we get challenged with major storms throughout the service territory so it's not unusual that a major storm comes by every year and takes out about a fifth of our base. we have service responders on our own teams well in excess of a hundred a year. in terms of preparedness, we have emergency pipe yards, we have emergency stand by facilities, we have vendors who are on emergency stand by so those facilities, the material we might need, we have plenty of it and it's stored throughout the entire service territory. we have 3 major services, supply service chains, that are open and available to us 24/7 if we need them. we also have contractor arrangements, maybe it's pipeline welding or electrical service work, line man work, and we also have mutual service agreements and pg&e participates in those. we have sent folks to hawaii and we have sent folks back east and we have certainly sent folks to oregon and washington and idaho on a regular basis as we all in the west suffered through storms. so we have those activities in place and then of course we do just our normal emergency response ac

the majority did not find credible the sheriff's and ms. lopez's accounts of the incident on december 31, and found the conduct relates to the duties of office because the sheriff is the top law enforcement officer and also responsible for handling domestic violence programs within the county. now the commission believed -- the majority believed that while there was some room for debate as to whether this conduct or decency clause is limited by the relations to the duties clause, they found that it didn't matter. ultimately whether or not the decency clause is related to the duties of office in this case official misconduct had been shown. now, i've looked at this charter provision quite a bit so when i say things like conduct, clause, and decency clause, they mean something. perhaps -- not sure how much you all have looked at it. so i am going to borrow a definition that the parties ultimately agreed to, and this is a handout actually that i believe the mayor may have created. so this is the language of 15105e, but broken down in a way to

looks at criticism thrown at the two major candidates over their links to the rich who are still hogging the wealth of the nation. as our tees up close us alexion coverage continues this week we turn our attention to domestic issues concerning voters now you us presidents have historically referred to america as an exceptional nation a land of opportunity where one can work hard and over time climb the proverbial economic ladder but one year ago that myth was boston when occupy wall street activists camped out here in zuccotti park igniting a nationwide grassroots movement protesting corporate greed wealth inequality and in a word middle class today the fact is the u.s. gap between rich and poor has never been wider and unprecedented amount of americans are sliding down the proverbial ladder while the top one percent earn an average annual income of twenty four million dollars enough to bet on both horses running in the nation's biggest political race. it's the most expensive political playoff in u.s. history a competition for the country's most powerful position one of the things i susp

to the extent that the majority wants to add language to the majority portion of this order, what did you have in mind and is there actually agreement to include such language? and i do think the commissioners should consider the danger of adding justifications that were not addressed at the hearing. i do not -- >> i will withdraw them. >> okay. commissioner renne, you had a third amendment? >> no, that is all i have. thank you. >> commission renne, you are withdrawing the proposal with respect to the conviction, but what about with respect to the credibility issue? >> just the latter one that we were talking about. >> okay. >> because the chairman has raised the question that we may not have specifically discussed that matter on august 16th and i don't want to confuse the record. so it speaks for itself >> okay. with respect to commissioner renne's first proposal on the credibility issue, i think that can go on page 6, line 6, right after the quote -- the end quote and right before, "in addition this conduct relates...." >> mr. hemblig, do you have that? >> can you read that language

major earthquake. most people are aware in loma prieta the pipeline held pretty well but we are trying to build in a better manner to withdraw earthquakes. on the electric side, things are pretty well proat the timed already. things shut themselves off. depending on the magnitude of the earthquake, it could take up to 12 hours to get power back on really it's going to depend how fast we can get to the facility. that's one of the things we have to work with, with government officials and others, how do we get to the facilities to fix them. in terms of an emergency response stand point, we have stand by back ups, we have stand by centers, we can operate an emergency center in san francisco out of walnut creek, out of san ramon, almost anywhere in the state if we choose to. in terms of working with local governments, we are members of many state, federal and local emergency response organizations. again we're a regional company so it's not just about one general location, it's about serving every one of o

major or the lack of communication. negligence is leaving someone you know well bent on knowing it's all i can think of any other word for them was my own slaughter. polly boyko r t london. this is r t it is committed twenty four minutes past nine at night katie is there a the business h.q. of r t so the days of her domination for the big three global rating agencies may be numbered yeah looks that way actually kevin and that's really a several agencies from different countries are now joining forces to create a global competitor to compete with the u.s. agencies which are mood is fit and s. and p. standard and poor's so are is going to be completely independent and not represent any country or business growth more in that in the next hour right now we're going to go to washington and its capital account. culture is that so much anonymous commercial calls right on a problem so here's a candidate for awful moment in mitt romney revealed a little major difference between the troops and their approaches to security in fore

