i'm here with our chief building inspector, joe duffy. joe has been with d.b.i. for the past 21e years, and he'll bye-bye able to answer all of your questions. so thank you for joining us today. i am going to share my screen and go through a presentation. can you see that? >> supervisor mar: yes, we can see it. >> great. okay. so we put together some slides to help explain d.b.i.s role in building safety and the project consultants, which is the purpose of the permitting process, and tools that we have in place to ensure compliance with the code. d.b.i. provides critical building services to ensure the safety and habitability of san francisco's more than 200,000 commercial and residential buildings. we have nearly 300 employees, including plan reviewers, inspectors, and code enforcement and site inspectors. and we issue 70,000 permits annually. we perform plumbing, mechanical, and electrical inspections, we conduct housing inspections to ensure the property owners are maintaining habitable housing conditions. we conduct approximately 70,000, as i said, inspection

nothing here that would change my mind to reverse the order of abatement and related costs. >> this is joe duffy, can i speak? >> fine, mr. duffy. i'm not familiar with your position. >> oh, joe is acting secretary to the abatement appeals board. go ahead. >> just to also convey, the building, what i see here is, i think it might help you give you oversight on the file permit. it looks like there was a building permit issued. reading between the lines, i would say the building inspector, i said you're pulling in, you need to get plans submitted, they did submit plans. i do see a file permit. i think the permit should be expedited through the department to get that permit, because when that permit is issued, that would get the work completed. in the bathroom, it may have been with the water damage. that would be something of the permit, that permit should get issued. that would help resolve the problem for everyone. i'm hopeful those comments will help. and then on the -- our building inspector could check any damage to the ceiling or that when he did the inspection. typically the building inspec

joe duffy dbi. i am available for any questions. i really it's a variance case and typically dbi don't present on these but i'm available for questions. >> president lazarus has a question. >> i'll ask you the question that i just asked mr. sanchez and he punted. did you hear my question? >> go ahead, again -- >> if the variance had been denied, would the deck have been beebeenallowed to stay because e wouldn't be a parapet. >> it would have to be demolished, yes, it would have to be removed. our language typically i'm not sure what happens in this case because i'm not familiar with this case so it's normally legalized and they'll remove it so if you can't legalize you would remove it. that would be my advice in this case. >> we are now moving on to public comments and is there anyone here to provide public comment raise your hand and. >> please, go ahead. you have three minutes. >> 20 years ago, and up through a lot more recently, when it was the board of permit appeals, i got to know this a pel apartmen. the appellant at one time

. >> this is joe duffy, can i speak? >> fine, mr. duffy. i'm not familiar with your position. >> oh, joe is acting secretary to the abatement appeals board. go ahead. >> just to also convey, the building, what i see here is, i think it might help you give you oversight on the file permit. it looks like there was a building permit issued. reading between the lines, i would say the building inspector, i said you're pulling in, you need to get plans submitted, they did submit plans. i do see a file permit. i think the permit should be expedited through the department to get that permit, because when that permit is issued, that would get the work completed. in the bathroom, it may have been with the water damage. that would be something of the permit, that permit should get issued. that would help resolve the problem for everyone. i'm hopeful those comments will help. and then on the -- our building inspector could check any damage to the ceiling or that when he did the inspection. typically the building inspector will look for that stuff and if

joe duffy from d.b.i.e two building permits that are under appeal tonight, the first one i'll readout is a revision to permit application. permit applied on 16 december 2019, issued on 8 september 2020. it was reviewed by planning, building, mechanical plan check, and eventually central permit bureau issued it. it got suspended on the 22nd of september, two days after issuance. the next permit is the permit to document and legalize a low level deck on rear yard. the permit was filed on the 6th of december 2018 and issued on the 8th of september 2020. it's -- it looks like it was -- it looks like it was sitting for a long time and didn't really move too fast, but eventually, it came out at the same time that this other permit and the -- i think you've read the brief and seen the details on that, and i don't have any problem with both permits the way that they've been approved and issued by d.b.i. obviously, there are issues in the brief regarding the famous cracks in the foundation that we heard at last yea

