at on peak, you'll be charged the most, another shoulder, another off peak. 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 fin

it includes a 15 cent increase on base peak fares, 75 cent hike on maximum peak fares. the base off peak goes up a dime to $1.70. the maximum off peak will be $3.50. bus fares go up 10 cents and parking will also increase a quarter. andrea, i did mention the smartrip cards and how that will save you money. that is the one way to get around these rate hikes. you can buy a 28-day unlimited pass for $230 but the catch is the only way you can get that 28-day unlimited pass that gives you free access at any time of day is to use your smartrip card. there you go. >> i'll keep it with me all the time. thank you, delia goncalves live with good advice outside the tinley town metro station in northwest washington. >>> for everyone who drives to work or school in the morning, vdot is reminding you orange cones, no phones. it says put the phones down, especially in construction zones and that will keep workers safe. monika told us about this before. local police issue add report yesterday. -- issued a report yesterday. it found cell phone use accounts for one-third of all crashness

you get one enormous peak on the great depression than a decline through the great depression another ra's from loaves of did up to high levels of debt right now and then another full the own so the two depressions we've had in the last century have both being coincident with the rising levels of the g.d.p. now that's irrelevant doesn't matter because on my. logical productive reasoning from the level of that doesn't matter this will become possibly cause a depression to the last two depressions have had that couples they just annoying the it's as if you've got a model of circular motion of the planets and we just had a collision with a huge movie or they claim con happened and it annoying that it matters they really . curricle and it's time we pushed them off the side if well and this maybe breaking into my next question but many of our viewers may know this because they pay attention to the blogosphere and read a lot of the blogs that are popular economic blogs but those they don't this is become a really big deal i've seen people all over the blogosphere writing about this conversa

the court turned down the on off peak for parole now he has to serve another five years to whittle away the time he acts in films as working on a role in the world of sport auction. there hark you. look around the tea room. each day some one thousand five hundred combat. come here to the colby's industrial section see timber. and make plumbing fittings including all souvenirs. all of it will be in for you tomorrow outside the prison. most of those who do the hard physical work here see filmmaking is a way of shirking the routine labor of the pope society. they maintain that the public outside these fences takes little interest in films about prison life. a lot of concedes that his movies and norms must he says like. the girl well i wouldn't go so far as to describe it as a live action film you know it's just fooling around and it's all there is to. cheap special effects don't help his cause for instance in a lexus movie go the only friend of the main character is a talking cat. and you're a. was. it's me your cat chan so much. like the show i run in while here. i see are scared of your

mill valley upper 60s in december fell keep big jump up and temperatures will occur on friday but they're repeat peak performance on saturday. by this time next week to a seasonal temperatures. this is your pinpoint forecasts exports coming up next. named fireman's friends flee kuwait the dogs dissyllable in varnish and. did we is the fellow at on of present and not because it's not quite as scheduled because he's had a history association went to buy the paint and somehow got the wrong color. his head of the history society and he says the guy at loews sold him, painted in gold paint can. >>> but the city's fire department got involved in a cover-up after discovered in faster than you can say dick nixon got a gold again. the treasury's never take anything too seriously. it's been steeped in gold but on this year. and we've got pictures of the smoking police can't prove it. >>> mike sherman cbs five. you might leaves again and can quell a and a picture is a tool for they deserve a since she part. sports is on deck. the this oil matt king returned to the mound for the first time since is one that mast

heat peaks on saturday and we're going to be just about as warm on sunday. all works out like this, 90 degrees inland saturday, 87 degrees on sunday. comfortably hitting the beach both says. 76 degrees on monday and then we're going to cool you off and add those showers over the course of wednesday into thursday. and we still need that rain still running a deficit. we'll talk about that coming up, 4:49, back to you, ladies. >> thanks. >>> well, there's concern today about a goose that was apparently shot with an arrow. have you seen this? it was first spotted last friday near a school outside of sacramento. animal control says the arrow is not preventing the goose from moving. and that eventually the arrow would disintegrate. the people that live near the park, they think the arrow may be made of plastic and it could kill the bird. >> i think it was terrible. i'm sure it was a hunter or something like that, and it wasn't a fatal shot and now the poor animal has to live with it. >> we need to catch it and get that arrow out of it. >> animal control is plannin

