go church and come out and go to westportal and get a ticket. i think that is morally wrong and gouging and gouging and eventually it's just bad pr and for the generating 2.5 million dollars on this budget it's senseless and it's just more government putting the throats -- putting the boots on the throat of the average day citizen. >> all right. thank you sir. mr. yee. >> so let's face it. let's not make our parking meters the atm for the city. i mean we really need to support the notion that we don't want meters to operate on sunday, especially in our district, district seven. the business corridors need access to customers and when you charge on sundays and parking meters the same people shopping and at restaurants they're going to go somewhere else. they're going to go to stonestown and the malls and if you believe in the small businesses in the community then we need to support the notion that we're not going to allow for parking meters to operate on sunday. >> okay. thank you mr. yee. mr. bye. >> i completely oppose sunday and late night me

westportal strupt goes up in flames sadly. along with livelihood of the workers. >> get ready for a major warm-up in the bay year. starts this weekend. i have details in my accu-weather forecast coming up. >> bitter sweet day in baseball. a clean out the lockers while the giants get ready to take on the next play ready to take on the next play off opponent. s >> thankfully by some miracle mother and 4 young children escape serous giraffe the family home was just obliterated by a natural gas explosion this morning in colorado. look at this. how were they not killed? badly hurt. incredible. 2 teenagers who live nearby race to the thousands help the family get out. it was felt for miles as you can immanuel. damaged 2 other homes and left the third condemned. at least 20 people had to be evacuated. cause is under investigation but neighbors say they smelled gas shortly before the explosion. that is unbelieve afternoon. utter destruction. >>> well in san francisco the cleanup and investigation are under way after a massive fire des

for westportal avenue and request for conditional use authorization. there is a request for continuous from the project sponsor to november 29. staff supports this and it's my understanding that the neighborhood organization that was in support of this also supports the continuous. >> okay. public comment on this item? seeing none is there a motion to continue? commissioner antonini. >> moved to continue item 13 to november 29. >> commissioners the motion on the floor is for continuous of item 13 on westportal avenue on november 29. to that motion. commissioner. >> aye. >> commissioner. >> aye. >> commissioner. >> aye. >> commissioner. >> aye. >> thank you commissioners. the item is continued to november 29. commissioners, you are now on item 14, for 1327 polk street, request for conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon president fong and commissioners. i am rick crawford and before i comment i would like to thank linda avery for her many years of service to the planning commission. thank you. >> thank you. >> this is for the existing bar, the

people want to come to this part of town for the small town experience that we have and shopping in westportal or walking around getting lunch at ocean or some place like that, but it's also speaks to something i mentioned earlier. it's another way that city hall is butting heading with residents and businesses. when residents feel threatened by the government they don't trust the government and we need less of the head butting and yes the city needs money but we can't do it on the backs of small business and the threats to residents and i completely oppose the meters on sundays and late nights. >> mr. crowley. >> in district seven i think it's necessary to dismiss this idea all together and let's not forget the holidays and they hit them as well. a one size approach doesn't fit this and i suggest the parking lots at the ball field and we do dynamic pricing and that is one solution that is dense and know they're going to pay for parking and looking for solutions to fit their car in for free. only in areas where there is the retail wrap that should happen but in district seven it's a disincenti

with that said the first item 13 for westportal avenue. there is a proposal to continue this item to avenue 29, 2012. it's my understanding that -- the project sponsor made the request but the neighborhood organization that is in support of the project is in support of that and staff is in support. next for 1865 post street and continuous to december 6, 2012. and item number 18 for 1856 pacific avenue proposed for continuous to december 6, 2012. commissioners, with that i am not aware -- we might have a short hearing -- that any other item on the calendar is proposed for continuous. >> thank you. is there any public comment on the items proposed are for continuous and the two items on the consent calendar proposed for continuous. >> just a moment sir. >> go ahead sir. >> we have a comment on the last one. >> sir, the commission is not going to take action on that. that was just an information to let them know it's coming up. >>i am here on the subject of continuous . this was a last moment proposed moved to december 6. our firm has a trial