i'm here with our chief building inspector, joe duffy. joe has been with d.b.i. for the past 21e years, and he'll bye-bye able to answer all of your questions. so thank you for joining us today. i am going to share my screen and go through a presentation. can you see that? >> supervisor mar: yes, we can see it. >> great. okay. so we put together some slides to help explain d.b.i.s role in building safety and the project consultants, which is the purpose of the permitting process, and tools that we have in place to ensure compliance with the code. d.b.i. provides critical building services to ensure the safety and habitability of san francisco's more than 200,000 commercial and residential buildings. we have nearly 300 employees, including plan reviewers, inspectors, and code enforcement and site inspectors. and we issue 70,000 permits annually. we perform plumbing, mechanical, and electrical inspections, we conduct housing inspections to ensure the property owners are maintaining habitable housing conditions. we conduct approximately 70,000, as i said, inspection

i'm here with our chief building inspector, joe duffy. joe has been with d.b.i. for the past 21e years, and he'll bye-bye able to answer all of your questions. so thank you for joining us today. i am going to share my screen and go through a presentation. can you see that? >> supervisor mar: yes, we can see it. >> great. okay. so we put together some slides to help explain d.b.i.s role in building safety and the project consultants, which is the purpose of the permitting process, and tools that we have in place to ensure compliance with the code. d.b.i. provides critical building services to ensure the safety and habitability of san francisco's more than 200,000 commercial and residential buildings. we have nearly 300 employees, including plan reviewers, inspectors, and code enforcement and site inspectors. and we issue 70,000 permits annually. we perform plumbing, mechanical, and electrical inspections, we conduct housing inspections to ensure the property owners are maintaining habitable housing conditions. we conduct approximately 70,000, as i said, inspection

i'm here with our chief building inspector, joe duffy. joe has been with d.b.i. for the past 21e years, and he'll bye-bye able to answer all of your questions. so thank you for joining us today. i am going to share my screen and go through a presentation. can you see that? >> supervisor mar: yes, we can see it. >> great. okay. so we put together some slides to help explain d.b.i.s role in building safety and the project consultants, which is the purpose of the permitting process, and tools that we have in place to ensure compliance with the code. d.b.i. provides critical building services to ensure the safety and habitability of san francisco's more than 200,000 commercial and residential buildings. we have nearly 300 employees, including plan reviewers, inspectors, and code enforcement and site inspectors. and we issue 70,000 permits annually. we perform plumbing, mechanical, and electrical inspections, we conduct housing inspections to ensure the property owners are maintaining habitable housing conditions. we conduct approximately 70,000, as i said, inspection

joe biden beat the president in wisconsin by a narrow margin, the president's team demanding a recount. todd: rachel campos duffyut says it may not matter. that is live next. jillian: donald trump's legal team demanding a recount in wisconsin after joe biden is declared the winner by a razor thin margin. rachel campos duffy has her own concerns. what are your concerns? >> reporter: sean and i have been on the network for months saying we knew the polls were wrong, this was going -- we were right and your last segment, maybe these pollsters should ask me and sean the time because we are here on the ground and maybe that is missing, todd makes a great point about diners, getting close to the people in my just data points. we knew it was going to be close. there are 7 in milwaukee that have more votes than voters. there are problems going on and donald trump is right to get a recount. we will see how that goes. milwaukee is a democrat stronghold, donald trump was hoping he could peel off for the black votes with policy wins he has had for the black community. we will see what is going on. we need to get to the bott

twitter pointing out the lighter tone when covering crowds celebrating joe biden's election victory weeks ago. former gop congressman sean duffy will join us to talk about the media's double standard. >> two nypd officers shot in the line of duty are out of the hospital. officers joseph murphy and christopher wells were cheered on by dozens of their brothers and sisters in blue, they were both shot while escorting a domestic violence victim to her home in queens, returning fire, killing the suspect. the commissioner says he's grateful both officers are still alive. todd: great to see. the blue angels giving attention to their new super hornets, streaking through the skies over their home base in pensacola for the 2021 airshow, incredible shot from the blue angels in their high-tech jet, the elite squadron set for april in jacksonville. jillian: something to look forward to. the time is 38 after the hour. secretary of state mike pompeo reflecting on his time as america's top diplomat. >> we are safer in the united states as a result of the things the trump administration has done. we will keep doing this until we are tapped on

