we have been participating at the air resources board where the regulation implementing the directives are being established and the power enterprise is interested and focused on the electrical sector working group at the california air resources board. we are happy to report on that. cap and trade is a big piece end of our standard compliance is a big piece of that regulatory effort. we are scheduled to report on those issues. >> that would be great. it seems that there should be from the climate change perspective, a place for ab32 in the planning. >> the ordinance that established the department a climate action plans gives the responsibility for the content of those plants in the hands of the department of the environment. we can certainly raise that issue all departments follow a template and this establishes what is to be reported. this goes to the related footprint all the way to whether you are accurately advertising the commuter savings programs. this is a very broad range of climate steps at the department of environments and having east department report on this -- each depa

here of japan's nuclear drift, a climate watch conversation with mary nichols, chairman of the air resources board. coming up next. >>> good evening. i i'm belva davis. >> joining me are sarah varney health reporter with 88.5 fm and bob egelko, legal reporter with the "san francisco chronicle." and josh richman, legal and political affairs reporter for the "oakland tribune." . josh, what's going on at the republican convention? it's gotten started. any fireworks yet? >> fireworks right off the bat. this is a convention where the state gop has a lot to unpack. this is their first gathering since november, when there was a democratic sweep of all the state-wide offices. coming in to this convention this week they have had a republican poll, a poll put out yesterday saying latinos, proving to be more of a swing vote in the state more than ever before and census figures grow don't trust the republican party very much. and are not inclined to think in terms of what the republican party thinks of as core conservative values. >> is that real news to them? >> i think it was in some ways. they tried to put

besides stationary systems like this at the air resources board in the city, the epa also has mobile yet some of those are big world out right now to western states. in oakland, kron 4 news. >>pam: meanwhile the fear over japan's nuclear plants is raising concerns about nuclear sites here in california. jonathan blum joins us to show us just how close those plants are to where you are. >>jonathan: their sixth nuclear power plants in california but only two are operating. one of those is here a diablo canyon, the other way down south near san diego. let's look at these plants. these are both significantly smaller than the nuclear plant that's having trouble in japan. the diablo plant is the closest one to the bay area has two reactors as opposed to the six reactors in japan. those reactors are in the domed buildings at the middle of your screen. each one generates about thousand megawatts of electricity. that plant by the way it also cooled by sea water which is why is located on the coast. the sea water is used as a backup cooling source for the one in japan and were saying this the

>> it stops until they get the air resources board goes back and essentially does an analysis and presentst as part of the scoping plan on cap and trade versus the carbon tax or fee and perhaps some other alternatives but that is the one the judge hit the hardest. again in 2008, you had the scoping plan. the world has moved on. in 2010 there was another decision, narrowing the map still further. that has to stay on hold while they go back to 2008. >> all right. >> a b. 32. we also are beginning to see the outcome of the long-term investigation in the murder of journalist chauncey bailey. that trial got started, testimony this week. thomas peele, tell us what that was about. >> this finally begins more than 1300 days after chauncey bailey was asas natsed as he walked to work in 2007. after a long jury selection process with almost 900 jurors coming in at the start to try to overcome defense issues on a change of venue, the jury has been seated. five alternates. three and a half days of testimony now, and chauncey's admitted killer took the stand yesterday morning and began to go through wha

. >>> the california air resources board said it plans to appeal a judge's decision to halt the state's cap and trade program. a key component of california's landmark global warming law. the state did not properly consider alternatives, the program would provide incentives california's largest polluters to reduce greenhouse emissions. the environment group challenged the program arguing it allowed pollutants to buy corrects and continue to pollute primarily in poor neighborhoods. >>> a bit of moderate rainfalling throughout much of the bay area. all the bay area counties have some reports of rainfall. heaviest rainfall has been out in the coastal hills. the most rain i can find so far is a half inch. most of us hit a quarter of an inch. now the rain is moderate. this is a steady rain. this isn't a real dynamic system right now in terms of convectivity. and showers are picking up and that will have an impact on tomorrow's commute. there goes this one, that's tomorrow. there's another system right bag over my shoulder that comes in here by thursday. one-two punch. both are pretty potent

. >>> the california air resources board said it plans to appeal a judge's decision to halt the state's cap and trade program. a key component of california's landmark global warming law. the state did not properly consider alternatives, the program would provide incentives california's largest polluters to reduce greenhouse emissions. the environment group challenged the program arguing it allowed pollutants to buy corrects and continue to pollute primarily in poor neighborhoods. >>> a bit of moderate rainfalling throughout much of the bay area. all the bay area counties have some reports of rainfall. heaviest rainfall has been out in the coastal hills. the most rain i can find so far is a half inch. most of us hit a quarter of an inch. now the rain is moderate. this is a steady rain. this isn't a real dynamic system right now in terms of convectivity. and showers are picking up and that will have an impact on tomorrow's commute. there goes this one, that's tomorrow. there's another system right bag over my shoulder that comes in here by thursday. one-two punch. both are pretty potent

us to join with some of us that say that we need to be smart and as a former member of the air resources board in california, i can show you studies that have been done by very noted research people that really point out one study alone that says is we can reduce fuel and emissions problems by 22.6%. but we could do that, we don't have to a-- we we have to address what is the private sector doing in detroit in building cars, but what is the government sector doing in controlling those cars when they're on the road and one of the biggest problems we have is that washington sends money out for projects, but we do not hold those projects to a standard that's beenup graded to the 21st semplingry standards. i'll give you an example. studies have shown that 97% of all stop signs that you and i stop for every day, mr. speaker, don't have to be stop signs. those could be yield signs. granted, there are those sites with sight distance problems where you have to have stop signs but when we drive out of our homes tomorrow morning, think about why are you stopping? it's not for safety. it's not for fuel c