there's three labor representatives, bob, executive secretary treasury, the northern california region council, and oscar and tim who is the secretary of international brother hood of electrical workers level six. there's three contracting represent tivens. tim, president of limb incorporated. bob of president brothers general contractors, jess peterson, president ceo of web core builders. there's three community builders, con, josh with bright wine defense project, and james bryant, regional director. i believe james is with us today. this body is currently meeting regularly to formulate recommendations to the mayor for consideration as the policy is currently under review. data city wide for projects posted with a 20 percent requirement and a 25 percent requirement and broken down by city department. there's total hours and then on the right apprentice ship hours. if you look under the 25 percent both for the port and mta, there are no reported projects to date that were advertised or awarded with the a 25 percent requirement. that's why there's that gap there. and then specifically

i cover the northern california region. i usually focus on about $350 -- $350,000 of sbe loans. last year, for 2010, i did 43 loans. so we are lending. i usually focus on six different types of loans. start-ups, business acquisitions, real estate purchases with ti's, working capital, a partner buyouts, business expansion. when i am looking at a potential loan, i use the standard five c's of credit. the first one is character. what we are looking for is a minimum score around 640. we would like to say no recent bankruptcy foreclosures, bankruptcies, tax liens. if we see a loan that has been modified, we would like to see a reason it was modified, what ever reason it may be. it cannot be, i did not want to pay that payment any more. the second c, conditions. basically, how precise will the money be used? we are looking at a business plan. when you look at a business plan, that is just a start up. we are looking to see where there will be the need for lending. if you are an existing business, we want to see the money that we give you goes to the growth of your business. the third c

i cover the northern california region. i usually focus on about $350 -- $350,000 of sbe loans. last year, for 2010, i did 43 loans. so we are lending. i usually focus on six different types of loans. start-ups, business acquisitions, real estate purchases with ti's, working capital, a partner buyouts, business expansion. when i am looking at a potential when i am looking at a potential loan, i use the standard five

the bay area but all of northern california. >> a lot of people need to get around there. >> what do you do? >> i'm the regionallanning director so i am trying to think about the bay area as we are today and where we're going and how we get there. the urban policy think tank but we are also a group with members. we really try to bring a lot of the urban planning ideas out to the people and to the decision makers to think about where do we go? >> how do you do that? public town hall meetings? >> we have an urban center. we just opened an urban city. we have speakers on a wide array of topics. >> we have about 400,000 people who rely on public transportation daily. >> about 10% of people are taking public transit to work each day. it equates to 1.5 million trips. it is a critical and crucial part of how people get around in the bay area. imagine the freeways without that level of transit service. >> like during the bart strike. >> and the fires and a little before that. transit is critical to moving people around. it is also critical when you think about increasing where we are going in our economy. people want c

the rainy weather has been stuck in areas of arizona with more humid and cloudy conditions but none of that will move through central and northern california. high pressure providing very warm conditions for that region and it's going to be 95 today in medford and 84 in boise and, you know, just the cooler spots are actually in the deserts with the clouds and >> looks like no rain for the region and tomorrow will be warmer. one of the warmest we'll see for the rest of the summer. >> not what they need. thank you. >>> naacp chief ben jealous is stepping down from the nation's largest civil rights organization citing family reasons. jealous will make the formal announce the later today. he plans to step aside effective december 31st. we'll be right back. >>> stories making news this monday morning. the fallout from edward snowden's whistle blowing continues with new revelations about the government agency spying on major companies. now, according to newly leaked documents, the nsa tapped into the computer networks of google and brazilian oil company petrobras. >>> matthew cordle who used youtube to confess to killing someone while drink driving may face up to eight years in prison. today a county prose

the northern half of the region. there is still a chance in the south bay, temperatures in the 60s and 70s. over all weather set up. low pressure, the cold front developing off shore, targeting northern californiaomorrow a chance of a few showers by tomorrow night and into early saturday morning. the main impact moves in saturday. scattered showers. our cool down continues as it filters in from the pacific. sunday looks dry. here is our forecast model. the chance of showers tomorrow, most of friday is dry but tomorrow evening into tomorrow night tracking a few north bay showers. increase in clouds and saturday, saturday morning the chance of rain in the north bay, down towards san francisco and oakland. we could have moisture move through the bay throughout the afternoon hours and thing begin to back off by saturday night and sunday. highs for tomorrow, numbers coming down 8-12 degrees from today's high. you will notice a big change. no more 90s. warmest locs lower 80s -- locations lower 80s. san francisco mid-60s. five-day forecast with your bay area weekend in view, there is your weekend. keep the umbrella nearby saturday. cold air. sunday morning, we could be talking temperatures in the mid-

the debate. >>> all this dry warm weather is bringing a hoard of unwanted guests to northern california. officials are reporting an increase in european paper wasps between the san francisco and south lake tahoe regioney emigrated to the area about 20 years ago. el dorado county is getting 10 complaints a day. vector control removed 345 what ises nests last month 50% more than augustof last year of wasp nests. >> the roads busy now. >>> we have road closures in place because of the morgan fire fire burning at mount diablo. remember, marsh creek road still shut down both ways between camino diablo and regency drive. morgan territory road should in alameda counted. we have reports now of a major injury accident involving a downed motorcyclist southbound 242 just beyond that highway 4 interchange. we know that at least one lane is shut down so expect heavy traffic through there. also, a new crash in petaluma is not in the commute direction but watch out for this problem north 101 at petaluma boulevard that has at least one lane of traffic shut down. on the golden gate southbound traffic fine getting into the city so no delays there. at the bay bridge toll plaza still backed up from the foot of the maze