joe biden will uphold those ideas. fox news contributor rachel campos duffy will join us in the next hour to react.ebrows by brushing off in-fighting within the democratic party. >> when you think about our party, speaker pelosi always says we are a big tent and that means we are a big family. we all have our own constituencies we have to serve. we are part of a caucus that is, you know, working on behalf of the people. we think of ourselves as the party of the people. carley: the squad member went on to credit the democratic party's unity for president-elect biden's victory. last week she rebuked senator joe manchin on blaming progressive policies like court packing for democrats failing to meet expectations this election cycle. jillian: tim allen poking fun at progressives on social media with a 172-year-old quote. he tweeted finally an honest progressive position, short-term demands among them progressive income tax, abolition of child labor, free public education, nationalization of the means of transport, guess who wrote this. he revealed it was from carl marx's communist manifesto. carley: ti

joe biden has been busy making announcements about his incoming team and it seems neither republicans or the far left are happy about it. ari fleischer, sean duffyl be here with more. we will be right back. ♪ >> trey: out joe biden tonight continues to signal a return to the bad old days reaching into the recycling then of the obama/clinton era fixtures to fill out his administration. it is already drawing some irony from the far left especially asf biden socialist doors like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren likely won't be joining the cabinet. take a look. >> what about formal rifles from your own party, elizabeth warren? have you talked to them about cabinet positions? >> i said, we already have significant representation on progressives and our administration, but there is nothing off the table. one thing is critical, taking someone out of the senate,e, taking someone out of the house and particularly a preferred person of consequence is really a difficult decision that has to be t made. >> now biden's cabinet picks so far suggest return to failed policy of the obama administration. that include leaping piles of -- leaving pallets cash on

joe biden maintains the lead there. fox news contributor rachel campos-duffy, fox news contributor. mo elleithee. react to joe biden taking the lead in pennsylvania? that update came just top of the hour. >> well, it's obviously big. the trajectory that we have seen ever since tuesday night in the state of pennsylvania, it's hard to see how the president turns it around. and if you look at what is outstanding there, right? pennsylvania certainly puts him over the top and when you look at the trajectory in georgia and in nevada i think the president will hold north carolina, but those other states on top of the call fox made in arizona, i think it's just a matter of hours before we're referring to joe biden as president elect biden. >> sandra: any of those states would put joe biden over the top. rachel, continually pointing out the what if scenario. if you give joe biden pennsylvania, he tops -- he goes up to 284. if he is able to win in georgia it puts him at 280 and even six in nevada brings him to 270. we wait to hear from officials in pennsylvania as joe biden takes the lead there. >> my thoug

joe biden. carley: he says massive voter fraud took place in the fight is far from over. former wisconsin congressman sean duffyving. donald trump took the wind out of a lot of democrats sales when he said he would leave the white house because there have been some democrats who openly fantasized about him getting dragged out of the white house. what do you think of his latest comments? >> can't wait for the military or police to go into the oval office and drag donald trump out. of course donald trump is going to abide by the findings of this election but he's right to say i have concern about what happened in the election on november 3rd. he came out and put everyone at ease, he's going to leave if the vote is eventually certified and there will be a smooth transition to the next president. griff: the president says massive fraud exists. we've not seen that evidence, judges are not siding with the trump campaign team. is a former member of congress, the president continues this legal fight but not winning, at what point does it begin to jeopardize republicans running for office? we start looking to the next c

filling up the government. >> 80 million of them that voted for joe biden is interested. >> jon: we'll have to leave it there. rachel kam pos duffyard fowler. thank you both. >> sandra: fox news alert now 10:21 a.m. on the east coast looking at a brand-new record high for the dow jones industrial average up 400 points on this tuesday during a holiday week. it is less than -- just over 10 points away from 30,000 now. if it were to close at this level it would be a record close as well. continued optimism on wall street. a lot of solid earnings continue to come in and you've got a 400 point gain on the dow. we're watching that and more officers leaving the seattle police department after deep budget cuts. the impact on public safety from california to new york. more sheriffs are taking a stand against state covid-19 restrictions saying they will not enforce thanksgiving stay at home orders. governor andrew cuomo says sheriffs do not get to decide what they enforce. what about sheriffs who ignore immigration laws leading to so-called sanctuary cities? we'll get into that. >> it's not up to you. you don't have that right. but it is s

