to my left it deputy city attorney robert brian heel provide the board that legal advice and the boards legal assistant. we're joined by representatives of the boards administrator and also representing the planning department and planning commission. we have the building inspector as well. will you go over the guidelines >> the boardtest. >> good afternoon and welcome to the november 13, 2013, meeting of the board of appeals. the president is chris wong and joined by the vice president. and commissioners. to my left it deputy city attorney robert brian heel provide the board that legal advice and the boards legal assistant. we're joined by representatives of the boards administrator and also representing the planning department and planning commission. we have the building inspector as well. will you go over the guidelines >> the board requests that you turn off outline electronic devices. the boards rules appellants and department representatives have 7 minute for cases and 3 anybody's for rublt. members not foifltd with the parties have up to 3 minutes to address the board approves o

to my left it deputy city attorney robert brian heel provide the board that legal advice and the boards legal assistant. we're joined by representatives of the boards administrator and also representing the planning department and planning commission. we have the building inspector as well. will you go over the guidelines >> the board requests that you turn off outline electronic devices. the boards rules appellants and department representatives have 7 minute for cases and 3 anybody's for rublt. members not foifltd with the parties have up to 3 minutes to address the board approves or disapproves members of the public are asked but not required to submit a business a card when you come up to the podium. the board welcomes our comments and there are survey forms on the left side of the pompous if you have questions please speak to the board staff or call the board office it's located at the 16750 mission street. this meeting is abbreviate live over o on cable channel 78 and dvds are available for purchase. thank you for your attention. at this time we'll conduct the swearing in. if you

. >> the deputy city attorney robert brian and will provide the board with any needed legal advice and at the controls it the legal assistant victor and we are joined with the department who have the cases before the board tonight and scott sanchez and they are both representing the planning department and commission. joseph duffy is here representing the department of building inspection and actually he is not here at the moment but i believe that he will be here sthoertly and carly short is here, and the urban forester representing the department of public works and john, the manager of the public of works, and the street and the mapping and he is not already in the room i believe that he is joined and jarvis is here representing the san francisco transportation agency and division of taxis and if you could go over the board's meeting guidelines and conduct in the swearing in process. >> the board requests that you turn off all of your phones and pagers so that they will not disturb the proceedings and carry on the conversations in the hallway, the rules of presentation are as follow

. >> the deputy city attorney robert brian and will provide the board with any needed legal advice and at the controls it the legal assistant victor and we are joined with the depa

to my left it deputy city attorney robert brian heel provide the board that legal advice and the boards legal assistant. we're joined by representatives of the boards administrator and also representing the planning department and planning commission

. >> and to my left is deputy city attorney, robert brian and he will provide the board with legal advice tonight and at the controls is the board legal assistant. the board's executive director, and we are joined tonight by representatives from the departments that have matters before the board. and corey tea ge is here and the acting administrator and the planning department and planning commission. and here, senior building inspector, representing the department of building inspection, and john hwang here, with the street use and mapping and will be joined by arez, building inspector. >> if you could please go over the meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. >> turn off all phones and pagers so that they will not disturb the proceedings and carry on conversations in the hallway, the rules of presentation representatives each has 7 minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttal. the people affiliated with these parties must include their comments in the seven or three minute periods, members not affiliated with the parties have up to three minutes but no r

opened up and heard and forensically identified that it was the prints and the voice not of brian kelly but of robert hanss hanssen. why did the fbi or the system leave brian out in the cold from november 15th until hanssen's arrest? actually, brian didn't find out anything until it was on the news the day after presidents' day in 2000. why was he left out in the cold like that. i could sit here and ask another hundred questions but we can do that another time. that's my questions. and thank you too. i did want to say one other thing, mr. rochford. thank you for stating publicly in this forum that the fbi was wrong. >> yeah. >> i appreciate that. my family appreciates that also. thank you. >> it's been a long time coming, you know, for the public acknowledgment of the bureau that we were wrong. and what drove us was his placement and access. there's nothing that brian did in any aspect of the investigation that made us feel that, you know, he had passed anything to the russians. we were looking -- we based the case on compromised operations and compromised agents, and he had the closest, freshest acc

faith and tim on date night country with luke brian and wife, caroline. >>> inside, robin roberts rockingy black jumpsuit, getting a standing o. >>> it is a privilege to present the biggest honor on country music's biggest night. >> host brad paisley and carrie underwood ripping miley >> i want to thank you from a grateful industry for never once humping a teddy bear or gyrating with you beetlejuice. >> and spoofing "blurred lines" with the "duck dynasty" clan. ♪ jennifer nettles stepping in for dolly parton on "islands in the stream." ♪ >> as kenny rogers gets his own star-studded tribute. >> like a boomerang, you could throw me ay, you can bet i'm coming back. >> all the stars, exclusive images from the cmas up on our instagram page at extra tv. coming up, our top five fashion countdown. >>> well she comes from loyal wood royalty but she is building her own legacy with her ever-expanding family. please welcome torspelling. [ applause ] this mother of four under fire for her new hot-button tell all "spelling it like it is." >> i feel like lately, a lot of one-liners being told. a lot of

