tola adamson was there and joins us live tonight. tola? >> reporter: mark, one of the topics dr. jones focused on was a new department aimed at involving parents in their children's education. it is called the office of school safety, community engagement and student discipline. it is ball involving parents in the disciplinary process when their child is not following the rules or if a student is underperforming. the goal is to decrease the amount of instructional time lost by students when they are suspended or expelled. intervention specialists talk challenges in the home that may be triggering the students' troubles. >> when we have students looking at the serious consequence and they sit down with the intervention specialist and we have a conversation, it was a very candid conversation where we are learning about some of the things happening in that home and some of the things that that parent needs and we are able to connect that parent to resources. >> that department has meeting on monday with agencies in the area to talk about serving those struggling students. coming up

tola adamson has more on his plans to fix this issue. tola? >> reporter: noreen, for four consecutive years, when berry hill failed to meet student expectation in english, math, science and history. booker jones says the problem lies within the school division for not using the same instructional framework across all schools. he said they were anticipating this even before the state denied the school accreditationdenied the school accreditation, so starting at the beginning of this year, all elementary and middle schools are using the same instruction at framework called learning focus. and next year, the high school will join in. dr. joan says this -- dr. jones sthais will make a big difference. >> the state will step in and give us additional resource so closely with the state to try make sure we have the resources we need to improve instruction. >> reporter: the resources he is referring to will mostly be professional development for teachers. booker jones said it gave parents an opportunity to transfer to forest hills elementary which is a

tola adamson is live in danville. tola the snow impacted a danville- pittsylvania county habitat for humanity project.tola danner, the good news here is that volunteers have been working on the home for several months and most of the exterior is complete. if it wasn't, i'm told then it could have set back the schedule significantly. crews were working on the 4-hundred block of hughes street in danville. they just finished doing the electrical work and that's when the storm hit. it has put construction on delay because volunteers couldn't leave their homes. the halt on construction caused a chain reaction- delaying other projects in the house.karen sgrinia, "we're in the process of working out hvac and plumbing can't start until the hvac is done. the hvac is being done by an hvac class at dcc, so when they're closed or delayed for snow, then that doesn't get done and therefore the plumbing part gets backed up."tola habitat for 3 humanity says the snow delayed the project a few days and says they will delay the project

tola adamson got a sneak peek while crews were furthering on the finishing touches and joins us live from danville. >> reporter: they cater to teach kids about science, technology, engineering and math. this is why older siblings and parents can join in and have a blast. i sure did. >> can we go. >> reporter: they say you learn by doing. and starting saturday, visitors to the danville science center learn to create everything from video games. >> our challenge is to collect all five stars by adjusting the gravity and the jump power. >> reporter: to music. >> reporter: design zone takes us behind the scenes to experience what producers and engineers do to provide what you enjoy. skate parks. >> at least one section with a slope of zero, see if your skater can get all the way through. >> reporter: roller coasters. >> 2.6 miles per hour or 5.2 miles per hour. if could you, could you do them both in the same roller coasterboth in the same roller coaster. >> reporter: biking. >> manipulate the gears and levers and race family members or classmates. >> reporter: i had to give that one a sh

tola adamson so far this plan seems to be working? >> danner, jones said the school division has made many changes all aimed at improving the quality of learning at gw. offering professional development to gw staff to improve student engagement, classroom management and the an example will be teachers attending a google for education sum knit charlotteseducation sum knit charlottesville in march. suspensions are down 32% from last school year. gw is transferring more students. they are now between eight and nine school resource officers, so all areas of the school are under adult supervision. dr. jones says the most important time for supervision during twrans significances periods so now teachers are required to stand outside of their classrooms during class change to watch students. >> so all the adults are in unison like parents, a mother and father, will we act in unison, the you child rises up to what that expectation is. >> reporter: coming up at 5:30, i will tell you about the school system's new plan to involve parents in tud

. >> tola adamson talked to the organizers to find out what it was about. live in danville tonight, tola. >> reporter: danner, hometown tours started a few months ago and rounding out the first season with a tour next saturday in gretna. the purpose is to explore rich cultural and historical sites and an interactive way to learn about our area's history. to martinsville, chatham, yanceyville, north carolina. they stop at historical landmarks. churches, art centers, schools and museums. examples include competition alley in chatham and at the prizery in south boston. the neck step is in gretna on february 6. the organizers plan to do something a little different from upcoming tours. they are working toward having a theme for each one. >> what are the sites of education in danville and the surrounding area? what are the sites of art. where can we look to find artist studios. what has historically been the art scene in danville. >> reporter: tours cost $8 >> reporter: tours cost $8. if you want to register, we have information at our web site at wset.com. live

that quote was from peter adamson, dr.he children's ecology group that came out with these guidelines with the national cancer institute. the person you're speaking about is chris schneider. so the cleveland clinic has been unusually proactive. they have hired a full timemw pharmacist pretty much just to deal with these shortages in recent years. and so chris schneider is screwing around the basement of the cleveland clinic staying on top of these drug shortages and trying. the first step of course is to conserve, is to wipe out any waste that you might have in your system, and to maximize so you don't have to make those tragic choices. but ultimately sometimes they have had to put restrictions on which uses, which groups of patients would get a drug and which wouldn't. >> sreenivasan: what about the patients in all this. you're saying often times they don'tn't know that the medicine's being rationed away from them. >> that's right. sometimes they're not being told. a lot of times tier not being told. doctors told me they

