in 1844 he painted approach to venice.ture is only incidentally about the boating party making their way into the city. turner's interest is in suffusing water and sky with color at twilight and capturing its effect on the distant city's skyline. ruskin was spellbound by its beauty. (ruskin) "it was, i think, when i first saw it... the most perfectly beautiful piece of color of all that i have seen produced by human hands." (narrator) shade and darkness - evening of the deluge, painted in 1843, is more about light than a biblical account of noah and the ark. turner's light produces a mystical bent that shows up in several late canvases. layer after layer of pigment, applied to create the vortex of mist and air churning angrily around the blinding light, conjures up the elemental forces of the cosmos. the abstract beauty of turner's late canvases that dissolve into light are especially apparent in some of his unfinished paintings like norham castle, sunrise. returning to a subject he had painted years earlier, he advanced h

we have 120,000 pigeons who live in venice.usting. >> reporter: pigeons outnumber venetians 2 to 1. the bird droppings corrode the historic architecture and spread disease. but cracking down on the pigeon problem has be fuddled many city administrators. this man is the latest. "a system was installed to emit very high pitch sounds that terrorize the birds," he told us. we're thinking of forced sterilization. but the easiest thing is to just stop feeding them. today venice has ban the sale of feed in the square. but it's hard to stop tourists from sharing their lunch. and it's easy to find folks still selling feed in plain sight. "this happens everywhere," he told us. it's like having random people walking around the square selling dope or cocaine. here they're selling pigeon food. at one point licenses to legally sell feed meant big money for the city and vendors who traded them on the black market for half a million dollars. but not anymore. why have city governments in venice for so long had such a difficult time cracking dow

in 1844 he painted approach to venice.ture is only incidentally about the boating party making their way into the city. turner's interest is in suffusing water and sky with color at twilight and capturing its effect on the distant city's skyline. ruskin was spellbound by its beauty. (ruskin) "it was, i think, when i first saw it... the most perfectly beautiful piece of color of all that i have seen produced by human hands." (narrator) shade and darkness - evening of the deluge, painted in 1843, is more about light than a biblical account of noah and the ark. turner's light produces a mystical bent that shows up in several late canvases. layer after layer of pigment, applied to create the vortex of mist and air churning angrily around the blinding light, conjures up the elemental forces of the cosmos. the abstract beauty of turner's late canvases that dissolve into light are especially apparent in some of his unfinished paintings like norham castle, sunrise. returning to a subject he had painted years earlier, he advanced h

, vi chenz awas to the venetian empire, think of venice in the 1400s, 1500s of the new york of the a dry attic, and if you remember a donald trump in the venice of the 1400s and 1500s you would have your house outside of vicenza, and this is one of the most famous houses to come out of the 16th century, the villa of tundra, and it represents a new idea of architecture coming of age in europe in the 15th and 16th century, basically the neoclassical system to put it in a nutshell was all about perfection. neoclassical designers said, okay, like is irrational, it is difficult, it is stressful, everybody is driving you crazy, even without iphones everybody is still driving you crazy and when you went home for the weekend and you came off the main road and you came off the driveway and you looked at this beautifully harmonious unified perfectly balanced building, you felt like you had fallen into heaven and that was the whole idea. the neoclass cyst said you could have heaven on earth and you don't have to die to get there. you could have heaven on earth and do it through art. art, music,

was the symbol of the ancient roman gods, not bad an architectural symbol for the nouveau rich of venice and they came home to a house that spoke of the ancient roman gods and it also was a brilliant plan for communicating a beautiful, harmonious and perfectly balanced house and we see the rotunda from the sun and you can see how that portico and staircase, how the element is put to brilliant effect 500 years later by our bose art designers, polatio in the 1560s. if you've ever been at a roam an temple, you have to go up steps. it humbles you. it humbles you, the whole idea. look what he does by bringing the guests up the steps to what is really the second floor, we americans call it the second floor. europeans call it the first floor, this allows the ground floor to be a full service floor to service whatever the needs of the house are above. this was not lost on the bozar designers of the early 20th century. in the city the same idea was used, a model of the palazzo and never really built. part of it was built. in the city you didn't have room for a grand stair so you came into the hou

water main after a car incident in venice beach, california. check out that water main. flooded nearby streets. >> oh, my goodness. >> at least one car in an underground garage where thousands of gallons of water, it went on for 90 minutes. ten engine companies responded to get it under control. >> oh, my gosh. parked in the wrong place at the wrong time. >>> grown man beats up two teenagers on the street. the assault was captured on home video and it was posted online. police say this was not a random attack. we're going to explain in a moment. >>> check out this picture. is this snow or is it foam? >> blowing snow. fierce, blowing snow. >> we'll tell you what it is when we come back. keep an eye out.

