structures and created this victorian village where this bookstore is located. the marcus bookstore, jimbo's bop city was raised off it's foundation and trucked 2 blocks to 1712 fillmore street where it became part of the victorian village. a small collection of refuge historical buildings escaped demolition. since moved it's the black owned store and for black intellectualism for empowerment and activism. rosa parks, james baldwin, malcolm x and oprah winfrey and many known and unknown literary folks in the african american community. it's ironic and inappropriate that the city is landmarking a building that helped san francisco preservation in the first place. if this building was resilient enough to survive two earthquakes, if it was surviving from the west and truly it's historic enough to earn your vote today. i truly appreciate the support that we refund not only from the historic preservation commission but there is planning commission. it's clear that people believe this is definitely a building that is worthy of historic preservation because of it's his

also we are dealing with victorians 25-foot frontages. it's not easy to do. there is additional points of access otherwise you end up with a tunnel plan and makes it difficult for the family to live with the types of things included in those early victorians. did you want to comment on the architecture of the design? >> i would like to address commissioner moore's point about the potential of the stair not having to go all three floors thereby creating the opportunity to add the square footage to the studio unit. in fact we need the stairs to penetrate from the garage level to the third floor regardless of whether or not they do not occupy the three floors because they would be going to the garage. so i just want to make sure that is not a -- i think it would be great if we could find an easy way to add more square footage to this unit and we did slice and dies it a million different ways. i also want to address the fact that this project independent of our client meets the criteria for dwelling mergers and regardless of how to family is going to use it, it m

sears was selling you know eight nine bedroom victorian houses literally through their catalog they rebuilt all over the country row houses in our big cities particularly new york will be. built like crazy it where you would have four or five bedrooms six seven bedrooms in some cases three stories high four stories the house by house by house the great depression hit in the one nine hundred thirty s. and what happened was those houses got turned into they have broken up these a big victorian house got turned into five apartments or you know people would rent individual rooms but in many cases they got apartment ties the row houses in new york city got turned into level so the first floor became a house the second floor became a house the third floor became a house whereas it used to all be one house and we still see the remnants of those all around us i'm wondering if that's the fate of a lot of these big mansions and you know i mean do you see any parallels between that transition and the transition we're going through right now. absolutely and as you're saying that i'm realizing i

this is a old victorian home and the entire roof has collapsed.ant damage. the good news and all of this is that no one was hurt. the occupants were able to get out. >> they are very concerned about this and it does appear that these fires are escalating and multiplying in numbers. when i was down here yesterday, there were three separate small fires and today we have this one. there were several more earlier in the week. the fire department is concerned and want to get this person in custody. they're hoping that someone has saw something and can contact them. >> the fires that you covered yester day, how far they away from this fire? >> they are blocks away, nearly a couple of blocks away. this fire caused about $300,000 worth of damage. we are talking about two to three square miles. that is why they believe it is a connection. >> i want to go ahead and focus on the weather because that is also making the news. >> we finally have rain to talk about. this is the view from the san mateo bridge. it is foggy in certain areas. we are expecting mornin

this charred victorian house on st. john's in san jose. there are 30 volunteers that agreed to keep watch overnight and call in anything suspicious, they are scared. they are angry. no one more so than the victims. there have been 13 fires since wednesday. in less than a week the vick attorney set on fire on saturday home to this couple who lost family photos and will not get over that. she asked this question of the arsonist. >> was it worth it to you for five minutes of your pleasure to see the house burn down? to see the misery you have caused and are causing people? >> look at this sketch, this is what investigators have been able to compile for the description. they have handed it out to 3,000 people and they say the arsonist is tall, thin, and hispanic or white. they believe they caught him on surveillance video pacing in front of at least one target. they are looking into that as they try to nail this guy, really. the most recent fire at class in church on sunday and this victorian, we are standing in front of, happened on saturday

