hoping to get a head start on their re-election campaigns, lawmaker necessary washington push through a slew of legislation from early adjournment yesterday. even the decision to adjourn was not without controversy. back on the home front, already angry constituents may be most frustrated with what congress didn't get done. tracie potts has more for us from washington. >> reporter: good morning, everyone. there was no decision on taxes, what to do about extending the bush tax cuts at the end of the year. democratic leaders had said they will not deal with that before the election. that's exactly what happened. but they barely got out of town without doing so in the house after a last-minute speech by republican leader john boehner that drew 39 democrats to his side. in the end, they agreed to adjourn without dealing with taxes by just one vote. but there was a flurry of activity before the house adjourned. they did approve several bills, including a stopp spending measure so the government can continue to function for another two months. the fiscal year ends tomorrow. they also approv

no problems if you want to take the boat out and get a head start on the chesapeake. the waves there only be one to two feet. 78 and 58 for your normals so we're generally in that range. couple degrees above the normal high. 56 is our average low, tonight and our suburbs will be between 55 and 58 degrees. but downtown as the typical in the low 60's. but mostly clear skies, great for friday night football and great for anything if you have plans outdoors. high pressure is going to build, going to hold steady throughout the weekend. another little front may get through here late sunday but going to be a dry front. with that said, we won't see any major prescription, probably no precipitation. but where it is active is in the tropics as igor is still packing winds. it's headed towards bermuda, land fall late monday night. but julia's right behind it with 85 mile-per-hour sustained winds and carl is currently hitting mexico. very active in the tropics, very quiet and gorgeous here. temperatures in the low 80's all weekend long with plenty of sun. >> thank you, sandra. esp

the children were involved in early education programs in the community, including daycares, head startbased programs. the high quality care showed particular improvement in boys and african-american children. formal daycare centers typically had more educated providers, and higher developmental qualities unlike many home centers that have smaller group sizes and lower child adult ratios. researchers say the study demonstrates the effects of proper child care on overall development in the early years, and they suggest policies be put in place for children of all socio economic levels. with this medical minute i'm dr. timothy johnson. >>> well if you think flying coach is tight we're going to tell you about some new seats that could make flying become really uncomfortable. that story coming up on abc 2 news at 5:30 which starts in just 2 minutes. . >>> tonight a mother makes an emotional plea for anyone to come forward with any information about the death of her son. good evening everyone i'm roosevelt leftwich. today mark the two-year anniversary of rudolph turner's death. he was killed

according to the the white house that means 200,000 kids kept out of head start. the fbi would cut 2700 agents and the government would detain thousands fewer illegal immigrants. >> for a guy that served on the head start board in my county for ten years i know that is not true. what i'm saying is discretionary spending. let's look at america the last three years. every household has had to cut back. we are saying find 8 cents out of every dollar. do you know what we spend money on? take for instance when you go into transportation increased. every person that buys a first-class ticket on amtrak for the sleeper car we subsidize that by $364. that is 1.28-dollar $1.28 bill. >> chris: the fact is if you are going do nondefense discretionary spending it is a 22% cut to cut $100 million. >> it has grown by 88% the last three years. it is not that difficult. >> chris: why is there not any specific cuts here? >> it goes down to -- >> chris: nonot for defense it doesn't. >> we show programs where are we show votes on the floor through you cut where we have gotten more th

according to the white house, that means 200,000 kids would be kept out of head start. the f.b.i. would cut 2700 agents. and the government would detain thousand fewer illegal immigrants. >> for a guy who served on head start board in my county for ten years, i know that is not true. i'm saying discretionary spending. look at what has happened across america for the last three years. every household has had to cut back. what has the discretionary spending done? it's increased by 88%. we're saying find eight cents out of every dollar. do you know what we spend money on? take for instance when you go into transportation that's increased. every person that buys a first class ticket on amtrak for the sleeper car, we subsidize that by $364. that's $1.2 billion saved if we decide that the american public shouldn't borrow 8 cents from every dollar to subsidize it. >> chris: that's $1 billion. how do you get the other $99 billion? the fact is, if you are going to do non-defense discretionary spending, it's a 22% cut to cut $100 billion. >> it's grown by 88% in the last three years. >> chr

