. >> that is how james wood describes his first night at the stair center in berkeley. is a wrapping rehousing program run by bay area community services our backs. the program is supposed to help people from encampments into permanent housing. >> i've been really upset because when i first got here it was deplorable conditions. >> in the stair center? >> yes. it seems to be a glorified homeless encampment. there was so much drugs being used and the doors were slamming every two minutes you can't sleep because they are up all night in and out of the buildings. >> james says he moved into the stair center in september. during his two months there he says the building has gone a full week without hot water. had things that didn't work, flooded bathrooms, broken washers and dryers and fire extinguishers that were more than six months overdue for inspection. >> doesn't feel safe?>> no. >> is it clean in there? >> no. that is why it was so deplorable. bathrooms were disgusting. >> james said the only suannapeblo t en rmthe firsg t was in usincoonnci when he went to move in,

. >> reporter: that is how james woods described his first night at the stair center in berkeley.un by bay area community services. the program is supposed to help people move from encampments into permanent housing. >> when i first got here, it was deplorable conditions. it seemed to be nothing but a glorified homeless encamp. there were so many drugs being used, doors slammed. >> reporter: he moved into the stair center in september. during his two months there, he said the building went a full week without hot waterings had sinks that didn't work. flooded bathrooms. broken washers and driers an fire extinguishers six months overdue for inspection. >> does it feel safe? >> no. >> is it clean in there? >> no. that's why it was so deplorable. >> reporter: james says the only permanent housing options they offered him were also not sustainable. the first in concord. when he went to move in, he found out he was going to have a roommate. someone he never met. >> this was rented to me as a single room. >> reporter: next place, he looked in oakland. he knew it would be a shared room. m

on the rear stairs, i note that the rear stairs were rebuilt in 2006 and they replaced the post and stringersi told this to the plan director and now we will replace the treads and risers and the handrail. that is 100% of the stair. i disclosed everything to the plan checker. they're criticizing me for telling the planned checker the stairs were rebuilt and i'm telling you now, we are rebuilding them. we are not hiding anything here. the skylight in the roof, before we could get to the roof and tell them don't file a permit, he ran down and got a roofing permit at the last minute, would you usually don't get until the end of the job because it doesn't go up in the roof and inspect it. he did. before we could tell him don't do it. he ran down and got a roofing permit and got a permit for the two skylights he installed. they are now making it an issue that there's more skylights of the previous tenants installed. we are happy to get a permit for those extra skylights. i can go down the list of every one of those issues. that is why they created a second complaint using my own drawings. someone

because of the stair configuration, we got a little bit more space. and the stairs, you can see here were just at an awkward position, and we configured that to i felt a better condition. and the other comment was it greatly improves an existing conditions. these decks are very unsightly, very bulky, and very large. and the way they were structurally built, they were starting to show some major structural issues, particularly with dry rot. >> so if a condition is we require the decks to be set back 3 feet, there is no project at that point? >> i'm saying we would have a 5 foot deck. >> you would still do the project and the reconstruction of the stairs. >> that's a question for my client to answer, but i -- i believe we would accept -- we would accept that, yeah. >> okay. thank you. >> are we still on the historic part? >> it's a joint hearing, so yeah. >> yeah. i mean, i'm looking at this, and, you know, my understanding would be that the -- if the existing condition had its required fire wall, it would be in the exact same position, and the new one

he came down the stairs, round the corner of the stairs, presumably.ouple of stairs down, on that flat landing, saskia was lying there. she was just basically sprawled across the stairs, her arms out, just lying there. as soon as i encountered her, i can clearly see usman isjust at the bottom of the stairs, on the corridor. he's just stood there with his two knives. even though khan was wearing what looked like a suicide belt, john attacked him, first with a wooden lectern, then a fire extinguisher, shouting at khan to blow his belt. i'm just basically screaming at him, saying, "blow it. "well, blow it, then, if you're going to blow it." telling him, asking him, telling him to blow the belt? yeah, like, calling his bluff, sort of thing, seeing if he's got the bottle to blow it. and he said, "i'm waiting for the police". he said he was waiting for the police? he said he was waiting for the police, yeah. i was prepared to probably lose my life, yeah. yeah, i was. within minutes, police arrived. john, shouting at them to shoot khan because of the belt. th

i would like to -- the stairs are important, if you have firefighters coming down the stairs carrying somebody, we want to make sure they're very solid. >> i'm very concerned about these stairs. >> so can we have someone look at that, and does that change what we decide today? >> well, if i can -- >> please, go ahead. >> there are two legal terms that we work with in our department. there is a life safety hazard and a serious and imminent hazard, and those are different. any time we see a violation on the stairs that emergency crews have to use for a second means of egress, that is automatically a life safety hazard. when i see that propped up like that, i'm scared. i don't hike that. i'm not willing to go as far as say that it is a series imminent hazard because there are other implications, like evacuating the building. it is a life safety hazard, and it is not a serious i imminent hazard. it is serious violation. and it has also been cited by the city association they are aware of it. we can have other people take a look at it, as much as you would like, but it has been cited, and

