next five years of building 100 megawatts of renewables and efficiencies, putting 4,000 a year to work doing that and creating a boom for our economy, not a bust. if we were to roll out at the beginning of next year an expensive program that the rates are wrong and scary to customers or if we were to roll out a program without making clear what they were getting into, that would make clean energy incredibly unpopular. we do not want to see that happen. so it is because supervisor ferl you are asking the right questions that we are going to get a god program. i would reiterate what staff said, which is if we get to rate-setting time next year and this program doesn t look good, believe me, the coalition pushing clean power sf will be ringing your phone first, supervisor ferl. saying you know what? we should bring rate-seting to board and put a hold on this until it is ready to go. we do not want a bad program to roll out and make clean energy look bad. that is where it is at.
we have is with shell being the company it is, there are surrounding questions but also the number of jobs this would actually create, the roadway opportunities it would create. in closing i say we support clean energy. thank you. next speaker. i m david zefger. i want to speak about clean power sf. it is about choice. as a resident of one of the 40 unit buildings that is separately metered, i don t have the option of putting solar on my roof because i don t owen my roof. however i want to sleep at night, knowing my electricity use isn t contributing to global warming. i feel this offers that opportunity. i want to address the issue of opting out. as a pg&e customer i had to opt out of being on the smart meter program. opting out ones that big a deal. i didn t have that much trouble understanding it, knowing how it worked and i trust the san francisco p.u.c. to make opting out of this as easy as i trust pg&e to make it easy for me to opt out of the smart meter program, th
examine the train equipment, interview the crews on both trains and check all radio and cell phone exchanges with dispatchers. they are not ready to say what caused the crash but we found clues. we are live in oakland along the stretch of the tracks where the investigation is now focused, eric? reporter: ken, i have been in contact with union pacific tonight. they are in charge of the rails and switches and part of the investigation. our contact there told me a cause has not yet been established. that is bit early reports that a train rammed through those read signals back there. those red signals back there. trains are rolling again, 24 hours after passengers aboard two amtrak trains experienced a rare head on collision. i was terrified. i think i yelled louder than anyone on the train. reporter: katie and her two children were on the coast star light stopped at the station when they felt the impact. it was just a big bump like like the first jolt of a earthquake.
with the settlement agreement. that nsa was born eight days ago after the writers controversy. if we are not in compliance by january 26th i think the likelihood of the judge exercising his option is a fairly good possibility. we need to allow this person to do their job. i think chief batts clearly said it. i think what we need to do is learn from it. reporter: batts will be with the department until november 6. jordan could become chief on a permanent basis but that decision is month ahead. anthony batts came to oakland from the long beach police department. h he was sworn in as chief almost two years ago he was sworn in as chief almost two years ago. on tuesday batts announced his resignation. the union agreed to start making contributions to the pension fund. the city council is set to vote on the matter next monday. san francisco district attorney george gascon spoke out about the presence of white supremacy groups in the city. gascon said authorities are c
the sighting happened in vacaville. it s a popular rest stop for folks headed from the sierra. reporter: this is the area that the mountain lion was seen. one thing about vacaville is there s a lot of rest areas like these that are populated ones. there were tense moments when vacaville officers and game wardens searched this area. a man reported seeing a mountain lion next to the wild wings. after an extensive search. fish and game warden say they did not find any evidence of a mountain lions in the area and they say they don t know if the sighting was of the same mountain lion seen earlier at an elementary school about a mile away. our main concern was being close to the school in case that someone was confronted or even saw a mountain lion. next thing you know we were called that it was a mile away. reporter: the mountain lion was seen resting by the school. they asked school officials to lock down the school and keep children inside. after searching for hours, autho