wu commissioner fong commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore and commissioner richards we do expect commissioner johnson. >> commissioners first on our agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance at the release of agenda there were none we have a request from commissioner richards to continue item 16 for case at 4 6127th street a request inform discretionary review to a date to be determined and item 15 for case at 37 there 68 fillmore request for a discretionary review have been withdrawn. >> so you should tomato take up the matter both the dr requester has asked. >> we have a number of public comment cards sorry i can't read this handwringing. >> good afternoon commissioner president wu and commissioners my name is michael i'm the dr filer i'm a resident of the at 47927 of the in the historic district in addition i'm a preservation architect practicing thirty years in san francisco i come to this hearing with professional knowledge we respectfully request the continuance for the hearing the documents you have in front of you have been known to be inaccur

i'd like to take roll commissioner president wu commissioner fong commissioner antonini commissioner richards we do expect commissioner hillis and commissioner johnson momentary commissioner first on our agenda is proposed items for continuance item one at 1814 through 16 ann district attorney request for conditional use authorization and item 2 at 2312 market street request for conditional use authorization until november 13th he have no other items proposed for continuance and no speaker cards. >> okay any public comment on this item? for items proposed for continuance? seeing none, public comment is closed commissioner fong >> move to continue. >> second. >> on that motion to continue commissioner antonini commissioner johnson commissioner richards i can only vote on the tennessee i actually the market street one i'm living within 5 hundred feet i'll not be vociferating or participating that. >> in this case can we change the motion to - >> move to continue item 1. >> second. >> thank you commissioner antonini on that motion to continue item one. >> commissioner antonini commissioner johns

you mean specifically in the richard documents? >> no, no, all the documents. >> oh -- >> all fbi documents have been redacted, there is more material acted --d -- read redacted than released. i just wonder is anything original or put forward -- [inaudible] >> right. there are certain rules on automatic declassification that require records to be released, and that has resulted in the release of much more information, but over classification of records is a huge problem in government, has been for decades, and it's very frustrating to people who are trying to understand their history. what you see in these records is that in the 1950s and 1960s jay edgar hoover's fbi was secretly involved in events in effect trying to alter history by tampering with people's first amendment rights, leaking information, shaping how people viewed events at the university, and all of these decades later, you see the fbi, today's fbi, withholding information, public information from records which is, in effect, once again, interfering with our understa

-- president richard m. nixon. i have a few questions as we look back on that moment in history. did president ford cut a deal with richard nixon in advance to pardon him, can you answer that question directly, mr. president? was there a deal of any sort? >> i testified before the house committee on judiciary that there was no deal period. i think those were my exact words. i can assure you some 25 years later that there is absolutely no credibility to that allegation. the truth is i was going to be president without any question of a doubt because president nixon was either going to be impeached and forced to resign or he was going to resign on his own, as he did. so i was going to become president regardless of any comments between him and myself. lookw that you are able to back on your presidency with the benefit of 25 years hindsight, would you pardon richard m nixon again if you had it to do over? >> based on additional observations, testimony, etc. i think today if i had to go through the same process

richard nixon was informed that he had a right to refuse the pardon and richard nixon understood the law that accepting the pardon constituted acknowledgment of guilt. president ford would not have it any other way, and he said to me when i came back to washington, did he understand it? we went through that process, and what i found was he was somewhat depressed [indiscernible] on what he wanted and what he did not want to do. we got to the subject of pardons. it was very difficult and there were nine interviews with him, and he was constantly trying to change the subject and he would interrupt me in the middle of a sentence, and he would ask me, did you work in my administration? did you ever play football? [laughter] there are more important things to talk about, mr. president. i finally got him to come and to sign, and we got a statement that was acceptable and that he understood. i thanked him and i left. i literally had my hand on the back seat of the vehicle and i was being driven away, when i heard from ron sigler who was running out of the building. don't leave, don't leave m

two miles away from richard. just like hundreds of other bastrop residents, brian returns to find nothing but a foundation and charred memories. >> this is just one of 1,600 homes that burned. so this story repeats itself 1,599 other times. fire can take everything you got just like that. >> the historic blaze claims the lives of two bastrop county residents and consumes 24,000 acres. richard counts his blessings. and because he stayed behind and filmed, his footage can now be used by the texas forest service to better understand the path the fire took. he has a word of warning for those who find themselves in the path of a wildfire. >> my advice to others that get in a situation like i was in, if you can get out, get out when you can. hope i get to see you guys again or hope you guys get to see me again. >>> coming up, a storm chaser catches up to the storm but gets a little too close to the action. >> oh, my god! (vo) nourished. rescued. protected. given new hope. during the subaru "share the love" event, subar

