the marsh has been reasonable. i think it would be really prudent to let people who are buying the condominiums next door. since we last all were here on december 11th, i want to point out the san francisco chronicle published their best theatre. their mvp is david ford, the marsh's master developer is helping performers find their voices and craft their stories makingt san francisco the general leader. new york and london are known as world class theatres. this little humble theatre has brought san francisco up tot the front now. please support the arts and marsh in san francisco. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, my name is lynn lombardy oh. a 30-year resident. i have stood in front of this august board with different people sitting in the seats. several different times over the last 25 years. and what i want to say is that i trust you. this board as a body whether it's you or someone else, your predecessors who have been sitting, making decisions that affect neighborhoods. i trust you. i have seen good decisi

the marsh is an integral part of the district. the developer should respect the conditions of the december 11th ruling if they want to build next to the theatre. don't let it trump in fairness. the san francisco board need to stand by decisions to mitigate impact on this wonderful neighborhood theatre. and finally, we must not allow the machination of the wealthy to over turn unanimous decisions. it was clearly a sound decision. it seems the next move would be to over turn which would clearly get the marsh theatre in the battle. keep it alive. i remember the find ings. it was an epic moment for me and it's also reasonable. it's reasonable to expect someone moving into a neighborhood to be a neighborhood. there was only one place like the marsh and i would love it if the existence wasn't threatened by a condominium. thank you very much. >> we'll accept your submissions. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm judy, i live nearby and on valencia all the time and i love the marsh. i want to say it's in my opinion the only theatre in san fra

thank you. >> commissioners good evening, for the record, gallagher for the marsh. before i address the findings and conditions i want to address the point mr. williams stated at the last hearing. he was required, notten encouraged, required to appoint in writing a community liaison office prior to issuance of the permit before the issuance of the permit. so before. appointing himself after permit issuance is insufficient for the developer to remedy this violation. the whole point on that condition to encourage neighbors within the mark which he also didn't do was to begin before permit issuance. no one contradicted mr. williams testimony. no one. the violation of this condition is sufficient grounds for you to deny the project in its entirety. if we think it's okay to give a wink and a nod developers who ignore planning commission requirements especially ones who speak to neighborhood concerns, then efr developer is going to ignore these requirements. having said this, the -- marsh nonetheless -- condition k requires to stop construction at 4:00 p.m. monday through

however discretionary review was requested by the neighboring property owner at the marsh theatre and by the liberty hill neighborhood association. the planning commission heard that dr in 2012 and on september 6, 2012, took dr and approved the project with no modifications to the project itself, but adding some conditions regarding refinement of the bay windows and establishing a community liaison, additional noise control feeters and limited construction hours attend -- encouraged the project sponsor to work with sound issues anden encouraged the sponsor to work with staff and not reduce the number of dwelling units in the proposal. the mitigated negative declaration for the project was also an appealed to both the planning commission and board of supervisors. planning commission commission upheld on november 30,th, and november 5th of this year. the hearing last night was quite long. as you can imagine there was quite a bit of public comment. in the end the board did vote unanimously to adopt the motion to grant all of the appeals and approve the permit with conditions. those condi

and the marsh i can go on and on for the many things that it has to offer. that are unique to san francisco. and i urge you to adopt the proposal that you made in december 11th when i was here. we were all so happy and i do agree tla they are reasonable and that people need to know that they are going to be living next door to a wonderful theatre and that there should not be noise after 4:00 p.m.. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> is there any other public comment? okay. seeing none, commissioners, the matter is submitted. again i want to ask the folks sitting in the doorway to please move. that is a fire hazard. please take a seat. thank you. commissioners? >> okay. anyone want to start? >> sure, i will start. i'm in full support of the draft findings with perhaps some slight modifications that were suggested by the appellants and i think that, well i would like to thank executive director goldstein for drafting our findings so accurately and so well. the question in my mind is whether one of the arguments that was raised by the code section j applies h

after a straining history, see what plan is working to recite liz the marshes. welcome back, everyone. time to travel upstreet to the southern marshes of iraq. that marsh land almost disappeared 20 years ago, and diminished by dams in neighboring countries. but one man has been instrumental in rehydrating the marshes the iraqi government recently created the central marshes nation parable. one of the world's most unique national parks. >> a few feet of water created this, the world's first civilization. >> these days it is unlikely eden, but an iraqi american engineer, knew these marshes as a boy, and he is determined to restore them. >> what is unique about these marshes is that they are along the edges of these marshes is where the first civilizations started. this is where it was invented. this is where agriculture was first started. this is where abraham was born. and so in a sense it doesn't belong to iraq. >> in the 1990's, sudan hughes san changed the landscape by draining these and driving out the people who lived here. huge damns in neighbors turkey stop

