to begin with, our heritage jim van supporter, pacific gas and electric. we have our friend, mr.my harris, please join me. [applause] and every year,

to begin with, our heritage jim van supporter, pacific gas and electric. we have our friend, mr.ris, please join me. [applause] and every year, our presentation guests are handmade by a japanese american artist. this is actually a very special piece of artwork of japanese origami. [applause] next, at the heritage partner level, i would like to first call off our bank of america fund, a senior vice president. [applause] then, one of our best food companies in the country and in the web, kraft foods has joined us this year, and i would like to invite the area vice president to join us as well. [applause] [applause] our last one as for our friend, wells fargo, who is always with us since 2005. is the sentence is the metro district manager here? i think he is still on his break. thank you for joining us in this celebration. this is the official celebration of the city, and it has really touched me every year to see our major bout here with us. it means a lot with us. -- to see our mayer brown here with us. it means a lot to us. >> these and gentlemen, da mayor, willie brown. [applaus

everything we can to make sure that an accident like this never happens again. >> reporter: with that, pacific gas & electric announced its pipeline 2020 program. the plan calls for upgrading key gas transmission pipelines in heavily populated areas, expanding the use of automatic and remote-operated shutoff valves, investing $10 million to research and develop next-generation inspection technologies. review and upgrade its risk-assessment program and provide first responders the information needed to better respond to a pipeline emergency. >> we feel it's necessary to go beyond the existing regulatory requirements and move to a new and higher level in terms of the focus orn -- on safety andability. >> reporter: pg&e says it doesn't know the cause of the explosion, but says when it does, it will make whatever additions or changes that are necessary to the program. pg&e isn't wasting any time. they'll have a proposal in front of the city in the next couple of weeks. the amount of time it takes to get through process is anybody's guess, but those changes could begin sooner than later. kron4 news. >>

. >>> pacific gas & electric has avoided paying penalties to the state for years. anne makovec is in san bruno reporting the utility had plenty of pipeline problems during that time. good morning to you, anne. >> reporter: good morning. it is the california public utilities commission that regulates all the gas lines in california including here in the san bruno neighborhood. and new concerns this morning after a new report shows the cpuc might not have been doing a very stringent job. there is a panel forming to reviewed pipeline blast. but after the explosion on september 9 the "chronicle" began looking into the history of the agency's dealings with pg&e and it reports a hands off approach. it said even though pg&e had even more pipeline infractions than the rest of the state's major pipelines combined over six years, no fines were handed out. meantime, pg&e is putting motorized cameras into the pipeline here in san bruno to inspect it between the blast site and two third of a mile in either direction. planning on showing the pictures to the national transportati

. >> la compañía pacific gas and electric.ibido. dos comisiones tendrán una audiencia. >> así como la seguirdad de las tuberias. así como de la comisión de servicios publicos de california. >> vamos a la primera pausa, hay límites en las categorías. y hablaremos de un raro caso de un dispositivo de posicionamiento global. que es? ahora hay un diccinario para los americanismos. detalles. >> gracias bueno durante esta madrugada es la temperatura que veremos aquí en san francisco 59. mañana rangos en los 70° y se espera esta noche temperatura fresca. más adelante se verán las temperaturas frias para el inicio de semana más adelante. >> que bebida gana la delantera? el tequila o el mezcal. la respuesta más adelante. o tomó control de las escuelas. verdad: el controlador encontró que varios trabajadores fueron pagados por veintidós mil horas... que nunca trabajaron. verdad: brown se comprometió a reducir la delincuencia, pero los asesinatos se duplicaron, convirtiendo a oakland en la cuarta ciudad más peligrosa del país. jerry brow

