due to our drought or to increase power. we're only going to renewable sources. is that correct? >> no, that is not correct. we are purchasing on the system, making system power purchases which are not unit specific, are not technology specific. and then we have renewable energy credits from our own store of credits from our own generation that we apply to that power to maintain the 100% greenhouse gas free renewable label. >> so, like regs? >> yes. regs from our system, we generate regs from our own system and we use the regs from our own system. we've also purchased regs. >> there was opposition to cleanpowersf because it was based on regs. seems like that's already

that power? it you can deliver from the wholesale market. on average we'd clear about a penny. you could deliver it to the klaxon power s.f. program as it was envisioned when we presented it to our commission at the 11.5 cents a kilowatt hour. ~ you'd see no margin because any extra money was plowed back into local builds and refirethv. ~ requirement. you could sell to a large retail customer and have 7.9 -- 5 .5 to 7.9 to spend on local build, on up country improvements, to restore and reserve ~ for that drought that we've been talking about. so, just purely from that business perspective, it makes the most sense when you do the math to use that hetchy kilowatt hour for a large commercial customer retail sale here in san francisco. >> i appreciate that. and knowing the financial constraints that the public utilities commission is in, it makes sense that we have a mix, what we won't be able to get and sell in terms of revenue from that. i think when it comes to cleanpowersf, it's not what we get

to sell that power on the wholesale market. we're also obligated under the raker act that allowed us to build the system on public lands to provide power to modesto and turlock irrigation district. that's what you see in that red bar. so, we're obligated to provide that power to them to the extent we have it available, up to their municipal and agricultural pumping demands. and we must under the raker act sell it to them at our cost. so, we're not allowed to make money off of them because they had superior water rights on the tuolumne when we built the system. >> does that fluctuate year to year what we provide to modesto and turlock? >> yes, it is based purely on regeneration. but once we meet our own needs, if we have generation in excess of that, we are required to call them up every day and say, do you want power? and if they say yes, we give it to them -- we sell it to them if it's available up to their municipal and agricultural pumping loads. and we have more beyond that, we can sell it in the open market for whatever th

and power plants.ut as you said, my position changed. the fukushima disaster brought us on the verge of having to evacuate 50 million people, and we were only just one small step away from perhaps facing this kind of situation. so thinking about how to avoid such a risk of a situation happening again, of course there are many technical suggestions and opinions in place, but if we think of the risk which is posed by for example, what happened with the terrorist attacks of 9/11, it is impossible to totally prevent any kind of accident or disaster happening at the nuclear power plant. so the one way to prevent is -- this from happening is to get rid of the risk of having to evacuate such huge amounts of people, 50 million people. the benefit of the lives of our people and even the economy of japan, i came to change the position that the only way to do this come a what was necessary to do this, was to totally get rid of the nuclear power plant. >> i wanted to step back. when you were winged actuating it ac

due to our drought or to increase power. we're only going to renewable sources. is that correct? >> no, that is not correct. we are purchasing on the system, making system power purchases which are not unit specific, are not technology specific. and then we have renewable energy credits from our own store of credits from our own generation that we apply to that power to maintain the 100% greenhouse gas free renewable label. >> so, like regs? >> yes. regs from our system, we generate regs from our own system and we use the regs from our own system. we've also purchased regs. >> there was opposition to cleanpowersf because it was based on regs. seems like that's already practice within the public utilities commission to practice -- >> yes, it's the practice to in the energy market and sf. coming back to actions and options, i want to spend time on the new revenue source line there. and that gets us to looking at what are our opportunities. we've been talking through this presentation about commercial retail enterprise level pa

black power. what do we want? black power. sncc was organizing dating back to the '60s there were events organizers who said this is the best place to use a slogan and when black power is used in that way it immediately becomes a controversy you ask many african-americans they remember that night. it to blew their blind. -- their mind. it was a new direction a crossroads that it had a symbolic value the whole of the blues and robert jones sold his soul at the crossroads that is where you make choices. so you come to a fork in the road but a crossroads whatever choices you make have been during consequences traveling down that road. with the slogan of black power is on failed to travel down that road. >> host: what is the faith of black power as a slogan as the approach also? >> that is complicated because black power doesn't have a single definition it depends on the response of those too few black power. so for many liberals and conservatives phase of this working against what they had been fighting for. the black power has p

