the only penthouse for a stair that you have to worry about that you have to have a penthouse is the one the fire department would want. so, i think -- i think you need to rework on the residential design guideline for this section and reclarify what you mean by minimizing the roof structures because as it is now people are putting in fireplaces. this project shows trees which hasn't been addressed. i think you need to require there to be a landscaping plan showing the trees and showing the complete amount of stuff that's going on the roof these days. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. if you leave that on the [speaker not understood] right there. >>> thank you. yes, at the podium, please. >>> good evening, commissioners. my name is dianne joseph. as a long-term russian hill president and property owner living a block and a half from 260 1 van ness, i respectfully request that this project ~ be returned to planning to allow for community input from the russian hill residents and other impacted individuals. we would like a substantive meeting with the developer and the rep

however, all of these penthouses would take each other, and i do believe that the proper interpretation of the residential guidelines, as i understand them, is that roof stairs and decks are held from the building facades and move more toward the center of the building. particularly on the north, northwest corner on van ness, i believe that the railing of the terrace is coming much too close to the building facade. and i think that would have to be pushed back. but i do believe that i would ask for another solution of dealing with the private roof deckseses because while you are asking for a variance on the common open space, it is too aggressive a gesture towards reoccupying the entire roof or private open space with the consequence of too many rooftop penthouses. >>> if i could address that, commissioner moore. we're not asking for an opening space variance. we have more substantially more open space than is required ~. what we do want to do is have some common open space on the roof deck. and part of the reason is the common roof deck open space which needs to be fully accessible by

the other thing i'm concerned about ~ is the penthouse, the penthouse has a window that looks right into our master bedroom and that's this wall right here and our master bedroom is here. and that's a 10-foot tall window if you take a look at the plans, and that's looking over -- that window is going to look right into our bedroom. and i would like to see that, that angle squared off, okay, to match the floors below and eliminate those window that look into our bedroom. we think that's a renab request when we made that before. thank you. >> thank you. project sponsor, you have two minutes. >>> thank you, commissioners. just to speak to a couple of the modifications requested by the d-r requestor, first, a five foot setback from the north property line is really larger than should be expected here. the residential design guidelines suggest two foot side setbacks in cases like this when you have issues of privacy at the mid-block. and pro we're providing three here so i think this is more than even what the residential design guidelines suggest. with respect to the penthouse level looking

that you'll have a hatch or a small penthouse which indeed would very much minimize the impact of the building on the backyard and how it interferes with the side line on the rear of the building and that is the objection of the other property owners. by doing so, you could also pull the -- you look at the side line, the first page of our submittal, you can pull the deck back by three fleets and the east face -- it interferes with looking into the other neighbor's rooms would be eliminated. so you shrink -- without shrinking the building, you start to pull back the stairs, internalize the access and form the bedroom to the roof deck, but put the roof deck on top of the bedroom, but keep it like a small penthouse in a less obstructing way in the rear yard and the ability to look into other people's properties. imagine yourself. you have your living room or whatever facing to the back and you see this massive stairway interfering with your side line. this is not a secondary unit. it is a building expansion, but i ask that we consider making alternate suggestions on how to deal with the

he used it when he renovated his penthouse, which he sold for $88 million. he's been living there. it's one bedroom, sandy while's. >> what are the amenities that they get. >> regardless whether you live in a cheesy back of the bus apartments or penthouse, you have a lap pool, private massage rooms and restaurant. and provide room service. conference center and huge gardens. >> if you go to the river, you get public housing prices. what does it say about the gap between wealthy and poor in new york. >> new york is a melting pot in the democracy. what is interesting is i trace the development of the neighbourhood, going back to urban planning. that story was told in the play and the movie. he cleared out a neighbourhood of poor people as well as housing for rich people, so everybody could live together, which is what is great about new york. >> what is it about new york that encourages people whether you are at the middle income or higher income scale, to spend more than a leafy suburb. >> why wouldn't you want to be in the center of center of anything. if you go to london and live

