. >> good evening, planning commissioners, i'm mitchell benjamin. we wrote you a letter on october 18 but our concern of the proposed legislation of the market octavia plan expansion. our office has been working on the project at the northwest corner of market and castro street since 2004, over six years now. presently we have a code conforming project and request that you completely grandfather this site. since we have filed the application prior to december 31, 2005. i would like to give you a previous history of our project. it's a multi-family building with commercial space at street level. we have been working diligently with the planning department since 2004. for the last -- for the first two years, we were adjusting the schematic design of the project with the direction from the planning department. we pro gressed far along with that process. in 2007, supervisor dufty spearheaded a design of the upper market area which included this property. we were informed that our project would be placed on hold until final guidelines for the upper marke

benjamin mitchell's war is not over. mike boettcher, abc news, afghanistan. >> just one young man of so many fighting every day. >>> and, we turn now to the american economy, and tough words today from fed chairman ben bernanke, who fired back at his critics in germany and china. he told a banking conference in germany the decision to pump another $600 billion into the u.s. economy was necessary to boost america's recovery. and he warned china they they put the global economy at risk by keeping the value of their currency artificially low. >>> and here at home, sometimes the story of a struggling economy can be told in the eyes of one chd. we heard that food banks across the country are overwhelmed with hard-hit families, hoping for help getting a thanksgiving turkey. but the shelves are bare. here's clayton sandell. >> reporter: there isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream of a family dinner like everybody else's. >> turkey! >> turkey! >> reporter: but try to imagine the holiday without it. >> last year, we had pork ch cho

you may have seen the extraordinary young man, army specialist benjamin mitchell, 21 years old who alreadyd a wound in the leg, firing round after round in a fight with the taliban and afghanistan. he put a cam ro on his helmet. our mike boettcher brought us the story. we learned someone in hamilton, ohio, was watching the broadcast too. his fiance and his vigilant dad. >> i made a promise to myself that deep in my faith and as long as i could that i would try to attend the mass here at st. julie's every day. >> and he said how proud he was of his son. by the way, benjamin isn't his only son in combat. his younger son, a marine, also fighting tonight in afghanistan. >>> and the boy wizard didn't need a spell to pull off this trick. "harry potter and the deathly hallows" part one raked in $125 million in its opening weekend, the strongest part of the series which has spanned nearly a decade. take a look at the trio of fledgling wizards in that first film and here they are nearly ten years later, all grown up. the final harry potter movie opens in july 2011. >>> and coming up, where thank he

. >> a 360-degree view of wore con the helmet of benjamin mitchell.chell races to a sandbag fighting position. and the battle is on. >> tracers up the hillside. >> his target, enemy muzzle flashers. around him commands are coming fast and furious from his senior sargeants. >> you can control your actions out here but you don't have control over the consequences. you kind of get to go to survival mode. it's either me or them. and it's not going to be me. >> reporter: 30 minutes into the fight the soldiers of the 101st run low on ammo. mitchell runs to a bunker. >> we got incoming. >> let's go. >> reporter: despite heavy incoming fire mitchell continues to hang mortar rounds that can travel about a mile over mountains. >> i got the better weapon. i just fire as many rounds as i possibly can as fast as i can. >> reporter: and just like that, the enemy fades away. the attack is over. >> actually achieving what i was sent here to do and that maybe will deter them from coming back into afghanistan. >> reporter: but the enm enemys safe havens a mile away in