what digital detectives in the west didn't know was that lazarus was about town leash its first globalve cyber attack -- >> reporter: a piece of malware that sat dormant in millions of computers, activated friday, may 12th. fedex, spain's phone company, a trin compa train company and britain's organization hit hard. >> wide-scale disruption. >> reporter: what benefit does north korea get out of it. >> it's unclear. the one thing that makes sense, simply they're unpredictable. >> reporter: another thing that makes the group uncontradictable. wannacry wormed its way into millions of computers but the code so basic a 22-year-old hacker from britain found an easy way to kill it only 48 hours after it was activated. >> this is wannacry on the right and a previous lazarus piece of software used in bangladesh. >> reporter: the attack on the central bank of bangladesh was a straight-up bank robbery, cyber style. no guns, no masks. just lines of code. the hackers exploited a small glitch in the global banking system and almost stole $1 billion -- except, they couldn't spell. >> the first indica

they believe the so-called guardians of peace were none other than a hacking outfit known as lazarus.hackers basically, hacking for political reasons and also we see now for men tea monetary reasons. >> a shadowy group of hackers has been linked to north korea. its members combine attacks on known targets of regime like the computer systems in south korea with hacking for profit, the digital digital equivalent of robbery. what digital detectives in the west didn't know was lazarus was about to june leech its first global attack. a piece of marware that sat dormant was activated on may 12th, fed ex, spain's phone company and britain's health service were some of the organizations hit r hard. >> their goal was to provide wide scale destruction. the one thing that's predictable about them, that makes sense is simply they're unpredictable. >> here's another thing that makes the group unpredictable. they worked their way into millions of computers but the code was so basic that a 22-year-old hacker in britain learned how to kill it. >> this is a previous lazarus piece of software that was

only 48 hours after it was activated. >> this is it on the right and this is a previous lazarus piecegladesh. >> reporter: the attack on the central bank of bangladesh was a straight-up bank robbery. just loons of code. the hackers exploited a small glitch in the global banking system and almost stole a billion dollars. except they couldn't spell. >> that was the first indication that caused the banks to go, wait a second. why is this transaction made and held up the rest because of a single tie toe name. >> spelled it wrong? >> one letter name. >> ransom attack for money and attack on a movie studio and repeated attacks on south korea came from one source. eric chen connected the dots and cracked the case. >> very clear this is all the same group. >> fingerprints are pretty clear, obvious? >> not only that, they likely want people to know. >> because lazarus experts around the world now believe is no criminal outfit. it's an arm of the war machine operated by the north korean government. the u.s. government calls it hidden cobra. >> what i'm concerned about is that north korea will d

on that motion, commissioner lazarus. >> aye. >> president honda. >> aye. >> c >> welcome back to the november 15, 2017 of the meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. we are calling item number 11, appeal just 17-156, patrick mulligan versus department of building inspection. at 259 avila street. protesting the issuance on august 24, 2017 to donald and jocelyn pin arrested of a site permit, third story residential addition and structural work; addition includes two new rest rooms and three new bedrooms. >> good evening, president honda, vice president fung, commissioners miss lazarus, miss wilson, mr. swig. my name is scott stewart, and i've been a continual resident of san francisco for the last 50 years, so we're starting from that point of view, so maybe with that point of view, i'd like to introduce historic perspective, and between the square footage shown in the permit form. the size of the addition has not changed between the presentation meeting and the site permit application. the side of the third floor addition is 1,080 square feet is has always been that. the reason

on that motion, commissioner lazar lazarus. >> aye. >> president honda? >> aye. >> and commissioner swig. >> aye. >> and then also calling out of order are items 7 a through d, this is appeal number 17-144, 145, 148, 150. these are appeals that have to do with 255 sea cliff avenue protesting the issuance on august 11, 2017, to ann mao of a site permit to erect three stories one basement, type v.b. single-family residential building. the motion failed with a lack of four votes because that would have conditioned the permit, so on further motion, the board votes to continue the matter to this evening, and this was to allow the permit holder to work with the appellants on a design that removes the penthouse and includes a roof deck no larger than 500 square feet, and the reason this is being called out of order is i understand the parties request this matter be continued to another night. >> yes. >> so president honda, maybe we can give each side a cup of of minutes just in case they have a couple of other matters they want to raise. >> yeah, but just on the

