i lerned that in my four years at,m oren, county the water district serves about 230 thousand people in that county and it's an agency that almost ran out of water in the 1977 drought and despite major investments in imported water supplies and water recycling the fact is they have been operating in a water supply deficit. thankfully for that period we've almost always had above average rain fall. if that occurred today, those residents despite all their plumbing facilities and other efficiency measures would have to reduce demand an additional 70 percent in order to keep from running out of water. the choices faces, them like many in the west are not easy and certainly not cheap. you're going to find a common thread the area of cheap and easy solutions to water supply is over. consider the fact that,mufd, is sponsoring around 8 hundred dollars an acre foot if any of you are paying more than that for incentive programs i would love to know but that probably is setg the pace. the district is considering a plant on san francisco bay to diversify it's water supply, portfolio and supervi

he appearedvia satellite while michael oren high lighted the global growth of antisemitism. it wrapped up on thursday with delegates heading to capitol hill on behalf of israel. >> erick stakelbeck joins us now to talk about the christia united for israel group. erick, what kind of influence does this group have for lawmakers in washington? >> this group is growing in washington, d.c. they are the largest prsrael organization in the united states with over 400,000 members. they have a lot of help. on thursday of thisweek, they are on capitol hill. this is cufi, christians united for israel lobbying on capitol hill, talkg to congreman, senatorsbout israel, about supporting israel. they are a growing group. a lot of clout, senator joe lieberman, israel's ambassador to the u.s.mike pence, and democrat shelly berkel. this is a growing influential group no doubt. >> what is their opinion towards obama's administration? >> it is not too high. mike pence out of indiana said the obama is the most antiisrael administraon in american history. that summeup the sentiments of the cufi cr

he served as senior attorney as the national environmental defense county and was a member of the,m oren municipal water protection district for years. he was instrumental in negotiating the, san jaquin, refr river. we think this will be one of biggest restat

them around this conference is actually protests taking place right now outside there having michael oren who is the israeli ambassador speak and then and afterwards they're going to have israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu speak a number of interfaith groups muslims jews christians saying that this is not true that this is you know god did not choose only the americans and only the israelis as the. we are people of the world there's an international community there are dying they're being maimed as a result of us foreign policy and israeli policies in the middle east so i mean for the most part anytime you have the u.s. and israel get together on a summit or some kind of conference you will have demonstrations and that's been taking place in the last three days during the summit that's definitely interesting i mean i love america but you know sometimes you have to be a little realistic and perhaps not always get got to the story ok that was john obvious going to say well we've got one more segment ahead on tonight's show the head of the g.o.p. and the house of representatives has a