subjects-- contemporary corruption in clergy and business, sexual inequality, prudishness and other victorian unmentionables-- were considered dangerous, his method of presentation was conventional. he used melodramatic devices, usually making quite explicit the division between good characters and bad. to make deceptively simple-looking plays, he wrote what was called the well-made play, that is, a play so carefully constructed that almost every line and object turned out to have some important use in a latter part of the play. it was said that if the heroine of a well-made play coughs in the first act, she will surely die of tuberculosis by the end. if a gun is handled, it will surely be used. there are no casual deliveries of mail. a letter will bring joy to some, destruction to others. no one will merely observe the beauty of a piece of jewelry. it will surely turn up later as part of someone's effort to conceal the past. ibsen's audiences love such revelations in which it is shown that things are not what they seem to be. the baby is the child of someone else. the poor man has unexpected

middle class ruined when charles dickens was writing everybody's from the year with you know the victorian era and charles dickens the book most people know about is a christmas carol ebenezer scrooge and bob bob cratchit and you know scrooge and marley scrooge was the middle class in that day the middle class was made up of a he was a two person he wanted to come a person company a little tiny business you have shopped literally the books butcher the baker the cabinet maker the the candlestick maker the the doctors the lawyers that was the middle class and then you had the large the ninety eight percent which was the working poor and in fact during victorian era england you had maximum wage law as it was illegal to pay people too much because they were afraid of people were paid too much they would rise up and become troublemakers this is what russell kirk warned us about in one nine hundred fifty one that if the american working poor became the american middle class which was happening in the fifty's. if this were to happen you would see chaos in america and guess what the sixty's happen

no more tour bus as howed in the alamo square neighborhood made famous for the panted ladies victorianborhood. some like the change, others think it's going to hurt tourists. >> reporter: good morning. as you imagine, tour companies not happy with this one at all. when people come to san francisco, this is one of the top places they want to see. alamo square. they know about the painted ladies. they've seen them on television shows. they've seen them in movies. we've been speaking with neighbors. sea say it's less movie lot, more parking lot because of the buses clogging up the street, up to 50 a day, trying to see painted ladies, victorian homes with the downtown in the backdrop. i remember the opening to the sitcom "full house" but some say film invasion of "body snatchers" very famous. seasons are up here after a vote by the san francisco municipal transportation agency, tour buss and vans with eight or more passengers prohibited. neighbors hope this encourages people to take a walking tour instead. they say they don't want to discourage people from visiting the restrictions. south

your destiny but at teach people you give money away do you hope we give millions of dollars in victorian it not never dreamed that we'd be able to do to be able to bless people like this so it's never been about you know how wealthy can we become you say that god has already written all of our days god has a plan i mean knows the plan that i have any control of the plan well i believe you do believe god is all knowing but i believe that you know we have to each day be our best honor god be good to other people move forward i think that's how you can i think you can limit yourself you cannot reach your full potential if you have a doubt your faith. never do though i never did now at least some things in the world that i know they say of a free will but how about things that are not free will could dream is not free will now in kids born you know we have you know i'm dealing with kids that are born with diseases and all that you have free will no it's not you know i don't doubt it i go back to this that. you know we're not in the perfect world i believe heaven will be a perfect world but w

it was lushly victorian.he simplified and tore out some of the victorian so the house -- the victorian details so the house could be more modern and classic. we are in prospect garden here in princeton, new jersey. this is a garden that ellen originally designed when she was the resident from 1902 to 1910. i think here we see the full expression of ellen's aesthetic vision. she is an oil painter, very competent. she knows a lot of the american impressionistic painters of the day. she loves to paint landscapes and as a corollary to that she lays out this beautiful garden at prospect house. she plans cedar trees, roses and all kinds of flowers. in fact, she loves this garden so much, she hates to leave it when the wilsons enter politics and leave princeton. when ellen wilson is in the white house, she brings the white house gardener back here to this garden at the prospect house and says to the white house gardener, let's re-create the rose section of this garden at the white house. because ellen wilson could l

