whether you're all hear from -- you hear from san bernardino proposing a program. entirely devised by mrp and they helped construct a joint powers authority in san bernardino county. why do you have a joint powers authority? whoa why does the county create legal construction? and a simple answer is because they need to create a special purpose vehicle. follow with me here in my world of securitization. the county of san bernardino, start seizing mortgages through this quote-unquote quick pick, they take the mortgage, and they decide how much to pay later. that seems very convenient if you go with mrps analysis that when you take it, you're only paying 70 to 80% of the appraised value of the home. mrp builds in a foreclosure discount for borrowers who are still current on their mortgage. so follow with me a little longer here. so the joint powers authority is separately going to -- is taking these mortgages at 70 to 80% of their val other but not putting up the money. they're taking the mortgages and saying we'll pay you later, and then mrp, through their program, p

and our first stop was in san bernardino. let me give you a little taste of what that was like. >> honey, most of it's yours. >> she's right. [ car starts ] >> road trip! [ ♪ [ music ]♪ i have been driving all night man -- ♪ [ music ]♪ >> reporter: long road to the big easy started hard. but things looked up when we got to our first stop. >> the wigwam motel. >> reporter: the wigwam motel about 460 miles from the bay area in san bernardino. >> this property is located on route 66. >> by the name of frank red ford loved the concept of teepees and built it for people to stay who travel. >> reporter: built in 1949 one of only two on the route. the family took it over 7 years ago. >> it's a piece of americana you don't see anymore. >> reporter: heidi and her husband stayed the night we were there, they're from antioch. >> as a little kid we used to drive by and saw the teepees and always wanted to go in and see them. and so i told my husband about them. so we just booked a room and came down and stayed last night. >> reporter: she had her reservations. >> i heard there was actually

i was with the city of san bernardino, california, 80 miles outside of los angeles. i'm recognized as an expert in graffiti and i have done everything from being an officer to being a supervisor of the unit, to be a supervisor of multi-agency units dealing with it, to being the executive director for the entire state california state association of graffiti inspectors. so i have a fair amount of background. i was first involved in 1991 in the gang unit to deal with the guys called taggers. i continued with that until i retired last june. so it was a long two weeks. it's kind of typical, because a lot of times jurisdictions don't understand how deep the issue is when it comes to graffiti. i am a certified instructor and teach officers on this area. i have had my card handed out. this is my phone number. i have absolutely no problem with people calling me any time to discuss graffiti issues, graffiti cases. any of that stuff, i'm always available. that is why i put my card out there. so first off, before we get into the graffiti program we have to talk about the person

not moving too far inland it will be lighter amounts as we get up to san bernardino. san diego, most of it is off the coast. i think san diego you're probably going to have likely period of rain. a little slow there. a front big huge storm went up just north of juneau last night. cooling things off. this will bring changing weather pattern for the weekend. we'll linger with this trough and cause scattered showers and a lot of clouds and cooler temperatures. batch of rain this morning with that cutoff upper low that's dying off the coast. that's why we'll have the chance of rain from phoenix to l.a. today. the front to north and continues through your weekend. that okay. california the rainiest weather of the weekend is this morning. speaking of weekend forecast that will be coming right up. >>> looking forward to that. up next medical science's real life "star trek" tracker beam plus layoffs ahead for the airlines. why are the brits blowing up these trains. what to watch on wall street. jan's final friday. you're watching "early today" only on nbc. >>> welcome back. he

as an example, the opinion marks, san bernardino county was mentioned as one of the areas that should look at as being one of the ground zero's of negative home price appreciation. what we've seen of him or if you know, just evaluating the number of loans in default in that county is that in june 2009, about 31,000. june 2010 was 25,000. june 2011, 18,000. june 2012, 12,000. the percentage change in default of london that county, which you could argue his ground zero for negative home price appreciation has gone down 61%. the mere facts are that signaled to me we are not in the middle were not going into the storm here. we are starting to come out. doesn't mean that one make life any better for the person whose challenge to make a mortgage payment. does that make life easier for some of us want under 50% ltb, but the signal is an economy, as the nation moving away from the center part of it and towards areas where we've got four home price stability. even markets at phoenix,, using rapid home price appreciation. it's been 20, 2530% year-over-year to 2012, were you in three markets of

