commissioner peterson: i have one last question. i thought there were statements about the roof collapsing, some issues with the roof. if you walk away from this, what happens to the structure? >> what my wife is saying is that the roof apartment is new. commissioner peterson, this structure has significant dry rot. when you look at a photo of it, it sags in the middle. and has no foundation. to do this project is going to require a lot of money. there are structural compromises when they made changes in the front of the structure. there is dry rot, from what we are told. the building is down slope and the under portion of it is bad lead dry rot because water has run into the building for a long time with little or no foundation supporting. frankly, we have significant other demands on our time and money. we will just put our time and money elsewhere. we will do minimal work to try to keep the building from falling down, but we will do seismic work elsewhere. does that answer your question? commissioner peterson: it does, thank you.

commissioner peterson: i will the next. i am leaning towards supporting these historic preservation commission for the reasons i said last time. in addition, the department and each pc

commissioner peterson: i will the next. i am leaning towards supporting these historic preservation commission for the reasons i said last time. in addition, the department and each pc said that they believe there could be a project there and could even be a residential

and if anyone is making money off dew peterson's name it should be peterson. any cash is totally legal but should it be? >> tonight sources report that casey anthony is seeking treatment for serious mental issues before committing to interviews. public i felt for peterson and former publicist for jose baez. ilgnotice appellate court affirmed the inadmissibility of the third wife's statements that drew peterson was trying to kill her. what does it mean for the case. >> we are back where we were a year ago. the government does not have enough of a case to go forward. they said that when they filed the appeal. that's where we are now. they simply don't have a case and connection with kathleen's death. >> it is these statements regarding her fear and i recall she had her will done because she believed he would kill her. is there and forensicings. >> there is no physical evidence not a fingerprint or foot prentor sign of forced entry and not a at the same time or eyewitness . there is no evidence that drew had anything to do with her death. they can't prove her dea

commissioner peterson: ok, i see. on rebuttal. commissioner fung: i already asked my, yes. -- ask my, yes. -- asked mine, yes. director goldstein: any public comment? hold on a second. vice president garcia: how many people? we are talking about three or four people totally? i am going to cut you to two to three minutes, and there are compelling reasons why we want to get mr. duffy out of your tonight, so if you go ahead and please be brief. director goldstein: please give a card to the clerk if you are willing after you are done speaking. >> i would like to submit this to the record. if i could have the overhead, please? thank you. vice president garcia: ddo a 1. >> i have installed these. the dimension is 8 feet long and 8 feet wide. it is 7 feet to the bottom of the concrete. it is away from the adjacent property. with the structure report, it has compacted down in sand and barack, so it does not pose a threat. -- in sand and bedrock. you have got to remove the roof. downstairs and up. just to clarify for you guys. depending th

i would favor the suggestion made by commissioner peterson. that is offering you perhaps false hope. sit down and have a conversation. mr. sanchez and mr. sider -- you might walk away with them saying they would love to help you but cannot. that is the sentiment of this board. we would love to help you, but we can't. commissioner fung: the proposal to continue, i will support that. but i will remind everybody he has 8 feet for an elevator. that includes framing and the cab itself. that is not going to get done. if they can find something that turns the language, ok. but i do not see a technical response to this attrition. vice president garcia: i misunderstood. i thought you could not go above 75. commissioner fung: it is 16 feet above the 65 for elevator. vice president garcia: i thought they could go 16 above the seven. >> commissioner fung articulate it best when he said the 65 foot height limit is the point at which any exemption is taken. 10 feet in the case of stairs and 16 in the case of elevators. because this building is already 8 fee

commissioner peterson: what is this language. it says the exemption chambly limited to the top 10 feet of such features. the height limit is 65 feet or less and the top 16 feet of such features were the high limit is more than 65 feet. -- we're at the height limit is more than 65 feet. >> in districts -- a 105 ft district -- the standard can put exemption is increased to 16 feet. -- the standard 10 ft exception is increased to 16 feet. commissioner hwang: right. can you put that back up? it says here where the height limit is 65 feet or less. that is this particular district. is that what you had said earlier? >> this is a 65-x district. commissioner hwang: thank you. >> is there any public comment? please step forward. vice president garcia: 3 minutes. >> am i at the right place? my name is ms. guthrie. i am an owner. i live across the hall from the -- is a appellants? is that what you call them? i am also an architect. i am so sick protector in architecture at uc-berkeley. i recently moved here. i am just setting up practice. i