just up westport has been damaged but no injuries.ey're having a difficult time because of the location being on the corner spreading up to the attic crudes are having a difficult time putting the fire out. some of the buildings are residential. you can see windows which are actually homes and apartments. everyone was able to get out safely. this is going to impact your morning even if you do not live here in the west portal. you can see the muni station completely shut down at this point. you can see why firefighters, water lines are in the way. the train pulled over and let off 75 to 100 people. >> show me the ropes again with the water pouring out it looks like you have all the firefighters standing on the ground and they're >> exactly their work a couple of screws right before where i am showing you what they were working to get the planes to put out in the front that has dissipated. that part looks under control now the cruise on the latter are looking to put the rest of the fire out there are about two to three ladders the dumpi

. >>> a man who lost his business on westportal avenue also lost some precious giants memorabilia.r. fred warren was happy nobody got hurt but he was so disappointed when he saw his prized tim lincecum jersey was badly ruined in the fire. it was given to him by his staff when the team won the world series. after hearing of his misfortunes, the giants said they will replace the lincecum jersey. >> kind of a little giants room in the tv room so we may end up putting the burnt jersey up there temporarily until we get the office back together. but that's really nice of the giants. that's great. >>> dr. fred said he will find a temporary spot for his practice and plans to rebuild his office. guess what in lincecum on the mound today. so kind of like phoenix rising out of the ashes. you have to think it's all good karma. >> and she survived a life-threatening disease and wrote a song about it. ♪ i want to know >> now she's a youtube hit. next a ten-year old bay area singing sensation tells her remarkable story to abc7 news. >> i want to hear more of that. she do you understand great. >>

-- although the distinction sometimes is rather vague because we went through the same thing at westportal and the proprietor suffered a fire and not in business anymore but we went through conditions in that case had real specifications and you will only have so many chairs and strict conditions. i don't remember in 2005 -- there could be 20 people have a wine tasting at the same time under the approval of 2005. i can't recall a specific limitation on the tasting going on, but with that being said there is a lot of local support for it. there are some people speaking against it again and there are a couple neighborhood groups just recently come out against it. they may not have been in support at any time but recently we're hearing they're opposing it, but you always have to make a distinction between the neighborhood groups and do a lot of good things and focus our attention on things but they don't represent all the people in the neighborhood and sound like there are a lot of merchants and residents that are in favor of this, and the other thing i like -- i too am familiar with the area

we are and someone that likes to play live music and part of my campaign and come see me play in westportal and we need to make sure tourism is robust and we talked about tourists issues like homelessness and clean streets. >> all right thank you. mr. crowley. >> and i also support the expansion of mus sonny center. >> he's stealing my thunder. i have been part of the tourist motion picture convention for years and responsible for millions of dollars of wages while i have been there. i know this subject inside and out. we are going upon the pres pus for prebuilding monsonny center and we can expand and by bringing people and tourist into the city that spend billions over the years and to go for treasure island and hunter's point and going forward. we have a project at pier 70 and moving well and it's robust and moving forward and i would move to say by building these place we put good, hard working blue collar wages together with white wages and we are doing better than we have before. >> thank you sir. >> has anyone been to the ice cream bar there? it's a neat idea. it's hip. it's for adul

. >> host: lois in westport, connecticut. hi. >> caller: hi there. i understand that the obama administration had to -- [inaudible] money in china to build windmills, and i wonder why the windmills couldn't be butter here, and i'm not so sure they're practical right now -- [inaudible] and another quick question. what did you think of fracking? >> guest: that's a great question. [laughter] that's not a quick question. but on green is about 4% of our electricity now. it's actually grown quite rapidly. it doesn't have the problem, it depends on the wind blowing, so it needs to be back up up with emergency resources. flsh. .. >> the gas produced that way is about 40% of our total supply. it is important to our economy. i was on a commission last year that president obama had set up, which tried to address a roadmap to dealing with the environmental questions. >> i would like to ask you both a question. breaking a political term, is that a political term or a technical term? >> is a derivative of the technical term, but it has become part of the popular j

