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It is 9 00, good morning. We are live from bloombergs European Headquarters in london. Man versus machine, hands net nichols gets behind the wheel to see if he can beat one of the fastest self driving cars out there. It is a great package. Look at that mans face. Calm, collected, cool. We get a taste of the worlds most expensive burger. The price is eye watering. To our top story. Shire shares tumbling today. Abbvie thinking about scrapping its acquisition of the company after the u. S. Announced changes to tax regulations which would make this deal less attractive. Matt campbell joins us now....

Coverage starts right now. This is ktvu mornings on 2. And good morning to you. Welcome to mornings on 2. Good morning. Lets get a quick look at the saturday forecast. Yes. Good morning. We have a fabulous weekend in store. The final weekend of spring, fathers day on the horizon. We have a view here over the oakland estuary, San Francisco in the backdrop. We have mostly sunny skies from the coast inland this morning. We will have a minor warm up come your way for the afternoon. The winds are on shore but very, very light. Fairfield in at eight miling an hour. No relief from the on shore breeze...

Statutory exemption, unlike a categorical exemption statutory exemption, if something fits into that exemption, then its exempt regardtionv of potential Environmental Impacts . Yes, absolutely. Ceqa itself, the state legislature determines or the guidelines determine that it that there are certain decisions that are simply statutorily exempt from ceqa . Thats correct, i would agree. Okay. Now, youve relied at least in part on you argued this statutory exemption cannot apply in part because it is a reduction in revenue, not an increase. As i read the statutory exemption, i read it differently. ...

Let me just give you some numbers here. So from we have had these new incentives in place since december of last year, and at this point 122 drivers have earn a total of almost 3500 worth of incentives in that short time. In terms of the credits towards their medallion down payment, 36 drivers have earned a total of almost 28,000. So that is real value for our drivers. Weve given out 270 airport shortpasses to 48 drivers. And we have had 36 drivers take advantage of the free ramp taxi Training Course at a cost of 80 per student. So they saved 80 there. Under our old incentive scheme, 173 drive...

Their medallion down payment, 36 drivers have earned a total of almost 28,000. So that is real value for our drivers. Weve given out 270 airport shortpasses to 48 drivers. And we have had 36 drivers take advantage of the free ramp taxi Training Course at a cost of 80 per student. So they saved 80 there. Under our old incentive scheme, 173 drivers these are ramp taxi drivers earn a total of 118,000 worth of incentives and that was from jan, 2011, to november, 2013. So the mta is really putting money into this service. This is an extremely valuable service. The entire taxi industry is important ...