abandoned and put back and illegal use is an illegal use. i would suggest to the board that that section of the planning code does not apply. further more, i don't believe that the public in anyway is harmed by simply acknowledging the facts here that the code says last occupied by. the reason that matters is this section of the code is there to protect against the loss of neighborhood serving retail to hire paying restaurants and bars. i would suggest and appreciate the administrators diligence that neither the policy or the law are violated by altering this finding in the letter of determines and also reiterate the only reason we are here is to dispute that finding, really one sentence in the entire letter that states effectively that the building was last occupied by a neighborhood serving retail use. we believe that to be in inaccurate. thank you. >> you have 3 minutes of rebuttal. do you care to use it? no? okay. mr. sanchez. >> thank you, with the planning department. commissioner fong in response to your question, i could not locate an

therefore that is a legal non-conforming use. this is a legal principally permitted use because it's not a new use. >> i actually still stick with my original interpretation. i think what it's trying to say and not very well is that the existing fringe financial services that existed prior to the legislation are now prohibited because of the legislation but can be legalized under the cu process. they shouldn't have put prohibited there but that's what they are trying to say that they are now prohibited, but this is how you fix it. >> that's not what the za says. he says if they move. it's not that it's a prohibited use. he's saying the cu, the existing uses do not require a c u at this point in time as long as they are not moving. is that correct, mr. sanchez? >> thank you. yes. one that lawfully existed at the time of the legislation went into affect would be allowed to be maintained and would not need a c u. the cu is only triggered when they are changing locations which it refers you to. i think the language under e, it does ta

if this use is allowed in that district, and it's not a new use, is it non-conforming? >> so in this special use district, it states that these uses are allowed to continue subject to the limitation of planning code section 180 which are non-conforming uses and 1861 only allows with the conditional use authorization. it's a strict line connecting the special use district to the cu requirement. >> we keep asking about the intent of these statutes. what's the intent to limit these types of establishment because there is so many in the city and concerned about the interest rates. >> that it's causes the city to regulate these uses. the concern about that and no new uses are allowed hover they have the ability to continue an existing legal use which is what we have offered to them. >> i have a question as well. so, after the legislation was law, they already have already moved one time prior? so, does that mean that they were operating non-conforming the whole time? >> that is an excellent question and i think that in our presentation of this to the appellant that we were pr

you say taxpayer money being used is a good thing in this case? >> you are talking about revitalizing a downtown area that is destitute. the idea is to help pay off a student loan but help to pay it off, those students will rent or buy a home in a distressed area. the city gains by getting educated people and they have to have a degree. two year or four year degree to qualify this. they are getting educated people and upscale people to come in the downtown area. they will create jobs and spend money and do all of those things that are good for that area. >>ohnathon, i am guessing you don't like the idea. >> you are getting wayne, more subsidy and more intervention and wettle destruction. if you are finally done and have $25,000n student loans and now you are subsidized to live in an area. education is expensive . the reason they have $25,000 because of government intervention. this is using taxpayer dollars to benefit certain constitiency. you need employers and people to investn the community and not subsidies. >> i know. let me ask tracey. >> tho

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it is use of chemical weapon and you get definitive evidence that it is used and your word means nothingamerica has had for the last 60 years, the power and the belief in the world that when it said x, it will do x. i think that is really the problem here. i am wondering whether the administration understands how much of its word is at stake. >> mara. >> i thinkment white house is hoping with this announcement it can ratchet up pressure on assad but china and russia to stop blocking the diplomatic in the un. i don't think it will succeed. but this is a box of their own making. ment president created a red line and said there would be serious consequences and now he will have to do. there is it no fly zone. john mccain advocated that . leth alweaponry to the rebels and devicing a plan to make sure the chemical weapons when assad falls don't get in the wrong hands. those are costly and risky mutuals and the president is now bound to do some of them or else he will lose credibility. >> you know, steve, this comes a day after defense secretary hagel shrugged off the european claim that syria

you know, for us it is -- an honor just to have him there. being in the studio teaching us chords ands okay, it maids to sound like this. you are not singing in the right tone. very specific. if he doesn't like something he will let you know. >> i can see that. who can talk about this latest -- your latest album cover. it is pretty incredible. i have seen it several times. tell us about the -- evolution of this to -- is there meaning behind it? to have fun? >> yeah. it is out everywhere now and you can find it on the digital markets and stores now. it is up, up and away. when we -- were tossing ideas around for a title and -- we both felt like where are we now? well, what do we -- where do we want to be? where do we see ourselves in supervisor, ten years? i remember being out with my son. and we were driving and see the hot air balloon flying by. and he's like look, dad. look, look. it just click, like that's it. that's where we want to be. you know. it was taking off. barely getting off the ground. i called my brother right away. he is like -