cut across the board and according to the white house it means 200,000 kids would be kept out of head start, the fbi would cut 2700 agents, and,' government would detain thousands fewer illegal immigrants. >> look, for a guy that started on the head start board of my county for ten years i know that is not true. i'm saying it is discretionary spending and look at what happened across america the last three years, every household had to cut back and what is discretionary spending, it is in criticized 88 cents and we say find 8 cents out of every dollar and you know what we spend money on, for instance when you go into transportation, there is an increase, every person that buys a first class ticket on amtrak for the sleeper car, we subsidize that by $364. that is $1.2 billion saved. if we decide the american public shouldn't borrow 40 cents out of every dollar to subsidize that. >> chris: that is one billion dollars, how do you get the other 99 billion? the fact is, you a are going to do nondefense discretionary spending it is a 22% cut to cut $100 billion. >> we have grown 88% over the last

pedestrian head start intervals. red light camera program started those years. and it's been very successful. ideas such as more corner bulb outs and automobile pedestrian signals. we now have 54 and plan to go city-wide. recently we adopted a standard we feel will be the thing of the future in terms of signals in san francisco. they ever was a new standard for fluorescent yellow pedestrian crossing science and school crossing signs and we hired more crossing guards and put in more cross walks at schools and had the idea and these are all from the notes at the last pedestrian summit by the way, lighted cross walks were talked about and we have experimented with them and found some technical difficulties and hopefully that will improve to be maintained. that's problem with installations we've done. speed bumps were talked about and that was dormant for years but it has been revived. traffic calming program has been revitalized since passing of prop-k that has begun to provide funding for that. there are some ideas i wanted to call your attention to. speed radar s

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will they give your kid a head start or should you save your money? >>> temperatures cooling off to a number of upper 50s, maybe even a few low au50s. only 63. and yes, we are tracking showers in your forecast. details in minutes. >>> the ballpark went silent tonight. we'll show you how the giants reached out to the victims of the sano explosion. we'll see you in a few minutes. barbara boxer. she fought to get our veterans the first full combat carecalifornia. her after school law's keeping a million kids off the street and out of gangs. and she's fighting every day to create new jobs. boxer: i'm working to make california the leader in clean energy, to jump-start our small businesses with tax credits and loans, to create thousands more california jobs. i'm barbara boxer and i approve this message because i want to see the words "made in america" again. >>> free at last. uc berkeley grads in the next few hours after being freed from an iranian prison. her release touches off a 14-month ordeal when she, josh ovttal and shane bauer stepped er the border

by peppering a little bit in, as we get going, we're going to give these plants a real head start. and before we know it, we're going to have ourselves a cornucopia of vegetables and flowers. getting something like this in your yard is easier than you think. let's get gardening. >> that concludes today's tour of the best of "@alifornia country." join us next time for more undiscovered treasures from the most fascinating state in the country. [captioning made possible by california farm bureau federation] [captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--] there is really, only one boy... one girl... one tree... one forest... one ocean... one mountain... one sky... and one simple way to care for it all. please visit earthshare.org and learn how the world's leading environmental groups are working together under one name. earth share.

