>> i would love to see a minivan in north america for general motors right now. used to work on minivans. i know how useful they are. i have three kids. people want utility. utility is second to none. how you do that, you can go through the market in a reconfiguring basing. my seat folds to the floor, my roof comes off -- whatever that is, you can do all of that, or do it in a way that hasn't been done before in a size not done before in the united states. >> that's a compelling idea. >> i would like to watch to see what you do with that, but we are out of time right now. >> great to have you. >> scott burgess, peter de lorenzo, great having you guys. i'll be back in a minute with closing thoughts. >> general motors has momentum in the marketplace these days, as long as the american car market continues to improve, g.m. should do well. join us next week as we look at mo power. it's an italian who is in charge of the operation. i think you will be interested to see what he's doing with it and what he's all

you all may remember that in north america there were no bees, north and south america. they didn't have honey. so what they had was maple syrup, they had the agave cactus, and in the rest of the world they had honey. so we've had sugar used in magical ceremonies, we've had sugar, now, is spreading, people are starting to learn about it -- >> but one thing we want to mention when you say that they used, let's say, honey or fruit is sugar or sweetness at this time is not the way we think about it where you're going to have a chocolate bar or a cookie. it is just a taste. it is a spice. it is something you use in your meal to give it one of the flavors, okay? let's think, there's a meal you just had where you used sweetness as part of the meal. what big meal did everybody have just recently? >> breakfast? >> okay. [laughter] >> think of a hold lay, a hold hold -- holiday. >> thanksgiving. >> typical thanks giving plate you might have meat next to relatively sweet cranberries. you're using sweetness there as part of your main meal. maybe you had pecan pie or sweet potato pi

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understanding climate variability and changes particularly as they apply to the pacific ocean and north america. his specific work concerns impacts of climate changes on water resources and other sectors in west europe north america and he also worked on large scale exchange of heat and water between the ocean and the atmosphere. dan is also a director of the california climate change center a center that works to improve and forecast for decision makers in the california region and i'm sure it's information we can take throughout the united states. dan recieved a bachelor of science in meterologist and oceanographer and received in 1971 from university that makes us about the same age dan, but i'm just a broken down lawyer and economists. he received a, ph.d., in ee in san diego. his speech today will focus on climate change and it's challenge to our water supply. please welcome doctor dan cohan. >> thank you susan, well, it's a privilege to be here. i'm really impressed with the gathering that you've all assembled here in and the quality of the discussion. so i know that i don't want to wear

toyota motor has also reduced production in north america by suspending overtime and work on holidays. >>> demand for bottled water is surging all over japan due to the recent natural disaster. on top of this, concerns linger about the safety of tap water. >> reporter: a beveragemaker in miyazaki prefecture southern japan is shipping bottled mineral water to convenience stores. since the massive earthquake, orders have risen to nearly four times the usual amount. to meet demand the maker shifted its operating hours from ten hours a day to around the clock and workers are giving up their weekends to continue production. >> translator: we work into the night because we want to make as much as possible. >> reporter: another beveragemaker in the prefecture supplies bottled mineral water to retailers in the kyushu region, southern japan. two days after the quake, the company received an order of 300,000 bottles of water from the government to be shipped to affected areas. >> translator: these are recent orders. >> reporter: orders from the greater tokyo area were up ten-fold. this came aft

north america, even in the worst case scenario. thank you, joe. >> thank you, diane. >>> and we want to return for a moment to those brave emergency workers who are walking into a wall of radiation. and as we said, some of their families have begun weighing in, and juju chang reports tonight on the volunteers carrying the hopes of millions. >> reporter: they wear haz-mat suits that protect airways, but do little to stop potentially fatal doses of radiation. these brave nameless men stand ready to lay down their lives to slay a fire-breathing dragon. they are anonymous recruits whose families are beginning to emerge from the quake-ravaged shadows. a 27-year-old from the northern coast wrote on twitter, "when i heard my father who is retiring in six months, applied voluntarily, tears came to my eyes. although he seems so useless at home, i've never been more proud of him. i pray he comes home safely." emergency scenarios suggest the crippled plant will have asked older retirees to volunteer, not because they're more skilled or expend