these people want the marshes restored not because of the beauty, and the ecology, and nature.n fact, this is about economic restoration. this is -- these people want the marshes restored because it is a way of life, it is a way to make a living without having an education. without having to live in the city. they can go out to the marsh, harvest enough reeds come back here and sell it and make a couple of bucks. it is about making a living from nature. and drankly, that's the best kind of restoration. >> now that there's enough water marshes are again a stop on the migratory bird path. >> that's like the beginning of migration. in about a month, if you come here, you will see in the thousands if nothing the 10,000s. >> the ducks started coming back four years ago. >> oh my goodness, like what is this. and it was the black clouds in the sky. it was incredible. >> in the town, on the edge of the marshes nature has built a reed guest house, as the beginning of what he hopes will be eco tourism here, the same design is enclave tablets from ancient times. it's relatively cool in th

we heard testimonies how the marsh has changed people's lives and how new housing was going to run out the neighborhood. we did not hear with any evidence or facts to support the findings. 1 person testified they have been interrupted during the performance and they heard noise next door. the 7-4:00 p.m. restrictions places a burden on us and inconvenience. it makes this project unfeasible for safety and financial standpoint. dragging this job out pro longs all the congestion and the community disruption that comes with it. the original 7-6:00 p.m. time restrictions were arrived at after the appellant and commission and permit holder. and they are arbitrarily imposed. these new stop work time seems more like a sentence, more like a punishment than anything practical. please remember that despite all the demonization that we have heard here, creating jobs and tax base is still a desirable activity. we want to get this project done quickly. i just have to address the thing with mary gallagher here. we had nine meetings with the pell avenlt three of those meetings were with myself were sp

he believes the marsh is not active. this is probably why he addressed the merchants association over the holidays and asked them to write a letter in support of the 6:00 p.m. stop of the construction work. by e-mail of january 1st, wrote to miss wise man and said we have written the developer and let him know that we could not support his request. even the exterior hours. that's a 50-hour workweek. university employees are going to be working longer than that. i forgot, the developer hasn't made a former commitment to hire union labor. in any case he's entitle to a 9-hour workday and 50-hour workweek. there is heavy bike traffic on valencia street. it requires buyers and renters to sign an affidavit and made aware of a theatre next door. we believe we have addressed the validity of this condition in our three page brief. we ask for the phrase to be inserted in the phrase. thank you very much for your time. >> can you repeat that last suggested modification? >> yes. quote, prior to the purchase -- >> what letter? >> condi

this is because drivers on 580 westbound can see the marsh fire. it is burning on the north side of the 580 freeway at francisco boulevard. the fire is, of course, not on the freeway and you can see it is on the marsh of the road that parallels 580. you can tweet the figures to me at abc7 news bay area. the drive times show 580 from tracy to dublin it days 24 minutes and antioch to concord, 14 minutes and 101 from san rafael to san francisco is 8 minutes, all in the green and no big problems. >> before we hurricane at 680, traffic through walnut creek is just fine. pope francis says the internet is a gift from god but admitted it is not perfect. the pope regularly tweets and posts selfies but he also believes the web can physically isolate people and says the digital world must be a network of human beings, not wires. >>> the justice department has new regulations to allow beens to do business with marijuana sellers in states where pot is legal. pot sellers are turned away because banks can face federal racketeering charges for processing their mone

the marsh habitat seems to be flourishing under the parks and recreation. it's better than it was than the early 80s when i moved to pacifica. i'm not going to get into studies that seem to show that in fact the frogs are doing fairly well and have actually population has seemed to have grown since the 80s. but, what i will say is that as members of the course golf club they course, our membership is very diverse, we are all people who treasure our environment and we respect the privilege of playing in a beautiful place that also has sensitive habitat. our members are well versed in what they need to do to prevent any harm to that habitat and to the diversity of creatures living there. i speak from the heart when i say i would hate to lose this treasure. it's part of our community and pacifica and we meet and regularly there all people of all ages and ethnicities and inclinations. it's a great place and it's truly one of the center points in our community. please uphold the negative mitigation declaration and i thank you for your time. >> thank you. next sp

