another part of that is that there must be adequate ventilation installed in the club so that both doors and windows can be closed any time. that will be the biggest problem that you face is that you get a very hot night and if you don't have adequate ventilation, someone will prop open the door. and you don't need to answer this, mr. whitaker, you just need to build this into the business itself. if stores are propped open, that is a possible violation which can issue a citation. this will endanger your permit. keep that in mind. >> i just want to say that security is not an issue. if a security person was placed at that internal door with instructions that other employees could not leave it a jar and patrons cannot exit unless there was an emergency and that would really help to solve the problem as well. anything else, commissioners? >> i used to have one question. with respect to the posers gosh to the proposal, he suggested that some of you are ready planning on a new door. would that satisfy the concerns? >> >> i sure hope so. >> can someone offer up a motion? >> i would move that

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

the public space if you are looking down, most of the time it will been naturally ventilated and climatize. and we are able to tap into this to help climatize our space where the weather is completely bad. we are introducing the air from the floor so we are acclimatizing only the lower 68, using a special technique for concrete to actually use recyclables. this is a long list of strategies the help us it to or past the platinum level -- help us get to our past the platform level. there is a way to demonstrate what urban buildings can be in the future that embraces art and culture and stewardship. >> thank you. i appreciate its. if i would like to open it to public comments. >> thank you. i am representing 4500 fremont street. for the record, i gave the zoning administrator copies of lovell's delivered yesterday, -- of letters delivered yesterday, stating we have received neither notice of the hearing. with the help of some artifact -- architects, we studied it to see what the project was. i also gave a courtesy call to the the vella over -- to the developer and let him know we were looking

, and bring error from the outside into the building directly with low energy and using air for ventilation of the tower. this is one way we get to the level of platinum for the structure. another important idea is the section, and that is a drawing to the left, and you can see it to its right is still street. to the left is 50 fremont and william power next to it. a typical office building has that at street level, and we propose to lift its 50 feet in to the air so we can create a significant space of ground level, so at the ground level, this is the plan looking down at the public space, which we think is the most important part of this. we have to minimize its to have a favor of a pedestrian zone, and the mezzanine is an extension of public space so people can look at it with public activities, which is the way the public theater works. this was said to be a restaurant, if we can support this cafe at ground level, which is part of the open space common -- part of the open space, but you can see people can move all the way through this building. this makes it really truly public in the 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

into a you knit. >> there are no ventilation standards that have been invented that can protect yourom your neighbor's smoke. >> reporter: that's were advocates promote smoke-free housing. >> there is a high demand for this. >> reporter: but paul seeger with pacific marketing disagrees. >> today there is no premium for a smoke-free building. >> reporter: he handles sales for the building and dozens of other luxury high-rises in the area. >> if you don't live in an urban area and a bubble you are going to be exposed to things. >> when it seems into my unit i have breathing rights in my own condo. >> reporter: i walked into her room, if it was a hotel room i would have walked to the front desk and said "it smells like an ash tray." >> i'm understanding that and i'm not saying you have the right to schneck, i'm saying there is a dilemma. >> reporter: until they don't make it legal to smoke in apartments on condos. >> if you can't live in that environment, then your choice is to move out. >> reporter: but for ilka why not move, why not sell your unit. >> it's a crime to sell this unit f

the mechanical ventilation that occupies about 1/3 of the wall would intrude from the easterly property line. >> where is the 45-foot separation? most of it at the expense of the existing power bowman -- existing tower? >> i would be at the north. >> it is mostly because the adjacent building is set for other black, -- said further back, and the final issue was the shattering issue. -- shadow issue. since this is only at the upper part of the tower, and since it is a small building, i seem to read in your report there would not be a significant change in shadowing for a new building over six floors. am i correct? >> for the building or other sorts? >> for the adjacent property. >> it would be a dynamic and shifting situation. it would be heavily shadowed. there would be sunlight and various parts of a curator -- various parts. they do not necessarily benefit from a lot of sunlight. >> they are usually on the fringes. >> high noon is the most opportune time for sun life. -- sunlight to. >> there was an asking for a continuance. i do not know based upon what was heard now if we can make a

