the plant on southeast is on bay mud. we could easily have a failure at southeast.t was not designed for that type of thing. moving on to the next one, i want to talk about the land required for a new project. a lot of time was spent looking at sites in talking about property. the area needed for the digesters for the bio solid treatment is about 10 acres. the digesters themselves take up the footprint of about two acres. with the water and gas storage and capturing the gas to create screen power -- we can use the green power on site. we have a generation system at both sites. we want to optimize the power and have more green power that can be consumed at the plant. supervisor maxwell: is that is what we're calling resource recovery? we will recover and use them? >> we will look at the best and most cost-effective system abuses of the gas -- uses of the gas. in other places, it has been looked at for vehicle fuel or put back into the natural gas system for the city. we will look at all those things in terms of cost and life cycle. an additional 5 acres would be requ

and discussion on opportunities for the southeast community. i want to summarize these suggestions. 50% of the hiring from the zip codes. if the san francisco public utilities commission on behalf of the improvement program has a new project labor agreement, that commitment would have to include local hiring built into it. having necessary resources to support the community so that there is job readiness, internships, and opportunities, barrier removal, and other services that help the puc meet the local hiring requirements. continuation of the existing apprentice ship program and job readiness program. that is included in all the designs. they did the mitigation so that air quality and environmental impacts would not be an issue from the new bio solids facility. increasing environmental education to the students in the area and considerations of residents in94124 for mitigation because they've been so close to southeast, perhaps they could have solar panels. on june 22, 90% of the task force came to power commission. they were commended for al

activists like in the southeast of food access coalition and food guardians remind us that this is a survival issue. i want to repeat a couple of pieces of statistics. obesity in our nation is growing at a staggering rate. one in five people in the united states of america. about half of the population is overweight. for children in san francisco, african-american children, latino children, two or three times higher. it costs $900 million a year in health-care costs and lost productivity in our country and in the $42 billion that we spent. i also want to recognize some organizations that have discussed this and have educated some of us. i would like to think supervisor avalos, supervisor campos, and president chui for cosponsoring this. also hard-working staff at the department of public health. the corporate accountability group. the food guardians from the southeast food access working group, the california center for health advocacy, the american heart association, the richmond district neighborhood center, a the ethnic help network, and the president of the american public health

it's another day of wet weher for everyone in the southeast, especially arou atlanta. georgia, alabama, north florida, south carolina and north carolina, that's going to be the wettest area during the day today. there's showers widespread from richmond to philly, new york and eventually boston. you need the umbrella today. tomorrow, the southeast will clear out, but the rain will exist fromew york city up to boston and all of new england and the ohio valley is going to get significant rai later on tonight into tomorrow morning. >>> if u're watching us on whdh 7 news, good old boston, mass, get a viewof boston's city scape thrgh an antique card collection at greetings from boston from the boston public library. that's your "early today"vent of the day. >> bill, thanks. >>> now here's a look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. last night, the long awaited harry potter a the deathly hallows part one opened in new york city. to the joy of fans but with some inevitable sadness. there's only one more film after this one, but they were both shot together so cast mem

just like yesterday, areas down there in the southeast is where it's going to be the worst. eventually from philadelphia to d.c. and even new york city is going to get heavy rain. as far as today, right now, arkansas, little rock is getting heavy rain and thunderstorms down along the gulf, especially in florida that are on the stronger siefd. there's an isolated chance, a few tornados even as we go throughout the morning hours. as far as the rain goes, the roads are wet from new york city to hartford and in boston and providence, another hour or two and you'll have light rain heading your way. philadelphia and d.c., showers for you early today. it's not going to pour all day up and is down the east coast. the only areas that's going to see really heavy rain is down here in georgia from makin, savannah, columbia, south carolina, is going to get a lot of rain. here are the thunderstorms rolling from mobile to tallahassee. the middle of the country, you're just fine, no problem. montana has really bad weather, too. it's the east coast, if you're traveling today, give yourself s

the part of san francisco right now southeast san francisco is a part of san francisco with many low income and people of color only have two major hospitals while the richer side has many more. the master plan will ensure that the needy will get the services they deserve. thank you. i strongly encourage a vote in support of the master plan because health services need to benefit the entirety of san francisco instead of making the gap between the wealthy and the working class bigger. it's time we had a plan for san francisco. thank you. >> my name is sam. i'm a member of the chinese progressive association. i'm a high school student and i support the health care services master plan. [inaudible] the problem is that conversation tends to maximize -- [inaudible]. there are 10 hospitals in the northern side of san francisco, but only two hospitals in the southern side. there are more people living in southern san francisco. also, another unfortunate thing is that the area where i live in lacks clinics, let alone with chinese language support. in short, to spend more time and money for s

