department of energy to push forward with yet another dimension of electric transportation. but first, without further ado, i would like to introduce chrysler's senior manager to tell you more about the program and to make a special presentation to mayor lee. >> good afternoon, everybody. thank you for the warm welcome, mr. mayor. beautiful weather, beautiful city. on behalf of chrysler, i am proud to present the mayor and the city of san francisco with the supply and hybrid trucks. these trucks are part of a grant received from the department of energy to demonstrate technology and further enhance the ability of engineering organizations to implement this technology and future applications to be a part of the green energy that chrysler and bodies and to support the recently announced fuel economy rolling. we are proud to be in partnership with the mayor, and we are looking forward to work with your team over the next few years to demonstrate the technology and to learn from how they will dry data and further enhance the ability to demonstrate these applications. thank you v

guest: i guess i mentioned a couple already buried the department of energy, giving up. the department of interior used to do the leases. we had a mammoth bureaucracy appear that is help us become more energy dependent on foreign oil and foreign energy every year. it is time to get rid of things like that. no one is going to suffer. if you eliminated the department of energy, there would be a lot more jobs created in the private sector. that is a great place to start. this bill does have a committee in here of 12 people who are going to be appointed by the two leaders in the senate and the two in the house. they are supposed to come back with proposals for cuts or raising taxes, what ever they said. if we do not adopt what they say, one of my concerns, we put this nation security on the line. we're going to cut our defense by hundreds of billions of dollars. in other words, we are gambling with our own security in this bill. and our leadership, i know what they've mean, but i do not think they can guarantee. even though we promised to decimate our military -- our security

coming questions and the overwhelming opinion from the scientists of this government at the department of energy and even at the cia and some of the state department were arguing against using weapons of mass destruction. there's a case to go to war the whole purpose of the cia was to leave those people out a way that's why they're not in washington or in northern virginia away from the white house away from congress leave them alone ask them what they think but don't tell them to rethink their positions because then you come up nonsense like we saw the administration have decided very early on that saddam should go and that in itself is not a bad. goal but of course everything depends on how you do it when and how way or with whom it's set or to lay indecision and inaction could leave to a massive and sudden heart it simply makes no sense to wait any longer to take action before it's too late we will not wait it was a rushed and it was done and i believe in three or four weeks which is really fast for that. and it wasn't done earlier from what i understand because the bush administration didn't

bureaucracies that never meet their intended purposes -- there was only one reason we created the department of energy in the late 1970's -- to make the united states of america energy independent. no one has yet to be able to explain to me why we have a department of labour. -- labor. what do they do? the department of education -- what has happened to the performance standards of education? it has gone down. it is an inverse relationship. when we get a government that understands its proper roles and responsibilities, we will have a federal government that does not have these large debts and deficits. [applause] >> i think you guys said how we do that. it is about making the hard decisions. it really is. if you take a pebble -- i am telling you. be specific? anything that does not meet the constitute -- the department of energy. why do we have a department of energy when they are not producing anything, according to their mandate? we do not need to have that. when we have a department of education, education should be a local issue. it cannot be the federal government. [applause] those are the thing

on the other resources the government and in the department of defense and the department of energy and justice and the fbi so it is a supportive role but somebody has to lead this. as a consequence of the continue to build their kid the the the the as we develop these response plan will get things such as cyber storm which are the exercises. that gives a window into some of the things they have to modify and change to do this. so i have confidence in leadership in the mission that they have got but we continue to build the capabilities with smart people and good laws put in place to support them. estimate can they do it fast enough so? because as we were just discussing this is something the government's response to the threat has been slow so if you're having a sort of learning curve for an agency on top of that, can the department respond quickly enough to this? >> i think they can and it's the type of thing that it's more than responsibility. private-sector is a big part of this. private sector has been doing it a long time so as a consequence the ability to wrap up the deal with wh

drawn within the department of defense and energy and department of justice and fbi, is a supportive role, but someone has to lead this. as a consequence, they continue to build their capabilities, as we develop the national cyber response plan, we look at things such as cyber storm, that gives them a window into some of the things they have to modify and change. i've confidence in the leadership and in the mission, but we continue to build the capabilities with smart people and could laws put in place. guest: can they do it fast enough? as we were discussing, this is something where government's response to thie threat has been slwo. ow. if you add a learning curve, can the government respond quickly enough? guest: i think they can. it is more than their responsibility. private sector is a big part of this. as a consequence, the ability to wrap up the deal with but we are doing today is ongoing work, but more importantly, is building for the future because the idea is part of their role is not only dealing with what we deal with today, but how we wind up with a private sector and a

now that is the department of energy. you have all kinds of a government presence in the desert.one of which the government will talk about. they still will not officially say at area 51 exists. tavis: how the know, this is a dance tax. how did you get all of this? >> my research began when i was at a christmas dinner party seated next to a scientist named edward who live here in california. he said he had a story for me. as a reporter i hear that a lot. but what he said to me was phenomenal. starting in 1957, he developed stealth technology for the cia at area 51. the reason he could talk about it was because the cia had declassified that program. the men can discuss their programs that have been declassified but they're not supposed to say it is area 51. but i interviewed 74 men with access to the base. the word area 51 becomes part of the spoken language. that is what is called. tavis: wise to call the area 51? >> that is subject to debate. i believe it is called that because of the first project that went on out there in 1951. the neighbor is called the nevada test site. that