. >> on that motion to continue commissioner antonini commissioner johnson commissioner richards i can only vote on the tennessee i actually the market street one i'm living within 5 hundred feet i'll not be vociferating or participating that. >> in this case can we change the motion to - >> move to continue item 1. >> second. >> thank you commissioner antonini on that motion to continue item one. >> commissioner antonini commissioner johnson commissioner richards commissioner fong commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero and we will need a motion to recuse commissioner richards. >> move to recuse commissioner richards. >> do i hear a second and second. >> thank you commissioner johnson on that motion commissioner antonini commissioner johnck commissioner johnson commissioner richards commissioner johns and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes commissioner richards you are recused. >> move to continue item number 2. >> you have to leave the room you i would think would be okay all right. thank you commi

richard nixon. he is the only president in american history, nick's and was forced to resign -- nixon was forced to resign. we should keep all of this in mind. what i remember most was that washington in those days, we often woke up in the morning and would have no idea what would happen next. there was nothing more stunning than to hear the president of the united states was about to pardon the former president of the united states. i am tom brokaw, nbc news, new york. >> we are honored to have with us today, steve afford, the youngest son of resident gerald r. ford -- president gerald r. ford and first lady betty ford. he is also the chairman of the gerald r. ford presidential foundation. i have had the pleasure to work with steve over the years, and nobody is more committed to preserving the history of the ford presidency, and he even inherited his dad's winning personality. mr. steve ford. it is always a pleasure to come back to grand rapids. dad learned so many great valuees hs he used later in

certain richard branson says version is: -- sir richard branson is cooperating. thank you for joining us. initially come it looked like it might be something wrong with the new fuel mix that had not been tested much. we are hearing that there might have been a defect with a function that helps the craft ascended to the atmosphere that could have been deployed early. can you give us an update? well, some elements of the press speculated that it was an and some press said it was fuel tanks and some people said it was rockets. the ntsb quite rightly said that and weshould speculate had to watch the footage and those of self-proclaimed experts. night andame out last said clearly that was not the fuel. the 400 wonderful engineers that worked on the side of the spaceship was not the case. the ntsb and the people that will speak about causes and they do a thorough investigation, that aey indicated was lever have impressed a few seconds sooner than it should ave been and we will leave it up to the ntsb to decide whether that had an effect on that was the cause. >> it is

. >> commissioner richards. >> we identified the specific holidays highlighting the specific i think i'm happy with new years eve and gay provide sunday's are there other holidays i ask to amend to gay pride sunday. >> commissioner johnson. >> i'm sorry i don't want to extend this i know we're getting out of here another 5 i don't like being random and to me i like thanksgiving eve i like to go out and help with the digestion so commissioner richards is for it was new years eve and gay pride sunday did you have a thought on how to word it. >> i'll pull a motion that was a cu when we expanded another organization we capacity the holiday they picked it and we said okay there were three or four a year. >> i would be okay saying that you could be open lows than 5 holidays per year only new years eve or gay pride sunday or easter you know what i mean that is a less random way we're sitting up here. >> we could work with the neighborhood four or five is perfect. >> that's hard for enforcement for the department because then it's up to your own records and not that we don't trust is there a

richard garriot is an astronaut w.h.o. spent time on th -- who spent time on the space shuttle and alameda county anusha ansari. let me start with you. your name is tied to the prize. it was the predecessor to spaceship 2. so when this thing got ready to take its first passengers this was going to be a piece of your legacy, obviously it will still continue. what were your feelings when you found out what happened today? >> of course it is sad news and accident and my heart goes to the families and all the people@virgin and scaled. it's something that it happens when youer trying to push the boundaries and any type of travelers and when you're trying new technologies and pushes the boundaries there's always accidents that happen. and this was a test flight, and tests mean that we want to find the flaws before we're going to fly commercial passengers. i don't know anyone else other than virgin that has taken so many precautions to make sure that they test out everything. they've pushed out the time lines, you know, every tim