a entregar los mapas con la ubicacion de las Á lvulas de cierre de sus lineas de gas natural, "pacific gas& electric" informo que le proporcionara los documentos a los departamentos de bomberos del area de la bahia.---la unica condicion que "pg & e" pone es que no se den a conocer al publico por razones de seguridad.---el tiempo que los empleados de la compaÑia tardaron en cortar el suministro de gas manualmente, ha sido uno de los puntos mas criticados, por lo que se le exige a "pg&e" que instale Á lvulas de control automaticas. ---por su parte, los legisladores de california debaten un proyecto de ley para proporcionarles asistencia economica a las victimas de la explosion e incendio en san bruno.---la iniciativa tambien considera prestar ayuda al condado de san mateo, a la ciudad de san bruno y a las escuelas locales, otorgandoles un reembolso de un aÑo por las Érdidas fiscales relacionadas con las viviendas daÑadas o destruidas, asi como la depreciacion de las propiedades. --estados unidos rompio su priopia marca de deportacion de inmigrantes en este año fiscal 2010.--y aunque el gobie

$qtb, negotiate and obtain frome department of transportation from the cities and counties and pacific gasd electric company real-estate licenses, other permits or agreements with respect to project construction and improvement of the entities. they will obtain any lease or agreement necessary and negotiate with owners or imn the sfpuc right-of-way and other project-related agreements as necessary. necessary. s/(to/içm zobtain permits and approvals or enter into agreements with state, federal, and local governments not limited to caltrans, army corps of engineers, u.s. fish and wildlife marine fisheries service, the california department of game, the water control board, the sanitary district, and bay area quality management district and enter into agreements with third parties as necessary to implement conditions of the permits or approvals. e, in compliance with government code, undertake the process for possible acquisition for excavating and combined purchase not to exceed $250,000 for temporary interest in real property located in san mateo county as follows. the list is printed of th

. >>> pacific gas and electric crews started a project in hillsborough aimed at making sure the peninsula has enough natural gas. they ordered the utilitiy to reduce the amount of pressure in several gas lines following the deadly explosion in san bruna. that means less -- san bruno and that means less gas is available. >> i think it would just be less is available to them, and there might be cases where they wouldn't have gas, but we would communicate with those customers if that's the plan we decided to use this winter. >> the work involves rerouting natural gas supply lines by combining several pipelines. they hope to finish the job tomorrow. >>> the nation's top cop is speaking out against california's proposition 19 saying they will enforce marijuana laws even if kaflss votes to legalize it. the justice department's strong opposition to prop 19. it would legalize recreational use of marijuana. they plan to vigorously enforce federal laws in california. under prop 19 adults can legally po ses up to an ounce of marijuana. only three days left to register to vote and they were promoting

. >> meantime pacific gas and electric is moving forward with its plans to improve pipeline safety. dan curman reports that a program announced today. >> >> the greatest way to remember and honor those whose offer is to ensure that we do everything we can to make sure that an accident like this never happens again. >> with that pg&e announced its 2020 program the plan calls for upgrading key gas transmission pipelines in heavily populated areas expanding the use of automatic and remotely operated shut off valves investing $10 million to research and develop next-generation inspection technologies and review and upgrade its risk assessment program and provide first responders the information needed to better respond to a pipeline emergency. >> we feel it's necessary to go beyond the existing regulatory requirements and move to new and higher level in terms of the focus on safety and reliability to >> did pg&e isn't wasting any time with these plans the have a proposal in front of the puc in the next couple of weeks in regards to the automatic shut off valves. the amount of time it ta

michael peterson with pacific gas and electric director of emergency planning for pg and e. my timing was outstanding to do this presentation in front of residents that are pg and e customers the front page of the chronicle talked about what, your rates are going up at pg and e and here i am. i mentioned, don't take a shot at me i'm a lonely security director trying to make a living. the other thought was why is pg and e talking about disasters when we cause disasters with our outages. i'm confident we will get that fixed. the key point i want to make here as a representative with pg and e and touched by some speakers. as an organization as a company we realize the importance of emergency planning. disaster planning, disaster recovery. we recognize it from the standpoint it's a grass-roots operation for us to restore power, either gas or electric that we need to have folks ready to planned and engaged in emergency mrarn itting makes our job easier. if it isn't there the crisis and confusion will slow us down from getting people back with lights on and the heat going. that's

