to create a project under rule 20c, undergrounded cost is so much per mile. there's an underground utility task force in 2007, we just in courage everyone to look at that task force. i think it presents some really great information. the majority of undergrounding weigh -- was implemented in certain parts of the city. if you are going to move forward i want to make sure that we are doing this in all parts of the city and so, again, hence our office is here to request that lafco conduct a study on some possible alternatives. some of the things to consider which are also mentioned in the utility task force report is we look at developing long-term master plan for our city, we can figure out some alternate sources for funding which is critical and establishing policies, for example one of the suggestions they made was a policy of in no new overhead utility wires and the work mentioned in san diego and what they are able to achieve this with a budget far smaller than what is projecting and i would love to see what san diego is doing and how to replicate their por

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she had earned the nickname of mosesot underground railroad but clearly she was a -- moses on the underground railroad but clearly she was a joshua as well. she wrote that shot was flying like hail above her head but she knew what most americans would discover, what john brown had demonstrated a few months before. slavery was war. after the civil war was formally declared, in a sense moving an underground movement above ground, tubman joined with federal forces, first in virginia and then in south carolina. she continued her struggle to destroy slavery as a spy, as a scout, for union generals. these clandestine activities were finally recognized with a federal pension after 30 years of petitions to congress. she was at first given a widow's pension in 1893, then in18 99 the pension increased, nearly tripled in recognition of her wartime service and this wartime service can be found recorded in the congressional record. she spent her post-war years in the finger lakes region of upstate new york where she devoted herself to justice and benevolence, and by the 1870's she was described in a local

there are over 500 shops and restaurants in the underground arcades. over 1,000 packages a day are delivered to them. >> translator: it's much easier for us if we can drive down to the basement levels, but we have to be very careful not to hit anyone, so that makes it harder. >> reporter: there are plenty of places to relax at the end of the day, but there's one drawback. >> translator: sorry, we're closing now. >> reporter: all the entrances except those near the subway ticket gates close at 10:00 p.m. this group is heading home from a night out. after ten minutes, they finally find an entrance that's open. >> translator: without the underground malls, it wouldn't be nagoya, no way. >> translator: you said it. >> reporter: the citizens of nagoya love their underground passages so much that people from other places sometimes call them malls. burrowing under the city is part of their way of life. miki matsumoto, nhk world, nagoya. >>> and next here's a three-day outlook on the world's weather. >>> that's all for now on this edition of "newsline." i'm ra

in 2004 later this year, the underground railroad center is going to be opening in cincinnati, ohio. outreaching through the internet. you can go online and see it. it's outreaching to places which -- where we can recover and rebuild this history. the underground railroad was one of the largest most extensive most significant movements in american history. why don't we know about it? it was clandestine. the testimony, the oral testimony kept at the time is something we can recover. in philadelphia it's right at the crossroads. it was the place where people came seeking freedom. it was the place where slave hunters to capture free blacks and drag them back to slavery. it was a crossroads and i think it has a proud history and harriet embraceed that and when she came here and found her first taste of freedom here on the streets of philadelphia. sir. >> i have a few things i want to rundown. to what you nd choose to, but i know it's a matter of time. first i wanted to acknowledge thank you for representing. >> your name. >> my name is david. >> okay. >> couple of things. i'm go from the

story, the underground girls of kabul. cover, i assumed it was this idea of trafficking or women having to hide from the taliban. it's a much different, stranger and at times a sadder story. what is it? >> a story of afghan girls who are made into boys. they dress like boys with a short haircut and a pair of pants, by their parents essentially because boys are what county in afghanistan. if you don't have any sons, that's a problem for a family, and parents choose sometimes to bring up the daughter as a son. >> jon: and they bring up the daughter as a son because of the superstition that gets them sons at some point? >> that's one reason. other families will have a different reason. >> jon: right. and this is not uncommon in afghanistan. many times it's also to add prestige to the family. it's a patriarchal society. so a son will carry on the family name, the legacy, will inherit the property, so you need a son to show to the outside world that you have strengths in the family and the family isn't weak. it's incumbent upon

they don't do it we do it him i don't know it's, you know, i take it is an eye sore we prefer it underground so i don't know why they can't do it they use a public lines for the sidewalks to make money why not help the neighborhood and put the box underground i don't know any neighbor will have a position we defer the graffiti artists to do anything so i just so if you can convince them to put it underground and the other problems will be resolved. >> thank you. >> all right. >> thank you is there any public comment? please step forward. >> hello my name is a pamela tom i'm the daughter of mrs. yee - >> i'm sorry. >> as a member of her family your time to speak is under the time she's allocated. >> i can't speak. >> she has rebuttal if she wishes you can speak under her rebuttal. >> stay right there are there others who wish to speak then we'll have 3 minutes of rebuttal. >> in the brief you got in july i took those pictures and picture no. 2 and 4 of the cabinet where you saw the pictures today so this cabinet on my picture it is cabinet 701. >> you can actually put that open the overhead.