the 14 dodge ram pick ups given for a three-year evaluation period by chrysler and department of energy. the mayor received one to drive today before being turb turned over to department of public works. and one of the features city workers will find useful is the hybrid truck's battery can run on ac power. >> this generator can run lighting and etc. and we have four and we have 20 plugs. >> and this is a nice gift there. >> in northwest venezuela it's call aid river in the sky this, is why. take a look. that is what they will call rebaba, 40,000 volts of lightning erupting up to 300 nights per year. and it's punk twal, always happening at midnight. >> that is incredible. my owner's company is that there is an intense low pressure in this basin. night falls, this causes several places and you can get up to six, seven lightning storms around you. and sandhya patel with tonight's accu-weather forecast, never seen anything like that. >> i know. just amazing. nature's fire works. >> that would be lovely. nothing like that here. >> and there is a quiet pattern. as promised numbers came up to

drawing on the other resources, drawing within the department of defense, department of energy, the department of justice and fbi, so it's a supportive role, but somebody has to lead this. as a consequence, they continue to build their capabilities as we develop the national cyber response plan. we look at things such as cyber storm which is some of the exercises. that better gives them a window into some of the things they have to modify and change to do this. so i have confidence in the leadership, i have confidence in the mission they've got, but we continue to build the capabilities with smart people and good, good laws put in place to help support them. >> host: can the government, can the department respond quickly? >> guest: i think they can, and it's the type of thing where it's more than their responsibility. private sector is a big, big part of this. private sector's been dealing with it for a long time. so as a consequence the ability to ramp up what we're dealing with today is ongoing work, but more importantly it's building for the future because part of their role in not only dea

department of energy. >>> a public meeting is underway to consider possibilities that would allow an ice cream shop to open a branch in lafayette. the headline but a favorite -- it has long been a favorite in that they want to take over the park theatre side on plus away but they only had 12 designated parking spots. a committee is looking at possible solutions. >>> a new clinic is offering what it causing the -- offering a new method of pain relief. it was founded by former pro hiker player brad penny he might right now pg&e is holding a commanding meaning in an effort to ease concerns. they will begin water pressure tests as well as san mateo. they have already examined more than 40 miles of the pipeline started for the testing and so far no leaks have been discovered. but there's still more than 100 miles to test before the end of the fall. >> there is a little bit of mistrust after the san bruno disaster. i think you people can come to town to the people who are responsible and get city inserts, that is a good thing. >> a hazard by residents living within that repeat of the pipel

department of energy released a report in the epa is stepping up but it could take years to pass. despite some environmentalists want sacramento to ask her is. >>> the former contra costa drug for this task member appeared in federal court today. he sobbed as he pleaded not guilty. he was ordered freed on bail after under been to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. codefendant christopher butler also pleaded not guilty. if convicted, they could face life in prison. >>> the man who has shepherded to be one state university since 1988 onset is to use last year -- announced today that this will be as i did a pretty says people should work to keep when he caused the virtual districts in the system to map the repayment is a children and future depend on it. >>> san francisco food banks have any feeling the pinch but not everyone is having a. boot are eating it -- accepting free food are eating it. >> reporter: regulars unescorted say that is exactly what is looking from. >> do you think it's mainly not right to be selling that you got a was likely counter counted at least six people sell

department of energy, the international olympic committee, the united nations. he loss of trade secrets to hackers costs u.s. companies as much as $20 billion a year. the loss of government secrets to cyber-espionage? incalculable. >> protecting information, securing information is crucial. >> it's a national security issue. >> reporter: the federal agencies are here seek the next generation of national defenders, cyberwarrior. >> the government can't solve this problem by itself. >> reporter: tony sager is with the national security agency. >> there is no end state of security, so it's constant learning. that's part of what makes it exciting, but also challenging. >> reporter: look around-- this is what the fighting force of the future looks like. bill whitaker, cbs news, las vegas. >> ahead, what a shift in the international balance of trade could do to american-made new balance shoes. shoes. >> according to the latest unemployment report, american manufacturers added 24,000 jobs last month, but in schoheyingan, maine, more than 300 manufacturing jobs could be

but the department of energy at our 12:30 conference call was reporting a little over 5 million. rom a number over 6 million. but the department of energy is tracking that and putting that number together as it changes. we knew they were in the area of heavy rainfall. this is one thing the director bill read was trying to get people not to focus just on the center of circulation or the coast. the heavy rainfall, this storm had a lot of rain ahead of it moving ashore. the concern was where we would get steady rainfall. if you want back to the prediction center they were putting out forecasts of these types of measures we could see as far as rainfall. but the read as the is most this occurred very quickly. many of these rivers in vermont, they have already gone back down. it was a quick response from the rain, now we are looking at the damages. megyn: those damages are considerable as you heard the fema director discuss. that was an interesting anecdote talking about how the emergency operations center in vermont itself had to be evacuated as the water rushed in. 5 million are estim