restructuring refereeing the crisis german politicians appear to have kicked better idea into touch with one every peak calling the move a threat to competition and asking german clubs to speak out i find it unthinkable with paying hundreds of millions of dollars to help them recover from the situation and clubs are trying to avoid paying their debts he cannot do what might this. the reposing has since been dropped but the problem persists the spanish clubs owing more than seven hundred fifty million euros in unpaid taxes over the carno is one such club in a ministration struggle to pay all displays wages. but i think the spanish queers were outraged when we talk about a strike it is obvious that spanish football is going through a really difficult time and inability to pay salaries is something affecting many clubs last year prompting players the strike wages are only part of the problem with spending to net the world's greatest talent amounting to four hundred million euro and the top league and those who lead teams from the boardrooms think something drastic needs to change. now spanish football and

fare on metrorail would increase from $1.95 to $2.10. the maximum peak fare would go up by 75 cents to $5.75. and the base off-peak charge would increase an additional 10 cents to $1.70. the maximum off-peak fare hike would be $3.50. bus fares would increase by 10 cents. and it would cost an additional 25 cents to park at metro garages. metro says that the hikes will help close a $103 million budget gap. they're counting on increased funds from maryland, virginia and the district to soak up most of the red ink. >>> three men were seriously injured this morning in a violent crash on route 4 in upper marlboro. according to police, an suv was traveling the wrong way on the road. the vehicle struck a utility van and then a pickup truck before flipping over. the driver of the pickup is the most seriously injured. route 4 was closed for several hours. it has since reopened. >>> baltimore police say that they have solved the mystery of felicia -- phylicia barnes murder. her body was found in the susquehanna river last april. she was in maryland visiting her hal

the three-day forecast has the hate peaking on saturday and sunday will stay warm at the beaches.0s. as we head into monday, that beach weather looks to end as we have an onshore flow returning and drizzle back in here and on again off again clouds and by wednesday and thursday, a few showers possible, but not a major storm system at this point. tomorrow it gets even better. hard to believe. i was driving going i have to go to the studio and i can't be outside? maybe i can make it. >> you can. still ahead here at 5:00, nasa goes green. the new building tha and t functioct and thinks on its own. >> exterminating bugs from the menu. (sir can-a-lot) good day, ma' lady. i am sir can-a-lot, here to save you from another breakfast bore. wake up those eggs with glorious spam! (ancr) break the monotony. visit spam.com. >> we want to give you a peek live at the groundbreaking ceremony starting to fill up. they will break ground at 6:30 and invite to you stay with us. we will have live continuing coverage and an interview with jed york. >> intelligent and even intuitive is how they describe

you see the snow on the peaks. back home, mount tam a little breezy in the higher elevations.e are looking at that fog. it is lurking at the coast. it is about thousand feet deep. down around half moon bay, some fog has reduced visibility to two and a half miles. you go further south along the central coast you are looking at cloudy skies. sunshine in the afternoon but with the weak onshore push, temperatures coming down at the shoreline day to day. onshore flow will increase. right now check it out with very light winds. we have 60s in concord. near that in livermore, 60 in los gatos. 52 the cool spot in oakland. clouds will stay at the coast today. right around the bay they should burn back and see sunshine on the bay but it will be cooler day to day with temperatures coming down 2-4 degrees. did you see that? is the high klans of showers in the north bay coming our way on wednesday. here is a look at water vapor imagery that shows the dark area off the coast of california. that is ridge of high pressure that is keeping this storm systems at bay. we'll look weak systems to e

