>> ross miller from nevada. nevada is an early vote state and we make good use of our early voting system, more than half of the voters will have cast votes provider to election day, we put our polls stations in odd places, like the mall or grocery stores. one of the components that we use there that i think has been proven effective is that we purchase with hava funds, voting trailers. they are fully ada complaint, we can drag them around anywhere in the county or state, fully equipped with voting machines. we can bring them to the campuses they rotate throughout the voting period and are at different locations just about every day. those trailers are available in the event of an emergency on election day to be pulled out and substituted as a polling location. we have had them in place the last couple of cycles and it's proven effective. >> great idea. >> secretary reid? >> ine more, 2008, our web master said, we ought to have an app for election results and i said why, you know? and he did it very quickly. and

. >> ross miller from nevada. nevada is an early vote state, and we make very extensive you using of our early voting system. well over half of the voters will have cast ballots in nevada prior to election day, and when we implement early voting, we put it in unusual locations. it goes in shopping malls and libraries, even supermarkets, which seems unusual to some. we may be the only jurisdiction in the country where you're likely to hear a call for a wet mop at local booth 96, but it works for us. one of the components we use there that has been proven effective is that we purchase with funds voting trailers. they're trailers fully ada compliant that we can drag around to anywhere in the county or the state that are fully equipped with voting machines. we can bring them to the campuses. they rotate throughout the voting period at different locations just about every day. those trailers are also available in the event of an emergency on election day to be pulled out and substituted as a polling location. so we've

. >> again, my name is ross miller, savannah secretary of state. i have the privilege of introducing our next speaker, thomas e. perez who works for the civil rights division at the department of justice. obviously, much of the discussion this past conference has centered around the move act. it's an issue for which many secretaries of state are extremely proud of our organization's efforts to advance overseas ballot, men and women in the military able to cast ballots in a timely manner. some of the discussion has focused on the interaction with the department of justice, who is responsible for some enforcement of those statutes. mr. perez previously served as secretary of maryland's department of labor licensing and regulations which protects consumers through the enforcement of consumer rights laws. he's spent his entire career in public service as a county council member and president, is career attorney and federal prosecutor with the d.o.j. civil rights division. aag perez addressed this group last winter. we're delighted he has accepted our i

. >> congressman rokita, ross miller from nevada. some of the discussions this weekend in our conference have centered around the eac, obviously this organization, as you are aware, has twice taken the position that we believe that the eac should be sunsetted. there's now some discussion as to what to do in the interim. and, i was wondering if you could just offer a little bit of background as to what is happening in congress with the eac and offer any potential predictions as to what may eventually result? >> thank you, ross. well, as you all, i'm sure, know, a bill was heard in house administration to defund and otherwise sunset, repeal the enabling language that instituted the organization. i was a original co-sponsor in that bill. in that my involvement in that bill comes directly out of the two resolutions that came out of this organization that i was involved with helping to author and get passed. that bill passed committee and it went to the house floor for a vote that we needed 290 votes for. we did not get that. so it was a

. >> congressman, rokita, ross miller from nevada. some of the discussions this weekend at our conference have centered around the eac. obviously this organization as you're aware has twice taken the position that we believe that the eac should be sunseted. there is now some discussion as to what to do in the interim and i was wondering if you could just offer a little bit of background what is happening in congress with the eac and offer any potential predictions what evently may result? >> thank you, ross. as you all i'm sure know, a bill was heard in housed a administration to defund and otherwise sunset repeal the enabling language that instituted the election assistance commission. i was a, an am an original cosponsor of that bill and that, my involvement in that bill comes directly out of the two resolutions that came out of this organization, that i was involved with helping to author and get passed. so that bill passed committee. it went to the house floor for a, for a vote that we needed 290 votes for. we did not get that. so

writ now in the north bay we get some very heavy cell from fort ross to jenner and bodega bay and closer to petaluma and novato across 101 miller creek road, ignacio boulevard getting pretty wet pavement. san rafael, larkspur east bay and san pablo and he we get rain there and lighter rain falling out to the inland east bay. planes down to the south bay and the monterey bay. the heaviest rain and wind are still on the wayay. they will e coming during the morning commute. i'll let you know how long you need to hold on to umbrella and how much rain we 7. >> thanks very much. despite the lack of rain this winter most of the reservoir have water level from 43 percent of capacity i in santa clara to 84 percent in sonoma. now that is mostly because of the unusually wet winter we had last year. >> students at stanford on alert after 2 separate assaults on campus. woman was tackled to the ground at kennedy grove before she got await a minute short time later man crawled into a woman's bed in her dorm on campus drive. lillian is on campus tonight where students are being told to take precautions. lillian? >> stanford police say assaults

writ now in the north bay we get some very heavy cell from fort ross to jenner and bodega bay and closer to petaluma and novato across 101 miller creek road, ignacio boulevard getting pretty wet pavement. san rafael, larkspur east bay and san pablo and he we get rain there and lighter rain falling out to the inland east bay. planes down to the south bay and the monterey bay. the heaviest rain and wind are still on the way. they will be coming during the morning commute. i'll let you know how long you need to hold on to umbrella and how much rain we 7. >> thanks very much. despite the lack of rain this winter most of the reservoir have water level from 43 percent of capacity i in santa clara to 84 percent in sonoma. now that is mostly because of the unusually wet winter we had last year. >> students at stanford on alert after 2 separate assaults on campus. woman was tackled to the ground at kennedy grove before she got await a minute short time later man crawled into a woman's bed in her dorm on campus drive. lillian is on campus tonight where students are being told to take precautions. lillian? >> stanford police say assaults

start talking numbers on the technical side with rich ross, global technical strategist at grayson, and peter bookmar, equity strategist at miller tayback. >> vince lombardi used to say winning isn't a sometime thing. the technicals suggest the streak continues. let's take a look at the chart. you'll see what i mean. we're already up 12% on a year-to-date basis. decisive chart break from that well-defined downtrend from the quinn petwin peak highs. we think the bull trend should resume in earnest. finally, let's look at the moving averages. they just kissed, but they do not cross. that's what you want to see. we think the bull trend resumes in earnest. 1900 is in the cards at a minimum. >> back to an all-time high at some point. >> no doubt. >> what's moving the price here, obviously lower interest rates help. but is gold trying to tell us that it fears inflation? or something else? what's going on there? >> gold is self-defense against global money printing whose pace has never been greater now. gold's best friend is ben bernanke, new england, bank of japan. as long as these central bankers continue to depreciate their currenci

ross mira keepmy as his trial for domestic vie lebs approaches. >> how can you make progress for san francisco when there's so much resistance coming out of washington these days? i'm craig miller. i'll have a climate watch conversation with epa administrator jared blumenfeld. >> belva: on the 70th anniversary of the japanese-american internment, memories of manzanar. >> we had a regular room with cots and that was it. >> belva: coming up next. >> belva: good even are. i'm belva davis and welcome to "this week in northern california." joining me tonight are carla marinucci, senior political writer for the "san francisco chronicle." and rachel gordon, city hall reporter also with the "criterion ankle." rachel, what kind of impact has this domestic violence case against the sheriff had on advocates for the victims? >> it's really galvanized this community really from the get-go. the thing that made them most angry was on his swearing-in day on january 8th, ross meirkarimi said this case involving allegations he was abusive to his wife, grabbed her arm, caused bruising, he addressed reporters and said, it's a private matter, it's a family matter. that right there got people furiou