but that doesn't mean that i still can't be a great person. >> reporter: by all accounts, peterson was trying to be just that, which is why his arrest last friday for driving under the influence shocked those closest to him. it seemed so uncharacteristic of the new speedy, the one that had overcome a tough childhood of abuse and loss and later problems with gambling and run-ins with police. five years ago at the torino olympics, reeling from having witnessed a friend's suicide only months earlier, an altercation at a bar sent him home from italy in disgrace. you sound like you matured in the last -- a lot more. what do you think brought on the change? >> i don't drink anymore. that was a huge one for me. i had some troubles with depression and suicide. >> reporter: troubles that did not go away easily as peterson's mother told nbc in 2009. >> sometimes doing everything isn't enough. >> reporter: more than 24 million americans deal with depression every day. >> when people with depression start to get better, that actually can be a time of greater danger for them. >> reporter: peterson'

commissioner peterson: provided section 311 notices obtained. -- notice is obtained. and there is nothing i can do about fees? are there nov penalties paid? >> that is different. >> what is the one-year thing you are talking about? vice president garcia: under normal circumstances if we uphold the department, you are barred for one year for replying for the same project. we are waiting that ban on you. >> on that motion from commissioner peterson -- commissioner fung: aye. >> the president is absent. vice president garcia: aye. commissioner hwang: aye. >> the boat is -- vote is 4-0. >> will move on to our last item, item nine, brett poffenbarger versus the zoning administrator, appealing a letter of determination dated march 30, 2011, regarding whether a news their penthouse and roof deck may be constructed and the permit height of a glass wind screen wall and skylights at the subject property. we'll start with the appellant or his agent. you have seven minutes. >> thank you. i would like to submit for the records and documentation from a reputation today. >> i'm sorr

peterson, what is your organization? >> >> guest: we're an organization of state governments whose principle purpose is to reduce the burden that retailers face as they're trying to collect state sales taxes. ?rts well, we just finished talking with patrick byrne of overstock.com, and he told us why he doesn't think a company such as his, based solely in utah, should have to collect sales tax from all the different taxing jurisdictions around the country. why do you think that a company like overstock should? >> guest: we, our view is that retailing has changed, and there was a time when retailing was impossible across state boundaries even though some tried to engage in business across state boundaries. today it's extremely simple to engage in interstate business, and the world is slowly moving toward a -- not in the too distant future we'll be the majority in internet sales in this country. and at that point in time the state sales tax will have ceased to exist. but the internet, frankly, was -- is perfectly suited for

when you go further into the plan -- >> commissioner peterson: what is on the plan? >> on the plan -- if you want to get into legal things, that is part of the legal question. you would be allowed to do that. >> vice president garcia: would- be -- the building would be approved by the processes on the sheet. >> that is a good question. >> commissioner peterson: it is a source of confusion. >> it might have been better if there was a circular that said this is -- someone should have said that. there was definitely no way they could build a deck or put an elevator because there is no details. we would -- if they tried that, it would be stopped. even though it said approve, it is not properly approved. >> commissioner peterson: thank you. questions for the zoning administrator? commissioners? public comment on this item? >> i am merv silverberg. there are some concerns i have here in front of me. i went out to that meeting at the architect's office, where it used to be lowell high school and that was the closest i got to seeing anything. i was promised though i would se

it's about drew peterson.ldn't you imagine that his legal counsel would have written to the publishers trying to cease -- have them cease and desist? unfortunately, nobody apparently on the legal team reads. but they do watch television. so they're now trying to convince lifetime to stop the production. well, there's no more legal chance or constitutional chance in the world of that happening. drew peterson is concerned that he might appear in not a particularly good light. he intentionally does not look good. so bottom line, the case is absolutely, fredricka, going nowhere. >> richard, because there was a work, what avery said, because there's already a book and because this cease and desist letter, you know, it may -- it may not stand a really good chance of stopping this production, in your view? >> no. because of the book. and also because they took direct transcripts from hearings and proceedings in court and relied on those. >> right. >> but the real problem, fred, is that he was upset that -- that the a

