we will now hear from secretary ray lahood. >> good morning. my year, thank you so much.ayor is this particular job, but he certainly is not new to running the city of san francisco and has shown extraordinary leadership. he and i had an opportunity to meet and talk about some of the key issues and key problems that need to be solved. and for those of you that are interested in politics, you'll be interested to know that the mayor is standing for election in november, and there are 37 people that want the job that he has. so for those of you that have taken an interest in politics, you can imagine what he is spending most of his time doing, so we are really grateful to the mayor for taking the time to be with us this morning. and as all of you i am sure will do, wish him well against his 36 opponents. but i want to say, may year, this is a magnificent city, and your contribution to making san francisco a magnificent city has been extraordinary, so to ever taking the time from your busy schedule to join us today. yesterday, we began our discussion by keying in on strategie

ground and design at a ceremony attended by then-speaker pelosi, the secretary of transportation ray lahood, and whereas his commitment to the transit program goals directly contributed to the receipt of $400 million in stimulus funds and the important recognition of his involvement in the transit program, and whereas he left his position as executive director of the san francisco municipal authority, now therefore be it resolved that the transit authority expresses its most sincere appreciation to nathaniel p. ford, and be a further resolved that we wish him continued success in all his future endeavors. vice chair ortiz: thank you. i wanted to add my words for the appreciation for his leadership here. >> i spoke to mr. ford this morning. apologizes for not being able to attend to except as. he says he is deeply honored and he appreciates this board for the resolution of appreciation. >> i will move the resolution. >> second. >> and the members of the public -- and no members of the public indicated they wanted to address that item. >> we will give this to you director carter, so you can g

today, transportation secretary, ray lahood and the head of the faa toured the construction site. lahood praised the passage but said these 11th hour funding deals put many people on edge. >> now, we need to get the message to the senate, they need to pass this beill so americans can continue to work on important projects like this, so nobody's laid off and everybody can have a job. >> two months ago, stalemate over the funding extensions halted construction on projects nationwide including oakland which included 60 workers. >>> youth teens that escaped from an oakland facility have been captured. they were found at an antioch walmart. deputies are still searching for a 15-year-old mentally disabled and conviction for a violent offense. they escaped from a ranch in the unincorporated costa contra county 50 miles east of oakland. it is not locked or fenced. >>> warnings are being issued again to students at san jose about an attempted sexual assault, the second attack in a week. early sunday morning a student was attacked at 9th and east san salvador streets after a man asked her f

. >>> and ray lahood and others, touring the station. in july, they looked at the construction project, and the same could happen again. secretary lahood urged congress to approve long-term funding for the faa. >>> gunfire dying down in kabul, afghanistan, where earlier today the taliban militants attacked the u.s. embassy. they attacked into the nato compound, at least six afghanistan citizens were killed, 19 injured. three wearing suicide vests also died. civilians were killed, 15 wounded. the u.s. state department says no americans were hurt. >>> and facebook making changes on how users' friends were organized on the start. they say user's friends will automatically appear in different groups. they say changes will make it easier for users to choose who they share updates and posts with. >>> and today's launch of the massoni for target line was so hot it overwhelmed the retailer web servers, we saw this error message all day. missoni for target is in partnership with the designer. we called the target stores and they were completely s

. >> ray lahood and the head of the tsa is expected to tour the new control tower today. this are urging extending funding by friday's deadline. the partial shut down agency in july stopped $130 million of construction projects. they included the control tower affecting 60 construction workers. temporary funding runs out on friday at midnight. >> there has been a string of lightning caused fires in central fire. the fires forced the mandatory evacuations of several hundred homes and the closure of one school district yesterday. planes dropped fire retardant to slow the flames. no homes have been damaged or destroyed so far. the fires have burned a total of 95 square miles. crews doubled the containment up to 60% and another fire was 87% contained. >> let's hope the lightning is over and done with. >> good morning. we do have some lightning down to the south of us around san diego and santa barbara but back home, the fog, marine layer is compressed. we're talking about fair skies, partly cloudy conditions, 58 in redwood city. it's 60 in concord as well as hayward. 61 in sa

