and by using a winding stair we're able to shorten the length of the stair and use less of the side yard than otherwise would be taken up by a rectangular stair. we specifically curved the shape of the stair to reduce the way the mass of the extension would be impacting the side yard area and soften it as much as possible. so, as much as people like to focus on it as a grandiose feature, it is all about responding to the specific site conditions. and just touching last on the elevator dimensions, we got our data from an actual elevator vendor. we went with the small [speaker not understood] that could accommodate a wheelchair. people talk about a 3 by 4 elevator, that is complete nonsense. you cannot put a wheelchair in a 3 by 4 elevator. the elevator itself is only 30 inches wide, it is effectively a double elevator. thank you. >> okay, the public hearing is closed. and opening it up to commissioner comments and questions. commissioner antonini. >> thank you for all testifying. i will reveal at the beginning of my comments that i know dr. darren rishwain. he's an endodontist in marin co

and by using a winding stair we're able to shorten the length of the stair and use less of the side yard than otherwise would be taken up by a rectangular stair. we specifically curved the shape of the stair to reduce the way the mass of the extension would be impacting the side yard area and soften it as much as possible. so, as much as people like to focus on it as a grandiose feature, it is all about responding to the specific site conditions. and just touching last

and by using a winding stair we're able to shorten the length of the stair and use less of the side yard than otherwise would be taken up by a rectangular stair. we specifically curved the shape of the stair to reduce the way

we briefly looked at that because most of the addition is, in fact, $0.40 for the stairs and a elevators to put it there would require us enclosing through the bedrooms and it didn't seem okay for the function >> yeah, but again we're not going to get discouraged. so there's only a certain amount of room and it seems like there's a lot of remaining that didn't make sense >> so, i mean i think i've had a chance to go out to the site with both project sponsor. those houses were built at the same time and it goods into this side yard so the addition is out of scale and a inappropriate of what i'd consider the rear yard of this property. it's almost assessed they're open space you know this area and coupled with their side yard aids the other requesters side yard but looking at more space in the rear yard would be appropriate >> commissioner wu. hearing the zoning administrator has said though you have concerns about the rear yard so it's not ultimately up to us it's your call >> but i think along the lines confirm i see more development ultimately to the rear where the bedroom expands but i

so, a full fall down the stairs like this is highly unlikely.correct. i would expect her to have more injuries if she fell down a flight of stairs. >> reporter: in fact, dr. manion says the only fall on the steps is that if this tripped at the bottom of the stairs. >> as she falls back, she strikes her head on the edge of the step. and by doing that, she sustains all the skull fractures to the back of the head. >> reporter: now, there is at least one scenario in which the autopsy and the family's theory could match. here, in the bedroom. >> in a homicide scenario, you could just lift the person up and then slam them right back on the ground. >> reporter: but dr. manion has serious reservations. for one thing, shirley could have fallen accidentally and could she have within murdered with her mother right there in the house? >> we don't hear any boom, any commotion. the mother is there, she doesn't hear any screaming. there's no signs of a struggle. so, again, very, very difficult to say this is a homicide. >> reporter: in the end, our expert, dr.

. >> i seen him walk up to a set of stairs and just go up foot over foot up the stairs just like you do. >>> and bionic breakthrough. new hope for amputees as researchers show off a prosthetic leg controlled by its user's mind. captioning funded by cbs user's miechbltd this is the "cbs morning news" for t >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for this thursday, september 26th, 2013. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. well, congress has just five more days to pass legislation to avoid a shutdown of the federal government, but the obstacles seem almost insurmountable. the senate and the house remain at odds over health care and the debt ceiling. some lawmakers are prepared to let the government shut down. according to a cbs/new york times poll, an overwhelming number of americans, 80%, say it is not acceptable to threaten a government shutdown during budget negotiations. susan mcginnis is in washington the latest. susan, good morning. >> acceptable or not there are those on capitol hill who are willing to take the risk. basically we have a bill here that funds the go

