matthias meissner is an agricultural expert at world wide fund for nature, points out that enormous tractsof land are needed for biofuels. matthias meissner: c02 emissions increase when forests and other natural habitats are turned into farmland. it doesn't matter whether the crop is sugar cane, wheat or corn. the major problem comes with the changes that occur and the release of carbon dioxide. reporter: the eu has reacted accordingly. new guidelines call for biofuels to make up no more than seven percent of combined production by 2017. emphasis is now being put on electric vehicles. the united states is by far the world's largest ethanol producer. a biofuel plan was put into action years ago and the percentage of its mix in gasoline rises steadily. nearly half of all domestic corn production winds up in ethanol. and 15% of gasoline comes from renewable sources. the state of iowa is a major producer of biofuels, and the industry has created tens of thousands of jobs. brazil has turned to sugarcane to fill its gas tanks. the south american nation is the second largest producer and the seco

and matthias if you could respond at all to what john said. >> so thank you for yu comment. i basically agree with what you said. it is true, the comparement is a large change not exactly what people would expect to be implemented in the next three years. it is exploring what the model does and kind of a drastic comparement makes it easier. and you can use the same framework for policy work that has to be done. and in the narrative, i think it goes the other way, it is borrowed constraints and because of the experiment we do is one that relieved borrowing constraints and it would in fact be moving in the other direction and smaller but i don't think more than proportionately smaller in terms of the impact. so that is just in terms of the comparement. in terms of the aggregates, it is true the output, the aggregate, is relatively small and i think it is fair to say this is probably not the main reason that monetary policy or inflation changes would affect out pit. and i would point out, we have only looked at distribution in the household sector. and visible from the first pi

matthias donelan, who had located her files in storage. >> macdonald: i was trying to leave the office a little early to catch one of my kids' ballgames. and i said, "well, listen, i'm going to swing by in the morning and pick those up." and they said to me, "do you want the photos, too?" and i said, "you have photos?" and they said, "yeah, we have photos." i said, "we'll be there in 15 minutes." >> kroft: the breast implant lead produced a treasure trove of high-resolution catherine greig photographs that would help crack the case. the fbi decided to switch strategies, going after the girlfriend in order to catch the gangster. >> this is an announcement by the fbi... >> kroft: the fbi created this public service announcement. >> 60-year-old greig is the girlfriend of 81-year-old bulger. >> kroft: it ran it in 14 markets on daytime talk shows aimed at women. >> call the tip line at 1-800- call-fbi. >> kroft: and it didn't take long. the very next morning, the bulger task force got three messages from someone that used to live in santa monica, and was 100% certain that charlie and carol

charles matthias, fcc, mr. french lonna grow vp csx cooperation, mr. donaldorseno chief executive officer of metro commuter rail and russell kerwin metro link. i ask unanimous consent that the full statements be included in the record. full objection so ordered. and the sub-committee would request your keep your statements limited to five minutes. with that ms. feinberg, you're recognized. >> thank you, chairman dunham, ranking member capuano chairman schuster and members of the sub-committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you to discuss the implementation of positive train control in the united states. ptc technology is the single most important railroad safety development in more than a century. the technology is not new. elements have existed since the early 20th century. in fact regulators and safety advocates have been calling on the rail industry to implement some form of ptc for many decades. the ntsb since 1969. rail improvement act of 1968 required ptc to be fully implemented by december 31, 2015. ptc is required on class 1 ra

matthias. you may proceed. >> thank you. thank you chairman denham and ranking member capu anna and distinct wish members of the sub-committee, thank you for inviting me to testify here today. >> can i ask you to pull your microphone closer. >> promoting the safety of life and property through the use of wiring and communication is a top priority. as the communication agency, the fcc helps freight and passenger railroads. we also manage the statutorily required historic preservations and environmental reviews of the poles and antennas and associated infrastructure used to support ptc systems. because the fcc was given to no mandate to set aside for purposes, we are working closely with the railroad since 2008 to identify the secondary market. the fcc has worked swiftly to identify kmt spectrum nationwide and amtrak's acquisition of spectrum and waivers to better enable and test ptc deployment. to be clear the commission plays no role in designing or assessing the railroad's test of ptc technology. the railroads are responsib

matt matthias and richard striker. staff, bill miller, fritz schwartz curt smothers who i don't think is here. how did you get a committee like that? my answer is mike mansfield. he wanted this to succeed. and he wanted to set up a committee that he thought could go through this huge explosive hearing, these process, and do what he knew would have to be done to work together and sustain bipartisanship. that worked. this committee was working together. there was a single staff. we didn't have a republican staff and a democratic staff. bill miller came off the staff john sherman cooper, one of the saints of the senate and also a republican. and he had enormous prestige in that senate as a gifted staff member. and he was able he knew exactly what had to be done. he was an old hand. then i think you'd have to say that the executive branch maybe with a little time but they ended up in effect supporting what we were all doing. you have to give some credit to president ford who was not an idlog probably afraid of the concept