letter?y good letter for what?did you hear about it? it seems to me that a person would read the paper...i read it every day. at least the funnies. well tell me about it. why don't you just find out for yourself timmy martin? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ mom! where's the paper? the what? the newspaper. i gotta find it. what are you looking for? i don't know. willie wouldn't tell me. but it's about a... a circus and a pet contest. that sounds pretty exciting. here let me help you. oh! what my pet means to me. yes, here we are. rules. letters must be written by the pet owner, using only one side of the paper and only one entry is allowed to a contestant. the six best letters will win free admission tickets to the circus and the judges decisions are final! all letters must be post marked not later than midnight the 6th. that's today. i hadn't got much time. where's the pen and ink and good paper? well their right where they always are. i guess i better get 'em. yes, i guess you had. what are you going to write? i'll write that she's the v

>> the request for a letter of determination. my first request for a letter of determination was -- i was told that -- i was given legal advice some someone on the phone at the board of -- and i'm trying to think -- the planning commission that i should file a dr application after getting a letter of determination. and i started to do that and they said oh, no, you have 15 days to file. i was advised to simply resubmit my letter of determination and file for this hearing. >> you were saying as of march 19, 2012, the first time you are taking action on believe behalf of your client you went the route of a dr request? >> that is correct. >> okay. i don't have any further questions for now. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> before we hear from the zoning administrator, i just want to see if there is anyone representing the subject property owner, who is also considered a party to this appeal? that person is not in the room. mr. sanchez, go ahead. >> thank you, good afternoon president hwang, members of the board and welcome commissione

it's on the bottom part of the letter. >> i didn't write the letter. he wrote to me. >> he wrote that to you. this is garcia, she's a class officer here, she'll be monitoring you from this point on. any reports of gang-related activity i'll remove you from inmate worker status. you are not part of any gangs? >> no, sir. >> do you understand you're monitored for gang member activity? you are not a gang member? >> no. >> go back to your unit. >> thank you. >> thanks for your time. >> officer rodriguez and corporal garcia will continue to monitor perales and for now, would like to see her pen pal relationships continue. >> one reason why we're not jumping on that right at this point, we don't want to expose the fact that we know she's receiving mail. once we expose that they'll cut her off and this may be something we could potentially use to learn information. so, so far we'll go ahead and give her the benefit of the doubt that she's not doing anything, however we did warn her if anything comes out we'll take appropriate action. >> perales has no intenti

i'd be happy to show you the letters. in this letter, he's talking about the children, the germans. >> no. now, he's talking about the children's be dished i have a letter spent that's what he told thomas paine because years later when jefferson was engineering the expansion of slavery into vienna, thomas paine wrote to him and said now is the time to revise the plan you talked about in paris. since slaves into louisiana territory to sign contracts with planters who will take them for a year or two him and train them, and give their own lots of land and venue for them. and he specifically referred to reviving the plan that we discussed in paris. that's this plan. spent well, i do, i mean, this plan, talking about sending slaves from louisiana while the front still own it? this is 1789. >> no. spent the letter you footnote is in 1789 pick a candidate by the louisiana purchase spend what it meant was when jefferson was in paris and when he had discussed this plan with edward bankrupt company not owned discussed it with will

i have to write letters to him.so hard to write letters to each other because it's the same stuff day in, day out but always tend, always that stay strong or a hang tough or something, you know, words of encouragement. we always give each other words of encouragement. >> they are careful not to reveal much personal information in their letters. knowing that they could be read by authorities. >> yeah, we're certain that they are copying our letters, as long as i'm here they can read my mail, listen to the phone calls. they're hoping i will incriminate myself. >> they face a complicated legal situation. they're each charged with serious crimes and considered suspects in another set of crimes. baron is charged with sexually molesting his 10-year-old niece. he's pled not guilty. conrad indicted on 38 counts of possession of child pornography, to which he's pled not guilty. according to authorities, none of the images confiscated from his computer were of sammy. the brothers were arrested and charged these offenses after