i would say the issues that typically come up in a major event really are two-fold. one is communication, communications with everybody, in a major event we will have a thousand to two thousand people out working and understanding where every crew is at and every product on every job is a huge challenge to us. we're concentrating on bringing every customer back on and at the same time not sending a crew to a location we may already have somebody there. it ties directly to the comment i made earlier. getting folks to the location is a real challenge. this happens certainly in storms up in the mountainous areas, facilities are closed, trees are down, bridges are blocked, areas flood. so getting folks to those locations can be very difficult, we end up doing a lot of hand walk ins, a lot of helicopters in with crews of 30 or 40 folks and communicating with them where there isn't cell coverage even if it did work is a big challenge. the things we focus on the majority of time is how do we improve our communications, what did rerun into this time that we didn't have in th

it is a nice drive coming up to the willow pass grade with no major issues. if you are driving to the bay bridge toll plaza, it has been a nice drive with no major issues and if you are driving, traffic should be good for you coming out to the mcarthur maze. here is a look at highway 4, getting out to the east shore freeway it looks good from vallejo to panola. >>> high fire danger, and good thing we don't have that northeast wind but we are going to cool down after today. there is no sign of any rain. just lows helping us but september is just carrying us and there is a cool pattern extending for us. for us, today warm to hot near 60 degrees, 60 livermore, 62, although 50 in santa rosa, fairfield, 57, that is calm, sea breeze yet and a little puff southwest at 3. high pressure parks over us and i like hanging out in california, and by tomorrow, it starts to get bumped off towards the east and today, coast, bay, end inland, and then everybody starts to cool down on wednesday and we will carry it into the upcoming weekend. very warm to hot for some, going back

to you live here in moscow the majority of people killed by u.s. drone strikes in pakistan are not militants according to the country's interior minister rehman malik said eighty percent of more than two thousand people who have died as a result of strikes were civilians. from pak nationalists form pakistan's first political lobbying group says washington is responsible for both the deadly drone strikes and the militants they're targeting. this is a major blow to us diplomacy and position in pakistan and this is the first time that a senior official actually come out to say this make this kind of a statement that the majority are civilians were killed by drones there is no evidence that the drones have actually help control the militants on the contrary pakistan has been very much very successful lives and military in flushing out terrorist from the northern region of so wide that in two thousand and nine and clearing and cleaning up that entire area and if now we see a resurgence of some of the activity of the terrorists it is because of these saf

big story now is major bart delay. are saying there's a stalled track between macarthur and 19 inn in oakland downtown oakland trains at a standstill, -- over pushing close to an area. downtown oakland in the fremont, sfo, millbrae, downtown san francisco direction we'll be following that for you. bay bridge commute obviously going to pick up because of this big bart delay live shot coming into san francisco so far light. macarthur maze from 580, 880 and 80 approach, relatively light, looks like 80 east shore freeway beginning to bunch up. waze app this is free, this is 880 through oakland area towards both directions actually looks like it is relatively cleary now once again bart pushing one hour delays east bay to san francisco direction. >>> today on katie one of the most powerful women in silicon valley sits down with katie couric. facebook's chief operating officer is credited with helping the social networking giant become profitable. sheryl sandberg and the kate middleton lookalike on katie starting at 3 p.m.. >

major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional fundi is prided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. >> 3407, turn left, heading 3-1-0. turn right, heading 1-4-0. >> right, 1-4-0.u >> miles o'brien: it was february 12, 2009. inside air traffic control at buffalo international everythin[ was running smoothly. continental flight 3407 was on final approach from newark.%;i ñ >> 3407 buffalo. >> delta 1998, turn left. left heading 3-6-0. >> o'brien: then at 10:16, controllers suddenly lost contact with the crew. >> delta 1998... of your right side about five miles. >> o'brien: they scrambled to locate the plane. >> you need to talk to somebody. either state police or sheriff's department need to find out if anyt

the storm did major damage to the new york area. a number of new york subway systemer i stating that they hae never experienced anything like this before. they stated that sandy has wreaked havoc on their transportation system. >> we knew that the storm would be very dangerous and it has met our expectations. we are seeing a lot of water throughout manhattan new york. >> speaking of power outages here in new jersey there are 2.3 million people without power. more than 7 million people are without power due to the storm. this is a very cold and windy day. teachin >> a live picture here shows west 57th street and look at this crane building at this large apartment building the estimates are about 95 mi. per hour winds. they are fear that is crying may come down on this hotel in the area. take a look at this pitcher shawn on the flooding near the entralook at this picture ts the world trade center. let's get more on the storm with the wind, and rain. >> we're still watching sandy which is a post tropical rain storm. you concede that it

