i own 174 randal street. i've been there since 1989. 176 randal street came before this commission in 2009. since that time sophie got married, had two kids. the commission ordered the height be reduced on this property by two feet. that was after multiple site visits by planning commissioners over the course of the meet up to that discretionary review. my and my wife's discretionary review was one of six over this disputed property. and i think the planning commissioners felt that the site visit gave them insight into how the actual property and the site where the property project was proposed did not neatly fit with the designs as proposed. and, so, during the debate there was actually several commissioners who thought it should go down four feet, like many things there was a compromise and the commission decided to reduce it by two feet. what ended up happening was after the commission's decision, the staff continually granted six month reviews on this project. they never submitted plans in compliance with

randall pinkston, cbs news, jackson, mississippi. >> randall pinkston is leaving us after 33 years withbs news. he's always been one of the true gentleman in this business and we will miss his warmth, his grace and his class. next up, prom night in alabama, at last. can sale-- cancelled 50 years ago at the height of the civil rights controversy. [ slap! ] [ male announcer ] your favorite foods fighting you? fight back fast with tums. calcium-rich tums starts working so fast you'll forget you had heartburn. ♪ tum tum tum tum tums you'll forget you had heartburn. i on my feet and exactly, and itwhere i needed more support.ts then, i got my number. my tired, achy feet affected my whole life. until i found my number. i tried the free dr. scholl's foot mapping center. in two minutes, i got my foot map and custom number. i'm a 440. that matched up to the dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic inserts with the right support and cushioning i need. i am a believer. i'm a believer! i'm a believer. go to drscholls.com for locations and learn how to save $10. that your mouth is under attack, from food pa

i think it is 900, there it is, there is randall. >> okay. >> the last thing we want to see is randall dance but thank you, all right, guys, nice job. we do have clear skies, all the fog is gone. we had a little onthe coast, i know pescadero or pesky as nancy calls it was socked in and there was some there that is all gone, cool lows mid-40s this morning under clear skies, temperatures though have warmed up now and as we like to say the coast is clear except there, everything is changing, this low is moving out, temperatures at noon now in the 70s. they have been held in check here for the longest time, 77 antioch, 77 there, livermore low 70s, that is in there, i have seen 62 to 64 in san francisco and 76 at the airport, still a westerly breeze though for most. i mean there is an onshore breeze, we call it that because it is westerly wind and still gusting up at 20 miles an hour but clear top to bottom, here is a beautiful day, those are your temperatures in those areas, bookends 89 vegas and also palm springs, high pressure building in so today we start that warm up, sunny and warmer,

randall pinkson has the latest information from the federal courthouse in boston. >> reporter: three 19-yard friends of boston marathon bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev appeared in federal court. azamat tazhayakov and dias kadyrbayev have been charged with destroying evidence after the attacks. robel filipos is charged with lying to investigators. after seeing pictures of tsarnaev on television and exchanging text messages with him, they went to his dorm room and removed a backpack and computer. they also found other bomb making materials. two friends are accused of throwing the items in the trash but it was later found in a landfill. a lawyer for one of the suspects says he want trying to destroy evidence. >> he did not know that those items were involved in a bombing or any interest in a bombing or any evidentiary value. >> reporter: one of the suspects is due back here in federal court on monday. the other two have hearings set for may 14. all three are being held without bail. prosecutors hope all three will cooperate with investigators telling them everything they know about ts

pam randall didn't dare dream about that kind of success. >> pam: i was shocked when i couldn't evenenial labor jobs. >> gupta: she was a lieutenant colonel in the air force and retired in 2010 after years of hard landings left her with a laundry list of ailments. >> pam: damage to both shoulders, both wrists, both hips, both knees, upper and lower back, and i have nerve damage in my elbows. >> gupta: that's a lot. >> pam: yeah. >> gupta: are you in pain? >> pam: every day. >> gupta: though it was a challenge, she spent more than a year looking for work, any kind of work. 23 years of military service, a lieutenant colonel, senior... senior rank-- it seems like you would be the perfect candidate for so many jobs. >> pam: you'd think that. you would think that. the military chapter's closed, so now you do a new chapter. >> gupta: what was your sentiments as you're going through that? a year of putting out applications and not being able to find anything. >> pam: i was a little shocked. i had to do something. so now, you know, small business, here we come. >> gupta: randall wanted to tu

