jacob has been a great asset to the team. so much so that we continue to tap him in additional capacity is. as we progressed and grew into a team, the roles and responsibilities of jacobs team members have expanded. we had created in 2007, began to formulate the delivery method of this project. what we based the original contract on was participation by jacobs on a more periodic validation rule. as we move forward, we found the need to continue to use more in a full-time capacity for cost and schedule of validation, as well as adding a $20 million emergency generator project. you may recall, that is a predecessor project which we began to realize was going to impact our schedules, in so much that it was trending not to be complete in time for us to do the rebuild. so we melded the two projects together and we were able to preserve the schedule by way of melding those two projects. supervisor avalos: i was told a big part of the delay was getting permiting through sacramento and there was still lives on the part of the contrac

he prophesied the coming of the messiah the star of jacob. only smallfragments of bay lum inscription have svived. it is written in air mayic and talks about fire, terror, and judgment the land of kay nen. from a deity named sha di, one of the hebrew names for god and the bible. bay lum's prophesy describes a similar judgment on the kay anyoniets. the star of jacob, the jewish messiah. >> totally an archaeological contextwith a story not the biblical story. it shows us his reputaton as a profession foreteller, prophet exited throughout the eastern jordan, the transjordan. >> bay lum is one of the few prophets with archaeological proof of his existence. >> it is exciting. it lends plausibility to matthew's stor. the people who are familiar with bay lum's prophecies are people coming from that side of the jordan river. >> they led the wisemen to look for a star and star led them to jerusalem. this is the tower of david, spot where herod's palace stood, wound rous beyond words. it was here that herod summoned the wise men to a secret meetg. >> t

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for this request, for the contract amendment, we are focused on the jacob's work. that is just a portion of the work to be completed. the request is for $1.5 million for this area. but just to wrap up on the timeframe, we expect to complete this work in 2012 and move to final design and construction and finally by 2015, 2016, to see the project launched. i will take any questions you might have. commissioner maxwell: are you working with mt a? i see not so much on the geary boulevard, but as we talk about bicycle villard's from the north to south, are you working with mta on those kinds of facilities? and therefore, if there was at corridor, it would not necessarily have to be on geary boulevard, but could be on another street that is less used. are we looking into that? >> actually, the work that was done to understand where in the gary corridor, that was led by mt es, leading into the space of work. the bike plan did identify a programmatic acknowledgment of a cheery facility in this area, rather, a facility in their geary corridor. it is something that could be

jacobs said that he prepared before he left that explains what has happened over the years. at the back is a picture that was taken last week that shows this to which -- shows the sewage coming out. as i said, this picture was taken last week. this was subsequent to the work completed and finalized. as you can see, there is still a problem. now i would like to have mr. patino come up and explain what he did. >> on august 18, i got the permit to do the work. i called for inspection, and asked the inspector to give me a correction notice of what he wanted me to do specifically. at that time, i did not know what they wanted me to do. he wanted me to replace the existing two way cleanout. then basically when i was speaking with him, i called for inspections. i knew that the line was stopped. i took my snake, tried to clear it up. the inspector pulled up at that time. when i am pulling out the state, it got stuck at 8 feet. he had plumbing experience in the past and he said, is it possible it went back toward the house? when i pulled out the senate, you could clearly see there we

what is the current amount of the contract for jacobs consultant? >> $1.8 million. this request would require -- increase that by about $1 million. supervisor campos: that is a very significant increase and i am trying to understand how it is we got from $1.8 million to close to $3 million. >> during the original phase we had stoved two alternatives with the addition of one in the prior alternative. also, the additional engineering work with transitions in the intersections as well as more robust scenarios in the inner area. much of that work is being done by consultants teams. supervisor campos: did we consider the potential increase in the scope in this? i assume that we went for a competitive bid when this was elected. the problem when we go from a contract of $1.8 million to a contract of $3 million, when it is increase in this way there is no way of knowing that if you had put the bid differently he would not have gotten the better deal. how do we know that that is not the case here? that we in fact could have done this a lot more cheap? >> we do not know exact

the move follows the july malling of 2-year-old jacob in concord. unaltered dogs are more aggressive than two of the three pit bulls that attacked little jacob. there is no proof it would cut down on the stray problem and it would crowd the already packed shelters in martinez. >>> it's 4:38. no clouds drifting thru this shot and northbound with the tail lights southbound and no major issues. volume moving nicely. it's a friday and we are expecting an easier commute. slowing here as well as livermore and antioch. 580, a 14-minute drive on the pass and central valley. this area as well as north of the carquinas and benicia bridges. they will get more crowded around 2:30 or 3:00. the afternoon and evening, folks make their getaways and a reminder that 50 and 80ville chain control over the summit and ski areas. >> let's check in with rob and looks like a little bit of rain. not on sunday morning in the san jose parade, but otherwise raining. >> you have been looking at the futurecast. mike has been pointing out fog. we get light wind and clearing overni

