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

so i want to thank chrysler for allowing sanfrancisco to experiment with our department of energy, and also while we are experimenting with this, we have uc-davis as a partner. we have the director of our plugged in demonstration project. working together with the transportation electrification institute here. with their corporations, getting the data about how these vehicles are used, how they are tested, whether they can go up hills as efficiently, bringing up the cargo and animals and tool that dpw will use, various departments inspecting buildings, streets, all of the different uses for a city fleet, all on the dime of the department of energy because they want to see these the electric vehicle properly used, the way that we use our fleet generally now. ali, they will be replacing the fleet that we are using now and saving that money. and then do what i do, i keep in mind -- i do not ever want to run out of the electric power. as i come to city hall, i asked my staff, plug it in. i try not to use any oil so that we can try to do this in the cleanest way possible. that makes it fun.

was information hidden from the department of energy? did the department of energy paint a rosy picture, hiding from congress? half a billion dollars was taken from the american people. they won't get it back. this morning this congress passed a continuing resolution and you have managed to do something that few congresses have. you have killed a program. we don't have answers, but we will continue to ask. we will restore the full faith and credit of this country and the answers that they deserved. ideal back. >> the gentleman yield back and we recognize the gentleman from virginia for an opening statement for two minutes. >> i respect your decision to invoke your constitutional fifth amendment rights. that stated the american people deserve to know the answers to a lot of questions. after all this is their money we are talking about. if i had the opportunity to ask questions which would be answered today, i would ask in light of the fact that the justice department got a search warrant for your records shortly after the unflattering e-ma

last february there was a restructuring of the deal with the department of energy. lawmakers subpoenaed records from the omb about the solyndra deal and then just earlier this month republicans requested records of communication between solyndra, its investors and the white house. so all moving very quickly. last month they shut down laying off 1100 workers and went bankrupt within weeks. the cfo and ceo of solyndra were invited to the panel this morning to speak but declined. they will testify before congress next week. >> you mentioned the ceo and cfo were "invited" to speak at this hearing. i would think they would be forced to have to answer for where all this money went. >> reporter: sure. well, technically, the term was they were invited but they are looking -- lawmakers are looking for those answers and that's why they are going voluntarily next week to testify before congress. >> thank you. >>> the ongoing war between bart management, commuters and protestors for the past few weeks has been a war of words. anne makovec shows us how bart is trying to get the u

i put in a call to the department of energy in washington, d.c. early this morning. their spokes person confirmed they are involved in this investigation but they would not confirm any specifics. >> thank you, alex. >>> word of solyndra's trouble comes two months after it was announced a big contract with the stadium that hosts the seattle seahawks' nfl team. the company shows this picture of on the roof of what is is now century link stadium. which before was qwest >>> in a story you will see only on 2, we have learned that police have made an arrest on a serious attack on a football player on treasure island this summer. tara moriarty joins us live from san francisco where she got this information exclusively for ktvu >> reporter: that's right. this is a major break in the case and the news that mark mcgovern's family has been waiting for month. we are here at the hospital where mcgovern's family has been recuperating. san francisco police say they have arrested 26-year-old pat power of half moon bay. he is charged with felony battery accused of hitting mcgovern in

and the department of energy head, secretary of energy. and said, look, due diligence is required here. and we don't have it. we think you are rushing to judgment here. but for some reason, whether they wanted to show that they're creating job snotsular panel industry or political reasons, they decided to rush ahead with this at the expense of taxpayers and the due diligence wasn't there. >> lthere is the one part where they have egg on their face when they went out and had the photo-ops and they are promoting and it looks great to show it off. but there are far more grievous things. for instance, i find it far more grievous that they knew about it a year ago and they allowed a restructuring of the loan and we were not first in line, meaning the taxpayers, to collect when the bankruptcy proceedings would go forward, we were not first in line. suddenly, the rich, private investors were. >> the energy policy affect 2005 says that all taxpayer loans have first -- shall we say on the money left over in a bankruptcy. and this restructuring allo