where are the extra 20,000 letters going to go? are they going to go to wishes for kids or are they just extras? every 10,000 should be a wish. >> reporter: macy's announced it will donate an extra $25,000 in gabriella's name. >> you might have a bad day today, but there's always a bright star to look forward to tomorrow. look inside. what's your bright star? thank you. happy holidays. [ cheering and applause ] lause >> reporter: at the dulles town center, lauren demarco, fox 5 news. >> she is fabulous, what a girl. >>> changing the page now another top story tonight, school safety. it has been a hot button issue in the wake of deadly connecticut school shooting. it's also setting off a bitter dispute between those who want tougher gun laws and staunch second amendment supporters. today the national rifle soccer reiterating its controversial position how to -- association reiterating its controversial position how to keep kids safe. >> reporter: as morning continues over -- mourning continue over the victims of the sandy hook schoo

letters of martha calling the tomcat hamilton. reading letters of speed and lincoln about his love life so what is going to happen his question? today we don't write letters. we send tweets on twitter with less than 140 characters. we pick up a cell phone or we tax someone and when you tech someone you don't even use vowels. the concern is that in the future we are liable to lose a lot of that nuance. think about it. a great source of this is, i read letters of blood say senate wives and they would go to the white house. if you go to the white house are you going to tell your friends what was served at dinner, what michelle obama were, who was there and what was senator so-and-so really like? what obama said to you when he shook her hand and what about that spoon that fell onto your jacket? today we pick up the cell and call someone and we have lost the more we tax someone and we don't describe the ambience, the music. we will say a obama obama cool or senator so-and-so. 200 years ago bibas it down and composed several lengthy let

most of these cases start with a letter. a demand letter. that is usually signed not by a lawyer, but by it up plaintive. the plaintiff may not be a professional plaintiff. that does not make any difference. the defense has been tried in court. is a civil rights statute. -- it is a civil rights statute. they can be a perfectly legitimate plaintiffs to bring a lawsuit, and there are a number of people who belong to disability organizations that actually, that is what their livelihood is, bringing these lawsuits. the gentleman over here, who was also a lawyer knows of at least one case involving two lawsuits. they started all neighborhoods. the target places like san francisco because this is an old city with old buildings, virtually none of which comply. we only have new construction that would be billed to 1988 compliance standards, usually. whatever kind of business you have, the building part does not enforce ada compliance. you have your architect look at the ada if you are going to make a major revision anyway. is very expensive to do th

we did review several letter of determination requests related to the usablability usable of the site for medical cannabis dispensary and found that the property was located within a thousand fee of merced playground that contains a recreation center serving people underage 18 years of age. on march 8th, 2012 mr. girardi requested the possibility of locating a mcd. and we issued a letter of determination stating it was within a thousand feet. i would note that there was a discretionary review filed that was filed after the letter of determination was submitted. it was filed march 16th, 2012, canceled the same day that the letter of determination was issued. the letter of determination as standard boil plate language saying that if you found this is an abuse of discretion -- so the letter of determination was requested on june 15th we received another letter of determination request that had slightly different argument so i think that is not in dispute, what is in student is the appellant would like or finds there is an error or abuse in discretion in terming section 790-14 1 and i wou

if we write letters for santa, macy's will give money to make a wish.we can do 10,000 letters. >> reporter: family friend christina cole got the word out on facebook, and make a wish for gabriella was born. soon letters were pouring in from across the country. >> i heard she gets really excited when certain letters come in from different places. >> if she's tired or something, then it makes her feel good to know that other people are thinking about her. >> reporter: but it's gabriella who is thinking of others hoping more letters will mean more wishes granted for kids like her. >> a lot of children are writing letters saying, dear santa, i have everything i need. just please cure cancer for christmas. that's all i want. >> reporter: one week into their campaign, they blew past their first goal. >> oh, my god. 21,000 letters. that's when we said let's do 50,000. >> just a few days ago they passed 50,000 letters. >> it's just the sweetness and the innocence of these children writing something down not about santa per se. it's about expressing their needs