>> all over northerly r north america. however, the spider is all over the place. >> those are the only spiders in north america. >> i don't want any little spiders crawling into tiny places and ruining my day. >> thank you. let's check in with roberta and see which web she spending night. >> i think it's more coming. opportunity that usually happen? we say held low to an old friend. the patchy fog due to a lack of a wind and a temperature close to the dow point. in fact, tomorrow morning's commute, you will have that fog at the seashore, otherwise clear skies at the inland areas. a passing cloud possible. we had the passage of the front yesterday. we had a couple showers park off today. weak ridge of high pressure is building. once the fog dispates, everyone is enjoying sunshine, a cloud may drift in from time to time, but overall dry conditions. heading to the sierra, have the chains. there will be snow on saturday and on sunday. boy that return trip. meanwhile, tomorrow's day high temperatures stacking up at 68 at the b

toyota plans to slow down the production in north america. that's, of course, due to disruption supplies in japan. the company already told dealers and employees that it is too early to determine the duration of the slowdown, but plans in the united states, which is toyota's biggest market, and canada and mexico are being considered. toyota says now it has ample supplies indeed of all products for north america and it still is assuring investors it has enough parts to make sure dealers have enough cars on the lot. >>> here's the other side of the story. this is fascinating to me. most teenagers, this may be as close to the deal of owning a real mercedes, they plan to open up a driving school for teens in the united states later this year. no word yet on the location. it is not a promotional ploy for mercedes. right. parents have to pay up to get their kids into this class. i don't know about you, scott, but i was far, far away from hanging out in a her say zooez mercedes growing up. >> i grew up in the farris bueller high school and many did

and canadian factories are made in north america, but some come from japan where production was shut down after that big earthquake. toyota says it does not know yet which factories will be closed or for how long. >>> well, in just a few hours testimony resumes in barry bonds' perjury trial in san francisco. this morning the defense will continue its cross-examination of bonds' former business partner. yesterday he testified that he secretly taped bonds' trainer, greg anderson, in the giants locker room in 2003. anderson talks about cysts forming if steroids are injected in the same part of the body. now listen carefully. this tape is hard to hear. [ indiscernible ] >> his testimony is expected to wrap up this morning. then the giants' long time equipment manager, mike murphy, is set to take the stand. now you can get updates on the trial any time of day or night at ktvu.com. just click on the bonds trial tab. >>> well, today is a critical day in the trial of the two men accused of killing oakland journalist chauncey bailey. the admitted gunman will take the witness stand. he's expec

>> north america used to look like north africa.arly humans were moving into north america making many extinctions. now we see more with modern farming technology. >> reporter: what gives you hope this will be averted? >> there's a lot of concern about this. this paper has gotten a lot of attention and groups are trying to preserve habitats and limiting the effects of climate change. if we can do that we can preserve these for future generations. >> reporter: there you go. nick is the co-author of "the sixth mass extinction." it would be a few hundred years off, obviously not in our lifetime, but our descendants could experience this. >> so bob, if we took action, could we prevent it? some people say, for example, climate change, if it reaches a certain point, there's nothing we can do to reverse it. is there hope that we can reverse things? >> reporter: well, i believe that gets into a whole different argument of climate change. are we at the point of no return, that being one of the key issues with regards to mass extension. the o

so these are all areas that we have to watch very carefully. >> now when you say the coast of north america, what are you talking about exactly in terms? >> caller: beginning in british columbia and then working down across the washington/oregon, possibly into the northern california area. noaa the agency that's charge of tsunami warning and i know that the folks at the pacific tsunami warning center on oahu are working very hard right now to make these forecasts accuratery. >> given the fact that they've had these earthquakes on wednesday. 7.4. followed with numerous earthquakes after this and then this crescendo of this 8.8 or 8.4 quake can we expect more rumbling after this or an earthquake of this magnitude be it? > caller: well, there willcc1: certainly be strong raveaftersh. major damage.secc1: after all we just saw the tremendous damage in christchurch, new zealand, after an aftershock of a muscle larger earthquake. so there could be continuing problems for some months. >> educate us for a moment of the type of faults that run through japan as opposed to the time faults that run thro

