commissioner mccray, yes. commissioner mar, yes. that motion carries unanimously. on to item 2, possible rehearing of case sickt 802, 120 shakespeare street. action requested by appellate who seeks reversal of abatement. the appellate can come up. >> this is a 7 minute? >> saechb 7 minutes and 3 minute for rebuttal time >> what the building department mentioned about a letter b soph the structural engineering report and this is a little small but it was shown on the definition. the second paragraph is only a recommendation, it has nothing to do with what is the general findings and observation during the inspection. now, the same recommendation was built in by the soil engineer so that can not be used against the property because it is only a recommendation and what is mentioned in the report is that whatever you have there is part of the norm lal wear and tear when it comes to structure and doesn't pose a safety hazard at this point. thank you very much. >> thank you. the department has 7 minutes. >> just for clarification to the city attorney, should i represent

." >> this morning, an "upclose" exclusive, a one-on-one interview with chirlane mccray, new york city's first lady, the woman who has been called the most important adviser to mayor de blasio. she talks about her role in the administration and about the has faced. >> she was very sad. she was very sad. she was in her bed and i was sitting beside her. said, "mom, you know, i've been diagnosed with anxiety and depression and addiction," and i just -- i wanted to cry. "upclose." i'm sade baderinwa in for diana williams. this morning we're here at gracie mansion with an exclusive interview with the first lady of new york city, chirlane mccray. and, chirlane, thank you so much for inviting us to gracie mansion. >> oh, you're quite welcome. is. you know, coming from park slope, where you're in a single-family home, everybody sharing one bathroom, to all of a sudden you're here. >> it's marvelous. [ laughs ] we are loving having so much space. and it is such a great place to do work and entertain. it's been wonderful. >> three years ago, you were outside politics. now you're front and center i

commissioner mccray, present. commissioner clinch, here. commissioner mill gar and walker are excused. we have a quorum and the next item is president announcements >> good morning everybody and thank you for attending the august 19, 2015 meeting. i have some comments from president announcements. congratulations to director hui and dbi executive team which is finalizing the department plan setting dpoles and [inaudible] join the next current and coming fiscal your. the strategic blan will be post odthen internet as a standing guide for all staff and will help to improve our efficiency and effectiveness as a department. thank you to director hewee and dbi which are party of mayors city wide effort to prepare for impacts from the celebrations tie today the superbowl which will take place laet jan, early november. dbi's role is alert contractors for building projects that may be effected by any superbowl treat closures and other activities that can disrupt building supplies and require schedule modifications mptd thank you to inspector alert

mccray. >> mm-hmm. mr. mccray. what are you hoping, at the end of the day, your youngsters walk away with -- the youngsters that you work with in this program? >> well, i do want to provide them with some skills. >> mm-hmm. >> i also want them to interact with some of the real great mentors in the community. we've been working on a project called "harlem through my eyes," and we've interviewed about 40 people who live and work in harlem. and they've been exposed to them, and we're looking to do a book or do a documentary. and i think the interaction with them and some of the people in harlem is gonna be a real life-changer for them. >> yeah, and it does definitely make a difference -- like you've already made in their lives. >> i'm trying. >> and harlemeyes.com, you can find out information. >> absolutely. >> that's your website. congratulations to all of you. we had hoped to have you on back in march, when this happened, but we couldn't get the timing right. so we're so happy to be able to b

commissioner mccray, present. commissioner clinch, here. and walker are excused. we have a quorum and the next item is president announcements >> good morning everybody and thank you for attending the august 19, 2015 meeting. i have some comments from president announcements. congratulations to director hui and dbi executive team which is finalizing the department plan setting dpoles and [inaudible] join the next current and coming fiscal your. the strategic blan will be post odthen internet as a standing guide for all staff and will help to improve our efficiency and effectiveness as a department. thank you to director hewee and dbi which are party of mayors city wide effort to prepare for impacts from the celebrations tie today the superbowl which will take place laet jan, early november. dbi's role is alert contractors for building projects that may be effected by any superbowl treat closures and other activities that can disrupt building supplies and require schedule modifications mptd thank you to inspector alert leonof the electrical