but the great gatsby has a victorian, dated quality. eming way is utterly fresh and modern.hink that's because he invented the modern way of writing. he invented the american narrative voice. his shad oh he casts a long shadow through the 20th century. >> stephen: for such a manly man. hithere isn't a lot of sex in this. we're not entirely sure. it's frederick henry and then kathryn. what's her last name. >> i forget. sorry. i didn't know -- >> stephen: if you remembered, i had remembered it would seem like one of us hadn't read the book. >> are you going to hold me -- stephen: kathryn. >> yes frederick and kagt lynn. stephen: you're not sure how kathryn gets pregnant. "50 shades of grey" sold a ton. why not more lights on, wild style? for a manly man why not sexy time. >> well, speaking as a manly man. i think, you know the time he was writing -- [laughing] >> the time he was writing it was just, he did push boundaries for what was acceptable in a work of fiction in terms of taboos. they were fairly strong. he had to edit out a lot of language. i think he used more four let

when the neighborhood was rebuilt new structures were 3 and 4 victorian flats. in the - a little cottage is my home. in the 60s or early 70s the city plant a christmas tree this is a species that does well and the tree in front of of the house has blocked the sun from my southern exposure. and has dislocated portions of the sidewalk. and the curb. at the time the tree was plant the building the city took the responsibility of sidewalk trees he since then the city has transferred it but the city restrict what the city owners do with replacement. when i acquired the how is it had a host of problems but it deciphered to be saved. therefrom i constructed a major part of the house and closed the original basement area and smallest new plumbing and windows and skylight and roared the one hundred and 50-year-old structure. i want to improve the sin light by replacing the existing tree with a smaller tree that's more proprietary to the scale of this property. with the tall structures on the south side it is the only exposure to direct sun that i have. that's a view that

she also believed in the values that she called a victorian virtues. she was a firm opponent on the welfare state and believe in self-reliance interest. she believed not and handouts, but handoffs. and she relished in her promotion even though the victorian era was seen as unfashionable as many today. margaret thatcher understood the grassroots and like ronald reagan, she was in on the metropolitan elite. many in her own party looked down at her when she was originally running for office. she was also viewed as a radical, somebody that rocked the boat, a real outsider. the reason she got along so well is the fact that both of them were outsiders from outside of the political establishment of their own parties. and she came from a humble background, the town her family worked in that shop for many years and this gave her a very good understanding of how to run a small business. and throughout her political life, she campaigned on the bread-and-butter issues that the ordinary voters really cared about, not artificially manufactured of any issues. she cam

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showing a man seen walking by four times saturday before a fire destroyed this victorian home on st. john street. firefighters say it's encouraging the arsonist has been quiet for 24 hours. >> hopefully with information out there now, neighborhood is keeping an eye open. >> many neighbors are keeping vigilant and lights on, and staying up overnight in shifts. mobile home manager says everyone is on edge. >> it's scary. scary. someone like that running around, you snow >> how are you sleep something >> i'm up at 7:00. miss lisenning to whatever is going on. >> other neighbors are keeping their lawns watered in case their properties are targeted next. >> i play for whoever do this. is lost. >> a red flag warning going into affect in the bay area, you can see how clear weather still is around here. it's pleasant and can be dangerous. let's go to sandhya patel. >> it's middle of winter. live doppler seven will talk about clear skies. it's easy and getting gusty tonight. red flag warning starts at 10:00 p.m . it runs until tomorrow morning when we're expecting strongest gusts. maybe will

made famous for its painted lady victorian homes. christie smith joins us live from the neighborhood. some well this change but others fear it might have a negative impact on tourism. >> reporter: good morning. neighbors here are already saying that they have been seeing a decline in tour buses here, though technically these restrictions start today. they say they seeing tourists walking around alamo square where we are, wanting to see exactly where the opening sequence of the sitcom "full house" was shot and famous painted ladies victorian homes that you were talking about. the signs are up this morning that read tour buss and vans seating capacity eight or more is prohibited. featured in postcards or calendars, people who live here have long complained about the noise in what they see is safety issues for people who live and walk here because of all of the buses. they're saying they can see dozens coming through on any given day. nose in san francisco's tourism industry say restrictions will of course mean lost money. neighbors say