department of energy. the power grids most of them are on-line right now.omeone could cyber attack the power grids and put us in the dark? >> yeah, absolutely. yeah. joel brenner, the former head of counter intelligence has a terrifying book called "america the vulnerable." there's a whole chapter devoted to the power grids. his point is in order to make life easier for the praerts of the power grids, we have put everything on-line, because you can maintain things remotely, that kind of thing, but what it also does is milwaukee it very, very vulnerable, and there have been experiments done shown how easy it would be to blow up part of the grid. the chinese, a nation state, are not iffing to do this wrrn they want to keep this quiet and keep coming in quietly unnoticed and stealing stuff. the real risk is somebody like an al qaeda. you know, a terrorist organization that you can't really fight back against because they have nothing to lose. brenner thinks that it's actually very, very possible and even likely that this is going to happen. >> okay. now, wait

those connections were as tight as it was people were saying intelligence director of the department of energysimply ordered his experts who had raised questions about the evidence being used on a nuclear and of a as a kind of safe to sit down and shut up so that we would be on board with the with the overall estimate they were not given. because it was chief of collecting information on iraq and it's in the mid ninety's i know what we had what we didn't have and i'm here to tell you there was no information and very heavy leaning on the director of central intelligence and his staff to produce precisely the language which would allow them to make the statements which they have been making to support the decision to go into iraq not only by their physical presence but by the questions they asked for id well don't you think sort of things for could it be possible that they call it data mining going back over old information coming questions and the overwhelming opinion from the scientists of this government i think a part of the energy and even the cia and some of the state department were argu

>> this number is fluctuating and coming down but the department of energy at the 12:30 conference callrting a little over 5 million and that number was down from a number of 6 million, but it is being tracked with the state you tile ti syst-- utilit the day progresses. >> and what about in vermont? >> well, they were in the area of heavy rainfall and that is what bill reid was trying to get people not to focus on the center of the coast, but the rainfall because this particular system had a lot of rain with it moving onshore and the concern was where to go to it. if you go back to the hydrometric forecast center, they were putting out these measures that we can see as far as rainfall, so it was something that we were expecting but the reality with flash flooding, much of it occurred quickly and many of the rivers in vermont they have already gone back and it was a quick response rate from the rain and the flooding and now we are looking at the damages. >> what about in new york? >> just, i don't have any specific right now. >> given that this is the anniversary of hurricane katrina and

but the department of energy at our 12:30 conference call was reporting a little over five million. umber had come down from a number that was a little over six million. department of energy is tracking that very closely, working with the states and utilities and putting that number together as it changes through the days. >>. [ inaudible ] >> we knew they were in the area of heavy rainfall. this is one thing that director bill reid was trying to get people not to focus on the center circulation or on the coast. the heavy rainfall, particularly that this storm had a lot of rain ahead of it, as it's moving ashore. the concern was where we could expect rainfall. in fact, if you went back to the prediction center, they were printing out forecasts of these types of measures as far as rainfall. most of this occurred very quickly. in fact, in main of the rivers in vermont, they've gone back down. it was a very quick response rate from the rain, the flooding. now we're looking at the damages. >> what happened when you went to new york? >> i don't have any specifics right now. >> this is the

> the total number -- and, again, this number is fluctuating and it's coming down, but the department of energy at our 12:30 p.m. conference call was reporting a little over 5 million. and that number had come down from a number that was a little over 6 million. but department of energy is tracking that very closely, working with the states and utilities, and putting that number together as it changes through the days. >> did vermont take you by surprise completely? and i didn't hear any warnings about vermont. >> no, we knew they were in the area of heavy rainfall. and this is one thing that director bill reed was trying to get people not to focus just on the center of circulation or on the coast. the heavy rainfall -- particularly this storm had a lot of rain ahead of it as it was moving ashore -- the concern was where we could expect rainfall. in fact, if you went back to the hydromet prediction center, they were putting out forecasts of these types of measures that we could see as far as rainfall, so it was something we were expecting. but the reality is with flash flooding, much of this oc

what the outcome of all of this is we will not see the ever rising production levels that the department of energy and the international energy agency predicts for the years ahead we should expect from now on diminishing levels of oil coming from these countries for technical and political and other reasons that's what i think. i only have now a little reason why do you think ok will you guys see that only as a political factor the idea that we're peaking on oil worldwide this absolute peak is is scientifically invalid and it can be demonstrated that's a longer discussion but the resources are there is just a political question of getting at them we saw that in the caribbean cuba the b.p. disaster was probably because they had one of the deepest migration channels going going. into the deep sea there to find oil the some some scientists think it's another saudi arabia. or brazil it's the oil is there it's a political question of whether the anglo american oil giants and the governments behind them the military are going to let the let these countries develop that for their own use. this is us in a