in at the southern california region, it is either scag-wide, or they can delegate to individual counties. there was significant discussion in the weeks following the introduction of this language here in the bay area about a return to source guarantee. several of the counties were present for that. ntc seemed willing to put it in there. they fell to return to source with foul their findings process and get them around proposition 26, so they rejected a return to source. that is in play. i do expected to come back. it may need certain further refinements before we see it again. but it was in existence for at two weeks, and then its evaporated. but it is in play in sacramento and ready to come back in 2012. commissioner elsbernd: i have another question about another bill. assembly member hill -- then he tried to do a bill for caltrain were the three counties would be able to do a 1/8 sales tax increase? and it kind of went away? >> yes. because of the introduction of 791 unexpectedly, the assembly had been trying to find a place for the 1/8 discriminator, and it just became too much for t

in fact, it's region of high pressure centered in southern california. temperatures are still dealing with in the 90s from los angeles all the way to long beach, pomona as well. a record-setting high in los angeles with 99, breaking the old record set in 1950. a new record in long beach at 102 today, which is besting the old record of 96 set back in 1963. so it's been about 50 to 60 years since it has been this hot this time of the year, down into southern california. so increased fire danger in southern california through tonight. as we start off tomorrow, we'll start off in the low 60s. not anything too much out of the ordinary. 10:00, 11:00, another warm day to day in store. temperatures mid 70s in the east bay. we'll talk about our hotter thursday and how high those numbers go in my seven-day forecast. >>> a big shadow could leave san francisco's proposed transbay tower high rise in the dark. an environmental impact report predicts that if the building goes up, they'll leave parks in north beach and chinatown in shadows for part of the day. especiall

now for a look at your national and regional weather, here's nbc meteorologist bill karins with your weather channel forecast. >> i think everyone in southern california yesterday that was near 100 degrees, they are like, christmas, we are talking about this already? ridiculously hot yesterday. it was 99 in los angeles. i mean, one of the hottest spots in the country, one of the hottest days we have had in the entire year. and we are going to do it all over again today. there were a couple spots that hit the triple digits. even the beaches were in the 80s. it doesn't happen that often this time of the year. everyone was pretty mild from san francisco southward, even san fran, 78 was a warm day by your standards. the except up there in the northwest where we are watching the jet stream bring in clouds and occasional showers. this weather pattern hasn't changed for today. you can see the active jet stream. the clouds streaming in to the northern portions of oregon and washington state. not much in the way of shower activity today. we are going to get a little bit of a break from that, but with this area of high pressure and this ridge, with the winds bl

really the breadth and depth of it, that we've had fairly severe housing recessions in regional context, southern california and early '90s, texas in the '80s, boston has had a few here and there. but really if you look at the number of markets, most markets have had a housing recession at this point. there are only a few who have not. and if you look at those that have had some type of recession, a lot of the very root severe recessions where just to pull a few, mattress out of the half, looking at central valley, down 70% from the peak. 64%, biggest 64% phoenix, 57% from their peak. most of those areas now have home values that are back to the early 2000 period which is really a lost decade in housing market. so it's very staggering in terms of the breadth and depth of the home value declines. i mentioned negative equity, and that is unfortunately combined with unemployment continue to throw off foreclosures. we have a very high number of homes that occur in a foreclosure process. another one, one and half million seriously delinquent. during the oversight controversies we saw a sharp drop off in foreclos

i think what we learn from the wildfires in southern california is that we're going to use just in time supplies to the question is, have we done our regionalshopping list, and have redone and for different disasters in the whole area, and whether or not maybe we should not try to leverage our buying power to get good prices ahead of time? we're getting to that point where we can plan regionally for those types of things. particularly, if in oakland, for instance, we will lose 40% of our roads, passageways. i was fascinated by the previous presentation. using satellite technology, using the information data bases that the military has, you can help us quickly assess how to quickly get in and out of areas. we usually have 72 hours to rescue people. that is going to be critical. if it is a major bay area wide event and not just one side or the other side of the day, because we will not have enough search and rescue people, we will not have enough equipment, and it will be hard to get to more isolated areas like the east bay hills. if we have a really bad incident, you'll have a tsunami issue. then there will be an inner bay issue. those are t

conditions from southern california to the gulf coast, but i put my stock in what tom tasselmyer says. >> we are going to show you that outlook and it is not very definitive for our region. some spots are getting a strong signal as to what the winter will be like, but in a la nina winter, it doesn't signal much for us here. we have equal chances of being colder or warmer than normal. there is no real signal out there indicative of what we will experience here in the mid atlantic. does look like a color than normal winter and the warm weather continues for much of this out, including all of texas. the area to the north is also expected to beat wetter than normal. last year we had those blood problems in the spring. it looks like another very heavy snowpack across the great lakes and ohio valley and northern plains. dry weather is expected in florida, and it looks like for texas, the drought continues through the winter. we will see how things unfold. all it takes is one big storm and it changes your entire perspective of the winter. temperatures today have been trending downward. we were up around 70 about 24 hours ago. just after midnight in the early morning, temperatu

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dallas at 56 degrees, temperatures in the 60s southern and northern california, 40s pacific northwest. >>> here is a look at sentinel radar, for the regiond we are seeing clear -- i won't say completely clear but mostly clear sky nothing in the way of precipitation you pull it out and look across the nation a frontal boundary making its way through the great lake that is will make its way east ward and bring us more clouds and showers later until the day and this evening -- later in the day and this evening. high, 69 degrees, i mentioned the possibility of showers tomorrow mostly sunny, 68, wednesday 71 clouds build in showers late wednesday thursday a rainy day friday a cool day with a high only in the mid- 50s. yeah. >> the chill is on its way. >> the chill is on its way not just for friday but saturday and sunday as well. >> monday is halloween. >> you are right. >> yes well, we will look ahead to that forecast. >> got to get the kids ready. >>> yeah depending what think are going after. candy maybe. >>> mom will probably take both no matter what it is. >> moving you guys along. >> yes, they are. >>> all right listen we've got a few t

region out west to the pacific. we got some rain in southern california and also the wasatch and olympics as well, damp start to theght now, you can see the eastern half of the united states right now is blue. so temperatures in the 40's and 50's and then you've got green from the plain states out west with temperatures in the 50's and the 60's. right now, down in tampa, we got 67 degrees. later on today, tampa/st. pete should top out near 90. we'll have mid 70's in the mid atlantic. atlanta, georgia, later on today, 78 degrees. it will be 82 in memphis and then here in new york city, with any luck, we should have 63. about the same for the ohio valley and look at rapid city, south dakota, kind of an outlier today, high temperature of 91 degrees. nice and pleasant in the northern plains. today. >> let's talk a little bit more about a story we brought to you in our first hour of "fox & friends" today. there was a bus driver who apparently had a passenger who was a mom and a screaming baby with that mom. the bus driver was getting irritated by that noise so she actually in the dark stopped the bus and asked the mom a