that would have to factor in the rf emissions that are being removed, figuring out what the result is. >> that is correct. the old antennas would not be included in the study. in some directions, that might be a decrease. in others, it might be an increase. those now proposed comply with federal guidelines. commissioner sugaya: move to approve with conditions. commissioner antonini: second. >> the motion on the floor is for approval with conditions, as proposed. commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner moore: aye. commissioner sugaya: aye. vice president wu: aye. president fong: aye. >> the motion passed unanimously. president fong: we will take a 5 minute, 10 minute break here. >> the commission is taking a 10 minute recess. thank you. >> item 14, amending the san francisco planning code by repealing existing bicycle parking requirements, adding new sections. >> good afternoon, commissioners. the item before you today is initiation of the bike parking legislation. for the public benefit, the hearing does not include substantive discussions, but seeks approval for an adoption at a lat

the existing microcell? what kind of differences in rf emissions are there between the two? >> i am dane erickson, a registered professional engineer in the state of california. the antennas are directional in the vertical plane. even an antenna that is omnidirectional in the horizontal plane is still directional in the vertical plane. that means it radiates less energy directly downward. both patterns are taken into account, when we conduct our independent type galatians, whether a particular site complies with federal guidelines for human exposure to radio frequency energy. commissioner antonini: i guess my question was more that the older antenna is more omnidirectional then these are? >> that is correct. it would be on the directional in the horizontal plane, but directional in the vertical -- it would be omnidirectional in the horizontal plane, but directional in the vertical. the new antenna is directional in both the horizontal and vertical. the ready it much less energy directly below the antennas den -- they radiate much less energy directly below the antennas. the

there are significant benefits which have to be considered in making any adjustments or changes in the rfs. it is a market oriented system. we have to allow the market to continue to work. as it relates to the world situation, you have to look at the totality of agricultural production. you are seeing other countries who could have corn yields at record levels. you are seeing wheat production continuing to be strong even if supplies might be tighter. this is certainly not where we were in 2008. i think it is important for us to make these decisions on facts and not rush to judgment in terms of fairly significant decisions that could be made that will alter not just the short-term, but could negatively impact the biofuel industry in the long term. >> white house spokesman's jay carney said today that a waiver of the ethanol mandate could be on the table. do you know discussions as far as whether or not a waiver of the mandate may be something that is being considered? >> we are speaking on friday afternoon taping "washington journal." >> the epa makes this decision and they have to go throu

that's going to happen irrespective of the rfs. >> is it a good idea to be diverting food into fuel?ple are wondering with food shortages why are we using it in fuel. >> it isn't a die version. yes we're using more grain for ethanol today than we have in the past but we're growing significantly more. and even though this is a short crop this year, we're still looking at the eight largest crop in u.s. history. this is a global market. it's global in nature, and we're looking at the second largest world corn crop slightly behind last year's crop. >> gentleman, we must go at this point, but we'll wait for the epa to talk about this. thank you for joining us, regardless of the ethanol mandate's future, there is one event on the horizon that could increase what we're paying at the pump. israel's plans to stop rooirn, there is report that's a strike could come before our elections in november. we'll have details on that coming up, and tomorrow, don't miss all day coverage of oil shock, a look at the shifting sands in oil production and consumption. >> a market worsening right now as we spe

. >>> it is happening in suburban phoenix, arizona where a man was shot at the cardinals rf raiders pre-season game. it happened during a fight in the parking lot. the suspect is in custody. >> we know the victim was shot in the head. his wounds are life-threatening. no word on what triggered the fight that lead to this shooting. we will have more as this story develops. good evening. i'm carolyn johnson. >> i'm dan ashley. in the meantime, a violent, high-risk sex offender is on the loose. derrick sanders escaped from the facility in redwood city, and he is still out there. ama dates is live at the san mateo county sheriff's office. ama? >> authorities are not quite sure when sanders escaped, but once out of the facility it is easy to go unnoticed because the facility is in a heavily wooded area. derrick sanders is a wanted man after escaping from the health facility in redwood city. >> he left last night or early this morning through an elevator shaft. >> the staff noticed he was missing during early morning rounds. the sheriff's office is concerned because sanders is a high risk sex offende

