study -- nebraska -- northeast embarcadero study. commissioner fong: we're going to take a two-minute break and let the clout -- crowd clear the room. if you want to have conversations, kind of move them away from the front door here. two minutes. commissioner fong: ok, seeing that our next item has a lot of public comment, we will go ahead and get started. would you please read the next item? >> he wants you to read the item. >> i'm sorry. informational presentation on the department of city planning's northeast embarcadero study. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm with the planning and development of -- division. i wanted to start by giving some introductory remarks before introducing planning department staff, for them to provide their presentation to you. last week, the planning commission held a special public hearing on this study, and it really is quite -- hopefully, you had a chance to actually produce this. i think that is really a lot of hard, thoughtful work that hopefully will advance the public's understanding and app

do we have anybody from nebraska here? the magnitude of the impacts of climate change going back to the different emission change, get much worst if the global greenhouse loading takes this higher rather than lower route. and the greenhouse loading in the atmosphere, which i should have said earlier is a big problem not only because of it's physics, but because of it's longevity. co 2 has a lifetime of more than a hundred years some what we do is compound in the atmosphere and that's why the analogy was this big barge. we can't change it rapidly. it does not rain out. this thing is there for generations. next one. it's already happening. there's no doubt in the climate communities mind. the precipitation of course, is an enormous issue for you guys but i don't think your ever going to see with a big degree of confidence a projection you can believe. you're going to have to live as you always have. the water community is adept, but you can count on the fact that it's going to get warmer and sea levels are going to get highe

planning in the nebraska waterfront, as in every other part of san francisco, will never be finished for all time. we will always be finding new issues to address in revising past work. that means we cannot put everything on hold while we're planning. a strong plan with integrity is already in place, as it is with the port's waterfront land use plan. we should continue to move forward even while the planning efforts are undertaken, as they always will be. thank you for considering our perspective. sincerely, gabe metcalf." thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. i am a principal at an architecture firm here in san francisco. i work on the embarcadero and am intimately familiar with the challenges it presents. i'm pleased to be here on behalf of my firm and many individuals who have worked effortlessly to support the thoughtful development of their waterfront community. without equivocation, i'm in favor of the northeast embarcadero study and encourage your unanimous support. the study was the most recent effort commenced 15 months ago in february 2009 and was based, as you know, o

herman cruise terminal and nebraska work plaza public improvement project, located along the embarcadero. >> i am a port project director. i will present a brief summary of the project development since january of this year. next, the design team will present to conceptual designs of the cruise terminal and the wharf plaza. finally, john dahl will present the feasibility study and the public outreach process. in january of this year, the design team, which includes k &d architects in association with cruise terminal design consultants, committed to the design process. this began with internal workshops that led to a development of what engineers call a design basis. port staff presented this information to the commission in april. i would like to reiterate a couple of key elements of the design parameters. up first is and 80,000 square foot building which would handle 26,000 passengers -- 2600 passengers to 4000 passengers. the norwegian start and the norwegian pearl are examples of the peak design load. i think the reference of the queen mary, which was here recently, has a design load

she's 101 years old from nebraska has been chosen as america's outstanding oldest worker for 2010. sally golden's career has taken her from modeling to politics. she's been working for nebraska's legislature for the last 26 years and has no plans to retire. >>> and now here's an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 10,644 after falling 54 points yesterday. the s&p dipped 6, and the nasdaq dropped 28. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei lost 258 points, while in hong kong, the hang seng fell 179. >>> the nation's central bank is officially up to speed on the pace of the nation's stalled economic recovery. using carefully crafted words, the fed said yesterday the current recovery has, quote, slowed in recent months, an about-face from its statement in june that the recovery was, quote, proceeding. now, instead of rolling back stimulus efforts, the fed plans to buy up $10 billion in government debt and keep its benchmark interest rate near zero. markets staged a small comeback after the news, but skeptical investors pul

