ruane, first of all thank you and fhwa for, no, thank you all, your organization as opposed to fhwa, as for producing very good data which you have appended to your testimony about projects in each state impacted by the trust fund and federal aid. one problem is, y'all had to spend hours and hours and hours producing that data and it seems to me that data should be readily available through the program and to make it transparent and clear what the trust fund does or doesn't do. would you agree with that and there are reforms that can be made to make the activity under the trust fund far more transparent? >> i absolutely agree. and, it's really tragic one would have to use the freedom of information act to get such information. >> right. >> they have that information going back. i'm not here to, you know, unfairly criticize any government agency but you would think that they would want to get that information out there aggressively and tell the story. we make a recommendation in our testimony specifically, you recall the effort that was made by the administration, various agencies and

authorities say this man committed a crime that ruaned and for people going to sunday's super bowl, half the battle is yus getting there. the effort to make sure that mass transit doesn't become mass confusion. >>> and in weather, clear skys and cool temperatures right now, but i amtraking weather system offshore. coming up, i'll let you know if that will impact at least part of your weekend plan. >>> grass fire behind san marin high school this afternoon. that fire started about 1:15 on san marin drive. it burned about five acres before crews finally got it under control. moved up the hill and away from a high school. no students were affected. >>> some bay area doctors were worried about the number of latinos enrolled in covered california. latinos make up half of california's population, but officials say they make up only 20% of those enrolled who listed their ethnicity. staffers in oakland say they're calling their clients to let them know about the upcoming march 31st enrollment deadline. >>> now, to the south bay where investigators tonight are asking for help identifying. as robe

mayor ruane says the public deserves better after pg&e left a hole in his city and a hole in so many hearts in the wake of the explosion that killed eight people and decimated a neighborhood. >> we've become aware of activities behind the scenes and involving pec and the pcuc that has given us cause for person. this includes exparty contract between the prosecuting staff and judges at the cpuc that could potentially impact what ought to be a transparent open and judicially fair process to adequately fine pg&e for the gross negligence that caused death and destruction. >> reporter: under the public records act, they say they've made four requests for puc documents since may. either the puc has failed to comply, failed to respond or has only provided part of what was asked for. city leaders say if they didn't have anything to hide, it would reveal the documents. we tried to contact the cpuc, they say they are going to be commenting issuing a statement a little bit later this afternoon. live from san francisco, i'm tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. >>> palo alto's latest

ruane first of all thank you and fhwa, thank you all and your organization for producing very good data which you appended to your testimony about projects in each state impacted by the trust fund and federal aid. one problem is you all have to spend hours and hours and hours producing that data and it seems to me that data should be readily available through the program to make it transparent and clear what the trust fund does or doesn't do. would you agree with that but there are reforms you think can be made to make the activity in the trust fund far more transparent? >> i absolutely had re-and it's really tragic that one would have to use the freedom of information act to get such information. they have that information going back and i'm not here to unfairly criticize any government agency but you would think they would want to get that information out there aggressively and tell the story. .. mid unfortunately they have a response to the report yet. we need that greater transparency. mr. hancock, i'm real concerned, as are many of my republican colleagues about the epa and a new p

. >> pam: san bruno mayor jim ruane says there are concerns that c-p-u-c leaders have a "cozy" relationshipate regulators. >> pam: a stranger attempts to kidnap a 7-year-old little girl as she walked with her mom monday outside of this >> pam: starbucks in the powell street plaza in emeryville >> pam: investigators say although the suspect19-year- old gabriel weathersbywho you see hereis not a registered sex offenderhe has allegedly made comments about hurting children >>".into custody" >> pam: emeryville police say weathersbee has previously been in custody as a result of a psychiatric hold due to some sort of mental breakdown last november >> pam: police have released a sketch in hopes of finding a bicycle-riding purse snatcher in palo alto. >> pam: purse on university avenue last week. while she was dining at an outdoor restaurant. a similar robbery occurred ten minutes earlier at a bus stop on quarry road, when a suspect attempted to snatch another woman's purse. >> pam: both women provided similar descriptions of the suspect. >> pam: police are recommending that purses be worn close to

peter ruane a key ally of ours as we went to the last time the bill. >> madam chairwoman, chairman boxer senators vitter thank you for inviting us to participate in this hearing. i am thankful for your leadership on map-21 as well as the current legislation. one number of loan provides ample evidence of the value of the federal surface transportation program. today trucks carry freight worth more than $11 trillion over the nation's roads every year. more than three-quarters of that truck travel occurs on roads that comprised of federal aid system. without the federal investment in these roads we put tracking mobility and productivity and that $11 trillion in economic activity at risk. we believe one of the federal program's biggest problems is that government at all levels does a poor job of telling the american public how their federal gas and diesel tax dollars are invested each year. we believe the public would be impressed and widely support this federal program if they knew the full story. i asked her economic team to find out how the public's federal gas tax dollars were put to use