to my left is deputy city attorney robert brian, at the controls tt board assistant, victor pacheco. we're also joined this evening by representatives of the city department that is have cases before the board, scott sanchez is here, he's the zoning administrator also representing the planning department and planning commission, also joined by planning staffer tim fry and joseph duffy is here, senior building inspector, who is representing the department of building inspection. at this time, mr. pacheco, if you could go over the board guidelines. >> the board requests all cell phones and pagers be turned off so they will not disturb the proceedings. please carry on conversations in the hallway. the board's rules of presentation are as follows: appellants each has 7 minutes to present their cases and 3 minutes for rebuttals. people included in these parties must include their comments within the 7 or 3 minute periods. members of the public who are not affiliated with the parties have up to 3 minutes to address the board but no rebuttals. to assure the board with accurate minutes, memb

four votes are not required to overrule a departmental action to my left is deputy city attorney robert brian. at the controls is board legal assistant mr. pacheco. we're joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before the board tonight. dan snyder, representing the planning department and planning commission. patrick o'reardon, senior building inspector, we have aliana crusho and janine young from the department of health and mr. harris from the police department. if you could go over the board meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. >> turn off all phones and pagers. please carry on conversations in the hallway. the board's rules of presentations are as follows. appellants, permit holders each have seven minutes to represent their cases and three minutes for rebuttals. people affiliated with these parties must include their comments within the seven or three minute periods. members of the public not affiliated with the parties have up to three minutes to address the board but no rebuttals. to assist in the accurate preparation of the minutes, peopl

two americans -- and this year's nobel prize for chemistry has been won by two americans, robert lefkowitz and brian kobilka. it is hoped that their work could ultimately produce medicines that have fewer side effects. now to twist in the case of the punk group. one member of pussy riot walked free today, but two of her colleagues are heading to a penal colony. they performed a song in the cathedral, mocking vladimir putin. >> she was free, but she didn't get far. yekaterina samutsevich was mobbed by supporters and journalists. but she was soon in the arms of her father. , but i feel bad for the others who did not get out. >> in court, some would say that the two-year -- in court, her setnece -- her sentence was commuted. the other two will be sent to a prison colony. she says, open will we have been jailed for our political beliefs -- she says, "we have been jailed for our political beliefs. ieven if we are sent to siberia, we will not stay silent." then again, they never have. it is this stunned which put three of them behind bars. they besieged the virgin mary to rid russia of vladimir putin. in

you know, generally speaking both reid hastings and brian roberts and others in the cable industry have said that they really don't view netflix as being competitive per se, um w the cable distribution model. they view it as being complimentary. and the reason for that is that almost all of the netflix content is library content. it's content that you might have watched at one point through your cable or satellite subscription but that you can't watch today through your cable or satellite subscription. so if you are, um, a, if you are a, um, let's pick a, let's pick a program. um, if you're a "law and order" fan, special victims unit fan, you've got lots of "law and order" library content on netflix, but if you want to watch the current season, you've got to watch it on your, on your tv, um, when it comes live starting this wednesday, or you have to watch it on demand where we'll have the last four or five shows, and we'll have it available on demand. you're not going to be able to watch that on netflix. so in a way i do think it's, i do think they've complimentary because if people lik

brian? >> robert bazell, bellevue hospital, speaking of new york city, new york city has now been cleaved into two cities, one half of it without power, the other half going on as if there is no crisis. nbc's ann thompson has the tale of two new yorks tonight, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian, i'm up at the rare bar and grill where there is power. and behind me you can see the bright lights of the island of manhattan and the famous skyline, but if you look over here you will see that more than a quarter million people are in total darkness for the third straight night. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: in new york, have's and have not's are divided with power, those that have strips to share, and those that don't. there is the buzz of living in the dark, and with little mass transit. >> with five buses to get to downtown brooklyn, walked across the brooklyn bridge, i work there, i just wanted to see what was going on. i had no idea what had happened t was going >> this station had water filled half at the moment, but with more. >> reporter: with subways still under water, some took to two whe