. >>> transportation secretary ray lahood will hold a news conference today at the oakland airport, push for more money to keep the federal aviation administration operating. one of the projects in jeopardy is building the new air traffic control tower at oakland airport. congress reached a temporary deal last month after furloughing thousands of workers in july. but the temporary extension expires at midnight this friday. >>> right now a conference is underway in the south bay to talk about the economic future of the silicon valley. it's called game changers 2012, and it's held at the santa clara convention center. panelists include gaff in newsom, san jose mayor chuck reed and other business leaders. they're discussing ways to improve the business climate and reduce the 10% unemployment rate. mayor reed says the crew is to bring back companies that have gone abroad. >> profits all over the world that would be heavily taxed if brought back into the u.s. and invested in the u.s. so congress needs to make an adjustment in the tax rate on a temporary basis so all those monies can come back

in the east bay ray lahood urged congress to not allow a shutdown of the faa. he used oakland's new control tower as a backdrop one of several federal transportation projects that has been halted over funding battles in the house and the senate. the house passed a stop-gap bill today to avert a shutdown of the faa as well as highway programs. but without a deal in the senate, both could shut down friday at midnight. >> we need to get the message to the senate they need to pass this bill so americans can continue to work on important projects like this so nobody is laid off. >> funding has been a contentious issue in congress this year, particularly over a new rule that makes it easier for airline and railroad workers to unionize. republicans want to overturn the rule. democrats say that would unfairly target unions. >>> he was robbed and killed while working in a garden in oakland. and now, four months later police have arrested several people for the murder. linda yee is not far from where the crime happened and has the latest. linda. >> reporter: well, elizab

secretary ray lahood met with governor brown about the administration's support for the $43 million project. >> i believe that we're on a good track here in california for high speed rail. we are not going to be desueded by a little background noise of criticism -- deswayed. >>> leaving little room for stand by travelers. the congestion is expected to ease up this fall, but will still be very crowded around the holiday. >>> four young men escaped from this youth facility behind me. but why are police looking for one? i'll explain coming up. >>> what police found in a traffic stop that had them calling the department of defense for guidance. >>> we're in the middle of a bit of a cooldown. i'll show you which cities will cool off the most for your wednesday. [ male announcer ] humble beginnings are true beginnings. they are the purest way to gauge success. maybe the only way to gauge success. but the most powerful thing about humble beginnings is that they are... ♪ ...humbling. show where you're going without forgetting where you're from. ♪ now lease the all-new 2011 chrysler 300 for $339 a m

transportation secretary ray lahood and federal aviation administration randy babbit says millions ofdollars were wasted this past month when a political fight led to work stoppages all across the country. some 70,000 workers were laid off during that time including workers at oakland international. >> don't tie whatever your political agenda is to our jobs and run people out of work and break them town to nothing. >> today the house approved an agenda. >>> new figures offer an alarming picture of poverty in america. the number of poor is 15% equal to the population of california and colorado. poverty is defined as a family of four living on $22,000 a year. and the number of people with no health insurance is 49 million. ktvu's lloyd lacuesta is live now in san jose to show us how even in the state's most affluent counties residents are struggling to get by. >> san jose the capital of silican valley in the most affluent county in california, still go below street level and you will find poverty. on the banks and creeks the homeless make their homes. encampments in santa clara county,

transportation secretary ray lahood and federal aviation administration randy babbit says millions of this past month when a political fight led to work stoppages all across the country. some 70,000 workers were laid off during that time including workers at oakland international. >> don't tie whatever your political agenda is to our jobs and run people out of work and break them town to nothing. >> today the house approved an agenda. >>> new figures offer an alarming picture of poverty in america. the number of poor is 15% equal to the population of california and colorado. poverty is defined as a family of four living on $22,000 a year. and the number of people with no health insurance is 49 million. ktvu's lloyd lacuesta is live now in san jose to show us how even in the state's most affluent counties residents are struggling to get by. >> san jose the capital of silican valley in the most affluent county in california, still go below street level and you will find poverty. on the banks and creeks the homeless make their homes. encampments in santa clara county, where the median pr

