basically, there are voters and there are ventilation systems installed in a lot of these grows, ventilating it, through a lot of houses using the pipes. all four of these pictures are illegal grows where we have taken police action. the one on

basically, there are voters and there are ventilation systems installed in a lot of these grows, ventilating it, through a lot of houses using the pipes. all four of these pictures are illegal grows where we have taken police action. the one on the lower right corner, they are bending its through the fireplace at a rental home. -- that are venting it to the fireplace at a rental home. some of the weapons we are seeing -- you have barricaded doors. you have covered fire alarms. when we do a residential grow, we consider a firearm to be an instrument of criminality. they are usually for protection. it tends to push our officers into the opinion that the grow would probably be illegal. finally, on some of our recent cultivation operations, july 19 we had a residential fire. that was an illegal operation. that was an operation in which a man rented a home to turn it into an illegal grow. you can see from our list that we had a cultivation operation at which no police action was taken. it was deemed to be legitimate. we did have a couple of home invasion robberies, one in late may, one in late ju

to be honest, in current code, there are no requirements for light and ventilation in the bedroom.by seeing this up and putting in the glass, it will not change the occupancy of that bedroom. the code does not require it. but if the board chooses to take that and seal it up and put in the glass, we ask that they complied -- comply with the property code, which is that if my client goes to built and removes the window, a pretty straightforward -- we also asked that if there is tension between the property owners, but we just ask. there is no reason for people to look at each other. this is my clients bedroom. i have been in both rooms. the current permit is to seal the window up, and you provide some of pecos, which provides privacy. -- some opaqueness. commissioner garcia: what would it cost? >> this is probably a $5,000 project. and it probably has to be insulated, wired glass korea probably about a $5,000 project. -- why your glass. probably about a $5,000 project. -- why your glassw -- irewired glass. commissioner fung: there is a -- one-hourglass that does not have -- there is

this is the bart ventilation shaft and the ferry. the average water depth isz about 40 feet, and that is about right. on this side of the bay, we have average depths better 35, 40, 50 feet. the east side of the bay is very shallow. then the larger ships that come through need to have at least 40 feet. they actually have to dredge up some of it. there is a very limited channel through the bed. in a sailboat, you cannot turn and get out of the way. next, we're going to walk across the plaza and into the ferry building. we will have over and stop at this store, and we have not all of these phenomenal mushrooms. -- and we have all of these phenomena mushrooms. >> they have an official title and placard. he is one of our tenants. ihe started out as a beat cop in san francisco, helping out at the farmers' market. he had grown up at a farm. he started getting interested in mushrooms, and it has grown into this incredible business. >> are any of these local? >> their family farm is at moth landing. they also going to the forest, and they did

you have to have ventilation. i do not remember all the rules. >> will the property tax increase? >> i do not think so. >> to convert an existing empty attic into a storage attic? that does not sound like you are converting it into the living area. the a sensible addition would be converting it into a living area. >> it is usually by a letter that pulls down. a staircase would have to be deliverable area with a valid staircase. >> thank you. >> adding a bathroom, adding a ron shipp is a sensible. we see a lot of people putting elevators as our population, including us, ages. >> or houses are getting more vertical. >> that is right. no permit is required for a tool shed that is less than 100 square feet of area looking down, bird's eye view. less than 100 square feet, no permit is required. without a permit, there is no trigger for an assessment. >> you could go up two stories? >> no, actually. the planning department has a height limit of i think 10 feet in the required the rear yard area. eight or 10 feet. [laughter] keep your hot tub in your toolshed. >> in this market, if you b

you should get outside and try to ventilate that garage or enclosed area. these contacts, these are one side and they go into the other side here. see how they are in there now? that's a closed switch right there. it's actually a 3 pull switch. there's 3 different pulls to this switch. they are open, now they are closed, if it's closed it should -- that's when you want to turn it on and off, when it's closed, and then open it if you have to. if you smell gas, you've probably got a leak. if the building is collapsed, there's probably going to be a leak. those are the 3 times you want to come out here and shut this thing off. it's real easy. you get your wrench and you turn it off. >> if i smell gas should i turn off the one behind my stove? . >> if you smell it coming from your stove, sure. exactly. the only way to figure this out is by doing it. this is a real easy one. the one at your house isn't going to be that easy. . >> have a wrench at our building. >> it's not required by law but it's a good idea. at my house, i have one of these wrenches i bought at

. >> they have ventilation fans back there and a few doors open to keep ventilation going. have air-conditioning so it keeps the place cool. >> reporter: the foul smell was first noticed about five months ago. some airlines say they're fed up with the problems they may with hold rent. >>> the occupational safety and health standards board voted unanimously to strengthen laws for workers. advocates for farm workers say  the new rules don't do enough. >>> scientists said today there is still plenty of oil in the gulf of mexico but it is invisible to the naked eye. they say a 22-mile oil plume consists of tiny droplets and is located half a mile below the surface not far from the now capped broken oil well. scientists capped the well. they worry it might place a risk on fish. >>> new orleans and other gulf coast communities have struggled to rebuild. major rich andrews says it will now take another five years for new orleans to put the hurricane behind it. preliminary numbers indicate tourism in new orleans is down 16% so far this year. >>> in news of the world tonight, in pa

