-- state of good repair. the ad iat is an fta-sponsored initiative that evaluate the assets and evaluate where they are in their lifetime, and they have set goals for what they would like the state of good repair to be. for example, if all of the assets were up 50%, they would be halfway through their lifetimes, even though the assets themselves burievaried in vehicles and such. what we feel fits the responsibility for state of good repair, we will talk about it in more depth later, is the recommendation for asset management teams. right now the agency is functionally organized and thai the participants in the capital projects such as resident engineers and profit controls people, project engineers, are in separate sections. we have a recommendation for an idea of satisfying the intent of state of good repair. we found it lacking process documentation. we looked for an appendix 8. we identified several areas where this should be improved. one thing is that we are recommending taylor processes for different ki

. >>> repair works continues on a busted water line in san pablo. its foot was located next to that water pipeline that caught some residence in the area off guard. >>> you may want to pay extra attention to the split on the bay bridge this morning. we'll tell you about a new milestone the bridge has reached. >>> the tents may be gone but the bills remain. how much the occupy protes have cost the city of san francisco. ktvu channel 2 morning news continues. >>> complete bay area news coverage continues this is ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> good morning, to you. welcome to a brand new day it's monday, december 19th i'm dave clark. >> and i'm maureen naylor. pam cook is off today. let's get your first look at weather and traffic. steve. >> we have mostly cloudy skies and a few light sprinkles going through. it won't amount to much. most of that light shower activity is near san jose and morgan hill. really a very, very quiet stable pattern. here is sal. >>> good morning, traffic on 80 westbound is moving along pretty well as you can see no major pr

. >> we own 95% of our own fleet so those vehicles that are in our repair shops, we own them and right now going through a fleet disposal process. some are not worth repairing. >> reporter: so the system is moving to smaller multipurpose seeks like the metro -- vehicles like the metro access vans in some cases the vans since they transport an average of kids five a route. and we're told as long as the passenger numbers stays low, they are legally allowed the use those fan -- to use those vans instead of buses. but as for tucker he says the stop sign on buses make them a safer way for children like his own to get to school every day. in fact, tucker has now demanded his son no longer be picked up in a van but in one of the 800 school buses currently on the roads here in d. c.. but the department insists that these new vans and the drivers are safe. in northeast, delia goncalves,

it was sold, not for repair. >> correct. >> public comment? a person's or a bottle? -- persons or rebuttal? let's go public comment. any public comment? no public comment. department rebuttal? >> there are numerous items that were referred to earlier. a lot of the items required a permit. the issue with the windows, if they were doing them in the way that they referred to, they may be could have taken out the stained glass window on the same day, the same window casing. we would have no opportunity to report -- to question. once they took out a blazing in did not replace it with other glazing, boarded it up, made it an eyesore, because it is not entirely sealed. it is potentially allowing the elements into the building and caused dry rot. -- caused dry rot. it is absolutely, without question, something done without a permit. on that issue, there is no question. if there was any good faith at all, they would try to work with us in some way to, to get a permit to deal with that window. that we might discuss the other elements and issues. but we

the principle is now working to repair the schools part -- the school's principal is now working to repair the school's reputation. >> a school resource police officer used pepper spray to help restore order. fumes from the spray force more than 1000 students out of their buildings for 45 minutes. >> they were getting ready to leave to catch the bus behind me. it took place in a matter of seconds. >> extra workers spent the day on campus helping students sort out what took place on tuesday. >> they were very concerned about things that they had heard, that they read, the things that are not typical of chesapeake. some of their comments were that this has given us a bad reputation. >> a reputation that school officials are determined to change. in the meantime, school officials say that what happened at chesapeake is possible at any school. >> kids bring guns to school now and they do things that they see out in society. our biggest issue is what society does as a whole. you see it as a microcosm in the classroom. >> and that is why that school has praised for the resource police officers.