. >> reporter: that is how james wood describes his first night a the stair center in berkeley run byrvices or bacs. it is supposed to help people move from encampments into permanent housing. >> it seemed to be nothing but a glorified homeless encampment. so many drugs being used. doors slamming every two minutes. you can't sleep. they're up all night, in and out of the buildings. >> reporter: james moved into the stair center in september. the building has gone a full week without hot water, had sinks that didn't work, flooded bathrooms, broken washers and dryers and fire extinguishers more than six months overdue for inspection. >> does it feel safe? >> no. >> it clean in there? >> no. that is why it was so deplorable. >> the only permanent housing was not sustainable. he would have a roommate, someone he would never meet. >> this was rented to me as a single room. >> reporter: the next place was in oakland. this time he knew it would be a shared room. most solutions bacs offers are, but he was caught off guard again. >> they added a third bed to the room. a price reduction, now we

his permit was a minor encroachment permit to allow him to repair the front stairs. also i would point out that there is the discrepancies between the soft story permit and the other permit. he submitted this permit for seismic five months before the faÇade, and his seismic is already calling for an 8-foot opening. five months later he submitted the plot permit showing that he is changing the opening from 7 feet to 8 feet. i would like to point out that in my review, looking at all the pictures, i found there is no skylights at the rear of the property. yet after the reroofing work which was actually done in april for google maps, we saw there is new skylights, meeting new framing, new openings. as you can see, this is another picture going back or you don't see any skylights on that side of property, yet now we have multiple skylights. i believe i have worked with the permit expediter approximately about five times where we have met at the office in regards to our concerns with saying -- the massive revision permit would work on this property. the concerns are misre

little bit there, you talked about the garage door, it wasn't quite right, and the stairs in the back. it wasn't quite right. why did you not seek a revision permit at the time that you knew that these were obvious? >> we did get the permits for each of these items and then you file your master revision permit at the end of the job. >> okay. so the reasonable -- i will ask mr. duffy about this. the reasonable and customary practice is you pick up the pieces of the end when they are my new sure. i consider these minutia like. >> there are some things i code i have to do. i'm special inspector on this work. at the end of the job, whatever has been permitted, i have to sign five penalty of perjury that everything in the final set was inspected. i have to do a cleanup permit or importing myself to the end of the job under the structure observation and special inspection. so i have to do that. i have no choice, unless i just say, those things don't matter and i will do a signoff letter for the concrete cylinders that i took that were sitting at the job site. >> and i will use the egregious

>> i think this girl just fell down the stairs. she's at the bottom of the stairs bust up and blood everywhere. >> she responding to you at all? >> she's not even moving. do you want me to get her i.d. out? >> if you can. >> her name is denita smith. denita! she ain't moving, man. >> denita seemed to have perhaps lost her balance and fallen down the stairs. police and paramedics rush to the complex. but college was quickly notified, as was denita's family. >> ms. smith, denita fell. she is unconscious but they're trying to revive her. he said are you coming to durham? and i'm still trying to wrap my head around you fell, unconscious, revived. i said, yes, i'm coming. >> sharon and her other two children lived in charlotte, almost a three-hour drive from durham. >> on my way there, i did call jamere. >> that was jamere straud, her fiance, a police officer who worked in greensboro. much closer to durham. >> i said i need you to get to durham now. denita has fell. she's unconscious. they're trying to revive her. so he said okay. becau

we are, in addition to extending the elevator -- i'm sorry, we have opened up the stairs that connects to the roof as well that lead the public up to the roof and made it more accessible and transparent. we are also working with the planning to design the signage as andrew mentioned, to make it a prominent and feature the space for the public and for the site itself. you can see that we are also planning on renovating the roof, pavers, more landscaping, about three times the amount of seating. some of that is fixed and some is flexible, to give the diversity of uses and programs up on the roof for the public as well. with that, i thank you for the time. >> thank you very much. do we have any public comment on this item? okay. from supervisor peskin's office is here. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i wore gold today just for commissioner johnson's birthday. he's not here so i thought i would wish her happy birthday. i am here in my capacity as supervisor peskin's chief of staff. the project in question is located within district 3's c30 downtown office zoning district. our office beca

