redesigned our switch maintenance program to focus on high usage switches, such as the church at dubose. with the help of the signal manufacturing company, we limited the number of trains. we also made repairs to the sanderhose where we changed our men's procedures and there has been no incidents since then. the point of all of this is we improved our reliability. as this chart indicates, as far as the total number of switchbacks, in september they were higher than they have since come down. the point we want to make here is the number of switchbacks is a service management technique that we use in the event of a delay in the system. in our discussions, you had had asked, could we break up the time of the switchbacks? over the last couple of months we have a layout from september to december of the time of day. supervisor chu: you are going pretty quickly. it in terms of the lrv switch back, you say that it is sometimes required to make sure the system goes back in place. could you explain that more? >> are we tag

meantime political analyst ron dubose says the u.s. government should have reconsidered its spending a long time ago. we have to get out of iraq and stop spending money on iraq and afghanistan that's the first thing that's happened the reality is that no we can't pay for it right now we need to find spaces in the budget that we can cut whether it's defense whether it's discretionary and secretary gates has pointed out places where you can make cuts future ed ransom it's projects that can be cut one of the debate boondoggles was the new presidential helicopter marine one would suppose we one of those high tech the grants you know weapon systems ever made it's never been proven to work so they're getting rid of it is what exactly what they should be doing but in terms of the baseline budget you can't cut baseline defense while you're in the war theater it cannot be done freezing spending is something that should have happened probably three congresses ago because once we realized that the wars were costing upwards of one and a half trill