regarding van ness corridor, night lighting, i am all for using reasonable energy code. but general street lighting on van ness is designed at the level, which if you would turn out current illumination of commercial, it would be below standard. the street is so dark that even the new residential buildings, because the way the lobbies are designed, do not give you the comfortable lighting in barn and in the middle of the night as you have in other parts of the city. there is a standard for illumination, and i would hope that you check that what you are pursuing this code. in the long run, it might work. at the moment, it does not. i am just throwing that out because there are some reality to these changes. generally, i am happy to see the thoroughness and the challenges this particular dialogue is causing, so i hope that you will come back and everything is resolved. commissioner olague: commissioner sugaya? commissioner sugaya: i do not get the connection between all the proposed changes, other than the happen to be together. we have nice words upfront about how it will

number one, the van ness special use district requires a roughly 3 to 1 residential sort of production versus commercial production. based on a sort of detailed process that the community advocates engaged them with the mayor's office and the mayor's office on housing and the planning department, we landed on roughly a 1.37 $6 million square foot residential obligation. if you essentially take 20% of the square footage not for circulation, which is roughly stated in the area, that brings it down to about 1.1 million square feet. if you averaged two units per 1000 square feet, that is about 1100 units, and the inclusionary obligation would go between 165 to 220 units, so our target, unit production goal, was based upon that peace. and that is what we are negotiating for. >> so just to try to conclude quickly, and we will then be available for all of your general questions, referring to transportation in the development agreement, the development of the new cathedral hill hospital is expected to impact munis service because of increased traffic as well as additional passengers riding nea

thai am told the protesters are still on van ness and headed toward city hall. other than the vandalism that you mentioned, pam, the protests that i witnessed and when i marched with the protesters, it was relatively peaceful. the run-up protesters that broke the law. there was a heavy police presence. they did have on right here. dan kerman is here showing as the events that unfolded earlier today. >>dan: cents earlier in the morning, occupy protesters have been standing their ground in front of banks like wells fargo. >> i am here because essentially democracy has been taken over by economic interests. they went into the financial district, stopping traffic. >> we can change the direction. >>reggie: any and every bank was targeted including this bank of america branch on california street. >>pam: our other big story, a long awaited a rainy weather. this is video from iran earlier in the day. the few people who did brave the weather are trying to keep drive. the roadways are slippery all over the bay area. i am here in the weather center with jacqueline. what c

were able to achieve together, such as the completion of the environmental impact report for the van ness bus a rapid transit line. i project this is poised to move into implementation, and one that i believe will change for the better, the way people see public transportation in san francisco. on high-speed rail, we spent a very productive year forging a unified san francisco position in the face of rapid change them in the policy environment both in washington, d.c., and in san francisco. i believe we will see caltrain electrification in high-speed rail kunduz san francisco at center than most people predict. we only realize the dream, the downtown high-speed rail terminal, but we're also known to show the way for the rest of the state. our coalition building worked in this area, and it will be a major legacy. i am proud of the work we have done on the presidio parkway. we're poised to open the first phase to traffic in early february, and our work on the public-private partnership has said legal challenges all the way back to the state supreme court. again, we are blazing new trails in

the van ness windy environmental impact statement and report, the draft, as you know, is circulating. i want to remind people that the close of public comment is in december 19, just next monday, and that the public can obtain information about the project in the eir at our website. i encourage everybody to heed that comment deadline. we have reached out to over 20 state groups in the last month since the eir draft was published. i anticipate that we will have the final ready for you to adopt in the fall. we have also been working diligently on the update of the countywide plan. i will not say a lot about that, but we're now at the stage where we have developed a framework for evaluation of projects and have over 100 projects submitted by the public and public agencies over the past couple of months. and we're now beginning to go through the evaluation of those projects for performance. the public is invited to go to our website on the transportation plan, which is www.movesmartsf.com, to look at the details on what we're doing on that. i am very pleased to report that the jfk bikeway

luke's, two at van ness and geary also referred to the new cathedral hill campus and one new building at the davy campus. on the west side of van ness between geary and post at the site of the closed cathedral hill hotel, cpmc proposes construction of a new 555-bed acute care hospital. it will be 15 stories and approximately 265 feet tall. across the street on the east side of van ness between geary and cedar, cpmc proposes construction of a new nine-story approximately 130 foot tall medical office building. the two buildings will be connected underground by a tunnel at the garage level. once the hospital construction is complete, cpmc plans to transfer the acute care services of their california and pacific campuses to this new cathedral hill hospital. at the st. luke's campus, cpmc proposes to construct a new five-story, 80-bed accuse care hospital. the new hospital would be located to the west of the existing hospital tower, over the surface parking lot and a portion of san jose avenue, the siting of which was a priority of the blue-ribbon panel. adjacent to the hospital, there wil