she showed them pictures of her colleagues on the underground railroad. if they could identify them by name then she knew she was talking it a fellow traveller. we have wonderful portraits of tubman and many of which are in my book. she donated to the zions church. it is now working with preservationists to expand its mandate. a popular 19th century print of tubman shows her holding a rifle. the visual link between an elementary school heroine and such a weapon. lists and letters to the editor attempting to turn tubman into some kind of symbol for current battles over gun control. this is not really a surprise to me. following the release of the national history standards. tubman's name was frequently evoked as flaws associated with guidelines. after protracted debates in which proponents hammered away. harriet tubman became a hot button for conservative critics, a whipping girl for political correctness. she continues to blossom within the popular culture. along my travels, i have bought tubman t-shirts and buttons. there are cool websites that i encoura

it was a giant rocket kept armed and ready to launch in an underground chamber called a silo. in all, there were 54 silos spread across uninhabited areas of the u.s. they're no longer in use, but you can take a tour of one, thanks to the arizona aerospace foundation. >> well, nicole, first of all, welcome to launch complex 571-7. >> thank you. >> we're gonna go underground. >> whoo-hoo. >> nuclear missiles are always kept underground because that is the safest place you can be in a nuclear war. >> that is true. >> so we're gonna go down about 35 feet. okay, watch your step here. >> as i followed chuck, he explained what it was like to visit the site when it was manned by the air force and fully operational. visitors didn't just drop by. >> so, this little area that we just came through is called the entrapment cage. we're gonna keep everybody that comes in locked in this little cage until we figure out that they actually belong here, looking at them on a closed-circuit television camera. they got to read a special code to get in. >> huh. what's the s >> the special code change

. >>> the hidden danger they fear is underground in neighborhoods all across the country. crumbling gas lines, and the risk of a sudden catastrophe. >>> and brother and sister. a very personal story from a member of our own family, inspiring so many other families tonight. "nightly news" begins now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. in just the past 24 hours american pilots have been in action in the skies over syria. an air campaign launched, we were told, to hit isis militants and their command centers. but then we learned today some of the first shots fired last night were aimed at a new terrorist group, one that few americans had ever heard of called "khorasan." but u.s. officials were apparently worried enough about what they were planning to strike them as part of this first salvo. either way this escalation makes it a more complex world tonight. we have it all covered, beginning at the pentagon with the military action. jim miklaszewski is on duty there. >> reporter: 8:30 p.m

. >> a lot of the raiders that i work with our like underground writers.hey're just coming at publishing and at being a writer from this underground way. coming in to the library is awesome. very good for the library to show this writing community that they are welcome. at first, people were like, you want me to read at the library, really? things like that. >> as a documentary, there are interviews -- [inaudible] >> radar readings are focused on clear culture. strayed all others might write about gay authors. gay authors might write about universal experiences. the host creates a welcoming environment for everybody. there is no cultural barrier to entry. >> the demographic of people who come will match the demographic of the reader. it is very simple. if we want more people of color, you book more people of color. you want more women, your book more women. kind of like that. it gets mixed up a little bit. in general, we kind of have a core group of people who come every month. their ages and very. we definitely have some folks who are straight. >> the loy

. >> item 3 is a ordnance creating underground district 360 on ring gold alley. >> supervisor kim is the author and today, we're bringing before land use the ring additionally this is a portion of the key western selma transportation pedestrian improvement plan one the key major pieces it is a necessary component of this process to realize our goal of a living shared street on ring gold is similar to the alley. what this involves obviously it ungrant all the offer ground utility the poles in order to do work that includes pedestrians lighting and repaving and other landscape consortiums. i know you've talked about this before the board but small business is one the key needs and we can be creative and shared streets is one component of providing the come down to the western plan. on may 22nd the planning commission approved that for the former trans bus lot and they allowed an agreement where $1.8 million will be used asia in loop pavement to had had small business improvements which have been identified as a consultant for the lgbtq social district for the western unit plan. of the

these underground contests that are going on, you know, in places like message boards, they almost use it as a mark of honor to find this material. >> it's a race to the bottom. >> reporter: chris is the ceo of insight security. his firm is hired to protect v.i.p.s. and says it's the kind of thing he deals with regularly. one of his major concerns is that these pictures could be used to blackmail or extort the celebrities. tell me about some of the situations you have found yourself and your clients in. >> so, the high-profile people who we help with their security have a lot of concerns over privacy. we'll try to feed information to the internet which is neither innocuous or misleading to help people maintain their privacy by making it more difficult to find personal information to them. once something is on the internet, it's very hard, if not impossible, to take it off. but one successful strategy to try to push it down to make it harder to find. >> reporter: but it's not just the rich and powerful. the breach of privacy is also raising major security concerns for the rest of us. is

