i mean, do you have the technical assistance? do you have an engineer you're working with, somebody that's going to submit the paperwork? do you even have a chance to get on the money? and that's a problem. that's one thing i said in my testimony. we need some assistance just so these small communities can get on the intended use plan which is what they do to prioritize money into the srf. >> how can we -- what are some factors that we might be able to weight so a small community putting in will be given better consideration than a larger community? any of your thoughts? mr. gomez. >> well, generally, what g.a.o. always recommends is that you target federal funds to those communities. so if these are the communities that's one of the areas we could target. >> okay. i guess we're running out of time. again, mr. chairman, thank you very much for bringing this out. i hope we continue to -- this is for small cities. the big cities have their own issues, but they have the resources and the critical mass to be able to take care of it.

they are experts on the technical side of water operations. just a week ago we called for help for locating a water leak from a ruptured pipe that could have occurred over any part of 100-foot water line. the circuit rider has specialized equipment that can detect noises and vibrations under ground. in addition my operators 1r0e69% of the training needed to retain their operator's licenses from the new york rural water association. we depend on them just like every other small community. mr. chairman, i have a lot more to say but you've been very charitable with your time. on behalf of every small town elected official we're grateful. thank you from hearing from us and i'll answer any questions later. >> thank you very much. my district mostly has communities below 2,500 people. thank you for those comments because hopefully they are paying attention. those bells signal that we have been called to vote early. i think we'll just break here. we as a congress, i don't think will be in a hurry today. so we'll, most of us will get back here and hea

they are experts on the technical side of water operations.ust a week ago we called for help for locating a water leak from a ruptured pipe that could have occurred over any part of 100-foot water line. the circuit rider has specialized equipment that can detect noises and vibrations under ground. in addition my operators 1r0e69% of the training needed to retain their operator's licenses from the new york rural water association. we depend on them just like every other small community. mr. chairman, i have a lot more to say but you've been very charitable with your time. on behalf of every small town elected official we're grateful. thank you from hearing from us and i'll answer any questions later. >> thank you very much. my district mostly has communities below 2,500 people. thank you for those comments because hopefully they are paying attention. those bells signal that we have been called to vote early. i think we'll just break here. we as a congress, i don't think will be in a hurry today. so we'll, most of us will get back here and hear

i went to a small technical school down the river. the west point school for wayward boys. >>> good morning mr. chairman and members of the sub committee and my congressmen. i'm joe keegan, the mayor of a charming village a few miles south of albany new york. we're castleton on hudson. we have a population of 1500 of the best people anywhere. we're a member of a nonprofess organization of small rural communities. i got a call from the association monday asking about my availability and i just happened to be traveling back to castleton last night from a trip related to my day job. my village is typical of those that have water supplies in new york. the state of new york has 2305 community water systems. 88 serve pom labs under 3300. all small community water and sewer utilities have to comply with the same as the biggest city with our small rate payer base and we have to eerpt, maintain, and update our base with small budget. my number one concern and worry is drinking water and number two is waste water. everything else is a distant t

us in our technical work, to give us certain technical information or technical knowledge which is available in their various bodies. >> translator: akas, any data, did the aircraft have a contract? >> translator: well, i have no data. >> translator: the experts of b.e.a. on site, have they been able to look at the debris of the aircraft other than the black box which has been brou t brought? >> translator: some of them went by helicopter. their work at the moment is not to look -- to want to look closely at certain debris. their work is to look for the parameter recorder and secondly to try to determine what are the debris that are there. and in a second phase, they will try maybe, the depending on what's possible and what's necessary, they may try and go and look more closely at certain pieces or certain equipment from the aircraft or maybe to send them to a laboratory for more precise analysis. >> translator: you were talking about timing. we don't yet have the second black box. so long as we don't have it, given that the recording of the first can be used, we can assume within a few days

we believe we understand the technical problem. we put costs to the technical problem disps problems and need to figure do that and i love the idea about a committee. and we will do that. i clearly believe that dialogue is important. i thank you for setting up this hearing because it gives us a chance to give the bigger picture and the technical information. it gives the neighborhood a chance to give us specifically the things that they experience and we can share ideas. together we do want to solve this problem. we do have some real challenges here and i don't think they're insurmountable but somebody said you just can't take a piece of the city and say you can't live there i'm not there yet. i think from a policy perspective if we decide to acquire property and convert it into park or collection system or as the gentleman said low points that maybe the best thing for the city from an overall cost perspective. i will leave that to the policy makers. we'll generate the data and information and work with the community. we do sympath