are up stairs. who is in there? >> who is in there? >> yo, there's so many. everyone go in and put on your sweat suits. >> since we are all so tight, the girlfriends, the wives they end up by default becoming tight, because they all have one thing in common, they are men have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. and that draws them a lot closer. ♪ >> yeah, girl's night out! >> i need you to do an update on twitter every five minutes. >> update on twitter in. >> i'm not updating on my girl's night. >> we are leaving! see you guys later. >> i hate to see you go, baby, but i love to watch you leave. >> what did you say? >> pow, call me goldie! later that evening, pat rogers goes to cash in on his bet with his partner, jennifer penton. [ knocking ] >> hey. what's going on? thank you. >> i'm still cooking. >> okay, very good. >> how are you? >> good. >> thank you. do you even know what kind it is? >> no, i don't. >> have no idea? >> i hear it's a good one. >> maybe you can try to figure it out. s

i think it has stairs more like this property used to. but i did not review the property to the west. i would note too that the on this it is sloping down. so this is a down sloping lot. the properties on the south side of 26th street are on higher ground and you will find more 3-4 story buildings there and the property does go down to the north that it does go downhill. >> that was likely added before the change to the rh 2 where you know the introduction of the pop out -- >> that's a good question, based upon what this project architect said, it sounded like it may also comply with the section 136 pop out. so it sounds like the appellant is saying that that building was extended in the late 90s which would be a time where we had the pop out. that property was built in the same fashion as the subject. >> okay. thank you. >> okay. >> tony greko. this permit was a site permit. just an little background history. this is a permit for removal of plaster. our inspector went out and found they had gone beyond the permit and we issued a notice o

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.

are held to a minimum of three feet wide which for stairs still fine, considering the open space that wraps around it. the elevator works all the way through the core of the building. it's a much smaller elevator than what they have proposed, but it certainly fits a wheelchair and can work. and again, there's room enough in this existing footprint to move around certain thing within this program to try to make either a larger elevator or -- well, it's always going to be a trade-off to try to get a fit using their existing program if all of the features are required. the second set of information is a little bit clear and speaks for itself which are the sun studies. they're taken for each of the four solstickes. [speaker not understood], march and september are pretty similar. the red indicates the new shadows created by the addition which it's obvious that they do have impact on the window system to the north. now, i wanted to point out particularly during the summer months there's a fair built of light being blocked for that neighbor to the north and all of his windows essentially. t

he strangles her nearly to the point of unconsciousness up stairs, but then he brings her down stairs into the basement and strangles her to death. >> what did he do with the two bodies? >> he brought some trash bags with him. he put their bodies each separa separately the trash bag from the bottom up, unfrom the top down, poured drain no on the bodies to speedy composition and dragged them over into the corner of the basement where he put more debris on top of them. >> and they were never discovered or anything, someone came in at some point bulldozed the -- coincidentally the house down. >> they demolished the house, carried all of the stuff away in dump trucks from there it eventually ended up in a landfill about two hours from here in vermont. the people who did the demolition started going through the basement and said there was a very, very strong odor of decomposition. they were familiar with what decomposing bodies smelled like i believe more from hunting and being out in the woods, but they decided not to go down there because the smell was too bad and they just collapsed the

. >> i walk up to a set of stairs and just go up foot over foot up the stairs like you do. whereas with my normal prosthetic, i kind of have to drag it behind me as i go up the stairs. >> reporter: in today's "new england journal of medicine," researchers described how it worked. when a person thinks about moving, a signal is sent from the brain down to the spinal cord. these impulses control the muscles. after an amputation, the muscles are no longer there, but the nerves are. zac underwent surgery to move these nerves to his hamstrings. sensors relay these nerve signals to a computer in the leg which instructs the knee and ankle how to move. >> the simplest way to explain it is, we've rewired him. >> reporter: researcher levi hargrove and a team at the rehabilitation institute of chicago engineered the device. >> you just think about moving along, the device pushes you along, pushes you upstairs, helps control you when you walk down stairs, and it does everything in a seamless manner. >> it really blew my mind the first time that we did that. it was a pretty amazing exper