they maintain almost nothing can stop adamson right now. do you agree with that? >> i agree 100%.zon is just a gorilla of the retail industry. and with their other business aws growing so fast it really adds a second, you know, really rapidly growing business to ams ons stab amazon's stable. i really don't see anybody coming close to taking share from them right now. >> as a matter of fact, they challenged with their prime day, for instance, which they put in in july, which is traditionally kind of a soft spot for the retailers. they almost forced the walmarts of the world to step up to the plate with them, right? >> yeah. they're basically taking everybody's lunch who isn't moving forward with their technology. so like home depot, for example, has made some strides with their online. a place like ulta salons has a great online. and they have these little niches. but amazon is just right in the middle of everything. and now they're going after handmade goods and etsy. as they continue to grow different markets, they'll continue to grow and capture even more maybe. >> you own the s

adamson into just recognition that's excitement. everyone.n between human and animals. medium it. phenomena. that honest. . that he fool at least just video you'd like msnbc.com. brewer. fast-paced action. daring rescues. life and death struggles. >> oh, my god. >> they were just, like, holding on for their life. it was so scary. >> through mud, water. >> let go of the boat! >> and wind! >> i remember just seeing him slam straight into the ground. i thought he was dead. >> dragged by a speeding train. knocked down on the side of the road, pushed to the brink. >> he told me he was going to kill me, and i said no, i'm going to kill you. rides so shocking

also, clermont, brown, adamson , ohio. if you' i live in loveland. they don' t split counties in half with a winter weather warnings. communities. south of octavia, those are the spots most likely to see more significant accumulation. they weather-wise three -- a winter advisory in effect. we are seeing the light snow that doesn' t mean that things getting started early are decent dry air coming from the northeast that will cut down on these flurries. they will be around for the next couple of hours but they begin in earnest in the next -- >> not a lot going on in butler county, say, union counties. 1-2 inches of snowfall for much of the 275 luke and into northern kentucky. 20 miles south down toward alexander along the divider extreme southern communities , brooksville, 6-10 inches of snow looking likely. folks down in those communities, hopefully, you prepared to hit the store yesterday. the snow is heading your way. s. 23 degrees officially at cvg. gets going full speed for us during the evening commute, temperatures in the upper 20' s. salt is st

there is a great quote some of you might of the new yesterday when it entered his henry adamson's quote from this book, from "custer's trials." i quoted charles francis adams junior who is henry adams great-great-grandfather and a favorite character of t.j. stiles as it turns out and about another book, finishing a book today that epitomizes i think what t.j. stiles can do. adams said about the war, the civil war, as a cavalry officer, he said the truth would knock the romance out of you. in essence that's what t.j. stiles can do with a character like commodore vanderbilt, jesse james or george armstrong custer. and yet at the same time the brutal cynicism that is the civil war, the war on borders, the will against the indians also still has its romance. t. j. stiles is able to do that as well. to leave the romance in the brutality. he's a midwesterner, went to carleton college in columbia university. has written for the "new york times," been involved with more than one pbs documentary. a guggenheim award winner at the new york public library. is also been a janitor at a call center em

are a diverse group of women; a cherokee activist and her grown-up daughter -- who's here, rebecca adamson, the cherokee activist, okay? [applause] two african-american writers and one musicianing and me. musician and me. we've been invited to a lacota sioux powwow, celebrating the powerful place that women held before patriarchy arrived from europe and efforts now to restore that place. as we drive towards the badlands, we see an acre of motorcycles around each isolated diaper and motel. this solves the mystery -- diner and motel. this solves the mystery of the leather and the chains, but it creates another. when we stop for coffee, our waitress can't believe that we don't know. every august since 1938, bikers from all over the world have come here for a rally named after you are the secrecy -- sturgis, a town that's just a wide place in the road. they are drawn by the sparsely-populated space of forests, mountains and a grid of highways so straight that it is recognizable from outer space. right now about 250,000 bikers are filling every motel and campground within 500 miles. our band of

adamson miski got rusher wrong. i cannot remember the details. it seems easy to get russia wrong. the microeconomics of oil under mr. putin? oswald: it declines very slowly. if you are on sure things ball away slowly -- things ball away slowly year after year. 70 rubles to the dollar and add more supply. tom: currency depreciation of the russian ruble inspires the george bush's and independent oil people in western siberia. julie christie taught me everything i know. a weaker ruble jump starts domestic hydrocarbon production. oswald: you still have russian companies giving quarterly results with how many meters they drilled every quarter. drill more meters, collect more oils. tom: can we just do this for six hours today? these two. francine: coming up on bloomberg , we will be live from the north american international auto show. ford, ford's executive. tom: the detroit auto show, how cool. ♪ francine: check out what we are seeing on the markets. we priced the 10 year with what we were showing you earlier. treasuries declining as yields rising from the lowest in two months. crude