by our city, with the knowledge of sf puc and they tried to put the blame on pg & e to compromise our force main. when the public gets home, we the public, we need the experts to discuss factual stuff. we know pg & e is going to fight you and you need to fight pg & e. >> your time is up. >> next speaker please. anyone else would like to comment? seeing no one. public comment is closed. >> next item. >> schedules of rates and charges of the san francisco public utilities commission power enterprise for phase one of the clean power sf community choice aggregation program for renewable power procurement within san francisco. >> today i can like to talk to you about the history of the program, just a few reminders. talk a little bit about the ogram and how it's designed and how we vision it and how we have revised it and made a change to make it a more viable program than it has been in the past. first, as you all know in 2004 the board of supervisors voted to implement as part of it's energy resource program and a way to decrease in-house gases and initiate efficiency. more recently in s

pg & e throws a lot of money there. they have been here more than five years. they take on the san francisco. i also know that most of the cases that the city has brought against pg & e, pg & e has won. the city has won a few but pg & e has won most. i was involved in a case where three conduits were under our force main. by our city, with the knowledge of sf puc and they tried to put the blame on pg & e to compromise our force main. when the public gets home, we the public, we need the experts to discuss factual stuff. we know pg & e is going to fight you and you need to fight pg & e. >> your time is up. >> next speaker please. anyone else would like to comment? seeing no one. public comment is closed. >> next item. >> schedules of rates and charges of the san francisco public utilities commission power enterprise for phase one of the clean power sf community choice aggregation program for renewable power procurement within san francisco. >> today i can like to talk to you about the history of the program, just a few reminders. talk a little bit about the program and how it's designed and how

one is that the california public utilities commission -- by pg & e the right to retain an option to create an organization that would market against cca's the commission rejected the proposal on the basis that it wasn't in compliant with the commission order. the commission order says you tell us that you don't intend to market against cca's or tell us how you would set up an organization in order to do that fairly. i haven't heard whether pg & e intends to file anything sooner or later. are there any questions about that? no. also the staff received approval for an implementation plan for the public utilities commission in november. that sort of -- we do have a duty to provide those implementation plans to the commission so they understand our business plan and how we will protect consumers, but they really don't have direct authority over the commission in that regard. this commission. >> finally you are all aware that pg & e and a number of other parties filed a settlement that would create a green tear off of pg & e service and that will need to be heard whether they will adopt t

cents, we are now within striking distance within the pg & e rate and the bill for tier one customers would be for pg & e. this is another table. it shows you three scenarios for three different resources mixes at 11.9 cents retail. each of those scenarios will provide us with come build out funds and each of them give us a little head room for reducing the rate. as you can see, the scenario that we would propose today is that 25 percent bundled product with the remainder of the purchases of rec's. all of these scenarios would give us around $200 million around bonding capacity probably after two 1/2 years. if you have questions about that, todd can explain than better than i can. are there any questions so far? okay. >> yes, what counts for the difference in the rates between marine and the lower? >> a couple of things. we have a strip to payback the $13 million reserve that we need in order to sign long-term contracts. since we don't have a creditworthy independent organization. we have a little bit set aside in case we sign of care customers. i think we have estimated what it would

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the puc is calling on pg&e to pay at least $300 million in fines.posed penalty of more than $2 billion. it is being recommended that most of the fine be used to improve the safety of the pipelines. the blast assembled killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. >> up to 900 street parking spaces in san francisco will be reserved for cars sharing vehicles as soon as january under a new two-year experiment that was approved by the man is supposed transportation agency. cars sharing is thriving in san francisco, and rising in popularity, so the city wants to accommodate that growth. >> 19 organizations ranging from a church to gun rights groups have filed a suit against the national security agency to challenge the mass collection of their telephone records. the groups contend that the data collected violates the constitutional first amendment right. in addition to claiming a violation of the right of association, the lawsuit contends that the record's program violates the fourth admitted as well. the lawsuit is asking for court orders to prohibit them

