public works code allows to slope 25 percent of the sidewalk width. in this case we have -- >> the sidewalk is not a good wide tth to begin with. >> correct. >> this is 80 percent. >> typically under current conditions, under this existing width with a curb cut, and we may not even allow them to have an encroachment because you have to maintain the 4 foot unobstructed path of travel. if you construct a curb cut and a 2 foot encroachment here that leaves 3 feet of level sidewalk ask that is not allowed. >> you have the tree in the middle of the path of travel. >> that would be where the curb cut would be off the street. >> curb cut is a driveway. >> that's a curb cut. where you see they cut the curb down. >> standard to the everyday driveway. 7 feet with 18 inches on both sides that's the width, 3 feet in. come up from the asphalt up to 5 inches and its 3 foot 10 inches. >> 18 inches is the sloping. >> no the sides where it wings up. the wing is that little portion there. and you can park in that wing unless you pay the city a fee and the city will pai

. >> the angle and width.elieve that's all covered in the handout. >> typically san francisco fire escapes and we will see, had angles of somewhere between 60 and 72-degree ladders. i can't from this angle tell what that is. the state has made it clean that 60 degrees is what they consider to be the maximum safe angle. most of the existing ones are steeper, up to 72 degrees. and these hand rails and they step down on to a landing and you walk around and go down. at the bottom, this is the way to get to the ground. this is great. this has something called a counter balance ladder. it means that as you walk down to the bottom of the fire escape, there's a ladder sticking out horizontally. it will go down because there's a weight. >> it doesn't go all at once. >> so counter balance ladders are what the code currently require. but as we walk around, you will see many of them don't have counter balance ladders, they have drop ladders and accordians and all that. this is an excellent type of ladder. you can see from

. >> how is the width of the stairs, the fire escape? >> okay. we've got a question. how do we determine the width with of the fire escape stairs >> i think it's 18 inches >> ladders shall not be let's than 18 inches >> if someone was applying for a permit. we would like at the occupant load and how many people are going to have to use this, and the building code has a table for calculating. i think we would look at home people would using it. >> every fire escape balcony 18 inches. >> i wanted to talk to the about the stand pipe. >> tell us what we got here. >> this is a dry stamp pipe. typically, the fire engine would stop here and hook up here. so on any floor, whichever floor, we can have water. like i say, this is even better than going to the building. our guy does a good job and makes sure the balcony is stable. it's so much nicer to be outside. you yell at the guy. we need more water and pressure. in my eyes, it's a better system. this one here is dry. some of them are wet. >> what's the difference between wet and dry? >> wet would be connected to the water sy

. >> the angle and width.elieve that's all covered in the handout. >> typically san francisco fire escapes and we will see, had angles of somewhere between 60 and 72-degree ladders. i can't from this angle tell what that is. the state has made it clean that 60 degrees is what they consider to be the maximum safe angle. most of the existing ones are steeper, up to 72 degrees. and these hand rails and they step down on to a landing and you walk around and go down. at the bottom, this is the way to get to the ground. this is great. this has

amending ordinance 1061 to change the official sidewalk width of mason street. >> their afternoon. --good afternoon. in this case, it is a proposed widening of the sidewalk at the southeast corner of mason street at the intersection of mason street and washington street. this is part of the work that is being done currently at the chinatown recreational center that is under construction. the design team doing the review process determined it would be appropriate to widen the sidewalk in to the southeast corner to reduce the crossing distance on mason st. to provide better pedestrian safety or the proposed center. the department has reviewed it. it went through the planning department and city agencies have determined it is satisfied. >> looks like it is across the street from the cable car museum. i am looking at the google maps. it looks to be a street on a hilly area but is a narrow street. is that the major -- >> this is on mason st. on the opposite corner of the rec center. you cannot put anything in front of the rec center because that is where the cable car turns. you could not

it's narrow, stretching just over 30 kilometers in width. it serves as main artery for crude oil transports. one-third of the world's oil tankers pass through the strait. iran's navy conducted massive military drills near the strait late last year through early this year. during the period, it test fired new types of missiles. the country plans to carry out another round of exercises in the same area next month involving its elite revolutionary guards. all this is taken to mean iran is threatening to close the strait of hormuz if western nations seek to block crude oil exports from iran. >> translator: it's easier for our navy to close the strait of hormuz than to drink a glass of water. >> reporter: in response, the u.s. navy's fifth fleet said it would launch a counterattack if freedom of navigation in the strait is threatened. the fleet is in bahrain, across the persian gulf of tehran. last week the u.s. navy deployed two nuclear powered aircraft carriers near the strait in an apparent bid to keep iran in check. iran continues its nuclear

