accept and expend grant in amount of 156,000 from california public utilities commission through pacific gasuce and demand reduction of energy in san francisco during 2012. >> thank you. we have guilmo rodriguez from department of environment. >> thank you. guilmo rodriguez from the department. the department requests the committee's recommendation for approval of a & e item in amount of $156,000 to support the city's energy watch program. since 2010 when the city initiated the energy watch program the departments provided about 5.2 million in incentives for over 1,600 businesses and multifamily buildings in san francisco, resulting in a savings of about $6.8 million annually for energy needs. this $156,000 is an augmentation to our current program. the contract is through the end of this calendar year. it is to support our continued specifically our out days reach program in order to get more subscribers into our overall program. again, it is our outreach services. i will take the opportunity to share with the committee that the department plans to come back in the next few weeks with an ad

i am here in palo alto tonight where at this pacific gas station the price for regular gas shot up 24esterday. and it will only get worse. gas prices shot up today. and according to petroleum analyst gas buddy.com the spike is california specific. they blame low fuel production on august she have respect refinery fire in richmond, high pressure in toerns power surge at exxon mobile and maintenance on crude oil pipe in southern california >> all of these refinery issues coming together at the same time l essentially the perfect storm if you will. >>reporter: pricey storm gas buddy.com says is driving up wholesale gas prices for retailers. who are then raising prices at the pump. >> there is not a shortage per se. there is more a perception of shortages. ds price and oil forecaster insist the reason for the current gas price surge are false. >> everybody is jack up their wholesale prices not because of current shortages but washington they anticipate to be shortages. >>reporter: he says consumers are being held hostage by shortage scare that doesn't exist. but everyone agrees prices are

i am here in palo alto tonight where at this pacific gas station the price for regular gas shot up 24 cents since yesterday. and it will only get worse. gas prices shot up today. and according to petroleum analyst gas buddy.com the spike is california specific. they blame low fuel production on august she have respect refinery fire in richmond, high pressure in toerns power surge at exxon mobile and maintenance on crude oil pipe in southern california >> all of these refinery issues coming together at the same time l essentially the perfect storm if you will. >>reporter: pricey storm gas buddy.com says is driving up wholesale gas prices for retailers. who are then raising prices at the pump. >> there is not a shortage per se. there is more a perception of shortages. >>reporter: it was price and oil forecaster insist the reason for the current gas price surge are false. >> everybody is jack up their wholesale prices not because of current shortages but washington they anticipate to be shortages. >>reporter: he says consumers are being held hostage by shortage scare that doesn't exist.

francisco public utilities commission general manager enter into a long-term interconnection with pacific gas & electric for solar power project on alvarado elementary pursuant to san francisco charter 918b. >> this is by supervisor wiener who wanted to speak but in his place is andre powers to speak on his behalf. >> good afternoon, supervisors. this allows the san francisco puc enter agreement with pg&e, first alert project that's already been installed at alvarado elementary, a resolution authorizing that installation came before the board earlier in the year. essentially this would allow for these solar panels to be turned on. john doyle from the puc is here if you have any questions. thank you. >> thank you. good afternoon, supervisors. about three years ago the pta at alvarado school was extremely interested in a solar project in terms of educational value for the students. at that time they did approach the puc about doing a project. as a consequence of that, and after a lot of discussion, development and work, we did actually proceed with a project at the alvarado school. it is a 50 k

public utilities commission general manager to enter into a long-term interconnection agreement with pacific gas & electric company for a solar power project at the alvarado elementary school. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. president. this is part 2 of the pilot of putting solar panels on top of alvarado elementary school. now this will allow for the interconnection agreement. this we believe will be the first example of what will hopefully be a trend of placing solar panels on public schools. in addition to promoting clean energy, there will be an educational component for children to learn about solar energy. so i'm proud to be sponsoring this resolution and i'm proud that the first school will be at alvarado in mill valley. thank you, colleagues. same hughes, same call. this resolution is adopted [ gavel ] . >> item 120 [#20*-/], authorizing the mayor's office of house doing to accept and expend fy2011 kal home grant to assist first-time homebuyers and heroins. >> same house, same call this resolution is adopted. >> item 21 authorizing the san francisco department of public health to

