Practically with questions from our two guests. So, let me introduce them. Reid wilson is at the washington post. Hes the govbeat reporter. He is following policy details with the states and federal government. James hohmann is at politico, and hes a political reporter there. Were going to start with reid wilson. Reid well, governor, lets talk about federalism for a second. A huge percentage of utah and most other western states are owned by the federal government. What challenge does that pose to you trying to govern a lot of land you do not have control over . Gov. Herbert well, you can appreciate how it would be if someone was telling you how to manage your backyard, sometimes you agree and sometimes you dont. We have the bureau of Land Management land in our state. Nearly 70 of the land mass is controlled or owned by the federal government. That is a lot. You know, it is designed to be multipleuse. We understand that concept with utah, there shouldnt be multiple use. Our farmers an
In russia, though, the benchmark micex index fell by more than 3 at the open. Right now, its down by just over 2. 3 . The u. S. Futures at this point are hanging in there. Theyre showing a slight rebound after yesterdays selloff in wall street. You saw that decline when the dow was down by 230 points. Also saw the s p and the nasdaq down significantly. We will have a deeper market discussion with our panel in just a few minutes, plus a live report from kiev. Secretary of state john kerry gets ready to meet with his russian counterpart in london. Coming up at the bottom of the hour, Michelle Caruso sa brar ra caught up with ukraines Prime Minister who was here. There was a question that he wouldnt answer. In fact, he walked away from the camera. Thats coming up at 6 30. About bitcoin . No, not just bitcoin. It wasnt whether he was the that was the guy that we pegged as the person that looked like no, that was not the question. Because andrew said the guy didnt look like the actual guy.
Digging actually channels along the river and widens the flow of the river. Can you give me an idea of just over the past 25 to 30 years of the budget dollars you have what has been the trend in maintenance spending and in environmental spending . Just in general figures or percentages . Well,ly answer by saying i dont know that i can give you that general percentage right off the bat. Theres always come back and get it, but certainly our civil emissions include our navigation, our hydropower from the energy perspective. We have aquatic ecosystem restoration. We have a Natural Resource Management Mission within our civil works that includes Environmental Stewardship recreation component as well. Our flood Risk Management and Flood Control definitely is a big component of our civil works mission. And then of course, we have our Regulatory Program as far as our service to the nation and the waters of the u. S. So our efforts are to balance those Mission Sites mission areas, as far as the
Another one right behind it. Checking around the bay area ive had reports of brief sprinkles up around santa rosa. Heres the system im tracking. Look where all the rain is, right. Theyre getting rain in eureka, in northern california. Were in the southern end of the dynamics which means light showers. If you come close on the radar you can see it spinning in santa rosa. Im getting some scattered reports of sprinkles up in this area. As this system spreads south these showers are going the move in just in time for the morning commute. Not much rain, as frank points out. Very light rain. Say up by golden gate park. Lots of drizzle but heres the deal. Morning commute is going to make for very slick roads. Heres the latest computer model, this sets up tonight at 2 00 a. M. And you see showers starting to move on shore. Lets move it forward to the very Early Morning commute and there you go. Wet, light scattered showers throughout the bay area. Whats the shower here . Major pattern shift. T
Host the author, the New York Times tech reporter nick bilton who joins us from San Francisco. Mr. Bilton, what was twitter supposed to be . Guest oh, thats the billion dollar question. Actually, the 25 billion question if you look at the ipo. You know, twitter was something that was different for everyone, you know . This was something that was started by four people that collectively were trying to build something that would, you know, communicate with each other, would connect them to their friends. But they all had different ideas of what it was. It was, the genesis of it, the real moment that it actually started was with who gentlemen, one was jack dorsey, and the other was noah glass, and they were two very Close Friends, and they worked at a Podcasting Company in early 2005, 2006. It was in San Francisco. And the pod Podcasting Company was failing, and noah and jack had been out drinking one night, and jack had had this idea that you could build something that would allow you to