california power authority, these are eligible entities that we can do business with. >> thank you. >> and, so, just to drive home the idea here behind our customer base and where we receive our -- the lion's share of our funding, this slide shows on the left that same set of retail general fund customers. but instead of showing it in the megawatt hour or revenue picture, this is showing it based on the rates that they're charged. so, you can see that the general fund is charged 4.75 cents a kilowatt hour right now typically, there are some that are charged less, but generally speaking it's 4.75 cents a kilowatt hour. you can see our enterprise department customers are charged on average around 14 cents. then you see the black line on the bottom, shows the transmission and distribution costs that were charged by pg&e that we pay today at 1.8 cents a kilowatt hour. that's one of the cost element that builds our cost profile. when you add all of our cost profile elements up, it's around an average cost of about 10 cents. so, you can see that top black line shows that when we're selling

it gets congress and only congress the power, and these are the words of the constitution, the power to raise and support armies and to declare war. washington refused to stand by and do nothing while indians slaughtered his countrymen. in a clear violation of the constitution, he drafted troops into the arm and sent them to war without congressional knowledge or sanctions. when congress finally reconvened, its members saved face by passing the militia act which gave the president the legal right to do what it already done illegally, similar to the passage of the patriot act of years ago which legalized all the illegal actions of the bush administration. many presidents have continued the constitution conflict with congress over the power to send troops into battle. most recently, early last fall when president obama and congress were at odds over u.s. intervention in the syrian civil war, although he denied his obligation to do so, to his credit, mr. obama became the first president since franklin d. roosevelt to recognize the constitutional right of congress and the right of the am

that is a lot of power. what are we to do the net amount of power is not enough? what are we to do when this president or any president decides to selectively enforce a portion of a law and ignore other portions? if a president does not faithfully execute the law, what are our remedies? do we wait another election? use the power of impeachment? those are not remedies. lou: and no less outrage, he says president obama has routinely failed to enforce laws he disagrees with for policy reasons in the constitution is clear. it must stop now. he is our special guest t here tonight. to search for missing malaysians airline flight taking more surprising twists and turns today. flight 370 has produced more speculation and novel theories been any such incident in memory. the aircraft tonight remains missing. whereabouts in the circumstances responsible for its disappearance absolutely unknown. the investigation has now stretched into a seventh day, everyone involved seemingly utterly confused and compounded. families of the missing 239 passengers and crew growing increasing

. >> wind power trumps solar power. it shows more energy and money to manufacture solar panels than wind turbines there is a discrepancy on returns. wind turbines store more energy. study appears in the journal energy and environmental science >> let's check on the forecast now. >> sunny earlier. >> yes. >> increasingly overcast. i'm feeling wind power here the breeze has increased a bit. you can see clouds now, that has been the pattern throughout the afternoon. moisture out there travelling with clouds as well we expect most of that to remain in the atmosphere. let's take a look at the last week 22% exceptional drought. 9% conditions are, we're more concerned about that. there doesn't appear to be rainfall coming our way or any place in the state. here is a live view from mount tam under partly cloudy chance of rain, and this alignment of the systems will produce a cooler conditions tomorrow and as a matter of fact animating maps starting at 7:00 this evening, cooling sea breeze and a push of clouds as well. that will

did reason power st. is so important there's no alternative because clean power sf is a state legal mechanism to group the hundred of thousands of customers in san francisco into a could open to buy energy and build local energy and hire hundreds of people to do that. there's no other legal mechanism so build the clean energy without clean sf there's no alternative i want to talk about the elephant in the room. the legal organization has gotten money and willie brown is the biggest cheer leads and this is where it's coming from we need to talk about this out loud >> thank you. any additional public comment on item number 3? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor avalos >> thank you. i'm really concerned about the status quo the city right we have goals that we want to be able to inaccurate but judges as long as there's business first is not going to work. the language that's been redacted from the report we have jason reed here so if we can't get the mayors administration we to get involved we'

