. >> reporter: we found boat owner gary thomas in salsalito. thomas says one of the eight morings holding his world war ii vote broke. >> every year, boats that are anchored out in this harbor, because it's a shallow harbor relatively, too much winds, older equipment and boats break free. >> reporter: the harbor administrator told us the cost of removing each of the remaining boats range from 1,500 to $3,000. he hopes to have all the boats removed by april 1st. reporting live in marin county, amber lee, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> meantime, south of the bay area at the santa cruz harbor, crews pulled out four more boats following the japan quake. crews were out using sonar equipment to lose for any debris in the harbor. the tsunami surge cost an estimated $26 million in damage to the harbor and boats. >>> on this first full day of spring, it looks still very much like the dead of winter in the high sierra. the latest storm dumped several feet of fresh snow in the mountains. they received 3 feet of new snow over a 24 hour period this weekend. mike

. >> reporter: we found boat owner gary thomas in salsalito. thomas says one of the eight morings holding his world war ii vote broke. >> every year, boats that are anchored out in this harbor, because it's a shallow harbor relatively, too much winds, older equipment and boats break free. >> reporter: the harbor administrator told us the cost of removing each of the remaining boats range from 1,500 to $3,000. he hopes to have all the boats removed by april 1st. reporting live in marin county, amber lee, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> meantime, south of the bay area at the santa cruz harbor, crews pulled out four more boats following the japan quake. crews were out using sonar equipment to lose for any debris in the harbor. the tsunami surge cost an estimated $26 million in damage to the harbor and boats. >>> on this first full day of spring, it looks still very much like the dead of winter in the high sierra. the latest storm dumped several feet of fresh snow in the mountains. they received 3 feet of new snow over a 24 hour period this weekend. mike

after we have heard from our guests, our plan is to hear from gary thomas of dallas start. es on working with congress. that we have the advocate -- advocacy group. i will tell you more about her later. let's begin. first is my deep pleasure and honor to introduce the congressman. he represents the 14th district of ohio which is in northeast ohio. my sister lives in his district. they are all voters. i do know what to put pressure on them. the 14th district is that northeast corner east of cleveland. he is in his ninth term. he is a member of the house appropriations committee and the transportation appropriations subcommittee. he has been a strong voice in congress for many years for the importance of infrastructure investment. he has been with us on numerous occasions. please join me in welcoming him back. [applause] >> thank you, sir. it is a pleasure to be here. i know i'm going to be followed by one of my great friends. there are a lot of myths about washington. one is that we do not get along. that is not true. this town has a lot to do with relationships. earl and i h

after we've heard from our congressional guests, then our plan is to hear from gary thomas of alice start. gary will share some of his perspectives on his many years of working with congress. and, finally, we have the advocacy guru here. and i'll tell you more about her a little bit later. so, let's begin. first it's my deep pleasure and honor to introduce to you congressman steve latourette. he represents the 14th, get all the teeth working here, 14th district of ohio, which is in northeast ohio. my sister, my two nephews, their families all live in his district. they are all voters like you want to put any pressure on them. by the 14th district is basically that northeast corner east of cleveland. and he's in his ninth term. he is a member of the house appropriations committee, and of particular importance to us, the transportation appropriations subcommittee. he's been a strong voice in congress for many years for the importance of infrastructure investment. and he has been with apta on numerous occasions. so please join me in welcoming back congressman steve latourette. [applause] >>

after we've heard from our congressional guests and then our plan is to hear from gary thomas of dallas start. gary will share some of his perspectives on his many years of working with congress. and finally, we have the advocacy guru here. and i will tell you more about her a little bit later. so, let's begin. first, it is my deep pleasure and honor to introduce to you congressman steve laut rhett. he represents the 14th district of ohio which is in northeast ohio. my sister, my two nephews, their families all li in his district. they're all voters. so i don't want to put any pressure on him. but the 14th district is basically that northeast corner east of cleveland. and he is in his ninth term. he is a member of the house appropriations committee. and of particular importance to us, the transportation appropriations subcommittee. he has been a strong voice in congress for many years for the importance of infrastructure investment. and he has been with afta on numerous occasions. so please join me in welcoming back congressman steve la tour rhett. [applause] >> well, thank you very muc

gary thomas can keep track. the fact is, these are not experiments. people know what to do. if you have a response will agency with a track record, cut them loose, make them responsible for results, and we can fast track this stuff. there can be a leiter -- light touch. finally, it is important to make the local connection with people on capitol hill whatever their ideology, wherever they are from, whatever their party. as i work around the country, i am in a different community once or twice a month. i am struck how, at the local level, building and the new wing is not partisan. there is broad agreement from -- building a renewing is not partisan. there is broad agreement. it is important to move forward. it would have done it in phoenix or dallas. if you can help us translates that broad, bipartisan support for what you are doing locally or having a reasonable federal partnership, it will make a huge difference for people like steve and me to be able to advocate for you go with our. -- going forward. thank you very much. [applause] >> more common sense for both gentlemen.

you know, our staff has told us that many people -- you've heard gary thomas and bill staff talk about some real on-the-ground experiences up there. so there are people that don't really have a preconceived idea. they may have thought they did, but now that they're in the responsible position, it changes a little bit. all of you know that my real focus this year is what i call inclusion, and that means getting everybody into our tent. and, boy, we need a hell of a big tent. because most of our stakeholders, many of our stakeholders don't even have a clue yet that they are stakeholders. they need to understand this whole story. the economic and social impact and how it rolls down so that they are and they do have a stake in that. i'm thrilled that we're going to partner today. bill millar at the board meeting the other day went through six slides and just listed some of the partnerships that we have. and there are many, many more. tomorrow when i go up on the hill, i'll be up there with all of you, i'm going to be joining and joined with national league of cities, our counterparts at th

they get people -- sometimes to actually fit like george appleby and thomas jefferson but gary hart did a book, george mcgovern did lincoln i think so there were sort of the mix of historians and non-historians, looking at these presidencies, telling the basic stories but also giving your own sort of individual spin on it. and he asked me to do the johnson book and i guess he figured i would put my individual spin on it. i agreed to do it because arthur asked me to do it and i had great respect for him. i knew him from the papers of thomas jefferson. we were both on the advisory committee for that and also because paul gollop was the editor who was also the general series editor for the series. he was my editor for the book i did with burnham jordan, burnham can read. you know how it is when friends ask you to do things. they asked me to do this and i said sure. i put aside my misgivings. i knew it was a fascinating topic. there was so much material very rich but i wondered if i would be able to sort of curve my natural feelings of antipathy about looking at this particular period in am

march 22, thomas sowell is releasing economic facts and fallacies. the thank you economy by gary vaynercheck and cure ration nation also comes out in march. financial origami, how wall street bock. april 26, the next american economy, blueprint for real recovery will be available. douglas looks at how to benefit business in pulse to track threats and opportunities and that's released mai 3. may 31, age of greed, the triumph of finance. available june 13, douglas edwards gives an insider view in i'm feeling lucky. michael louis, the author of money ball and the blind side has a new book called boomerang, travels in the third world. the deal from hell, how wall street plundered great american newspapers will be in stores june 28. for more spring 2011 nonfiction books, visit booktv.org and check out the news about books section. >> from new york city, leo recounts the vote of 120 asian boys to