hospital at one of the worst traffic jam locations in the city on two major corridors, deer and van ness, which is frequently blocked up, and make all of its other locations smaller so it can focus everything into that one big hospital, especially st. luke's and also be in competition with other satellite hospitals likely making them smaller and scaling them down eventually if they become this big massive competitor. and it's really ironic that in hearing after hearing, cpmc and its allies have gotten up and said how important this is for earthquake safety. well, the worst thing you can do in san francisco for earthquake safety is put all hospital services on one location that's going to get traffic jam while all the other hospitals around it and that it owns gets smaller and then there's a major earthquake or natural disaster like that. imagine what the problems that could cause. imagine that. so not only are all the other problems really crucial that everyone has brought up with this, that is fundamental, and especially that earthquake danger means that this hospital, this massive hosp

right now between van ness to franklin and eddy to ellis. the road is blocked to repair the outage that started yesterday evening. earlier it affected signal lights on van ness but those lights appear to be working now according to some members of the kcbs phone force. we understand from pg&e there are still 230 customers without power in the area but they hope to have everything running normally by 8:30 or 9:00 this morning. we'll let you know if it makes any serious impact to your morning commute. if you find a streetlight that's out, treat it as a four- way stop. upper and lower deck of the bay bridge no problems, no metering lights, no delay behind the pay gates. same thing across the san mateo bridge. nice and easy, 13 minutes between hayward and foster city. a bad accident in san jose, so we'll have much more information on that coming up. lawrence has a check of the forecast. >> k looking good around the bay area. clouds out there now. [ clearing throat ] >> excuse me. mostly cloudy skies. a cold front will keep temperatures mild if y

my name is joe fang and i own a business on van ness. as you all know, especially supervisor chu here, the van ness corridor is in dire need of help. we have drug addicts and homeless people wandering the streets at night and it's unsafe to walk. when i first heard about this project four years ago, i applauded it but in over four years that i've been watching this project, my mood has gone from jubilation to impatience to despair. the city already has the dubious distinction of being one of the most difficult cities in the country if not the world to do business and this project is a prime example of what misguided democracy has done to this country of ours and the endless debates to protect a few minority groups will discourage productive projects and investors such as this one. in any other city in the world, a project such as this would be welcome with open arms and city officials would bend over backwards to make it happen. i implore you, city officials, look past the benefits of a few minority interest groups. the city is broke. th

this was offset the vast majority of inclusionary units that would of been required under the van ness special use district, as i mentioned earlier, and these units will target low and very low-income households in san francisco and will become part of the permanently affordable san francisco housing stock. the second component of the housing payment to the mayor's office on housing will provide at least 135 down payment loans, such as cpmc households seeking to buy a home in san francisco. this will be limited to people in the work force income category. employees cannot buy homes that and subject to an alice act in the last 10 years, -- subject to an ellis act in the last 10 years. there is also a share in appreciation, based on the split formula used by the mayor's office on housing and the current downpayment assistance loan program. these recaptured funds will then be diverted back to the mayor's office affordable housing funds and will help complete destruction of the 190 units i mentioned previously. finally, while cpmc will make payments, they will be subject to a payment escal

>>justine: the power outages are happening between van ness and franklin and 80 to ellis. some 360 customers are affected. pg&e and san francisco police are on the scene. there are flyers in the road to help direct people since many street lights are out. pg&e does plan to have power restored by 8:30 a.m.. now, we have the latest developments out of occupy oakland. we have amateur video to show you of protesters wrecking city hall. check out this video. this is one of the first clashes between police and protesters. you can see please pull a female protester in her bike to the ground and then arrest her. this continued throughout the weekend. last night occupiers turned to frank ogawa plaza. police say they are on standby for anything. da lin shows us what happened with occupy oakland this weekend. >>da: occupy protesters did not cause any problems on sunday but city officials are now bracing for the next big demonstration. occupy protesters voted to hold a major march on february 6th. occupy protesters returned to frank ogawa plaza on sunday after clashing with police off

that includes van ness and we have five under construction. three or four others under planning, like market street. from the puc to redevelopment, planning,vs department