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it had no power. it couldn't raise taxes, and it was absolutely powerless in the nation, the confederation began to deteriorate into anarchy. you have 13 independent states many of them almost at war with each other and in some cases actual fighting broke out. southern vermont and after massachusetts claimed territory in vermont. all of them had territorial claims and in pennsylvania and connecticut tried to settle and wyoming in the northwestern part of the state. speak it is interesting and it's certainly a sentimental about what the motivations are as mr. washington. we know that he kicked off a bunch of people on his land after he won the war. the question is like the younger bush is it really all personal? is this just personal that he wanted to hold onto his plantation and everything else that flowed out of that came here finally. it was not this whole idealistic thing. >> you mix it up a little bit. his plantation in virginia in mt. vernon a 20,000-acre plantation he kicked nobody off of that l

the fire department's first priority, cut the power. >> so the power company showed up and shut the wires from one pole to the pole that this individual was on. >> with the electricity shut down on that one pole, they have reduced the risk of electrocution. now their concern is whether the man will jump. >> we start anticipating spinal injuries, broken bones, major trauma. >> this is their chance to talk the man down. >> he was just looking up to the sky, seemed to be talking to the sky. maybe somebody he sees up there. >> but as the authorities move in, the situation takes a dramatic turn. the man doesn't jump. instead, he begins to move out of reach. now everything changes. a sudden shift that takes eric and his team by surprise. >> this pole right here, with the last light, he was up on that light post over there. >> the firefighters fear anything could happen. >> when he got over here, that's when the situation started to incontinues fie because we had crowd control and we had to start pushing everybody out of way. >> the man is moving down the line toward the pole that's high voltage

both power structures working to further their own interests. the west has their interests and they are pursuing them and here in russia they have their interests, and, of course, the kremlin is pursuing those russian centres. >> a day after the west and the white house warned russia not to intervene in ukraine, this was moscow's next move. >> translation: russian frags council votes to first approve vladimir putin's proposal to use russian troops on the territory of ukraine until the sociopolitical situation in the country stabilizes. secondly the decree is effective on the day of its adoption. >> it took less that an hour for russia's parliament to vote on the authorisation of force in ukraine, not just crimea. >> british foreign secretary william hague summoned the russian ambassador and expressed concern. >> we are concerned about the escalation of tensions in ukraine and crimea, and the russian parliament this afternoon to authorise military action in the ukraine without the consent of the ukrainian authorities. this is potentially a grave

but it's a weak source of power. it's the power of an evangelist preacher, rather than the kind of economic power that you see in states like the aztec. keach: but even power based on belief did not come without risk. all maya kings were expected to put their prestige on the line in regular tests of warfare. the maya were almost continuously at war with each other, as these ancient wall paintings illustrate. but until recently the popular view, even among scholars, saw the maya as a peace-loving people. archaeologist david webster. this was part of what we called the mystique of the maya. they maya are different from other people. they are unique. they don't behave the way other people do. of course, most complex pre-industrial societies are plagued with warfare. and the question was in my mind years ago, why should the maya ever have been different ? keach: archaeologists soon discovered the maya were not that different. evidence of war and captive taking began turning up in many cities. this drawing of a stela show

power outages also complicated rush hour. forcing police to direct traffic through busy intersections. those dark signals led to many a traffic jam. and progress is being made. you can see the traffic light behind me just a few minutes ago, it was dark, but they have just got it back on. so they are making some progress. but still many areas without electricity at this point. barbara, back to you. >> all right, thanks so much, megan. >>> well, the wind advisory expired at the top of this hour, but it remains breezy, really breezy, and cold out there this morning. storm team4 meteorologist amelia segal is in for tom kierein. amelia, i don't know if it's the wind or what, but it seems colder than all winter today. >> i think it's the shock, barbara, going from near 70 degrees yesterday to temperatures right now only feeling like they're in the teens and single digits. this is temperature. we're in the 20s across the area, washington coming in at 27. but it is still windy and breezy outside. winds will die down somewhat througho

