width. or depth. president goh: adjacent to these neighbors. commissioner fung: we will bring that up later. >> it is to grant this appeal -- it is to uphold the permit on condition that a six-foot high screen you cannot see through be added to the deck with adjacent to the appellant's property, just that. president goh: just that side. >> the deck with the adjacent to appellant-- width adjacent to appellant's property. vice president garcia: could we have translation on the next agenda? it seems to come up every once in awhile. sorry. president goh: could you read that again? >> the motion is from commissioner fung up hold the permit on condition that a six- foot high screen you cannot see through be added to the deck width adjacent to the appellant's property. commissioner peterson: minimum 6 feet is what he said. minimum 6 feet. maximum of 6 feet? we are hearing from the department it cannot be more than 6 feet. >> my sense is both departments would appreciate some clarity on the maximum so it is not an open-ended condition. >> just 6 feet?

about 24 feet, 9 inches in width. a conforming city street is about 40 feet in width, so it is a little bit narrower, and emergency vehicles when likely not use this narrow street, because if there was another large vehicle coming in the opposite direction, you would not be able to get past one another. that is part of the conversation we will have with the community. president vietor: ok, great, so that will help to inform the situation going forward. if that happens, that will be great. any other questions or comments? thank you. yes, please. et can you come up? -- can you come up? yes, there was a letter that was a public record letter that was submitted from one of the neighbors, saying that they do not want it closed. it feels like a part of the neighborhood, so, hence, the community meeting to get more input from some of the leaders. >> next up, lake merced, and we went to report the status on that. as you know, we wanted to have an mou, and it is on the agenda today, and there is a report. >> the general manage

just its width, its breadth. >> it does stretch quite a bit. at its, i think peak, when it was spinning out so far, it was over 700 miles in its overall width. what we're seeing now is the bottom edge as we talked about, alex, how they're getting the second lashing yesterday. there's a lot of dry air that filtered into the bottom edge of the storm. so it looks like some of the heaviest rainfall that you would typically see on the back edge, we may be spared interest that. which could help places like new york city, which definitely prepared for the worst and hoping obviously for the best at this point. we have hurricane warnings up into the cape. i want to get up into the radar and we still have a tornado watch over connecticut. also portions of long island at this point. no taurnornado warnings at the current moment. wind speeds, gusting from 30 to 60 miles per hour. new york city we have 40-mile-per-hour wind gusts on block island. and in philadelphia, gusting in the 30s. so for new york city, what to expect. from that eight to 10:00 a.m. per

dakota, south dakota, wyoming, colorado, washington and oregon all have seven degrees of width. washington and oregon, you know, give or take because of the coast. others come close to seven degrees of width. so we have this prototype of jefferson that emerge. so we go from jefferson to robert lucas to samuel vinton to steven douglas, and jefferson returns to the american map. well, here he is again. when you leave here today, you will know why stephen douglas was famous before he debated a one-term congressman who lost the election and two years later ran for president. um, the other piece of legislation that dealt with slavery that stephen a. douglas was a great participant in was the compromise of 1850. that was a package of five bills, and he was involved in two of them in particular, but the one i want to talk about is texas. texas went it entered the union, it had been a republic and was much larger than the texas we have today. it continued further north all the way to wyoming tapering it as it went. it relinquished all of its land north of 36 degrees, 30 minutes because

it can smell within 40 centimeters in width. once finished with the first row, the rope is then shifted over another 40 centimeters. the dog continues the same process row after row until it finds the mine. the final training takes about four months. atha must then face the final exam to determine if she has what it takes to be a mine-detection dog. land mines are buried 30 centimeters deep. atha has been trained to sit once she detects the scent of explosives. >> good! yeah! atha, yeah, good! >> praising her immediately is essential. atha is a breed called malinois which have a very sensitive nose. but she makes mistakes occasionally so daily training is indispensable. before being assigned here atha underwent a year of explosives training in detection. 3-month-old puppies are first trained to recognize the scent of a plastic toy called a kong through play. next, they are trained to sniff out pieces of the toy which have been scented with explosives. the pups try to detect the toy while playing. by repeating this process, they

because of the narrow width of it. something of a bottle neck. not a huge people-mover. there was a gentleman who spoke earlier regarding the aquatic park restrooms which he knew at the old local high school. when i was swimming on the team at the old high school is when i did a lot of swimming in the aquatic park. the restrooms were a disaster then. that and those of you who took notes that i mentioned the nepa process, because that is a federal facility, a national maritime museum, that is where you should address your remarks. >> i don't want people to take my comment wrong. i think the commission is truly interested in the progress of the america's cup and will try to insert itself wherever we can and however we can. i think that if there are concerns among you and you may not be getting responses that you would like i think that you can certainly contact any one of us or the director. we are genuinely interested in working with the others. >> yeah. that is correct. >> thank you. one advantage we have here is the lead time to be able to prepare to do as much as we ca

their home is equipped with a width tub. but the tsunami demolished it. it will cost a lot to get the home livable again. >> translator: the water came up to there. the second floor was completely flooded. >> reporter: the family spent nearly two months in a shelter in a local school. her parents also worried her condition would bother other evacuees. the family now lives at her mother's house. isa had access to temporary housing. because of her daughter's condition, she found it inconvenient. so she opted to use a government grant for two year's worth of rent to lease a house on her own. >> translator: we have no prospect of finding a livable temporary home, so we have decided to rent an ordinary house. but the place we found isn't to suit the needs of someone in a wheelchair. >> reporter: the ise family has faced several challenges since the disaster. rea nita found life difficult after moving into temporary housing with her daughter. the tsunami destroyed their home which was built just five years ago. the family waited more than four months before the

