the report of the faa's contract with itt inspector general dickson stated the faa did not conduct a dpree henesive financial analysis before deciding that a service based contract would have saved the government more than that the traditional method of opening and operating the system. the faa's data showed if the agency owned the system through the first phase of adbs the government could have saved over $600 million in the contract's initial phase alone. that's $600 million. i realize this contract again was not awarded under your tenure as the administrator. faa employees failed to conduct proper oversight and perform due diligence that fits into an established pattern of faa irresponsibility and administering federal contracts. i ask you provide my staff with the names of the presently employed faa personnel that were charged with this management of this oversight and the 2007 itt contract and the 2008 raytheon contract. was inspector general dickson wrong in his assessment that the government could have saved $600 million by not entering in the service based contract for the in

itt says its with that antenna. earlier this month they had a similar problem. officers lost radio communication during at pursued. because of the ongoing obstacles they are working hard to resolve it. the police department communication system is being upgraded once the new equipment is installed. they're hoping it will stop future problems. >> vicki: the sheriff, michael hennessey is calling it quits. he will not seek reelection this november. he has been elected eight st. terms that is at 31 years. the west dublin station opened today. to get to the station it will cost you $5.50. this is sports 40 fit station around the bay area. one of the sports heroes died. pauli madison. he starred in sampras's go back in the 1950's. heat helped get the team to the championship. he played for 14 seasons before making it to the hall of fame. he was 80 years old. still ahead, a deadly clashes and libya. protesters take to the streets of wisconsin. california gov. tie-ins that built on state budget. and to computer combines the new features of tablets and smart phones. let

we shouldn't pretend that itt wasn't, it was used. >> ben butler, a notorious scalliwag of a union general die use it a little bit in the siege of petersburg. it he bought it with money out of his own pocket, the ordnance department was resistance to it. the head of the ordnance department was this gentleman that professor burton refers to, james wolf ripley. hen h was already in his mid of 60s at the time the sieve civil war began. -- civil war began. he had his reasons. hel k was getting all kinds of things coming in every day, all kinds of proposals for crazy new guns. he had a war to win. he was, like, don't bother me with your new-fangled stuff, this is a crisis. heg was very opposed to trying out new and innovative armaments at the time. the more we learn, the more you have sympathy for them.eapo he also demanded that the weapons that the union forces used have interchangeable partsl so he wasn't aet completely nonvisionary, but he was the man who really stood in the road, arms crossed looking out saying, no, no gatling guns. we're not going to do it. in bac fact, he actually referro

with regard to the itt, that's a subject that we're under discussion. one the things i think people should appreciate the difference between, and this would be a corporate decision. if you and i were sitting on the board of, you know, an airline, and someone said should we lease the airplane or should we buy it? lease it for $300,000, or buy it if we have the $50 million it would take. we don't have the $50 million. there therein lies the contract. it would be less expensive. what wasn't noticed was how many billions it would have cost to acquire the equipment to avoid that. in a company, you would make that decision. do you want to go out and borrow the money, put it in place, and save the operational cost or lease. it's the classic argument, buy versus lease. we have to make those. we are having an ongoing discussion. >> have you done the cost analysis with the traditional method with the fee per service. have you completed it? >> no, we have it in the sense that we don't get to depreciate equipment. there's no allowance and no recapture for us. we ce

vonnegut and jane had three children, march, itt, and net.hen many years later his sister alice died just a day or two after her husband had died in a freight train added accident. alice had four children, and three of them came to live with that vonnegut family. they had quite a large household, seven children. vonnegut at that time was writing books that at that time were less familiar, but he had published several books and articles for magazines as well as working a job as a car salesman for saab. the experience in writing about dresden and what happened to him was a tremendously difficult for vonnegut. took him about 20 years to be able to publish the books, "slaughterhouse-five." jane, his wife, had encouraged him to write it. she worked as his editor on the book. she asked prescience and that clarity on issues and helped him to receive a lot of the memories that he had repressed. because of the family situation, the addition of more children and the success that was coming with the publishing of "slaughterhouse-five", his marriage with

as we why did itt weather still sitting offshore.e expect some of this depression to the bay later this morning. by 7:00 a.m., continuing to see the bulk of wet weather in the south bay. towards 11:00 a.m., the rain edges its way north along the peninsula. your evening commute may start to feel a few sprinkles. scattered showers but the occasional moderate downpour. backing up towards evening hours. my see a few lingering raindrops' 3 livermore but for the most part the bulk of the wet stuff through the beginning of your day. a chilly start for the day today 33 napa, sitting in the 30's and san rafael, concord, fairfield said payment 40's. your afternoon highs today will be cool. sometimes jurors not out of the 40's. not escaping the 40's along the coast, 51 in san jose. dealing with fog this morning as well. this orange around 1 01 headed towards petaluma hitting some dense pockets of fog. novato one- quarter of a mile of visitation. . >> george: we are learning about some are delays i will tell you about those a moment. your ride w