fbi agent robert levinson has been held hostage longer than any other american and his family is hoping tonight that the recent thaw in u.s. relations will bring him home soon. here's abc's brianoss. >> please help me get home. >> reporter: as of today, no american has been held hostage longer than former fbi agent robert levinson. for him it is day 2,455 since he disappeared in iran. the once clean cut 65-year-old floor man last seen alive in this video releases two years ago in a prison suit with a long beard and wild gray hair. >> 33 years of service to the united states deserves something. >> reporter: there were signs of some progress today with an unusually delicate statement form the white house, "respectfully" asking, not demanding, that iran help secure levinson's safe return. >> it's a code word in islamic republic circles. it's a country that tends to be particularly sensitive about how it is approached and how you ask questions of it. >> reporter: levinson was reported missing during a trip he took in 2007 to iran's kish island as a private investigator after he had retired from the fbi. iran has denied holding him, but investigators don't believe that. levinson's

read on "the daily beast," sally cohn, political writer brian boiler, former white house press secretary and founding partners of insight agency robert gibbs and syndicated columnist for "the washington post" kathleen parker. joining us from seattle washington, washington state insurance commissioner. mike, before i get to you, i want to get our folks in new york on the record here. robert, specifically, 80% isn't good enough? >> in baseball you'd be in the hall of fame twice. >> also baseball with like 50%. >> you would. i think it's a measure of improvement, a measure of how far they have had to come in order to get 80% to be a success rate. not many 10 years old, mine included, would think 80% -- >> is that a c or a b? >> there's all sorts of grading systems these days. i think, as we've talked about before, the end of the month is crucial, not as just some arbitrary day on the calendar, begins a two-week period of time from december 1st to december 15th in which people if they don't want a gap in coverage, have changing coverage or want it january 1st have to be enrolled. it's not an arbitrary date, it's a real important mileston

robert kennedy would be. 722. areas of new york might be 86. you might be reading this and every third word is a number. >> of course, brian has a day job. >> thehe end of this month. they put it on themselves. >> he was driving on long island we he saw a man painting a line on the road, and asked what he was doing. >> this is to commemorate when washington came in 1790 to thank his spies. i said, excuse me? what spies. that was 1989. i'd been studying this on and off since then. the more i read, the more i understand that these people, their story had to be told. >> amazing, this is rose tavern. >> brian says he would love to see the story of these unsung american heroes made into a movie. anything to give them the credit they deserve. >> today, to see robert townsend's grave in the back of a barn, unkept and untouched bothers me. if i can help in that way, by shedding some light and maybe putting him in classrooms around the country, i think i've done my job, and the rest of the ring as well. >> as part of his research, brian went to cia headquarters in virginia. where he learned they teach new recruits how the culper spy ring carried out its

robert franks has the new migration pattern of americas's elusive billionaires. welcome to "street signs." brian is off, fulfilling his civic duty, he is doing jury duty. but have no fear, folks, we have dominic chu here. we also have john fortt. we need a nickname for you maybe by the end of the show. >> together we'll be mandy's angels. >> i like that. >> i like being that. >> herb will join in as well. >> outstanding. >> riding shotgun. thank you very much. mild losses in the markets after the dow closed at another record high yesterday. it was its 35th record close of the year, but let's get down to bob pisani at the nyse. we've had a lot of fed talkers today, i'm just wondering whether or not it's really moved the needle here or because there are doves on one side and hawks on the other and all speaks out there, are they canceling each other out? >> not quite. the market is feel pressure on the interest rate sensitive side because the overall stock market has become hyper sensitive to talk about higher interest rates. the dow jones industrial average down today, dennis lockhart from the atl

now brian has a new book out george washington the secret six thespiring that saved the americans. he rephrases the steps of two. this is where robertas a merchant and a spy. and it is where he linked up with agent 355. we don't know her name but she penetrated the social circles and together they provided washington with invaluable intelligence. but they were not alone. >> people who know you like i do, they were like my gosh, brian wrote a book about spies. >> i love hi thistory. i could not believe he walked these streets and these spies were print shop owners and did extraordinary things and did not want any credit or fame. i wanted to go look, it didn't happen like that. but the more i dug the more interested i got and the deeper a got. i thought i got to put this on paper. it was an amazing book. you don't know her name today but here is the thing it is a cliff hanger because you might find out before the paper back. washington was 711. the bartender was 725. 721 was woodhoff, now women were in the 700s. gentlemen were in the 300s. we believe she was an upper middle class woman who had penetrated the social scheme. we know tha

