i road in last night with joel smith and he said with a wink and nunl, never turn down a trip to san francisco or new orleans. we have one still left. all right. i'm going to talk about a shared resource in the west and my first thing here is all important dividing line on the upper and lower basin colorado line. this photograph was taken lo 1880's and you will see the lower right, the founder. john lee is actually my grant grant grand father. you might think it's remarkable to be a descendant of the guy, but he had 21 lives and by my count about 2500 descendants right about now. let's go to the next. you probably all know the overview of the river. those that never heard of the colorado river let me give you facts. 7 states and two nations share it. the fastest growing part of the nation by percentage or numbers. including utah, arizona, and nevada and california just on sheer numbers. 8 percent of the land area in the united states and it has 60 million acre feet of storage and that's closest to the highest in the world relative to it's annual flow of 15 million acre flow a year. i

. >> i'm joel smith and i want to pick up on peters comments. i'm very impressed by this workshop on assessing the climate change and it begs the question, should all utilities or those officer time size be required to look at implications of climate changes over 30 or 50 - whatever the planning verizon is, the things peter is talking about. in britain and correct me if i'm wrong, their required to look at the long-term plan and suggest if their robust against a long term plan. i think it's making water managers look very seriously at this. i throw that out as a possibility. >> i'm at,mwah. they have asked me to lead our climate change commitment and people ask the same thing. what do we do? what are we doing? is this real? to synthesize and follow up, i like peters comments. one of this things we do when we talk to more and more people is seeing a transition from a world we were focused on and meeting a regulatory world and now we're being asked to look external and further from the small boundaries of our communities and where do we sit. some

smith, nbc bay area news. >> thanks a lot, christie. >>> the chp is releasing the name of a man killed in a motorcycle crash on interstate 80. 50-year-old joelre died when he hit the center divide in northern solano county. the crash happened around 2:30 on sunday morning. >>> a breakthrough in cancer treatment promising research out of the university of connecticut may mean people can find out if they have cancer even before they have a tumor. a team is now studying cancer biomarkers. they say certain proteins increase in people as they begin to get cancer. doctors currently screen for a single biomarker, but that testing is not that accurate. scientists are now looking at a combination of biomarkers. >> it can facilitate new treatments and can facilitate treatments that can be used and avoid surgery, for example, because what a biomarker protein can do is tell whether somebody has a problem that is going to lead to cancer in the very near future. even before a tumor is evolved. >> of course the reason all of this is important is because doctors say early detection is the most powerful tool in the fight against cancer. >>> thousands of peop