the contract does not clean up this soil? >> yes, those are what those almost 800,000 it goes to this facility. it takes the mitigated liability for us. it's being moved 260,000 miles away from san francisco. >> yes, it's the best fit to receive it. >> i wouldn't want to live there. >> do we have a motion? >> yes, we have a motion. i move. >> commissioner singh? i can second.

it's in place soils that have not been excavated yet. it's in an island between the folsom off ramp and the fremont street off ramp. the quantity of these soils is 2,000 cubic yards or 3,000 tons. the stock pile is in the way of construction and preventing some of the work from being completed. ocii staff and sfta considered other method to dispose of the soil since they can not remain on-site. together we reviewed other treatments. these scenarios were not compatible with the type of soils and did not save project cost. after extensive discussions ocii staff concludes that the only available option is to dispose of the contaminated materials at a regulated proposed facility which is clean harbors environmental disposal facility. which is the largest in north america and which is approximately 260 miles from the project site. staff will mitigate liability by requiring the disposal agreement contained in attachment no. 1 to be executed that the work be in compliance with state laws governoring hazard ous materials and oci insured through

the contract does not clean up this soil? >> yes, those are what those almost 800,000 it goes to this facility. it takes the mitigated liability for us. it's being moved 260,000 miles away from san francisco. >> yes, it's the best fit to receive it. >> i wouldn't want to live there. >> do we have a motion? >> yes, we have a motion. i move. >> commissioner singh? i can second. so i will second the motion. please call the roll. >> commission members please announce your vote when i call your name. commissioner mondejar? >> yes. >> commissioner singh? >> yes. commissioner bustos is absent. madam chair rosales? >> yes. >> i have three ayes and one absent. >> okay, the commission approves the request. reluctantly. >> please call the next item. city clerk: the next order of business is 5d adopting environmental review findings pursuant to the california environmental quality act and approving amendments to the mission bay for south design for development and signage and master plan to allow a wall signage to be located at a maximum

and soil green from world war ii in 1935 and vietnamese soil was added in 19988 before the memorial was built the soil was removed and kept safe as charlotte shurts says it's r sacred soil today, it's final resting place within the walls of passage of remember braps we've paid e wait many days so i want to thank the committee i want to thank the steve beck he will fund and family and all who have attributed to make that moment possible but more anything the men and women of this great country that wear the uniform with pride, with a sense of services a willingness to give their life for the values we treasure as americans thank you (clapping). >> nov greven is going to recite a poem by ash balanced it was entitled young dead soldiers this particular poem last been inscribed in a special place as part of the san francisco veterans memorial archbold ma cliche wrote this poem in the middle of the last century when he was a librarian with the library of congress as a young man he served in world war i and witnessed suffering and death on the battlefields of europe after world war ii whe

of remembrance the chest of the soils was made especially by the staff of the memorial board the seal of each of the services is on the chest and the inscription that translates that we never forget placing the chest with the soils will be nelson alumni the veteran legion a vietnam veteran and our i did not know veteran lee 0 la now. >> (clapping) in a minute i'll ask you to arise as the first marine band plays i ask you to past through the memorial stopping to reflect on the poem and have a glassed of champagne but first thank you for the color glory that stood through all the service and for the first definition band please rise for the color of the retirees color graduate retire the colors. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ that concludes our ceremony thank you, very much ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i supposed to say the honorable mayor ed lee honorable willie brown mr. gesture pa elementary honorable guests and ladies and gentlemen, in times of the astrology i'm saying this is loving peace that the addition of the wood elements the goat characteristic is taught of love and pea

it's in place soils that have not been excavated yet. it's in an island between the folsom off ramp and the fremont street off ramp. the quantity of these soils is 2,000 cubic yards or 3,000 tons. the stock pile is in the way of construction and preventing some of the work from being completed. ocii staff and sfta considered other method to dispose of the soil since they can not remain on-site. together we reviewed other treatments. these scenarios were not compatible with the type of soils and did not save project cost. after extensive di

