this would obviate the need for egress stairs." its seems to me that is saying, if you want to obviate the need for egress stairs, something that would be expensive, we need to have an easement. on the business of the fact that the big building has access to privacy, this is what the building will look like after the improvements are made. imagine for yourselves that the people who are standing there have a direct sightline into your bedroom. the fact that there might be some people who have a window that is 100 feet away cannot possibly be compared with the invasion of privacy that is inherent in that situation. the condo is there. it has been there. it has not been a problem. this will be a problem. one thing that i am asking you to do today -- if we have a direction from this commission to have mediation, i suspect there is an architectural solution to these problems, or something that could ameliorate them. but the business of our making proposals and then saying "no way, because we are going to do what is legal" -- the point o

we have provided an exit stairs, so we do not need the easement, just to be clear. on the perspectives that were showing the privacy issue, honestly, the perspectives that were provided to you are inaccurate. we have used very sophisticated modeling software to make sure -- faces a more accurate representation. on the top is the existing condition, showing the stair. sorry for the fuzziness. the red forms are potentially people standing there. here at the bottom you see a more accurate perspective of what you would see out of the library window. the figures in the windows are correct. someone could stand there with their nose to the glass. but i think this is far less a privacy issue than the staircase itself. thank you. president fong: ok. the public hearing portion is closed. commissioners? commissioner moore: is this a" compliant project? >> this is a code compliant project. commissioner moore: thank you. the expansion as to whether it is considered too large or small already is not within what we are discussing. in addition to the fact that the three buildings,

up the stairs is the second floor. on the balcony sometimes they put tables around a balcony which is perfect because they're like tables in an outdoor cafe overlooking the central piazza of the metropolitan museum, the entrance hall. that entrance hall leads to magnificent sky lit boulevards, the one in the downtown direction was restored in the last 15 years with the dwreek and roman selection and looking south from the main hall back of us and looking towards a smaller piazza sky lit where we use to eat and dine and the cafeteria was there and restored 2 and put it back to its original use as a gallery for greek and roman art. it is a grand indoor boulevard taking us from the central piazza. if you look at the national gallery of art in washington, d.c. from 1940, the same plan that makes it user friendly, the grand stairs takes you up to the second floor and the ground floor is free for vehicular entrance and the staircase leads to the main rotunda, your town square. you get your orientation, check your coat, whate

it has been represented the new extension is 9.2 inches further back from the position of the stairs emma is the correct? >> we are building of 9 ft. 2 commo, so we are building out l. >> i look fat in wrong, and that answers a lot of my questions. we talked -- it looks like that is wrong, and that answers a lot of my questions. the other situation is there has been some shadows studies, and as far as any radiation of light or heat, i assume that is not going to cause a prism affect on neighboring homes? >> the original design was submitted before standards went into affect. we talked to planning, and they suggested we conform to them, so we redesign them. now all the glass pieces are less than 24 square feet, and he sent the planning department a letter saying he was in full support. >> there have been some changes? >> i think you have elevations. if you do not, i am happy to show them to you. you have some on the side. >> they delineate from the original, but it is a similar would. it will age to a similar color. >> i would like to ask some comments on the dr requester. it has been

at the top of the stairs was always there ran perpendicular to the stairs. there was still no signs of the suspect or family members. officers made the decision they would have to clear the upstairs room by room. officer i. singh and hernandez went to the right. -- esein. as officer carrasco and heppler went left and saw a body lying prone at the end of the hallway. they saw the body was drenched in blood, and the victim was still breathing. based on his prior experience as a paramedic, officer carrasco knew they needed to be rescued immediately if there was to be any chance of the person surviving. officer carrasco told heppler i will pull her out. with complete disregard for his own safety, he ground the bleeding person by the feet and began to drag her to safety. it was later determined that the stick them was the suspect 73- year-old mother who had been stabbed through the neck. he pulled the woman passed officer heppler and a door opens at the end of the hallway. it was later determined to be the suspect's sister and ran hysterically across the hallway.

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but here it is this shows exactly where the shaping configuration of the stairs is. so we have a set of the most current inborn or sand born map's behind the planning department counter that will be happy to make or let you look at them and make copies of them there's a free copy machine. i've seen the old ones. not in the last year or two, do you know where they are? >> the series four books are on the sixth floor of the san francisco public library and early series are micro film also from the library. if you belong to a library in another jurisdiction like san jose or oakland they might have subscriptions for their area and that might extend -- they have maybe all california map's. >> do you know where the ariel services are and where. >> the planning department has three that are as of yet unconserved. >> what does that mean. >> we have not had the time or resources to digitize them. they're very large. more than this book here. they're about 32 inches square and cover the whole city in 1948 to 1950, somewhere in the mid 50s or 60's. >> to go on the resources tha