richard is try to get hundreds of people into space. it remind meese of what happened in aviation in the 1920s and '30s when it became commercialized and companies were trying to make a profit is where it really took off. so this could be -- this commercialization of space could be the beginning of something great for this country. maybe in our lifetimes, instead of traveling from, you know, l.a. to say london in, you know, ten hours, maybe we'd be able to do it as fast as you can do it in the space shuttle, which is about 35, 40 minutes. >> captain mark kelly, always good to see you. thank you very much for your expertise. appreciate that. this virgin galactic, the founder of this company, richard branson, is expected to take to the microphones there. when he does, we'll take that live. >>> but first today's cnn hero. he helped children kick the pain and fear out of cancer. >> i really hate when it hurts. it's a really sharp pain. i get all teary. the shots really scared me a lot. and they still scare me now. >> when children get a dia

richard, thank you so much for being here. what's going to happen in chobani, best as you can tell, and why is it strategically so important? important? >> right now,there is something of a standoff in chobani. i would say half of the city, as i mentioned in that report, is held by isis. the other half by the kurdish fighters. and it's very difficult for either side to make advances because this is street-to-street fighting. even though there are some u.s. air strikes, it still takes a lot of skill to -- a lot of bravery, frankly, to advance to leave your sniper nest. they have years of experience, fighting against turks. that is one reason the turkish government don't want them to have weapons. they're very afraid of losing. their biggest fear is probably not being pushed out on the battlefield but being strangled by the closure. >> talking about the u.s. air supply, the airdrop to supply them with ammunition and other supplies and the impact of the u.s. and coalition air strikes, are those making any sort of difference? and

. >> hey, richard. come here real quick. come here, richard. i'm sorry, but -- richard's the reason we're allowed to be here. i want to say hello. he's keeping an eye on us if we go off the rails -- >> that's why i'm here. >> i'm going back behind the camera. >> okay, go ahead. oh. that's really hot. that's really hot. >> that's a radiator so the performers can lean against it. >> no. see, this is the kind of thing that makes richard really nervous. >> it's warm. >> it's like a freaking iron. it's not warm. you could cook an egg on that. that's how the performers stay warm. interesting. what i really want to know is how they stay alive under water. you're swimming under water but also under infrastructure. >> correct. it's overhead environment. >> this is cave diving. >> it's cave diving. forget about backstage, this is under stage. except it's more complicated than that because the stage is always changing elevations. sometimes it's out of the water. sometimes it's just below the surface. other times it's way down toward the bottom. yeah, it's

. >> commissioner richards a couple of points i think we went along the trail of intent to approve because of the actually complaints we thought were not excessive and had a concentration on a certain day from that gay pride sunday i think we learned our lesson but the other thing dealing with the taefks in upper market there's an issue with the enjoys the entertainment commission will go into an individual home to do the sound tests so it could be from a situation where the sound is reprobating that is a possibility too. >> commissioner antonini and yeah. thank you i agree and think that many of the problems for which the speakers spoke the nearby resident predate the existence of jones and still remain he talked about people that was in earlier comments but applies not aware of their surrounding bus of their conditions and running wildly in the street and because of traffic and drug dealers i know soliciting people in line i think it would be helpful in the good neighbor policy jones agreed to keep the order for patrons waiting in line to go to jones there's as much as. >> police the act

>> pretty much anything they can think of, richard. as you know, when you fly from here in london, the region where you are, for example, there are always security officials at the airport trying to vet people. the extraordinary thing about the video in my report there, filmed, by the way, by an impressive independent journalist is the insight it gives into the thinking of young islamists who still view this as a fight for freedom, despite saying that's not the case. an understanding that mindset is the task of western intelligence. but so many fighters are heading to syria. when i speak privately to intelligence officials, they admit it is a huge challenge. and of course the u.s. depends on those agencies to stop people with european passports flying to america. there has been a series of arrests in the uk and as far away as australia. but that reinforces the point that so many extremists are flocking to join and coming back to the west. >> the u.s. is intervening not just against isis. it's intervening in a civil war and as you know