also leveled the field on internet sales taxes with new jobs at amazon centers and patterson san bernardino and now tracy. this year, we should change both the enterprise zone program and the job hiring credit. they aren't working. we also need to rethink and streamline a regulatory procedure, and cut needless delays. [ applause ] california's export -- that gives the republicans something to cut. california's exports are booming and never stronger. it's deep. when the chinese immigrants crossed into the pacific in 1848 to the next president in los angeles last february. this year we'll take another step to strengthen the ties between the second and ninth largest economies. trade an investment mission to china with the council and open the trade and investment office in shanghai. central to the life of our state is water. and sits about water to the san joaquin delta. farmers on the east side of the san joaquin between fresno and current county and between tracy and urban southern california and northern costa are all critically dependent on the delta for water. if because of an earthquake,

the first stop was in san bernardino in a place you might not expect to be staying. really? >> honey, most of it's yours. >> she's right. [ car starts ] >> road trip! ♪ [ music ]♪ >> i have been driving all night man ♪ ♪ [ music ]♪ >> reporter: long road to the big easy started hard. but things looked up when we got to our first stop. >> the wigwam motel. >> reporter: the wigwam motel about 460 miles from the bay area in san bernardino. >> this property is located on route 66. a gentleman by the name of frank redford loved the concept of teepees and built it for people to stay on their travels. >> reporter: built in 1949 one of a network on the route now one of only two. the family took it over 7 years ago. >> it's a piece of americana you don't see anymore. >> reporter: heidi and her husband stayed the night we were there, they're from antioch. >> as a little kid we used to drive by and saw the teepees and always wanted to go in and see them. and so i told my husband about them. so we just booked a room and came down and stayed last night. >> reporter: she had her reservati

california after the death of a 2-year-old girl who ate chili powder in apple valley just north of san bernardino. sheriff's deputies went to a home sunday and found a toddler suffering from a seizure. she later died at the hospital. an autopsy is planned to find out what role the chili powder played in the girl's death. she was the daughter of the woman's boyfriend. >>> some developing news now out of australia. firefighters are battling scores of wildfires across the southeast. to make matters worse, they are facing blistering temperatures and high winds. national parks have been evacuated. about 100 people are missing. the fires burned through more than 100,000 acres in the area. >>> 4:34. a new look at the numbers confirm what san jose firefighters had suspected all along. it is taking them a lot longer to get to fires now that there are fewer firefighters on hand. the nationwide standard for getting to a fire is 6 minutes 90% of the time but the goal in san jose is 8 minutes 80% of the time. in the past couple of years, san jose has laid off 50 firefighters and taken about half dozen fire en

( call disconnects ) the call originated from inside the control room of the san bernardino switchyard. what? yeah. i got them. i want to know how he got in here? people saw a man in a janitor's uniform, no one thought twice. but from in here, he can tamper with any number of switches and controls, cause hundreds of accidents. and did he? as far as we can tell, he didn't touch a thing, except for this. he's showing us what he's capable of. all right, well, now it's our turn. why don't you guys look around here. show me how this thing works. this is frank milton. we believe tomorrow he will attempt to attack one of 100 trains traveling over the cajon pass. david: we can't get the pass closed because we don't have a specific threat. all we have are our conclusions about milton's plans. yeah, it's the major freight rail line into l.a.. closing it would shut down 60% of the region's commerce. don: the kicker is, the guy's off the grid. hunting him down could take months or years. our best shot is at that pass. charlie: terry believes milton will select a train most like the one he drove. i

agents believe the images were taken in san bernardino county but think the suspects could be anywherein california. >>> telling them how you really feel. it's not something you would think you could get away with. a judge said police may not have the right to arrest you for it. >>> would you believe this? earning a bachelor's degree for just $10,000. details of the bold new idea to help students. >> thank god for technology. >>> a second chance. he penned iconic songs in the '60s but was left penniless. now he's back on track thanks to technology. >> his name is sutro sam. ♪ i'd like to thank eating right, whole grain, multigrain cheerios! my bowl, my spoons! mom, are those my jeans? [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't. multigrain cheerios has whole grain and 110 delicious calories. ...more grains. less you! multigrain cheerios in multi-grain cheerios peanut butter. >>> sandy hook elementary might never reopen. today the surviving students went back to school to a different campus seven miles away. nearly three weeks after th

