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

the peak -- the peak surcharge. he's also suggesting reducing discounts on off-peak route fares, a dime increase on local bus fares, and a 25-cents increase on parking fees. the budget also includes a proposed $53 million, an 8% increase from maryland, d.c., and virginia. the money would accelerate the national safety board's recommendations and also the rebuilding of metro and the car replacement work they've been doing. the general manager is saying better is not free. he says that the system is playing catchup and better that metro benefits all of his stakeholders and says that's what he's trying to do. before any of the proposals can happen, there have to be public hearings. those are scheduled for february. the board is going to have to make a final decision by july. live this morning, back to you all in the studio. >> all right. thank you. >>> and stay tuned to "news4 today." coming up at 6:42, metro general manager and ceo richard sarles will join us live to discuss the details this proposed fare hike. >>> to

starting with smartcard users, he wants to eliminate the peak of peak or p.o.p. surcharge but wants to increase peak period smart-trip fares a maximum of 5% with a maximum fare of $5.75. he wants to increase off-peak fare to $3.50. there's a change for paper fare card pricing. a $6 flat fare during peak periods and $4 fare for off-peek periods. he wants to eliminate the short trip pass and day pass. here's are the proposed changes for bus riders. he wants to increase smart-trip local bus fares by a time to $1.60. it will cost $2 for local limited stops and $4 for the express bus. he's saying that all of these increases should add up to $60 million in revenue for metro. before this can be approved, the folks have to say it's okay. there is to be public hearings, february and in march. the board's going to have to make a final decision by july. he's saying that all of these fare changes will make metro's fares simpler to understand, but of course, sounds like he wants to make it more expensive. live in chinatown. back to you in the studio. >> and riders will have a

charge metro calls peak of the peak would go away. metro would offset the loss with the increase to the off- peak fare and the per mileage rate. >>> metro's ceo and general manager richard sarles will join us in the studio this morning to talk about the fare hike. you can catch that interview here on fox 5 at 7:30. >>> page county public school will open two hours late today. >>> our big story this morning, the first primary under way in new hampshire. coming up next, we know all the big name on the ballot but what about the lesser known candidates. we'll run down the entire list including who is running in the democratic primary. stay with us. sore throat pain can be dreadful. cepacol gives powerful lasting relief, because the numbing medicine in cepacol is the maximum strength you can get without a prescription. tame your painful sore throat with cepacol. >>> a ship that has been stuck on a reef off new england is breaking up. cargo ship split in two and there is now a sheen of oil coming out of it and almost 300 containers have spi

fares and that dreadful peak of the peak so unpopular when instituted two years ago, would go away thisis what the general manager is proposing it still needs to be discussed by the full amount of board, that will be brought to them on thursday. this comes as metro has $120 million budget short fall they want you to use fare increases combined with increased donations, allocations from local jurisdictions but that doesn't begin to make any improvements, by adding cars and improving esculators, metro is trying to think of a creative way to come up with extra money. fare increases are rarely popular with riders especially since there have been so -- there have been so many problems. a piece of braking system fell off a metro train. we will have a chance to talk with the ceo and general manager he will be here 7:30 a.m. this morning we will not only cover the fare increases but numerous other questions many of you have regarding metro and its service stay tuned for that coming up 7:30 a.m. back to you. >> thank you very much. steve. >>> some other stories we are following a former ups woke

things including the unpopular, peak of the peak fare that would be abolished under this new proposal this goes to the board thursday, this will be a lot of debate and consideration the final plan h likely be enacted by summer time. i am stacey cohappen back to you >> i like your music stacey. >>> track work will shut down two stations on metro's blue and orange line over the holiday weekened, shuttles will be used to help riders around the center southwest and other stations, expect single tracking on the red line. >> alison looks like may 15th is the earliest possible date dc can hold a special election to replace former councilmember harry thomas junior, leaving ward 5 residents worried how to get back on track hundreds gathered at a meeting last night voicing concerns over recent events thomas e-mailed his resignation last week after pleading guilty to federal embezzlement charges but he has yet to hand in his official written letter of resignation board of elections can't legally declare thomas' council seat vacantuntil they get the letter. >>> a former ups worker, due to appear