today, we'll warm you up by about 10 degrees from yesterday's highs, tomorrow we tack on an additional five and peaksunday. that'll be the warmest day in the extended period. 63 for san francisco. all works out like this. sunday you'll need that sunscreen, especially if you'll be out there by the water. as we head through the rep mamar of the weekend, things start to change and we'll get a lit more cloud cover. we are getting a spectacular sunrise to drive to work with. let's see what else you're driving to work with. >> it may be beautiful, but also look at the road. that's right. thank you, christina. we're looking over here at the road. the upper deck clear, the incident has cleared from the upper deck getting into san francisco. and now our chopper overhead shows us what it's like. the easy drive getting into san francisco on the upper deck westbound 80. lower deck, that will be getting a lot more traffic flow this weekend. we talked about the bay bridge over through the north bay as one of your alternates around that golden gate bridge and the doyle drive closure. other hot spots through the ba

the storm brought wind, strong surf and the possibility of snow on bay area peaks. he storm was bringing heavy snow to lake tahoe. this is a look from the cal trans camera at dutch flat on interstate 80 at 2:30 this afternoon. the eastbound lanes were at a crawl all afternoon, and as you might expect, chain restrictions are in effect tonight. >> got to watch out. not only rainy here in the bay area, it was also cold. >> it was very cold. >>> mark tamayo with what's next. >> a break in the action earlier today but already rain showers developing, pushing back into the bay area. those rain bands could produce some more thunderstorms in the short term. right now on live storm tracker, this is the loop over the past couple of hours. you can see what's happening with rain developing into the pacific. moving into the north bay and lining up just off shore. a closer inspection of the radar, you can see the action on the increase up in parts of the north bay, up in sonoma county for santa rosa and petaluma. that yellow cell is an unstable air mass. we could have thunderstorm

on most blogs, the parking lane functions as either. our -- either peak hour tow away zones. the transit line will be closed, some muni will have to operate general traffic during construction. franklin, you can see a blouson where there is also a lane closure, but that is peak hours. this is only during the excavation portion of the construction. this slide shows sidewalk closures. typically, the sidewalk will be closed to provide a construction staging area, but it pedestrian walkway will be conducted in what is normally the parking lane. typical of most construction projects in the city. it is shown in purple where pedestrians will go to a wooden structure. also shown here is the pedestrian tunnel. it will be excavated underneath van ness avenue. that construction is about a 10- month time span when it they will have to cut open the van ness avenue. only after 7:00 p.m. there will close down two of the six lanes at a time at most. always having four lanes of traffic open. and always having one of the two sidewalks on been a 70 that could be closed. only during that tunnel

thousand troops isn't all that large of a surge but still we have almost one hundred thousand troops where you know there was a peak on the ground in afghanistan that's still quite a massive force to be dedicating to something like this you know whether it whether you want to say that it's a lot or not but the problem is that the more troops we sent him there we didn't see things get better and quite the opposite you only saw the violence skyrocket you only saw more troop deaths and and so it shows you that numbers were not really really not part of the equation here they were not something that made the war effort more successful but what i want to ask you is that on one hand they want to make this more of a special ops smaller teams type of operation but what's happening right now is they're trying to agree on this strategic forces agreement right this is why we needed the agreement on night raids and they want to have this time before the nato meeting in may of this year what's going to be part of that agreement is that afghanistan wants a ten year long commitment from the u.s. and that's not a combat troop leve

in addition, cpmc will pay a parking surcharge of 50 cents off-peak and 75 cents peak on all entries and exits to the cathedral hill garages. your doubling those numbers burkhart a $1 or $1.50 per car. this will go to the hospital and medical office building. it will also serve to raise an additional estimated $500,000 per year, or $5 million over 10 years, to help mta service. last but not least, cpmc will provide a one-time payment of4 of00,000 to mta to support planning of improved bicycle access around cpmc campuses. turning to pedestrian safety and streetscape improvements, let's start with the cathedral hill campus in the tenderloin area. cpmc will provide 9.3 $5 million total in this area. about $8 million will go to the first three items on this list. pedestrian street lighting in the tenderloin as well as increased safety for sidewalks. the project to change the some streets from 1-way to a two-way for traffic and pedestrian safety issues. in the tenderloin, cpmc will provide a $200,000 grant for a safe passage pilot program. this is characterized in your paperwork. it is a

