but the utilities sector is a lot more cyclical than people think it is. 25% of utilities power usage in the country is chemicals, smelting, manufacturing, and if all that is getting better particularly because the u.s. is a competitive manufacturer around, relative to places around the world, that's a positive for them. two, it tends to be highly linked to what's happening with natural gas prices's they're going up tends to help the pricing power for utilities. fundamentals are good. in the producter economy, good. early indicators, credit conditions telling us a decent ism. the jobs trends would be there. even capital spendi ining trend. we track them. back in december they were saying capital spending would be up 1.5% for 2014. in march saying up 5 and now telling us up 6.8%. seeing companies accelerating their plans. >> can we get on to technology. where do you stand there? the cap ex spending there and excitement levels, the names produced, great moves to the up side. not the hyped up trade a lot of folks going to utilities. the technology space is trongst as well, right? >> sure

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here is the public utility commissions which is set up to protect us, get too cozy with utilities. you have long been a critic of the public utility's commission handling of this and other cases. what is your chief concern? >> the relationship between the regulator which is the public roou utility's commission and the industry. the 7,000 e-mails, it took over a year for the city of san bruno to obtain and they resisted all along. the fact they got them is critical. what it shows to me is that in three and a half years after the explosion and fire that cozy relationship that should be arm's length relationship, because you have a judge and a defendant. and the judge is giving advice to the defendant. that is not appropriate. >> pg&e says that the e-mails that you're talking about or the discussions were about public relations and light advice. this was not something heavy about here's how to get around the law or defend against the laws. >> if they're given advice and the advice is asking and the assistant to the president is asking a judge, one of the administrative law judges for

again, land use controls, and clean utility corridors. this site -- this work has not yet been completed and it will hopefully be done in october of this year. >> the final step for this site because it's not a -- there is some more work to be done in this is the east corner. we still need the remedial design to be approved by dtsd and we're working on that. the remedy needs to be implemented and excavated and placed in areas where the cap will be placed. the dtsd will need to approve the remedy completion report and they'll need to approve the long term monitoring plan and the land use control and the clean corridor needs to be completed. my last slide is just a summary of these land use controls that will be in place, but as i said, those are not finalized so they're still being worked out. but for both sites, there will be no drilling for water, oil, or gas without dtsd approval. they'll be no ex traction of ground water without dtst approval and a management plan will be required for any activity that goes below 5 feet where ground wa

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commission is the agency in charge of overseeing the utility. so what the city wants to know, why is there a stack of e-mails between the heads of pse&g and the puc talking about how to handle the investigation and how to handle the news media? >> explosion. >> reporter: on the steps of the california public utility commission headquarters this morning, the mayor of san bruno called the e-mails shocking and illegal. >> pse&g has made illegal efforts to influence the cpuc decision makers to protect the utility's financial interest, sadly and shockingly, the cpuc has participated in the illegal conduct. >> reporter: in one e-mail, cpuc president michael peavy writes to pse&g's vice president of regulatory relations regarding the 2010 explosion and fire and an e-mail that pse&g anticipated facing criminal charges. peavy wrote, "pse&g's decision to issue a press release last week anticipating all of this only meant that the public got to read two big stories rather than one. i think this was inept." said peavy. why peavy would offer advice to pse&g

we are going to purchase the land from the public utilities commission. whether it's town square or san francisco reservoir or any other plan like this, that we have the opportunity to purchase and lock up for agoed in the city of san francisco as open space we need to jump at those opportunities. it is located in russian hill boarded by chestnut high and larkin. it's currently under the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission. it has been dormant as a reservoir for over 60 years. i will tell you a personal story. i used to play ball close to the park because we weren't very good football players. we would throw the ball and chase after it. i remember this plot of plant as it -- land as it sits there growing up in the city and we finally have an opportunity to change that for the city. some comments were made around 900 eunice and these are all great comments. in terms of the open space nature of this park, this has been designated san francisco reservoir since the 1980s. it is zoned p for public under the planning code zoned as open space under t

ander demonstrate and test to see if it can be utilized in a safe manner. >> this has been used by utilities check transmission lines or to do testing work. is that the first step in general approval? >> there has been certain cases where the faa has had an monitoringor certain capabilities. for the most part, what you are seeing is earlier this year the faa voiced and made it public they would be entertaining from the small unmanned aircraft system rule that is going to be coming out in november. once they put that out, there will be a 90 day response willand then they adjudicate those comments and come out with a small rule. that may be a process that takes up to you and a half to two years. so not to lose the momentum in the possibility of using light -- utilizing this technology, the faa said they would entertain exemptions that can show a safe case to utilize this technology. 13 exemptions have been filed already with the faa since may. is the 13th. amazon is looking to be able to take the technology they have right now and demonstrate at their facility in seattle it can be used in a sa