the "chronicle" reports two pacific gas and electric employees who played important roles in responding to the blast have not yet talked about it. they say they are too traumatized to do so. congresswoman jackie speier told kcbs she expects the national transportation safety board will eventually question the two. >> the one thing that's important in any of these explosions is that human error is often times the element that is relevant. >> reporter: the ntsb told the "chronicle" the two declined to speak with federal safety board investigators in the week after the disaster and still has not been questioned. the board says there was a spike in gas line pressure from the normal 375 pounds per square inch to 386ps. i just before the blast. but it held at 386 psi by an automatic valve. pg&e has refused to release information on who was in charge of pipeline operations that night but she says the pg&e president is talking about the future of the damaged line. >> what he said is they recognize that the community does not want that transmission line in the neighborhood. and they are willing

pacific gas and electric co. says it's looking into replacing about 300 manual gas valves with newer technology aimed at preventing disasters such as the san bruno pipeline explosion.the san francisco- based utility said monday it is evaluating areas of its gas transmission system where it could install automatically or remotely controlled valves that would allow faster shut-off of natural gas if there's an accident.the valves can cost between 1.5 million and 100 million. the company also says it didn't find any immediate safety issues when it surveyed nearly 16 miles of transmission pipeline in the san bruno area. but it did find and repair 38 leaks in populated areas during another survey. >> now the latest out of midwest. rain and wind played today in the region a giant storm that they say could be the most powerful to hit illinois in seven decades. this is o'hara airport 125 flights have been delayed or canceled. dan has been tracking the storm. wisconsin are tornado has been issued. every now and then we will

right now as we see rain towards sacramento that moved through an hour ago a few sprinkles awful of pacific gaslf moon bay but that's really just there right now. future cast shows a chance of rain at 6. chance that six or 10. by noon time and maybe even a sunny break climbing into the '60s. but for saturday 6:00 a.m. rainshowers a chance at noon by five new stores to pick up in intensity. the darker green showing up here. from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. tickets and tenser. as we head toward noon on sunday heavier rain by the bay from noon until 3:00 p.m. every rain before sunday evening. through 10 before things began to clear out. when weather continues. for this afternoon to bring before the next wave. sun, clouds, maybe a shower. mid-60s. rainshowers on saturday an especially during an afternoon heavy rain starts developing sunday morning in the north bay and through the afternoon sunday afternoon. clearing up and warming up through wednesday looks up clouding up thursday looks like we may get more rain next weekend. >> traffic light around the bay renown no problems to report friday late. a

accenture, cap, mcdonald's, pacific gas and electric, and united technologies.and we are just starting. skills for america's future will be part of the economic opportunities to work closely with the president's new injured-agency task force. some of the goals are to recruit additional private-sector labor leaders to build a national network of high impact partnerships at community colleges, basically bringing the program to scale. the second is creating a certification. we would also like to provide a national voice for the effectiveness of those partnerships. working with the task force to line up programs funded by the apartment of labour and the department of education with market forces. working with the task force to develop credentials that can be stacked, as well as a better use of technology. our last initial goal is to make sure that every state has at least one high impact partnership between industry and community college. the real goal is that every state has multiple partnerships. we cannot begin soon enough. we hope to spark a movement nationwide

they are accenture, ga inc., mcdonald's, pacific gas & electric and united technologies corp.d we're just starting. skills for america's future will be part of the ecomic opportunities program at the nonprofit aspeninstitute and will work closely with the president's new interagency task forces. some of the initial goals are one, to recruit additional during labor leaders to build a national network of higimpact partnerships of community colleges. basically bringing the program to scale. second is to create a certification for best in class partnerships. we want to also provide a national voice for effectiveness of those partnerships. we'l work with the interagency task force to align workforce programs funded by the department of labor and the department of education with market forces. and work with the task force to delop stackable credentials as well as a better use of technology as melinda referenced. our initial -- our last initial goal is to ensure that every state has at least o high impact partnership between industry and a community college. our real goal is that eve

