law inflation say maybe in museums three percent assurance grier in this case we can see quite substantial changes just one example recently been in france and those seen some went to this well because really to operate with the ruble to exchange ruble and to the euro and you into the rubles you mean you me you're hearing. different what is the first signal. present some interest in paris so you know it's called there's a. lot there's a sense so you cause a lot of russians of course so you can hear you can so cash rules. really fine that's a good sign you have enough to misunderstand. that's not enough but actually i think the truth us should be self ok listen the russian political class started talking about innovations for the last couple of years but in the nation is impossible without a qualified workforce i mean well we were information that the brain drain is still have a great problem in russia that seventy percent of the russian students studying in the united states for example. wants to stay and find a job in the united states not coming back to moscow do you see any precondition

or to the detriment of our health as we all know the sun is by date getting madder at us and angle grier at us and we are getting fat. we got to do something about it. this is the time to do it. we have the best opportunity here with these four guests from the german marshall fund and i was hoping that supervisor chiu would be here. since he is not, why don't we get hans, i'm going to start with hans? no. we're going to start with doug johnson from m.t.c. who has been our partner in facilitating this occasion and, doug, would you please come over and say you're welcoming remarks. >> sure. >> in the interesting of being heard, i hate to stand between you and someone named hans but i will do it nonetheless. delay may also give the supervisor a chance to catch up with us. my name is doug johnson. i'm a senior planner at the metropolitan transportation commission overseeing our programs in land use and social equity. i'm also very fortunate to be a member of the transatlantic cities network, which is a project of the german marshall fund you'll be hearing from ellen. it is a network of 25 ci

he played nine years with the new york giants alongside the likes of gifford, grier, huff, and katcavageas a father of nine who was older than most of his teammates because of his navy service in world war ii. andy robustelli was 85 years old. >>> a big sign of the full-throated power of the movie industry this past holiday weekend. here's where your money went. "hangover 2." a big number one, despite some tepid reviews. it brought in over $105 million over the weekend, the highest weekend tally ever for a live action comedy. >>> another break. when we come back, a big favorite of ours, and we hope yours as well. every year at this time, the send-off for the class of 2011. >>> as we mentioned before the break, the time has come tonight to continue our annual tradition around here, showing you the best of this year's college commencements and meeting members of the graduating class along the way. there's no shortage of advice for them. but among them there's no shortage of brains or talent or spirit, either. so here now, your class of 2011. ♪ >> i think it's incredible that four years hav

forcing turns of -- hundreds in the town of grier to pack up and get out in a hurry. vogel has the very latest on those fires from our west coast newsroom. anita. >> reporter: well, hi there jon. it's not just that one town of grier, it's several small towns along eastern arizona. in fact late yesterday governor jan brewer had to declare a state of emergency for those affected areas. now, we're talking about flames that have scorched more than 240,000 acres so far. it is a sparsely populated picturesque fine forest -- pine forest with small towns gutted throughout. so far, four buildings have concerned, they could be barns or outhouses, authorities don't know. luckily no injuries at this point. the blaze has prompted more than 2000 people to evacuate and with no end in sight it's also sparking a lot of fear. >> this caused a lot of people a lot of hardship. i have nowhere else to go. >> we'll just keep going and we'll just stay here and keep an eye on where the fire is going and pray, pray, pray. >> reporter: the smoke is -- smoke is drifting all the way to the midwes

. >>> thousands of people have been evacuated in alpine and grier, arizona because of the massive wildfires burning. the 365,000 -- 365-square-mile fire has scorched more than 233,000 acres and destroyed five buildings. this is arizona's third largest wildfire on record. right now firefighters say they've been unable to contain the wallow fire. >>> hot and humid afternoon on the home front here. >> meteorologist veronica johnson joins us now. veron karks we understand it's going to get hotter. >> exactly. temperatures and humidity both higher today. now tomorrow is going to be even worse. check outside. you can see today we've got that hazy sky. but again, temperatures just continue to climb as we go through the workweek. a look at where we are right now in cleveland park. and in the district, 89 degrees your current temperature. in prince george's county, ft. washington. so just under the 90-degree mark. reston in fairfax, 84 degrees. and 88 currently in coalsville, maryland. take a look at the dew point temperatures. we've been sitting here between 60 and 65 degrees. so as we go to our wh

the fire has destroyed over 20 homes in nearby grier. >> we don't want that to make everybody let theirecause even though the winds have subsided a little bit, we still have dry conditions. >> and the break in the winds are only expected to last until saturday afternoon. while conditions remain favorable, they'll keep on working and try to take advantage any of breaks they can get. >> you need a lot of luck and you need a lot of factors to fall in your favor. >> reporter: and luck's about to run out here, t.j. in just about four hours winds are expected to pick up. fire fighters hope that all of the work they've gotten done in the last two days that those lines they built will hold and it will get a lot rougher for them very shortly here, t.j. >> a lot of people have left and is there a possible they more evacuations could be coming? >> yeah. and heading toward new mexico, a town of luna. we know there's an evacuation order there and another town called reserve where people will have to pull out of there sooner. if it keeps going in that direction toward new mexico they'll have to have

mile from where are pluses. 22 homes along a half mile stretch of road were lost in the community of grier. the fire came down over a ridge in the firefighters had to evacuate quickly because of the speed with which the fire progressed. they could not stop it. we have evidence already that the areas that were then the performed much better than the areas that were not. i believe and we will leave it to achieve to wall and the others who will give us the after action report, but they will conclude that the communities were saved because of thinning in the vicinity of these communities. as senator murkowski pointed out, we are treating a drop in the bucket when it comes to the amount of acreage that we have to treat. the area of the apache said graves had the biggest contract for forest service stewardship to trim 150,000 acres over 10 years of the last seven years. we have treated almost 49,000 acres. that is a cost of $2.5 million a year, which includes all planning and preparation cost. clearly we have a long way to go. the fires are rapidly outstripping our ability to do this on a larger