here with me today is kirk johnson, to my left, vice president of gas transmissions from pacific gas and electric. next to him is don boland, executive director of california utilities emergency association. next to him is david brig, regional and local water system manager for the san francisco public utilities commission and finally but not least, romel an jell lus, manager for san francisco wireless. i have drafted several questions for our panel to answer and will hopefully have time at the end to take questions from the audience. before we start our panel discussion, i wanted it share with you what we are doing in san francisco to advance our lifeline's resilence we are the first major u.s. city to (inaudible) post katrina where he saw firsthand where a critical role these systems played in the city's recovery. i am honored to chair the council because i feel it's crucial that the public sector work side by side with our private sector partners to do everything we can today to ensure we will meet the needs of our residents in the days, weeks and years after a disaster. the objec

. >> there is a judge postponing a hearing to determine how much pacific gas and electric should be fined for the explosion. the california public utilities commission wants the hearing suspended so it can negotiate a deal in private upsetting assemblyman jerry hill. and the judge will decide next monday whether to delay the hearing. >> you could see relief at the gas pump, the governor allowing refineries to begin producing a cheaper winter blend of gasoline, shell martinez oil refinery tells axe bc 7 news it will make the switch as soon as it can but cautions it's not as easy as just flipping a switch. there is a live report on when we can see prices drop is at 5:00. >> and there are investigators looking for clues in a murder of a herk kul use -- hercules woman. her family says she was stabbed. police spent the day combing her home for clues. the family and frendz will held a memorial vij yint yil tonight at 8:30. and there is an update coming up at 5:00. >> there is a search for an armed man who fondle aid woman in the east bay this morning in eastern contra costa county around 6:00.

the cpuc wants to hold closed door sessions with pacific gas and electric.t had decision saying cpuc cannot be trusted to geesh yait a fair deal. >> the puc should ab shamed. for two years, the residents of san bruno had been waiting for hearings to take place in public. >> pg&e spokesperson says the to approve a month-long delay in the hearing. >> a bay area scientist who revel yugsized the field of stem cell#;e research is a nobel prize winner tonight. he won thec prize for discovering a way to turn adult cells back into equivalent of stem cells. applauseñr from san francisco reached him all the way in japan. the now famous researcher celebrated news via teleconference with his colleagues. six years ago, he discovered a way to turn adult skin cells into the he qent level of embryonic stem cells. it provides an alternative from harvesting from human embryos. he told me that the ethical debate is helping drive his research. >> well, is why, and how i've got interested in reprogramming. >> the colleague says his technique led to major advances including abili

story on georgia pacific where they now have a social media policy that's very restrictive they say that you can't post anything even if it's non-work related the first poorly and general ga pacific which is owned by the koch brothers brand of reputation and this includes talking about the owners of georgia pacific the koch brothers so some workers have been told that they are posting too much about the koch brothers and it is being too political and that we had a worker who blew the whistle on the koch brothers in a story that mark ames and. streeter who was denied a promotion despite having a very good score on his evaluation and it was written as a valuation that he talked about politics too much and we're pushing this is a real scary trend that employers are increasing their free speech rights to pressure their employees on the election while limiting the free speech rights of their employees to talk about their political views it really does seem like they're trying to control the message and i know that all of this is possible as far as limiting speech goes but as i mentioned earlier the national labor relations act and it's also extending as i understand into the s

s notify their employees letters going ga pacific the koch brothers and whatnot used to be that we have laws that you know an employer can say their employees please do this job this way but not you know they basically couldn't harass them whether it was sexual harassment or political harassment and citizens united blew up the political harassment part of that made it legal. how how is this how is this not coercion well it's not first off this much ado about nothing you want your job if you vote for this guy who that's not true what he said in this he said to employers or employees what you think is in the best interest employer isn't going to be but walking down the street with a guy to the booth and watching him vote and then even knowing exactly how he voted and second the big problem i see with this is that he didn't say go tell your employees to vote for me he didn't call for them to say indorse me think it is employed what i'm going to doe ballance the. obama bumper sticker and as his cubicle or his place of work or. hop in here i don't really think it's that big of a deal either

