and they are going to be adding more reading homework and cutting back on the bessy work. however -- busy work. however little or no homework raised eyebrows with some parents saying there's zero accountability because the students don't have anything to turn into their teachers and without a hard copy, it makes it harder to know how students are doing. >> i think there are more focused on family time. the teacher is sending home a type of homework it's more based on the parent being more involved. i think which is better and it's reading every night and it's up to us to do it and be parents and look at our kids work every day and go through it and take responsibility for it. >> there's been plenty of discussion about homework in recent years and parents around the nation arguing the children are again too much homework to -- getting too much homework to take home. >>> joey is working at the fast- food restaurant when a blind customer walked in. as the man pulled out his wallet a 20 dollar bill fell out a woman behind the man pecked it up and put it in her purse. first i--

what was bessie's role in that? >> the time in the blair house and all of the entertainment was their formal entertaining was in the washington hotel because there was nowhere else that they could entertain youmplet both referenced jaclin kennedy. for our younger viewers what did she do for the white house? >> jacqueline kennedy reportedly when she went for her tour with maimie eisenhower came away appalled. she thought the white house looked like a third rate summer hotel. out of she decided pride that it was a patriotism. she was going to restore the house. bring back the best of the past and make it a show case for the very finest. >> and that was i think a way to exert a kind of cultural influence that was commensurate with the status of the united states in the 60s. the n, the economic power, military power, and i think jacqueline saw that to go along with it was needed this cultural influence of the united states. that was what she was doing. and a stage again for her husband's conduct of politics and diplomac

he came over and we told him put that on the corner, which was bessie and west, which he did. >> i hadppered into the scene, into new york city with rudy giuliani and george pataki in the chopper. we took a quick motorcade to the ground zero area. i remember driving down the west side avenue lined with people, hoping that the country could recover. they view the president as a symbol of that potential recovery. giuliani said it's great they're all out here to see you. none of them voted for you. >> we kept working. we were finding people and parts -- all of a sudden they said the president is here. so a couple of guys started to get down. i went out with them to the street. i walked out to west street and i saw the pumper we had found in the rubble. nobody was standing on it. i jumped up on it to see what was going. across the street was a command post, a tent with all microphones in front of it. i thought, this is probably where the president will be. he was down the street. you could hear him. this guy comes over to my right and he yells up, i could hardly hear him. he said, somebody

i'm not worried about the retaliation, but if you're old aunt bessie died and gave you $20,000 it wouldsponsible to put it in the stock market all at once right here. stuart: interesting, scott. we're watching this and you're going to be part of it whether you like it or not. lots of stocks news for you this morning. like this, the ceo of the drug maker has been resigned and says health problems here. any impact on vivus. nicole: yes, they're the one that boxed the diet drug and only recently came on board and talking about health issues and having to step down. it's improved some. it was lower and now it's close to the flatline. stuart: dead flat almost. anded a yankee candle to brand names owned by like mr. coffee and sunbeam's parent jardin. nicole: and making any coffee or anything, a crock pot is always good, too, another name under the jardin umbrella. they have raulings baseball equipment and now adding yankee candle to their house. 1.75 billion dollar deal. stuart: all right. and i hear you, yeah, now, i just want to get back to the dow for a second. we are up 114 points. i say

but president of bessie iud in and represent farming its workers and is currently embroiled in a contract dispute with our management. he says the decision to work overtime as a personal choice. >> the workers are tired. there are exhausted by their unmotivated. at some of them to sacrifice spending time to get families to come and do the work. >> what ever reason until minutes catches up its commuters who are bearing the brunt of these shortage overcrowded trains. dan kermit kron 4 news. >>james: thanks a lot dan. coming up on the kron4 morning news. the man who is usually off finding people behaving badly takes a break for a day. and learn from the professionals. we'll show you what stanley roberts was up to. weatherize downtown oakland scene temperatures on the mild side. with afloat update from erica and just a minute. --weather wise. we're back at 413. at least three people have been killed and what is called devastating crowding-judge flooding and colorado. officials in boulder county say they've seen a half a foot of rain and just the 19 hour. cnn reports now from some of the most