as a reminder this is a letter of determination appeal relate toll validity of a variance decision letter@ro 2005 so a little over seven years ago. that was to allow construction of a garage in the required rear yard of the subject property. at the time we reviewel" building permit application it was stated that theétb6)ñ property was ;f the building permit for the the garage was actually issued and appealed to this board. the board of appeals denied that permit because ñ weÑÑ% 6 overwhelming evidence that the building was usedcf::>÷ group housing. t™ come through and achieve+0%( "Ñ a building permit or received a building permit16p to legalize that use. now try to come back and go through this process.c7 yyou know maybe% understood the board's intention and i apologize if last hearing but the board didn't wantx8b3% to extendq4"bh it past november 23 rd extension ,÷ we had given and no extension of thejpe0 board pn[ is final until a decision is issued and that's why i did not feel comfortable having the process continue during the rehearing request period because anyone could have -- the

letters to santa claus. and then photocopied and offered to a willing volunteer elf. for more than 25 years, friends beth and nancy have been buying gifts for "operation santa." >> it's the spirit of christmas. i think kids deserve to have santa come on christmas morning and leave them something. >> reporter: but in this year's batch of letters, the devastation of hurricane sandy has some wishing to find just basic needs under their christmas tree. >> "dear santa claus, my name is kenya, i'm 8 years old and this year it's been really difficult for my family because hurricane sandy crashed in. dear santa my name is justin i'd like for to you get me a coat, size 14. dear santa, i am really sad because the hurricane sandy made my parents wasted a lot of money, so they are not going to be able to buying me a gift for christmas." >> reporter: oh. i mean, that kid can't be older than what, 6 or 7? >> just the way it's written you can see it's a very young kid. >> reporter: letters clearly telling the struggle of l

that letter because it does pertain to western soma. this is from spur. "we believe that a supplemental eir for the eastern neighborhoods and the western soma must be completed prior to the survey findings in order to organize the findings on the development assumptions in those areas" so that's just the 1eir related component to what we're speaking about later, so this is the appropriate time. thank you. >> is there any additional general public comment? okay. >> public comment portion is closed. >> thank you commissioner. and that will place us under the regular calendar, item nine case amendments to the planning code amending section 166 to allow additional car share parking spaces. >> good afternoon president fong and members of the commission. mr. power is here. >> i am here for supervisor scott wiener and unfortunately he couldn't make it this afternoon. many of these locations where the spots exist are disappearing. along upper market street most of the gas stations parking lots are redeveloped and we are losing the spaces that e

aidan, audrey, and caleb received their letters from santa. it's clear they already understand what christmas is all about. what does christmas mean to you? >> that you should believe in other people. >> reporter: how about you? >> it should be a happy time and fun time. and you get to spend time with your family. i like it. >> reporter: family, a gift with renewed meaning this holiday season. byron pitts, cbs news, santa claus, indiana. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning, ""a look at some of your favorite stories including dave letterman's chat with oprah winfrey at ball state university. that's the "cbs morning news" for this tuesday. i'm duarte geraldino. have a good morning. ,,,, i'm frank mallicoat. >>> good morning everyone, and merry christmas to one and all, i'm frank mallicoat. >> and i'm elizabeth wenger, michelle griego has the day off. >> and the weather christmas grinch. >> merry christmas guys. hey folks if you're up this morning i'm glad santa's already been here. going to see heavy rain and maybe some thun

where are the extra 20,000 letters going to go. make a wish for kids or just extras.very 10,000 could be a wish. >> reporter: macy's announced it will donate an extra $25,000 in gabriella's name. >> you may have a bad day today but there is always a bright star to look forward to tomorrow. look inside. what is your bright star. thank you. happy holidays. >> reporter: lauren demarco, fox 5 news. >> with my keurig vue brewer, i can brew my coffee just the way i love it. how do you do that? inside the brewer, there's this train that makes coffee stronger, bigger, and hotter! actually, i just press this button. brew what you love with the keurig vue. >>> is there is an old saying that you go to a sporting event and you never know what you will see. >> even the world's greatest athletes provided everyone with entertainment they did not expect to see.