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and joe biden laying out his plan for an economic recovery. sean duffys is making history as the first woman to represent wyoming in the u.s. senate. she grew the number of republican women heading to the capitol next year. a record-setting 17 gop women have been elected to the house. the senator-elect joins us now. good morning to you, senator-elect. >> good morning, ainsley. ainsley: good morning. what a resumÉ you have. you served in the statehouse or senate for 14 years, state treasurer for 8 years, 8 years in the u.s. house and congratulations, you are the first female senator in the state of wyoming. i'm sure that feels great. what are you top priorities? >> well, it's such an honor to serve wyoming in the u.s. senate. i plan to work on several issues including matters to try to reduce our to the debt and our deficit. i also plan to explain to my colleagues about bitcoin. i know there isn't much known about bitcoin, especially in the congress, so i want to make sure everybody understands that this is a great store of value. it's something that amer

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duffy, pleasure, thank you for being with us. the rally proceeds, now were up 644 points on the ground, that is 2.3%, the nasdaq is up 4%, 446, i gotta believe as joe like, nothing official, you've divided government, wall street likes it, stock market rally proceeds. susan: the s&p since may 18 in the best day for the nasdaq since april these are coming from the depth that we sold the end of march during the lockdown the high of the covid lockdown, this is pretty encouraging that as you get the vote out of the way you get money rotating back in. stuart: a lot of money coming into the stock market, that's a fact, four states have voted to legalize marijuana, that means one in three americans now lives in a state where pot is legal and soon to be available. we have a market rally as the election remains up in the air, next we had to battleground state pennsylvania, don't go anywhere or varney after this. ♪ stuart: mail-in ballot county is underway pennsylvania, president trump is leading up this moment, eric shawn joins us from philadelphia, we just heard strong words from the governor moments ago, tell me more about that. >> we did, firing back at

common rachel campos-duffy, is there a way around it, we can't avoid this, the tide has turned in joese. >> it's still a very close election and it's not like there is a biden blowout, these are razor thin margins and i think the trump campaign is smart to challenges because there are some anomalies, i was just on the other channel on fox the main channel and was with a democrat consulted and asked him why does your party have a problem with transparency with republicans coming in and observing what is happening, a judge ordered them to do it and they still refused. i think people are right have questions and people had questions earlier this summer with the excuse of covid made some of these states change their rules and mail ballots to everyone, we've never seen that before on the scale and it was right for abuse, fraud and i think that's what people are concerned about. if indeed joe biden is going to be the next president then it would be good for the democrats to lend some legitimacy to this presidency by allowing more transparency in the process, but they are not doing that. the

joe biden in battleground wisconsin by 17 points. what? according to an "abc/washington post" poll. rachel come pose duffynsin lady. what does she make about 17-point gap in the poll. does trump win florida big time? i'm asking florida senator rick scott. we're taking you live to the villages. they love us down there. ♪ businesses today are looking to tomorrow. adapting. innovating. setting the course. but new ways of working demand a new type of network. one that's more than just fast. you need flexibility- to work from anywhere. and manage from everywhere. advanced technology. with serious security. and reliable coverage, nationwide. forward-thinking enterprises, deserve forward-thinking solutions. and that's what we deliver. so bounce forward, with comcast business. stuart: the rally progresses. we're off very close to 500 points that puts just a fraction away from the 27,000 level. the nasdaq is up about 150 points, 1.3%. i'm looking across the board here, susan. and i can't find any big sectors that are down this morning. susan: there are individual losers. looking amazon is down a little bit. tdoc.

