hi, i'm here with carl, he is the operations manager for solar city. we decided to take a little break from the cls room to so we could see some of the solar panels in action. carl, how are you? >> very well. nice to meet you. >> how do you like the weather? >> not too bad. >> kind of sunny. how does that impact our solar panels when we have lots of sun versus fog which we are typically accustomed to in san francisco? >> well, contrary to popular belief, solar panels will produce electricity when it's foggy out. how much depends on the density of the fog. on a day like today it's hazy for typical san francisco weather. on a day like talking, you can expect 80% of your what would be your full production on a clear sunny day. >> so if i were thinking about getting solar panels and i lived in san francisco and i was worried about haze versus full sun and how that will impact what jets yated, are there any tools or tricks that i can use to determine what the production is going to be like? >> the first thing you need to do is look at what available area do

scientist have found an interesting new planet outside our solar city.l of the right ingredient to be earth like which means the potential for life. corrina has the story. >>reporter: of all the scientist on earth and all the planets in the universe, this is the one that has them talking tonight. the artist rendering is what nasa calls keepler 22 b. now confirmed planet 600 line years away. >> it's about 2.4 times the size of earth so it is bigger. but it is orbiting a star very much lake our sun so it is kind of a sun twin. >>reporter: as they say in real estate it's all about location. and keepler 22 b orbit the star from a distance similar to earth and what is called a habitable zone. science team guesses the planet surface at 72 degrees. >> big planet. it could have a lot of limit it could be an ocean planet. one of the possibilities in fact it's a planet made of water and ice. all ocean. >>reporter: one more big announcement from the keepler science team. it discovered more than 1,000 potential planets what they call planet candidate. that brings to

city hall will be having new solar panels on the south side. of the total is $6.6 million low-cost borrowing in order to fund those key projects for the city. the vendor has been selected through a competitive process and we set out a request for proposals to 20 firms. we selected bank of america because they were the lowest cost firm. we had the most experience in dealing with the renewable energy bonds. they worked with us in 2008 when we issued our power bonds. the two items before you today relate to power, specifically anticipated sale later this year as well as more next year. we will be coming back before you sometime in may to visit about water revenue bonds for our planned issues and also we will be looking at our waste water enterprises well to keep on track with our capital improvements in waste-water. before you today are both power bonds. i would like to think the budget analyst for the report. >> a quick question on the qualified energy conservation bond. can you tell us how the federal tax credits were there? >> the way that they

to the brass tacks of what this planet in this city needs right now, agree new deal that hires thousands of workers. i want to point out that the local solar contractor, the laborers have signed that letter because they note that the future of this city in the future of green jobs and producing from the report that we showed you a couple months back, we're talking about a potential for 4000 jobs a year for at least five years if not longer. these things have to be closely integrated and move forward to gather so that we can achieve those goals and to get the level of hiring. that is what you need to be asking yourself. >> i am president of the boosters neighborhood association. they the last time i was here, some of you folks weren't here. it was during the closure of the power plant. on the one hand, i am happy that it has happened because it gave me a break from coming to you guys and messing up all of the afternoons. there is a point of conflict when we were working on that because we weren't thrilled about exporting our demand. and exporting our need for fossil fuel plants to the east bay. the open goal of the closure of the power plan

mint, solar universe, and acrobat outsourcing. >>> san francisco city supervisors are scheduled to consider a proposal to turn over the sharp park golf course to the federal government. environmental groups suggest closing the pacifica course scene converting it into a national course. they say it will save taxpayers money and protect the red light frogs and the endangered san francisco guarder snake. opponents say they can protect the environment while still maintaining the interest of low income golfers who rely on that public course. >>> 4:49. a legendary recording artist has a new honor this morning. the attribute to neil diamond and other a-list stars in washington, d.c.. >>> tiger woods did something over the weekend he hasn't done in two years. >>> welcome back to the ktvu channel 2 morning news. hundreds of people there waiting in line in kansas yesterday morning. they were waiting to get tickets to see president obama speak tomorrow. president obama will speak at the same high school where president roosevelt delivered his new nationalism speech in 1920. that's when he called for a

it's a liberal city, windmills and solar panels. foreigners are trying to get a new stadium.nteed there will be never another night game at candlestick park if the 49ers play there. the league believes there was chicanery to speed the new building of the stadium in santa clara. >> yes, we have been to rush's studio when the power went out but the crew was nowhere near san francisco last night. we're not guilty of that one. and what does bill clinton think about his wife's former presidential campaign. >> when your wife was running against barack obama obama in new hampshire, the press favored obama, correct? >> i think, yes, no doubt about it. >> bill: i don't think there is any doubt that press favored barack obama over hillary clinton in the primaries. is that going to happen again. is the american press single favor barack obama over the republican candidate? >> we'll have to wait and see. >> bill: you know the answer is yes. >> bill: my question is, why does the american press favor the liberal candidate? >> i think it was more to it than that last time. >> bill: they did