below the biologically active part of the soil so deep in the soil that there isn't a science to tell us that those forests could ever recover. >> the devastation exposed from above was dramatic - but it was also only part of the story. the aircraft it's outfitted with all sorts of cool technology. how did you use some of that technology to zero in on what was happening in terms of gold mining? >> one of the key technologies aboard the plane is a laser imaging system what it does is we fire laser beams out of the bottom of the plane - the lasers can penetrate all the way to the forest floor. so what we end up doing is imaging the forest in very high fidelity 3d. most of the work that had been done on this gold mining problem was using satellites that see some of the larger mines. we started finding that there was a much larger contribution from thousands of small gold mining operations that weren't known, and suddenly we had a problem to report. >> the rate of gold mining expansion tripled after the 2008 global recession. >> if you are on a typical amazon river the forest seems like i

engineers report on a remedy to correct the unstable hillside and 5 days for the soil recommendation and thirty excuse me. 90 days including the inspection and uphold okay. is that good? yeah. >> so and we have a second on that. >> commissioner a roll call vote vote commissioner melgar commissioner mccarthy commissioner mar commissioner mccray and commissioner walker the order of abatement and assessment costs is upheld. >> okay. we are now on you're showing item g and h but it should be item e and f at the end item e is general public comment do we have any general public comment public comment as it relates to the abatement i abatement appeals board. seeing none item f adjournment may i have a motion for adjournment >> second. >> commissioner walker we're adjourned it is 946 we'll be starting with the building inspection commission meeting at

. >> what about the seismic -- the soil is still the same. craig heaps for a second look. >>> still to come on a second look, take a tour of the 1915 expo including the tower of jewels. a beacon the wonders waiting within. >>> from aviators to incubators to sailors with amazing skills. the thrills lasted into the night at the fair. >>> note note ♪ ♪ >>> celebrated in song, the pam pacific celebration. architects, artists and landscape gardeners planned and erected a city straight out of a beautiful dream. >>> on the day the fair opened 250,000 stood outside the gates to get a first look at that beautiful dream. built on what had been 630 acres of marsh land. and as george watson reported on the 75th an anniversary of the fair, the expo proved to be a financial as well as popular success. >> reporter: this was the site of the scott street entrance to the exposition. today it is the intersection of tusk and chestnut street. you would be confronted by the fountain of energy and beyond that looming above the entire exposition the gleaming tow

item is to approve increased expenditures for the off-ramp reconfiguration related to the contaminated soils at the project site. this project is located at the terminus from westbound, i-80 and the first off-ramp into downtown san francisco. and the fulsom street leg of the off-ramp curves across transbay, development block 8 as shown in this image and in order to assemble and create a parcel, to maximize the development and follow the adopted transbay development controls, the office of the community and development and infrastructure seeks to reconfigure the off-ramp. and this image shows the ultimate configuration of the off-ramp and in november of 2013, we entered into the memo of agreement with the ocii with the construction phase of the project, uppeder that agreement we are to provide the turn key operations. construction began in september, 2014. and in november, contaminated materials were discovered during the testing of excavating materials prior to disposal n february of 2015, the commission on community investment and infrastructure approved to increase the budget to provide fu

ocii and cal transstaff, ocii staff, concluded that the only available option is to dispose of the soils at a regulated disposal facility, it is clean harbor landfill in california. the presence of contaminated materials has prevented some work from proceeding as originally schedule, construction is currently schedule to be completed in early july. the time extension will insure, costs for idle equipment and project and the staffing by the contractor construction manager and transportation authority. the estimated delay is currently 61 days in total, some of which core current owner and contractor-caused. >> and the estimated additional project cost to properly handle and dispose of approximately, 5500 tons is $1 million, the total carrying costs for the time extension are estimated at $200,000. of that, 64,580, is designated in the mla amendment for the contractor, who is compensated on a per day basis for site maintenance and costs for all owner caused delay, thus, 180 responses is designated for the engineers, and the remaining 17,080 is designated to the authority for the project man

