meanwhile, it's the administration looking for ways to jump-start the economy and a new reuters poll shows 68% of americans believes lowering taxes will create jobs in the country and 68% say reducing the deficit will help. >>> president obama heads to new york this afternoon to speak at a development summit at the united nations. tomorrow he'll speak to the general assembly where administration officials say he'll walk a fine line on iran in a broad-based foreign policy speech. yesterday, iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad warned an attack on his country's nuclear facilities would spark a war that would "know no limits" and also weighed in on capitalism saying it's on the verge of death and that it's time for a new economic system and he is just getting going. he speaks at the general assembly tomorrow. >>> eight city officials of the blue collar suburb of bell, california, are scheduled to be arraigned in court today after being arrested yesterday. the mayor, the ex-city manager and six current and former officials were charged with misappropriating more than $5.5 million in pub

what is the administration's looking at? would you fight that? guest: we do not have oversight authority over market consolidation. i think that some of may make sense. there may be companies or books of business that will have to shift as we move toward a state- based exchanges, the new marketplace that will be up and running by 2014. it is always a concern that monopolies are difficult to negotiate with, and what we see around a country already is that, in many places, there is only one company or at best two, but typically one company where people do not have any option other than to pay whatever is charged. that is why i think the new market, the 2014 market, the state as a base exchange, with companies to have to compete will be helpful to consumers. not only will they have more negotiating power, they will be in bigger pools, they will have the same choices that members of congress have. but companies will have to compete and that produces a much better deal. that is much more effective than heavy-handed regulation. in too many places, it d

divergence between what was enacted and what was, you know.... >> charlie: dired desired by the administration. >> look, in any piece of legislation there's always going to be some give and take and some things that were done that were actually... by and large it was in line with what the administration itself had come up with. >> charlie: therefore all those people who want to say the failure of this administration is they let the congress write a stimulus program they didn't like is not true. not true. you've got the stimulus program essentially you wanted. >> yes now the caveat. >> charlie: large because of the political realities. >> the caveat is even in internal workings to come up with the desired proposals, there was some recognition of what was feasible legislatively. in other words, so it wasn't just let's just come up with the perfect ideal optimal thing. it was here is a proposal we could live with that we think could pass. >> charlie: you haven't had a lot of time to think about this i don't think, i doubt. but if you could rewrite the stimulus program today-- today-- and that's... would y

. >> tucker: the obama administration looked for other ways to achieve school reform. one, national state competition called race to the top. 4.35 billion dollars money from last year's economic stimulus plan is now up for grabs. >> the president: we didn't just hand this money out to states that wanted it. we challenged them to compete for it. >> they said you must remove your limits on charter schools. and you must remove any restriction that prevents you from judging teachers by test scores. so, states are changing their laws to comply with the administration's requirements. >> alaska has chosen not to participate in president obama's race to the top. because we believe more local control of curriculum and of standards is most beneficial. we know better than bureaucrats in washington, d.c. what will benefit our students. >> tucker: the education department's website describes race to the top as an effort to reshape america's education system. >> our students today have to be lifelong learners. we have to instill a will have of learning that will go beyond even colle

. >> owe barometer ma administration looked for other ways to achieve school forum.ne is a national state competition called race to the top. $4.35 billion of money from last year's economic stimulus man is now up for grabs. >> we didn't just hand this money out to states that wanted it. we challenged them to compete for it. >> they said you must remove your limits on charter schools and you must remove any restriction by judging people from test scores. states are changing their laws to comply with the administration's requirements. >> alaska has chosen not to participate in the race to the top because they believe more control of curriculum and standards is most beneficial. we know better than the bure ra kratz in washington, d.c. what will benefit our stew dense. >> the own web site describes race to the top as an effort to quote dramatically reshape america's educational system. >> our students have to be lifelong learners and we have to instill a lifelong of learning. >> in march tennessee and dell wear were announced the phase one winners of race to the top. bo

