morning commissioners my name is steven and i'm the represent of the local 6 in san francisco the electric union. many of our members live in the surrounding area and take advantage of the initiative the city. we'll like for you to consider moving >> excuse me. we hadn't to over look the sponsors presentation. >> you mean i'll have to do this again? >> i apologize. >> project sponsor. >> good morning commissioners. i'm shawn i'm with the developer. and i'm here to introduce you to the project and to the project design team but first i want to give you a little introduction. the gentleman did a wonderful description on this process. but the millennium partners do have a great history. we've been involved in several projects and continuously we program the project to the city jessie square and we look at again as an ongoing commitment with the redevelopment as we transition into other promotions. the comment we received on the eir process and particularly to the two areas concerned that have been raised and highlighted continuously. the first is the mitigation to the shadow on union square of whic

civic leaders, hotel owners, captains of industry, and willing volunteers from the painters and electrical unions and that coming together on this street corner became st. anthony's dining room. after a few years, because there always seemed to be enough food to feed everyone, no one was ever sent away empty. this coming together became known as the miracle on jones street. our presence here today signals to all of san francisco that the miracle continues. we're not turning water into wine. we're not turning water into wine, not that kind of miracle. no we're transforming old auto body shops into a state-of-the-art dining room and homes for our senior citizens. the miracle continues. [ applause ] we're not walking on water or raising the dead, but we are building homes and providing clothing and social services that will help people live lives of dignity and meaning. the miracle continues. we're not feeding thousands on the hillsides. wait, we are feeding thousands on the hillsides. [laughter ] on these slopes between nob hill and market street. the miracle continues as we construct the facility

>> let me just say this very simply, this is the electrical workers union. they invited me.hey chose to honor me. i'm pleased to be with them. >> can you tell the people of san bruno what you have done in the name of safety. >> the record is pretty clear. >> the people would disagree. >> reporter: he was appointed back in 2002. eight years later in 2010, the san bruno tragedy happened under his watch. >> in recognition of your dedication to the safety and reality. >> thank you, sir. >> reporter: in a room filled with lawmakers, lobbyist and some pg&e employees he received a silver hard hat. >> it's a little big. >> reporter: in the shadow of san bruno do you think it's appropriate for him to receive this kind of award from your organization? >> absolutely. >> scott hosted the reception. >> does it compromise his objectivity? >> i don't think so. >> you're trying to buy influence right? >> not at all. >> this is a slap in the face. this is -- humiliation for the death of my daughter and it hurts. it breaks my heart to know that he's going to be recognized for safety. >> a cou

. >> happening now largest union of electrical 1021 holding a strike vote tonight where the stuns will meet the union represents 2500 city workers. the yun union says there is at least a $57 million surplus. >> there is no need to mistreat employees any further, we can have police officers and good services in this city. >> city officials have to the yet responded to our requests fr a response to this but the city has said it faces a deficit. >> san jose taxpayers may be asked to pay extra for overdue work the city has been delaying for years. san jose released it's yearly backlogs. there are $909 million worth prof jekts that are now on hold. >> that is going to be a challenging conversation because voters are paying more and more taxes these days so we've got to have an honest conversation in terms of what they expect. and what we can deliver. >> still officials maintain public safety is the top concern. city council scheduled to take action during tonight's meeting. >> apple making its case for building new head quarters in cupper tino. the company hopes to consolidate offices in a

this is the electrical workers union. they invited me. they chose to honor me, i'm more than pleased to be with them. that's all i have to say to you. >> can you tell the people of san bruno what you've done in the name of safety? >> the record is pretty clear. >> the people of san bruno would disagree. >> peevey was first appointed in 2002. eight years later in 2010, the san bruno tragedy happened under his watch. >> safety and reliability. >> in a room filled with lawmakers, lobbyists and some pg and e employees, michael peevey received a silver hard hat. >> i have a big head. >> in the shadow of san bruno, do you think it's appropriate for mr. peevey to receive this kind of award from your organization? >> absolutely. >> union lobbyist scott wech hosted the reception. >> does an award like this compromise his objectivity? >> i don't believe so. >> you're trying to buy influence, right? >> no, not at all. >> this is a slap in the face. this is humiliation for the death of my daughter. and it hurts. breaks my heart to know that he's goin