close in points, a reminder that nebraska embarcadero study is an urban design study. the study builds on the great amount of planning work in the area, including the 10-year land use planning effort led by the court. the study concluded that the land side is in great need of public realm and design site improvements, and finally, planning has designed and doubles and recommendations to address these challenges. we have organized them under a number of key strategies to strengthen the pedestrian at work, including to the west, to create a larger, more tightly knit open space network, and finally, to ensure high quality buildings that frame and activate the public realm. that in it -- that concludes my presentation. thank you very much. commissioner fong: thank you. any additional comments? ok, we are going to open this up to public comment, and there maybe some diverse opinions, so i'm going to ask there be no applause, and if you have any comments, to bring the outside. first one is dave stock fell -- stockdale >> good afternoon. i'm the executive director of the nonp

nebraska items recommended out of committee will be discussed at the board of supervisors meeting later this week unless another date is indicated. chairperson avalos: before we start, i would like to say happy birthday to supervisor ross mirkarimi. [laughter] call item one, please. >> resolution approving the issuance of tax-exempt revenue obligations by the california enterprise development authority in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $11.50 million among other things to refinance various capital facilities owned by brandeis hillel day school and other matters related thei reto. >> good morning. i am with the controller's office. the item is an approval to issue $11.50 million by california enterprise development authority for brandeis hillel school. there is no fiscal impact to the city and the city is not responsible. chairperson avalos: thank you. any comments or questions? we will have public comment on item one. seeing no one come forward, we will close public comment. a motion from supervisor mirkarimi without objection. it will go to the full board with recommendati

>>>josé díaz balart: en nebraska el gobernador dijo que presentará un proyecto de ley de inmigración semejante al que se presentó en arizona, y debe estar lista para el las sesiones del año que viene, y las autoridades no podrán presentar ningún tipo de perfil racial. y en virginia darán la lista de inmigrantes indocumentados que fueron procesados, y busca prevenir hechos como la muerte de una monja que murió impactada por auto. y en washington se presentarán 14 cargos a personas acusadas de enviar armas a un grupo terrorista, y algunos hasta viajaron a somalia. y vamos a california, con la apelación de un juez de autorizar los matrimonios entre personas de un mismo sexo. >>>periodista: la decisión de un juez agudiza el debate, a menos de 24 horas de anunciar su veredicto, a menos de 24 presentaron una apelación y arresiaron los ataques. >>> Él dice que las parejas homosexuales pueden proporcionar lo mismo a los hijos. >>>periodista: y ellas esperan que se permita los matrimonios. >>> queremos poder amarnos, casarnos algunos, y algunos no. >>>periodista: y hay 5 estados qu

career, there was no such thing as a black television journalist he was the first one in the state of nebraska working for kettv and there he moved up to the network and worked for calter cronkite and did it through merit and hard work and creativity, everything he would always bring to the broadcast, and he did some extraordinary work here at cbs news, exclusive interviews with oj simpson when that story was at its peeks, mike tyson, patty hearst, who was kidnapped by a terrorist organization he got that interview which was the biggest in the world and of course the documentary, the breakthrough documentary 48 hours on crack street from which 48 hours was born. but harold was an even better person, i could tell you i am going to miss him but it doesn't even come close, all i can say is god bless you, harold dow and god bless your family. >> harold just loved every day that he worked, great sense of humor and he could interview anyone from a president to a pimp to an accused murderer to a rock star, we will miss him desperately, he was 62 years old. we will be right back. >> glor: all of a sud