one of the concerns was a compliance of the amount of penthouses proposed above the height limit. i'd like to briefly speak to that with a graphic. this was recently provided by the project article type 2, the concerns with regard to the [speaker not understood] homes. the penthouses showed are in light blue and they are showing that 14% of the roof areases occupied by the structure that are allowed above the height limit above the 65 height limit. the planning code does allow for 20% of the total booth area to be occupied by structures above the height limit. if you'd like further discuss the technicalities of the code and residential design guidelines, i'd be happy to do that during your deliberation of the projects. i would like to remind the commissioners that you may perhaps remember this project from an approval in 2003. they are the same project sponsors pursuing this project currently before you. at that time its was also a six-story mixed use ground spaces at the ground floor, 33 parking spaceses and also 27 dwelling units. with that said, the current design before you to

one of the concerns was a compliance of the amount of penthouses proposed above the height limit. i'd like to briefly speak to that with a graphic. this was recently provided by the project article type 2, the concerns with regard to the [speaker not understood] homes. the penthouses showed are in light blue and they are showing that 14% of the roof areases occupied by the structure that are allowed above the height limit above the 65 height

. >> i blame this on penthouse magazine. back in the 70s you would open up a pept house and you can see -- penthouse and you can see everything's she's got. >> was more of swank. no pun, barriers to entry for certain things have disappeared. in testimonies of contacting people like friends purchasing items and pornography, it is easy to get everything now. that probably contributes to a lack of happiness. >> i just got an e-mail from the kid who told me there was no santa claus. he wants to get back in touch. >> i would also argue that dana's oxycontin is prescription. i don't think it is. i think she has a guy. >> well i have to get that number. we solved nothing. coming up, tuba's musical instruments. the 12-part "red eye" investigation starting next year. first, is keith richards writing a children's book? let's just say he is not, not writing a children's book. >>> he went from writing books to kiddie hooks. he signed a deal for a kid di e book. the book is called "gus and me" the story of my grand dad and first guitar a

roof they're going to make this a green roof and this is the deck in question they have the low penthouse and the proposal is that this is already slipped and they will put the panel here and matching the angle. >> thank you your time is up. >> thank you. >> okay. that's the close of the public hearing. commissioner sugaya >> yeah. i'm confused can somebody clarify the roof-deck issue is it at the very top above the family room? is that the one we're talking about there's also another revolver deck a that's off of the family room which is at the lower level i'm not sure what we're referring to here >> hi, i'm bridget with the architects. it's above the second floor it's this zone right here >> okay. >> that's one of the questions. >> the other one is at the lower level off the family room. >> that's correct. >> that's not in question at the moment. >> that's correct. >> your graphic scale on some of the sheets are off. >> we were told to scale down for the commissioners packet and i know but graphic scale should scale down with the graphics. >> you're right the graphic scale should be acc

that, of course, a literary reference to poet robert frost's most famous "penthouse" letter. now in the article, they write that a student writes in her article she citeaise study conducted by the national survey of family growth from 2006-2008, which stated that 44% of straight men and 36% of straight women admitted to having anal sex. let's see, 44% of straight men. i got... so that's 36% of straight women... which means that... 8% of straight men aren't as straight as they think they are. ( cheers and applause ) now, folks-- folks, it is this type of bold reporting that draws the youth to the new media. old media just doesn't reflect their interests. i've watched hours of cnn's ukraine coverage, and they haven't once mentioned any kind of butt business. even better, huff-po backed up their report by experts in the field like one random student who said, "i'm pretty sure anal sex happens on our campus," though i must say if you're just pretty sure anal sex is happening i'm pretty sure you're to go it wrong. ( laughter ) even though the same student has little doubt anal sex