the greatest thing, though, is using this for you to help combat the graffiti. again, the biggest part is to use it for -- any of my templates, take my name out thereof and send it that way, okay. i'll probably take it out for you when i send it to you, but anything we can do to combat this graffiti, by all means, i'm here. * i have a passion for it now. it's a lot of fun now investigating this stuff. youtube, same thing. myspace you can do. anything you want with social media, it's easy to set up, to write up a subpoena, send it to them, get it signed off on. you're smiling at me. what, it's not easy for you? >> [speaker not understood]. >> i forgot he had some kids. isn't that bad up there? >> [inaudible]. >> yeah. >> you have to go through the jurisdiction. >> [speaker not understood]. >> i've done a few investigations that come always down here in experience, very physical for us to operate down here. [speaker not understood] we have a lot of people under cover doing sex crime stuff, like [speaker not understood]. and those things all come through facebook an

is some. why do they hate us? >> that is a good question americans have been asking that since 1899 since i discovered by looking at old copies of the new york times and forestall they don't hate us if you think of world opinion. since the advent of scientific polling in almost every country on the planet at any point* in time united states was more popular than unpopular our discussion slides into the sense that it includes foreigners in general they hate us into incoherence with the run-up to the iraq war this sense the whole world was turning against us when there was the largest coordinated demonstration in the history of humankind february 2003 against of looming war with iraq including antarctica they had a weather station and americans reacted by saying they must hate us because we are good and for our freedom but it turns out that is not a helpful way to understand for a behavior in the concept of anti-americanism is a wall between ourselves with the complexity of the world by decide to look into its histor

to the east of us is dr. the property east of us is already facing the sunrising. they have sun access all day coupled with the 42 feet of garden which will not be affected by the addition. they have ample light to the privacy and properties on 15th were separated by the street, properties up roosevelt and buena vista and park hill or this building here are all uphill literally and i don't see them being affected by our addition in terms of light and access to open space. with respect to noise, i would like to say that the addition is setback and the loss of sound or noise is inversely proportional to the distance. adding the distance to our neighbors on east would further lessen the noise if any originate ing from this process. we have lived here for # 13 years and since that time has not had any complaints about noise. we are both working professionals and i assure you, we will not be spending time on the balconies like we are 22. she has met with the neighbors to discuss this and was met with opposition on each subject. even randy met with the neighbors. >> than

item no. 1 is to delete the sunset of alcohol restricted use. >> avalos is the author of item no. 1. >> thank you, chair wiener and thank you colleagues for weighing on this measure. this is about the alcohol restricted use district which was established in 2008 by supervisor gerardo sandoval. that measure was to sunset in 5 years which will be on april 17th. this ordinance is before you is removing the sunset clause of that so we can actually have a full continuances of the alcohol restricted use district moving forward. we have 13 off sale liquor license and would like to stay in that number. in the past the district has had a large number of it's that result from saturation of liquor stores and this that will prevent that to occur by limiting off sale. this is a measure supported by many organizations including the improvement association and the action group and the association representing various neighborhoods in district 11 and has unanimous support from the small businesses commission. this ordinance is part of an effort that we'll be addressing in the neighborhood commercial

will it keep us safe or infringe on my wallet. price tag is trillionings. how will we get out of break. the break down now how much it costs us. jay 0 and beyonce taking heat for traveling to cub a. free style cashin in starts right now. i am eric bowl welcome to cashin' in. wayne rogers and john thon and kimberly and july and welcome everybody. we'll get to michelle in a moment. and the cost of immigration. , mandatory background checkings for all gun owners gaining support. dc is debating if it is unconstitutional. who in the world will pay for the background checkings. kimberly, it will cost a lot of money. >> it did. did anybody think about want cost of the that and what the background checks always in place. where is the value-added benefit and putting forward extra costs? they have been able to get individuals to sign on to it and there were courting going on joe manchin to get them together. >> a big boat ride and all of the sudden, republican governors senators, signing on to that. >> eric: johnathon every rule and regulation ends up costing the peop