. >>> in california regulators are calls on pg&e to pay $300 million in fines for a deadly 2010 gas pipeline blast in san bruno which killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. >>> mcdonald's is facing a backlash over a financial guide for employees. amid a movement a fast food workers pressing for higher minimum wage. that guide suggests monthly expenses like $600 for rent, definitely not here in new york. $150 for a car and $20 for health care. where are they getting these numbers? but it doesn't include allowance for gas or even clothes or food. and the budget is under the assumption that you have two jobs making just under $25,000 a year. >>> just ahead, the all-star game and highlights when "early today" returns. >>> all right. time to get the late nest sports. you can catch the all-star game, well, did you last night? that's the question. they placed ott at stir field. >> i did not. >> it was a little late for us. hit robinson cano. he wasn't seriously injured. he did leave the game. in the fourth cabrera smacked a stand-up double and later scored. in eighth inning the fans and player

>> one thing that i would just like to stress, pg&e already occupies our land pursuant to an existing easement. we're just expanding this easement to expand the valve lot. we have a pg&e representative here, may i invite him to the podium to answer your questions? >> please do. she is a former puc employee. >> okay. >> hi. can you repeat the question. >> so our concern is that we have public employees; right? that maintain these facilities and the land and whenever we do a land swap or agreement, one of the first questions asked by the staff, mostly men and women who live here classifications and they have particular packages, benefit packages and they have particular affiliations. when we do these sorts of things, whether it's a golf course or natural area it's always going to come up. there is a jobs component and we want to know if pg&e is planning on having, say local residents maintain that land, if it already has been being maintained by local residents? or laborers maintain that land if it already has been maintained by or electricians? it's an important part of these transfere

community. >> i think it's important to recognize that we didn't really see a movement on a green tariff rate from the pg & e until we started to work on the program. pg & e has moved in that direction. at the same time we know that puc has not even approved that program. pg & e could back out and it's great that they want to do that, they provide another opportunity for customers, but it's no guarantee and they could have done that a long time ago if they were really serious about it. it's unclear what the future brings around for that program. if we move forward with our program and i expect we will, then it probably more likely they will have their program in opposition. they will try to sand bag us and i believe it and when it comes down to it we have to go with our program and know that not every san franciscans is going to be a customer. that's what we have accepted moving forward. >> i actually want to wait until miss malcolm finishes her presentation. >> okay. i just want to let you know that we continue to work on a build out red map and working with stakeholder groups and we have presented them

the puc is calling on pg&e to pay at least $300 million in fines. part of proposed penalty of more than $200 billion. it is being recommended that most of the fine be used to improve the safety of the pipelines. but last december 0 killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. >> san francisco supervisors voted to make a permanent the for nine city residents of visiting the botanical garden in golden gate park. it will not cost you $7 to get into the gardens. there are some exemptions, anyone entering the garden between 73930 in the morning will enter for free. school groups and members of the sampras is the botanical garden society will also be exempt from paying. the garden features more than 8000 types of plants including many a rare and endangered ones. >> standards as those board as the risers unanimously approved the city's $7.9 billion budget for the next two fiscal years. the budget restores fo$4 million in federal cuts to hiv prevention, programming and health services. it closes an estimated $124 million deficit for the next fiscal year. the

the public utilities commission called on pg&e to pay $300 million this, afternoon responded saying the fine would take money from improvements being maids at state request. the explosion killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. the public utilities commission has not made a final decision on the fine autos new details in the san francisco jewelry mart murders in court today prosecutors sate violence started after a dispute over $300. yes. $300. >> prosecutors say the suspect wanted a price adjustment he purchased. they say he left to feed his parking meter then came back and shot the store employees. those employees were both killed. white was arrested after firing shots at police and faces two murder skmarjz seven attempted murder charges. >> this afternoon police took two suspects into custody fom being an armed robbery in a santa rosa jewelry store where one person was shot. the men caught in petta luma. that is where officers pulled over a car matching a description of one used in the probably and reports say an employee may have fired a gunri. they are being treated at santa ro

public utilities commission wants to withdraw a controversial plan for imposing a 2.2 $5 billion fine on pg&e for the fatal pipeline explosion in san bruno and 2010. they give no details but said the revision would correct certain and inaccuracies. the two and a quarter billion dollar fine was criticized as being too lenient by the city of san bruno and by consumer group. the utility reform network because be gene e. would have been allowed to count past and future is 80 improvement expenses as payment of a penalty. i gotta go deposit a check, transfer some money. so it's your uncle's turn. what? wait, wait, wait... . no, (baby crying) so you can deposit a check... with the touch of a finger. so you can arrange a transfer in the blink of an eye. so you can help make a bond... i got it. that lasts a lifetime. the chase mobile app. so you can. having necessary school supplies can mean the difference between success and failure. the day i start, i'm already behind. i never know what i'm gonna need. new school, new classes, new kids. it's hard starting over. to help, sleep train is collecting s