transportation secretary ray lahood and the head of the faa toured the construction site for the new control tower at the oakland airport. this was today. lahood praised the passage of the bill, but says the 11th hour funding deals put many people on edge. >> now we need to get the message to the senate. they need to pass this bill so americans can continue to work on important projects like this, so nobody is laid off, so everybody can have a job. >> a lot of smiles in oakland stai. two months ago a stalemate in the extension halted hundreds of construction projects nationwide, including the work in oakland, which affected about 60 construction workers. >>> the federal government is investigating ebay. it wants to see if employees gathered information illegally about craigslist. ebay owns 28% of craigslist, but the two sides were feuding for some time now. the feds are trying to find out if ebay employees misused information about craigslist so ebay could launch a competing website. ebay says it will cooperate with the probe but says the accusations don't have merit. >>> they allege

transportation secretary ray lahood will hold a news conference there this afternoon. >>> all right.ugh talk at the gop tea party debate in tampa, florida. the eight republicans focused on several topics, including the size and role of government and how to grow the economy. the candidates wasted no time making stabs at president obama's policies. >> you give people the opportunity to risk their capital by lowering the tax burden on them, by lowering the regular tear climate, and you will see an american economy that takes off like a rocket ship. >> i was the leading voice in the wilderness of washington all summer. i was one of the only people in washington that said do not raise the debt ceiling. don't give the president of the united states another $2.4 trillion blank check. >> create fantastic. >> this is the fifth time the gop candidates have duked it out in the race for the white house. it's getting heated. >> yeah, our first primary five months away in new hampshire. >>> raiders beat denver last night. the nfl record one player was ever so close to breaking. highlights of that

i spoke with ray lahood, the secretary of transportation and it didn't get under way. it's astounding it didn't get under way. >> go ahead. >> when you combine that and the fact most of the other ideas out there are hard sells on capitol hill. people want obama to fix the economy, but he's got to find a sweet spot. it doesn't leave a lot of room. maybe extend the payroll tax cut. it's not a big stimulative push. i recommend to people, we had a terrific story on what the president could do -- tear town stock, write off a lot of houses that are just in foreclosure and are not going to be turned around anytime soon. i think it would be great to see the president talk about housing. to me, this speech is missing the point, the crucial point. i's getting the housing market back in shape. >> easy to monday morning quarterback but it feels like housing has been missed for years now. it could have been a corner stone of rebuilding of our economy. >> yeah. it's the weight over the head. at any moment we could have a housing crisis that could bring the economy back into a second

first of all, secretary of transportation, ray lahood is in the house. get him a round of applause. [cheers and applause] we've got to merit the great city of cincinnati, mark mallory is here. [cheers and applause] we've got the mayor of covington, mayor danny bogdan. senator randy paul is here. [cheers and applause] rand is going to be supporting bridges. and we've got congressman john youngest in the house. now, it is good to be back. it now, i was just in columbus a little while ago and i figured i couldn't get away with not giving cincinnati a little bit of love. [cheers and applause] i want to thank the good folks at hilltop for having us here today. i especially want to thank ron for his introduction. you know, companies like hilltop, construction companies have been hit harder by this economic crisis than almost any other state in america. there's many construction workers that they're still looking for a job. they are ready to work. but things have been a little tough. that doesn't mean that there is not plenty of construction waiting to get done in this country. behind us a