their home is equipped with a width tub. but the tsunami demolished it. it will cost a lot to get the home livable again. >> translator: the water came up to there. the second floor was completely flooded. >> reporter: the family spent nearly two months in a shelter in a local school. her parents also worried her condition would bother other evacuees. the family now lives at her mother's house. isa had access to temporary housing. because of her daughter's condition, she found it inconvenient. so she opted to use a government grant for two year's worth of rent to lease a house on her own. >> translator: we have no prospect of finding a livable temporary home, so we have decided to rent an ordinary house. but the place we found isn't to suit the needs of someone in a wheelchair. >> reporter: the ise family has faced several challenges since the disaster. rea nita found life difficult after moving into temporary housing with her daughter. the tsunami destroyed their home which was built just five years ago. the family waited more than four months before the

cuts, but no, they say we should spend money right now and we should cut when we have economic band width to make those cuts. >> quickly, erin, predictions for the markets? >> well, it is tough. overnight we are seeing the markets in australia open and not gains there, and weakness there we are seeing because of the weak u.s. manufacturing data, and so we will see what will happen tomorrow, an obviously, everyone is expecting the senate to be a rubber stamp continue this cloud of uncertainty having a chilling effect on the economy. that is something that the president was determined to have, and we now have a deal if in fact it is passed be i the senate and signed by the president that will last until 2013. that is certainty that is important. >> and you think that when the american people voted for barack obama in such huge numbers and then when he promised change, they felt they were having to be eating satan sandwiches and doing deals with the devil? i mean, it is not quite what we hoped for, was it? >> well, it is a messy process and the president said it last night, but in the end, t

the same width as the entire state of arizona.t's a massive hurricanene thats quickly intensifying into what forecasters are calling an extreme storm. already a category 3 with sustained winds of 120 miles per hour and carrying with it up to a foot of rain. irene is expected to strengthen further to a category 4 as it bears down on the mid-atlantic coast of the united states and threatens the major metropolitan areas from new york city, all the way to boston, with torrential rain and dangerous winds. >> this is a largege powowful hurricane. currently category 3. but it's expected to strengthen to category 4 here. that's just a very large system. going to have a wide-scale impact on the east coast of the united states. >> reporter: irene is currently tearing through the bahamas. the storm surge is expected to be as high as 10 feet. but it's not only churning up the surf, rain is coming down in buckets. and howling winds only expected to intensify. some tourists were forced to evacuate. what did they say about how dangerous it would

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cuts, but no, they say we should spend money right now and we should cut when we have economic band widthke those cuts. >> quickly, erin, predictions for the markets? >> well, it is tough. overnight we are seeing the markets in australia open and not gains there, and weakness there we are seeing because of the weak u.s. manufacturing data, and so we will see what will happen tomorrow, an obviously, everyone is expecting the senate to be a rubber stamp as you and wolf were indicating. >> and wolf, quickly from you, has speaker boehner's position been weakened here by the tea party, and could his position be in jeopardy? >> i don't think in jeopardy, but weakened a little bit. he merged victorious and he got the deal through and a lot more than the majority of the republican caucus through, so he is coming out okay on this, and mitch mcconnell the republican leader in the senate was behind the scenes very instrumental in putting the deal together, and for those who wanted to avoid a default, he has to emerge as one of the unsung heroes of the last minute deal if you like the deal to begin w

. >> reporter: irene's powerful winds stretch out over 400 miles, the same width as the entire state of arizona. more than 65 million people live along the path irene may take up the east coast. tourists on ocracoke island, north carolina, have been told to evacuate. federal officials warn this storm could flood streets and knock out power as north as new england. >> we know this hurricane's coming our way. we just don't know where it's going to hit or how bad it can get. >> reporter: if irene makes landfall in the northeast, it could be the biggest hurricane since bob came ashore in new england in 1991. bob was a category 2, killing 18 people and costing $2.3 billion. once irene passes over the bahamas, the warm 85 degree waters will only continue to fuel this increasingly dangerous storm. george? >> okay, linsey, thank you. let's get more on this from our weather editor sam champion. and sam, i've been watching you track this since early this morning. you seem to be getting more concerned by the hour. >> reporter: it's true. by the hour for me. because the last three model runs hav

this nearby brook tripled its width. rising water forced some to leave their homes with little warning. >> they came pounding on our door about 10:30 and said we need to get out. the river was cresting going over the banks. as soon as we looked out it was mayhem down the street. >> some needed help to escape from bought logged homes. >> as you can see the storm beat us. >> the affects of irene are being blamed for more than 20 deaths in eight states. millions are without power. cost of the damage has yet to be calculated. >> i want people to understand that this is not over. response and recovery efforts will be an ongoing operation, the impacts of this storm will be felt for some time. the recovery effort will last for weeks or longer. >> fema officials say they are ready to help those impacted by irene. >> let's check in with mike with accu-weather forecast. >>> good morning to you on this monday morning. storm track, area of low pressure pulling away, look what is spilling in its wake. dry air, what you see with the o