[applause] if brian roberts is in the room, thank you for writing that print. it is wonderful for getting us to where we are today. thank you very much. -- thank you for writing that grant. [applause] >> it is true, there are a lot of wonderful things about san francisco. there is all of us. there is all that marvelous food. and we have terrific leadership. it is important that we have good leadership in the departments, the mayor's office, and in our budget office. but, likewise, really important that we have great leadership in our board of supervisors. david chiu is the president of our board, and he knows the issue of technology, plus many other things, a very, very intimately. he probably knows more than any of us will ever -- are ever likely to know. we might wish to know it, but we probably will not because he comes from the technology world. he was the founder and chief operating officer of grassroots enterprise, and online communications company. he is also a member of the city's committee on information. and he is -- which sets policies within the cit

will sentence the first person in the hazing deaths of florida a&m university band member robert champion. brianpleaded no contest to felony hazing charges, faces five years in prison. jones was going trial but changed his plea after a meeting last week with the judge and stated's attorney. the 23-year-old was a per suggestioni i percussionist in the band. he held champion in a bear hug. the judge commended jones' decision to change his plea. again, the 26-year-old robert champion died last november after being beaten to death by a dozen band members. the other band members pleaded not guilty. they will go on trial next year. >>> michael lohan says he tried to stage an intervention for lindsay lohan, it just didn't work. he told "entertainment tonight" that lindsay's lawyers and staff were on board to try and get her help for substance abuse. >> lindsay's teams waiting to come by the house. before we could do anything, she took off and went to another hotel. everyone was on board from sean chapman holly to evan haney, david feldman, they were waiting. even larry thompson, the producer. all these

brian roberts, home run. he wound up hitting his third home run. here is good news for the orioles. they don't see him in the playoffs, but the challenge doesn't change much sense texas led the majors in runs scored this season, finishing fourth in home runs. after the tumble against saddam but, it comes down to this. ballpark in arlington, first pitch scheduled for tomorrow night at 8:37. the winner faces the yankees, the losers go home. they have faced texas seven times as texas won five of those games. you can use all the numbers you want. in a one-game series, it is a matter of who gets caught on that night. more from the ballpark in arlington coming up at 6:00. they obviously have a lot on the line, but so do a lot of businesses in baltimore. fair to say not the only manager for the orioles. >> we are all rooting for the orioles and hoping that they win in texas. camden yard here will be back here with the orioles fans both sunday and monday night. a lot of businesses and sitting in limbo at this point, especially hotels and folks that supply the beer. baltimore in limbo hoping

back to you, brian. >> robert, thank you very much.ooks like the storm may be putting a little damper on those sales. but money never sleeps or gets wet. >>> nearly 20 years later, a storm cocktail including hurricane sandy could rival or even surpass the perfect storm of 1991. we're going to take a look at what kind of damage the storm could cause here on the east coast. ally bank. why they have a raise your rate cd. tonight our guest, thomas sargent. nobel laureate in economics, and one of the most cited economists in the world. professor sargent, can you tell me what cd rates will be in two years? no. if he can't, no one can. that's why ally has a raise your rate cd. ally bank. your money needs an ally. ♪ chances are, you're not made of money, so don't overpay for motorcycle insurance. geico, see how much you could save. welcome to the world leader in derivatives. welcome to superderivatives. >>> we're following hurricane sandy for you at this hour. the powerful storm is heading north where it could meet up with some more nasty weat

brian kabilka answered the call in his palo alto home and told that he and robert lefkowitz had won the nobel prize for chemistry. >> i had trouble saying anything. probably more towards crying really hard to believe. >> reporter: dr. kabilka had been studying proteins more than a decade starting at duke then stanford because he was curious. he and his wife had a sense his discovery was a big deal his wife realized it when he first announced it at a conference. >> said i still didn't think it was going to work, but here it is and everyone in the auditorium, sat up. i guess that gives me an idea too it was a big thing. after that conference everyone was surrounding him, everyone wanted to know about. >> reporter: his research explained the body's communication system. his discoveries involving g-protein-coupled receptors could change how we treat disease in the future. >> my hope is that we will be able to use these structures to develop more safer more selective drugs more economically. >> reporter: there were obstacles. the doctor said he lost funding source as long the way because the