power that we can sell. so, i think by providing and selling power to customers, more customers, get us to that point and i think we're definitely going to pursue that because that's what we normally do anyway, so -- >> i'm saying there is a way we can green light cleanpowersf going forward. if you can increase your service for wholesale customers, but perhaps an overlap between cleanpowersf around staffing might help minimize costs you can minimally. they can work together. if there are no other comments or questions from colleagues, we can go on to public comment on this item. public comment is open on this item. any member of the public would like to come forward? >>> good afternoon again, commissioners. eric brooks representing san francisco green party and the local grassroots organization, our city, and san francisco clean energy advocates which is a coalition working to move forward cleanpowersf. so, it's really important after that presentation to focus on this issue of available money and bonding an

tied to the fact that a lot of our support for climate work comes from the sfpuc, specifically the power division of the sfpuc they have a major budget issue this year and they have dramatically decreased our work order. so as a result we have also cut our climate work correspondingly. the outreach budget --. >> what is that going to actually lead to? what are we not going to be able to do next year that we were doing this year? >> specifically we have a vacancy in that area. it means that we will not fill that position as quickly as we would otherwise. it certainly, it's -- and the result of that will be that we'll have less capacity to do some of the climate work we've done in the past. i think what we are looking at now is efficiencies in trying to think if there's a way to streamline the work we do with other deptds -- departments on climate action plans, for example. we're looking at whatever efficiencies we can in terms of the climate work we're already committed to. >> it seems like there's -- so what do you -- i mean do you think we'll be able to find 15 percent of efficiencies i

power of the central authority was at it's highest, the power of the king was at its highest in copan's history. keach: but even then, royal power was limited, according to archaeologist and co-director of several copan excavations david webster. webster: i think power is the ability of leaders to coerce people into doing things they don't want to do. you get power like that generally in one of two ways -- by having some kind of force or threat of force behind your demands, like a military force. or you get power by having something -- land, water, some scarce resource that other people need, and you manipulate them that way. i don't think maya kings were powerful in either sense. keach: the kings ruled not so much through power but through their authority to settle disputes, spearhead the common defense and control some land. they also gained enormous prestige by redistributing precious goods and by leading religious rituals. but the authority of the king suffered a critical blow in a.d. 738 when 18 rabbit was captured and beheaded by the ruler of a rival city. adjoining 18 rabbit's pa

enterprise and with the power operations of hetch hetchy. we have some capital needs. we have higher than anticipated increases and cost for distribution services from pg & e and we are projected to be out of balance by fiscal year 16-17. in light of that, our direction from the general manager and commissioners are to really focus our efforts at the puc on solving that problem. so we are really refocusing in a way that helps us achieve our highest value revenue which points us more toward increasing the customers we serve on our publically owned utility side of the house if you will and not on our cca side. we are also looking of course at ways to reduce our cost. so that's where our focus is at puc and with respect to item a, we did make a presentation to our commission on january 14th. we did include, the general manager did include the memo that describes these issues in greater detail that i would be happy to provide to you. i provided copies to the executive director already and perhaps we can talk about that further at a subsequent me

mamoru komatsuzaki is president of the wind power company. he says japan is ten years behind nations that have embraced renewables, leaving the country with few viable alternatives to nuclear power. >> ( translated ): it is impossible to fill the gap right away because it takes time to build renewable energy sites. i think we can catch up in about six years. >> reporter: when the japanese make a commitment to catch up, they have an extraordinary way of delivering on that promise. but it seems inevitable they will have to rely on nuclear power in the meantime. the reactors may be safer, but will they be safe enough? >> woodruff: the 2014 paralympic games being played in sochi this week have once again focused athletes from around the world who have overcome a variety of disabilities to compete there. they inspired us to look into the status of a global treaty that would directly affect them and others with disabilities. i recorded this report a few days ago. >> woodruff: it's a landmark of sorts at the paralympic games, a wall commemorating th

