this law revises the renewable portfolio standards for electric utilities. the first step in this process is to adopt what is called the enforcement program and a statute for enforcement of the law. just to expand a bit on the outset of what the enforcement program actually is, it is essentially the process under which we will regularly come to you and report to you on how we will do procurement of renewal bulls under the new law -- renewables under the new law. the enforcement program establishes the process. i will start with just a brief overview of the legislation and what it does. it was signed into law by governor brown on april 12. it becomes effective on december 10 of this year. an important major goal of the legislation is to displace the use of fossil fuels for electricity production. with benefits of reducing pollution, reducing greenhouse gases, the production of a electricity. and to also reduce the price of volatility that comes along with that, and to maintain a safe and reliable system. this is important because we rely heavily on hydroelect

he talked about utilities. the largest utility in commonwealth of virginia is dominion resources.as dominion resources requested that you challenge the air toxic rule legally or that legislation be introduced to prevent it from being implemented? >> now. as i mentioned earlier under mr. mr. rotation of nullification, virginia isn't in the constitutional position to step in on federal environmental regulation of the constitutional objection. even if we have legislation. the supremacy clause of the constitution is federal law trumping state law, the huskers that you asked about earlier in the supremacy clause contains an exception when the federal law is not constitutional. no one i know whereof that's what epa is doing is unconstitutional. an approach. incredibly unique in terms of speed, particularly in light of the volume of the comments and impacts, which even if you asked that the epa's are one of the dispute. >> the answer is so far the largest utility they seek to overturn the rule. i mean on the federal level. >> have you received -- as the attorney general of virginia can h

he talked about utilities. the largest utility in commonwealth of virginia is dominion resources. as dominion resources requested that you challenge the air toxic rule legally or that legislation be introduced to prevent it from being implemented? >> now. as i mentioned earlier under mr. mr. rotation of nullification, virginia isn't in the constitutional position to step in on federal environmental regulation of the constitutional objection. even if we have legislation. the supremacy clause of the constitution is federal law trumping state law, the huskers that you asked about earlier in the supremacy clause contains an exception when the federal law is not constitutional. no one i know whereof that's what epa is doing is unconstitutional. an approach. incredibly unique in terms of speed, particularly in light of the volume of the comments and impacts, which even if you asked that the epa's are one of the dispute. >> the answer is so far the largest utility they seek to overturn the rule. i mean on the federal level. >> have you received -- as the attorney general of virginia can

utilities on first street. we have given this were to balfour beatty and their subcontractors, reimbursed by pg&e to get the infrastructure in. and pg&e will come in at the end of the year and pull all the cabling and make the cut-over is allowing us to complete the shoring wall on the other side of the street. just a summary on the local labor, out of the 129 kraft hours completed by webcor's team, 87,000 have been completed by local labor. if there are any questions -- director kim: comments or questions? director reiskin? director reiskin: thank you. ghraib report. it looks a tremendous progress that you all are making. -- great report. while it is clear the progress is significant, just looking at the graphics of the status of the wall, but dress, it looks like you might be running ahead of schedule. it would be helpful in these presentations to get a better sense of not just how much progress we are making, but where we are relative to the baseline original, and baseline cost. just glancing at the summary,

they need approval from the california public utility's commission. >> year after year, the public utility'smission favoring the water utility over protecting the rate payers? >> we heard nothing. no help, no assistance whatsoever. we have to question whose interest is the tc working in. >> res dentses are gearing up for another fight. this time they are hoping for a different result. >> it's a matter of the 99%ers in bay point who are going to move forward and take a lot of noise. >> it's not a luxury. it's a necessity. >> in baypoint, grace lee, cbs 5. >>> last year, golden state water reported a neck inside of $32 million? we asked for a comment. in response, they encouraged bay point residents to hear more and that is set for later this month. >> 36. it is currently 36 degrees in napa. we have a frost advisory in effect and rain this weekend. eyewitness news continues on cbs 5. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, [people chatting] everyone, it's $37 a piece. paying with your smart phone instead of cash. that's a step forward. with chase person-to-person quickpay, you can send money directly to your frien