the president's top advisor, robert gibbs, here to respond. >> brian: the economy also taking centerident obama, you know what you're going to get, you're going to get a repeat of the last four years. we can't afford four more years like the last four years. >> brian: we'll get reaction from the romney camp as well. >> steve: you just heard president obama scored better with female voters. frank luntz back this hour with more insight from independent voters. "fox & friends" hour two for wednesday starts right now. >> think about the governor said, he said when i took office, price of gas was 1.86. why is that? because the economy was on the verge of collapse. because we were about to go through the worst recession since the great depression. as a consequence of some of the same policies that governor romney is now promoting. >> why am i lowering taxes on the middle class, because under last four years they've been buried and i want to help people in the middle class and i will not, i will not under any circumstances reduce the share that's being paid by the highest income tax payers

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robert lefkowitz of duke university and brian kobilka of stanford are being honored for discovering theinner workings of receptors that allow cells to respond to chemical messages.. such as adrenaline rush. the nobel prize committee says about half of all medications act through these receptors. their research is helping to develop better drugs to fight diseases like diabetes, cancer and depression. >>next the undercover investigation into the mistreatment of dairy cows in the midwest and the major company selling their products. we're live on the story. and later in lunchbreak: a preview of this weekend's oyster fest. how to properly shuck an oyster with the chef from shaw's crab house! that was me... the day i learned i had to start insulin for my type 2 diabetes. me... thinking my only option was the vial and syringe dad used. and me... discovering once-daily levemir® flexpen®. flexpen® is prefilled. doesn't need refrigeration for up to 42 days. no drawing from a vial. dial the exact dose. inject by pushing a button. flexpen® is insulin delivery... my way. levemir® (insulin detemir [

innings giants play again this afternoon, 1:00 our time. >> number five, brian kabilka from stanford school of medicine and robert lefkowitz of duke university have won the 2012 nobel prize in chemistry. >>> sue has been telling us find an alternate, there's a big back-up on the bay bridge she will tell you the details coming up. >>> what about escaping the lightning or sprinkles, mike? >>> lightning just about over. we still have sprinkles, mainly higher elevations around the santa cruz mountains as the mountains are naturally lifting the air as it rotates from the valleys to the southeast into the mountains they pull off to the coast right now around camden avenue from around the park towards los gatos and campbell forwards saratoga on 85 prospect road where we are seeing a little bit of sprinkles now on 17 also out of the santa cruz mountains and dive into the santa clara valley. all rolling northwest, looks like we'll continue to have shower chances through 8:00. then they will dissipate and return this afternoon especially near the coast the san mateo county coast and also the south bay partly sunny inland.

robert lefkowitz from howard hughes institute and brian kobilka won the prize. they have independently studied how human body cells can sense their environment and discovered that a family of proteins later named g-protein coupled receptors, send signals to the cells. >>> turkey's military commanders are wrapping up their reinforcements along the border with syria. they've sent at least 25 more fighter jets to the area. the build-up of troops and weapons is adding to fears that the fighting in syria could escalate into a regional conflict. turkish forces have fired artillery into syria for six straight days now. they're responding to mortars that have come from the syrian side. the tension at the border began when a mortar fired from inside syria hit a turkish town. five civilians died. turkish military commanders say they've deployed 25 f-16 fighter jets to a base near the border. the military's also reinforcing its troops and moving gun batteries to the area. turkish officials say syria's military and rebel forces are engaged in a fierce battle near the border

