America should pay for infrastructure, not just gas. That is not right. Everybody benefits from it. Guest this is an interesting question. The federal gas tax was put in place as something of a surrogate for a toll or user fee. It was decided that was going to be the fairest way. All of this available on cspan. Org, washington journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern every day. We now go to the washington ali Washington Institute for near east policy. Story we would be focusing on would be the story, the story of protests, the mystic unrest domestic unrest , the biggest demonstrations we have seen since 2009. Whatever one expected to be talking about this week and next week was the question of sanctions waivers, a,certification of the gcpo and efforts of congress to annul the legislation. That is all still in play, but now it has been cast in a different light by what is happening inside iran. We have convened a panel of our experts to discuss this issue. The protest the protests in iran and
Overflowing. The amount of water weve received, is 196 above average. Reporter drought watchers declared that 40 of california including the bay area is no longer in the drought. Its a dangerous and premature assessment. But this professor at st. Marys college says the crodrou is fair fromover. Here is an analogy. Reporter she says our groundwater levels are still dangerously low. Until we can replenish this, which will take decades, were not going have a healthy robust supply. Reporter thats why clair says shell continue to pay the price to continue her droughtfree landscape. Im not going to add it up. I know it will be worth it. Reporter it remains in place until Governor Brown decides to lift it, but, of course, with all of this water, were certainly heading in the right direction. Reporting live in lafayette, im elyce kirchner. Thank you, elilyselyse elyce. Jeff, where are you at in the drought . There have been water fines imposed. In some cases they have not used that much water
Rising from what used to be that structure there. And very, very busy wednesday morning to you. Thanks for joining us here on the 9. Sal castaneda, mike mibach. A lot of people who were driving by in the early hours of the fire so they could feel the heat coming from that massive fire. Kow see it. I get to work very early in the morning and i was driving on interstate 880 and you could see a glow from the sky. Everyone in the east bay was able to see it. It you could see flames. The battle for those firefighters, tip your cap to them for containing that area. No one hurt. It was a sixalarm fire that is now fully contained that happened at a residential building under construction near emeryville. Its happening just a block or twoway away from the home depot shopping center. We have been on this breaking news through mornings on 2 since we first went on the air at 4 a. M. Dozens of firefighters and 25 fire engines have been on the scene trying to put the flames out. The big picture on t
Candidates and talk to n. P. R. s mara liasson about the big money the campaigns are investing in battleground state brown then, speaking of big money, paat solman walks us through those trillions of dollars spent by the u. S. Government each year. N reporter what you might not know about the federal deficit. A guided tour in and around washington, d. C. With the wall street journals david wesson. Woodruff we have another in our series of topics not being talked about in the campaign. Tonights missinissue is europes debt crisis. Brown an ancient and historic city at risk in a modernday civil war. Is we look at the destruction in aleppo, syria. This is one of the great tragedies. Aleppos an extraordinary cross roads of cultures, religions, all built on aro strata of centuries of t woodruff and ray suarez has the story of a 19th century recording made on tinfoil by thomas edison, digitally converted so we can hear it. Brown ths all ahead on tonights newshour. s major funding for the pbs