alamo square is the heart of our neighborhood and tourists come to see our victorian homes. we have fillmore street and we also have the corridor, which has transformed the neighborhood into a wonderful boulevard of shops, restaurants, art galleries and coffee shops. this included planting of trees and adding landscape of trees and flora to the median. this is what's going on around us. every tourist destination as an icon that every visitor has to see. paris has the i've ell tour, new york city has the statue of liberty and san francisco has the golden gate bridge and the painted ladies of post card row. this is on the eastern view from on top of alamo square hill. and this image of san francisco that everyone sees, over 15 million visitors come to our city and most of them want to take a photograph of this. the allure is understandable. more than a century of history on thousands of glossy photos. in the two blocks of victorians on the eastern side of the square offering differing perspectives of this view and countless post cards and images of our blocks. what sort of fac

by the jux -- juxtaposition of the victorian and modern. i wanted to evoke a victorian garden in this very modern, light-filled space. a couple ofle. s that you'll see is the very base structure that will be done in white glass. what i appreciate about this is that it actually appears to morph into the steel white beams of the building, and there will be a couple slides that i'll show later that we can notice a marrying of those two lines together. the layer on top of that then is the garden elements, the poppies, the laurels, the humming birds coming through, growing, bursting out of the corners. in the detail that will follow, you'll see that with the lines overlapped, it will be a shifts of color, and it's going to be interesting play, with the way the natural light snift the day will also add an additional layering of colors that will create new patterns. the smaller detailed elements are those that i was alluding disturb -- alluding to earlier. they're very settle and we'll get them more closely in detail. do you have any questions at

if it is a traditional house, edwardian, victorian, certainly. but not just everyday ordinary home depot crown molding. probably something in little bit nicer, more traditional. but i think the contemporary -- in the last 10 or 20 years, you probably want to consult with an interior designer before you slap of a molding. >> i suggest an architect. these are people who are trained to look at the appearance and make decisions. but i have seen it to great advantage, especially in the older buildings, victorian and edwardian period >> i agree with you to go with a professional. but is there a particular group? another list in the yellow pages and all that. for the exterior, you talk about the curb appeal, something like windows. where do i find a list of these people, without having to trouble a realtor who is maybe just interested in selling it? >> i think in that, just to address if different ways, you might want to get a couple different opinions. it does not take long. you might want to get an opinion from a realtor, even though they may just be

. >> victorian box trees. >> what size are they? >> a 24 inch box, which is the new standard.e do at least 24-inch box or larger unless the site is to constrained that we have to go small every. er -- smaller. it increases the survival rate of the tree. so this is our new standard. >> it takes a little while until they can adapt to the location. how long does that usually take? a couple of seasons? >> it does. we normally will water a tree throughout the dry season which we estimate about nine months of the year. so if it is -- has not rained, we have to go water the tree. once it is established, then it does not need our help. >> there's a particular problem with trees that are in boxes or in planters or that are not planted in the ground and that's that they have a lot of area of evaporation. so trees like this that are sitting in boxes in sidewalks need a lot of care and a lot of water. >> that's right. we would water these extra so several times a week while we are waiting. one of the reasons why we try to get trees planted in the ground rather that in raised plantearns is

newer buildings, i could see where this could work, but in san francisco we have all of these old victorian buildings with carpets and all kinds of cornices that have to be roughed up there and it is hard to get up there and do a roof the traditional way with a cattle and from endicott. we say a lot of reputable movers, union roofers, still using a torch. this whole thing does not make sense to me, where we are going with this. that is just my opinion. commissioner? >> the other thing i would follow up on, how does this legislation affect existing groups that use this method? what happens is someone needs to repair it? could that be done? >> i believe that this would ban the use of torch's for repairing roofs. i would have to look into that. i believe that that would be banned as well. i believe that there is the alternative of using the glue approach to putting down new asphalt. >> so easy with the stroke of a pen to add costs on to the construction of it. people sometimes wait 30 years to be able to afford to put a new fund. adding all of this cost on their. >> do you know, this man on th