the attack happened near the garnet wilkinson elementary school in southeast. the teacher suffered a concussion, has had two surgeries for bleeding in her brain. >>> and it appears senator lisa murkowski has w her campaign as a write-in. the republican incumbent lost the primary to tea partyer joe miller but that did not stop her from winning as a write-in candidate. he said he will not challenge the outcome but will see this all the way through. >> d.c. residents will soon have more options when itomes to shopping. walmart has announced it will open three stores within the district in the next couple of years. the stores will be on new jersey avenue northwest, georgia avenue in northwest, and east capital and 58th streets in southeast. jackie bensen has more on what walma walmart's move to the district means for consumers and for job seekers. >> within two years a walmart store is expected to transform the intersection of georgia and missouri avenues in northwest d.c. those who live and work near this area of few retail options say it's good news. >> it's got

>> this particular pool of funding is for the southeast sector and specifically for that. we realize there are environmental justice issues throughout the city and in various neighborhoods. as part of the program, we look at disadvantaged communities throughout the city. this funding is restricted to bayview and the hill, but other projects do incorporate other neighborhood. for example, our environment now program, which is a continuation of the jobs now program, we operate throughout the city. we don't just focus on those two neighborhoods. supervisor mirkarimi: but were site specific programs on environmental justice -- this is the only one i know of that really has a very lasered kind of program detail that is defined by geography, is that correct? >> that is correct. supervisor mirkarimi: i really would like to make a bid for a suggestion, and that is that there be sort of an expanded consideration that environmental justice is not simply of what is well known, the degradation of the southeast sector and how it impacted the community, but there are other disadvantaged

10 hospitals in the northern part of san francisco, whereas there are only two hospitals in the southeast. these two hospitals are st. luke's hospital and s.f. general which both receive a plegget la of patients daily. this fact alone clearly demonstrates the need for a master plan. san francisco need to be thinking strategically to serve the needs of the people. so for the good of san francisco, we need to lift the veil and see that there are people out there in need. san francisco needs to be accountable to its residents. it's time that san francisco had a plan, a vision of a healthy san francisco that provides awful its residents and not just a select few. thank you. president chiu: thank you. natalie, lee, alex. emily. >> [speaking foreign language] >> hello, everybody. my name is michelle. i'm a member of c.p.a., a volunteer, and a i'm a resident of chinatown. i support the health care services master plan because this is very close to the personal interests of immigrant residents in chinatown. i'll leave myself as a personal example. i have had health problems since last year and it

the southeast, you have hospitals for your -- you have hospitals. we have needs because of the hills. no one wants to deal with primary care. it falls into the health department. i do not see the for-profit institutions that emphasize tertiary care saying our mission is to provide primary care throughout the city. women have babies. they do not always have access to good primary-care through the city of. people have asthma. they do not always have assistance through what the public provides. >> any further public comment on this item? if not, --, not if you would like to. >> thank you. i would like to thank you for your effort and also for the committee to express anything. i am proud to be able to coordinate about the importance of health care service. i always want to thank you for the committee members, because this is the day before the election. the union members want to work on that. they are also taking some time to actually alive someone accountable who actually makes this and the benefit to san franciscans. we would like to work everything

into southeast, just a few folks out and about.th capital street up to the douglas bridge, travel lanes open as well. up to the rails we go, metrorails, vre no delays, marc, brunswick 87 '09 minutes behind schedule. >> the death toll from one of indonesia's most volatile volcanoes is growing. mount merapi began erupting late last month releasing hot gas, rock and debris. indonesia's disaster agency says most were killed by searing gas clouds and respiratory problems related to the eruption. more than 400,000 people have also been displaced. >> the defense department is now investigating plans for moving nearly ,000 of its employees to alexandria. the emoyees would be moved to the ne center as part of a base realignment and closure process also known as brac. the recommendation comes after increased pressure om congressman jim moron. he wants the move to be suspended or delayed until transportation improvementsre wade. moran says traffic would be a nightmare for anyone who lives or works in alexandria. >>> d.c. police are on the loo

