a 2002 federal law requires any pipeline running under a populated area to be regulated based on peak pressure over five years. if a pipeline's pressure ever rises above that level it mug judd gene an expensive water pressure test. critics suspect that in order to avoid the test, pg&e has been artificially spiking the pressure of its lines to the legal limit. pg&e admitted they spiked pipelines but declares the move was safe. >> among hosting america's cup, san francisco may be forced to move some high-profile tenants from their waterfront locations. it includes piers 19 and 29, 30 and 3 2. we talked to some of the businesses. >> larry ellisons america's cup race is expected to bring in more than $1 billion when it comes in 2013. turns out what is good for the city by the bay isn't necessarily good for the businesses by it. from the pedicabs that cruise the embark dare -- embarcadero to soccer players in the parking lot, to mr.eded tood's vintage r -- tours. they're about to begin a wild ride. as many as 8 0 businesses could be forced to move. david chu said they shouldn't worry. >> t

at on peak, you'll be charged the most, another shoulder, another off peak. so what happens is that your production looks like this on the hours of the day. you're going to produce more obviously during the suspect with peaking around noon. when you overlay the curve, they kind of look like this. so solar lines up very well with peak usage. remember when you're overproducing and selling during the day and buying at night, you can use this differential so you're selling high and buying low. that differential can actually use to your advantage depending on your lifestyle. ok, your paybacks ranges from eight to 18 years if you have to look at it that way from people who typically buy. the return anywhere from 5 to 15% or 18% or more on those big systems. so it's not a bad return for a very, very low risk investment. let's say you have 7% on p.v., you're going green. if you got that from your stocks, your principal would be going into risk. so anyway, stocks can go down as we well know. this is very solid. monthly cash flow, let's talk about that. if you were to f

the developer this question, they did not have an answer and all of these studies were done on the evening peak hours and that is not when deliveries are happening. thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. to take a moment to think the product group, they work well with the community and a number of changes were influenced in the building design. we are surprised by the lack of housing. this is a big disappointment to us. one thing that has not really been touched on, there is a number of pedestrians on improvements. we would like to see the project sponsor take responsibility for those improvements on market. those are things like -- correcting the current crossing across market and straining this out and if you other things that are in the community plan. putting the building aside, we have some significant concerns about the whole foods so this really relates to the large part of the retail. the traffic and load in concerns have been raised and well- discussed but we are concerned about the timing of the loading. i personally believe that the hours between 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m., this w

oil being a huge one again segue into peak oil because this one i let me answer your question because i think there's important you know there's a concept in finance called price discovery ok and that applies to markets and the purpose of markets is to establish what the reality based value of something is but there's another kind of price discovery that we are going through now and it's sort of discovering the value of what your society really is in terms of what it can produce in the way of wealth and value and when you have currency is that are not paid to anything real that are just pegged to a general idea that you've got a good productive wealth producing society and it when that's not true anymore you know when. all of your activity is basically just financial finagle ing and swindling then you know you have a discovery process that that society has lost value and that's really going to be i think what will put the american currency out of business ok in the long emergency your book i guess you could say it's a story our it's a narrative about peak everything and it's in this t

that's on twin peaks. headed up there for a hike, you fight want to pick some place else. >>> flame retardant jet fuel, a few of the toxic chemicals found in pregnant women. this is study information that was gathered by bay area researchers, which is leading to big questions including what moms are passing on to their children before they are even born. where scientists think these toxins are coming from. >> reporter: despite excellent prenatal care, virtually all pregnant women are walking around with toxins that could be harmful to their baby according to a new ucc san francisco study. they analyzed the blood of 268 pregnant women and found 43 chemicals in all of them. including flame retardants found in the foam of coaches. >> it appears to be of high ter exposure to women in california. >> reporter: the toxins detected can be found in some nonstick cookwear and computer parts. virtually all the women had a chemical link to ddt, pesticide banned before many of the women were born. >> some of the risk t