. >> nelson se convirtiÓ en el primer demÓcrata en rechazar cuando dijo que los residentes de nebraska estÁn preocupados. >> el ex preso polÍtico cubano revela su calvario en las cÁrceles cubanas. >> activistas denuncian que cada aÑo secuestran a decenas de miles de centroamericanos en mÉxico. >> una localidad de nueva york >> fidel castro calificÓ como una tortura la situaciÓn de uno de los cinco espÍas de la isla presos a los estados unidos. sus declaraciones tuvieron lugar durante un encuentro con un grupo de jÓvenes comunistas en la habana. asegurÓ que el rÉgimen de la isla no someterÍa a torturas a ningÚn espÍa capturado. >> uno de los ex presos polÍticos piensa todo lo contrario. revelÓ su calvario en las cÁrceles cubanas y sus primeros dÍas en el exilio. dramÁticos testimonios. >> aunque visiblemente desnutrido, el reciÉn liberado preso polÍtico dice haber disfrutado de su primer plato en el exilio. >> saborear. fue el plato de la libertad, fue el plato de la democracia. el plato de una segunda patria, que me ha acogido en su seno. >> estÁ para mÉxico y co

junio juez decidió la corte, del estado de nebraska, to mínima me una decisión. contra la ciudad de fremont. la demanda legal fue presentada después de que esta ciudad decidió prohibir dar trabajo. >>> el cruce diarios de alumnos mexicanos hacia a california. ha sido una practica común. pero, a partir de ahora, esto puede cambiar. habrá personal del distrito escolar, desplegado en la frontera con la documentación y residencia de los alumnos, la medida trata de impedir que estudiantes no autorizado, va recibir educación en estados unidos. >>> decidió otorgar licencia conducir, si no muestran un nuevo certificado de nacimiento. las razón sz que temen se produzca fraude para finales de septiembre. todos deberán tener una nueva acá acta de nacimiento. >>> un taxista de nueva york detuvo el auto para recoger un pasajero, pero este caso no era común. el cliente preguntó si era musulmán, cuando dijo que si, apuñaló al conductor. un nuevo intento de asesinato a grabado por odio racial. esta tarde en la municipalidad de nueva york, con varios de sus compañ

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large hail, 80-mile-an-hour winds and isolated tornados in the dakotas, minnesota, and nebraska. heavy rain along the gulf coast. showers from little rock to st. louis and memphis. thunderstorms in the southwest. >> cooling down out west. just 66 in seattle. 68 in boise. and 72 in salt lake city. much of the midwest hovering around the 90 degree mark. getting up to the mid-90s in the northeast. >>> an subway driver is a hero after bringing his train to a sudden stop. his quick thinking managed to save the life of a woman who'd fallen on the tracks. wabc's lucy yang has the story. >> i actually watched her go off the platform. so that's -- you know, i didn't even need anybody to wave or, you know, get my attention. i knew -- i knew that i had to stop the train. i brought my train to a controlled stop. >> reporter: and that is how 36-year-old frankie lusk went from mild-mannered motorman to hero. he was operating the queens-bound "n" train in the 59th station at fifth avenue when he witnessed every worker's worst nightmare, a woman on the tracks. he had only seconds to respond, but

. -- nebraska in san francisco -- any in send francisco since we last met. [applause] there were some in l.a., involving robberies. we are going to send letters out to the 22 dispensaries in sentences go offering them some security training and inspections this coming week. hopefully we can help make their facilities a little more secure. there has been a surge of growth in the applications for medical marijuana dispensaries here in san francisco. since 2007, only -- the department of public health received only one application for a new dispensary. in 2010, they have already received eight. we are expecting to see a lot more development in canada's dispensaries here in san francisco -- and cannabiin cann dispensaries here in san francisco. there are three types of cultivation going on in the city. there are patient cultivated gardens. a qualified patient can grow up to 24 plants. state guidelines limit it to six plants. there are also collectives, where you get up to nine people cultivating together. this is where we are having a problem. some of the cultiv

just think what could happen if you had school a school system in nebraska buying from local people? >> i saw recently the governor of washington state signed interesting legislation as it relates to no longer procuring the lowest prices for some of their school-related lunch and breakfast programs. are there examples that you point to and say boy, for we can just do what we are doing in dublin, ireland? >> yale is doing a lot of work on distribution of food from small farms in connecticut into a big institution and figuring out the ways they can use the packing facilities for canning the tomatoes from the local farmer and having the delivery come to the university. and if they can be doing that research on it, then sharing that is a beautiful thing. >> couple of questions, has it been difficult to spread your philosophy to urban communities and what solutions, more specifically, can you offer to help education poor communities and support those students? if money is used as the excuse and easily used in declining resources, how do we realistically break through? >> we start growing