. >> the food and drug administration is looking into whether to approve the genetically-engineered salmon. the fish reached maturity within 17 months rather than 30 months. a panel of experts gathered to discuss safety concerns, one being what would happen if the genetically-engineered fish were to escape pens and mix with regular salmon. they say the accurate ability won't be found out for several weeks. that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. would you have any concerns about bringing genetically-engineered fish to your dinner table? to consume! [laughter] email your response to us at watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> not to dine with. to eat. >> just to look at, right? all right. the time now 5:37. 52 degrees on tv hill. coming up, a link is found between a metal found in water and your child's i.q. >> and getting a flu shot early may do more than just protect you from the flu in our "medical alert." >> we'll update you on a traffic >> welcome back. your time is 40 minutes after 5:00. that's a beautiful picture downtown. 61 degrees at the maryland science center. it's warmer d

political dynamic to it than ones in the past, and that too adds to this tension because the administration says look at what we're protecting you against. look, we're stepping in the middle of this very explosive situation. corporate america sees it a different way and says you're exacerbating. what have you. the point is given that the drama over popular anger hat wall street and ceos, that relationship was always going to be a bit frosty. >> charlie: i don't understand. are you saying or do you believe that the reason the administration and the president did not hire some ceo and sit him outside the oval office-- or her-- is because they didn't believe the country wanted to see them cozy up to either wall street or.... >> look, i don't know. >> charlie: why haven't they done it? >> i think one of the issues is during the midst of a very intense situation and making personnel changes is often difficult in that kind of setting. there may well be an opportunity given, you know, the normal turnover in staff to make this kind of decision should the administration choose to. >> charlie: you know how it

the board of education needs to redirect the administration to look at the way the money is spent.look at whether or not you need to spend money on nua tonight, or would it be better to put that money back in the schools? look at what you are dealing with. it is the lives of children you are dealing with. thank you. [applause] >> my name is kim. i am representing monroe elementary school. my son currently attends the fourth grade there. there commissioner and superintendent, this is one of the few chinese bilingual programs in the school district that offers a kindergarten curriculum. it has become a model for the english learner support services with the chinese english by literacy pathway under the larurue plan. however, the middle school has not been a middle school for many of our students. apart from low overall student achievement, it does not currently have a chinese bilingual program. implementing the feeder pattern plan without consideration for incoming students leads to an inadequacy in the planning. you will cut short our students aspiration to continue their chinese ed

that was the first political-- and general petraeus deserves a lot of credit and the last administration. look, there's no question we had serious disagreement with the way this war began , the way it was initially conducted. and that's-- that's-- that's just the fact. but the truth of the matter is, everyone from the beginning said-- including the members of the last defense department-- said that, look, the only solution is a political solution. and that political solution did not really begin until the sons of iraq , the sunnis, were pulled away from -- >> al qaeda. >> al qaeda. and so-- but, again, i think litigating all this, it's time to just move on. first of all, -- >> reporter: but you aren't acknowledging that the surge made this possible. >> look, i said at the time, i didn't have any doubt at all that the surge met its military objective, but that would be hollow absent a fundamental change in the political dynamic here. up to that point, the administration is saying they want a very strong government in baghdad . they were going to have this centralized and tight , when, in fact,

currently the city administrator is looking at other funding sources and how we might distribute our current budget so that we can have the program secure permanent funding. and then the language translation interpreter services, which were added to the fiscal year 2010-2011 budget, we anticipate that we will be up and running to provide translation and interpreter services for crisis emergency situations, fire, disaster, etc.. my office does manage the master contract for the city. our goal is not only to help city departments stay in compliance with local, state, and federal language access laws, but to provide resources and tools to serve our residents in the manner in which they should be served. i would like to make note that on the community ambassador program, 38% of our interaction with city residents, to date the ambassadors have been up and running for six to seven weeks. we have interacted with over 3500 residents in the southeast sector. 38% of the interaction takes place in a language other than english. it could be any one of the seven languages that we provide, but i w