randall pinkston reports. >> reporter: 2 1/2-year-old hannah warren was born without a windpipe.there was no hope of her survival, but now to groundbreaking surge are in illinois, she has a new trachea grown in her own stem cell. >> the tube in her mouth disappear and she was reborn. >> reporter: doctors extracted cells from hannah's bone marrow and grew them around a plastic frame in a lab. within a week the cells formed to grow a new windpipe. the surgeons implanted a new trachea during a nine-hour procedure to increase her life. doctors say unlike donor organs, using hannah's own stem cells greatly reduces the likelihood that her body will reject the implant. >> if you look into the future, this would be the future of organ transplantation. >> reporter: hannah was able to taste food for the first time ever, a few licks of a lollipop. she faces more surgeries to speak. >> our hopes and dreams are those of parents with a hopes after dreams of a them think child, that they get to experience everything that this beautiful world has to offer. >> reporter: hannah has spent her whole

randall pinkston, cbs news, new york. >> nurse practitioners will refer patients to a doctor or hospital if they come in with a condition they are not equipped to handle. >>> all right. let's get a check on the weather. i did not get a chance to go take a little walk outside today. >> and why not? >> busy! >> are you a little busy today? >> yeah, frank's not here. >> don't worry, i walked for you. >> thanks. >> it looks very cloudy outside right now. a lot of clouds around the bay area, even a couple of scattered light shows in parts of the east bay on our hi-def doppler radar. you can see some of that rotating in as it falls apart. even toward the san jose area, you can see maybe a light sprinkle or light showerheaded in that direction. not going to be here for long and i think toward the afternoon, you will see more of this. partly cloudy skies, maybe a little breezy in spots. the onshore breeze returned today. and we have some drizzle out toward the coast. the temperatures now moving into the 50s and the 60s all around the bay area. i think throughout the afternoon, you're going to se

randall pinkston reports. >> reporter: when medgar evers was fighting for civil rights in mississippi get on local news in his home state. his wife. >> your wife was a member of the naacp. was he ever asked to comment on civil rights matters by tv stations? >> in mississippi? >> reporter: yes. >> no, of course not. >> reporter: as the civil rights movement grew, the dominant point of view on wljb. >> these range all the way from blackmail to bribery to threats. >> reporter: evers asked for equal time but was turned down for six years. >> reporter: what kept your husband going? >> his determination to do whaefrl he could possibly do to turn this state and help the nation accept us at citizen extends with full licensed citizenships. >> reporter: evers sued the city of jackson to deseg regate schools. then on wlbt jackson mayor albert johnson criticized evers as outside agitators. he was granted time to respond may 20th, 1963. the setting is different but this is the room where medgar evers made his historic speech at wlbt. it was the first time mississippians had seen a local african am

randall pinkston, cbs news, boston. bangladesh building collapse has now reached more than 500. this morning families continue to look for missing relatives. the eight-story building packed with workers caved in april 24th. an engineer who warned the building was unsafe has been arrested because he was involved in illegally adding three stories to the building. he is the ninth person arrested in connection with the disaster. >>> and the gunman who opened fire at houston's largest airport left a suicide note. carnell moore fired two shots in a terminal at bush intercontinental airport yesterday before he was confronted by a federal agent. earlier in the day he posted a message on a social media website saying he intended to commit mass murder. tiffany craig of our houston station khou reports. >> reporter: it was terror inside terminal b. >> he open-range started shooting. open-range started shooting. >> reporter: kendra and plenty of passengers saw it or heard it and scattered. >> we took off. customers took off. everybody. we had a line. everything took off. we're right there i

randall pinkston, kpix 5. >>> oregon police say there is a prime suspect in a murder in the state. jeffrey boyce is due in a marin county courtroom tomorrow. he was arrested in greenbrae monday night. police say boyce was obsessed with the boston bombings and wanted to seek asylum at the russian consulate in san francisco. oregon authorities say he is wanted for the murder of a woman in winchester bay. >>> today governor brown signed a bill making it easier for state agents to seize firearms from californians who legally aren't supposed to have them. under the bill, $24 million will go towards hiring more agents to confiscate weapons over the next three years. nearly 20,000 people in our state own guns despite the fact it's illegal because they have been convicted of crimes or have been ruled mentally unstable or are under domestic violence restraining orders. >>> it's one headache after another for the new eastern span of the bay bridge. leaders with the metropolitan transportation commission are talking to the vendor who supplied the bolts that snapped on the new east span. those

i mean, you can say that randall stephenson is responsible because randall stephenson's the ceo of att. but what impact saying that randall stephenson is responsible for that, would have on the eventual safety of future crews, i think that's too far tv the fatality... >> smith: in the course of our investigation, we obtained this private letter to osha from the subcontractors trade group. in it, they urged osha to go after carriers and turf vendors that hire unqualified contractors, warning that otherwise, "fatalities are going to continue." but three years later, we found out that osha doesn't even track which carriers are connected to fatal accidents. at this point in time you don't collect data on the carriers? >> we don't. >> smith: and is that something that you should be doing? >> it's something we could do. again, it's a lot of work to try to trace things up to the ultimate owner. but it's ... it would probably not be a bad idea for us to do that. >> smith: is it that much work? don't you just have to ask the subcontractor? >> well, the subcontractor may not know who the ultima

