we'll go ahead and do it from the fta says they'll consider a betterment then we have a find a separate source funding we can't have the curbs are transit related i know it is splitting hairs on the platform we can put in curbs brand new construction and transit related item we can adjust those to include the grainiest feature in these the public platform the she will not design back within 6 months and working with the staff to come up with something we can maintain that fits the character of the corridor and that in the future we can tie-in with the rest of the platforms you're building at mccart and van ness the earth features that tie platforms it didn't disruptive the unity of the project the historic signage we can work with the planning department staff and sidewalks the sidewalks are an issue we're rebuilding all the sidewalks from the curb to between 5 and 7 feet into the middle of the sidewalk we're doing active construction work we can go in and could through the construction work and we have broken the sidewalk for poles we have putting in decoration for the - >> two feet an

fta would agree to something like that. we should focus on that. stop wasting time about going back to 30 and "here mtc what can we do?" are we there at that point? >> we're there. we told them -- they're looking at a way to finance what we need and if they can do that we will ask for what we need and if something happens unforeseen you will see they have additional money if we need more. i think that's what they're trying to do and establish the maximum set aside for the project and finance the project if we were to see something unforeseen, some claims we're not able to resolve we need additional money and this is the minimum we need and if you bring in more that's fine. >> is it possible when we meet in november that there could be something in writing even at the staff level, and i know that's very difficult to get, but i'm envisioning the board here listening to maybe more -- less vaguely defined hopes and maybes and if we could and everything, but then you're asking us to pass a budget on that, and have a little mohammediteis about that mysel

>> reporter: well, wendy, make no mistake about it, the fta is intent on turning metro's safety culturef course, all of this comes after derailment, accidents and even that recent death on metro. >> the images from metro over this past year have been troubling and frightening. a transit agency literally at some point -- choking on smoke and transit agency reeling. >> the safety of metro rail operations is critically important to the passengers, employees and the entire national capital region. >> today, the acting head of the transit administration, trees mcmillin talking about the fta's new role of watchdog after the safety department a first of its kind action deemed so critical because metro was crumbling, she all, but known as the tri-state oversight committee toothless. >> safety is the number one priority for all of us and it is a shared responsibility and one where we all need to step it up. >> mcmillin pointing out that the fta doesn't want to do it forever and it's now up to leaders to get together and form a stronger, regional oversight group that can effectively watch metro's

>> definitely by having the fta with china within the ten years, the korean gdp could increase by 1%. 0.96%. and it can also boost the consumer's career by $14.6 billion. so the benefits with south korea can be very enormous. i think this can be one of the various strong reasons why the political parties should work together. at the moment the opposition party is against the rectify indication but there a general election next year and the korean economy has been in bad shape for the last several years. i think the opposition party can change their stance towards the kor korea/china fta. >>> on japan's supplementary story, nearly $5 trillion. we said $5 billion. we apologize for that error. that's it for business news. i'm going to leave you with the markets. >>> french and russianed from francois holland and vladimir putin have met in moscow and discussed two issues deepening cooperation in the fight against islamic militants and tension after turkey shot down a russian war plane this week. it was part of the hollande's worldwide push to bolster the fight against islamic state group

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this is the project that prop k and fta's program is funded.at the same time, a project is a good opportunity to improve the state and other utilities. the project works close well caltrans, sf public works and other divisions within sfmta to include these five parallel projects. these projects include some work that is triggered by the brt, they include upgrades that have independent value. they are combined into a single construction project. fital design for this project as reached 100% level as of september. that includes the shelters, r ailings and landscaping. the tree shown here are gong tr. these trees were selected to have a strong urban survivability. the project will be replacing any existing trees that are removed at a 2-1 ratio. this design has been approved by the san francisco arts commission. listen going before the commission this wednesday r elated to the portion that runs through the civic center historic district. this exhibit provides break down of the core brt project. the budget by phase is on the left and committed fundi

we'll go ahead and do it from the fta says they'll consider a betterment then we have a find a separate source funding we can't have the curbs are transit related i know it is splitting hairs on the platform we can put in curbs brand new construction and transit related item we can adjust those to include the grainiest feature in these the public platform the she will not design back within 6 months and working with the staff to come up with something we can maintain that fits the character of the corridor and that in the future we can tie-in with the rest of the platforms you're building at mccart and van ness the earth features that tie platforms it didn't disruptive the unity of the project the historic signage we can work with the planning department staff and sidewalks the sidewalks are an issue we're rebuilding all the sidewalks from the curb to between 5 and 7 feet into the middle of the sidewalk we're doing active construction work we can go in and could through the construction work and we have broken the sidewalk for poles we have putting in decoration for the - >> two feet an