. >> they have ventilation fans back there and a few doors open to keep ventilation going.have air-conditioning so it keeps the place cool. >> reporter: the foul smell was first noticed about five months ago. some airlines say they're fed up with the problems they may with hold rent. >>> the occupational safety and health standards board voted unanimously to strengthen laws for workers. advocates for farm workers say  the new rules don't do enough. >>> scientists said today there is still plenty of oil in the gulf of mexico but it is invisible to the naked eye. they say a 22-mile oil plume consists of tiny droplets and is located half a mile below the surface not far from the now capped broken oil well. scientists capped the well. they worry it might place a risk on fish. >>> new orleans and other gulf coast communities have struggled to rebuild. major rich andrews says it will now take another five years for new orleans to put the hurricane behind it. preliminary numbers indicate tourism in new orleans is down 16% so far this year. >>> in news of the world tonight, in pak

and a large amount of dried marijuana as well plus a lot of equipment, lighting and complicated ventilation system in and out of the building. in fact, i spoke with a passerby this morning and she said she did often smell marijuana outside of this building. police initially called to a burglary they ended up with a pot bust. they were able to remove all the pot but not all of the equipment becauseof a lack of manpower. >> i'm sure it will come out soon. thank you, anne makovec in oakland this morning. >>> today the two sides in the proposition 8 case are ordered to submit briefs concerning a stay on same-sex marriages. federal judge vaughn walker issuing a temporary stay on weddings wednesday when he ruled prop 8 was unconstitutional. the issue now whether to continue that stay while the ruling is being appealed. the temporary stay means no gay or lesbian marriages in california at least until judge walker rules on the briefs that will be filed today. >>> san francisco city attorney dennis herrera is taking action against two local gangs. he is seeking an unjunction against members of the d

we are looking to preserve privacy, light and ventilation. that is set back 3 feet from the properties. we are trying to minimize any questions raised by our neighbors and we try to respect their privacy and everything. we do believe that a 35 -- 3 feet setback is quite enough to our neighbor, especially they have a three story building at much higher than ours. our debt is only 8 feet tall. you are looking about 11 feet or 12 feet, this is not even the middle of the building. i don't see how this will impact the light, the installation, or vision. basically, we are facing the property wall. this is what i'm trying to explain. if you have any information, i'm happy to discuss this. >> is the compromise off the table? >> no, we tried to compromise something with them except it seems that this is too much for us. we tried to offer a class which they asked for. we are willing to spend extra money to install the glass to compromise. they have only the light well which you can see in the pictures and we tried to set this back two feet more to make

and one of the things i like about this building it has elevated roof on the section behind and ventilatend no chimneys. >> right next to it isn't there a copper smith building? >> up the block. >> fo fol sum. >> this is in fact a san francisco landmark and 1911 and as a black smith shop and so many change. a rarity. tools, manufacturers, general black smith. still used as a black smith shop. one of my favorite buildings in north beach area is the sheet metal shop and the shop -- this entire building, facade is made of sheet metal. as we get closur closer you cane somebody tail piping to the building and it's sheet metal. >> and made to look like break. >> the letters are made of sheet metal and the eave over the door and every piece of this thing. the glass is i guess not. the door is sheet metal. the door jam. fantastic. >> maybe they got a special price for the sheet metal. >> and here's a permit to put it on the building and cost $700 to put the minor editions to the front of the building and a new cement floor 1921. >> do you think they put the correct amount down back then? >>im sur

and we knee w knew wo seal up the windows and all the building we did made it rot and it needed ventilation and had to undo the work that was done and back to the original design and expensive project and $20 million plus but it's a gorgeous building. woody can tell us about carville. >> this is the last in fact carville house. it was a community of discarded streetcars, horse pulled cars, various modes of transportation that were made obsolete by electric streetcars so cars were dumped out in the beach and sunset side and people made residences and the one is there and two cable cars and that is the upper and lower level and from the back it doesn't look like anything and they had club houses and bo hemian musicians would go out and take a dip in the obligatio ocean and romance. >> what a wonderful time. >> people didn't like it and came up with a slogan "burn the car out of carville" and they wanted traditional housing. >> wind mills. okay two in the park and one that is now restored and functioning which was the dutch wind mill and the other, the murphy wind mill which is being restored.

