you know, if you are going to stand a unit, this is unit you are going to expand, if you expand the top two units and leave this as the non-conforming unit, you are creating kind of a cave down there. what about just eliminating the stair, the internal kind of stair? i think that would? >> can i address it? >> yes. >> i think if that is the only way the commission would support it, we would do that. i would like to oasis suggest adding a stair in the future doesn't require planning approval. it would designation of two units or three units and would not require a merger. it's still three units either way without the stair or was the stair. it adds convenience for my clients, but what is critical here is to get expansion pore their living space. >> okay. i think that would be any preference to take dr and remove the stair and approve the project. >> is that a motion? >> yes. >> thank you. >> second. >> commissioner moore? >> this is an extreme case and i would still like zoning administrator sanchez to come back and fill us in a little bit of where some of these oversights were or where people com

and it was decided that the preservation of affordable units was more important than new units to be added. since so many new units are being added anyway, affordable units are being lost at 1,000 per year. but most importantly, please -- measure from the rear wall. >> thank you next speaker, please. >> san francisco tenant's unit. tenant's union supports preservation of the existing garden-level studio apartment at 16a iris avenue. and opposes the request to add an internal spareway between it and the 16 iris flat above. the new internal stairway with the door at the bottom would not genuinely maintain the current separation of the two units. the planning department initially recommended that the building permit be denied and admited that the proposal was a merger before the internal door was proposed. the 505 square foot garden apartment in question should not be made less affordable by effectively adding 470 square feet, contrary to the intent of major directive 13 01 and the planning department's own guidelines. interesting point about the richmond review article that you just got distributed from the prior co

there are 7 blocks with 504 total units, 256 of those units are replacement public housing units and 8 are affordable units. block 1 will have 122 units and in another slide i'll present the breakdown a little bit more but as you can see there's a total of 7 blocks and they are blocks 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 14. this slide shows a breakdown of the units that will be in block 1. the chart to the left shows the number of replacement public housing units and the number of affordable units that will be in be in block 1. there are a combination of 1, 2, 3 and 4 bedrooms both flats and some town homes there there will be 76 replacement public housing units and 46 affordable units for that 122 total. and then you can see in another unit tab tab at the top, a more refind breakdown of the types of loans whether it be a 1 bedroom flat or 2 or 3 or 4 bedroom flat. the chart shows the number of accessible units. there's a total of 10 percent of all of the units will be accessible. there there will be 15 of those and then there is another 4 percent of units so approximately 7 or actually there there

an example slide in the next image and 10 percent of the units are accessible and 90 percent of the units are adaptable and 4 percent of the units are for visual and hearing impairment. here's an existing typical floor plan for a 2 bedroom town i singled out the 2 bedroom towns as an example. if you have more questions on the other unit times they are at the back of the presentation so for this purpose right now i'm going to at a high level review the 2 bedroom existing and proposed unit plans and so for example, here this is a town house, an existing town house, so it's not necessarily accessible. the living room and the dining, kitchen area are all separate. there's a small bedroom here on the on the right-hand side of the slide and some small closet space. all of our 2 bedrooms will be flats so all of them will be -- 10 percent will be accessible and the remaining 90 will be adaptable and here you can see on the image to the left at that lower right-hand corner you will see the kitchen and how that flows into the dining room and proceeds up into the living room so this is the great room that i was talking about. i wanted to k

units and 109 affordable units. the upper 21 floors all market rate units. . and 109 below market rate units affordable to households. the unit mix or the number of studios, 1 and 2 bedrooms equal to the market rate units on the lower 21 floors and parking will be a parity among the market rate units. the developer will be submitting for approval by our executive director and bridge will be taking the lead on outreach marketing and leasing of the units. >> the project also includes ground floor retail because as you know folsom street will be the major new retail area 206 bike parking spaces shared open space on the ground floor and streetscape improvements. >> the block 9 includes a good faith deposited credited against the land purchase price 43.6 million $6 million and deposited into a a trust account by the close of escrow. . obviously also requires compliance with contracting policies. commencement of construction is expected to occur as as soon as the fall of next year no later than 18 months which is anticipated to happen february 3rd , 2015, and constru