parking would go up and paper fare cards, $6 during peak hours, $4 in off peak hours, a surcharge during the busiest periods on weekdays eliminated and a few riders could pay less. >> if you travel during the peak of the peak today which most of our regular customers do going to work, those people will see no increase. fares will actually decrease. >>> mark your calendar for a special election in the district. laura evans is everywhere at 11:00. >> the d.c. board of elections officially received a resignation letter from former councilman harry thomas, jr. that legally now clearing the way for the election may 15th to replace him. the council member stepped down last week after pleading guilty to embezzling more than $350,000 in government funding. >>> a new sign is hanging saying free bradley manning. supporters of the army private put it up there. manning is charged with turning over tens of thousands of documents and putting them on wikileaks. he is now waiting on charges. >>> reports tonight that the compound in pakistan where osama bin laden lived nearly a decade will be knocked dow

in rsv activity and within a couple of weeks, see a second peak of influenza activity. rsv always comes first. >> reporter: at silicon valley pediatricians in los gatos, doctors say she has had to admit several children to the hospital for another respiratory illness. >> we have had some very sick children who have been wheezing as a result of these -- some of these viruses and so when they wheeze it is a process very similar to asthma. their airways are smaller. they can't get good breath. can't get their breath out. it leaves them prone to having pneumonia on top of that. that's what we are seeing. >> reporter: so, how do you protect yourself? doctors say use hand sanitizer frequently and be sure to get a flu vaccine. the best medicine is prevention. and it is not too late to get your flu vaccine but you need to get it now. it takes at least two weeks in order for you to get full protection. i did check around, i called a lot of pharmacist and drug stores and also i called a lot of doctors offices and they have plenty of vaccine in supply. reporting live in santa clar

to give you an example, in terms of the normal load that the city has, it has peaked at certain points in time. say a certain time of year or a certain time of day, there is a maximum peaking point, if your capacity has to match that, you're going to pay a price that represents the peak power that will have to be produced. if you have a build-out plan with energy efficiency and demand reduction measures that shaves down the peak in a substantial way, then, presumably the price you pay for power should be different because you're not having to contract for the same level of capacity that you did before. i am just trying to express in a way were the information that is being developed now could conceivably have an impact on what you decide to contract a few months down the line. that was the notion of making the contracts that are contingent upon those studies. i think what you're expressing is the commitment to move forward with a local build-out plan and a longer term plan in clearly would not be in your interest once you have that landing to the contract with terms that are into that

peak civilization 147 a barrel. the second major event copenhagen, 2009, our world leaders from 192 countries assemble and their mission is to address climate change. this is not a metaphor if you're an engineer here. we are paying the bill. the first and second industrial revolution we used massive amounts of carbon. we spewed massive of c02 into the atmosphere and the short and the long of it, now we have so much c02 up there and nightus oxide and methane, it's blocking the atmosphere. so when the sun's heat hits the earth, the heat tries to radiate back off the planet. it hits all those c02 moll kills and it forces it back down. how bad is it? it's much worse than we're being told. in 2007, our scientists in the u.n. panel on climate change issued their long-awaited assessment report. i was in paris. it was published in paris. president chirac asked me to come to ask me the question, what does the world economy do now? and the first thing i had to say to the world leaders is that i'd gotten it wrong for 30 years

that would be $6 during peak, $4 for off peak periods. the in new budget would allow metro to hire about a thousand workers. now, this is not a done deal by any stretch. this would all have to be approved by the board. there would have to be public hearings. those would happen sometime in february and march. if approved, however, these changes, increases could be seen come july the 19. a lot of folks not happy with metro service and reliability. they say they don't want to pay more given how things are with metro at this point. back to you in the studio. >> megan mcgrath, live in the northwest. thank you. >>> d.c. cabbies are unhappy. they want even higher rates. last month the taxi cap commission proposed raising rates and some surcharges would be eliminated. cab drivers are also angry with proposed chachbls to cab regulations which would require all new cabs to be less than five years old. the new rules could take effect as early as february. >>> 6:06. two years ago today a massive earthquake devastated one of the world's poorest countr