. >> she also said china's president, hu jintao, has already contacted south african president jacob zuma on the issue. the first summit meeting of bric countries was held in russia in 2009. the leaders shared a critical view of the western-led global financial system. economists believe that by inviting south africa, china and other emerging nations will have a greater say in world finance and topics such as climate change. >>> china says it will cut its rare earth exports next year, a move expected to further push up prices of the minerals used in high-tech products. china's commerce ministry said on tuesday that it will reduce the first round quotas for 2011 by 35%, to 14,400 tons. the quotas are believed to be for the january to june period as the ministry releases the figures twice a year. the chinese government had already announced a 40% export reduction for this year, citing environmental concerns and the need to preserve natural resources. it also decided to raise tariffs on exports from next year. china slashed rare earth exports to japan after the collisions between a chin

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. >>> most of us have seen the tournament of roses parade but very unlikely you've seen jacob. for the last 30 years or so he's made quite an impact on the parade. we report on the man behind some of the most colorful holiday displace the year. >> reporter: you may never have seen jacob morris while enjoying the tournament of roses parade or events surrounding it but for the last 30 years or so he was always there. the deep red bouquets clutched by the excited queen and her court. the displays, the flowers near the parade announcers. all it done with exquisite care by morris and his staff. >> i will continue into the dining room. >> reporter: the associate's chief operating officer showed morris's latest creation at the mansion where planning is done. guests treated to flowing burst of shimmering copper, twinkling ornaments. as the official florist of the parade his job the office make everything outside of the floats themselves look amaze, a tall order if you consider the parade's strong tradition of floral decoration. >> he came into the room, the room lit up because of his p

the mall was lined with signs promising 50 to 60 percent off. >> jacob mentioned that he didn't get a nerf gun for christmas. i said i would get him one for his birthday which is new years eve. >> it may turn out to be a happy christmas for store owners as they look back on the holidays. they predict the sales will pump 33.3% following weak holiday sales the passed two years. >> 2007 was your big year? >> that was the best, that is correct. >> reporter: he owns franko womo an upscale men's store. longs for the glory days of 2007, nationally the largest holiday retail sales here ever. $482.8billion. the prediction for this year is $451.5 billion. >> still a decline, of course. but we are doing fairly well. i cannot complain. you know, we are profitable. i just hired three more people for my other locations. >> reporter: business was brisk today at the soak target store on coleman avenue where colleen had a cart full of christmas items. >> 50% off so those bows are $1. it is a good price when you want to store stuff away. >> on the day after christmas there are always returns. >> return

. >> recommend increasing the amount of the authority's professional services contract with jacobs engineering group by $1,054,565, to a total amount not to exceed $2,854,565, for environmental analysis for the geary bus rapid transit project and authorization for the executive director to negotiate contract terms and conditions. this is an action item. >> good morning, commissioners. transportation planner. very similar to the van ness project, geary brt is identified in the countywide transportation plan and is one of the key routes identified in the transit affected this project of mt a. as we move forward, the feasibility study was adopted in 2007 to begin the eir eis. one thing i should note that is different about geary, the prop k line which specifies it must be rail-ready. we are doing more on the design work to make sure that if the decision is made to enhance rail, the physical dimensions are incorporated so we can minimize potential impact. one of the first items i should know in terms of new scope, we identified three alternative contract amendments. the contract identified only tw

signs promising up to 60% off. >> jacob said he didn't get a nerf gun for christmas and i said i would get him one for his birthday which is new year's eve. >> reporter: it may be a happy nua year when they look back. the national retail federation thinks sales will jump 3.3% following weak holiday sales the past two years. >>> 2007 was your big year? >> that was the best. that is correct. >> reporter: dowd owns a men's wear store and longs for the glory days of 2007, nationally the largest retail sales year ever. $452.8billion. the prediction this year, 451.5 billion. >> sales have dechained. we are doing fairly well. i can't complain. we are profitable. i just hired three more people. >> reporter: business was brisk at the target store on coleman avenue where colleen had a cart full of items. >> 50% off. they are a there are. that's a good price when you want to store stuff away. >> reporter: on the day after christmas there are always returns. >> returning guitar hero. i didn't like it as much as the first one. >> reporter: more than returning people were buying, especially dvds and

