we do have an on-going relationship with cal fire, i'm in contact with cal fire all the time. we have good situational awareness what's going on in the state of california. they normally put us in an alert stat us so we're prepared to respond in an attack mode. i don't often work with chief chaney in southern california, about a month ago we had 9 aircraft at our peak working fires throughout northern california if that answers your question. >> any other responses? >> i wanted to touch -- can you hear me now? i wanted to touch on that last topic as far as the command control because what we have here in the marine corps is similar to the navy. we have the installation, the regional installation command and also partners with the operational foresite. we allow the operational foresight, we maintain those but then we coordinate, cooperate, with the operational foresight once the call comes in for support. so we're able to do that obviously through memorandum of understandings and we have agreements and our wing operating orders allow for the fact the operational control, at lea

cal fire has an aviation policy as well. we work cooperatively with the agencies here at the table to ensure when we are engaged in an aerial fire fighting event we are working within each other's policies. we have trained in a work around, we can do close air support with navy and marine corps aircraft, with the current system we have. would we like to improve upon it? absolutely. we have gone very high up in the organization to try and look at getting the r210 radio modified to the point where it can work on our vhf spectrums, that's one of our challenges we need to move forward with. but overall we're confident when we do call upon dod assets to integrate with civilian aircraft, the training regimen we put forth will keep aircrews safe and also have them be effective. there was a lot of questions from a political level as well as a public level. you've got aircraft sitting at north island, just launch them, get them in the fight. it was hard to explain to them that that's a very delicate air space when you have fixed wing

>> i am really glad that we are talking about the extension of the cal train i am hope thating we spend more time as a board on this. i have no concerns whatsoever about ecom or the price. i am concerned about the scope of what is in this and what i know from talking to other people in the community is that the various partners that will be necessary to connect cal train to the transbay terminal do not agree about the alignment. the san francisco mayor's office and i am the mayor's appointee to this board does not agree with this alignment. i don't believe that the san francisco county transportation authority does. getting agreement between the various parties in addition to the high speed rail authority and cal train is the task ahead for us. the, i believe, i have a great concern about opening a supplemental and then locking ourselves in and then telling ourselves that we can't reopen it. i know that we have to do a supplemental eir but i don't think that we yet know what should be in it. >> i just add on that that question. because i had a related question. and so i was actually cur

there's a variety of dod resources that cal fire can provide in a statewide environment. i think the biggest thing for me, there's several scenarios that are challenging us, one of which and one of our fears, and it's been in the newspaper so it's not a secret, but one of the things that scares me as well is the united states is not really experienced what i would call a global disaster yet. we have had disasters, i was in katrina on an urban search and rescue team, i've been in pretty much all major engagements as far as wild land fires in california, but if you look at a global disaster perspective where you have a hundred thousand victims like a tsunami or a large scale event, we have yet to experience that in this nation. i think the agreements we have here today and the relationships we develop today are going to be key to mitigate that. the other scenario that we are concerned with is a coordinated aerial incendiary attack by al qaeda. one of the things we've seen already in the european union is suspect of al qaeda starting fires in the eu if that happened in calif

i am a rider and use bart and cal train. i work on a clean tech automobile company and tesla motors. you might have heard it. we're focused on changing the landscape of transportation and making it much more cleaner, reducing emissions which i think intersecting a lot with the goals of this organization. as a side note i am a collector of subways from around the world. i feel i can bring skills and qualifications from my experience. i'm a financial analyst and worked at morgan stanley and in other mergers and departments so i have a lot of experience of working on collaborative environments and teams and tight deadlines and limited resources and i think i bring a unique demographic perspective to this community. i am in my 20's and asian and professional and i use transit and plugged into the network and a huge constituency in san francisco and i'm a traveler and worldwide transit rider and don't have a car and adult literacy tutor and head of the homeowner association and providing work for poor people around the world and

i think in the case of cal train that is very, very true. it doesn't take away the need to have resources to deal with the local issues and what your comment highlights is the need for a picture of investment that doesn't stop at just the local stuff but also looks at regional and tries to come up with a set of priorities so we don't have to make these decisions on a piecemeal basis, and one of the documents that we had put together in the past and are updating right now to help us make sense of the decisions is the san francisco transportation plan, this 30 year plan, that looks precisely at those issues, and the cost and benefits of being a funding partner to those, and then puts them in a context of the regional transportation plan, which is the larger sweepstakes how federal money is allocated, so in the end we wind up with a stronger piece of advocacy and policy in transportation funding and allows us to capture more of the regional money and convincing the region to invest in high speed rail. we have made progress in that because the h

