i think it's folks i want to reserve the opportunity for commissioner stephenson she'll have questions she became ill at the last second maybe we can find time to hear it but name in support of it and public comment on item 7 draufl of the bio green staff reports seeing none, public comment is closed. all in favor, say i. to approve. opposed? no. the i's have it the report is approved arrest next item >> approval the directors restoration for commending a personnel for the vial approval and this is the sponsor and speaker it's a discussion and action item. >> all right. thank you monica. i am glad we're doing this and got to spend time with commissioner when when he was open the commission i know that commissioner king spent time and maybe can speak to some of the reasons to honor commissioner mock together >> definitely before i became in operations committee chair commissioner mock was always ran a tight meeting and additional information brought it very thoughtful but it seems like he was thinking about what belonged in that committee and so you know when i took over the committee i

but it all seems frozen. >> anne stephenson-yang: there's supposed to be a rockefeller center here. i hope they have a christmas tree, too. skating rink. >> stahl: city officials told us everything stopped because developers want to build all the facades at once to match. but on the ground, we heard a different explanation. workers told us that many of these buildings haven't had any work done on them for weeks, months, as if the developers just don't have the money to go on. >> stephenson-yang: it's true. you see that happen first. the migrant workers will go home. that's often the first sign that the debt crisis is starting. >> stahl: the debt crisis? >> stephenson-yang: well, when you stop paying your bills, then everything stops. >> stahl: it could become a debt crisis because of the huge loans most of the developers took out. if they can't repay them, the whole economy will seize up. the government's great fear is that all this could lead to social unrest, and that's not hypothetical; when regulations caused property prices to drop, it infuriated all those homeowners who watche

. >> stephenson was stunned when she returned from the trip finding that she was in detention. ordered to report to a room in district headquarters every day, instead of the classroom. the district still hasn't officially told her who allegations she faces. unofficially he is said to have jetted her students to paris and washington without permission. she and supporters say not true. the district approved her trips every year. >> they knew the itinerary down to the telephone numbers. >> reporter: while in teacher gaol she met greg schiller, an a.p. science and psychology teacher at a school for performing arts. his misconduct - allowing two students to create experiments with the word gun in the title for an annual science fair. >> this is a project that's been done many times, both at the country level in california, and at the state level. so i felt very comfortable with the student working with his parent on the project. it's been done before. >> at the certain point i was polled and told to go home, and stay home for five days. after five days, i was sent to teacher gaol. >

david stephenson is in san francisco where some people are counting their blessings tonight even thoughy were burned out of their homes. >> several buildings behind me remain closed but tonight there are at least 20 people who are out of their homes in the after math of a fire many proved could turn disastrous. >> a water crew cleaned up after floors were soaked by firefighter. >> steve: there was just wall to wall water from wall to wall on both sides of the showroom. >> it's one of at least 4 wooden buildings hit hard by an early morning gas station fire near a city college of san francisco campus. no one was hurt but 20 people were affected. 7 people, including a family of 6 sought temporary housing. barking dogs brought one family to evacuate. >> i was asleep and the dogs started barking. there was a lot of smoke. >> my first problem was this is an all wood building so this is like just lighting a match and it would just go up in an hour. >> the owner of the gas station declined to talk to us but they were afraid it would explode. >> it was very scary to see that it was a gas statio

commissioner stephenson is executed and commissioner wan next it the approval of the minutes on may 27th on the environmental special meeting in your packet are the draft minutes this is a discussion and action item >> colleagues any discussion on the members if not can i get a motion to approve. >> unless we need to take them separately i approve both. >> any public comment on the minutes seeing none, public is closed. you'll in favor say i. opposing seeing none, none the minutes have approved >> >> address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda. >> any members of the public wish to speak on any items not on the agenda. jackie >> good afternoon. i'm jackie flynn the executive director of the ralph r randolph institute i'm here to express a warm welcome to the executive director it's nice to have you here we're a community building orientation we actually hosted one of the community listening sessions for what the bay area residents want to see in a director for the san francisco environment commission we run public services

