waterfront and did not provide a lot of flexibility needed to rehabilitate the port's finger piers and basically redevelop the city's waterfront. at around the time the port was finalizing its waterfront land use plan, the port director at the time, executive director of bcdc entered into an agreement to change plans for the waterfront. the result of that effort was the special area plan. essentially, what it did was provide a plan level approach to achieve bcdc's policy goals for the waterfront, creating new plazas, open water basins for the waterfront, a way to rehabilitate the historic figure appenger piers, and provide accs to the waterfront. that success allows access to various buildings to go forward. generally, bcdc has a broad ownership of the waterfront. in the open water areas, they are responsible for phil, public access to the day, any new docks or pile-supported structures, gooding activity, open water activities, changes in use and any construction remodeling or repair of the structure. pretty much anything significant that the board does require the permission from bcdc. with respect to the cruise te

first and foremost, the winner of the deal was the city effort, which i include the port, for winning the bid of the america's cup 2013. we are proud of that accomplishment. the real-estate deal maker of the year was michael cohen, who you recall was the director of the office of economic and workforce development. among the many accomplishments they cited, several were here at the port, including the exploratorium, treasure island, hunters point, and his help with the america's cup bid. the exploratorium project was a finalist for the best private- public deal of the year. we are happy for the recognition and congratulate our partners. the pier 24 pilara collection was a finalist for best rehabilitation/renovation deal of the year. it is a tremendous base. and lafitte restaurant was named the best new restaurant in san francisco. we want to thank our partners and hope to do better next year. the earth day, april 22, is coming right up. the port has already teamed up with several entities, the neighborhood parks council, blue-green way, see scavenger, audubon society, kayaks and limit

activity of general public interest to san francisco residents or visitors to the port of san francisco that takes place in the city or within port jurisdiction and can reasonably be expected to have an in-person attendance of 500 or more persons. for a single event or 1000 or more for a series of events. the criteria defined specific streets. in addition to the center median of the embarcadero road way and jefferson street. be executive director may approve banners on of the streets have become appropriate, such as a newly developed pier 70 area. the criteria described banners in three categories. just some examples on the graphics here that you can look at as i talk. a banner announcing an event to the port or its tenants, a public agency banner, which is announcing an event sponsored or supported by the city or its departments or other government agency, and that furthers the mission of that agency, and an even better, which announces an event which will benefit a government agency or charitable nonprofit organization and that will take place on publicly- owned property within the city of san francisco and furth

yes, i do what your dollars, it is no secret that oakland is the port city in the bay area. our report is pretty much back to pre recession levels and terms of imports, exports. we export about as much as we import. i had a stake in -- which is an organic meat producer based in oakland. this represents some of the changing american habits. this is very interesting, i have some relatives in china. they are worried about pollution and you have this growing market for california organic foods. that is amazing. i take bart all the time. in the global world, i would bet you that we are on more national papers in china then we were in the u.s.. i caught my first congratulations. i got my first e-mail with an hour from a cousin of mine who is living in shanghai. this is a global economy. then we will be hosting a conference for the region to talk about how we can improve our import and export markets and this is a part of the future. we talked about hospitals being built in san francisco. we are taking over -- we are catching up on the retail and oakland has been underserved. there

they have targeted ammunition stockpiles in hopes of crippling the siege on the port city. take a look at this released by japanese power company tepco. the exact moment it hit the plant on march 11. four weeks later, they are battling to cool down the plant's three reactors. back-up power systems were knocked out by the earthquake and tsunami. >> california public schools may be in danger thanks to lax oversight by building inspectors. they poured over records maintained by the division of state architect. dan noyes reports. >>> there are thousands of school construction projects throughout california and a network of more than 1500 trained inspectors to make sure the buildings are made by plans but many aren't doing their job. inspectors help keep contractors zblons you making sure that project management is performing the job and doing the job per the approved plans. >> he says many inspectors are encouraged by contractors to overlook changes to save money. >> contractors will try to use substitute product or lesser product. many times they do that. >> inspectors are supp