robert levinson has been held hostage in iran longer than any other american. with more from this puzzling case, here's our chief investigative correspondent brian ross. >> pleasean former fbi agent robert levinson. the once clean cut, 65-year-old florida man last seen alive in this video released two years ago appearing dishevelled in a gray prison suit. >> 33 years of service to the united states deserves something. >> reporter: there were signs of some progress with an unusually delicate statement from the white house respectfully asking, not demanding, that iran help secure levinson's safe return. >> it's the code word as a country that tends to be sensitive of how it is approached and how you ask questions of it. >> reporter: levinson was reported missing during a trip he took in 2007 to the kish island as a private investigator after he retired from the fbi. iran has denied holding him, but u.s. investigators don't believe that. the levinson family hopes the seeming thaw in u.s.-iranian relations could lead to his release. although u.s. officials say his case was not part of the recent talks in geneva. >> we have raised, repeatedly raised his case. >> rep

robert frank. >>> time to take on the headlines to wrap up the week in a light-heart week. let's bring in pop culture commentator brianrst up, phones on planes. the fcc considering lifting the ban on passenger cell phone use. brian, this makes me want to poke my eyes out with a spork. >> aren't flights torture enough? already the phone usage is annoying anyway, because at the end of flight 50 people get up and say, we landed. we're on the tarmac. this makes me crazy. >> all i know is i hear so much about everyone's lives. just when you're boarding the plane, you're stuck going down the gateway and hear everyone rushing to have these conversations before they get on the plane hes. absolutely not. i need silence on those airplanes. >> by the way, statistically, 97% of all have no reason to complain about coach seating. >> right. >> all right, big guy over there. >> you know, what we should buy stock of? noise-cancels headphones. next up, worst toys ever. a group identifying toys expose children to advertising by brig brands, such as monopoly. >> well, i kind of think the old monopoly is cure for insomnia. they have to k

. >> brian says he would love to see the story of these unsung american heroes made into a movie. anything to give them the credit they deserve. >> today to see robert's grave at the back of a barn unkept and untouched bothers me. if i could help in that way and maybe put him in classrooms around the country, i think i have done my job and the rest of the ring as well. >> as part of his research, brian went to cia headquarters in virginia where they teach new recruits on how the spy ring carried out its operations. >>> be sure to watch next sunday when liz cheney joins us. plus 50 years after the assassination of john f. kennedy, i will speak with kathleen kennedy and patrick kennedy about their uncle's legacy. that's it for today. have a great week. we will see you next fox news sunday. >> fox news sunday is a presentation of fox news. >> help is on the way from the united states military, people suffering half way around the world from us after one of the planets strongest storms, a super typhoon hit their nation. a super typhoon is a storm that has winds above 150 miles an hour. it is equal to a category four or five hurricane. the philippines, g

brian, the year is not over yet. are we going to be headed higher into 2014? joining us now from permanent port flol family of funds, michael and robertrom ban yon partners. great to have you with us. michael, you sent over notes and said, in response to the question of will we end the year higher than where we are now, you said 50/50. that's not good enough. i'm sorry. 50/50 is not good enough. you have to give us a better answer than that. put yourself out there. >> mandy, as you know, we're known for diversification and balancing risks. i guess what would you expect, right? i think you have to take a look at where we are. the market, you know, the run in stock prices has outpaced the growth in corporate earnings this year and so that's a potential negative. yet, you do have the federal reserve involved and apparently not going anywhere any time soon. we think the noise last week was the market overreacting to comments. as long as you have the dual mandate of lowering employment and no near term inflation risk the fed will be around for a while. those two arguments kind of go against each other. you do have tax selling, people locki

brian. >> i got to tell you what happened last night on thursday night football. it was a tight game, good game. redskins and vikings. let's fast forward to the third and there we see roberthit, stopping a touchdown. hurting his shoulder. then you'll see the vikings battle back. peterson takes it 234 from one yard away. the vikings would lead 34-27. washington's final chance, fourth and goal. rg 3, guess what? the vikings win and somewhere gretchen is smiling. >>> college football, a great game. oregon, stanford. they really have to study hard just to stay in school. they also play really good football. hogan fakes a handoff, takes it himself up the middle. touchdown. cardinals ahead 14-0. stanford up 26-0 before the ducks got on the board. what happened to that high powder offense? williamson field goal attempt blocked. returned 65 yards.s the upset 2. >>> a different note. in my book, george washington's secret six, i focused on a secret spy ring that gets credit for saving the country's american revolution and start the country. this morning i want to tell you about the most important spy of them all and where he lived. you're looking at the home of robert townsend, kn