tomorrow night at the war memorial building in the green room just across the street, across van ness avenue. please come, and you will learn what the dutch experts and what our local experts and stakeholders think we need to make san francisco a truly great bicycling city, which i am sure we can do. thank you so much for coming today. we appreciate your enthusiasm and hope to see you tomorrow night. [applause]

the red 9 between van ness and friendshil. on orange, between clarendon and ballston. be about 15 minutes or so. >> discussion today on the low- income americans. i moderated a forum this morning at the kaiser family foundation and we talked about what they think about the political candidates. it was sponsored by the spotlight on poverty and opportunity. >> the positive northwest is bracing for a big blast from old man winter, the biggest in 25 years. they did get up to 10 more inches by the end of tomorrow. at all this goes as planned this could be the biggest snowfall since november 1985. >> wow. >> things are changing. we have seen this up and down weather. i have a hunch that february may be a different kind of weather month than january. i'm just -- it just popped out of my brain. a little bit of rain south of town, but the northern edge of these falling apart. moving across fredericksburg east across the potomac into southern maryland. and a lot more rain, but will south of the area. it may be that the rain for the metro area is pretty much finished tonight. the

el 17 de junio del aÑo pasado donde se reporto la violacion a una mujer que caminaba por la south van nessegundo, sucedio en noviembre 18 en otra mujer fue violentamente abusada sexualmente y robada, esto por la calle 24. cu ---un masajista ha sido detenido en mountain view, acusado de abusar sexualmente de una de sus clientas, el 2 de enero del este aÑo. take vo ---al parecer el sujeto abuso de una mujer de 29 aÑos cuando ella se daba un masaje en la sala llamada "relax foot" ubicada en el camino real. ---tong "tony" zhao de 65 aÑos, fue fichado en la carcel del condado y la policia cree que podrian existir mas victimas del sujeto. cu ---esta maÑana, ms de 900 personas se congregaron para darle el ultimo adios a gabriel martinez jr, de 5 aÑos de edad quien fue asesinado la semana pasada en oakland. take vo ---la familia de la victima recibi el psame de sus amigos y de la alcaldesa jean quan, quien tambien acudi a la iglesia santa elizabeth de esa ciudad. ---durante la ceremonia, el sacerdote dijo que toda la comunidad est herida por la muerte del pequeÑo y que ninguna familia merece sufri

indignados ingresaron al hotel "cathedral hill" que se encuentra vacio y que esta ubicado en las calles van nessien rompieron las vitrinas de una agencia de automoviles en la esquina de o'farrell... ---a esta hora de la noche la policia ya desalojo el edificio del hotel y los indignados se retiraron del lugar. cu ---el movimiento de los indignados volvio a las calles de oakland, esta tarde. take vo ---esta vez un pequeÑo grupo desafi la incesante lluvia para plantarse frente al tribunal federal ubicado en el centro de esa ciudad. ---la protesta, segun dijeron en un comunicado, es a raiz del primer aniversario de un fllo de la corte suprema de los estados unidos en el que se dictamin que las corporacione s tienen los mismos derechos que un individuo en cuanto a la donacin de dinero a campaÑas proseltistas. cu ---esta tarde, la patrulla de caminos de california, tuvo que emitir una alerta "amber" ..... take vo ....luego de que "taylor vo" una niÑa de 11 aÑos fuera secuestrada por el ex novio de su madre. ---segun la policia, "tri trong le" de 42 aÑos, entr por la fuerza a la casa de taylor, ubicad

that includes van ness and we have five under construction. three or four others under planning, like market street. from the puc to redevelopment, planning,vs department, police department working gear along with the contractors, they all have to be thanked. the most important people i want to acknowledge today are the residents who live here on the street. thank you for your cooperation. q were working with us on day one to embrace the idea that we could use infrastructure to enliven our streets. i see a lot of smiling faces. you want to see santa come here, too. you are not displaced. this is your home. you what this street to reflect the duty of all of san francisco. thank you for working closely with everybody, thank you for your patience, thank you for welcoming us in to share in this new street. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. supervisor malia cohen is a staunch advocate for her residence, as well as the residents of district 10. we thank her for her leadership on this project and we are pleased to partner along with her and the res