it has enabled residents with smart phones to utilize a greater supply of for transportation options. so here on this slide, and on the next slide, i have summary of a table that's in the executive summary of the report and just kind of goes down the identification of differences between the two industries. and first of, the taxi industry has a little under 2,000 vehicles in san francisco. this compares with an estimate of 5 to 10,000 transportation network company vehicles. there's about 9,000 taxi drivers in the city and again, estimated of 5 to 10,000 tnc drivers in the city. there's 27 licensed taxi i companies in the city, five transportation network companies in the city. with regard to backgrounds checks that are required, the -- in san francisco the taxi industry is required to check the entire adult criminal history of all potential taxi drivers. that's done by the mta. that compares up to seven years of recent criminal history for transportation network companies. in regards to the check of dmv history, the taxi industry checks ten years, the tnc checks seven years. with reg

make this happen related to know we're reforming the energy vision we need to update the grid on utilities in the state of new york and thank you to the governor for putting the group together to learn the lessons but also to change what we've been doing. as i click i'll remind you of a couple of important things new york citizens and the vitality infrastructure the grids are two valuable to the citizens and too vulnerable to the effects of climate change but to redouble our efforts to lower our green house gases footprint and the resiliency as we deepen our commitment to solar it's the essential of many, many challenges. we want more solar thermal installations in no objection we want you to come to n.y., new york is open for business. to paraphrase (clapping) you can clap the influential saying from heros race combrilly who lives 0 more than one hundred years ago if you want to find opportunity go east i don't know, man go east. by the way, you slight more mature folks will build new factories we want you to come to new york too. thank you all for this opportunity i can't tell you how aw

ben if i recall to the customers, it's beneficial to the utility. and we're really in a time period where we need to be providing more information to our customers. >> reporter: palo alto utilities claims customers have dropped usage by 17%. now they may lead the way in how we track our water and keep ourselves accountable. >> so we know we're only using the amount of water we think we're using and using just the right amount for our plants and family. >> reporter: ian cull, nbc bay area news. >>> and we have more ideas on how to save water. head to nbcbayarea.com and search drought watch. >>> and if you had to turn on the air conditioning today, you probably were are not the only one. it was very hot out there. >> gorgeous day all the way. >> temperatures as warm as the mid to upper 90s again inland, but earlier today, we did have some scattered showers move through and some thundershower around gilroy. right now 85 in san jose. 70 in san francisco where the seabreeze is trying to coming back. everything you saw looks like a typical late july after

it's a hybrid approach between your traditional investment utilities like sacramentos or municipal utilities like p jenny. they're responsible for preparing the electricity and producing that power. p jenny do the delivery and the maintenance. they send the electricity over the wire and they do the billing and customer services. the customer has a seamless experience when they transfer to a cca bill. the customer pays that to p jenny and they give our portion to us. >> customers in our service area actually have four choices for their power supply. they can choose pg and e which is currently 22% renewable or choose our light green product which is 55% renewable and that's the product that customers are automatically enrolled into if they don't choose another option. we offer degreen, that's 100% renewable and it's verified by green e energy. we have just announced a third option for mce which is shares which is a local solar projects built within our service area that customers are purchase as well. >> can i - sorry. you're going to talk about that local build component. >> yes, i am. this s

a public utility is what? that phrase is used, typically, you're talking about the way in which it's regulated, and that's title 2. so, title 2 was the regulatory regime for ma bell, at&t, circuit switch copper 80 years ago, and that is not what you want to impose on the internet today. you want a light regulatory touch. that's what bill clinton and bill kennard came out with in the 1990s. it worked well through the '90s and the 2000s, and that's the approach we should take today. >> where you have an example of what john is referring, where you would reclassify the internet as a public monopoly, you've seen this happen in europe. and the main concerns people have around this issue is, number one, innovation will be affected, that price will be affected, that you'll limit the number of people and the kinds of people that have access. in fact, the last 20 years, to john's point, where we've had this light regulatory approach, we've seen all the barometers we want to go up go up -- innovation, competition, profi