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they prul actually were talking about the major issues in the day, stagflation, the major issues of thewide everyoning inequality that has not been talked about. wage stagnation that has barely been talked about. global warming, go down the list of the big issues of the day. and this campaign i think more even that real life campaigns, not managing some play time campaign, even more than recent campaigns have ignored a lot of those issues. >> woodruff: why do you think that is? >> because the consultants have taken over. and i think both of the candidates are no particularly sincere, especially mitt romney. and so they're not running on things that sort of motivate you to get into public life. they've decided they have strategies of how to do it and the candidates are play acting out those strategies. >> i challenge either one 6 them to tell -- president obama doesn't have grandchildren but tell his daughters what he is proud about in this campaign. >> mitt romney that huge handsome this is what grandpa stood for. in 2012. judy, whatever you say about ronald reagan and i said a lot. but

this makes it possible to elect local officials with the majority of votes.ore than 50% without the need for a second runoff election. in san francisco, ranked choice of voting is for the election of members of the board of supervisors, the mayor, sharon, just -- district attorney, city attorney, treasurer, this is a recorder, and public defender. ranked joyce voting does not apply to elections for local school and community college board members. number the election of state or federal officials. ranked choice of voting does not affect the adoption ballot measures. when voters received their ballot, either at a polling place or an absentee ballot in the mail, it will consist of multiple cards. voters will receive cards with contests for federal and state offices, as well as for state propositions and local ballot measures. for ranked choice voting contest, voters will receive a separate ranked choice ballot card. it will have instructions to rank three choices, which is new. the ranked choice ballot is designed in the side by side column format that lists th

that led to a major war scare in 1983.re have been hundreds of cases when human intervention aborted the first right launch -- first strike launched just minutes before. there is no doubt their systems are far more accident-prone could actually, it is a near miracle that nuclear war has been avoided so far. india and pakistan have come close to nuclear war several times. the crises that led to that, especially kashmir, remain. but india and pakistan have refused to sign the non- proliferation treaty with israel and both of them have received u.s. support for development of their nuclear- weapons programs. action, until today and the case of india, which is now u.s. ally. more threats and the middle east, which could become reality very sen. once again, escalate the dangers. is a way out of desperate and simple way. there is a way to mitigate, maybe end, whatever threat iran has alleged to pose. very simple. move toward establishing a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the middle east. the opportunity is coming again this decembe

we break them down into two major classes. mid-sized commercial, midsized is 5000 to 25,000 square feet. and we have another category here which is large commercial, over 25,000 square feet. ok. what about smaller buildings, less than 5000 square feet? are they covered? no. they are not. they are apt to be covered in the future in some way, but they are not. the midsized is for new mid-size buildings, and this is for new large commercial, over 25,000 square feet. all high-rises. not that big a building in san francisco for commercial. this applies to certain classifications. b, m are the two main classifications. b is a business. any kind of business occupancy. m is work. places where you sell things -- mercantile. there are places that are not covered. institutions, hospitals, and schools are not covered. certain types of assembly occupancies are not covered. i think that they might be covered. and part of the reason that these other elements are not covered is that this is a nation program, this development, and hospital sta

before winning the majoritied that opportunity to begin to implement the majority. and so there's a lack of willingness to cooperate because it might help them win the majority. we're going to spend over $9 million and we had spent three times more in part because of citizen's united and you have all those -- inside? and i mean, you're seeing the differences from when you first came until now? the ability? could you work with tom daschle today? >> sure. can i just say i want to thank governor shars negative for inviting me and my 100-year-old mother and wife both attended the institution, and one was a delta gamma and one was a theta. >> why we may come out of this is because of -- yes, i'm trying to meet someone in that 11%. i'd like to ask him or her what they approve of what we are doing, and by the way, we had four former governors here. there was a story in the chow line in the state prison one turned to the other and one looked at the other and stayed food was a lot better in here when>> that was in illinois. >> i tried it in illinois. >> i am relieved that we