. >> photographs document an area described as underground electric line failing, which resulted in the main gas line melting. >> at one point, we see the roof was out and come down. >> there was no known warning and he since rebuilt. but our investigation has uncovered documents showing there are now natural gas warnings stamped confidential. identifying specific locations in maryland, virginia, and d.c. by risk. >> this document indicates there's a list of the highest risk source, the top 100. doesn't the public have a right to know? what is that is the school or hospital? >> if it's a school or hospital, believe me, it's being fixed. >> how do we know that? we don't know where it is. what if it's my apartment building? >> it's not your apartment building. i'm sorry. we have an obligation to protect critical infrastructure. >> so that the chairman of the public service commission for d.c., you can be comforted it's not in my apartment building. right now, we're working on new information which airs tonight at 11:00 on the nation's aging underground natural gas pipelines. that list, id

tens of thousands of bare metal or cast iron pipelines are buried underground, some 50 or more than 100rs old. in maryland there are more than 1,300 miles of cast iron pipeline, in virginia 332, in d.c. 418 miles of material accident investigators and federal regulators have said is prone to failure and needs replacing. in washington documents indicate 3.6% of gas carried leaks and goes unaccounted. >> the chance of a pipeline failing any one place is pretty small, but if you live in one of those older east coast cities that have hundreds of miles of cast iron pipe, that's just a failure waiting to lap. >> reporter: the lap.-- hating to happen. >> reporter: the usa today report showed 21,000 miles of bare metal and cast iron pipe have been replaced, but there are 86,000 miles still underground. the gas industry says it is committed to safety and replacing the pipe, but the cast iron and steel pipes are often perfectly safe to operate if they're regularly inspected. >> the work is going on daily and has been for years to replace these pipes. >> reporter: although there is no way to cross

. >> plus concerns, about dangerous gas pipes that may be underground in your neighborhood. >>> our top story tonight, new charges against jesse matthews, a suspect in the disappearance of a local uva student, hanna graham. i'm derek mcginty. >> i'm jan jeffcoat. matthew is charged with abduction with intent to pedophile. two searches are under way. >> reporter: that's right. the search for hanna graham continues, but police say they now know who abducted her, the last person to see her alive, jesse matthew. >> we obtained an arrest warrant for jesse matthew, jr., of charlottesville charging him with a class 2 felony abduction with the intent to defile. >> reporter: now, a suspect in the disappearance of hanna graham. he was seen in surveillance video following the 18-year-old student just after 1:00 saturday. witnesses saw him with hanna graham at the temple restaurant in the outdoor downtown mall. the chief would not talk about the evidence, but they were waiting for forensic test results for items, including clothing at his apartment and from his chrysler coup. earlier, chief lonless

they worry that the legalization of the drug has not eliminated the underground market for it, especially in minority communities. newshour special correspondent rick karr reports from denver. >> reporter: marijuana grower and retailer andy williams can barely keep up with the demand for his product these days. he says he can't imagine a more exciting and lucrative industry to be in right now. but the buzz is all coming from capitalism. he doesn't even like cannabis. >> i tried every few years just to prove to myself i still don't like it. you know, it just affects me very poorly. >> reporter: when he started his business a few years ago, williams could only sell medical marijuana. that put him in position to be of the first to sell recreational cannabis when it became legal this year. business has been so good that williams is about to hire three dozen new employees and ramp up production in a new state-of-the art factory. >> it's manufacturing is what it is, as far as i'm concerned. you are manufacturing marijuana. this is an industrial manufacturing plant that grows marijuana. >> repor

he said i heard rumors that it is all done in underground salt mine in pennsylvania. it was a limestone of mine. the rest was right. the idea that federal paperwork as passed by hand 250 feet under the ground. it is where everybody's papers goes. so few people know it exists. or it runs like it does. such an old-fashioned way. >> i noticed in the video, the original forms are mailed. is it sent by fedex, ups, or united states mail? >> most agencies send by fedex or ups. the postal service sends its own employees by postal service. >> did he figure out how much it cost? >> we cannot figure it out. >> when you went in there, one agency said you could go into their but could not quote anyone directly? >> that is right. we got a tour. we cannot quote anybody. i quoted one woman i met underground, the union rep and she is allowed to speak. >> bonnie? >> that is correct. >> that was an incredible process. it is started at in the beginning with the paperwork coming in the mine. we saw the giant carved out cavern. people sit at these desks inside of a cave and call others to