. >>> san francisco police are look looking for suspects in a fatal shooting at the lookout on twin peaks. investigators say the dispute followed a dispute between two groups of people. a 23-year-old died from multiple gunshot wounds, witness said two or three suspects fled in a white honda odd desi. >> slammed the door shut, and just the fact three shots fired, about.22 caliber, small-round fire. and nothing loud. >> terry: anyone with information is asked to call san francisco police. >>> a teenaged boy was killed and two other people injured after gunfire broke out in the bay point residential neighbor last night. officers found a 17-year-old buy lying outside a house with a gunshot wound, 15-year-old and a 20-year-old man were treated for minor injuries. there are no suspects in the case. >>> a rape suspect is hospitalized this evening after police say he assaulted an 80-year-old in-law in richmond. the suggest suspect is anthony square and will be placed in custody as soon as the hospital releases him. his injury is not being disclosed. the rape was reported friday morning. the victi

if you live on twin peaks you can drop into 6 neighborhoods quickly. any san franciscoians feel they have one neighborhood, we feel like we have 6 or 7. we are blessed. >> we have a beautiful park and wonderful forests. we are a appreciative of the (inaudible) and we are a quick trip over the hill to the heart of the city and just a step away from 280. so it's a wonderful location for the parish but for us as residents. >> (inaudible) at the time it was affordable, a family area, a great location, close to 280 and has a great neighborhood association, active. neighbors that have been there 30 years. it's stable. and great. >> we like the proximity to the mune, because we like it a lot. >> i heard about westportal and at that time there were a number of stores that went away. but the people came to find the things you couldn't find anywhere else. it's like being back in the midwest. >> it has a great transportation and old fashion feeling. the most unusual street of any part of san francisco. >> i love it, not for the summer weather, but i like the ocean

a 2002 federal law requires any pipeline running under a populated area to be regulated based on its peak pressure over five years. critics suspect that in order to avoid a test, pg&e has been artificially spiking the pressure on its lines to the legal limit. pg&e confirmed it spiked the pressure on the san bruno pipeline and others and claims the move was safe. >>> congresswoman gabrielle giffords' condition is improving. doctors have upgraded her from critical to serious condition now that she is breathing on her own. earlier today hundreds of people laced up their sneakers in tucson to honor the victims of the shooting rampage. the shootings were the subject of a special edition of abc's "this week." those personally touched by the crime shared their memories and feelings. report roirt was the day they'll never forget. >> i looked over and it was just bang, bang, bang. >> he was pulling a magazine out of his pants pocket with his left hand, and i was able to grab the magazine. >> reporter: in a town hall meeting, those were the personal connection to the shootings tried to make sense o

drivers pay a varying toll depending on peak or nonpeak. they asked the researchers to conduct a year long study. today's report will be april mid year looking whether it has improved. >> 5:07. a mild morning. how about you? >> yeah, mild and actually dry at this point. check with mike. >> at this point being the operative statement. >> weather worries, not many this morning because we are cloudy and pretty mild with temperatures in the mid to upper 40s. we're 2 degrees warmer in napa to about 8 half moon bay. everybody else between 3 and 7 degrees warmer than when we stepped out the door this time yesterday. as far as temperatures, low to mid-40ss inland valleys and 54 now in half moon bay. by the afternoon clouds open up just enough for some sunshine from time to time. temperatures mid-50s in the north bay and upper 50s to near 60 the bay shore. san jose 60. 57 half moon bay to 62 santa cruz. let's take a look at your 7-day forecast. a weak cold front that will spread some light rain throughout our neighborhoods tomorrow, especially the n

peak period and particularly to the most congested in downtown focused areas, a lot of low income travelers are on transit. 5% of peak travelers are low income drivers. it's certainly a concern. one of the things that we looked at is a discount for low income travelers as well that would be considered part of the program. vice president clyde: that i think would get back to why i would advocate for looking at our existing structures of revenue collection. again, thank you, it's a thorough presentation, so thank you very much. >> thank you. commissioner o'conner: point of clarification. on this pie chart here, nons.f. regional opinions, what does that mean? does it mean tourists were interviewed at union square or something? >> this is from our electronic town hall where we invited people to participate in a web march and it's from a -- webinar and it's from a panel what is random digit selection. we wanted to know more about the regional opinion. most of the outreach has been san francisco-based and we wanted to know the benefits and impacts in san francisco obviously. because it's a regional mark

>> or you could simply move around not within the peak periods, which is one of the things that congestion pricing encourages people to do, to platen out the peaks. so instead of driving at 9:00, if you could make your trip at 9:30 or 10:00, that is the sort of thing it would encourage. commissioner o'conner: so the main proposal or alternative right now is to do peak pricing at certain hours, rush hour morning and evening, is that correct? >> it's what we analyzed but i i have to stress that there is no plan to implement it. commissioner o'conner: but you're saying it's in first place. >> emmitt commissioner o'conner: you could analyze 20 things and say -- >> we analyzed dozened -- commissioner o'conner: what's in first place? >> this northeast corridor. commissioner o'conner: during what hours? >> we analyzed 6 to 9 and 330 to 6 po. the next phase of analysis would need to determine what are the exact edges of that time period. one of the kings in -- things we heard from businesses is we get our deliveries at 8:00 or 9:00 or -- well, businesses getting deliveries of fish, for example. th