the exact opposite in neighboring syria. protesters chanting "we want freedom" were met with tear gas, and even live ammunition, in towns and cities across the country, including the port city of latakia, homs, the suburbs of damascus, and significantly in daraa in the south, epicenter of the revolt which broke out nearly two weeks ago. more than 70 people have been killed in the upheaval so far, hundreds injured and hundreds more detained. the violence is a stark contrast to a pledge by syrian president bashar al assad that protesters would not be harmed. the protests are the most serious challenge yet to a political dynasty that has ruled for more than 40 years by using harsh repression and violent reprisals for dissent, which makes the determination of those taking the streets all the more striking. allen pizzey, cbs news, amman. >> hill: it's now been three weeks since the earthquake and tsunami ravaged japan, and three weeks now that the damaged nuclear plant has been leaking radiation. today we got a new look at the fukushima plant as japan's prime minister vowed to get control of the problem. the government ordered the company that runs the plant to review how i

news, the syrian state news agency says a sniper shot dead one soldier and wounded another in the port city of barnyast. the government is urging a crackdown against the president's rule. the president has meanwhile ordered the release of hundreds of detainees who have been involved in weeks of protest across the country, calling for political reform. the ugandan opposition leader has been injured after the military opened fire to disperse protestors in the capital. six other opposition politicians were arrested in the walk to work protest against high food and petrol prices. the u.n. has confirmed that 34 people were killed in an iraqi army raid last week on a camp which houses iranian exiles opposed to the government in teheran. iraq has said three people were shot in the raid and the others were dead before troops moved in. the government's own bahrain says it will dissolve the country's main shiite opposition group. since february when anti-government protests began, at least 30 people have been killed and more than 400 detained. the country is now under martial law, but our security co

the eastern city of. which has been the stalemate for nearly two weeks comes after gadhafi forces reportedly retreated from the port city of misrata rather heavy rebel human rights groups say more than a thousand people died in florida a seven week siege by gadhafi troops putting the city on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe meanwhile the libyan government says three people have been killed by nato airstrikes outside gadhafi compound in central tripoli chandan he's just returned from a monitoring mission in libya he thinks the decision to intervene in the country is groundless in the first place. the basis for nine hundred seventy three of the u.n. resolution was the claim was that gadhafi had bombed from the air three districts in tripoli subsume. and presumably we visited these places there was no indication whatsoever of any aerial bombardment so it go it just it just goes to show that if there's a claim this has to be actually corroborated properly and that hasn't been done and what we've what we have is a situation we need to have gone to war going to stop sovereign nation on the base off an allegation w

the fee paid to the port or city is very minor compared to the actual cost. >> then, do we refer people to better companies? >> no, we would not do that. they are responsible for finding their own. >> hopefully, you can come back with the fee. >> rent. levy >> on banner content, under the design criteria, will there be any kind of prohibition or review? i guess that goes down a slippery slope. >> these criteria state that they encourage a clear display of the message, which i do not think is quite addressing what your comment is about. on our to do list, when it comes back in its final form, is that add a little bit of language, particularly if we charge read, that would limit the content to limit alcohol and tobacco advertising and some other things as such. you do not see that in here today. >> and then, there is intent to allow a listing of corporate or commercial sponsorship. >> the sponsor is allowed to occupy 15% of the better area, and that is consistent with the city's public works code. >> is there a higher rent charged for those who do that? >> we will have -- when and if we d

