alop opposed?motion carries. item 9. >> authorizing the general manager the authority to execute an amendment . (reading from the agenda) >> president torres: welcome mr. cruz. >> good morning mr. president, members of the commission. it has been the policy of your commission and the puc's practice to extend opportunities to the communities in which we work in which we serve. in addition to our efforts at the mayors office of economic development we have partnered with a -- organization to assist with grassroots efforts and to work with local, organized labor. a week ago in fact friday i was related to be at the breakfast of champions down and san mateo county, were job trained recognizes seven cisco public utilities commission as the employer of the year because we threw our contractors hired 96 graduate, full-time, blue-collar working wage jobs working on such projects as harry tracy. through our contractors work we have been able to extend his opportunities to the communities in which we work. through our part

alop opposed?motion carries. item 11. >> approving construction contract, bioregional habitat restoration. >> mr. cruz. > emilio cruz. during construction we had a major storm. as part of the storm there was damage done to the construction site and some of the environmental components of our project. he item before you simply to make a change order with the existing contractor repair the damages that happened during this natural storm in order to have the project when it is completed meet all of our goals. >> president torres: any discussion? >> so moved. >> moved by commissioner vietor, seconded by commissioner moran. any public comments? all those in favor? alop opposed?motion is carried. item 12. >> consider and adopt the proposed wholesale revenue requirement for fiscal year 2013-14. >> mr. rydstrom. >> the item before you is a material you reviewed the last meeting and requires adoption by this body reflecting what is a 16 percent decrease in the rates as well as the updated rate for late charges and a disco

alop opposed?you have helped the motion carried. thank you. item 10. >> approve amendment number 1 to amend cs 946 increasing the agreement by 500,000 dollars. >> steve ritchie, assistant city manager for water. this is for continuation of our work on the upper -- river they can share our flow releases of providing the best habitat value downstream from our dams. >> president torres: is there a motion? >> so moved. >> seconded.

alop opposed?motion carries.

. >> the young michigan mother who disappeared, working the late shift alope at a gat station. says he saw a man approaching jessica. christian, tell me, what is the last time you saw this woman? >> i saw her roughly a couple of hours before, apparently, she disappeared. >> what did you see? >> well, we were -- i was just basically filling up after a day of work. i work about 3 or 400 feet from the gas station. and i was just filling up. had a little conversation and went outside and jessica was going out there to to feel up the receipt tape at the pump and a van pulled up to her, right where the pump bays are and started having a conversation with her. he had no intention of buying gas. he wanted to chit-chat, kind of flirty conversation, on the spot right there, instead of going into the gas station and waiting for her. it seemed weird to me because she was trying to do her job and this guy came over and started talking to her. >> all right. did you see the van leave? >> i did not. i saw the van pull into the front of the gas station and then go inside like he was going to ac

there's a 45-point basis point rise ten-year note this year alope, and realistically, if the fed cutsk, that could grow. at some point, the argument of being in the market because there's no place else to go goes away. whether that's when the ten year note hits two and three quarters, i don't know. liz: can i ask, at 2.1% on the yield for the ten-year, does that worry you, dan? >> the trend and how fast it happened, yes, it worries me. today, the comeback, but due to, again, another federal reserve bank president saying we still need to accommodate. this still is a central bank story right now. liz: what do we have? we got energy pulling back in a meaningful way. a 92 handle at least for west texas interimmediate. what is really at the hart of that? >> there's a couple things weighing op the market today. first of all, you have the imf coming out with revised forecast calling for lower growth with china. then the target fell aparting and we track that closely lately. there was concerns about the quantitative easing situation weighing op the market, and we have an opec meeting this wee

but we're not going to be able to do this alope. we're going to -- alone.artner. so i've been in discussions, and my team has been in discussions with both democrats and republicans, and i'm calling on congress to work with us to support and fully fund our budget request to improve the security of our embassies around the world. we also need congress to work with us to provide the resources and new authorities so we can fully implement all of the recommendations of the accountability review board. and we're going to need congress' help in terms of increasing the number of our marine corps guard who protect our embassies. so i want to say to members of congress in both parties, we need to come together and truly honor the sacrifice of those four courageous americans and better secure our diplomatic posts around the world. and i should add, by the way, that we're getting some help from the turkish government on some of these issues. that's how we learn the lessons of benghazi, that's how we keep faith with the men and women who we send overseas to represent a

how they deal with things with lawyers standing on the side of the accused, and the victim will be alope. there is no one to support them, and they have the victim, tried to pin all the things which happen, and they get the verdict in their favor. that is the reason why we said that as we collaborated with the media, and, yes, of course, we highlighted the issue of female and happening and predicted that hundreds and hundreds of reports there, and did a collaboration with them and did a story on human trafficking, we highlighted this media, went and talked to the media about them, and said that the media was building the momentum. each and every case we dealed with, we shared with the media. the momentum was the media, center stage in the whole debate, and then a flash happened, and -- >> [inaudible] >> law permission gave the recommendation in the year 1996 and 2000, and the law passed. [applause] >> i think what we are dealing with and it's woofer hearing ravi be passionate and what was said, this is not women versus men. this is, as hillary clinton said this morning, women's right, hu