commissioner mccray, present. commissioner clinch, here. commissioner mill gar and walker are excused. we have a quorum and the next item is president announcements >> good morning everybody and thank you for attending the august 19, 2015 meeting. i have some comments from president announcements. congratulations to director hui and dbi executive team which is finalizing the department plan setting dpoles and [inaudible] join the next current and coming fiscal your. the strategic blan will be post odthen internet as a standing guide for all staff and will help to improve our efficiency and effectiveness as a department. thank you to director hewee and dbi which are party of mayors city wide effort to prepare for impacts from the celebrations tie today the superbowl which will take place laet jan, early november. dbi's role is alert contractors for building projects that may be effected by any superbowl treat closures and other activities that can disrupt building supplies and require schedule modifications mptd thank you to inspector alert

commissioner mccray, present. commissioner clinch, here. commissioner mill gar and walker are excused. we have a quorum and the next item is president announcements >> good morning everybody and thank you for attending the august 19, 2015 meeting. i have some comments from president announcements. congratulations to director hui and dbi executive team which is finalizing the department plan setting dpoles and [inaudible] join the next current and coming fiscal your. the strategic blan will be post odthen internet as a standing guide for all staff and will help to improve our efficiency and effectiveness as a department. thank you to director hewee and dbi which are party of mayors city wide effort to prepare for impacts from the celebrations tie today the superbowl which will take place laet jan, early november. dbi's role is alert contractors for building projects that may be effected by any superbowl treat closures and other activities that can disrupt building supplies and require schedule modifications mptd thank you to inspector alert

now mayor is expected to make this announcement along side his wife chirlane mccray down at city hall. live at tompkins square park. over to you. >> thanks very much. >> liz thank you so much. we have plenty more as we continue in the 6 a.m. hour. >> mike it is checking the weather for us. a beautiful sunrise today. mike: lots of shots and share one with you a little bit. sunny skies increasing clouds later in the day, though. but still beginning ton pretty warm but not as warm as yesterday. startoff temp 68 and lower 80s. by the way we have the fox 5 weather app at the am l itunes store. google play store with headlights, alerts that you can download, check out set it up custom to whatever it is that you are interested so download it today. we'll be right back. feel like a kid again with dunkin's new cookie-flavored iced coffees. for a limited time, dd perks members can enjoy any sized iced coffee for $1.99. america runs on dunkin'. cerebral palsy can be caused at birth by a doctor or hospital's negligence. for almost 40 years, jacoby & meyers has offered the specific legal help thes

commissioner mccray, present. commissioner melgar here. commissioner walker, here. commissioner clinch, here. we have a quorum and the next item is president announcement >> welcome everybody to the july 15 big meeting. where have some announcements. i want to thank director hewy for taking step tooz remind the own ers of the roles of [inaudible] as a result a balcony collapses. director hewy along with [inaudible] disribted a press release that ask property own rb to 234 spect decks for safety. thank you for leadership in staff [inaudible] ordinance as it pertain tooz deck and balcony safety and to conduct a outreach to the residential property owner. this resulted in director hewy being interviewed by local tv station was a great opportunity to impart safety tip tooz the deck and balcony safety once again the public and i appreciate that and sure we'll talk about more more next steps from the director. [inaudible] i also to want roir technical service staff. senior building inspector [inaudible] for partitionpation and supervisor tang providing the [inaudible] of

