the analysis concluded no new environmental impacts and there are no new mitigation measures associated with the project variance. additionally, the project points out that in the event an actual water supply shortfall materializes before 201 , the commission would address that shortfall. complete note however that the range of water supply options that could be pursued by the san francisco public utilities commission if necessary was already analyzed in the water system improvement program environmental impact report, which this crystal springs document tiers off of so if the san francisco public utilities commission needs to reconsider its decision, and if the water supply needs cannot be met through the options that were analyzed and the water system program e.i.r., the planning department would determine whether additional ceqa analysis is required. and addition 23458ly, the san francisco public utility commissions is proposing no change at this time and it's not certain any changes would be necessary at all. and as with the other letter, i have a copy in the project file and i have

charge in calling attention to the questions of social equity and how those intersect with a new environmentalism, because of how that environmentalism and environmental justice in fact their community. deanthony jones has demonstrated, on his own with very little support from any of us in charting his own path and innovating ways on how to mobilize members of the community, members of his generation in order to pass the same questions and demand the kind of answers that make us all proud, so for that, i am doubly honored to hear that you are being recognized. small confession -- david brower was a mentor to me well over 25 years ago, so i knew david, and it broke my heart when he died, so i think is extremely fitting that you are in line of that recognition. for that, i know that we are very proud of you. thank you. [applause] >> my name is ken nor thomas, and in the current director of the environment service learning initiative -- my name is pandora thomas, and i am the current director of the environmental service learning initiative. when he came back and was talking about reconnecting to hi

$33 million in american recovery and reinvestment act money will pay for construction of a new environmentally friendly air traffic control tower. it's the faas largest single recovery act project. the faa and local officials broke ground, as you can see with their new showers. they will have power-generating solar panels, a geothermal heating system and rainwater storage system. >> dan: coming up here next, the streets of san francisco suddenly today looked like a seen out of an old western. >> the natatatatatatatatatatatat [ male announcer ] how can you retire at age 55? just ask jerry brown. he gave california state employees collective bargaining powers. since then the unions have grown stronger and stronger. now state employees can retire at 55 with much of their salary for life. and taxpayers are on the hook for one hundred billion dollars in unfunded pension liabilities. no wonder those unions are 100% behind jerry brown. he'll just spend, and spend, and spend. >> new tonight at 6:00, a peninsula city takes its fight against california's high speed rail proposal to a new height and cal

texas has yet to comply with new environmental protection agency standards that go into effect in january. every other state has gotten federal approval to begin issuing greenhouse gas permits or said they will allow the e.p.a. to issue permits for them. the new rules call for the nation's largest industries to meet stricter greenhouse gas emission standards. >> tom: a split decision today for former media tycoon conrad black. he lost an attempt to overturn all of his convictions for fraud and obstruction of justice. but, a u.s. appeals court in chicago did reverse two fraud convictions. a recent supreme court ruling gave black grounds for appeal and he was released from prison pending today's ruling. black has served two years of a six and a half year sentence and could be headed back to jail. he once controlled the "chicago sun times" and london's "daily telegraph. >> tom: while stocks have been choppy for more than a week, they're still sitting at six month highs. and tonight's "market monitor" thinks new post-recession highs are on their way before the end of the year. he's james paul

the faa and local officials are going to break ground on a new environmentally friendly air traffic control tower that is about to be built there. more than $33 million in stimulus money will be used. the ground breaking ceremony is at 9:30 this morning. this new tower should be finished by 2013. >>> construction on a new pipeline that will boost the state water supply is under way at tracy. here's the new ground braking ceremony held yesterday. the $28 million pipeline will connect the southern california to the canal. the new pipeline should be fully operational by 2012. >>> officials are raising concern about a major dam near potentially dangerous fault. anderson dam is the largest reservoir. it's located very close to the caliver us fault. if the 7.2 quake hit the dam could give way. sending a wall of water first into morgan hill and then north to san jose. >> definitely a concern for all the residents in the neighborhood and area around here. pretty big hazard. >> now water officials say it could cost $150 million to fix the 60-year-old dam. in the meantime just in case they won't let

. >> oakland international airport broke ground today on a new environmentally friendly air traffic control tower. more than $33 million in american recovery and reinvestment act money will fund its construction. it is the f.a.a.'s largest single stimulus project. among the tower's green features will be solar panels, a geothermal heating system and a rain water storage system. the project will also give a green cash boost to the local economy. >> many area residents will find working construction, aviation and other jobs as a result of this project resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in additional personal income and federal, state and local tax revenues. >> the new tower will replace two existing ones all while improving air traffic operations and reducing operating costs. >> neighbors in richmond are anxiously awaiting to find out if they won a national contest to fix a broken playground. richmond residents launched an on-line campaign to help the play lot on selano avenue. neighbors say the equipment is more than 50 years old, rusting and dangerous. they entered the playground

