this is in the town of hillsborough. what is before the committee today is the purchase of temporary construction easements totaling 6440 square feet and a permanent easements of 4600 square feet. the settlement agreement calls for a purchase price of 87,005 and $7, which is between the appraised value and the requested amount from the owner and is pursuant to an summoned by the puc general manager and commission, who will approve this resolution. this is in conformance with the general plan, and with your approval, we would be able to execute the agreement for sale and the eastman documents for this project. i will do 10 and 11. if you have questions, i also have brian from the puc. item 10 is for the san joaquin pipeline system improvements. this location is in the city of tracy. this acquisition is on the tracy called country club, shown here. roughly where my finger is is where the pipeline cuts across the country club. this is two timber construction easements totaling 1.1 acres and two permanent easements. the agre

in spitzbergen and hillsborough they are finding out ways even to hold music teachers accountable. you can't give someone a music test at the beginning of the school year and after but yes, i had a great deal of faith in accountability. i think journalists should be accountable, people who take one side of this issue as you have or the adverse side, they are to be accountable for exactly how they are funded and who's behind them. i was talking about the reform side. i think for the -- >> host: a pettis behind me. you're making these allegations. >> guest: everybody ought to be accountable but tests have to be improved and keep getting better but just because they are not perfect and in fact they are far from perfect as you been very articulate and pointing out, it doesn't mean you don't do this. you can't just say because the tests aren't there -- this is the basic union position for a long time. the set over and over again although she has now stopped, the basic human tradition is that tests are on a fair and you can't use them to measure teachers. so then yeah but why don't you j

in pittsburgh and hillsborough, they are figuring out ways to even hold music teachers accountable. you can't give someone a music test at the beginning and after. yes, i have a great deal of faith in accountable. i think journalist, or people that take one side or the other side, they are to be accountable for how they are funded and who's behind them. both on the reform side. i was talking about the reform side. >> host: no one is behind me. stop making the allegation. >> guest: i really think that everybody ought to be accountable. just because they are not perfect, in fact, they are far from perfect as you have been very articulate in pointing out. it doesn't mean you don't do them. you can't say the test aren't fair. this had been the basic union. randi weingarden has said over and over. why don't you have much better observations of principal and teachers in the classroom and make them accountable based on the observations. what does the union say? those observations would be subjective. we need objective. so the object visions would be subjective, the tests are unfair, let's

in pittsburgh and hillsborough they are figuring out even to hold music teachers accountable. you can't give someone a music test at the beginning of the school year but yes i have a great deal of faith and accountability. i think journalist should be accountable. i think people who take one side of this issue as you have or the other side, they ought to be accountable for exactly how they are funded and who is behind them. both on the reform side -- i was talking about the reform side. >> host: you said someone is behind me. no one is behind me. >> guest: i think everyone ought to be accountable but tests have to be improved in they have to keep getting better but just because they're not perfect and in fact they are far from perfect, as you have been very articulate in pointing out, doesn't mean you don't do them. you can't just say because the tests aren't fair -- this has been a basic union position for a long time. although she has stop saying it, the basic union position is that tests are unfair and you can't use them to measure teachers. so then everyone everyone says y

it will take place in burlingame, san mateo and hillsborough. the testing involves filling a pipeline with water to find los angeles. a community -- to find leaks. a community meeting will take place tonight at the springs golf course in bur pling game. another meeting is set for tomorrow in san mateo. >>> as the testing in these cities approaches "the chronicle" is worried they may not meet the deadline. so far, only one-quarter of the pipeline have been tested or replaced. pg&e is blaming permits and endangered species laws for the delays. >>> the cost of catching a cab in san francisco could be going up. today, the san francisco municipal transportation agency will consider raising the rates by 40 cents that. would bump the flag drop rate to $3.50. the -- they will also considering issuing 80 new taxi medallions. some oppose this. they tell "the examiner" they have called off a strike that was planned for today. >>> an agreement is expected to be formalized tonight in a six- year dispute over 100 acres in the south bay. san jose and campbell

i also want to thank the hillsborough county school system.y out, not only keeping our schools safe but also keeping the city of tampa and the residents safe as well. we have an amazing working relationship, and i can say that with tpd and hillsborough county school system working in concert yesterday with a sense of urgency in investigating this very, very

great falls is followed by hillsborough, california, where the median tops $319,000 and scarsdale, new york, where the average worker has to get by on a little more than $250,000 a year but when you think about the taxes they pay -- >> it adds up. great falls, virginia, i'll keep that on the list. >> google. >> thank you, ashley, joining us live. >>> as we mentioned earlier, president obama and texas governor rick perry are trading barbs over job creation and the economy, it started when perry took a swipe at fed chief ben bernanke. >> plenty more money to play politics at this particular time in american history is almost treacherous or treasonous, in my opinion. >> the white house immediately pushed back saying calling the fed chief a traitor is unacceptable but the president said he'd cut perry some slack since he's new to presidential >>> campaigning. the tough economy has changed the way americans shop and even pay off their debt. jim axelrod looks at how the cutback in economic spending could take a cut in spending. >> reporter: the economy is stalling sales. new jersey developer

