Attention. Ask the mayors that are in the room to please be seated and at the table. Others please feel free to sit in chairs along the wall. Were going to go ahead and get started so we can make an attempt to stay on schedule. Welcome, everyone, wish you good morning to the special climate secti section. The staff gave it the title. Todays leadership confronting tomorrows challenges. Ill talk more about that soon. I am jim brainard. Im the mayor of carmel, indiana, and cochair of the Energy Independence and Climate Protection Task force. I want to introduce my colleague and fellow cochair, san jose mayor sam liccardo in just a few moments. Let me ask all the mayors who are present here this morning to introduce yourselves that are speakers and others will know who is participating. Start with greg stanton. Good morning. Im greg stanton, mayor of phoenix, i chair the mayors Conference Energy committee. Good morning. My name is Javier Gonzalez. Im the mayor of the city of santa fe, and
Let me have your attention. I asked the mayors that are in the room to please be seated at the table, and others please feel free to sit along the wall. We are going to go ahead and get started, so that we may make an attempt to get ahead of schedule. I wish you good morning to this special climate section special climate session. Todays leadership confronting tomorrows challenges. I will talk more about that soon. I am jim brainard. Carmel, mayor of indiana, and cochair of the Energy Independence in Climate Protection Task force. Colleague,oduce my san jose mayor sam mcardle. Let me ask all of the mayors present here to introduce yourselves, so that speakers and others will know who is participating. Start with greg stanton. Good morning. Im the mayor of phoenix, and chairman of the Energy Committee. Good morning. I am hobbie r gonzales, mayor of the city of santa fe. Javier gonzalez, mayor of the city of santa fe. Good morning. I am david miller. I am former mayor of the city of toro
This is 40 minutes. [applause] [applause] is my pleasure to be able to introduce to you his excellency, the governor of the commonwealth, charles baker. [applause] gov. Baker thank you. [applause] gov. Baker thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you all for being with us tonight. Thank you. It is nice to have you with us. Thank you for being here. Mr. Speaker, madam president. Members of the house and senate. Congressman neal. Thank you for joining us. Fellow constitutional officers, members of the governors counsel, mr. Chief justice, welcome. Members of the judiciary, members of the cabinet in my administration, sheriffs, district attorneys, mayors, local officials, reverend clergy, distinguished guests. Members of my family that are here this evening. [applause] gov. Baker our children, char lie, excuse me, he is the naughty one, aj, caroline, and my wife. And an outstanding and committed first lady. [applause] gov. Baker and my fellow citizens. When we when we began mr. Romney thre
Heavy crowding on the systems busiest line. Chopper four is en route to the red line to give images of this for now, we can tell you, if metro says if you need to reach the begin brook or white flynn stations you have to use an outbound train from d. C. Toward Montgomery County. The inbound trains will be passing the stations to reduce delays. This appears to be connected to a track problem outside grover in metro has been working on since this morning. Two men are facing charges for shooting a man inside a metro garage. Douglas chase and Brent Sanderson are accused of killing a man by the name of eric melgar inside the Wheaton Metro station garage. It happened yesterday evening before the sun set. No word yet on a possible motive in that shooting. Another development in the birthday cake beating. The mother and uncle are held without bail. The uncle handcuffed his nephew to a chair so the moms boyfriend could beat him unconscious. Jack garcia was only 9 years old and died from that be
For it. Why would you need to a doctor you highway have Hilton Corporation put off that they are adopting it would we are paying tons of tax on it and were getting nothing for our tax money . It seems like it or try to get us out of our course and getting people to ride on Transportation Systems that do not go anywhere near our work. This is all it seems like it is. Were going to prices on the price us out of being in our car. I think this gentleman will be the first one to ride a bicycle to work. Guest it goes back to that notion of accountability. The state departments transportation, we want to be accountable for those resources. We want users to have a choice and have an opportunity to influence with those investments are going to take place. I understand the frustration but i think you would find this is a program that is trying to be more efficient, more effective, deliver appropriate services to the American Public. Host but right talking about the american cessation of highway