>> well, the department of energy clearly would have been concerned. the terms of the loan. they loose needed to bring in the only way was to go to the people that already invested in the company and ask them to put up $75 million in additional money, people like argonaut investment fund, tied back to george kaiser and his foundation, and money in drone family that runs wal-mart. >> greta: if we put them into default that time, not allowed simply we wouldn't be on the hook for $500 million? how much would the damage be less had we put them in default in december of 2010 instead of limping along and doing this restructuring? >> right. it's hard to say, but we looked at some internal white house post" last week. and they show that there was internal discussion in the white house, in the office of they actually discussed, maybe we should let the company go under now, because if the company ultimately fails this could cost us tens of millions of dollars additional for the taxpayers. and they discussed this. and department of energy says going, because they

the e-mails that are in question are from department of energy staff. it doesn't already have access to all of that? >> i do not necessarily have access. >> we're not complaining about whether he has these e-mails are e.t here > this is a serious way to proceed. i will take your criticism under advisement. >> no. this is not compromis when you take it under advisement. i do not believe this has been adequate answer for my concerns. and did not like the president. i will read about these things from the press. i do not like the fact that we're having all manner of inferences drawn. i am not comforted by these been taken under advisement. it should be a dress now. i expect -- i respect his opinion. we say we have given you all the documents. the fact that you do not have them in front of you is not your fault. >> are we majority or minority? the majority staff is making this decision? they're going above their authorities. if the minority is, we have to find out why. >> i suggest you do that and we find out why. >> i find the business of the committee bein

because of widespread concerns with the plan to offset disaster relief funding from a key department of energy program. one day later we're having the exact same debate. the only thing that's changed is that the republican majority has decided this time to target two energy department programs instead of one. when it failed yesterday, house republican leaders faced a basic decision. they could give up their efforts to hold disaster funding hostage to another partisan budget battle by removing the offset and passing the bill with a broad bipartisan majority. or they could make the measure even more extreme, in order to cater to the most radical members of their party, without concern for the fact that fema is just days away from running out of money and communities around the country are waiting desperately for the support that's been promised them. now anybody who's been watching this congress for the last eight months should not be the least surprised by the majority's decision. once again, republicans have put partisan ideology ahead of the dire needs of the american people and are risking y

thank you for your partnership with our department of the environment as well and department of energy. [applause] >> we would like to take questions from the press regarding the electric vehicles, but i wanted to mention the sound system is being powered off of the battery from one of these trucks. so this is emission-free power from the public utility commission. all these trucks are equipped with an extra battery to run equipment. we want to let the media know there is an opportunity to do test runs in these trucks. there are two other individuals available for questions. we have a director of plug in vehicle research center at uc- davis. we also have jason connolly from the department of energy. he is the product manager for the chrysler pev project. now we will get questions from the press. >> [inaudible] >> how long do you charge it? [inaudible] >> [inaudible] >> it depends on how you drive it. for the first 50 miles, that is the charge to peak cycle. that is when you are in a state of charge or the vehicle will be a regular hybrid vehicle. then you can charge it as often as you

administration proceeded and even when it was clear this company was in major financial trouble, the department of energy continued to back the company up until the end. >> reporter: a growing scandal about what happened after solyndra received $535 million in taxpayer money. competition from china pushed the price of solyndra's solar panels down, causing the company to lose customers and burn through cash. january of this year, solyndra went back to the obama administration and asked to restructure the department of

i >> it is in getting a little he did it in the department of energy. they're being grilled by this house panel. they're trying to say that solyndra is collapse is because of competition from china. we will listen in and provide updates right here on the kron 4 >> the mount diablo school board approved a charter school model for clayton high school. they must meet certain criteria before they can become a charter school. eighth assessment frontier for to this in place and something in place for special education students as well of what will happen for students and is the. if the conditions are not in place that it will not become a charter school. >> 28 northbound, i thought this would have improved more rapidly than it has. there was an accident at page mill road that will block the left lane for way too long. ditto truck got stuck in the traffic. this low coming out of cupertino on 280 northbound and affecting northbound 85. the drive time should have been about 15 minutes. it is not 37 minutes to woodside from cupertino. >> the bay bridge is no longe