indicattng the possibility that they have peaked for the year, according to he aaa mid-atlantic report. pn 1998, the national average hit its high for the year on jan. 12th, at $1.09 per gallon. peak has not been reached beffre live in north baltimore, joelld. smith, fox 45 morning news. 3 football star... deion sanders and his estranged wife continue. continues.pilar sanders was released from jail tueeday in suburban dallas after being related chargessmonday night. deion tweeted a picture of him and his children filling out police reports... after he says pilar and a ffiend jumped him... a report she deniess (("i am innocent."))(("i'm a full time mom. 100% for my children and i just haven't been given a fair shake since any of this began.")) 3 began.")) pilar has been ordered not to return to the family's homee for 61 days and ccnnot threaten or harass any member of her family. family.as for deion... he is back on twitter... postiig a picture of himself with ew york giants quarterback eli in another bizarre story dealing with a football player.. a website is offering one million dollars to anyone who can prove thhy have had sex with tim tebow.

farther east, rain and flooding, more than 50,000 customers were without power on the peak of the stormnday. up to a foot of more snow in the higher elevations. >> greta: updates from several major criminal cases, first the trayvon martin murder case in florida. earlier this morning, george zimmerman was released from jail on $150,000 bail. the charge of second-degree murder in the death of martin who was unarmed. zimdz has gone back into hiding. and commission jeblgt go the nation of embattled police chief. he came under fire for handling the case. they decided to keep him on temporary leave. in chicago in trial the man accused of killing jennifer sudden on's mother, brother and nephew. he is accused of exciting the murders and they called jennifer hudson on the witness stand, oscar winner broke down. she talked about the last time she saw the family members and didn't want her sister to marry balfour. he is taking the stand that balfour offered threatened her. he said, if you leave me, i'll kill your family first. they felt pressured to make an arrest. >> campaign finance for presiden

on the peninsula. stanford university engineers are encouraging commuting during off peak hours. and on the inside of car windshie windshields, track the time drivers enter and leave campus. if they avoid 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. rush hour they're awarded from $2 to $50. >> history books tell us age of exploration is over. in fact, ended 400 years ago. >> a group of east bay scientists pushed the boundaries of our physical world, seeing things nobody else has the. garvin thomas is here. >> reporter: her name its dawn shaunnisey. now, normally when you ask a scientist who operates at a high level what they do for a living. it's hard to understand what they're talking about. but not with dawn. because the she works with something these of us with the slightest knowledge of science are familiar with. her impact on the periodic table of elements is tonight's "bay area proud." >> even itch yf you paid least off tensiof attention, the top of the chart is hydrogen. more studious, may remember carbon, nitrogen. this story takes place at the other end of the table. amon

one foot. mostly clear skies tonight. we will drop back into the 50's. there will not be lot of cloud cover tonight. you can see something kind of neat. it peakson saturday night. the best night for us is tonight. if you want to see some of shooting stars, go out tonight. the best time is after midnight. but towards the east. that stark will move over to the east coast and give us a chance for some -- that storm will move over to the east. a nor'easter types storm could give us a good soaking rains in addition to some cooler temperatures. 74 tomorrow. sunday and monday, will see rain in both states. it will be windy as the storm comes up the coast. high temperatures in the 50's. we could use the rain. >> time now for a last look at one of our big stories. howard county police make an arrest in a 21-year-old murder mystery. jennifer franciotti has more. >> she was last seen 21 years ago in elkridge. christine told police she walked out after an argument. police say they always expected foul play and that jarrett was always considered a suspect. a tip led them back to the house. his current wife gave police permission to search the home. police