peak fares will stay the same and those peak of the peak fares that were created a couple of years ago, those are going to go away. this is a part of a plan to cover a $124 million budget shortfall. it comes just a couple of years after some steep fare hikes that sent passengers reeling for a while. the general manager is expected to present this plan to the board on thursday. there was no fare increase last year and this entire package of fare hikes has to be approved by the full board before it can be set into motion. reporting live, i'm stacy cohan. back to you. >> thank you. >>> coming up a little later on this morning, metro's ceo and wren manager richard sarles will join us live in the studio to talk about the proposed fare hikes. can you catch that interview at 7:30. >>> a packed plane makes an emergency landing. up next, details of what caused the panic. >>> plus, a woman says she was forced to rob a bank to free her husband from hostages. that story. coming up next. one woman, one powerful savings tool, one chance to hunt down the right insurance at the right price. the "name

labor and business. >> go ahead, steve. >> well, i would point out that the peak of our powers, the peak of our power may be industrially was in the 50's, but that's because most of our economy was in-- >> i would say the peak of our economic power ramped up after the 50's as the unions are in decline as they have been in the 30 or 40 years and you only need to look at the demise of let's see, big stealings big auto. garment manufacturing and airlines and see the crippling affects and jonas points out the government, you want that to be the icon of how great unionization is? come on, steve. >> matt, there was recently an issue with the national labor relations board and boeing, for example, that even before these recess appointments, so, there is some, there might be some confusion in companies, in big companies about what they can do. >> yeah, i mean, and steve talked about them not having much power. i think they have much more power than a lot of us perceive. when it comes to boeing, from one state to another. to me, that's very important. because, as a private company should be able

here on the screen we can already see some kind of peak right the peak is the water temperature inside the kettle we can even see it in more detail these peaks are processed by a device which should then determines whether a fire to employees or norms to prep the optic fibers for detection a method called bragg grading is employed this involves a laser edging a pattern of the core of the fiber this changes the way impulses travel along the length of the fiber certain wavelengths are reflected back to the impulse source others continue along this is to get specific data from every section of the fiber and this does it much faster than traditional detectors fibers like this could be used to relate an ever growing amount of data helping us better monitor conditions remotely and same. if you live in a metropolitan area chances are under constant attack. or favor. their potential to do long term harm. in terms of. for example. cigarette smoke is no longer the nuisance and thready can be. the potential for filters is huge. everywhere. different places. people. hold filtration devices. which

of the peak surcharge being no small change. >> in my mind eliminating peak of the peak at the cost of $12 million, at the same time suggesting a $7 million bus increase needs substantial explanation. reporter: metro's proposed budget would make up the loss by raising base fares on rail and buses. paper fare cards that pay the most 4 or six dollars one way. board members weren't thrilled. >> i am very concerned that riders within the district who are visitors are going to flow the taxicabs and circulator bus in enormous numbers. reporter: from this school group in russberg, virginia, it would cost the students 40 to $60. >> i kind of feel like that's a little too much because right now people are just trying to get by. reporter: or for the stark family it means no souvenirs. >> we'll be spending all the money on train fare. reporter: the $160 million increase pays for more than 1,000 new workers even though the agency has about 1,000 vacancies. >> i don't believe there's a snowball's chance in hell of closing the current vacancy gap, increasing the authorized hire number and filling

he calls reaching the peak a magical moment. >> even a bigger accomplishment feeling was felt when he came down to base camp. an even bigger one when i came back home safe and sound. >> romero from the southern california town of big bear says he's not done climbing. now he set his sights of reaching the peak of the highest mountain in all 50 states. >>> there is intense mountains in san francisco staphyloma neighborhood. >>> and a former real estate agent under arrest on burglar charges. how a 12-year-old east bay girl helped capture the suspect.