a young forensic strien test, larry peterson, took a look. why was a fiber stuck in the crack of a shoe -- >> it was somewhat loosely there. and people don't normally have tufts of carpet fiber loosely stuck in their shoe. >> from those thin threads, peterson would begin to build a case to catch a killer. >> how many fibers across the board, did you look at every day in this case? when the case really started getting busy, 100? 500, 1,000? >> literally, there will be hundreds if not thousands of fibers there, depending on the case. >> in the spring of 1980, nobody wanted to believe a serial killer was loose in the city, even when bob buffington spotted a disturbing pattern. >> there had been a sharp increase in the number of children under the age of 14, who had been killed. >> when he told his boss at homicide, the major threatened to transfer him. >> and i truly think they were afraid that there would be a panic. >> it was this mother, after the loss of her 9-year-old son who finally forced police to listen, but not until almost a year afte

commissioner peterson: the end of august? how about august 24? >> commissioner, did you want any additional briefing? commissioner peterson: i think this is an opportunity for them to discuss. >> this would be a motion to continue to august 24 with no additional submittal is allowed. vice president garcia: i would recommend that if you start feeling like you might get some accommodation that would work for you, make sure you leave their knowing all about -- there knowing all about the certificate of appropriateness from the historic commission. >> the motion is from commissioner peterson to continue this matter to august 24. the public hearing has been held. it is to allow discussion of alternative options. no additional briefing. commissioner fung: aye. >> the president is absent. vice president garcia: aye. commissioner hwang: aye. >> the boat is -- vote is 4-0. >> there is no additional business this evening. vice president garcia: thank you. >> good morning. welcome to the budget and finance committee. my name is carmen chu. i'm joined by the

a young forensic scientists, larry peterson, took a look. why was a fiber that was stuck in the crack of a shoe, why was that important? >> because it was somewhat loosely there. people normally don't have tufts of carpet fibers stuck loosely in their shoe. >> from those few thin threads, peterson would begin to build a case to try to catch a killer. how many fibers across the board did you look at every day in this case, when the case really started getting busy? 100? 500? 1,000? >> literally there's going to be hundreds if not thousands of fibers there, depending upon the case. >> in the spring of 1980, no one wanted to believe a serial killer was loose in the city, even when bob buffington spotted a disturbing pattern. >> there had been a sharp increase in the number of children under the age of 14 who had been killed. >> when he told his boss at homicide, the major threatened to transfer him. >> and i truly think that they were afraid that there would be a panic. >> it was this mother, after the loss of her 9-year-old son, who finally fo

commissioner peterson: this is a difficult case presented to us. there are perspectives from both sides that have compelling points raised. i don't know where i am going at this particular moment. >> >> perhaps the parties can adjourn and we will see if we can come to a conclusion. >> we need mr. duffy for the next case. >> you have to come to the microphone if you're going to speak. what she is a represented a party in the case that involves premises. i'm not sure if i am permitted to have direct communication with her on substantive matters. >> her council is not here? >> her council is not here. >> she can waive it. >> i still cannot. >> we can continue it for one week. >> it would be two weeks at a minimum. >> we have to bite the bullet somewhere. >> do you understand the discussion now? i don't mean to suggest that you're not capable. i am not a lawyer. i assume that you are not also. this thing is to be reconciled in terms of some reasonable accommodation. it has been suggested because he is going against you in another matter that he would b

commissioner peterson: this is a difficult case presented to us. there are perspectives from both sides that have compelling points raised. i don't know where i am going at this particular moment.

jaret peterson has killed himself.e say they responded to a 911 call in which peterson said he was going to take his own life. peterson took part in the winter olympics in italy in 2006, and won the silver medal in vancouver in 2010. his signature jump? the hurricane. >>> and then a civil suit against hotel chains for negligence, and privacy issues. >>> walter reed army medical center is closing its doors after serving the military's finest for more than 100 years. a formal ceremony is under way today at the hospital where a flag will be taken down to mark the inactivation of the unit. the medical center will combine services with the center in maryland, and also a hospital in virginia. the new hospital will include 345 beds for medical and surgical patients, and 20 icu beds. >>> and 37,000 copies of her award-winning back to black alum, with the hit song "rehab" sold this week. winehouse was found dead in her london home, you may recall, on saturday. she was 27. >>> he is known as mini darth vader, and he is bring the

