among them is a prominent wine critic charles metcalfe.e has never been the type to demonstrate but now his t-shirts sports and anti-fracking looking -- slogan. >> unless we do something now to stop this, not just here but everywhere, our countryside will be real wind. our water will never be clean. it is a terrible future ahead of us. >> this has been thrust to the frontline of the anti-fracking movement. they're asking to build a human chain. so far the protests have been marginally peaceful. there have been 82 arrests would -- arrests. fracking involves forcing water or chemicals into the bedrock under high pressure to create tiny fractures through which oil and natural gas can be extracted. is conducting test and has not decided if it can produce gas in sufficient quantities here. charles metcalfe does not believe a word the company says. >> they have tried to deflect attention by saying we are not going to frack. they get to frack. we have learned not to trust anything they say. >> fracking has been implicated in causing earthquakes.

. >> director, metcalf? >> a question on these political consulting and lobbying contract and how do we know the advocacy positions that our staff and consultants are taking? >> we don't take any position and so if there is any measure that is going to the voters >> i don't mean on the voters. what are the advocated for by the staff or consultants. >> and we don't advocate any positions we just apply for the grants and the various and whether it is at the there has not been a lot at the state level and. we don't advocate for anything other than federal grants and the tiger grants and. and so in terms of relationships with the ctc and mtc and cal train, and transportation built and any of these other government entity and some local and regional and state and some national. and we would be informed if the tjpa would be saying anything other than to get the money. >> and we are just out trying to get money and so we don't, you know, we don't take the positions we leave it up to the individual agencies. >> okay

. >> metcalf? >> aye. >> reiskin. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> and as well tha. is four ayes and item four is approved. >> okay. >> and so, we can now move on to the regular calendar and item 8. >> approving the recommended applicants for the transbay joint powers authority. >> and scott belay can report on this item. >> good morning, directors. and i wanted to start by on behalf of the tjpa expressing our thanks and gratitude to jane morrison, as all of you know jane was a founding member of the tjpa advisory committee and at the age of 93 that she has decided to scale back the activity and fortunately for us she decided to resign her seat on the transbay cac in july. and but we are have, very grateful and honored that she included advocacy. and part of the long active volunteerism in san francisco which has included everything on work from woman's rights to immigrant's rights to worker rights and to ending homelessness and transportation and structure and she has been a tremendous ak set and so we are grateful for the service. >> and we have 15 seats on the cac

. >> harper and metcalf and sartipi are expected and we will call the meeting to order. with director lloyd? >> here. >> reiskin. >> here. >> kim. >> are there anything for today's meeting? >> if none, new or old business from the board of directors? >> seeing none, we will move on to the executive director's report. >> great, good morning, directorses and members of the public i would hope that you had a good summer, i would like to report on a milestone that we recently reached, since the ground break of the new station since august of 2010, we have been busy on the construction of the under grounder portions of the facility and we demolished and recycling 100 percent of the materials that were used to build it and the shoring wall and we excavated down to 65 feet and built trussles to put in the heavy equipment and cranes and we also built a vast internal bracing system and relocated the utilities and installed over, 129 micro piles. and we have layed in the geothermal piping, poly ethalen that will use the constant temperature of the earth ocore which is around 50 de

nancy metcalf adds that consumer reports uncovered large variations in the way states are rolling out heatlh are reform. a former allstate insurance employee is suing over lost life insurance. garnet turner worked for allstate from 1963 to 1995. according to the lawsuit, he was promised 90 thousand dollars of free life insurance for the rest of his life. allstate stopped offering free life insurance for retirees in july. a spokesperson says the company is making changes to cut costs, and-- benefits are still in line with competitors. detroit receives a financial lifeline from the obama administration. 320 million dollars in federal and private aid is proposed to help the bankrupt city. the money will go toward redeveloping properties, additional police and revamping the city's transportation systems. white house officials say there may be more money to come, however a federal bailout is unlikely. wisconsin governor scott walker ran on a campaign pledge to create a quarter of a million new jobs in his first term. so far, wisconsin's added 89- thousand. our cover story looks at how wisc

ame is eddie metcalf.-go burst of goodness! i enjoworking in my yard and you know, i can't.ore,'cuz i'm missing most of my lung. they did a cat scan of my kidneys, no more kidney stones. that's the good news. "but, we found a spot on your lung." that frankly scared the "hell" out of me. i hadn't smoked in 22 years. how could this happen to me? he said, "well, you know about radon gas?" we'll... you know, i heard about it. he said, "well, the second leading cause of cancer" "in america is radon, 22,000 people a year die from this." i literally left the doctor's office, got a test kit, put it in my house, and our result was 39.8. the upper limit is 4. we got to get this fixed. that was on a monday, and on wednesday, our mitigation system was up and running. well, i think everybody should have their house tested. we'd never know. we'd still be living there. i could get another tumor from it. right now, it's changing my life. >> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> good tuesday morning at 4:28. thanks for joining us. mike has the weather. cooler today, mik

gabriel metcalf , the director of spur, the san francisco urban -- >> say it again. >> san franciscoplanning and urban research association. >> association. i always want to say league. thanks for coming, gabriel. deborah walker, the president of the building inspection commission and artist and as we know, building inspection is not a technical issue. primarily it's a policy issue at the commission level, helping to direct how strong, how safe, how confident should people be in the work we do. these are policy issues and so i think having someone who is nontechnical, to some extent, as the president of the commission is a breath of fresh air for many of us. pat buscovich is a structural engineer, the technical side of the table. >> at this end of the table. >> that end of the table. he's worked on more unreenforced building in san francisco than anyone else and formally on the stat name. thanks for coming, pat. so public policy issues. i was reading last week this really interesting article that i cut out of earthquake spectra and it is by richard selsi and mary (inaudible). ice ind

courage for questioning government narratives it's crucial it's important thank you so much bob metcalfe and nine eleven family member we won't stop fighting for justice for your son. still ahead we'll dissect obama's address the nation about potentially striking syria when we come back. into. a look i would rather ask questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question. i think. the would like to do is show that you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy correct albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been hijacked trying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once built i'm sorry and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world if we go beyond identifying the problem. rational debate and re

my name is eddie metcalf. i enjoworking in my yard and you know, i can't.y lung. they did a cat scan of my kidneys, no more kidney stones. that's the good news. "but, we found a spot on your lung." that frankly scared the "hell" out of me. i hadn't smoked in 22 years. how could this happen to me? he said, "well, you know about radon gas?" we'll... you know, i heard about it. he said, "well, the second leading cause of cancer" "in america is radon, 22,000 people a year die from this." i literally left the doctor's office, got a test kit, put it in my house, and our result was 39.8. the upper limit is 4. we got to get this fixed. that was on a monday, and on wednesday, our mitigation system was up and running. well, i think everybody should have their house tested. we'd never know. we'd still be living there. i could get another tumor from it. right now, it's changing my life. territory, two star losses. an absence that scored 8 points in eight quarters and a defense that can't stop anybody. richardson, first touch as a colt and 7-0 ibd nap police. he combine

. >> harper and metcalf and sartipi are expected and we will call the meeting to order. with director lloyd? >> here. >> reiskin. >> here. >> kim. >> are there anything for today's meeting? >> if none, new or old business from the board of directors? >> seeing none, we will move on to the executive director's report. >>