. >> on that motion, commissioner lazarus. >> no. >> president honda. >> no. >> commissioner wilson. >> no. >> and commissioner swig. >> aye. >> that motion fails with a vote of 2-3. lacking any other motion, the appeal would be denied and the permit upheld by default. okay. president hop da shall i call next item? >> yes. >> so i will move on. we're on item five which is a rehearing request. subject property 2226 green street. the requester is barbara lawrence and she's asking that a rehearing be granted of 17-125, barynts versus department of building inspection decided october 18th 2017. they voted 4-0-1 with commissioner wilson absent. the project is 5'6" infill at the existing fourth floor. deck extension. kitchen renovation, remove trellis. i know when a similar matter was before the board last week, commissioner said she was ready to proceed and i assume she is still prepared. we have three minutes for this request. >> good evening and welcome back. >> thank you. before you start my three minutes, i had a point of order. i think i inadvertently gave false information. when i l

on that motion, commissioner lazarus. >> aye. >> president honda. >> aye. >> commissioner -- aye. >> and commissioner swig. >> no. >> the next item is item 8, item 7 has been continued. item 8 is peal number 17-151. cheryl coan with building department approval. the property is at 76640th avenue, protesting the issuance on august 18, 2017 to carren bentley and kristina svensson of an alteration permit, a rooms down addition to existing residence, no new square footage added, all work is within existing building footprint, includes new family room, full bath, hallway, new doors and windows. neck deck and stair in rear yard. >> i'm a single mom. i sincerely want to thank this board and particularly the city of san francisco for allowing me a voice in this extensive process, and i'm keenly sympathetic to the young family's need for more space, and i'm not here to deny the neighbor's right to expand, and 95 percent of their contract is not being contested. moving appliances off a wall and changing deck space is a good start. this short notice has left me scrambling to protect my foundati

followed by gilbert crizwell. >> jim lazarus san francisco chamber of commerce.thank you for all the hours and hours you've spent on this. we urge you to move swiftly to pass legislation in the next few weeks. so that businesses can be legalized and to take those steps necessary to get this program as approved by the voters of california and san francisco off the ground. we believe that reasonable limitations can be placed whether it's the recent suggestion by supervisor farrell's office or in the legislation before you or originally from the planning department. but that we need to create a situation where businesses can be located throughout the city in reasonable numbers and that we have a permit process in place for the entire supply stream that will be in san francisco from the grow to the labs to the dispensaries to delivery to retail. we urge you to act on that in the next few weeks. i think there are a number of other issues we've continued to raise in letters we sent to the board from the group we put together including other business organizations, smal

lazarus lynch is the son of a southern chef.ning. what are we cooking? i think one of my favorites. >> we're doing mac and cheese. first of all, happy veterans day to all the veterans out there. we salute you. >> indeed. >> this is a no fuss, no boil c collard green and ham mack and cheese. >> sounds good. dylan is already eating. >> i like no fuss. my husband is going to be watching this. i don't do a whole lot of cooking. he'll be very impressed. no fuss means i might actually make this. >> you'll appreciate that. everything is sort of ready to go. the only thing you have to do is boil your cream and put things in the oven. >> talk about this cream. >> heave cream that has come to a rolling boil. you want to make sure it's really hot. i've got a buttered casserole dish. we're going to add in our raw needles. >> why do you do it raw? >> because who has time to boil macaroni. it's holidays. >> you've got to be shopping. >> you've got leftover collard greens. leftover ham. add that. we're going to add parmesan, swiss, cheddar. th