this building built in 1888 is victorian romes k building and two devastating fires one in 1974 and another in 1980. several restorations to the building have been accomplished. in 1991, the original stone slate roof was opened with synthetic slate. it doesn't contain asbestos is now decomposing. it's surrounded the building. our proposed roof replacement will remove the existing synthetic tiles and replace with stone tiles thus restoring the building to its original context and with an exceptionally long life cycle. this project will reuse some of the pieces that are in good and serviceable condition such as the fiberglass hips and top caps and skylights will be preserved and reused. this level of ornamental structure will be restored. the internal cost estimation places the total process of this roof within the amount available in the reserve fund balance for deferred maintenance. so the staff recommendation is approval of the $608,000 and the maintenance reserve to fund propose deferred maintenance project of the arts studio roof replacement. >> is there any comment on this item? seeing

the latest blaze destroyed most of this victorian home on st. john street about 4:20 saturday morning. the elderly couple living here escaped safely. across the street, surveillance cameras on eric kupfer's house caught a man walking by four times shortly before the fire started. at least once, the man is seen holding something in his hand. >> but to come by four times is kind of suspicious, especially in the gap of the first time we see him is a little after 3:00. >> reporter: firefighters arrived on scene minutes after the man is seen on camera for the last time. the fire department used this video and other surveillance clips to come up with a sketch of a thin white or hispanic man in his 20s or 30s, 6 feet to 6'2" wearing baggy clothes of the his motive unknown. >> i don't know what makes this particular person tick. they talk about things like revenge and spite. >> reporter: arson investigators say eight fires have been intentionally set in a six-block area of san jose, all started from the outside, including this house fire on thursday on

yesterday setting a victorian home on fire with two people inside. this morning police have released a sketch of a possible suspect. firefighters are offering a big reward to catch the arsonist. abc7 news reporter lisa amin gulezian tells us worried neighbors will distribute this sketch door to door today. >> the fire ravaged this victorian home before dawn. it belonged to an elderly couple who moved in 50 years ago. they barely got out alive. >> they opened the door and tell them get out. get out. the house is on fire. >> jose helped them escape. he's learning more about what he can do as a downtown resident to protect himself from an arsonist. >> you don't know who did this? >> don is part of the 13th street neighborhood advisory committee. he's talking with his neighbors about the man investigators believe started at least eight fires. >> hopefully this person realizes folks are after them and stops doing this because it's be a excusely outrageous. >> this is video from a surveillance camera across the street. you see a man walking back and forth

victorian homes on eureka street. there has never been a problem. being neighbors we have avoided problems by being neighborly. we are not opposed to expansion. we have expanded our home the same as mr. brown wishes to do and all done with the support of everyone. this is the first time we disagree with the expansion of a home, the first ever. what we don't want to see is here are the people, we had five people on each side opposed to it. here are a listing of their names. we don't want to see the character style of our neighborhood bastardized owl of control with multiple balcony and patios. we tried to have reasonable. we have two ash arbitration to no -- a veil. i have an approached him once on the street and he ran into his house and slammed the door. we have tried everything. for example, when mr. brown went to michael and clays house and sat in the back where they sit in the back, there was a 25 footwall and he said what about the 25 footwall, mr. brown did not respond but later added that he would paint the wall white to reflect sunlight. we

the latest blaze destroyed most of this victorian home on st. john street, 4:20 saturday morning. elderly couple live hearing escaped safely. across the street, surveillance cameras on eric's house captured a man walking by four times shortly before the fire started. at least once the man is seen holding something in his hand. >> to come by four times is kind of suspicious, especially in a gap of -- first time is a little after 3:00. >> firefighters arrived on scene minutes after the man is seen on camera for the last time. the fire department used this video and other surveillance clips to come up with a sketch of a white or hispanic man, 2030, 6'0" to 6'2", wearing baggy clothes. motive unknown. >> i don't know what's making this particular person tick. they talked about things like revenge and spite. >> arson investigators say eight fires have been intentionally set in a six-block area of san jose, all started from the outside. including this house fire on thursday, on san antonio street. two residents got out safely. on wednesday, a portable unit at this baptist church, also o