hoping to get a head start on re-election campaigns lawmakers in washington pushed through a slew of legislation before an early adjournment yesterday. even the decision to adjourn was not without controversy. and back on the home front already angry constituents may be most frustrated by what congress didn't get done. nbc's tracie potts has more for us from washington. good morning to you. >> good morning. no decision on taxes. democratic leaders on both sides of congress said they would adjourn without dealing with that issue whether or not to extend the bush tax cuts past the end of this year. the house barely made it out, though, by one vote in what ended up being a referendum on taxes. after an impassioned speech by house minority leader john boehner, 39 democrats agreed with him but in the end decided to leave washington without dealing with that issue. but there was a flurry of activity on several other fronts. a nasa bill passed that will deal with the future of that program. major changes. it appears the shuttle and space station programs. also the house agreed to pass a bil

children from the head start program. some 3,000 correctional officers from federal facilities around the country. 2700 fbi agents and this morning, the president in his web address had the following to say about gop plans. >> it's grounded in the same warn-out philosophy. cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires, cut the rules for wall street and the special interests and cut the middle class loose to fend for itself. that's not a prescription for a better future. it's an echo of a disastrous deck taed we can't afford to relive. >> the bad news is for the next 38 days until november 2nd, it's going to be a debate. the good news is it's going to be a debate. about a lot of the policies springing forth from washington. people are involved. they are going to decide who they want to run the congress come november 2nd. >> sure are. okay, mike viqueira, thanks. >>> pulse of the nation as we get closer to the midterms. polls show one thing is perfectly clear. both sides are in the dog house. so what this could mean for both

position in which we're in a bumper to bumper style pursuit this, is more of a suspect vehicle had a head start. they continued to conduct an area search. >> reporter: he says officers spotted the explorer just as it careened into cars parked along east st. james street nine blocks from the initial traffic stop. two passengers in the back seat of the explorer were killed. a third passenger suffered moderate injuries and the driver, a 19-year-old jose hernandez faces a variety of charges including two counts of vehicular manslaughter, felony dui and evading officers. in san jose, the police department has a policy to limit high risk pursuit. >> if you're chasing someone because of a property crime issue or because of the fact they've committed a traffic infraction we're going to call the chase. meaning call them off. >> the policy came under scrutiny this year in san jose after a high-speed chase for a traffic violation resulted in tragedy. in july, a driver fleeing the chp ran a light, hitting a vehicle carrying a mom and her children. a 15-year-old girl died in that crash. and the councilman r

children were involved in early education programs in the community including daycares, head start ande-based programs. researchers say the study demonstrates the effects of proper child care on overall development in the early years of a child's experience. >>> 6:38. although flu season's not here yet, the thought can be scary for millions of women. new government data shows that due to lastings of swine flu pandemic, health officials recommend that pregnant women return to the usual one-dose vaccine. for more on how to protect your family against the flu, log onto abc2news.com and click on the health tab. >>> it's going to be a close one. but it could be a while before we know who could be baltimore city's top prosecutor. >> reporter: one of the candidates is considering a legal fight. >>> ken holt has an opponent in the november election. the democratic candidate for the job of baltimore county executive has decided what is the next step for him. >>> plus: if you go to the orioles game on october 1st, you could be benefiting a memorial to a young murder victim. >>> also ahead this m

issue that is relate to issues and turning and the dual turn lanes and the lead for pedestrian head start. those are critical and the speed issues there are several tools and the signal progression speed and i thought it was 13 miles per hours, now it's 11, and that's something that downtown tampa has similar, their speeds are 35, not 13, and it's amazing how much difference that makes in livability and safety. and that i think is a tool that challenging to implement, and take this huge network overhaul, but could be a good feature next step. and those with less major streets is a way to deal with the speeds. when it comes to getting rid of the fatalities and you drop and that speed drop is great, but to get our number down to 0, and that's our goal, and speed is a major factor. and the bulb out issue that jack mentioned not just from the cross distance but site aspect. and the -- believe it or not, we say that adding bulb outs can increase parking and when you stripe 10 feet, you won't get much more than bulbs and some for uncontrolled crossings and very few that don't have signals or st

