so they invited congressman john garamendi and other local officials out in the maintenance yard to see for themselves. >> bart's trains are 40 years old. mechanics say they can't find brand-new parts because nobody makes them anymore. >> we go on ebay and buy them up so we can repair the trains. we're putting them together and they are safe but we are running out of finding new parts. >> reporter: with federal transportation money in question bart officials are in a panic. fund will go stop at the end of this month if they can't get a bill passed. >> we don't get the money from congress if we don't get people to understand the trains won't be running anymore. we have every train we can out there every day. we are running them into the ground. >> bart officials invited congressman john garamendi and other local and state officials to come and here how dire the situation is for the agency. bart's board says it is competing with the rest of the country for money and needs help. the representative says the state of affairs at bart is a business disappointing. >> i'm not happy to see we're

so they invited congressman john garamendi and other local officials out in the maintenance yard to see for themselves. >> bart's trains are 40 years old. mechanics say they can't find brand-new parts because nobody makes them anymore. >> we go on ebay and buy them up so we can repair the trains. we're putting them together and they are safe but we are running out of finding new parts. >> reporter: with federal transportation money in question bart officials are in a panic. fund will go stop at the end of this month if they can't get a bill passed. >> we don't get the money from congress if we don't get people to understand the trains won't be running anymore. we have every train we can out there every day. we are running them into the ground. >> bart officials invited congressman john garamendi and other local and state officials to come and here how dire the situation is for the agency. bart's board says it is competing with the rest of the country for money and needs help. the representative says the state of affairs at bart is a business disappointing. >> i'm not happy to see we're

what's on the chopping block and what's getting to fear mongering on iran then representative john garamendi is going to joining us to talk about the n.b.a. as members of congress are actually trying to get the language that includes american citizens removed and occupy is back in action across the country today with occupy shut down the corporations and we're going to talk about their plans as well as the d h s report on the movement that's been released and the latest from the week's stop so have all of our market i want to those of happy hour but first take a look with the mainstream media has this front and. all right so shocker after yesterday's primaries in michigan and arizona and mainstream media is just going. night for mitt romney who pulled off a double victories in both michigan and arizona running one by a mere three percentage points is that enough romney racks up two more wins but the rest of the candidates are not giving up but romney survived his latest political near death experience by the top of the search for a new candidate romney narrowly carried michigan with forty on

>> reporter: dave, john garamendi is expected to use this morning's hearing to express for a quicker end of the war. this is the under-secretary for defense. the committee gave their opening statements and then we'll hear from general john allen. he's expected to give no hint of an accelerated timetable for u.s. troop withdrawal. hamid karzai said he wanted u.s. troops out a year earlier than planned. but general allen will say that ♪ forces are making -- that nato forces are making progress and they are on track for the withdrawals to end by the end of the year. he's also expected to call on the taliban to restart the's talks. the obama administration, it's reported, might be able to give them more control over night raids there. we expect to hear more about that. we'll have more testimony during my next update, in about an hour hour. alison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> 7:16. well, military veterans marked the 9th anniversary of the iraq war with a special demonstration in san francisco. a pair of boots represented each of the 481 california servicemen and women killed in iraq. i

recently jim mcgovern and i and john garamendi and some others, we met with colonel danny davis, lieutenant colonel, he is a active duty reservist who has been to afghanistan, returned just a couple months ago, he's been over there for almost 10 months. and he has written articles saying that the congress and these hearings with the military leadership we are not getting straight talk that we need to hear. too many times they use the word, well, the training of the afghans is going pretty well, but its fragile. real fragile. well, i'd like to say it's real fragile, no, it's even worse than that. you cannot predict what is going to happen in the country of afghanistan. we actually had two marines from my district, camp lejeune marine base in the third kiss trict -- district that i represent, that went over there about three months ago a sergeant baldis and colonel palmer, they also, like these two army officers, they were training afghans and they were having dinner with afghan trainees and that night one of the trainees stood up, shot and killed both of them. i mean, this is not fair to the