State Senate to Vote on Brown's Plan to Increase Taxes to Fund Road Repairs, Transit

A $5.2 billion a year transportation plan unveiled last week by Governor Jerry Brown and state legislators will come up for a vote in the state Senate on Thursday. The plan, which will require a two-thirds majority vote in both houses, would raise funds through fuel taxes and vehicle fees. Critics of the bill say current funding should be better managed before raising taxes while environmentalists say the proposal doesn’t do enough to curb emissions from commercial trucking. We’ll discuss the latest attempt to fix California’s battered roads.