Brown bag lunch meetings which we do every third thursday and the public is invited to come and sit and join us and share their points of view as well. This is not a technical lecture but sort of a point of view. I ask people to come and share points of view with me. And so for todays discussion about retaining walls and fences, we have a couple people joining us. Pat buscovich, Structural Engineer who is one of the people who has seen more failed retaining walls in San Francisco than anybody else. And he owns a few actually. And Jim Mccormick from the mr. Planning department. Hes been here 20, over 20 years. Jim mccormick runs the planning information counter on the first floor at 1660 mission street. The signing information counter, by the way, is one of your primary sources for information in the city regarding what you can do, where you can do it, how you can do it. And if you want to reach the planning information counter, what do you do . You call, right . Call. What is the phone
Street names and addresses. People in some parts of japan have put on face masks to protect themselves from the blanket of white fog. The air contains hazardous particles called pm 2. 5. Scientists say it came across the sea from china. Ten local governments have issued advisory. Tomoko comatta has details. Reporter residents in the city of nag gat that on the japan sea coast could hardly see buildings three kilometers away. The level of the pollutants exceeded the countrys Environmental Standards for the first time tran tran the smog is so heavy that i put the mask on. Translator im worried about my health. Its unusual to breathe such bad air in the city. Reporter children couldnt go out to the playground. Government standards set the particle limit at an average of 70 micro grams per day. In many parts of japan, the level exceeded that. Officials in ten prefectures issued advisories for their residents to not go outside unless necessary and to refrain from vigorous outdoor exercise.
Exhaustive list where personally identifiable information exists, i think that would be very helpful. I think we may have done that. But im happy to have my staff work with viewers or if theres questions for the record here to, again, always be as responsive as we can. Thank you. Senator, one more question . Thank you, mr. Chairman. And i just want to follow up on the question that senator ritter just asked. Let me tell youmy understanding is, director. There are approximately nine institutions required by the cfpb to submit invest on credit card transactions. Weve estimated that thats about 900 million. Im not asking you to confirm that number, unless you will, today, but as that data is clerkted, it is not amoanonymou not deidentified. Its the whole story. That information is then transmitted to a third party who you have contracted with who then goes in and deidentifies it or makes it anonymous. And they create a personal identifier for each one of those accounts that is not its a n
Im maureen umeh. Attentionfilled weekend as lawmakers try to beat the fiscal cliff clock and the redskins host the cowboys in one of the most crucial games of the season. Well get to those stories in a moment. First, it was not quite the Winter Wonderland many of us hoped for. For a few hours, many of us saw the snow make an appearance today and now that most has turned to slush, forecasters are worried that nearfreezeing temperatures could make for a dangerous situation on the road. Tucker barnes has more. Reporter could be a couple of icy spots out there late, particularly north and west and we got the snow during the day anywhere between a trace and maybe two inches, if you have to the west of the city. Lets go to the maps then, again, the system new winding down. You can see the last of it. There you go. Pushing up now north and east of new york city. And still some leftover snow into connecticut and to boston and providence and theyre getting leftovers. For us, the cloud cover and
Either heavy drizzle or sprinkles out there. Now, stormtracker 4 really not picking up on it because we are talking about the pesky showers where you dont know whether or not to use your windshield wipers or not. It is moist out there. You will definitely encounter that as you hit the roads but we are looking for drier conditions and partly cloudy skies as we head into later on today. Heres a look at your temperatures right now, thanks to the cloud cover, we are a little warmer than yesterday. 52 degrees right now in fairfield, San Francisco at 51, 53 out the door in oakland. We are looking for Clear Conditions by later on today, its going to be a little breezy especially along the coast but sunny skies are anticipated as we start the next workweek. We are also talking about a warming trend that will carry us into the middle of next week with High Pressure back in effect. Ill be talking about just how warm its going to get, ill be highlighting the 90s in the forecast coming up in 15 mi