levinson. they have huge front yards in huge back yards. secondly, on the issue of moving this towards mari loma, it is violative of several policies, but the communication between the parties were in the context of settling their d.r. in other words, they came to my client and said, "we want you to move this this much forward." he said, "we can do it this much." they said, "no, we want it another 10 ft. or 12 feet." no agreement was reached in settling the d.r., and the offer was withdrawn. it was made in the context of a settlement. commissioner garcia: who owns that tree? >> i have no idea. commissioner fung: mr. silverman, where all of the compromises that were offered pre-d.r. -- >> absolutely. the d.r. went forward. the idea was to avoid the hearing. yes, yes, sir. commissioner hwang: i have another question. the kinds of modifications they were asking for, including after the tree was chopped down, are not being considered, and would you say that it sounds like they are not in any mood to attempt to come to any kind of a compromise?

levinson, when was your house built? >> in 1926. vice president goh: thank you. i will start, but i have not landed anyplace. ibm and pressed by the new permit holder's long list of concessions and changes they have made to the building. and yet, dr. levinson's building, it is clear it will be affected by having tall buildings next to it, and his buildings is one of those shallow but very wide 1920's and very precious to many of us historic structures, so i hate to see a compromise by new construction. on the other hand, they have done a lot to accommodate the neighbors. i am very troubled by the trees, although i do not know what jurisdiction we have. like i said, i have not landed anywhere. these are my preliminary thoughts. i will hear from my fellow commissioners. commissioner fung: there are several issues here. the one issue related to the trees, given the age of when it was built, i do not think this is something -- it becomes more of a civil issue between the property owners. this particular species that they are intending to plant at the property line sh

>> michael levinson. i will probably use less than a minute. i want to show you the project was completed by the architect. in the upper floor changes the type of the building. at that point, it was a beautiful building in our neighborhood. then they declined our right to accept this project and returned to the original one. i hope the commissioners will look at this project, at the architectural redundancy of the project. by the way, the privacy issue -- they are building the house 5 feet from the property line. my house is sitting basically on the property line. the privacy issue is distance. vice president goh: i have a question, if you would not mind putting those drawings into the record. i am not clear how moving this forward, moving the top floor forward, helps you. could you explain that? >> yes. it is moved toward miralamoarom my building, which is located here, this window at least will be facing my building and not facing my backyard, which is in this area. it will make a really big difference. vice president goh: moving in backward?

hong zchengheng, galina yusuopo, and michael levinson versus the department of building inspection, protesting the issuance of a permit to erect a three story family house. >> i am the property home owner for the property right behind the subject property. i think that all of us were not against this project, but we tried to have a modified it. there are a lot of reasons. for example, if i can show, this is the original tree with the property line. the cut was my consent. i am only asking for a 25 foot tree to replace it. the only one to replace it with a 15-foot tree. what we are asking is pretty reasonable. they are going to oversee my backyard. this is one thing. the second thing is we would like further building to be moved back towards miraloma drive as much as they can. then made a proposal right before that we actually liked, but we still have some questions about to justify the proposal. they said let us work on it, and the refuse that. the refuse things we would like to do. we would like to have the building moved to miraloma park. that would make less impact on all street-side neighb

that's real low budge -- barry levinson?>> jimmy: kevin bacon. there was so many good lines and it was a famous scene. but i mean, you with the popcorn. >> the popcorn. >> jimmy: yeah. >> yeah, had to go for it. >> jimmy: yeah. people who haven't seen it, there is a thing where he makes a bet with his friend that this girl -- carol heathrow is the name of the girl. >> carol heathrow, yeah. >> jimmy: that would touch a part of mickey rouke. [ talking over each other ] [ laughter ] >> jimmy: and you were like, "would you like some popcorn?" >> yeah. >> jimmy: and you just tried -- you were just waiting for her to get more and more popcorn. >> yeah, i bumped into her. i actually bumped into that girl about 12 years later on the street corner. >> jimmy: did you really? >> yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: interesting, i mean that's hollywood. [ laughter ] what do you say? what do you say? yeah. >> there wasn't -- yeah. >> jimmy: not much to talk about. >> it was nice. "hello, how are you?" >> jimmy: exactly. "is this your husband? well, nic

and arthur levinson is the chairman at biotech firm genetech. and rounding out the board is former vice president al gore. this group heads up a company worth $240 billion, making it the biggest publicly traded technology company in the u.s. nell minow is co-founder of the corporate governance research firm the corporate library and she doesn't like what she sees. >> i'd say apple is absolutely catastrophically a bad board. you couldn't have a worse board than apple. i mean, as a consumer, love them, but as a shareholder they're a terrible board. >> why do corporate governance experts think apple's board is rotten? they point to several reasons: the stock options backdating scandal in 2006. apple admits steve jobs knew options given to him and others were backdated. still, apple said jobs did not financially benefit. the securities and exchange commission did not bring action against the company, citing apple's swift and extraordinary cooperation with the agency. jobs' health. in 2004, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. in 2009 he suffered

and among his greatest works, a song for louie armstrong immortalized in barry levinson's film "goodng vietnam." ♪ and i think to myself what a wonderful world ♪ >> george david weiss, a member of the songwriters hall of fame was 89 years old. >>> after 9/11, it went back to being the tallest building in new york. the empire state building has stood alone on that new york city skyline in that part of town for close to 80 years, and now that might be about to change. the new york city council will decide if developers can put up this skyscraper, almost as high and just 900 feet away from the empire state building, just to the west. its owners are calling the proposed newcomer a monstrosity. the owners of the competing empire state building, that is. the fight has fired up the purists, while others say new york city needs the jobs that the new building would bring. >>> when we come back here tonight, why the comforts of home and the great outdoors just don't always mix. >>> i saw some detour signs. >> i didn't see any. >> i saw them when you and mom were trying to fold the map. >> audr