the rail crack the around 7:00 this morning forced a single track between friendship heights and van ness. service was back to normal by early afternoon after workers replaced the cracked braille. metro is discussing raising fares to provide for upkeep of the system. >> an emotional day for thousands of people at penn state. they were at a tribute for former football coach joe paterno. nearly 12,000 people fans, big names in sports, fill the centered to honor joe paterno. the retreat as a public mourning for the long time coach. brad bell is live at penn state with more on the service for joe paterno. >> joe paterno's biehl and burial were held yesterday in private. this was anything but private. there was a lot of talk about his so-called grand experiment his effort to build an atmosphere of success with honor. the final speaker was his son. he had the current and former players stand and told them joe paterno will always be with them. >> your lives are his legacy. your families, the people you reach or his legacy. the grand experiment, success with honor, was a ripple that has grown to

hundreds have taken over empty hotel on van ness avenue. 18 people have been arrested. they are out there even as we speak. >> and 12-year-old girl kidnapped at gun point from home in sap jose is safe and man who abducted her is dead. san jose police officers shot and killed 42-year-old tree trung lee today at town home complex this afternoon not far from where the kidnapping happened. they say he was holding the girl hostage. again shot and killed. >>> headlines. well, republicans in south carolina will vote in a visital primary tomorrow. certainly a tumultuous 24 hours with gingrich taking on opponent. abc news and a lot of others in the media. here's jonathan karl in south carolina. >> newt gingrich on fire. just lack at what happened last night when john king of cnn asked about the interview abc brian ross did gingrich ex-wif ex-wife. >> would you like to take some time to respond to that. >> no but i will. i think the destructive, vicious, e nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public of

here is a live look outside for the roof on van ness ave. it looks like clear skies and the clouds. we'll be right back. kahan thoughts thought of this >>darya: a dramatic rescue washington state. this is unedited real-time video of the rescue let's take a listen. >> shovel at the bridge when >> they knew where i went into the snow, that was my saving grace. >> once his head was out, i was relieved. >> i was very. >> it is nothing i have ever seen before and nothing i want to see again. >>darya: it took them 10 minutes to get him out and he was not injured. both >>mark: here is video from alabama. two people were killed and more than 100 others' credit for. more than two of homes destroyed. >>james: this afternoon, sunny and mild with temperatures and below '60s. here is a look at temperatures at the moment. at 9:00 a.m., a future cast 4 is looking for '40's and 50's. maybe. the green it grows by 2:00 p.m. and we will have more '60s. we will probably not get past 61. here is your 7 day around the bay. mild weather. temperatures will be hovering around a low-did 60s fifth all in all,

breaking news -- the red line train service on metro has an -- resume to between friendship heights and van ness. we also have a quick way minder, you have a chance to win an ipad -- reminder, you have a chance to win an ipad tip of the well. all u.s. to do is log onto facebook -- all you have to do is log on to our facebook. a man born with no arms has not stopped him from manipulating computer devices. he runs his own shop. pretty impressive. it is amazing how a forceful is resourceful people can be. >> unbelievable. >> let's look at the weather. >> it will be near 60 tomorrow morning temperatures do drops into the aft does your cable company keep charging you more... and more... and more? stop paying so much for second best. upgrade to verizon fios and get tv, internet and phone for our best price online: just $89.99 a month guaranteed for two years. you save $600. go to verizon.com/greatprice to sign up now and get $300 back with a two-year contract. fios is a 100% fiber-optic nenetwork that delivers superior picture quality, more hd plus america's fastest mo consisten and mo reliable intern

i was told to go to batteries plus, , which i think the only one is on a bush near van ness. would we have to look at the could additional uses for formula of retail, we have to take into consideration issues where it the item is such a specialty item and really not realistic to expect your neighborhood hardware store or even something as another formula retail outlets like real shoadio shack, there is the rean is that way, and that is you have to have such a huge volume of all its to be able to specialize in only about a rise -- batteries. to always you our decisions and the prism of how realistic is it that local firms can always apply the items of particular institutions. i this wanted to point out. i hope to find a battery in the some time near future. commissioner more: i have a list of congratulations. the first one goes to supervisor olague. i wish her the best of luck. i think it will be fantastic. the second congratulations those tgoes to mayor lee for his swearing in of new mayor. the first one out of the issue is the thought of establishing a trust fund for afforda

we have 1600 employees everyday driving in automobiles to van ness and puree. -- geary. they will seek parking, as they are in campuses, which is creating tremendous problems as is. sending you need is not enough. there has to be incentives to find new name. -- to find muni -- to fund muni. 50% of employees come from out of the city. we have an ecological environmental disaster at the corner, which is not mitigated by anything we see before you. >> thank you, mrs. morgan. are there any staffers who are here? i would like the mta to respond to any statistics. i think these are disconcerting. >> we will make sure to relay the question and get an answer back. >> thank you. >> i am joanne, a member of the community coalition. in may of 2009, the attorney wrote a letter saying, significant developments in the national and local economy have affected all employers. thus far, they are treating fewer patients than expected. while they have made efforts to reduce costs, more reductions are required. net profit had a staggering weight from 120 42 159 million. the c o was granted a