the p-u-c is calling on pg&e to pay at least 300-million in fines. it's part of a proposed penalty of more than 2- billion dollars. >> reporter:it's being recommended that most of the fine be used to improve the safety of pipelines. the blast in san bruno killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. >> catherine: an overnight fire at a home being used as a cat rescue shelter in south san jose left nearly 100 cats dead.firefighters worked with animal control officers today to remove the dead animals from their crates and cages. the homeowner got out alive. so did 7 cats -- and her dog. neighbors knew she rescued cats.but were surprised at how many animals were living there. >> you plug 20 or 30 but never 100 parrot that was announced i found that out right in front of the firemen and both looked at each other like, wow! that is not possible. >> catherine: police don't consider this a hoarding situation. and say the home had been regularly inspected. the cause of the fire is being investigated. >> catherine: morgan hill police have arrested a 20 year ol

look for see it on tv. >> pg&e showed off new fleet of service vehicles in a quieter and friendlier for the environment. they don't look that much different there is a battery pack what that means is that there is no idling during service calls. >> that bucket going up in the air that drove off to the engine so. did air conditioning and heat. tool circuit and the light. we electrified those. so now, it's quiet. >> it also cuts down on pollution. the utility saying it saved 700,000s ndz fuel from the hybrid truck autos a new pair of prescription glasses could set you back hundreds of dollars but doesn't have to. >> if you're going to save a lot of buck was this one. we've teamed up to tell you where to go to get great prices and service. if you're in the market for a new pair of glasses, you're buying from a mom and pop store like this. >> it's the personal service. >> he's right. the survey of nearly 20,000 subscribers finds people shopping locally were satisfied. >> independent shops got top marks for quality also customer care and follow up but they're among costliest places to shop.

i will say there's a couple of lights on that were not when this happened. pg&e is working on those. back to you. >> thank you. >>> bay area commuters are bracing for another possible b.a.r.t. strike next week. contract talks resume later this morning. but the two sides remain far apart on several issues with the new strike deadline now just five das i away. there was little sign of progress at the bargaining table when the latest talks ended late yesterday afternoon. >> how confident are you that you will -- both sides will reach an agreement by sunday? >> i'm confident that our team is doing everything they can to get there. >> i think our team has raised superfluous issues about their medical and pension. >> the war of words continues ahead of sunday night when the contract extension expires. union leaders say the issues are not being addressed. meanwhile, management says it would have to raise fares 18% for the next three years to meet the union's pay demand. that would be on top of the approved pay rates for new cars. stay with us as sunday's deadline appr

on marine bay parkway. you can see it and it is spewing from behind a work truck. pg&e is be working to cap the leak. >> they are working to evacuate people from the area. the extent of the evacuation is unknown. our reporting continues on twitter. follow us with breaking news alerts. >> good morning. our other top story this morning, a familiar message came from oakland leaders sparked by the latest murder of a 66-year-old woman known for her love of animals. >> we are joined by our reporter. what are they asking for? >> members of the community are asking for one thing: an end to the violence, saying enough is enough. judy salamon was gunned down on wednesday. on thursday there was a vigil in her honor and today the memorial grows for judy salamon. the city council members were calling for an end for violence and push for answers behind her shooting death. the 66-year-old was shot dead blocks from where she lived. she joins with neighbors who wanted to get private patrols. some were frustrated for not having an opportunity to share this with members of the oakland p