. >>> coming up next, the post office collecting letters to santa from little kids. are hearing this year that truly surprised them. let's give thanks - for an idea. a grand idea called america. the idea that if you work hard, if you have a dream, if you work with your neighbors... you can do most anything. this led to other ideas like liberty and rock 'n' roll. to free markets, free enterprise, and free refills. it put a man on the moon and a phone in your pocket. our country's gone through a lot over the centuries and a half. but this idea isn't fragile. when times get tough, it rallies us as one. every day, more people believe in the american idea and when they do, the dream comes true. we're grateful to be a part of it. i have a cold, and i took nyquil, but i'm still "stubbed" up. [ male announcer ] truth is, nyquil doesn't unstuff your nose. what? [ male announcer ] it doesn't have a decongestant. no way. [ male announcer ] sorry. alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms plus has a fast acting decongestant to relieve your stuffy nose. [ sighs ] thanks!

that person will then rewrite the letter or place the original letter in another envelope and send iton intended. >> another way inmates communicate is by passing notes to one another. >> the cell next door. >> right before we got in here, they were seen fishing something around that ball and into that cell and it was pulled into this cell. >> the messages are often written in very small writing, we call it mini-writing, on small pieces of paper, where they can be easily rolled and stored in some place that's undetectable. one inmate who was going to a visit a couple of years ago was discovered with notes inside of his jumpsuit for the purpose of removing them to show his visitor during the visit. we only allow them to have pen-fillers, but they will sharpen those pen-fillers to get a fine point on it and that enables them to write very small. they also do what is called ghost writing. that's when they indent onto the paper without leaving the ink impression. they will place a paper on top of the other paper and write upon it, throw that one away and then just the indented message goe

since the tragedy, newtown has had support from all over the world, cards, letters and especially toys animals. 60,000 at last count, enough to fill the gym at town hall. every child in newtown has been invited to take one home. >>> queen elizabeth takes a special peek at the christmas spirits. that story is next. [ male announcer ] every time you say no to a cigarette, you celebrate a little win. nicoderm cq, the patch with time release smart control technology that acts fast and helps control cravings all day long. ♪ quit one day at a time with nicoderm cq. yeah we both relieve coughs, sneezing, . and i relieve nasal congestion. overachiever. [ female announcer ] tylenol® cold multi-symptom nighttime relieves nasal congestion. nyquil® cold and flu doesn't. [ sniffs ] i took dayquil but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your runny nose. [ breathes deeply ] awesome. [ male announcer ] yes, it is. that's the cold truth! c'mon, michael! get in the

boxer: and i would like to read from a letter that we received -- actually, the majority and minority leaders got a letter from the mortgage bankers association, the national association of home build,and the national association of realtors. so these are the business people, and this is what they said about her. "carol galante will bring tremendous expertise and commitment to strengthening the programs. her decades of work in the affordable housing give her a unique perspective on the issues facing our nation's housing and mortgage markets." so here we have a person who understands the business side and she understands the renters and the owners -- the presiding officer: the senator has used four minutes. mrs. boxer: i'll ask for an additional 30 seconds, please. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. boxer: so you have someone to understands the business side, the renters' side, the homeownership side, and i'm very proud that this woman is a californian. i know there's lots of issues within f.h.a. -- we all have to work on this. we've heard that from senator corker. but my g

up to a million letters.e students at this school, 9-year-old gabriella miller was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor. gabriella has told her parents she wants to see paris. her fellow students want the letters to macy's to pour in so there's enough funding for trips for kids like gabriella. >> when i heard about this, i'm, like, we have to go to this thing on saturday. we have to make as many letters as we possibly can to help her out. so we're just -- she's very strong and she's very -- she's such a good girl, such a good student. >> reporter: there's a wish line in the letters to santa. many of the kids here were making the same issue. emily told us about her wishes. >> mostly that she could get better. >> reporter: her family, all writing the wish letters to santa, happened to be jewish. >> well, we're doing anything we can to help bre get her wish, anything we can. >> it's not about religion. it's just about supporting friends of ours. >> reporter: the local effort is generating thousands of wish lett

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she asked for letters to santa claus because macy's donates a make a wish for letter the department receives. >> it might have felt really lonely otherwise. >> they blew past their goal of tens thousand. became 150,000, which more into more than to hundred thousand letters. afternoon, it took a moving company to deliver to macy's this avalanche of love. >> it's pretty incredible. despite arduous chemotherapy and radiation treatments, she was there for the remarkable announcement, the final total. 240,983 letters. make a wish has really touched me. >> the treatments altered her can hear herou strength in every word. we might have a bad day to day, but there's always a bright tomorrow. thank you. happy holidays. >> and i did ignited in a little aroundledrt with thed returned gift of hope.difficul macy's was so touched by the have donated an additional $25,000 in the girl's the make a wish foundation. which costs about $7,500, means an additional 36 children fighting illness will be able to get their wish. jay korff, abc 7 news. >> she has guts to get up in front of all those strangers. >> she