the issue of minimum pedestrian sidewalk with -- width, these two sidewalks are relatively new. if you look at the tree wells and the furnishings on the sidewalks, people are not going to line up in between those zero. they're going to line up as they want. they're going to aggregate, people are going to be talking. i do not see that being maintained. we have a clear example that, and certain other parts of our city, where the sidewalk tables came through, there are certain parts of our city where a wheelchair could not get through. by the time they add the space heaters, all kinds of other things for the comfort of their customers, it does not work. secondly, the question of -- the question that has been addressed by many people talking about the vitality not of the neighborhood, but of the streetscape, more people usually correlate to greater vitality. people standing in line waiting does not necessarily correlate. my opinion is that, the question is the department, their staff, and their decision making process state this but do not provide any information that led to that pa

and when you do set it up, remember your viewing distance should be at least twice the width of the tv. >> the thing is you don't want to sit too close to a tv. if you do, you'll see the individual pixels or picture elements. >> reporter: "consumer reports" just completed testing on big screens for reasons that should be obvious. >> truth is sports is just a great show case for tv technology. >> reporter: if ever there's a show case in sports, it's the super bowl. chris clackum, nbc news. >>> in health news this morning, there's a new way to increase the number of parkinson's disease patients for recruiting to test new drugs. people don't know how to sign up. actor michael j. fox's foundation has created an online tool to match study volunteers with research trial coordinators. for other information on this and other health stories, check out the health page at msnbc. m msnbc.com. >>> the nhl all-stars on the ice, a long marathon on the tennis court in australia and shaun white shakes off a big injury for a big win. >>> and brandon marshall stands out at the nfl pro bowl in hawaii. you

. -- width.h change to the sidewalk required by the board of supervisors, including widening, this was established in an ordinance 1061. that was approved on may 11, 1910, and no changes have been made since that date. the action today is having the board authorized the change as to how sidewalk is approved. it would authorize the department of public works to approve these changes. these would be limited to a sidewalk ball bounce, corner bulbs, and widening projects for those that are limited to one block in length. anything larger than that would be reviewed under the existing process, which requires review by planning departments, staff, and staff of other city departments. again, other changes to sidewalks would not be affected by the ordinance before you today. the process would be that the department of public works would submit this material to planning and other departments, which would respond to the proposal, provide a recommendation. if the department was able to provide a general fund

the mta, have a state-of-the-art communications -- that you are all looking forward to a broadband width that helps facilitate and eliminate a lot of the accidents that have taken place in the past. you commissioners should know, part of the system has some sound communications. part of the system is still manually operated in the year 2012. the maintenance facility came on board some three years ago. if you commissioners know about it. three years later, this $15 million that was supposed to address the technology, to bring everything on power. i just want to wish mta -- because i know one thing that is good about the mta today is we have a good director in ed reiskin. i hope that he takes us to a better place with this $15 million. thank you very much. commissioner campos: is there any other member of the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk. roll-call. >> [roll call] the item passes. commissioner campos: thank you. unless there is an objection, i would like to call item eight, out of order. >> item 8. reprogram $4.846 million

it's narrow, stretching just over 30 kilometers in width. it serves as a main artery for crude oil transports. one-third of the world's oil tankers pass through the strait. iran's navy conducted massive military drills near the strait late last year through early this year. during the period, it test fired new types of missiles. the country plans to carry out another round of exercises in the same area next month involving its elite revolutionary guards. all this is taken to mean iran is threatening to close the strait of hormuz if western nations seek to block crude oil exports from iran. >> translator: it's easier for our navy to close the strait of hormuz than to drink a glass of water. >> reporter: in response, the u.s. navy's 5th fleet said it would launch a counter-attack if freedom of navigation in the strait is threatened. the fleet is based in bahrain, which lies across the persian gulf from iran. last week, the u.s. navy deployed two nuclear power aircraft carriers near the strait in an apparent bid to keep iran in check. iran cont

to begin, feet shoulder-width apart. bend the knees. sword extended just so we cross. all right. now you're gonna step forward with your left leg. i'm gonna step back with my right. now take your sword out behind you and swing for my shoulder. step. and step at the same time. >> and step? >> yep. [ swords clang ] good. try to hit the edge. it sounds a little better. good. now you're gonna take it up my sword, take it to your other side, and come here. and step. [ swords clang ] aha! again. >> okay? >> do it again. and now swing. step. [ swords clanging ] >> [ laughing ] whoa! >> good job. you did well. >> thank you. >> so, now you've learned the basics of sword fighting. if you ever do get in a sword fight, you have some skills to use to defend yourself. >> thank you. >> congratulations. good job. >> coming up, we'll get up close and personal with the knights' weapons of war. [ swords clank ] >> we're back at medieval times, where juan is giving me a behind-the-scenes tour. this is the armory for the show. everything is modeled after weapons that were really used during the middl