. >> two cargo planes landed in north america tunisia delivering humanitarian supplies for thousandsf workers along the border. kristine hanson. wow, all you have to look out. >> i know. >> we're soblgd in. >> not only do we have the rain but the fog coupled with rain. an area of roadways, here is a live picture from camera in emeryville and snow in the mountains. chain requirements and update where it's range at this hour. >> thank you -- raining this hours. >> and surprise homecoming for a serviceman returning from afghanistan with a story of bravery and compassion. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> welcome back. it's 9:16. an update on the bay bridge back up. lower deck remains virtually blocked by a big rig crash. this is a live picture. very hard to see because of all that fog, but there is safeway big rig that three right lanes blocked heading out of san francisco. traffic is only getting by on one left lane. chp says it won't be cleared up until 1:00 this morning because fuel is leaking from that rig. caltrans is sending sand tracks to add traction

especially the islamic society of north america, the islamic circle of north america. they have stood with us as trusted allies in speaking out against violence and in defense of religious freedom. solidarity among people of every religion in the face of its attacks of people of any one religion is respect for religious freedom and action. in concluding, as a religious community our catholic faith commits us to defend and promote the rights of religious freedom for all as a moral priority and a human responsibility. this common commitment to religious freedom is at the heart of american life. it is also an example of a world where too many doubt people of religious -- of different religions can live together in peace and mutual respect. as other countries wrestle with how to treat religious minorities, let them look to our nation where we work to ensure that our muslim sisters and brothers are treated with dignity and their religious identity and beliefs must be treated with respect. let them see with people with hard won religious freedom living out our commitment liv

but here's the equator, 30 degrees north and 60 degrees north and north america is here and here. let's just talk about the bottom part of this. this is the median of the projected change in precipitation where change is coated by color. red is less. what did you give me there david? 0? well, let's rearrange and i want to talk a little longer everybody is giving me attention here. i'll promise to hasten up a little bit. red is dryer and blue is wetter. and what you can see here is that along the sub tropics the latitudes between 20 degrees north and south and 30 degrees or so there tends to be a trying so the way the atmosphere works if you look at it sideways from along the equator the air is rising along the equator and sinking polar to that in the sub tropics and in our area that's calledd the north pacific high. that's why we don't get much rain. we're under the influence of the north pacific high. what's happening in these climate simulations is those subtropical highs, more or less, are strengthening, on the other hand if you live in seattle you might be more encouraged beca

there's dangers in large cities in north america, as there are dangers in those countries.ow, the more and more i know people, the more and more i can tell you, people in general, they're good people. the viciousness, it exists, but it's not that hard to understand it takes a certain time to know the field. so, you know, my first trip to saudi was scary, and i now work in saudi, i have a company there, i feel very much at ease now. and they still have their... - their problems, obviously. - but we're not going there to do social life. we're going there to learn and create, and those countries are evolving very much, so i think the planet is... as thomas friedman said, "if the world is flat, it gets flatter every day". - yeah, and that's the way an engineer would see it. and another thing that struck me is you went all over the world, and have done and continue to do things all over the world in areas where there's the danger-- we've just talked about that-- but people traditionally in business say, "hmm, hard to get paid, hard to get your money out. you get nationalized, th

to players a list called courses of interest, such as beginning improvising or social dances of north americaitics say athletes often took those classes to keep up their grade point average, a requirement to play. stanford has maintained the courses on that list are academically rigorous. it was conducted by the california watch investigative reporting project. we'll have a full report at 6:00. you can read the report at californiawatch.org. a popular halloween costume is being recalled because a piece of it could create a potential choking hazard. fun world is recalling 1800 of its little pet vet and dr. little's costumes. the plastic ear pieces of the coy's stethoscope is the potential threat. the code of this number 10060 gf 101. consumers can contact them for a full refund. we have all that posted at abc7news.com under "see it on tv." >> a new study says the pressure of daily life is taking the simple out of romance, turning the seven year itch into the three year itch. it says love fizzles out more quickly now because of longer working hours and money worries. that leads to more fighting

but when you get to the interior of north america, this is for summer, the temperature rise is in excess of five celsius and colorado does not look very good, naturally in those terms. so, what this suggests - and more than one model shows the same kind of behavior and i'll show you : tha. but this is a transit of southern california showing you the temperature rise across this area, and you see this tremendous gradient of temperature increase as you get in land. of course, that has a profound influence - or would have on all sorts of things including probably water, eco systems, forest fires, human health, all sorts of issues. this is a facet of the latest generations of climate models that really was not recognized five years back or so and whether or not this is going to be um... - this is going to be verified and confirmed by future model runs that's a question, but it looks like land properties, because of the drying that brad mentioned feeding back to the summertime atmosphere, and perhaps causing a potential worse problem to deal within the warm season. next one. this is four diff