penthouses. he did not want to pay the price. $45 million. lobe came in and paid the price.n went ballistic. >> are they both new money? >> i like to see it old money versus new money. i think it represents two points of view and two kinds of wealth. >> what was the tipping point that made this the "it" building where people at that level wanted to live? >> a whistle came off and they came like dogs with a pack wanting these apartments. of course, there was a masterful marketing campaign to make sure the world knew this was happening. >> if you and i lived in steerage over there, if we paid only 1.7 million for our units do we get to hang with sting? do we get to hang with denzel? do they want anything to do with us? >> you have to take a separate elevator in the back of the building but you share the restaurant, the lobby, so, yeah, you get to hang with them. >> i was thinking of rodney king, oddly enough. can't we all just get along? what's interesting is will is such an ethnic mix in this building and there are so many clusters in this building and everybody seemingly doe

i ran and when i ran, there were a commotion of people outside in front of the penthouse. >> reporter: the bullet struck the stolen vehicle which was abandoned a few blocks away on clay street. officer says it does not appear that anyone was struck or injured. police recovered the car and impounded it for processing. witness fran blames the culture of this stretch of bradway for -- broadway for continued streets to safety. >> we wish it would be safer. it's really you know not a good scene especially at 11:00 a.m. >> reporter: the suspect managed to elude police for now. reporting live in san francisco, don knapp, kpix 5. >>> and the incident is being investigated by the police department's internal affairs division as well as central station. >>> well, you probably noticed the pouring rain it happened most of the day in the bay area. in particular here at jack london square. didn't keep people from being outside. most used the cover of umbrellas to stay somewhat dry. that's the tactic you have to employ for a few more hours. kpix 5 hi-def doppler radar shows it's still raining especi

in music and events happening around the city presented here behind me i picked up a ruling until penthouse of their solo performances happening. those tickets are so tense that there was jack to sleep the other musical events happening in and the cc this evening as the festival draws to coast. thank you thank you he has taken time to sink her cheek state new york city parade saying he was prone to do so despite ongoing controversy over equality rights. it was the first fernandez of the psni to march alongside their counterparts in regard to steal from us our washington correspondent jim carrey is a new york. it's been a ban on the bbc policy that is that it's great for twenty years still i think reads this here but the withdrawal of support by a number of corporate bonds is the refusal to much like a cds man in the backfield the ship and the mayor had breakfast this morning and head of the greats the atmosphere was pleasant with them and exchanging gifts. despite the controversy that peaches gunners. the system keeps the seventeenth of march for the fourteen hundred and eighty thousand peo

. >> our penthouse suite on the roof of the kgo broadcast station. how about this photo sent to us yesterday yesterday's sunset. what a beautiful sky around the bay area. from this point of view. sunny skies around the bay also light snow along parts of new england. and across the state of california sunny skies and mild to warm conditions. only 66 in los angeles here in the bay area, we'll have coastal clouds tomorrow. highs around 60. upper 60s to near 70s around the bay. low to mid-70s inland. first weekend of spring looks like it's going to be off to a mild, pleasant and mild start. >> still ahead that current sun screens are not as effective as they could be >> amazing recovery of a little boy just days after receiving a drug his parents had been begging for. >> i'm michael finney you don't pay a debt you owe then get a tax form. what is going on here? >>> bullying becoming all too common in elementary schools one father is taking matters into his own hands filing a restraining order against a 9-year-old he said he had no choice. his son is a fo