if you are heading out of town and heading to tahoe, just giving you a head start. saturday and sunday, breezy. 67 in tahoe and 40 in the morning. turning cloudy. a better chance on sunday with cooler weather. 63 on sunday. tonight in the bay area, look for fog along the coast. locally inland, mostly 50s. tomorrow afternoon it is a nice day in the south bay. a mild one with 78 in san jose and 80 in los gatos. sunshine on the peninsula and 72 in millbrae and 76 for redwood city and menlo park mid70s. along the coastline we will bump you up. the sunset district 63. a mix of sun and cloud. in the north bay, 80 for sonoma and 82 for santa rosa. east bay communities are starting out with the morning overcast. inland areas, 84 for concord. 75 in santa cruz. here is your accu-weather of the is -- of the seven-day forecast. drizzle on friday morning. cooler conditions on friday afternoon. bigger cool down inland over the weekend with only mid to upper 70s inland and chances -- daily chans of rain on saturday and sunday. by the way, fall begins next wednesday, so a week from

and to football or aston villa have finally named their new monitor former liverpool only on head start taking over the reins in birmingham their sixty three year old frenchman takes over from kevin macdonald who had been in charge at villa park since martin left his post on august ninth clear who gallantly on to to leave one titles knows english football well having spent half a dozen years with liverpool the length of his contract hasn't been with philip but it is known he'll be in charge of the side for monday's premier league game away to stay. that wraps up all the sport but if you're hungry for more do log on to our team dot com forward slash sports for more world weather is coming up in just a tick hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers.

good for a head start type programs you need to be beating the mob and we certainly shouldn't be doing what we are doing which is seeing school workers and teachers and lunch ladies and schools being fired i think we need nutrition a basic education program increase at a basic health care for children increase and i think we need to target the youth because that's the future and right now the future of america is living in poverty max rodwell from the new school in new york thank you very much for your time this hour. now the presidents of russia and ukraine have decided to swap their usual state cars for something a bit more retro to meet the needs of a dave and victor ghana coverts have been spotted actually over a vehicle dating back in the middle of the last century as you state have been taking part in a rally with cars made when the two countries were both part of the soviet union race connects russia st petersburg and ukraine's capital kiev both leaders seem to enjoy their experience so perhaps we'll see them revving up retro style more often . and that's your update this hour c

two footballer aston villa have finally named their new monitor a former liverpool only on head start taking over the reins in birmingham their sixty three year old frenchman takes over from kevin macdonald who had been in charge of villa park since martin left his post on august ninth clear who guided me on to to leave won titles knows english football well having spent half a dozen years liverpool the length of his contract doesn't mean annoyance with sell it but it is known he'll be in charge of the side for monday's premier league game away to the spot. that wraps up all the sport but if you're hungry for more do log onto our team dot com forward slash sports for more world weather is coming up in just a tick. wealthy british style. car. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mikes concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our cheek. when the new position calls and. when it's something really crucial what you want to get down to brass tacks why bring special coverage. this time the

by peppering a little bit in, as we get going, we're going to give these plants a real head start. and before we know it, we're going to have ourselves a cornucopia of vegetables and flowers. getting something like this in your yard is easier than you think. let's get gardening. >> that concludes today's tour of the best of "@alifornia country." join us next time for more undiscovered treasures from the most fascinating state in the country. [captioning made possible by california farm bureau federation] [captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--] what this is all about is your right to freedom of speech. what made america great is an independent, vigorous press. if a jerk burns a flag, america is not threatened. political speech is the heart of the first amendment. they're expressing their religious beliefs. now is the time to make justice a reality for all of god's children. captioning provided by the first amendment center, funded by the freedom forum. welcome to speaking freely, a weekly conversation about free expression, the arts, and america. i'm ken