the fire broke out in the marsh land east of that shopping center. bob redell is live at the scene. crews checking for hot spots. good morning. >> reporter: right. the fire's been out for some hours now, good morning to you, scott. we are just east of the village shopping center. you see the fire department is still on the scene. they want to make sure this fire doesn't start back up. it's especially a big concern for them once the sun comes up so they have firefighters out here to make sure that doesn't happen or if it does they are able to put it out pretty quick. this is a fire you can see going pretty good. started around 10:49 around a homeless encampment. there's quite a few of them. or were. it burned through 5 1/2 acres, also caused thaes one propane tank to explode. took about two hours to put out. they do not know the actual cause. they hope to have that figured out later today once the sun comes up. the fire chief, we spoke with him. this was definitely caused by a person. it's a question of whether this was an arson or accident. >> it's possible that it was a cooking or

a lot of american technology independent of the technology to lentil marsh's it's not just something that you can easily copy paste it's really building experience huge test programs that you have to do the fighting test program was one of the most accents extensive space test programs ever because there are so many things that you have to do right if you want to send things to martian many of our missions have filled in history because of the complexity of getting things to mars and i think. other nations to china and important aspect is to want to organize return missions and for return missions to technology is simply not possible yes do you think this issue of the return mission is a political issue off for all i mean the or can it become a political issue even if you raise enough money for your project even if you have volunteers who are ready to go do you think you will be allowed to do so given that . again the you leave those humans. no return ticket. yeah so far we've not encountered. resistance on that from the organizations that the would be able to do this but these are th

isolate environments on earth by the copy of the marsh outpost and they will get to experience all the things that they will experience so much experience will march before they leave but of course it's still a very very big deal and that's why selecting those people and keeping track of what they do is so important it's one of the most difficult things for our mission it's not the technology it's not the money it's finding the first crew that can do this how could the you make sure that those people who commit to this denture you know through all of these training process will not regret that decision later on anyone who applies for the marshall mission is selected to come into our astronauts corpse they can always regret regret the decision and step out and that's why we will select multiple crucial for people and train all of them as if they were the first crew to go and only if a year or so before the actual departure will we decide which crews are ready and only the crew will only know if they fly the moment they are invited to step into the rockets and we're very confident that t

new video from the north bay marsh fire in san rafael. 580 saw north of the freeway at the parkway drivers could see the flames from the richmond-san rafael bridge with firefighters there from san rafael on the scene trying to contain this marsh fire with no structures threatened, and it is putting up a lot of smoke in the area and because that is visible from the freeway some slowing is going on with rubbernecking drivers. from the east bay firefighters put out a house fire in pittsburg and called in police because of what they found inside. our reporter is in pittsburg with the story. amy? >> look at this home. would you suspect there was a huge marijuana "grow" operation inside? firefighters estimated it probably brought in $1.5 million to $2 million a year and was full of plants all in flames overnight. firefighters had to fight this defensively it was so huge. they say it probably started because of faulty wiring because people who grow marijuana bypass the electrical system to pg&e will not see the huge amount of usage. the next doo

aerospace company that has been involved in all the marsh missions did not and that's all mar so far so i think that the journalist from wire it's might have to do is homework again well i guess only time will tell but for now hope yeah out of it thank you very much for your thoughts and if you like his show please join us again same. place same time here in the wilds of. they got a lot of housing the homeless people but the government is not funding it and in a lot of the shelter today be having people down the street because people begin to raid shelters to get involved right now ironically ironically i'm worth more to the city of new york for a. person who. will be paid regular people like someone like a lawyer or doctor or some other madison avenue it's boring and sometimes the homeless people to be able to inflict my. say country rather than staying the resistance of the world as you need to be in this city or region city and the world what people. pay money to do is give you. the tools anybody can make you feel good you know good. new york london. the whole world is. a father on

from the shopping center and this field is tucked away behind the marsh and behind trees so it is hiddenm sight and difficult to find. because of that it is a popular spot for the hopeless. the chief says they have a fire out here once or twice a year. >>> thank you, amy. several flights in and out of bay area airports are already canceled this morning because of the massive east coast snowstorm. katie marzullo is at sfo with the latest. good morning, katie. >> good morning, matt, we i had better news for anyone trafficking but i checked with the duty manager this morning and the numbers are moving in the wrong direction. last hour i told you there was only one confirmed cancellation and now the duty manager says there are eight departing flights and two arriving flights canceled in and out of sfo because of weather on the east coast. john f. kennedy has been closed all morning scheduled to be closed until right now so we are waiting for word on when that re-opens. when it does the backlog is back and sfo admitted it is looking at 45 to 60 minute expected delays to flights coming or goin