what you hear from san bernardino proposing a program, entirely devised by mrp. in fact they helped construct what is called a joint powers authority out in san bernardino county. why do you have a joint powers authority? why does a county create a legal construction? and a simple answer is because they need to create a special purpose vehicle. follow with me here. i'm in my world of securitization here. the county of san bernardino, if they start to seizing mortgages as the congressman indicated through this quote, unquote, quick take, what that means is, they take the mortgage and they decide how much to pay later. that seems very convenient if you go with mrp's analysis when you take it you are only paying 7 to 80% of the appraised value of the home. mrp builds this foreclosure discount for borrowers who are still current on their mortgage. so follow with me just a little bit longer here. so the joint powers authority, a separately legal entity is taking these mortgages at 70 to 80% of their value but not putting up the money they're taking mortgages saying we

which ask better place to live, california has better weather, but that is not going to solve san bernardino's problems. >> it's slowly breaking down to nothing. >> they tried to ask people at city hall what happened. >> is anybody here? >> texas is growing but what about freedom. politicians may grab your land. >> taking texans land. >> but texans have the freedom to arm themselves, partly due to this woman. she isn't angry at gunman. >> the guy that did it was a lunatic. >>> by a handgun in california is no simple task. >> neither is getting a license to open a business. >> it talks one, two or even.... >> texas versus california. that is our show tonight! was like a rabid dog. >> buying a handgun in california is not a simple task. john: or even a license to open a business. texas vs. california. that is our show. tonight. john: 20% of you one at a five americans lives in texas or california. california is the biggest texas is the second california is a dream where movie stars and beaches growing at more than double the national average until 1990. over the last decade to million more ameri

it would be a net cost of to the taxpayer and it would help to recover in committees like san bernardino. it is not happening. services have a lot more flexibility than they have pursued in order to modify the loans including principal reduction. a financial has been a leader. others have not followed their lead. there are also things like bankruptcy protection. at a federal level, it was debated in congress, it would cost the american public nothing. it would allow households that are under financial distress to restructure the debt on their family home and keep it off. if you owned a luxury yacht or a rental property, you can restructure that debt, but you cannot if you have a moderate income. the fact that we are in this conversation is unfortunate because many things could happen before we would have to go to an extreme measure of eminent domain. >> does everyone agree, the assertion that principal reduction is what has happened? let's leave eminent domain until later in the conversation because it distracts people. does everyone agree the principal reduction is what we have to provi

san bernardino, entirely devised by amr p. they helped construct a joint powers support.why you have a joint powers authority? white is the county create a legal construction? as simple answer is because they need to create a special purpose vehicle. marlowe's securitization, the county of san bernardino, if they start seeing new mortgages as the congressman indicated through this could take, what that means is they take the mortgage and decide how much to pay later. that seems very convenient if you go with the analysis that you take it you're only paying 70-80 percent of the appraised value of the home. follow myth the alow bit longer. the joint power authority is separately taking these mortgages at 70-80 percent of their value. then mrp, the private investment firms will refinance the mortgages through fha. >> well, through that could take program if it is determined later that it was not fair market value, that power authority can be bankrupted, and no one wins in that situation, but institutional investors, now of a sudden have had mortgages crept off. >> i did not

rallies are planned in san jose, san francisco fresno and san bernardino. >>> vice-president joseph biden is hosting more white house meetings on gun violence. the vice-president is listening to both sides of the debate and coming up, we will hear from the very diverse groups the vice-president will be meeting with today. >>> they are testing the span of the bay bridge and right now 10,000 of the lights are installed. eventually there will be 2 5,000 creating what is known as a light sculpture. they are being checking the entire thing span. >>> they have freeways in the east bay and traffic looks good as you drive through the bridge and it's a nice commute headed through the from westbound bridge approaching the toll it is knot nice a -- it's nice an empty and heading towards fremont, that is also a nice looking start. >> i would not be surprised if we see snow and i have seen it at 38 degrees in scott veil valley and bolder -- scott valley and bolder creek, there is a winter weather advisory but for us it is mainly taking aim towards santa cruz. and santa cruz mountains, i tell you it wo

