and ready to install plywood. cdx or structural one is recommended min mun half inch thick plywood. add them in install the plywood in segments of 4 feet long minimum segments it's not worthwhile for garage or basement walls to add plywood in shorter segments. longer is better, of course. you don't want to go over board and for example, cover one entire wall with plywood and leave the others bear. you are making it worse. the best thing to do is to distribute the installation of plywood as evenly as possible around the perimeter walls much the simpson book shows a picture of that. >> page 13 and 14. >> those typical for most san francisco houses especially because if you have 25 foot wide lot and a garage and entry door there is not much to do with the front elevation. may be the 50 cross wall you can add plywood. down the long walls on the longitudinal sides really not necessary to completely cover the walls but add segments. try to distribute the plywood throughout the entire area. there are so many nails on the market. i strongly recommend common nails only. not box nails and not

there's no plywood there.hat's the wall that really needs to be stiffnd up because that's the short dimension of the house. >> in '89 and most earthquakes in san francisco, buildings don't fall forward. they don't go towards the street. they lien over or rack , so wha you really want to do is anchor bolt all the way around the perimeter of the building, you may put plywood in the side walls but it's the front and back that is critical. because the building wants to, it's usually narrow or tall and it wants to rollover. you want to plywood the front and back if you can and maybe add a footing in the middle. it's amazing the minimal amount of strengthing you can do is enough to give a building an excuse to stand up. >> we've looked -- i have and i know pat has looked at hundreds maybe thousands of earthquake damaged buildings. the smallest investment in structural improvement will prevent buildings from collapse >> it's not just the damage. you have to live somewhere else while in is going on. all the things you

it was under plywood and carpeting for about 30 years. this was amazingly preserved underneath all of that when it pulled up. >> how to the ventilate this? are these operable? h[ph>> they are not. we have a cool air intake from the bay. because of the atrium, it would be nearly impossible for any air conditioning, so we have cool air intake on the bayside. that cools the building down. when i first artwork in here, i was fascinated with all the arches, the repetitive arches. the original architect used it as a symbol of the talks in rome, a symbol of how important the water and the waterways are to us city. -- to the city. it looks like an aqueduct structure. >> what are the uses of this floor and above? >> we have about 10 it office spaces, private businesses, law firm, financial management, lobbying firms. there are all local businesses. -- they are all local businesses, very supportive of the marketplace. >> i know that some part of this building, the water goes underneath, the bay water is under there? >> yes. >> is it under the whole

and you are also going to state that you are installing plywood sheathing at the -- at the bottom level of the building. on that permit will be -- if you come in on a monday morning you will leave on the monday morning with your building permit and start work any time. as long as you fill out the application completely. >> as i said, the general guidelines and tips for the voluntary strengtheng are adding bolts one size does not fit all. all buildings are different. i refer to the sunset richmond houses if you have a victorian there could be a crawl space and that space may be harder to do the work. i'm not saying you shouldn't do it but it may be a different approach on how to get access to the area. i want to talk about installing the anchor boltses. i have done quite a few of them in san francisco. if you are handing with tools or construction equipment this is something you could accomplish. my estimate for installing an anchor bolt is 30-75 a bolt. so the it's better, the easiest place to do the work is in that typical open garage basement where the walls where there is no sheet ro

it's a given on wood homes that adding plywood is an automatic. >> it stiffness the building up every. here's a guyana doing tile work in the garage there. you have a contractor, you have to open the wall up. do a little earthquake work,ái every project you do. here we have a building for lease, one of the issues we see commonly, i get a lot of questions how safe is my building. is it safe? no one knows when they lease an apartment or home or whatever they're leasing, how safe it is ask your landlord or homeowner. ask your engineer, how safe is my bill something they assume i the building department let's i be occupied it has to be safe. i want to point out a few other things we have on the table tha you should be taking a look at. there's this wonderful guide book called putting down roots in earthquake country and it wa publish fwid united states geological survey. it was in the paper the other day and it looks like an ad and it was in with a lot of ads, so people tossed them. i would pick one of these up. we have a lot of information here in the building department you need any hel

. >> it's a type of plywood, so this one in particular -- yeah. >> (speaking spanish). >> (inaudible). >> (speaking spanish). >> in the language it's called dulo. >> (speaking spanish). >> yes? >> (inaudible). >> (speaking spanish). >> yeah. >> (speaking spanish). >> (laughter). >> yes. >> (inaudible). >> in the 16th century, about 1500. yeah. >> (inaudible). >> no. no, no, just you have to leave this room thinking we did not kill anybody for that. yes, you had a question? >> (inaudible). >> yeah. well, yes, there are -- in cities like the northern part and lima there are certain districts like -- certain ones and the capital and to the south of lima the district there and to the south almost border to chile there is a community that is unknown that we are doing research right now on it. yes, the value there and with chile and all of that area. yes? >> (inaudible). >> no -- you know what it is. it's a rubber stamp of the tube that is heating it. you can -- >> (inaudible). >> no it's a tube. somebody had a question. i don't know if we are running out of time or we have to go or -- >> (