detectives james cole and sean solar of the new york city police department's emergency services unit are on duty when the call comes in. >> we started our shift at 3:15 that afternoon. and almost immediately as soon as we finished loading up and checking our equipment, a call came over that there was a jumper up on the top of 30 rockefeller plaza. >> detectives race to midtown manhattan, where the 23-year-old man dangles his legs precariously from the 70th floor of the observation deck of 30 rock. >> the first thing i see when i get up there is him furiously scribbling on the note pad. i tried communicating with him as much as possible. >> several onlookers and the local nbc affiliates sky cam record the action as it unfolds. >> he was on the northeast corner standing on approximately a 2 ft. 2' x 2'wide piece of the building. >> there was a seven-foot glass partition between us and him. what i initially did was climbed up on top of a piece of the building where i could talk down over the partition at him. seeing them helps you communicate. >> i want to position myself to the other s

of the very difficult cuts you had to do with the solar programs, reducing this to $2 million next year and the energy efficiency programs, or the city-own three nobles. those were very difficult cuts that you can see on the slide. this is on slide #5. you have reviewed those at a previous meeting so i will not go into too much detail on those. the municipal rate package before you today, with the entities previously received in the principal -- the principal fund must -- funded rate, 9.1 million in 2014. and $13.60 million total revenue -- with the incremental revenue -- and so, the incremental revenue would increase the revenue so the two pennies would total -- 9.1 million additional dollars. and this would take four years. for what is before you is consideration of that, and it does not go as far as giving additional money to give back, but it does solve the financial -- a financial problem that you have been grappling with. over the last number of years. >> to give you the flavor of the discussions we have had, we had a budget hearing, last week. we spoke to the mayor and the budget

of the very difficult cuts you had to do with the solar programs, reducing this to $2 million next year and the energy efficiency programs, or the city-own three nobles. those were very difficults

the city of san jose is now stepping in to help workers laid off by the defunct solar company solyndrafremont. kcbs radio matt bigler joins us live by telephone to explain what the city has to offer. matt, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, frank. yes, we're talking about both san jose and newark. both cities are offering these career fairs for former solyndra workers. they were laid off earlier this summer. we talked to john ruster with san jose's economic development office. and he says the re-employment services being offered include skill assessments, occupational training, job postings, basically a chance to upgrade their high-tech skills. he is optimistic that former solyndra workers, about 1,000 of them, will be able to find new employment in manufacturing and green technology. >> the top 10 contract manufacturing firms, the top 10 largest in the world, are all located in and around san jose. so a lot of the jobs that solyndra employees were doing, they will be applicable for those kind of jobs, as well as with clean technology companies that are emerging as well. >> the c

city of cupertino's website. the new drawing depicts a solar panel covered roof, curved glass around a massive four- story structure. the facility will house up to 13,000 workers. apple hopes to move in by 2015. >>> her approval numbers have been sinking like a rock. but tonight oakland mayor jean quan is defending her record as the push to recall her moves forward. linda yee with the mayor's tough battle ahead as not one but two groups are trying to force her out of office. linda. >> reporter: right, juliette. two separate citizen groups have now formed saying they will try to get her out of office and they are hitting the ground running. but tonight the mayor less than an hour ago said to herself, she is prepared to fight to keep her job. the organizers behind one group working to kick oakland's mayor out of office are preparing the petitions. in the coming weeks, they will hit the streets to get the requisite 20,000 signatures they will need for a recall election. and they believe it will be easy. oakland's that angry. >> it's monetary for me. it's lack of leadership. it's lack of bringing --the lack that we hav

public utility commission voted unanimously yesterday to let the city's 330,000 utility customers get all their power from wind, solar and other renewable sources as soon as july of 2012. be prepared to pay up between 7 and 54 per month extra depending on use age. customers will be able to opt-out of the plan if they wish and stay with pg&e. >>> pg&e has shut off power to three customers in santa cruz county who replaced their meters with nonwireless models they hired an electrician to remove meters without pg&e's permission. all three believe the meters are a health hazard. the utility says it has warned customers their power would be shut off if they removed the smart meters. pg&e says only its people can remove the meters saying it is a public safety issue. >>> 6:08. time for a check on the forecast. >>> it is so cold out there. i know we have 30s, wondering if we have 20s, perhaps even in the teen >> no teens. that would be a big story fit was. we have 20s, i'll show you those in a second. first the spare the air in case you are waking to a cold house this morning can't burn any wood poorest air quality in the no

got we our generators we got battery pack solar heating systems were last minute through rain sleet hail snow occupy will never go. now we should know that cities used to have a strong public presence like san francisco los angeles boston and dallas can't technically set up camp anymore they're still carrying on with regular meetings amongst organizers to keep their message of life they've also been participating in more targeted actions of cover the occupy our homes action which brocky buyers to foreclosed homes across the city as well as the action along the west coast to shut down ports and frankly there's more focused i might become the norm perhaps the occupation of public parks are just a stepping stone for this movement which is clearly moved on to a new phase and a new form as a third month of occupy the kids. well the entire world is abuzz over the news reported by state news agencies in north korea that king john hill known as the dear leader has died succeeding helen because son kim jong un believed to be in his twenty's and to have studied in switzerland but the truth is very little is really known about him and about the situation