the charges grew out of the 2003 fire in san bernardino county where five men died of heart attacks. rickie lee fowler was convicted of two counts of arson and five coincide of first degree murder. it took them -- fire years of first degrees murder. >>> grand jury in 1999 believed there was enough evidence to indict jonbenet ramsey's parents on charges related to her death but they never pursued the charges against patricia ramsey and john bennett ramsey. the girl was found dead in 1996. her parents claimed an intruder was to blame. patricia ramsey died in 2006. >>> major change for the boy scout. why a proposal to soften its stance on gays may not mean much for a teen fighting for that change. >> president obama feels that way, less competition for jack harbaugh. >> what jim harbaugh is saying about the president's comments about the nfl and the violence of the game. you're on timeout leo! some things won't last 25 years. ah! woof! some things will. some things won't last 25 years. ah! woof! some things will. >>> complete bay area news coverage continues right now, this is ktvu chan

in san jose, fresno and san bernardino. >>> vice-president joseph biden is hosting more meetings on gunlence at the white house today. he is getting information from both sides and we will have more on how gun supporters are already going on the offensive against any gun control coming from the white house. >>> sal, you know everybody depends on you getting them where they need to go. >> we have something causing a big traffic jam in the castro family this morning. this car was on fire and you can see flames shooting out of the trunk of the car. it happened in caster valley and there are no injuries reported. one lane was briefly blocked and traffic is now getting back to normal but the car is not doing well at all. let's go to the maps. this car caused a huge traffic jam out of the dublin area and continued out of caster valley. the car got us off to a wrong start there. southbound 101, there is a crash blocking the middle lane and it will be a little bit of slow traffic there. >> 6:09. let's go to steve. >>> the coldest air is still up here. it is not a very wet system and there is so

. >>> wall street says san bernardino is number one on the list and the unemployment rate reached 17% biggest city to ever filed for bankruptcy came in at number 6 and they came in on the lit of the best run cities in america. they raised san francisco for a balanced budget to train new p.m. officers and firefighters as well as aid servicers. they have one of the highest earn first ranked number one. >>> and they ended up with a lot of local names in the top 26. 24 surfers were invited to -- invited to test their skills which invited 30,000 fans to half-moon bay and prince tons sea. it was not as bad -- bad as thought and peter was crouped by the second king and he is also from santa cruz and in third place, san francisco alex martin came in 4th and shawn came in number 6. you probably came in number seven.$♪>> yes, i decided to skip it. >>> sal, how is traffic? >> we are looking at traffic which is a little bit lighter as we look at highway 17 which is a nice drive no major problems. also into fremont, it is looking good passed mission boulevard, let's go back to the desk. >>> and th

it and the biggest annual gain since the boom days of 2006 when riverside and san bernardino saw theecond and third biggest price jump in the nation behind phoenix. it is so cold. >> that is our story and we are sticking to it. the cold. the cold. okay? >> now, we will show you what is going on and what is waiting for you as you go outside. we will talk about temperatures that are subfreezing, look the at beautiful colors we have as we have a few high clouds moving through the sky this morning and we will talk about what is going on with seven-day outlook you can see how dry the air is no radar returns just a few highs. this was sent in by cali who tweeted this picture, a reporting station in downtown petaluma at 19 degrees and the airport is 20. that is the microclimate for petaluma. now, other areas, you can see wide-spread 20's inland and antioch is freezing and 32 and freezing in redwood city at 31 and san jose is 33 and mountain view at 34 and the monterey bay is freezing but monterey is 33. the warming trend begins today and forecast is less likely tonight and we will still hav