. >> it gave us a head start on vanaman mcnabb. >> remember i told you yesterday there would be a changenning backs? oh, is there ever going to be a change of running backs. they have just released running back larry johnson. he has been ineffective. nyah that-tanyard loss to houston sunday -- he had that- tanyard loss to houston sunday that was really a loss. -- that negative 10-yard loss to a houston on sunday that was really lost. the team leaders say it is time to put it behind them. >> it really was a loss. i mean, who has eight or nine or 10 wins to get into the playoffs or who is not bad bill to get in. we can bounce back after a game like this -- who is not able to gain. if we can bounce back after a game like this. >> in the meantime, redskins signed tom poteat to a two-year extension. >> victoria neil lattimore dreaming counter today. the diehard capitals fan got to meet a rising star. trex i was the second person here this morning. -- >> i was the second person here this morning. >> she has decided to spend your entire vacation at the capital'' practice rain this week. >> lets

headed westbound. moving over to 270. things starting to fill out here. dragging a whole lot of head lights down towards montrose. good morning, virginia, didn't forget about about you. 66 headed eastbound. your slow from route 50 to 123. no incidents or accidents. 95 in virginia an accident going southbound. still continues to take away a couple of left lanes at route 1 and looks like going northbound you're putting on the brakes between the prince william parkway and route 1 bridge. andrea back to you. >>> at the top of the hour here's a look at some of the stories happening today. president obama heads to northern virginia. he'll discuss health care reform at a home necessary falls church. he'll be there just before lunch. >>> after that, he heads to new york for the united nations conference. today world leaders will unveil a global campaign aimed at saving the lives of women and children. it will be backed by $40 billion in funds. >>> the heads of two egg companies go before congress today. right county egg and hillendale farms are linked to a salmone

start. north bay locations seeing mid 40s this morning. for the afternoon, a few more 70s. as we head towards the start of the weekend, inland valleys, out towards the tri valley, warming up. satellite view, you can see the system that brought the spotty areas of light rain yesterday, now moving off to the east. behind it, high pressure building in. today kind of a transition day, out of this cool pattern and fall-like weather pattern into one that's warmer towards the weekend. today, 50s and 60s out along the coast, mid to upper 70s inland. as high pressure builds in, we should see some 80s coming our way by tomorrow afternoon, mid 80s at the warmest on saturday, cooling off some approaching sunday and monday. heading up to the sierra today, some leftover showers, the sierra weekend plans, temperatures warming up, upper 60s around saturday. san jose, low clouds and some drizzle for this morning. oakland, 68. 74, san ramon. fairfield, 76. for the north bay, highs in the 60s and 70s. your seven-day forecast moving into the weekend, finally looking more september-like. 80s inland and 60

position in which we're in a bumper to bumper style pursuit this, is more of a suspect vehicle had a head start. initially and they continued to conduct an area search. >> two passengers in the back seat of the explorer were killed. a third man hurt. the 19-year-old driver jose hernandez faces charges including vehicular manslaughter and felony dui. >> a new claim tonight of racial profiling by police in san jose. in this case a latino priest claims he was singled out unfairly. and the priest was among other who's came to tell similar stories. people told their stories of being stopped by san jose police. they say unnecessarily. they came to our lady of guadalupe church with result of a racial profiling survey were released. waits done by a group called pact. people acting in community together. 35% of the 2000 people surveyed said they have been stopped by an officer without cause. among them, father reyes stopped and surrounded by four police car autos one of them said stay in the car. and asked me for a license. he said why? i said you didn't put your blinkers. >> he says there was no doubt

to encourage people to know there has to be some kind of rationality because if something like head start or so there's something that's that's that's attacking the problem from from the beginning and you can't you know it's easy to say well it's it's either behavior or racism or structure it's everything and unless you have some kind of comprehensive approach we're still going to be in this mess but the bottom of it is that people are going to we are going to ignore it because we would be nice if we were at each other's throats but surprisingly we agree on a lot of things because there has to be the way to target if the politicians are going to ignore and you know coming up in our next segment we're. talking about the un general assembly and these millennium goals that they have set out to cure world hunger and also reduce the amount of people living in poverty and america is one of the countries that gives the most aid and yet when you know when it comes to our own no one seems to care even want to bring up that so many people forty three million people live nobody wants to be poor and

