but it needs to be approached system by system. allbee: let's frame the systems in terms of the proper context. we have around 16,000 wastewater systems. we don't have a single wastewater system -- we have 16,000 of them. we have about 54,000 drinking water systems. narrator: issues facing new york city are very different from those in los angeles. and challenges facing small towns are very different from those in metropolitan areas. man: we have to have water supply for health purposes, for fire protection, and the economy. without it, things simply can't exist. woman: we have good health in this country, in part, because we have clean water. and we shouldn't forget that, and we shouldn't take it for granted. melosi: in the late 19th century, serious waterborne disease epidemics were having devastating effects. roy: but then, in the early 1900s, we began to treat our water. and since then, we've seen a rapid decline in the incidence of waterborne disease. narrator: most cities treat drinking water through filtration, chlorination,

systems. we were also told that all of the systems in europe use switchbacks as a tool, so we took advantage of a vacation to contact three systems in paris, and speak to representative who knew about those three systems. we then confirmd that interview in a phone call with some emails. >> great. >> so let's have jack come up because he can talk to you about the story of our interviews, why we conducted them and some of the information we got from those interviews. >> thank you. and as sharon mentioned when we do our interviews we have two people present and make records of them, so in doing so to continue we spent ten months of our subsequent investigations investigating the muni. during this time muni management continued to insist that using switchbacks as a traffic smoothing tool was good for the majority passengers, yet digging deeper the civil grand jury discovered in fact that the muni had no evidence one way or another about the use or abuse of switchbacks. this was because as many man

last question around other transit systems and seems another disconnect and other transit systems that use it and they have talked to them and all except san jose, santa clara don't use them so are there other transit systems that you're specifically aware that do and question seems like they never got that information and wanted to ask you about that? >> yes. i can speak to from first hand experience on a couple of those i was the general manager in boston at there and i am aware of the operating practices there, and it's beston and pick the government center and the green line -- several lines go into the green line and trains frequently switched there. that is just one example. we also reached out after we saw the initial report that said that others did not do switchbacks. we reached out to other transit systems that we listed in our response that owls do switchbacks so again the same caveat. all of the other transit systems will tell you would they prefer not to do switchbacks? yes they would. in some cases, in the case of bart they have tracks and they can do other things but the

no. 1 is back-up systems. so just to give you a brief idea of how our network works, we have two major components of our network, we have our cet sites and our switches. in our cet sites, in all of our cell sites, we actually have batteries to account for power out ages. that's 8 hour back-up time for our batteries and in addition, most of our cell sites actually have back-up generators as well. we have about 4 days of stand by time to about maybe 10 days and then on top of that we have vendors that we work with that are on stand by to make sure that we can refuel our cell sites and also maintain them if our generators do go out of service. and then as far as our switches, so the switches are control centers that manage all our cell sites. we have about 300 cell sites per switch and in the bay area we have about 4 switches. what we have there is also back-up power so we have batteries, we have generators, not only one generator, sometimes we have 3 generators to account for failure for one of those generators.

the banking system just so to say to cloud people's minds to say oh it's a shadow banking system it's just a reflection of what we are here today this banking system here that you can see the little shops out front those that's our banking system but this so they're calling it a separate thing all this fraud all of this this derivatives all this highly leveraged craziness it's all out there and that's a shadow but you said to me earlier that you start that this was actually the shadow the real banking system all right so the the banking system inclusive of the shabda so-called shadow banking system that means that you've got financial fraud comprising not just ten or twenty percent of the overall g.d.p. but the for shadow banking system that's fifty percent because that's the total g.d.p. of the world you have to include the sixty seven chilean so the total g.d.p. the world is not sixty nine trillion or seventy challenge it's including the shadow banking system is on a forty chile and so fifty percent of that is financial fraud then of the remaining sixty nine trillion that is counted

to look at this system. from the report, you can see all the committee members [speaker not understood], you know, for all the [speaker not understood] function. they are simple one-flow operation. they also look into all the functioning, you know, in our department it's harder to operate by this system. and also we have m-i-s camera to look at in the future. a system suitable for our building department, for plan check and familiar processing. up to now we cannot find any system in the market can do it. and we mind when they come in, we lock to bay them [speaker not understood]. that is the recommendation. answer any questions you have. >> do we go to public comment or we don't on this one? no. commissioners, why don't we go. >> one of the reasons that i raised to put this back on the agenda was not just to revisit the whole q-matic, but one of the reasons the system was even implemented was that we wanted an open and a fair process so everybody who was trying to come in to get a permit, especially going th