as for southeast asia not much improvement here.howers down in the philippines, especially in around southern luzon, contending with thundershowers. elsewhere look for some sunny spells and for indo-china peninsula dealing with more heavy showers in similar areas across the malay peninsula and also along the east coast of vietnam, especially down in the south looking upwards of 100 millimeters in the next 24 hours. so you're not out of the woods just yet. the conditions will remain fairly critical for you. temperatures 25 degrees in hong kong today, 33 in bangkok, with partly cloudy skies. manila coming in at 31 with some showers. showers also in taipei, with 23 degrees. all right. let's take a look at europe, then. generally dry across the british isles tonight. there is that very large storm system that will continue to impact the area throughout your friday. generally bringing windy conditions, but there will be some heavy rain found up in the -- up in scotland as well. as for spain and portugal, this very large rainband coming i

southeast corners, northeast looking good as we get under way. joe, eun. >> thank you, jerry. >>> a 16-year-old boy is recovering this morning after he was shot last night in southeast washington. before we get to that story, we have the metro escalator problem. "the washington post" reports crews found several escalators need their oily brake pads replaced and others need to fix some damaged brak altogether. metro is in the process of inspecting all 588 escalators. news 4's megan mcgrath is live at the west hyattsvilleetro stop with details. good morning to you. >> reporter: well, good morning, eun. those inspections ordered after an incident a couple weeks ago where an escator went out of control, began to accelerate abruptly without warning and injured several people. now since that plaza incident, metro has en inspecting all escalators in their system, and they've been looking, in particular, at the braking systems. now, those inspections have turned up widespread problems. there are 25 brakes that have been found to be faulty and have been r

i am a member of the southeast jobs coalition. first off, i will speak in defense that unions know how to negotiate, and i will leave that at that. no doubt the union construction trade has a vast number of unemployed a vast majority it -- of unemployed. a vast majority gave up looking for work. a union member asked me to pay her back dues so she could go back to work. union and san francisco residents are spread out across san francisco. the proposed mandate would not only supports the coffers of the trade union -- likewise it would increase the dollars for residents of san francisco, like ex-offenders caught up in the cycle of recidivism and hopelessness. these are projects that would generate thousands of jobs. they would create a work force for people desperately needing to work. west point, chinatown -- the list is extensive. people can use and prosper with mandated local hiring. speaking of 50/50 hiring, that is good when the job starts, but of the job goes on, no one make sure people are keeping their jobs. no one checks to

southeast dc. 47 in virginia.is hour, our forecast calls for lots of sunshine today and tomorrow. this afternoon holding around 61-66 degrees. temperatures are cool er we hea over to lisa. >> a complicated accident out of virginia. you may still want to use route one a crash on the right side of the roadway. 95 in mairld looking decent. looks pretty good here at 109. we'll keep checking in a little while. >> 46 degrees right now. coming up, another star says goodbye. who is aiding home after last night's elimination. >> the latest >> comeling u7, a discussion with one of america's most treasured women. a discussion with maya angelu and her wisdom. spraub in south korea where he will hold meetings with top leaders. he delivered a speech in which he reached out to muslims. the third stop on the four nation tour. others say it is a large con trailer a vapor trail. doctors are rushing to deal with cholera treatment in haiti. so far that disease has killed nearly 600 people and sickened thousands more. >> even though w

i wish that you would delay this until after the puc, but the figures i have requested for the southeastthank you. >> any further comments? seeing none -- sorry. >> supervisors, regarding this, we had a task force, and there is a document with suggestions. she is just giving you some sense she is one of those from the task force monitoring community benefits. i have said it before and will say it again that at one point when the bond measure was passed, it was part of the clean water and the waste water, but they chose to go ahead with a clean water, and it is still ongoing. we are going to go, and it is going to come before the board of supervisors, some $600 million bond measure, so the short and the tall of this is that in the bayview, you need to visit the communities. people need help, and people are desperate. the other thing some of you may understand is that we have an influx of latinos that have change the demographics, and they need help, sue. -- too. that is the way you look at the picture. they are mandated to satisfy 5% of the total budget for work- force, community benefits

