With continuing criticism surrounding the new eastern span of the bay bridge, caltrans said that it would address some of the doubts about the bolts and rods raised by critics. At a hearing this week the officials said the allege si is doing further testing and additional questions have been raised about misaligned road december conceptisepgs and poss joining me for a look at safety issues are the Sacramento Bee senior writer. And we have the San Francisco Chronicle Reporter and Brian Maroney, the chief bridge designer from caltrans joining us from sacramento. Let me begin. As you know, there have been a number of questions about the materials and the instructions for the bay bridge. How are you addressing these concerns . What were doing is were trying to go to extraordinary lengths to make sure we reach out to the public to communicate what weve actually done in the original planning stages where we reached out to the public following the n oechlt pa, the National Environmental polic
Good evening. Welcome to this week in Northern California. Joining me for insight and analysis of the news are julian guthrie, San Francisco chronicle reporter. Cara swisher, editor of all things digital. And kque education reporter. Its that time of the year when students go back to school. But for one top education official, its time to exit. University of california president mark uedoff leaves his post after five years on the job. Under his tenure the tencampus system saw tuition nearly double. But he also reformed ucs pension plan and expanded Financial Aid. This week reporting on the impending departure what do you think his legacy will be . I think it depends who you talk to. Thats the interesting part about him when is you talk to administrators, regents, students, some students, theyll say, you know, he really helped lowincome students get access to the uc system. If its called a blue and gold opportunity plan. And so basically, families that earned 80,000 and below, youve got
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