california has better weather, but that is not going to solve san bernardino's problem.tried to ask people at city hall what happened. >> is there anyone here. >> the job prospects are far better in texas. >> texas versus california, that is our show. >> neil: and texas won, john stossel? >> not in every category. texas isn't so good at protecting your property. in texas more likely to seize your property. >> neil: what does texas do right that california did not? >> they don't regulate you to death. they have too many regulations but california passed a hundred new laws just last year. three a day and the taxes which means more money goes to the government. so there is more job growth and opportunity in texas, a million people -- in california they used to grow triple the rate of population growth than the rest of the country. it has stopped in 1990. last ten years, a million people left california, half a million moved into texas from other states. >> neil: the legislative session in texas is shorter. >> i love this. the los angeles city council, they are paid $150,000

we left on friday and we don't have a big budget so the first night we stayed in a teepee in san bernardinogwam motel. one of those chic places on route 66. it was very nice actually. we had a terrific time in the teepee. he told her we were going to europe and drove to the london bridge in arizona in lake havasu city. and that was kind of cool. they put -- you'll be seeing stories every day i'm going to start putting stories on the air tonight and hopefully you will see them in the mornings about all these places. we're off and off route 66. i wanted to stand on a corner in winslow, arizona because my wife passed by and we missed that. new mexico. >> you're supposed to stay up and keep her up to help be a good navigator for her. >> well, look. you get on the highway and you get off the highway in new orleans pretty much. it's not a lot to navigate. but tomorrow will be fun. it's the alien museum where the aliens supposedly landed in roswell, new mexico. so i'm looking forward to that. >> i cannot wait to hear about your travels later on tonight. can't wait to see you in new orleans. everyo

get you outside of that sky camera network tonight and from san bernardino mountain to the bay bridges jostling around just a bit in that wind we talked about. that is eventually going to decrease that air quality and also let's take you down to the south bay. it looks like down there at the bottom of your screen, that's some of the haze and then up above we do have relatively clear skies continuing to persist. now what's going to get us to warm up and break all kinds of standard here for january is this monster area high pressure. i mean, this thing stretches for thousands of miles in the pacific. it's taking that storm track and pushing it right up to alaska so there is no hope of any kind of rainfall until about monday and tuesday of next week. for the next two days it's going to be hazy, it'll be sunny, and weather so great not only will you be able to get away with the shorts but maybe even the flip-flops in a few locations. scotts valley 72. santa cruz 70. los ga it tos may get into the low 70s by friday. say saratoga 69 and half moon bay 66. the south bay and the santa cruz mou

that's in san bernardino county for all you people who live up here.s not just cold, it's windy down there. the strong gust toppling trash cans blowing christmas trees on the roads there. not good. >>> it's been one month since the sandy hook elementary school massacre. and today parents of the victims marked the somber milestone with a promise to try to prevent similar tragedies. together with the newtown community, they have launched a nonprofit called "sandy hook promise." they will be part charity and part think tank aimed at finding ways to stop gun violence in schools. it also calls on lawmakers to hold open-minded discussions about mental health, school safety and gun laws. >>> students in san francisco are learning how to respond if a gunman comes on campus. cbs 5 reporter patrick sedillo shows us how police are also preparing for a day they hope will never come. >> reporter: the scenes of the sandy hook elementary massacre are still fresh and san francisco is taking steps to prevent a similar incident. >> whenever one of these types of tragedi

. >> reporter: the wigwam motel about 460 miles from the bay area in san bernardino. >> this propertythe name of frank redford loved the concept of teepees and built it for people to stay on their travels. >> reporter: built in 1949 one of a network on the route now one of only two. the family took it over 7 years ago. >> it's a piece of americana you don't see anymore. >> reporter: heidi and her husband stayed the night we were there, they're from antioch. >> as a little kid we used to drive by and saw the teepees and always wanted to go in and see them. and so i told my husband about them. so we just booked a room and came down and stayed last night. >> reporter: she had her reservations. >> i heard this was actually a hooker hotel. >> reporter: there was a dark time in the '80s but all that is changed. >> inside it's a completely normal room like you would stay at any motel, you know, refrigerator, tv, bed. >> reporter: kumar is a big cigar smoker. when he found out i enjoyed one now and again he had the perfect smoke for me because of the label. >> you are going to the super bowl.

