lo identifico como laurence eliott.aciones de indocumentados arrestados por delitos menores. >> los concejales de nueva york interrogaron a la comisionada de departamento para que les aclare el rol que su oficina cumple en los arrestos de los indocumentados. >> de -nueva york no es arizona. yo vine a los 18 aÑos y participe en acciones de defensa civil. >> se cuestiona la intervenciÓn de la ciudad en el programa de comunidades seguras que consiste en la colaboraciÓn de las autoridades locales con los agentes federales de inmigraciÓn para deportar a los indocumentados detenidos por delitos menores. >> queremos un mejor entendimiento sobre si fue invitado el gobierno federal ala carel o si fue un mandato del gobierno federal. todavÍa no tenemos una respuesta clara. >> en el camino se producen deportaciones. ion yo tengo testimonios de ver como mi primo estuvo dentro de la prisiÓn por mucho tiempo. no le dan el derecho a defenderse como inmigrante y lo deportan. >> el gobernador de nueva york firmÓ un acuerdoivisioa ncoope

obama himself comes up with a theme that his professor of constitutional law, laurence tribe, uses as the light motif in one of his books, that the law is a conversation. it's the nation arguing with its conscience, rather than thinking of the constitution as having a fixed unitary or original meaning, the people with whom obama studied and he himself understand that the constitution from the beginning has been alive and has changed and that our understandings of it have changed and must continue to change as our culture develops. >> rose: i've been surprised that laurence tribe is not in a more exalted position in the administration. are you? we're in the middle of the presidenciy and not even yet to the second term so there may well be something for laurence tribe to do and he may well be doing work now beneath the radar that the presidents important. i wouldn't rule that out. >> rose: do you know something we don't know? >> no. >> rose: staying with him, you have said-- and this is interesting-- he support most penetrating political thinker elected to the presidency in the last cen

. >> laurence kornfield, department of building inspection. the state law is very clear as to who is able to do work. it is regulated under state law. either the owner can do this, or a licensed contractor can do this work, so we do not have any legal authority to say you may not get a permit, you may not do the work. it is encouraging to hear the project sponsors say they're going to hire a licensed contractor. either owners or directors must comply with the federal and state laws regarding asbestos and lead, has this material protection, and that is, once again, not regulated by the city. it is typically regulated by other agencies, including the air quality management control district. the epa. and other agencies. and i want to bring to your attention a problem, and should the commission or board of appeals choose to uphold this permit, we need to deal with this problem, and that is that this permit authorizes work on the main structure at the rear of the property and also the construction of a new structure at the front of the property. a

we have laurence kornfield with the department of building inspection. sitting next to him is the newly named zoning administrator, scott sanchez, and carl short, representing the department of public works bureau of urban forestry. if you could please go over the meeting guidelines and to at the swearing and process. >> the board request that you turn off all electronic devices so do not disturb the proceedings. please carry on conversations in the hallway. the board's rules for presentation are as follows -- appellants, permit holders, and department responders each have seven minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rare bottle. people affiliated with these parties must include their comments within those times. members of the public who are not affiliated with the parties have up to three minutes each to address the board, nor bottles. to assist the board and the accurate proportion of minutes, members of the public to wish to speak on an item are asked but not required to submit a speaker card or business card to board staff when you com

seismically, ooh, that's a laurence question. >> they have limits on what both the transient drift and permanent drift is allowed to be, how far they are allowed to sway and how far they're allowed to be out of plumb. what they calculate it to be they come up with a resilient system of setting the glazing so that at the levels of drift there should be no pressure placed against the glazing. so that's the design. we will wait for a big earthquake and see how it plays out. but should be okay. the drift issues are things that we've been talking about for these high rise buildings. what are appropriate drift limits, and how much can a 600 foot building be permanently displaced and still be an acceptable building. how long can we expect the glazing in one of these new buildings to last? >> the state of california pushed the idea of, ooh, insulated glass is the answer to everything. it will keep energy down, and heat in. this is mandated, insulated glass. the problem is that they -- the public is not fully aware that insulated glass does not last forever. and that in time, it will -- it's re

. >> laurence you were saying it's still warm. >> for this time of year to see temperatures in the 70s across the bay area ises a maaing, but you get the offshore winston cups and boy, those winds draw as they approach of the coastline and boy, we have toasty temperatures outside right now. not a bad weekend around the bay area weatherwise as we squeezed in plenty of sunshine and warm temperatures. live shot for you over the bay bridge. mostly clear skies with a couple of high clouds continuing to make their way on by. how about that sup set for you? looking good with some of the high clouds moving through, but temperatures well above the average a good 5-15 degrees above the average just mount vaca, a couple of cirrus clouds moving by. it's likely to continue for at least another day or two, but them we'll see changes here. we have a sense of this ridge of high pressure. that is that offshore flow blowing through and getting rid of the clouds and bringing in lots of sunshine and warm temperatures. tomorrow, sunny and warm around the bay area just we're inspecting 70s and low 80s inlan

. >> laurence kornfield from the department of building inspection. there are many sources of documentation of construction in the city. the basic one that most people go to is the department of building inspection's microfilm office on the fourth floor, where we maintain records of permits going back to 1906. we have a fairly comprehensive collection of all permits, whether they were completed or expired or otherwise acted upon. it is true that occasionally

. >> laurence kornfield from the department of building inspection. there are many sources of documentation of construction in the city. the basic one that most people go to is the department of building inspection's microfilm office on the fourth floor, where we maintain records of permits going back to 1906. we have a fairly comprehensive collection of all permits, whether they were completed or expired or otherwise acted upon. it is true that occasionally we have [unintelligible] that is not common, but it does occur. there are many other sources of information which often use when either people cannot find documents or contest the determination we make of legal use or construction. one of those we find very useful is the assessor reporter's office maintains a paper copy of a file that is the result of a field inspection by an assessor sometime during the course of the history of the building. they went out and took pictures and recorded. this is a snapshot of time, recording the area, the number of rooms, the number of sinks, and so on. that is ty

. >> good morning i'm laurence cornfield chief building inspector and like to welcome you to our brown bag lunch we do the third thursday of every month at the department of building inspection. we invite you to participate so call for information and join us. our next talk is on decks and balcones. today we will talk about commercial restaurants in san francisco. we have a lot of people in the audience who are restaurant exe experts and architects and industry people. i should talk about commercial restaurants and how to get permit issues resolved and problems resolved during lunchtime. is probably not a thing that's going to attract a lot of people in the commercial restaurant business because they work at lunch and they are not here. hopefully we can broadcast this and may be if there is an interest we will do it at a future date. another thing, perhaps we should do this at a restaurant because we want to support restaurant necessary san francisco. we did last year have lunch at town hall restaurant we will do that again later this year. we have a lot of topics to cover today, befor

i do not know if it will work for dbi and laurence kornfield. you have a process to add a condition to an existing permit. that does create a second bpa permit. it would be an internal process. >> thank you for your suggestion, but i do not believe that works in this case. that would just be a modification of this permit, and what we really need is a separate permit for the other structure. commissioner garcia: even though it would create a second bpa? >> that is correct. it is just modifying this permit. commissioner fung: if i was to think about the sequence, i would recommend this permit is to segregate the rear structure as part of this permit. do you want to respond to just that, please? >> this information came to us yesterday. this is really shocking to us. we have been down this road. we thought we were at the end of it. and now we are looking at the possibility of a brand new permit, a brand new process. it is gut wrenching. if there is any possibility of being really creative about this within the law, because actually this thing, as m