we play aggressively in width will not apologize for that. >>gary: >>gary: i have been watching new-line espn. you were yelling and pointing. >> i have 30-60 seconds a week to talk about football. if i am pointing and yelling, call me. that is not my style. broadcasting is an art. i am just the sidekick. >>gary: d.c. any similarities back to the last super bowl winner when you were the quarterback? >> we were in offensive juggernaut. this is not the team yet although i do believe they have the potential. the best defense in the league. they have not been tested by tom brady, aaron routers or drew breeze, but i'm going to stick with the 49ers. you have to keep them under 24 points. if you could keep them under 24 points, i do like the 49ers chances. >> i enjoyed watching it drew a breeze play. he has all of the subtleties. he can figure out a way to pull it back. he is someone that can stay aggressive. john payton can call combinations of plays, i can tell you, our defense have not seen the likes of this but i still think they are up to the te

the mavs lead fisher width open. it's a really bad idea.ll net the lakers spoil otum return with a 73 to 70 victory. 49ers had the shocking performance on saturday night this was no. 2. dan ashley. taking to the ice and charity fundraiser in walnut creek. look at the move. flawlessly. maneuvering with his partner paulett who used to work here at abc 7. if you think this is good. how about dan channeling at abc 7. if you think this is good. how about dan channeling the inner boitano and bono pi love that move. dan took up the skates grabbed the mike performed lead sing we are band bush. rumor has it dan also training for circus d'soleil. >> i believe it. >> doesn't have enough things going on in his life. that is your sports report. >> that's awesome. >> incredibly talented is a. >> noychlt i can't wait to see you in the new circus d'soleil. >> i'll start sceching. >> good night for charity. that's our report. >> good night for charity. that's our report. >> thanks for joining us [ female announcer ] they've been off limits to dieters since

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your viewing distance should be at least twice the width of the tv. >> the don't want to sit too close to the tv-- you do not want to sit too close to the tv. sports is a great showcase for tv technology. >> chris clackum, wbal-tv 11 news. >> your new car could be subject to a hack attack. jane king has the bloomberg business report. good morning. >> good morning. europe is back in focus on wall street. this time european finance ministers gathering to put the finishing touches on a treaty to stem the debt crisis. they are also looking at a second bailout for greece. friday was a down day for the dow and the s&p. shares of big financial f irms in baltimore were plunging . a drop of more than 50%. t. rowe price -- the stock markets were on the decline. t. rowe price has posted a profit in every quarter since 1986. trying to reduce spam e-mail. a group is being launched to promote a standard set of technology to make your e-mail and more secure. your car may not be as secure as you might think. ford is among automakers working on at engineering standards aimed at cyber security. to open

it is thinner than the width of a dime and it has a nine-hour battery life.gory. this doesn't a price yet, probably between $899 and $1200. >> is this just industry only? >> industry only. it's a bellwether for the company. we're hoping we see a bump. >> you were saying last year or the year before, it was a ghost -- >> right when the economy tanked it was a ghost town here at ces. what i see is not just the outrageously expensive l.e.d., $8,000, prices will come down. we're seeing in light with that economy point, practical items. this is a smart things called power tu. they put in usb outlets there. brilliant. just a good utility and practical item. >> this is really like a rock concert. it's quiet right now. this will be a mob scenes with stars, i told you earlier. justin bieber, 50 cent, snooki. becky worley. >> thank you so much. >> it's so fun to have you right here. >> right now let's get a weather checkup from sam. >> it's just not fair! it's not fair that the two of you are in vegas and we're not. we should be in vegas, don't you think? let's load up

no more of the free band width. it's going away. everybody's using it.e everybody's using ichlt the lines are getting jammed up. t-mobile and others have offed a plan. they kind of throttle you and stop you at about 250 megabytes. >> how can they say unlimited? >> they give you talk, text and data. they give you more than the competitive folks. >> right now may be the key because it might be going up. gadgets like desktop computers? >> desktop computers and hard drives. there was a flood in thailand, so it's causing -- it's a shortage right now on some of the hard drives. with desk top computers, they're consolidatin consolidating, the big bulky models to screens, touchscreens, so what we're going to see is an increase of desktop technology as this new technology is implea managemented. >> the last one that always getting me is shipping. i will be at the computer and i'll spend half an hour on an order that i'm getting and i'll get to shipping and if it's too much i'll cancel the whole thing. it's nuts. >> we're seeing shipping increase at 5%. be careful