. >> i'm randall evans. my family go back 1 hundred and fourteen years but to get started here it should have been a special order of the day around the state of emergency for the black people of san francisco. it's a real serious error we're dealing with and the black folks are not being represented and when you get a shot in the arm and the mayor fires someone in the commissioner level it's time for us for black folks to go into the room and speak. our folks are a little bit behind. you can put 19 of us in a room and we don't start talking that's serious. there should be a economy that has to do with the people's voice. this is far and deeper than the homeless problem. i put all my brothers where i used to live in good housing sometimes in shelters, you know, there's no crime in that but the problem is you're not listening to us right now the black people in san francisco are in the state of emergency because we have to good black leadership. that's not to say the people - the sad thing is you've got so ma

all the way down to randall street, there is no accessible boarding areas for the church. there is a woman that lives in a wheelchair on santa rosa. she has to go across to glen park to get out transit. >> those new stations, those are the ones that we are going to have to depend on. >> along balboa park station, near geneva, i have been pushing hard to get ramps for pedestrians. right now, it is dangerous to cross the street. i want to insure the department of parking and traffic is painting lines on alemany street. beyond that, we need to figure out how to calm the traffic. a lot of cars go speeding through. sidewalks are not convenient for people. >> i am the supervisor for district 11, the debt -- the best district in san francisco. this year, we get to show how great district 11 really is. >> we are in our fifth year of major budget deficits. it is inevitable that we will make painful cuts. so how do we do it in a way that will minimize the impact on every day san franciscans? >> i really appreciate what you're doing here. you are a really patient gentleman, and i app

randall pinkston, cbs news, boston. >> at today's court appearance, the two students didn't request bail and they're scheduled for a hearing on may 14th. the other is due back in court on mod. >>> there's nonofficial tonight on the story we've been following. a virginia man charged with assaulting a taxi driver now apologizes for the comment he is made to the driver. remarks involving muslims. just the same, the cabbie wants to assault charge -- the assault charge bumped up to a felony and he wants it prosecuted as a hate crime. the cabbie captured some of the incidents on the cell phone from last friday. >> whatever you saying is recorded. and -- now he's punching me. you punching me? >> do you think it was proper for the united states -- >> you -- now you're punching me right? >> sir, you can also -- >> medical records show that the cabbie suffered a broken jaw. the passenger facing charges didn't want to go on camera but his attorney says his client didn't assault the cabbie. however he does regret the comments he made. >>> a guilty verdict tonight against the man who czar averagely b

we have silver tree and pine lake and lacrosse and art in the park and museum camps, the randall over night kaism for kids 10 to 12 and discovery camp and it's not too late to register so sign up today. recruitment has been begun with san francisco and the parks alliance. we are looking for kids in age group. teens upon work in the parks and open spaces and advance their leadership and gain valuable work experience and for more information call our office. i would now like to invite larry barry from san francisco youth works that wanted to make a quick presentation. larry, come on up. >> thank you commissioners and good morning. as he said i am larry barry. if you don't know we have an internship program 11 and 12 graders participating and that includes recreation and parks and i am here today to present an award to you for your contribution to our program. we have been able to provide 54 internships over the last year to kids in san francisco. we worked with a host of sites including the ones mentioned over the summer and pine lake and silver tree and douglas play ground and it's bee