what we also see is an increase in our felony, our failures to appear in court, on the misdemeanor ftas as they're called. >> a comment on that, because what brian green bearing -- david greenburg, excuse me, seems to be saying is that the recidivism rate they're seeing in san diego county is much higher than other communities. what are you seeing in your study of how it's playing out? >> so we haven't seen any statewide numbers on recidivism. and that's sort of the issue right now, is since it was passed in november, normally the crime information for statewide, which gives all counties at one time, is normally released a year at a time. and so once we get 2015 numbers, we'll have a better sense of what effect proposition 47 actually might have had on crime rates. it also can be complicated to do a statewide recidivism without sort of the yearly numbers as well. and so counties have been able to sort of do shorter-term studies which can cause problems when you look at just a six-month recidivism window. but until we have the statewide numbers, we can't say anything about the effect tha

fast forward almost eight months, the fta assumes safety oversight in metro in part because of a lack of permanent leadership. then adam learned just last week that neil cohen would be tapped for the top spot. that all again changed today when metro announced it and cohen mutually agreed to part ways. >>> right now d.c. police are trying to solve a mystery inside a home near capitol hill in northeast. a young couple found dead here on tennessee avenue here this afternoon. news4's jackie bensen has been tweeting updates from the scene all night. jackie, what are you hearing? >> reporter: doreen, i know that there is tremendous concern in this neighborhood about what is going on here. and right now i can tell you we have been given no official information from d.c. police about how these two people died. now they are described as a man and a woman, a couple in their late 20s or early 30s. according to neighbors. now what we can tell you is that police are calling this a death investigation. not a homicide right now. and that the commander of the first police district is calling this an

it's approved by the fta. it does not come cheap.will cost between $6,000 and $12,000. >> it's coming up on 5:51. time for "weather & traffic on the 1s." we're keeping an eye on a few things. first the fog. keep an eye on the left side of your screen. a picture from our towercam it's improved a lot. on the right you're seeing temperatures. most of you waking up to some of 60s. we could set a record. >> i can't remember the last time we had four 70s in a row in november. it's been a long time. we haven't even had four 70s for the month of november in years. this is rare. we might make 80 in a few places. it's been a dozen years. i just made a graphic about it. sometimes the preparation is there and sometimes it seems more prepared. outside it's 62 degrees. the reason the fog has eased up a bit, winds ow of the south helping to mix up the atmosphere. it's warm morning and may be a record warm day. a little touch of november-type humidity out there. and that south wind will be a southwest breeze which could be in that 15 to 20-mile-per-

what i mentioned early, the ben 360 process which gives us the documentation necessary to go to the fta and you as a board and go to the city and say we've done it according to code and this is our quality control program. i would like to ask steve humphries from webcor to come on up >> good morning. steven humphries, webcor. as was mentioned earlier, the c q c project was modelled after the 3 phase program and also has to comply with the fta q ms elements. we have created a project specific q c plan for the project that complies with both requirements. the q c efforts on the project are really a requirement that is required from all parties as well as all our trade contractors. our c q c organization here, you can see there's many individuals involved. at the top of the work chart, our webcor personnel that's involved. all of our subtrade contractors below that. every subtrade contractor below that has their own q c manager assigned to the job to manage their over sights of the q c to manage our program. there's a series of steps that we follow to ensure the requirements of the project

what i mentioned early, the ben 360 process which gives us the documentation necessary to go to the ftaand you as a board and go to the city and say we've done it according to code and this is our quality control program. i would like to ask steve humphries from webcor to come on up >> good morning. steven humphries, webcor. as was mentioned earlier, the c q c project was modelled after the 3 phase program and also has to comply with the fta q ms elements. we have created a project specific q c plan for the project that complies with both requirements. the q c efforts on the project are really a requirement that is required from all parties as well as all our trade contractors. our c q c organization here, you can see there's many individuals involved. at the top of the work chart, our webcor personnel that's involved. all of our subtrade contractors below that. every subtrade contractor below that has their own q c manager assigned to the job to manage their over sights of the q c to manage our program. there's a series of steps that we follow to ensure the requirements of the project

the granite curbs are problematic because significant part of the funding for this project is fta and the federal transportation administration has made it very clear if we can't tie the work directly towards transit improvements we can't pay for it out of this project's funding, so i can make the case that if we damage an existing curb or have to change an existing curb line and why the federal government should be paying for any part of it since it doesn't contribute directly to a transit improvement. on the sidewalks i will take it back to my management. the mta's position is that property owners are responsible for the sidewalks that their properties face if dpw finds the funding from the property owners or from another source to do the work we're happy to do it. currently it's an optional bid item in the contract package, but again it's not transit related expense and unless you can find a separate pot of money to pay for it and make it a parallel project we don't have any funds to allocate. i will take your concerns back to my management but that's the current position. >> all r

