written comments will be accepted in the depth >> good afternoon members i'm steven smith for the planning department. i'm the eir manager which is responded by the san francisco commission. this is a hearing to receive comments from the draft and environmental impact report which assesses the project. the eir was published on july 13th and given to you. the staff are not here to respond to comments. this will be addressed as appropriate. this is not a hearing to consider the approval or disproval of the project. comments today should be directed to the adequacy of the information. comments should be given slowly so that the court reporter can contagious them down. this will be noted as one local draft hearing this was on tuesday 16. the brief overview of the project will be presented otherwise we'll move along to the formal hearing. with that i recommend that the public hearing be opened. opening up. >> seeing none public comment is closed. commissioners any questions >> i just wanted to mention this has been somewhat segmented. it seems to me we did a pipe replacement about years ago in

terrorists killed the american ambassador to libya, chris stevens, state department officials sean smith and two former navy seals tyrone woods and glen doherty. >> this letter first obtained by fox news is signed by more than 700 special operations vets with special operations speaks. best known nor hard line stance against what it describes as damaging national security leaks related to the usama bin laden raid. today the group's founder explained why benghazi still matters. >> this has been slow rolled as we say in the air force. you know, if we wait long enough maybe it will go away. but we owe the truth to the american people and particularly the families of the fallen. >> the letter includes 16 points of investigation from the well-documented warnings before the attack to the realtime decision making of president obama, secretary clinton and the defense department on the night of september 11th. the letter reads in part, quote: america has always held to the notion that no american will be left behind. given our background, we are concerned that this sent a very negative message to

stevens. the state department official sean smith and two former navy seals tyrone woods and glen dority.ding to the house republican report. former secretary of state hillary clinton personally rejected requests for more security at the benghazi facility. before leaving office secretary clinton testified she did not see those requests but one house republican tells fox news he stands by the g.o.p.'s report. >> i don't know what her eyes saw, what i do know is that her signature is on some of the denials of those requests. and what we know for certain is that some of these requests did not end with a security folks in the state department. they went higher. up into the management level. >> shepard: state department spokesman is responding and saying it is standard protocol that cables originating from the state department in washington go out under the authority of the current secretary of state. with their signature, ie their name typed at the bottom. in this way secretary clinton signed hundreds of thousands of cables during her tenure as secretary. the security cables related to bengha

smith. great tributes today, one from steven spielberg who said roger loved movies, they were his life. his reviews went deeper than thumbs up or thumbs down. he wrote with passion through a real knowledge of film and film history and in doing so, he helped many movies find their audiences. robert redford said one of the great champions of freedom, of artistic expression and the power of independent films was still unknown and few would support it. president barack obama said michelle and i are saddened to hear about the passing of roger ebert. for a generation of americans roger was the movies. when he didn't like the film, he was honest. when he did, he was effusive, capturing the unique power of the movies to take us somewhere magical. how important in the end was roger's thumb, because it became one of the most famous thumbs in critical history. he either gave you a thumbs up or gloriously, if you were a real triumph, two thumbs up, or a thumbs down and it could make or break a movie, couldn't it? >> yes. and -- but i think he was much more about the thumbs. that became an iconic th

smith. ♪ man still has the pipes. rick stevensf tower of power among a group ofxd artist recognized as integral part of oakland rich blue and jazz history. >> all the juke joint talks about i grew up in the ear a and just evolved from the blue to the rhythm and blue. >> open saturday one of 13 musician inducted into the west coast blue hall of fame. 2 others jones and crop were part of per form answer for president obama and first lady at the white house. 7 street west oakland home to west coast blue and place many got their start. workers from the shipyard army and navy base crowded the spaces. >> i am just a musician. >> bishop honored too. guitar legend video on you tube morecñ than 100,000 hits. he's now 70 years old and plays about like he did at the start. he remembers the first time he heard blue music in the 1950s. it was pre-civil rights and the height of segregation. black and white did not mix except for one place. >> the only thing we couldn't segregate was the radio. i heard some blue on the radio one day that was it.

four americans were killed that day, including ambassador chris stevens and the information officer, shawn smithms security, both former navy seals. a group of veterans are pressing for answers into who knew what and went. they have released a new video -- benghazi -- unaware, unresponsivive, unaccountable. a member from opsec is here. >> thanks for having me. >> why did you make the film-- the video? >> as you can see, we are at the seven-month anniversary. imagine, everybody out there, if you have a son or a daughter killed in this fashion and our leaders looked you straight in the eye and said, we are going to find out and get to the bottom of this and let you know and seven months later, after a lot of stalling and no information, no answers and here we are. we had the resources to do this. we had the will and the desire to do t. we are not letting it g. we want to get the answers to the american people. >> you had tremendous support, i would imagine, as well. how many people are involved in your organization? >> we have a small core group and a tossen folks. we have over 800,000 veterans he

smith has a preview. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the man still has the pipes. rick stevenswer of power is among a group of artists of oakland's rich blues and jazz history. >> i grew up this that era. it just evolved from the blues to the rhythm and blues. >> one of 13 musicians, inducted into the west coast blues hall of fame. booker t.jones and steve croper were part of a performance at the white house. it was home to west coast blues and many got their start. workers from the shipyards and army bases crowded the spaces. >> i'm just a musician. >> elvin bishop will be honored, too. his videos have more than 100,000 hits on youtube. he remembers the first time he heard blues music in 1950s. it was the height of segregation. blacks and whites did not mix except for one place. >> the only place they couldn't segregate is the radio. i heard blues on the radio one day, that was it. >> today the places that house the movement. urban renewal brought change. it never recovered. that is why the artists being honored this weekend that we will remember and appreciate the legacy they

smith has the details. ♪ a young man >> the man still has the pipes. rick stevensrly a tower of power is among a group of artists recognized as an integral part of oakland's rich blues and history. >> i grew up in that era and evolved from the blues to the rhythm and blues. >> he will be one of 13 musicians inducted into the west coast blues hall of fame. two others were part of a performance for president obama and the first lady at the white house. seventh street in west oakland was home of west coast blues and the place many got their start. workers from the ship yards, army and navy bases crowded the spaces. >> i'm just a musician. >> mr. bishop will be honored too. the guitar legends' videos on youtube has more than 100,000 hits. he's 70 years old and plays like he did at the start. he remembers the first time he heard blue music in the 1950s. it was the height of black segregation. black and white did not mix except for one place. >> the only thing we couldn't segregate was the radio. i heard blues on the radio one day and that was it. >> today the places tha

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stevens went missing. what they were told to do and what not to do as stephens, diplomat officer sean smith and former special operations members tyrone woods and glen doherty were killed. >> there is a lot of responsibility and onus that needs to be taken up and accounted for. [explosion] >> the attack began about 9:30 p.m. on september 11th, 2012. at a diplomatic compound in benghazi. and culminated roughly seven hours later at a second location. a cia annex about one mile away. while the official responses from washington have been that the assets could not have made it from benghazi in time that killed woods and dohety. there were at least two military units that could have made it in time. including the one training in croatia. >> besides those guys who went in on their own, we had two more assets that could have been there. >> two more assets that could have been on the ground. >> upsetting especially being in the community. the hardest thing to deal with in any kind of, you know, dangerous scenario or gun fight, is, you know, we always look to each other to help each other and that's how we get through

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