the purpose of that letter is to establish damages. the first thing to do when you get that letter is to have your place it inspected. if you have done so, let the person know that you have had the place inspected. that makes the case go away. certainly, it lessens the likelihood you were going to be sued. if you need more time, talk to the tenants or talk to the person suing you, sending you the letter. get some additional time. they do not have elyria. what you need to do is find out what your rights are, and if you need to make repairs or remediations, do it because you are going to have to do it sometime during the course of litigation if there is a problem with access to your premises, so long as the renovations are readily achievable. if it does not so much cost that it is so excess of for the amount of revenue being generated for your business, you have to make -- the way to look at it is let's say it takes $50,000 to renovate or remedy a the property for business. if your business is generating $100,000 a year in revenues, you

she is writing a letter. >> dear parents, i know that you are upset. >> reporter: a letter to the parentsldren killed in the newtown shooting. she and her mother live in maryland. they have never been to newtown. in fact, they've never been to the state of connecticut. but they wanted to show the town that they care. >> we're writing letters just to let them know that our hearts are with them, they're in our prayers. >> because i want to make them cheer up. >> right away, we started seeing mail volume coming in. it began with a few hundred. now it's thousands per day we're receiving. >> you want to start handling these packages? >> reporter: in the middle of all the sorrow, sadness and heartbreak, is something else. compassion. letters, cards and boxes pouring into newtown. >> i don't know if they feel like strangers. i think they feel very connected to the tragedy here. but they're coming as far away as cicely, england, australia and every corner of this country. so, they may not have personal knowledge of the families here, but they certainly share their pain. >> kayla knows only what h

so this letter officially does that to us. okay. >> do we have to make any motions, take any actions on it? just executive decision? all right, good. >> thank you. >> thank you for pointing that out and writing the letter for closure, dr. mccray. >> is there any further commissioner comments or is there any public comment on items 8a through e >> i think it's good to put closure on the q-matic thing. i know there was staff recommendations about what was put in place, it came from assistant director sweeney about how the fifth floor was functioning. it would be nice to get an update how things are going now, not this meeting but maybe at a future meeting we could angendize it and maybe have a very brief written report about what is the process now to sign in, the list, the line situation and how the supervising management is kind of keeping tabs on the performance of the various staff and how distribution of labor is going. >> commissioner melgar. >> i'm also glad we're closing in on closing the book on q-matic. i'm wondering,

gets 1,200,000 letters?e extra 20,000 letters going to go? go to kids? or just extra? and every 10,000 should be a wish. >> macy's announced it will donate extra $25,000 in her name. >> you might have a bad day today but there is always a bright star to look forward to tomorrow. look inside. what is your bright star? thank you. happy holidays. >> at the dulles town center, lauren demarco, fox 5 news. >> doug: remarkable little girl. should put her to work on the fiscal cliff deal. besides being the leader of catholic church, pope benedict xvi is challenged author. it challenges part of the traditional nativity scene. we look another faith and facts surrounding the first christmas. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: pope benedict xvi dons the scholar hat in the latest booth. book, exploring the christmas story as event in history. >> gospel story of jesus is historical. pope distinguishes that. symbolic approach. like when augustus is emperor of rome he situates this at specific time. it's unlike mythic language like once upon

this letter also has very few details. i'm curious to know exactly what loopholes, what deductions would you kill? i think for a lot of people who worry about the child care credit or the mortgage deduction would like to know specifically what's on the line. and at what rate. >> i put out a report called subsidies for the rich and famous, about a year ago, that listed $30 billion a year that we could take from the wealthy, on things they get a significant advantage from. so it's not that we can't do it. what i -- all this jockeying in public, we need real leadership right now. there shouldn't be anything offered in public. what it should be is the president and speaker boehner in a room, and nobody come out of the room until this is solved. the long term -- we're paying gotcha politics and that has nothing to do with the long term best interest of this country. and what we ought to be is, i'm okay to compromise even on some of my issues, if in fact we'll solve the problem, what we have is a game being played for political