it utilizes different aspects.art of it is just pure propaganda, whether it's speeches by top leaders ranging from that to having supporters, as ramesh said, put the graphics out, statistics about operations that are taking place by the minute. reporting from certain regions where a lot of media can't have access. we have the guys reporting from the field, minute by minute. this is one of the most sophisticated propaganda machines, probably in contemporary jihad post 9/11. >> you talk about sophistication and social media. check this out. these are either smath esers of the -- smathizers of the islamic state. we have a picture: >>> they are drinking coke, eating lamb. and it says: >>> then another: >>> so, ramesh, this is a part of their digital footprint. they are more transparent than al qaeda. they are talking about cats, pepsi. what does it reveal about their personality and specific propaganda? >> much more of a youth culture-based movement as pointed out. it's really, really interesting. al qaeda and some of

this is not the first time failing to keep distance from the utilities it regulates. our investigation back in 2013 was the first to report on an internal employee survey where one high-ranking puc employee described an overly cozy relationship with regulatory utilities. now then that was a few weeks before our report, and puc michael peavy chose to attend a conference and dinner in napa instead of answering critical questions about the cozy relationship at a senate hearing in sacramento. what is the message you sent by coming here to napa instead of going to speak to the senate. >> you're very antagonistic, you know. you're reading a script. >> reporter: sir, i'm not reading a script. i want to give you an opportunity to respond. >> but your questions are the wrong questions. you got a job to do. it's pathetic what you're doing. >> reporter: we reached out to the puc for a response. in a press release, it says it complied with san bruno's request for information, but the puc did not comment on the city's accusations of breaking the law. so here is your takeaway. the

we need to utilize every single online medium in order to counter this kind of rhetoric.hould the u.s. set its sights on the islamic state as the new al-qaeda. their objectives, the risk every day iraqis face trying to go about their every day routine? >> the situation is volatile. anything can happen at any time. people don't know how to go on their daily life. >> those closest to the conflict. >> on tech know, >> what if there was a miracle? >> grace's stem cells are in this box. >> that could save the live of your child... >> we're gonna do whatever we can >> would yo give it a try? >> cell therapy is gonna be the next big advance in medicine >> tech know, every saturday go where science meets humanity. >> this is some of the best driving i've every done, even though i can't see. >> tech know. >> we're here in the vortex. only on al jazeera america. g1 >> welcome back. we are discussing the continuing crisis in iraq. the group, islamic state formerly known as isis originated from the global al-qaeda network but had a falling out. some say their tactics are more brutal

it utilizes technology we have. it is efficient and cost-effective, utilizing shuttle maintenance -- main engines. we have 18 is stored from the main shuttle program at a space center. the solid rocket motor casings we have left over from the shuttle program. instead of four segments like the shuttle, there will be five segments to get more thrust. the diameter of the liquid core stage, hydrogen, like the space shuttle, is the same diameter as the shuttle external takes -- tanks. they are building a welding facility that will be the next step and they will have everything they need to complete holding -- holding this rocket -- building this rocket. it is phenomenal. at the top is the orion spacecraft. in the apollo era, we transitioned to the shuttle and now we are taking this historic link and transitioning base three to support the space launch. we are doing things different. in apollo and shuttle, let forms were built specifically for that rocket. the space launch system starts out in a 70-90 metric ton range. we

is that the utilities have been working the commissioners, they've been communicating closely, and that coziness just is not what we expected. >> reporter: pge released a statement after these documents were released, quote, we're absolutely committed to conducting ourselves ethical manner at all times. we will review all the e-mails to ensure the high standard was upheld. we reached out to the cpuc. it complied be the information requests for those documents but did not weigh in on the other accusations. again, city of san bruno, mayor along with state senator jerry hill will make a major announcement, that's what they're calling it. 9:00 this morning on the steps of the cpuc which is headquartered in san francisco. reporting live here in san bruno, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> we will of course be there, thank you very much, bob. >>> meanwhile, bay area state senator is calling for a criminal probe. we'll talk more about, well, constructions on this, the new bay bridge. "today in the bay's" nannette miranda live at the bridge, nannette, the state senator calling caltrans knew th

with regard to the funds that we get from the san francisco public utilities commission, i believe that even though it was not necessary for the lafco to do this, there was a memo of understanding or agreement formed with the puc about the use of the funds and the responsibilities and that i believe is up next year. and so now would be the time to start exploring and making sure that that agreement stays in place. and so that we don't find ourselves next year, with the san francisco public utilities commission saying, well, guys, there is funds are not available to you any more, because the agreement is no longer in place. so, i just wanted to red flag that and so the folks are paying attention to it. >> thanks. >> thank you. any other member of the public that would like to comment come forward and seeing none, we will close public comment. and colleagues, i am actually, i know that we are going to go through maybe a couple of more years before we get to the end of the reserve, i actually would support a policy that would put a certainly percentage on it and i actually would be fine on

