And trying to compete with online buying. And preparing for the worst. What to expect on the new york city area if snow falls on the first openair football game. And this is what theyre worried about, a giant pile of snow right across the 30 yard line. We begin tonight with a growing controversy over the National Security agency, at issue, whether the nsas widespread spying programs have gone too far. Whether the government has been using terrorism as an excuse to do extensive spying even on americas allies. Today an investigative panel. Surprising and sweeping. The panel, chosen by president obama, is urging that the nsa stop collecting and mining phone calls from americans. The advisors say that Surveillance Program creates potential risks to public trust, personal privacy and civil liberty. They also urge that spying on foreign citizens including World Leaders must be carried out by a duly enacted law or executive order and must be directed at protecting National Security interests.
Plot lines real. We talk to the expert, a former c. I. A. Operative. The n. S. A. Says on its website that it specialises in signals intelligence and information assurance. Translation it is in the spying business collecting data, especially from phones, possibly your phone. The agency is under fire for vast surveillance programs and a president ial panel says its time to change the way the n. S. A. Operates. The 46 recommendations spelt out in the report are surprising and sweeping. The panel chosen by president obama asks them to stop phone calls. Surveillance Program Creates risk to trust, personal privacy and civil liberty, and spying on citizens, including World Leaders must be carried out by a duly enacted law and must be directed at protecting nationality security interests. We need to endure intelligence is supporting our Foreign Policy and National Security objectives,. That is including being focussed on the threats to the american people. The president has been clear. As we
Consolidating a number of Homeland Security Grant Programs and a new National Preparedness Grant Program. Im pleased that fema has finally submitted a legislative proposal with this years request. As our subcommittee continues to review the proposal, we have a few questions about it. Im interested to learn about the many aspects of the proposal and how it will be implemented. Ive questions about the sustainment and competitive and how these funds will be allocated to states. The high risk areas and transport agencies. I have concerns about the 25 setaside. States and local prevention activities including the sustainment of the National Network have played a vital role the purpose of these grants as detailed in the 9 11 act are for preventing and preparing for acts of terrorism. Im hoping youll be able to provide us with greater clarity on this proposal and other questions as we have related to the mpg proposal. I look forward to working with my fellow subcommittee and full Committee Me
Keeping the healthy hetch hetchy that means well have to be back before you and the Mayors Office and other policymakers every year asking for general fund rates to have the ability to have more fully paying customers or have more power Revenue Bonds or have to revisit which we do every year the problematic cuts or deferrals real quick it strikes me were going to have a discussion around cca and the big deficit is because of house senate and the mountain you tunnel can you talk about that what that means deferring capital theres a reflex whats the risk level, you know, obviously theres been a policy decision id rather fund that rather than that people can draw conclusions here and theres a couple of i think straightforward for example, one the mountain tunnel an assessment was done we have more information as well as the reinforcement and the realigning in the that tunnel by sector this over a 10 or 12 mile distances that needs to be you upgraded and go around and mitigate the risks ev
Approximately 140 million and it recommended to capital on slide 6 youll see that 53 million is related to Capital Investment and in each case water, power and sewer its one hundredyearold facility that we have the stewardship responsibility that includes the general reserve to curb on the facilities like the rim fire were actually recovering from the Third Largest wide fire no california and doing the lower cherry aqueduct and thank you for looking at those recovery projects. The budget is going up because of capital regulatory electrical costs in particular the subsection agreement and pg e has proposed to do very significant rate increases for transition distribution as well as the street lights of all San Francisco. Personnel covets and other costs are largely increasing the majority of our budget is in capital related. The next couple of charts summarize the important things like 90 percent plus gets paid for by Service Charges and Property Rentals as well. The use society is capi