the finding suggests that two separate cultures lived in north america at the time, one that lived inland were big game hunters and another that had a taste for seafood. >> and now here's a look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 12,169 after sinking 88 points on friday. the s&p shed 9. the nasdaq dropped 14. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, the nikkei lost 188 points while in hong kong, the hang seng went down 95. >>> it's a simple formula. oil goes up and stocks go down. as civil unrest escalates in libya this week, traders will continue to keep an eye on those rising crude prices that we mentioned earlier have pushed gas prices up 33 cents in just the past two weeks. traders shrugged off friday's payroll report that showed unemployment dipping below 9%. this week we'll find out just where the jobs are in this economy when the government releases its jobs opening and labor turnover report. we'll also get the government's take on february retail sales after retailers reported a 4% rise last week. louis vuitton is said to be in talks to acquire bulga

the health risk to north america is little to none. jonathan bloom, kron4. >> there is a run on certain medications and supplements that could help in a nuclear fallout situation. store manager easy they are sold out of potassium iodine. this was the scene at the berkeley bowl grocery store today. you can see empty spots along the the shelves where the potassium and iodine products used to be. store workers say they will be getting more products later this week and said there are other ways to get iodine if you really need it. >> potassium iodine gives you the most protection for your thyroid so anything with potassium and iodine are selling well, any of our mineral products, but anything kelp-related is selling, because you can find iodine in kelp and other kinds of seaweed, nori, even though it's more available if you take iodine itself. >> we have posted a link to the official information on potassium iodine on our website. you can see exactly what it does to the body and a list of people with conditions who should not take it. that

now for north america, looking really nice and quiet out towards the east. still got this system low that's in eastern canada, but that is on its way out. we are looking at an active picture out west, very strong winds to the coastline. about 140 kilometers per hour. these are some of the gusts expected hoar. very rough conditions especially for british columbia and snow impacting the area with heavy snow in the sierras. as for central sections here in the great lakes area, you could see a little more snow develop later on thursday, but that won't intensify until another day or so. as for highs, 17 denver. 18 in l.a. and then warm 24 for houston. finally getting a look at europe. messy in the mediterranean. we are seeing clouds swirling here. active and bringing stormy weather to italy. here are some of the conditions that northern italy has been dealing with. a lot 0 at the shots in bologna and it is a wintry sight here. plenty of snow has impacted the area. heavy snow is causing all sorts of problem, especially hitting the traffic conditions pretty hard an

to players a list called courses of interest, such as beginning improvising or social dances of north americacritics say athletes often took those classes to keep up their grade point average, a requirement to play. stanford has maintained the courses on that list are academically rigorous. it was conducted by the california watch investigative reporting project. we'll have a full report at 6:00. you can read the report at californiawatch.org. a popular halloween costume is being recalled because a piece of it could create a potential choking hazard. fun world is recalling 1800 of its little pet vet and dr. little's costumes. the plastic ear pieces of the coy's stethoscope is the potential threat. the code of this number 10060 gf 101. consumers can contact them for a full refund. we have all that posted at abc7news.com under "see it on tv." >> a new study says the pressure of daily life is taking the simple out of romance, turning the seven year itch into the three year itch. it says love fizzles out more quickly now because of longer working hours and money worries. that leads to more fighti

subaru and toyota are cancelling most overtime ask scaling back production in north america.nally, netflix was the rare winner on the day, soaring almost 8% as market research showed it trouncing rivals in home digital movies, so a bright spot there. >>> the bulls flex their muscles, the pacers muscle the knicks, and the buck's woes continue. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> in weather, irish eyes must be smiling. your warm st. patrick's day forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, the good news for tuesday's ncaa basketball winners is they're officially in. but the bad news, they will now face some of the top seeds in march madness. here's nbc's fred roggin with an early look at all your sports headlines. >>> good morning. we are all familiar with the final four. but now there's the first four. four playing games to tip off march madness, unc asheville and little rock got the tourney started with a great finish. matt dickey knocked down the three to tie. ten

for north america, seeing a lot of snow coming in from the west. really starting to spread across the rockies and in to inland parts of the united states. and then over to the midwest, eastern half of the united states, area of ice and snow will develop across eastern canada and the northern end of the great lakes area while rain, a lot of moisture will be coming up along the mississippi valley from the gulf of mexico, really looking wet for the lower interest midwest and the deep south and this could include severe weather on friday. as for highs on friday, minus 12 in winnipeg. we've got 7 in vancouver and 8 for seattle. on the other hand, getting a little bit warmer in new york. 5 is your high. and even 11 degrees in d.c. now, for europe, largely calm and unsettled for the most part. the exception is up to the north. winds will be strong from norway all the way in to western russia and along with those winds we will be seeing snow that there trek across norway and affecting parts of finland and the baltic states, too. they are looking on the sno