we can't get take the stairs. we can't take the elevator. >>reporter: elevator have been out of order since friday when a fire tliing erred the sprinklers and knocked out the elevator electrical system. most of the tenant of the 12 story building have been relying on the stairs. but even that has been difficult for them. wesley manor is section 8 housing tenant either senior or physically disabled. >> i can make it up and down the stairs. however, i am very tired. i'm exhausted. my back and my legs are killing me. but i have to get my seeing eye dog out 5 times day. >>reporter: building manager says fixing the elevator is top priority. she says the elevator company has been by three times since friday but won't be able to make repair until everything dries out. until then tenant lake ann are doing what they can to help. she is 73 years old. climbing up and down the stairs isn't easy for her either but many people don't have family near by to help. >> i'm taking up foot food if they need. i went up to the 11th floor today. the other lady who

. >> we have been trapped here on the third floor that we are cane stairs.take the elevator. >>reporter: elevator have been out of order since friday when a fire tliing erred the sprinklers and knocked out the elevator system. most of the tenant of the 12 story building have been relying on the stairs. but even that has been difficult for them. wesley manor is section 8 housing tenant either senior or physically disabled. >> i can make it up and down the stairs. however, i am very tired. i'm exhausted. my back and my legs are killing me. but i have to get my seeing eye dog out 5 times day. >>reporter: building manager says fixing the elevator is top any has been by company has beey three times since friday but won't be able to make repair until everything dries out. until then tenant lake ann are doing what they can to help. she is 73 years old. climbing up and down the stairs isn't easy for her either but many people don't have by near by to help. >> i'm taking up foot food if they need. i went up to the 11th floor today. the other lady who has ms i went up

east elevation, remove stair and back. return to original configuration sidewalk and curb, using the same materials as the rest of the street, and restore sidewalk tree to its original condition. and provide adjacent property owners with the plan submitted to the planning department. on that motion -- commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner borden: aye. commissioner miguel: aye. commissioner moore: aye. commissioner sugaya: aye. vice president wu: aye. president fong: did you want to time index -- chime in? aye. >> that motion was passed unanimously. commissioner sugaya: next item. >> item 14, case 2012.135ddddd. commissioner sugaya: i asked the department to reduce. -- recuse. we have a direct financial connection. >> the motion to recuse commissioner sugaya. commissioner sugaya: aye. commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner moore: ay -- commissioner miguel: aye. vice president wu: aye. commissioner borden: aye. commissioner moore: aye. >> thank you. you are recused. >> good evening, commissioners. department staff. the

he ran his cabinetry business for 40 years, eventually specializing in building stairs.mes were good he could barely keep up with orders. today he's left with just a few machines. >> we used to make five or six stairs a week. we also made some furniture. that's all stopped now. it's just -- if you made one stairs a week now you'd be doing well. >> so now he's decided to give up. soon he'll be shutting his doors for the last time. he's already hung up to let sign. for his part, storyteller vincent is fed up with tales of the crisis and how it's worn down the irish. he'd rather tell of opportunity, success, and the bright future. but sometimes a crisis can provide chances. two and a half years ago, derek allen and his brother took over their father's farm. they couldn't get loan so they've had to build things up step by step. but they have little debt. the farm produces top quality meat and they grow their own feed for the animals. >> thank gold we started when we did rather than back in the good times because i don't think -- you know, we could have lost contracts, people

in fact i felt down a flight of stairs, subway stairs, in new york city and wrote my foot and knocked myself out. so physically he is an omnipresent, assistant. psychologically, he can do everything from wake me up i'm a nightmare, to a flashback. he alerts me to the onset of pronounced migraines. it may sound kind of gross, but he will, before i know it sometimes, he will my eyelids and my forehead, because he can sense that i am hot, that my respirations -- he listens and watches my respirations. he can listen to my heartbeat, my palpitations. he smells of course perspiratios listening to my intellection, as he is right now, and so while he doesn't necessarily speak the same language that we do, he is looking over yonder. tuesday. but people think -- people's tendencies are to think of k-9s as being less perceptive really than they truly are. as some of you know, there are dogs now doing everything from you know, doing everything from warning and alerting people who have epileptic seizures, to alerting them that their glycemic levels are low. we have insulin alert dogs. there are do

and she said, will you go down stairs and i start out, i go hauling down stairs, start on the concreteng to turn on the light for billy. i am plunged in darkness and she turns it on just in time to see the concrete rushing to my face. what a wipeout. like i mean, always funny. rest in peace, mom. >> jimmy: was she always funny when she had a few drinks in her ? >> no, not at all. >> jimmy: what about the cast. you take trips together? >> no, they are younger than me. justin, steve, they are young. i have been out one time and i cried uncle at 9:30. >> jimmy: you did? >> we shoot in chicago. a week -- i love that town. we shoot six episodes here and we go there for a week to shoot exteriors. and seven of them had lost their phone in the fountain. what fountain, i say? i'm not sure about that. why -- >> jimmy: seven phones in a fountain? >> they couldn't explain it. i had the only phone on the set. they party hard. you remember the days when you could drink -- >> jimmy: i do. i remember -- i kind of remember them. you made so many great movies. and you worked with so many great people. o