. >>> a fire burned an old victorian in downtown san jose. the fire department sent out crews to all residents were evacuated safely. one fire fighter suffered head and neck injuries and another, a shoulder injury. >> yesterday werk told you about a mountain lion spotted ask killed in berkeley. tonight there was a different kind of animal causing problems, coyotes. and leigh glaser is live with the story. >> we're here along west view drive. there is warning signs going up, warning of overpopulation of coyotes coming in, taking pet food and taking pets. >> this is a the four pups. >> this night time video of a family taken by county vector control in the backyard of this home last month. only 20 feet from the back door. coyote populations are exploding and so are calls to vector control. double the cause from last year. especial any sarah to goa. >> there is a general area near prospect and sarah to goa. we've had a number of calls recently. and probably where they have made some incourage drk-incursion north of 8 5 freeway. >> larry meringer

importance to her is the dichotomy of san francisco architecture, and juxtaposition of the older victorian structure in the contemporary city. she is strong from the inspiration as well as from the fauna and flora of san francisco. in this slide, you see the beginnings of the concept work she has been providing to the transbay for a rich tapestry of color. we cannot wait until it opens. it is exciting. we will have hummingbirds, flowers, artifacts, in this wonderful floor that will be seen in the new transit center. another artist that we commissioned is jenny holzer who has worked at the broad trade center. she works with led lighting. there will be some words and sentences from some great artists in history. here is a look of what it looks like in the day. in the evening as well. another artist that we have commission is james carpenter. he will bring light to shot alley. he will be -- shaw alley. that will be one of the more active places in the retail station. his idea was to focus on the passage. two fields of luminous objects. a series of eliminated-sets and a series of 60 illuminate

averageein thee3 downtown area, 57 deerees there, outlying areas in the ú% >>welcome back, 5:42 after the victorianorious raaent night. we won't find a lottcoming today or tomorrow but after all of this moisture comes our way and brings uu late rainfall. 67 degrees partly cloudy skies wind are calm, 59% rrlative ú%midity and the barometer is rising. 52 is the dew oint and here is a look at the temperatures around the area, 67 degrees in baltimore,,66 in washington d.c., 56, a little cooler in salisbury, 63, pretty mild in hagerstownnand out in oakland, 55 degrees,ment look fo. look for the temperatures to get close to what they did yesserday. this frrntal bbundary falling to theesouth is not going to bring us ny rain sttrt of the moisture buttit will bring us breezy conditions as the winds pick up to 10-15 miles per hour anddthe northwesterly flow of some dry air mooing in. - lot oo sunshine on the way but breezy in the affernoon, still nothing to bother you a whole lot. this low pressure center will bring us some rain as i early friday, probably the best timefraae for that arrival. we can use it,

it destroyed this victorian home on new port avenue. six people were inside when the fire started they are all okay, the fire apparently started in a shed and spread to the house. no word yet on what caused it. >>> sports teams at cal could be on the chopping block next week, they will announce changes the athletic department will make to stay within its budget. the department has been as much as $13 million over budget in recent years. athletic director says football, basketball, women's volleyball are safe. >>> taking sides in the battle over same-sex marriage. heavy weights now throwing their support behind prop 8. >> people shouldn't do this, because it just hurts the planet okay. this shouldn't be found in the water. >> how volunteers of all ages cleaned up the coastline, one piece of trash at a time. >> i am meteorologist, lawrence, in the weather center, we have heat around the bay area, it could get hotter. we will talk about that coming up ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, they've filed a brief opposing >>> ten states are taking sides in the batt

the people in the drafty victorian houses. >> i know that there are a lot of people like that. another person wants to know if the funding can be used and paid off early? can you pay down alone, completely? >> absolutely. >> i love your answers. what about this? is the $300 -- can this go into the project? >> they are referring to the application fees. >> why are you doing this? >> there are two reasons to do this. if i did not go online i can still pay this? >> you also have -- they are trying to cover the costs. >> and there is the energy audit that is coming on? >> we can sometimes see this as a second cost. the other thing is that this becomes a little bit more serious. many of the people who apply are not very serious about the project. this is not deductible. >> are you able to finance this? >> i do not think that you can do this at the end. >> that is the one thing that you cannot finance. >> when you have been approved, the financing is essentially reserved for you. there may be people who are on the fence about this, and we do not want to take away the advantage of the