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trilingual, she had studied at the american university of beirut, and ran the emergency room in one of the port cities, tahrir. one the port cities. when war broke out, he was in a conference. one the first thinged she did was hail a cab and head south in the opposite direction of all of the screaming hoards that were trying to escape. she felt her place was in the war zone helping -- not only helping people, but helping east hezbollah's war effort. she felt this even though she had no official ties. she didn't work for the party. she didn't have a party boss. no one asked her to do this. this was her sense of patriotism coming into play. she viewed herself as a patriot in the society of hezbollah. here she was in her skirt, suit, and heels, literally wading through the river because the bridge had been bombed so she could get to tahrir and take up the position that she remained in the next 34 days, working in the hospital. now she didn't seem as first glance at all like one would expect a hezbollah partisan to look like. she had waist-length hair, she wore it uncovered, she was happy, delighted to ta

we talked to various members of the port, the city, waste management, ecology. we read your disposal agreements and virtually anything else we could get hold of in the timeframe to gain an understanding of how the process works and what was going in with in the process. we looked at the recycling websites. we did internet research. we used a lot of information we have in our own files from working with jurisdictions in the greater bay area. we did a fairly extensive survey of those jurisdictions. we have summarized the results of that in the report. so that you can get a feel for who we talked to, we were able to communicate with 95 jurisdictions and seven counties in the greater bay area. we have listed them on the chart. i will not go through them. of those 97 jurisdictions -- 95. i am sorry. three haulers serve the majority of them. the remaining jurisdictions are serviced by 19 other independent companies. some are jointly owned. there is one other national company. of the companies that we surveyed, they are international, independent, or owned by the emplo

offensive on colonel gadhafi military in the eastern city of darby and which has been a stalemate for nearly two weeks it comes as the cut off his forces retreat from the port city of misrata where they have faced heavy five from rebels human rights groups claim misrata is on the verge of a humanitarian crisis after more than a thousand people died in the seven weeks siege by gadhafi troops meanwhile the libyan government says three people have been killed in nature as frightfully conductor's compound in central tripoli secant john dunn who has just returned from a monitoring mission in libya thinks the decision to intervene in the country's sports ground that's. the basis for nine hundred seventy three the u.n. resolution was that the claim was that gadhafi had bombed from that free particular district in tripoli so for june. we visited these places there was no indication whatsoever of any aerial bombardment so they go it just goes to show that if there's a claim this has to be actually corroborated properly and that hasn't been done and what we've what we've had is a situation where nato has gone to war against self sovereign nation on the base off an al

which has been in a stalemate nearly two weeks it comes as gadhafi is retreat from the port city of misrata where they faced heavy fire from rebels human rights groups play misrata is on the verge of a humanitarian crisis not to more than a thousand people died in the seven weeks each i cooked up the troops meanwhile the libyan government says three people have been killed in nature as stright sneak attack was in central tripoli so john donne who has just returned from a military mission in libya thinks the decision to intervene in the country was ground let's. be free of the u.n. resolution was the claim was that gadhafi had bombed. three particular districts in tripoli. push loon and we visited these places there was no indication whatsoever of any aerial bombardment so they go it just it just goes to show that if there's a claim this has to be actually corroborated properly and that hasn't been done and what we've what we've had is a situation where nato has gone to war going to so sovereign nation on the basis of an allegation which in terms of our findings was just baseless the point i

the facilitation agreement language that we have drafted and has been approved by the port of san francisco, the city attorney, and recology will do a few different things. the addendum, if it is adopted as part of the facilitation agreement, will commit the city to investigate new port and transportation options, including barges. it would commit to recology. recology it recology and the port to consider development of new port infrastructure and set a time certain to report on these considerations in five years and no later than that. they have all agreed to this language, as i said. the reason we went down this path in the facilitation agreement is we wanted to codify and formalize the discussions we are having with the port and ensure this is not an exercise we do today and when it is in place, no more discussions will happen three we want to make sure this is a way to formalize the discussions that we know are important to this committee and to the board. our recommendation is that the committee very carefully consider and move forward with approving this landfill contract and facilitation impro

the facilitation agreement language that we have drafted and has been approved by the port of san francisco, the city attorney, and recology will do a few different things. the addendum, if it is adopted as part of the facilitation agreement, will commit the city to investigate new port and transportation options, including barges. it would commit to recology. recology it recology and the port to consider development of new port infrastructure and set a time certain to report on these considerations in five years and no later than that. they have all agreed to this language, as i said. the reason we went down this path in the facilitation agreement is we wanted to codify and formalize the discussions we are having with the port and ensure this is