rules that impact the electric utility sector, just the electric utility sector. one of these four was the cross-state rule. this is a net jobs loss plan which takes into account this -- this evaluation takes into account alleged job gains from the four rules. together the four rules would result in $21 billion in annual compliance costs and raise residential energy prices by 12% in alabama. and even more in other states. 12% increase in residential energy costs is significant. these are working people. if your bill is $150, it is now going to be $168 a month. if it is a $200 bill, that's $224 a month. that's real money. and for gaining not one thing that adds to the productivity of a business or a residence. it's a really significant cost. and don't think it doesn't fall on people. and we've gotten our mind set in washington that we can impose a rule and it has costs on businesses, but it doesn't cost us. it's like -- but in truth it's the equivalent of a fa tax. for example, if the government wanted to clean up air, they could tax the american people, use that m

as you can see, our utilization of both small business and d.b.e. exceeds our goals. 38% is a very respectable number given that our goal for federal disadvantage business is 13.5%, and ours a pir ration and goal for business is 25%, and you can see that we're reaching to 34% in that goal also. if you have another mentor protege program which is focused in construction. these are prime contractors that work with the small firms, small contractors. again, they will sign an agreement. at times, the same small businesses outbid the prime that mentored them. we've had a number of examples of those. it's a very robust program that we have with the association of general contractors. we've signed an agreement with them and we do have the numbers there. eight construction companies and mentors that are participating in that program. it's a very good program and i'm thankful to a.g.c. for working with us and participating in that aspect of our work. >> as i mentioned, and as was mentioned earlier, we cover not just the san francisco county, but the entire n

i am general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission. i want to thank you for allowing us to be here to talk about the energy retrofit programs they have been allowing us to do. it was a really simple goal. it was federal stimulus money, and the goal was to do something long term that was good and the other goal was to make sure we spend the money quickly and got jobs we were creating. what is great is we accomplished both. we wanted to celebrate that today. the city already provides about 100% clean natural gas -- not natural gas. back that up. the city provides greenhouse gas free, 100% renewable energy. what is different is we're saying now that we provide that energy, we should always still be conserving, all we still be looking at energy efficiency opportunities, and that is what we're doing. this is one of 10 sites in the city including other cultural centers, health centers, where we took this money and really changed the behavior of what is happening in those buildings. we are here to celebrate that work. we had $3 million of thi

verizon uses a network of utility poles in the sunset district. without a full discussion of why they cannot utilize this already existing network in the inner richmond, verizon cannot meet its burden of proof that this is the only alternative that will work for the neighborhood. please vote to deny a permit for this location. think you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. the proposed antennas are not necessary in the richmond necessary to provide service in the event of a natural disaster. the emergency response plan to medication and next which was established in 2008 and a copy which is included in your packet makes clear that

kind of crazy. >> reporter: getting back to the public utilities commission action.e utility wants to to know how pg&e misclassified 172 miles of pipe as being in undeveloped areas. when they were in marin, sonoma, contra costa and santa clara counties. in the undeveloped areas they are exempt from federal standards and inspections. pg&e announcing it is going to be laying off more than 200 employees this is the result of a reorganization following last year's explosion in san bruno that killed eight people. ironically, last night's leak here on beale and mission, pg&e headquarters where most of those lay-offs are going to occur, half a away. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >>> -- this morning for the first time we are hearing from the mother of one of the victims allegedly assaulted bay former penn state assistant football coach. "good morning america" has the exclusive interview. katie, a lot more coming up on gma you got an advanced clip? >> we are, because of these clips learning disturbing new details about how and where former penn state defense coordinator jerry s

none of the hours have been utilized. the price hasn't been utilized. it is a bid in your staff just threw it out the door. none of these were awarded except for one manhattan and. >> what is the nature of the contract? >> it is and on call cm contract. out of the five key staff that were asked for by name to qualify and be selective, eire worked roughly 48 hours a week. everyone else did not get a job. for the record, one of our senior staff who worked on the program. never got a single hour working on this contract. some got hired by other team members. even other staff got hired. we're talking about corruption. this is an article from the business journal in denver. federal charges, there are paying $1.5 million for the following. the false claims, a kickback by the justice department. l.a. times. the department of water and power. [chime] >> the artificially inflated the value of the work performed. this is another one of your distinguished companies. they had a settlement offered for $30 million in the commission rejected it for $120 million for th