. >> just a comment that we at cal train are moving forward with the electricitifiation and so we are moving forward and we are going to move forward regardless on what happens on the high speed rail. we are working with them to possibly not do additional track work other than separations other than grade separations which i believe in holely as one of the big things to get down. but that is our procedure. we are moving forward and we will cooperate completely with your staff. and also installing the old coast daylight and i am on the board that and and that is moving forward and we will be getting close to getting that done. so that we will have a direct train service from san francisco and los angeles. >> and i can accommodate the director, we work to make sure that that happens. >> there are any other questions or questions specifically to this item? >> director metcalf. >> in the long run i do not think that it is clear if the fourth and king cal train station will remain a station or if there will be other alignments that we all end up believing would be preferred. i think that w

is make cal great again that.what the graduation rate around 48% meant change was inevidentible. the contract so no taxpayer money will be involved. he issued a statement giving thanks for kmimt making it possible to have the winningest tenure in cal football history. mike shumann joins us live tonight. i know this is a sad day for people at cal. >> no question. we have had gloomy weather on this day. memorial stadium could not have been renovated without his success. >> i informed jeff tedford we'd be seeking to hire a new lead football coach it was a difficult decision for barbara, jeff has been head coach for 11 years. >> he is a good man. who has brought great success and celebration to this university. and who deserves to occupy a place of honor in the cal family. however, the current state of the program is not what our student athleteses and fans and commute deserves.. >> players found out this morning in 10:00 a.m. in a meeting with coach. >> everybody on the team gave him a hug after and a standing ovatio

we are able to integrate with cal fire itself with the objective being the fire itself. those work out for us here and we can go ahead and use those skills forward as well. thank you very much, we appreciate the opportunity. >> thank you, i'd like to thank our panelists and open it up to our group for any questions of our panelists today. yes, sir, secretary. >> there are a lot of things you can do in a forest that tend to make it easier it fight a fire like most importantly burning off the fuel during the wet season so there's less for the fire to feed on. to what extent in cal fire and all your other things do you encourage people to do things in their forest when you don't have a fire that make it easier and more effective in fighting the fire? >> it's an excellent question, sir. we spend a large time in cal fire on public education and prevention and also with respect to you were talking about fuel, the fuels program, or vegetation management program in cal fire, we have a robust program throughout the state where we are conducting burning operations and vegetation m

and occasionally use cal train as well. >> thank you. >> okay. we can open this up for public comment. any member of the public would like to comment? all right. we will close public comment. colleagues -- we have actually a motion from commissioner cohen on continuing district 10 cac so we can take that without objection. on the district four we have been asked -- cac we have been asked to continue that seat is still looking for an applicant so we will continue that and without objection. commissioner farrell. okay. >> i'm actually seem pretty impressed with our last applicant, and wondering colleagues -- i know actually we had support from our district nine commissioner and president for glen davis and wondering what anyone's thoughts are about that? >> i actually was going to encourage the applicants to meet with the supervisor that represents their district. i'm not sure you can do that but i think it would help to meet with them and get a sense. this isn't the only committee that we have. although this is the one that relates the best to tra

. >> in the long run i do not think that it is clear if the fourth and king cal train station will remain a station or if there will be other alignments that we all end up believing would be preferred. i think that we need to be undertaking a process, with all of the partners. that will be necessary to pay for and get this project completed. and try to see if we can come up with an alignment and a design that everybody can agree to. i have concerns about spending money on ir that has a likelihood of having to be redone. i know in the scope of the project, a million dollars may not be that much. but there is... i wonder about the wisdom of proceeding. >> four and this king will be... will stay as a station. however, maybe not all trains will stop there. because, and that whole mission bay area is very important to the cal train right now and as far as the yard, only looking at it as someone who has been in the business all of his life. we will have to have some storage. because you are not going to have storage done on the transbay terminal. >> the trains during the rush hour, especially m