suburban phoenix, arizona where a man was shot at the cardinals rf raiders pre-season game. parking lot. the suspect is in custody. >> we know the victim was shot in the head. his wounds are life-threatening. no word on what triggered the fight that lead to this shooting. we will have more as this story develops. good evening. i'm carolyn johnson. >> i'm dan ashley. in the meantime, a violent, high-risk sex offender is on the loose. derrick sanders escaped from th in facility in redwood city, and he is still out there. ama dates is live at the san mateo county sheriff's office. ama? >> authorities are not quite sure when sanders escaped, but once out of the facility it is easy to go unnoticed because the facility is in a heavily wooded area. derrick sanders is a wanted man after escaping from the health facility in redwood city. >> he left last night or early this morning through an elevator shaft. >> the staff noticed he was missing during early morning rounds. the sheriff's office is concerned because sanders is a high risk sex offender. >> he is a parolee. he has violence

the governor there, nathan deal, says that the rfs, the renewable fuel standard, is contributing to highevastating his state's $20 billion but ethanol producers can reduce corn demand and prices in 2013. economists also say that will offset the corn demand while also reducing the price of corn without a waiver. >> they could reduce corn ethanol use 2.6 billion gallons in 2013 without any waiver, just because they have credits from prior years. >> purdue university's wallace tyner and colleagues calculate it by using credits known as writtens. they would make up to 20% of next year's 13.8 billion gallon ethanol target. they assume a drought would bring prices to $8.57 a barrel. if they use thoet rins, 2 billion of them that would reduce it by 65 cents, bringing it's below $8 a bushel of corn. a major waiver, about 40%, would knock prices down about two bucks or so. but it's unclear whether refiners would actually reduce ethanol use if the epa issues a waiver. refiners may not have to cut back because a waiver doesn't compound to ethanol remains 15% cheaper here than gasoline, despite the

all of our communities coming together on different projects like the interoperable radio project funded through rfa today so that when the big emergency hits, we will be able to pick up the phone and say, i need this or that. working with our partners in fema, nancy and i have had a number of conversations about how we can work together to pull together resources. it is not enough for the federal government to give us the framework or for the state to give us a framework or for the local communities. we need to all be doing it together. one thing that is really exciting to me is i was admitted to the national preparedness leadership institute at harvard. i am part of " for -- i am part of cohort number 8. my project at harvard was working with folks around the country and people at fema as well. we're trying to put together a template for local communities to respond that will hopefully be complementary to the ndrf. we're hoping it will be such a good product that you will want to take it on. it will be more than the framework. it will be asking the questions of what an individual community needs

we were trying to meet every single 1 of the federal deadlines because the original finding was -- funding was rf funding. we have to slow down. we did have a phone conversation with 1 of the undersecretaries in washington and i feel confident that will continue to move forward and we will be 1 of the first to build out our system. san francisco is 1 of 5 counties funded by the state of california to pilot the disaster program. this is a first in the nation effort to strengthen government- affiliated volunteer programs and integrate a volunteer resources. disaster core, we are hoping to get volunteers shortly. these volunteers will be able to do things for us that others cannot do because of the background checks and the classifications that they had as being a member of disaster core. on our emergency shelters, we quickly assessed the disability needs in emergency shelters. more than 50 personnel were trained to be on the assessment service teams and staff teams. the trainees came from him and services agency and also department of public health and we think that these teams are going to help us

i put required, well, required may not be exactly the right word because the rf right of exemption explicitly mentioned in the policy. for example, limited english proficiency, proficient students who have received less than two years of instruction in english are exempt from the retention requirement as are most categories and special education students. students also be built to demonstrate their proficiency on and approved alternative standardized test. they can also demonstrate their proficiency through a portfolio that is aligned to the state content standards. as the result of these exemptions, i actually think policy and the policy to essbase promotion is something of a misnomer. it would be more accurate to say that a low test score changes the default decision that would be made for the student such the in an affirmative case needs to be made that they're ready to be promoted to the fourth grade. it doesn't, the policy doesn't seem to require that they be retained but it also requires that they receive additional services during the retention year. they need to be given the opportuni