an nbc news investigation focusing on the aging network of these underground pipes that carry natural gas to millions of home. the first pipes were laid in the 1880s and several times a week they begin leaking sometimes with tragic results. over 135 people killed over the last ten years in gas line explosions. it took but an instant for a neighborhood in san bruno, california to go up in flames. 8 people killed when a 50-year-old leaking underground gas line sploided. for sue, the loss was unimaginable. her teenage son, husband and mother-in-law died when her house was leveled. >> we had a bright future ahead of us, and now in a second it was taken away from us. it was horrible. >> reporter: a disaster that's been repeated across the country. in new york city last march, 8 dead. in brentwood, long island, a toddler killed, 17 injured. now a usa today nbc news investigation has found that every day in america a gas leak injures or kills someone. one big problem, 88,000 miles of cast iron and steel piping underground, much of it 100 years or older. >> those older gas pipes, particularly

underground caves has a fascinating history. made caves were naturally in soft limestone by water dripping from the mississippi river. when prohibition was passed, it is dark, cold, private, let's fill the room with illegal beer and then prohibition was repealed. filled bootleggers who said, ok, here is legal. let's do nightclubs. the gangsters of st. paul and the good people who like partying with gangsters, this anda nightclub as well as other cave nearby, filled with sex he does, chandeliers, kitchens, but mind you, it was also where john dillinger and notorious gangsters also like to hang out. the appeal of the underground nightclub was that you were with the most wanted bank robbers in america. today, we look at the mafia with horror. organized, terrible people. but in those days, bank robbers like john dillinger were seen .lmost like robin hood they were seen as post-depression, when the close -- the bank would foreclose on your house or farm or the banks were not really popular. kind of antiheroes who were evening the sco

steam is injected underground to loosen the oil and it is pumped out. the thick tarlike crude must be mixed with chemicals to make it flow through the pipeline. tar sands require 70% more energy to extract than traditional oil. >> this is a gigantic mining operation in the middle of nowhere. they want to take production by 2025, more than double it. >> and your job is to make sure that never comes out of the ground? >> well, look, from my point of view -- i'm not a scientist. the scientists say it would be devastatingly terrible for the seven billion people on the earth if it does. >> when we return, tom steyer looks outside the box for answers. >> i actually believe that the solution for our energy problem is going to be corporate america. ♪ >> tom steyer claims money didn't motivate him, but he is incredibly good at making it. the investment firm he founded, farallon capital management, has a market value of almost $4 billion, and that has made steyer a very wealthy man. if you didn't really like using money as a benchmark for your success, you still

the april time frame there was a thought that the worst had past, but in fact it had been driven undergroundand when it came back with a flurry at the end of the summer, almost everyone was caught off guard. it was a great wake-up call for public health officials. and the world health organization, the w.h.o., its staff and budget had been gutted in the last three years. it was utterly incapable of responding and leading on this. msf has been the great hero in this story. it is carrying two-thirds of the case load in this region. if it wasn't for doctors without borders, it would be extraordinarily bad. >> sarah i want to bring you into the conversation. you have been on the ground. we hear the numbers, and see the reports, how much worse it is there than we're actually hearing? >> there's a no question there is a real sense of trepidation, but there st also a real sense of resolve. i have been where the outbreak happened much earlier in the year, here in monrovia, that has the highest case load. we do see this being lead by liberiians. they do feel abandoned, and that the international resp

so we're going to take a look at some of our weather underground data. it was up in the north bay wiwit with .66. so as we zoom in and get you a closer look, you can see not everybody averaged .66. napa .900. now let's take you in closer. look at the time lapse here. it was cloudy this morning. the cloud cover has just continued on and on and we'll likely have areas of drizzle for tonight. we're talking about another storm system for next week. >>> well, most everyone welcomed the rein. it also caused dusty power poles to spark. that knocked out electricity overnight to about 12,000 homes and businesses in the east bay. power was restored for the majority of customers late this afternoon. >>> fighting fire with fire. crews are now setting backfires near sacramento. that's a strategy to protect land and homes. highway 50 is once again shut down. on the right side you can see the fire there. it looks intense. on the left side of your screen, the man accused of setting this fire. his name is wayne huntsman. our nbc chopper, you can see there not necessarily