. >> the book actually opens with carl icahn, because he and dan loeb got into a duel over to penthousesey both wanted to combine and -- both wanted to buy and combine into this largest and house in the building. only carl icahn wanted to bargain. and dan loeb write a check. when carl icahn found out that dan loeb had beaten him, he let loose with one of the ethically -- with an epic tirade on one of the developers, cussing as if he was in vietnam in 1968. >> let's move on. denzel washington, a hollywood actor. >> he is one of the poor people in the building. his apartment only cost $13 million. and he got a discount, because with a nod and wink, he allow the developers to say that he bought an apartment in the building, which was one of the big turning point. new york is always about co-op apartments. co-ops or clubs that don't just let anybody in. and when you come down to who is the worst, people of color and actors. they announced to the world this building is different by announcing denzel washington had brought an apartment. >> and it is different, because jerry yang, cofounder of

sends a 35,000 word manuscript to "the new york times," "the washington post," and bob guccione at "penthouse" magazine among others. it becomes known as the unabomber manifesto. >> there were many people that thought the unabomber manifesto was a red herring. i had agents come to my office saying we're wasting too much time. we need to stick with forensics and known facts. >> most people in the fbi never even read the manifesto. the popular opinion was that it was nonsense, it was just scribbling. >> the media and the fbi are faced with a dilemma. publishing the manifesto could be seen as giving in to terrorist demands. >> the last thing we wanted to do is set a precedent that we would be blackmailed into publishing terrorist manifestos. because every terrorist could come out of the woodwork and decide, this is nice. we'll try this too. >> attorney general janet reno called us to a meeting. essentially what we said to her was the reason you should publish this is somebody out there has seen these words before and they're going to recognize him by his words. >> "the washington post" publishes

they both wanted the 39th floor where there were two penthouses that could be combined to the largest and highest apartment in the building. only icahn wanted to, and dan loeb brought a check. icahn went ballistic, dropping f-bombs. >> i can't imagine he would do that. >> me neither. >> it boggles the mind. emplgts he did it to me when i called to ask about it. >> it isn't just hedge fund types. it's people in media, people from around the globe. tycoons from dubai and london, russia and so north. we have arabs, palestinians, people from google, yahoo!. >> a-rod live there? >> a-rod was a renter. the celebrities in this building are kind of the lesser -- >> sting. >> denzo. >> sting has a good apartment. denzel has a cheap apartment. $13 million at. >> did people like a-rod? >> he hated it. he was considered a douche by the staff, because hi mistreated people. he had some nasty habits that they took note of, and they were willing to tell me about it, because he was so rude to the staff. >> what did a typical doorman get in tips at holiday season? >> the lower members of the staff walk

i have gotten tired of big giant jet setting penthouse massive we need to have bruce springsteen filled the arena. i realize now you just put a hand out and touch somebody. those ways are really valuable and important on both sides of our aisle, both political visions. and honestly it doesn't hurt to reach out and buy up border patrol guy a cup of coffee. they key field kicked around too. that's how i see it but i'm kind of a sap. [laughter] >> thank you. >> i ask they wanted to follow up on both of these questions. to preface i am a former border patrol. my question is a twist on what can we do to a as academic researchers help inform somehow or just help straight out border reporting which is something that is near and dear to my heart in the second question is here there is a line out the door and most people couldn't even get in so to some extent we are preaching to the choir. we are teaching students at the university of minnesota. people want to be border researchers from order reporters. what reason can i bring home to give them some sense of hope that what they want to do actual

. >> you two city penthouse dwellers, i live in a rural air. i cut my own firewood.pensive and it's hard to cut. >> we have it delivered. >> plus i'm lazy. >> like the food. >> go back to the houses. mary thompson's house is pretty sweet. >> it's a sweet house. >> and she looks so nice by the pool. >> she's great how she handle it is and everything she's doing and the tour is perfect. but i have to tell you, dom's house is just hard to beat. >> okay. so that's the winner. >> yeah. >> it's dom's house. >> dom wins. round five, let us know if you agree. you can tweet us using the hash tag. >> exactly, million dollar home. >> awesome stuff. thank you very much. up next, adam carolla, the famous comedian, is trying to convince jane wells and us that it's okay to drink weird fruity alcoholic drinks. we're going to fight coming up. >> they're calling this a weird fruity alcoholic drink adam corolla. what is it actually called? >> i was called weird and fruity all through high school so that brings back a lot of painful memories. mangria. >> up next, we'll talk about it and