it happened in apple valley just north of san bernardino. sheriff's deputies went to a home sunday and found a 2-year- old girl having a seizure. she died at the hospital. an autopsy is planned to find out what role that chili powder played in her death. she was the daughter of the woman's boyfriend. >>> it was poison that killed an illinois lottery winner. the medical examiner in chicago might exhume the body of a man whose death last july was ruled natural but a relative asked them to chec again. now it's considered homicide by cyanide. he died the day after he received $400,000 and it was cashed a month later with the money going to his estate. >>> sharp minded sacramento woman talking about how she handled a home invasion intruder. she offered a man coffee who she found sleeping on her couch. >> that's when i unsheathed this machete and then i say, no, you need to get back, you need to sit and the wait for the cops. >> and that's what he did. parnell took a photo as they arrested the suspect 25-year- old christopher weaver. parnell was u

never going to work, and up fortunately, there's a day of reckoning for coming for stockton and san bernardinowhat about the state as a whole? governor brown in the state of the states last week said, look, we're finished with the deficit. we're okay. we're in the black, actually. that's what he said. >> well, yes, if you look at the actual numbers behind that, part of eliminating that budget deficit meant pushing off payments towards bond obligation. they took a couple billion off the back end there, and what's interesting, it's easy to claim there's a budget surplus with $6 billion more of the taxpayers money thanks to prop 30, but hidden in the funding means that the governor's now going to back fill pension payments and salaries to stateupon work ores, and that was not part of the promise. >> that's interesting. this prop 30 raised taxes that was in the november election, and it was back dated to january. they are going to bring in an extra $6 million, and mark, you say some of the extra revenue goes towards paying state worker pensions opposed to reinvigorated the health service or the ed

san bernardino.my show to the mayor's office looking for answers. >> i walked down an empty hallway looking for the mayor, looking for anyone. i felt like i was in a horror movie. it was creepy. i found an empty conference room and decided i would take over as mayor. show of hands? all right. not all at once. busy day. we have a lot of problems. lot of people out of work. lot of businesses with shuttered doors. i don't hear any answers from any of you! >> steve: the lights are on, but nobody is home. >> they were in there. she couldn't find them. san bernardino is the fourth city to go bankrupt. there will be more. >> steve: so you'll be talk being it's better in texas on tonight's stossel, right? >> not in every category. it's nice we have 50 states. you can move. >> gretchen: all right. check it out tonight. 9:00 p.m. eastern time on fox business. good to see you. >> steve: watch that just before you get o bed. if you didn't get a good night's sleep last night, our next guest knows why. she'll show

. >>> a convicted arsonist sentenced to death for setting the 2003 old fire in san bernardino, california. that fire destroyed around 1,000 homes, led to five deaths. the children of one victim told the judge how the fire destroyed their lives. he was described as a meth addict. he was convicted of arson charges last august. >>> chick-fil-a has stopped donating money to anti-gay organizations. look at the chicken chain books for 2001. the georgia-based company was caught up in the same-sex marriage debate last year when the president of the company made remarks. gay rights groups were most incensed when they looked at the books. the chicken chain's 2011 tax returns showed no such donations to those groups. >>> a disturbing story coming out of washington state. a man accused of tying up his 4-year-old stepdaughter and shooting her more than 30 times with a pellet gun for, quote, waking him up early. police say the grandmother noticed red marks all over her body thinking it was chicken position. the girl has since been taken into protective custody. her dad is scheduled to appear in court l

apparently a bunch of people they were out sledding in the san bernardino mountains in southern californiae the sled, bill. bill: oh, yeah. heather: don't do it here. one guy ended up falling through the thin ice on this frozen lake. many of his would be rescuers, they fell in after him. bill: oh, my. heather: in the end when it was all said and done a dozen people ended up in the frigid water, but they were all rescued and they are all said to be okay. bill: my oh my. someone was standing there with a camera the whole time going, i'm not as dumb as you are. heather: that's what i was wondering the folks standing there with the camera. and they don't move. bill: the plan agreed to in washington with regard to the fiscal cliff could mean big changes in your paycheck starting now. william la jeunesse is on that reading the fine print. good morning, what can the employees expect in the paycheck now. >> reporter: you'll probably see this tomorrow or possibly next week. whether you're rich or not your payroll taxes are going up. how much for a single person earning $38,000 a year yesterday the