so it is a technical barrier.nd they do not -- even if they had a phone and could pay for data, there would be no equivalent of a cell phone tower near them to access that. and, you know, that is what a lot of people think about when they think about not having connectivity. and there are projects like satellites and drones and things that we are working on that can help create connectivity, technical solutions, in areas where there are not that today. and that is important, but it turns out that that is actually a pretty small part of the problem. only about 15% of people who are not connected are not connected because of a technical barrier. the next barrier is affordability. right? and a lot of the people who have access cannot afford to pay for it. so the solution to that is to make it more efficient, make it so the network of infrastructure that operators are using is more efficient, so the apps people use consume less data, and there is a lot of work that is going into that. we made the facebook app on andro

so it is a technical barrier.nd they don't -- even if they had a phone and could pay for data, there would be no equivalent of a cell phone tower near them to access that. and, you know, that's what a lot of people think about when they think about not having connectivity. and there are projects like satellites and drones and things that we are working on that can help create connectivity, technical solutions, in areas where there aren't that today. and that is important, but it turns out that that is actually a pretty small part of the problem. only about 15% of people who are not connected, are not connected because of a technical barrier. the next barrier is affordability. right? and a lot of the people who have access cannot afford to pay for it. so the solution to that is to make it more efficient, make it so the network of infrastructure, that operators are using, is more efficient, so the apps people use consume less data, and there is a lot of work that's going into that. we made the facebook app on androi

many of the detailed technical issues have actually been resolved. what we're seeing now in the last few hours is the meetings have been a lot shorter. they were meeting for several hours, discussing the. >>. now they meet for 15-30 minutes. that that is because they are focusing on these remaining issues, trying to come up with a compromise that will be acceptable both to iran and the international community. >> give us an idea, james what the sticking points or point is. what is the issue with iran being able to do nuclear research, if that's the problem. >> that is one of the problems. there are a number of different problems still being dealt with, that they've got to come up with. those problems are one iran's future research, how many research and what research would it be able to do. the other is about the whole time line of the deal, the u.s. talking about a 10 year time line, other nations not sure that's long enough. they are talking particularly about year 11 today up to year 15 what would happen in that period, would there be after the 10

these are very technical details that require a lot of precision. we want to make sure we leave apple time for the scientists to work through -- ample time for the scientist to work through. we want to make sure the technical negotiators have to were three months to work through the details. reporter: as you all know, in november 2011, there was a report about possible military applications of iran's nuclear program. not just material but other advances have made in pursuit of what is viewed as a nuclear arsenal. iran has given no explanation about what those things were, or even admitted they exist. does iran have to admit those things were pursued and does there need to be a means, other technological advancement, have to be eradicated for this deal to be done? josh earnest: again, i don't want to get too far ahead of what is being negotiated right now. let me say two things. the first thing is at least some of the things you are describing are the kinds of things that are the subject of ongoing negotiations now and would be the kinds of things th

the technical setup is quite interesting.ical point of view we could be driven down from the parity level. 1.0754, we are down by nearly 1%. you are looking at euro sterling on the move. if you look at it from a sterling euro point to view, which, if you are going on holiday this summer, you will we are through 1.40. francine: it is not bad if you want to go to greece or spain. your holiday got a lot cheaper. guy: let's take a quick look at equity markets. a little softer. down by 0.3%, 0.4%. ftse is down by 27 points. the real action is in fixed income. francine: coming up, here is what we have for you. for our listeners, it is the first word. in a couple of minutes, we will have michael fuchs one of the main key allies for the chancellor angela merkel. we will talk to him about greece. it is interesting that the commission has not been that hard on france. i wonder what his take is on that. guy: i'm interested in what he has to say. we will talk about credit suisse and their new surprise ceo. tidjane thiam is joining the bu