at san leandro, you have emergency repair work going on elsewhere as well? >> yes, in oakland, cal trans is replacing barrels on the off ramp and it is causing some delays at the coliseum, you can see the flashing lights and that's northbound traffic as you make your way towards downtown. those traffic barrels a lot of times are in front of the concrete barriers that form exits and this is supposed to happen until 8:00 this morning so be aware of that and they are experiencing some delays. we have no traffic is what i wanted to tell you clear sailing into san francisco and in san rafael 101, it is a little slow going southbound portion of the city. let's go to steve. >>> we have partly cloudy skies some rain to the north but it does not look promising, light drizzle as we head to thursday night and friday but i don't see any beneficial rain here. warmer lows even though they are still in the 30s due to some of these higher clouds and it will be a mild afternoon for some. you can get a look at some of those clouds right there. there has been some rain in arca

the summary was there because it was being repaired following i guess it was just. a regular repairing job being done to do some marine there but actually we're talking about a pretty big vessel this is its name that you can see in the book it's a strategic nuclear submarine it's around one hundred seventy meters long which is over five hundred feet long and it was being repaired in that dark but just in the spring and summer. it's true for success three to four in need be true actually every intercontinental ballistic missile a successful launch from it and just tell you a bit more about it it's part of the six such summaries in russia's northern fleet and usually they're on the way of the sixteen intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads on them so thankfully this is not a peace and wall everything went smoothly no casualties nobody got very good to go girls got a little bit more news israeli authorities reporting that at the time the actual reactor was shut down as well that was going to be powering that ship so again another bit of good news all

the parks department spent $50,000 to repair the damage left behind. san francisco police shut down the encampment about two weeks ago during an early morning raid. >>> in san jose occupy protestors say they are trying to keep an elderly couple from losing their house to foreclosures. these demonstrators went back to city hall and set up debit -- tents. they are trying to raise awareness for a couple that signed a variable interest loan. the tents were taken down to avoid a confrontation with police. >>> a fundraiser will take place tonight for the family of ava lay hoe police officer killed in the line of duty. officer jim capoot was shot and killed last week while chasing a bank robber. tonight the contra costa peace officer alliance will hold a fundraiser for capoot's family in walnut creek. the fundraiser will take place at skipolini's pizza. >>> some bay area drivers didn't pay attention and did not refrain from drinking and driving during the holidays. dui crack down this one in sonoma county netted 49 people over the weekend. more than half were

the state of good repair is so important. when this agency has had a better state of repair, performance has gone up. there was this time, perhaps before any of the current board and that we saw the in performance. i had a senior official that i probably shouldn't name by name who took me aside and said, you know, we are getting a little bit of a free ride on new equipment into being in an unusually good state of repair because we just got a bunch of new equipment. we think it should be a key focus of the agency. objective 3.1, emissions of pollutants. we think it is great to be concerned about that, but we should be framing it in terms of emissions per unit of service delivered. if we had people shift from cars to meet tomorrow, and we increased service to meet that demand, we would see emissions go way up. -- emissions from muni go way up. but car emissions will go down. if we are moving more people, it should be part of the denominator. within that as a more productive way to think about emissions that the agency itself pr

. >> we learned from the city puc that repair work had been done on one of the 12,000-volt power lines at candlestick, but nobody can say when because there are no records, and pg&e says it was not required to keep them. >> the flash of light marked the first power outage. the distribution center feeding candlestick came apart during the point it was suppliesed together during an earlier repair. but they could not tell regulator when's that work was done. >> they indicated that it was probably performed in response to a different outage. probably an emergency repair, and that's why they didn't have records on when it occurred. >> there was a big meeting at the san francisco puc headquarters involving regulators and candlestick. they say it indicated no problems. >> from their perspective, it is in good working condition and failed. >> when it failed it plunged tens of thousands of fans into the dark. a second back up line kicked in, but that too died in the second quarter. they are trying to find out if the blackout caused the surge that lead to the second one. pg&e said the system see