. >>> a state committee is calling on pg&e to pay a record fine for the deadly pipeline explosion in san bruno. the total amount of the penalty is still $2.25 billion. but under the new plan, at least $300 million of that would be paid as a fine to the state's general fund. it would not be tax-deductible. most of the remaining money would go toward gas pipeline upgrades, easing the financial burden on ratepayers. >> our shareholders have already been committed to roughly $2 billion and that would actually take combined with what the cpuc proposed today would take us above $4 billion and that's 40 times higher than the highest penalty ever assessed. >> the public utilities commission is expected to vote on the plan before the end of the year. >>> a former marin county sanitation executive is busted in an exotic beach town in the philippines. brett richards is charged with embezzlement, money laundering and other felonies. he was general manager of the ross valley sanitation district in 2012. arrangements are under way to return him to marin county. the charges stem from a $350,000 hou

ibw 1245 pg & e workers, but many of the public utilities owned in california also have 1245 as their employees. i doubt that 1245 employees on the public side would be resisting a public agency such as yourself taking over a portion of pg & e's territory. >> thank you very much. i do believe that shell is also part of the western states petroleum association and if they are, we do buy power from them. we buy oil and fossil fuels from them in the county. next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is theodore. i work in san francisco. i'm against this proposal. to begin, plenty of people i have talked to have voted time and time again against the city turning our current utility public. why has this happened. you have already decided democratically. in the past we have struggled with a plethora of issues related to our electricity. let me tell you, change here is not welcomed. shouldn't the sf puc be worried about other issues, issues that are actually there. i'm talking about source, water mains, water transmission, they are shotty and they need to be up grated. where is sf puc focused? it's on clean energy and cost more to be deli

commission now want to withdraw a controversial plan, for imposing a 2 and 1/4 billion dollar fine on pgor the explosion. they did not give specific details, but said the bird--the revision would " correct certain accuracies. " the $2.25 billion fine has been criticized by the city of san bruno and a consumer criticized by the city of san bruno and a consumer crystal geyser is always bottled at the mountain source. crystal geyser. crystal geyser. crystal geyser. then we deliver it directly to you. >>james: we are back at 424. watching wall street this morning. futures trading shows all three indexes in the positive this morning. the dow's string of gains is over. but it was a relatively quiet trading session yesterday. here's a look at the closing numbers. the dow lost nearly nine points closing at 15,291. the nasdaq added 16 and a half points to close at and the s and p 500 added a fraction of a point, closing at 1652. >>anny: good news on the housing market. fewer u.s. homes went into foreclosure or were repossessed by banks last month. foreclosure listing firm, realtytrac, says banks

the p-u-c is calling on pg&e to pay at least 300-million in fines. it's part of a proposed penalty of more than 2- billion dollars. it's being recommended that most of the fine be used to improve the safety of pipelines. the blast in san bruno killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes >> jacqueline: it did not clear into the early afternoon and are still seeing fog conditions. epistemic tell cameras shot temperature why is it is really cool out there this afternoon not only at the coast line but also for our inland valleys where temperatures are running only in this 70's at this hour at upper 60s and concord. 68 in oakland and hayward. los 70's in the south bay. dense fog in the morning as we move into tomorrow with a slightly warmer conditions as the fall will clear out a little faster. by the end of the week temperatures were hot. >> catherine: still to come. nearly a hundred cats have died in a house fire in san jose. we'll talk to the owner about what happened. a group is suing the n-s-a for illegal surveillance. why san francisco has a major ro

cover shareholder costs. >> reporter: today's propose selling cancels that. >> pg & e revenue requirements will be reduced. >> on top of them absorbing the costs, the eye utility will alsoly a $300 million opinion to the state -- will also pay a 300 million fine to the state. pg & e just released a statement saying the staff's failure to account for the staff costs would force pg & e shareholders to spend $4 billion. going forward, ratepayers will be responsible for new spending on newly imposed safety requirements. >>> toxicology results are back. a coroner released the results three days days after the actor was found dead. he was open about miss struggles with drug use and spent a month in rehab. he was expected to play a major role in glee's season. >>> the man accused in a deadly shooting at a san francisco jewelry store makes his first appearance in c court. prosecutors played a step by step picture of what they called a cold-blooded killer. >>> a southern california deputy shot in his patrol car, the moment leading up to his violence. >>> temperatures were cool today, 10 to 15 to 20 degrees below the aver

pg&e crews telling us they severed a main gas line about one hour ago, about 10:00 this morning. they are trying to figure out the diameter of this line, reported to be anywhere between three and eight inches. so far, no word on when they expect to cap that leak. of course, we will keep an eye on that situation in richmond for you. good morning, thanks for being with us. i'm marla tellez. >> good morning. i'm jon kelley. learning new details this morning about a reported sexual assault at an apartment complex in santa clara. a woman there says she woke up to find a man with a box cutter in her room on homestead road. nbc bay area's marianne favro is live on the scene with exactly what police are saying. good morning. >> reporter: the alleged sexual assault happened in one of the ground floor units of the apartment complex you see behind me. police are still out here investigating right now. police say they received a call shortly after 4:00 this morning from a woman who said she had been sexually assaulted. police say the victim is in her 20s and report she had woke up in her bed