not just technical assistance. mr. gomez. gao has studied the range of government programs that provide assistance to rural and small water systems as well as the need the systems face what is the funding gap for water infrastructure. what's the funding for the drinking water infrastructure, and how much money does it entail? >> epa has estimated the funding gap, and they have estimated it to be $662 billion. that's an estimate from 2002. and that estimate is based on the next 20 year ss. >> thank you. and obviously greater resources are required. >> is it fair to say your village has reached the limit in its ability to borrow more for the needed funds. >> absolutely, we can't even entertain a municipal bond at this time and right now we're only spending our budget items on repairs. we don't have enough money in our budget for replacement of old infrastructure. it's been a struggle to that. >> we encourage the refunding of that. >> and do you also support efforts to expand technical assistance initiatives? >> absolutely yeah.

. >>> voting is extended another day because of technical problems in nigeria. >>> we begin with the saudi led military intervention in yemen. the first phase of its air strikes have been successful they say with all of the communication centers destroyed but that hasn't stopped the houthi movement across the country. meanwhile the saudi led have air strikes hit sa hit sanaa sada and abas. omar al saleh reports. >> to curb the rise of the shia houthi fighters, hadi is talking tough. >> withdraw from all provinces it occupies, leave state institutions and military bases and lay down its arms and return all the weapons it seized. >> reporter: leading the war against the houthis is saudi arabia. remains open for dialogue with conditions. >> we wish we didn't have to take this decision, but we stress that riyadh is opening its door to all from yemen to meet under the umbrella of the gcc within the state's legitimacy reject the coup against it and stop threats from other countries. >> gulf states are nervous about the rise of iran, they feel iran's influence is creeping closer. by support

decision comes after violence and technical problems caused some voting centers to close. yvonne ndege reports from the capital, abuja. >> rafael cast his vote for a new president and parliamentarians,ing in abuja. he's one of 60 million people taking part in this historic exercise. things went smoothly here but this process is happening in 120,000 locations across the country. >> i believe that it can take us to the level we want this country to go. initial for unemployment, health care and security, and the education and structure. >> reporter: but as expected there was some violence in the north. several people were killed in gombe state thousands of security agents were deployed to protect voters. in kuduna state where there has been religious violence, voter registrationsvoterregistration was delayed by hours. voters were undeterred. >> i know there's nothing that i should fear for. because choosing my leader is in my hands. even though there is somebody angry with what i did well, you cannot -- doesn't have anything to do with my life. i don't believe. >> reporter: t

should try to chief with the corridor management phase 2 will precede the milestones of today the technical analysis we'll study the quantitative effects and recommend i wanted to share a map of some of the freeway management work that is underway along the peninsula this picture focuses on 101 and not on the east bay the valley transportation authority opened the first express lanes in 2012 and planning to expand the network including on to 101 to convert the vehicle or h o v lanes into express lanes san mateo county is planning to install an h o v lane on u.s. 101 and other for the that helps to compliment that management strategy for instance, along el camino along the peninsula the cities of san mateo and counties are adapting the signal timing and technologies to help manage the particularly material 2, 3, 4 inclination to the freeways then at the region and state levels just wants are planned m t c metropolitan commission is updating their freeway management strategy for the fridays and the implementation plan for lane management strategy you'll talk about more in a minute and caltrai

services job or how to put together a quote it's all those technical pieces.e contracting assistance center is our touch point with we get the people to come and see the planning specks and later than about projects earlier is he get training so you're ready to go arrest hello engineering it has all the tools that a contractor small or large can come here. i can't say enough about the center it's a blessing. we do business all over the country and world and a place like the contractor center to identify the business in san francisco >> the reality is you need training and that's what the center is here to train and make you better qualified to go work with the city and county and to be successful at the end. >> that will give people the competitive edge e edge at receiving contracts with the city. >> we have krafshth services here that help you find out where you need to get the skills forbidding. >> i mean local businesses participation in city projects is a winning factor it helms help the business their local businesses they're paying savings and a property

