salmon -- circular stairs? >> no, but everyone is trying to comply with the law to make it as minimal as possible while still maintaining the safety. >> thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. i am helping the project sponsor on this appeal. the architect is also here. first, there are a lot of things discussed that are not before you, and i do not expect to address somthem, but i want to assure you everything was done with proper permits for the work that was going to be performed and inspections along the way for the work that was being done, including the stairs, so the same complaint was made commoto ddi -- dbi and the plang committee. they gave him the time to be deliberate in researching what happened, and he did the review and came to the conclusion of the stairs to meet code and were properly released. that is the beginning and the end of what this appeal is about. of course the circular staircase is going to take less space. it is no longer code compliant. when you build stairs, they are the minimum

it is a very simple set of stairs. after the filing procedure, the department gave their signature, and then we went to the third department, city planning. city planning is hesitating approving because they were questioning whether the original stairs were built with a permit. the location of the stairs in a question is in the required briard. they asked me to provide proof that the stairs were made with a permit. the process stopped there. i was requested to provide proof. when i came back to talk to my client, he said he remembered that the stairs were built with permits. that fact was on the report. so we came back to order the report on july 10. according to my client's recollection, 15 days until this. i have not received anything. they have up until the end of the month, the last day of the 15 working days. i assume if i have the report, proof that the stairs were originally built with a permit, i should be able to get the compliance permit within the same day because it is usually over the counter. i do not kno

the only way to get veterans through the side yard was to add these stairs. through the plan review process, which is why it had to go back to city planning for real approval. >> i noticed the drawing that you provided that indicated that it was over the proper line and it is not aside a civil drawing. >> i am happy to show you that, but it is not relevant except that the neighbor is overreaching here, literally and figuratively. >> if you were to stand on the stairs at the landing at the taught, how would one be able to peer into one of the bay windows? >> you keep saying it and you say is irrelevant but you say it over and over again. if you stand on the landing, are you in of place where you can view into that bay area? >> you have to turn around and look back into the corner of the bay. this there actually dropped after that window. i think this drawing is best because it shows the relationship. the first rectangular -- i think this was printed in color for you. the first window in the corner is right across the porch which is closest to the stairs starts

the stairs come out immediately. there is no reason to stand the set of stairs looking into the next door neighbor. and it is right there, a very simple solution. just ask them to drop the death. >>dawson 42 inches required fora landing. the reason there is a deck, they want a gay. you don't need a day. nobody else has a gay. they can have the stairs for the very first meeting. >> let me make sure i got the terminology right. >> it is a horizontal platform. this window is going to become a door. the other buildings don't even have a gate on the front. no one has a date. >> we can take rebuttals from the permit holder. >> just for a point of clarification, i made a physical site visit on monday evening and what is being referred to as a window is to fix pieces of opaque glass, you cannot see through them. i think you were trying to get that out of one of the earlier speakers and wanted to clarify that i saw that with my own eyes and that is the condition on the site. >> are those windows non- comparable? thank you. >>

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.

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. suspect or family members. officers made the decision they

. >> they walk up the stairs. >> they can walk up the stairs.so funny is when they come tumbling down, it's cute. >> whoa! that does look fun. >> and they love it. they're running to go back down it again. >>> i've got to say, and i don't say this often, it's impossible not to like this. >> this one tries to climb back up the slide instead of taking the stairs. this one is making it, but i love this. look at the legs. he did a back flip. >> i love it, though. they really do act like little kids. as soon as they get to the bottom, they run back around to the stairs. >> that was gayle's animal moment of the day. >>> nick, this looks like just plain fun, check it out. the big air bag made a stop in germany for a free drop event. when i say big air bag, that's exactly what it is. people jump on it. they're 50 feet up in the air. these guys are just flipping, jumping, launching themselves off the lift. so this thing just travels around, sets up in a park and you can see so if you've got the guts to jump off something that high. >> this is one of thos

