well, you can t track the dollars one by one, but we do know that they spent $62 million more on management incentive bonuses than they had forecasted in 20082009. pg&e is looking for another rate hike to replace the pipe in 2013. here s the utility s ponce. in this case, pg&e identified this as being a high priority project in its 2008 gas transmission rate case filing. subsequent to that, they performed a direct assessment in 2008, and based on the updated assessment and the assurance it provided us, we rescheduled the project accordingly. pg&e spent more on the gas transmission capital program than authorized for the years 2008-2009.
it says, quote, pg&e is committed to performing the work necessary to assure the safety of its gas transmission system. accordingly, pg&e is constantly prioritizing its projects using the most recent up to date information available, in this particular case, pg&e did identify this line section as being a high priority project in its 2008 gas transmission rate case filing. subsequent to that filing, pg&e performed an external corrosion direct assessment in 2009 and based on the updated assessment and the assurance it provided us, we rescheduled the project accordingly. pg&e spent more than authorized for the period 2008 to 2009. about so the bottom line here with the statement is they re not denying the basic facts of the story they re just saying they looked at their priorities and determined they shifted from 2008 to 2009. dan, appreciate the reporting. let s dig deeper now with mark toney of t.u.r.n. the utility reform work and
reporter: they provided with us a statement an i ll read it. it says, quote, pg&e is committed to performing the work necessary. accordingly, we re constantly prioritizing the projects using the most recent, up to date information available. in this particular, they did identify the line section as being a high priority project in the 2008 gas transmission rate case filing. subsequent to that filing, they performed an external kroegs direct assessment in 2009 and based on that updated assessment and the assurance it provided us, we rescheduled the project accordingly. they spent more on the gas transmission capital program than authorized for the period 2008 to 2009. so they re not denying the basic facts of the story but just saying it rescheduled things based upon priorities. back to you. all right. dan simon in san bruno, thanks. pope benedict with the royal treatment on the arrival in
against identify. what they don t do in the reports is give the name of the informant. they assign informants symbol numbers, a symbol is the acronym of the field office in this case me and 338 and r was a racial informant so if you obtained a fbi report, you wouldn t know the source of the information. ironically, in this case, if fbi inadvertent gave name and informant number and identified him. pretty fascinating revolution. appreciate your joining us and talking to us about this. thank you. good talking with you. like wise. still ahead, the latest news across the political ticker. embracing gay republicans. why one gop leader ignoring conservative critics and reaching out to a growing force within the party. my car and you ll take care of everything?
detectives right into the heart of america s military power. child porn downloaded at the pentagon. defense department stopped looking into the case but now the investigation is back on. barbara starr has the latest. why are they looking into it once again? reporter: kyra, according to pentagon officials, what happened was this all came up several years ago and sort have been shuffled aside, if you will. some investigations had been stopped, officials say, simply because they lacked the resources to keep looking into all of this. this was project flicker, part of a child pornography investigation begun by federal authorities many years ago. they are going to reopen, look at about 264 cases one more time to make sure that there s been appropriate disposition of them. if they have to reopen a full-fledged criminal investigation, officials say, they will do that. if they find evidence, and it is