and the best college majors for your salary. >>this just in to the kron 4 news room we are getting a lot of reports and calls of a meteoric shower. it is across the bay area. that is what people are telling us. they are saying that this is like a fireball. and a meteoric sighting. we are getting a lot of calls from palo alto and as far away as stockton. we want to get pictures from our viewers. if you've seen anything remotely? this sighting. that sparked a light show. it is worth noting that the meteoric shower is forecast for this weekend. perhaps this is an early arrival. and breaking news & kron 4 .com and also instant message. we will keep you updated and it is pretty cool. >>pam: police in pacifica have arrested a suspect for killing a man on his front yard. they have not released the victim's name but the 25 year-old was killed during a fight that happened just after 5:00 a.m. the suspect, a 24 year-old who is name has not been released has been booked into the san mateo sheriff's office. this marks the first murder case

that would be major flooding. you'll see a storm system very broad circulation, kind of centered in south central, pa, maybe harrisburg by snow in the mountains. we've seen some of these more moderate showers still scattered across the metro coming through in montgomery county. not sure if there's any mix. i may have the check the observation. we've got some hod rat showers south of town here into fairfax county, prince william and right up and down 95 and 395. you're seeing moderate rain continue at this hour. we will be back talking about the longer range forecast. right now here is monica with time saver traffic. you're smiling. is that good ? >>> well, you know, it's good and it's not so good. facts should be -- it's just that there's so much to tell you. what i same up with is my own little thing. here's what you have the deal with. fallen trees, leaves causing slippery conditions, downed power lines in parts of the area and signature signals as well. speed restrictions are still in effect. that's indeft. def

it is it time to the dreams it will never see the parliament result in majority of. we knew that one day each. but we could not see if it would come so probably sunday. just tailing the constitution on his own shape and then his own he could survive the flavor or arrest think of your chair but that's a little less flair. however this situation did not come out of nowhere prison doors or tapes released in september he'd saakashvili the hardest thousands took to the streets as allegations emerged that he personally ordered the torture and filming of these atrocities and now the president could face more than simply losing his grip on power if there's a big enough majority perhaps to impeach him maybe his term to october next year remember the changing point in this election was the allegations of brutality in prisons and torture and the allegation behind that was of course that saakashvili and his prime minister merabishvili had ordered this abuse so if you have a situation where the new parliamentary majority wants to investigate that abuse it could well produce a cri

but in my mind and in the minds of the majority of the d.a.'s around the state, the current state of misdemeanors and with our county jails being overcrowded, no person sentenced to a misdemeanor offense is going to do any jail time whatsoever. if they don't have jail as an incentive to engage in treatment, then there's nothing there, other than their own will to finally do something about their addiction. >> let me just ask you as a follow-up, what do you say, then, that the only thing -- if you're saying that currently being charged with a felony is going to result in drug treatment or maybe a sentence that isn't going to send someone to state prison, what do you say to someone that says well, what do you do with the felony conviction? you're making a lot of felons out of people who are committing simple drug offenses. >> i think probably if you were to look at a lot of individuals who end up getting convicted of possession, the arrest charge was probably either possession for sales or sales case, and the individual took a deal for simple pos

flooding has been a major risk here. mud slides remembered, jamaica here, you're still recovering from the earthquake so you still want to watch this very closely, definitely there's going to be a very dangerous risk here, even long the east coast of florida, rip currents and beach erosion is going to be a major factor here and look at that with those heavy rain showers pushing into miami during the next 72 hours. we have a winter storm system moving across the western great lakes, this is going to be sparking up some severe weather, talking about thunderstorms, lightning, hail and even a tornado or two could be seen out of this, as it continues to rush out there towards the east. it's going to be a rough one indeed. temperatures out ahead of it, though, are warm. atlanta, 26, winnipeg on the other hand, rather cold there on your wednesday, only a high of 5, here's a look at your extended forecast. >>> we'll be back with more updates in 30 minutes. i'm gene otani in tokyo. .