but what is interesting in what well.s thinking about this event is if you really think about itt its not much about the future of pakistan that is being discussed, at least not the medium and long-term future. much of what occupies this is the era now,, the dailyre and developments. we pick up the newspaper and see if pakistan still they are or ad not.stan stillhere or that is not unimportant. it takes away from this idea ofi going into the future and see what opportunities pakistan has been what it means to avoid both in the u.s. and pakistaninforme territory. today i think much of the focus is microscopic. this overwhelming sense that we need to get pakistan to deliver on the security front. i think what it does is keep soe just avoided discussing complexities and nuances, which really wants to be studied if you want to see where pakistany in theded in the medium to long term. m as i said, better knowledge onei the fact that i'll bring pakistan in one direction versus bett the other i really do cry for more informed policy institutions. reqred today's event builds on this idea and

itt said it on this at vanderbilt. medical students need to learn about this system. you have a terrific regional expert whose current book, medicine" is good.king you should read it. we can and will make the system work better. >> i want to press you a little on hal realistically -- on how realistically you can press a campaign to accomplish what you want to accomplish. what makes your remarks so powerful is that you are in congress and you are speaking from knowledge about what it used to be like and what it is like now. i am a little despaired when you talk about a think tank providing answers. how much are you working to try to create coalitions within congress? it must be that there are a lot of people who feel the frustrations you do about not being able to do the work he went to congress to do. >> i wish you had been a classmate. i have learned a lot from you about a lot of issues. the key to american politics is that you have to be optimistic. things are never as bad as they seem. it was something americans appreciated from reagan. you cannot build morale with

slicks that o economists will tell you we'll have to remain extraordinarily high for about a year before itt starts having a severe economic impact. it wilel have a political impac, but before that, and in terms o unemployment, thmy general rulef thumb in the last report was 9%p the one before that was kind ofn squirrely, we have to see what that looks like.t the one before that was 98. but now it's sort of a 994. thik i think unemployment is about 98 going into the election and its went be hard for president obama to get reelected but if it drops 8wn to sort of around 8% roughly closer to 8% i think it will be very hard forreper klano republicans to debate. keep in mind unemployment had been at 10.8% at the time of 1982. the midterm election, ralfion an riggins's midterm election and dropped all the way down to 7-for and he won a landslide. this is going to drop to 7-forp and we aren't going to see 49 state obama landslide, but it is 8123i think this chance of thi3 getting reelected are very good, and if c it is 86 come 789%, tht is tough for him. t and i think specifically comment when it

i specifically raise the issue in the contracts awarded to raytheon and itt, i look forward to hearing what steps the faa is taking to improve the oversight and stewardship of the taxpayer dollars. specifically i'm concerned about the implementation of next gen. it appears there are a number of factors that are stalling the implementation of critical next gen programs. i hope you'll address your agency's detailed plan, the implementation of next gen, and i'm particularly interested to hear about the next gen implementation milestones that you intend to complete by the end of the year. thank you, administrator, babbitt, and i look forward to working with you this session. >> and recognized for an opening statement, representative carnahan. >> congratulations on your new role to the committee, to ranking member costello, i look forward to working with you in this new congress and on this re-authorization of the faa. passage of a multiyear re-authorization of the faa is long, long overdue. so we can make critical job-creating, business-expanding, and safety-enhancing investments in our av

itt chairman's point our system is of a parliamentary system. they have a way where a small group of people can say look let's change the fiscal course. ours is going to take a lot of work, among a lot of senators congressmen, the administration and so on. i would note the pound strengthened quite a bit when the u.k. made this change and that made them in terms of their living standards if you think of the dollar per capita in the u.k. they've gone up while wars are going down because of that change, and also i don't think that we should measure it only in terms of their gdp growth rate which was weakened in the fourth quarter. we have to look at jobs and future jobs being created, and i think by the government should bring some discipline that is attractive to the business environment and we will see the job growth doing a little bit better even in the short run for the u.k. than what we've been experiencing here. >> to the economist thinkers masters of the universe affectionately. the political world is unusual. it's not quite the same coming

[applause] third, itt party movement quite possibly is the most important contribution has been to serveas a much needed mechanism of accountability out side of the republican party. [applause] of the tea party movement poult not just liberal democrats accountable but we were republicans as well. this is good for liberty and for the country, and it's important role of the tea party plays. i live in illinois as you heard my introduction and in many ways it is a proxy for what can happen to other states and the rest of the country if we don't continue to preserve. reduce the current trends. public employee unions are bankrupting the state's and we are hemorrhaging jobs and people of an alarming rate. the trend line is good even in illinois which is the good news. people are hungry for politicians will speak the truth and articulate thoughtful solutions to serious problems we face. chris christie is a great example of this. [applause] much like the country as a whole, illinois's fundamentally center right. before we were the land of taxes and the land of lincoln. before we were home to pres