richard, thank you so much for being here. what's going to happen in chobani, best as you can tell, and why is it strategically so posht? important? >> right now,there is something of a standoff in chobani. i would say half of the city, as i mentioned in that report, is held by isis. the other held by isis. the other half by the kurdish fighters, and it's very difficult for either side to make advances, because this is street to street fighting. even though there are some u.s. air strikes, it still takes a lot of skill to, and a lot of bravery, frankly, to advance, to leave your sniper nest, to take over new positions and to hold them, and from what we could tell, it looks like this could go on for months. the biggest taker is that the kurdish fighters are going to run out of ammunition. re-supply is enorm mussily difficult. there's been one big re-supply by the united states, an airdrop. some weapons come through turkey. turkey does not freely allow fighters and weapons to go into kobani. the biggest problem is that like any

for richard, underwater exploits like these are more than fun. they have inspired him to start virgin oceanic, ocean exploration in flying submarines. >> it is incredible to think that only two people have been below 18,000 feet and over 500 people have been in space. >> after a rough overnight crossing, we wake to a breathtaking sight. how did you sleep? >> off and on. it is wonderful to wake up and see whales splashing around you. >> it is a sheltered stretch of the caribbean. halfway between the dominican republic and turks and caicos. shallow waters and coral reefs make it treacherous for boats and perfect for breeding whales. only four boats have the necessary permits to come here. we are on one of them. like all of branson's properties, this catamaran is available for rent if you are willing to part with $110,000 for a week. you could say this is sort of the extreme 1%, the .001% of society being able to do something like this. >> it is up to us to use the privileged position we find ourselves in to campaign to save the world, to campaign t

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. >> richard? >> good morning, commissioners, my name is richard fong. i'm trying to initiate something quite ambitious, trying to see if we can get something going on 500 pine street, the place that's got the glass design structure. it was former -- held own ership of it. i'm trying through the chair buell i can speak to get to the eminent domain by out. there hasn't been anything built and it also has the class structure which would be beautiful for trying to develop income on that particular part of san francisco of the financed area. the statute of limitations, i don't know how long they last for. it would be for the attorney. i'm trying to see the ambition to buy out 500 pine street through the buy out procedure and it would turn into mayor lee's plans. i have plans that would easily be structured as a park area and maybe a house approach. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else who would like to make general public comment at this time? >> being none, this item is closed we are now on item 5, the consent calendar. is there anyone who would like to ma

i want to bring back richard lefrak. with new jersey governor chris christie one day after the vote last week. he was doing a victory lap on television. you had lunch with him at the four seasons. what did you guys talk about? a social basically occasion. he was a bit jubilant about the results of the election. he recanted some of his experiences as the head of the republican governors association. what he thought was the most surprising outcome of the election. he said the election of a republican governor in maryland. which has not happened in decades. the other thing i thought was interesting was, when we suggested to him that she -- he visitedtes 37 states. we said mo what happens when you go to these things? show up,when i television cameras show up because they are expecting some colorful responses. we know he is a prank man. man.ank he is prone to tell people what is on his mind. which is refreshing. >> you had lunch with him and the entire media was writing about it. >> steve win and myself and another gentleman.

>> pretty much anything they can think of, richard. as you know, when you fly from here in london, the region where you are, for example, there are always security officials at the airport trying to vet people. the extraordinary thing about the video in my report there, filmed, by the way, by an impressive independent journalist is the insiekt it gives into the thinking of young islamists despite saying that's not the case. an understanding that mind set is the task of western intelligence. but so many are heading to syria. >> the u.s. is intervening not gist against isis. it's intervening in a civil war and an incredibly complex recruiting. >> new investigationnfrgs out t stay with us. e . >> they've set up these screens here to block the snipers. you have to stay down below the screenment it blocks the line of site. don't have to do that for me. it's the same plan for everyone. families...businesses...whoever. riiiiight. (yelling) no celebrity treatment here! (yelling) really isn't any celebrity treatment. just a normal guy, getting