last night the president visited the largest mosque in southeast asia. the president said it s under construction when he was six years old and living in jakarta. the president al delivered a speech at the university of indosia. >> i made it clear america will never be at war with islam. we must work together to defeat al qaeda a its leaders. >> the president left jakarta a few hours sooner than planned because of concerns over a deadly ash clouds. >>> the trial of the killing of chandra levy will resumtoday. witnesses may include prison inmates who say ingmar guandique confessed to killing levy. her body was found not until year later. the trial is expected to wrap up before thanksgiving. >>> a campus says good-bye to a beloved professor. last night a vigil was held for a vigil for professor sue markum was held at the arena. she was found in her home in october. police believe she interrupted a robbery and was beaten to deat 18-year-old hamlin was arrested for unauthorized use of the car but no arrests have been made in the murder case. everyone who att

so let's focus on the southeast, warm and humid, 71 in atlanta to 47 in st.ouis and because of that discrepancy we are going to see some strong thunderstorms move in to the southeast over the next hour or two. no delays right now but expect them to develop in memphis, atlanta, charlotte and boston. check out our flight tracker at www.abc7.com. >>> the korean peninsula is ripe with tension. south korea says two marines were killed and 16 others were injured after the north fired artillery shells on an island. >> already tense relations between north and south korea worsened with fire exchanged between the countries. south korea says north korea attacked first firing dozens of shells. the moment it hit the island you can see the explosion on the far left side of screen. smoke poured out of a residential area south korea says it returned fire. one island resident she was terrified as her home suddenly collapsed. it comes as north korea claims that it is moving ahead with uranium enrichment north korea's officially news agency they will continue strikes if they d

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there are two to the southeast. it was really to address people entering san francisco, and to create a more welcoming gateway into the city. within that, we start to add additional height to achieve the density. the way we did this was on the east side, there are buildings that can go up to 85 feet high. the way we think of this height is creating a variety for the six-story zone. these will be eight-story buildings. you have the fabric of these buildings. it is great interest at the pedestrian levels. it keeps the neighborhood from having the look of a hedge. on the west side, we introduced the eight-story buildings as well. now they are slightly taller than the underlying fabric. we think of them as marking important places in the fabric. they are adjacent to the park. they can have a small piece of retail. there will be the bank's share pods. there will be community rooms. it is meant to mark d. important social node within the fabric of the community -- mark the social noted with in the fabric of the community.

in the southeast, heavy rains along the gulf coast states.ry mix is heading for the northern rocky mountain region. >>> in sports, a power failure for the giants. the lights went out during the third quarter of new york's game with dallas. not once, but twice. the game was delayed a total of 11 minutes by the outages. in the game, though, dallas seemed have found new life under their new head coach. their quarterback passed for three touchdowns, dallas upset new york 33-20. >>> on the final play of the game in jacksonville, houston's defensive back deflected a pass, right into the hands of the jaguars' receiver, mike thomas. look at this. he stepped across the goal line for the winning score. jacksonville over the texans, 31-24. >>> in cleveland jets quarterback mark sanchez connected with santonio holmes with only 16 seconds left in overtime for the winning touchdown. the jets went on to beat the browns 26-20. >>> when we return, another look at this morning's top stories and amazing survival, three fishermen are found after being lost at se

the northeast has some fair-weather clouds moving across the region and in the southeast and southernlains, skies are clear. now, later today, sections of california will see rain and snow in the mountainous areas. the northwest with a storm system moving through bringing heavy snow to higher elevations. frigid air is sliding down into the midwest. temperatures drop into the 20s and 30s and the southeast is warm with sunny skies. >>> in sports, felix hernandez won the american league cy young award. he only had a 13-12 record with a last-place team but led the league in earned run average and was second this strikeouts. >>> in the nfl chicago shut out miami on thursday night football. matt forte had the game's only touchdown. chicago's defense almost completely shut down the miami offense. the 16-0 victory gives chicago sole control of the nfc north. >>> in the nba, portland makes a fourth oop quarter comeback. the trail blazers were trailing the nuggets in the second half but matthews had 20 points and led the rally to pull out the win at home. >>> what an upset in college basketball

a couple showers hanging on to the southeast coast of china. also got the tropical depression just off of vietnam. that's been pumping in a lot of moisture to the area here. and then showers continue to impact indonesia, as well as the malay peninsula for the bay of bengal. too we've got a second tropical depression we've been keeping an eye on. this one is heading westward over the next few days. looks like the core of heavy rain will be aiming for southern india as well as sri lanka. already a lot of rain falling in this area. looks like it could get heavier as the system gets closer. now it is forecast to become a tropical cyclone within the next couple of days. we could be seeing some strong winds develop as well. here's a look at highs for friday. 31 in manila. with a couple of thundershowers. 24 in taipei. 21 for shanghai. getting a little bit warmer in tokyo today. 19 degrees for you. now, over towards the americas, we're taking a look first at the caribbean. there's been a lot of tropical activity here. tropical storm tomas continues to

