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Good friday morning. Im alex perez, in for john muller. Im diana perez. This morning, federal authorities will take over the investigation into a deadly tour bus crash in california. At least ten people died when the fedex truck collided with a bus packed with High School Students about 100 miles north of sacramento. New pictures this morning taking moments after the impact show the fiery wreck. Witnesses are now telling their stories. This is all thats left of the 18wheeler and the bus that was...

System purchases that we might need to make. We purchased biomass and wind from various facilities in california and in the west. And at the time of this reporting we totaled between 2011 and 2012 a balance of Renewable Energy credits of 53,544 megawatt hours. We utilized for our own rps compliance 80,185 and that is drawn from that mix of Renewable Energy credits that we generated and owned and those that we purchased. This is certainly not asking you to speculate on this hypothesis. Yes. So do...

Be more on the water side than the energy side. I mean water and electricity are very different things, but as resource, there is probably many more people in the bay area who get benefit from the water then get benefit from electricity. So you could look at it that way. Sure, you could. With the bulk of the percentage or proportion on water versus energy. And just so im being clear in describing to you the method that we are using, while each asset is categorized as either a water, a power or a...

Its one system, many times one in the same asset is serving two purposes. Other times, assets are strictly dedicated to providing Water Service and districtly dedicated to providing Power Service, but those providing both components we split those costs between water and power ratepayers. 55 to power and 45 to water. That is an historic that is an historic method that has been applied to the hetch hetchy system for all upcountry facilities. We arrived at that method its referred to as the separa...

Cost to provide the Water Service separate from the Power Service or the Power Service separate from the Water Service and see how the costs would have broken out . When we performed that analysis some years ago, utilizing consultants, we arrived at a figure a split, went into negotiations with our wholesale water customers, who also had views on how these asset costs should be shared and arrived at the 55 45 split. This is a method the separable cost method is used by the federal Energy Regulat...

Uniformly. So we didnt look for example at mountain tunnel and say, what is the split for that particular asset . The whole system was assessed and the 55 45 was the resulting allocation. And with respect to mountain tunnel, it is a joint asset. It does provide both water and Power Service to the hetchy system. It conveys water that is held behind Drinking Water that is held behind oshaughnessey dam and throughs through the dam through canyon power tunnel to kirkwood powerhouse. From kirkwood po...

Also. So i think we i dont think its an either or situation. The first point that you were making, frank, is exactly what this legislation is talking about. And, actually, i live in north in a lot of and a lot of my neighbors go to the v. A. Hospital in memphis, tennessee. So thank you. A recurring theme were hearing compliments about the service theyre getting. But this legislation provides more doctors, more nurses and more facilities to address just what youre talking about. Host and the last...

Funding for charlie rose was provided by the following captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Al gore grew newspaper tennessee and lived in washington d. C. The son of a United States senator. He then went to harvard, went back to tennessee, became a congressman and then a senator, then Vice President and inn 2,000 he ran for president and he lost. Then after some soulsearching he began to decide what he wanted to do. He was an enviro...

Nobel peace prize. His latest book is called the futurist i spoke to him on tuesday if he 90 29nd street y here in new york and here is part of that conversation. I should take note of the fact that this book is dedicated to his mother, pauline gore who died at age 92 in 2004, his father died when he was 90. This is good genes, im telling you here. And in the dedication to her he said she gave me a future and a an abiding curiosity about what it holds and a sense of our commune human ablegation ...