it is organic soil. what it has inside of it poop, and warm castings. >> usually when you say fertilizer. >> yes. >> it is all organic. >> if you are growing herbs and vegetables in your garden you don't want ten californias. i say all organic is only way to go. it is healthier. healthier for you. putting up a system like this takes very little time a few minutes. >> okay. i can take this one. >> organic soil. toss tonight there. toss it in there. >> you pull on a herb. this happens to be a onion type of a plan pop tonight there and put more soil around it. and that is it. it will take you a few minutes to plant this up. let's say you have a giant wall that is 12 feet long. imagine if you are getting one square foot filled with just 50 plants each. most gardens only have 50 plants or less. you are planting as much as a traditional flat garden on a wall. many farms right here the same thing. >> i'm watching, i have a small space that i would like to have a growing wall, how much would this cost. >> someth

across the city for someone who wants to grow their own food could learn about propagating plants and soil health and at the same time the community members in bayview hunters point wanted to put forward a community driven model what would that look like? so we partnered with 2 community organizations as well as with rec and park to develop a series of resource centers that were pop up in nature and mobile . there's a lot of transportation access issues in bay views hunters point so we deviced this and the other feature of this pilot was to work with local youth and provide them leadership and workforce development opportunities so 10 youth from hunter's point families and we have our next one coming up march 14th adjacent to the site here so while the site was not appropriate to grow food we did hear in terms of a place where community members can pickup compost that would make sense. we're trying that out march 14th and these are just some more photos from the one we had in january. the girl was working from a hunter's point family and the the final site supervisor avalos mentioned earli

soil. therefore, the limitless power that the president can exercise on a battlefield are now no longer confined to physical spaces. essentially the president is omnipotent everywhere because that is where the battlefield is found. what you have seen the past several years, the concern was at some point the world as a battlefield and the president can exert more power is inside the united states. what you have seen over the last couple years is very much moving in that direction. security.s. national officials five years ago talked about al qaeda as the greatest national security threat were al qaeda and the arabian peninsula or various affiliates, now they talk about almost uniformly the greatest threat eating what they call homegrown terrorists. what you have seen the civil liberty abuses, new ones, spreading up almost exclusively on american soil. two years ago, the obama justice department announced new rules where miranda rights were diluted. deluded -- you have legislation being propo

the project reserves also includes an amount of $100,000 to handle motor oil contaminated soils. the next slide is an aerial view from transbay block six looking westerly and as you can see on the right-hand side the folsom off ramp has been demolished and the existing -- alignment is under construction. there are two plastic soils andtrary contaminated and the one on the left is the one with the motor oil and budgeting $100,000 for the disposal. the second one contains lead and that is subject to a future action as we are still having ongoing discussions with caltrans about its disposition. there are other considerations for this moa. the second item on this slide is for robert de and -- robs authority and we are asking for a prepayment authorized by the state department of finance to be spent at the rops 14-15a period and the second bullet point on this slide is for an update to the sbe and the work force participation. the sbe goals for this project are 50% and the transportation authority is right there at 50%. for work force the transportation authority is using the city's l

. >> it will map the water in earth's soil has the potential to be revolutionary. >> satellites tracking water from above. innovation shows water. >> ok, i'll take your word for it. >> a biologist specializing in evolution. techno investigates the new dust bowl. tonight, beyond science, innovative goggles and the story she'll never forget. >> looks like there's another one. hold on. >> that's our team. now let's do some science. >> welcome to techno. we have recently done this drive from l.a. to san francisco. it's beautiful, but in the central valley, you see the farms and signs. >> they basically say no water no jobs. >> california is in a really intense prolonged drought. this is a worldwide thing, all over the globe, there are more extreme weather events. places are getting warmer places are getting drier. it's a pretty big deal. >> we went to central voluntarily to see just how bad it is, what technology can do to maybe help fix it. let's take a look. >> we are seeing a period of epic drought the extremes for extreme. it affects all of us. >> we get a satellite view of california's