. -- van ness. we love the idea of combining that. the team is talking about this. when i walk up to sign there are many choices. let's give people some good information and they will what can buy. >> our next two speakers. >> board of directors, i was in auckland where tehe last america's cup was. i reviewed the environmental impact reports. very familiar with ceqa. what i would like to impress upon the city is that we have four rooms in the various neighborhoods so that the people understand exactly what this all means to all san franciscans. what is happening here is in 18 months, we're trying to fast track allot. i hear you are saying somehow that you understand this. but when we talk to the engineers and the people who are involved with construction, they find it difficult how all this is going to be fast-tracked. we have to do it somehow. we do have some impediments. if you watch the planning department and they're talking about this building or on washington street, the condominium, coming at the same time as our construction on the wall that will be done, al

my first stop was here on van ness ave. they did not have any read pontus. my next stop was lombardi's sports. they have a very nice red jackets, but i am looking for the apparently a loser read poncho. next, i drove down the through the marina. my final stop on this adventure was in the presidio. they have ponchos, but no red ones. i am sure there are some out there somewhere. maybe, you can find one on the internet. if you're going to the game, tried to stay dry and have fun. >>gary: athletes usually keep themselves with what their next opponent to be. vernon davis says bring on new york. >> we prayed that the giants would win. there are a good team. i did not great because there were the worst team, a very good team and i acknowledge that serious >>gary: they better be careful what they asked for. we will see them, and sunday. earlier tonight we spoke with a legendary new york broadcaster. >>gary: any chance the 49ers are overconfident? >> it is interesting that you say that. flowing into the green bay game, the feeling in the city was all my goodness, wh

first between van ness and dupont circle. also between forest glen and tacoma. back to you. >> danella, thank you very much. our time is now 5:42. still 28 degrees. >>> after the break, no-holds-barred at the golden globes. >> she's a material girl, and she's just like a virgin. please welcome madonna -- >> this year the insults did not quite overshadow the awards. il? not yet. i want to buy used but how do you know what you're really getting. check out carmax. all their used cars are guaranteed. that's where henderson found the one for him. way to go, henderson. finding the perfect car is easy at carmax because each car is carefully selected, inspected, thoroughly reconditioned and backed with a five-day money back guarantee so come find the one for you today, at carmax. way to go, neil. >>> an online retailer is trying to figure out how their accounts were hacked. the incident puts 24 million customers' private information at risk. here's angie goff with more. >> reporter: good morning, many of you are waking up this morning with an e-mail from zapows. the onl

between van ness and dupont circle, and then also in maryland this time between forest glen and tacoma station. again, delays in both directions. joe and eun, back to you. >> thank you. >>> breaking news in the district right now. a baby girl left out in the cold overnight has died. police say a man found the infant abandoned late last night in the 3000 block of channing street in northeast washington near the maryland state line. we have more live from the scene. >> reporter: good morning, joe. this is an extraordinarily sad and also confusing situation. weaver not sure why this -- we are not sure where y this baby was left on the porch. we don't know if she was abandoned or somehow forgotten by the parents. we know it happened there on the porch of that home there. police were called after a neighbor discovered this baby who was evidently naked and only wrapped in a blanket. she was rushed to the hospital and reportedly died a few hours later. police say the baby was found around 11:30 last night on a porch in the 3000 block of channing street in northeast. the neighbors who found th

metro single tracking from friendship heights all the way to van ness. single tracking on the orange line between ballston as well as clarendon. >> danella, thank you. new at midday, prosecutors say that the driver accused in the deadly pedestrian accident in alexandria had a blood alcohol level nearly twice the legal limit. police say 22-year-old victor's blood level was . 15 when he drove his car off duke street through i-95 sunday afternoon. the legal limit is .08. he hit 8-year-old brian hernandez chavez and his mother. his mother survived with two broken legs and a fractured pelvis. brian died. family members say their heart is broken. >> sad. very sad. >> sad that he's gone. he was a little brother to me. it is terrible see thing. >> he's being held in custody and due back in court next month. >>> right now, police are looking for the parents of a week old baby who died outside in the sub-freezing temperatures. you saw the breaking news first on 4 yesterday morning. police say a man found the baby girl on the steps of a home on channing street in n