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richard dawkins is just being introduced in chapman hall. we will bring this to you live and a reminder that this whole program everything you have seen today will re-air tonight at midnight eastern time and we will be back again live tomorrow. >> american airlines and many other generous sponsors. we would also like to acknowledge the friends of the book fair and we see many of them here today. please join me in thanking them for their generosity. [applause] towards the end of the session we will have a q&a opportunity with a microphone in the center of the aisle. the authors will also be autographing books in the area near where you lined up prior to entering towards the right of the elevator. at this time i invite you to please silence or cell phones and of course enjoy the program. i would like to introduce dr. eldridge birmingham was the chief science officer of the freston museum of science. he will introduce our authors. [applause] >> at great to be here. i even got a book autographed of a young looking richard dawkins here. as you we

i believe i was able to grasp what commissioner richards in the case of preserving affordable housing and if any other commissioners want to add a findings of their own. >> i believe it is the mayors derivative to preserve units. >> ma'am, city attorney is that good? all right. so bear with me just a moment so i can - and so on the motion then to take dr and disapprove the building predicament application it preserves the affordable housing and the illegal unit is without a complaint and violation the illegal unit does not prohibit the trust to sell the building it is kept with the mayors divisive >> so sell the property or take any other land use decisions if you want to do that. >> so noted. >> i never know. >> on that motion commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner richards commissioner fong no commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes that planning commission motion passes 5 to one with commissioner fong voting against expirations that places you on general public comment i have no speaker cards is there any general pu

this family business was founded by richard's dad, santo emanuele, in 1968, who ran it with richard's older brother, james. richard's dad passed away, and then his brother died unexpectedly, leaving richard to run the business. richard wanted to keep his family legacy alive, so he took over the business and brought his son, michael, with him. >> michael, there's multiple problems. we gotta do what we gotta do. >> unlike many of the businesses i help, mr. green tea isn't facing a crisis. they generated over $2.5 million a year in revenue, and the emanueles make a very good living, but the business is static. >> i have such a hard time making this decision. >> the emanueles can't seem to agree on a plan for their future. michael has big ideas, but richard always plays it safe, and that creates tension. >> it's not 75. just get-- >> don't mince my words. i hate that. >> i believe that mr. green tea can be a $50-million company. they need to be bold, and they need to take chances. they haven't launched new flavors in over a decade, and they're still not well-situated in the retail market.

plant manager leslie richards. we build cars with greater accuracy than ever before because of the new tooling and the robots. it isn't possible to operate a plant this size without our material-management computer systems. 9,500 different part numbers are kept track of here daily. gm's orion plant is state of the art, at least for now. cleaner and brighter, it's a better place to work, even if it's where fewer humans are needed. but is it profiting? gm hopes for a 15-20% rate of return on its plants. it usually takes at least 12 months before you're running at full speed and running everything to maximum efficiency. gm is probably close at winsfield and lake orion to achieving those returns. financially, is it starting to pay off? yes, the time it takes to build a car in that new plant is less than in our old plant. our bet that we could become more productive is paying off. many felt gm had to build plants like orion. it was modernize or be run over by the auto business of the 1980s. how does gm, or any business,

. >> commissioner richards. >> one of the things this must be my day i've lived across the street when my architects had a dr situation and actually, it is not as bad as you think it doesn't have it is not massive and there's a lot more light and air and certainly the railings is not as high as the building given 4 feet it doesn't raise the building with the shaping - landscaping commissioners, we have a motion and a second not take dr. >> commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and places you on item 15 at 3826 to 28 caesar chavez discretionary review. >> good evening planning commission david washington the south west team leader the subject proposals an sharlz street to reduce two illegal units on he caesar chavez street between delores and church property is 25 street flowage and one hundred and 14 feet deep with a two-story victorian that contains two stories in 1990 with one thousand 4 hundred and 37 square feet the detache

