belva: good evening. i m belva davis. welcome to this week in northern california. joining me on the news panel are michelle quinn, silicon valley reporter for politico and josh richman, political reporter for bay area news group. josh, we have been away from state politics for the last couple of weeks. now the governor is back at his desk with his pen signing bills. what are some of the things that have been signed? well, he has a tremendous number of bills to sign or veto before the end of the month. but the big news this week was clearly on wednesday in los angeles his signing of his pension, public pension reform bill. this is something that a lot of californians think is a longtime coming. probably just as many californians think is still not fully addressed. even the governor should tell us he does not believe this solves all of our unfunded liabilities going forward but it was the best deal he could get right now and he did not want to let the perfect be the enemy
captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman s fund belva: good evening. i m belva davis. welcome to this week in northern california. joining me on the news panel are michelle quinn, silicon valley reporter for politico and josh richman, political reporter for bay area news group. josh, we have been away from state politics for the last couple of weeks. now the governor is back at his desk with his pen signing bills. what are some of the things that have been signed? well, he has a tremendous number of bills to sign or veto before the end of the month. but the big news this week was clearly on wednesday in los angeles his signing of his pension, public pension reform bill. this is something that a lot of californians think is a longtime coming. probably just as many californians think is still not fully addressed. even the governor should tell us he does not believe this solves all of our unfunded liabilities going forward but it was the best deal he could get right now
will not talk about it, it is likely to be down for one to three months. it has had a huge impact on gas prices. as of early this morning, okay, the statewide average is $3.99 a gallon. that is up 16 cents from a week ago. san francisco is at $4.07 and san jose is up 14 cents. that s this morning. i drove by gas stations this morning with higher prices this afternoon. they can raise them throughout the day. as a result, we are seeing a price spike that is twice what we have seen last week in the entire country as it relates to other issues that may be involved in this, including a bit of this. we have a significant thing going on here. we don t know. a lot of the gas that is going to be higher prices in the gas stations, some of it is still in tanks waiting to be shipped. in a few days, we will see a huge spike in prices. how long do you think that will last? is this a short-term effect or long-term price increase? it will be significant this month. we are still in the su
gearing up for the world series series. we will have what you can expect on the bay. these boats are fast and light. the strong winds here in san francisco bring a higher risk level. coming up next. good evening. welcome to this week in northern california. i m yul kwon filling in for belva davis. we have tom vacar and josh richman and laura sydell with us. tom, the fire at the california refinery was absolutely enorm s enormous. what caused it? they know what caused it. a leak in an 8 inch pipe started to grow. whether you are brewing this fuel and this is a device that actually creates feed stock for gasoline and diesel. it is brewed at a temperature way in excess of its ignition point. once it makes contact with the air, it smells air and says time to burn. it started burning and burning. what happened was, it got worse and worse and worse and it incinerated the facility to the point where although chevron will not talk about it, it is likely to be down for one t
josh richman, political reporter for bay area news group and lauren sommer. kqed quest source. lauren, is this a new idea? this is not a new idea. what the governor proposed was a major water infrastructure project for the sacramento and san juaquin delta. it is not that far off what he proposed. since then, the water battles have been going. the reason for that is the delta is hugely important to the california water supply. water from there goes hundreds of miles in the state. it goes to southern california, it goes to silicon valley, and it goes to central valley farms. what happened in the last ten years is a major ecological crash in the delta. endangered salmon. the biologists point to the water. they are powerful. they reverse the flow of the river. what has happened is there are rules in place to slow the pumping during certain times of year. that has not been a popular decision, obviously, with farmers in the state. there has been lawsuits. now the governor is prop