. >>> and it's good news for environmental experts. danube is absorbing the slung with little harm. this comes as the initial estimates are advised about the spill. 150 to 180 million-gallons of the stuff washed over the towns when a dam broke into the plant on monday. they also say no one can live in the towns ever again. >>> and back in the u.s., there was a problem aboard a passenger plane there florida. a right engine of the allegiant plane broke, but everyone was fine. >>> a man said he was postponing his heart surgery for an unusual reason. i say, wait, i want to see the football game and i said, yes, and he looked at me and he. [ indiscernible ] >> the plan needs a new pacemaker and he has a back up plan of sorts. he's going to watch the game down the street. and still ahead on eyewitness news at noon -- stick around, your complete first warning weather forecast 2 1/2 minutes away. i we'll show you last night's multimatch numbers. [ male announcer ] blue diamond almonds. more bold flavor. more variety. more value. more of what y

. >> oakland international airport broke ground today on new environmentally friendly air traffic control tower. more than 33 million dollars in american recovery and reinvestment act money will fund its construction. it is the faa largest single stimulus project. among the towers green features will be solar panel. geothermal heating system and rain water storage city. project will also give a green cash boost to the local economy. l. >> many area resident will find working construction, construction, aviation and other jobs as a result of this project. resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in additional personal income and federal state and local tax revenue. >>reporter: the new tower will replace 2 existing ones. all the while improving air traffic operations and reducing operating costs. >>> all right. you made it to the weekend. congrats layings. sandy is here with the forecast. sounds like it will continue to cool a little bit. >> absolutely, dan. someplaces are still in the 90's inland today. even though many areas cooled off. tomorrow we are just going to go with 80's and s

news. >>> environmental disaster that has prompted state of emergency. the toxic spill of red sludge in hungary reaches one of europe's largest waterways. >>> also ahead, the white house denying accusations that it withheld information on the true magged in of the bp oil spill. >>> is there an app for that? real estate sale that earned one north carolina couple millions of dollars for a home they paid just $6,000 for. [ crunching ] [ male announcer ] the closer the wheels are to the front and back of the vehicle, the bigger and steeper the obstacle it can go over. [ crunching ] guess where we put the wheels on the jeep grand cherokee. ♪ visit jeep at youtube.com. >>> toxic sludge overrun three hundred imearn villages has reached the danube river. crews are working to salute the sludge. so far no immediate damage is evident in the danube. sludge burst out of a metals plant reservoir monday and tore through local villages. hungary's prime minister visited the village close tots spill site today. he said it would be impour for people to live there again. >>

to listen to it's so odd to me too because we went out today and we tried to get the new biodegradable environmentally friendly country was bad but they are to pull them off the market right away and this is a regular back and i excuse you know our producers it's going to hurt the very very very very. good is a noisy has so i just don't understand how a bag really could be that big of a deal this is absolutely so you know we. complain of our country enough but our bags they can't stand that. i like your suggestion best was that you know if they're so loud maybe people are going to start getting embarrassed maybe we should just use that as a giant tool so you have the loud baggy you know you won't eat chips anymore because you don't want anyone to know about your habit oh absolutely i had a bag in my house this summer and seen them in awhile and discouraged me from eating them quickly i could ever do that i was eating them so every bit of work in that regard but i just said here that this was people to enjoy their chips that this was somehow impeding their pleasure. it's really silly and the thing is y

. >>> and the maker of sun chips is now scrapping those new environmentally friendly packages. consumers had complained that even though the bags are biodegradable, they're just way too loud. the company says they're not getting rid of their idea of environmentally friendly packaging, they're just looking for another alternative that's not so loud. >> we are off to a fairly quiet start compared to yesterday. there is still didn't result out there. 30% or 40% chance of a rain shower. othe >> and that's your latest weather. >>> and now to politics. the tea party showed it's power during this year's primary season, but now some of its high profile candidates are attempting to remake their images with the midterm elections exactly one month away. we're going to talk to carl pal paladino, the tea party's candidate right here in new york. >>> some of the biggest personalities and most talked about candidates are trying to deal with impressions that are less than flattering. that was also true in connecticut's first senate debate. where the former head of wwe wrestling linda mcmahon h