networks top trends top ten trends for the majority of the debate across the country hash tag third party debate hash tag now that's a debate so they were paying attention what did you make of it i mean i feel honestly it's not that it surprised me sort of just reinforce what i already sort of. had my suspicions about which is people actually really do care about these things people i mean if given a choice giving an avid given an avenue in order to watch they will i mean this is something that interests everybody and anybody who's you know wants to be engaged in the process and we're seeing that increasingly even you know. younger people are and that's the best example twitter right there i mean even throughout the entire electoral season if you will twitter is media has actually played a major role in that people actually watch things while they have their computers on their lap or you know at their computers whatever in order to so you know sort of feel even more engaged so yeah that's a great example i mean it's it was pretty astonishing it is really interesting we saw of course

chance for democratic majority sat at 38.5%.blican senate majority at a minuscule 13.7%. that's different than the screen. democratic chances for majority are almost at 90%. this turn of fortune for the democrats could be the result of the attention that the senate races have given. senator todd akin, perhaps you've heard about him. after his legitimate rape comment. then tuesday after an indiana senate dae debate. >> republican candidate richard mourdock said this. >> i believe that life begins at conception. the only exception i have for -- to have an abortion is in that case with the life of the mother. i just -- i struggled with it myself for a long time but i came to realize life is that gift from god and i think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that god incompetent tended to happen. >> mourdock and akin are considered tea party candidates. republicans who came from the party's conservative grassroots. mourdock won a surprising victory over dick luger. these kinds of primary cha

including the trains the the buses are not working the tunnels have closed as of this evening the major bridges in new york city will be closed schools are closed at new york stock exchange of course is close that is monday and tuesday essentially new york city is on lockdown three hundred seventy five thousand people had been encouraged to evacuate if they were living in zones that are close to the water and the winds and heavy rain it will soon be hitting new york city in the fear is that if this water if the surge gets high enough a lower manhattan can be completely flooded and we don't know what kind of effect that will have in that in the days to comment let's remember this election day is a week away u.s. president barack obama and his opponent mitt romney they both have suspended their campaigning events for a monday and tuesday president obama returned to washington d.c. he addressed the nation about the serious weather conditions and told americans that this is a very extreme and would be a serious storm coming to the east coast and everyone should be taking the circumstance ve

national majority.his would end up in the supreme court and i could see justice scalia being apoplectic that this is an unconstitutional maneuver. i can be fair to john. they aware of the proposal and a number of different ways of safe harbors and also for the election. my response to that, i think these are real concerns and this is why distinguish between direct elections in the proposal. imagine they could make mitt romney president or some future person like brad paul. and maryland found itself in a situation where would make landfall president 2015. what would the legislature think in early october and what would the voters or electoral legislator, fewer legislator if you've done something in the past and he didn't change it. i would be happy about it but -- speech on in his 2008 lengthy paper on the subject talks about states meeting after the voters vote and changing and withdrawing from this compact and there are seven independent reasons why that can happen and i'm going to mention to. the firs

major changes ahead. we'll track the showers for you coming up in my next report, but first let's track that drive with mike. >>> you know what, the roads are doing all right. we'll show you the bay bridge n drivers. if you're trying to get in the city via b.a.r.t., there is an issue. we'll talk about getting out of the oakland station. here's 880 through the area. there are major delays reported out of downtown oakland headed over towards fremont, sfo and millbrae. a disabled maintenance vehicle is on the tracks so there will be some slow-moving b.a.r.t. trains for the time being. the roadways are okay if you want to choose that as an option. no problems for the castro valley or across 92. we'll catch up with folks on the peninsula side. a smooth drive but the san mateo bridge over to the foster city side has been a tough drive all week so we're looking at a smooth light flow right now. early start, big advantage. >>> baseball season extended. are you excited about it? >> i am pumped up to say the least.

it is evident that the georgian dream coalition has secured a majority this means this parliamentary majority has to form the next government for us at least for me the use of this coalition were fundamentally unacceptable and still remain so. just six months ago an opposition win was deemed impossible the ruling parties rating was at seventy percent and nobody could challenge that confidence saakashvili was that he amended the constitution granting more powers to the prime minister a position many predicted he would eventually fill himself little did he know he was digging his own home when he made these changes to the constitution again i would say. it is it time it was a dream that i never see the parliament these are the majority of his party and we knew that one day each. but he didn't seem to fit with council so probably he. just tailing the constitution on his own shape and on his own he could survive this let's say the flotilla or arrest think of a link in georgia but that's legal that's forever. however this situation did not come out of nowhere prison torture tapes released