forward and had meetings and there were no white house officials that encouraged people at the department of energythis was all done under a bubble top. >> two years later the company was in bankruptcy court. there were questions about the influence of billionaire and obama campaign contributor george kaiser who visited the white house leading up to the loan approval but the smoking gun remained elusive. >> you take no account battle to the taxpayers for losing half a billion of their dollars. >> they will have another hearing next week and two executives will be on the hot seat. not someone from the department of energy as was the case today. the scuffs said they needed more time for preparation. >> developing news a flight headed to san francisco international airport had a report engine fire. more than an hour ago, united 586 had left a gate at dulles airport in washington, d.c. but before i took off passengers and crew noticed smoke coming from the rear. a u.s. supreme court spokeswoman just confirmed that ruth bader ginsberg was on the flight. she was not injured. passengers were evacuated on

starr was every document and piece of information submitted to the department of energy in as an accurate complete and to the best of your novel >> mr. chairman i have respect for the subcommittee as much as i wish to answer the question i have been advised by my counsel to assert my constitutional right and decline to answer under the fifth amendment i hope i have an opposite trade to assist in the future on the of my semi turning i must decline >> mr. stover >> i respectfully decline to answer any questions by this committee or subcommittee i trust the member of this subcommittee have great respect by this amendment >> nesters down or knowing your financial situation in mid july are you aware that they painted such rosy picture to members of congress and department of energy and did you discuss with mr. harrison >> on a price of my counsel on the fifth amendment of the concert i respectfully decline to answer >> my time is expired and now we will go to the gentleman from texas >> and there you have opposed this c l and see a fall refusing to testify on the advice of their counsel they'r

department of energy head, secretary of energy. and said due diligence is required and we don't have it. we think you are rushing to judgment. for some reason whether they wanted to show they are creating jobs in the solar panel industry or political reasons they decided to rush ahead at the expense of taxpayers and the due diligence wasn't there. >> greta: now they have egg all over their face they had these photo-ops and promoting and looks great. there are far more grievous things. for instance, i find it more grievous they knew about it a year ago and allowed a restructuring of the loan that suddenly were not first in line, meaning the taxpayers to collect when the bankruptcy proceedings went forward or would go forward. we were suddenly not first in line. suddenly the rich private investors were. >> energy policy act of 2005 say all taxpayer loans have first shall we say, on the money that is left overin the bankruptcy. this restructuring allowed -- these two hedge funds to get their 75 million dollars back, ahead of the 535 m

forward and had meetings and there were no white house officials that encouraged people at the department of energy. this was all done under a bubble top. >> two years later the company was in bankruptcy court. there were questions about the influence of billionaire and obama campaign contributor george kaiser who visited the white house leading up to the loan approval but the smoking gun remained elusive. >> you take no account battle to the taxpayers for losing half a billion of their dollars. >> they will have another hearing next week and two executives will be on the hot seat. not someone from the department of energy as was the case today. the scuffs said they needed more time for preparation. >> developing news a flight headed to san francisco international airport had a report engine fire. more than an hour ago, united 586 had left a gate at dulles airport in washington, d.c. but before i took off passengers and crew noticed smoke coming from the rear. a u.s. supreme court spokeswoman just confirmed that ruth bader ginsberg was on the flight. she was not injured. passengers were evacuated o

was information hidden from the department of energy? did the department of energy paint a rosy picture hiding from congress? $500 million was taken from the american people. they will not get it back. this morning, the congress passed a continuing resolution. you manage to do something you congress -- few congresses have. you manage to kill a program. we will get answers. i yield back. >> we recognize the gentleman from virginia. >> i respect your decision to revoke your fifth amendment rights. the american people deserve answers. it is their money we are talking about. if i had the opportunity to ask questions that would be answered today, i would ask, in light of the fact that the justice department got a search warrant for your records shortly after on flattering e-mails to the obama administration were given to this committee, do you feel you have been unfairly targeted by the obama administration justice department to keep you from testifying here today? do you believe the justice department investigation is a smokescreen by the adm