but also working with pg&e their starting to work with us on unveiling there 2 million up grates infrastructure and so in a nutshell our group and this is what the lifeline council looks at to make sure we're protected from may i approach terrorist attacks so we don't have a neighbor's like in new orleans not up and running quickly. so the more resilient our lifelines are the quickly we will be operational >> any questions for naomi? >> thank you for your good work. in the the time for councilmembers if you have something to share upcoming events this is our round table >> i'm representing the building and management owners and both of your high-rise building - we've had a long-standing relationship with the fret and we're going to do a high-rise safety drill in july. so it's going to be a full on exercise at the post montgomery center so thank you to make sure that all your high-rises in san francisco are safe >> excellent thank you. >> so in this budget in the upcoming budget season there's been to up grating in the the - we've got adequate fund to build the data center around sacramento that

shareholders pay for pipe upgrades, not rate payers. >> pg&e's revenue requirement will be reduce and had that they will be authorized to collect a billion less. >> on top of pg&e absorbing that billion dollars in costs, the utility will also pay a $300 million fine to the state, but that's far less than half of what was recommended earlier by numerous parties. >> the puc is still too cozy with pg&e. >> the pg&e just released a statement saying in addition staff's failure to account for total pg&e shareholder costs would force pg&e shareholders to spend $4 billion about 40 times higher than the highest penalty ever assessed for a pipeline accident in the history of the u.s.. going forward, rate payers will be responsible for new spending on newly-imposed safety requirements as well as new pipeline facilities. i'm consumer editor, ktvu channel 2 news. >> chief meteorologist bill martin here to talk to us about this weather that for many doesn't really scream summer. >> not today especially, right, and yesterday, but temperatures are changing around. more sun tomorrow. higher daytime highs back into the 80 t. today 60s and low 70s. take a peak at what

how long did you think it takes pg and e to get out and turn it back on? 45,000 people. days weeks, may be a month. who has seen this in the streets. a lot of muck is in there is it's full of dirt and weeds you turn it to the right to tighten it and left to loosen it. your home work you have to look at your house, pop open the lid, look in there see what's going on in there it's not nice and clean like this. who has seen this around their house? everybody. each meter has a shut off. you want to find out where your gas meter is. you can keep track of your usage but you will know how to shut it off. here's the shut off. i have some tools up here, you can look at these. any hardware store has these. they fit on this and it allows you to turn off the gas. when we talk about the wheels it's these on top. if you have a broken pipe. they will spin like mad. when it's daylight, go home, you have the heater on or the oven, look at the top wheels they are spinning got now mad. if you turn on every gas appliance in our house they will move. if you break a pipe it will spin like mad

pg & e says 50 percent of this can be achieved. yes on this. thank you. >> thank you very much, next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners, my name is may. i work in san francisco. i'm testifying against the clean four sf program because it is not culturally competent. i believe it will force my family who has never heard of this program to participate without their consent. this is automatic enrollment that requires those who are unwilling to participate to opt out. immigrants tend to not change their -- my family and other immigrant residents are likely to have to figure out how to opt out of a program they don't understand. this means that the automatic rolement requirement would force the residents to comply with a program they don't even understand. in short puc program will trap residents in the program. this is why i urge the program and urge puc to consider this program. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hello, commissioners. i'm a student resident here in san francisco. thank you for all the work that you hav

. >>> the power is now back on for almost all of the nearly 2,000 pg&e customers affected by a blackout this morning in oakland. pg&e says it was caused by a see gull that flew into -- seagull that flew into a power line at jack london square. several power lines came down in the area of 3rd and harrison streets. at least one transformer was blown. people living in the area say they heard a loud blast shoerltly before the lights went out around 7:00 a.m. >> i heard a loud boom. it didn't sound like a gunshot. it sounded like an explosion. i saw a flash and i heard another loud noise. >> we just checked with pg&e.