san francisco is now capable of repairing the largest cruise ships that flow. this coming january 7, the clerical spirit will be dry docking for a two-week repair job, generating thousands of man hours of work for a local trades union. in 2007, understanding the importance of this industry, the mayor formed a cruise terminal advisory panel to look at the need for a new terminal, and recommended to the port that they develop a single bird primary cruise terminal to meet all the industry standards. these recommendations were accepted by the port commission, who in turn directed staff to implement this initiative. the port entered into an mou to implement the project here in november 2009, the commission authorize staff to execute a design contract in association with cruise terminal design consultant. we commenced our efforts, mind you, well after the possibility of hosting the america's cup was known, but the america's cup provided a tremendous opportunity to kick off a new cruise terminal plan, the creative thinking, we have crafted together an innovative plan

. >> we learned from the city puc that repair work had been done on one of the 12,000-volt power lines at candlestick, but nobody can say when because there are no records, and pg&e says it was not required to keep them. >> the flash of light marked the first power outage. the distribution center feeding candlestick came apart during the point it was suppliesed together during an earlier repair. but they could not tell regulator when's that work was done. >> they indicated that it was probably performed in response to a different outage. probably an emergency repair, and that's why they didn't have records on when it occurred. >> there was a big meeting at the san francisco puc headquarters involving regulators and candlestick. they say it indicated no problems. >> from their perspective, it is in good working condition and failed. >> when it failed it plunged tens of thousands of fans into the dark. a second back up line kicked in, but that too died in the second quarter. they are trying to find out if the blackout caused the surge that lead to the second one. pg&e said the system see

the wild, rufus and patricia's charles have repairs of their own. car suffered minor damages. >> we are not hurt. i think i bet even the driver that was driving the tractor-trailer was not hurt either. that could have been really a bad, bad accident. >> repairs will begin in the spring and they won't be cheap. the state says they will pass the costs on to the company that owns the truck that caused the accident. wjz eyewitness news. >> police say the driver of the tractor-trailer faces federal and state transport charges. >> a couple western states get an early version of a winter wonderland. these children were having a good time as a couple of inches of snow fell in the antelope valley in southern california. meanwhile, in flex death, arizona, over a foot of snow fell in the mountains. moore is on the way. they've already received four times the normal snowfall for december. >> flagstaff at 7000 feet up here yet it's one of the highest cities in the united states. so there is an average of 200 inches per year. even it was chilly in phoenix, only 5

it started to be an ordinary water main break until it was dug up for repairs. >>> he ruled north korea for 17 years and was regarded as one of the most repressive leaders. tonight kim jong has died at 65. his son is being called the great successor to rally around as the next leader. >> reporter: kim jong looked frail during his last public appearances. on a trip to china in 2010, the communist dictator showed the strains from suffering from pancreatic cancer and a stroke. his youngest son was behind the scenes reportedly preparing to assume leadership of north korea. a year earlier kim jong il paid tribute to his father's death. he was known as the dear lead er. kim il sung died in 1994. little is known about the isolated dictator who is said to love platform shoes to make his stature taller. he was in promotional videos like this one where he galloped on horseback. he was a renowned film buff with a library of 20,000 hollywood movies. his own state media reported kim hit 11 holes in one his first time he played golf. the reclusive leader didn't like to be photographed but he made an

i came from a meeting last week and a tree with fda commissionta commissioner, the f good repair for about an hour and how he encouraged at the kids to take a more active role, so we're really pleased. you did not see the chamber packed, not because people do not want to go through the audit, but it is incumbent upon the advocate committee to discuss issues like the audit and how we put a better system on the streets. we will be working to do that over the coming weeks. i sat on the advisory committee for the transportation sustainability project, which is an effort to save $100 million in operations for the region each year. i want to commend the ta and the director for taking a similar tack to look at the fleet management and construction costs. we have maintained that the analysis on the capital programs for transit operators are really neglected in the whole piece of watchdog in and make sure we get better service, so we're really appreciative and want to work with you on this effort. to follow up on supervisor campos's point, we also know in this room when we have significant co