he came down the stairs, round the corner of the stairs, presumably.ding, saskia was lying there. she was just basically sprawled across the stairs, her arms out, just lying there. as soon as i encountered her, i can clearly see usman isjust at the bottom of the stairs, on the corridor. he's just stood there with his two knives. even though khan was wearing what looked like a suicide belt, john attacked him, first with a wooden lectern, then a fire extinguisher, shouting at khan to blow his belt. i'm just basically screaming at him, saying, "blow it. "well, blow it, then, if you're going to blow it." telling him, asking him, telling him to blow the belt? yeah, like, calling his bluff, sort of thing, seeing if he's got the bottle to blow it. and he said, "i'm waiting for the police". he said he was waiting for the police? he said he was waiting for the police, yeah. i was prepared to probably lose my life, yeah. yeah, i was. within minutes, police arrived. john, shouting at them to shoot khan because of the belt. they did. john's thoughts then turned to

i can imagine after all those stairs, you would want something that is a wow moment. 324 steps.alfway just to catch your breath, but having walked it a few times i thought my fitness level would improve and it would be easier, but it is not. it is stilljust as hard when you get to the top. so it better be worth it when you get here. thankfully, it really is. restoration on the tower is set to continue until 2021, and the palace of westminster, years after that. but it has been such a privilege to come up here and see this up close and i cannot wait for the scaffolding to come down. it ought to be revealed and for everyone to get the chance to see it, t0o. but in the meantime, limited because of the houses of parliament, back on the ground, are still available for visitors from around the world. it's all getting nice and festive here in the uk. if you are planning a trip you have some last—minute gifts to buy, here are some european christmas markets we recommend. croatia's capital zagreb has become a huge citywide christmas market. a massive event that has seen it win awards for

that wast him sledding down the stairs or zip lining from the roof. those sooebs were performed by a 30-year-old stunt double. >> it's an ideal double children motion pictures thing. can't have a minor ing

. >> what has been done, the big safety item was the rear stairs. i made temporary repair to the stairs. they need to be torn down. the immediate danger is fixed on that. as far as other bandaids. i put a tarp on the roof, but the remainder of the work so there are items, the windows don't open. i can't fix the bi the windows i jack up the house. the building is lifted over. it needs to be lifted up. that is the work the contractors are not willing to do with the building being occupied. the mold and paint, again, i can't just go in there and put a coat of paint over it. it may get it off the list, but it is not doing anybody any good. it may get it off the notice of violation. it is not fixing the problem. >> what about the building leaning. is that a notice of violation. >> it is not on the notice of violation, no. >> who decided that? >> who decided that, no our department? >> our building inspectors looked at this? >> yes. >> they didn't give you a violation. >> there is another notice on the building saying the house is essentially uninhabitabl

authorities say she was attacked and died after she staggered up these stairs for help. what authorities are now revealing tonight. >>> a new turn in the deadly attack outside new york city. authorities now calling it domestic terrorism. and the question, was this an isolated incident? and new tonight, why authorities are now asking for the public's help. >>> the dangerous and delicate mission under way tonight.

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the square footage would decrease slightly due to creation of new grand stair and public seating between second and third floors. it would replace 14,000 square feet of retail use at the third floor with office use which is a permitted use here in the downtown office district. on the proposed design the department supports the modifications proposed as they improve accessibility to the rooftop open space and result in greater transparency to the galleria and improve the sidewalk adjacent to the galleria. the project received very little public comment much of which was received in may. at that time the exists tenants expressed concerns how this might impact the dennis lease -- the tenant's lease. they will resolve the issues. staff received a letter of support from the galleria merchants. a letter was sept yes sent yest. the department finds the project is on balance consistent with the policies of the downtown and supports the approval with conditions to have the project sponsor continue to work with staff on final signs and finding to further guide public access to the rooftop. that co