reporter: but both the mayor and the superintendent of fontana schools, which by the way is in san bernardino county outside of l.a. county, say that these assault weapons are the best way it protect their campuses. 40,000 students and they think this is the way to do it. >> megyn: trace, thanks. new question whether there is a gap between what america wants from washington and what the president is planning for his second term. we'll compare new pew polling to the president's agenda and we'll see what's left. plus, after a tourist finishes his pricey meal at a famous new york steakhouse, forgot his wallet. haven't you had this nightmare, it's a mistake that cost him the next two days in jail. really? kelly's court takes on the case and you're rights if in should happen to you. katie couric got the interview of a notre dame football player in the middle of a hoax, about a girl that did not exist. and what this young man said and how he said and it what we think it means. >> and say to you, i can see you, i don't know why you can't see me. >> correct. >> did you think that was a little weird?

we leveled the field on internet sales taxes, amazon centers and patterson in san bernardino and notreacy. this year we should change but the enterprise unprogrammed the job hiring credit. they are working. we need to reason could streamline the regulatory procedures, particularly california quality yet. her approach is to be based on consistent standards to provide greater certainty and cut needless delays. [applause] that gives the republicans something to clap about. california's exports are booming. to the people's republic of china are deep and chinese immigrants crossing the pacific in 1848 to hosting china's ex-president to los angeles less severe. this year we take another step to strengthen ties between the world's second and ninth largest economies. in april only to trade the best addition to china but the council and officially open california's new trade and investment office in shanghai. central to the life of our state is water and one sixth of that water flows through. silicon valley, prefer more valley, eastside between fresno and virus on the wayside between tracy an

taxes, paving the way for over 1,000 new jobs at new amazon distribution centers in patterson and san bernardino and now tracy. the enterprise zone program and the jobs hiring credit. they aren't working. we also need to rethink and streamline our regulatory procedures, particularly the act. our approach needs to be based more on consistent standards that provide greater certainty and cut needless delays. [applause] california's exports are booming and our place in the world economy has never been stronger. our ties with the people's republic of china in particular are deep -- from the chinese immigrants crossing the pacific in 1848 to hosting china's next president in los angeles last february. this year we will take another step to strengthen the ties between the world's second and ninth largest economies. in april, i will lead a trade and investment mission to china with help from the bay area council and officially open california's new trade and investment office in shanghai. water central to the life of our state is water and one sixth of that water flows through the san joaquin delta. sil

taxes, paving the way for over 1,000 new jobs at new amazon distribution centers in patterson and san bernardino and now tracy. this year, we should change both the enterprise zone program and the jobs hiring credit. they aren't working. we also need to rethink and streamline our regulatory procedures, particularly the california environmental quality act. our approach needs to be based more on consistent standards that provide greater certainty and cut needless delays. [applause] california's exports are booming and our place in the world economy has never been stronger. our ties with the people's republic of china in particular are deep -- from the chinese immigrants crossing the pacific in 1848 to hosting china's next president in los angeles last february. this year we will take another step to strengthen the ties between the world's second and ninth largest economies. in april, i will lead a trade and investment mission to china with help from the bay area council and officially open california's new trade and investment office in shanghai. central to the life of our state is water and one

guest: scranton, harrisburg, bernadine no -- san bernardino -- these are the exceptions. we are in fairly good financial shape. the biggest challenges we have a are the same as a lot of others. business, pension debt. that seems to be the one factor of many of these cities. host: how much goes to a pension? how much is taken off the top before you can do anything? guest: in most cities, 70% + goes to public safety or more. 70 plus percent side of any department -- you can imagine what that does to a city budget. in mesa, with a debate on the public safety level and for most of our employees on a statewide pension plans -- we participate on the public safety level and for most of our employees on a statewide pension plans. the vast majority of the thousands of cities, towns in america rarely are financially insolvent and have a bright future. host: a color and are independent line. -- caller on our independent line. caller: good morning, mayors. my comment is relative to guns and finances. on legalizing marijuana to the degree the people can grow their on would remove the