naomi kelly is with us, kim brandon from the port commission is with us, and a number of others. i'll be getting a list, i'll be able to acknowledge others. i see police chief [speaker not understood] is with us. and as we get other names, we will announce those. so, let's give them all a round of applause, please. (applause) >> as i indicated, you have the program before you. we did one additional note on the program, is that the city administrator naomi kelly will be introducing the mayor lee. and due to scheduling conflict, supervisor london breed will probably be arriving later and will make her welcoming remarks towards the end of the program. following the invocation by reverend harlan jones, nor a griffin will make a presentation, a dramatic presentation on the negro national anthem which will be followed by the singing of the negro national anthem. with that, i'd like to ask reverend jones if he would come forward for the invocation. (applause) >> let us bow our heads. unite our hearts in prayer. eternal god, creator of the world, sustainer of life and lord of history, tho

it's not just for us to say is this person somebody who belongs here. it's for each person to decide it's that much spiritual home. one of the things that drew made when i was young, i didn't want to belong to a group. i was very independent. not one to belong to a group. when i learned that the thing about sufism oriented is one cannot become sufi, that's not about achieving something. it's whether one is a sufi or not. it's a matter of recognizing where one's spiritual home is. >> i remember walnut creek opened the doors for you to build that and you shared that incredible facility you shared there. i was struck by that. >> we broke ground last may and so construction has begun. >> the construction cost goes up. the important part is that what we were committed to doing, we knew when we purchased our current center just a block away where we were poking grass but it's too small for us and we needed to have more space. no rehearsal choir. we wanted to create a sanctuary that in its symbolism, in its physical structure represented principals of unity th

nobody would say that but that is what they are saying to us when it comes to vanesse and polk street, and what happens on vanesse affects mission street. what happens on polk street affects fillmore street, it is a much bigger thing than just looking at things narrowly. that is something i hope that can be brought out in hearing the maybe you can find out to convince them that's the way should be. that's a series of us that will come up and talk about some of these things and hopefully you'll get some of the questions. thank you so much. >> chair adams: thank you. >> as a speaker comes up, speak your name for the record when you start your presentation thank you. >> mitchell berg, order of bow wow miau. in the project like the on polk street that would have the potential impact on businesses in the community that is so dramatic the business community should have been involved in the process much sooner than it was. it seems sfmta has serious outreach problems in -- and a pr problem. the coalition with small business has been left out of the loop. we were brought to the table at the p

so, this is how we get them right here. they tell us this is my english class and it was john i was sitting up in the left-hand corner. we go up and find that. we pull little john i and talk to little john i. * johnny. it's not for prosecution at this point. we use the reward program. it's to identify them because we'll get them after that. now, what if i got identified merc through one of these things? that's a big way for us to help get a good case on someone. this is an example of some of the reward posters that we do. we also have -- in phoenix, we have those little flash cams. i think we had some over here, the vendors area. flash cams are awesome. these people don't even understand. we even have some flash cams that talk to you. you are trespassing in the area. vacate the area. they don't care. they just keep tagging. we use some of those flash cams to put on these -- put on here to try to catch them. put them on the media and catch them that way. all right. some of the fun parts on why we're doing what we're doing. >> hey, mike,

and family youth district the department believes the conditional use is warranted in that there is a projected shortage of use. the uses will not be detriment to the health and environment. restaurant and bars and hotels are not for the specific types of eating establishments for the environments of youth and family. it's very typical for restaurants and bars. lastly the project requires variances from section 145 to allow hotel lobby for the ground floor frontage to allow from the frontage along clem tina street. determination of compliance. in conclusion the department supports the project because it meets the goals and plans of the tourist economy with ground floor amenities with retail and visitor center of the city. it's located near public transit including the convention center. the project is necessary and desirable and staff recommends the commission approves the project with conditions. thank you and i'm available for questions. >> project sponsor? >> good afternoon, president fong, members of the commission, director ram, i'm ruben, with juns and rose. i was here when the

the whole 500 feet is to break us for the corporate to come in and give us more rules. so i'm not going to take up all your time. i just wanted to say that and say something different. thank you. >> hello, my name is michael goldman and a member of ak acts of love. we did an analysis to see the effect of some of the federal letters that were sent to landlords to show how many dispensaries were shut down over the last year. we have been under attack. to go through a couple of these. it went from 10 to 0 and coal valley from 3 to 2. and south market from 11 to 8. as far as there is any clustering at all in the city is because of restrictions that the law and the ordinance have established and limited the number of organizations that they can establish themselves. it's very difficult to find a landlord. so to say you can be in these limited places and when you created the clustering through regulations is effectively to prohibit new dispensaries to open and effectively to have safe access and it really is an attack on the medical cannabis patients and the medical community.