. >>> road repairs in chevy chase after a pipe broke yesterday. now workers are repairing the road. it should be completed by later today but you probably want to avoid the area. >>> get ready for a relatively sunny and warm goodbye to 2011. steve rudin has a look at the forecast. >> not a bad way to end the year. temperatures well above year and already temperatures allow warmer than they were this time yesterday. the satellite and radar shows just partly cloudy skies across the minutely into. but we do have the potential for a few sprinkles later on tonight into early tomorrow morning. how how well the rest of the weekend look? how about a bigger warm-up on the way? but a huge huge cool down. the extended outlook in just a few minutes. >> quite a mix. >>> times square is ready to ring in the new year in one of the biggest party on the planet. planners threw handfuls of confetti that was part of the air worthiness test. about 1 ton of the callable bits of paper will be released on midnight. today, planners will do a dress rehearsal. our region's largest new year's celebration is go

in point over 80 employees across three repair facilities. the family attribute their success to maintaining their original concept, which i saw up on the wall. they believed when father frank and son tony opened their first shop, quality repairs, good customer service, and good relationships with insurance companies, vendors, and customers. the family is also dedicated to community, participating in ventures such as a recycle program, and they demonstrate how local small businesses can contribute to the social fabric of the city. in presenting this certificate of honor, the small business commission wishes the fo -- lofrano family success for many generations to come. [applause] >> i would like to thank you very much for this honor. coming from our industry as a body shop, we always feel that we are kind of put in the gutter a little bit. mechanics are called grease monkeys. we are not. so we get offended when that happens. so this i think is fantastic, to be honored in this way. from the city that we have had our business in since 1975. we

you can see the crews working trying to make the repairs and there is so much damage because of all the trees around the bay area that have come crashing down on to people's homes and cars and into row ways.-- roadways. then kirnan joins us from the oakland hills where the cleanup will continue for some time. >>reporter: this trees behind me came down at 1:30 a.m. yesterday. it is a pretty spectacular sight. i want to roll some video to show a little bit more of this, repair crews were hearing contract as i've been out to remove the 80 ft. trees from the house. today the repair crews discussed this with the homeowner, with the insurance company and while this will not be easy, they do plan to get underway tomorrow. >> our plan right now is to stabilize it laterally will lighten the load from the backside and what will have to happen is that we have some temporary structure and then cut the remaining part of the tree off. the tree has fallen but not completed has not settled completely down it is being supported by some of the cross branches on the home. there will be no claim on this jo

the structure that needs to be repaired instantly. it is how you include how you deal with the incredible challenges that human beings themselves, psychological and otherwise, will be facing. this fleet week is clearly different from any previous fleet week we have had. but the planners have done, with mike, george, and all of the other people, in recruiting people like the governor of mississippi, who has lived at the challenge that had to be executed quickly in terms of responding, in sharing all of that while at the same time celebrating the 100th anniversary of the u.s. navy and all of its flight acrobatics sector. this has got to be an incredible location. i am looking forward to going out there and listening to, very closely, but each one of these leaders will say so clearly as i arrived at the facility and the place where the emergency services were coordinated and how each one of the units, whether it was the fire, or people like our own chief, or whenever it was, dealing with the people that came to see me from the coast guar

we took it to a mechanic certified by two top auto repair groups.e inspected every system of our jeep. >> everything looks fine. everything is good. >> reporter: then we asked him to rig a simple problem. he used this small part in the air conditioner called the relay switch. what are you doing here? >> i'm going to take your ac relay out and replace it with a defective one. >> reporter: that makes the air conditioning blow warm air. >> yes. >> reporter: quick and easy fix. >> yes. replace the relay and that's it. >> reporter: this independent mechanic says he charged $100 to fix our bad relay. but what would the dealers do? by the end experts say at least one dealer lied right to our face. >> so the ac compressor kind of, almost i want to say -- >> my compressor exploded? >> pretty much. >> reporter: we installed hidden cameras inside our car and under the hood. then we sent this female nbc producer in to five jeep dealers. a random mix of city and suburban locations. >> my air conditioning doesn't seem to be working. it's blowing hot air. >> repor