but peterson thought -- >> i'm going to run this back to the lab and just look. i started with the green carpet. once i put that sample under the microscope, i mean, i knew instantly that that was it. >> you knew that they had the killer? >> i knew that was it. and i -- you know, i had made hundreds and hundreds of comparisons to carpeting in various suspects' environments before and nothing was even close. until that night. >> did you stand up from your microscope and scream, hallelujah, we've caught the guy? >> i really did just want to say, oh, my god! >> still, wayne williams was allowed to go home that night. >> and make a couple of other errands so i was in the area. >> in the morning wayne williams called in reporters and tv crews who agreed not to show his face. >> he asked what was dropped in the river? nothing. >> he acknowledged he failed a lie detector test. then asked about the victims, wayne williams said this. >> some of these kids in places they don't have no business being at certain times of the day or night. some of them don't have no kind of h

demonstrated that we will start putting our finances in order, ceo of overstocked dhaka, and scott peterson of the streamlined sales tax governing board explain their views. >>> one of the issues be wishing state governments with tight budgets, local retailers, national on-line retailers and now congress is the issue of internet sales tax. that's our issue on the communicators. joining from salt lake city is the chairman and ceo of overstocked of calm, patrick byrne. mr. byrne, why shouldn't online retailers such as overstock .com collect sales tax for states? >> there's a constitutional argument and policy argument. what you want to hear first? constitutional argument is this was taken of 20 years ago by the supreme court with regards to quell which is an office supply retailer north dakota and illinois, north dakota one after them. they had to collect taxes, have an early computer program you can go online and check in order things a lot like a website. it went when north it would try to get them to collect taxes once the supreme court found 8-1 in north dakota that under the article 1 of

president goh: aye. -- commissioner peterson: aye. commissioner hwang: aye. >> is the public the modified soho -- uphelit is upheld with e modified scope. >> we will call item six now. this is a protest of the issuance on may 23, 2011 to cui zhu li, permit to alter a building. and we will start with the appellant. >> i am here for the appellant. we understand that it is not the role of the board to be the arbiters of good neighbor behavior. we're not here to impose this person on you tonight. the building code does exist to establish requirements necessary to protect general welfare of the general public and it is this role that we ask you to consider this evening. what we have here is a property owner that consistently performs work without acquiring permits as required by law. she has admitted to this behavior and having been cited as such, the conduct unfortunately has persisted. sometimes she is caught red handed. sometimes she is caught after the fact were able to persuade an inspector that she has now done what she has done to h

. >> reporter: marian peterson may not be a threat but earlier this month she was randomly picked by the tsa to be scanned at rdu before her flight back home to florida. the officers lifted her out of her wheelchair, helped her stand in the scanner. then said she would need to be patted down. her daughter marian malone was with her. >> i asked, i said, why are you doing this? and the woman was very polite and said, i don't know. maybe the scanner detected something, or maybe she moved. she said it would be in-depth. she started the pat down and at that point she asked mom to spread her legs. mom stood there with her legs spread. and she checked every place thoroughly. >> you know, all her body. you know. her crotch and her breasts and everything else. >> reporter: joe, her son, believes security w wt too far. the daughter says the officers were polite, but they could have done more to protect peterson's privacy, by patting town those private parts away from the public. >> to me, i can't understand with all the people in an airport why they would pick out some little old lady. >> repo

commissioner peterson: i will the next. i am leaning towards supporting these historic preservation commission for the reasons i said last time. in addition, the department and each pc said that they believe there could be a project there and could even be a residential project. we voted to continue to have the case sent back to discussions which apparently took place and a revised proposal was worked on. what i heard from the appellant was basically my way or the highway response to the discussions. i have trouble with that. so for those reasons, in addition to the reasons that the last hearing, i would support the hpc. president goh: i am similarly leaning for some of the same reasons, i recognize that you have to take your design, you put great stock in the value in your own view of how the property should come out. it is frustrating to come up against these issues. as a commission, we do need to look at the historic preservation commission and their findings and give it some way. we can't disregard it in the entirety. i