pacific northwest. >>> the state where gas prices are soaring this morning. 5 bucks a gallon could be in sight. we'll tell you where. >>> and forget free. facebook wants you to pay to make sure that your friends read your posts. >>> and later in the show, the breakout star of the denver debate is, yeah, that big fellow right there. the one and only big bird. >>> welcome back, everybody. well, millions of california drivers are facing some pretty serious sticker shock. a pipeline closure and refinery problems have sent gas prices there to the highest ever for this time of year. up 5 cents in a day, to an average of $4.23 a gallon. and get this. it could climb another 30 cents by this time next week. this comes even as gas prices actually fall for most of the country. >>> nasdaq is investigating an unusual price spike in shares of kraft foods, in what could be another high-profile glitch. it canceled some of wednesday's trades after kraft shares surged 29% in one minute. nasdaq isn't giving details. it says it's looking into potentially erroneous transactions. >>> government investigators are out

twenty eighteen as the company says the far east capacitances will allow it to set up gas supplies to asia pacific equal to that of the european ones now perhaps potentially even bigger but this is on to the russian markets and see what's happening this tuesday off the new we also looking at the kleins just. for the choppy day of trade with. red great all day long brady march the issue because wall street is closed and it's closed for the second day and that's because the financial district is a flooded of course because of hurricane sandy you could record saying use self care in such a situation at the moment we don't know if they're going to be open again on wednesday so there's no international data except for what's happening in europe's mishap with the european stocks and it's who is going on because we all the king getting is just that and that's because a lot of massive companies today have revealed that corporate results i'm talking about being paid i'm also talking about bank with u.b.s. as well switzerland biggest bank as well posting a for a hefty guy. as well that's all to raise in tha

by twenty eighteen become but he says the far east capacities will allow it to seattle gas supplies to asia pacific equal to the current european ones or perhaps potentially even bigger. check out there is then here in russia because they philosophized and they get down into negative territory today it's going to choke previous session very much a yo yo effect here in moscow today we do have a thin volumes and that's because street is closed the front to district is flooded because of the hurricane sandy right now says not a lot of international momentum to keep the market alive for europe then awarded to wear the clothes on wall street because they are the connect carries a mass because in their domestic part they've got companies the second biggest oil company to be paid also do it as well the largest said germany reporting earnings topping estimates u.b.s. as well also its men's biggest bank another one up over five percent and that's after raising profitability gold that always in turn but the euro is doing rather well as well is heading north on the root ball continues the session with a mixed

by twenty eighteen but the company says the far east capacities will allow it to set up gas supplies to asia pacific equal to the current amount european ones or even bigger. this stay with us if it and shake out the equities because they are managing to hold on to the modest gaze just want to mention the fact the trading volumes are indeed thin today because street is closed for the second day and that's because the financial districts thought it because of the hurricane sandy the european markets they've been trading for about twenty five minutes and we all looking at gains just now i want to mention a few corporate results already financials a particular bank u.b.s. as well also b p europe second biggest company as well for posting significant gains as well and that's why we're not following on from what we saw in asia earlier on in the session let's check out the euro then it's continuing northward journey we can see the ruble is mixed and russia has moves the privatization process of our biggest seaports we're going to talk about that a little later on for you but right now into time i believe

company says the far east pasties will allow it to set up gas supplies to the asia pacific equal to the current european ones are. and bigger. but investors were not very much impressed with these numbers that the sums of money the gas from those willing to spend now all together this session was quite negative with my six down point seven percent this is as. well prices are still at around eighty five dollars per barrel not good for russia's budget and also investors are trying to play safe ahead of a long weekend ahead of the elections crucial lections in the united states of basically choosing rather to sell them to buy but speaking of gas probably it was down more than two percent of the close among the main movers on the my six it was one of the biggest losing stocks the bucking the trend up more than one percent of the close it's negotiating with the t. and k b p that is buying out all sorts of purchases its assets in venezuela from the national petroleum corporation and over in europe we are seeing a positive assertion at the close call close to the close with the on the dax up a