the circular stair. the issue of privacy that is raised, as one goes down, the spiral staircase would have the same . did given that it is barely above what the code mandated, it appears it is based on the heights that has to transition downward. it appears it is code- compliant, and i would support the merger. good >> i share in my sentiments which are already expressed. i find it troubling communications were not air between the neighbors, because if you are putting improvements in your house, presumably you are going to be there for a while. >> i will move to deny the appeal and of hold the permanent. >> you would be moving to uphold the release of suspension. you might suggest you have no error. >> we have a motion to deny this appeal, of pulled the order on the basis there was no error -- uphold the order on the basis there was no abuse of discretion. [calling votes] the vote is 4-0. the zoning administrator is of the zoning administrator is of help. maxwell come back. before i call the next item, -

they kept climbing, remembering those firefighters who, on that terrible they climbed the stairs at the world trade center, trying to save lives. for some of those climbing today, this is very personal. >> i am looking for battalion chief edward garrity. i am from so this walk means a lot to me. >> they took the elevator down and then climbed back up four more times. one firefighter said it best. >> today is something special. they climbed, we climb. we go home, they do not. >> the heavy rain is taking center stage as opposed to the damaging wind and large hail. we're trading off one for the other. there is some heavy rain out there. the heaviest stuff is moved out of baltimore city. there was some tremendous flooding downtown and there probably is some flooding, anywhere from two to 4 inches of rain reported with this batch of storms. the heaviest stuff is through the eastern part of baltimore county. these are not moving very fast and we have some heavy rain in baltimore county as well. and the hunt valley area spreading into harford county. there will produce anywhere from half an in

i helped a guy get down the stairs.d been shot in the head and it was just -- it was crazy honestly and in the lobby there were a few more shots and didn't know where they were coming from and me and my girlfriend just wanted to get to our car and realized he was still in the movie theater so just hopped inside another vehicle and asked if we could get in and some were freaking out but a lot of people including myself and everybody around me were trying to help people kind of get through and making sure nobody was getting trampled but trying to get out as quickly as possible. >> those eyewitness accounts so chilling. our investigative team has been on there all morning long, pierre thomas, brad garrett, former fbi agent and brian ross. we are learning more about the shooter, james holmes, pierre. >> reporter: george, chilling details coming in. we spoke to a neighbor who lived just below the suspect and she claimed around midnight last night she heard some very loud what she described as technomusic which had the sound

. >> she said that when she turned around, all she saw was the guy slowly making his way up the stairs and just firing. >> at people? >> just picking random people. >> that's how witnesses described it, picking random people. it happened at the century 16 movie theater in town center at aurora. and the way witnesses described it, the gunman came in, somehow kicking through a back door, emergency exit. showed up at the front of the theater in the beginning moments of the movie. he then had with him guns and also some kind of smoke device that he set off. the smoke filled the theater by some reports, theater number nine, at this movie theater, movie center. and then they had absolute chaos as some of the people realized they were being choked by the gas and he started opening fire. according to witnesses, very calmly walked up the stairs and just seemed to randomly be picking people out of the audience and shooting at them. we have quentin caldwell, a witness joining us by phone. thanks for talking to me. tell me where you were in the movie theater complex, 16 screens. >> we were in thea

he then started to walk up the stairs. are you talking about stairs on a side aisle of the theater? >> yes, sir. yes, sir. that is exactly what he was doing. then at that point everybody was trying to run away and every time somebody tried to run away you would hear screaming and then another gun shot and another gun shot. >> and then was there silence while he was -- we've heard reports that he reloaded at least once maybe two times. were there moments of silence where people escaped during that time? >> oh, yes. oh, yeah. there was moments of silence and lots of screaming as far as that goes. i mean, he wasn't shooting at that time but there was lots of screaming and then at that point they were trying to escape but he had reloaded and he was shooting people like in the front that were trying to get out the doors. that's why everybody was coming back inside. i was just trapped. i was one of the last people to try to get out. at that point, i had some emt training, not fully certified yet but it just kicked in. there was a gentleman next to me, had to be 18 years old and he had a g

. >> climbing the stairs for 9/11 firefighters. that story is next. x firefighters from across the country are here for the firehouse expo. >> all the time is not just spend on training. a special event to remember the new york city firefighters who paid the ultimate price on 9/11. >> at the downtown hilton this morning, firefighters were suiting up for what would be a 120 story stair climb. >> it is great to remember those who have fallen and make sure that there never forgotten. >> this is in honor of the 343 firefighters who lost their lives. firefighters were wearing pictures of some of those firefighters. >> he was with water no. 13. he was the uncle of my best friend who we serve together in the u.s. air force. >> i am walking for michael lynch. it is an important event to understand their sacrifice and not forget their sacrifice. >> of the stairs they went. flight after flight. they kept climbing, remembering those firefighters who on that terrible day climbed the stairs of the world trade center, trying to save lives. for some of those climbin

