and there are many more colman members who were not able to make it today. there is something that is very much needed in san francisco, but is not actually happening. that is the reality that all students have the right and desire to learn in quality schools. right? depending on how you define a quality school, is the schools on our side of the committee -- our side of the city lack resources to be considered high- quality. i participate on the task force as the co-chair. the reality is the agency is not rolling things out as smoothly as we all hope for. there are students that are not on track, even as freshmen and sophomores, because of a lack of access, or because they need to make up for classes there were not able to pass. the reality is that while we hope we continue to pay attention to this issue, it is not just a district issue. it is a city and county of san francisco in show. it is a collective responsibility to ensure that all students have the opportunity to be successful in these programs. what the implementation lacks is the additional resourc

and there are many more colman members who were not able to make it today. there is something that is very much needed in san francisco, but is not actually happening. that is the reality that all students have the right and desire to learn in quality schools. right? depending on how you define a quality school

at many meetings, colman members have set of budget priorities for this fiscal year, which are as follows. to invest in credit recovery during the school day by providing all high schools the funds for a seventh period. to invest in a credit recovery option with a teacher present. the next one is expand the opportunities for lowest performing students, who are overwhelmingly african american, latino, and pacific islanders, to receive high-quality tutoring for academic skills development. expand in school emotional and mental health support for students. sustain current funding for restorative practices. and commit to full implementation of the restorative justice policy. and sustain current funding for ethnic studies programs. as we have heard from supervisor avalos, we agreed that the number one priority will be access to credit recovery, extending that seventh period. those are the options for the school students who need to make up the courses. we are asking the city and the district to work together to find the resources to support full access, a through g. i was a newcomer. when i ca

. >> reporter: when chris colman couldn't reach his wife, the morning of may 5th, 2009.r, detective justin barlow. >> the first thing i remembered was the smell of spray paint. >> reporter: barlow, with the columbia, illinois police department was horrified by what he found in the house. >> just like staring the evillist thing, satan, right in the face. >> reporter: manceon-style-- manson-styled messages, scrawled in paint all over the place. >> this wasn't bloody, but it doesn't mean it was less gruesome. >> reporter: upstairs, they found 31-year-old sherry, and the colemans' two young sons, dead in their beds. chris claimed the murder were connected to his work, as head of security for world renowned televangelist, joyce meyer. >> jesus died to set us free. >> reporter: reporter nick 50er. >> we -- pister. >> we knew early on that the family had been receiving threats. >> reporter: the threats started as e-mails and were hand delivered to the colemans' home mailbox. then the unimaginal came through. unimaginable came true. >> a monster. >> reporter: mischief joe edward

let's go right now to evan colman, our nbc terrorism analyst. he joins us by phone. evan, again, back to that question when we've been listening to the top administration people from the president on down recently we've been hearing that yemen is the belly of the beast, if you will, in terms of what we're facing as a threat. what do you -- what comes to you when you hear this report in terms of the politics, the ambitions of al qaeda as it still survives in these splinter groups? >> well, unfortunately, i think it's one of the great untold foreign policy issues going on at the moment. it's not an issue in the presidential election, but maybe it should be, because if you look at what's going on in yemen right now, there is a sustained campaign by a fairly large grouping of al qaeda operatives in a large area of yemen, and they're threatening to take over several strategic locations. and the yemeni government capable of stopping them. in the meantime, we have now yemen serving as the basis for international terrorist plots, and this is fairly predictable, actually. if