an ambulance took mccray to the hospital where he died. police do not have any information on a motive or suspect in this case. >>> right now four metro stations are closed as metro begins its weekend track work. potomac avenue, stadium armory, minnesota avenue and deanwood will be closed through sunday night. free shuttle buses will take you around those stops. we should also mention that trains will run every 20 minutes on the red line and every 15 minutes on the green line this weekend. >>> it is an absolutely beautiful saturday evening, but how long is it going to last? amelia has that and a peek at the back-to-school forecast. >> either you sit down and you die or you get up and you die. >> one of the men who took down a gunman on a french train described the attack. what we're learning about the with the help of comfort keepers, i'm keeping my mom healthy! i'm keeping dad on schedule. i'm keeping my mom happy! comfort keepers in-home professional caregivers can provide meal planning and preparation, health and wellness services and p

but whatever the numbers, mayor de blasio and first lady shirt lane mccray, are preparing plans to devote more resources to homeless outreach. they'll retrain police and assign more members of the nypd to outreach efforts. they'll assess the risk level of the mentally ill street homeless to try to determine if they're dangerous, and connect them to mental health services. convincing people to come into shelter or go for help is not an easy task. and homeless outreach comes with other challenges too. in tompkins square park today where police have recently taken a more aggressive approach, this homeless man tells us he's furious he was arrested for having a beer and sleeping on a bench. >> we're very consistent in our approach, take a very soft approach. >> reporter: outreach teams say it takes time to develop trust with their clients. >> homeless people have just as much of a right to public space as does anyone else. >> reporter: mayor de blasio is expected to unveil his plan on wednesday. melissa russo, news 4 new york. >>> and that does it for us. we thank you for watching. stay with u

. >> reporter: just last week, the city's first lady, shirlane mccray, made headlines for bailing on jury duty because of her schedule. and trump had been called several times for jury duty, according to court insiders, and he claimed those juror questionnaire forms must have been going to the wrong address, to which court spokesman replied today, well, his name is on a lot of buildings. sibilia? >> all right, melissa, thank you. >>> coming up, as news 4 at 6:00 continues, eric garner's family calls for a big change in how police accused of killing unarmed civilians are prosecuted. >>> and troubling news will new york's housing market, especially on long island. >>> have a tip for new york's biggest i-team? call 866-news-244 or e-mail tips@nbcnewyork.com. leave early go roam sleep in sleep out star gaze dream big wander more care less beat sunrise chase sunset do it all. on us. p get your first month' s payment r plus five years wearr and tear coverage. p make the most of summer... t with volvo. >>> there's a called today to eliminate grand juries from the investigation process of po

commissioner mccray, present. commissioner clinch, here. commissioner mill gar and walker are excused. we have a quorum and the next item is president announcements >> good morning everybody and thank you for attending the august 19, 2015 meeting. i have some comments from president announcements. congratulations to director hui and dbi executive team which is finalizing the department plan setting dpoles and [inaudible] join the next current and coming fiscal your. the strategic blan will be post odthen internet as a standing guide for all staff and will help to improve our efficiency and effectiveness as a department. thank you to director hewee and dbi which are party of mayors city wide effort to prepare for impacts from the celebrations tie today the superbowl which will take place laet jan, early november. dbi's role is alert contractors for building projects that may be effected by any superbowl treat closures and other activities that can disrupt building supplies and require schedule modifications mptd thank you to inspector alert

that we have such a passionate mental-health advocate in the first lady of new york city, chirlane mccray. she knows from personal experience with her daughter and her parents how substance use, depression, and anxiety can exact a very high emotional, social, and economic toll on a person. so the city is looking at mental health through the lens of public health. just a few weeks ago, the first lady of new york city announced that the city executive budget was going to have an additional approximately $100 million spent on mental-health services over the next several years. we're very grateful for government. >> there is -- there are a lot of things that parents should look out for, as well, with their kids. there are challenges that maybe could be exhibited in youth. what are certain things that maybe parents should be looking out for in children? >> i mean, if there are changes in sleep patterns, if there are wide swings in moods. there's a lot of symptoms, but i really do recommend that parents go to their pediatrician and ask, "is my child exhibiting normal behaviors that a child or a