the company says the far east capacities will allow it to set up gas supplies to the asia pacific equal to current european ones or even bigger but investors were not happy with the news because it means more spending coming from gazprom and as you can see the r.t.s. on my six ended the day on a negative note to investors trying to play it safe ahead of the u.s. elections coming up this weekend ahead of a long weekend in russia and among the movers gazprom was one of the worst stocks down two and a half percent on the back of these of the worries that additional spending on these massive projects like nordstrom and this one will cost it and eats into the companies david was never however was bucking the trend it was up almost one percent as it's in negotiations with t. and k b p a company that is buying over to purchase their assets in venezuela over on the european market we've had the. a pretty positive session with the footsie and the dax up around one percent at the close that's greeks prime minister has said that he could see a sions with the troika on the bailout program have been

thousand and eighteen the company says the far east pasties will allow it to set up gas supplies to the asia pacific equal to the current european ones or even bigger there's basically echoes the calls of the russian president vladimir putin at the apec summit to move towards the eastern market pacific markets let's take a look at. what's happening with stocks actually gazprom is one of the worst performers today is down more than two percent but that's is kind of in line of what was been happen has been happening in investors' heads as soon as the gastro my now says that it's spending billions and billions of more dollars on new projects then therefore dividends will be cut as profits will become lower and therefore investors are dumping the stock is now down around two percent while the market as you can see the is down point six percent pretty bad day for russia unlike in europe where we're actually seeing some positive dynamics with the footsie and the dax of within one percent and that's despite a surge in germany's unemployment actually a lot of companies have been reporting good profits like

east with more gas as well it's that will allow the country to set up liquefied natural gas supplies in the asia pacific and not sit for business spotlight it's got an interview with a nobel prize winning guests on some a ways of protecting the environment stay with us for our. voles fifteen goats. to kells. fourteen kilograms of rice one thousand flatbreads. and a live. but why is the bride in a bad mood. to tell the groom smelt the bomb. is a done deal. he . says. to me speak your language of. programs and documentaries in arabic in school here on all t.v. reporting from the world's hot spots to feel at peace interviews intriguing stories for you. the choice of see arabic to find out more visit our big don't all teeth don't call him. play. however again they're welcome to spotlight the interview show on r t m l granada and today my guest rodney out ecologists a energy production and consumption are among the most dangerous human activities in terms of environment the humanity has been burning gas all the coal responsibly for decades but now it seems the situation is changing more and more a kludge equ

russia's east with more gas as well as allow the country to set up a liquefied natural gas supplies to the asia pacific maybe on russia has a lot c privatized a should a process of its biggest seaport n c s p now the state has started talks with possible investors intending to sell the whole twenty percent in the have no stake is currently estimated at three hundred fifty million dollars and is expected to be offered in both moscow and london in that box. and that's how the business lives from a finale got my chis a coming up next he's going to be ruffling a few feathers of the richest one percent that's in the cards or for stay with our teeth about. which is slow often enough and knows that to ride a horse you've got to catch it first. for him it's a daily routine that just softens a force on the island of horn at the heart of. his life on an isolated farm is about blue sky green grass and his horse is what sometimes it gets lonely here but horses have become part of me now i've fallen off so many times sometimes. it's part of my everyday life. been home to it rats like me just laugh for centuries mos

will provide russia with gas as well as allow the country to set up liquefied natural gas supplies to the asia pacific this check out of your prices while we're on energy right now and you can see they are low we're now looking at a three month low for routes. really taking effect that trees in the u.s. now russia has launched the privatization process of its biggest seaports and c s p the states themselves talk to possible investors intending to sell the whole twenty percent in the hope the stake is currently estimated of three hundred fifty million dollars and is expected to be offered in both most. from basis ahead also the break we try to find out the answer to the syrian standoff with the head of the russians parliament's foreign affairs committee. the legacy no one should be proud. of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spewing black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the bergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture the guiding principle here is the worse the better locals like to tell the s

