landscape in california are carl marinucci, "san francisco chronicle" senior political writer, josh richmanbay area news group politics reporter, and scott detrow, kqed's sacramento bureau chief, joining us from the state capitol. scott, we'll get to the content of the state of the state speech in just a moment, but first, some late-breaking news tonight on the issue of high-speed rail. the brown administration took some action on that. what did they do? >> yeah, the administration has asked the state supreme court to step in and repeal two rulings issued late last year that really harmed high-speed rail. one of them blocked the project from accessing $8 billion in bond money, and the other one basically threw out the plans, financial plan, and said you need to rewrite it. this is an interesting pivot, because the authority's message all along has been these rulings are not a problem, they're something that they can work around. these won't delay the project at all. but now, the brown administration has put forward this court ruling, saying that those earlier rulings, "imperil the project."