and they are telling them to rise up on american soil. you can be a one man jihad in your own back yard. think of fort hood. think of the boston n bombing. think of paris in january of 2015. in paris perfect example of what i am talking about. two well armed jihadist brothers, trained in yemen with al-qaeda. they returned home to france and wreaked havoc killing 17 people and among the 17 was not on accident a number of jews who were targeted because they were jews. it was not a coincidence. make no mistake about it. 17 people killed by two well armed jihadist captured world attention and dominated the global media cycle for a week and inspired an anti-terrorist march in paris when president obama skipped. message sent. translate what happened in paris here to america soil. do you think it can't happen here? did we not see the boston bombing on may 13th? brothers. two well-armed, well trained terrorist to a degree. actually relatively amateurish. killed four people and wounded 200 more and captured the global media cycle and even more imp

. >> the soil there is it has issues there's unstable issues that is a helicopter view look ating the bridges there's been problems with the soil those bridges are old they're built in the 40s so in that regard i'll go through a couple of pictures to give you an existing condition of the bridges and let's talk about the concept we originally developed actually started in 2010 first step working through the caltrain progress for the federal approval those were prepared and approved in december of 2011 as i indicated previously we were going to replace 3 bridges and rieftsd 5 we've received the environmental approval in december of 2012 as we went ahead and studied did engineering in particular, the soil analysis we realized it was going to be an expensive project with an inherent risk it would require expensive construction and you see the steep hillside construction frankly when we started to we were the bidding community we found that frankly not a lot of people want to bid this in terms of meeting the federal requirements we prepared the analysis because that project cost was someth

we're in mourning, because it's a tragedy that happened on our soil. i'll haved world to know if there have been any other consequences of this accident, it's in a a zone difficult to access, i don't know if there are homes affected. solidarity is what we have to focus on. >> let's continue with this breaking news story live from berlin. we continue to get details from the german capitol. bring us up to date with what more you've been hearing there about the crash. most of the information so far has been coming from the french authorities, what more are they saying in germany? >> a couple of things to update you with. germanwings will be holding a press conference in the next few hours and that the german transport minister is going to travel to the crash site to see for himself what has happened to this airline that's come down in barcelonnette. so far germanwings and lufthansa have retrained from going into detail about the nationalities of the people onboard and one tweet said they hope to find survivors still. clearly as you said, president holland

a trellised area a beautiful space not often used in march one of these days where folks can pickup soil and mulch. >> no long-term? >> no not at this time correct. >> thank you very much. i do have some speakers on this item. keith tanner? >> >> thank you. i'm keith tanner from the san francisco urban agriculture alliance and it's an all volunteer community group consisting of several hundred individuals and organizations that advocates for the growing of food within san francisco and i'm here on behalf of the sfuaa to voice our support for the work being done by the sfpuc and encourage the commission to continue with the exciting projects that you see here today and especially excited that the city is pursuing urban agriculture on public land so we'd like for you to keep up the good work. thanks. >> thank you. next speaker -- hannah schulman. >> hello commissioners. like yolanda said a year ago the recs and park department started the program. they have been an amazing partner thus far. we've been working together on a number of projects and they have continued to pursue this idea to m

the vegetables are grown in planters containing soil. the soil is made up of fertilizers including chicken droppings and its distribution can be monitored more closely including venlg tablgs with just the right amount of nutrients. when seedlings are transferred, they are placed at intervals accord i according to the plant type. each nine meter tower contains around 30 shelves. leafy vegetables are ready for harvest in around 30 days. these tower units are actually rotating. we can see this more clearly if we speed up the video. the shelves make one rotation every 16 hours. the speed of rotation can be adjusted to match the type of vegetables. it insures they receive the right amount of is sun light. the sun is strong and temperature high. adjustment of exposure time is important. most do this by attaching -- but the moving shelves free the farmers from this shore. exposed to direct sun light for about one hour when they are closest to the top. >> afternoon is very stressed. afternoon, tired. the hour is rotating. so, rotating, it's only

