> it is the city and town of santa cisco, the port, -- of san francisco, the port, the army corps of engineers, fish and game, boating and wildlife. >> every time somebody wants to do something, and has to go through all of these review agencies. >> it makes it very interesting. >> the port is really a separate administrative jurisdiction. the ferry boat we are not on the -- a theory but we are on is not regulated by them. at the port has its own authority granted by state law, state charter which says they have their own building department, they issue their own permit, planning department. it is a separate government organization. >> the primary mission as described by state land, number one, to provide for maritime commerce, navigation. no. 2, it is to protect natural resources. third, it provides facilities that attract people to the waterfront. that is what the state land commission is. the port does not share a budget with the city. they cannot collect any tax revenue. they do not have any taxing authority. the port lives and dies by the revenue it generates on the port property. >> how

after the shaking stopped and the fire cooled in the welcoming rain the army corps of engineers decided it was unsafe and should by dynamited monoxidely. the beacon would survive. san francisco began to rebuild itself after the quake with the ferry building as at hub of the rebirth. ferryboats service was like new blood being pumped through the heart of the ferry building into the veins of the recuperating city. if you were going to san francisco, the ferryboat was the last leg of your journey. people would step out of ferry building, smack into the broad faced exuberance of market street and be greeted by more trains. >> that is the first thing you saw were the streetcars and muni rail and the railway both had tracks. and all of it being fed by the ferry building. the golden age of the ferry building is generally considered between 1915 and 1932. the ferry system with 43 boats carrying 47 million passengers a year by 1932. the things were beginning to change. what happened? by the mid-30s the ferry building had two brand-new rivals. the bay bridge opened in 1936 with the golden gate br

the plan that have to be approved by the corp of engineers >>> many want to start off with nanny jacobs, going to hold a press conference expected to announce she will run for the second congressional district. she stepped down as the state minority leader during the special session in october. then he formed a committee to run for the second district. now that district is represented by a democrat currently serving his 5th term. >>> we have a race for the congressman bartlett's seat. state senator david brinkley will challenge him in the april 3rd primary. he is running for an 11th term in the 6th district which adds a slice of montgomery to western maryland. he had landed support from the mayor of frederick, also from frederick. >>> and in the race -- beating rick sanity rome but just eight votes and he was off to new hampshire today where he was endorsed by his former rival and 2008 presidential nominee arizona senator john mccain. >> i'm really here for one reason and one reason only. that is to make sure that we make mitt romney the next president of the united states. >> reporter:

reporter: martha travels the world as an architect for the army corps of engineers. her sense of adventure may have paid off when she became strand on the tuscany land of giglio. >> i walked off the boat with the clothes on my back and we ended up staying in a church on the island until sunrise the next day and we didn't have coats. so it was extremely cold. reporter: as the truth emerges about the captain refusing orders from the italian port authority to get back on board to help with the evacuation, martha and her father believe he should pay dearly. >> from what i've heard, especially the dialogue between him and the port authority, it's fairly disturbing. >> totally don't understand why a person in such a very important position would do something as idiotic and as hair brained as that. reporter: the ship legally had 24 hours to conduct a passenger safety drill. it was supposed to happen the very next day. martha, her father and so many other survivors who have been interviewed are saying the safety drill should occur before the ship even shreveport, as it does r

while we await the army corps of engineers' decision regarding the impact of water diverse versions from lake lanier, we're moving forward with plafrns to enhance water supply and security around the state. last year we took definitive action to get the ball rolling. my budget for next year proposes $45.7 million for water supply projects, the second installment in a four-year plan calling for $300 million of new investment in water supply. [ applause ] today the georgia environmental finance authority has issued the solicitation and application forms for the water supply program, and local governments can now apply for the low interest loans and state direct investment as detailed in the recent approved state water supply plan. i want to commend our water task force for creating a thorough, forward looking plan that makes sense for georgia communities both big and small. with our state's population projected to grow by an estimated 4.6 million people over the next two decades, it is imperative that we expand water supply across our state. we must stop being so dependent on the federal g