>> is this richard? >> yes, it is. >> how long has the 6-year-old been missing? >> just a few minutes. >> was the flying saucer in the backyard? >> yes. >> but could a little boy be inside this balloon-like object more than a thousand feet off the ground? >> this thing takes off, your son tells you falcon's inside. are you really going to stop and try and justify and find reasons why maybe he's not in? >> within a few short minutes, the story sparks a media storm and the balloon boy goes global. >> i had no clue that there was even media outside. mayumi and i were completely dumbfounded, baffled why this thing got attention and why people were in our front yards. we just simply wanted it to go away. >> the country watches live wanting to know the fate of the boy supposedly inside the runaway aircraft. after more than an hour in flight and covering 50 miles across three counties, it crashes softly to the ground. the sheriff's department rushes to the saucer but finds no one inside. rescue crews continue searching for the missing boy, but shortly after the balloon

how much of a delay until we really do see richard branson's dream come true? >> i think that is only a question that richard branson and his team can answer. they are dealing with a lot of difficult situations right now, and particularly with the loss of the crew. these were their friends. these were people that everybody worked with, were respected, and they looked up to, so they are going to have to get rid this period, and then they will have to make decisions about how they move on with the program and at what pace, but i think that many of the failures that we have seen in the past when we charge new territory are really kind of part of the process. unfortunately, when you are doing something risky, when you are doing something on the edge, when you are doing something that is new, there are always going to be areas that are risky, and i think there is really no other way to talk about it when you do something. unfortunately, when you do have new products and technology, the products fail, or you do not experience reliability. when you have a human endeav

richard, what do you make of what happened today? i mean, the fact there were multiple debris fields spread over wide area obviously is broke up, at very high altitude. at this point we just don't know exactly what went wrong. >> no, we don't. and of course, everybody is focusing on the different fuel formula which they announced had been used today. but what role that played is simply unknown. indeed, what role the engine played or whether it was a structural failure, what we can say looking at the pictures, and what you can say looking at the debris field is that after the separation was this catastrophic incident. but you would expect to see a large plume and a flame, because obviously the engine was going to be ignited. and then the space craft breaks up. now, that may be stating the blinding obvious. but you really at this point, anderson, cannot go one stage further. because the reasons for that break-up, and we know clearly there was a break-up because of the debris field going so wide we can't go further than that which may n

terrific piece of reporting, richard. thank you. >>> an update now on that general motors recall on ignition switches linked to dozens of deaths. there are still more than 1 million cars on the american road that need to be fixed. and we're learning tonight general motors was aware of the problem months before telling the government about this potentially deadly defect. we get our report on this tonight from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: tonight, serious questions about whether gm knew far earlier than it first admitted about a deadly ignition switch defect, linked to at least 32 deaths and hundreds of injuries. most of the victims in their teens and early 20s. gm announced the recall on february 7th, but newly discovered e-mails between gm and a supplier show both parties knew there was a problem two months earlier in december. a gm project manager writes of an urgent field action for our customers and the need to secure 500,000 replacement parts. but appearing before congress last spring ceo mary barra repeatedly tes

that is why people are angry across the country. >> richard? >> millions of people across the country. >> richard, you're ignoring the fact what the prosecutor told us is that there is testimony that a, that man who wound up shot dead attacked a police officer. after he had just committed a robbery, attacked a police officer sitting in a car. and punched his face and then, ran, turned around and charged the officer the prosecutor said several, several african american witnesses came forward to say they saw the african american 18-year-old coming toward the police officer. while the police officer had his gun drawn. i'm sorry, but that was the testimony. >> michael brown had his hands up in the sign of universal surrender. if you look at the evidence this prosecutor didn't give the grand jury clear charges. this prosecutor said he wasn't going to go a grand jury to begin with. the people forced him there. >> very to get to andel. richard, great to see you the prosecutor didn't have to take it to a grand jury. should we, should we not live with t

here's richard branson, speaking on bloomberg's in the loop. whohe ntsb are the people causes, andbout the engage in a thorough investigation. that aey indicated was lever had been pressed a few seconds sooner than it should have been. we believe it up to the ntsb to decide whether that had any effect, and whether that was the cause. >> the crash killed one pilot and injured another. branson said he is confident there is no fundamental flaw with the spacecraft, and he vows to push ahead in the private space race. anding me as cory johnson, a former astronaut and commander of the international space station. literally, i will start with you. we spoke on friday. now that we have more information, what do you think happened? >> it seems like we have a bit more information. the ntsb has made an official announcement. they found a fuel tank in a motor largely intact. that indicates those elements did not explode. and then they have cockpit video showing the copilot unlocking the feathering device. he moved that lever apparently a few seconds early,