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Several fires knocked out transformers. Spencer christian has a look at the rain totals around here today. I want to let you know weve had up to 1 2 an inch of rain in many locations around the area. Over in the sierra, we have rain in the area of the king fire. Thats really good news. 77, and its still falling. Heavy rains falling on the firescarred earth there, Flash Flood Warning in effect for this area until 6 15 this evening. Lets travel back to the bay area, where i was talking about the 2...

About 8 billion to banks at discounted rates. The goal is to allow the firms to relend the money to small businesses. Its been more than 24 hours since swiss Central Banks shocked the financial world. It abandoned its cap on the euro an were still learning about the fall out. Regulators around the world are looking for information about what happened and how some retail brokerages entered insolvency. It says the volatility left it with a negative equity balance and its trying to sure up its capi...

Great issues forum has brought the campus noted thinkers. Elliot richardson, the former attorney general, known as a hero of watergate. David gergen, a retired associate justice of the Supreme Court sandra day oconnor. Tennis icon and humanitarian arthur ashe. Governor of new jersey and chairman of the 9 11 commission. So jack, you have got to live got a lot to live up to. Today i had the privilege of introducing our speaker jack rakove. An exceptional student and teacher of history, a Pulitzer ...

Caller im with the people that think we should not be involved in another war in the middle east. Troops for us to send in when we have the iraqis saying that unless we send our people in to die for them, they are going to put their weapons down and not fight. We do not belong being the police of the world. If these people dont want to stand up and protect their own selves in that area of the world, we should not be doing it for them. Host thanks for the call. Harold from illinois. Good morning....

Like white whose are like i already know about all this. I took ethnic studies. I read all the articles. We dont need to talk about this. So theres no conversation. The thing that is pop into my head immediately and based on no study. Shift the category. Would this person say that about North Carolina versus South Carolina . Would they say this about scandinavia versus norway . Would they say this about baseball versus hockey like theres you can know one thing and somehow make it present to them...

Los angeles this morning with a full wrap. Breaking bad. Breaking bad going out on top with an emmy award for best drama. All the shows major stars taking home awards including brian cranston, aaron paul and anna gunn. They won best supporting acting honors. Reporter and breaking bads star who won best honors for the second Straight Year and for a fourth time overall. I can only say that i have gratitude for everything that has happened. The one major drama breaking bad didnt get went to juliana...

Luxury apartment complex with 17 5 units. Floors collapsing one after another. Inside a fourstory building. Making matters worse, the gas was still on. On the ground, this is what people heard, sirens wailing as more than 300 were evacuated. The scene was so bad that the mayor was declaring a local state of emergency. Schools are closed today with limited access to nearby roads. The fire has people in disbelief. When the Fire Fighters got nervous and started running, i knew it was worse than we ...

Differently than any program in dbis history. We are tracking data so differently so well have analytics weve never had before for a seismic retro fit program. Were going to be able to see where they were in every single part of this process and dbi updates this live on a website on a weekly basis so theres a lot of effort going into this program to provide transparency. I think the communication the dbi has done with the public has been fantastic as well. All these Property Owners have received...

Victoria [inaudible] in january and i know victorias working with mayor quan to institute a similar ordinance in oakland by the end of the year. Just wanted to provide an update on that. To the agenda items this ordinance was before the commission before several months ago. At that time we had recommendation from the working group to evaluate all these buildings, evaluation only within three years. None of that has changed. There have been significant changes to the ordinance in working with the...

Folks. These are people out of the gate looking to do this. No one is looking to have their building retro fitted at this point. If we get a nice flow going this is a great alternative Financing Mechanism for property owners. Oakland has since appointed my counter part over there, victoria [inaudible] in january and i know victorias working with mayor quan to institute a similar ordinance in oakland by the end of the year. Just wanted to provide an update on that. To the agenda items this ordina...