. >> reporter: professor brian kobilka shared the nobel prize with robert. professor koa bill coo is a chair molecular and physiology. >>> the traffic actually is pretty good so far this morning. driving around the bay. this is a look at 80 westbound as you head out to the mccarthur maze. no major problems if you are looking at 580 coming up to the bridge as well. it's also a nice looking drive. if you want to get on the road early and take a lot of the uncertainty out of your commute, it looks good get into the city. also the morning commute here at the toll plaza looks good. no major problems as you drive into the city. now if you are driving on the nimitz freeway heading south that's also a good time to go. let's go to steve. >>> thank you, sal. with a little bit of show from mother nature here also up toward lake county. you are seeing cloud to cloud lightning. not something that happens very often here. there has been pretty good rain. thundershower activity along the san mateo coast. and also coming up from monterey. 40s and 50s. we also have fog being

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. >>> robert lefkowitz and brian kobilka won the nobel prize in chemistry.arted their research back in 1968. >>> head of a large resort company tells his 7,000 employees their jobs are at risk if president obama is reelected. westgate resort david siegel sent a message in the e-mail which does not mention mitt romney. he said if he or his company has to pay any new taxes, he will have to cut jobs and benefits at his company. >>> north carolina man says he is blessed to be alive, following this hit and run accident. it happened while sean lewis was on his way to work and while he doesn't remember being hit, he does remember what happened next. >> i remember waking up. i was bleeding. my hand was all messed up. my leg was messed up. could have helped me out some way. didn't have to leave. i know god had my back. that's all i know. god was looking out for me. >> well, somebody was. lewis, who amazingly walked away, is now temporarily out of work. no arrests have been made in the case. >>> we know her as a political wife and mom. today, ann range of motiomney c

could talk about any number of these, um, you know, generally speaking both reed hastings and brian roberts and others in the cable industry have said that they really don't view netflix as being competitive per se, um, with the cable distribution model. they view it as being complimentary. um, and the reason for that is that almost all of the netflix content is library content. it's content that you might have watched at one point through your cable or satellite subscription but that you can't watch today through your cable or satellite subscription. so if you are, um, a, if you are a, um, let's pick a, let's pick a program, um, the be you're a "law and order" fan, special victims unit fan, you've got lots of "law and order: special victims unit" library content on netflix, but if you want to watch the current season of "law and order: special victims unit," you've got to watch it on your tv when it comes live starting this wednesday, or you have to watch it on demand where we'll have the last four or five shows, um, and we'll have it available on demand. you're not going to be able to wat

this morning robert lefkowitz and brian kabilka won for discovering a family of receptors that alloweir surroundings. now for a look at what's trending today, a quick roundup of what has you talking online. tycoons and dreamers are checking out this year's neiman marcus christmas catalog including $1 million his and her watches and a $100,000 hen house inspired by the palace at versaille or maybe you prefer the $150,000 tailgate trailer that comes with a year's supply of bourbon and rye. >>> well, new pictures of sarah palin on a shopping trip reveal her startling weight loss. the former politician and mother of five tells "people" that her family is writing a book on discipline, self-discipline and where they get energy while still enjoying comfort food and jimmy fallon spoofed mister roger's neighborhood as the campaign talks about cutting pbs funding. >> hello, neighbor. you see this. called a wallet. inside of a wallet, well, that's where money goes. now, do you know what money is? i'm guessing no because you're watching public television. >> fallon also got a advice friday mr. o

robert leftkowitz of stanford university and brian kuboka will win the top prize. they focused on receptors. >>> police say two 26-year-olds arrived from egypt last night and are facing charges on terror in libya. we expect to learn more today from london. >>> and questions into how a massachusetts man was able to go through airport security with a smoke grenade in his luggage. he was on his way from japan to boston. police arrested him on a connection flight at los angeles airport on friday. federal agents say the 28-year-old man was wearing a bullet-proof vest and flame retardant pants. they say he had the smoke grenade and other weapons in his luggage. they are not under the impression he was a terrorist. he made his first court appearance yesterday. a detention hearing is set for friday. >>> now at 6:17, the man believed to be behind the anti-muslim film that sparked riots across the middle east is due in court today. a federal judge will decide if mark basseley youssef will be sent back to prison for violating probation. he was caught lying to probation office