not many people walking, the majority walk on either frankland oin or venice. >> can i clarify on the building? the existing building goes on to lament to existing parking garages underground. in the future building will be limited to the property lines not including the sidewalks with the exception of the tunnel that crosses vaness, and gary street that will be like pipes. it will not extend beyond the property line. the wyden sidewalk itself is widened on post street. why take the parking lane and the bus line? you need to demolish the entire side walk and you are automatically and the driving. >> my last question is the tunnel. for the exclusive views of people in the medical building in the hospital and vice versa. at every point, if it is difficult to cross the street in one cycle. i've basically get there when the number is already at zero. they are biased and i think they will stay that way. >> it would not be convenient. the two levels below grade with a below grade level at the hospital at both of those buildings. the publican entered both of those buildings, it would not be

. >>> san francisco's hometown america's cup team has made its way to italy this week, venice hosts one of the several world series events. a key member of one of the competing oracle racing teams is a bay area sailing standout, john. >> this is all the america's cup competitors there so it's quite important to do well. we're in it to win it. >> reporter: a single point in the standings. after venice, there's a late june meeting in rhode island before san francisco hosts two events to close out 2012. one in august, the second in october. and for this bay area native, all of this racing on the bay is part of a dream come true leading up to the america's cup finals in 2013. >> it gives me chills basically. it's really cool to be from san francisco, you know, racing on a local team here, you know, an american team, and racing on my home waters. >> reporter: as for his three keys to success in venice -- >> starting really the tactics which were more my area and then really our onboard communication with everybody working together and getting the most out of everybody onboard because there a

. >>> how about these pictures from venice, italy. that's the recent leg in italy of the america's cup world series. oracle's team, started today 7th and 8th. collision yesterday, a bumpy road. hopefully get on track for team usa. the racing in venice, italy continuing through sunday. we have coverage on comcast sports. check it out on tape del at 00on2:. if.mala cnitsoror ork.sp [ female announcer ] what do you share with your family? how do you keep in touch with friends on the go? stay connected to the people and things that matter most to you? with at&t's amazing u-verse services that let you build a personalized bundle that works for you. call now. bundles including u-verse tv, internet, and home phone start as low as $79 a month for 12 months -- our best bundle price. switch today and get a total home dvr included. or you can choose from a variety of tv packages to get the channels you want and from several reliable internet speeds up to 24 megs to get what you need. record 4 shows at once with a total home dvr that lets you pla

he gave this copy to a friend of his who was a physician in venice. it's bound with his copy of his first book. so the first two books of galileo both contain his own handwriting, both quite rare, written when he was an obscure mathematician in the republic of venice. now, what made him famous overnight was this third book. one of the most famous books in the his right-of-way science. history of science. it's the earliest published report of observations made with the telescope. with the telescope galileo observed patterns of light and shadow on the moon that showed that the moon has real surface topography. that white spot would be a mountain peak illuminated by the sun, the white triangle pointing toward it, that would be foothills rising, rising toward the peak. the next night it might look something like this where two chains of mountains are converging toward it, and the night after that it might look something like that which we call a crater. so galileo wasn't mapping the moon here, he was showing that there's something there to be mapped. and

they are the same boats that will be racing in venice in a few weeks' time and then in newport toward the end of june. they are the boats coming here later this year to san francisco. but for the america's cup finals and the lewis vuitton trials, teams will race the a.c. 72. now we have half of an a.c. 45 boat at the back of this place here today. we have some of the wing parts of an a.c. 45 boat here today. imagine a boat nearly twice as long as an a.c. 45 with something like four times the pair and imagine the wing style being twice as tall as the a.c. 45, something as tall as a 1-story building. that's what's coming town. that's what is under construction in our team base at pier 80. that's what our team will begin training in later this year, perhaps as early as the end of july, beginning of august here on the bay. so these boats are cool, they're meant to be cool and are cool. the america's cup has been transformed. it has retained the tradition, but it's blown away the stuffyness that is all about now, it's all about inclusion. it's for the city front crowd just as much as it is

can we bring it down to green from venice to leavenworth -- van ness to leavenworth? >> that is a population of 1048 people. the deviation for district to up to -2.7% and a deviation for district 32 -5.44%. chairman mcdonnell: discussion? >> i propose it. chairman mcdonnell: it depopulates 3 and we heard from public testimony from the russian hill community association it would split their organization. we have heard from them several times, we have received written testimony as well. commissioner alonso: no. commissioner leigh: no. vice-chair lam: no. commissioner mondejar: no. commissioner melara: no. commissioner pilpel: no. commissioner tidwell: no. chairman mcdonnell: we can go back to cathedral hill played a wanted to suggest another block there. >> there is no population there. there is only buildings. >> i thought west there might be. is there population? >> this highlighted area has 164 people in it. it would bring the deviation to- point -- 4.9%. 2.37. the population of the selected area is 164 people. >> thank you. commissioner tidwell:. commissioner tidwel