he talked about utilities. the largest utility in commonwealth of virginia is dominion resources. as dominion resources requested that you challenge the air toxic rule legally or that legistion be introduced to prevent it from being implemented? >> now. as i mentioned earlier under mr. mr. rotation of nullification, virginia isn't in the constitutional position to step in on federal environmental regulation of the constitutional objection. even if we have legislation. the supremacy clause of the constitution is federal law trumping state law, the huskers th you asked about earlier in the supremacy clause contains an exception when the federalaw is not constitutional. no one i know whereof that's what epa is doing is unconstitutional. an approach. incredibly unique in terms of speed, particularly in light of the volume of the comments and impacts, which even if you asked that the epa's are one of the dispute. >> the answer is so far the largest utility they seek to overturn the rule. i mean on the federal level. >> have you received -- as the attorney general of virginia can have y

we have seen is the public utilities commission favoring the water utility over protect the ratepayers. >> we have heard nothing from the puc. no help, no assistance whatsoever. >> we have to question whose interests is the puc working in. >> reporter: so with yet another rate hike looming, residents are gearing up for another fight. this time, they are hoping for a different result. >> it's a matter of the 99 percenters in bay point who are going to move forward and make a lot of noise to golden state water and the puc and the governor's office if necessary. >> it's water. >> you need your water. >> it's not a luxury. it's a necessity. >> reporter: in bay point, grace lee, cbs 5. >>> in 2010, golden state water's parent company reported a net income of $31 million. we asked the public utilities commission for comment and in response, it simply encouraged bay point residents to attend the next hearing on the proposed rate hike and that's set for later this month. >>> think we're going to be getting rain before later this month. >> today was dry and temperatures were averaging anywhere

all matters listed are considered routine by the san francisco public utilities commission will be act on base single vote of the commission. terms and conditions offers the general manager to access on behalf of the city and county to extend the term for two years under the current lease at rawlings work and at burning game. -- burlingame. improve the election and water improvement program funded agreement, engineering service, fish passage facility within the alameda creek watershed and authorize san francisco public utilities to execute a public service agreement with the u.s. corporation in an amount not to exceed $2,000,000.300000 -- $2,300,000. the contract and pipe installation on new mcgovern, stevenson, to the lowest qualified responsive better to replace renewed aging water pipes. -- the waste-water facility alighting efficiency at no. friends the oceanside to replace aging high intensity lighting features with high efficiency light a meeting diode fixtures for a contract of $500,093. -- 500900 -- 5000 -- >> so moved. >> we have no speaker cards. >> all those in favor? >> opp

in the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission. it really speaks to the importance of the water system improvement program rebuild, as much was stressed by our colleagues at rec and park, we are well under way with construction on the rebuild. $2.6 billion is under construction right now. leaving only six left in pre- construction. we are significantly far along with half. to put this in perspective, $4.6 billion was the budget. before you today keeps the budget at exactly $4.6 billion. it allows you, the finance committee, to carve off savings earned it chiefly so far from very low bids from contractors, put it into a savings account, subject to your release and review. as far as it extending today, we have extended cash out the door. we have also awarded contracts in controller assistants, another $3.7 billion. we are bringing the total to $3.4 billion, extending and encumbering the contracts on the way. we have achieved very large savings, able to sell our water revenue bonds at historically low rates in the united states. the i

what's wrong with utility bill, work id.ny other kinds of id and it shouldn't be boiled down to this one restrictive id. >> i also talked to a representative of the heritage foundation, talking about this same topic. they believe voter id laws are important to put in place. i asked him where did he see voter fraud taking place across the country that justifies states changing laws. >> i can't give you an inventory here today. i've written about a lot of case studies on various kinds of voter fraud. i would refer you two weeks ago, arthur davis, former bl