the salc national accelerator laboratory aimed pulses at a piece of foil 30 times smaller than the width of a human hair and created it to hot dense matter. is what makes up most of stars. they say this should help understand and perhaps one day recreate nuclear fusion. >>> hybrid pensions. the new effort in sacramento to spread more of the cost to workers rather than taxpayers. >>> plus, a salary cap is set for cal state's top executives but is the pay still too generous? >> and rock slides in the city. why the question is when, not if this will happen again. stay with us. another half hour of news begi [ male announcer ] get ready for some deli-style delic-ious-ity: the subway big hot pastrami melt. dive into piled-high pastrami, spicy mustard, pickles and melt-a-licious cheese. treat your taste buds to a fresh toasted subway big hot pastrami melt. subway. eat fresh. >>> good evening. the federal reserve today went further than ever in assuring us that we will have low interest rates well in the future. the feds key rate at a record low almost three years already and it will probably r

take the hands, shoulder distance apart, legs hip width apart. >> that could be problematic but okay.ur forehead. this is engaging your core, kathie. >> don't mind the spanx. >> into an arabesque. pushing hard on the arm. >> is my mother? oh, sara. good. >> out to the side here. this is engaging your glute muscles. everyone loves a beautiful booty. swish that around. this is angry cat's tail. it looks like a cat's tail. i'm swishing around. >> here comes joanie. good. >> we're going to try it on the other side. i'll get my mom situated. >> sara, the other side. left side. quickly. leg up to the forehead, arabesque. left leg out to the side, swishing it around, cat's tail, engaging the glutes. >> oh, my gosh. even your feet are gorgeous, trudy. this is my mom, joanie. >> hello, cutie. >> this is trudy. she's going to teach you how to become -- >> yoga. we created yoga just for you. >> yes. >> she's sitting. right? >> we take a seated posture in the chair. this is really for when you're on a train, plane, automobile, when you're traveling, when you don't feel like you have enough energy

iphone 4s may be jamming your cell phone experience even if you don't have an iphone, siri is a band width and receives huge streams of data twice as much as the old iphone 4 and three times as much as the 3g. one result can leave bottlenecks on networks that can result in dropped calls and slower data speeds for others. >>> twitter is depending its new country by country censorship policy. the san francisco-based social networking giant can sensor messages by country. before if a tweet was erased it disappeared worldwide. critics say this is a way for twitter to pander to countries that violate free speech and make money in those countries. twitter sees it to ensure tweets remain visible to as many people as possible. twitter will post a censorship notice when a tweet is removed. >>> google expanding. the amount of office space google owns or leases grew by 67% last year. the internet search giant added three million square feet of space spending 225 million dollars on 15 properties in mountain view. the company now owns or leases more than seven million square feet of space in the city.

shoulder width apart. lift up your left foot, wiggle your toes. >> l.a. county, which is probably one of the largest jail systems in the world, is a completely different experience. >> drop them, turn around. >> and the inmate reception center is gigantic. you know, they get 400 guys a day. 2,000 a week. hands up. hands over in place. reach back. no talking. no laughing. just reach back and pull them apart. spread them wide. >> while intake can be a traumatic experience for new inmates, settling into the day-to-day routine of prison life provides a very different challenge. >> the time isn't hard if you keep yourself busy. you know, it's a point of managing it. you know, you can either manage it, or it can manage you. >> waddell harper and his cellmate, sakha ren, have created ways to break the monotony with the few sparse items they are allowed in their cramped cell. >> the dice are made from toilet paper. >> roll them up. draw on them. that's basically it, you know what i mean? your mind gets all creative once you're in here. you ain't got nothing else

british research group says the top 1% of consumers use up to half the world wir wireless band width top 10% of users even consume 90 percent of mobile air waves. most of the usage 40's lap top first and smart phone and fewer using i pad. >> on monday new technology debut exclusively from abc 7 news when we do our traffic reports. it's called waves and i aimed at helping you finding ways to avoid traffic jams. we explain how it works. >> left at middle field road. >>reporter: frank commutes every day from san carlos to palo alto. >> it's usually 30 minutes door to door with very little traffic. >>reporter: on a bad day. >> on a bad day it's been as o much as hour and 10 minutes. >>reporter: to cut down on it he uses an app where the traffic jams are and how to get around them and it gather real time gps data from the millions of users as they drive. >> we have a community of 10 million drivers that are responsible for helping us klengt all that information so it's all driven by the crowd and created by the crowd. >>reporter: she thinks of it as a win-win. drivers degree to share the