. >> you'd hear, often, footsteps up and down the stairs, just in the middle of the night. >> ...set for sail. >> this is a lot bigger than any of us realize. [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] ♪ >> i'm jamie colby, headed into the town of ocklawaha, florida, 60 miles northwest of orlando, and i'm on my way to meet a man who inherited a house riddled with gangster history. >> my name is carson good. for more than a century, my family has owned this property here on lake weir, a place for peace and quiet, except for one very loud, bloody day in 1935. >> carson, hi. i'm jamie. >> hey, jamie, how are you? >> carson invites me into his strange inheritance, and the minute you take a look around, you can tell it's just frozen in time. he says everything is exactly as it was back in january 1935, when the fbi surrounded the lake house, with warrants for the arrest of gangsters ma barker and her son fred. >> this is the original fbi picture. >> wait a minute. wait a minute. that's this lamp? >> and that's that lamp. >> right. >> that's the table that's he. >> ri

you came down the stairs, round the corner of the stairs, presumably.g there. she was just basically sprawled across the stairs, her arms out, just lying there. as soon as i encountered her, i can clearly see usman isjust at the bottom of the stairs, on the corridor. he's just stood there with his two knives. john screamed at him and his reply was chilling. he said something about killing, killing everyone. john looked for anything he could find, all the time he was aware that khan was wearing what looks like a suicide belt. i'm just basically screaming at him, saying, "blow it. "well, blow it, then, if you're going to blow it." telling him, asking him, telling him to blow the belt? yeah, like, calling his bluff, sort of thing, seeing if he's got the bottle to blow it. and he said, "i'm waiting for the police". he said he was waiting for the police? he said he was waiting for the police, yeah. i was prepared to probably lose my life, yeah. yeah, i was. john and others with makeshift weapons pursued khan onto the streets. he was struggling and he could n

because it is over the stair, we can lower it a little bit. as you said, the other thing to keep in mind when you go from two units to three units. the building classification changes from an r3 occupancy to r2. fire, exiting, all that stuff gets heavy duty. it sounds like a good idea, just do this and this and that. i can lower it as low as we can but it would be very, very difficult. can i answer any questions? >> so, i mean, if you can put a2.1 up on the overhead and show us why you have to have -- you can't move the stairs closer to the garage, to where the garage actually would have been, because we're eliminating parking, why you can't have an open passageway. forget about the trash cans and all that, that's the neighborly thing people need to work amongst themselves to someone wouldn't put a compost bin under someone's window. >> it happens. >> well i know it happens. i would rather -- >> you are asking about moving these. >> the entry. >> yes. >> move them down towards the garage. what used to be the garage. yes, where the car is. >> p

as they clamp the bar sound staircase which we call stair play can do more than make music. but i follow you. come on you play a song you hear you can play one of the vienna philharmonic museum is also located here the famous all construct was founded in these rooms. here in the instrument we look at groups of instruments and for areas of course we show people real instruments and want visitors to learn something about the groups they belong to. they can beat the big drum to. these on its own so you hear something now and then give it a try with only. you can feel the sound waves which produce warmth to this is the world's largest animal hide drum by the way. here's a really great interactive installation the waltz dice game was also developed here in the house. the consumer business create their own waltz melody by rolling virtual dice that's something you don't see every day. so let's see how well you do play too fast and you grab it like this right and then you roll the dice. you'll see or rather hear that the waltz melody is nice ready. we did that just. an entire floor

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they would go up the twisting stairs to the women's spot. would sit upstairs in the non-air-conditioned sanctuary. >> the women and girls going up the stairs onto the very hot balcony, where they could peer o men praying down below in the congregation. sort of the chatter and conversation. i cannot even imagine 150 people packed into this space. >> the women were seated at these pews. you do not see a whole lot when you are sitting up here, but it is like a whole other world. >> this was an orthodox congregation, so the men and women prayed separately. this congregation broke off from the washington hebrew congregation, which was the first ever founded in washington. part of the reason is because of the reforms that the washington hebrew congregation was making. >> changes in the ritual. using german, or english instead of hebrew for some of the prayers. using different prayer books. and then they purchased an organ and that was the final straw for the members of the congregation. >> about 30 of those families broke off from washington hebre

take the stairs, i'll search down here. why do i got to take the stairs?th-to-mouth to the guy pushing 300 at the last call. i'm still trying to catch my breath. really? come on. hello? paramedics! corpsman? hello?

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but when i've followed these three people down the stairs and i saw that door again, with their eyes, had to happen here. and when the door is kicked open instead of opened, the whole story changed. and it became a more brutal and gruesome story than iimagine more brutal and gruesome story than i imagine from the beginning. york character, who is a senior superintendent, she is super smart. absolutely love her —— your character. she has a special garage at home that she retreats to, a kind of garage within a garage where she set out everything on the wall. we know that from all the killing and everything else we know that people are using post— its. your plots are so are using post— its. your plots are so complex, do you do that? eye realised when i was going to write the title? the blinded man, i had different notes were different colours. why was living in a small apartment. i could not put it there so apartment. i could not put it there so i've put it on the floor instead. and they had small children. so every morning when i woke up this story was different. laughter. and that made