. >>> frito-lay is bagging its new environmentally friendly snack bag just 18 months after it was introduced. it was unveiled with quite a bit of fanfare. the sun chips bag was made of compostable material. the problem, though, as you may be able to hear, turned out to be too noisy. and people said opening the bag sounded like breaking glass. frito-lay is now working on a better version. the real issue here is that it made it really difficult for you to sneak a snack in the middle of the night. that was my issue. so i complained. it was not me. welcome back. >> they thought they had problems with owe lest st ra. do you remember that? >> i remember the olestra controversy. it was nothing. >> nice to see you, erica. we have a tale of two coasts. showers on the east coast and showers in sections of the southwest. really, it's too cutoff lows. let's talk about it. low pressure system, not really carried by the jet. kind of wandering on its own going nowhere fast. so you see more showers right along the east coast today. and in the southwest, one to two inches possible. really centered around the

new cracks appeared this weekend in the wall of the reservoir. some fear it's inevitable that a second spill of some sort could cause another wave of environmental harm. >>> new developments tonight in the story of a british aide worker held captive in afghanistan and killed during a rescue attempt by u.s. special forces. it was first reported that 36-year-old linda norgrove died in the hands of her captors, but she may in fact have been killed by a grenade detonated by her would-be rescuers. sadly, always a risk in a rescue mission like this. we get more tonight from our london bureau. michelle, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. linda norgrove, who worked for an american organization, was kidnapped two weeks ago in afghanistan by insurgents thought to be linked to al qaeda. friday night, u.s. special forces launched a daring rescue operation, but the next day announced that she had been killed by a bomb vest worn by a captor. then this morning, the commander of u.s. and international forces in afghanistan, general david petraeus, called the british prime minister to say it's now believed friendly fire, possibly a grenade thrown by

. >> reporter: while the industry pushes for new drilling to resume, environmental groups are pushing back. elgie holstein of the environmental defense fund says oil and gas companies have a lot of work to do. >> they have a long way to go to demonstrate that they can meet the much tougher safety requirements that the government has now put in place. >> reporter: the interior department says the new rules will add an extra $1.5 million in costs for each new deepwater well. that doesn't include the cost of staying idle. regulators say it probably will be the end of the year before any new deepwater permits are issued. stephanie dhue, "nightly business report," washington. >> jeff: earnings in the tech sector got off to a good start this afternoon with intel. the chipmaker's third quarter results came in better than expected. intel earned nearly $3 billion-- 52 cents a share-- for the period, beating estimates by two cents. the results were driven by demand from emerging markets and corporations upgrading their i.t. systems. intel c.f.o. stacy smith expects corporate demand to stay stro

the company is there and new ones will have to show they are prepared for catastrophic oil spills and that their rigs have been inspected. a lot of environmentaldvocates say the new rules don't do enough or place the bar high enough on the companies. >>> with election day three weeks away, this may add to the rich get richer outrage that's across the country. we learned today that wall street pay is expected to break an all-time record for the second year in a row. according to a study by the "wall street journal," compensation at wall street firms and hedge funds is expected to total $144 billion this year. that's up 4% over last year. in a separate survey, 50% of wall street employees said they expect to receive a higher bonus this year than they did last year. >>> ten years ago today, al qaeda terrorists blew a hole in the side of the u.s. navy destroyer cole while it was refueling at a port in yemen and 17 sailors were killed. survivors of the attack, relatives of those who died gathered today at the cole's home port of norfolk, virginia, to mark the anniversary. for many of those gathered there today, there are feelings of anger and bitte

both existing companies and new ones will now have to show they are prepared for catastrophic oil spills and will have to have their rigs inspected as well. many environmental advocates say the new rules still do not place the bar high enough. only five deep water rigs pulled up stakes and left the gulf as a result of that ban. big news from the education world as michelle reed expected she will step down as chancellor of washington, d.c.'s schools. she got the teacher he's union give her powers to fire hundreds of ineffective teachers in often very public battles with the teacher's union. most recently, rhee was featured in the documentary "waiting for superman." her departure was expected ever since vincent gray defeated adrian fenty in last week's campaign. rhee is expected to move on to another high-profile job in education. >>> still ahead on "way too early," we go back to chile. one by one, those miners making their way up a narrow shaft and out of the cramped space where they have been trapped since early august. we go back down live coverage as the eighth of 33 men now makes his way up to the surface. >>> plus, a veritable sophie's choice. do you vo

absent the landmark issue, the environmental impact of the new project would not be significant. so i urge you to approve the e.i.r. thank you. president miguel: thank you. >> good evening, president miguel, commissioners. i would like to speak to the relocation of the tennis courts on the playground itself. >> state your name for the record. >> robert henish. i live across the street from the playground. i lived there 25 years. my daughter grew up on that playground. those tennis courts are located in the center of the playground for a very good reason. there's walls, high walls on three sides. they keep the noise from traveling. the voiciest aspect of that playground is the tennis courts. if you relocate those tennis courts to any other streets where there are residents, those residents are going to be impacted severely by per cussive noise starting at 7:00 in the morning. it's not going to be easy to study, work or sleep with that tennis court along greenwich, along stockton, along lombard. it's also going to intrude into the hardscape there and i can tell you by looking at th