state will be affected for months -- even after the waters peak. >> we have a businessman based in rockhampton. jhe joins us now. give us an update on expected peak we are expected to see, by the fitzroy river. >> in the last 36 hours, the river has not done much. it is sitting around a 9.2, even though the tide has come in and out. i am not sure what we will see by 5:00 p.m., whether there will be appealed. there is a lot of water coming down. there are lots of low lying areas that are inundated. , on the north of rockhampton, you have a lot of properties. there is a lot of water there. those properties have been isolated for quite some tough. if you go to the west, there have people that have been isolated for four, five, six weeks. if you look behind me, you will see one of the bridges. the water is two meters behind at bridge. cadet is the connection between rockhampton and national hollow. that is expected to be disconnected for quite some time. authorities are well prepared, because we can see the water coming downstream, from different river systems. we are lucky compared to other areas. there are a lot of farmers and crops a

on city streets. power lines were also damaged. at the peak of the windstorm, pg&e said 900 customers lost power so why did so many trees fall? arborists say a combination of saturated soil from recent rains and heavier-than-normal winds usually can do it. but one expert believes something else happened. >> the soil isn't really that saturated. that's pretty dry. that's a normal amount of moisture in the soil right there. it's kind of dry and crumbly so i don't think the soil and the moisture was the big factor. i think it was the wind coming from a direction it doesn't normally come. >> reporter: and that's enough to up root it? >> absolutely. >> reporter: it's called geotropism. trees develop its own defense system. roots grow in the direction the winds blow to support the tree until heavy winds come from another direction. >> you know, i was up on grizzly peak and it seemed to be coming, you know, almost straight offshore out of the southeast almost. and generally it comes from the west in up the hill. >> reporter: you can see this broken w

on! we're looking at the fog. i bet this is ballmer peakowards san francisco. >> look like the boston cream pie with the light underneath it. >> i prefer lemon meringue. once we get rid of this fog, we will definitely have a nice afternoon. just how fast can we get rid of the fog? that will depend -- that will help depend -- or help something -- (laughter) >> sounds good. >> is it monday? is it a holiday? all right. it will have an effect on our temperatures. time to go back to bed, hit the reset button. here we go. temperatures, let's start. mid to upper 40s in most areas. oakland, half moon bay and san jose right around 50. down around the monterey bay, fog's not nearly as much a problem but some out there. 50 santa cruz, everybody else in the upper 40s to near 50 degrees. spare the air day. that's the other big story. to the south bay while you're in moderate amounts you're still under a spare the air day because we have poor air quality in the east bay valleys and santa clara valleys. that means no wood burning until at least midnight.

our job is to be the cop on the peak and make sure that competition is visible and fair. there are many business people who welcome that. i think that there are many people that have welcomed us. we are making some new friends. some people will never like what we're doing. my opinion is that if they don't like us for the right reasons, that is ok. tavis: another questions about the politics, when the president was given the opportunity, he decided not to appoint you to run the bureau but instead put you in charge of setting it up. you must have found some favor with that because you had to accept the appointment that he gave you and you did. at some level, you are cool with that. he reached out and appointed a pro-business advocate to be his chief of staff. is he sending mixed signals? >> you know, all i know is the part i am here to take care of and that is the consumer agency. there is no mixed signal in the consumer agency. here is how it was from the very first time i met with the president, he said that there are two jobs on the table. one is the director for the lon

but on very peak storm days, and this is something that the other speakers have brought up and how these intense storms are problematic for us, when we get a big storm we are pumping and treating all we can but we don't have enough capacity to handle all the water. so what will happen is these structures will fill and then they will discharge. we call that a combined sewer discharge into the bay or into the ocean. i want you to take note of that pipe that's represented going out to the right there where we drain into the ocean. there's where we start to get into our problem with rising sea level. this is a little bit bigger representation of the slide will showed that was showing the bay side of the city. this is sort of our transport storage structure around the entire city. we call it a moat. it's the way we collect rain water for later treatment. as i said, in light to moderate storms we can do a pretty good job of collecting all of the rain water and sanitary sewage and running it through the treatment plant. in fact, there are probably, in terms of calendar days, there might be 14 t

