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The heads of the washington met met metropoliton authority were having a meeting and taking questions on plans to accelerate maintenance and projects over the next year. Welcome, everybody. Today we will discuss how the washington metro system is going to address the safety and reliability issues. The issue is important to all members because when we have people coming in we want to make sure when they come to see the nations capitol they should be able to move around the region safely and effic...

Entry. The focus has to be there. I dont mean for people who have violated the law and committed infractions. I am talking about intervening and lives before they get to the criminal Justice System. I am talking about interrupting the school to prison pipeline. I am talking about the reality of the communities in which people live and grow. As chair of the criminal justice section, we are looking at a program, putting together a program april 28th. This is a shameless plug. A part of the program...

Cars and create other issues for us. We didnt have that this time. We had that figured out. So anyway, it was, something that i think was the right thing to do from a safety standpoint for our employees and for customers. Worse, you know, worst thing we could have done have people out there, a to get them to think they could travel in a storm like that as we knew at the time. B, then have to rescue them. We were pulling resources away from getting system up and running. That was the decision. I ...

Police officers. You can see people coming up to the Federal Center southwest station and realizing it is closed. As you said, for the rest of the day for that maintenance. No Transit Service between Eastern Market and Lenfant Plaza. Also silver line operating between wheely, reston, and boston only. I can tell you that the Ripple Effect of this i know weve had some people who have tweeted pictures. Weve seen incredibly crowded platforms at the downtown stations. Now, the Main Fire Department ac...

Caroline at incwe want to get perspective, tom. We want to get the idea that this extraordinary Volatility Oil prices, stocks following eike a lost puppy will we se what is happening in the markets reflect on the overall economy . The eu cutting growth figures for gdp that is a market d circumstance. Tom im bringing in vonnie quinn before she does the news. It really shows the growth tension. Vonnie and the inflation forecast, cut by half. That is a huge move. Also assuming brent crude at 35. 80...

Hello welcome to countdown. A warm welcome to the first hour of the program. Lets get to one of our top stories this morning. The european auto show kicks off in paris today. Lets get straight to european correspondent hans nichols from paris. Of the a glimpse of some vw brandnew models. Will you be getting a lamborghini or bugatti . Getting pricey. Be packs of rabid dogs. For we have is a fight share. We have a fight for who is going to sell what car to what individual. They came out with an ex...

Tracy the president says he has the veto pen already. Here is what the disagree. I havent used the veto pen very often when ive been in office. I suspect there will be times i have to pull the pen out. Here with us now david asman of fox business, James Freeman of wall street journal. Kmele foster of the independents. David he hasnt had to . No he had everything locked up by harry reid who controlled the senate. House would pass something and senator reid would sit on it. The good thing what is ...

Bringing to our rate fairness board the not to exceed rate weve proposed for both our basic cca service, if you will light green part, as well as the upscale, do more, be greener part of the program, the dark green aspect of the program. Well be bringing those rates to the rate fairness board, they have agreed to meet on april 17th. Thats earlier in the schedule as opposed to later so we were late on the ledge reform but were early on the not to exceed rates, we heard a lot of interest in advanc...

Now about our Energy Future moving forward, trying to look at one of the ideas thats come forward in terms of what we could use as a region are some incentives to actually move towards new Building Construction that is not just Energy Efficient by also is a noncarbon future for these buildings, so noncombustion heating systems, the boilers wouldnt be boilers any more, they would be Something Else that we could put in place, and thats a place where i think there could be work that we could enhanc...

And jason and the stake holders. Thank you. Great, thank you. Miss hale theres been some activity at the california puc that we wanted to report on. You will recall i have reported a number of times now on their activities with respect to pg es green tariff application. They issued their decision, the cpuc, california puc, issued their decision in late january and that decision was forth the schedule for pg e to file their advice letters, which are the implementation filings that the utilities m...