obviously if you have stairs over a living space you have to water proof the stairs -- waterproof the stairs but a lot of energy is being spent trying to get exterior stairs waterproof when you could just let the water flow through. some of the stairs you're showing are good examples of those. >> we have another shot in a minute. here's somebody's exterior deck and stairs which they've been -- a couple of rails have been replaced. i want to point out, by the way, that the spacing between the guard rails on this deck or guards, as they're now called, are pretty wide and don't need the mod -- meet the modern codes which they forum maximum space and it's easy to accomplish that before building a giant new stair and deck by using some kinds of fencing, whether it's metal fencing which you can buy at any hardware store or plastic fencing. just put it up and over the years renters and building owners have been held responsible to meet the standards of today's safety, especially for decks and stairs. so for those of you who have rental units, i encourage you to upgrade your stairs and your s

our stair inclosure would be minimal. it would not be close to 20%. skylights, stairs, and elevators can have certain height exemptions. others have no horizontal limits. when we read the code, section 260, we see that elevator stairs and penthouses are exempted. these features are defined where the height limit is 65 feet. the first item on the bottom is showing you could have eight stair elevator windscreen to the heights shown. there is an interpretation we do not think is correct which told us we can only do a stair that is 2 feet high above the roof level, which we obviously cannot have access to, an elevator we could probably squeeze in at minimal height, and a wind screen that would only be 2 feet higher than the roof, which is more unsafe than the existing paraquat. we think the ruling of the code suggests that where the high limit is 65 feet -- we are in that district -- the we should be able to have exemptions to the height limit to add these elements and, as the diagram shows. the last diagram basically is saying there are existing penthous

adjacent to it, there is an existing concrete stair. this is a one to one slope. 30 years ago or so, previous owner built a little back out here. otherwise, this is all public space to this point. >> where is your property line? >> property line is right here. this is the survey showing exists within the space. this is all public space. from here all the way out. this is a one-to-one slope. this is a little chain-link fence. concrete steps were built as an access to the basement. that is all public property. anyone from the public can sit on the deck and enjoy it if they wanted to. here is the proposed situation where we're proposing stairway access. it is coming up a few steps from the sidewalk. it is not encroaching on the sidewalk. the retaining wall is where the first riser would be. this there would come up to the lower one to give that new dwelling unit and attractive entry. the proposed idea, and we've discussed this with the neighbors across the street, would be to use it as a launching pad for the first phase of a landscape tha

every love struck couple stairing into each other's eyes. every loner with a half empty beer even a waitress after a shift receives a visit from john nitto. he returns to the faces above the steaming plates before he's out into the neon lit street leaving behind a trail of rose petals bark as sacrificial hearts. thank you. [applause]. >> whenever i had writer's block i do research so i thought i would redo a section which started as writer's block and it took place in a library. i think all you need to know is my narrater is 19. the object of affection is 21. max's mother is a piannist and also polish. >> i saw little of rose after she moved her 2

those are wood stairs in a wood structure. much better solution. they're also protected because they're inside. so they're not going to have as much of a problem. they still have a joint there which is a leak problem that has to be caulked. this is sort of an interesting exercise. as you walk down the street i want to you look at the buildings carefully and see if you can see the space between the buildings in san francisco. and here we have a space that's about 3 fourth of an inch or an inch or something like that -- 3/4 of an -- 3 fourth of an inch or an -- 3/ of an inch or an inch, or something like that. you do a roof and your neighbor does a roof and you put a piece of flashing between the building and that keeps water out of that space between the buildings. water gets down there between the buildings and it's extremely difficult to repair dry rot inside that space. you have to take the inside wall out to get to it. we also see a couple of other things happening here. we see a down spout from a drain and those need to just be checked to make

saddy staired at her feet. i saw this fancy woman once madison said. he put his arm around her sister and guided her along the path. she took all the feeling from a man's toes. she gave him a foot rub. when she got to the toes she put them in her mouth. saddy squinted at her brother. it's true. one by one she sucked them and they were dirty. but when she was done you know what? the man started hollering he says, i cannot feel my toes. he jumps up and waddels like a turkey. he didn't know he didn't have any toes anymore. madison grinned the woman was a witch much the fields were soft to the touch. all the way home madison told his sister about the witches and the world. when the saudi came to view he stopped talking the door was open the inside shadowy. there was no one in sight but he could hear his sister in law kth rin talking to blue flies. madison tucked his chin as if against the weather. something about the air felt dense. something felt like pushing against water on a flooded plain. well, a lot happens between now and the next morning i will sum

and the filbert street stairs, because of the rockfall that occurred, new stairs were built, and they were built in a manner that when rockfalls occur, that actually lift out the stairs and put them on the ground and allow the crane to get back there to access the rockfall. >> beyond that, the building that we see at the bottom of the rockfall was actually designed to allow barack to fall off and be compounded by the building -- actually designed to allow barack to fall off and be impounded by the building. >> that is the corner of sansome and green. every couple years, there is a rock fall that occurs behind that building. >> now we are on russian hill. this is the most beautiful location of exposed bedrock. across the street from the art institute on chestnut. >> that and tires sitting -- that entire setting, that is a beautiful setting, the deck and the panorama of the city. >> cannot be it. now we are on at leavenworth street, around the corner of chestnut or francisco. >> these walls are common throughout the city, and they were built as part of the stimulus package following the