so i looked down the stair case and who is coming up, but gregory peck, i really did, i was star struck, one of as a little girl, one of my first movie was to see "to kill a mockingbird," so he was a real hero to me. so that was being around hollywood glitter and such incredible actors and actresses, john wayne and jimmy stewart, i remember meeting jimmy stewart at president reagan's 70th birthday party, he was so serene and so calm and he was just like, you know, in a wonderful life. claudette colbert, loretta young, all these incredible screen stars, and they were all the reagans' friends, kirk douglas, they were all the reagans' friends. it was fascinating. >> famous story, president reagan got to turn the table on bob hope, who he once introduced, i believe, it may have been a dinner for queen elizabeth, but any event, hope was there, and president reagan introduced hope as someone who had performed for seven american presidents and entertained four. great line. >> great line. >> did the bushs have favorite entertainers? >> oh, yeah. i think, we had -- we always had an eclectic miss

suddenly, sublet charges up the stairs again and fires a 12-gauge shotgun.e steps a second time. this time, he's hit by a bullet. the force knocks him back down the stairs and it looks like the standoff might be over. he is hit. how will it end? >> you don't know what caused him to decide to make some of the choices they make and wind up in a situation like sublet did. i wish i could keep it this way. [ dr. rahmany ] you see, even after a dental cleaning... plaque quickly starts to grow back. but new crest pro-health clinical plaque control toothpaste can help. it not only reduces plaque... it's also clinically proven... to help keep plaque from coming back. plus, it works in these other areas dentists check most. ♪ new crest pro-health clinical plaque control toothpaste. life opens up when you do. for extra plaque protection try new crest pro-health clinical rinse. that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. make that new stouffer's steam meal so tasty. actually, the milk from my farm makes it so

to reach the clock one has to climb nine floors of spiral stairs. hear the clock your stern steadily waking every fifteen minutes to signal the bells to strike every quarter hour for one big hit on the hours and. fifty children of the purpose of the bells ringing previously when few people had watches the chimes informed everyone of the toy. previously the clock was operated manually but since nine hundred thirty seven three electric motors to go over everything else has been preserved in its original form. our clock is the oldest one in the. can you see the pointer at the end. this point to regulates the speed of the clocks motion if the clock lags behind it increases the speed if it's forced the point to slows it down so they do lag behind but you never notice it because once it starts to pick up specialists quickly eliminate the problem acting like an ambulance so far we haven't noticed it but we're close to revealing that's right. this is an ancient bell ringing mechanism for setting up melodies at the tower it's almost two and a half meters in

we do know that by the kennedy came down the stairs at least three times. each time they tried to get lyndon johnson to withdraw. >> which version do you trust the most? what do they mean? >> what happened in the meetings, we do know. there are other people involved. let the first time bobby kennedy comes down, he meets with john connally. sam rayburn gave a description of what happens. we have that. john connally talked to me. what happened was is he came down. he was very upset. he said his hair was hanging down. he basically said we're going to have a floor fight. the liberals will not stand for lyndon johnson. they will put up their own candidates. we would like you to consider being the chairman of the democratic national committee. rayburn said "epitaph." the second time robert kennedy comes down, he apparently -- am i going on too long? >> no. >> the second time he comes down, each of these meetings, he wants to meet with lyndon johnson but lady bird says i did not think it ought to meet. rayburn knows the also should not meet. there's too much antag

based on my conversation with the sheriff's department down stairs, there are a number of theories on how long this meeting will take. i would assume there's an over/under somewhere, bets going on. i've heard noon, i've heard 2:00. i've heard someone say well i have enough food that will last until midnight. so it will be our goal to be not have that food used and be concluded long before midnight. that said, we will take the necessary time to deliberate appropriately. so with that, we will call to order the final meeting of the redistricting task meeting. role call please. >> chair macdonnell? >> present for the last time. >> viss chair lam? >> present. >> alonso? >> present. >> me lawyerlara. >> present and not sure it's for the last time. >> mondejar? >> present. >> pilpel? >> present. >> member schreiber. >> present. >> member tidwell. >> there's your core mr. chairman. >> to welcome public comments on the minutes before we approve them. without objection with the usual gruff dra matt cal, minutes so approved. moving to item number three, reprufle of the remaining task force minut