units 100% affordable units camp, how would they pencil out if built to the max these four initial sites? market rate versus moderate and low-income? >> you mean in terms of costs or percentage of units? >> percentage of units that would fall in each one of those? right now, 1950 mission upper yard and seawall 33221 are 100% affordable. >> they are? >> yes. >> i have not done an analysis on 4th and folsom and balboa reservoir is a large -- much larger development. but if we could do 100% affordable at 4th and folsom, that would be great. we would love to do that. so of the five parcels identify, three are 100%. >> so 1950 is actually 100% affordable? >> yes. >> i have one other question, maybe mr. cohen, he is still here? given the scarcity of resources issue that we just heard about, and your advocacy for the inverse, what do you say to that? >> well, miss heartily is correct, we have a certain amount of resources now and those are all been programmed and there is sort of a game plan for the next five, six years. but the conversation is about adding more resources. so what we need to be thinking about is how to meet our housing goals? because we saw earlier, we're at 41% in produce

housing this remind me of the 26 and clemente i come back to we voted to demolish two units small units rent control units this wouldn't be under rent control it's exempt but nonetheless it recess that's before i think you know another case we had where we went ahead and said it was okay. on brookd street the units were $1.6 million and created a $4.2 million house i'm scratching my head i felt like when i walk down the street there's anger and the word i concurred this word we're providing an economic cleansing of the city i see we're going to have two new unit authenticity an appropriate use of the land but one thousand $12,000 square feet you're looking at $2 million in condo we're trying to balance it both ways this is the presumption. if i feel i feel some of the frustration the gentleman had as well i don't know what to do to balance those priorities commissioner moore. >> in a pickle we are, however our task is to look at code compliant projects we can't on our own change the basic thrust of green why this small home currently on the property is being appraised at the cost by which it is being appr

united united nations now has palestine's application for international criminal court but where it goes from here is unclear. >> this is a formal step for which we will be going through it to seek justice through a legal option. it is a peaceful option. it is a sistlessed civilized option. it is an option anyone who upholds the law should not be afraid of. >> if the united states has its way, the international criminal court will investigate the 2000 war in gaza, and land they say belongs to the palestinians. and what court will ultimately comply is open to debate. while most countries already recognize palestine as a state israel doesn't. >> the government of israel is very upset because of this unilateral step. israel says the that palestine is not an independent state yet so they don't have the right to go to icc right now. israel expects that icc will reject the application. >> leve les mans. >> u.s. led peace talks broke down earlier this year, but unilateral actions like this will hinder these negotiation. negotiations. the u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon, says 60 days for jurisdiction to kick in and it could take months before the court decides whether or not to stay up a case. kristin saloomey, al jazeera the united nations. >> gideon levy tells us more why the israeli government is unhappy. >> this step might embarrass israel and put israel

united states. we have had little terrorism. little islamist terrorism in the united states. 9/11 was not committed, for the most part by american citizens who were born and raised in the united states. we have had a terrorist incident in the united states - the boston marathon bombing, committed by people by people who lived in the united states for some time. but, you know again, in is one incident. we go back several decades, and there has been very little islamist terrorism in the united states. in is especially remarkable when you consider how easy it is to commit acts of terrorism. throwing a handmade bomb into a store or a shopping mall is easy. yet it doesn't happen in the united states very often. >> the professor raises an issue of what generation the extremists could come from. in france the latest came from second generations growing up. the tsarnev brothers are first generation immigrants and others convicted of terrorist activities. is it the children of immigrants that seem to be more at risk of joining radical groups than their parents? >> it's the children of immigrants who have the challenge of forming that dual identity. it's their challenge to be muslims a

improvements to about 35 hundred units of housing across the city those unit are in the of our supervisorial addict that were built starting in the 4940s to the 1991 and all of those unitre in extreme disrepair suffering from funding neglect mostly because of cuts that congress made to capital improvements for housing i wanted to give you a background on the unit before i talk about the conversion to private ownership which will change the status of those unite and especially in relation to this department i'll be going over the materials you've received for the benefit of the public hearing housing authority serves extremely low income san franciscans the average householder is over $14,000 households are living in public housing united 5 thousand 3 hundred unit plus across the city they provide rental subsidies as i mentioned a minute ago those are aging building that wish in need of repair a few years ago the housing authority did an assessment of how much to get the buildings in shape at that time the estimate was $270 million for the whole portfolio now the 35 hundred united we have $508 million alone in rehab needs that shows the $70 million the severity of updat