. >> have they reached out to your community at all, as the administration looks for this, is there athe highway? >> we have had meetings with the fbi but not the -- we have stake holders who are very concerned about these issues, the fbi has made many mistakes, there was just an inspector general report about unwarranted spying released today in the "new york times" commented on it. so the fbi isn't a perfect place, they're made up of human beings and they need to be made accountable by interest groups by congress, so that we can be protected. >> it's a fascinating debate, we'll continue it on another day. and when we come back, we'll continue the conversation with some of our reporters and analysts. and some words from the loser in that delaware republican senate primary, we don't want to miss what he had to say. cards promising 25,000 miles a flight only to be told... there's nothing for 25. but they will let me give you the same seat for a big miles upcharge. how's that sound? for that many miles we'll be stuck taking a "staycation." [ imitates engine revving ] [ angie ] i'm throu

currently the city administrator is looking at other funding sources and how we might distribute our current budget so that we can have the program secure permanent funding. and then the language translation interpreter services, which were added to the fiscal year 2010-2011 budget, we anticipate that we will be up and running to provide translation and interpreter services for crisis emergency situations, fire, disaster, etc.. my office does manage the master contract for the city. our goal is not only to help city departments stay in compliance with local, state, and federal language access laws, but to provide resources and

and others the fenty administration is looking for work today. >> reporter: pulling up the resume file. it's being seen in every corner of the d.c. government office buildings today. the fenty team is out and the gray team will be in at the end of the year. >> is much work getting done? >> no. i think the shock is just settle for people. >> reporter: and inside the bullpen there appeared to be absences. people getting away for leave, a result of the six or seven- day workweek. >> we work at the pleasure of the mayor. >> reporter: the mayor said he doesn't know if he'll return to the practice of law. debbie brazil asking about what might go on behind the scenes? >> contracts going out the door. this was in the works but now -- >> taking care of that. >> and some shredding machines working full time. >> reporter: the chief of staff said the mayor met with his cabinet today. the first meeting since his defeat in the democratic primary last tuesday. >> he told everyone how thankful and proud he was and that we all leave with no regrets, that we did a lot of really amazing things here. >> r

ongoing process of multiple levels from the client to clinician to the supervisor and to the administrators who look maybe i need to do more education to let people know there is more effective treatment for this particular problem. we need to make this much more of a practice and make this a policy when you have this diagnosis, you need to make a psychiatric appointment. so that's the utility of using that data to help us. supervisor dufty: what would you say are you most happy about over the time when you were here last and till now, what would you say is the best that's happened and given that you have got an audience of school board members as well as supervisors, is there any direction you would like to give us as policymakers as to where you really think we need to do more work in setting policy or trying to encourage more success in terms of serving the students? >> i think it's key, i went to a school board meeting two nights ago and hear about some of the new direction that the special education, the team is recommending and there is a lot of emphasis on using data to guide decision-making.

the state highway administration is looking into those complaints. the memorial is growing where joey was struck and killed friday night. a driver him him as joey was crossing the road. neighbors and friends continue to leave heartfelt messages for the 14-year-old who was well liked by many and talented in so many ways. he loved the color blue, loved his number, 30, and loved to sing in his band. ♪ [ music ] >> joey was saved and he belongs there with god and all the angels. like i said, he's not of this world. he's too good for here. >> now police say right now there are no plans to charge the driver. the first of two viewings for joey will be held later today. they are expecting a large turnout from 6:00 until 9:00 tonight. then again tomorrow from 10:00 until noon. the funeral will follow. in the studio, linda so, abc2 news. >>> one minute after 5:00. city police have an investigation on their hands after three men were shot in south baltimore. it all happened around 7:40 last night in the 4100 block of 10th street. officers found three men who we

the state highway administration is looking into those complaints. the memorial is growing where joey was struck and killed him friday night. friends, former teammates, neighbors, continue to leave heartfelt messages for the 14- year-old who was well liked by many and talented in so many ways. he loved the color blue, he loved his number 30, and he loved to sing in his band. ♪ [ music ] >> joey was saved and he belongs there with god, with all the angels. he's not of this world. he is too good for here. >> now police say right now, there are no plans to charge the driver. the first of two viewings for joey will be held later today. they are expecting a large turnout from 6:00 until 9:00 tonight. then again tomorrow from 10:00 a.m. until noon. the funeral will follow. in the studio, linda so, abc2 news. >> a man and a woman were found shot in the corner of homewood in north baltimore. their conditions were not immediately known, but homicide detectives have been notified. 6:03. >>> city police are investigating after three men were shot. it happened a