david stephenson. >>> noise was not the only problem, some people who attended the concert left the show to find their cars were broken into. one viewer sent these pictures of smashed windows. nine cars had their windows broken. we got a look at the surveillance video, and you can see a person wearing a hoodie lining a -- shining a flash light into the cars. >>> senator says he will deliver findings to the state attorney general office. >> it is safe, there's the question of there's another question of ongoing maintenance and what the toll payers have to pay to do if there's reduction in quality of work. >> at a hearing in sacramento some engineers testified that caltrans managers ignored serious welding issues and quieted them. now there's doubts and questions about the dour built of the structure -- dour built of the structure. >>> the piece of equipment that's targeted and it's not a gun. >> the freshman health class will cover condoms, sex toys and bondage. >> it's not good for the youth to be introduced. >> trying to pull the text books from the classroom. >> the weather system is m

she got out of the car near robert louis stephenson state park in napa county after an argument with her husband. her husband told police when he went back to get her a short time later she was gone and she hasn't been seen in almost two weeks. >>> one person is dead and two others are seriously injured after falling off a cliff. the men fell just below pal said park near thornson state beach in daly city this morning about 4:30. the three men apparently fell to the beach. firefighter paramedics had to scale the cliff to recover the men. one man died at the scene. the other two were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. >>> and at least one person had to be rescued this morning from a fire at a san francisco apartment building. as you can see the flames are shooting out of a second story unit at the building near polk street. firefighters helped one man out because the hallway filled with smoke. at first he was a little hesitant. but then he decided to not chance it and got out of the building. >> it was getting really, really hot. and it got to the point where i -- i had to j

newark last night and it burned about three or four acres and trawl brush off -- tall brush off stephenson boulevard. no buildings were threatened and it was likely accidental. >>> all right, 4:32. our first check of weather. i was coming in and there was a little bit of moisture on my windshield. >> yeah the little drizzle out there this morning. here come the monsoonal clouds again. so yeah out the door we go. you can see some of the clouds rotating over the sierra nevada but just the flooding into southern california. a chance of more flash flooding i believe across the high country today and some thunderstorms there and maybe a wandering thunderstorm coming our direction. not until later on this evening and tonight. out the door though, michelle said a little drizzle outside. 50s and 60s now. by the afternoon a lot of clouds out there and a little bit of sun. 60s and 70s inside the bay and plan on low to mid-60s out toward the coast. all right let's check on the roads now with liz. >>> over heading to the bay bridge toll plaza it's pretty clear. it's 4:33 in the morning. that might hav

taff i'd steve -- david stephenson said their walls were shaking for three hours. >> i'm in san francisco, the concert at at&t park a couple miles away ran from 8:30 to 11:00 p.m. giving neighbors a show they weren't ready for. tuesday's concert rang out far beyond at&t park giving many a show they didn't want. >> there was no es caping it. particularly the base tone. >> music booking agent lives in par torero hill, he said the volumn was too loud. >> you're in your house, where do you go, it late. you can't escape sound. we're prisoners of this concert. >> residents weighed in all night with complaints of walls and windows shaking. emergency management fielded 92 complaints. >> you were low down, you got base, you were hearing thumping. it was all over the place. >> at&t park said we apologize to our neighbors who experienced high sound levels. we worked through the night to make adjustments to remedy this. >> the last thing this pad was the rolling stones. that 2005 concert prompted a hearing on noise levels at at&t park. online and on the street some told us they took the show in strid