. >>> a 3 alarm fire gutted a victorian home in san jose it broke out overnight at this home on new port avenue six people were inside at the time they were all okay. the fire started? a shed, it spread to a house no word on what caused it. >>> and sports teams, at cal could be on the chopping block, the chancellor will announce tuesday changes the athletic department will make to stay within its budget. the department has spent as much as $13 million over budget in recent years. the athletic director says football, basketball and women's volleyball are safe. >>> prescription drugs are the fastest growing drug problem in the united states especially among young people. one reason, they are easy to find. chances are there are some in your medicine cabinet now. julie watts shows us today the dea took an unusual step to fight back. no questions asked. >> he went to sleep and just never woke up. >> reporter: april is just one of many who've lost a child to prescription drugs. >> they need to be treated as loaded weapons. they are. >> reporter: the dea agrees. much like the popular gun buy ba

she had an old victorian with an old brick foundation. she was absolutely convinced that the foundation had to be concrete and had to be concrete tomorrow. it was the first thing she did. she had different people, and look at the way she could do it. someone convinced her she should really be fit up and do it to the degree that she could add another unit or another living space down the line it see -- if she so chose. against my advice, she probably spent over $100,000 on pouring concrete down there. it sits there as an empty shell of a basement, which is sort of useless, really. i think you can get expert opinions from many different people, and the value question is a different question than an expert opinion on a particular subject. the value question is a question of the value of the property. is it over-improving? sometimes the contractor will tell you otherwise. the value is probably for a salesperson. >> that is something john wrote out. what value? value to you? value to the appraiser who comes in in one month? value is certainly

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what i was initially inspired by was the san francisco architecture and its juxtaposition of the victorian and modern, for which we are best known. we are best known. i am showing you a few of the elements thative drawn -- that i have drawn from to create this project. you might also notice some elements that i found were used, including california laurel, poppy, and humming bird. other elements that i was inspired by were the diversity of the cultures across the bay area. so in my work, i draw from pot earns as a way to subtley reference these intersections. you can see here across cultures. there are markers, lines, shapes that repeat themselves and we find -- i'm a little nervous to be here. i look at these elements that really appear across culture. we identify them, we may not know exactly where they come from, but there's something to them that is memorable to us, or that we find as a similarity to. so all these together, -- so that being said, using those elements as a way to structure the design that i'm presenting to you here. here is a large scale full format image of the design

and the loss of an entire victorian neighborhood in the western edition and the loss of the cultural values of the many, many square acres, square miles of this city for really economic reasons and not for societal or cultural benefits. i know that working, having been on the heritage board and having had been on the review committee for many years, that preservation and development and economics are not at odds. that many developmenters who came before the issues committee were often very amazed that we could find solutions that actually benefited them but were also very beneficial to the preservation as well. with sustainability now becoming a very common commissioner veronese: badge in planning and preservation -- verbiage in planning and preservation, the building is the one that exists. president miguel: thank you. >> i'm going to give some introducery remarks for my client. i've had a lively exchange with the department of d.b.i. around a issue that you don't even know about as commissioners. and that is the difficulty the public faces in getting copies that are real copies for

. >> we need to make a leap from the victorian age into the 21st century when it comes to pipeline regulation. citizens and local governments have a right to know about these pipelines, where they are what they're made of, what their safety record is, what the enforcement record against them is, and when things break, when are they fixed, how are they fixed. >> reporter: kessler says people need to be vigilant with local utility companies and report all leaks of gas smells immediately. but people in this enabled told us they have been smelling gas for more than a week before thursday's explosion and pg&e knew about it. >> pg&e notified us about a year ago that they were going to test all of the gas lines up and down the street. so they just said they are going to drill holes in the ground and then refill them. i'm thinking maybe do they know something was going on? >> reporter: a sacramento attorney who investigated a similar deadly gas explosion in a rancho cordova neighborhood in 2008 says their investigation uncovered an aging archaic system of pipelines dating back to the 1950s rife with

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. >> traditionally in san francisco with victorian and edwardian, we had split bathrooms. a separate room for a toilet, and a second room for a tub. i have done literally dozens of projects where we try to combine them. the difference in today's baffin's is there is a lot more stuff. double vanities, soaking tub, showers, toilets, bedets, a lot more things going on. >> has this economic decline at the moment -- has that affected people's desire for complexity in stuff? have you seen a short-term move toward simplicity? >> yes and no. people still love their bathrooms. people think of them as an important room, as an investment for their home. yes, there is the gamut. some people are really just for function and utilitarian. some of them are large and lavish and everything in between. >> we are going to start looking at a couple of little vignettes of bathrooms. we can talk about fixtures and use that as a springboard for questions for our audience and discussions from some of the manufacturers we have here. let's start by looking at one right back here. this is a really in

