the baltimore city council will have one more opportunity to revive the controversial bottle tax proposal. they need to raise millis of dollars to keep city programs afloat. the tax failed to pass last week. if it is to be reconsidered tonight, it will have to be reintroduced by one of the seven council members who voted no on it. the number of speed cameras is about to double this morning. there will be cameras in dundalk. the new cameras will be near lansdowne high school and near delaney high school. they will become operational -- they became operational four minutes ago. warnings will be issued for the first 30 days. then speeders will be fined $30. kids are notoriously picky eaters. a steady of children found given the same exact product, it children would choose the products whose packaging features a licensed cartoon character. experts are pushing the federal trade commission to restrict the use of licensed characters on junk foods. >> that brings us to your answers to our water cooler question of the day. >> this morning we asked -- do you think limits should be placed on the use

cities, hundred years ago. keep in your open keep an ear open for japanese, chinese, italian, polish, ukrainian in the crowded streets of baltimore, pittsburgh, san francisco. the newsstands are bursting with newspapers in all these linkages and more. multiple his papers because in many of these languages, you had to have one paper for regular organization democrats and another one for socialist and another one for union members. the grandchildren of the children who ran those streets are some of the same people worrying openly about what these new immigrants will mean to our old country. from all the data, my best advice is to not worry. if you watch spanish-language television or listen to creole radio in miami or brooklyn, what do you hear? every couple of minutes, you hear ads for night schools, take language courses, cd rom language courses for the whole family. no one is developing these products, pain for the ads, and buying the courses for kicks. no latino family doubts that the acquisition of english for themselves and for their families is absolutely vital for climbing, the bottom rungs of the socio-economic ladder to g

city. next, we will hear from the co- director of the talent middle grades and high school program. this is operated in partnership with baltimore cityd public schoolsbaltimorer. balfanz -- dr. balfanz will share his expertise on implementing reforms and addressing the problems of dropouts in middle and high school students. next, we will hear from the superintendent of the chamberlain school district 7-1 in south dakota. mr. mitchell is one of nine superintendents elected by the american association of school of ministrations to meet with secretary duncan -- school administrations to meet with secretary duncan. he will speak about the challenges faced by rural schools. not to be outdone by my friend from wyoming, i went to a grade school where in one room we had the first, -- let's see. kindergarten, first, second. the big room had 6, 7, and eight. in my eighth grade class, there were six of us. that is pretty darn rural. green dot has opened 18 successful charter schools, including aid as part of a turnaround of a high school in watts. prior to joining green got, he was working with -- green dot, he was working with another or

baltimore before his release december 4. he is getting out of prison a little bit earlier and will be at a halfway house until he is released on december 4. sioux city, iowa. elizabeth on the independent line. your read of the election results. caller: my read on the e election result is that even the state of iowa, we are seeing people look not at the fringes or the extreme, but looking at individuals who have a proven record in of the state of iowa and elsewhere accomplishing the mission back hand. the race i am commenting on at this moment is terry brandstad winning of the primary, and this he won over two very strongly conservative individuals. i feel that it's a good indication that the state of iowa is not so much responding to the motion of the time the -- responding to the motions of the time and looking at the results of what individuals have done. i feel that we will be looking very hard at the records of the individuals coming up in congress. senator charles grassley, forward, who will be coming up for reelection, rep stephen king will be coming up for reelection. and it behooves all of them to look closely at their record and for us to l