united united nations. >> we're going to the court in. not the publicity. we're going to the court the most important international court on criminal matters. it is an impartial court. it is based on the charter that israel refused to sign and commitment. israel thinks that the international court is like it's own courts, kangaroo courts that have been sending thousands of palestinians to jail without any due process. no we're going to the international legality and to that court come what may. >> in yemen houthi fighters say they've kidnapped the president's chief of staff. he was taken from his office in the capitol on saturday morning. >>> the united nations said its increasingly worried about the refugee trapped. they have not been able to distribute aid for six weeks because of ongoing fighting. the camp south of the capitol of damascus is cut off from the outside world. erica wood has more on the living conditions there. >> reporter: the palestinians refugee who is once sought shelter here because of trouble back home are now desperate to escape. because of fuel prices generators are an expensive luxury that most cannot afford. >> the generate operates but not regularly. my electric generator operates every other day. >> every effort is made to reinstate power and cut off again. >> the citizens department has averted huge efforts to offer supplies to other cities. the regime has cut these lines. >> locals rely on rechargeable batteries, but it is not a dependable source, and it is expensive. >> we need $1.30 every day to recharge the battery. every single day we need $1 for the laptop and mobile phone but we don't have jobs. th

unit. that is required by code, if he goes to ten units. so if it was ten units he would be required to provide one affordable housing unit. whether it's nine units and one of the nine units is affordable housing, i do want to acknowledge that is a generous gesture. but i don't think it overrides the qualitative -- the -- failure to meet the qualitative criteria. i would like to move the advice of the recreation and parks commission to the planning commission, with the planning code section of the sunlight ordinance that the proposed project at 190 russ street does not meet the qualitative criteria of the 1989 memo and will have a significant adverse impact on victoria manalo draves park. >> commissioner levitan. >> i will be brief, because as usual my colleague, commissioner low has perfectly articulated, ironically, for the second time on this topic, that we have spoken about this recently. and not to sound like a broken record for those who have heard me say this, but i don't believe there is any such thing as a good shadow. and so which people say, it's not m

11 thousand of the thirty thousand unit and there was around 9 thousand unit that are seasonal and occasionally used and then they also found what i consider mystery unit 9 seven hundred not sure why their vacate some con judiciary many owners keep them off the market for fear if we can't get rid of the tenant and also some royals that unit kept vacant if they're thinking about selling them they're more valuable 24 is part of the 9 seven hundred that's the part still to be discovered but incidentally the folks by their study composed 2.7 percent of the unit in san francisco this is a small percentage you know lower than the mystery vacancy or certainly the ones in process so the methodology did not use whether homeownership or whether the homeowner files for a discount on their taxes because the occupant don't do that i haven't done that you don't royals it's there and when you looked at the registered voters one percent over 18 o are registered not good sources the answers to the condo that is most hot is probably around 62 to 70 percent of those new condos are occupied full-time by the owners another 15 to 25 percent are rented to full-time renter an

it gives us a chance to run this clip. ♪ united, united, you broke my guitar ♪ >> this is a classic song by sons of maxwell. uniteds this complaint music video as part of its internal training in customer service. i do have bad news for landon dowdy over at cnbc. they will not allow pianos on board. you at least try to play the piano from time to time. >> i did but maybe i can get one of those mini keyboards and carry that one on with me. and the markets gr going after stocks rallied on wednesday. futures are higher today, snapping a five-dave losing streak. and investors reacted favorably. the fed signaling it could start raising interest rates earlier this year, even if inflation doesn't pick up. new filings on consumer credit tracks americans' borrowing habits. scott, back over to you. >> thank you. spacech has delayed the launch of its rocket. it was originally scheduled for last tuesday but it was scrubbed because of a mechanical problem. nasa says it passed the last big hurdle before manned tests. the art said it's much more close to certifying spacex military launches. >> sam and laura. >> thank you very mu

analysis for the legalization of the unit it looks like a good candidate and has several of you mentioned it's not ann a unit that was created outside a dwelling unit only that a kitchen has been installed into so should the commission like us to go in the directions of legal listing the unit we'll hope to be granted a continuance today and be able to get the application on file and at this point the legalization ordinance puts the appeals process on hold until the completion of that and assuming we continue to the end the appeal gets dropped we're on to the commission if it was felt the moratorium was more appropriate it is a zoning district that typically allows one unit but because of the ordinance we can increase it to two this unit was in existence prior to 2013 we want to get this resolved in a way that keeps mrs. williams mother in a space downstairs and defer to the commission which way they prefer we go. >> commissioner walker. >> thank you. i think that at this junk you are which way you want to go. >> that's not our position your telling us which way to approach it. >> the leg shin process is interesting there's been a number of applicat

