funds and the cpuc and i'm in agreement with the puc on how to move forward with this. >> okay. he appreciate our finding the new address and somalia's an impeccable detail. >> (laughter). okay we open up for public comment any must be member of the urban design that wants to comment and okay. good afternoon eric brooks san francisco green party argue our city clean power advocates and clean power choice first of all, i won't forget it on the last point raised it would be good hopefully in under the same mou so it didn't cost more money add in sonoma and better perspectives to dovetail we're not getting one prospective from the community choice if possible so the greater subject of community choice that is the first opportunity for the folks to thank lafco although the chair and the vice chair that both are continuing for under our watch getting this off the ground this program started and that can't be understated how the important it is how important lafco is over the years and plus in is just spectacular we got this off the ground and on marketing i've noticed noticed i perso

. >>> new at 6:00, it could be the beginning of the end for the cpuc.lic utilities commission began in the 1800s. some say the reach evenl panneded too far. >> if you're trying to constit an entity you would not create a eni ti with oversight or gas, hot air balloons, limousines, ride sharing companies, cable, telephone, water. you won't do that in 2016. >> concern is grown cpuc can't protect californians from disasters, including the methane gas leak in porter ranch. a bill is working through the legislature now. >>> people began paying their final respects to former first lady nancy reagan today. and visitation continues tomorrow before she is laid to rest friday. here is our sister station, kabc. >> over passes packed with paying their respects to the former li former firefighters stopped to salute the processin. a collection of flowers and flags has grown. >>> a military honor guard carrying the casket into the library's main lobby where she will lay in repose today and tomorrow. house speaker paul ryan pays his respects, then, the library opens to

. >>> new at 6:00, it could be the beginning of the end for the cpuc. the public utilities commission began in the 1800s. some say the reach evenl panneded too far. >> if you're trying to constit an entity you would not create a eni ti with oversight or gas, hot air balloons, limousines, ride sharing companies, cable, telephone, water. you won't do that in 2016. >> concern is grown cpuc can't protect californians from disasters, including the methane gas leak in porter ranch. a bill is working through the legislature now. >>> people began paying their final respects to former first lady nancy reagan today. and visitation continues tomorrow before she is laid to rest friday. here is our sister station, kabc. >> over passes packed with paying their respects to the former li former firefighters stopped to salute the a collection of flowers and flags has grown. >>> a military honor guard carrying the casket into the library's main lobby where she will lay in repose today and tomorrow. house speaker paul ryan pays his respects, then, the library opens to the

. >>> it could be the beginning of the end for the cpuc.s commission began in the 1800s to regulate the price of railway tickets. since then its reach has expanded some say too far. >> if you were trying to constitute an entity to regulate california utilities, you would not constitute the cpuc. it has oversight of gas, hot air balloons, ride sharing companies, electric utilities, cable, telephone, water. you wouldn't do that in 2016. >> concern has grown that they can't protect californians from disasters. a ballot to break up and disperse the responsibilities is working its way through the legislature right now. >>> today the supreme court ruled that governor jerry brown can keep working on a plan to release prison inmates even while it's being challenged in court. last month, those efforts were halted after a lawsuit alleged the governor's proposal had been changed after it was approved. both sides will present their arguments in court by the end of the month. >>> we have some video that may get your heart racing. this is an armed robber

we have held the cpuc, [inaudible] workshop. this is the opportunity to identify the cpuc to discuss the ethudology for setting a pcic. we coordinateed with sonoma clean power and lancaster and [inaudible] took the lead on that initiative. stakeholders also provided public comment that was very helpful. looking forward for a outcome, we are not too optimistic we'll see modfiications to the methodology in the near term. the presiding commissioner is planning another working group meeting ing and will continue to collaborate with the other programs and formal [inaudible] at the cpuc to talk about the pcia and other charges and so that will be a ongoing effort for the short term and medium term, no doubt about it. >> thank you. >> i want to talk about energy providers. i know as we get closer to energy in may people have specific questions show i will break it between product and start with our super green product because it is easy to talk about. super green if you are a clean power sf customer and signed up for 100 percent renewa

but in a document to the cpuc, the agency does raise concerns over safety and possibility that the futureoutes may conflict with the current publicly subsidized water routes. if approved by the stay, the company hopes to have the service up and running this summer. just to give you a little perspective. $15 one way trip here from redwood to the city. it will take about 35 minutes or so. reporting live in redwood city. michelle roberts. nbc bay area news. >> thank you, michelle. well, expect to hear the term six-star hotel. international city like dubai. in the bay area, well that's what a new hotel wants you to thing. business and tech reporter scott budman. got a tour. what do you get at a six star you don't get in five star? >> jessica, seems like an extra star could be called part of what i would call hotel inflation. a new hotel in palo alto wants to give something exclusive to the well-heeled. take you inside the silicon valley latest move towards very high-end luxury. as if there aren't already enough signs of a bubble here in silicon valley. the comfortable location for our guests.