clinton global initiative where i had the prejudice of going a year ago to speak about our environmental issues in new york city. harvard also learned of her. and a very well no one fill per heard about here. they connected the dots we decide we would create twinning relationships almost neighborhood sister neighborhood as opposed to sister city relationship with broodmoore and see if we could help. we do all the relationships with citied around the world but we don't help our neighbors down the road. it's really been a remarkable experience for guys like ed lee our cao, for daniel and others who have gone to broodmoore and felt the remarkable connection. and have felt a great sense of responsibility to help out. in the spirit of that, we ask latoya cantrell to come here and talk about her struggle, her challenges and her resolve. because i think what she represents is the best of what so many of you represent. and for the grace of god every one of us could be put in the same position as latoya but how many would have the courage to become latoya? and actually step up and not give up. and so that's wh

new waterfront. the most aggressive environmental policy organized around sustainable development that will allow thisbe arguably the most environmentally friendly in field development in american history. it is an extraordinary vision and extraordinary project that will also ultimately include wind generation, surprisingly, and some state of the our efforts, and we hope eventually, that waves power project we have here off the coast will also play a key role in terms of the cogeneration and generation of renewals that will mark and distinguish this great read of elements. that is why i'm here -- to give thanks and gratitude for all the work hard to get us here. i want to thank those just once again, the secretary, for his willingness to think differently and look differently at this project. this project was dead many many times, but it was because of his willingness to look at this in a new light and consider things that previous secretaries of the navy had not considered because of the great work of his staff and both the department of defense and because, more importantly, of the incredible commit

she's commissioner emily loyd and the head of department of environmental protection of new york city and appointed by mayor bloomberg to head this agency in 05. the department is responsible for imagining new york cities waist water and treatment, drinking supply, handling hazard materials and emergency x toxicities and removal of those and enforcing cities air and noise codes. they also have substantial responsibility outside of new york city managering 2 thousand square miles of the hudson valley. prior to heading up this agency commissioner loyd served as executive vice president for public affairs at colombia university and was in the administration for ten years and commissioner for sanitation under mayor, jenkins and was ma developer at port an authority and commissioner for traffic and parking for the city of boston. emily, thank you so much. we are so glad to have your energy, your smarts to lead us to this tough topic this morning. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, susan. well, as the only - at least self identifying water system manager from the east coast, i had original

. >>> and the maker o sun chips is now scrapping those new environmentally friendly packages. consumers had complained that evenhough the bags are odegradable, they're just way too loud. the company ss they're not getting rid of their idea of environmentally friendly packaging, they're just looking for another alternative that's not so loud. >> it's sound like a plane laing in atlanta. >> mr. roker has the weather. >> it's pretty good, once you're here in the east where we have got some rain to talk about and it's not going anywhere, low >>> and i think those showers will stay well north up around new york city, philadelphia, pennsylvania. right here we will be dry with increasing clouds. takoma park, laurtette 49 and up to fairfax and annandale, your hi today, 672 to 63 but with increasing clouds and an a breezy afternoon. so very chilly. your showers come tomorrow, about a tenth of an inch. it islose 2070 on thursday, 73 for friday. warming through the weekend. >> and that's your latest weather. >>> and now to politics. the tea party showed it's power during this year's prim

. >>> a new office promoting environmentally friendly businesses is now open in the district. the center for green urbanism is on been being road northeast described -- on being road northeast describes a an -- on benning road northeast. it's described as having pieces for start-up businesses. >> we've got low flow bathroom fixtures and put energy efficient hvac. we have solar shades. >> and got an open house going on right now and it continues until 8:00 tonight. >>> no complaints for the weather department tonight other than a little chilly. >> that's right. and the cooler temperatures could be the beginning of a beautiful weather trend, though. gary has your weekend forecast when we come back. . bob ehrlich says he wants to fix maryland. but he increased state spending by record amounts. ehrlich raised $3 billion in taxes and fees... including property taxes... and a 40% increase in college tuition. and now he's made over $1 billion in new promises... with no plans to pay for them... except for cutting education. cuts that will lay off teachers and increase class sizes. tha

. >>> and the maker of sun chips is now scrapping those new environmentally friendly packages. consumers had complained that even though the bags are biodegradable, they're just way too loud. >>> it is now 7:06, back to meredith and matt and al. the company says they're not getting rid of their idea of environmentally friendly packaging, they're just looking for another alternative that's not so loud. >> package them now in a jet airplane engine. >> in a landfill. >> i didn't like them because it was hard to sneak the chips. no, that's not me. really. >> what's up, mr. roker, how is the weather? >> it's pretty good, unless you're here in the east where we have got some rain to talk about and it's not going anywhere, low pressure sitting off the coast. plus, we have got an upper-level low, and an onshore flow, rainfall amounts generally light, one to two inches, picking up anywhere from a quarter of an inch to a half an inch of rain. the rest of the country has got wet weather out west. we talk about that in the next >>> interesting with clouds around san francisco. weingly show