the utility is the second to submit stress test results since the fukushima accident. some nuclear experts voiced kri criticism of the reactor tests on monday at the first meeting of a government panel to discuss how to evaluate the results. >> translator: we may have to reconsider how we evaluate safety. we have to listen to the opinions of local residents. >> another panel member said the stress test should not be the only condition for restarting reactors when the cause of the fukushima accident is still unclear. >>> shareholders of tokyo electric power company are preparing to sue the current and former executives over the accident at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. a group of 22 -- rather 42 individuals asked the utility's auditors on monday to file a lawsuit against 61 executives who have held posts since 2002. they're seeking more than 5.5 trillion yen or about $71 billion in compensation. the amount is the highest ever demanded in a lawsuit in japan. the investors say tepco executives failed to take steps to protect the plant from earthquakes and tsu

as utility them up, you can't have them close together anymore.s you can see my hands are shading each other here. you have to start separating them so they don't wind up casting shadows on each other. if you're able to get less panels in a given area. >> i would love to take a look at one of these solar panels if you have something that we can look at. are they heavy? what's the deal with this? >> you're 150, 100 something pound person walking on your roof. >> 150? >> i'm 150 pounds. >> carl! >> most modern houses are designed to take the weight of a solar panel instaglation. >> i don't have to worry about panels falling in on me? >> hopefully not. >> hopefully not. >> if you have a good contractor, they'll do their due diligence. they'll do their homework. it's better for the industry if everyone does their homework and does the calculations to make sure the system is going to last 20 years, 30 years. >> that is another question. what is the lifetime of the system? do you have to have the solar panels replaced periodically? >> no, actually the s

the public utilities commission launching a new investigation as to why the utility didn't keep betterthe long term concern. last night here in san francisco, a short term concern but a big concern for a while. pg&e crew cut a hole in a pipeline on beale near mission and a one mile area around the area here was cordoned off. no ex-explosion or fire but a strong smell of gas capped at 8:45. back to the puc, it wants to know how pg&e misclassified 172 miles of pipe as being in undeveloped areas therefore exempt from inspections. most of those lines in marin, sonoma, contra costa and santa clara counties. fines up to $20 to you a day are possible. -- up to $20,000 a day are possible. pg&e laying off 225 people as a result of the san bruno fire last year. they are restructuring and layoffs are to happen. gas leak on bale headquarters where most of the lay-offs are going to take -- take place, half a block away. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >>> we start with doppler more organize wet weather moving towards the coast so you will get rain during the morning commute. most of us will get the bul

putting together uses in the neighborhood to cause high your utilization. i want to make sure that the port is thinking this through in and not losing out on opportunities, other than having to identify something special. >> i believe that negotiations with the giant recognizes that it is the main benefit in shed a. we recognize that there could be overlapping uses where the parking lot is utilized. an event that needs to occur. we have worked out some language to make the port hole if there is a loss of revenue. >> i hope that there is something more specific than simply identifying special events as 14 days in duration. i want to make sure that there is a situation where the port shares, along with a look to the past. looking at the upside, as well as being fixed and boxed in. >> my ability to generate revenue from these resources in these areas have probably enhanced revenue from that side alone. coordinating schedules to take advantage of opportunities as they come to the port. >> so that we do not feel that we missed out on an opportunity on behalf of

shut off utilities if it's safe to do it. you report it. we can cordon off the area just to make sure nobody else goes in the area. definitely tell the fire chief or whoever and we can go in there and try to do it safely. when we talk about search and rescue, i really want to make a distinction between searching and rescuing. searching is really basically looking for people; right? once we find a person we switch modes and go into this rescue mode. when we talk about search and rescue, try not to get it too mixed up because you think dfrpbtly based on what you are doing. if you are searching, you think about certain things and if you are rescuing somebody, you think about other things. the first rule, of course, would be do not become a victim yourself. whenever you do a search, you have to preplan. you have to understand who is doing what. we suggest that you work in two teams of at least two people, so that's at least four people doing a search at the very, very, very least. you want a team on the outside and a team on the inside. proper