in the buildings they have spiral slides so in an emergency you didn't run down the stairs and told the guy to hop in the slide and out the building and that was their emergency e aggress. >> and they're designed if there an explosion it doesn't blow the walls out. and one of my favorite is the old pump station and now used as the headquarters of the fire department and one thing that makes this -- dare i say odd building and has live tidal sea water from the cove. >> the bu bay used to be right about there. >> the bay was about a couple hundred yards away -- maybe 800-yards away and so there is now an under ground i have duct that -- via duct that brings this here and can take water from the bay and into the high pressure system for most earthquake or fire protection. >> if they ran out of regular domestic water. >> or if the pipes broke and that happened in 1906 and might happen. a couple of other things that make this building interesting and turning it into the firefighter headquarters and they have complicated occupancies and i look at these things and hard to have fuel storage

between the reglet and president stair. that will keep the stucco from cracking. >> here's an example of why we need to maintain a distance clearance between the dwround and the siding. you see this wood siding goes right down to the concrete sidewalk and it's rotting at the bottom. that rot is just going to run up through the wood and into the framing behind and once again -- now this is interesting. those are wood stairs in a wood structure. much better solution. they're also protected because they're inside. so they're not going to have as much of a problem. they still have a joint there which is a leak problem that has to be caulked. this is sort of an interesting exercise. as you walk down the street i want to you look at the buildings carefully and see if you can see the space between the buildings in san francisco. and here we have a space that's about 3 fourth of an inch or an inch or something like that -- 3/4 of an -- 3 fourth of an inch or an -- 3/ of an inch or an inch, or something like that. you do a roof and

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at this point, we do a lot of stair treads that are one inch thick. it's interesting to see the apple store on market street, where everything is glass. the stair treads are one inch glass, half inch treated on the top, and 0909, polyvinyl beaut rat in between. ordinariarily laminated grass -- it has a 090 tempered piece on the bottom. >> it is remarkable to walk in. the stairs is in front of you and it's transparent, maybe a little bit greenish, maybe, directly in front of you, and it's all glass. beautiful. >> we're doing a lot of areas where you're walking on -- bigger pieces where it's not supported quite so well, we use an inch and a half so you've got three layers of glass, and you can dance on it or whatever el else. fluid, as a disco bar near the four seasons on mission street for all you younger people. and they've got a lineup to get in there, one of those. and they have this dance floor that's covered with this inch and a half glass. and lights underneath. and it's very impressive. >> i think it's the indian reservation just built a project

the older stairs some have concrete. those are areas that will need maintenance. >> especially where concrete or stone abuts wood ask they have different shrinkage rates. you will see a crack that needs to be addressed calked or flashed. >> spend money on the waterproofing details because if you spend that little investment in extra waterproofing and better flashing it's a gift that deep keeps on giving it's something you will not spend later. we took rotting pin flashings off the buildings. >> galvanizing lasts a long time but it will get old. we use copper and steel. the price is neg ot a big investment. >> reasonable maintenance spend the money on appropriate materials. and pay attention to panlt. all the expense in paints is in the prep and the application. it's not in the cost of the paint itself. don't look for cheap paint. we will save 5 bucks a gallon after you spend thouz annasands you get cheap paint. >> i have a brick chimney. i tried to raise the chimney back to the roof diaphragms. what experience you have o

always take it is stairs. when you go down the stairs hang on to the hand rails you will have people bump into you. pay attention to the floors, you have fourth floor, third floor, in case the lights go out you know you have 3 more floors. people think, i will go to the bottom until it stops. let's say you have 2 floors of parking you are under ground. sometimes it's a fire escape, never go up unless there is smoke down there and you can't go down. majority of the time don't go up. it's not like in tower interno where you go to the roof and the helicopters come pick you up u. notice fire department, work in pairs with 2 extinguishers. one extinguisher and the other person is a backup to get you out. that's an nert volunteer. never fight a fire if it's a large fire. large is over your head. if you are scared and it's too big, it's too large for you. if it's spread beyond where it started and blocking our escape route and you are unsure how to use an extinguisher. there are 4 types of fire it's on the label. on

the stairs are made out of clear glass.he courthouse in franklin county, it's brand-new and cost $105 million. and has these fancy stair, one from the judges who likes to wear dresses, noticing that people standing under the stairwell can see through the stairs and up her skirt. listen to this. >> men designed it. i was like, oh, they had no woman input on this. that's what i thought. how can you open a brand-new building and not take into consideration half the population? >> the judge said she's worried, alison, camera phones or people posting on the internet. she calls the stairs a lawsuit in the making. would you sue alison. if you thought somebody was taping you, video? really? >> i wouldn't sue, but it's common decency, the woman who spoke took the words out of my mouth. it's obvious the men built that staircase. they designed the whole thing. you know what? here at cnn there's a staircase like that. makes me wonder. >> maybe i'll wear pants. >> okay. >> it's time for you to choose the news. first up, female soccer pl