. >> you'd have big trucks coming through here, your testing units units and trucks coming in and out. it's just perpetual motion at all times. >> reporter: and right now? >> right now it's slow. >> reporter: oil companies have started to shut down rigs that are no longer profitable because of falling prices, so there's less work. so far, 10 of frontier's 110 employees have left or been laid off. it's estimated texas could lose 140,000 direct and indirect energy jobs by midyear if oil stays around $55 a barrel. the number of active rigs in texas has already fallen 10% in the last two months. >> i don't have a clue what the bottom's going to be. >> reporter: and how do you plan for that? >> just take it day by day. that's all you can do, hold on to your hat cowboy. it's going to be a whirlwind. >> reporter: the whirlwind continues to be a windfall for drivers. scott, aaa estimates if current trebdz continue, half the states could see prices below $2 a gallon by next week. >> pelley: manuel bojorquez thanks. while attention has been focused on isis and al qaeda another militant group ca

united states military class of 2015, aspiring aviator. i have the honor of introducing veterans of the first african-american aviation unit in united states military history, the tuskegee airmen. these men overcame segregation and his commission in order to proudly serve their nation. he had the distinct pleasure of hearing from a few of those dedicated and determined men including jim cried, former radio operator of the tuskegee airmen, dr. ivan where, or my airmen of the 33rd fighter group , major anderson former ground support servicemen of the tuskegee airmen, bill fauntroy, former cadet for the tuskegee airmen, and finally stephen mccoy, chairman of the speakers bureau. ladies and gentlemen please help the in welcoming these brave men of the tuskegee airmen. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. how are we this morning? excellent. first, i'd like to thank the wonderful introduction. i'd like to go ahead and give her a round of applause. iq. -- thank you. [applause] i would also like to thank cadet nicole cable for her introduction of us. the tuskegee airmen, seated here, and i, want to welcome you to this panel discussion about the

unit building and in your presentation you just referenced 10-unit building, is it 9 or 10? >> it's 10, apologies for the con fusion. after some community concern the developer offered to include a ten unit, which is 10. >> because it went over 9, one unit has to be inclusionary housing. >> no, it was proposed as nine units and in order to community concerns the developer offered to voluntary include a below market rate. that was not required. it's still not required per code and it's something that the developer offered for community benefit. >> they are going from 9 to 10 ? >> correct. >> are those plans before the planning commission or planning department? >> before the planning department. i have been told that this is an as of right project and in other words, it conforms with the zoning code and doesn't require any special discretionary approvals by the planning commission. so the planning commission will be making a finding on the shadow impacts, and the approvaled for the project itself will happen administratively. we have erica. >> that is find. you just want to make sure that the proposed project that we're looking at is a 10-unit project, one aaffordable housing unit out of

united states military and the coalition forces. and the united states and others had to spend billions of dollars in trying to see how they stop and let the damage created by the improvised devices and still some progress was made. another example is drones both because the conversation in the unitedstates is what is the legal framework and while the united states has consumed that debate which i think is important and valid, they've become in popular and are becoming every one can have one. drones are very inexpensive. >> host: in one of those constrains for something like the u.s. military is that they are constrained by the rules of the war that there are all these players now emerging that don't sort of respect or care about the rules of the war. >> guest: that's part of the symmetry. you not only have the symmetry in the types of weapons and weapon systems you also have a symmetry in terms of the league of the frameworks by which you abide to conduct the war. >> host: what do you think that you would be looking at for how to make a big institution like the u.s. military adapts to all these changes? >> guest: how much there is in the u.s. military about the transformation, i have been talking to the u.s. military planners and senior officers and it is quite impressive quality

unit. the inmates are on the move. >> we move inmates out of these units often so we can do unit repairs. they will be relocated to another unit while that is being done. >> put your stuff behind your back and your hand on the wall. >> the inmates carry their possessions inside sheets. before they're allowed off to enter the new unit. officers conduct a shakedown for contraband. >> the more contraband i find. the more i'm going to throw out. >> finally the inmates are taken to a unit, all most i've dent cal to the one they -- identical to the one they left. but one of them has decided his time in the unit is up. >> hey, you, just stand there for me. kyle beauchamp says he is straight but requested to be housed with homosexuals when he was first booked into the jail. older inmates told him with his green hair it would be safer than general population. >> a lot of times some of the convicts will mess with the young ones. you will see how naive they are. tell them stuff like when you talk to the officer make sure you tell them you want this, this, this. messing with them. and they do it. then