asia pacific market which is the biggest market on earth and russia is making serious steps and is direction all the projects on the an island for example we are the projects to develop natural gas oil and l. and g. production is oriented towards the markets of asia pacific japan china russia is more and more active or in the market of atomic energy in asia pacific in it is not just china and vietnam and some other countries of southeast asia russia is very much. interested in investment from asia pacific countries one interesting figure. during the here is a year or years of economic crisis for investment into russia from the west decreased. but if you look at asia pacific. foreign investment from asia pacific to russia tripled during the time of crisis there is a very important development so also in one of your recent interviews you called russia a hero pacific country does russia sate self as one i think russia should consider itself as you are a pacific power. russia is still looking for its identity some people say russia is a european country and it is because our culture is european and our trade relationship mostly with the european union more than sixty percent of fore

gas turned off? now the "san francisco chronicle" reports two pacific & electric employees who played important roles in responding to the blast have not yet talked about. they say they are too traumatized to do so. the ntsb will eventually question the two it is expected. >> one thing that is important in these explosions is human error is oftentimes the element that is relevant. >> reporter: the ntsb told the "chronicle" the two declined to speak to investigators in the week after the disaster and still have not been questioned. the board says there was a spike in gas line pressure from the normal 375 pounds per square inch to 386 pounds per square inch. pg&e has refused to release information on who was in charge of pipeline operations that night but the president is cooperating on other questions like the future of the damaged line. >> what he has said is they recognize that the community does not want that transmission line in the neighborhood. and they are willing to move it. there is no way that the people who have lost their homes or have to rebuild on some level are going to be able to do so

gas line explosion. >>> it was a wet weekend, but i've got another storm i'm tracking right now in the pacific. will have an impact on one of the world series games. >> the new owner taking over north star at tahoe. pg&e is looking into replacing 300 manual gas valves with remote or automatic ones. they hope the changes will prevent explosions in the future such as the one in san bruno that killed 8 people. pg&e said it is still looking into exactly where to install those valves. . >>> in the east bay, some 300 pg&e customers have their lights back on tonight. they are among the thousands that lost power during yesterday's storm. about 15,000 customers in oakland were affected, including the police and fire departments along with some bart stations. >> it makes me think, what would happen if there is a major earthquake or something much more serious than three days of rain. >> the oakland police and fire departments were checking backup systems today after they didn't quite work as planned. >>> crews are still working to bring operations back to normal. we first brought you this story on friday

gas line explosion. >>> it was a wet weekend, but i've got another storm i'm tracking right now in the pacific. it will have an impact small business loans. student loans to taxes on-line. whether you have information to get or ideas to give, usa.gov is the official place to connect with your government. from surplus car auctions to finding a new job, our new mobile apps will keep you updated on the go. so check out usa.gov because the country runs better when we stay connected. pg&e is looking into replacing 300 manual gas valves with remote or automatic ones. they hope the changes will prevent explosions in the future such as the one in san bruno that killed 8 people. pg&e said it is still looking into exactly where to install those valves. . >>> in the east bay, some 300 pg&e customers have their lights back on tonight. they are among the thousands that lost power during yesterday's storm. about 15,000 customers in oakland were affected, including the police and fire departments along with some bart stations. >> it makes me think, what would happen if there is a major earthquake or something

aliza y recuerda, salud buenos dias, la compaÑia "pacific gas & electric" acordo proporcionarle a lossenadores estatales los documentos internos relacionados con la explosion de un gaseoducto en san bruno. --la empresa se nego a entregar los documentos, alegando que la investigacion federal que lleva a cabo la junta nacional de seguridad en el transporte se lo habia prohibido. mas a las 6 en los mineros rescatados del yacimiento chileno "san jose" pidieron a la prensa respetar su privacidad.tambien dijeron que entre todos han hecho un pacto de silencio para no contar lo que pasaron los 17 primeros dias, en los que no tuvieron contacto con el exterior.que tal, les habla enrique teutelo. el presidente obama dijo en su mensaje semanal que no hay justificacion para brindar reducciones de impuestos a compaÍas estadounidenses que crean empleos en el extranjero. pidio al congreso aprobar la cancelacion de esos beneficios tributarios....hugo chavez concreto un abastecimiento de petroleo venezolano para bielorusia por casi 20 mil millones de dolares en tres aÑos.mas esta tarde