if we close out and we put some plywood, we know it will have graffiti on it. we know that people will not respect this space. they are opening up their businesses, their buildings and they are saying, let's invite young artists in and let's have these artists go at it in great very visually stunning storefronts. >> this is a pilot project that was started by the mayor as part of his local stimulus plan in partnership with the mayor's office of economic and work- force development. we carried this space in the mission. we were hired to curate this project. we have been the ones that have been handling all of the day to day working with the artists helping to secure their locations. >> we are doing projects in central market, the tenderloin, the bayview, and the 24th street corridor. >> we are looking at the history of the neighborhood and their ability to translate a the kind of things that go on on a day- to-day basis. >> we have over 200 applicants. it was wonderful to see how many people participated. these people clearly understand the neighborhood. >> this

shows entirely new framing around the entire roof outside of the dormers, although the note of adding plywood sheeting is scratched out. that is why i knew there was something up there on top of the new roof. so i am not sure that i would buy that this project is not -- it does not need to have some level of notice. i am going to also require that the department -- i need to see the permit history on this. i remain undecided. vice president goh: i agree with that. it was alleged the planning department did not see adjustments to the plans. i do not know what that means in terms of what they did review and what they did over the counter. i was struck by doing and on the fly over the counter historic evaluation on a building like this. that is definitely a contributor if not more. the historic features were being removed and it did not seen that was addressed in the plans to show those things were removed. the other comment i had was about what areas were legal, were to be legalized. i think that commissioner fung 's comment -- the existing roof to be gone -- is again shocking to me in an over-

there is no nailing on the plans, there is now replacing of plywood on the southeast side. commissioner garcia: no one up here is asking for plans. >> ok. well, simply replacing the dilapidated materials and removing an obvious encroachment, the shed that is attached to the house, this is exactly what is specified in this nov and that is exactly what we're going to do. there is not a lot of gray area here. it is unfortunate this situation has deteriorated as it has. it is unfortunate these property owners bought into a mess of a property line. it is unfortunate that ms. unterberger has been ill so much of the year that she has been under doctor's orders to avoid stressful situations and she has not been able to focus. at sea has not been working. she has not had a lot of money to do this stuff. but all of this stuff needs to get done. the pit -- the district building inspector will be on site, as commissioner fung pointed out. as he does the inspections and sees other conditions that may be required, he will require it. if he sees the dilapidation is addressed in this nov,

flat ceiling with sheet rock, but when you have a high, arched ceiling you have roof decks, 1 inch plywood air shaft, rain water raise, plus decking -- there is a lot to building a skylight there. why? they are building a room. there will be a lot of potential leaks. we do not want that. why should the burden be on us to build something when they are building already? all they need is a pencil and eraser. that is all they need. i could buy everything else. all of the accusations on character and whatever else you want to talk about -- the first meeting, we met with them at the office. we did get information from our doctor saying there was a meeting. we did not get invited. most owners did not get this. it is the tenants. but what about the homeowners? we should have been notified. when we did get that, it came out at 8.5 by 11. none of my neighbors could read it. i helped out several neighbors. until we went to see them, i did not know there was a design guide saying, "be considerate of your neighbors." we did not know. as soon as we went home and started reading everything, we found we d

there was the original pressed tin ceiling that they had ripped out so i guess it's plywood under here. the original floor is under here. they had told us it's just dirt but actually it's an old redwood floor under here. but it would cost about $100,000 because the way it was retrofited they would have had to pick it up and raise it. >> a lot of times when buildings become restaurants, they trigger all sorts of code requirements for upgrades. if you change from office space it a restaurant, you trigger all sorts of additional requirements because there's an increased hazard in the building code for restaurants. you have special exiting requirements, you have problems with preserving life safety for high numbers of people. a restaurant like this, how many seats do you have in here? . >> 85. >> we don't count seats in the building department, we look at square footage. typically for a restaurant we say 15 square feet per person will tell us -- we can figure it out how many people would be in the restaurant. based on that number, we can figure out how many exits are required but it's a lo

. >> we put in hardwood floors, we put in plywood and then carpeted. >> reporter: this duplex is one of 80 foreclosed properties the city of chicago purchased, rehabbed, and hopes to re-sell to low and middle income buyers. the city paid $22,000 for this building, which young gutted and completely overhauled inside and out. >> how much do you think you could possibly get for it? >> i think this building is appraised for something like $200,000. >> reporter: chicago is funding this effort with $55 million in grants from the government's neighborhood stabilization program. the program rehabilitates neighborhoods hard hit by foreclosures. this neighborhood-- which covers about four square miles-- has had more than 7,000 foreclosures in the past couple of years. still, deputy commissioner of community development ellen sahli says the area has a lot going for it. >> we have some of the best housing stock in some of the neighborhoods that we're working in, and with the other kinds of city investment that have happened in those neighborhoods, it does make it an appealing and attractive home