commissioner mccray, yes. commissioner clinch, yes. the motion carries unanimously. item 7, update on dbi policy regarding decks and balcony. >> good morning commissioners, ron tom assistant director of department of building inspecting. last month we were tasked to provide a overview of departments effort to address the issue of balcony and deck safety. the balcony failure in [inaudible] decks balconys and other building elements. those includes stairs, [inaudible] despite the cities marine environment. dbi records of the past 5 years show very few ins dochbs deck, balcony and stair failures. the currents permit tracking system doesn't contain a data bis that provides nrfgz on specific building features such as balany decks stairs and fire escapes. we have existing building code sections that require [inaudible] like the projections of wood frame construction. they also require water flow management. if there is a impervious that exceedss 200 square feet the drainage has to be taken back towards and into the drainage system of the building. unlike jurisdictions outs

investigators say 53-year-old joel mccray attacked a man in the rambles area on july 30th. he allegedly choked the victim until he was unconscious and stole his backpack containing cash, jewelry and gift cards. he is a suspect in other similar attacks in the park. >>> also new at noon, police are hoping new surveillance video will lead to the arrest of a shooting suspect in the bronx. security cameras recorded the man police say opened fire at a group of people in the mount eden section about 6:30 last night. a 21-year-old man was shot in the leg. detectives say is the gunman was driven from the scene in an s.u.v. >>> a 5-year-old child killed by bacteria meningitis in cape may county. the girl was from lower township. the first reported symptom was an ear infection. she was taken off life support friday. she was vaccinated against meningitis but not the strain that claimed her life. >>> governor chris christie is pushing our new jersey legislators to say no to the iran nuclear deal. he appeared in morristown with religious leaders from the jewish community. they gathered a

george mccray el cerrito, he says good morning. you can see the low clouds up to

t junior is in jail charged with first-degree murder of juwan mccray. he is being held without bond. kimberly: hard to believe it is been 10 years, but president obama is in new orleans to mark the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina. he met with residents were continuing to rebuild their lives and communities. president obama is speaking at a newly opened community center in the lower ninth ward. the actual hurricane katrina date is saturday. scott: tropical storm erika is spending through the eastern caribbean towards florida. residents in west palm beach are preparing for the possible storm by boarding up windows and stockpiling food. florida power and light has really 4 million customers in south florida. crews are now checking power grids and mobile units are on standby. >> all it takes is one lightning bolt being six times hotter than the service of the sun coming into contact with equipment and there can be outages. scott: a police official said at least four people have died in severe flooding and mudslides caused by tropical storm erika. the

all pot things tom mccray said about bill clinton and saying what you are doing? won the nomination. >> wow. what a moment. >> let me ask you this chris matthews. you winced as did we all when she talked about wiping the server with a cloth. i saw it first last night on "hardball." i just sat there with my mouth open when she -- you know, she made the snap chat joke while the fbi is investigating, she's making this joke and the same day we find out the server is in a loft apartment in denver, colorado in a bathroom. general hayden here talking about the national security implications is staggering. what you are thinking when you see her? >> just from a press relations point of view, one of the first mistakes the clinton administration did when they first came in, remember they're going to clear out the press from the west wing? >> yeah. >> they were going to get them out of there. because they wanted to deal directly with the american people. through what? state of the union addresses? you can't -- you can't say it's just you guys talking about this stuff. because

is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old juwan mccray in glendale on friday nightvestigators have an arrest warrant out for jarrett and they are asking the public to help them find him. >>> there are some good news tonight about that disabled marine we introduced you to on friday, mickey trip left. he was charged with a crime because he painted a picnic table at the apartment complex yes lived. northern virginia bureau chief, julie carey, there was earlier today as mr. triplet had his day in court. >> reporter: since early july, marine veteran mickey triplet has had a criminal charge hanging over his head management at the potomac rim apartment koch plex where he used to live called police when he painted this picnic table white. triplet headed into court today to face a destruction of property charge. but in just seconds, that charge wiped away, dropped at the request of the commonwealth's attorney. >> today was a glorious day where the law did exceeding and above all that i could imagine and that's dish think it's because of him. >> reporter: an out raged public