>> only as-needed especially especially as it relates to the soil specialists we feel fairly strongly we don't need them as much and as long as we have the asbestos turning into a fly away situation and we are running into a lot of arc logical items of interest so we definitely probably through ven some of the build up we'll keep the the archeologyist on board. >> we're paying for them? >> as part of our mitigation measures under the environmental document have to make sure we have the archeologist on board to document all of the finds we have. >> all right. that's my questions i'll call for the vote now. all those in favor. >> aye. >> opposed? the motion carries . the next item. that was 12 and 13. >> we are now going to go into closed session. could you please read the items in closed session? >> public comment? any public comment on 12 on 12 and 13? seeing none, could you please read the items for closed session. >> item 16. >> item 17. >> item 18. >> item 19. >> item 20. >> any public comment on the items for closed session? >> motion to assert the attorney client privilege. >> se

. >> kurds say toxic contaminated soil was collected from bomb blasblasts. >> the proof thee plumes of orange smoke exploding which they say is chlorine. iraqi fighters filmed this video near tikrit a bomber driving a truck filled with chlorine. says he is not surprised the tactic is being deployed by the i.s.i.l. >> i think it was only a matter of time before they used it themselves. >> reporter: in january, an attack on peshmerga forces contained levels of the agent. a legislatory exploded on a highway between the iraqi are area the toxic chemical is banned underthe wrar convention. now it seems they're facing a similar threat from i.s.i.l. selena downs, al jazeera. >>> if inhaled in large amounts fluid is introduced a into the lungs which can induce drowning. jane ah rafer what arraf away what about these accounts? >> european union union has no various e-verification that this actually is theverification that this is the case. slightest implication that there could be any sort of chemical weapons in use. the chemical weapons we are talking about would be color chlorine. there is no

for 115 years the obvious and plain meaning that people born on american soil are american citizens have been a.f.c. firmed before the supreme court -- have been affirmed before the supreme court and can only be changed by a constitutional amendment. now, my colleague from louisiana instead presents a bill and tries to argue with the supreme court and the english language by claiming undocumented immigrants are not subject to the jurisdiction thereof. is he really suggesting, for example, that if an undocumented immigrant was brought to court he or she wouldn't be subject to the court's jurisdiction? clearly not. and the civil rights leaders who drafted the 14th amendment department think so either. instead, the 14th amendment was adopted after the infamous dred scott decision to make sure the united states never has an unequal class system, and this principle that america isn't a country club is a profound american value. if my friend from louisiana wants to change the constitution he should abide by the framework that our founding fathers set up. if a senator wants to make a monumental

for instance fighting on nigerian soil, something -- foreign troops fighting on nigerian soil, something abuja had been reluctant to see. they have launched military offensives in northern nigeria before sunday's joint operation with niger. the militants' pledge of allegiance to the islamic state group's weekend was the last straw. nigerians government -- nigeria's government appealed for international help. >> it is time for the government of nigeria to mount of its power from other countries to be able to fight and slaughter the insurgents. >> the african union recently endorsed the creation of a regional force of up to 10,000 troops to combat boko haram. for now, the operation is set to be limited to areas on the nigerian side of lake chad which represent only a fraction of the militants' zone of activity. 30,000 people have been killed during 30 -- six years of insurgency. genie: 30 people were killed in an airstrike on an oil refinery run by the islamic state group that strike by the u.s.-led coalition targeting the syrian refinery that's it near the border with turkey -- that sits