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epa's proposal is supported by major utilities like national grid. faith organizations like the u.s. conference of catholic bishops, public health groups like the american lung association. there's also support from name plate american corporations like mars, nike, and starbucks. i'd like to ask consent to enter into the record a letter from more than 125 companies expressing support for the standard. >> without objection, so ordered. >> i just want to mention, if there are babies who are talking, it's important that you consider that we have an overflow room, g 50. so because it's kind of hard to hear over that wonderful sound. that we're hearing from the back. your call but we do have a room g 50. okay . go ahead. >> thank you, madame chair. we had four former republican epa administrators to testify before our subcommittee on clean air and nuclear safety last month. they agreed all four that epa's rule is a reasonable way to reduce carbon pollution and that industry has a history of overstating the compliance costs of environmental regulations. th

why he thinks pg&e and the california public utilities commission are too close. >>> nbc bay area news starts now. >> good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm peggy bunker. >> i'm terry mcsweeney. a young man is deed and 13 are injured after rare summer lightning strikes two southern california locations including venice beach. witnesses say they have never seen or heard anything like it. >> the loudest clap of thunder i've ever heard in my life because it was so close. i thought it was like a bomb almost. >> reporter: but it was like the lightning that did the damage in southern california this afternoon. most of its a venice beach, killing a 20-year-old. among the dozen injured, a 15-year-old boy. witnesses say the sky drew dark, then came the lightning. the entire storm lasted 15 minutes. some victims were on the beach. others the water. still others on the famed venice beach boardwalk. nine were taken to the hospital. one listed in critical condition. >> all of a sudden you heard this crack, this giant bolt up in the sky. i had never seen it like that. i'm from the midwest. >> a

is that the utilities have been working the commissioners, they've been communicating closely, and in that coziness is not what we expect. >> reporter: here a statement from pge, reading and quoting here, we're committed to conducting ourselves in an ethical manner at all times. we will review all the e-mails involved to ensure that this high standard was upheld. unquote, we reached out to the cpuc, it said in a statement it complied with information requests but did not weigh in on other accusations. again the city of san bruno holding this news conference, a few hours from now, can the this morning on the -- 9:00 this morning on the steps of the cpuc. major announcement and actions will be taken. reporting live here in san bruno, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> thanks, bob. >>> developing right now in the middle east, hamas and israeli leaders are considering a new cease-fire proposal presented just hours ago by the gianted nations security council. the u.n. called for an immediate and unconditional humidtarian cease-fire -- humanitarian cease-fire to get aid to thousands of paul

utility crews have to cut the poll in half after a silver suv slammed into it. the driver crashed into the poll around 6:00 this morning. the silverado trail between 3rd street and suasa lane is not expected to reopen for at least another hour or so. the good news is no one was hurt. the driver was not been sited or arrested. >> san francisco police have released a picture of a suspected car thief who they say is responsible for a serious crash that sent six people to the hospital, including himself. investigators say 25-year-old anthony wisner was driving away from police in a stolen mini van about 10:20 last night. the driver ran a red light slammed into a taxi. the crash also damaged the window of an apartment building. i can't imagine. it had to be going really fast. there's glass all over the place. there's brick damage. >> the bicyclist is sadly on life support. evan else involved had nonlife threatening injuries including the woman in the mini van. she was cooped by police and was not arrested. >> tonight a prominent civil rights attorney is asking the ju

and have used in the public utilities code the word, shall is mandatory. and in the city has taken the position that the 60 day clock, does not start running until at&t applies for an encroachment permit and they disagree and in this case, even under the own theory the 60 days ran out in may, before the new legislation what is pased at&t applied for a permit not to be confused with the approval on march 26, the city approved the at&t excavation permit on april the fourth and the 60 day statutory period to either approve or deny the permit expired on may 26th. today is july 16th. and the upshot is that the board no longer has any local authority to deny the permit, any authority that the board had in that regard, expired two months ago, and according l i for all of these reasons, at&t would ask that the board deny the appeal and affirm the department's decision. thank you. >> counselor? >> go ahead. >> please. >> thank you for the comment and it is a new one and i appreciate that very much. when the new legislation requires only the certain steps that you h