what i mentioned early, the ben 360 process which gives us the documentation necessary to go to the fta and you as a board and go to the city and say we've done it according to code and this is our quality control program. i would like to ask steve humphries from webcor to come on up >> good morning. steven humphries, webcor. as was mentioned earlier, the c q c project was modelled after the 3 phase program and also has to comply with the fta q ms elements. we have created a project specific q c plan for the project that complies with both requirements. the q c efforts on the project are really a requirement that is required from all parties as well as all our trade contractors. our c q c organization here, you can see there's many individuals involved. at the top of the work chart, our webcor personnel that's involved. all of our subtrade contractors below that. every subtrade contractor below that has their own q c manager assigned to the job to manage their over sights of the q c to manage our program. there's a series of steps that we follow to ensure the requirements of the project

. >> if you read one thing today, please let it be the fta complaint against barclays.g this. let me not be the only one. there is stuff in there about how barclays basically googled these high net worth clients. >> they bypassed due diligence and used google. basically, the bank has rules and protocols and how it takes a new customers. you have to go through due diligence and that's in line with the regulators and the internal compliance of the bank. in this case, it looks like they took on several high net individuals to do this structured notes deal that seems to be profitable for the investors but there seemed to be a group of people at barclays that did not tell anyone they were doing it. they kept the documents in a safe. >> they wanted it to be ultra-confidential because these were important, high net worth clients. the most amazing thing about this is they refused to put any of the documents for the deal on a computer. they did everything on hard copy. can you imagine doing a deal all by hard copy? you have to fly bankers and lawyers back-and-forth. >> it goes a

in terms of getting funding for expansion with fta funds that's been difficult. >> then on the adultay care centers i understand there's some thought of having to sections of a? >> i know-as to sections of that. i think there's a lot of issues with staffing with having more than-in terms of their own stuff and because it's an incredible amount of services they provide. we talked about staggered starting times but also is difficult. it is something we definitely discussed and i'll continue to discuss something that can improve things >> i just want as impotently breast with a survey that was done. that's amazing to me. there's not much satisfaction and those that testified here today. the overall satisfaction we have a lot to do. we can do a whole lot better i'm sure but it's nice to have that >> i think a lot of testimony to the customers that are part of the system that are involved in it. they've advocated for themselves for quite some time and i think that's part of our success. >> i'm sure it is. the bcc does a great job. it's very vital to this whole office. members of the board

in terms of getting funding for expansion with fta funds that's been difficult. >> then on the adultay care centers i understand there's some thought of having to sections of a? >> i know-as to sections of that. i think there's a lot of issues with staffing with having more than-in terms of their own stuff and because it's an incredible amount of services they provide. we talked about staggered starting times but also is difficult. it is something we definitely discussed and i'll continue to discuss something that can improve things >> i just want as impotently breast with a survey that was done. that's amazing to me. there's not much satisfaction and those that testified here today. the overall satisfaction we have a lot to do. we can do a whole lot better i'm sure but it's nice to have that >> i think a lot of testimony to the customers that are part of the system that are involved in it. they've advocated for themselves for quite some time and i think that's part of our success. >> i'm sure it is. the bcc does a great job. it's very vital to this whole office. members of the board

in terms of getting funding for expansion with fta funds that's been difficult. >> then on the adultay care centers i understand there's some thought of having to sections of a? >> i know-as to sections of that. i think there's a lot of issues with staffing with having more than-in terms of their own stuff and because it's an incredible amount of services they provide. we talked about staggered starting times but also is difficult. it is something we definitely discussed and i'll continue to discuss something that can improve things >> i just want as impotently breast with a survey that was done. that's amazing to me. there's not much satisfaction and those that testified here today. the overall satisfaction we have a lot to do. we can do a whole lot better i'm sure but it's nice to have that >> i think a lot of testimony to the customers that are part of the system that are involved in it. they've advocated for themselves for quite some time and i think that's part of our success. >> i'm sure it is. the bcc does a great job. it's very vital to this whole office. members of the board