commissioner peterson: thank you. commissioner hwang: on the demolition question which was raised by the appellant, how do you respond to the argument that the collapsed roof has, in effect, created further, in effect, i mean, the argument as i understand it is that extended -- it made more of the property characterized as demolished or demolition, and then, i would assume, exceed the 50%. >> no. first of all, the roof is -- when the roof collapsed, somehow, the wall that was slated to remain has collapsed, but the fact is that wall is still there. it has been propped up, so it is there. it has not collapsed. and, in fact -- commissioner hwang: but it will be gone, right? the wall has lost its structural integrity? >> no, the wall has not lost its structural integrity, because sometimes when you open up a wall, some have dry rot, in what they do is they put a new -- and what they do is put in a new 2 x 4, and that is pretty much standard in the industry. a diaphragm to keep the two exterior walls in place, but i am su

in the scott peterson case, it looked very nefarious.r case, she looked silly, she looked immature. the defense were able to show she came from a very dysfunctional, conflicted family where people tell all kinds of stories all the time. and i think in a way she became, you know, at least in an unconscious way much more capable of being acquitted in the jury's eyes than, say, scott peterson was, who the defense could not humanize and, in my opinion, did not defend very well. >> jeff, all the flaws that the prosecution thought would coalesce into an argument for motive and hence guilt in a way made people feel sorry and say she's a flawed character but not murder. >> well, maybe. what we're talking about now is if this verdict were a foregone conclusion. there was some really bad evidence against this woman. i mean, what mother waits 30 days to report a 2-year-old missing? i mean, most parents freak out if a 2-year-old leaves their sight. a month? i mean, that is a horrendous, horrendous fact that, i mean, under certain circumstances you g

commissioner peterson: aye. commissioner hwang: aye. >> the lotus 5-0. department is upheld. >> item 7 was withdrawn. there is no other business. president goh: ok. we are returned. -- adjourned. >> cents and cisco's buses and trains serve many writers -- san francisco buses and trains serve many riders. the need to be sure they can get off at their intended stop. the digital voice announcement system, which announces upcoming stops, can help these low vision riders know where they are, but only if set properly. >> it is a wonderful piece of technology, but in practice, it is a little bit more tricky. oftentimes, i find that the automatic announcement system is turned off or turned down so low that i'm unable to hear it, or it is turned up so high that the sound is distorted. >> most of the time, it does not ever seemed to be on. or is it is, it is a really quiet. occasionally, it is so loud that it is distorted. >> driver, may i have california st., please? >> no problem. >> whenever the announcement system does not work properly and a driver does not c

good looks of rob lowe. >> greg: he is in the drew peterson movie and "i" assume he plays drew petersonows how screwed up hollywood is. they find someone better looking than the criminal. the criminals are never as good looking as the actor. i'm not sure if he is playing it but he stars in it so i assume he is. >> bob: i hate to sound stupid. who is drew peterson? >> andrea: oh, boy. you don't follow -- >> he killed all his wives in chicago. >> greg: allegedly. >> kimberly: allegedly. you don't drown in a dry bathtub. >> bob: i know people have. >> kimberly: in a dry bathtub. >> greg: that was last night. >> bob: i seen people do that. >> andrea: you've seen it? >> bob: no. let's move on. i still don't know who the guy is. i thought we were talking about a baseball player. >> andrea: we're happy. >> kimberly: we don't talk about casey anthony until next week. >> bob: never. please. >> kimberly: bob, happy ending. coming up on "the five" are the n.f.l. owners and players making their way to the end zone with lockout negotiations? and later, we'll talk about friends with benefits. it's li

commissioner peterson: aye. commissioner hwang: aye. >> the lotus 5-0. department is upheld. >> item 7 was withdrawn. there is no other business. president goh: ok. we are returned. -- adjourned. mayor lee: thank you, everyone. i wanted to be here to welcome the prime minister from new zealand's. i know he is here. he is on a stopover in preparation for the america's cup, on his way, of course, to meet our president obama and talk about our two countries' mutual support and help. i would like to think that the prime minister was here primarily co view the competition -- was here primarily to view the competition that will be between us in 2013, with washington being a stop over. i want to welcome him here. i know he is here to not only speak for himself, but knowing that team new zealand has won the america's cup twice before, and in 1995 and 2000. they are going to be a very helpful. i am very excited about the america's cup. it will bring in some 8800 jobs to this city. it will really result in $1.4 billion of economic in come for our city, and that is