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the stairs just go along the side of the road. the bear is like, all right, now that that's over, i'm just going to make my way up the stairs. >>> these people are pulling a prank on the seagulls. >> they're mixing laxatives in with the chips. yeah. and then the pop's in their the poop's on their back, the poop's on the baby. >> something not smell right here? find out why the joke may be on us. >>> and it's a praying man 'tis and this thing. >> wh >>> on friday, taxi drivers in madrid, spain, hit the streets to protest efforts to -- they would have to work longer hours for less money. in this video on madrid, many of these taxi drivers are parked on the street. they blocked several streets, but not all of the taxi drivers in spain decided to partake in this protest. so the protesting taxi drivers ended up attacking the drivers that were circulating with passengers, tagging the cars, kicking the cars, hitting the cars. and if there were any passengers in the cars, they would force them to get out of the car. >> that's almost like

witnesses say he walked up the stairs, shooting people. what we know now according to police, 14 people are dead, at least 50 have been transported to area hospitals. a number of different hospitals who were warned to prepare for a, quote, mass casualty incident. police saying that some of those 50 in extremely critical condition. in fact, when we first went on the air, the report was that ten people had been killed and in the span of a few minutes police raised that number to 14. 14 people dead, at least 50 injured. when you hear about these reports of extremely critical condition, it's probably safe to assume the number 14 will go up from there. a suspect is in custody. they have no evidence of a second gunman. they've locked down the movie theater because the gunman made some indication to police he put an explosive device inside the movie theater and he

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she and the boys are climbing the stairs to honor some of the fallen heroes.or richard allen, on ladder 15. it's a great cause to raise money for the families of the fallen firefighters. >> reporter: this large family of firefighters will climb seven flights to equal the 110 flights, the same number as the world trade center towers. this climb is a time to remember and pay tribute to those 340 members of the fire department. >> to remember the sacrifices, not only for the fdny members, but the families that were in that family, civilians and everybody else. it was a big event in our country, and it should never be forgotten. because a lot of sacrifices made that day. by the whole entire country and it brought the country back together. >> reporter: in downtown baltimore, manny loch, abc2 news. >>> the event also served as with a way to firefighters to honor the comrades who made the ultimate sacrifice on september 11th. >>> thundershowers on the map and this is welcome actually. welcome rain. yes, some lightning. you have to be careful with that if you're outd

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i jumped forward into the aisle and curled into a ball and waited for him to go up the stairs. >> there was a break. stuck my head up. caught a glimpse of him, the main silhouette and he started shooting again. >> none of us knew what was going on. at that point there's a large crowd in front of the theater and everybody started sprinting away from the theater. >> president obama cut his florida campaign swing short after hearing about the massacre in fort myers, florida. he thanked the crowd for coming out to support him but said today everyone has to remember the victims of this shooting. >> the federal government stands ready to do whatever is necessary to bring whoever is responsible for this heinous crime to justice. i'm sure many of you who are parents here had the same reaction i does when i heard -- reaction i did when i heard this news. my daughters go to the movies. what if they had been in the theater? as so many of our kids do every day. michele and i will be fortunate to hug our girls a little tighter tonight and i'm sure will you do the same with your children. >> the firs

, and i said the second he goes up the stairs to my friend, we got to crawl up the stairs.'t go over there because he's going to shoot whoever's trying to get out and he was. all i heard was gunshots a s a women and children were shooting. >> president obama will be discussing the shooting in a prs conference. the president did release a statement today. dan lothian is traveling with the president with more on what the statement says and how that might differ from what we're going to hear the president say later on today. >> the president was scheduled to make two campaign shops on the second stay of his florida trip, this one now in ft. myers, the obama election campaign saying that event just outside of orlando has been cancelled so president obama can head back to washington. the remarks that the president will make here at about 11:20 or so so a little bit more than an hour from now will be the first public remarks that the president has made in reaction to the shooting. but the white house did release a statement from the president saying that the president and first l