increase the amount of the authority's professional services contract with jacobs engineering group by054,565, to a total amount not to exceed $2,854,565, for environmental analysis for the geary bus rapid transit project and authorize the executive director to negotiate contract terms and conditions. supervisor mirkarimi: comments or questions? seeing no one, this is open for public comment. please. >> jackie stocks, member of the cac transportation authority. i have been working on this project since january of 1986. before they had a transit task force they looked into the feasibility of having a light rail project on that street. that was put on the ballot in 1989 and grandfathered into prope k. thus rapid transit was nowhere to be found. what about the light rail, people asked. there is a stop at union square. there is a spurt for light rail possibilities on geary. before you go forward with this project, i suggest that you all look into the background of this project to see the work that has been done over the last 20 years to try to make bus rapid transit. you'll have the same p

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ray jacobs brought you this report from 1966 from diablo valley college. >> paul scone jon, student viceresident is? charge of collecting signatures for a "we support you.". paul, what is that? >> it's a project designed to tell soldiers in vietnam that we support you. morale has been down because of different groups in the area, getting publicity saying that we're against you, like the vc committee in berkeley and it's our job with the senate, which i'm in charge of, to get as many san diegos saying that we support you and we're behind you 100%. >> reporter: you are sending articles to the boys in vietnam as christmas gifts. >> these articles include razors, razor blades, mirrors, soap, presweetened powdered drivens and other commodities, such as black shoe polish. >> the christmas vietnam program is to help boost the moral and tell the boys over there we care. >> reporter: there was a time when the holidays weren't complete without a visit to the troops by bob hope. from world war ii to korea to vietnam to the gulf, hope entertained the men and women of the military and some of the far

find out if the defense was able >>> bbeakinn up is hard to do..3 >> jacob wants me to call you and tellyou that is he isú breaking up with you. >> the website that llts someonn else do the dirty worr for you. >>> good morning. welcome to ffx 45 morning news on this cilly tuesday morning, today s december 14th..3 i'm megan gilliland. we doohave a school closing too3 ú%ll you about this morning. garrett county schools closed today due to the weather out there. we're going to check in with meteorologist steve fertig and steve, why is it so cold out there, because it's winter, not yet. we have cold air cominggfrom the take a look t temperatures, 23 degrres in baltimore and 20 in hagerstoww, 22 in saaisbury. snow showees that will be heavy haaueers county..3ú tte rest of us a ffw flurries ú-in fact, the ccldest air of te season. the snow, and theewinds will be ú%nter weather advisory on the west side of thh chesapeake bay. carroll county down ttward pg county. and winds up to 22 tt 25 miles per hour gustinn to 40. windy nd cold today, and -lurries possible, and a pooential snowstorm for sund

jacobs said because the growers are patients, the records, if they are even kept, are confidential. >> we're protecting patient data just we're purchasing medicine from patients and we maintain hipaa compliance. when those people are safe from unjust prosecution that is a process we'll be able to do. >> reporter: the obama administration announced it will not interfere, but get tough with those posing as medical marijuana providers. marin county task force says this is a classic case. this affidavit that ktvu obtained indicates that the officers stopped hip him for speeding and found 20 pounds of marijuana inside three bags. he told the officers he sells cannabis to medical marijuana dispensaries. doug rapport is the attorney. >> that is the allegation in this case that he delivers from point a to point b? >> reporter: does he? >> you can't ask me that question. >> reporter: they served the home and found two safes, one containing $100,000 in cash and the other, $650,000 in cash. in other homes investigators say they found evidence of three marijuana grows and $50,000 in class. the af

university and designed for mark jacobs and tommy hillfigger an brought out her own line of swimsuit. >> she had a career with the bathing suits. >> reporter: police suspect brooks simply could not accept that silvie wanted to end their relationship. in vienna, bruce leshan, 9 news. >> silvy started a foundation to help young designers less fortunate than her. her mom will continue that work in honor of her daughter. >>> rnc chair. he is seeking a second term during another conference call with other republican national members. questions about his handling of party finances. members will elect the next chairman in january at the committee's winter meeting which happens in maryland. >>> more now on the tax debate on capitol hill. as we have been reporting president obama's deal to restructure state taxes hasn't been sitting well with house democrats but has given people opportunities to plan around it. one maryland property owner puts the potential changes into perfective for us. >> come back. >> reporter: for susie wells farming runs deep in her roots. >> this was my family's farm an