commissioner vietor: this seems to be for some basic repairs, right, to the boat house? is it all for the boat house? >> it is for the upper story of the bauhaus, renovation of the bathrooms -- boat house, renovation of the bathrooms, basic cleanup of the inside and additional repairs. it does not make a finished space a tenant could walk into at this point. we can either, through an rfp, get a tenant to make apartments, or through additional funding from the puc or rec and park, bring it to a level where we would find it functional for ourselves. commissioner vietor: the sense is that needs to be spent to even lease it. >> that is the sense. we think it is important to have a new boat house. we think it is a long process to get to that. we need to do something to make this space functional on an interim basis to get to that point. commissioner vietor: having sat in on a couple of lake merced meetings, i know there was quite a bit of discussion around rec and park. to date, they have not stepped up to the plate in the way that the puc or community would like, as far as m

managers be responsible for some of the areas that were questions in our charter like state of good repair, what the delivery method is. would we design or build with the contract manager or so on? and measuring performance against baseline budgets, putting more time into the front end, which is item b. and making sure the project manager has cradled the grave responsibility for projects. that is all we're an estimate is required. -- that is where an estimate is required. we have talked along the lines of the improvement of board reporting. in an appendix 5, there are examples of various metrics that can be used in that type of reporting. they would provide a portfolio look so that they can look at overall howled the collective management of the portfolio is performing. right now each project is reported individually. >> the task of eliminating the confusing financial information will be a difficult one, because the information is communicated from many different sources within the mta. nevertheless, it would be possible to do a better job than it is being done at the moment, particularly

on the same day north korea announces the death of his leader kim jong il. >>> repair work adopts on a busted water park line in san pablo. what was located next to that pipeline that took some residence by surprise. >>> how much the occupy protests have cost the city of san francisco. >>> happy rejunes here in the bay

we are working on some building share -- show repairs. the work is in great shape, but the bathrooms were in disrepair. they represent a problem that needs to be dealt with right away. for the rest of this, let me point out the top floor. the bottom floor is where a large number of cruise region of rolling crews are tenants of the boat house -- a large number of rowing crews are tenants of the boat house, and store their boats there. this is not the long term, but house -- long-term boathouse i think lake merced needs. this would be a facility that could operate so that while collectively we are developing a plan for no facilities -- new facilities, we could find something reasonable or presentable. we have perceived add? -- add-backs as part of the budget process. i keep saying harding. lake merced add-backs of cumulated over time, so we are currently investing in this effort. about a third of that is going to the bathrooms. additionally, some of the -- >> we are updating the commission on the harding but house today, but there is no act

derek valcourt has more on the accident and how the repairs will affect the drivers. derek?> one of the support beams on that overpass is going to have to be replaced. that means crews are going to have to shut down several lanes of traffic to do it. but luckily, for the drivers who hit the beltway, that inconvenience will not happen until the spring. >> reporter: on 695 south, traffic dips along, beneath the 95 south overpass. you have to look closely for signs of damage done monday, when the massive arms of a back hoe riding on the arms of a tractor-trailer, slammed onto a bridge. on two of the busiest highways of the region. >> reporter: obviously we wouldn't have traffic on 95 or 695. if we had any concerns about safety. >> reporter: from sky eye chopper 13, you can see the shoulder of 95 on the overpass has been blocked off. that's because state highway officials found damage to two of the outer-most support beams, beams that sit under the shoulder of the road. >> reporter: from underneath the overpass, you can see where the first two beams are damaged. and they say it'