give yourself a head start.tion unicore. >> available at walgreens. >> jimmy: oh. [ applause ] that's the drug paris hilton ought to be carrying around. this is a crazy story. even if you don't live in california, you probably heard about what's going on in the city of bell. bell is a small, somewhat poor community here in l.a., where they found out that the mayor, the city manager, the chief of police and several other city officials have been -- they've been helping themselves to taxpayer money. the city manager paid himself almost $800,000 a year. and loaned himself $3 million, allegedly. the chief of police made almost a half a million dollars a year. so, needless to say, when the story got out, people were furious, and yesterday, eight former and current bell officials were arrested, much to the delight of unhappy residents there. >> dancing in the streets by city hall. and down right mocking the man who once ran their city. now he's the man run out of their city. >> they're going to get what's coming to th

and as we head into the evening hours and the morning, it's going to be a mild start with plenty of upper 60s for thursday. and then as we head through 10:00 a.m. tomorrow, another hot day with temperatures that will already be in the low to mid 80s. now coming up, we'll have details on a cooling weekend forecast and also get you the latest on hurricane earl. that's in a minute. tom? >> cooling is good, jeff. thank you very much. now to california's budget deadlock which once again is becoming a cash crisis. governor schwarzenegger talked today about the legislature's failed attempt to pass a budget. our nbc station in sacramento shows us where the budget fight goes from here. >> reporter: empty desk and silence in the state senate today. a very different scene from what it was like just before midnight. >> order. >> as the final seconds of the legislative session ticked down, majority democrats rushed to try to get their bill passed and republicans did everything they could to run out the clock. >> we were in the middle of a role call vote when the clock struck midnight and so there was

a head start. i can start with that cut out the department of education, cut out the department of commerce, all of which do nothing, pay for those people. >> those are expensive. >> you pay for cutting out the pentagon? why don't we cut -- >> agree to keep probably. >> yes. >> but here is the issue. first of all, all this is beside the point. they are against many people on the left against these multinational corporations getting billions of dollars streamed into it because of health care. >> larry: that is a big proposal in congress, you can't take any tax break if you send the work overseas which now gets a break. why do republicans oppose it? >> i have no idea what this bill is so i can't comment on it. >> because it is proposed from the left, that's y this is what happens constantly, cap in trade, whether it is this proposal, oftentimes, bills that are free market oriented, bills come from the right, caught by the left, republicans don't like them anymore. >> that is not true. you have to give

heading to reno, 80s and 90s to get your weekend started. zy and cooler conditions sunday and monday. around the bay area, south of san jose, 90s popping up. notice the cooling heading towards palo alto and san francisco. patchy low clouds for the morning. east bay temperatures, in the 70s. out towards the delta seeing some 90s. 80s around novato and san rafael. 95 degrees around lake port. the trend is cooler as we head towards the holiday weekend but expect clouds along the coast. >>> now on to alcatraz which could be part of a new tv show. j.j. abrams is shopping a new project to networks. we don't have the details on exactly what the show would be about, but it's set to be on the former prison island in the middle of the bay. abrams is the man behind the latest star trek movie, the tv series "lost" and the soon to debut nbc series "under covers." >> labor day is here, but you have one less option to visit. we'll show you one park that is closed. >> and we will see brand new pictures helping police piece together a killing spree. >> and if