stairs! >> he makes an attempt to get up the stairs. he's got an inspirational quote. >> everybody starts at the bottom. it takes a while to get up. but you just have to keep going. it's like that song, you get knocked down but you get up again. i'm going to start calling you number one, except you never did get back up again. >> he first came to national attention when he went on oprah's show trying to get his own show. he did get his own show but according to the web site, it was immediately cancelled. we have him via skype. welcome to the show. >> how are you? >> tell me about these weekly videos you're going to be doing now. >> i didn't see too many workout videos with people whose physical bodies are in disarray. it's always some guy with 10,000 muscles you never heard of just yelling at you. i did a video that told people they were just great the way they are. i would call it a technically bad idea but it worked out also i'm doing a show for a company called soul pancake called have a little faith where i explore different religio

our own system and we carry that up the stairs with us >> yes. >> okay. so maybe we can go a little bit into the history of why we mandated this what was the thinking? why wouldn't we want the additional layer of protection and safety? >> in 20034 when the san francisco fire department proposed this there wasn't a fire service access elevator ordinance available. that didn't come in effect until 2008 >> i see. >> so the technology for the elevators wasn't there yet. >> and since then i've read you've be able to increase the capacity of the tanks. >> exactly. >> yeah, we he got a grant for a hundred psi bottles so that's in conflict which we only file 45 hundred. so that's recently happened in past year >> my los last two questions. i'm curious what happens to those 31 believes that has this reaccomplishment plan into place. the buildings will be required to maintain the system when they were installed so nothing changes for them. i think retrofitting the building for a fire service access elevator would be astronomical >> it's more affordable for them to

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

we need to give him the death stair. we have to give him the death stair. >> st. petersburg though, beautiful. >> very warm in the summer. >> it is better than regular russia. regular russia, thumbs down. >> agree. agree. >> st. petersburg, beautiful. >> i am not a fan of eastern black architecture. it is very plain, very gray. no imagination. columns. i don't know what i am talking about. i will keep doing this the rest of the show. >> do we have time to talk about the tweet or do we have to move? >> of course we do. >> this is kenneth cole who tweeted this about syria. i can't read that though. boots on the ground or not let's not forget sandals, pumps and loafers. >> that's what kenneth cole should be saying. >> go shopping! joy i am trying to gin up some outrage, but nobody is biting. >> give me some gin and i will start biting, sir. it is not even friday you little scamp. >> you are an ass, an absolute ass. >> first comes the gin and then comes the ass. that's what he is saying. >> the biting is later. >> coming up, what is the best way to get around town? da

he made his way back to the stairs. guess he went through the slot that stanley and i sort of created down the stairway "a." >> i started to run downstairs. so i ended up on ground level. i went to walk out and i wanted to walk out into the court yard but there's a lot of debris and people jumping. it looked like a war zone. so they made us go through the concourse area. >> when he was exiting the building, he heard an explosion. he spun around and a fire ball was coming down the hallway at him. he put his arms up, blew him across church street. he woke up in the hospital two days later. >> i had burns, they say, on 80% of my body. i had a broken bone in my back. i had my contacts in so they were melted to my eyes. my wife said she came onto the hospital two days later and walked right past me. i guess my ears were turned inside out. my head was very swollen. i was in the hospital for 12 days. then i went home back to new jersey to recover. >> i enjoy living, and i've learned life is precious. they were snuffed out, so

and we have a reception at the top of the stairs. and si -- and i have been waiting to say this all night, in the all of antiquities. i want to thank everyone and the families and the officers who were not here that are out on the street doing what these guys do every day. thank you very much. impossible. announcer: when you open a book, you can explore new lands... [bird screeches] meet new friends, and discover new adventures. there are amazing possibilities when you open your mind to reading. [roar] you can log onto he library of congress website and let the journey begin.