on tuesday. turnout peaked at 60% in western maryland and little doubt about 9% in baltimore city.nout was not expected to be high. this is a state where democrats outnumber republicans by more than two to one. >> we had about 7400 voters, which is not good. >> in the first hours of the polls being open, polling locations reported seeing about two to three dozen voters. it was primary election day and this was expected across the state. reporting live, jennifer franciotti. >> for a complete list of election results, visit our website, wbaltv.com. we have an interactive map that shows how your county voted. the general assembly runs the risk of an extended session if lawmakers cannot agree on a budget plan. lawmakers had to cancel their afternoon showers. they are too far apart from raising the income tax rate. mike miller warns the gap is so wide the general assembly might have to extend the adjournment date. more push back on legislation to make prince george's county the sixth slots venue in the state. there was a crowded hearing room with opponents of expanded gambling. the hous

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on widespread 70s by thursday. and by friday, that's when temperatures will peak back in the 80s. for some of you in the south bay, it hadn't been this warm in a half-year. last time we had low 80s in san jose, was october the 23rd. get the shorts out. it will be real nice here coming this upcoming weekend. 45 in los gatos. 49 in san francisco. and 46 to wake up in san rafael. and wednesday, a little warmer in the south bay. 73 in santa cruz. and 74 in los gatos. a round of low 70s possible in pleasanton, livermore. cooler in ail media and hayward. we expect san francisco to edge up. 66 there. 70 in san rafael. and 70 in sonoma. three-day forecast, it gets better every day. when you have temperatures also happening on a friday, it's a win-win. 83 inland. and for the bay side, near 80. as we head into sunday and monday, we'll start to see the numbers going down. by tuesday of next week, we do have a very slight chance of a shower in the north bay. we need quite a bit of rainfall. but if it's not coming, we get a great string of weather on friday, saturday and sunday. >> we can enjo

it is offered based on where we are now and europe at the peak of your understanding. one moment of your unbiased thought -- we have been pinned down for six months with no help from our supervisor's office with a predictable outcome that only proves that point. >> thank you, sir. >> good morning, a task force. i am the managing director of the studio located in the south of market area, a filipino- american performing arts center. i am a longtime worker there and also a former resident. i am here to echo what all the other philippine constituents have talked about as far as maintaining the border on 15th street between valencia and harrison. what everyone else failed to mention is the reason why we want to go that far, besides the density population of filipinos, is because one of my favorite coffeehouses is over there. filipinos really love coffee. [laughter] seriously, historically as you know, filipinos have been an essential part of the south of market area. that is very inclusive of that area. there is a church near there. there are areas there that are very impo

other times, when i'm sitting up on the peak where is used to sit as a 26-year-old with my binocularserything new. >> jimmy: and you've seen how many chimpanzees grow up and just have babies and -- >> we're on the fourth generation. they don't have babies till they're about 13. and then, they only have one every five years, and they can live to be over 60. >> jimmy: and you have this movie now, "chimpanzee." >> it's a disney movie. >> jimmy: it's a disney movie. it comes out april 20th. it's a friday. and disney is doing a really cool thing. for everyone who buys a ticket, they're donating some money -- >> a percentage. only for the first week. >> jimmy: only for the first week. >> so, anybody who wants to see that movie should go in the first week. >> jimmy: oh, come on disney. come on, give us two weeks. come on, yeah. >> i know. they only give us one. >> jimmy: all right. so, the first week is the one that -- the money goes to jane goodall institute? >> that's right. >> jimmy: now, explain the jane goodall institute. because this is a giant thing. >> well, jdi, you know, it started