. >> how to the ventilate this? are these operable? h[ph>> they are not. we have a cool air intake from the bay. because of the atrium, it would be nearly impossible for any air conditioning, so we have cool air intake on the bayside. that cools the building down. when i first artwork in here, i was fascinated with all the arches, the repetitive arches. the original architect used it as a symbol of the talks in rome, a symbol of how important the water and the waterways are to us city. -- to the city. it looks like an aqueduct structure. >> what are the uses of this floor and above? >> we have about 10 it office spaces, private businesses, law firm, financial management, lobbying firms. there are all local businesses. -- they are all local businesses, very supportive of the marketplace. >> i know that some part of this building, the water goes underneath, the bay water is under there? >> yes. >> is it under the whole building? >> there is a sea wall, probably right under where you are standing. a lot of it is on the pilings. >> i have seen a guy on a littl

i do not want to be hooked up to an artificial ventilator if i'm 85-years-old and cannot be on my own. i can't answer what i would do in every situation doesn't mean that i can't know what i would do in the most common situations and i think whatever anyone says about this, i do think the all objections to this are a particular kind of highly conservative religion. i was raised catholic. i'm an atheist i was raised catholic, and i know the catholic church has no objection to say you don't want to be on a ventilator if you can't get better. that is not -- that is not considered suicide. it's considered you don't have an obligation to have everything to keep your body alive as long as possible. but there's a particular kind of i would say very antiindividualistic religion which says everything is in god's hand. we don't have the right to make any decisions for ourselves, and i think that is where the opposition on the far right is coming to a whole idea of living wills because mainstream religions do not object to these things at all. many mainstream religions to object to assisted suic

it quickly entered the ventilation system in the attic. storage items in the attic caught on fire. it took 30 minutes to put out that fire. >> no injuries. >> and a water utility on gary rd after 7:00 a.m. that was shot down. you can see that fire crews tackled this please. firefighters say equipment failure is because. after the plant was switching over from a generator power this morning. after an weekend power outage. no injuries. f. nabors that were awoken that it was reminiscent of the san bruno gas explosion. >> with that a loud explosion it sounded like an airplane. >> it was an odd, weird sound like a rushing sound. immediately, the thing that i thought was that san bruno. >> about the gas line. i looked out the window and i saw a large pot of smoke that covered one block. there was an odd smell in the year for a while. >> these pictures will show you the damage. spokesman's from the utility says that since 2008, it was offline but no disruption to water residence. >> and a two-alarm fire on corporate ave. and thankfully, no injuries the american red cross was brought in to

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shut off the gas and ventilate the room. get the natural gas out. to test it you want to turn it an eighth of a turn and turn it back to the way it it was. notice the little thing? that's going straight with the flow of the pipe that means it's open. if it's across that means you turned off the gas. the eighth of a turn you didn't turn it off you just moved it. these are in better shape. if you can get to this valve, safely, the building's collapsed on it you can't get to it you have to use the one in the street. pg and e put all the meters outside the houses in a lot of the neighborhoods, these are pretty easy to get to. they are easy to find. if you can find the little round circle in the sidewalk. if you look directly at the house you will find this meter and this shut off on the ground floor. in is a closeup of the shut off. in is the wrench i recommend you you use it for other things. they are cheap and they will work. this is great because you can use it somewhere else if you have to. an adjustable open end wrench. a diagram are off/on. shut o

and i know the catholic church has no objection to saying you don't want, you know, to be on a ventilator if you can't get better. that is not considered suicide. it's considered you don't have an obligation to have everything to keep your body alive as long as possible. but there is a particular kind of i would say very antiindividualistic religion which says everything is in god's hands, we don't have the right to make any decisions for ourselves and i think that is where the opposition on the far right is coming to the whole idea of living wills because the mainstream religions do not object to these things at all. many of them do object in suicide but that is a different thing. assistant suicide is a very different thing from saying i don't want extreme things done just to keep my heart artificially pumping when i am not going to be me again. >> host: you do to say the suicide or assisted suicide can be a rational choice, and you go on to make the point that in medicine at least what practiced in this country tends to view anybody that reaches that decision that that is the option tha

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asking for ventilation sooner.thing about this, it's not just visual, we got a lot of audio out of it. >> you get to see how it is absolutely not at all like is t.is -- it is in the movies. >> reporter: they'd like to see a camera with thermal imaging that conducts heat. >> a thermal imaging camera can scan a room in a matter of seconds. >> reporter: firefighters will continue to evaluate a helm cam with more real life tests to come. ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> an update now on a story we first brought you yesterday afternoon. no dangerous substances have been discovered on a letter mailed in pailo alloto. yesterday morning, a clerk started vomiting after opening the letter. employees from the first floor of the va's office were evacuated as a precaution. the va says the employee who left ill returned to work today in good health. >>> copper thieves mae out with 15 to $20,000 of wiring in a mountain house neighborhood in san joaquin county. it happened this past weekend in northwest of tracy. >>> the justice departme

asking for ventilation sooner.thing about this, it's not just visual, we got a lot of audio out of it. >> you get to see how it is absolutely not at all like is t.is -- it is in the movies. >> reporter: they'd like to see a camera with thermal imaging that conducts heat. >> a thermal imaging camera can scan a room in a matter of seconds. >> reporter: firefighters will continue to evaluate a helm cam with more real life tests to come. ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> an update now on a story we first brought you yesterday afternoon. no dangerous substances have been discovered on a letter mailed in pailo alloto. yesterday morning, a clerk started vomiting after opening the letter. employees from the first floor of the va's office were evacuated as a precaution. the va says the employee who left ill returned to work today in good health. >>> copper thieves mae out with 15 to $20,000 of wiring in a mountain house neighborhood in san joaquin county. it happened this past weekend in northwest of tracy. >>> the justice departme