it's very much a technical report.ave to remember that the transport minister said to me certainly on tuesday, that the search will continue in the southern indian ocean until the end of may with the australians. in the zones that they have already identified. if they do not find the plane they will then go back to the drawing board and decide where the next zone should be for a search. but that, of course, we have also heard that the australians may be pulling out very soon. it's all very fluid. and we just have to see how the malaysians progress from here. >> thank you for that, in kuala lumpur there. >>> in the united states the police chief has appealed for restraint from protesters after the shooting the of another black teenager demonstrateers in madison wisconsin spoke out after the teenager was shot on friday. he was shot after fighting with a policeman. the teenager's death follows a similar shooting which provoked right you want and increased scrutiny of alleged police violence. >>> barack obama has called on

steph can make technical and conforming changes. staff can make technical and conforming changes. thank you. thanks for that. the contest committee completed its work and the budget was completed. the legislation will move to the senate floor for debate monday afternoon. the republican national lawyers association holds its daylong policy conference today in washington. featured speakers are rob portman and senator corker. you can watch it live at eight -- at 8:45 on c-span2. here are some of the future programs on the c-span networks. c-span2 book tv saturday at 10:00 p.m. on afterwards, a lesser prize-winning historian eric foner and the formation of the underground railroad. sunday night at 10:00 of the delhi-based journalists hassan hassan on the rise and leadership of isis in the middle east. saturday morning at 9:00 eastern, and throughout the day on c-span3, american history tv joins at the abraham lincoln symposium live from the lincoln theater. and -- from the ford's theater. find a complete television schedule at c-spine.org and let us know what you think about the progr

>> above 45, it's classic technical breakout.t i think is interesting about this story, think of it as a refiner where the margins are what's important here. and the margins are expanding. that's to me what i think gets it through. >> we should note that karen fi finerman thought it was an interesting way to play low gas prices. >>> moving on. caesar's entertainment up in the past two days. some placing big bets. mike khouw has the action for us. what do you see, mike? >> we saw more than seven times the average daily call volume. what's interesting is a lot of that was near dated. the ones that expire next week, little over ten days away. they were trading actively at about 50 corrects which represents 5% of the stock price. my guess is that the bullish speculation has to do with rate conversions. i'll kick it back to the desk and let them speculate on what they think might be driving it. >> thanks very much. any speculation here on the desk? >> that whole area right now has been on fire. mike's talking about caesar's itself, bu

not just technical assistance. mr. gomez, g.a.o.as studied the range of government programs that provide assistance to rural and small water systems. as well as the need the systems face. what is the funding gap for water infrastructure? i know earlier you gave a combined total. i believe for water and drinking water and sewer. what's the funding for the drinking water infrastructure and how much money does it entail? >> e.p.a. has estimated the funding gap and they have estimated it to be $662 billion. that's an estimate from 2002. that estimate is based on the next 20 years. >> thank you. obviously the water systems represented on this panel, i would think agree that more resources are required. so do you support legislation to re-authorize the s.r.f. and increase the funding available? you mentioned in that testimony the need for grants, not just loans, and i think many of you mentioned that. is it fair to say your village has reached the limit of its ability to borrow more for the needed funds? >> absolutely. we really just can'

information for the goals and objectives frashths and the focus areas for the next phase of the technical analysis on the operation strategies we are working with folks - there's a whole set of folks with the municipal transportation agency would assist and participate in the study focusing on the interface between local streets and the freeway ramps we're participating in other forums that are at the regional and state level around freeway management to make sure that san francisco prospective can be heard and also that the strategies we identify are compatible with and work together with the strategies that the jurisdictions are recommending - this is a schedule showing the timeframe for the technical analysis we want to make sure that 9 analysis is identified into the management implementation plan and the regional plan so certainly less than a 13 month study effort. >> thank you i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> i think your presentation presentation is wonderful and it's important to see our prospective and goals into the regional network supervisor christensen. >> morning so

this is the hot room at toyota's this is the hot room at toyota's technical center where they technical center where they tested toyota's tested toyota's hydrogen fuel hydrogen fuel cell car, the first one that cell car, the first one that will hit the consumer market. will hit the consumer market. >> this is the future. >> this is the future. >> jackie bilsell is the fuel cell engineer. >> jackie bilsell is the fuel cell engineer. >> i have been working this for 11 years. >> i have been working this for 11 years. to finally, see it coming to to finally, see it coming to production is exciting and a production is exciting and a little nerve-racking. little nerve-racking. >> what is inside a fuel cell vehicle? >> >> what is inside a fuel cell vehicle? >> instead of the gasoline instead of the gasoline combustingtion, we have fuel cell. combustingtion, we have fuel cell. it creates electricity on demand it creates electricity on demand by combining hydrogen by combining hydrogen with an electro-chemical reaction. with an electro-chemical reaction. >> a membrane between the >> a membrane b