and when you do set it up, remember your viewing distance should be at least twice the width of the tvhing is you don't want to sit too close to a tv because if you do you'll start to see the individual pixels or picture elements that make up the picture itself. >> reporter: "consumer reports" just completed testing on big screens for reasons that should be obvious. >> the truth is that sports is just a great show case for tv technology. >> reporter: and if ever there is a show case in sports, it's the super bowl. >> of course jim vance and dan hellie are in indianapolis for the super bowl. you can catch their reports 5:00 tonight and of course you can watch the game sunday right here on nbc 4. we are gearing up. they have arrived. and they are good to go. >> ready for the party. and for the game. >>> coming up on news 4, the first lady unveils a new update to the family and medical leave act to help military families. >>> plus thousands get down and dirty to compete for the title of tough guy after the break so stick around. >>> coming up on newt 4 at 5:00 a silver spring man arrested

the first is when that day comes, we all will fit in my country fit the width new meaning. for the first time we are a nation has begun and actually saying enter the white national anthem, but the blacks in the white is not the end. the slaves have the last word. and king makes him that day a white children and black children, gentiles will sing in the words of the old spiritual, we are free at last. that we describe rain into the voice that the black slaves. and in some sense, made way by their granddaddy in grant money. so it's an important moment, but it is a very black moment. in style and an implication, even as it is doing one of the great moments of americans of the religion, there's this other thing right in there on the next step. it's drenched in blackness in a variety of ways. i need to and i'm not monnet, but thank you for all coming out tonight. there are books that people want to purchase them. i will be there to sign them. thank you very much for your questions and for coming out. [applause] >> visit otb.org to watch and programs you see here online. >> comin

i know that seems like a wide width, but the fact is it would make it either about the same as last time, which was a record turnout or even if it is a little bit below, the second best turnout of all time no definitively huge spike but no definitive dropoff either, rachel. >> chuck, thank you. let's go back to des moines and chris matthews, looking specifically at those turnout numbers, i think there is a lot of theories more or less cockamamie about whether or not high or low turnout is good for any one individual candidate, but i think that the huge news tonight is that we may not know until the very, very bitter end of the counting tonight. chris? >> you know, rachel and everybody, by the way, joining us right now is the chairman of the democratic national committee, you know, i'm looking at these results and you are looking at that from the outside, as we are, it seems like almost a basketball team, a very well-balanced offense here. you have had three people in the 20s, with unor two in the teens, no star. no wilt chamberlain on this team. >> despite the fact that mitt romney has s

but we think about the width. this wizard script did. the questions are usually pretty softball, but not always. so he couldn't have thought of dancers in the time it took to get there, but he had this kind of wit but everyone concentrated on. you cut your finger. how did you do that click slicing bread in the kitchen. it was part of his charm. >> guest: tour in politics to have a witty politician. clinton was a good time, but was sent funny, witty. dean mccarthy was to his regret probably. politicians try to avoid being urbain. to be urbane is to be elitist. for some reason jack makes the irish background with his wit and it didn't seem to be to urbane, but he was signed. it was a clunky. in this press conferences were a tree. they weren't on in prime time because even in those days without kennedy self-confidence, but that is going on at 9:00 at night with everyone watching, more television in those days than they do now because it was only the three channels. everybody watch this press conferences when they were on. so you are right.

of argument about whether that was a wise course or not, but by doing that tlch only so much band widthof, understanding political spin. a lot of people when they're unhappy with the president will talk about the p.r. battle. let's read some of those memos as well. this is good stuff. this is from the president. we need to constantly publicize our successful efforts here. >> yeah. >> i'm surprised at how involved he seems. >> yeah. that was one of the things that struck me. it struck me at the level of detail that obama's advisors were comfortable giving him. these memos were extremely detailed. down into the weeds on policy. obama is offering advice on communications, political advice, legislative strategy, big picture. so, you know, we all wonder how involved is the president in the decision-making process in the white house? my reading of these memos is extremely involved, down into the minute details of the agenda. >> he has a very harsh memo back in 2007. hillary clinton. they were rivalries in a big way. clinton can't be trusted or believed when it comes to change because, quote,