. >>> transportation secretary ray lahood will hold an afternoon news conference at the oakland airport to push for more money to keep the faa running. one of the projects in jeopardy is building the new air traffic control to your at the oakland airport. congress reached a tell -- tower at the oakland airport. congress reached a temporary extension but that extension runs out this friday at midnight. >>> according to a new report that's out to today, the number of people with college degrees filing for bankruptcy went up by 20% in the last five years. filings among those who earn more than $60,000, that's also up. analysts say the very heavy mortgages and falling house prices are partly to blame. >>> money troubles could likely lead to high tuition increases at the -- at the university of california system. coming up for you at 7:34, we'll tell you how much more students may have to pay for a good college education and those numbers may shock you. >>> some homeowners in virginia have been forced to evacuate. the problem they are dealing with is in their own backyard. >>> at least six p

we have seen secretary ray lahood and the obama administration be supportive of these projects, but we'veo seen some government reject the money for high-speed rail once their state had been awarded the money. that is certainly the brought above the state or the governor of that particular state, but i do not understand why they would turn down that money from the federal government. high speed rail needs to be supported, but not at the expense of transportation on our amtrak's system and our rural rail system. it is so important rural areas like i represent who have no other access to major markets. host: west virginia received about $15 million in federal funding from the faa federal airport improvement fund. guest: that program helps modernize our airports and ensure our safety and our nation's airport, that that continues to be improved. it ensures that our air traffic control with the next generation system is being put into place, and provide security in our airways and helps ensure that our air traffic controllers continue to do a better job. they are a very professional group but

fortunately as part of the administration's review of regulations, transportation secretary ray lahood has decided that a specific deadline for replacing street signs makes no sense and local and state transportation agencies are best equipped to determine when they need to replace these signs in the course of their daily work. in his executive order, president obama remarked that the regulatory system, quote, "must identify and use the best, most innovative, and least burdensome tools for achieving regulatory ends." last month, cass sunstein the administrator of the office of regulatory affairs wrote in "the wall street journal" that cabinet secretaries were instructed to minimize regulatory costs, avoid imposing excessive regulatory burdens, and prioritize regulatory actions that promote economic growth and job creation. i applaud the administration's new directive. one difference in what the administration is doing versus what we're doing in our -- in the portman-pryor legislation is that the president is looking retrospectively, he's doing a review of regulations that are on the bo

now, to the credit of the administration, ray lahood is the secretary of transportation. is former member of congress. i served with him in the house and got to know ray. and reached tout him early on. and requested a waiver for one particular municipality at had a good argument they wanted to preserve the historic and unusual character of their street signs. and he immediately granted the waiver. much to his credit. and we continued the discussion. we've joined a group of other legislators and municipal leaders from across the country. and they have decided to suspend that regulation altogether. it's not going to go into effect. so every once in a while you have a win here and that's important. and that's part of why i'm here today. if you have a specific example of a regulation, a mandate, a cost that is not reasonable, that is consecutive, that is preventing you -- that is competitive, that is preventing you from getting a job, creating a job, that's what i would like to hear the most. let me wrap up. one other success in terms of job creation for pennsylvania that i wa

now, to the credit of the administration, ray lahood is the secretary of transportation. is former member of congress. i served with him in the house and got to know ray. and reached tout him early on. and requested a waiver for one particular municipality that had a good argument they wanted to preserve the historic and unusual character of their street signs. and he immediately granted the waiver. much to his credit. and we continued the discussion. we've joined a group of other legislators and municipal leaders from across the country. and they have decided to suspend that regulation altogether. it's not going to go into effect. so every once in a while you have a win here and that's important. and that's part of why i'm here today. if you have a specific example of a regulation, a mandate, a cost that is not reasonable, that is consecutive, that is preventing you -- that is competitive, that is preventing you from getting a job, creating a job, that's what i would like to hear the most. let me wrap up. one other success in terms of job creation for pennsylvania that i