the stairs go down to the garage area. even if you were standing directly in front of it -- president olague: thank you. public hearing is closed. commissioners? commissioner sugaya:? >> i have a glass rail question for staff. does this fall in any way into our, you know, bird whatever, we have been considering? bird strike legislation and considerations and all of that stuff? >> i think generally we would discourage actual glass railing s, well, just to back up, that bird safety guide line, i think that's coming to you in a couple of weeks, it talks -- the research has shown that the biggest problem is when you have glass buildings or glass railings that are near a large open space or body of water. but in general i think the commission has asked us not to use black railings when there's an option. and so i think we typically wanted to use pickets or something when you wanted transparency but as an alternative to glass. president olague: commissioner moore? commissioner moore: my questions are very much along the lines of

the stairs in time. chatter is going to be ok -- shadow is going to be ok. six to three degrees on tv hill -- 63 degrees on tv hill. >> the next big thing apple plans to unveil. >> two early-morning problems including roadwork >> now traffic pulse 11 and insta-weather plus together. >> how is looking? >> no delays to do with right now. there'll be some delays at this construction john. --construction zone. 395 to howard is much better because of construction. no delays. a pretty smooth ride. 11 minutes on the north and west loop.ntelopeouter this is liberty road on the west side. this is traffic near delaney valley on the topside. that fog is looking much better than before. harrisburg expressway running smoothly down to the beltway. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. now let's get the latest on the buses and the trains. >> we have a few diversions this morning. the 61 line is diverting at light and conaway. watch for scattered bus delays including the three, seven, 30, and 19 lines. light rail and

that's the way i get down the stairs. >> steve: that's how i roll. >> jimmy: yeah.his is from @mikehenabary. he says "my cat will jump on the top of chairs to lick someone's bald spot." [ laughter ] that's a fun party trick. this one's from @iamericho. he says "our cat gets so pissed when his christmas sweater is on that he doesn't move for hours and just stares at you." he tweeted a picture. let's look at this thing. there he is. [ laughter ] [ cheers ] >> steve: looks like a panther. >> jimmy: yeah, he's like "are you effing serious? you want me to wear this? [ laughter ] seriously." this is from @nickferrucci. he says "my g maddie walked in on me naked. there was an uncomfortable pause with intense eye contact. it's never been the same since." [ laughter and applause ] never seen the dog laugh before. this is from @kaylee. he says "my cat sits like this." and let's look at the photo. there you go."m [ laughter ] legs straight out. there you go. >> steve: oh. that's a leg. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah. that was -- >> steve: okay. just checking. >> jimmy: that was h

we want to get rid of the exteriors there's -- exterior stairs. you can barely see it, but on the right side we want to put a single car garage, extended to the property alliance -- to the property alliance -- lines. and to basically updates to windows and that kind of stuff. >> not further expansion? a wax there is a horizontal and addition. >> -- >> there is horizontal i edition. -- addition. >> thank you. anything further? no? nine commissioners, the matter is submitted. >> it seems as though we have not have one of these in a while. it is always done if there is mutual consent, so we had and a legal unit, and to accommodate the individual living there -- and we had an illegal unit, and in order to accommodate, if the individual allowed to of -- agreed to allow them to stay there, we would go through the process of legalizing it, rather than the process of some apartment, probably planning, to have the individual move out. it is unfortunate someone was there, but the reasons are pretty compelling to grant the individual who bought this house to

protesters clashed with riot police of the streets of athens following the government's approval of a stair in the laws which paved the way for billions in bailout loans from. syria's on restaurant and spread across the middle east israel is concerned that has laws moving weapons to levanon just in case president assad is overthrown. and orphans in russia continue to struggle in adulthood a lack of government provided housing how to live in rundown homes with little help . eleven pm here in the russian capital you're watching r t thanks for joining us and not toward top story the greek government has voted in favor of a new round of austerity cuts securing the next malty billion installment of cash from the e.u. and staving off a default but furious protesters reacted violently to the vote with police and demonstrators engaged in running battles scenes from downtown athens resembled a war zone with protesters fighting riot squads and made volleys of tear gas and hundreds of thousands of people nationwide walked off their jobs for a two day strike against the cuts well they say drowning the

for when they reached the bottom of the stairs there was no light pole. in fact, the next nearest street light was right here as you are reaching the underpass. but the people i spoke with said it does not provide much light, and this area with the bushes and grass underneath the overpass is very dark at night. the police say was in this area with a crime occurred. there is a light fixture here that is attached to the second column but once again, the people i spoke with said that this light does not provide much light in the area. some tell me that often it does not work at all. [music] >> a live look outside as the sun goes down, what a pretty picture this evening. virtually no clouds in the sky. it will be a cooler day as we head into tomorrow. overnight conditions will be mild as you get out of the door tomorrow morning, already in the '60s. as we head into the afternoon the will reach in the 80's. 83 degrees in fairfield, upper '70's for the north bay. by the 3:00 p.m. hour, we will see a few more 80 degree readings. 82 in santa rosa, 81 livermore. t

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