. >> happening now largest union of electrical 1021 holding a strike vote tonight where the stuns will meet the union represents 2500 city workers. the yun union says there is at least a $57 million surplus. >> there is no need to mistreat employees any further, we can have police officers and good services in this city. >> city officials have to the yet responded to our requests fr a response to this but the city has said it faces a deficit. >> san jose taxpayers may be asked to pay extra for overdue work the city has been delaying for years. san jose released it's yearly backlogs. there are $909 million worth prof jekts that are now on hold. >> that is going to be a challenging conversation because voters are paying more and more taxes these days so we've got to have an honest conversation in terms of what they expect. and what we can deliver. >> still officials maintain public safety is the top concern. city council scheduled to take action during tonight's meeting. >> apple making its case for building new head quarters in cupper tino. the company hopes to consolidate offices in a

electrity zaps ] ♪ you requested backup? yes. yes i did. what's in your wallet? charles: ince unionsd moody's says 10 states pay of more for public pensions and total revenues and some spending almost 2.5 times whht they taken with the pension obligations. i am not a mathematician but something doesn't add up. this is just bad? >> unions are a disaster they have destroyed our economy. we have these businesses leaving the country at a national level but they break the bank. $100 billion that day '04 pigeons? aig and we have a surplus with a boost davy kidded said that the unions are breaking the bank. charles: really did you use a and we did some good things stand the tide turn to it doesn't look -- rinaldi made a promise for the pension is too high. realistically? >> remember that a pension is deferred competition and an employee decideddto take lessons become to benefit so this is that a handout but by a bright the employee ought to get to be fully funded by the employer. >> the only difference particularly with their relationship with the private sector but public workers who made

we had unions -- i love the name international brotherhood of the electrical workers.omehow it gives me chill bumps. [laughter] ibw, local 103. you know? yeah. i felt the same way. so they come down from boston and all over the united states to help us, help transfer skills. so, yes, it's true that there's no university in that town, but there will be, and there was no teaching hospital before this happened. but each when the hospital was being -- even when the hospital was being built, it was a teaching hospital because people were learning how to build. so it's better than california earthquake standards, it has modern diagnostic technologies. it's connected to a framework of clinics and community health workers as always with partners in health projects. and it's -- not that it was a source of hope, it's that it is a source of hope and will be, for me in any case and for a lot of my haitian colleagues. >> thank you, paul. it is for me, i know that. we have a full room, and so i know there are many questions from the audience. we're going to wrap up now and ask peopl

electricity. it may not look orderly, but this jumble of wires is what connects individual homes and businesses to the locally produced power. the development advisor for the european union helped set up many hydropower units in about 100 northern villages. with a budget of more than $50 million, he hopes to triple the number. >> a much better arrangement as compared to the grid arrangement. when people see that it is their own property, then they take care a lot. very few parts of pakistan are fortunate enough to have nearby running water to help generate electricity. and so, the chronic energy crisis continues to be a major issue. the new prime minister swept to victory last month in part on the appeal of slogans to "end the darkness." but so far he has said little about how he will tackle the corruption, aging power plants and future debt that led to the problem, a problem many here in this small village are thankful not to have. al jazeera, northern pakistan. >> at south african court delayed a pretrial murder hearing of olympic and paralympic star oscar pistorius until august. he appeared briefly in court as his lawyers asked for more time to prepare his case. he is

electric cars. detroit understands where this industry is going and they are positioning themselves, i think, very well to deal with hat. as far as labour unions go, the factories, i do not have the numbers in front of me, but there are very few were blue-collar workers assembling cars in detroit right now. but there have been a lot of workers hired in southern states where foreign companies have been expanding. so, i do not believe that silicon valley is the enemy or anything. i believe that detroit and silicon valley will find a way to work together. but right now there is a little bit of tension between them. host: the war is on, that is the title of the piece from "forbes magazine" by joann uller. caller: you made a point earlier about the disabled and the car of the future. i was wondering, being disabled myself, how could i get involved with possibly helping with this technology -- for lack of a better word, the trial and error, test dummy on he cars? i have computer backgrounds and i was lucky to get and i read -- i would be lucky to get involved. guest: my advise would be to probably contact one of the automaker's, or through one of th

the end result is that germany has the second highest household electricity prices in the european union. when i asked an economic minister what he would say to a manufacturer about energy costs in germany, he said i would suggest he go somewhere else. well, that somewhere else is turning out to be the united states, virginia, tennessee, other states. we pursued a different track. the most conspicuous example of which is finding unconventional gas and oil. this has created for our country a remarkable phenomenon, a large amount of cheap clean energy with our own domestic price for natural gas. now, this has been the result of a peculiar combination of factors that in my opinion amount to a better energy policy than most people give us credit for. the first element is the entrepreneurial spirit of america and the large amount of private property ownership and our huge private market. another is access to capital. and a third and indispensable element is government-sponsored research. take our nation's natural gas boom as an example. in the past, it was uneconomical to develop so-called un