united. the losses leave them fourth in the league this season. it's united's first home loss to southampton in 27 years. >>> it was a good day for arsenal. sanchez scored twice on route to a 3-nil win against south hampton hampton. he has scored 18 times. arsenal in 5th. they haven't kept a clean sheet. next up for this is manchester city. >> we have to stop conceding goals. that's why i think today, hopefully, we will build the connell if i had he knew of defenders because we have a big game next week. we have to in though games going forwards. defenders came in today very happy but didn't concede a goal. >> taking on napoli looking to keep ahead of roma roma came from two goals down to draw with city rivals latvia fran chess 0 toti got goals. he celebrated in through toti style taking a self e making him the highest scorer in had a roma hives dash history on level. >> a big setback at the asian cup. qatar was beaten 4-1 by united raets. off a perfect stop with the opening goal midway through the 1st half but all downhill from there. a series of offensive errors allowing kabril to allow a quarrelizer. 4-1 to uae three-time champ picks around the bahrain, getting a round going in one. j. c. wrapping it up from a corner around the final score. the palestinian national football team have qualified for the aidsian cup for the first time. he will face japan on monday but life for many of the palestinian players is far from easy. stefanie dekker met one of the palestine's best young talents to join his teammates in australia. hopes to be on the pitch. the last member of his team here he was arrested by israeli authorities nine months ago while returning from training abroad. >> spending that amount of time in prison affected me. my fetitness levels went down. it was tough emotionally. to be free after being behind bars is difficult. >> israel accused him of attempting to transfer money and being in touch with the ene

it would designation of two units or three units and would not require a merger. it's still three units either way without the stair or was the stair. it adds convenience for my clients, but what is critical here is to get expansion pore their living space. >> okay. i think that would be any preference to take dr and remove the stair and approve the project. >> is that a motion? >> yes. >> thank you. >> second. >> commissioner moore? >> this is an extreme case and i would still like zoning administrator sanchez to come back and fill us in a little bit of where some of these oversights were or where people come forward and they are not inexperienced people, we have to all admit that, come forward and point to issues in the code, that we are either not using frequently, or aren't versed with? we're very clear about the internal stairs. mr. lindsey, director rahm secretary ionin, commissioner antonini, and all of the commissioners who have been here for the last three, four, five, seven, eight, nine years plus have gone through this internal stair thing many, many times. and we have altere

with seven hundred and 84 senior scombrunt u unit it includes demolition and t the construction up to 17 hundred housing unit including the one for one units and the affordable unit and market rate and it will include up to 725 thousand square feet of community service resembleal and educational facilities and 11.5 acres of open space and reconfigured street network and up to 16 thousand plus square feet retail it will occur over 9 to 15 years in 3 phases the draft eir was issued and comments will be accepted at the planning department on february 17, 42015 this is the second on the draft eir e i s the second was on tuesday january 2015 at the complex the draft eir found significant impacts related to the following traffic delays disturbance of anger lovely and noise exposure during construction and exposure to hazardous material and something like programs for animal feces and construction impact of new utilities and service systems required to serve the system all impacts i'd like to remind did speakers this is not a hearing to consider the approval or disapproval it will focus on the adequacy and accuracy of the analysis within the draf

united states -- we call it the chief of station -- to those people directly responsible for running the atomic spies here in the united states. work our way down to harry gold who was an american currier bringing message from the atomic spies to the soviets. finally the cpusa the xhoonist party of the united states, and their main person, steve nelson, who is responsible for establishing a very little known spy ring at colleges and universities in the united states. let's break them down a little bit. at the top of the soviet hierarchy, beria. he is not a very nice person. had he some very interesting tastes in young girls and boys. he really enjoyed torturing people. he wasn't somebody that ordered torture. he ordered it, then watched it and took a lot of real pleasure in it. stalin did not like him very much. he was hated throughout the soviet system. but again he was so good at what he did that he was kept around. the interesting thing about beria is he was one of the pure architects of the red terror during this time period. personally responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. he is ironically, the last person who fell victim to the red terror. when nikita includes chevkhrushchev took power and destalinized the soviet union, b bechlteria received karmic justice. the top soviet

>> well, the united states is in the midst of a severe epidemic of opiod addiction and overdose deaths according to the c.d.c. this is the worst drug epidemic in the united united states' history. and the c.d.c. has been very clear about what's causing causing this epidemic. the c.d.c. has said that as prescriptions very opiod painkillers began to skyrocket in the late 1990, that it's led to parallel increases in rates of addiction and overdose deaths. and what this is suggesting is that we may not be able to turn this epidemic around until doctors and dentists begin to prescribe more cautiously. >> woodruff: and just quickly what, do you mean by that "more cautiously?" >> well, the united states with about 5% of the world's population is assume 80% of the world's entire oxycodone supply, and 99% of the world's hydrocodone supply. opiods are essential medicine for end-of-life care or when used short-term for acute pain but this vast, overprescribing of opiods is mainly for conditions where use of opiods are probably not safe or effective like low back pain way normal spine, fibromyalgia chronic headache. >> woodruff: bob twillman let me turn to you and apologie