we have held the cpuc, [inaudible] workshop. this is the opportunity to identify the cpuc to discuss the ethudology for setting a pcic. we coordinateed with sonoma clean power and lancaster and [inaudible] took the lead on that initiative. stakeholders also provided public comment that was very helpful. looking forward for a outcome, we are not too optimistic we'll see modfiications to the methodology in the near term. the presiding commissioner is planning another working group meeting ing and will continue to collaborate with the other programs and formal [inaudible] at the cpuc to talk about the pcia and other charges and so that will be a ongoing effort for the short term and medium term, no doubt about it. >> thank you. >> i want to talk about energy providers. i know as we get closer to energy in may people have specific questions show i will break it between product and start with our super green product because it is easy to talk about. super green if you are a clean power sf customer and signed up for 100 percent renewa

the cpuc will consider that proposal at the march 17th meeting. >>> the coverup at yosemite begins at midnight. workers will cover up with temp tarry directions. this is the latest move in the battle legal battle over the names of some of yosemite's landmarks. the vendor claims it has trademark ownership of the hotel and curry village among other locations. the vendovendor's contract expi admit night. employees will cover up the existing road signs with temporary signs until the lawsuit is settled. >>> going to be very confusing for old-time visitors to yosemite, for sure. let's turn things over to jeff ranie ranieri. >> we are looking at increasing possibilities of a more substantial storm system to come our way. you can see right now live look from the berkeley camera. high clouds moving off as the storm system just to the north sun setting right now looking great. tomorrow morning's forecast clouds in the southeast bay at 44 and san francisco at 53. tomorrow we keep with the mild temperatures and that will put the north bay at 70 with a very slight chance of a spotty shower off of

that bus also was not registered with the cpuc as required a so-called ghost bus. >> the fact that there are potentially hundreds of so- called ghost buses that are not being regulated at all that may not be having safety inspections we need to make sure regardless of what happens to regard to one incident that this doesn't happen in the future. >> reporter: so there's legislation that is in the works that will start out having hearings next month. there's also civil lawsuits hanging out there. and bottom line here, the attorney malvar and his attorney are also concerned because when the police did their reenactment to try to replicate the problem, the attorney is worried they may have destroyed or lost important evidence before this manimal var the driver was able to examine it. reporting live in union square i'm joe vazquez, kpix 5. >>> well, less than an hour ago we have learned a san francisco police officer has been arrested. jason lie was arrested on an inpersonal probe. the police department says there wasn't enough evidence for a sexual assault charge but lie does face charges fo

power and they've done that with ab 1110 and doing it now with the net metering standards that the cpuc california public utilities commission we got them to institute good metering and now the loyalists are attacking this is what this legislation represents beyond having the issues that were laid out we need you all to help to push for community choices programs for a certain number of years to adjust to the standards 5 years the small ones we feed to make sure that rooftop solar panes are included in the ab 1110 is written that won't be you'll right the green house gas emissions on this bill we are heard relevance from assembly member tong i'll not adopt those improvements and finally something that is important we've not spoken about before i sent an e-mail to this effect on those points this bill is supposed to be about properly accounting for green house gas emissions and after we've seen the porter rather than explosion the clear evidence that the nightly are gas because of loopholes is just as bad as coal we need a champion bill to this bill to improve this bill didn't account fo

training i spoke of earlier, rail operators have a specific refresher requirement pursuant to the cpuc general orders, and that refresher training is based on that they learned initially which is the way the general order is written, so they are done -- they do this every two years and they also get a compliance check each year to ensure that they are indeed following those rules and regulations in the things they've learned to do. we offer what we call infrastructure and equipment training, so with us having so many operators, they also have a choice to be able to move from division to division, or across modes, so from motor coach to trolley coach and then to any of our rail vehicles including cable cars, with that comes new training, so a person is once operating a bus now oncebacker want tos operate a trolley coach, they go through about 17, 18 additional days of training so they now can attend with the overhead system, some of those folks go on from rubber tire vehicles to the rear wheel training, then they move to historical vehicle and is they're different in nature in terms of