joe biden by about 20,000 votes with 99% of the ballots reported. let's bring in former wisconsin gop congressman and fox news contributor sean duffy.good to see you. there have been some reports of voting irregularities in your state. the trump campaign and some others have pointed to this, they say poll workers quoting here corrected or added information to the ballot itself. we estimate that 15 to 20% of absentee ballots in milwaukee county were tainted in this manner. these accusations haven't been validated but i guess for the sake of argument it is worth taking a second look at all these ballots. your thoughts. >> absolutely, trace. the trump campaign is smart to do this and also in wisconsin usually we have about 68 to 70% voter turnout in races like this. it appears that there was an 89% voter turnout in tuesday's election. incredibly high and begs some questions as to what happened there. there could be reasoning for what happened in wisconsin. we could have had -- we have same day registration in our state so we could have had 500 or 600,000 people register on tuesday to vote. that could explain it away. the trump campaign

: president-elect joe biden pushing for unity among democrats as members of the party's progressive wing press the administration for bold action on climate change. rachel campos-duffy joins us now. thank you for coming on. it is hard to get unity when you can't get your own party on the same page. there is some big pushback happening from progressive who believe joe biden needs to come their way. listen. >> my timeline is different. my timeline is different. i have no time -- our folks don't have another day. we'll make sure that the biden administration sticks to our timeline. >> trace: make sure the biden administration sticks to their timeline. your thoughts, rachel. >> they are on the steps of the u.s. capitol demanding that joe biden give them money through an executive order to enact a multi-trillion dollar green new deal. frankly, if they really cared about the environment they wouldn't be on the steps of the capitol but the chinese embassy. they are oef the big violators of the environment. jobs will move back out of our country and back to china which won't be good for the environment. joe biden promised to be the most progressive president in u.s. history

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joe biden warning of difficult days ahead. biden emphasizing the need to contain the virus to spur the economy. but could new lockdowns threaten an economic recovery? sean duffyscuss. i often remind our viewers you used to run ubs. you know a lot about the economy and you know that these shutdowns have dramatically affected so many lives. you look at restaurant workers, two million restaurant workers out of work right now. it is a tough environment. can we even weather further shutdowns that joe biden is talking about? >> unfortunately we're in this impossible predicament. right now cases are surging and red and blue states are being hammered indifferently. so the question is how do you reopen under best practice? we don't have the right protocol yet in place. obviously we can talk about the mask and social distancing and contact tracing. the fact is it's surging right now. we don't have our arms around it. 1 in 6 businesses are closing. five million people have left the workforce. so the president-elect biden is absolutely right. we have to figure out how to reopen safely. but we need to reopen, i agree. these lockdowns are devastating to businesses. >> sand

joe biden's transition team members advocating for some restrictions on speech making the case in a 2019 "washington post" column why america needs a hate speech law. let's bring in fox news contributor rachel campos-duffyle of things. one russia disinformation and two, the burning of the quran. he would like that banned. he writes the following. all speech is not equal and where truth cannot drive out lies we must add new guardrails. i'm all for protecting thought that we hate but not speech that incites hate. it undermines the values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the first amendment is designed to protect. but zach, you have critics pointing out, you know, there are countries where blasphemy, can get you the death penalty. you start banning speech and it is a very slippery slope. >> there is a fine line. i think you raise a fair point. you can't yell fire in a crowded theater and hate speech itself isn't actually protected. what we're dealing with now in the social media world is trying to determine where dysinformation and where lies and hate speech and freedom of speech is where the line is. difficult for tech companies to self-regulate. from the government standpoint they've been unable to fi

joe biden's presidency. rich, yeah? i don't know that it gets more rich. i challenge you, find the clip, more lacking in self-awareness than what you just saw. we spoke to shawn duffy presidency investigat ed two years on a fake russia story and then they impeached him and you had msnbc and other left-wing networks every hour of every day promot ing this fake story, make no mistake, republicans are going to investigate joe biden. they have hunter's laptop, they know that joe biden got money from foreign countries. joe biden is compromised with the chinese, republicans will investigate it. and rule the day he won because it's going to be so painful to be exposed in the investigations coming his way, paybacks are hell in the congress. jedediah: will you talked about self-awareness and the complete lack thereof. some politicians just also have no shame, i notice. that guy should be mortified considering that he went on tv talking about adam schiff of course numerous times claiming he had damming evidence of russian collusion there was no evidence and yet he's not embarrassed at all because he hasn't really properly been held accountable on both sides for that behavior