. >> georgia is among half a dozen states like new mexico and arkansas that petitioned the pta to wave rfs fuel standard targets. nathan diehl says they're contributing to the costs. but ethanol producers counter that the industry can off set this corn demand without a waiver. after years of producing more ethanol than mandating but they built up production credits that can be used to meet quotas, how? next year's target is 13.8 billion gallons. economists calculate that production level could send corn to about $8.57 a bushel assuming no credits were used. without a waiver, using two billion gallons of the credits, that could cut production and knock prices down more than 65 cents. a waufr wouiver would have a bi impact. and a major waiver would knock prices about $2. but that's on if refiners cut back on blending ethanol which is a big if. >>> the feedback we get from the industry is really mixed and it's critical that the epa get a good handle on that before they make a decision. >> and the reason why you see here the epa does not have the authority to compel them to stop refining, and

we at the national farmers union strongly support the rfs, renewable fuels standards, to continue theevents of corn ethanol and biofuels. we are making progress but we must continue to explore the way to bring to the market more biofuels, particularly the advanced ones. in order to meet our goals by 2022, we must continue to move in this direction, to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and give consumers the choice at the pump. family farmers and rural communities are the core of american life. sound policy and wise investments in the future of agriculture will set us and our country up for economic successes. ladies and gentlemen, thank you for this opportunity to address you, and i appreciate your attention. if you have any questions, i would be happy to answer them. >> we have a couple of minutes for questions. >> mr. peterson, thank you for your testimony. i grew up in a small town, and i know what a difference in makes to rural america as well what do you think the role of our schools can be in meeting some of the challenges you have raised? we have tremendous commitments to ma

rolling him out to make the welfare attack today. newt gingg rf, of course, having distinguished himself on the campaign trail on the primary for having remarkable sensitivity and political success when he talks to poverty and the concerns of poor families. >> you're totally poor. you're in a school that is failing with a teacher that is failing. i tried for years to have a very simple model. most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors, have one master janitor, and pay local students to take care of the school. >> they would be dramatically less expensive than unionized janitors, and you begin to reestablish the dignity of work, and in very poor neighborhoods, you have to literally restab the dignity of work. >> the master janitor ought to do the dangerous hard work, but i will tell you personally, i believe the kids could mop the floor and clean out the bathroom and get paid for it and it would be okay. >> the kids are incredibly cheap for this kind of work. and you see, poor people don't know about work. not like newt gingri

and because of that, the inland east bay, who has been waking up with sunshine while the rest rf us sit the low clouds, also dealing with low clouds this morning. over the north bay, south bay and inland east bay valley locations. specific satellite view, here's the culprit. you may actually enjoy this unseasonally mild weather, but it will continue to sink southeast towards the west coast. as it does, it will continue our cooling trend into saturday and sunday. this system is going to pass by. we're going to see a little bump in temperatures early next week. but then another trough to followill bring temperatures down into next weekend. all in all, looks like we will be right about that seasonal average or slightly below to end august. so we've got the morning clouds out there this morning. even a little bit of mist and drizzle along the coastline. and it is a little thick as well. 56 in oakland. 58 in hayward. know somebody catching or arriving, i should say to sfo? delays this morning. 50 degrees san rafael. the onshore breeze continuing for today and through the bay, it will be a li

if no one is going to harass them off site in the rf planned departure quarters and it's worked and ourlks are partners with the - park and the military have been investigating this and we are starting to bear fruit and see it happen. and i think it is a great way to mitigate the bird has a rather than constantly go back and chase them away. their offspring will be back the next day and of course you raise the issue of the requirements. capture kill and that sort of thing is a very touchy subject with environmentalists and regulators and understand we'll have to work together to come up with a solution because the hazard is there. .. >> trying to make sure the progress is addressed, especially coming out of the hudson incident. >> on the topic of runway excursions them we have seen the numbers increase dramatically overseas and the numbers have stayed steady here in north america. is there a concern on the part of the stakeholders that this uptick may reach our shores? >> there certainly is, steve, from the faa site, we were very concerned with excursions. aspersions have been in the ne

