on vehicle sayy i will be particularly focuses on making sure that nhtsa has a clee focus and the ability to prioritize safety as it always has. as with any policy, overly prescripted mandates have a tendency to divert focus and avert it from existing priorities. i'm also very supportive of the house language ensuring that dollars from the harbor of maintenance trust fund go towards their intended purpose of maintaining the harborses. i.e., dredging. maintaining our commercial and recreational harbors is essential to local growth. infrastructure development, and the countless jobs across the great lakes. these are not only my home state's most treasured natural resource, but it also is one of our strongest economic assets. and the livelihood of tens of thousands of michigan families and businesses depend upon our harbors an deserve the certainty of knowing that these gateways of opportunity will remain open for business. other important matters in the house-passed bill included a path for expedited approval of the keystone excel pipeline in a state based regulatory framework for the safe

david strickland, administrator of nhtsa. >> have a wonderful memorial day weekend. >> we sure will.e heading out on the roads -- but first some of you will more details, log onto wjla.com, and all the roads and i out for our special photo -- >> promoting this morning. >> we will see what we can do. the latest photo of cynne and i on the metro car. send in your photos when you see it. these were from our good friends from the show. good morning to tommy and kelly and janet and all of those down that fresh fm. time to check traffic and weather every 10 minutes. >> lisa baden, how are things looking this morning? >> going from fun to jerry. you will have to keep your headlights on. we had our shares of fender benders -- outer loop, between 2 02 and 50, d.c. -- collision at 11th street bridge for most of the morning. i will take you to be geico center picture because so you know how to plan your ride on screen 95, this is southbound before duke street, southbound traffic trying to get to the beltway, stay to the left -- on 395. >> the weather has not been playing nice when it comes to t

nhtsa says, states need to implement five parts of the strongest laws for young drivers that are usedtates to see the best results. those are: minimum license age of 17. minimum permit answer of 16. at least 65 supervised practice hours. night driving restriction that starts at 8 p.m.. a ban on teen passengers. >>> a bill that would create new funding sources for california's state parks is now headed to the senate. the bipartisan bill passed on a unanimous 74-0 vote. it requires the state parks department to modernize fee collection process and it would allow californians to donate to parks by buying special license plates the measure is one of several moving through the legislature aimed at saving most of the 70 parks slated to close because of the budget crisis. >>> 5:50. things are going to warm up, good news for folks graduating today. >> [ talking over each other ] >>> let's go back to the peninsula a lot of graduation ceremonies today. san mateo high the bearcats 5:00 today mostly sunny about 73°. we'll go to -- the tigers graduating 5:30 today, sunny and warm with 81°. back to

on vehicle safety i will be focused on making sure that nhtsa has a clear focus in the ability to prioritize safety as it always has. as with any policy, overly- restrictive mandates have the potential to divert the agency from existing priorities. i am also supportive of house language insuring that dollars from the harbor means trust fund to go towards their intended purpose of maintaining the harbors. maintaining our commercial recreation harbors is essential to local growth, the infrastructure development, and countless jobs across the great lakes. these are not only my home state's most treasured national the natural resource, but one of our strongest economic -- natural resource, but one of our strongest economic assets. tens of thousands of families depend on the harbor and deserve to know they will remain open for business. other port matters include expedited approval for the keystone pipelining in a state- based regulatory framework for the safe management, reuse, and disposal of coal-. while the connection might not seem obvious, in fact, the policies seem to make perfect sense in