the army corps of engineers has set up electrical barriers, hoping to stop the invasion in the canal that connects the mississippi with the great lakes. >> they will swim upstream, hit that. it will knock them off their rockers a little bit, i guess, and they will stop. it will not kill them unless they continue to move upstream somehow. >> back on the illinois river. the asian carp are firmly entrenched in the waters around the town of havana, 250 kilometers southwest of chicago. biologists from the university of illinois use electro-fishing to try to get some idea of the carp's numbers here. it just so happens. i don't think so. with the electricity in the water, we get the huge display. it makes a good tool to show how many are in the river, to show what they do, jumping out of the water. it is kind of -- >> [inaudible] >> so far, i don't think so. >> the region's fish markets offer whatever the heart desires -- but no asian carp, even though plenty are available. we ask a local fish dealer. >> there is no demand it is not in our supply. >> have you ever tried it? >> no,i've never

hired the corps of engineers is their prime contractor to come in and do yard cleanup this is pretty simple you go out and dig up some dirt out of the yard you bring in new clean dirt take the top six inches where it's hot or it's above the cleanup standard if you have some below that in that spot you take the next six inches it cetera gayman. eight thousand dollars to redo my yard. about three feet deep all around my four law over the damage was. the best estimate i've gotten from e.p.a. is a little over one hundred thirty million dollars the average cost to remediate a yard by the e.p.a. was seventy thousand dollars per house. in ny believe it was ninety five i had some e.p.a. officials come to mafia us and they told me what they wanted to do i said come go with me so we all got my pick and i drove them up on a chip paul and i said you folks think you're going to be able to fix this and one e.p.a. official made the statement to me on top of that ship all right over there i'll be able to retire here that's their attitude it's not about what's best for these people how can you justify

corps of engineers to facilitate water traffic between the mississippi river and plaquemine. >> explain how that worked. >> the locks worked off of gravity flow with two sets of gates, one set of gates on the east side and one set of gates on the west side. so if a boat wanted to enter, the locks got ready to let the boat enter from the mississippi river by allowing water to flow from the mississippi river into the lock chamber until both levels were equal. once both levels were equal, the locks would open the gates to allow the boat and barges to enter. once they entered, the gates were closed and the valves on the west side would open and allow the water to drain out of the lock chamber into plaquemine into that same level. once that level was achieved, the gates would open on bayou plaquemine side and the boat was allowed to exit. this building is the lockhouse building located on plaquemine locks. this building here is responsible for all the machinery that would operate the gates. two guys, one on each side of the lock chamber and one on this side of the lock chamber had to go out

the corps of engineers is so long and stupid, they take eight years to study, not to do the project, the second world war in three years and eight months. if you can beat not to germany and imperial japan, it is unimaginable that it takes a eight years to study the project. i want to overhaul the entire federal government at every level to produce a modern and effective government. [applause] let me also say that the president's decision to veto the keystone pipeline -- [booing] -- you have to wonder how out of touch the administration is. it is one thing to say they cannot play chess at the white house. it is another thing to say they cannot play checkers. if they cannot play tic-tac- toe, the president says we do not want a pipeline from canada down with no mountains intervening to the largest petrochemical center in the world so we would make money on the pipeline, managing the pipeline, refining the oil, and in the ports of houston. we do not want to do that because obama is taking care of his left-wing friends and san francisco. they think that will stop the oil. the prime minis

. >> the tsa is the most hate government but in the west, the bureau of land management or corps of engineers>> let me say in defense of the clean water act, there's a legitimate case if you have wetlands and you're building on it, that there ought to be -- there ought to be a way for something like this to not be subjected to it as if you're a developer. >> or to have incentive, as they did, build more wetlands so more bird come and the benefits come. >> stop calling it a wet land and call it what it is, a stinky swamp. >> the snake river -- i used to own a place in jackson, wyoming and they can't empty that water out until it goes down to idaho to the potato farmers. they get all the water, they may or may not grow potatoes and people in iaea are not getting their water. >> you can't make this up. >> you can't. >> all right. what you can make up, jesse ventura, you know he of steroid use? he responds to the navy seal to says you clocked the former governor a few years ago. we'll tell you both sides of the story just -- hey, buddy. across, i've learned that when you ask someone in texas if t