rescued 262 uppies from a south venice homeelast week.eedogs were crammed into smalllchickenncoops and forced to live in deplorable condiiions.now days latee... some of these guys have gotten they attracted quite a crowd insideethis pets store. 3 3 oriolee going for the sweep of the rays...the crazy bottom of unlimited..oming up in sports sssssssss getting married in a church pith a white gown ann suit was a bit too tradiiional for one couple. alen yen and his fianca cheryl tivy were set to be married at the sugaabush resort in vermont.but whee they learned that their wedding was scheduled on the same day that the ""ad triathlon" was et to eed, &ptheir first question was "can we race?"the two joked about into something very real.the d bride and groom even got some in with them. "the groom asks yyu would you do something ffr me, usuallyy its will you carry theerings orrmake a toast and today it 5k."the couple says they know the marriage oad will be a bumpy one, hopefully it's lesss like a sprint and ore like a marathon. p3 3 ttat's all for

the plan to build a campus in the venice beach area of l.a.. former gold is jim building once frequented by arnold schwarzenegger. >> today, major steps will be announced to fight alzheimer's. later today the feds will outline work that has already started. major new studies, possible therapies have been improved including a form of insulin that is sprayed into your nose. sleepwalking is more prevalent among americans than previously thought. researchers at stanford found that more than 3 percent of adults are prone to sleepwalking. the study also found that people who suffer from depression and anxiety are more likely to wander while they are sleeping >> burgeon atlantic says calls will only be allowed on its airbus 8330 and boeing 747 plants that are specially designed to prevent interference with the aircraft equipment. a russian-made spacecraft blasted off this morning carrying a three man crew including an american astronaut. they're scheduled to reach the international space station on thursday joining three other astronauts or already th

the quake was centered in modena but felt throughout the country from milan to venice. the jolt flattened numerous buildings near the epicenter and sear kraus aftershocks forced evacuation of 3,000 miami. >> ama: the plan to tow a restored world war ii battle ship from richmond to southern california was put on hold this morning. rough seas put a to stop to plas to ferry the uss iowa in san pedro. there it will back floating museum. the group responsible for restoring it and moving it says they will he monitoring sea conditions to determine when to begin the move. >> alan: another bay-to-breakers is in the books. went off with few problems today. just one arrest for public intoxication and citations for alcohol and marijuana. john alston has a look at one of san for san francisco's whackiet events. [shouting] >> what if san francisco held a street party and a 12k road race broke out? didn't take along for the bay-to-breakers area to get cloagd with party 'ers. >> i'm having a good time, experiencing san francisco. >> if you just stand here you're not going to win the ra

promote the nation's art and artists internationally, selected moore to represent britain at the venice biennale in 1948. he won the first prize for foreign sculpture. there were other great artists who were either, seems to me, at the tail end of something or were too idiosyncratic to market internationally in the way that moore really seemed to fit with the modern movement across europe and the world. so an agency like the british council, looking to promote british culture and a new view of britain as a great power but coming to terms with the aftermath of the second world war, would listen to these voices telling them that moore is the great artist around at the moment. (narrator) that international stature permitted moore to work on a larger scale, a dream since the early '30s. he could now afford to hire assistants, including anthony caro, who would go on to a successful career of his own, with works like the national gallery ledge piece, installed in 1978. i thought he was the most interesting sculptor around. and really, i went to ask him if i could work with him, work for him,

and then, to help muni establish the bus rapid transit systems along geary, venice, that will be donea very short time, and we got some help because today we announced the rebuild of our hospitals, and they are contributing to the rapid transit systems. senator, with your leadership, for so many years, and your help and such wonderful leadership, i also want to acknowledge -- this transit system runs on hydroelectric power from our hetch hetchy dam, and we know that. we have felt that. we have used that. in addition to the wonderful water system it has, our our shaughnessy dan generates this power -- our shaughnessy dam. for anyone to suggest that we should tared that down and be irresponsible to generations of people who are dependent on this innovation that occurred hundreds of years ago is to be irresponsible to our whole city. [applause] so i will tell you today, we will protect that dam. we will protect that innovation, and we will do it in the spirit that all of our and the raiders are today, that our spirit is rich enough to help everybody to make sure that we reflect everybody

it is going to be at 25 venice, sweet 800, november 17 at 5:30. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. good evening, commissioners. my name is lupe. i work with the human rights commission as well. thank you for putting this together. this is a great symposium and a great place to be able to share a lot of the different views and work going on. one of the things i wanted to quickly talk about was regarding the sanctuary ordinance. there has been a lot of talk about a sanctuary ordinance. it has been in the news and a national debate. we want to remind you what it is about. first of all, the sanctuary ordinance was created back in 1989. it just had its 20-year anniversary. the human rights commission is named as the enforcement agency in the sanctuary ordinance. what that means is that no city employee or no city resources can go towards helping ice or referring anybody to ice or disclosing any information to ice. it was meant to give people equal access to services, equal access to the city without any fear of retribution, any fear of retaliation, any fear of ha