. >> jon: let me just very quickly, solindra was an investment the department of energy made, i thinkion or $20 billion, in new energy technology -- >> solar panels. >> jon: that was one. there's also wind and nuclear. that was about half of the percent of the money that the department of energy spent. are you saying that the government should no longer in any way subsidize new industries because without that, no internet, no roads to long island. [laughter] >> there are l always be roads to long island. now listen... >> jon: that's my point. >> you've got to downsize the government so they can watch what's happening and make intelligent decisions. it's insane. right now... look, the $16 muffin. do we all know what the $16 muffin is? >> jon: what? >> see, you don't even know what the $16 muffin is. >> jon: what neighborhood do you live in? what makes a $16 muffin? >> this is great. i'm glad. look... >> >> jon: all right. >> $16 muffin. brock this story last week on "the factor." you were otherwise occupied, making your little wise remarks. not reading what's happening. they had a bunc

and even when they were applying to the department of energy in 2009 for this very large, whopping loanranty, internally these e-mails showed that even at the department of energy there were staffers saying "they've got cash flow problems that we can see off in the distance." and, indeed, that's exactly what happened. they burned through a lot of cash and at the beginning of this year they confided privately to the administration they were going to go bankrupt unless they got emergency cash. >> suarez: well, didn't the obama administration at that point double down and give them some of that emergency cash? >> in a form, yes. they pressed investors to put in a little extra cash in exchange for an agreement that they could get their cash out first, their new cash. they also agreed that they would let them repay the lobe more slowly and they also agreed special terms whereby solyndra would keep getting installingsments on the existing loan. remember you don't give the whole half billion all at once. so from that time of warning until today, taxpayers have now got another $67 million exten

they seem to have a case of collective amnesia, it wasn't too long ago they were urging the department of energy to award loans and loan guarantees to companies in their districts. >> it is also facing a justice department investigation and here on capitol hill republicans are yowfsing all of this to try to make big cuts in the federal loan program that provided that loan in the first place. reporting live from washington, d.c., alison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. >> after a brutal week on wall street stocks are mixed right now. this follows two days of heavy losses as traders have been racked by growing fears the economy is headed for another recession. europe appears for closer to solving the debt crisis there and u.s. political leaders are in another stand off over spending that could force the government to shut down next week. a live look at the big board the dow bouncing between positive and negative territory, right now still down 8.5, 10,724, nasdaq up 18 and s s&p is up 3. >>> all is quiet on the uc berkeley campus after a student protest yesterday. tara moriarty joins us now with more.

half a billion dollars of taxpayer money. >> reporter: gop leaders on the panel blamed the department of energy and office of management and budget for not cooperating with the investigation forcing themsubpoena records back in july. they also accuse the obama administration of favoring solyndra and rushing federal reviewers for approval. they cited august 2009 e-mails that showed some people close to the process predicts the company would run out of cash this month. solyndra seems to agree that the model runs out of cash in september 2011 even in the base case without any stress. this is a liquidity issue. but democrats blamed solyndra's sudden collapse on skyrocketing competition in the global markets. >> the chinese funded $20 billion for four solar companies in 2010 and was seen in the first eight months of this year a 42% collapse in the price of these solar panels. this was a market intervention. now, if the republicans think that, like johnny carson's karnack, that there's an envelope, you know, with the answer in it that was available in 2009, they are kidding themselves. >> reporter: w