army corps of engineers he may have violated repair permits and could be fined because of it. ipping containers, it seems are not on the list of approved repair materials. >> if the army corps did skprch saw this i think this would be a widely appreciated way to fix any levy break. in a few hours it stopped. >> john sweeney contacted us because he feels like he's now fighting the tide of bureaucracy. a shipping container, he believes could save lives when water rise autos you can pick it up and move to it a break in the delta. >> in pittsburgh, abc 7 news. >> he stood up for rights and changed history in the process. many of us don't know his name. we'll take a look back at the live of a japanese american and civil rights pioneer. >> buzz over a bee history. a scientist believes he knows what is behind bees being driven out of their hives. why i'm not crazy about these light fixtures. kitchen's too small. what's next? 607 franklin st. ♪ sea bass... ♪ ooohhh! ♪ i like it. yeah, i love the kitchen. [ male announcer ] the epa-estimated 42 mpg highway chevy cruze eco. from looking

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you should bring it in-house or at a minimum try to locate all the contracts with the army corps of engineersor within northern contracting authority are one of these various places that you are now actually executing contracts within? >> maam, that was one of the issues i addressed immediately when taking over as exec director and one of the first things that i did was sign an agreement with to contracting agencies, with the army contracting command for all of our service contracts and the corps of engineers for all of our construction contacts. much of our contracts really our service contracts and that is why our installation contract in command is the one who has a project of support element to will support arlington national cemetery so really we -- most of our contracts are channeled through because they are service contracts such as her landscaping etc. so i'm very confident that we have a handle on our contracts by really going to the core court for major construction projects and the installation contract command. >> going forward those are the only to contracting sources you are goi

i'm told that the corps of engineers bureaucracy takes eight years to do the study. t to do it, to do the study. now, my reaction to that as a historian is to remind people that we fought all of the second world war in 44 months. think about this. from pearl harbor on december his three years and eight months. how can it be that we could mobilize the defeat simultaneously in three years and eight months, and it recently took 23 years to add a fifth swing to the klan airport. this is to self-imposed to pity. and -- stupidity. i am committed to starting at modern management and getting a government as agile, productive and clean as any major modern corporation. it is gone to save us a ton of money, get our economy going again, a major step towards balancing the budget. it's going to get our economy moving again. i look forward to debating the president on creating jobs. debating the president on values. and debating the president on national security. my last comment there is i have not seen any active weakness as great as his decision this week to cancel the exercise o

fundamentally overhaul of corps of engineers. eight years to study, not to complete, to study doing the port. we won the entire second world war in three years and eight months. >> a sub set of the jobs conversation among the candidates in this state over the past week, mr. speaker, has been from you and the now departed governor perry. pretty sharp criticism of governor romney's tenure as ceo of bain capital. what do you think he did wrong that makes you question his ability as a president to create jobs? >> i think there are specific cases, georgetown steel would be a case here, a company in gaffney, south carolina, specific cases where bain capital's model, which is take over a company and dramatically leverage it, leave it with a great deal of debt, made it less likely to survive. i think the governor ought to explain -- it started because he cited his experience as a key part of his preparation for being president. so i think the underlying model of that kind of investment, which is very different from venture capital, ought

army corps of engineers is investigating. >>> an update on plans for a new development in prince william county. we told you last night at the oaks 3 project. the plans for an office building and a home at tanyard hill. caused a major outcry. the county is giving that development the go ahead, even though it will lead to increased flooding. >> well, he is back. actor alec baldwin on twitter after deactivating his account in december when he had at little trouble. this was highly publicized dispute. by the way, one of baldwin's latest tweets, we should quote, read a newspaper in print or online every day. well have you ever heard of sopa? folks are posting questions on our facebook page asking us to give you more information about it. it means to stop online piracy act and it was written by lamar smith. that law would make the unauthorized streaming of any copy writed material illegal and punishable by up to five years in prison. and internet service providers immuned if they turn folks in. critics say if it passes, it will change the internet as we know it. joining me now to talk about t