they are there in power. it's not a realistic goal. it exists in the ukrainian government. >> you said that, that you thing that what he wants is chaos, he wants to ball cannise ukraine, spirit it all and the chaos will serve his goals. >> totally, but i think he overplayed his hand because it's bigger population than georgia, and i think he's emboldened by the fact that there was not much of a punishment in the invasion of georgia. there was some western interest and experts, i would say some useful idiots to use lenin 's words. for russia, it's not important, but what russia wants - they are trying to send ukraine, people are saying well, maybe they have valid concerns. some are saying it is escalating. it's not about the escalation. they are occupying an independent country. the escalation is there. this is a very important crisis, a grave crisis in european history, and actually the longer it lasts, the bigger it gets. this time western powers will not be able to, even if some of them attempt so. it's at their doorstep, as dangling

quite, do you think our military power should take a backseat to soft power?> i'm never a big fan of the face soft power, but i use the phrase coalition will power. let's take a look at asia. we still have china and japan. our military presence is an important deterrent for china becoming more aggressive, but it's not the leave factor. china works with us on energy issues. -- it's not the only factor. it's a balance that put the united states in a strong position. >> do you think our military power is a deterrent? i was troubled when this syria thing kicked off in the last year. the washington opinion was that it was the military threat that -- put syriaroad on the road to looking at it a certain way. the argument was the military crisis.elped deter this it seems to me it wasn't necessarily the military threat as much as it was the conversation, getting on a playing field where diplomats could have their say. maybe it's not either/or. that's a long way of getting at whether we really do believe our factor is a deterrent. >> our military power is still really i

means no engine power, no power steering, no breaks, no airbags. a report by the industry trade that for 11cluded years, gm treated it as a matter of customer satisfaction, not safety. federal regulators may have also failed to take action. despite more than a decade of complaints at the rate of about to bang a month, the national highway traffic safety administration declined to investigate the problem, saying there was not enough evidence. then in february, gm announced a massive recall of some 1.6 million vehicles based on the admissions to which the effect. this is how the advocacy group consumer reports describe the problem. >> they're inviting customers to remove all keychains from their ignition switch and only use the ignition key by open operating the vehicle. you have locked to accessory and to on. what could happen is a very heavy keychain combined with a weak defect could at the key turned back to accessory or even lock. in that situation, the airbags with failed to deploy. >> the justice department's probe into how general motors may h

our wholesale customers, water customers are very concerned because you can buy power. you just can't buy that amount of water. and, so, they are very concerned. they're asking us questions about it. and, so, this is one of our top priorities, this mountain tunnel. >> thank you. >> i think commissioner breed's question, though, was around financing. what were you looking at to finance that $6 45 million? >> so, what we wanted to do is currently the asset is ~ a joint asset. 55% is on the power side, 45% is on the water side. and, so, we are looking at how we can finance it given the fact that power enterprise has a financial problem. and, so, this is one of the thing that we are working with staff and working internally to first see if we can reduce the cost, look at other alternatives to look at ways that we can assist in financing this so it won't have a major impact on the water side. >> so, why is it that power is 55% water, 45%? it seems like the revenue that's generated from the water side ~ would be much greater than the revenue generated from the power side. i i

past the names and who we are as women and the power that thewe have. >> so simone, i think that yound ronda are in agreement on this, and it's more than just a word. what in your view are the things that have the biggest impact on the girl's view of herself and her ability to develop as a leader in. >> i would say the earliest influence on a girl is definitely her family. it has shown that the number-one influence on a girl is in fact her mom, and then i think school is an important influencer, and then far away, the growing presence of the media and a girl's life sends her important messages on why she's valued. >> let's talk about family a little bit. though parents say that they have equal expectations for their sons and daughters, when it's looked at closely, a language pattern is different in how they relate to sons and daughters, and talk about that and the effects of that. >> certainly, what you're talking about regarding words is really important. when we tell our little girls, you're such a little princess, we're giving them a message, and what does princess mean? but we te