[applause] >> good afternoon, dan i'm from nebraska actually. actually, i'm not but colorado is close enough and will have to do in my point. those of us from other parts of the country are looking very carefully to what your doing here and we're learning a lot of great lessons and we hope the sea level rising is a lesson we don't have to learn but you all, are doing fascinating work. i road in last night with joel smith and he said with a wink and nunl, never turn down a trip to san francisco or new orleans. we have one still left. all right. i'm going to talk about a shared resource in the west and my first thing here is all important dividing line on the upper and lower basin colorado line. this photograph was taken lo 1880's and you will see the lower right, the founder. john lee is actually my grant grant grand father. you might think it's remarkable to be a descendant of the guy, but he had 21 lives and by my count about 2500 descendants right about now. let's go to the next. you probably all know the overview of the river. those that neve

rain also on i-70 and 80 through iowa, nebraska and kansas. >> and if you're flying today, delays in phoenix, charlotte, atlanta and new orleans. >>> president obama is on the west coast today, talking about aigning omy and campaigning for democrats. >> but as much as the white house tries to downplay it, new york's mosque controversy is dominating all the talk in washington. especially as more and more democrats announce their opposition to the plan. >> dan harris reports on the growing anger over the issue. >> reporter: conservatives were turning up the volume against the planned muslim community center. >> mr. president, ground zero is the wrong place for a mosque. >> you know, nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the holocaust museum in washington. >> reporter: president obama did his best to avoid the issue. he gave a speech on friday, that seemed to support the project. only to seemingly backtrack somewhat the next day. critics say the president is putting his allies in a tough spot. with polls showing more than two-thirds of americans against the community cente

i would encourage all of you - it's unbelievable to come here from colorado or nebraska - you know we have straw coming out of our ways and in other ways we're quite sophisticated and you all are leading the pathway and i encourage you all to lead and not get discouraged we're going to get support on the presidential on both sides of the aisle whoever gets it will act on it and those are my comment as little more inclusive than that on the legislation side of that. >> yes? one more. all right. two more. >> jim, kennedy jinx consultant. i think from california stance point the low angle thing here is to make sure that the rules being written and regulations as to how we're going to establish eligibility criteria and ranking for infrastructure some 37 billion dollars and bonds being proposed is a real opportunity to make sure these considers are included. considers like that were they included in water bond, state water project we might have an outcome for this. >> thank you. one more.

been a great group of people and topics and probably the only better conference i've been to was in nebraska. a long time back, they are way ahead of you on this. i was delighted to hear lester snows understanding of global climate change and we'll have to start calling him lester rain however, and your probably really sick of hearing that, so, next slide. what i'm going to do is talk a little bit about - not the science or impact which i've worked with quite a bit - but rather resources for managers to try and close some of the discussions. you heard this and this is a conclusion from years back from the water assessment approach. the people are chaning. and it's effecting society and water sources are now unavoidable. again 7 years back, and by no means i went back to my records and congress don edwards some of you may remember, held a hearing in 1987 on impacts of climate change on san francisco bay area and that was years back but it's getting a lot of attention but not a new issue. this graph could be temperature over time or green house gas over time. population. but what it is, actual