delocalize traffic would switch from venice to some of the other streets. that i think that definitely could happen. when you say no lectern's, that includes cabs and unique and everybody? >> that is a good point. transit will still be able to turn on to golden gate ave. they come southbound and turn left. we would have a dedicated trances signaled. -- transit signal. in general, your assumption is correct. >> all you need is a couple of vehicles blocking the lane, and the whole thing backs up. then, i think it will be all level boarding these raised platforms that would not allow other vehicles. is that correct? >> that is correct. they are 10 or 12 inches off the ground, and that lines up closely with the floor of the new buses, the idea is it is perfectly level boarding. there may need to be a bridge play to help assist, but the goal is to be able to walk across or roll across on to the bus. >> overhead contact systems were wired on the sidelines, and a little but in the system, so this would move the whole system to the street. the 47 would be a diesel

this was reported on early wednesday morning near venice and a folder. the 25 year-old end of the man had gotten into the cab in the arena and its 2100 block of chestnut. they were in the process of getting dropped off with a started arguing over the fear. that is what the cab driver went to the back of his vehicle, took out a tire iron and struck one of the man collies serious injury to the man's eye. the driver is described as an aged man. the hearing continues today for one of the suspects in the brutal beating of a giants fan bryan stowe. a videotape was played yesterday that reveals the suspect telling his mother that he was involved in the attack at dodger stadium. nor was also mentioned luis sanchez as having been there. bryan stowe is still recovering. his family says he has short-term memory problems. >>justine: the tourists kidnapped in india -- egypt are now free. they were taken while traveling by car to the sinai peninsula resort. if the american tourists kidnapped in egypt are now free. we will take a break and be right back with much more.

this in venice beach, california. this was shot by tony vera. and you could see this firefighter, erik johnson, he's going up to this palm tree to rescue a seagull. it's caught up with fishing wire. way to go. the firefighters got out there and they spent this time and this effort. >> once they get him down, they're waiting for the humane society to show up. so while they're waiting, they're trying to get all their tools out to perform kpr ex-trickation of this fishing wire. >> i want you to see how the crowd responded after the rescue. >> you know what? maybe this is a good psa for people to clean up after yourselves. >> that is exactly what eric johnson said when tony caught up with him. >> a lot of times people let their fish wire go out in the ocean thinking nothing's going to happen but that pollution is very rhett digdetrimental to th. >> he rescued a snake. >> they were going to kill it. i said i'll take it home. i still have it. >> i love this firefighter. he's dedicated to his job, to animals. this guy is a keeper. >> obviously he has a

>> absolutely, it's in tuscany and towards venice. it was felt quite widely, the quake. >> and given that there was this quake nine, 10 days and a couple of years ago, i suppose the evacuation procedures were well practiced? >> well, i was at the factory earlier and everybody was being sent home from the factory but primarily because of the close count and they wanted the parents to look after the children as well. the people are out in the streets again in modena. things returned to normal very quickly and people were going about their daily business, but now, people were out on the streets again after the tremor. i don't know the magnitude but it was shaky for quite a few seconds. >> we're looking at the pictures while we're talking, mark, as some of the emergency workers, but looking at those pictures, one gets the impression there are going to be people whose workplace will not be fit to go to and indeed whose homes were not fit to go into. >> people are wondering when it's going to stop because it's been continuous for over a wee

it is going to be at 25 venice, sweet 800, november 17 at 5:30. thank you. >> thank you.next speaker. >> hello. good evening, commissioners. my name is lupe. i work with the human rights commission as well. thank you for putting this together. this is a great symposium and a great place to be able to share a lot of the different views and work going on. one of the things i wanted to quickly talk about was regarding the sanctuary ordin.

various with reduction of the impact to the nature and with a low cost for for that the rating of the venice and so on and so chase one of the most successful case in our country with a modest standard and with the most in a way to technology environmentally friendly technology which really deserve to be recognised to be considered the new standard industrial stand there for those who will be following. the with the construction or redevelopment of the region all across russia when you talking to did out there today talking about the green standard in construction being proud of being green i remember that a couple of years ago when you started you started with the scandals even with clashes with environmentalists and such so can you say that today it's been put aside there's no more problems with the environment or you still have some problems you have to so many on a daily basis you know things for enjoys. given a chance for them to look. over some duty and this is good because we always got the opposite opinion but even though can confirm that minor things. change into the positive side n