i believe we share the same concerns about art education -- this is in response to my colleague dan ryan who passed away a few months ago -- i believe we share the same concerns about arts education at lincoln and in the district in general. as i mentioned, it is the top priority of the school community to restore the instrumental music program at lincoln by the fall of 2001. that didn't happen. and i have names of kids who would like to continue in music. a student at washington high school collected on his own. so, please, this is really not fair to all our kids at lincoln and all the kids who are matriculating into lincoln from the other middle schools. it's an equity issue. we do need to have a sequential arts program. thank you very much. [applause] [instrumental music]. >> good afternoon, my name is martin areola and i'm a junior at lincoln high school. sadly, this year as well as next year i will not be able to participate in any music program at my high school. me, along with 40 other students at lincoln high school are devastated. this is a list of 40 juniors at lincoln who love

i'm here representing aim and in the very large shoes of dan ryan whose name i know you all know as a great arts advocate who we lost in february. and he very much wanted to see music reinstated at lincoln and told that that would be the case this upcoming school year and there's been a decision made for that not to happen so we're asking to you please look at that and reinstate music at lincoln high school so those students and my colleagues have a place to play. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. >> good evening, board. i'm don, the former instrumental director of lincoln high school and as you're well aware, with my consolidation from lincoln last spring, that brought about with the end of instrumental music. so i just wanted to share with you that i do find it very painful that we have a high school of 2,500 students with no music being offered. we have students coming in from very strong band and orchestra programs who don't have a music program for them. there's a large amount of instruments available. there's a large library of sheet music available and i'm here. so i wou

watch christiane later on "this week" when her guests include house budget committee chairman paul ryan. dan? >> bianna, good morning once again from tuscaloosa, alabama. i want to show everybody something. we're standing in what may be the hardest hit area of tuscaloosa. this is an area we just got access to within the last 24 hours. look at this. it is devastation as far as the eye can see. almost everything is destroyed. this landscape here is downright post-apocalyptic. i say almost everything for a reason. because there is one exception. look at this building behind me. this building survived essentially untouched, unscathed. and that building is a church, it's the soma church. and we're going to talk to the pastor and his parishioners coming up. first, though, the major headlines out of this region this morning after that swarm of tornadoes hit this region, the death toll now stands at 342. the death toll in alabama, 249. there are still more than 100,000 people in this state who still do not have power this morning. alabama was by far the hardest-hit state. but there is a tiny town in

ryan. and now we'll toss back to dan. >> good morning, once again from tuscaloosa, alabama mass. we're standing in what may be the hardest hit area of tuscaloosa. this area we just got access to. it's devastation as far as the eye can see. almost everything is destroyed. this landscape is down right post apocalyptic. i say almost everything for a reason. there is one exception. look at this building behind me. this building survived essentially untouched, unscathed. and that building is a church, it's the soma church. we'll talk to the pastor and parishioners coming up. first, the major headlines out of this region, after the swarm of tornadoes hit this region, the death toll stands at 342. death toll in alabama, 249. there are still more than 100,000 people in this state who still do not have power this morning. alabama was by far the hardest-hit state. there's a tiny town in nearby mississippi, a town called smithville hit by a rare ef-5 tornado. the strongest there is. 205-mile-an-hour winds. neal karlinsky made his way to smithville and he's live this morning with us. neal, g

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anyone who is on the fence about the ryan plan let's hope it endorsement from dick cheney convinces you it's a bad idea and a very very ugly florida congressman dan webster in a recent radio interview the ford. republican play the ultimate trump card in the debate over president obama's plans for peace in israel claiming god may turn on us and so do i like foreign aid sometimes but not everything else and i don't like giving money to enemies but i love giving money to israel and so i think there's there's a picture there that people realize that we stop helping israel we lose god's hand we're in big time threats right look i know the israel issue is complex and needs a lot of debate but can we not place apocalyptic apocalyptic consequences on it leave the doomsday talk to glenn beck and other right wing lunatics who are very very. coming out the bulk of our summer seafood supply usually comes from overseas but it light of a new radioactive leak at the fukushima plant in japan or we should save to indulge our shrimp salads and crab cakes. but. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here and. i think the plumbing.

but the irony is someone with dan dick cheney's medical history and age under the ryan plan, they mighty sick really quickly. but dick cheney has a lot of money so he would be all right. >> okay. question number three. president obama will visit joplin, missouri, on sunday. is he a week too late? dana? >> i don't think so. what is he going to do, run down there and stop the tornados? this is the same stuff that was thrown at chris christie when he went to florida and there was a blizzard that hit new jersey and the left freaked out over that. i think that they shouldn't have freaked out over that. i don't think anyone should freak out over this. at the same time, i think the president needs to give it a little more attention. it happened in my state. a lot of people suffering here. >> robert? >> there are some issues that should be above partisan politics. our prayers should be with the victims of that terrible tragedy and we should also give great gratitude to our federal workers who are doing such a great job there. >> pete? >> let me channel kanye west carol and say the reason he's n