transportation secretary ray lahood is at southern methodist university in dallas tx participating in a discussion with business and labor representatives about how to create jobs to make the nation more competitive. that is being put on by the president's council on jobs and competitiveness. in politics, republican presidential candidate roemer is scheduled to unveil his jobs plan this morning in front of the chinese embassy in washington. pennsylvania senator pat toomey, one of the 12 appointed to the deficit-reduction committee, is hosting a town hall in pennsylvania. we are covering both of those events and we will have them later in the program schedule. also, republican presidential candidate jon huntsman yesterday unveiled his jobs plan. this morning on nbc on the today show, he called the dustup over the president's speech nonsense. the jobs plan unveiled yesterday by jon huntsman includes wide- ranging tax changes. he unveiled the plan yesterday at a metal fabricating plant in hudson, new hampshire. this is 40 minutes. [applause] >> welcome to jon huntsman. we have about 45 h

discussing creating jobs through infrastructure investment -- transportation secretary rate low hood -- ray lahood. a series of these listening sessions have been held across the country since the creation of the panel in january, and you can see the dallas meeting tonight at 8:00 on c-span. fred barnes of the "weekly standard" gives his thoughts to former vice president dick cheney pose a more. then, talk about trends and demographics of life expectancy in america, and our series looking at the weather wraps up tomorrow with the director of the national weather service. he will be talking about the structure of weather forecasting and climatology. that is at 9:15 eastern. plus, your e-mail and tweets here earlier today, joe lieberman of connecticut, who served as the senate home led security committee chairman said the u.s. is safer than it was 10 years ago, but the country continues to face threats coming from homegrown terrorists. he gave the comments at a conference on terrorism response and studies. it is 35 minutes. >> thank you, very much, gary. thank you for that welcome. i remember a gath

ray lahood, secretary of transportation, thinks this is essential that we get this done for the safety and security of our nation, and certainly create lots and lots of jobs. second, we must authorize federal spending for the nation's highways. about 1.8 million construction jobs on highway and mass transit jobs nationwide are at stake. if we don't extend this bill, that will be gone, almost two million jobs. so we will be happy to consider a bipartisan idea to get the economy humming again. i have talked about two things. here are two ideas republicans supported in the past. payroll tax cuts and an extension of unemployment insurance, extending the payroll tax cut could save 972,000 american jobs next year alone. extending unemployment insurance during these tough economic times would save 528,000 american jobs. they have agreed to these in the past. speaker boehner and leader cantor wrote to the president yesterday and they said -- quote -- "our differences should not preclude us from taking action on areas where there is a common ground." end of quote. i hope that they would agree.

news, i leave you with, steve, and that's that the secretary of transportation, our old friend ray lahood put deadlines on this. if the signs actually get old and get rusty and need to be replaced, ok, fine. then do them with the regulation but before then, you don't have to worry about it. so every once and a while, the federal government does get involved and says, man, maybe we screwed up. so they made it a little bit better. >> yeah. maybe. jeff, the ironic thing is the all caps, the old signs are easier to read. >> right. >> you know, i -- for me, that way, too, i thought it was me being old but i do actually -- >> why would anyone care? can i ask a really simple, stupid question? why would anyone care if it's in caps? other than your 6 or 8-year-old telling you it's not grammatically correct, why do people care? >> they claim that it is more readable in upper and lower case as opposed to the old, you know. to me, i find upper case, you know, if someone sent you a text message, that jumps out at you and you read it more. exactly. i don't know. >> latest tax dollars at work. >> no kid

yesterday, ray lahood joined business and labor representatives to discuss ideas for creating jobs through infrastructure investment. the meeting took place at southern methodist university in dallas. this is one of a series of sessions. it is about 2 hours 25 minutes. ood. this by pressing council on jobs was created by president obama. >> i have no position on who should win the game tomorrow ght. i am honored to be here. we are holding what we call listening sessions on particular issues. the issue we're talking about today infrastructure and its role in creating jobs and a competitive economy in the future. there is strong labor and business support for this. we have t donahue and the chamber is a supporter it infrastructure spending. i would like to think about the support. economists disagree on a lot of thg, but there is overwhelming support to the view that spending on infrastructure is a very efficient way to create jobs. and it also creates an infrastructure base for the competitiveness thfor the econoy going forward. we welcome you today and we are here to say something about wh