eddie lazarus executive vice president and vice counsel-- this is a big deal to have these two representatives of the merging parties, so i called in a chip with both of them. thank you guys. then we have carmen corrado director from policy and legal affairs of the national hispanic media coalition and directly to her right is jim winston president of the national association of black broadcasters into his right is my mentor and a longtime friend and sometimes pain in the whatever andy swarts men who has been senior counselor and attorney at the georgetown institute for public representation, so welcome. we had to start visions there, one vision was a industry that gets a lot of government and taxpayer benefit and therefore owes something to the public, and fiduciary and one of the things they own is a diversity of voices and on the other hand we have a scrappy competitor in a very competitive marketplace and where the free market according to jerry ought to rule , whatever needs to be done to make sure the broadcasters survived needs to be done by the way i read what jerry was talking about,

ed lazarus, executive vice president and general counsel for tribune corporation. by the way, this is a big deal to have two representatives of the merging parties. i called in a chip with both of them, so thank you guys. then we have carmen scurato, director for policy and legal affairs for national hispanic media coalition. directly to her right jim winston, president of the national association of black owned broadcasters. his right is my mentor and longtime friend and sometimes pain in the whatever, andy schwartzman, who is senior counselor georgetown institute for public representation. welcome, everybody. we had two stark visions there. one was of an industry that gets a lot of government and taxpayer benefits and therefore owes something to the public, a fiduciary. one of the things they own is a diversity of voices. on the other hand we have a scrappy competitor in a very competitive marketplace, where the free market, according to jerry fritz, ought to rule. whatever needs to be done to make sure broadcasters survive needs to be done, kind of the way i rea

eddie lazarus come executive vice president and general counsel for tribune corporation. this is a big deal to have the representatives of both major parties. we have carmen, the director for policy and legal affairs at the national hispanic media coalition. to her right, jean winston, the president of the national association of black owned broadcasters. to his right, my mentor and a longtime friend, andy schwarzman , who has been senior counselor and attorney at the georgetown institute for public representation. the first question i want to ask , we have two very stark visions. one of an industry that gets a lot of government and taxpayer benefits and therefore owes something to the public. one of the things they own is a diversity of voices. on the other hand, we have a scrappy competitor in a competitive marketplace. where the free market ought to rule. whatever needs to be done to make sure the broadcasters survive needs to be done. would ask anybody in the panel if they wanted to respond. which is it or is it a little bit of both? >> david paints a very rosy pictur

. >> we have a motion from commisr lazarus to deny the request on e motion.vice president fung. >> aye. >> president honda. >> aye. >> commissioner wilson. >> aye. >> commissioner swig. >> aye. >> that motion pass d passes 5-e request is denied. >> we're going to [gavel] welcome back to the november 157 meeting of the san francisco bof appeals. we're on 16- 018.r[6w;í property at 95 st. germain aven. after the denial of a front yard variance to increase the heighte garage and reduce the front sett the first and second story to 1. this matter was heard on july 1, it's on for further hearing tod. the board voted on july 19th 5-o allow time for the appeal -- aps to work to resolve their disputh the neighbors at 99 st 99 st. gd draft findings and support of ae plans could be submitted to the. with the president's consent, ie can give three minutes to each e since the matter was heard and e public comment. we'll start with the appellants. >> good evening and welcome bac. >> president honda, commissioned members of the board. we wish to request that you recr our va

he came from a venerable family and he was a first cousin of emma lazarus and he was at columbia universitynd columbia law school in the 1890's. two things about him. his father was a judge who got caught in the boss tweed scandals and his father was disgraced and forced to resign from the new york supreme court. i have a part of the chapter called "redemption." cardoza's life was to redeem the family name and he did everything to doing this -- devoted everything to doing this. he is known for his years as the chief judge as the new york state court of appeals, in which most of the legal cases are the cases that he adjudicated while the chief judge of the court. brian: he was on the court for 6 years. did he die in office? david: he died. he went from washington to albany in already-declining health. it was declining on the court and he eventually died in 1938. less than 6 years on the court. brian: hoover nominated him. david: hoover nominated. all of the jewish justices were liberal democrats, with the exception of cardoza. they were nominated by democratic presidents. cardoza supported a

