it's a multiple ethnic background it happens to be lead by an alderman and two latinos and mrs. garcia and so someone who used to work in the facilities i work with the sdments. the other gentleman is an attorney. we are able to add some professional expertise to help guide our opinions. i'm going to go ahead and refer this to those the committee as a whole - i'm sorry >> gosh you were on the oversight committee and you're still there are. i'm glad. so just in terms of the analysis that our exploring are you including in that the benefits that the local higher can produce as well >> we don't usually do this but we should save that as important for committee. we'll have a robust discussion at committee are the date is posted on the website. >> thank you gentlemen for coming. all right. we are going to move on. item 8 superintendent proposals and speaker cards there are none and proposals increase none and now we move on to item j. request to speak regarding general matters. i have several groups who would like to speak sea i would like to remind everybody speaking we ask you not

where did he start in this alderman? >> alderman, mayor. >> yeah. >> served as state representatives, state senators. governors, u.s. representatives, u.s. senator. military governor, vice president. and president and then he's the only president to this day to and what the senate.>> were his -- how would you describe his politics? what did it mean for him to be a democrat at that point? >> well, democrats or republicans are sort of reversed as the years have gone by. he was very much of a fiscal conservative. limited government. more of the decisions being made again, we have no record of, other than a scrap book that she kept where she was clipping things and what her own politics were? >> no, unfortunately, we don't. we do know that andrew johnson believe in state's rights. no question about that. and he was always putting bills forward for the common man. i know that was very, very important for him. he didn't care for the aristocrats, he didn't necessarily care for the very rich planters as he referred to them. it w

so what present shock alderman is is a call for us to reclaim our humanity in the face of seemingly alienating digital technology, and to realize that the genuine opportunity is not to be programmed into submission by our technology or the corporations behind them, but to seize the day and use these technologies in a way that is consonant with this. programs into conform to who we are rather than us to conform to it. that's the gist of it. >> one thing i want to understand better, sort of combining what you open and your conclusion just now is where present shock comes from. so you say it's about us conforming to our digital technology. i'm wondering, one, is this technology determined phenomenon or other of the forces at work in late capital, and two, you mentioned that 9/11 was a great in continuity, an example of us move into 2000 y2k. it makes me wonder if this is a western experience, i would even say is this new york city experience. if somebody m.o. by interested in present shock? how to see this phenomenon fading into our global identity? >> that's a good one. i'm not a techno- determi

i heard one alderman saying that if you close down school x, the kid from school x will have to travelgh a neighborhood where there are five different gangs who are active in order to get to school y, their new school. they say that is just an unfair burden to put on these kids and their parent and there is some talk that the city may press fire fighters into duty trying to guard school lanes to make sure that kid are safe going to school. it is a very real concern. >> and the vote is tonight. >> yeah. originally it was supposed to happen about now. but there was civil disobedience. a number of the aldermen maybe went on longer than expected. so we are still several minutes if not an hour away. >> thank you very much. we appreciate the update. >>> we have breaking news we are following out of london. an attack on man in london earlier today, maybe terror related. there are indications a soldier who was attacked by two individuals with a machete, that this may be a terror attack. let me go to nbc's michelle kozinski live first in london. michelle, this is getting a lot of traction but t