it's the top priority for the system. i'm sorry to say that muni has not been fulfilling that voter mandate and we as a city -- this is not about point fingers at muni vehicles and often have no backup vehicles when they break down. when broken down we've been slow to fix them, fix them inadequately and sometimes don't bother to fix them at all and they sit for years and years, unused. we've significantly reduced our rehabilitation of vehicles, including overhaul critical to the vehicle. switches and infrastructure are aging÷2jp? and fail. and we don't have nearly enough drivers. these deficiencies have dramatic consequences for the system and its reliability fr for the riding public. in august muni had a 52.7% on time performance. in the second half of october, muni missed 602 runs due to lack of operators on advantage 43 runs a day and 5% total runs. on no single day did muni reach 98.7% of scheduled runs open muni completed 90%. riders see this every day when there are gaps in service, when they're forced to get off a

other transportation systems were aghast, appalled that a transit system could inconvenience their customers so cavalierly and we want them to have the feeling that we are doing a good job" when they deem them unavoidable. recommendation two, contact and learn from paris not resorting to switchbacks regularly. muni agrees there is room for improvement and they will reach out to their peers to study their standard operating procedures but note the claim that others are using procedures similar to muni. the jury answers "the jury approves part of the response about contacting peers. we hope that you contact those systems that were on our list. these systems are seen by the controller as being similar to muni, and have higher reliability and passenger ratings than muni. if muni is going to strife for improvement and go for systems that do not justify a failed mentality. audit muni funds. the audit has control of the funds and working on tep. as the preferred avenue for service. the jury appreciates muni's response. next is train staff for controlled center. muni says staffing is under way for f

electoral system i'm joined by in week shapiro in richmond he is a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the cultural institute and in philadelphia we crossed and in he is a writer and blogger for counter approach all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want ok when i'd like to go to you first in philadelphia how would you describe the selection here and how is it different from the election of two thousand and eight because we had citizens united in between time and i think you know where i'm going well in two thousand and eight there was a lot of optimism after the eight years of bush there was a lot of hope specially among american so-called progressives that change was coming and it hasn't really hasn't at all actually so this time is more measure their enthusiasm for obama and i'm surprised as anything is the same at all and this is certainly not an endorsement of romney because what we've seen is a continuum of american policy especially american foreign policy so from bush to obama to whoever comes next whether romney or obama in th

system size. i don't want to into details on that i want to make sure you get the right -- that's the only area of confusion that i have seen on bids that can affect the sales part of it. so first off, i want you to get the full price. that means the maximum you'll be charged. that includes any additional things that they may charge you because you have a difficult roof or steeply pitched roof or concrete tile or whatever they might see. you get that full price. that's before rebate, before tax credit. then you take the system size in cec, california energy commission a.c. watts. that term is understood by the people in the industry. that means they use the c.e.c. ratings to determine the a.c. wattage. you get the per watt price. you divide this by this. you get the price per a.c. watt. you want to ask about permit fees as well. each city typically will charge fees. now those fees are coming down and we're working very hard to get them standardized and clear. there is some cost. sometimes the inst

i think if you look at the health care system, what you see is a system that lacks any of the normalines we see in everything else. >> so give me an example of some place where you find market forces can actually work the way you're describing them? >> well, you know, around the fringes of health care, we have things that look like health care that aren't in the health care economy. they're not insured. we see that in certain types of cosmetic dental surgery. in cosmetic surgery generally. we see it in medicine for pets. and what we see in all of those markets are markets. >> take lasik eye surgery, for example. since the procedure was introduced, prices have dropped considerably, despite all of the expensive equipment and well-trained specialists. lasik doctors actually compete for your business, with ads that tell you about their safety record and prices. >> ask a very simple question of your viewers. how many of them know the safest hospital in their neighborhood? why not? why is there nobody with a billboard saying, don't go to downtown, go to uptown. downtown will kill you. we'v