>> reporter: randall fitzgerald estimates a half million gallons of water may have leaked from county pipes into the hillside. unless the tests result support the leaking water aligned theorys homeowners are stuck with no insurance and worse. >> people facing bankruptcy and people facing displacement from their homes and no insurance coverage and insult to injury, they are being told they have to demolish at their own expense? >> reporter: it's been called a disaster in slow motion. >> there's a crack completely across it. you can visually see a drop in elevation between the upper part and the lower part at the north end of lancaster. these are all signs that there's still movement. >> reporter: it will take a few more weeks of ground testing to learn what's going on beneath the surface. one supervisor suggests it may be the accumulation of many problems beginning with soil movement, leaking pipes and allegedly poor construction. >> i think there's a number of different variables contributing to what we're seeing happen today. >> reporter: slide victims now believe they have good reas

randall pinkston reports. >> we're not just interesting in voting so that conditions will be improvedrybody everybody. >> reporter: that was medgar evers in 1962. he could not get on television. was he ever asked to comment on civil rights matters by tv stations? >> in mississippi? >> yes. >> no of course not. >> reporter: few people of color appeared on jackson, mississippi's, main tv station wlbt. his mother recalls how sometimes the screen would go dark even when black entertainers came on. >> we were blocked from seeing successful people of our own race appear anywhere. i can recall my elder son saying to me, mommy, the television is broken again. >> reporter: as the civil rights movement grew the dominant point of view on wlbt was from the segregationist civil council it's currently being studied by the congress. these range all the way from blackmail to bribery to threats. >> reporter: for six years evers wrote letters to the station pleading for equal time and was turned down repeatedly by station manster stermanager edward beard. former mississippi governor said they were most

and the civil rights legacy of medgar evers, randall pinkston shares the very personal history of howevers helped integrate tv news in mississippi making room for african-american reporters like him. >> more blacks are registered to vote now than ever before in mississippi's history. captioning sponsored by cbs

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we're joined now by randall kroszner, a former fed governor, who used to vote on the fomc. and we've got steve liesman joining us as well. steve, what do you think? are the hawks circling around the dove today? >> interesting way to put it, bill. well, first of all, i think it's well to think about the total market movement here. we were up 150 or so, and now down 110. so that's a big swing. and certainly, the market got caught off-sized in terms of what the federal reserve was thinking. and what we did have was the federal reserve chairman coming out and saying, somewhat contradictory things, but ultimately, you could make sense of it by suggesting that he's saying, you know, we could be tapering soon, but not imminently. and then the minutes come out and say the number of participants, that we ought to begin tapering in june. now, that's not members. members are voted, everyone at the meeting, but there does seem to be a little bit of discord as to perhaps where the fed wants -- where the chairman wants to guide the market where the fed is going and where, certainly, at l

randall pinkston, kpix 5.>> at today's court appearance the two kazakh students did not request bail. they are scheduled for a hearing on may 14. phillipos is due back in court on monday. >>> new at 6:00, a man bold enough to throw bricks at police is getting the book thrown at him. after may day marches last year, jesse nesbitt stood on a building and throwing bricks and other items at police. the bricks missed police but hit a bystander and cruiser. now a year to the day, nesbitt was sentenced to two years in prison for assault with a deadly weapon. >>> tonight we have a clarification on an investigation into the business investments involving members of a bay area church. linda yee is here to explain. linda. >> reporter: allen, we reported on the department of corporation's desist and refrain order that was filed against michael parker and pastor lacy hawkins of the general assembly church. they were accused by the state of violating security laws in soliciting investments from church members. in or first s

randall pinkston explains what's behind the change in correctional thinking. >> reporter: parchman, in the heart of the mississippi delta, is a sprawling 1800-acre prison. its unit 32 once housed 1,000 inmates in solitary confinement, each prisoner crammed into an eight by 10 foot cell 23 hours a day. inmates got out one hour a day for exercise and a shower. >> it's torture. it's the worst kind of torture. i'd rather be beaten or burned. >> reporter: kirby tate, who served nine years on a nonviolent drug charge spent three of those years in solitary confinement, mostly in unit 32. >> you pray to god. you lay in bed every day and pray, "please, let this be the last day." if you're not a psychopathic maniac, they have no business putting you in solitary confinement. >> we should be looking at those individuals that we're afraid of. >> reporter: chris epps opened unit 32 in 1990 when was parchman's second in command, but in 2010, as the state commissioner of the corrections, he decided to close it. >> it has not affected public safety, as far as the citizens of the state. it has not affec

i saw that you -- i am the chair of the european parliament's randall gaition, and i saw that you mention inside some news that maybe nato should have a role in iran also. are there any plans on, and what would you say would be nato's role many this case? thank you. >> speak speak tongue. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: first of all, may i say that mr. rasmussen is instantly -- constantly appealing to france and -- [inaudible] not as a matter of principles. what's going on now is that new systems are being used, new military technologies such as drones which actually kill people. a lot of people died in afghanistan. clearly, you're finding support for this. and then we all understand what you mean when you talk about strengthening the european element of nato. it's quite simple for anyone who looks at the state of the facts. nato wants to be able to decide which crisis it will intervene in, and anywhere where it doesn't see fit to take action, well, leave it to the europeans. we have evidence of that. i would pick up what you said about supplying planes in flight. now, with tal