. >> ventilation is a big energy use in buildings. so -- >> in the beginning, we were trying to use fresh air. that's a point with leed. just from the point of view as life is invigorating, so does fresh air. we tried really hard to make the windows operate >> are they operatable now >> most of them are not. it does not rely upon the operatable windows >> at this point, we would have had to work with the landlord. >> that's a really big deal in san francisco much we are dealing with new buildings where they want operatable windows. you have smoke and fire issues. >> somehow, it does something to the circulation of area. in other offices you hear and feel the whoosh of air coming down. here we don't feel that. you feel a constant temperature and flow of area >> alex, i came in here, did you have special problems with the hva c? >> no, we didn't. it following the natural contours of the building >> when we first sat in my office and looked, i thought the mechanical system is so beautiful, it was one of the hardest decisions are they goi

. >> rescue workers have entered the mind and trying to reach the men by ventilation hatch. but it is blocked and proving difficult. meanwhile, the waiting continues. three years ago, an explosion here killed three workers. chileans are hoping and praying that this latest incident has a far happier incident. >> let's take you to china and sure use some of the latest pictures coming in from a fire in a mine -- at a gold mine in eastern china. we understand that this is a fire that broke out on friday afternoon. at least 14 miners have been killed. but we understand that there are something like eight miners still trapped underground and believed to be alive. you're watching bbc news. >> hello and welcome. >> see the news unfold. the top stores from across the globe. go to bbc.com/news. >> >> funding was made possible by -- the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, and union bank. >> union bank offers unique insight and expertise in a range of industries. what can we do for you?

they called the operation very sophisticated, with a ventilation system in the building. and here's what one of the suspects had to say about his lack of involvement, according to him. >> i was at the park smoking a significant rent on the phone my female going to come get me and then his partner just slammed me and said what i'm doing? i said [bleeping] talking to my girlfriend. that's how it happened. >> reporter: the police obviously thought there was something more to his story than what he was telling. the police also say that they have been to a bust in this building one time before. so again, we have seen 80 oakland cops laid off recently but they are still, uhm, up to some crime-fighting action around here. >> absolutely. anne, thank you very much. anne makovec in oakland this morning. >>> out with the old transbay terminal, in with the new. the terminal will close for good at midnight tonight so construction can begin on the new transbay transit center. that original terminal opened back in 1939. it has become a spot, though, where more than 100 homeless people s

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the best thing we can do is support them from the topside and give them every chance we can to ventilate and also to take care of themselves until such time that they can be freed. >> joe vasquez, cbs5. >>> call it the latest economic indicator. the birthrate has dropped for the second year in a row. researchers say there is a connection between sagging economies and smaller families. >>> well, we made it through the weekend. we're going to check in with roberta to see what the weekend is going to be like. >> it's going to get a lot cooler. today we had a high of 60 degrees in san francisco. tonight we have clear skies, we're able to detect an 89% waning moon. we still have a deck of low clouds sitting at the coast. we have a trough right here. as it continues to take a nose dive down to the state of california, pulling down a bunch of cooler air mass and numbers are going to tumble for saturday and sunday. also we have a lot of associated with it. the numbers pretty much in the 50s to 60 degrees in morgan hill and also toward gilroy. other wise 70 tomorrow in los altos and san jose. oth

we did lighting efficiency projects in four parks as well as some heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning retrofits in eight city buildings. the park's alone are saving 140,000 kilowatt hours annually, a savings of $88,000. the eecbg grants, coupled with other funding we did with our municipal building energy audit, is sitting as $150,000 in our general fund. along with the jobs that are being created with this project, when i came in and met with a number of mayors this morning, the first question has been how is your budget going. what is going on with your general fund and your public works? in our city, if we are able to save $150,000 a year that would have gone to paying for energy bills, which can put it into police officers, firefighters, parks and recreation -- the municipal services people have come to expect. that is helping us get over this recesson

the basic systems, in addition to seismic upgrade, it needs new plumbing and ventilation services. it is an old style who tell with bathrooms down the hall for most of the units, which has proven to be a less stable environment for the population we are trying to serve than one where folks have their own bathroom and acked to cooking. for these reasons we are asking specifically for an exception for the arlington hotel of this specific requirement. in our mind, the risk to be assessed is whether or not we will be able to count on it fulfilling its public purpose for the length of time we would be making this loan. it would be a 55-year deferred payment loan like all of our own loans. the question to ask would be whether mers could, with the assistance we put in place for operating costs, would they be able to do that. they have a very strong track record of serving this population. in any event, if they for some reason went out of business or were able to continue to serve the population we have in mind, we have in our loan documents the right to replace with with another service p

is to support them from the top side and give them every chance to vent tate and take care of -- ventilate and take care of themselves until they can be gre -- can be freed. >> reporter: joe vazquez. >> nobody is gonna forget these guys. whatever it takes to get them out, they are gonna get them out. >>> we're gonna turn to roberta now and see what we have for the weekend. >> we have much cooler weather, football weather moving into the bay area. this was the scene earlier today, when the clouds cleared out 61 in san francisco. it made it all the way up to the mid-80s in our inland areas. that's about it. but otherwise we will see the skies clear out according to our pinpoint forecast, again the stratus, that's not gonna be the problem for your saturday. official sunrise is at 6:33. we'll see hints of it and then the low clouds and patchy fog will continue to dissipate and move out because we have an approaching area of low pressure. it's a trough. it's right here. it's gonna mix out up the layer. we'll acall it partly cloudy. cooler air mass associated with it. so very autumn-like tempera