when you take the wrapper off of this you see it has lots of warts on it, let me talk about the,nrcs, in the west. i know you all have your own. but i saw a persuasive speech by randy who is quite properly convincing. changes all the way from stainless steel pillows to ten gallons and black pillows of this. vegetationle changes, the lesson here, i think in general and this applies to,usgs, and national weather, we need to make sure the networks are in good enough shape to make these decisions. they don't cost a lot of money but you need to know the data out there is quite flawed and we need to take care of it and make sure in the future it's doing what it needs to for us. let me expand this. there's a very nasty fight going on on the future of some satellites right now. the fight involved climate centers on these centers and certain governments want to toss them in favor of weather sensors. weather is important but climate also is. it effects all of us. no data means no good research fundamentally. so i encourage you not to lose site of some of these bigger issues. >> very good. >> on

we had a pretty good turnout the last two weeks at the nrc, the nummi reemployment center, and a lotave had an opportunity to speak, they're all excited. they're very excited about this job fair. hopefully this will be a success. hopefully a lot of ex-nummi employees will be employed and we can continue going forward with nap. as employees from nummi get hired, the word gets spread around and also the employer gets to see the skill that they have and they'll be more encouraged to start find more nummi employees to employee. >> hopefully it will make a difference, and it's for nummi employees only. the fair is at the alameda county fairgrounds today from 9:30 to 4:00. you're encouraged to bring 25 to 30 resumes. >> that's a lot of resumes. hopefully get a job out of that. >>> time now, 6:37. we want to check your commute. felipe is in for mike. >> good morning, brent, and good morning, folks. if you're heading out this morning, here's the first thing to talk about. a little bit of slowing on northbound 101 at millbrae. this has a grass fire there, which somehow connected to that, some

the nrc is ralying behind ken buck.he washington establishment was behind jane norton, the former lieutenant governor, had john mccain campaign with her last week. john cornen, the chairman of the nrc did a joint fundraise are. she's the one that the party was behind. that's what got the tea party folks riled up. with the reason that ken buck's campaign surged earlier this year. he was contemplating getting out of the race last fall after she got in in september. his money had had dried up, a lot of enthusiasm about her getting in from the national people, kind of the -- she got of the lot of the headlines and the reports were he was planning to get out. he stuck in it and sort of as she came to be seen as the establishment candy, the tea party rallied behind ken buck. he wasn't a natural tea party person. i was talking to him, he admitted he wasn't one of the originators of the tea party, he's a district attorney in wells county. but sort of -- they turned to him because they didn't like this establishment candidate. a