eddie lazarus, executive vice president and general counsel for tribune corporation.the way, this is a big deal to have the two representatives of the memorying parties. so i -- merging parties. i called in a chip with both of them, so thank you, guys. then we have carmen sing curato with the national hispanic media coalition. and directly to her right is jim winston, the president of the national association of black-owned broadcasters. to his right is my mentor and a longtime friend and sometimes pain in the -- whatever -- andy schwartzman who's senior counselor and attorney at the journaltown institute for public representation. welcome, everybody. i think the first question i want to ask, we had two very stark visions there, right? one vision was of a industry that gets a lot of government and taxpayer benefits and, therefore, owes something to the public, the fiduciary. and one of the things they owe is a diversity of voices. on the other hand, we have a scrappy competitor and a very competitive marketplace. and where the free market, according to jerry fritz, ou

so on that motion to grant the appeal, commissioner lazarus. >> no. >> president honda. >> aye. >> commissioner wilson. >> will you go first? >> no. >> give me a second. let me think about it. >> it's rare you make the decision tonight. >> would you say it again, please. >> the motion would be to grant the appeal and deny the variance on the basis that the five findings required under the planning code have not been met. >> aye. >> commissioner swig. >> no. >> four votes are needed and there's voted 3-2 so that motion fails. lacking any other motion, the variance is upheld by default. >> i have no other -- >> no other motion being made, president honda, there's no other business before the board. >> good evening. welcome to the small business commission meeting tonight. as our custom to begin and end each meeting to remind the office of small business is the only place to start your new business in san francisco, and the best place to get answers about starting your mail business in san francisco. you can find us on-line or in person here at city hall. best of all, our services are free of char

so on that motion to grant the appeal, commissioner lazarus. >> no. >> president honda. >> aye. >> commissioner wilson. >> will you go first? >> no. >> give me a second. let me think about it. >> it's rare you make the decision tonight. >> would you say it again, please. >> the motion would be to grant the appeal and deny the variance on the basis that the five findings required under the planning code have not been met. >> aye. >> commissioner swig. >> no. >> four votes are needed and there's voted 3-2 so that motion fails. lacking any other motion, the variance is upheld by default. >> i have no other -- >> no other motion being made, president honda, there's no other business before the board. >> this is maybe our 10th year hosting an annual turkey giveaway. but it has been so wonderful to partner with the pay your's office and the rest of the city departments to really expand our capacity across the city. once upon a time, we were only able to serve maybe 500 to 600 families and now we're talking about 3,000 across the city. [cheering] >> a lot of people need our help. so we'll help them. a

so on that motion to grant the appeal, commissioner lazarus. >> no. >> president honda. >> aye. >> commissioner wilson. >> will you go first? >> no. >> give me a second. let me think about it. >> it's rare you make the decision tonight. >> would you say it again, please. >> the motion would be to grant the appeal and deny the variance on the basis that the five findings required under the planning code have not been met. >> aye. >> commissioner swig. >> no. >> four votes are needed and there's voted 3-2 so that motion fails. lacking any other motion, the variance is upheld by default. >> i have no other -- >> no other motion being made, president honda, there's no other business before the board. >> hello, i'm the deputy assistant manage and project manager for the control system bureau i consider any department as my extend family i know every member of my department the folks are that that talented and skilled and have their credentials since the people in the site are coming to before they're put in operation it's a good place to visit we share information and support each other the water sy

