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. >> jennings, louisiana. david, independent caller. >> caller: yes. i was just wondering how the gas tax is alotted to the different projects. does that go into a general fund like i'd read eight or ten years ago? it was close to a billion dollars between the oil companies and the gas tax and everything. a trillion, not a billion. and why is all that being collected and then nothing's going toward transportation? >> okay chris edwards, do you want to explain how it works? >> the federal gas tax is 18.4 cents per gallon. it goes into two pots of money in the highway trust fund. about 80% goes to highways. 20% goes to mass transit. in other words city bus and rail systems. so that's the basic split. 80% highways, 20% for mass transit. >> jim in pennsylvania, democratic caller halifax, pennsylvania, go ahead. >> caller: yeah. good morning. we just -- our governor tom corbett just substantially raised the gas tax for this. and i was wondering what percentage actually goes towards the improvement of the infrastructure. and i was also curious on -- here a f

david spade. >> have a great weekend and enjoy the oscars. >> have a great night, everyone. >>> welcome to "beyond the headlines," i'm cheryl jennings. today's special roundtable edition celebrates the achievements, history and culture of african-americans in the bay area. now, the month of february has been officially recognized as black history month by every u.s. president since 1976, but we believe this conversation should be shared all year long. today abc 7 news anchor ama daetz is here with local leaders to talk about some of the current issues affecting bay area african-american communities. >> thank you, cheryl. before we begin, one hot issue has been the protests connected to the issue of police brutality between black men and white officers. earlier this year we saw a weekend of demonstrations during the dr. martin luther king jr. holiday. abc 7 news reporter alyssa harrington reported about how lgbt groups and supporters were standing in solidarity with the black lives matters campaign. a march in east oakland. a civil rights slide show, a rally in san francisco's castro district. these are just a few of several demonstra

but the closest was in ar a jen tina and not in the faulkland islands where no reporter was allowed to be. and as david corn said to me he said it is as if you were in d.c. covering a vietnam war protest, and then saying you were in vietnam, and that is how they say it is. >> and what do you make of the mother jones report? >> well, so it is not a brian williams' problem, and not anywhere on that scale. and while brian is quite right, o'reilly is the biggest guy in cable television, he is not the brian williams of nbc. brian wil brian williams does a news show and o'reilly does an o'reilly opinion show and these are a series of issues that are 35 years old now or 30-plus years old certainly, and brian williams and where it is that he got in trouble over issues that are current and immediate and on the air with him. >> and what is the difference if he is fudging or the embellishing and this is again ak according to mother jones. >> well, i totally agree that brian is dead right about this everybody is fair game now. and anybody who has had a public statement on television or elsewhere, it is going to be