you for libya's provides for ground troops in fact to be deployed by the western coalition in the port city of misrata now russia has said that it will only support another u.n. resolution if it explicitly says that it will not continue the violence but if it's end the violence and starts negotiations then that is the only condition under which they would support that now i've been speaking to military analysts here in brussels and they confirm that ground troops already in operation in libya. well it was daniel bushell reporting there from russell's. britain has become a hotbed for terrorism with extremist preachers and masterminds freely able to operate there the news is come to light in the latest wiki leak which reveals at least thirty five guantanamo detainees are being trained for terrorism in london mosques the secret files also suggest an alleged al qaeda bomber worked as an informer for british intelligence he's lindsey france reports now from london. eighteen of these detainees reported believed to have come out of britain were from abroad seventeen of them are either british nati

by them and it provides full ground troops in fact to be deployed by the western coalition in the port city of misrata which is currently under siege by forces loyal to moammar gadhafi here in brussels michael mann the chief spokesman for the european union high represents catherine ashton said that they would only send up to a thousand troops and the troops would only be used if they came under attack otherwise they would only defend aid now russia has said that it will only support another u.n. resolution if it explicitly says that it will not. it will not continue boilers that if it's in the boil it and starts negotiations then that is the only condition under which they would support that now i've been speaking to military analysts here in brussels and they confirm that ground troops already in operation in libya this is not being covered by the media in the european union but troops already in operation and they are pushing forward in libya with colonel gadhafi as the target daniel thanks very much indeed for that daniel bushell live there in brussels where it has become a hotbed for t

including nine soldiers were reportedly killed in clashes during anti-government demonstrations in the nearby port city. united nations have said that the former president of ivory coast who was arrested on monday remains in the country's main city. the united nations announced earlier that he had been moved out for his own safety. president obama has called to congratulate him on assuming the presidency of ivory coast. chinese government says it's unhappy with the way foreign countries are treating the detained artist as a hero. a foreign ministry spokesman says the artist was a criminal suspect who would be punished according to the law. he is being investigated for alleged economic crime. the japanese prime minister has said that produce is safe to eat despite continuing radiation leaks. he said radiation levels were now dropping and consuming food from the area was one way to show support. japan has reclassified the nuclear threat to be the highest level on an international scale. our correspondent explains. >> as we look at the severity scale used by the authorities, you can see that before today,

today rebels said they are on the verge of driving moammar gadhafi's troops from the port city. human rights groups say more than 1,000 people have died there. >>> from syria tonight reports are coming in that security forces shot and killed at least 12 people who are taking part in a funeral procession today for those killed in yesterday's anti-government protests. that's when at least 82 people were killed. two members of president's government and a senior muslim cleric resigned in protest at the latest violence. most foreign journalists are unable to travel into syria so the accounts come from opposition activists and human rights groups. >> and in jerusalem thousands converged on the church of the holy sepulchre. clergy members passed candles lit from the sacred flame in the church as part of a pre- easter ceremony dating back more than 1200 years. >> in pakistan tonight a two- day sit-in is underway to protest the u.s. drone attacks in the tribal areas. those opposed to the attacks say they're counter-productive driving young men into the arms of the taliban. a pakistani h

the port of seven cisco. a complex entity that has always connect the waterfront to the larger city beyond. when we envision the port, first we think of the dearth of ships that were loaded and unloaded. that is how i see the port of san francisco. we have done this for close to 148 years. for over 100 years, the port was the primary industrial port of the west coast, really developed because of our assets here in san francisco. shipping technology has obviously changed. obviously we were obsolete by the late 1950's. in the late 1960's the container age hit. spatially it could handle that kind of industry. so, after that point at which the port was concerned over how to protect the water front and we put together the land-use plan, the official policy document of the port commission, it set forth goals and got policies for port approval and public open spaces before maritime industry needs. since the initial adoption in 1997, the port commission has demanded that went a couple of times to look at public access issues and architectural guidelines. the deal has been tweaked to realize the rich