snowboarders still have some catching up to do to be on a pole with the royals from europe and north america there's a strong chance that russia's winning could make an impact on saturday even with the absence of. russia has three women in the world's top ten of the moment including through to get one is currently the world number one on the roster of may she still has twenty three years old along with the rest of her teammates would love nothing more than to kind of the tree and soil was a third time is going to have the privilege of holding a world cup snowboarding event the first time a parallel swallows ever going to take place in the russian capital as you can see the backdrop behind me is absolutely stunning and comes i played russian prime should have plenty to cheer about as a team is one of the strongest in the world which i don't see. staying with the sport and artie's carstensen part south of has been talking to one of snowboarding hottest russian prospects and the olympic hopefuls of ours and i as promised here's part of our exclusive interview with her. it's the second win for r

to him reaching out to people that they know around the world, africa, the middle east, europe, north america and beyond and saying what do we do? how do we get out of this? what happens next? >> clinton cited unconfirmed reports that one of qaddafi's sons may have been killed. >>> there has been another strong aftershock in northeastern japan. a 6.0 earthquake hit fukushima late tonight. there are no immediate reports of damage or injury. earlier today workers at the the fukushima plant attached all reactors to the grid. but setting on the power suffered a setback when a spike in radiation pulled workers out. restoring electricity would mean restoring the cooling system. radiation has seeped into vegetables, the milk and water supply and even the sea water. they halted the dairy products and produce from the affected region. they say the monitors here continue to show no dangerous radiation levels in california. the disaster has killed more than 9400 people, but keep in mind some 14,000 are still listed as missing. >>> at the university of san francisco people gathered to pray for japan. and

on the way to heavenly's canyon, home to some of the steepest terrain in north america. >> it could be great skiing when the danger is taken out of it. >> as enticing as it is to expert skiers, with the thrill comes risk. >> the angle is a big part of what is required for an avalanche. >> they are part of heavenly's avalanche control team. after the recent storms it is their job to bring down the snow on their terms. and there is still some work to be done. with a synthetic explosive that packs the punch of two sticks of dynamite. >> and we hang them from the rope over the top of cornis to take the legs out, so to speak. >> and on this day, he is the one who lights the fuse and moves away. when the canyon is too dangerous to ski, the team will use a giant gun called an avalauncher. >> we put rockets in it and shoot it out. we can fire this off and reduce some of the risk before we send out the teams with the hand place charges. >> whatever the methods, the motive is to make sure heavenly stays safe. now that the ski patrol has made the canyon safe for skiers, it is time to make some tu

. >>> for north america, we have two storm systems out toward the east and out toward the west. in the middle, a high pressure system that will continue to keep things calm and settled. very mild air coming in from the pacific as well. that's going to help to boost the temperatures up here. now, let's focus on the storm out toward the east. it's moving fairly slowly once again. keeping those flood alerts very, very high. especially across the northeastern corner here. wide area looking at flood warnings and watches in effect again for some of you, it's going to be renewed flooding risk. then up toward eastern quebec, maine, looking at threat for freezing rain then to the lee of the great lakes, looking at the widespread snow. pennsylvania getting up to 20 centimeters of snow into friday afternoon. and then over toward the west as well, looking at plenty of snowfall coming in from the northwest, british columbia, the cascades, looking at quite heavy snow throughout the night that that spreads into central portions of canada, saskatchewan, alberta, northern ontario and also the da

the foundation is the largest photo exhibition gallery in north america. 27,000 feet. fabulous space, fabulous asset for the port, and we got it done in two years. just to the north of us here, i'm sure you are all sick of hearing about this. the significance of this was the complexity of 15 different agencies. we got their banks to -- we got their backs to -- we got there thanks to gibson. will develop a great relationship with all the development authorities and won a lot of awards. it is all about reconnecting the city with the water. a pro bono project we did in collaboration with equity community builders in the presidio was again tax-credit- driven. interesting use of public land for education. washington, i'm sure you would rather we skip right over. $350 million project. six years, nearly $30 million in entitlement costs, but i do want to say we are within $1 million of budget. just to emphasize we know what it takes to get entitlements in this town. lots of public use. state lands very complex, relative to pier 70. hear, swapping public land for private land. a