i hope to get input from utility. that would make sense. put from the coal companies would make sense. out i'm glad we have an opportunity here. i am glad that we will have an opportunity to provide input from that. delaware and other states clearly impacts. places to reduce the local power plant. unfortunately few states like us cannot tackle this issue alone. if we're going to make an impact thickly power actinides are kutcher working to take on the largest source of carbon emissions together. i want to thank the administrator and the president for his leader in moving. we have to choose between having a clean environment and a stronger economy. that is a false choice. we can have both that will have both and have done it time and time again. we know the inaction of climate change only cost us money in the long run. in fact, it government accountability of this is already listed climb the change is one of the biggest fiscal risks clammy air nation. they are not making this stuff up. that is why i believe you need to move forward. protect

when we talk about community billing circles with restorative circles, utilizing restorative questions, that requires social emotional learning and growth on the part of our students and part of what we're doing to address that is utilizing second step as a curriculum to address that, but part of what we plan on doing moving forward is my request of the rfp and pbsi coaches is they are working together to be able to partner with the schools towards implementation of both programs and one of those pieces being how do you effectively model and teach the expectations connected to restorative processes. because restorative practices when talking about the work together true tonight in our resolution, restorative practices is the heart behind the work. so that piece you're speaking to, that is an area we're going to improve upon moving forward and we're going to bring the student voice to the table and combine that with being intentional around teaching and modelling those practices with our students utilizing pbis. so -- >> thank you, that was very helpful. my second question was from the

>> and a storm knocked out this join tree in greenville, delaware on buck road, it forced several utility poles to come crashing down and the road was blocked to drivers for most of the day. and the news on this continues on our 6 abc news app. we are updating power outages for you as the lights come back on, meantime accuweather and storm tracker 6 is there for you the next time storms head our way. >>> two arrests are made in the delaware county hit and run that badly injured a man. christopher brooks was hit and suffered severe injuries even lost his right leg below the knee, the delaware county d.a. says that mccray was allegedly the driver of the ford truck that hit brooks and that windchimer helped him hide the vehicle after the incident. from our delaware newsroom, a man is expected to be charged forever stealing an suv and crashing it into a public bus, this unfolded this morning in wilmington. eva pilgram is on the scene at 35th and washington street. eva what is the latest. >> sharrie you can see they cleaned up the most part of this crash scene, all that is left is greenery tha

it is a utility. when we grew up, we called it a utility. not something that you just trade. when you think about it it's a public good which needs much more public involvement. >> yes. may i add that i do think that what really is at stake is a competition of two systems. our liberal societies and putin's idea that he's going to use the time before we get our act together to export his liberal ways of running a society. i must say what you encountered in bulgearia in that he is targeting the weakest link. i must add one of the biggest problems is not directly related to energy but that the perception of the russian threat is very very different in western europe, in northern europe, southern europe and let me say eastern europe. in eastern europe, i think i'm worried. i'm really worried that russia with the multiple tools in his tool box, putin using energy, all kinds of other tools to influence the eastern european and central european countries which he feels was once part of his sphere of influence. it's just not fair that they are now on the other side. >> lmr. ambassado

these are utilities, the sector, reits and telecom.jumps out is how much more yield you get now out of s&p, double the 10-year treasury rate. and now let's look at the charts. here is a comparative chart, reits, utility, telco. a lot of lag and potential catchup trade is there. take a look at the longer term picture, same thing. you have teleco lagging, reits and utilities, there's the catch-up trade. this is the official chart, and what i see is the following. what i see is the following, a well-defined level, 160, 160, 160, and the presumption is that this is setting up for a textbook breakout, a buy juncture. draw the lines the other way, get rid of them, do it this way, the head and shoulders bottom, call it whatever you want, the neckline, but there's a lot of tension here, and there's a lot of breakout potential. just a few more. here's the sector versus the s&p. the correlation broken down over the last year or so again, that speaks to the catchup trade, and two more, the stock itself, verizon. a well-defined trend, a lot of ten

a grand jury alleges that utility broke the law before, during, and after that pipeline disaster. nbc bay area's terry mcsweeney joins ulive from san bruno. and terry, this could potentially increase the penalties that the company could face if found guilty. >> reporter: yeah, pg&e facing a fine of up to more than $1 billion if it loses in court. now this superseding indictment released today brings to 28 the number of charges against the utility. and the utility is really going to be facing far more than that if senator jerry hill has his way. according to the indictment, pg&e obstructed the ntsb investigation shortly after the 2010 san bruno pipeline explosion that killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. the utility allegedly provided false information about its pipeline safety program. >> it's not just the federal pipeline act. now we're looking at the actions of the company in terms of obstructing the investigation. >> reporter: in addition to the obstruction charge, pg&e allegedly failed to keep accurate records, did not identify problems with pipeline, and did not proper