the additional work impact is best addressed with jacobs as they have become a valuable member of the research team with the data that is to attributable to the savings that we just referenced in the project. for those reasons the responses to our questions, we recommend approval of this resolution. supervisor avalos: thank you, mr. rose. we can go on to public comment. >> budget and finance committee. ♪ i was filled with despair my dreams turned to ashes now they are gone and i looked at general hospital it was barren and gross without a good hospital in hell i have nothing at all without a good building in good health i have nothing without a good hospital building i have nothing at all you might have conquered the world you might have millions of dollars without a good building and good health you might have nothing nothing at all ♪ please consider the item. supervisor avalos: ok. any other members of the public? of we will close public comment. colleagues? supervisor mirkarimi: motion. supervisor avalos: taken without objection. mr. young, if you could please call items 5 and 6. >

instrumental in making sure this happens every year, and isis want to acknowledge jenny horn, rose mary jacobsand i thank you, mary grace cohan, patricia gray, nancy, and suzanne, who helped us this year in choosing our fabulous teachers and principals. they deserve a round of applause. in addition to everything you are receiving, you are also getting certificates of honor from our major, from

>> thank you my name is jacob. the site of the steet. i believe my handicapped wife alone. off large family, son, grandson and granddaughter. my son-in-law, sheik and daughter who want to -- who want to project. please be kind enough to grant the project and thanks. >> thank you. >> is there additional public comment on this item? >> my name is sheik and this is my sister and brother-in-law. i've lived in the same neighborhood for 15 years. i'm only the house. i'm 0 to everybody close to me. i want to see what next to us. so i like to want to stay with us and i get together. i'm happy for seeing each other. thank you. additional public comment? >> i think our point was made, the tenant was marilyn allen. i'm tom church. he's been a pretty good land hoard for us overall. that's not the issue. i think our point has been made, i will say quickly again to reiterate the one thing about the tree. if we have to go, you know, we witnessed a house next door to us get demolished. the -- and at that time the owner said, we want to save those three trees in the back and -- you know, i'

how many people on the panel here have read the late, great, jane jacobs book "the death and life of american cities"? can i see a show of hands? if you have not, please read it. what everybody is speaking here tonight is directly relevant to that book. she was revolutionary. she says when you bulldoze a community and build a new community and move strangers into it, you lose the fabric of community. it integrates into a slum. i fought a project like this when i live in a silk mill in massachusetts. they wanted to turn this beautiful building -- an art historian wrote a beautiful book about it. they wanted to turn it into 26 apartments. the little village got a lawyer. we fought at city hall. we came close to stopping it. i got them to reduce its to 19 apartments. it is now an incredibly depressing slump. one of the most beautiful buildings in massachusetts. it is going to happen here again. we can keep the community that is here and not destroy it. please do not do this. [applause] commissioner miguel: before the next speaker, because we have been here this length of time, we are go

enforcement lawyer jacob frenkel thinks today's arrests won't be the last. >> this investigation is moving forward, and they've made more arrests since the one they made a number of weeks ago, right before thanksgiving, and will continue to do so as they pursue larger, more significant individuals within hedge funds, within corporations as their targets. >> susie: no comment today from those charged, but the u.s. attorney said the tech companies, including dell, whose secrets were traded, are cooperating in the investigation. >> tom: roche's top drug, avastin, should no longer be approved for treatment of breast cancer. today's announcement by the food and drug administration could cost roche a billion dollars in annual sales. federal health officials cited the medication's poor performance in follow-up studies, and its potential for serious side effects. doctors will still be able to prescribe avastin, but many health insurance companies will no longer pay for it. avastin was once expected to become the world's best-selling drug by 2014, but its prospects faded after it failed clinical tr

s biggest running back brandon jacobs involved early on the swaying to a two year old powering his one how they didn't when to kilogram body through the line forty seven three leads the giants mostly sticking to their usual script of running the ball being more dynamic and mog brett show with a four to eight yards wrong than the final score and that's wayne swan's with three giants victory farve later stated he has no regrets despite anding his an official record draw and possibly his korea. will not. one bit. because of that and. today it's something. like about goal. dream which so far exceeded although. i never dream of playing three hundred plus straight games by just doing the play and i feel chilled. it's been pretty emotional. elsewhere bosma grounded a spirit attacks on israel in the scheduled monday night game david dreams with a stunning touchdown from the key current town making the twenty eight seventy the said quote some of the ravens the loop completely in control off to that efforts bob the texans weren't finished. match showed running away from the from the sticks down