egypt from shit and that's just a guess it's cold weather related stocks brant kurds twenty one twenty eight month peak near one hundred dollars a barrel and worries that beyond rest in egypt could spread and just well all shipments through the suez canal. and in russia the r.t.s. in the my six have started the week with a significant drop cracking quota losses in the past two hours of trade both losing the same number of points over one hundred percent. let's have a look at those stocks rises right there rising oil prices not pushing russian energy as high up oil and gas companies are still losing the drop on the mice it's gas company novacek is the biggest loser with one point seven percent banking shares are also into read. each for. and over one percent and the royals nicholas also enjoyed a low about one percent. the gathering the annual gathering the world business leaders is over but we continue to bring you the highlights and. alcor of the world's top producers says world demand for the light metal will double by twenty twenty with asia to be the main driver. of the russian aluminum giant rouss

nothing like the snow they saw on the peak last night. in napa county, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> more rain is falling tonight. a ktvu crew shot this video you are about to see just about a half hour ago. it was spotted in morgan hill. there is some light rain falling there at the time around 9:30. and for a look at where the rain is right now across the bay area let's turn to meteorologist mark tamayo in the weather center. >> hey, there, tracking some light to moderate rain across parts of the by area. right now on the maps i can show you live stormtracker 2. there is the current sweep showing you the current rainfall pattern. move the maps to the south. as you can see in the south bay some more significant rainfall. all of this activity to the most east of morgan hill. this was at least a moderate rain producer. even heavy rain producer half an hour to an hour ago. you can see it shooting out to the east. move the maps up and still see some coverage up towards san raphael. even towards san francisco and oakland we do have some more mode

in the black energy majors a helping the indices while snape is gaining on both of course is after striking a deal would be peak on the arctic drilling look oil is also high and gas problem is in positive territory as well with but wild rose to the call that is losing over a percent. and now for some corporate news russia's market leading search engine and in yandex increase its revenues forty three percent to more than four hundred million dollars in two thousand and ten the year on year now revenues for a long line out of ties ing being bases of yandex is business who want to have times the number of advertisers grows over a third totaling one hundred eighty thousand ahead of yandex that the sharp increase in revenues reflects a post-crisis revival of small and medium sized business. and supermarket chain x. five retail group has reported a like for like growth of seven percent in two thousand and ten the russian retail giants revenues also jumped by twenty four percent largely easy to an increase in consumer traffic recent acquisition of the baker supermarket chain was only included in the company's december

the winds below to support the tree until heavy winds come from another direction. >> i was up on grizzly peak and seemed to be coming straight offshore out of the southeast almost and generally it comes from the west and up the hill. >> reporter: so those different winds definitely caused a lot of problems and trees all over the bay area looked just like this. they either become firewood or possibly furniture, allen. and, you know, really was a surprise to everybody. >> all right. geotropism our word for the night. linda yee in berkeley. thank you. >>> you know what, i do have to add something. we did say that the winds would be pretty breezy out of the north east 10 to 20 at the surface but in the higher elevations expect gusty winds. and the national weather service didn't have a wind advisory in effect. only unusual about these winds is that they were isolated instead of being widespread they were pretty much limited to the santa cruz mountains. also to the east bay mountains around oakland hill and there is where you have anywhere between 38 and 50-mile-an-hour winds. now the winds have d

the only official proposal i know is one that proposes franchise peak time permits and i think clearly from your point of view, those involved heifer'' exposures that is much too high. there are other proposals that really warrant your consideration and i submit this to you. very briefly, they would involve setting up a process that would take a very long time but i think this is warranted. these hearings would take about a year and a half. in that time, permits would be issued to companies, to individuals, and the individual permits would be issued to people but only drive. one category would be controlled time permits so that they could only be driven a certain number of hours per week we have the means to be able to monitor that. at the end of that time, you would be able to make an appraisal on the effectiveness of the permits. if they are not successful, and you could phase them out. if they were successful, they would present a revenue opportunity. >> we do have someone here who want to speak regarding an item that has been removed from the agenda. rather than having them wait un

are each falling over one percent and all cynical is also inching lower. brant crude has surged to a twenty eight month peak on worries of growing instability in egypt it's now close to one hundred dollars a barrel egypt's economy is relatively small but it's home to the suez canal and he shipping route for oil over the weekend a dusk to dawn curfew across the country brought on warnings of potential delays to shippers in the canal however so far traffic has continued unhindered despite the protests analysts say if the violence in egypt spreads to its oil producing neighbors could all prices will likely top one hundred dollars a barrel but rising prices will not guarantee growth for all russian oil sector stocks. because we are in the crisis like you still are pros goes up. with that in mind you might think that you should buy a russian oil companies but in fact they are correct in with the rest of the market today and if you are believing the whole person probably better off buying consumers who are banks actually oil companies pursue this they will come to the still struggling with high taxation and the l