fast and as part of the budget proposals, metro's finance committee agreed to look at whether the peak-of-the-peak surcharge on should stay. it brings in $12 million a year and several members were not thrilled about raising prices for visitors whoous paper fare cards and they would go up to $4 offpeek and $6 peak. >> $6 per trip for a family of four is $24 and if do you that in a couple of days, you are in -- . >> and i echo my colleague's comments about making sure the paper card issue is fully vetted. >> and that committee is recommending that metro consider a surcharge on paper fares instead of a flat fare or to create a two-zone system for the paper fare cards. no decisions will be made until june and that is after the public hearings. any increase won't happen until july. >>> send us your video to fox5.com. >>> the gun fire rang out around 9:30 in front of an elementary school and that is not far from the other schools. the parents showed up saying thigh they knew something like this would happen and are demanding more police enforcements. >> and they need to put an end to it. doesn't make s

peaks are processed by our device which should then determines whether a fire to employees or not. to prep the optic fibers for detection a method called bragg grading is employed this involves a laser i-ching a pattern of the core of the fiber this changes the way impulses travel along the length of the fiber certain wavelengths are reflected back to the impulse source others continue along this allows us to get specific data from every section of the fiber and this does it much faster than traditional detectors fibers like this could be used to relay an ever growing amount of data helping us better monitor conditions remotely and same. if you live in a metropolitan area chances are under constant attack. there are potential to do long term harm. in terms of. for example. the potential for filters is huge. everywhere. different places. people. situations. which is something. that we had. in the past. best defenses against those pesky. first. to make installation east. here. but often simply catching the particles isn't enough to significantly reduce the risk of infection in hospit

>> the sun has a cycle of activity that runs from peak to peak over 11 years.'re on the way up towards the peak of that activity. during this peak, these kinds of activities are not so rare. we'll see more of them as we get closer to the 2013 peak. >> how worried should we be if these storms become more intense? >> there particular storm is a medium class storm. it's very high in its class right up next to the highest class of storms. this particular one is probably not going to cause too much trouble. when we get to the x class storms, those are the ones that we have to be concerned about. disruption in wireless communication, disturbance to our power transmission systems including satellite transmissions. >> derrick thank you. >> my pleasure. >>> up next, going for oscar gold. we'll take a look at the surprises and the snubs. the academy award nominations are announced. >>> there's a lot going on today. here are some of the things we thought you should know. you might remember barney frank made headlines when he sported a t-shirt and jacket on the house floor

dropping that peak surcharge is no small change. >> in my mind, eliminating the peak-of-the-peak, the cost of $12 million at the same time and suggesting a $7 million budges increase. substantial explanation. >> reporter: metro's proposed budget would make up the loss by raising base fares on rail and buses. it's visitors who use paper fare cars that pay the most, four or $6 one way. the board members weren't thrilled. >> i am very concerned that riders within the district and visiters are going to slow the taxi cabs and the circulator bus and enormous numbers. >> reporter: for the school group from virginia, it would cost the 10 students $40 to $60. >> and i feel like that is a look too much, i guess and right now, people are trying to get by. >> reporter: or for the family, it means no souvenirs. >> and spending aught of the money on train fare. >> reporter: $116 million budget increase pays for more than 1,000 new workers, even though the agency has about 1,000 vacancies. >> i don't believe there is a snow ball's chance in hell of closingd current vacancy -- closing the current vik

