with ben midge n. although perez he seemed to set a harsh ten for the monday meeting. >> iran's ambition is control the middle east so it can control a page part of the world's economy. it must be stopped and it will be stopped. >> reporter: per he is expected to be in san francisco this evening an historic event. >> over 2,000 people are going to go to temple emanuel to hear president peres speak. >> reporter: with the diplomat's tony says u. s. and israel are on t

we are continuing to work toward that, as well as a variety of housekeeping things that need to get done, and million of them, before launch. before the legislature, if you recall, last year, there was a bill, sb 790, which helped cca a lot. the cpuc is starting a hearings process for the code of conduct to be administrator of with the utilities, which will help level the playing field. we will be actively involved in that. also, the cpuc -- i am in regular contract -- contact with senior people there, providing a performance bond that is required for cca to post. i made it clear we cannot launch our program without knowing what that mechanism would be and what that amount is likely to be, so we can make sure we are able to satisfy that. back toward the very end of last year, supervisor campos, general manager harrington, and myself met with the commission to make that known. earlier this week, general managers harrington and hale were invited to talk with cpuc commissioner simon. it was a meet and greet. they talked about the program and noted that one of the steps for being able to lau