on the peninsula. stanford engineers tried to entice workers to commute during off peak hours. dio frequency id tags on the windshield track the time the drivers enter and leave campus. if they avoid the 8 to 9:00 a.m. and 5 to 6:00 p.m. rush hours, they will be rewarded with random cash prizes from 2 bucks to 50 bucks. >> not bad.difference. >>difference. >>> the nbc hit show starring michelle obama and how her appearance will make history tonight! >>> welcome back. we're waiting on the rain across the bay area. by this evening, showers start to show up on the doppler radar, but nothing for the time being. the seven-day forecast looks good, even though we expect rain this evening. 67 inland, even close to 60 at the coast. cooler for tomorrow and thursday. warming by the weekend. >> little something for everyone, anthony, thank you. >> sounds good. >>> finally this morning, how about fitness tips from the first lady. michelle obama guest starring on "the biggest loser." >> she's in good shape. tonight's show the first of a two-part episode, featuring the first ever white house w

, and when we looked at that data in detail, we found that, while, yes, on average the capacity of the garage was good, but at peak times when large numbers of customers would use japantown, the garage was at one under present capacity, and there were significantly decreased revenues. we understand parking as such is not an impact. but the impact of parking on the community, if there is a demonstrable adverse impact, is something that can be considered or should be considered. finally, various responses demonstrated the analysis did not understand or pay attention to actual conditions. a couple of examples. these common responses assert that they look at times when the san francisco unified school district was in session and did not find any adverse impacts. the problem is they looked in june, and in june, the private schools that drive the adverse interactions are out of session. so they missed peak traffic impacts that do play a significant role. they asserted that the newcomer high school site was nowhere in -- nowhere near any pacific cpmc facility, ignoring the fact that the newcomer high school site, the phy

as we head throughout the next three days, look at that climb, up to 85 tomorrow, 88 on saturday, peak and then sunday, you can still get outdoors. you won't get as much sunshine for the first part of the day, but temperatures are still going to touch on the 80s, holding on to the upper 70s on monday. overall, cooler and cloudier at the start of next week. 6:51. let's check your drive. hurry up and wait has started -- >> it has. it started a while back for livermore and a steady build. 22-minute drive. no incidents westbound through livermore or pleasanton. south through sunol. 680 a live shot. now slowing coming through sunol. clouds here, low clouds, but as christina said, those will burn off. the slowing we'll hope that clears up, as well through the south bay, but so far, sticking around, northbound 101, slow now from capital expressway. two cars still there in the center divide, and now folks trying to avoid the backup are coming up highway 87. let me show you those roadways. that ripple effect. and an update on the rest of the commute coming up. >>> right now we want to get you c

last year maryland prices peaked at $4.05 a gallon on may 12. rt of the reason we are seeing prices peak is due to refineries in the philadelphia area which has put upward prices in maryland and along the east coast. >> stayings switching to the costlier spring blend and demand always rises during peak driving hours. >> we live day-by-day, and pay check to pay chefpblgt it is not getting better. >> kai reed, wbal-tv 11 news. >> state budget negotiators planned to meet this morning and then abruptly canceled. no new talks are scheduled. this is the first time in the last few days they have scrapped their get-together. they scaled back their across-the-board income hike. another senate concession adopts part of the plan to shift pensions to the counties in the first year of a phase-in proposal. one of the house negotiators expressed confidence they would get it done in time. a lot can happen where we can hammer it out. >> they needed to have this completed for the session deadline on monday. >> a closer look at numbers reveals not so good news espe

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the unpopular peak of the peak fare the one in which riders pay an extra 20 cents during the busiest times of rush hour, could be scrapped. >> i think the revisions are a reflection of hearing from our customers and stakeholders. we have heard a great deal about the impact for the riders on the fare. >> it will help raise $100 million in badly needed funding. if the board approves the hikes will go into effect july 1. >> still to come, the latest report on the job market. we will see how claims for unemployment have turned another corner but in the wrong direction. >> reading electronic books just got cheaper. >> how much some people should pay in taxes every year. the war of words on the campaign trail. >> we are back with the obama administration going all in on the buffet tax rule. >> joe biden took the message on the road in new hampshire. a local law maker is pushing to make millionaires pay a higher tax rate and billet -- metal tax americans. >> tax day is just a round a corner, but the question is, are we paying too much? in the case of the buffett row some would argue too lit