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the renewable fuel standards or rfs that were parred in the bush administration and later bolstered by administration require refiners to blend ethanol into gasoline ethanol makes up about 10% right now. the percentage will increase in the future. this, though, has had a detrimental effect on food prices. more u.s. land is now used to produce corn for fuel than is used to produce corn for food and feed. and with yields down catastrophically from this drought, the detriment el effect on food prices will be compounded. even the united nations is now calling on the obama administration and the epa to relax the ethanol mandate because food prices here will climb dramatically, and in some parts of the world starvation is expected to climb. yet the administration has not yet acted. >> what i can tell you is that the epa has made clear that they're working closely, rather, with the department of agriculture to keep an eye on yields, and they will evaluate all the relevant information when assessing that situation. and i would direct you to them for the latest updates. >> reporter: compounding

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now, the taliban leader says that this is a planned -- is part of a plan of infiltration by insurgents. we can't confirm if that statement is true. but certainly this has been a p rf coup for the insurgency. that's been able to claim responsibility. there are measures in place to prevent further incidents in the future. already afghan recruits are subject to a -- it seems that is not enough to prevent these incidents happening in future. we also understand from the u.s. military that their forces now have to keep weapons loaded and ready at all times even when they're on base. now, if these attacks do turn out to be insurgent infiltration, it might actually be easier to tackle than if they are random, isolated incidents about bursts of anger. certainly, this is a headache for the international forces here, ahead of the transition process, which is ongoing. but the u.s. military says morale is high among the troops but you have to wonder what the levels of trust are due to the recent incidents an the frequency of them. >> kitty logan in kabul, afghanistan this morning. thank you. >>> russia is being sharply criticized for sentencing pre punk rockers for two years i

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energy independence by 2025 and recognizing the special needs of american agricultural and its potential contribution. we at national farmers union strongly support rfs, renewable fuel stewards. we are making progress with investments in flex fuel technology but we must continue to explore the way to bring to the market more biofuels particularly the advanced blends. in order to meet the goals of the r.f.s. by 2022, we must continue to move in direction to reduce dependence on foreign oil. sound policy in the future of graduate -- agriculture will set us up for economic development. ladies and gentlemen i appreciate your attention. if you have any questions, i will be happy to answer >> we have a couple minutes for questions. >> mr. peterson, thank you for your testimony. i group up in a small town. i know what a difference it makes as well. i wanted to ask you a little bit what you think the roll of our schools can be. of course we've got tremendous commitment making sure that america has great education no matter where but rural schools also facing challenges. >> i actually been in the classroom for 12 years. i see the diminished funding as probabl

energy independence by 2025 and recognizing the special needs of american agricultural and its potential contribution. we at national farmers union strongly support rfs, renewable fuel stewards. we are making progress with investments in flex fuel technology but we must continue to explore the way to bring to the market more biofuels particularly the advanced blends. in order to meet the goals of the r.f.s. by 2022, we must continue to move in direction to reduce dependence on foreign oil. sound policy in the future of graduate -- agriculture will set us up for economic development. ladies and gentlemen i appreciate your attention. if you have any questions, i will be happy to answer >> we have a couple minutes for questions. >> mr. peterson, thank you for your testimony. i group up in a small town. i know what a difference it makes as well. i wanted to ask you a little bit what you think the roll of our schools can be. of course we've got tremendous commitment making sure that america has great education no matter where but rural schools also facing challenges. >> i actually been in the classroom for 12 years. i see the diminished funding as probabl