you'll find the old wood stair and they just said we don't want the -- because this is a beautiful victorian that have been butchered by stuccoing it. i've taken it off one of my houses and you'll find juned 'neath the front stairs, the old hand rail and they just covered it and stuccoed-over-over it and say now it looks like a modernized building. >> yeah. >> now you hire people to take the stuff off and put the gingerbread back on. >> could you talk about masonry coatings on wood-supported structures? >> a lot of terrazo has been applied directly to woodlanding and they will put down a membrane and then set it directly on top of that. just like your woof membrane wears out, and you have to replace your roof, maybe every 20 years, and one of the things you're doing when you put a new roof on, you put gravel or you paint it is to protect the membrane, which is an oil-based membrane from the sun. you're also trying to protect it from the water. and these terrazo surfaces that are set in a membrane, the water goes through it. concrete's porous. it's a sponge. and the membranes underneath don't

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. >>> this morning, fire investigators are looking into what caused a victorian home in the south bay to go up in flames. six people were sound asleep as flames ripped through the two-story home at the intersection of minnesota and newport avenues in the willow glen area of san jose. four of the six made it to safety on their own. they had to rescue two people who had gone back inside the house to get some of their things out. it looked like the fire started in a nearby shed and quickly spread to the house. >> the owner occupied, looked outside, shed on fire. it has spread into the house with a roof on two sides. >>> 50 firefighters were on scene foto put the fire out. no one was injured. >>> the search is on for storebusting bandits who terrified east bay shoppers and sent two employees to the hospital in a violent attack. police say 20 customers were inside home consignment center in danville when three men burst through the doors sprayed works with pepper spray, they smashed the jewelry counter with sledge hammers. >> the loudest noise was the hatchets breaking open the glass count

that is part the reason why i am convinced of the more victorian. altogether, there is a simple pressure. the second comment is about a rum. i do not really believe that anyone can think they can make any agreement. . . >> david, to quote you, if you didn't like the book, you wouldn't like the move -- movie. prime minister benjamin netanyahu said he would make no promisees. why would i like the movie? >> it seems the one part of this is clearly left wide open. we have one time between now and september 26. until now, netanyahu wants to say to the kneset, i have these talks without preconditions. i think he thinks that helps him domestically as well. once he's inside the talks, he may say, there are no preconditions. you could go for the settlement clusters, but not the other 95% for the west bank. it would mark for the first time by the netanyahu government of different types of settlements. i'm not sheer to say i know how it is going to be solved. if there is, you know, a push for building, he's out. netanyahu is saying, i'm not going to continue w

. >> we need to make a leap from the victorian age into the 21st century when it comes to pipeline regulation. citizens and local governments have a right to know about these pipelines, where they are what they're made of, what their safety record is, what the enforcement record against them is, and when things break, when are they fixed, how are they fixed. >> reporter: kessler says people need to be vigilant with local utility companies and report all leaks of gas smells immediately. but people in this neighborhood told us they have been smelling gas and pg&e knew about it. >> pg&e notified us about a year ago that they were going to test all of the gas lines up and down the street. so they just said they are going to drill holes in the ground and then refill them. i'm thinking maybe do they know something was going on? >> somebody calls in and says there is a smell of gas, then we immediately try to respond and get out. so again, i know that there's been news reports, people had called in. we're trying to confirm that. >> reporter: a sacramento attorney who investigated a similar deadly ga

. >> reporter: as you say, newman was one of the great figures of victorian era england.holicism in 1885, very controversial step at the time. he's one of the towering intellectual figures of recent catholic history. he's a hero to some liberal catholics because he put a great deal of emphasis on conscience and also the development of doctrine, meaning that church teaching can change. he's also, however, a hero to many conservatives because he defended catholic identity and put a lot of emphasis on forming catholic leities so they can defend the faith, what's called apologetics. so newman is one of those rare figures in catholic life that appeals to both sides of the street. he's become more and more popular since his death. so the fact that benedict is going out of his way to beatify newman because, remember, pen depict decided at the beginning of his papacy he was no longer going to do beatifications. it was going to be done locally. this could be the only beatification ceremony that benedict has chosen to do. the fact he's chosen to do it for a figure that has so much