>> randall fitzgerald estimates a half million gallons of water may have leaked into the hillside. hard numbers have tests. unless the test results support the leaking water theories, homeowners are stuck with no insurance and worse. >> so people that are facing bankruptcy, people that are facing displacement from their homes and no insurance coverage and at the same time, insult to injury, they are being told they have to demolish at their own expense? >> it's been called a disaster in slow motion. >> there's a crack completely across it. you can visually see a drop in elevation between the upper part and the lower part at the north end of lanksterer. >> it will take a few more weeks of ground testing to figure out what is going on. one supervisor suggests the slide may be the accumulation of many problems, beginning with a history of soil movement, leaking pipes, and allegedly more construction. >> there's a number of different variables contributing to what we are seeing happen today. >> a few good reasons to think they will get help. while the talking and testing continues, so

as randall pinkston reports for wjz, doctors in illinois made the new trachea, from the little girl's own cells, giving her a chance to live a normal life outside hospital walls. >> reporter: 2 1/2-year-old hannah warren was born without a wind pipe. doctors in korea told her parents there was no hope for her survival. but now, thanks to groundbreaking surgery at children's hospital of illinois, she has a trachea, grown from her own stem cells. >> the tube in her mouth disappeared. and she was reborn. >> doctors extracted cells around her bone marrow and grew them in a lab. within a week, the cells grew to form a wind pipe. they implanted the new trachea, during a nine-hour procedure, on february 9th. >> just taking her own tissue. >> reporter: doctors say using hannah's own stem cells greatly reduces the chances her body will reject the implant. >> if you look into the future, this will be the future of transplantation. >> reporter: she was able to taste food for the first time ever, a few licks of a lollipop. she faces more extensive rehabilitation and more surgeries to help her liv

. >> randall sawyer is the charge nurse in pendleton's medical unit. here, staff sees more than 150 offenders a day for everything from daily med distribution to serious offender battery. self-cutting is also no surprise. >> a lot of them will cut on themselves for self-mutilation to relieve the anger. they say it just feels good. and it's sad that they have resulted in that, instead of just coming down here to talk to one of the medical staff. what are you doing in here to yourself? >> nothing. >> you said you punched yourself. >> i hit myself one time. >> what's the purpose? >> i think a lot of the offenders have a lot of anger here because they have went through a lot of things at home, so when i read their charts, a lot of it makes sense on the why, why they're here, because it's been done to them. they've been cursed at and yelled at their whole life. juveniles, they come with a lot of baggage. >> no one knows about a lifetime of baggage more than 18-year-old pendleton inmate michael jones. >> i'm an ex-white supremacist. that's why i'm in this un

here is randall meeks showing off to seth meyers. >> you toggle through the menu like this. you have to activate it like this. that's pretty cool. it's great because no one knows you are doing it. >> so there you go. >> that was good. >> that's just great. a lot of rich material for snl this week. >> and no one knows you are doing it. >> my neck is a little sore just watching it. >> thanks a lot, scott. we need a little fun on this monday morning. rainy days and mondays, isn't that the song? >> always get me down. >> but you are going to get us up. >> somebody has got to. >> somebody has got to. good morning to you. as you get your day started, you want to give yourself a little extra time for showers. that's right. i did not say that incorrectly. we have showers this morning. after hitting those highs in the triple digits this week, quite another pattern. in fact, we are going to see cloud cover just about every single day. mostly cloudy skies and a few showers each and every day through wednesday. today, the best chance for that. you saw from the live picture of san jose,

here is nbc's randall meeks showing them off to seth meyers. >> you just tog the through the menu like this and you have to activate it just a little like this. >> that's pretty cool. >> it's great, because no one knows you are doing it. >> later, they decide they want italian food but he says outside, italian but that changes the google glass's language to italian. hilarity ensues. it is on hulu. you can check it out for yourself. >>> poking fun of google but great publicity for the company. 6:07. are you okay? >> 6:17. christina loren is back to tell us about raindrops coming our way. >> raindrops coming our way, snow in the sierra nevada. it is the sixth day of may. i only know that because cinco de mayo was yesterday. 6:18. take you outside and show you what we are working with. doppler radar tells the story. look at the spine of the sierra nevada surrounding lake tahoe. snow showers and our snow levels are very high. as you can imagine, temps in the bay area are in the 60s. very unusual to see that. that's exactly what we are working with this morning. we have light isolated activ