h icph several chicago aldermen are targeting what they're calling a public nuissance bedbugs. w-g-n's tonya francisco is live at city hall with more on the proposal under consideration today. after quite a bit of back-and- forth between all the men themselves people in the public audience are finally getting a chance to get up and testify. everybody agrees something needs to be done. the question is what is the best way to do is? altman say to have been bombarded with complaints about the tiny little bloodsuckers'. in sure the proposal would make landlords responsible for hiring licensed professor else to get rid of them. the alderman who is one of the co-sponsors on this ordinance is calling it more of an educational ordinance rather than a punitive one. >> we do not want this problem to get any worse. i think it is important that we are proactive and try to get something on the books. there lots of other cities that do have ordinances. i think it is one-sided. forcing a property management to do everything. no responsibility built-in for the tenants. >> once it goes to the f

it was just a public noose -- nuissance, you might say, and pratches a health hazard. so people were excited to find new forms of transportation. and they came up with one we're all familiar with, the cable car. so here on the left you'll see a cable car next to the horse car on the right. the cable car was a great leap forward because it cut the horses out of the equation. cable cars were a lot more energy efficient. they were very popular in cities all across the united states, including chicago. and they really took over in san francisco because cable cars could climb hills were horses couldn't, opening up development in parts of the city where before there hadn't been any. but cable cars had their drawbacks, too. a cablecar can only go nine miles an hour, as fast as the cable under the street pulling it. cables have a hard time pulling backwards, changing direction, investing in the infrastructure to put the cable in the street is very costly. so you have a lot of upfront costs. if a company wanted to run just one cable car, they had to start up the power house to