it will soon take place in burlingame, san mateo and hillsborough.ting involves filling a pipeline with water to look for leaks. a community meeting about the testing will take place at 5:30 tonight at the crystal springs golf course in burlingame. another meeting is set for tomorrow in san mateo. >>> and "the chronicle" is reporting that a year-end deadline to test all 152 miles of its pipeline may not be reached. in fact, so far, only one- quarter of the 152 miles has been testified or replaced -- tested or replaced. >>> 7:37. you can't miss it. new this morning, an eye- catching, eye-popping clothing drive that kicked off in san francisco just an hour and a half ago. you gotta see this. teams of partially clad men are standing on city streets holding these signs that read -- watch the signs, pay attention, give the suit off your back. this is part of the men's national warehouse drive. now, donated suits will be given to the unemployed to help them look good for job interviews. >> nowadays there's like 9.1% unemployment in america. there are a lot

mateo to discuss a utilities upcoming pressure tests on gas pipeline in burlingame, san mateo and hillsborougheeting will give pg&e officials a chance to explain to residents what they can expect while tests are being conducted. exact dates of the tests have not been determined. >>> firefighters say a santa clara home say total loss following a two-alarm fire. the house on augustus way was fully engulfed yesterday when they got there. the family who lived there was not home but neighbors say they only recently moved in. a car was also destroyed. the cause of the fire is under investigation. >>> 5:39 now. the man who started a fire last october in a sacramento mall will spend 15 years in a federal prison. in court, the judge said the fire may have been a cry for help but it was for the wrong cry. the fire at the roosevelt galleria caused more than $55 million in damage. he will be locked up for the next 15 years. >>> time now is 5:40. a security scare at the white house. the attempted break-in all caught on tape. also ahead... >> congress passed a debt bill and president obama signed it into la

the tampa police department's in cooperation with the hillsborough county school system started to investigatehe information and found that it was very credible. they were able to put a name to the information, the individual was a 17 year-old white male by the name of the jury kingman. a previous student at freemafreedom eyes. >> they sowed explosive materials and a manifesto outlining the minute by minute plans he had ended detailing dozens of specific targets. the 70 year-old is under arrest and police believe he was acting alone. kron 4 morning this will take a break and be right back. >> the dow jones is up over 100 points in early trading, now turning negative. half of the dow was down to 11,384. thousands of verizon wireless workers are on strike and getting a warning from the retailer. 45,000 employees walked off of the job because of their benefits of verizon says they have until the end of the month or they could lose benefits completely. >> 813725833summerlike weather n morgan hill. right now to the mergers are starting to warm. by noon we will start to see some 90s. we will stay in

hillsborough county school system in tampa. i'm glad we're having this conversation as opposed to a different one. thank you very much. >>> coming up next a story you don't want to miss. hard to believe, perhaps. it has been about ten years since the september 11th attacks and new york is certainly planning a special memorial ceremony to mark the moment. president obama will be there, former president bush will be there. families of the victims will be there. but what about some of the heroes that day? the firefighters? the first responders? the men and women who risk their lives to save so many others on that day? they won't be there. were? because they weren't invited. coming up next. i'm going to speak to a man here, james ryder, retired from the new york police force and a 9/11 first responder. we'll see what he thinks about this. stay with us. yup, we had a good year at chevy. they gave us a consumers digest best buy award. then they gave us an iihs top safety pick and you... well, you gave us your approval. so we thought,

they also indicated that this young man, a 17-year-old former student of the hillsborough school district, had the desire to cause more casualties than columbine. and we were told earlier by the school system that this plot was supposed to be carried out on the first day of school, which was next tuesday. so they apprehended this young man yesterday, they found bomb making materials inside the apartment that he was living in. they did not actually indicate in the presser that they had those bombs actually assembled ready to go, but they say he did have the materials for making these types of explosive devices that could have done a lot of harm. so everyone breathing a huge sigh of relief right now in tampa. >> among the items that were seized, or at least located, they said shrapnel, some tubing, and also apparently this young man, 17-year-old, had been arrested recently for possession of marijuana and then possible burglary as well. how have they been able to kind of locate this individual, just one scitizen? >> he was well-known to police, he had a juvenile record, a criminal record. th

in the works, and called our 911 center, and our officers and detective in conjunction with the hillsborough county school system, investigated it -- we also found in his room a manifesto that gave basically a minute by minute schedule, timeline, of what he was going to do that first day of school. rick: this is a 17-year-old young man who had been expelled from the school, as i understand it. what was his motive here? did the manifesto explain why he would want to do something like this. >> it was targeted at a couple of administrators that he pretty much blamed for a lot of his problems that he had -- that he had been having, and even as far as the student casualties that he had planned, he just wanted to, you know, do something that was more spectacular than columbine. rick: are you satisfied he was the only one involved in this, or do you have any reason to believe he may have been working with any other students or anybody else? >> no, we don't have any indication that there was anyone else involved, that he would have been acting alone, and you know, he indicated specifically in his ma

and there are about 100 districts, including, you know, pittsburgh and hillsborough and others that areusing this kind of evaluation system, it's very different than impact in two respects. number one, the system that we're talking about is not simply about sorting, it's primarily about supporting teachers to grow their craft. and number two, it is something that was done with teachers, not to teachers. >> so if you got your ideal system in place, randi, in one of those cities, at the end of the day, it goes through and doesn't just support that, at the end of the day, there's going to be teachers that don't make the grade. >> absolutely. frankly if i came up, if i said any percentage like that, the blogs all around town tomorrow was going to be weingarten says x percentage of teachers should be fired. >> so and -- the answer is? [laughter] >> look what happens if you have a really good evaluation system that has credibility and all of the sudden two teachers are fired in a district or 2,000 teachers are fires. the real issue is there credibility for the system? that's what we need. we'