on the emu side, that the electric trains, we want the cal train board to issue a rfp in jul so we have a contract award and keep in place the timeframe of having lectifyed suvs by 2020. these are important mile stones poomeet in order to get that 20 dwent date which is so important for the riders and business community and board members. this slide is a ricap of what i said frame the last slide. provides a little more detail about the 6 prequalified team squz the time frame we expect to award these contracts. it is important to talk about the plan because we want to be transparent on what woo were doing and where we modify too. we get stake holder feed back as we went to meetings the last couple month squz continue to do it this month to make sure we are on the right sknath if we are not we are hearing from the steak hp holders. to recap what we did on the original plan is last summer went to the car builders and told them, this is what the system looks today and will continue to have a ridership increase and this is how it looks and feels but will have to share this cor dor with high

it would be similar to what the emu's would look like and feel we originally proposed but have the flexibility later to open them when we have further definition on the blenlded system and look at does it make sense to have car interior configuration. we are asking high speed rail to fund those modifiications to meet the blended system. when you do think about the blended system and hot needs furlther definition it is service plan system up grades. if there are passing tracks, maintenance facilities, what each station looks like. we have plans when the null build was proposed sechberal year uzgo but dopet have the detailed planning today so there is more work needed and don't need to make all the decision today ewe keep the future open so we don't proclude different optioness in the future. we had many public meetings over the last couple months. we released a draft rm rks fp to the car builders to conform information with them. we asked a variety of questions and will get those answers back later this month and be able to provide that information to the board. we are going to different groupw

middle of the night, in a traditional emu is dug, filled with lava rocks.the pig wrapped in combination of banana leaves and tea leaves is dropped in. >> okay, you guys ready for the unveiling? hold on. >> 12 hours later, you dig it up and well, it's party time. what you've been saying is you've been drinking steadily since 5:00 this morning. >> i didn't say, it didn't come out of my mouth. >> behold. the magnificence. it's a very important part of your childhood. dun dun. wow. look at that. you just lift the bones out by hand. >> yep. >> ready? >> just dump them in into a bucket. awesome. wow. [ applause ] wow. that's close to the way i would end up. pour me right into a pot. there's lots to do, and everyone pitches in to help. it's an extended, all-day affair of chopping, dicing, slicing, mixing and sampling along the way, like this sausage that someone was nice enough to drop off. they mix up a mac salad. they carve up unicorn fish which was caught earlier in the day. chef marrbell chops this up. and somewhere, somewhere, pig's foot soup is happily bubbl

perks of hopping on the outback express stunning views of the bay and even better, a whole bunch of emushow do they come up with the names? maybe they wanted to skip to malu. >> there you go. >>> we've got temperatures that are warmer at this hour inland and cooler it at the shoreline by lee degrees in both directions. it's warmer in concord as we check the kpix weather watchers. the numbers around the bay area, 84 degrees. you want to see it as a list? want to see it as a list? there we go. brentwood, 89 degrees. san francisco, 63 . san ramon 71. san leandro 73 right now. we're looking at numbers that are going to be coming up as we head toward thursday and friday. we'll be about 100 degrees inland. concord, 80 degrees. oakland, 62. livermore, 76. san jose, 66 . santa rosa at 72 degrees. futurecast shows plenty of low clouds in the forecast tonight coming back in the peninsula and extending right through the east bay. tomorrow looks like today. it will take a little while for the clouds to come in the inland. mid to upper 80s by tomorrow. you can see by 6:00 tomorrow night, mostly sunny

paul chambers is live in antioch it emus why this is happen -- to tell us why this is happening. >> reporterut people are out here. take a look. the sign is asking people to slow down. they want to make sure people understand that they need to slow down in the area. the reason, there is a memorial for the 47-year-old man hit and killed last month. now, if we can take a look at video here, one of the neighbors gave us this picture which shows crews cleaning up after the illegal speed bumps were reeverybody -- were removed yesterday. timothy hud sop was killed. a 19-year-old driver was doing doe news on the street when he hit -- doughnuts on the street when he hit hudson. now, police later arrested the teen. hudson's mother told city council members that speeding drivers were a problem well before her son's death and planned to install the bumps herself to avoid another tragedy. before she had a chance to do so, the bumps were installed by a small group of men friday afternoon. one of the men said he talked about it the day before his death. >> he said one of these days something is gonna get