now the department of energy says all nozzles put together like in the picture can only deliver 2.5-gallonsf water per minute total in order to conserve water. in march of in year the department of energy said it would be testing shower heads sold in stores, quote, to determine whether a manufacturer's shower head complies with the 2.5-gallons per minute standard set by congress. the department will measure a shower head's water use by turning all of the unit sprays and nozzles to their maximum flow settings. the department of energy says it's giving manufacturers two years from this past march to come into compliance, although four shower head makers were find over $165,000 in 2010 over this issue. jon: obviously there are a lot of critics out there who say this is federal regulation gone hog wild. >> reporter: yes, some shower head manufacturers say they just want to give consumers what they want, and small government advocates say having the energy department determine what americans can buy for their bathroom showers is quote, ridiculous, here is more. >> it's a personal decision. you c

performing, but it is functional buildings like this that i want to really express my thanks to the department of energy and dr. kelly is here today as the acting assistant secretary to verify, if you will, our city's appropriate use of this money. and, of course, supervisor campos is here today. he and i have been on many walks throughout our community. not only for public safety issues but also, i think, for both of us, it is just the pure enjoyment of being in our neighborhoods. we love to see our buildings updated as they are. there is an update on the boilers, the furnace, the air economizers, as they say. we do not really have air- conditioning in our great city. we have air economizes to freshen the air. to the lighting fixtures where if the rams are not being used, why are we wasting energy in that respect? our health centers, our community centers, 10 of them, and the smart thing cpuc did with this energy efficiency team, they did the auditing, so they knew what the base line was and how we would measure the improvement, and i want to talk about them. they have been doing this not just from wen

but what exactly the fbi and agents with the department of energy are looking for remains confidential and under court seal. >> we are executing search warrants regarding a joint department of energy office of inspector-general and fbi investigation. >> reporter: while the company laid off nearly all of its workforce last week, about 1100 people, a company spokesman says about 100 employees remain as part of a wind-down people. and those remaining employees were quite surprised by today's raid. >> we came to work this morning. a arrived about 7 a.m. there was an fbi team here when i arrived about 7 a.m. they had a search warrant and we have been cooperating with them. >> reporter: president obama said it represented the future of american energy innovation. they got a $535 million federal loan guarantee and drew nearly all that money to building the plant before going bankrupt. a congressional panel will hold hearings on solyndra next weekna . sign of how political this case has become, the republican chair of the committee called the raid not surprising. cliff stearns says although we

one of the questions i asked jonathan swift -- he was the gentleman that came before the energy and commerce committee in charge of these loans. host: at the departmentenergy. guest: i had asked him on questioning had even managed investments bigger than this. he said, yes, we had. given that, he would of been a good purpose scrutinize that. that is what we ought to be doing, not republicans or democrats, but do these things right or do not do them all. host: 8 tweet related to that. guest: i do not know all the details of the technology. i would not pretend i was a solar engineer. but it was enticing because it look like their product would be less expensive. when the silicon market drop, opt-in solyndra was no longer going to be cost competitive host: another tweet. can you speak to that? guest: i do not think they were trying to make jump panels. the question becomes at some point, are we investing in something that is not going to work. something that is no longer state of the art, something that is not cost competitive. why invest in something that no one is going to buy? it is good for the nation and moves us toward energy independence, that is

she does and knowledge that this is being done not only by the fbi but also the department of energy.ould not confirm if this comes on the heel of last week, the bombshell that came out. here is video of last week where 1100 workers of a sudden showed up to work and were told, guess what, you do not have a job. we are laying you off. the fbi would not go into detail. i did get a chance to speak with a solyndra spokesperson who said this totally caught them by surprise. the spokesperson said the can to work at 7:00 a.m. and fbi agents said they needed to go through. the fbi has also told them do not mess with us. they have free reign of the campus buildings here. there is also another building towards milpitas. there are also searching their as well. solyndra, according to them they say that they were caught off guard and completely shocked. according to the spokesman said they thought they did everything right that everything was unfortunate but they were surprised. they showed up to half hours ago with a search warrant, going through the place. >> the department of energy made that l

