the idea came along somewhere in about midstream that we would put a canoe on the top of the car. the canoe is actually a 1915 old town canoe. and that was a great idea. the only problem was that the hood wouldn't come up. so you couldn't be showing your engine with the canoe on the top. so that brought on another problem of getting a trailer. so at 4:00 the day before it's leaving, jim went over and bought a used boat trailer that's made for a boat, brought it back, and said, "see if you can make this work for the canoe." i wound up rewelding, remaking a trailer to fit a canoe, and then this thing looked awful. and i only had a few hours. so we tried to clean it up the best we can-- clean all the rust off it, fix everything we can on it, and then we bed-lined the trailer. the fenders and the wheels were so... gruesome. last minute, we said, "we have to paint these fenders and the wheels," which, of course, there's no time allotted. so we did the best we could. lonnie poole: the final result was this neat little canoe behind this boy scout car with the flames and all of the scout

coming into the game midstream is probably the worst way for us to come in. what we were proposing is that we will take on things and then we are at the table, at the planning phase and can no how those conduits are being designed, know that it meets all of our requirements. it can be properly maintained. >> what i'm hearing is that this commission would be relatively comfortable with us setting the standards. let's look and see if we can get the benefits of setting the standards and take a special look at the fillmore. let us look and see what we can do and bring that back to you. moccasin compound-- president vietor: any public comments on this? >> proposed upgrade to the facilities at millbrae yard, sunol yard, and moccasin compound. >> we had a number of items related to fixing the different facilities we had. you asked us to come up with a more global view. item 12, before asking you to approve that, we wanted to get back with a larger discussion of what we are trying to do with those yards we maintain. mr. ritchie? >> steve ritchie, assistant general ma

on the midstream, we had 32% growth, and even performances that are records. on the downstream, same thing-- 16% growth and records on the performance side. i think this is a great quarter and i'm pretty optimistic that people who take a little more time into what the fundamentals alcoa has shown here, capabilities to grow, as well as capabilities to-- to get the cost down. these two things come together and a great team that makes that happen. >> susie: all right. very interesting information about alcoa tonight. thank you so much, klaus for coming on, especially on earnings day, we really appreciate it. >> pleasure. klaus kleinfeld, chairman and c.e.o. of alcoa. >> tom: there's a new budget battle facing lawmakers in washington. it comes on the heels of friday's last-minute deal to avert a government shutdown. that battle was settled with $38 billion in spending cuts. but this new fight has much higher stakes. darren gersh takes a look. >> reporter: in washington they call it the grand bargain-- a big deal to tackle federal deficits, a deal so large everythi

how can you change this entitlement in midstream and sleep at night?mment is here, and please answer my question when i am don -- the republicans in this country ruined america. when ronald reagan said we're going to get out of manufacturing and go to a service economy, that doomed this country, and all you republicans are interested in doing is tearing down everything we have worked hard. why not fix it? bring manufacturing back, a broad and our tax base, and bring the country back together? guest: i did not remember ronald reagan saying we should get rid of manufacturing, but i agree that the policies put in place largely by washington, d.c., have pushed manufacturing overseas. we have onerous epa laws and other things that do not allow us to manufacturing -- to manufacture things. it is good. we need more in this country. my own state of utah, the highest paying jobs we have would be for mineral extraction. the governor's office the day study on this, and i think we need to continue to explore it. for those of you that are less than 55, we have to s

the president was trying to change his possible image midstream from america's top democrat to a chief executive immune from partisan squabbling. reid watched his party lose the momentum. his job had shrunk to defending past gains. then americans might ask which is the real obama, the politician who embraced the biggest stimulus package in history, a bailout of banks and takeover of the automobile industry or the one on friday who hailed the new budget deem as including the largest annual spending cuts in our history? tony joins us from california, republican lane. good morning. caller: good morning. i'm a college student and i'm into politics and -- host: where do you go to school? caller: i studied med school in california and been watching our country destroy itself between democrats and republicans. i'm a republican and my party is so embarrassing right now, they forgot how horrible bush was and how bad bush made all of us look. he put god into everything and lied to everybody. now the democrats are injuries as worse. so, they are such racist people with their tea party and b.s. wh