nato members will discuss the international summons to the violence and the bbc's north america, following that side of the story. >> in the mediterranean, there's no shortage of american military might. an aircraft carrier, and its strike group are just off libyan fighters and now nato has ordered 24-hour air surveillance. crinlt. but it's reluctant to give a political lead. >> nato is not looking to intervene in libya. but we have our -- asked our military to conduct the necessary planning for all eventualities. >> president obama has a stark dilemma. his mission has been to pronlt a new america after -- to project a nu america after iraq, and very aware that gaddafi has accused the u.s. of planning a no-fly zone to steal libyan oil and some opposition groups are just as wary. >> this is not about the united states. it's not about western powers, european powers. it's about the people of the region and in this case the people of libya. >> obama's dilemma is that doing nothing runs a terrible risk. in reined the international community stood by -- rwanda the international community stood

we go now to north america. our western storm is actually broken up a little bit. but there is another round of moisture coming in. so you won't notice too much of a difference if you're anywhere up the pacific northwest into british columbia. there's going to be weakening winds, so that is one thing on saturday. certainly more coastal rain and more snow spreading in, as well. let's look to the east and talk about what's happening here. the big storm developing is going to be pushing snow across eastern canada and the great lakes. you could see about 30 centimeters of it. and south of that from iowa up in towards new england, freezing rain for you. south of that, in the midwest, we are going to be seeing the potential for flooding as heavy rain pours in. and then down towards the south, the potential for some severe weather. flooding rains, thunderstorms, damaging winds, large hail all on the menu, maybe even tornadoes as well. temperature wise, warming up a little in the midwest, 11 degrees in chicago, 5 in toronto, and 3 in new york city, 11 in washington, d.c.,

doesn't show positive results in african-americans and works in only 35% of the patients tested in north americaalth news, spring is almost here, so allergy sufferers, be warned. it may not just be pollen that is making you sneeze and itch. kendis gibson reports. >> any problems with your ears? >> reporter: lucas has allergies almost all year, and they make him miserable. >> i'm allergic to pretty much anything in nature. trees, the pollens. >> reporter: but what some allergy sufferers eat, like fresh fruit, vegetables and nuts, can make them feel even worse. >> the food contains certain proteins that are similar in nature to the pollen. and the body confuses the two, and it reacts as if you're having an allergy attack in your mouth or throat. >> reporter: it's called oral allergy syndrome. not an allergic reaction to the food itself, but what is called a cross-reaction. symptoms include itchiness or tingling on the lips or in the mouth and throat. about one-third of allergy sufferers get it. in the spring, tree pollen can trigger reactions to fruits like apples and oranges. and vegetables like

social dances of north america free.tistics, math 19, calculus. >> calculus is not a simple class. >> they say the list was compiled by the athletic/academic resource center for ease of scheduling, not as a path pass or an easy a for athletes. >> they are step 6 typical stanford classes available to our our students, athletes are not singled out anyway. >> reporter: it was first reported by investigative journalism students. >> i have a ta for the beginning improvising class. >> reporter: some of the teachers dispute the idea the class is filled with athletes. >> my class only has one athlete in it. >> reporter: it is a sensitive one for the university which prides itself on having top athletes in the field who are also good students in the classroom. a sophomore swimmer says he has not been pushed to take any of the classes on the list. >> i actually don't know. i've never taken any of the classes off the list, not because they are on the list. i'm a double major so i'm sort of busy trying to get my own work in and grad

the low bidder, olin, is the largest producer of sodium hypochlorite in california and north america. this is unique in the industry. the product is produced in tracy, calif., and at four plants in the western u.s. to ensure continual product availability. olin has been in business for over a hundred years and the city has approximately 20 years of experience working with this company. as was pointed out in the report, based on the estimated usage, this contract would save the city over $726,000, approximately 13% over the first year. this is compared to current expenditures for the same product. we estimate the contract now will be approximately $14 million for the first three years of the contract. we have requested the board approved a not to exceed amount of $23.5 million, which would allow oca to exercise one or both of the 21-year extension options to the contract. -- both of the one-year extension options to the contract. i am here to answer any additional questions the supervisors may have. supervisor chu: why don't we go to our budget analyst for the report. >> madam chair an

the delta is one of the most important stopovers in the united states and western north america for birds and provides critical habitat to the species. under 1944 treaty, the u.s. gets 90% of the colorado's water and mexico gets 10%, and no water left over for the delta. as a result, the mighty colorado no longer flows to california. the delta that once covered 2 million acres is reduced to 10% of the original size, less than 1%, a tenth of a percent of the water that reached the delta reaches it today, and that water is by accident. it comes from