we're out there rebuilding the water system.ve budget working on power generation in the country. we've been doing sewer for the city. we're looking at a brand-new rebuild of all watt systems in san francisco and we haven't had a home that's been other than mental. >> they staff over 900 people. the puc is in two office locations. >> you know, this is such a great place for a building. if the puc owned that building and we could make that the icon i can sustainable building puc represents, wouldn't be a dramatic idea? >> so, one of the major decisions we made was we wanted to make a statement with this building. we wanted this building to be a lead platinum building which is very few buildings in san francisco that achieved this mark. >> leadership and energy environmental design, it takes a look at the way we think about the places where we live and work. i like to think of it as designed for human and environmental health. lead addresses five categories that enhances environment. indoor air quality, energy, water, materials an

and a system based on any quality scott olsen you're both a bad ass and our hero of the day so he's the hero who's the villain this is a good one folks thanks to some newly released footage we can clearly call out this guy right here hat moran if this name sounds familiar it's because good old patman rand is the son of democratic virginia congressman jim moran and he's also the field director of the arlington office for his father's campaign just a few weeks ago our friend pat i'm self in a teensy bit of a bind when he let his guard down to a man who turned out to be an undercover reporter reporter approach moran on his way out of a restaurant and confided in him how he's incredibly nervous about the upcoming election but he fears the idea of romney winning reporter then tells him that he's a list of one hundred registered voters who just haven't voted in a long time and so that he'd like to go vote in their place under their names and this is how the congressman's son reacted. to you and that's. when you and. your little. if you just look at the bills of these up with. this. great

the system developed a system with in a system. that's what showed it down. stalled owl over the north bay. 60s on the temperatures to near 70. almost done with this one. watch the next one which is late friday, saturday. then we set the clocks back with the weekend always in view. sunday morning one hour more of sleep. sunny and warmer but then rain toward the end of next week. >> more now about the storm problems in new jersey. 300,000-gallons of fuel spilled in a waterway. it plowed out of an oil facility the hurricane shut down. >>> then another developing problem, thieves looting storm damaged properties in hobeken. 90% have no power. >>> in lines snaked around the barclay center. people trying to get into manhattan after the storm damaged most of the city's transportation system. look at those lines. passengers waited in long lines, packed shuttle buses that ferried them from brooklyn into midtown. parts of the subway system reopened this morning but some of the tunnels and the stations still filled with water. most of the bridges into manhattan are onl

for the system.august and september, muni's ontime performance was approximately 58%, over 600 runs were missed in the second half of october, riders of course see this in a lesyb ibt numerical y every day when there are gaps in service, when people are forced to get off a vehicle because there is no replacement driver, or when people have to jam into a bus or accí7 light rail vehic. muni recently was approved for performance initiative. this funding is required to be increase ridership. there is no more effective way to achieve these goals than to have a system that's in good shape, that's reliable and on which people believe they can depend. this funding should be dedicated 100% to improving muni's deteriorating reliant bywpi'm maintaining and purchasing muni vehicles and improving muni's operation. the resolution before us today so provides. mta board of direction is considering a proposal to use a portion of this regional funding not for improving muni's reliability but rather to fund free muni

northern california communication system and integrating those with our robust communication system, through dsca and the various military interagencies. we will do that, partly because it's interesting, partly because it's challenges, but because as someone said all disasters are local. somewhere there's a little girl or little by or grandmother that is counting on us to get it right. so i thank you in advance for that young boy, that young girl, that family, whose lives will be changed, whose lives may even be preserved, because of your efforts. thank you for inviting me here today, thank you for allowing me to learn from you, thank you for allowing me it share a little bit about what we do and mostly to simply say thank you, it was my pleasure to be here, secretary schultz, thank you, admiral beeman, thank you. ladies and gentlemen, that's all i have. if you have any questions i'll be happy to take them. response and recovery. and the moderator for this panel is the city administrator for the city and county of san francisco, naomi kelly. please help me welcome naomi kelly. (appla