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soggy in the northeast and southeast and scattered snow showers over the great lakes. >>> in sports,l games things giving to the highlights drew brees of new orleans led a comeback in the fourth quarter against dallas. a big pass for a touchdown in the closing minutes and the cowboys just missed the tying field goal. the saints edge the cowboys 30-27. in the second game tom brady of new england threw four touchdown passes against detroit all in the second half. the patriots came from behind to beat the lions 45-24. in the nightcap, mark sanchez of the jets tossed a touchdown pass and the jets beat the bengals 26-10. new york is 9-2 right now, tied with the patriots at the top of the afc, the best records in the nfl. in college football, number 17 texas a&m beat texas. the 24-o 7 a & m win means texas will have its first losing season since 1997. >>> when we come back, we'll have another look at the top stories this morning and holiday hiring cheer, a number of temporary workers hits a two-year high. shopping since 3- am.. and where they're finding the best deals. a glitch with califo

maybe even a few severe thunderstorms down here in the southeast. the storm itself is in louisiana right now. by tomorrow afternoon, it has to get up here to northern new england. it's going to take a while to clear out. as far as the radar goes, we're starting with light rain this morning up through new england. the roads are wet, pretty much from philadelphia to new york city to hartford to boston now. it's just starting to see that rain increasing. it's not heavy rain. it's kind of wet and misty and damp out. even down to d.c. the roads are wet as some light rain continues even now into baltimore. further to the south, this is where it's a little more serious and now we have a tornado watch that was just issued for the tallahassee area. we do have the potential for isolated, very strong storms. apalachicola, panama city, where we could see some damaging weather over the next couple hours. as far as the forecast goes, we're expecting about one to two inches of rain here. tennessee valley, the appalachians, ohio, kentucky, west virginia, and pennsy

the southeast is fine today. most of the middle of the country is okay, there's a little snow up there in montana. on the border of montana and north dakota. overall, though, the middle of the nation looks tranquil. the southeast high pressure, getting warmer day after day. it's just new england dealing with the northerly wind and the ocean system that's bringing more showers in. now it's moving through boston, trying to head here to providence. it looks like it's going to hold together for you. if you're heading outdoors in providence or down on the cape over the next hour and a half, bring the umbrella with you. portland, maine, also with a little shower activity, too. not a lot of heavy rain, just showers. the winds are gusty again. 26 mile-per-hour winds at logan, hartford, 25. don't expect a lot of sunshine in new england today. the middle of the country, look at this sliver here. this is the little nose of warmer air all the way through kansas city, into minneapolis. that's going to give you a really nice d

heading down in towards the southeast i want to show you what's been happening in central vietnam. you remember it's been raining here really hard for at least the last week, ten days. well this low pressure that has been lingering off the eastern coast is now strengthening so that's not good news at all. heavy rain continuing for portions of southern thailand. flooding and landslides continuing to be an issue into the weekend for sure. temperaturewise, 19 in tokyo. partly cloudy skies, beijing a clear day for you, 9 degrees. 23 in taipei, probably seeing a few showers here, minus 9 in ulan bator and probably some snow. headed into north america, out to the west mostly clear and settled up into canada as well. we can see the storm moving into b.c., affecting parts of washington state as well. the worst of the storm is much further up north into northwestern canada. through the center of the united states, another low pressure system, this one thunderstorms, wet stuff down to the south, snow heading in towards the great lakes area. as the system progresses, it's really going to brin

the asean plus 3 group includes japan, china, south korea, and the ten-member association of southeast asian nations. the asean plus 6 group adds india and new zealand to the countries. the partnership originated in a free trade agreement among brunei, chile, new zealand and singapore. negotiations are under way to expand it with another five apec members, including the united states and australia. the japanese government will hold talks with countries involved in a transpacific free trade pact. a senior official of japan's ruling democratic party says rice may be excluded from the negotiations. the party's policy chief, who is also national policy minister, made the announcement during a symposium in tokyo on thursday. >> translator: the underlying idea is to prioritize bilateral economic partnerships while showing a willingness to discuss the tpp. i still think it is the best decision. rice could be excluded from the tpp talks even if japan goes ahead with the multi-lateral economic partnership. >> he said the united states and australia, which have both declared their intention to j