so on that motion to grant the appeal, commissioner lazarus. >> no. >> president honda. >> aye. >> commissioner wilson. >> will you go first? >> no. >> give me a second. let me think about it. >> it's rare you make the decision tonight. >> would you say it again, please. >> the motion would be to grant the appeal and deny the variance on the basis that the five findings required under the planning code have not been met. >> aye. >> commissioner swig. >> no. >> four votes are needed and there's voted 3-2 so that motion fails. lacking any other motion, the variance is upheld by default. >> i have no other -- >> no other motion being made, president honda, there's no other business before the board. please stay seens lur yo bill devices and remind you that the commission does not tolerate any disruptions or outbursts of any kind. commissioner, i'd like to take roll at this time. [roll call 1234*678d we do expect two more to arrive shortly. commissioners, first on your agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance, item one for case 2015-225drp at 271 justin avenue for review. items 2a,

while we mourn, just like jesus mourned when his friend lazarus di died, he knew the power of god and we know that he's there for them right now. >> for those watching that knew the 25 people whose lives were taken, what is your message about the motivation? >> i'm sorry? >> what is your message to the people living in the community whose hearts are breaking, knowing that the 25 people are now dead, whatever the motivation of the shooter turns out to be? >> well, you know, motivation is not going to change the facts. so what we have to do is just say, you know, as a family and a community, we trust in our faith here. we trust in the faith of the people that were in this church. and i say to anybody in our community here listening, that pastors, people of the community and everyone in this area, and we know that extends all the way into san antonio where the bexar chaplin is out here with us. they are standing ready to do whatever it is that we need to do to help these families and get them through this time, be it feed them, bring food for them, take care of their kids while parents a

on the north shore of lazarus al jazeera is mourning the release of its journalist mahmoud hussein he's been in an egyptian prison for almost eleven months zain is accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al jazeera strongly deny he's repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail he was arrested last december while visiting family so with us on this news ah because still ahead we're going to report from inside a temporary refugee screening center in bangladesh as the european union pledges help to resolve the crisis. it is a world toilet day we meet the cambodians whose lives have been transformed by access to clean. action from the second stage of the grueling among american that's coming up. hello there is plenty of cloud over the middle east at the moment the satellite picture shows the latest bunch of clowns as we working its way study eastwards that's mostly just not a great deal of rain with it at all but still it's gradually edging its way eastwards and it's going to be here working its way across the around there as we head through monday behind it as more

for eddie lazarus to talk about the fcc manipulating the ownership rules for sinclair and tribune, having sidecars stations on by the elderly mother of the ceo takes the a lot of guts. >> i received jim wants to anything. >> i agree. it is a problem when you look at what they're doing in terms of eliminating the rules. because of court decisions and congressional actions or inaction. the policy has been largely ineffective. always been able to do is get some spinoff. to eliminate the rules they need to make it impossible for us to see significant growth coming up. >> i will let eddie and rebecca have the last word. there's two questions i would ask in the wheel clothes. >> actually don't have any j assays are tribune. >> let's go to the next question. what was the impact on the merger political campaigns and election given the sinclair corporate directions? also, is this really about the fact that sinclair has been purported to want to start a broadcast box? is this about their political views? >> there's no impact. i think what is been referred to. >> we launched the national news spirit

finally i have to say for eddie lazarus to talk about the fcc manipulating the ownership rules for sinclair and tribune who have gained the system, having sinclair sidecar stations owned by the elderly mother of the ceo sinclair who was nominally a different independent company take a lot of chutzpah. >> i will let you respond but i will see if jim wanted to add anything there. >> i agree with everything and he just said. >> even the closed book part? >> i won't respond on that. it is a problem when you look at what they are doing in terms of limiting these rules. in recent years because of court decisions and congressional action or inaction. the minority ownership policy has been largely ineffective and always been able to get some spinoffs in large mergers so to eliminate the rules with surprising spinoffs they make it virtually impossible to see any significant growth coming up and minority ownership. >> i will let eddie and rebecca have the last word on this and are two good questions i want to ask after that and we will close. >> we don't have any gsas at the tribune so on behalf of t