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

, helps control you when you walk down stairs and it's all in a seamless manner. >> it really blew my it was pretty amazing. i hadn't moved my ankle in two years or whatever it was. >> reporter: the army funded the research hopes to improve the lives of soldiers and americans who have lower leg amputations. >> we're really trying to make these advanced devices that will allow them to get back to active duty or later in life allow them to move around their home and remain independent longer. that's one of the primary goals of this research. >> the hope is that in three to five years many more people will be able to get this new leg, and with each step zach takes, researchers move closer to that goal. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. >>> from bionic limbs to nasal transplants, a chinese man's face who was damaged during a car crash, grew his own nose. they placed tissue expand ders into his for herd in the shape of a nose and used cartilage from his ribs. it's taken nine months but it will will be performed soon. this is the "cbs morning news." . >>> good morning. welcome to wusa9. can y

i'll run up here and i can actually go up the stairs, if i don't run out of breath. i have spent $15 to go on a roller-coaster. >> it's so cool. it's not all violent. >> no, no. if you really wanted to, barring the story, if you didn't care about the story, you could exist in this world and never be violent. >> if you could pick out the best thing in this game, what would you say it is? >> i think it's scope. the ability to do what you want in this game is something that people are not used to. you don't go into a movie theatre, watch a movie and say, "i don't want to see the end, i want to check this out." >> characters can swim, play tennis and golf with their friends. they can watch a movie. >> they have created an entire world that is absolutely a sat earical look at the united

and we have a reception at the top of the stairs. and si -- and i have been waiting to say this all night, in the all of antiquities. i want to thank everyone and the families and the officers who were not here that are out on the street doing what these guys do every day. thank you very much. >> ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the presentation of the colors and the singing of the national anthem. ♪ ♪ [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome steve hengineg executive director metropolitan transportation commission. >> good afternoon, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the toll bridge program oversight committee and my committee colleagues, and the director of cal transand the executive director of the california transportation commission, it is my great pleasure to welcome you at long last, to the opening ceremonies for the new east band of the san francisco oakland bay bridge. that is an applause line. [ applause ] >> i know that you joined me in thanking the oakland institute color guard and the cho

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

and we have a reception at the top of the stairs. and si -- and i have been waiting to say this all night, in the all of antiquities. i want to thank everyone and the families and the officers who were not here that are out on the street doing what these guys do every day. thank you very much. is tuesday, september third, 2013, happy, labor day weekend. and we have welcome everyone to the commission on community investment and infrastructure, call the role. >> item one, roll call, members, respond when i call your name. >> ellinigton. >> yes. >> modejar. >> here. >> rosales. >> here. >> johnson. >> here. >> singh,. >> here. >> item two, announcements, a, the next schedule commission meeting will be a special meeting held on tuesday september 17, at 4:00 p.m. at the nt

when this happened, everyone in the cafe saw the armed men coming up the stairs. there was general panic as everyone was trying to flee the scene. this was the eyewitness' account. he said he and his friend managed to hide for some five hours before they were rescued by kenyan police. he says as they were running from the cafe he could hear gunshots being fired into the people where they were. >> do you know whether or not any of the gunmen were apprehended or taken down or do you even have a number of how many gunmen? >> look, what i heard is there were ten gunmen. as i understand it, one has been wounded and taken alive by kenyan authorities. the police and the military were working in tandem to retake the building. as i understand it, the police had it from the ground floor and kenyan military troops landed on the roof and were trying to flush out the building that way. as i mentioned earlier, the gunmen are still inside and there are still hostages inside. >> martin cuddihy, keep us posted as you get more information. terrible situation still on-going at the s

they have to carry my chair up the stairs.hing in my life is to have to call and yell for my children to help pick me up off the bathroom floor. where do you go when home isn't home anymore? there are hundreds of catastrophically disabled veterans who need specially designed homes, in order to live normal lives. ah yes, i am on the waiting list to have a home built. it's going to be amazing. a smart home, which is a handicap accessible home. everything is pretty much automated. it will be tailored to my personal needs. for me to gain independence again would be just amazing. to be able to just take care of myself as an individual. this home will allow me to be self-sufficient. it means a new level of freedom. it gives me back some of my dignity- who i used to be. there is a waiting list for houses. this is the waiting list. there are a lot of people on that list, yeah. there are a lot of guys like me out there. maybe too many. in a great nation the bravest volunteer to protect our way of life. now it's up to a great people, to