. >> reporter: and once they were able to ventilate all that smoke out of the building, they were able to allow the homeless people to reenter the building. and basically go back to bed. they weren't outside for very long, about 45 minutes is what we're hearing. now there's no word on the cause of the fire. as mentioned earlier, it did start in the laundry room. we're told it's not a drier fire. the crews are here just because the fire department shut off the gas as is standard procedure at any fire. back to you guys. >> thank you, matt. >>> well, we could learn today whether or not oakland keep its police chief. he has been waiverring on his future in oakland ever since learning he did not get the top cop job in san jose. on monday, he said he would be meeting with the oakland mayor in coming days. he said he has concerns about support and resources for oakland police department. >>> there's pressure to do something fun this weekend. >> yeah, next weekend we could be talking about some rain, but this weekend is looking great. temperatures very spring-like around the bay area. a bit co

doesn't believe it poses immediate health risks but it is concerned about long-term effects and wants ventilation systems installed in new buildings to extract the vapors. >> yahoo for news to information junkies to want to get their info on the run. live stand will bring together digital publications for people with touch screen tablets like the i-pad and i-phones. they will pick from news, sports, finance and other topics. most of them will be free. a few of them will charge. yahoo is hoping to lure advertisers away from print and broadcast media. it's expected to debut in june. >> the carnival cruise ship splendor is to set sail after two weeks of repairs in san francisco. a fire in the engine room back in november left the splendor adrift without power or communications. no one was hurt fortunately but 4500 passengers and crew members were stuck at sea for three days. food, water and medical assistance had to be flown in before the ship was finally towed to shore. san francisco had the only drydock big enough to accommodate repairs to the 950 foot long ship. >> and we still wonder whether it

firefighters say that this started on the kitchen stove top expanded of the ventilation system. items caught on fire in the attic. also, here is a statement from the contra costa county fire department. >> luckily this was a new building in an automatic fire alarm system. the fire alarm that system worked fine in the evacuation was fine. as well as the other tenant and the spaces and at this point, no reports of injuries, whatsoever. >> and it was temporarily closed will contra costa county fire officials make sure that the fire did not spread. in walnut creek, haazig madyun kron 4 news. (music) >> clear skies throughout the day today and temperatures still a little bit cooler. here is a look of the high temperatures, widespread 70's. just a few places in the upper 60s. 73 in redwood city. 75 in fremont, 76 and hayward. and yesterday, take a look! it was 11 degrees cooler. and also hayward and a lot of places were eight degrees cooler, mountain view, nine degrees cooler in oakland. and a look at our current conditions. still pretty mild. 60 degrees, 64 in concord, 60 in san jose

vapors pose immediate health risks but it is concerned about long-term effects and wants special ventilationems installed in new buildings to extract the vapors. >> today san mateo county assemblyman jerry hill plans to introduce a bill to keep san francisco from using state money for the city's new local hire law. san francisco's ordinance requires that half of workers hired on city public works construction jobs be city residents. hill says taxpayers from other counties in the state should not have to pay for increased construction costs associated with local ordinance. it will prohibit any state money on local hire projects. >> a watchdog group is calling on congress to crack down on 30 lawmakers sleeping in their offices rather than paying for a second place to live in the nation's capital. the group's citizen for responsibility and ethics in washington say those politicians may be getting an unfair tax break and making personal use of public resources. some representatives say the practice has been going on for decades while others say they aren't aware of any rules addressing that matt

. >> we kept his ventilated and chilled to reduce the swelling and we were able to decompress his spinalltaneously. >> reporter: that combination is why doctors believe valdes is now enjoying an early and rare recovery from such a serious injury. >> when i was able to move my legs, i started crying. i started crying because i knew i was going to walk after that. >> reporter: already back on his feet and very fortunate to have a second chance. for "today" mark potter, nbc news, miami. >> joining us from miami for an exclusive interview is jorge valdes along with his doctor. gentlemen, good morning to both of you. thanks for being with us. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> jorge i had to look away from the video of you making the flip. you had done that many times before. have you figured out what went wrong? >> i just lost myself in the air. i lost my place and i paid for it pretty bad. >> you did. >> i usually make that flip. >> you usually make it. >> i usually make it a good nine out of ten times. >> we heard you describe the incredible pain. when you went to the hospital, what were