i'm rachelle mccray. it's my pleasure now to introduce you all to the stars of a&e's number-one real-estate show, "flipping vegas," scott and amie yancey. scott and amie, thank you so much for taking a break from your show to be with us today. >> hey, we're happy to be here. >> we're really excited to be here. >> like millions of other viewers, i love your show, "flipping vegas," on the a&e network. and i'm assuming a big network like a&e wouldn't run so many episodes of your show unless the market was red hot, right? >> exactly. >> so, why is right now such an exciting time to profit from real estate? >> well, when the real-estate market bottomed out, of course there were great opportunities to pick up properties for a fraction of the previous value, but it was challenging to flip them because banks really weren't lending to a majority of the buyers, so even if you had the cash, got an incredible deal on a property, there were really few buyers that could actually get financing that you could sell it to.

george mccray el cerrito, he says good morning. you can see the low clouds up to the city. join up in cobb, a cool 47. that's good and clear on cobb today. ill hope when this inversion -- i hope when this inversion clears up -- i think they will get good news. temperatures will be in the 80s. temperatures, 40s, that's good. the low will be with us today and tomorrow and then it will eject out. today it's keeping temperatures, 40s and 50s. napa airport 49. now they are 51. down in the santa cruz mountains, boonny dunes santa cruz and -- bonnie dunes, 60s, 70s and 80s. sal, what do you want to start with? >>> i want to start with the bay bridge. if you are driving to the bay bridge, there is a big backup. it was called by earlier police activity on the span. an intense search. we'll talk about that in a moment. but the traffic angle is this -- look at the macarthur maze. you can see traffic is slow coming around the corner here to a very crowded bay bridge toll plaza. give yourself extra time. there was a police search after a crash and some unusual circumstances. we're just

joel mccray is being held on riker's island. he's charged with an incident wherer choked a victim walking through the rambles. he stole his bag, wallet and jewelry. he may be responsible for as many as six other robberies going back to july of last year. >>> the new york city counsel sim is answering a call to crackdown on synthetic marijuana, known as k-2. it's working on new legislation. there are a lot of brands of it on the market each with its own dangers. emergency rooms -- it's predominantly middle aged people becoming addicted to the drug. >> the term synthetic marijuana is not what they were smoking. this is not a plant. this is not marijuana. this is a dangerous chemical. >> under the new legislation, anyone caught selling k-2 could face a $5,000 fine or up to a year in prison. >>> placing bets on college sports, up won't be doing that soon at many new jersey casinos. a court of appeals blocked it. it limits the bets to just four states. new jersey tried once before to allow sports betting. that law was also blocked. b

george mccray, he says one thing i've seen this august in the past, we had days with no sun.s year, we always get a burnoff and afternoon sun. i know what he means by that. when you get temperatures, 60, 65, the gog seems to burn -- the fog seems to -- seems to burn off sooner. a decent delta breeze, west. the onshore breeze is still there. 50s and 60s on the temps. brentwood, 56. napa, 57. , 57 palo alto. the tropical clouds here, monsoon clouds coming up are already moving into over las vegas, los angeles, palm springs, southern california and arizona. maybe a few of these tomorrow. but actually what i'm keeping an eye on is a couple of things going on. higher clouds coming up from the southwest. the system is qum coming out of the gulf of alaska. i love that. but it's coming up from the hawaiian islands. heavy rain has given way to just scattered showers. but the bulk of that cloud cover is getting drawn up by that system right there. and it's making a b-line toward us. i think we go cloudy thursday into friday. eventually this will sweep in. the first system coming down f