in terms of getting funding for expansion with fta funds that's been difficult. >> then on the adultay care centers i understand there's some thought of having to sections of a? >> i know-as to sections of that. i think there's a lot of issues with staffing with having more than-in terms of their own stuff and because it's an incredible amount of services they provide. we talked about staggered starting times but also is difficult. it is something we definitely discussed and i'll continue to discuss something that can improve things >> i just want as impotently breast with a survey that was done. that's amazing to me. there's not much satisfaction and those that testified here today. the overall satisfaction we have a lot to do. we can do a whole lot better i'm sure but it's nice to have that >> i think a lot of testimony to the customers that are part of the system that are involved in it. they've advocated for themselves for quite some time and i think that's part of our success. >> i'm sure it is. the bcc does a great job. it's very vital to this whole office. members of the board

the fta estimated that deferred maintenance have created a backlog of $90 billion of transit projects. with all these significant needs in mind, i welcome the fans to be part of this conference committee, on both sides of the aisle towards a long-term solution to our nation's infrastructure challenges. the discussions have been productive. sometimes these things work backward. but they are moving forward on the house and senate side, which gives me optimism we will get this done before the disease 11th deadline. it's my hope we not only have is a bill that makes adequate investments in our infrastructure, but one that clears out the growing backlog of projects across the country. doing that will not only improve our infrastructure, but the thousands, improve our competitiveness and the safety for the traveling public. i appreciate my colleague from nebraska waiting to go. so i'll ask unanimous consent. the rest of my statement be read into the record. >>> no objection. with that, ms. fisher for opening statements. >> thank you, chairman shuster. it is an honor to be here and to partic

does the fta plan toer to guidance or allow for further comments and feedbacks on the next steps proposed? >> as you may know this is an eco system issue. we want university to continue to in nnovate and patients are getting test results for analytical and collateral. and we are collecting feedback. we just had two days at the fda. talking next generation sequencing. advanced form of the testing. we are still collecting feedback. we want to find something that stimulates innovation and assures patients. >> may i ask one other question that would not, just requires a yes or no answer. >> sure. >> thank you. >> do you believe as prior commissioners have, one of -- told me this. that the dietary supplement, health and safety act, provide authority to regulate the dietary supplement industry and protect consumers from unsafe products? >> we are fully aware of our authorities. and you will see action where the authorities are pertinent in future. >> do you agree you have enough authority? >> well are well aware of our authorities. plan to use them as congress has directed. >> all right. thank

if we take one formula and deal with that, that may sound good until you realize in the fta alone there2 different formulas. that doesn't include the fhwa, that doesn't include the fra. all of whom have dozens of formulas. each of which can be called into question. the way to change formulas is to have a discussion about it before we get to the floor, run numbers, see how it works, combine them, get rid of some, whatever we want to do. it's not to do a ten-minute floor amendment on the floor. otherwise, i guarantee you there will come another day when the people try to attack different formulas that they benefit by. i just don't think that's the way to do business. i don't think that we will end up doing that. nonetheless, it needed to be said. with that, i thank you for the time. i yield back. >> thank you. senator cornin is not here. i recognize senator brown. >> thank you, mr. chairman. transportation bills have pretty much forever been bipartisan affairs. i'm sure this conference led by senator inhofe and senator boxer and shuster and defazio will continue that. the state of roads a

davis you did get a little bit into the fta -- fda of that blog and i was wondering if he could expandn that and also how organizations such as ours and patient groups and other people here can help that get accomplished and speed up those approvals to get your drugs in your company's drugs on the market with lower costs and ms. sub five it cost $2.6 billion to get a drug to the marketplace. quarter to her good -- two or three good things that could be done to lower your research and development costs of that would create more innovative products, more competition and hopefully give consumers more choices and lower costs? >> in two seconds or less chip what are you take the first one. >> to reinforce, we have to get the to write. i actually think in terms of some the technologies that the agency has been in the process of developing and now they are in early stages of implementing i'm very optimistic that will actually reduce the amount of time and increase the level of dialogue both ways and fairness because obviously we submit applications and we get responses from the agency back th

discussion in the last few years were all approved under a new breakthrough designation pathway, for the ftat brought those of drugs to market faster. not just the first one that others were in developing at the same time, accelerate both the kind of treatment, a new treatment be available and competing branch to bring down prices and competition would be available as well. or have been proposals for more accountability for insurers to encourage them to take further steps to keep costs down. for example, in the medicare program today close to half of the spending is in the catastrophic part of the drug benefit now. that's up and a reflection of the trend toward more use of higher price specially drugs that can have a very big impact. most of the costs in that range are paid for by the government, through help with those additional costs with medicare covering 80% of the cost in the catastrophic range. a different model may be putting more of that accountability on the insurers. also i'm going to talk more in a few minutes about models in which manufactures may have more accountability for th