. >> the state highway administration is looking into whether the pedestrian lights were working when joey tried to make it across route 25. he lived just 14 years but he clearly touched hundreds of lives. >> reporter: stopping by the growing memorial reality sets in, the young friends of joey deion treymont are facing going on without him. friends, former teammates, neighbors, so many people continue to leave notes, like this one, you were more angel than human and god wants his angels in heaven. his uncle says the family is leaning on their face. >> god is the giver and tear of life and he had something he wanted to do with this and -- >> he was trying to cost route 25 red pump rode friday night, investigators say he was crossing against the lights, the 19-year-old driver hit him and he died at the hospital. the pe december try an lights are on now but the state police received a number of complaints that they weren't working on friday. the state highway demonstration is investigating. >> as soon as i heard it it was like my legs went like number because it was just such a shock bec

appointing a corporate ceo and someone to make the business community feel comfortable with the administration to look though the administration is more pro-business. the left leaning part of the base wants someone progressive, like the economic professor from the university of texas at austin. my guess is we will actually see a political insider, or we'll see a corporate ceo. i don't think it makes the base happier and i don't think it will affect the election. >> uma: you don't think it will be a progressive at this point? >> i don't think so. i think most of the progressives will vote for the democrats regardless of who is in the position of the economic council and what the administration needs is to get people in the middle, get the independent and swing voters who are likely to be swayed by someone like a progressive, a well-established moderate political type or someone from the corporate world to give pro-business window dressing to the administration. >> uma: we have heard from some sources that say the president doesn't like to work with the new people on the team. you point to the fact it w

. >> yes, i was on the defense administration board. we lookedt. >> so congress is clawing at the budget of pentagon. >> absolutely. >> john, you know where you get the money? >> you have 701 ,000 foreign bases. american troops are going to start coming home from korea and northern europe and quite frankly because we can't afford it and the other cost is these two wars we've got going. and eventually, this whole thing has come down. >> the iraq war is winding down. secondly, afghanistan has a terminal date on it. this flows into a patent with no time to do it. >> i think they ought to do it. >> the money that fuels the empire is not coming down. secretary gates has taken some bold stands here, trying to chip away at the gold plated military culture and some of these weapon systems that have -- are very expensive and have no relation to modern warfare, but dwight eisenhower that had credibility than the defense secretary. eisenhower couldn't tame the military in >>> the mclaughlin group is somewhere in america, there's a doctor who can peer into t

however, they looked into other ways to minimize the administrative burdens. they are also looking at a daily cap, falt fee. -- flat fee. as i mentioned, the northeast corridor appears to be the best performer with the greatest benefits. he was in packs. however, if there was a decision to move ahead with a more measured approach, we did look into a couple of others and there that could be considered pilots. the first half looks at the northeast corridor but focuses only on the pm and outbound direction. people going to the theaters, and different shops during the day. another approach would be to look at the southern good way. this is due to feedback on the geographic equity situation. again, we would need to do some form of management in the downtown area. we can look at parking advances to improve current strategies, based on their belly widgeons, moving forward. how the next slide to compare the scenarios. how they perform in terms of their financial perspective, congestion management perspective. we anticipate we can reduce peak activity between 12% and 15

the state highway administration is now looking into those complaints. memorial is growing where joey was struck and killed friday night. police say it was the driver that hit him when he was crossing. friends, former teammates, neighbors continue to leave heartfelt messages for the 14- year-old who was well liked by so many and talented in so many ways. he loved the color blue, loved his number 30, and loved to sing in his band. ♪ [ music ] >> as soon as i heard it, it's like my legs went numb. it was just such a shock because such a great kid. >> now right now, police say there are no plans to charge the driver. the first of two viewings for joey will be held later today. they are expecting a large turnout at mountain christian church from 6:00 until 9:00. then again tomorrow from 10:00 until noon. the funeral will follow. in the studio, linda so, abc2 news. >> andy muller, the assistant line coach is facing drunk driving charges. state police arrested the coach after pulling him over for speeding on the beltway on saturday. his attorney says he is goi

if you understand, do not look at this administration with these eyes. at everything they do with these eyes. does this make sense in if you read the news, nothing makes sense if you look at it with this. use this framework. things don't make sense. one quick one. the b.p. oil spill. obama was quick to put moratorium on drilling for oil in the gulf. at the time we explain even if you temporarily banned oil in the gulf, it would be devastating for jobs. judge ruled against the ban. obama just went around it. well, the ban resulted in at least 23,000 jobs being lost in the region as a result. so it was horrible for the economy. if you look at it through this eye, that doesn't make any sense. but he took it a step forward. the next thing he did was say we have to cap and seal 3,500 u.s. wells in the gulf. what this means is you permanently plug those wells. anything unused in the last five years has to be shut down and permanently sealed. well, anybody who know anything about the oil companies know they routinely seal the well and go back to get more oil. e