the squat and gobble restaurant on westport tall caught fire this morning deep into the interior of the building. and as a result there was a partial roof collapse. firefighters say that fire spread to the wine shop and a dental office as well. so crews had to bring in so much heavy equipment that the muni trains couldn't pass through the west portal station for some five hours. >> i'm supposed to be lecturing right now at san francisco state. obviously i'm not there. >> it's really inconvenient. and as much as i feel bad about what is going on, i do have to get to work. >> now muni did set up bus bridges to get around the tunnel, and three firefighters were hurt, including one who suffered from smoke inhalation. >>> an autopsy is being performed on a popular union city high school teacher to figure out how he died. the body of 54-year-old christopher ryan was found late yesterday at the bottom of a ravine near crystal springs reservoir. he had taught english and social science at james logan high school since 1994. a redwood city resident reported him missing on tuesday. his car was fo

you come into the city, can you go church and come out and go to westportal and get a ticket. i think that is morally wrong and gouging and gouging and eventually it's just bad pr and for the generating 2.5 million dollars on this budget

. >> caller: westport innovations. >> i think it's okay. i like the concept. let's hear what charter industries have to say next week and then we can make a better judgment. that, ladies and gentlemen, is the conclusion of the lightning round. >> the lightning round is sponsored by td ameritrade. >>> if missing earnings were an art form, this dupont quarter would be a picasso. cutting the numbers was a sporting event, dupont's won the world series and the super bowl. and if it was an olympic contest, i would be giving this a high fly belly flop. dupont's teflon business, it was awful. >> that sound. >> hey, cramer, in august i purchased cumin, and since then it has taken a nose dive. should i put it in neutral and coast in to a long position? >> why don't you put your hands on my -- >> oh. >> that's bruce. >> you know i have been a fan of p & g forever. i love this with cheese, and these i eat alone. oven baked italian toast. i have these every morning. big ones in it, smaller ones, okay, listen, i've had too much to eat, go for the smaller. loved these, my la

the fire broke out before 5:00 in a back part of squat and gobble, a well-known restaurant along westportal avenue. more than 100 firefighters battled the blaze, and it wasn't until about 3:00 this afternoon that the fire was declared out. >> it's a very deep building, the first building that they were in. the fire was hard to find, and difficult to find, and they put out what they saw. unfortunately, i think it was far away, ahead of us before we got here. >> reporter: the fire also destroyed the newly renovated vin debut wine bar. >> it's overwhelming. i got to go upstairs. it's pretty inbelievable. >> reporter: three firefighters were injured. damage is estimated at more than $3 million. squat and gobble has been here for 10 years and is almost always crowded morning, noon, and night. the owner is out of the country. we spoke with his son. >> devastating. when i got the phone call, i'm not gonna lie. a few tears came down my face. >> i don't know what i'm going to do. there is nothing quite like it on west portal. >> reporter: firefighters say they'll be out here through the night in cas

i'm interested in wprt, westport innovations. six months ago and have seen it go from approximately $18 to $50, back down to the high 20s or so. >> speculative situation. recommended today by a major firm. this is a company that makes natural gas engines for trucks and railroads. i believe in the company. but it's highly speculative. let's go to dino in florida. >> caller: this is dino from florida. >> what's shaking? let's go to work? >> caller: i've been watching your show for a long time and made a lot of money because of you. cisco was $17. if it goes to $19, pull the plug? >> two firms said this week the business is very strong. i think the stock can go to $21 and not have a valuation stretch. let's go to mike in pennsylvania. mike? >> caller: yes. >> you're up. >> caller: mike from philadelphia. >> huh? >> caller: i'm from drexel hill. >> you are? >> caller: i was just worried about dis? >> disney remains a buy. taking one more. mark in illinois. mark? >> caller: jim. >> go ahead, mark. >> caller: i was wondering about stil