it costs money to operate these systems. there's a need to continually invest in these systems. there's going to be new regulations. it's all going to cost money. allbee: for all practical purposes, people are going to have to pay about twice as much for these services as they currently do. because a lot of the pipe that went in, a lot of the plants that went in, went in with very sizable portions of federal grant money, mechanisms that are no longer in place. narrator: without grants, utilities often turn to the bond market to pay for large capital improvements. and although the loan is often spread of a 20- to 30-year period, user rates will increase to pay down the debt. woman: until a community accepts the willingness to pay for what they use, they won't have that money that they need to replace this failing infrastructure and improve their treatment plants so they can meet regulations and population growth. elected officials have to have enormous courage to be able to raise rates, to go out for bond levies, to deal with a situation that most people don't even see. it flushe

had developed a citywide water supply system. sullivan: in 1630, boston was basically three mountains, there were very steep hills. waste would run down quickly and dump into the harbor. and the tide would carry most of it away. well, this worked well for a while. the problem was, as boston wanted to expand, it started filling in the mudflats. the water could come rushing down the hill, it would hit the flat area and slow down. at high tide, it couldn't get out at all. it got so bad that the city took over, 'cause the city has a responsibility to protect its citizens. boston built the first modern sewer system in the united states. ours was completed between 1877 and 1884. with this wonderful new sewer system, we were taking our filth and moving it out to the ocean. of course, all of this was untreated. in the 1960s, we were still pumping all of our sewage out to moon island, untreated. we would get swimmers here, never knowing, in the middle of summer, why you would have a cold. well, we were swimming in diluted sewage. melosi:

the federal prison system operates in own phone system unlike state systems which contract with just a handful of phone companies the largest of which is global telling which controls about fifty five percent of the state prison market in the united states and how just how lucrative would you say that this prison telephone and history as. well just to put it into perspective a little bit will tell it was purchased by a private equity firm your about a year and a half ago for a billion dollars so it's quite a money making industry it's wow and you can you explain how states are making money off of this. you know what happens in the prison phone contracts are the state prison systems so miss requests for bids from the prison telephone company and global tell link or secures technologies which is the other the company will submit a contract and then that contract will be a requirement what is the commission payment and that's just a fancy word for a kickback and what it does is it requires the phone company to pay a percentage of all the revenue that they bring in to the state prison sy

we invested in water system and transportation systems that works, parks that drew the best and the brightest from around the world so they could pursue their own here in the golden state. unfortunately we lost our way some years back, we got a strong governor who is experienced and i believe is getting us back on track. i want to be able to work with him and have the privilege to represent this district, again for a second term. so that we can continue the good work that we started. thank you. >> dillan >> i am a first generation immigrant and i came from india and from the south, and i am a civic attorney and i believe in the american dream and as it is exercised here in the beautiful city of san francisco and the state of california where i chose to live, but many california voters are voting with their feet and they are voting with their feet to leave the state of california. they are moving to nevada, texas and other parts of the country where they are less taxed and regulated and less burdened by rules such as calorie count on the menus such as the regulations regarding home care worker

transit ridership and the other transit system productivity.they did, as most know, made explicit in the approval of this program, programs to provide fair relief to low income youth. >> supervisor wiener: i want to clarify one thing. in terms of the history at mtc. mtc rejected the specific lifeline funding for san francisco's free muni program back in the summer, correct? >> that's correct. >> supervisor wiener: and in terms of the tpi money, the free i think everyone agrees for that but i want to be very clear that mta is not required to use the money for that purpose. mta has the discretion in terms of whether to allocate all or portions of the money to free muni program, to maintenance, to new vehicles or other operational needs. >> yeah. that's absolutely correct. the wñ?ñ? mtc considered an earr proposal, late spring/early summer, to make funds available explicitly and only for youth fare program, both here and in san josÉ. that did not get the approval of the mtc. around that same time the mta board approved our two year budget for the

so what you have are two systems in place. you have a system where privileged white middle class people basically use drugs, college campuses, frat parties, not clubs, they use drug with impunity, they don't have to worry about being caught. then you have a system that comes down like a ton of bricks on indigent poor people and that's one of the reasons why i think this type of reform is a positive first step because if you aren't going to make drug possession illegal, at least make it a misdemeanor and not a felony. at least don't stigmatize and label an entire population of people as felons and prevent them from getting housing, getting an education -- [applause] >> i guess the question is of fairness. you shouldn't have two systems, one where based on your race or class you can access treatment and move on with your life and another one where because of law enforcement tactics and focus, you end up caught up in a system where you can never move on. you're permanently trapped and weighed down by having a felony conviction. t