on it than obama's it was bush who created the loan program and spent two years urging the department of energy to approve the slander law which it only did for finally did only two months into president obama's term the media ignored that and one of celebrities top investors got their money from the walton family as in the people who own the wal-mart and are notorious contributors to the republican party not exactly fans of the obama presidency but putting all that aside slander represented represented just one point three percent of the entire department of energy's long portfolio and is the only company receiving loans to fail a little piece of information the media left out while trying to manufacture a scandal at the behest of their corporate shareholders. here's another example did you know that thousands of people took to wall street over the weekend and are currently camping out there as we speak to demand reforms to our economy and demand the banks to be held accountable for their high crimes you know i could that's because they're pretty much wasn't a peep from the mainstream media ab

department of energy. as rob fladeboe reports. the joint effort with the u.s. department of energy.ackets police and with the word " fbi ". they are executing a search warrants. a spokesperson would not say exactly what they are looking for. >> unfortunately, i cannot go into detail. >> reporter: any connection with the bankruptcy? >> unfortunately i cannot go into any further detail. >> reporter: agents at each door and checking each one's a rival it was a complete surprise. >> i cannot speculate on why they are here. checking people's--a rival. >> shocking. >> the arrival of employees is shocking. >> the our arriv >> reporter: a recipient of $500 million federal loan guarantees and even a visit from president obama. creasing his innovation. as far as what the fbi is looking for? one worker says that they are the fbi they're investigating crimes there must be looking for evidence of a crime. in fremont, rob fladeboe, kron 4 news. >>jacqueline: that continued cool front with an up and down day. some places will be cooler. some places will be warmer but cooling on sunday. starting ou

we have gathered documents on the department of energy. the committee was forced to subpoena to get basic information showing their role is solyndra in the -- in the solyndra deal. they have accused the committee of engaging in a fishing expedition. what the committee's review show is that we were right all along about thistions loan. it should not take restructuring, bankruptcy, an fbi raid from my colleagues to put politics aside and join us and our efforts. the document demonstrates that when they were reviewing this and 2009 it was well aware of the financial problems that opposes. what they also show is that the rush to push of stimulus dollars may have impacted the quality of d.o.e.'s review. the white house has scheduled vice-president joe biden appearing at solyndra's groundbreaking event prior to d.o.e. making an announcement. "we have ended up with a situation of having to do resht approvals on a couple of locations. we would prefer to have sufficient time to do our due diligence review and have the approval set for the announceme

top republicans say the department of energy's entire loan guarantee program is under review. e-mails are being made public showing the white house closely monitored the progress of the loan before it closed. >> it makes you sick to your stomach. at the end of the day more than a thousand people lose their jobs and taxpayers lose half a billion dollars. >> f.b.i. agents and investigators from the department of energy's office of inspector generated had the plant last week. what they were after they didn't say? they are conducting an investigation of its own, one of solyndra's principle vin test george kaiser says these visited the white house several tiles before solyndra secured the loan. but ceo brian harrison, one of those that was supposed to testify is a republican. men low parked ma drone capital partners, one of biggest investors for solyndra typically supports republican candidates. they are scheduled to appear next week but there is speculation they may take the fifth and refuse to testify >>> a woman who was once arrested on charges of kidnapping four children is now

spending under control and economy back on track. >> what we need to did is cut the department of education, department of energy and all these department and get rid of them. >> people are tired of spending money. we don't have on programs we don't want. >> you have got to draw the line in the sand somewhere and say no more out of control spending. >>reporter: abc news. >> another protest tonight against bart just sened but this time they failed to disrun the evening commute in san francisco. the group planned protest every machined for the past 5 weeks now. in response to bart temporarily shutting down service last month to the prosecute test over killing of charles hill in july. we took pictures of just a handful of demonstrators this time carrying a sign calling for them to disband. the protestors have been going back and forth along market street mostly around the civic center and powell street station but again it ended just a short time ago. >>> 18-year-old college student in jail tonight suspected of ra student. police arrested nicholas in the dorm room yesterday. another student at the school told polic