areas like colorado in towards nebraska, wyoming all under threat of strong storms to develop. also look at this long frontal line that stretches up into eastern canada. along the northeast, new england states, mid-atlantic areas, tonight we're looking at some stormy weather for you. while for the deep south, this low pressure system is just going to stall out over the area. so even for the next few days, it's going to be a pretty wet picture across the florida peninsula. a chance of thunderstorms all the way into tuesday. eastern canada as well showers will hang about. doesn't dry out too much for the next 24 hours, but out west plenty of sunshine for you, getting up to 31 in seattle and 29 degrees for l.a. quite hot across the east coast as well, 32 in d.c. and new york. then 33 degrees for atlanta. now for europe today, a frontal line continues to move through the british isles so that will bring about showers. it's pretty cloudy conditions. also a frontal line hero at a time rotates across the next day or so. moving out of france heading in towards germany as well as the sc

appeared an officer pulled this man over for a cracked windshield his name is 35 year- old tomboy of nebraska. he had out of state plates and the victim was in the passenger seat. the officer rest of your questions and determined that stockwell was not related to the girl. the officer called one of the girl's parents and found out that the parent did not know that she was with stockwell or who he was. please say that he first made contact with the girl in october in an on-line chat room. he made the cross country trip to pleasanton back in january simply say that he molested the girl from that time until this arrest. there's a lot of times teenagers especially in teenagers are very vulnerable to looking for attention and looking for people to give them attention and people to tell them what they want to hear. please found out after his arrest he was under federal indictment for distribution of child pornography purities in the santa rita jail in his next court appearance september 9th. in pleasanton jeff bush kron 4 news. lines were noticeably absent at the dmv offices today that's because to

. >>> a driver in nebraska got himself into quite a sticky situation when he drove his car into freshly laid cement. he says the barricades were not blocking the road and he thought the cement was dry. adding insult to injury, he's only had the car for about eight months. >>> and after a year of hard work, engineers at the university of utah have developed a robot that can climb rough surfaces. it uses two claws, a motor, and a tail that swings like a pendulum. eventually its developer hopes to use the robot to inspect tall buildings, bridges, and dams, but for the short term he says it works as a teaching tool or a a really cool toy. >>> well, now for a look at your national and regional weather, here's nbc's meteorologist bill karins with the weather channel forecast. good morning, bill. >>> have you done any wall climbing yourself, rock climbing? >> i have before. >> that surprises me. >> my high school had a rock climbing wall. >> excuse me. high school. >> it was very exciting. there you go. that's your fun fact. >> i'll leave it right there. let's move onto the forecast. good morn

the dakotas, nebraska into minnesota looking at the threat of severe thunderstorms, tornadoes can't be ruled out either. essentially the same story on friday as well. that area of rain heading slightly towards the east into the great lakes, but also iowa looking at severe storms to break out on friday. central and western canada looking at very unsettled conditions tonight and into your friday. some of that rain will be making its way into the rockies over the next couple of days. another area we've been keeping an e on is the gulf of mexico. heavy wet persistent rain has been affecting the area for the last couple of days. so flooding is going to be a bit of a concern here as well. taking a look at your temperatures, the heat is going to stay put for the south. that's also extending up into the upper -- the lower midwest as well, 33 degrees in chicago. coming in at 30 in washington, d.c., and 23 up in vancouver. finally for europe, lots of thundershowers will erupt again in central europe. that's due to this, the very long active frontal system. slicing through from scandinavia into g

one democrat, from nebraska, opposed her. kagan is just the 4th woman ever confirmed to the nation's highest court. >> when the court reconvenes this fall three woman will serve together on it for the first time in history. that milestone, i might say, is long, long overdue. >> kagan is expected to be sworn in on saturday. she replaces john paul steven who's retireddism the state supreme court ruled in favor of a former google employee who is suing the company claiming age discrimination. brian reid was 54 when he was fired at google's engineers director in 2004. a ruling says he can take the lawsuit to trial. he claims poor treatment of older employees started with the company's founders and filtered down through management. google, though, denies he was fired because of his age. a judge today gave a man who stabbed two people inside of a san francisco bakery ative sentence. the victim's included a teenaged girl. scott thomas was found guilty last spring of attempted murder in the double stabbing. today sentenced to life of