if you talk to marvin kolb who has an excellent book called the road to war presidential commitments honored and betrayed, he looks over these president is is from true -- presidencies from truman to nixon and sees the gradual involvement to war and today what drove all the men then was this hubris about american power. he has an anecdote where dan rusk who was secretary of state slaps his hand on the table next to a bottle of johnny red saying if america wants something to happen, it happens and that was after the offensive. obama does not have that illusion. >> what are your thoughts on this, david? >> i think it's clear if syria was a problem entirely on its own, there would be no action, but why is the president thinking about acting in syria? it's because american credibility is at stake in the much more urgent crisis in iran, but the president has told iran he will not tolerate her getting a nuclear weapon and he also set his red lines with the chemical weapons and syria. they then seemed to use the chemical weapons. having set that red line, there was tremendous pressure on am

i know kolb or middletown around 106. vallejo 85. still 100s. pittsburg is out there. 70 alameda. 71 hayward. temperatures around the bay will come down. still hot for some but san jose 92 yesterday. we'll go 88 today. 50s and 60s on the coast. 70s and 80s on the peninsula. 67 san francisco. it will be cooler for more on thursday. >>> time now 6:10. it has been two questions we have been asked since the start of the bart strike. how much do bart workers make and what are their qualifications? we break down their salaries and compare to train operators in the three largest cities. >>> plus the protest continue in egypt. the deadline facing egypt's president less than two hours from right now. >>> sunol grade at a standstill because of an injury crash in fremont. even the car pool lane is not doing well. we'll give you an update on what is going on. ♪ we don't have a ten step filtering process for our water. we don't need it. because crystal geyser is made by nature, not by man. crystal geyser is always bottled at the mountain source. >>> good mor

even in the goal for weekend drill regarding kolbe's, president jimmy carter, you may remember, said i want to know develop a billion tons of coal. then he set about making that impossible. he developed basically a, a system for leasing coal in the american west and imposed regulations on states that made it impossible for states to regulate the reformation of the call. i know i'm going a little -- inside baseball, but there was a lock on the service mining control reformation act passed by congress to say we want to make sure that when coal is mined in america the land is fully restored. with the states were promised, the members of congress and senators were promised, states will run their own programs. now, for those of you and of the clean water act, this is not like that. those allowed for dual control, federal land. but the service mining control and reformation act, the state runs it with the fed's run it. if the feds are running it the states are out of the. and president carter adopted 500 pages of regulations and made it impossible for states to run their own programs. 500

enterprise he has been honored with the maria morris award from columbia journalism school and the kolbe college of elijah parish award. let me tell you a few things you may not know about alfredo corchado. he has spoken on mexico's national security issues on four different continents. he has addressed organizations i believe in west africa, great britain, canada sweden south america mexico as well as the united states. something else you might not know about him is he does relish the opportunity to write lighter pieces in addition to the heavier essays that often come out of mexico. one of my favorites i think was in 2007 about the validator and supports his family on the tipsy makes from his baritone voice echoing off the canyons. and another thing you probably don't know about alfredo are three of his favorite things not necessarily in this order would be columbia musician -- detective -- detective novels by cuban author leonardo for dura and his favorite brand of tequila is -- [laughter] >> right. i knew that. >> now that we have that out of the way let me introduce the ambassador.