the fact that that kind of language has been used suggests to me very small amounts were used. this isven something as bad as the tokyo subway serin gas release. >> when saddam hussein used chemical weapons against kurds during his reign in the 1980s? >> that is correct. it seems john kerry said there were a couple of instances where it looks like the gas was used. the president, in his letter, also talks about sending -- asking the united nations to investigate. it suggests there is enough circumstantial evidence this was used but not quite conclusive proof. a, was it used and b, who used it? was it the rebels against the government? the government against the rebels? was it an independent commander gone rogue? was it accidental? there's still a lot of gray in this mix before we get to red lines. >> the president in the white house, unnamed officials have been very careful talking about it that way. one unnamed official, given history of assessments related to weapons of mass destruction. it's very important we're able to establish this with sent and able to present information in a w

us with overflows. all of these are in play. this is a critical tool as we use technology on the wastewater side of our system to move forward. >> all right. commissioner. >> i hate to sound skeptical. [speaker not understood] seems like this is something on the market. doesn't seem like such a hot ticket. i don't know. i sort of read into it, looked at it. it's not a huge contract amount, but it's still 160,000 and just really sort of a cutting edge of our technology and something being used pretty widely throughout the industry. if you can speak a little to that. >> so, actually, it's three different -- i do have stephanie hair aston here who is the program manager. ~ hair ston. this is in partnership with noaa and we want to be with them. one of the cities put this in place, austin being one. i don't know what the other cities are. if you want more detail, stephanie can maybe talk a little more about the technology. >> do these things really work? i guess that's my question. >> so, we're going to be working with a research consortium

bolton is with us next lou: breaking news tonight. u allegations that the obama administration is trying to intimidate potential whistleblowers on the makati attack. republican counsel to the senate intelligence committee who is now representing a state department employee tells fox news that her client and others have also retained. the attorney is not naming her client that says that they do have sensitive information relevant to the benghazi attack during september 11 of 11th of last year. the eight hour time frame of which the attacks took place. in the eight day timeframe that followed. joining me now is fox news national security analyst k.t. mcfarland specifically as we understand it, we are positioned by the administration that there was no option available to bring military force to bear your thoughts. >> is there blood on some of the fans? that to me is blood on their hands. >> well, she has made a small specialty out of the intelligence community and the foreign affairs community. if she says these people are being threatene

here with us is former l.a. pd fact furman and jim emerson. welcome back to hannity. >> thank you. >> mark, you have the right to romaine silent. anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. this is what is infuriating. he's just beginning to communicate. what information does he have? is there an ongoing threat he knows about? is there foreign connections, foreign links we don't know about? are we going to give him miranda rights at this point in time? go ahead. >> it seems like we've got plenty just on face value to actually prosecute him. we don't really need an admission. but to advise him of his miranda rights, we hear that he was advised today of his miranda rights. how did he respond? did he say he wanted to remain silent or did he waive that and he wants to talk without his attorney present? the interesting part about

he really connect with each student and makes us believe what he is teaching us is important. studying history is important for all of us as we move on to the future. >> when you know you have a bad teacher? >> when students are not engaged and do not enjoy class. i think a good teacher can make any subject interesting. that is what he does. >> people who have teachers you want to talk about? we could do this all day. >> my name is johnathan young from oklahoma. my teacher is my history and government teacher. he introduced me to this program. one thing he always likes to tell his class is there are many sides to the story and there are people involved. it kind of puts perspective to it. he always tries to be in the middle and does not try to make a partisan. he is an independent. he likes to show both sides of the story as they are. >> have you ever had a teacher who tried to get you to think about it their way? >> yes. they always have that influence. it influenced the way they taught. >> i am from new hampshire. i would not be here without the help of my teacher. she is opin

that is 18 minutes from now. stay with us. , see you then. >> eric: let's just say you are for illegal immigration reform. a new report expected to show making illegals legal would add four or five trillion to the national debt. liberals say it is a no brainer. michelle said something different. michelle, the number is staggering. we knew it would cost and pull it off would cost a lot of money. but 4-5 trillion. >> yeah, it is not new. last time they looked at the cost of amnesty and talking between 11-20 million illegal aliens absorbed in the economy and social safety net when you net it out. back in 2006 and 7 they estimated one trillion or four trillion dollars. what you are lookingalt. making them legal and putting them so on a so-called path to citizenship and giving them the opportunity to petition the relative. we are talking about low skilled workers and giving up the sovereign american ability to determine who comes in the country and what skills they do offer us. particularly in a time when there is 23 million illeg

