john mcalister. mcalister: i'd like to see -- the way our city's going right now, quality of life is important. so, that means safe streets, bicycle routes housing that's attainable, more open space, more parks and rec., better library. shafer: that sounds like a big wish list. mcalister: yeah. shafer: do you see it happening? mcalister: yes 'cause we have the resources and the commitment to do it. shafer: jim? griffith: i want to see a sustainable and balanced community sustainable in terms of environmental sustainability, transit, all in the services we need in terms of schools, our library. also i'd like to see a diverse community. i'd like to see us maintain that diversity of economic classes, of racial backgrounds, of all of the factors that make it a very interesting and vibrant community. shafer: all right, well, i want to thank you all for coming up 101 today to be with us. rod sinks, mayor of cupertino, jim griffith from sunnyvale, lisa gauthier from east palo alto and john mcalister from mo

shafer: john, you wanted to jump in. mcalister: well, yeah, google -- i mean, they have the largest private bus system in the united states and without that -- they're bringing in thousands of people into mountain view and the north bayshore area. and if we didn't have that the traffic would really be stand-still. shafer: yeah, lisa. gauthier: and just for east palo alto, we're just the drive-through city. the people that are coming from the east bay to silicon valley -- people drive through east palo alto at this time. but i sit on the dumbarton rail corridor and we're trying to figure out how to alleviate some of that traffic off of the dumbarton rail that's flowing through menlo park and east palo alto. shafer: there's a lot of talk about b.a.r.t. being extended down to san jose. is that gonna help any of you? sinks: not really. mcalister: on the clip that you were showing earlier, they talked about 680. take a look at 237 take a look at highway 85, take a look at highway 101 where everybody's coming into this -- what we call t

john heilemann, thank you. >>> police identified the three victims killed on board a plane that crashed into a massachusetts home. dr. joseph mcalisterttend a graduation. he reported trouble before crashing into this home on sunday. the family of four inside the home all escaped unharmed. the father spoke with reporters yesterday. >> because the people in the plane didn't come out of this alive, that's probably where your attention need to lie. you know we need to have, you know, support for that family. they are in far graver circumstances than we are. you know we will get through this. hopefully, they will too. >> family says they are going to rebuild there. the ntsb is investigating how this crash happened. >>> walmart is apologizing this morning after than employee decorated a cake featuring an isis flag. a louisiana man says a walmart store denied his request to order a cake with a confederate flag image. the next day he asked for a design featuring the jihadist black flag. that design was approved. he posted video of the cake to youtube and criticizing walmart for making the isis cake. in a statement, walmart said it's unfortun