we are a group of nine identical victorian homes on eureka street. there has never been a problem. being neighbors we have avoided problems by being neighborly. we are not opposed to expansion. we have expanded our home the same as mr. brown wishes to do and all done with the support of everyone. this is the first time we disagree with the expansion of a home, the first ever. what we don't want to see is here are the people, we had five people on each side opposed to it. here are a listing of their names. we don't want to see the character style of our neighborhood bastardized owl of control with multiple

they were not allowed within a few blocks of the so-called painted ladies victorian homes. they say tour buses caused problems and diminished since the muni board approved the ban in november. >>> the miracle on the hudson, the man who was on the plane talks about what has changed in the years since. >> and free speech and abortion clinic, what could change? ,,,,,,,, are you flo? yes. is this the thing you gave my husband? well, yeah, yes. the "name your price" tool. you tell us the price you want to pay, and we give you a range of options to choose from. careful, though -- that kind of power can go to your head. that explains a lot. yo, buddy! i got this. gimme one, gimme one, gimme one! the power of the "name your price" tool. digit temperatures as dozen wildfires continue to burn. many of those started aftern e lightning stor >>> firefighters in australia are fighting triple-digit temperatures. many started after an intense lightning storm in the southern part of the country. to make matters worse winds are expected to pick up considerably later in the week. several inju

movers did manage to transport the beloved 1914 victorian up the hill to what would become the lake'sth eastern shoreline. the sisters lived here injoying a fabulous lake view until fate dealt them another blow in 1984. a 6.1 earthquake hit the calaveras fault running right underneath the house. >> luckily they weren't in the house. they were on therapy daily -- they were on their daily trip to town and they never got home. the house was completely devastated. the earthquake was a bad twister. and it moved the house three to 4 feet in various portions. >> the jackson sisters never returned to their beloved house. not even to look. in fact, they refused to live any where within sight of their ravaged home. so they moved to this new house on the other side of the hill. soon after gladys died at the age of 88. ruth lived on another three years and died at 91. today their lake which used to be a ranch is the largest reservoir. providing the water that has fueled the growth of this area. so without the jackson's very reluctant help this edge of silican valley would not be what it is today.

just ahead and more silk road fallout now two men involved in victorian exchanges have been arrested and charged for money laundering authorities say they laundered one million dollars of virtual currency for the plaque market website more on that coming up and a cia whistleblower john kiriakou is calling out corruption from his prison cell in pennsylvania his latest letter accuses prison officials of violating his rights by censoring his communication with the press the details from chiappe curiosity behind bars later in the show.

the arsonist has set 13 fires since last wednesday including a church classroom on sunday and this victorian home on saturday. the owners say they lost everything but they are lucky to be alive. >> whoever did this needs to get some help before he kills somebody. it was very close. we could have died in there. >> no one has been physically hurt in any of the fires there is still pain being inflicted. parents are worried about their children. >> the fear and the mental anguish from it, a kid is marked for life. >> the sketch of the suspect is on the back of the fliers going out to people in the neighborhood. if you see this person do not approach him, call 9-1-1. also, a $10,000 reward is offered for any information leading to an arrest. >>> a discussion is taking place right now about the possibility of a new park in memory of andy lopez. the 13-year-old was shot and killed by a sonoma county sheriff deputy while holding a replica ak-47. matt keller has more on what isç expected to be an emotional day in santa rosa. >> temporary memorial for andy lopez is still up at the place in santa rosa

smallest elites so they had urban pied-a-terres and wurntiooncewe had this opportuno urbanize, acquaint victorian villages, i think that was the crucial dna mutation that said we'll have a separation of work and residence and people will begin to sort themselves out according to their ability to purchase transportation and lodging. so you know to me that was sort of when the dye was cast in a deep way. the next big set of choices that we had were in the mid 20th century when politically americans had become the first real auto-mobile nation. cars were enormous luxury at the turn of a century less than a generation later there is one car for every five americans. we can literally get everybody in a car on if road simultaneously. we made a lot of those as market choices. and european even near european comparatives like britain, france and germany won't get any close to that market penetration of cars until the 1970s. these choices were more important than the individual market choices. we chose to put into place public policies that basically prixgd through housing -- prixgd througprivileged, sing