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Water gushing out of the south bay reservoir, not to reduce flooding but to prevent a different kind of disaster. Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. We are finally getting a break from ten Straight Days of rain. To say the bay area is waterlogged an under statement. A snapshot of the reservoirs now. Lake shasta is at 92 . Anderson is at 91 full. That Water District is releasing water, which is hard to understand when the state is officially in a drought. Eric thomas explains why ...

Are cleaning up, pumping out and drying out tonight after a week of rain. We could really use some clear weather. Sandy has been tracking when we might see some more rain. Sandy, it sounds like me might be getting a nice break. Yes, indeed, ama and dan. Say so long to the rain. Live doppler 7 is quiet tonight. When you take a look at the sevenday rainfall totals, topping 12 inches. Over a foot of rain. Mount saint helena and kent field, we got about a half a foot in danville. Ben lomond almost 1...

Now from abc 7, live breaking news. Breaking news, a massive evacuation effort is under way right now as more than 100,000 people are trying to get out of the way of a potentially catastrophic failure at the Lake Oroville dam. If that is not addressed and we dont take care of that and mitigate it properly, essentially what were looking at is approximately a 30foot wall of water good evening. Im eric thomas. Were waiting for the start of a News Conference on the latest of the situation at Lake Or...

Let the work begin thank you, good evening and welcome to the the San Francisco board of appeals. The presiding officer is commissioner honda and we are joined by by our Vice President commissioner fung and commissioner wilson and commissioner swig commissioner lazarus that be a little bit to my left the deputy City Attorney to provide the board with legal advice at the controls so gary the legal assistant director. Were joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before ...

Ford, all of these basically weaker than expected although slightly better than expected for fiat and chrysler. The real concern is when you look at car sales. Were not talking about suvs and pickups. Were talking about car sales. The numbers, thats not a mistake there. That is accurate. Fiat chrysler cars down 39 . Gm down 25 . Same with ford. Toyota, down 15. 9 . What is happening here . A couple things. Moderate gas prices are having an impact. People are saying if i have gas at, what, 2. 32 ...

Baby and we were just having a really difficult time coming up with names, finally my husband suggested Eleanor Francis, i googled the name and what popped up was a woman named Eleanor Francis and there was a beautiful picture of her black and white taken at nasa in the 1960s accepting an award. I was stun by the picture because i had no idea that women worked in nasa at that time much less a scientist. So i really wanted to learn more about i found out that actually Eleanor Francis was not alon...

Acknowledging that the American People are better off than we were seven years ago. Even he understands we made important progress. Connell the Senate Majority leader is here, Mitch Mcconnell is here to talk about his book called the long game. Should have a nice long talk about that. Interesting to hear the white house 8 you as almost a source. Dont know where they got that. I have been saying the opposite. The middleclass is shrinking, the worst recovery after a deep recession since world war ...

Commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president fong commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner richards well expect commissioner wu to be absent commissioners, the first item on your agenda is consideration of items for continuance item 1 harrison street conditional use authorization is proposed for continuance until october 8, 2015, and further commissioners under our re...

Redefining formula retail use is proposed until november 19, 2015, i have no speaker cards any Public Comment on the two items proposed for continuance not seeing any, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner antonini before i hopeful for the continuance up wanted to note 1532 did we originally continue this. We continued it because of the late hour on the 17 to the first, the project sponsor is asking for one more week. That being said i propose to continue item one until october 8th and 10 to oc...

Drew houston. Drew thanks for having me. Emily my life is stored on dropbox. 252 gigabytes. Is that a lot . Drew it is pretty good. [laughter] emily the criticism is it is so simple, other companies can do it also. Google, microsoft, apple, box. How do you compete with that . What makes it a Good Business . Drew i would be curious to hear why you use dropbox or why you continue to use dropbox. But for our users, i think it is a couple things. A few things. One is the product is really easy to us...