. >> my head starts hurting when you go to that point. >> they go trick or treating with each other. >> the guys and gals wearing the hats. >> what's opr. >> office of professional responsibility. ethics oversight. >> ultimately whatever this guy fine finds out about holder's justice department investigating elections. >> it's a big deal. >> goes to obama. >> yes. >> it doesn't go to holder? it goes to obama. >> obama is at the end of the day carrying the bag and deciding whether or not the investigation is correct. >> bill: walk into the oval office and says this is what i find out about your pal holder he is a pinhead. >> i don't know those words. >> the president would be hard-pressed to ignore the findings of the inspector general. >> oh, p.r. >> to have the oversight. >> bill: how long is this going to take? like eight years? that's how they usually do it. >> after the next presidential election. see what i'm saying? >> isn't that true? >> take as long as they want. what they have done now is apiece the people who said look, you didn't bring these charges. >> bill: they didn't a

we have to do that if we're going to give these children a real head start, if you will, on education have the cofounder, executive director of -- latino. do you think the lusolution is getting back to basics when we look at the dropout rate? >> i want to appreciate what rehema said. yes, there's an 18% dropout rate. but conversely it's because they have to support their family. when you ask immigrant parents is your child going to go to college? 94% say yes. if you ask the same kid. 89% of them say yes. clearly there's a gap when it goes to getting to college. how do you teach students? how do you teach parents? how do you teach educators to make sure they are getting the correct building blocks? i hate to use myself as an example, but i was the first person in my family to go to college. i had the same thing. my mother said you're going to college. luckily, i had a counselor that was able to help me build my, you know, when i was in high school able to help me take the classes i need to. i had no idea what an s.a.t. was and what it meant. it was a basic lack of learning. >> before w

head start, can i start with that, cut out the department of education and cut out the department of commerce, all of which do nothing and pay for those people. >> that's absurd. >> but you don't wreck the entire free market system. >> larry: do you favor cutting out the pentagon? >> one we would agree to keep. >> yes. >> all of this is beside the point is the american people are not against health care reform. they have fatigue from the process and many people in the left are against the multi-national corporations getting billions of dollars streamed into it. >> larry: that was a big proposal in congress you can't take a tax break which send a worker overseas which give you a break. why did the republicans oppose this? >> i have no idea what this bill is so i can't comment. >> it's a bill from the left, cap and trade, bills that are free-market oriented and have come from the right, when they get co-opted by the left the republicans don't like it anymore. >> give me one that i've read. >> cap and trade is free market, you've got to be kidding! >> yes, absolutely free market oriente

-- we see that one of the heads of the buddha is your face. >> i started doing public art almost 10 years ago. what i want to express this as an extension of my our practice. this is an accumulation of my own experience as a performance artist. >> we see that the scale is very important. we have seen other works where a limb of this culture is on the floor but everything is very big and large scale. what are you trying to accomplish with expanding the scale of these images to such a great size. >> i wanted to make large scale art and see how this plays a role in contemporary society. i think that is the mission of contemporary art, to serve as a social critique. >> when the mayor knew some -- when mayor newsom join you in dedicating this, they wanted to find a work that was big and bold. he was so pleased with your participation that he made you an honoraria citizens of san francisco for the next 18 months. the public reaction has been very positive. what is your reaction of how people receive your sculpture? >> i think that san francisco has a long history. this gigantic sculpture is in

. >> chico says he has spent years in city hall working with mayor daley which gives him a head start on the other candidates. he says he knows where to trim the fat and retain the lean program and know city hall better than any other candidate. >> most people would tell you i was mayor daley's most effective chief of staff. i was able to not only work with police and fire and sanitation, but work on paving streets, building sidewalks, libraries, police stayings, fire stations and communities throughout chicago. >> but with chicago facing massive debt making it difficult to balance the budget, what could chico do to correct the seemingly unfixable problem? >> have i done it before. in 1995 when the mayor sent me over to the chicago public schools, their budget deficit and crisis was every bit the same as the city of chicago's. we straightened that out. when i came to the chicago public schools, our cumulative budget deficit projection was $1.3 million. when i left, we had a surplus of $350 million. >>> and while chico no doubt will be a formidable candidate, without money, he couldn't