eighteen now the company says the following is capacities that will allow it to set up gas supplies to the asia pacific and that it's going to be equal to the current european ones or even bigger than that side that check out the russian x. the markets see what is going on and trading is thin today there's not a lot going on in the lawsuit because of what's happening in wall street we know that the whole of the financial district is indeed flooded because of hurricane sandy hook but now the gains are increasing with what about the hope of the r.t.s. the my six here in moscow the european stocks are rising in the us as companies from europe second biggest oil company b.p. to germany's largest and adore each a bank report earnings are just playing as stigmas and u.b.s. switzerland's biggest bank jumped over five point six percent after raising up profitability goes about eight tenth's of percent of the dax for the footsie it sticks just that meanwhile the euro continues its upward direction and it's getting harder up the road the last of that one twenty five for the ruble it remains and makes. i do belie

but he says the far east capacities will allow it to set up gas supplies to the asia pacific equal to current european ones or even bigger. so you know what's happening on the markets well the market in general is going a bit down over the my six declining of the us. then this in the back of still world prices stocks like gazprom for example are down more than two percent stake look at some of the main movers on the m i six it's indeed down more than two percent two and a quarter to be exact there we are in the middle and this is because basically investors are worried that another forty eight billion dollar project that's not a very expensive nord stream pipeline which is also said to get its virgin full flight now these big projects will of course cut into dividends of the company and the verses are not happy about that rosneft on the other hand is up more than one percent this hour this is on the back of news that b.p. which rosneft is buying out is now in negotiations with rosneft to sell its stake in the in a venezuelan oil company enters burbank the most active stock on the mark

pacific basin. >>> -- report out this morning shows gas prices in san francisco average $4.74 for regular.akland and san jose, $4.68 a penny or two higher since yesterday. governor brown has ordered immediate action urging the selling of cheaper winter blend to start earlier. senator nine stein has asked the fed -- the ftc to investigate. >>> this morning authorities in placer county are looking for the thieves who made off with $one -- with 1,000 gallons of gasoline in roseville outside of sacramento they disappeared a meter at a shell station and pumped 300 gallons into a pick-up truck. they came back twice for additional 700 gallons. the owner says he's out about $4500. >>> oakland land police trying to solve mystery of a dead body found in a parked car. no word on the man's name or manner of death. >>> first nobel prizes of the year being announced in sweden this morning. two winners in medicine. the committee says the two have revolutionize the understanding of how cells and organisms develop. other awards will be announced throughout the week. >>> president obama making a last dash f

twenty eighteen governor says the first the far east capacities will allow it to set up gas supplies to the age of pacific equal to current european ones or even bigger. well a second of all what's happening on the markets today over just in general in the r.t.s. m i six been pretty flat but flat to negative or most of the session with m i six losing around half a percent that's as oil prices still remain quite low and investors also being quite cautious ahead of the u.s. elections russia will also not be trading on the first day after the elections on the fourth of november so they're playing it safe mostly but on the on the my sex among interesting stocks and gas from after this project as you can see is down worse than the markets one of the was stocks actually today it's down more than two percent as investors are worried that another forty or so billion dollars spent on another project will be eating into the company's dividends and therefore that's why they do not see this as good news ross snapped is up one percent better than the market that says it's negotiating with the n.k. b.p. which is buying

billionaire coke brothers sent an e-mail to the georgia pacific workers saying if obama is re-elected you can see pam pant inflation higher gas prices. similar tunes at other companies including aic software solutions, lax enterprises and everybody heard from the owner of west gate last week warning of possible job cuts if president obama is elected. >>> microsoft is unveiling an i tune competition. explain. >> xbox music essentially is a streaming music service in time for the holidays. the caveat is it will work on xbox and windows 8 phones and tablets not windows 7. this is a slap in the face for pandora as they are trying to up the game with the holiday dollars just in time for christmas and hanukkah. >> usually you are in studio with us but today you are downtown. what are you doing down there? >> it's national boss day. everybody say something nice to your boss. or maybe you want to dump them. hi, chris. chris is our lovely boss today. we are going to dunk him. two out of three workers according to a new survey said that they not only do not like their boss, they would rather get a new boss over a pay raise. there's so