san jose was one of the hot spots peaking at 9 on degrees. >> it's great.oily, greasy, and kind of wet, but it's comfortable. >> it's beautiful weather. i not really that hot. >> this is great weather for us. >> reporter: great for the majority, but not for everyone, especially already sufferers. allergists say the warm temperatures and late season rain has caused a surge in bloom, particularly in pine, oak and grass, which could mean a more severe and prolonged allergy season. at capitola beach, a pollen alert is high for oak, but most people were too busy enjoying the weather to mind. >> kimberly tere, today in the bay. >>> we still have more ahead. coming up voters will be deciding on proposition 29, which could put a tax on cigarettes in the name of cancer. we're going to talk with political analyst larry gersten about that, but first mike has a look at weekend events. >> good morning, this first one, is largely for me. it's about me. today in san francisco, we continue with the 45th annual northern california cherry blossom festival. it's not pleasure

transit -- to be used for transit use in support of transit services, and that is a 50 cent off-peak surcharge on parking entry and exit, and 75 cent. for each entry and exit for the cathedral hill hospital and medical office building garages. we're expecting to use these funds to improve transit services around that because of the impact of the cars entering and exiting at those facilities. they have pledged another $10.4 million to address the delays. we use these funds mostly in the cargo or is like on 14 mission and 48 geary. we want to do improvements on the muni rapid network. and tsp on the rapid network. we're expected to use some funds to provide e equipment, for example, on cameras to enhance the system. the last area providing funding, 4, 00,000, for planning efforts -- $400,000 for planning efforts. with that, i will turn it over to -- we will be able to answer any questions. >> next, rhonda simmons from the work force department. >> good morning. rhonda simmons from the office of economic and workforce development. i am going to speak on the in- use a portion of the work force agreem

from sutro tower down down san francisco lights shining on ther-- financial district one other place from vollmer peakowards mount diablo covered by the cloud condensation level where the moisture condenses into clouds about 3800 feet this morning good measure there. we can see more sunshine breaking out than this time yesterday. temperatures much warmer mainly in the low to mid 60s until you get around the bay shoreline into the south bay upper 60s to near 70 around the monterey bay and inland. today partly sunny, warmer this afternoon, showers and storms wednesday and thursday, weekend trending warmer may see 80s. today the same in fremont and san francisco as we were yesterday 71 and 66. santa rosa 68, concord 73°, five degrees warmer than yesterday. sun will set 7:54. warmest weather this afternoon in the east bay valleys, mid 70s upper 60s to low 70s from the north bay to the bay shore into the south bay low to mid 60s along the coast into san francisco with 66. monterey bay mid to upper 60s. near 70 watsonville with low to mid 70s inland. around the state today warmest palm springs 92. 63 tahoe,

from sutro tower down down san francisco lights shining on ther-- financial district one other place from vollmer peakount diablo covered by the cloud condensation level where the moisture condenses into clouds about 3800 feet this morning good measure there. we can see more sunshine breaking out than this time yesterday. temperatures much warmer mainly in the low to mid 60s until you get around the bay shoreline into the south bay upper 60s to near 70 around the monterey bay and inland. today partly sunny, warmer this afternoon, showers and storms wednesday and thursday, weekend trending warmer may see 80s. today the same in fremont and san francisco as we were yesterday 71 and 66. santa rosa 68, concord 73°, five degrees warmer than yesterday. sun will set 7:54. warmest weather this afternoon in the east bay valleys, mid 70s upper 60s to low 70s from the nort bay to the bay shore into the south bay low to mid 60s along the coast into san francisco with 66. monterey bay mid to upper 60s. near 70 watsonville with low to mid 70s inland. around the state today warmest palm springs 92. 63 tahoe, 71 yosem

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