aerospace company that has been involved in all the marsh missions did not and that's all mar so far so i think that the journalists from wired's might have to do is homework again well i guess only time will tell but for now i hope yeah out of it thank you very much for your thoughts and if you like the show please join us again same. place same time here on a lot of the. gentleman i guess you all mostly. good to see you even a few hundred a day come across it honestly i'm going. to face some good news so if there is a way to get people coming in with criminals we've got people from it who knows where in the world this is the united states i'm very tough by the way you know to sure i was worried that they may not know why they live on mars you know mars. so we pick up things like brand. turbans prayer rugs so when we know they do they're coming from the middle east a concentration camp. concentration camp. body as if the white house is not even want to disclose the fact that he is a stranger. who they got a lot of how the only people but the government is not funding it and in a lot

it is very dry in the bay area, so dry, in fact, the marshes are catch on fire. ere is the visibility: they are low. that is the extra haze that is in the air, the pollution, the moisture, and some of the moisture is showing up on the radar and it is not making it to the ground so that is a surge of clouds that will take over our neighborhoods from south to north as we head throughout the day and keep our temperatures cooler than yesterday. novato is 63 and 62 in concord and san ramon. fairfield is 68, antioch is 61 and everyone else in the mid-to-upper 70's with a breeze. this is how it looks from mount tamalpais this morning, partly sunny and breezy and fire danger and rough surf and it will be warm, calm, brighter, more dry through the weekend with continues today low-to-mid 60's look the coast and mid-60's to even some 70's out there in places like fairfield and napa. tonight the temperatures are in the 30's inland and best chance of frost to the north is upper 30's around palo alto. san francisco is mild at 48. the low pressure is retrograding and moving back

the field is hid were. there is a marsh between here and the mall with plenty trees and shrubs and that is why it is a popular homeless encampment. there were people here last night. firefighterred had to help six people away from the fire to escape the known was hurt. here is the fire chief. >> what happened means the crews are continuing to stand by just in case something else pops up the when the sun comes up and the wind picks up we will see flareups. they will be here all day. >>> it took a couple of hours to get this fire out and it unwithed 5.6 akers. they are going to watch it and keep water on it just in case. another threat to deal with as they fought the fire were the propane tanks homeless people were using. a few of them burst from the heat. they had to be came about that. everyone is okay. the firefighters say because this is homeless encampment we have one or two fires out here each year. >>> thanks, amy, our viewers are sending photos of the fire, you can see the flames in the distance from the bridge. this

it's occluded from view with the marsh pampas grass out there and that keeps it from being visible to the outside. so there's quite a few homeless encampments out there. >> investigators are still trying to find the specific cause of the fire. no injuries were reported. >>> and the fire that destroyed a memorial to a santa rosa teenager killed by a sheriff's deputy was an accident. we have learned it was a candle that sparked the flames yesterday, not vandals. makeshift structure was a tribute to 13-year-old andy lopez, who was fatally shot in october while carrying a bb go up that looked like an assault rifle. >>> in other bay area headlines, surveillance video could provide investigators clues into who set fire to the door of the chinese consulate in san francisco. this surveillance video came from a camera across the street but images from the consulate's surveillance cameras reportedly have clearer images. the fbi is head had gone the investigation but say it's a criminal attack not a terrorist attack. >>> two bart unions will begin voting today on a new contract. it drops a contr

the helicopter assigned to the 48th fighter wing was flying low over a salt marsh.t was based at a royal air forcetation not far away. it may have been hit by a bird while flying over the marsh. >>> and upcoming vote by former defense secretary robert gates unloads some especially harsh criticisms of the white house. gates is taking aim at president obama over afghanistan but saves his most cutting words for vice president joe biden. here's abc's jonathan karl with all of the details. >> reporter: for two years he was the president's point man on the most important national security decisions, the end of the war in iraq, the escalation of the war in afghanistan. he was there in the situation room the night bin laden was killed. but it turns out robert gates had deep misgivings about the president he served. in a soon-to-be published book now leaking out gates writes that during one white house meeting on afghanistan "i thought the president doesn't trust his commander, can't stand karzai. doesn't believe in his own strategy and doesn't consider the war to be his. fo