it also eliminates the peak of the peak surcharge. i hope that you are writing all these down. >> i got the first two. >> that's a lot of numbers. i decided to write two more down. but i figured i would share this with folks today. that's a 6 and a 0. >> oh yeah. >> did you mean that? >> i did. >> are you going to take it away? >> no. are you going to give it and keep it there? >> yes. after tomorrow. but you will be able to enjoy it. i mean, 55 today, we were not trying hard. let's start with a live look outside. we're talking about temperatures still in the 60s downtown. the temperatures, they are kind of a wide range of temperatures. temperatures in the 50s and the 40s. i need to load this up so standby. we'll take a live look outside. now, everybody will see the temperatures go up overnight. and in fact, we'll see the temperatures rise dramatically by the time you get into the 4:00 to 5:00 hour in the morning. 52 right now. winds are northeast at 5. pressure is still falling. all right. we'll talk about showers, shall we? this is

because for the past seven years, the average price movement from the beginning of the year to thh peakthe year has been 93 cents per gallon. 3 2011 closed out as the highest yearly average ever for motor gasoline- $3.513, a whopping 72.6-cents per gallon higher than the average price for 2010. for the average american that means an extra 400 dollars at the pump crude is more than 100 dollars a barrell again... and only three months ago it was less than 80 a barrell. why??? it's all about speculation. the turmoil in the mmddle east with iraq and iran has specclators betting the prices will go higher becaase ppoduction could decrease soon in these countries.... and then the price of oil reacts to these sseculators even though these changes in the middle east haven't happen yet, and may never happen. 2044 ever sinne we pulled out of iraq, we've actually seen iraq increase prrduction .... many are fearful that could cause instabilitt in that country and consequently make crude oil prices higher. 20:57 20:57 all of this is even beforee you factor in a potential state gas tax hike. 3 experts

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their mission to keep the mountain peaks clear and see. it's been snowing heavily in sochi this weekend for a good new person but what may seem is just snow to most of us can provide prize last day it's a local avalon chanters. avalanche team surveys every new concrete any of the resort they say russians love to push the boundaries and many skiers like riding off the beaten track. is the team's lead expert uses computers and weather stations to monitor the snow fall but being a local who's been living in the caucasus mountains for over forty years the man says there is more to his job than that. is a living being it has its own life you just have to learn how to understand it and this in turn is only possible if you spend your life with it at times the snow can turn nasty if there's more than twenty centimeters chances are high it's going to slide for real proves the clues are easy to discover. well you know if the cattle are thirty by thirty centimeter call and i told one and we hit it with a shovel exactly ten times very slightly as the

interestingly enough, the midweek is when we have the largest peak. it also shows it by our a recurrence, which indicates mid- afternoon is a peak time for incidents that occur on muni. it then takes it by incident code, which goes through, as you will see, the various crimes and things that occur on muni, and then it moves to buy immune -- by muni line. each district captain receives a graft exactly like this that is specifically for their own district, which shows where they are having issues, what the issues are, and i am in direct communication with the district station captains in terms of the things that are happening on our transit lines. what they then do is provide me with a monthly muni enforcement plan, both in operational or format and muni enforcement calendar, to address the issues. this is a northern station calendar that was developed back in november to deal with the different times and different issues that you see in that district. every district station captain provides not only this but a muni enforcement operations order to deal

it would raise the maximum smarttrip peak cost of $5.75 and $3.50 for off-peak hours. paper fare cards face the biggest change. every ride with a fare card will cost you at least $4. you'll pay a one-way flat fee whether you go one stop or ride the whole line. $6 during rush hour, $4 in off-peak times. smarttrip bus fares would increase ten cents to $1.60. parking will also go up 25 cents. stay tuned for "news4 today," metro g.m. richard sarles will be here live to discuss the proposed changes. >>> a man convicted of 11 federal felony charges will learn his fate. jason scott admitted to committing more than 50 burglaries and nine armed home invasions before being arrested in 2009. he was found guilty of armed carjacking, theft of firearms, and also production of child pornography. no matter the actual sentence, scott will spend the rest of his life in federal prison as the mandatory minimum sentence for his case is 97 years. scott also faces separate murder charges later this year in the killing of a mother and daughter in prince george's county. >>> this morning a wom