pacific ships powder river basin western coal. that's the cheapest coal. so cheap that when natural gas goes above $3 like now and it's made a real beach head there, the utilities switch to this coal. they need fuel, and they'll go with coal. up has tons of auto exposure and a lot of this is new. oil, as it's the one rail that's really moved aggressively in the bakken and the eagle ford patches. ones that lack much you get the oil to the market. i like that. i always like the fact that stocks come down to levels much cheaper than where it's been historically. as the company continues to reprice contracts higher that's able to raise earnings. union pacific it's open and the one i'm going to toss to. only if it's down will i toss to it. i'm worried about one defensive back out there and that's the chart which indicates that union pacific won't be able to hold on to the ball. otherwise i'll keep the ball myself. maybe dump it off into cash. remember, you don't always need to pass it. the bottom line, i have now completed my check down of fourth quarter opportunities based on the third quar

pacific. >>> and now we move on to something at the top of minds for so many voters, the price of gasoline and tonight we see a dramatic drop in gas prices across the country. the new national average now $3.69 a gallon. that is a drop of 13 cents in one week. the largest this nation has seen in four years and drivers in the midwest saw the biggest drop of all, the average price of a gallon of gas in the midwest has gone down 20 cents in one week to $3.49 a gallon. >>> and next that mass shooting at a salon in wisconsin and the new details tonight about a woman, a wife who was living in terror. the gunman had a history of domestic violence. his wife begged for help. she got a restraining order. but tonight the 1 million women with restraining orders are would be dering what does it take to keep them safe. alex perez has the story. >> reporter: xina haughton lived life in fear that her husband would kill her. he threatened to throw acid in my face and burn me and my family with gas she told investigators as she sought a restraining order. his threats terrorized my every waking moment. and as she talked to authorities she feared the

president is re-elected you want to do union pacific which is the stock that has held up better than any. tim in montana, please. tim? >> caller: my oil and gas've been negative on in the past. have you recently revisited ioc, interoil. >> look, i know the company, it's kind of a wild card in the business. the oil business has been bad lately. that's why i'm looking for yield. i'm going for conoco. oil and gas stocks have been terrible of late. let's go to john in illinois, please, john? >> caller: big hello sandy boo-yeah to you. >> nice. >> nuan, nuance technology. >> voice recognition, maybe it's because of the herb greenberg in me. i've been suspicion and wary of voice recognition stocks. i can't get behind it. greg in alabama. greg? >> caller: what do you think about united states oil fund? uso? >> no, no, no. we're not going to buy any of those ones that are -- these don't work. in "getting back to even" i explain why they don't work. i need you in an oil and gas company. i'm sensitive to conoco. by the way, i think you can do that lnco, holds up well. and they've got a good yield. abraham in south carolina. >> caller: hey, jim. man, i

gas in new york, connecticut and new hampshire are also high for the year. and drivers in the pacific northwest are feeling the pinch, as well. experts say refinery issues have created tight supplies. in california, power problems took exxon's plant out of commission early last week, and a fire at a richmond refinery in august added to a shortfall already created by pipeline problems. some independent station owners citing the high cost of wholesale fuel has even stopped selling gas altogether. >> i hate to say this, but it looks like i'm going to shut it down, you know, after all these years in the business, close to 30 years. >> reporter: but analysts say fuel prices may level off this week now that operations are back on line at the exxon plant. >> it means more supply, which means the wholesale market will start to calm down a little bit, and that will bring prices down for the retail market, as well. >> reporter: in fact, some stations that saw dramatic price spikes near $6 a gallon earlier this week are already starting to lower them, and there's a saying that oil experts often