they came down the stairs and literally laid waste to the entire place. >> they did something stupidh the liquor bottles. >> they had the worst taste in liquor, they smashed the expensive liquors and took the cheap liquor. and they took the funnions and they left a track that led police right to his vehicle. he left a cigarette in his mouth. when he dropped the candy, he picked over to pick it up and the police got dna from it. >> any leads? >> my facebook exploded. i've had thousands of e-mails come in, which i've forwarded to the state police. it's just a matter of time before these guys trip up again, so to speak. >> a couple of videos from china, this is from typhoon usagi. this captures the strong wind as a man is trying to cross the street. he falls over, seems to grab on to something and stay there is. incredibly dangerous situation because debris is flying everywhere. according to some reports, the wind when is they hit land were 100 miles an hour. >> here come the police. do they help him out? >> it does look like that's some sort of emergency vehicle. and they stay there wa

it's limbs overhang the stair in the adjacent property as you see here. coast redwoods it through 5 which move northward along the lot line on the west have grown vigorously and tower over the resident roofline. here's a better shot. you can see the size of it right there with the roofline being be there. you you can see you get a feeling for size anyway of the trees. their planned on the mini lot line which are adjacent to the private property and consequentially they peer over the rooflines. you can see right there the root systems have uplifted the walkway and a building foundation next door. here we go a shot at the looking at the trees from the resident property wall right there and with the tops of those trees above the roofs they present greater sale areas. their bound to have their tops blown out which means their toppings tops break off they can drop 20 feet or more from the tops and a can create enormous damage and injury. looking at ahead those are the issues we see for the trees. were the trees to remain there redwoods two through 5 will conti

she was screaming and running down the stairs. we ran up to his place. it was engulfed in fumes. i almost blacked out. i fell down the stairs. >> thankfully no one was hurt in this fire. >>> superstorm sandy strikes twice. the massive fire at the jersey shore is linked to last year's storm. it was started by electrical wiring that had been damaged due to sandy. >>> the skies over colorado are clear for a second day in a row. 12,000 people have been evacuated. the death toll rose to eight today. the torrential rainfall and flooding have damaged 18,000 homes. those numbers are expected to rise. >>> team usa is on the brink of losing the america's cup, but mother nature intervened for at least one more day. many fans today left disappointed. high winds were the problem, so both of today's races were postponed. the wind limits were put in place as a safety protocal after a boat capsized in may killing a team member. races 11 and 12 will be bumped to tomorrow. >> the loss in may shook us pretty hard as a community, as a whole industry. our game is usually fraught with all kinds of sel

if you have been on the light rail we know that we have stairs going up and down. the stairs are up position and all boarding at a level with a train on the platform. when you go on the surface, it's an old street car system. it's really a street car system that has stepped down into the street. the light rail vehicles that we have is a high low step. what we are able to do is raise the steps and then we have cement platforms so there is level boarding into the vehicle. the key stops on the surface positions require an elevated ramp in order for there to be access to the vehicle. i'm sorry i didn't make that clear. even on the surface we do have some full high level platforms like san francisco state and stones town and all of third street. all the way out. the new line the high level from level boarding at all doors. in order to make this older antiquated system which is the old street car system accessible. we need to build ramps and platforms so wheelchair users can get or anyone else that needs to not of a level advise can get to the level floor of the platform

can an ambulance and maybe some air stairs, meet us on the runway. >> united 1603, we'll get that going> reporter: the united airlines flight bound for seattle, makes an emergency landing in boise. the pilot suffering an apparent heart attack. knowing time is essential, the co-pilot, with 161 passengers onboard from houston, asked to immediately pull off the runway for help. >> he's going to stop on the runway. and then, they'll bring the stairs out to him. >> smoky 7, smoky 9, and engine 7 will proceed to taxiway alpha. >> reporter: flight crews are trained to handle this type of emergency. >> the pilots are treated with the same standard. the main problem is to take care of the pilot who is having the problem. >> reporter: a problem that other pilots in the air are hearing unfold. >> what was going on with united? >> a medical emergency. their captain. >> that's never good. >> nope. >> reporter: united airlines tells abc news, the flight landed safely. and paramedics met the plane upon arrival and transported the crew member to the hospital. passengers onboard said the airline did a g

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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