>>reporter: cal players found out this morning at 10:00 a.m. in an emotional meeting with coach ted ford. >> everybody gave him a hug after and standing ovation as he deserves. >> everybody is going to miss hill. he's really put a lot of blood sweat tears in the program. >> cal graduation rate for the football team was at 48 percent which was the lowest in the pack 12. that played into the final decision. >> he's always pressed the 'or of academic and we need to finish strong at school whether he was here or not. >>reporter: barber hired app executive search firm to help find the new head coach. she has certain qualities she's looking for. >> team builder. staff builde builder. character builder. someone who is innovative. someone who understands the importance of academic. >>reporter: 5 coaches were retained to help in recruiting and already interest in this job. >> we will did this as quickly as we possibly can but not sacrificing getting the right person to lead cal football. >>reporter: details of the buy-out worked out and mitigated if he

. >> sal, i know you are looking at some major delays on call train -- cal train? >> yes, wee they will calling that person a pedestrian and cal train has hit that person and there are major delays on the system. now we are getting word it can be stopped completely and they are using a bus bridge to fit around palo alto and again major tee lays because a train hit a pettianment we have more information and we will have more for you until some of that mist. we have had slowed traffic on highway 4 and it is backed up into pittsburgh because of an earlier accident and we had a stalled vehicle out there. highway 4 is not doing well and in fact it is not lighter and in fact it is heavier than it normally is. >>> and in san francisco, mike polanski is reporting but it has been in the north bay and santa rose, they are fitting food gusts and mainly points north, by tonight that rain moves over us and by late tonight tomorrow morning, and out to lake county mendocino county, this has been a pour house system also into oregon and there have been strong wind gusts and also h

. >> cal soleusessing season claims the team's coach. the bigship shakeup at cal football. uz >>> walkers and bikers should have new trails to enjoy in the south bay now that funding is approved. the board of supervisors okayed $10 million for trail improvements. of that $4 million is earmarked for a bike bridge over highway 101. >> it will allow thousands of people each year to enjoy recreation in that beautiful area. >> and $400,000 will go toward the south bay section of the san francisco bay trail. >> mark is here with sports. had to figure it was going to happen after the season the cal bears had. >> 3-9 season could get vince lombardi fired. cal fans will tell you truth is really look at it closely. this program has been in decline since aaron rodgers left for the nfl. never a star quarterback developed. the team never won the conference outright. in recent years decline has ago vell rated to the point where cal became easy prey. most importantly the bears have the lowest graduation rate for their players in the pac 12. time for a

cal on a friday night hosting the washington huskies. look at cal on the reverse. getting tricky.as up 13-7. look how far back the quarterback is. they complete the pass for the touchdown. the huskies go up by one, they led 21-13. zach maynard the cal quarterback injured his left knee on this play. cal now 3 and 7 as they lose from 21-13 final. we are coming back later on, on cbs5. a special 8:00 newscast. why? because we are following lsu and alabama, the biggest college football game on the board. see you later, everybody. are forced to ration gas rm sandy. >>> coming up, one more look at today's top stories. where drivers are forced to ration gas, due to superstorm sandy. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, [ female announcer ] pillsbury crescents fabulous but...when i add chicken, barbecue sauce... and cheese...and roll it up woo-wee! i've made a barbecue chicken crescent chow down. pillsbury crescents. let the making begin. here's a better idea. pillsbury grands! flaky layers biscuits in just 15 minutes the light delicate layers add a layer of warmth to your next dinner. pi

that means he will miss cal's final three games. after that it is expected alan will enter the draft. this might be it. the offensive coordinator knows the bears just lost their best weapon. >> it hurts. the talent that keenen is and the competitor he sthere is no way -- there is no way you don't miss a guy like that. >> we have had freshmen who have played a lot, and they had to play. it has been a growing process and they have been maturing and it is not the end of the world. those guys will step up, and we are confident they will come out and have a heck of a game. >> thursday night football. nfl chargers hosting the chiefs. norv turner on the hotseat in san diego. chargers score on the opening drive. philip rivers, antonio gates, touchdown. chargers up 7-0. rivers shaky lately, but on fire tonights. look at this angle. 18 for 20 for 228 yards and two scores. the back shoulder throw on the money to floyd in the fourth quarter. chargers up 17-6. kansas city is just dreadful. johnson sacks cassel. he fumbles in the end zone and sea

an on sidekick by cal. they were trailing by three touchdowns and a minute left. there was no reason for him to be on the field at that point and landed awkwardly on his le