, this house, to check that power. we're a nation of laws. we ought to fight to keep it that way. we can no longer sit by and watch congress' constitutional responsibility. our role in this government eroded. the rule is to allow us to consider legislation addressing this growing problem. this rule ensures that ideas from members on either side of the aisle are included in consideration of the underlying legislation. i support this rule and i hope all my colleagues will also. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank the gentleman from florida, my good friend, mr. nugent, for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks, and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, somehow against all odds the republican leadership of th

ability to make money from power. the sun is reliable, free, clean and available all year around. investing in the energy is giving power to the people that need it the most. >> now, australia environmental protection agency says it won't intervene in a controversial shark cull, that is despite tens of thousands of people rallying around the country since it started in western australia in january. the government is setting baited lines in the ocean to capture and kill sharks. it follows an increase in fatal attacks in the past decade. >> now, on this day in 1989 a british computer scientist submitted a proposal for what he called a distributed information system. 25 years later nearly 3 billion people use what we know as the worldwide web. the remaining 4 billion people are offline. >> robin considers himself lucky - not many bangladeshis his age have work. he has a job of sorts. each day he visits the building site and uses the phone to take photographs of progress. >> translation: i heard they were building a clini

a truck lost control, slammed into a power pole and knocked out power in this neighborhood.e have live crews and both of those will bring you the very latest in just a couple of minutes. we are here tuesday march 25th march 25th, i am dave clark. >> steve paulson says rain will come in by noon everywhere. >> for most, that is a rough estimate and a little earlier, and also in the north bay but our system is there, some areas are already clear but we will cloud up fast and turn cloudy, after some, one or 2:00 for others and it has been a little longer. rain moves south turning more showery and increasing clouds by the morning and rain will hold off into the noon hour. so far no reports on the coast yet and we still have a couple of hours which is why the morning commute will be okay. fort brag picking up on the north coast. some areas are still clear and they have been here for a while and that will not last too much longer. 40s to 50s. the breeze is not too bad yet and i expect that to inch up but once it goes through, things will get better. the breeze and cooling temperatu

sometimes the perception of power is more important than power itself.our president continues to fumble on the stage, he single-handedly is bringing out the decline of united states -- something that impacts you from your pocketbook to your safety. this decline is ongoing since barack obama took office. starting with the red lines, the finger wagging, removing economic sanctions against iran allowing it to continue its nuclear buildup relying on russian president putin to broker a deal for syria's removal of chemical weapons just to save face after announcing that the u.s. planned to attack syria. and not sending reinforcements to protect your men in benghazi. unilaterally removing the missile defense system that protects eastern europe from russia. all the while our president trumpeting the reduction of our military on the world stage. not only are we now perceived as weak, our enemies emboldened. impacting your safety and mine. with this loss of power or the perception of that loss those manufacturing jobs, trade alliances and the allies standing with

his book is about geography and the power of geography in geo political relationships. the new book is called asia's cauldron, the south china sea and the end of a stable pacific. >> a hundred years ago people could say south america doesn't matter, africa doesn't matter. now every place matters, every place to be strategic because every place is interlocked with every other place by technology. but it's only by starting with geography that you understand what's going on in every place. i'm arguing for sequence of understanding. it's not geography or technology, it's not geography or human values, it's starting with geography to understand everything else. >> rose: we conclude this evening with a look at the indian elections. we talked to milan vaishnav, sadanand dhume and jonathan shane issue and arvind panangariya. >> the last thing is seeing governments of the kind which has not done great. >> rose: is it about corruption or incompetence. >> it is both. >> rose: the power of geography and the future of the elections in india captioning sponsored by rose communication

are power lines affected. >> : no power plant is friends. and r loans are not threatened. >> : to the west and north of some industrial complex as well as neighborhoods. it's for adults of blackish type of water when we had a couple fire engines that have had trouble making access due to softness of the ground. >> : how or whether conditions affecting this battle your having. >> : at this point the winds. that the winds have created some issues with containment. we're at containment your point too little and shift to get control. >> : we're looking at live pictures from our helicopter part of the abc seven there's this thick black smoke pouring in the air. what measures you and give to >> : the smoke is typical of vegetation smoke that may irritate people who have sensitive respiratory systems. it's not general hazard. to normal healthy people. >> : there is ground underneath power lines. only the ground underneath. despite the live pictures. this point no word on containment or control for the split is whether conditions are not have cuppin