the argument took place on highway 29, north of robert louis stephenson state park. a search of the area turned up nothing. they don't suspect any foul play but believe she may have gotten into a stranger's car though. >>> crews are building a new fire station on white road across the street from lake cunningham park. firefighters who will be stationed there are currently operating out of a temporary location. it is the ninth station to be built with funds from the neighborhood security bond program. >> the reason this location is important, it's got better access to a main thoroughfare and can cover lots of ground going north and south and the eastwood hills and other areas. >> the new fire station 21 is set to open in december of 2015. >>> well, more people are getting off work and adding to the already busy roadways on this holiday weekend. want to show you another live look at traffic in emeryville, not too bad, but you can see there is still heavy traffic. if you don't like what you're seeing, a new report out tonight says get used to it. heavy traffic could be

rebecca stephenson is joining us with a look at the forecast. some encouraging news. >> meteorologist: it is encouraging especially when you see hurricanes weaken, fall apart and miss where they are initially tracking. that's very good news definitely for the hawaiian chain. you can see what's leftover of the what was a hurricane at one time, iselle is currently bringing some how nurse to kauai, but rainfall totals here up to seven-inches of rain. now, we are still getting some showers out of that, but then the next thing on the docket is hurricane julio. this will be weakening down to a category 1 in the next 24 to 36 hours as it goes to the north. we do have high surf advisories along the coastline of the islands, but as we all know, many people take advantage of this for incredible surfing. now, as we look at what's going on in the pacific ocean, let's go from surfing in to just down right soggy, wet, flooding, potential mudslides. very dangerous situation setting up with storms in the pacific. what happens when we have hurricanes that are se

. >> reporter: michael stephenson says before cooperating both groups have demands. above all guarantees that maliki's heavy handed shiite-dominated rule won't be repeated. >> there's a number of problems here on both sides to do distribution of resources and almost a show of respect from the state. >> reporter: part of that respect bubbles up from beneath, iraq's oil well, the world's 7th largest producer drawing foreign companies with technology and management skills to produce here. but the maliki government has shortchanged the kurd and sunni regions in redistributing the revenues. yet ordinary iraqis seem most concern with sharing the oil. those we met said what they really want is a peaceful country in which to live their lives. this woman fled mosul with her family when extremists took over in june. we met her in a shopping mall. >> we hope things get better, we ask only for peace and security. >> warner: baghdad lawyer aqil al hayali said rampant sectarian violence had forced him and his wife from baghdad. >> ( translated ): there is a 20% possibility i will

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stephenson, and share why this battle played a pivotal role in our nation's history. hope you stay for this afternoon's events and tomorrow's events at the battleground cemetery. thank you. [ applause [ applause ] >> good morning. my name is doug jimmerson, i'm going to sing a few snifkts period songs that we main wonderful stongs in our american musical heritage. the first was called at the time red, white and blue colombia the gem of the oaks ♪ oh the gem of the ocean ♪ the home of the brave and the free ♪ the shrine of each patron's devotion ♪ our world offers homage with thee ♪ my mandate of heroes assemble ♪ when the authority stands in view ♪ thy banners make tyranny crumble ♪ when borne by the red, white and blue ♪ when bern by the red, white and blue ♪ when borne by the red, white and blue ♪ thy banners make tyranny tremble ♪ when borne by the red, white and blue ♪ the ween cup, the wine cup hither ♪ and fill it to the brim ♪ may the reeds they have won never wither ♪ nor the star of their glory grow dim ♪ may the service united never severe ♪ nor to their cou

stephenson, you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you.i want to express my gratitude to appear before you today. i want to contextualize just how serious a problem of over-criminalization, overincarceration is. there are new reports, one punished by the national law project on by the brennan center that now estimate that 68 million americans, 68 million have criminal records. that is, ma they have been arrested, fingerprinted and are subject to all of the restrictions that come with having a criminal record. most of this dramatic increase as a consequence of a policy choice we made 30 years ago to treat drug addiction and drug possession as a crime problem rather than a health care problem. many of our allies across the globe have actually made a different choice and have seen dramatic reduction in to addiction and drug abuser we've seen the opposite. the consequence of that choice is what has put states in great crisis. i like to urge the task force to look to the states or leadership on these issues. as my colleague is mentioned, the st