three were hurt when a stair case collapsed and one of them suffered a minor concussion from that. is also a woman who lived here who walked out of what is described by firefighters as a wall of fire. now she was taken to st. francis for smoke inhalation but she is expected to be okay. when you see back here live all of the damage, the fact that everyone escaped, okay, with minor injuries sb is even what firefighters have been saying. unbelievable and positive light in all of this. coming up at 6:00, we will hear from man whose business is now closed because of this and whose family is without a home. and again that's coming up at 6:00 tonight. live in san francisco, stephanie, nbc news. >> thank pup. >> one man is dead and another man is in the hospital after a shooting. two officers tried to approach three people in east oakland just after midnight. one of the suspect took off. police say one of the officers chase he him and ultimately the two shot at each other. the suspect was pronounced dead at the hospital. the officer was hit in the legs but is expected to be okay. the alame

i like the fact they painted these stairs red. >> right. >> giving it some presence. harvey, you were saying you like this. >> i like the graphic expression to these things. there was some disagreement. >> i am not wildly about this. >> alan. >> i think all of the recessed openings are examples of things with won't see much more of, because the owners have so many problems with transients sleeping in them and that sort of thing. >> interesting you should bring that up. >> let's go to that area of our slideshow, because we only have ten minutes left and we want to cover that. you are right, richard, people are putting grates and grills everywhere. these must a propertiline wall that is not perpendicular. >> it's not columbus avenue and it's typical of every door on the street. >> this, just one of my favorite pieces of serendipitous--this is art. >> i don't think it's serendipitous. someone really carefully-- >> they didn't think how to accentuate the entryway. the meters are all replace, all brand new electrical meters and whoever, ran them over the main entry and ter

it is a lot of single-family homes with stairs up and down -- of course, stairs are up and down, but you know what i mean. the conclusion that the only way to deal with that that i have concerns about is to sit down with key players in the work group at the sunset might be one of those districts they look at. taking all the key players and people from the business community, those are key issues for them. park in iraq as buildings in -- part in iraq -- park and rec has buildings in there, as well as independent contractors and the business community. if the work does not proceed along those lines, i think we will have to do it ourselves, because the issue is not -- the demographics are not changing in a way that make it less of an issue. supervisor chu: thank you. supervisor olague: now we will hear from [unintelligible] from meals on wheels. >> good afternoon. just one minute, apologize for the technical difficulties. i do have a power play to put up. [whispering] perfect, ok. i think we're all -- no? it looks just perfect from here. oh, it is. ok, good. in the senior director of pr

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

after this, we have to take ladders and stair towers. >> the stairs hang off the side of the building more than 1,000 feet above the street. the views will take your breath away. don't look down, right? >> don't look down. >> as we climb, we see iron workers toiling away, raising the structure beam by beam, and written on the beams for remembrances, names of people who died on 9/11. by no means is this just another tall building. >> a special trip. police, firemen, most important ones are the people who lost somebody, you know, or are coming from the armed forces. really special when the wounded warriors come up here. >> a lot of emotion in this building. >> yes, way more emotion than we're used to. and we're iron workers, we don't feel our emotions well. around you, you can't help it. you see the families come. you look down at the memorial. you see everybody looking at the memorial. this is very emotional for us. >> the finished one world trade center will be 1,776 feet. that's right, 1,776. and we'll look up even higher. harry smith, nbc news, new york. >>> secretary of state hilla

that's the only thing i can look at when i stair at my sad, sad office. totally kidding, didn't have an office. >> i don't think that this leads to accidents. i think it actually reduces accidents, and i talked about this before in the show. there is no way to prove how many men die from looking at women. usually when they find a dead on the crosswalk he is dead and they assume he didn't see the car coming. most all male pedestrian accidents were because they were walking and they looked and then like that. but you can't prove it. the girl is already gone and the guy can't tell you. i bet texting reduces accidents. >> this is why they should ban sexy ads on billboards. remember when that mark wallburg ad came out? i came to work with bruises every day. >> that's because your boyfriend, julio was beating you. >> i was on his side. that was just brutal. >> that's where you sleep. i am in the center. >>> from texts to teens. does a pimply face help their case? a group of teens and some adult activists are suing the government saying it should do more. they w

he comes down the back stairs. he offers lyndon johnson, and he has a conversation. whenever there only to people in the room, you really cannot say as a historian you know what happens. one gives one version and one gives the other. we know what happened after the meeting. johnson calls and his three closest advisers, john connally, bobby kennedy, and junior. -- bobby bakerhe says kennedy offered me the vice president. that would johnson says. kennedy goes back upstairs. there is a group of northern those who know they can count votes. kennedy walks in the room. he says he has not said he will accept it. it looks like he is going to. he has a picture of this very moment. lawrence reaches out his hands. he's a handsome irish politician. they shook hands. lawrence knows this is the key to the election. what happens the rest of that day? no one can know. everybody has different versions. we do know that by the kennedy -- bobby kennedy came down the stairs at least three times. each time they tried to get lyndon johnson to withdraw. >> which version do you trust the mos