secretary kerry said look there are technical issues to get through here.es this is a matter of political judgment. they were supposed to meet sunday. >> that didn't happen. zariff off to belgium to meet with the european leaders to brief them on a deadline. it doesn't appear we are close to crossing that final hurdle if you will. >> the british foreign minister saying there is a long way to go there. also secretary kerry also speaking out about a willingness to sit down with syrias a bashar al-assad. listen to what he had to say. >> everybody agrees there is no military solution. there is

a technical on foul charged to hollis-jefferson. >> spero: multiple technicals in this game on both sides. you saw tarczewski t'd up earlier in the half. hollis-jefferson whistled for the personal and then jawing at the officials resulted in the t. >> mike: sean miller -- >> mike: if you're sean miller you can't be happy with your club this is the second technical foul that one of his players has got onen. >> spero: sean miller getting the explanation. randle shoots the technical free throws and nastic to the line double bonus, two free throws for the canadian national. >> spero: nastic who played just five games as a freshman. broken foot ending his first year prematurely, since then incremental improvements in a kid who has turned out to be a fine player. >> mike: nastic has been scoring because he's been getting to the free-throw line. 16 of 20 the last two games and getting there today as well. >> spero: nastic has 12 of stanford's 14 points in the second half. what a handle by johnson. tarczewski wasn't ready for the pass. reach-in foul on nastic. if it's on him, that will be his fif

there's technical and lodge sfkal support -- logistical support of money coming in. they are trying to undermine and basically the yemeni authorities, the elected government and also other social fabrics in yemen. for the arabs, it's a matter of existing right now. >> right. >> the sectarian war is across the arab world and iraq and syria and lebanon and it's basically threatening everyone. the arab nations came together, united for the first time. even though they are divided. >> speaking of that what progress has been made. we have seen several speak. >> i think when it comes to the yemen matter they are clear about supporting yemenis, the president. there is a call to establish a joint force for the arab states like the n.a.t.o. to protect the arab interests, and to stop any foreign intervention within the arab states especially at this point as iran is damaging a lot of - causing a lot of problems in the middle east and yemen. you see it in the sectarian war. it started all over. iran - even the language of the iranians in the past two days when the arab started

a technical on foul charged to hollis-jefferson. >> spero: multiple technicals in this game on both sides. you saw tarczewski t'd up earlier in the half. hollis-jefferson whistled for the personal and then jawing at the officials resulted in the t. >> mike: sean miller -- >> mike: if you're sean miller you can't be happy with your club this is the second technical foul that one of his players has got onen. >> spero: sean miller getting the explanation. randle shoots the technical free throws and nastic to the line double bonus, two free throws for the canadian national. >> spero: nastic who played just five games as a freshman. broken foot ending his first year prematurely, since then incremental improvements in a kid who has turned out to be a fine player. >> mike: nastic has been scoring because he's been getting to the free-throw line. 16 of 20 the last two games and getting there today as well. >> spero: nastic has 12 of stanford's 14 points in the second half. what a handle by johnson. tarczewski wasn't ready for the pass. reach-in foul on nastic. if it's on him, that will be his fif

. >> we get the protective technicalities and the actual yaurgd background and letters from different departments and from the advocates and perpetrate for the meeting sometimes for and 5 days in japs sometimes someone will sigh did you understand it no one understand those bond measures of one hundred and one hundred owe 25 packages down to three or four had found words. >> amendments and the general obligation bond members it is marred to explain what a general obligation bond is. >> wow it gets interesting sometimes. >> we'll talk about it but we talk about it in session we don't talk about it before we get here. >> the committee acceptance the city attorney's draft or edit it. >> the reason we rewrite the city attorney's digest is because it oftentimes in more legalize than the voters see understand we're quick to ask questions we don't is this is the way it's going to be we come in as journalist questioning exactly which that is to put out into the digest exactly what the legislation means. >> the committee may hear from drafrt of the digests and they consultant with the committe