city renewals that we might want to. that was a hard choice. we had to take a $32 million cut. we had to take a cut to go solar of $29 million. and a cut to energy efficiency. all three are important public our programs that are important to you as a commission and other shareholders. he those are 10-year numbers. the shortfalls on the previous page are only as good as they are because we did make these cuts. we are still running out of money, even when making these cuts. what it told us is that the -- is that they are not enough. it only gave us enough money to get to 2014-2015. we knew we would have to revisit this. in addition, we have also done some deferrals for transmission upgrades. we are still funding of the essential facilities maintenance and the essential rebuilds that would upgrade transmission lines that we have a deferred. the options to bring this back into balance and to look at the restoration of some of those public our programs that we had to cut or defer on the previous slide are twofold. the first is, if we take the 10- year plan as it is today, with those hard cuts we had to make previously and we assum

solar panel leasing option accelerated installations across the state. and this one project alone is expected over 15 year period to save more than $20,000. in marin county, cbs 5. >>> a must win in kansas city for the raiders. can the silver and black stay alive? and how about gymnastics? the play of the year coming up in sports. for anne to view her finances from anywhere. like gate d12 for the next three hours. citibank for ipad. easier banking. standard at citibank. [ beep ] hi. dave here. [ male announcer ] for dave, using citibank's online bill pay is as easy as setting up voicemail. hi, it's dave. [ male announcer ] actually, it's easier. hi, it's dave. i'm out of the office. [ male announcer ] online bill pay. easier banking. standard at citibank. at the playoffs... all t go into kansas >>> welcome back for the raiders it's simple. win and you have a shot at the playoffs. all they had to do was go into kansas city. romeo, the new chief, his team fresh off a win hoping for the same result against the silver and black. carson palmer aired it out to moore who hauled it in. a 61-yard touchdown pass. 10-3 raiders. palmer had two interceptions to go along with the touchdown. under 2 minute

solar powered ski lift opened in austria two years ago. >>> after walking hundreds of steps for generations, a poor community in colombia is getting some much needed relief. the country's second biggest city has a massive outdoor escalator. it's more than 1,200 feet long and is expecteded to cut the mountainside walk from 35 to just 6 minutes. the escalator cost $6.5 million to install but an estimated 135,000 people will benefit from using it. >>> still ahead on news4, the latest on the reality tv >>> a former reality show producer accused of murdering his wife in cancun last year will head to mexico to stand trial. bruce beresford-redman maintains his innocence but he's not fighting extradition either. nbc's george lewis has the latest. >> reporter: beresford-redman, his wife, monica, and their children everyone staying at a resort in cancun last year. three days after she was reported missing, her body was found in a sewer at the resort. here on "today" last week, beresford-redman's mother spoke out in defense of her son. >> he's a good man. he's never been in trouble with the law. he's not a violent person. despite difficulties in the marriage, everyone has difficulties, usually there

on the larger scale, the city of east providence, rhode island, is in the middle of planning a 3-megawatt solar project on an old landfill, land that had gone out of use, effectively, but is now going to be generating power for that city. construction has also begun on three wind turbines out at the fields point waste water treatment facility in providence. these turbines will meet more than half of our biggest water utility's energy needs. a company called hodge's badge. if your child has ever won an award, has ever won a badge in a track meet, in a horse show, in a school production, you probably got a ribbon for it and that ribbon was probably made by hodge's badge. it's a great rhode island company. it has 95 employees. they have just gone completely clean energy. and they're doing that to protect those 95 jobs. they're doing it to lower their energy costs. and they're doing it to do the right thing. so as -- i want to salute senator sanders for his eloquence on the real problem of climate change and the campaign of lies and propaganda that has interfered with our ability to deal with what

is with gas or whether it is with solar or wind because once you get that huge amount of energy, you can drive down the cost of that energy, which gasoline, of a true city to manufacturing costs, the cost of living can go down in this country if we will apply their energy resources we have. we've got 300 years we could energy in this country. yes, ma'am. >> one more question. you are a. .. we have a very close relationship with them. but that country is also overrun in place is by nature cartels that have operational control of places on the border. we know for a fact and hamas, hezbollah are operating in mexico. less than two months ago, we discovered that an iranian after to work with the data cartels to penetrate through our southern border, to kill a diplomat on united states soil and that plan was found out and was stopped. you have venezuela that has the largest embassy -- iranian embassy in the world in caracas. you have olivia, which is a marxist state. and the point of all of that is that i think it's time for us to have a new munro doctrine approach to the western hemisphere. the monroe.join in the 1820s or so to protect the western hemisphere