including westport where abc's john schifrin j joins us w with more. >> reporter: good evening. the good news is that high tide passed and water levels have gone back down into the ocean, you can see it's stillll chued by sandy.. now, earlier toda we saw storm gusts, winds up to 85 miles per hour, just a few hours ago this area was c completely flooded b six-x-foot stormurge that came crashing down over the ocean. now, to give you an idea how powerful this storm was, where we're anding right now used t to be a completely clear road. it is now covered by inch wes o sand and huge 20-pound rocksatw ocean. now, a lot of the residents here decided to evacuate here on the beachfront but if you look off in the distance, some blocks, and decided to stay and in this hour they have the power on right now. sin th >> thanks to john schifrin. >>> midwest braces for sandy's impact and bill weir comes to us from a wind-whipped lake erie. [ male announcer ] this is the age of knowing what you're made of. why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. ask if your

and in westport, connecticut, 80% of that town is without power.o we are just starting to get some sense of what the full impact of this storm is. we've been talking a lot about new york, the water level at battery park city reached about 13 1/2 feet. that is a record high. those waters are receding now and high tide has passed. wnbc reports that the city's 911 system has been overloaded due to numerous nonemergency calls with calls for water rescue as well. christine quinn is the speaker of new york city council. she joins me now. it's good to talk to you. good morning. good evening. >> thank you. >> give us the latest, first of all, on the situation with power. everybody about beneath 39th street has no electricity? >> correct. everyone in manhattan just about south of let's say 40th street, give or take, has no power. part of that is subsystems down, flooding, we have a system so that you don't lose power, you lose the machinery and the flooding has caused a fire at one of our coned stations on 14th street that created more of an outage beyond t

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post office, from now on we're using truck that use westport engines. >> if we were to see an obama reelection this go off the table? are you just looking at green energy? or do you focus on some of these natural gas plays. >> hillary clinton gave a fantastic, under-noticed speech in georgetown last week. she's talking about the notion that the democrats have to start thinking were independent energy. but, again, they immediately took solar as part of it. it is much more difficult to make a coal thesis. they're not adverse to natural gas. and i think if you read the sub text of secretary clinton's speech, you could see natural gas be a winner, but never coal. >> we all know romney wants to be aggressive opn a number of nw ships. . >> very big downgrade last week just on valuation basis. general dynamics is cheaper. these are not like ronald reagan where he had a huge run to build 600 ships. we don't have the money to build 600 ships. that's putting the epa on target saying listen, please, let people drill all over the place -- if you want to -- and why i think in the end defense budget is goin

we're being told this fire is at the squat and gobble restaurant in westportal and that happens to be right across the street from the west portal muni station where the k, l and m lines are all passing through there. we checked with muni and trains at that station are not being affected. that's what they are telling us. we do have a crew on the way to that scene. christie smith will be there to give us updates on this. a big-time fire and we'll keep you posted. >>> also new this morning, san jose firefighters are on the scene of a house fire that sent two people to the hospital. the two-alarm fire broke out at a home on carlton avenue just before 4:00 this morning. this is near union avenue and close to los gatos memorial park. bob redell is live at the scene with the very latest. bob, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, marla. a relative tells us that smoke awoke the married couple who lives in what used to be this home here on carlton avenue a little bit before 4:00 this morning. they escaped the house yelling "fire, fire." this fire appears to have started in the kitch

sparks flew from downed power lis in westport,s massachusetts. in maryland, a power outage at a water treatment plant sent millions of gallons of storm water and sewage flowing into a river in howard county. still, governor martin o'malley said it was a pleasant surprise the state didn't have worse damage. >> i'm feeling a lot better night.han i was last before this storm made land fall. i mean it' clear that we were fortunate to have been on the weaker side of this storm. >> woodruff: in washington d.c.i federal government offices and public schools were closed for a second day. public transit was shut down s through the morning but reopened in the early afternoon. and downed trees and branches littered grounds near the u.s. capitol d across the national mall. president obama visited the red cross national headquarters and warned those still in the storm's path to remain vigilant. >> this storm is not yet over. we've gotten brief gs from the national hurricane center. it is stillgs moving north. there are still communities that could be affected