the maryland state fire marsh l marshal's office and army corps of engineers are trying to work together to figure out where the explosives are coming from. >>> mitt romney, hoping for some momentum from his victories in new hampshire and high wa, republicans in the south tend to be a built more conservative than new hampshire but that could work in romney's favor. steve handlesman has our report. >> reporter: the next primary will be his test in a conservative, evangelical state. >> an uphill climb for me. south carolina, i came in fourth last time. >> reporter: a new attack ad on south carolina tv. >> what happened after massachusetts moderate mitt romney changed his position from pro-abortion to pro-life? he governed pro-abortion. he can't be trusted. >> i'm newt gingrich and i approve this message. >> reporter: the former speaker, fourth last night, is vowing to stop romney. >> i think he will grow weaker and weaker very fast. >> reporter: the anti-romney movie posted ads on the web fires romnfire s at romney. >> we need to have more venture capitalism going on in america and less vu

now, the next stage is to reform the corps of engineers who currently say it will take eight years toow to improve the port. and i remind people that we won the second world war in three years and eight months. so you can go to newt.org and create new manufacturing jobs and the right policy for new manufacturing jobs. we'll use energy to create jobs, and we'll use energy to pay for improving the port, which will create more jobs. and i want to come back as president, and i want to be at the port of charleston to watch the first large container ship carrying south carolina manufactured goods to china to be sold in wal-mart in china. all of this can happen, and it starts here tomorrow, so please, tonight and tomorrow morning, tell all your friends and neighbors, if they're conservatives, the only effective conservative vote to stop a massachusetts moderate is to vote for me. that's what all the polls are saying now, and if every conservative in the state decided to vote for newt gingrich, we would win a shockingly big victory tomorrow, and that would be good, because conservatism needs

the corps of engineers current bureaucracy is so long and so stupid that they currently take eight years to study, not to do the project, to study the project. we fought the entire second world war in three years and eight months. if you can beat nazi germany and japan in three years and 8 months it is almost unimaginable it now takes 8 years to study the project. i want to fundamentally overhaul the entire federal government at every level to produce a modern lean effective federal government. let me also say that the president's decision to veto the keystone pipeline -- [crowd booing] >> you have to wonder how out of touch with reality this administration is? it is one thing to say that they can't play chess at the white house. it is another thing to say they can't play checkers at the white house. but if they can't play tic tac toe, the president says no, we don't want you to build a pipeline from central canada straight down with no mountains intervening to the largest petrochemical center in the world, houston so that we would make money on the pipeline. managing the pipeline. refin

the corps of engineers corps of bureaucracy is so long and so stupid that they take eight years to awe fought the second world war in three years and eight months. if you can fight the that it in three years and eight months, it is imagined -- it is unimaginable that it takes eight months to do the study. produce a modern, clean, effective federal government. [applause] let me also say that the president's decision to veto the keystone pipeline -- [booing] you have to wonder how out of touch of reality is this administration. it is one thing to say that they cannot play chess at the white house. it is another thing to say that they cannot play checkers at the white house. but if they can played tic-tac- toe? [laughter] the president says, no, we do not want you to build a pipeline from central canada straight down to the largest petrochemical center in houston so that we would make money on the pipeline, make money on managing the pipeline, make money on refining the oil, and make money in the ports of houston and galveston shipping port. president obama is taking care of his extremi

correct me if i am wrong but my understanding is the corps of engineers approved it. the department of agriculture approved it. the energy department approved it. department of interior approved in. department of transportation approved the. environment protection agency approved it. the defense the power to approve the. the justice to come approved it. the hole lead security department approved and the the part of commerce approved it. only the state department which i believe by law is required to look at the international implications since it is transcanada, only the state department did not approve it. >> the gentleman's time is

third thing is fundamentally radically overhaul the corps of engineers. to complete, to study doing the port. we won the entire world war ii in three years and eight months. >>> a subset of the jobs combination has been from you and the now-departed governor perry. sharp criticism of governor romney's tenure as ceo of bain capital. what do you think he did wrong that makes you question his ability as president to create jobs? >> there are specific cases, georgetown steel would be a case here. the specific cases where bain capital's model which was to take over a company and dramatically leverage it, leave it with a great deal of debt made it less likely to survive. the governor ought to explain because he cited his experience as a key part of his preparation for being president. the underlying model of that investment, which is very different from venture capital, ought to be explained. those cases ought to be looked at. >> governor romney, let me give you a chance to explain. >> i hope i get a chance to talk about the topic you began with. we'll come back