republican have a significant head start, significant margin, but if democrats are able to turn out theirtheir base and get them as jazzed up as in 2008 they can cloet the gap. that what democrat, focusing on. >> how do they do that? >> use president obama and they've started to do so. president obama endorsed a couple incumbent members of congress in some sort of marge's the districts, what i think is interesting. congressman tom paerriello. trying to get them engaged. they've pledged $30 million to turning the same voters out who turned out first in 2008 to vote for president obama. >> money is the mother's milk of politics. you've reported as others that, of course, the committees here in washington that help augment democrats in their districts have had more money than the republicans, and yet we saw a report just this week that there's been more spending on behalf of the republican candidates, in part because, why? those outside groups are pouring in a lot of money. where do we stand about who has the advantage? >> at the moment the outside groups are giving republicans the advantage

correctional officers, fbi agents, hundreds of kid, thousands of children would be without the head start program. so this is where we're going to fight this battle ledding into november. it promises to be a desperate political struggle from here on out, alex. >> mike vig quer ra at the white house. thanks so much. >>> you can all log on to firstread.msnbc.com. >>> we're keeping track of the latest developments from miami where the fbi and local police are scouring that city for three robbers that turned an overnight kidnapping into a 25-minute bank heist. let's check out the scene in miami. here it is. the suspects kidnapped the teller just after midnight. they strapped him to a device making bombmaking materials. they did this from his home. then they made quick work that morning at the bank of america branch. police say the suspects fled the scene in a red foerd mustang and they're on the loose. >>> developing now in los angeles. lindsay lohan is out of jail this morning. only 12 hours after serving behind bars for failing a drug test. the 24-year-old actress was released overnight and

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it's that time again btwo years into any president's first term, and the staff starts heading for the exits. >> two years, people start to leave. they burn themselves out. they work very hard. or they have jobs they can't refuse on the outside. >> reporter: chief of staff rahm emanuel may leave as soon as next month to run for mayor of chicago. the big question-- does the president look inside or outside to replace him? >> is he just drawing the wagons around him or is he reaching out in which he's saying, hey, i think there are different ways to do it? maybe we need a dinner agenda. maybe i made some mistakes. >> reporter: defense secretary robert gates and national security adviser james jones are also expected to leave some time next year. economic head larry summers is going back to harvard. other members, peter orszag and christina roam rer already gone. david axelrod will be heading home to chicago by spring to work on the president's reelection. axelrod expects david plough, the president's campaign manager, will likely come to washington as an adviser. press secretary robert g

without leaving the military and other veterans programs would acceptably slash programs like "head start." 300 correctional officers laid off, 2700 fbi agents, the list goes on and on. the president calls this an ecoof failed policies over the last decade. here's more of what he said this morning in his web address. >> it is grounded in the same worn-out philosophy. cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires. cut the rules for wall street and the special interests. and cut the middle class loose to fend for itself. that's not a prescription for a better future. it's an echo of a disastrous decade we can't afford to relive. >> they call themselves the young guns, all eblg alex. kevin mccarthy is a new member from bakersfield, california. he had the duties of carrying the republican response to the president today. here's what he had to say. >> as a result of the economic disastrous policies of the current administration, millions of americans were out of work today. that is by every definition out of control. >> this pledge is a governing agenda impleasanted right now. the powers in wash

as we head to friday, the clouds start to roll in, the sea breeze returns.ooler weather arrives and the cold front itself will start to roll in friday night and into saturday. in fact, here we are for thursday. friday morning into friday evening, dry. by saturday morning some light rain developing in the north bay. that's where it will stay for the most part saturday and also along the coast. could have measurable rain at the higher elevations, quarter to a half inch. notice the temperatures across the board saturday and sunday will be about 2 degrees cooler at the coast to about 8 to 10 degrees cooler around the bay and inland. once that system passes, we'll see more sunshine and a warming trend for monday and tuesday. >> thanks, mike. >> you bet. >> parents won't want to miss "good morning america" tomorrow morning. senior medical correspondent dr. bester has tips how to keep your kids healthy as they go back to school. tomorrow he will walk through a gym where germs can hide from athletes thought to staph infection called mersa. >> i think there are reall