mrs. peterson's head.a fall. >> reporter: by dawn, news of kathleen's fall started rippling through the family. details were still vague when family members reached michael's girls, margaret and martha, at college. >> she said -- um "something's happened." your mom has fallen down the stairs. you know it was an accident. you know, you should come home. >> reporter: by the time kathleen's daughter, caitlin, got the word, it was as shocking as it was definitive. her college roommate delivered the news. >> she looks me straight in my eye and she just says, "caitlin, it's your mom. she's dead." those words still ring clearly in my head. >> reporter: kathleen's sister, candace, couldn't believe what she was hearing. michael called her directly. >> it was still vague or she -- we couldn't tell if she fell down the stairs or she fell off a ladder, but there was no question i kept saying, "are you sure she's dead?" >> reporter: yes, michael was sure. candace headed to her sister's house. >> the whole thing was sea

mr. peterson? >> thank you very much. my name is christopher peterson. thank you, tear peskin, it is a pleasure to see you in a different capacity. i would like to start off saying that i find the prospect of caltrain landing at bart as an exciting and important prospect. one additional long-term issue i think it is important for caltrain to consider is a prospect a potential potential second rail crossing beneath the bay. certainly there is a lot of eliminated discussion about whether that should be only bart or bart plus traditional rail or some other combination, but certainly the potential of having a real length from caltrain to amtrak and the east bay. it could be all a very significant long-term business consideration for caltrain. thank you. >> thank you. just by way of disclosure, has earlier comment was that mr. peterson was the general counsel of the coastal commission and is now enjoying his retirement and transportation activism. congratulations on surviving the coastal commission for a generation. >> thank you. >> is there any additional co

mr. chair, christopher peterson. >> commissioner: mr. peterson, gou first and then mr. wiener. thank you for waiting this out. >> you're welcome. a couple comments. first, thank you to the muni for having p.c.o.s and sometimes they're giving muni priority but not consistently. frequently i'm seeing them though we've been waiting in the tunnel and letting cars go through while trains are waiting to get out of the station. i hope there continues to be management focus on really genuinely giving muni priority there. another bottleneck outside the tunnel i think can have impacts on metro service in the tunnel is st. francis circle. both the "k" and the "m" go through that intersection. you have one train and you can get through quickly. if it's unlucky with the timing it has to wait through an entire cycle. have you multiple complicated car movements in that intersection easily waiting several minutes. if you have multiple trains getting there, that thing gets multiplied. if have you outbound ks and ms stack up behind them, maybe they've waited 5 minutes to

mr. peterson is how it plays a role. at an earlier meeting i raised the question of just closing that intersection to traffic during peak period or altogether. it's not a thoroughfare you could force right and left turns there and still have good flow to the business corridor and folks trying to get across have alternatives up the street at dewy and 14th. has there been further consideration to close traffic that cross the train tracks. >> my apology for not addressing it in the presentation. we have pulled together a rapid team of engineers and planners to look at the type of solutions you're recommending and start testing some things to see how they help at that intersection. we should within the next few weeks have some progress on that item. >> commissioner: that's my neighborhood. i know the folks affected but i think if we can create the ripple effect in the system it could be a compelling case why we would close an intersection. it might potentially lead to greater pedestrian safety near the library, playground an

mr. peterson. he was cly in eight place but could be much higher by the end of his redskinse tenure. deal, two years, $8te million. rson had an incident year in his fir d.c., rushing for over,000 yards. the first time he'd done that since 2015. he even earned a couple of votes for nfl come back player of the year. peterson will be looked at to mentor darius guice who lost his entire rookie season last year due to injury. so the skins should be in good shape in the backfiel'l explain coming up in sports in the next hour. >> that's good to hear. gary, thanks so much. >>> video of a maryland man jumping onto a pelican in florida, it goes while some folks reacted by laughing it has resulted in a nightmare for a locall business. wehow you how. >>> plus new hope for people who struggle with high cholesterol but can't take traditional drugs. joining us to explain the new drug on the market. >>> and it seems there's no escape for robo calls. they're comin in record numbers. r susan hogan on the line to take a look what's being done to stop them. stay withus. >>> and i'm still tracking this m

mr. peterson plead to charge of voluntary manslaughter? guilty to voluntary manslaughter. that's a class d felony. do you understand, sir? >> yes, sir. >> and do you now personally plead guilty pursuant to the alford case? >> yes, sir. that's -- was the most difficult decision i ever made in my life was to take the alford plea. >> and that's gonna give kathleen's family an opportunity for what they call the victim impact statement -- >> right. >> michael peterson you are pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter. you will be treated as guilty for murdering my sister kathleen. and you will be a convicted felon forever. >> it was very cathartic to say, ahh, this is what i fought for. we weren't quitting until we heard the word guilty. we thought we were going to hear it from another 12 jurors but we got to hear michael say guilty. michael peterson, not only can you wear the scarlet letter a for adultery but also the black letter g for guilty. not perfect justice but justice. >> reporter: michael peterson was sentenced to time served. his dau

mr. collin peterson and about half of my district is rural in nature. so it is a pleasure to be here today. mr. secretary farmers throughout my district are struggling with record low farm income and low commodity prices. my farmers have made it clear that maintaining the farms safety net is critical to keeping their operations afloat. thanks to the work of this committee, before i got here, the farm bill gave producers access to valuable risk management tools. the farm bill also provides producers with an opportunity to update their payment yields for the 2020 crop year, and moving forward making yearly elections between arc and plc. so what assistants will your agency provide the producers to ensure these opportunities are used to the fullest extent? and what impact in particular did the shutdown have on your ability to implement these changes? i am a freshman, i am new here. apparently we've had 22 crs since 1996 and we shut the government down 10 times.'s when he chance i get to put on record how bad nsan idea government shutdowns are on everyone i w

mrs. chairman. iq secretary perdue for testifying about the state of the rural economy in particular. i'm thrilled to serve on the ag committee and i'm from minnesota. our chairman mister peterson and about half of my district is rural in nature. a pleasure to be here today. mister secretary, farmers through my district are struggling with record low farm incomes and low commodity prices. my farmers have made it clear that maintaining the second is critical operations of the work of this committee, the farm bill gives you access to risk-management tools. farmville provides business with an opportunity to update their payment yields for the crop year and think forward to your election between arc and plc. what assistance will your agency provide to make sure these opportunities are used to the fullest extent and what impact did the shutdown have on your ability to implement these changes? i'm a freshman, i'm new here. we had 22 crs since 1996 and we shut the government down 10 times so any chance i get to put on record how bad government shutdowns are on everyone i'm going to take an opportunity to do it. >> i hope you will. you can't imagine how painful it is from an agency per