should bring it in house, or at a minimum, try to look at all the contracts either with the army corps of engineers or with the northern virginia contracting authority, or one of these various places that you're now actually executing contracts within? >> that was one of the issues i addressed immediately when taking over this executive director. one of the first things that i did was sign an agreement with to contracting agencies, with the army contracting command for all of our service contracts and with the corps of engineers for all of our construction contracts. most of our contracts really our service contracts, and that is why our mission and insulation contracting command is the one who is a contracting support element who is supporting me in arlington national cemetery. so really, we are really, most of our contracts are channeled through, because their service contracts such as our landscaping, et cetera, so i'm very confident that we have a handle on our contracts by really going to those two agencies. the core of our major construction projects and the michigan insulation contracting co

. >> reporter: martha travels the world as an architect for the army corps of engineers. he tuscan island of gigilio. >> i walked off the boat with clothes on my back and one euro bill. we stayed in a church on the island until the next day. we didn't have coats and it was cold. >> reporter: as details emerge, martha and her father believe the captain should pay dearly. >> from what i've heard, especially the dialogue between him and the port authority, it's fairly disturbing. >> totally don't understand why a person in such a very important position would do something as idiotic and harebrained as that. >> reporter: will thomas, fox 5 news. >> the safety drill was supposed to happen the day after the accident. martha, her father and many other survivors are saying the safety drill should occur before the ship even leaves port as it does here in the u.s. >>> new this morning, a warning for students near clermont elementary school. five incidents of a man in a red pickup truck staring at, waving to and calling out to children near the school. the first time was on december

several agencies, including the army corps of engineers are looking at how to remedy everything and fix that bridge now. >>> you know the weather last weekend was a bit messy. meteorologist reynolds wolf is watching our weekend forecast for us. how is it looking, reynolds? >> we'll be dreiling with strong winds around the countries. southern california, you have the winds combined with dry conditions. there will be a very real threat of wildfires. they could burn pretty quickly. another issue as cross parts of the great lakes into the ohio valley, snow. not heavy, but snow that's throughout the weekend, which means delays will be mounting up as the snow comes down. >>> all the investigation surrounding rupert murdoch's issues are ahead. plus, an online game called attention to the darker side of a custom. it's widespread, but illegal in india. players get to beat up men looking for a bribe. that's coming up in our morning passport for you. stay close. back then he had something more important to do. he wasn't focused on his future. but fortunately, somebody else was. at usaa we provide

the army corps of engineers has been working on the problem for many year bus the flooding does continue. the army corps, to their credit, held a town hall last week in clinton where they heard from other 300 residents about the damage the flooding has been causing them for decades. the estimated cost of the project is $900,000. i do appreciate the willingness of the army corps of engineers, specifically colonel leonard torque meet with my staff and constituents and i urge the corps to remember what they heard in clinton, indiana, last week and complete the feather creek project as quickly as possible. my constituents deserve no less than a safe environment free from the threats of yearly floods. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> i rise to address an issue of great importance to new york. mr. high fwins: the buffalo bills. since 196 o, bills fans -- 1960, bills fans have embraced and supported the team emo

correct me if i am wrong, but my understanding is that the corps of engineers and approved it. d its. the department of transportation approved it. the environmental agency approved it. the defense department approved it. common security approved it. the department of commerce approved it. amid the state department which i believe is required to look at the international publications, only they did not approve it. >> of like to recognize the gentleman from california for five minutes. >> thank you very much. a year ago there were press reports that coke industries would be one of the big winners in this pipeline was constructed. >> will the gentleman yield? >> no. told therned that they canadian government they have a substantial interest. something does not add up. i have before me a document, an application for intervenors status in canada. it says that this is an application from a company in canada it is a subsidiary of coke industries. it said what is your specific interests. it said it is among canada's largest crude-oil producers and exporters, according supply for its re