the repair and replacement was mentioned as well and you also have a policy directive. if there is funding in the budget to provide the meaningful achievement of your environmental justice policy, the environmental stewardship, and the local resource plan, asset management policy and the developing land-use policy and the adoption of the technology policy. whenever directives you think are important, is the rate inclusive of those priorities? >> lite light is a couple of things. this is the way the triple- bottom line will feed into the rate policy, and the job is not just to move around water but we said we wanted to affect things. those policies have costs and we should recognize this, because this is an important part of the mission. this tied together the non- utility aspects of our world. >> one thing that is always important is transparency. we have a good deal of that and that is one of the strings with customers. this transparency includes the plan and that is open, making the information understandable. we continue to be the only utility i am aware of that show

park police don't have an estimate on how much it's going to cost to repair the monument. the federal government approved $7.5 million to fix the on umt but that was with the understanding that the private sector would match that $7.5 million. >> the us? also troubling at arlington national cemetery. a new army reviewed at the 260,000 headstones on the grounds and found 64,000 may need to be relaysed or aplaced accuracy issues. that report led to top executives being fired. >> outside it's a wet, miserable night. doug is here to show us there's more rain to come. if only this were snow, doug. >> if this were snow, you wouldn't want to know how much we've seen. though some of you would. you want the snow, you want the cooler air. fortunately it is raining but it's on the warm side. just to the west of i-95, montgomery county seeing rain, rockville, bethesda, sterling, seeing heavy rain right on through parts of manassas. i'll show you how it's going to affect your morning tomorrow and of course the holiday weekend. >> thank you, doug. we've told you this before before tonig

it now has a gaping hole in the ground where repair work is being done. that pretty much spans almost the entire width of the street. that water line that broke is about 5 feet fid in diameter -- wide in diameter. conocophillips owns that gas line. the spokesperson explains how this all started on saturday. >> the waterline eroded the soil and caused some of the concrete to fall into the hole. >> reporter: now, the gasoline line was not damaged when the waterline broke but the water did gush into the street and that caused flooding problems in some of the homes. there's a bit of a detour here. there's been a lot of people trying to circumvent the area and try to get back on the freeway. we're still waiting to hear back from east bay m.u.d. to hear about how long this street will remain closed. allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> 7:04. now information about a fire on a small plane overnight in hayward. it happened just before 11:00 at hayward's executive airport. now, we took this video less than an hour ago. you can see there's fire retardant foam on t

hopefully, they'll get it repaired. that's the important part, i think, just making sure it's restored. >> the report says the monument is structurally sound and recommends repairing the cracks with stainless steel plates, filling them up withsealant, and replacing the loose marble. >>> and more trouble from arlington national cemetery. thousands of headstones may need to be replaced, added, or corrected. that's according to an army review of the national cemetery that found as many as 64,000 headstones. the report comes a year after thousands of graves were found to be misidentified or misplaced. that report cost several top executives their jobs. >>> greenbelt police are looking for a suspect who raped a young woman last week. it happened early saturday morning in the 6000 block of cherrywood lane near greenbelt metro drive. investigators say a 24-year-old woman was walking when several suspects grabbed her and took her into a nearby wooded area where they sexually assaulted her. she was seriously injured in the attac

we repaired 1,000 water heerts and -- heaters and other home repairs. we had donations to give to needy families. the city of watsonville was not prepared for donations and at the freeway entrances, the police at the freeway entrances basically telling trucks to go away because it did not have the capacity to manage donation s. how we managed our donations, especially, was we basically sent out -- we had all these campaigns going on for the voters. we took the campaign workers and made them into disaster workers and had them go out to do needs assessments for families and then from there we were able to meet carpenters, meet with housing and we were able to basically find people who wanted to volunteer and found people who wanted the services. recover begins with disaster response so city and county involvement with small businesses, nonprofits are essential and it was talked a lot about that and talked about are the fact that we were all on our own. i saw one county person about five days after the disaster. and yet we were still providing services for