. >> yes, i was on the defense administration board. we lookedt the management board. >> under ru feld? >> the politics are difficult because every base, extra base, we make our own glasses. >> you mean the states phi in? >> the congressman and senator. you can't afford it. there are extra military equipment that we don't need that is forced upon us by the states where they manufacture it. >> so congress is clawing at the budget of pentagon. >> absolutely. >> john, you know where you get the money? >> you have 701 ,000 foreign bases. american troops are going to start coming home from korea and northern europe and quite frankly because we can't afford it and the other cost is these two wars we've got going. and eventually, this whole thing has come down. >> the iraq war is winding down. secondly, afghanistan has a terminal date on it. this flows into a patent with no time to do it. >> i think they ought to do it. >> the money that fuels the empire is not coming down. secretary gates has taken some bold stands here, trying to chip away at the gold

the state highway administration is now looking into those complaints. the memorial is growing where joey was struck and killed friday night. police say a driver hit him as joey was crossing against the light at route 24 and red pump road. friends, former teammates continue to leave heartfelt messages for the 14-year-old who was well liked by many and talented in so many ways. he loved the color blue, loved his number 30 and loved to sing in his band. >> as soon as i heard it, it's like my legs went numb. it was such a shock, because such a great kid. >> now police say right now, there are no plans to charge the driver. the first of two viewings for joey will be held later today. they are expecting a large turnout at mountain christian church from 6:00 until 9:00 tonight. then again tomorrow from 10:00 a.m. until noon. the funeral will follow. >>> in the studio, linda so, abc2 news. >>> a man and woman were found on the shot on the corner. homicide detectives were notified. we'll keep you posted on this story. >>> city police are also investigating after

and you raised the issue of a previous administration. if you lookt all the money, all the debt that is acaccumulated from the time george washington began as president to the time george w. bush left the white house, this president has doubled that debt in 5 years, tripling it in ten when you look at his budget. that's irresponsible, it is unsustainable. and i think what we're seeing all across the country is people are worried that this is actually irreversible. and they're saying we need our country back. we have to rein this in because we can't continue spending each year where 41 cents of every dollar we spend this year is borrowed from china. >> we are over time. but let me ask you, handi cap what you think will happen with the tax and debate. >> i think you should never raise taxes at the time of a recession. and that's going to be i know my position and that of my colleagues. we'll see if senator reid brings it to the senate. he is the majority leader. he gets to decide what comes to the senate floor. but i think you shouldn't raise taxes on

i hope your current administration will look and learn from our mistakes.ing in america is good and everything in europe is bad. the about its -- the bits that are failing are the bits that you are copying. >> sean: that is what this president an advocating that is the road they've chosen. you discuss this in the book that president seemingly has made a conscious decision to go down that road. i am arguing, as a conservative the only way out is to change government. through the electoral process and get a more conservative government in place. do you agree as an outsider that would be in america and the world's best interests? >> the first and most obvious point to say about your country or mine we are deeply indebted. we are indebted and we are now -- we've both about pursuing the mcgarvey option of trying to inflate away our debt. until you get sanity and order back to your public finances, everything else is secondary. we turned the corner. we elected a government that has started reducing the deficit i think your founders, geniuses they were, knew what

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although those were all excellent economists and i think very highly of them, but the administration needs to look more towards the business community. they need to give an olive branch to the business community. and the position that larry held was more often held by business leaders, and first held by bob ruben in the clinton administration than economists. so putting a business leader in there would not only be a an olive branch to the business world saying they're being heard, but also to the republicans having somebody who can message and communicate more, and try to do more cooperation on policy, rather than the lines and the sand drawn by both policies up noo until now. >> susie: if it is a business person, will the president really listen to him? will it make a difference besides just symbolic. >> i think absolutely. he has business support, and some are really angry with him at this time. some is policy, and some is the economy. i think he would listen to them. and it would give a better voice from the economy in the government, and how they approach policy and how they deal with policy i