A night filled with starstudded performances, questionable outfits, and a rather bizarre on stage interruption from yes, kanye west. Saying its no joke monday, february 9, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today. 7 00 a. M. On the west coast on this monday, could we do a grammy note. So happy for sam smith. One of the nicest people to sing on this show in a long time. It was his night for sure. Kanye, oh, kanye. More about that coming up. Lets get to the top story. Again its weather. Storms are bringing dangerous flooding to the west while we here in the northeast are dealing with a dangerous mix of snow, ice and rain. Well get to als forecast in ament mo. First, nbcs Miguel Almaguer is in seattle. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. Certainly wild weather out west over the weekend. The socalled Pineapple Express delivering a onetwo punch here, lets begin in Wa
Questionable performances and interruptions from kanye west. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. The expression couldnt happen to a nicer guy, sam smith. One of the nicest guy you will meet and what a guy. Kanye gets into the headlines. What a shock. More on that in a little bit. Once again, snow is our top story. Another winter storm pummelling the northeast. Dylan driver is driving around boston. Good morning to you. Good morning, matt. We are considering changing to massachusetts plates. This is the fourth storm to hit this area in just 17 days. You can see out the front of the blue mobile that the streests are covered in snow. The winds are not as strong. Instead of a hard hitting noreaster this is a long drawn out affair into parts of tonight in an area that is still trying to clean up. Just weeks after a series of storms dropped record snow acro
Commissioner riley . Yes, i want to mention that [inaudible] the petition on this establishment. [inaudible] can i put up a diagram to show you the process . I just want to clarify that before sb 731 went in place and before people went through the dph process they all went through this process. This is something weve been doing since the Health Department took over since the Police Department. Basically what happens when you come in to get an application from the department of Public Health and there are certain conditions you need to meet. You need to have a business license and then we ask you for referrals. You can see the referrals are going to the Planning Department for a referral and that will determine making sure the location that if you open your business that it abides by the zoning code and if you need to go through a different process. The Building Department would have to fill out a referral form and they go in and do an inspection to look at making sure the electricity
Bit about whats going to take whether hospital or massage practitioners are going to be able to continue operating while they are complying and how much time are you proposing to give them. So sf govtv if i can just put the document on screen again. At the bottom you can see we are going to require that practitioner submit an application to dph permitting process within 90 days of the Effective Date of the ordinance. So you only have to submit it within 90 days. If we can complete the process, hopefully you can complete it as soon as possible but we are not going to penalize someone for not completing it within the 90 days. You just have to show a good faith effort. And we will allow those to continue in operation while on going this process. Our goal is to not put people out of business. Much of the process depends on the responsiveness of these other agencies, correct . Correct. We understand that. As long as the application is in within 90 days, the practitioner can continue his or
They had set certain types of businesses or types of businesses to be able to go through that expedite process. Currently massage is not in there. We are happy to continue that conversation, its not part of it right now. I think the larger picture with the Planning Department today in general is how is it that you are really better support the smaller businesses citywide across the industries. Thats something they have been looking at. They hired additional planners, like a dozen of them and they have programs for small types of businesses that maybe dont have to go through commissions. So im very interested in looking forward to that bigger conversation where again, massage would be included as part of that. The second issue is that you spoke about in terms of outreach in making sure people are aware of this proposal for conditional use process. This has been the process for many many years until 731 came into place. The other thing i want to highlight about it is that our Office Actu