The good cause behind the laughs today, friday, october 18th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Maria Shriver along side Natalie Morales and al roker. Wow. I dont want to sit next to natalie because everybody says he looks like a young version of me. I want to sit next to al. Were sisters. No, were not sisters. Shes a young version. We have done digging. We looked at the last time to see when the last time was you cohosted the today show. Did i look like natalie. Do you know what the top song was . Night song. Carter was in the white house. That was 1998. So welcome back. Thank you. Were thrilled to have you. First lets get to our top story. We have a lot going on. Tonights top story is a man hunt for two dangerous inmates released from prison. Mark potter in orlando. Good morning. Reporter good rning, maria. Phony papers w
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
I do not believe that usaids action that were quoted to promote quote democratic societies that are able to realize their potential are in anyway a bad idea. I believe it is what the people of cuba, iran, burma, north korea and other nations need to help communicate with each other and help them achieve usaids stated mission of a quote free, peace full and self Reliant Society with an effective government. I commend you for giving people a less controlled platform to talk to each other, for helping them find a way to connect and share views. Global Internet Freedom programs and use broadcasting for support were human rights activist are components for our longstanding efforts to promote democracy over states. For 50 years, the United States has had an unwavering commit to provide free information around the world. Our work in cuba is no different than promoting this in ukraine, iran, russia, china or north korea. It should be noted there is 76 million set aside to promote global Intern
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
This is a human tragedy and honestly one of the fastest expensive and so we would urge you to work on that. Finally, i would like to make my last 24 seconds recognizing this through. Last sunday on 60 minutes, there was a feature on a clinic called the health wagon in west virginia. It all started back in the 1980s by a sister who in an old vw would travel around and provide medical services. There was a certain governor early in the decade actually included this program in the state budget and she has served six counties and my folks and assistive 11,000 folks in an area that is dramatically affected by poverty. The grants are very important and i would commend this remarkable story documented for every dollar of the federal money, we get a hundred dollars rack of health care services. Thank you, mr. Chairman and thank you, secretary sebelius. I would like to echo the senators comments. I also was absent when senators have now brought this up. But it bears repeating that we have made