union members handed out leaflets that call attention to a slew of safety issues that they claim are not being taken seriously enough. they include inadequate lighting in the tunnels, a substandard electricalystem, and an overall rise in violence on trains and in the stations. kpix 5 reporter ryan takeo joins from us a bart station in oakland. you picked up a few leaflets today? >> reporter: yeah. here's what they are passing out at the macarthur station. bart says these should not be a part of the negotiations, that safety is a separate deal from the negotiations. they are so far apart that the two sides brought in a mediator to go to the negotiating table. overall there are three sticking points. bart is asking to pay more for rising health costs, healthcare costs, and bart says it's trying to revamp overtime rules. they say a fraction of workers abuse. and third they are fighting over pensions and whether workers should start paying in. >> so right now, bart employees pay nothing towards their pension. that's unheard of. even state employees pay for their pension. it's zero. that's it. zero dollars. it's called the employees share and they are not paying anything. let's begin to start p

post office because the post office is the largest unionized employer in the united states and the post office was about to roll out a fleet of electric vehicles and really kicked off you know a whole electrification of american transportation the republicans put a poison pill into a piece of legislation during conference committee so people didn't even notice it when they finally voted on it that said that they had to prefund seventy five years worth of retirement health benefits over the next ten years that's what's killing the posed as it can be easily removed it's just the republicans won't go along with it because they want to destroy the post office. so that's it for your take my take tonight if you have any other questions either like to send us a video questions or whatever then don't you know get your phone out of the video questions it's easy just grab your phone record your question or comment and e-mail it to us your take my take and g.-mail dot com and that's the way it is tonight's thursday june sixth two thousand and thirteen more information check out our website the thom hartmann dot com free speech that order our to

. >> the clerk: union calendar number 254, a bill to direct the secretary of the interior to convey certain federal features of the electric distribution system to the south utah valley electric service district and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from washington, mr. hastings, and the gentleman from arizona, mr. grijalva, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislate i tais to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. hastings: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hastings: h.r. 251, sponsored by our colleague from utah, mr. chaffetz, transfers title of the electric distribution system to the local entity that already operates and maintains the system this involves ownership due to a federal paperwork error to give the local provider leverage to capitalize investment. congress has passed over two do

electric, telephone and water bills. it's currently 6%. measure a would raise it to 8%. in marin, another measure a would extend a parcel tax in the bolinas stinson uniondistrict. the tax that expires next june would continue for another six years. >>> it is 5:35. i know it's only tuesday. but we have 100 degrees coming up this weekend. so we're going to talk about the weekend already. >> liz is going camping. >> knee. >> can you believe it? >> i can't believe that. >> no. >> we need pictures, by the way. >> i know. >> we definitely want pictures. [ laughter ] >> probably stay in a hotel. >>> around the bay area today we are going to see cooler temperatures as we have a lot of low clouds and fog that have surged onshore. the temperatures now mainly in the 50s at this hour. the clouds beginning to fill in. you can see it here on our satellite image starting to fill in in the valleys and the bay. a few more clouds early on. temperatures at 78 degrees in cupertino, 75 in san jose and 79 degrees in morgan hill. east bay temperatures running up into the 70s almost 80 degrees into antioch about 79 in livermore and 78 degrees in pleasanton. and then you get i

electric, phone and water bills. it's currently at 6%. measure a would raise it to 8%. >> and in marin county, another measure a would extend a parcel tax in the bolinas-stinson union school district. that tax expires next june and would continue for another six years. >>> 6:36 right now. let's check the weather. it's going to be hot. >> we are going to get touchdown cranked up. we are going to hold down so enjoy the cool weather for a couple of days. it's going to get hot toward the weekend. outside right now we have low clouds and fog scooting out over the bay and into some of the valleys now. the temperatures staying down mainly in the 50s at this hour if you are headed out the door. but i think we are going to see plenty of sunshine in most spots by the afternoon at least away from the immediate coastline. i think the fog will stick out towards the beaches today. you can see it filling into the valleys, bay, north bay valleys as well staying clear as you head over to concord and also into livermore. but you get the idea stronger push of low clouds and fog, temperatures going to be a little cooler today, mid-70s toward san jose very comfortable there, 79 morgan hill. e

electric cars. detroit understands where this industry is going and they are positioning themselves, i think, very well to deal with that. go, thes labour unions factories, i do not have the numbers in front of me, but there are very few were blue- collar workers assembling cars in detroit right now. but there have been a lot of workers hired in southern states where foreign companies have been expanding. so, i do not believe that silicon valley is the enemy or anything. i believe that detroit and silicon valley will find a way to work together. but right now there is a little bit of tension between them. on, that is the title of the piece from "forbes magazine" by joann muller. caller: you made a point earlier about the disabled and the car of the future. i was wondering, being disabled myself, how could i get involved with possibly helping with this technology -- for lack of a better word, the trial and error, test dummy on the cars? i have computer backgrounds and i was lucky to get and i read -- i would be lucky to get involved. guest: my advise would be to probably contact one of the or through one of the disability organizations. i am ce