. >> i have been told more times than i could keep track of that plywood is on my hands. >> at the center of the storm, why this northern california man says he outed the former army analyst accused of leaking thousands of secret afghan war documents. >>> are electric vehicles bad? >> absolutely not. they are our future transportation. >> cars of the future on display in the bay area but is it wise to buy electric right now? >> this is cbs5 eyewitness news. begin with a big decision by . >> good evening, i'm ken bastida -- >> i'm dana king. >> tonight we begin with a big decision by oakland city leaders. a decision that could lead to the rehiring of 80 police officers who were recently laid off. this after a day of intense negotiations with the police union, joe vazquez is at city hall the latest tonight. joe. >> this could be a breakthrough but there is a catch. always a catch. in this case the catch is for those officers to be rehired the people of oakland have to go back to the ballot in november and about to raise their taxes heavily. >>> um, the motion passes. >> reporter: the counci

i put very thick plywood on the roof. >> how thick to support a story falling?(laughter). >> thanks for helping me out. (laughter). >> the rialto building. this is interesting building that survived the '06 quake. >> it did. in some of the reports it is reported it had undergone earthquake damage. if you look more into the building. in the 1907, they basically explain the damage is dynamiting. this is a building they tried dynamite apart to create a fire break, and the building wouldn't do it. it said no because it is a steel framed building. and as a class steel frame buildings are very resistant to both earthquakes and dynamite. >> am i right? i think steel frame buildings are resistant, it is the composite action of the steel frame and other elements that are together with the frame that help make them support; is that right? >> yes. that includes the walls, the floor diaphragms. but the fire was really bad. this is what they were trying to do here is a fire break here. in addition to the heroic fire break that stopped the fire on van ness. >> dynamited aroun

they hunt for the buried plywood that breaks under a boot and closes the circuit on a 40-pound bomb madertilizer. the enemy pays villagers to plant them at $10 each. >> i got a hit right at the end of the thing. hey, there's a hit at the end of the thing. stay away from that crater. >> pelley: i.e.d.s often push the marines off the roads and into the fields flooded with sewage. with 60 pounds of armor and weapons, it's exhausting, and it is possible to be so bone-tired that the temptation to step on the next solid ground trumps even the fear of death. >> o'hara: we should be good pushing up through here until we get near that i.e.d. site. >> pelley: on august 31, dan o'hara and lance corporal jonathan quiceno from orlando planned a mission to clear an i.e.d. it would be a day that o'hara would not return with all his marines. on the patrol, they destroyed the i.e.d., but coming back, lance corporal david hall from lorain, ohio, triggered another. a med-evac helicopter carried his body away and the taliban opened fire. ( gunfire ) the next day, o'hara gathered hall's squad. when a marine

on the right i showed you at north flynn road, still reported there in lanes, big old pieces s of plywood there. a distraction and that's all you need to trigger another slowdown coming through livermore. 16 to 17 minutes now out of the altamont pass, all the way over to the dublin interchange. 680 moves smoothly through sunol, heading down into the south bay, where we're now starting to see the slowdown northbound from 101 heading north. the earlier shot is where the traffic starts. slowing approaching 880. and then clearing up the peninsula. the travel times there at san mateo not showing any t slowing northbound 101 or 280 getting into the city. we'll watch that volume will increase over the next few hours. back to you. >> thanks, mike. >>> want to check the forecast with ria taramina. she's filling in for rob today. a cool start to our day. >> and what else is increasing is the clouds. they will begin to burn off when the sun beats down. but our temperatures aren't going to be going up very high. at the coast, we'll be in the low 60s throughout the day. we'll be getting into the 70s a

infernally hot in the summer, swarming with flies and in the winter, zero degrees, incredibly cold, built plywoodhooches heated with gasoline that didn't really work. it was rough out there. their rotation was three-to-four weeks. they get back down to the main base and burn their clothes which were in shh reds and called their wives and girlfriends they have not been able to call for a month. take a shower, get a hot meal and a couple days later they'd head back out to do it for another month. they spent a year like that. it was rough out there. >> let's take a look at your film, this is soldiers talking about what is like to live in this very deadly place. >> i've been on about four or five sleeping pills and nothing helps. i prefer not to sleep and not dream about it then sleep and see the picture in my head. >> everybody's like oh, you're going to corn gal? oh, and they feel sorry for you. >> deadliest place on earth is the korengal valley. >> i'm thinking what are we doing? >> first friend i lost was to slap nell. >> he died, shooting off flares. >> in the middle of the night we put up a fai

i pulled plywood, i've bused tables, i have work on assembly lines. in tennessee, we have the work ethic. we have the values. now, we need the jobs. as governor, my priority is for me to put tennessean back to work. >> mr. wamp? >> the holy scripture says that where there is no vision, people perish. i have been in politics long enough to see that the problem is that in politics there is very little vision. tennessee needs a vision for the future. how do we create a dynamic state? it is on my website. this is a 20/20 vision to create a strong economy and improve education with an early childhood reading initiative, to become a preventive health model state. we are almost dead last in health care and we have to change the culture of the next generation. all the while, we need to claim state sovereignty because the federal government is raining down on us to protect our way of life. we need to make tennessee a better and stronger state. in many ways, we have to protect our own faith and values as well. this is like david vs. goliath with all this money.