decision is going to be made tomorrow on whether they'll be able to get an injunction to block that they are going. and brant crude has surged to a twenty eight month peak on worries of growing instability in egypt it's not close to one hundred dollars a barrel on monday moody's rating agency change the country's out lot from stable to negative in the second downgrade since mass protests erupted last week the egyptian economy is relatively small but it's home to suez canal a key shipping route for the oil over the weekend a dusk to dawn curfew across egypt brought on warnings of potential delays to shippers in the canal however so far traffic has continued unhindered despite the protests analysts say if the violence in egypt spreads to its oil producing neighbors food prices will likely top one hundred dollars a barrel and rising prices will not guarantee growth for all russian stocks. within the course is likely still proscribes up. with that in my view might think. all companies but in fact they are correct and with the rest of the market very. if you are believing the person probably better off buying consumers or banks rather than all companies purs

breeze on mount tamalpais. ballmer peakre yesterday we couldn't see much of the bay, w we can see all of it and there are no flight arrival delays into sfo. they're back on schedule. the top down you can see everywhere starting to clear out, even the north bay where the fog has held on the longest. that's the only area where the temperatures are the same or colder than this time yesterday. everybody's much warmer from 2 degrees in san francisco to 11 in livermore. now, let's throw out those temperatures. 46 santa rosa, san rafael. low to mid-50s napa, fairfield to antioch, even fremont, redwood city. 63 half moon bay and los gatos and temperatures upper 50s monterey bay and inland. cooler san jose, 56. 65 monterey. hazy sunshine and warmer temperatures this afternoon. without the fog tonight, it will be a little bit cooler around all our neighborhoods. looks like the forecast is going to remain dry with the warmest afternoons thursday and friday. compared to yesterday, san francisco 1 degree warmer. fremont, oakland 5. san

in the fall styles of trade both losing the same number of points about one percent brant crude surged to a twenty eight month peak near one hundred dollars a barrel worries that the unrest in egypt could spread and just world shipments through the suez canal. have a look at those shares rises rising oil prices are not pushing energy russian energy shares higher oil and gas companies are still leading the drop in the my six . gas company has the biggest loser in the sector with one point seven percent banking shares are also into road barebone continue to be falling over one percent and the world's mikkel is also inching low about one percent. now russia's central bank has decided to leave the country's refinance and rate unchanged at seven point seventy five percent market watchers were expecting an increase in the rates to restrain inflation which was eight point eight percent last year and seen as likely to rise the bank however claimed that it's decision was aimed at maintaining capital inflow into russia as world oil prices have risen. and we continue to bring of the highlights off the davos annual forum whic

peak. we also saw on improvement in the area of safety. -- dropped to 5.76 per 100,000. the was a significant improvement in real performance. as always, we select a few additional metrics. unscheduled absences dropped from 13.9 to 11.7%. the traffic lane, lines, but swaps maintained improved also because of work on other projects. the number of pipelines -- bike lanes and quarterly coverage and the goal is greater than 12%. last, we continue to make some improvements in the area of complaint resolution. this was resolved within 14 days. during the current fiscal year we actually increased the goal. that concludes my presentation and i am happy to take questions. >> some members of the board. >> can you highlight a few of the reasons? what are the major factors you can point to. >> we can look at the operational side. >> we get very excited when it goes the other direction. >> before we get into the complicated the wheels of the tear on how this happened, you said when he presented to the slide that when you waited the results for writers as opposed to lines, the figure

each time we enter one of the tents, we wash our hands and step in a bleach solution. health officials say this up epidemic has not peakedn the chopper, our pilot, roy harris takes us across the devastated city and graham talks about the deep corruption in haiti, and how it's hindered relief efforts. >> all those containers right there? that's all our stuff. >> reporter: you can't take that to the people because of customs? >> yeah we've been held up. the customs agents hold back aid that's come into the country to help the people. and they won't let it come through. >> reporter: a year later, and the city is still full of rubble. >> that's the catholic ka theel drag right there. just completely collapsed. there's no government. there's nobody cleaning up the place. nobody has a plan for recovery. the country doesn't have money. they don't have a government. it's -- it's a sad, sad situation. and the people are suffering. >> reporter: samaritan's purse has spent nearly $40 million in haiti over the past year. they've built more than 10,000 transitional shelters for the homeless. >> we use this pressure treated lumber. >>