gerri: rolling out everywhere and it is easy to use. y example and we are seeing their early versions of this, it will be easy to use and we will be able to help out with the financial issues. >> exactly. and one of the things i like to say to my parents talk to my kids on my tablet on video all the time to muzzle seeing someone on video is not a foreign concept. consumers getting increasingly comfortable. gerri: thank you for coming on. really fun to see. way cool. well, later in the show, figuring your frequent-flier miles is no easy task. tips to make most. and talking about your pay at work. still taboo. more and more people saying no. how do you do that? ends is after the break. ♪ at od, whatever business you're in, that's the business we're in with premium service like one of the best on-time delivery records and a low claims ratio, we do whatever it takes to make your business our business. od. helping the world keep promises. gerri: how do you discuss your pay with co-workers? my answer, you don't. some are saying it is not taboo

you know nobody is yet using the word suspect there is certainly talk of two men with backpacks that we're seeing somewhere around the finishing line at the boston marathon but you know there's really a lot of speculation at this point especially when it comes to the media you know there is a footage out there for us as we know the bombs are said to have been made at home homemade devices and officials are saying that the bombs were likely place in backpacks and then later put in garbage cans so you know a lot of talk about backpacks certainly when there's a certain picture of people holding one there's a lot of discussion of you know whether or not the backpack looks suspicious is it reason enough to look into that particular person so certainly this is being talked about but the word suspects are not being used as of yet on a stuffy i understand that president obama today went to him multi-faith service commemorating the victims of the boston marathon bombing and giving a speech that he used to use the marathon to actually as a metaphor to compare that to american presidents presen

us. that is what you taught us, boston. that is what you have reminded us.y, even when it hurts, even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we did not even know we had, and we carry on. we finished the race. we finish the race, and we do that because of who we are. and we do that because we know that somewhere around the bend, a stranger has a cup of water. around the bend, somebody is there to boost our spirits. on that toughest mile, just when we think that we have hit the wall, someone will be there to cheer us on and pick us up if we fall. we know that. [applause] that is what the perpetrators of such senseless violence who would destroy instead of build and thinks somehow that them important t is they don't understand. our faith in each other, our love for each other, our love for country, our common creed that cuts across whatever superficial differences there may be, that is our power. that is our strength. that is why a bomb cannot beat us. that is why we don't hunker down. we don't cower in fear. we carry on. we race. we strive. we

do what many of you in the private sector are already doing well, which is using that information to make better decisions. and that's really what our office is all about. it's really why we need this person to help us understand what data is out there and how do we utilize that in conjunction with the other information that we already have. you can send a tweet. so, we're finalizing the job announcement now. if you're interested, or you know someone who is interested, you can send a tweet to sfmoci and we'll be posting the job announcement there. so, thank you very much. it's my pleasure to introduce the general manager of our rec and park department who has done some great partnerships around open data, phil ginsberg. (applause) >> can you all hear me? i'll talk into the mic. i'm the general manager of your recreation and park department and i really couldn't be happier. the recreation and park department is a city agency that historically has suffered from maybe the worst website and some of the worst technology in government. and over the last few years we hav

this is new news breaking today. joining us now is a senior fellow for non proliferation studies and chair of nuclear and biological and chemical weapons of the economic forum. when newsbreaks like this today, the person you want to ask about it is the person who wrote "germ gambits," iraq and beyond. that would be dr. smithson. thank you for being here. >> a pleasure. >> i am no expert in this field and you are. would you tell me if i screwed up anything materially in that explanation about serin? >> no catastrophic mistakes. i can pick a few nits but let's not. >> thank you. deploying and using a chemical weapon against a civilian population or army, that's a specific thing, a specific crime. lots of other things can look like that from afar without actually being that. how do you tell if the use of chemical weapons has actually happened? >> this is one of the things this team hopefully will be able to do. the investigators for the secretary general ban ki-moon. they have a series of technical steps they will go through. amon

is going on. there are drug deals clearly and alcohol use clearly from the litter. homelessness -- i did go on this . i am actually curious. how many of you have seen where the is going to be? >> as a reminder no questions. >> i'm sorry. okay. anyway wild animals are attracted to the litter. they're already obviously wild animals of the human and animal sort on this hill side but the human animals are causing a lot of problems. if this trail goes through it will facilitate more of this elicit activity because there is such a dense forest on this hill side. if the trail goes through and you wreck the trees and take out those trees we've lost gorgeous land on this hill side. there's three different landscapes that we're talking about. one is a manicured park. the other one right next to it is the very steep forest hill side and then there is the street and the safety issue of crossing the street, and then there is billy goat hill which is wide open. now, with this illicit activity people can see the police on beacon street so it's ripe for bad things to happen. okay. l