here they seem to be wanting to taking an elevator to the penthouse suite and get to the people who would have knowledge and find a way to send them a message. they know they're not going to get usable stuff out of interviewing stepien's landlord, asking about was stepien rowdy, stuff like that. >> yeah. >> what they're doing, reverend, is delivering a message, that stepien's got telescope, a microscope, a stethoscope looking at him. if there is anything at all there he better be plenty concerned if he wants to talk to the feds about what he might know, this is a really good time to start talk. >> so are they trying to rattle stepien? is this what they're doing? >> they want to shake him up, rattle him, and roll him against chris christie if in fact he has information that could be relevant. this is a highly focused effort. it's not an accident that they're sending this guy a message. and if you're stepien right now, it's got to be pretty tough to sleep at night, not knowing where this thing is going to go. >> now, what if he clams up? then where do they go? >> he clams up, then he has lo

the kind of guy you'd love to see moving from the poor house to the penthouse overnight. >> action news. >> breaking lottery news, you're not going to believe this -- >> reporter: and one fateful day, the fairy tale came true! of all people, abraham shakespeare won a jackpot worth 30 million bucks! >> one day he came to the barber shop and he was like, "greg, um, listen. i'm fixing to buy me a new car. i hit the lottery." i was like, "man get out of my face! you didn't hit no lottery!" >> reporter: oh yes he did! shakespeare bought himself that new car. a fancy new house, and lots more. but, as so often happens, this lotto winner's drama didn't stick to the script. that's because the money also brought unwanted attention. novelist and long time florida crime writer carl hiassen has seen it before. >> all of a sudden you have friends you didn't know you have, and they are crawling out of every rat hole you can imagine. >> reporter: did you know that he was losing his fortune? did you know that all his money was being frittered away? >> we had heard the rumors were in the community was th

he bought the most expensive apartment in london in 2011, a three story penthouse in knightsbridge forver $225 million. ukrainian activists have been holding protests at that building targeting his ties to the yanukovych government. another man has been the subject of a lot of protests to offset the criticism, he started a charitable foundation in britain which gives away scholarships. another plowed a lot of his money into art. the british press saying he spent over $130 million for his london home back in 2008. when ukrainians ask where is all the money, you might want to look on the streets of london and the auction houses here in new york. a lot of money. >> sad, because that money will probably never come back to the country. >> exactly. unlikely. >> make the money here, take it somewhere else. thank you very much. >>> let's get to the playbacks of president obama making remarks on ukraine moments ago at the white house. >> what leverage do you believe you have for president putin at this point, and is the u.s. concerned primarily about getting russian forces out of crimea or are

. >> this is penthouse one.st available property in 211th avenue, which is a building known as the sky garage building. there's only two buildings like this in the world where you drive off the street into an elevator for your car, and the elevator takes your car to your apartment. so then you have your own personal garage, but the garage is next to your kitchen. so your garage has some of the best views in the entire city. and this apartment specifically has the individual car, elevator, and garage, but it also has this new sky vault, which basically when you want in your stairwell, you can have it. when you don't want it, you don't have to have it. >> very quickly, season three is beginning next wednesday. >> yes. >> what is the most dramatic moment that we should be all watching out for? >> oh, man. i don't think i can tell you. i think it definitely happens in the first episode. the three of us are thrown into a pit. then it's just realtor craziness. just like that. >> how long has that property that we saw

the same building where rupert murdoch bought his penthouse for $43 million. tax rate, of course, much better in boston than in california. california, they're paying over 12%, boston, their going to be paying around 5%. so better tax deal as well. >> does he want to focus on his next season in boston? >> that's the idea. he's all in for next year. >> all in for next year. >> are they going to flip the house in brentwood to peyton manning, maybe? give him a call. >> a good idea. z >> suggest that. >> i will. >> i was going to promo the powerhouse, but i think we just did. can you guess where we're going for the powerhouse? one, it's the site of the 1962 world's fair, the birthplace of jimi hendrix, and retailers are banned from giving out single-use plastic shopping bags. can you name the city? the answer up when "power lunch" returns. the dow is up 106 points. we're back in a moment. in a mo. not just a start up. an upstart. gotta get going. gotta be good. good? good. growth is the goal. how do we do that? i talked to ups. they'll help us out. new technology.