in mussununga it had to adapt to the sandy soils. to keep stable, it has developed wide roots which supported on the surface. -- support it on the surface. >> the name of the national park, pau brazil, comes from a tree species, also known as brazilwood. centuries ago, the portuguese chopped down the trees to extract its red admits. it was such an important raw material back then that the country was named after it. the brazilwood is almost extinct now. it only exists in the national park, where large specimens like this are a sensation. >> botanists estimate this tree is between 500 and 600 years old. it's a very old tree. it reminds us of the past. >> the pau brazil grows very slowly. these small trees already 30 to 40 years old. they grow close to the adult tree. when that dies, the younger trees compete for their place in the sun. the way the pau brasil reproduces can only be observed here in the national park. >> forests like this have a history going back thousands of years. people weren't there to write it down. i wish we woul

. >> it went down on our soil. >> with yemen on the drink of civil war the parties will hold talks in qatar. >> india's supreme court strikes down a law allowing police to arrest people for comments on line. >> we begin with that breaking news out of france where an airbus a320 has crashed with 148 people onboard. french president hollande said there are no survivors. you can see flight 9525 taking off from barcelona reaching heights of 38,000 feet as it reaches marseille it drops to 6800 feet. front president hollande has made a statement about the crash. >> our thoughts are with the families of those suffering this terrible lass today. we are offering every way and means possible to try and find out what happened in this accident and to find the wreckage and also the bodies of the victims. the accident happened in a particularly difficult zone to get to, rescue services will not really be able to give us results for a few more hours. i want our different services to mobilize. >> president hollande said there were passengers from germany and turkey onboard but didn't think there were

it also has no soil erosion. it protects the erosion. >> for the past few years, they have been planting forests along the river. it is a long-term project supported by the government. shade from the trees should help prevent evaporation from the river water. >> this will be completed right. completely. you can see that the water is now flowing. we can see what we have done. people are seeing what we have done. we are very proud. >> the locals shared their knowledge and experience with the locals. they are glad to talk about the project because the forest station benefits everyone along the river. >> this is a dream. to have it clean, clear, like what we have seen here. if you compare this to downstream, it collects a ton of things as a goes down. we'll hope all of the stakeholders involved in this process can really see the benefits of reclaiming a river and this will produce clean water. >> that is something marianna can only dream about. the dry season has just started. she doesn't benefit from the hydroelectr

we'll have to take full responsibility of fixing the soil. this is my region. all companies broke promises. the of hope is they'll be more accountable >>> venezuela's military is ready to defend the country from u.s. invasion. the government is scaling large-scale operations. it was a 10-day drill that started on saturday. the show of force comes as an association of south american nations rejected a decision to label venezuelan a security threat. >> 32 people died when the bus they were on plunged off a ridge. workers are working to reach the survivors. tens of thousands expect to take part in nation-wide. it made the president more unpopular. >> reporter: here, a working class area the president dilma rousseff has been supported. it's places like this across brazil that the party could count on turn out from their candidates. duff tough tips chipped away at loulty. this man has installed carsteros. things have never been slow. >> i used to have six or seven cars a day, now i'm happy to make one. his half-brother had a steady paying job. he's been unemployed f

and possibly wrongly but i felt inspector matthewer at the building inspection felt that to take on soils report piecemeal was one it is inefficient not getting the information you need but frankly in my opinion it leads to quarrels between the property owners how shall i put it with who's loss rock belongs to who we're going forward on this basis i've done what i could to get the adjacent commercial building owners appraised of what we're doing the problem being that over the years the slides on union street are controversial they've come into the newspapers and now engineers out there with ropes and orange hats and people wondering what we're up to so i'm sorry, i didn't pickup on the fact i was supposed to prepare 20 copies or so but hopefully, you've got the proposal that is the one they're doing they started last week and they've frankly the very last page it was actually not part of it the front of the proposal indicates which properties we're talking about and there's actually, one more included under a separate contract that is one of the i'm sorry 202 union street and so that bri