robert lefkowitz. i'm. >> reporter: the phone call comes at 2:20 this morning. dr. brianilka answered the call and was told that he and robert had won the nobel prize for chemistry. >> i think i had trouble saying anything to begin. probably more towards crying. it was just really hard to believe. >> he had been studying proteins for more than a decade starting at duke university and then at stanford. simply because he was curious. he and his wife had a sense that his discovery was a big deal but his wife really realized it when first announced it at a conference yes. >> said i still didn't think it was going to work but here it is and everyone in the auditorium kind of sat up. that gave me an idea it was a big thing. and after that conference and everyone was surrounding him, everyone wanted to know about it. >> reporter: his research has explained the body's communication system and his discoveries involving the body's g-protein coupled receptors could change how we treat disease in the future. >> my hope is is that we will eventually be able to use these is structures

. >> brian: what has the last couple of years been like for you? >> i've been everywhere and i just shot a movie with robertand i've been touring the united states and i love it. >> brian: you're not really doing much. you're just hanging out? [ laughter ] is it fun? >> very fun. i love it. >> steve: how do you go to school? >> i do on-line school. >> steve: how does that work? >> well, they send you these books and you can do the lessons on-line, but you have the books with you just to have them with you and break down notes. >> steve: so you can go to school wherever you are? >> uh-huh. >> gretchen: does your mom travel with you? >> yes. my mom does. >> gretchen: you have sibling at home. i remember the last time you were here, you had a sign that your little brother had made for you saying how much he missed you. >> yeah. >> gretchen: is it hard? >> no. i mean, i miss them, of course, but i mean, i know i'm going to see them again. >> brian: right. obviously and performing in front of people, how do you get over the nerves part? you're only 12. >> once i get on stage, i am really, really just excited and

roberts said long island. 'cause he said it the canadian way, which was long island. >> brian: we'll see.ou what happened last night because you might not have seen history being made. talk about a shock to the chargers. they blew a 24-0 half time lead against denver. peyton manning says, i feel like i'm 21 again and starting to like these new uniforms. he led the broncos it a 35-24 comeback victory. tied for the fourth biggest regular season comeback in the history of the league and the biggest in monday night football history! somewhere howard co- sell is complaining. baseball, the giants crushing the cardinals in game two of the nlcs. final score 7-1. they tied the series up at one game apiece. the cards did what they had to. split on the road. the first win at home for the san francisco team. the bad news for the giants, they lost one of their players, leaving the game with a hip injury. game 3 is tomorrow. meanwhile, steve doocy, sitting with some star power. steve, take it away. >> steve: american school situation no laughing matter until two teachers are literally forced to fight t

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brian kabilka answered the call in his palo alto home and told that he and robert lefkowitz had won the nobel prize for chemistry. >> i had trouble saying anything. probably more towards crying really hard to believe. >> reporter: dr. kabilka had been studying proteins more than a decade starting at duke then stanfd beuse he was rious. he and h wife had a sense his discove was a big deal his wife realized it when he first announced it at a conference. >> said i still didn't think it was going to work, but here it is and everyone in the auditorium, sat up. i guess that gives me an idea too it was a big thing. after that conference everyone was surrounding him, everyone wanted to know about. >> reporter: his research explained the body's communication system. his discoveries involving g-protein-coupled receptors could change how we treat disease in the future. >> my hope is that we will be able to use these structures to develop more safer more selective drugs more economically. >> reporter: there were obstacles. the doctor saihe lost funding source as long the way because the project was