toughest sanctions, banking sanctions, you know, visas, stop the oligarchs, ol leg gashing zone, big penthouse and apartments on central park west for $80 million, their kids go to american schools, stop the oligarchs from coming in here? what do you think would damage russia the most? >> i think going after the oligarchs would be very sensitive and very effective, but i just want to go back to an earlier discussion, i think energy is even more important and there's a way to back up, to reverse the flow and provide gas from the excess stockpiles now in europe back into ukraine if russia tries to play games with ukraine. so, i think energy has got to be way up there high on the list. >> and you think that's where they will go, boyden? have you heard anything? >> well, i think they can do this. i think -- and germany is really nervous. they can turn their nukes back on, their nuclear power plants, and reduce their own need for gas imports. at least temporarily. i know they want to shut those plants down and they sort of have. but they can provide for this crisis and really take the pressure off

if they have that penthouse in manhattan or beach house in miami, they can't visit. they can still own them, they can't sell them or use them or buy other property. that could really hurt the top end of the markets in miami and new york. if you also look overseas, their assets are frozen and this helps the pabank account. bill broward tells me, if you were on this list, every bank in the world would pretty much close your account. you can't take out your money or do any transactions. that's the heart of these sanctions. even if it's a foreign bank, no bank in the world wants to risk getting caught up in the u.s. sanction violation. this is true for any company that these guy also control. europe, now, so far, they've backed off targeting these same oligarchs. they can still go to their town houses in london and paris. they can still use their yachts in the med this summer. that's what's important. these oligarchs still living kind of large outside the u.s. not so much in the u.s. sue, back to you. >> robert, thank you very much. >>> all right, is venice about to leav

now, it's, quote-unquote, the penthouse.g into that area in san francisco, it's a very hot area for the entrepreneurs, and the place is beautiful, we should say. we're looking at pictures now. stuart: it's nice. >> you've got the glass ceilings, floor to ceiling, obviously. stuart: hold on. detroit, $2.5 million buys what in detroit? it better be a palace. >> you can have an entire building for $2.5 million in detroit. talk a look at what we found in detroit for $2.5 million. a 10-bedroom, 11,000 square foot home facility 1880. -- built in 1880. it is actually right now a bed and breakfast that is going up for sale, but for $2.5 million -- but, again, it's a baseball story near the park where the detroit tigers play, this could be yours for the same amount of money. and get this, the monthly fees about break even with that three-bedroom, two-bath in san francisco. so you can get an entire property here. it's converted. it's got everything that you need. oh, by the way, 16-car garage versus two spots for your car in that san

. >> from the penthouse to the out house.ladelphia 76ers were once a proud franchise, featuring dr. j and winning championships. this is not a proud franchise anymore, losing wednesday night to the sacramento kings 115-98. that is their 18th loss in a row. that is not the nba record for futility. the cavaliers lost 26 in a row a couple of years back. after wednesday, coach brown said it's not doom and gloom. we will have another good day tomorrow. another? that's sports for this hour. >> that's usually the last words of the coach before he's not the coach anymore. >> that comes right after the owners hey, he's fine, we're not firing him. >> i have 100% confidence in him. >> exactly. >> a majority of girls around the world still in the dark about how their bodies work. we'll talk to a group looking to shed new light on puberty. >> pope francis celebrating one near as the leader of the catholic church. >> just talking about futility, you might think that shoveling is futile at this point. i'll tell you when the snow finally tap