provide, 7.2 million gallons a day for 7 and a half years for dry years and so we will have an underground, water reservoir, stored, that is about the equivalent in size of lower and upper reservoirs this is 60,000 acre feet of water that is stored underground and that is about, 2 billion gallons of water and so this is in lieu, and conjunctive project can three agencies including the city, the city of san bruno and the california, water service company and this project would not be possible, without these agencies, to allow a recharge of the ground water into abasin which can be returned and covered and dry in years in the case of an emergency, and so, the specific project facilities include, 16 newell stations, and including pipelines, and in the south west side ground water basin and also includes some treatment facilities, at some of those locations. and the project to cost, $113 million and we plan to complete the construction in july of 2018 as part of the water system improvement program. with that i would be happy to take any questions. e >> i will entertain a motion, the amendment

support it and vote for it but also understand this is only the beginning the mission strict is at underground zero we have only 10 percent of affordable housing compared to other neighborhood that have 50 to 60 percent of affordable housing. we believe that the people evicted from the mission should be given the first right once the homes are built and we feel that you should looking like look at as the budget committee look at the board of supervisors look at proposals we've secured as a community in the mission that should be funded to build affordable housing in san francisco so that the mayors goal to build thirty thousand units is thank you >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. >> thank you for bringing this forward i'm excited about this i'm hydra mendosa the excision on the board of education and the education advisors to mayor ed lee the 8 years i've been on the board of education this has been a very high topic and priority for us we would not have be able to do this without the support of the city the school district we're educators not rele

tank rainwater collected from the roof flows through the gutters and into the underground pipes.hese hoses. carry water from the cistern to the plants. harvesting rainwater cuts down on run-off into the sewers & could save an average of 50% on your water bill! now that makes sense. >> we've got some stories for you this week in our quest to this fascinating continent. welcome to the "european journal ." romania -- the politics of corruption. france -- paris tries to polish its image for service. and austria -- royal march through the outs. corruption in romania is like a black hole. it seems to suck in everyone in the country. the police, business people, politicians. even the language is proof of that. there are up to 30 synonyms for

and there was a relaxation, but, in fact, it had been driven underground, and when it came back with fury, i think almost everybody was caught off guard, this was a great wakeup call for public health officials. the other thing, the world health organization, the staff and budget have been gutted. it was utterly incapable of responding and leaning on this. msf has been the great hero in this story. it has 2,000 people on the ground, it is carrying two-thirds of the caseload in this region. if it were not for doctors without borders it would extraordinary. >> we will talk more about the response in a few minutes. sara, i want to bring you into the conversation, you have been on the ground, we hear the numbers and see the reports. how much worse is it there than we are hearing? >> well, there's no question there is a real sense of trepidation, but there's also a real sense of resolve. where the outbreak happened much earlier in the year, and which has the highest caseload. we do see this being led by liberians. so this is a very important point, it is not to say this the liberians are

incident appears to be human error, although the situation underscores the vulnerable state of our underground pipeline system. there is a major development tonight in our investigation into potential danger below the streets of d.c. we identified a list detailing failing gas pipelines all over town, but the district is refusing to release it. now investigative reporter russ ptacek has documents identifying the top three high risk locations. >> reporter: this is the document that lists washington's top three high risk natural gas sites. we're in ward 6 along s street which is one of the sites listed. it doesn't give a specific address, but when we got out of our car here, we very quickly got a pretty good idea we're in the right spot because we can smell it. >> yeah. you can really smell it. >> reporter: your mom live right here. >> yes. that's dangerous. >> oh, my goodness, you can smell it right now. >> reporter: i just got a whiff. >> i did, too, a strong whiff of it. >> it's strong. it's strong. >> reporter: you smell it. >> yeah, i smell it now. >> reporter: parking restriction signs list

. >>> a hidden danger underground. a look at aging gas lines and why this is a major concern in the d.c. area. >> a group of african-american women with a serious beef with the nfl in the aftermath of the domestic violence >>> an investigation focusing on the aging network of natural gas pipes in this country is raising concern today. >> some of the oldest pipes are in the washington area laid more than 100 years ago. abc's tom costello is joining us. >> my pleasure. the problem is nationwide. several times a week the nation's national gas lines begin to leak sometimes with tragic results. 135 people have died in gas line explosions. it took but an instant for a neighborhood in san bruno, california to go up in flames. eight people killed, 30 homes destroyed 30 years ago when a le leaking underground natural gas line exploded. for sue, the loss was unimaginable. her teenage son and husband and mother-in-law all died when the house was leveled. >> we had a bright future ahead of us. in a second, it was taken away from u