chirlane mccray is not serving jury duty. she has been excused. theresa: she went to brooklyn federal court asking a postponement until the end of her husband's term in 2018, she says she is too busy as first lady of the city to serve on a jury. turns out she won't serve any way because now she resided demand in in manhattan and no longer eligible to serve in brooklyn in the district. greg: if your schedule conflicts, no big deal. theresa: is your civic duty. rosanna: day. who has not tried to get out of jury duty? haven't you ever tried? theresa: i never tried. i have never been called but i want to be on a jury. greg: you want to sit in judgment. theresa: greg: i did respond. what else we have? theresa: first time in half a century the american flag is flying at the u.s. embassy in havana, cuba. greg: the secretary of state will be there and there's the white house. relations have been essentially normalize with cuba. ago. cuba has a long history of human rights abuses and everything isn't better in cuba over night. >> reporter: they have been v

this is george mccray on twitter from el cerrito. drought is for real.arly run -- has nearly run dry. i've heard a lot about that. one of the busiest people out there. six-month backlog. 50s, 60sen the temps. they are way up there. it's not taking long to warm up. antonio in daly city, currently 60 degrees with drizzle. a lot more in the way of low cloud. that was not the case yesterday. it was confined to the north bay. temperatures are running at times -- they were 9, 10 degrees. now 1 to 6 but because of the low cloud deck and the warmer ocean temps they are running warm. 61 bodega bay. it was 56. monterey is the key. 65. yesterday it hit 69 degrees. monterey buoy that's the warmest ocean temp it's ever recorded. sea surface temperature since the pewwy began in 1987 -- buoy began from 1987. the warmest around the hawaiian islands since july 1948 as well. about 81, 84 degrees. you can see there is a lot of warm water out here. the pacific is going nuts with hurricanes and typhoons. us today low cloud then sun. temperatures look like they will stay in t

maybe some of the loose soil as george mccray said, some of the landfill or something was responsiblesan jose 97. monterey, 83. mountain view, 97. oakland airport, 93. most records go back to 1950 or 1994. 9 oakland. napa, 104. san rafael, kentfield, 101. san francisco hit 90. livermore was 106. you can throw that one in the mix. there with a lot all the way down to southern california. low clouds and fog there. it looks like a little bit trying to form off the san mateo coast. san francisco, that's our system right there digging down. it will win out. but probably only coast and bay. a few high clouds zipping by. 50s and 60s on the temps. with the fog and a little bit of a breeze. not a strong one. mostly sunny, cooler to hot today depending pong your proximity -- upon your proximity to the coast. it's kind of hazy but not as smoky as saturday. 60s, 70s on coast. should be 5, 7 degrees cooler for some. by tomorrow it looks like a lot more fog and then by wednesday to the end of the week should be back to near normal maybe slightly below. >> i just heard from a friend who said that fe

be generated and smoke is used for cloud seeding for weather modification. 1970 paper by wallace mccray on the possibility of weather modification by aircraft contrails he describes how the ice crystals formed in contrails can see cloud decks below as crystals fall to lower cloud deck altitudes increasing cloud cover as effectively as dry ice cloud seeding. possible consequences of this are considerable. in fact it seems probable that one project for modifying local climate discussed by fletcher in 1965 mimi modification of cloud cover over the north polar basin by cloud seeding is already underway. up until the mid 1970s document suggested the establishment desire was to intentionally melt the arctic sea ice to free up shipping lanes, access resources and open up vast regions of vice locked land and climate change could likely be blamed on the and the jenna global warming to instigate the beginning of global governance for united nations agenda 21 sustainable development program to create the new world order. interestingly when one begins to research the history of weather and climate

commissioner mccray, here, we vaquorum and commissioner waumer and melgar are excused is commissionermccarthy is expected. the next item on the agenda is item b, the oath. will all parties givingtume today please stand and raise your right hand. do you swear the teon