america george mcgovern stood in the tradition of henry david author row of william brian and more recently of robertng. when the wounded veteran in vietnam needed a voice he was there. when the hungry child in american poverty needed a choice, he was there. when women, minorities and young people sought to breakdown the barriers of a closed political system, his voice was there. when sinister voices corrupted the political system and haunted the corridors of power in washington, he was there to warn us. voices of conscience make us uncomfortable. our political system forces them to the march. those made uncomfortable by george mcgovern's voice of conscious dismissed him as a liberal in an age which rids libber lism. he was larger than any liberal particularly a non-niesed one. liberals did not get elected and re-elected in conservative states which they did not take on unpopular causes particularly in recent years and most of all liberals did not fly dangerous missions in defense of our nation. this made his many critics who avoided military service especially uncomfortable. somewhere in some small

robert, is there any plan in the next couple of hours, days, to secure this crane? >> there is, brian you and it is more days than hours. this is a very complicated rescue mission to get this crane secure. mayor bloomberg talked earlier about the need to get the winds down below 35 miles an hour before they can even send inspectors up to that crane. once they get there they are going to try to tie the crane to the support system and then figure out whether they need another crane to rescue this crane or whether they can take it apart piece by piece. either way, it's going to be days, perhaps over a week, before they can really at least secure it and maybe even start to take it apart piece by piece. meantime, this entire two-block area has been evacuated. now, the crowds and the traffic jams are really back in midtown, except for that two-block area underneath the crepe where, of course this 30-ton piece of steel is swinging above manhattan's tallest res depps skyscraper, still a very dangerous situation even though life is beginning to return to normal here in midtown. brian? nch>> >>

. >> brian: it's robert gibbs.s, cutter, hackle rod, they're out there talking about something they would have been better served if they said we're going to keep pressing mitt romney on the pack he won't give us his tax plans. i understand why you're asking me about this, but in order to protect the integrity and the investigation, i have to refer balk to official government people so they could answer it. that would have been a much better way to handle it and get the campaign out of it. instead, president obama, by his own statements and by not telling the american people the evolving information of whether he didn't get it, however, they have made this problem for themselves. >> steve: it will be interesting to see whether or not any of the people in the town hall tomorrow night in long eye -- >> i was thinking about that. i think president obama should want a question about it because -- >> steve: he's got a lot of explaining to do. >> gretchen: the questions with prescreened. thanks. >> steve: straight ahead

professor brian kobilka shares the prize with duke university professor robert lefkowitz for their work on g protein coupled molecular. >> from neuropsychiatric disorders to metabolic disorders like diabetes cardiovascular disease. almost any disease you can think of. even cancer. >> reporter: professor kobilka said he missed the first phonecall at 2:20 this morning and thought it was the wrong number. fortunately they called back. they will split the $1.2 million prize. now stanford is holding a press conference later this morning at 10:00 a.m.. and that will be on the campus of the school of medicine. reporting live in palo alto matt keller. >>> all right we are continuing to follow that developing news on the bay bridge unfortunately it looks like a mess. let's check in with sal. >> that is right. this crash that has been reported here was reported just after or just before 6:00 here westbound bay bridge on the incline section still has at least one lane closed here and traffic is squeezing by. now if you are trying to get to the bridge, this will mean a big backup at the toll plaza.

the winners are: robert lefkowitz, a professor at duke university's medical school. and brian kobilka, who worked with him at duke before moving to stanford university's medical school. lefkowitz spoke by phone to a stockholm news conference, and said he didn't realize at first that the nobel committee had called. >> i must share with you that i wear earplugs to sleep, and so my wife gave me an elbow, call for you, and there it was, a total shock and surprise. >> sreenivasan: lefkowitz said the call was legitimate because as he put it, "when five people with convincing swedish accents call you, then it isn't a joke.f a privately owned company notched a new first in space today. the space x cargo capsule named "dragon" docked at the international space station. it's the first of 12 such flights under a contract with nasa. astronauts on the station used a robotic arm to grab the unmanned capsule. "dragon" will stay docked for 18 days while the crew unloads almost 1,000 pounds of food, clothes and experimental gear. the capsule will then return to earth carrying medical samples a