. >> tomorrow you're going to see the red hair and the blank stair again. james holmes will be in court again tomorrow. >> this weekend was filled with funeral services held for the victims of the colorado shooting. the suspect is set to be formerly charged in court monday but the family of the victims are still trying to understand what happened. a court document released friday says that holmes was a patient of a psychiatrist. a package of information was seized from his doctor last week. any communications between the defendant and the psychiatrist are absolutely protected. we don't know at this point when the last time was that he had any communications with her. we don't know the nature of those communicationings and at this point those communications are confidential. when a patient states a clear danger to a specific person we have an obligation to warn that person and the authorities. >> a beautiful day today with a mixture of sun shine and clouds. 86 degrees, it's comfortable. partly cloudy skies tonight. in terms of temperatures, 87 in town observ

i looked to my right and another gentleman is holding his stomach and running down the stairs trying to get out of there. >> you're in theater number eight. we're told the shooting was taking place in theater number nine. but somehow the bullets were going through the walls into your theater? >> yeah, they did. after that had happened in fact we went to the left side of the theater and somebody said, look, holes and we looked up and you could see the baffling material had been pushed out of the wall and i walked over and put my finger in it, i was just in awe and kind of shocked still. and right before we tried to exit the theater, all of a sudden somebody said don't go in the lobby, he's in the lobby and somebody else tried to go outside and they shut the doors. i don't know why, they said he's outside. we don't know if there was more than one. a lot of people were in shock. >> could you smell the gas, we're told that in theater number nine he had set off a gas canister. was it coming into your theater? >> yes, the holes that were shot through, we noticed there was a little bit of l

i go downstairs and see blood on the stairs.back and tell everybody, it looks like somebody is shooting in here. looks like there is something wrong. i go over to the exit and i go over to see if we can get out that way. i open the door and that's when i seen the two 16 or 17-year-old girls. they're in panic mode. basically one girl looked like she was shot through the mouth or had shah rap net go through -- shrapnel go through her mouth. i asked if they were okay. they asked me to help them, please help us. he's coming back. can you please help us. soy helped them come in the door. right when i'm about to close the door, i see the shooter come around the corner of the brick wall. that's when i see him and i closed the door and i hold it for five seconds. he's pounding on the door. i let go. after he stops pounding, we try to take care of the girl and had help from off-duty paramedic. >> heather: you were in theater 8 next to theater 9 where this was happening of the go down the stairs and see blood in the stairs in that area of

it's all part of the 9/11 memorial stair climb. they're going to walk up 110 flights of stairs to remember the victims of those attacks. the same number of flights that were in the world trade center towers. each climber is going to carry a picture of a firefighter who died in the attacks. 343 members of the new york city fire department died on september 11th. today's event starts at noon at the hilton baltimore hotel and we'll be there. >>> a crazy day yesterday with the weather. highs breaking 100 and severe weather last night. >> who didn't keep an eye on the tries in the backyard? we're going to look at the damage in one home that left the firefighter injured. >> also you exercise as much as you can but you still have concerns about your heart. a new pill your doctor could prescribe that will help you keep your doctor healthy. >> maryland's most powerful radar is saying that 400 miles away we have another storm we have to watch out for today. we're going to track it for you. lauren? >> good morning mike. well no problems to re

the department of emergency management is concerned about safety, i will ask you to come up these stairs and give us some remarks. please help meet welcome mayor ed lee. [applause] >> well, good morning. welcome to sunny san francisco. thank you again, general, for your work as chair of our fleet regas association but you haven't really done a tremendous job. i wanted to add to your personal story. you know, i was sent over by former mayor gavin newsom to new orleans a few years ago, and we study what had happened there, and we realized that one of the things that had occurred in new orleans was a breakdown between city government and the neighborhoods, and such that when the hurricane hit and the flooding happened, so many people left the city, and then they did not come back. because there was no relationship between local government and many of the neighborhoods and many of the residence. that lesson burned in my mind for a very long time. so it is that much more important, general, that when you put this fleet we together, that you made a disaster preparedness a thing -- the inme vis