the least. this is in marsh land. we're east of the village shopping center if you're not familiar with the area. the fire department is still out here making sure that any of the pockets of heat and smoke don't flare back up. this is what it looked hike several hours ago. this started around 10:45 last night. ended up burning about 5 1/2 acres. took a good two hours to be able to put it out. did it start in a homeless encampment. they don't know what the source, what the cause of the fire was, they hope to get a better idea later today. again they say at the least it's accidental and possible it could have been sus spish out. there were several people on site who had to be evacuated. they got out. we spoke with the police department earlier this morning and what is note worthy from talking to them they were telling us about ten hours before this fire started, so yesterday afternoon they did a sweep of this encampment forcing ten people to leave, asking them to clean up the site. we asked police this morning if that mi

the chesapeake, the mountains of western maryland and the marshes of the eastern shore. today because of the hard work and courage of our people i can report to you that the state of our state is strong and is growing stronger by the day. [ applause ] >> in fact, not only is maryland stronger than before. it is cleaner, smarter, safer, more competitive than she was before the recession hit. think back. whether we took office maryland had a $1.7 billion structural deficit. no sooner did we take action and then had recession hit. and families struggled. even as we fought to help every family we could and save every job we could, our state revenues took a huge hit right along with family incomes. since that time, we have used the challenge of these times to make our government more efficient and more effective. we have cut spending by $9.1 billion. we have made more cuts than any administration in modern maryland history. we have the smallest executive branch we have had in the government since 1973. and the budget i give you last week puts us on the track to eliminate the

according to the daily telegraph the helicopter crashed in the marsh land that may hamper rescue operations. meanwhile the us air force confirmed that the us military helicopter crashed in the uk. it is reported that the aircraft crashed during a regular training play. the weather conditions cannot have caused the catastrophe. negotiation with the sinhalese authorities were ruined a scheduled meeting did not take place in environmental organization greenpeace bears responsibility for this. this was stated by the federal agency for fishery be noted that the environmentalist prevented the release of the russian fishing trawler only the ghetto. south african authorities detained the ship accusing approaching sixty two russians and twenty citizens of getting one aboard the ship is reported that the company's medical assistance. he was injured during the siege of the vessel by the sinhalese military greenpeace condemn the seizure of the trawlers calling it lawlessness towards the crew nevertheless the organization pointed out that the environmentalist and repeatedly incriminate the ship on illeg

question but will it ever produce announcer well to discuss that i'm now joined by a co-founder of the marsh one mission. mr thank you very much for the time i know that you've been a very passionate advocate of sending a manned mission to mars and do you believe that you can do that by circumventing governments and space agencies and you don't even need so much money for that you claim that it may only cost around six billion dollars but i wonder how much of that money have you already raised. we don't disclose the mother's money that we've raised but i can tell you that's we've we've not teresa significant portion of those six billion us dollars but we are talking to the right people we're talking to the right people in the media industry we're talking to the right potential partners and sponsors for our mission and we're very confident that we can raise that level of money well correct me if i'm wrong but they're courting to some media reports as of november first this year you received slightly less than two hundred thousand dollars in donations which seems to be a little bit short of th

so police will put patrol boats in the marshes. ey are a few miles from new york city the most popular target in america. the security web includes this temporary command post built near this stadium. fox news was given an exclusive tour of the facility officers and agents will monitor everything from road and radiation levels. >> one of the concerns is getting people into the stadium on a rainy snowy super bowl sunday. it is a mass exodus in people who may not like the weather and want to leave early especially if the game is lopsided. >> that's a good point. >>> the time 26 after the top of the hour. natural foods may not be doing your body any good after all. why you could be wasting your money. and the new healthy sounding term companies are using to lure you in. >> what quentin torn teen no is making sure people still pay to see his movies. small business cd with amazing rewards. with the spark cascard from capital one, i break my back around here. finally soone's recognizing me with unlimited rewards! meetings start at 11, cin

we do have an incident blocking the marsh off ramp and we will let you know if it become as problem andwill take you live to the mariposa exit and traffic is looking good and you can see the picture in the background and no delays so far. next up we can see traffic is moving nicely into san francisco at this hour and this is the eastern span of course and we are shocked this morning. finally 208 on -- 280 in san jose we have traffic looking good in both directions. let's head over to steve. >> that was a nice shot looking at the city. >> i like that, our photographer are doing a great job. >>> and upper 20s to really warm, near 60 degrees and the big news, we will have a possibility of record high, san rafael forecasting 68 and 1967, san francisco is close and that will be one shy for those i know my good buddy is weather safe have a and record high 737 so i don't think they will do it. report high 78 and the record is 81 back in 1975 so there will be a few. upper 60s and 70s, we are getting that offshore breeze, 59, yet santa rosa, red flag warning takes us to thursday morning temperat