how lucky the nation is to have brian gallagher leading the united way. yes.ot only their wonderful commitments in the past, but their new commitment to identify the feeder elementary and middle schools to the lowest performing high schools. also how lucky it is for the country to have leadership from general, mrs. and michael powell. what a powerful father/mother/son combination. but let me also say what a gift it's been to the nation to have marguerite kondracke at the helm of america's promise alliance. i'd love her to stand and be acknowledged by everybody. [ applause ] and she's not going anywhere. also what a gift it will be to have john gomperts. i'd love him to stand as well so everybody knows who he is. [ applause ] and to randall stephenson of at&t for their extraordinary work on so many fronts to help boost high school graduation rates, support annual updates to the nation and make education a stronger data driven enterprise through the aspire 1 and now 2 programs. this morning we had the pleasure to release the 2012 update to the nation on our prog

as brian gallagher highlighted at the outset of this plenary session, the theory of change of the civic marshall plan is to highlight groups that are beating the odds and making ground breaking progress on one or more of the benchmarks. many case studies in the report that are featured this year, for example double digit gains in rural maryland. thank you, betty morgan. to significant progress in georgia, in atlanta, in houston and in alabama show us the pathways forward on how these states and school districts are beating the odds. i want to thank the leadership council members of the civic marshall plan to build a grad nation. all the organizations listed here for their extraordinary work over the last year working in partnership. this is their civic marshall plan. it was developed in partnership with them. to get a better sense of how organizations are putting a stake in the ground aligning with the civic marshall plan and achieving real results, we're now going to hear a few of the boldest and most promising what we call big institutional plays this year which are also featured in t

gallagher with more. this has got to be devastating especially on a day like this when he is meeting with roger goodell and all the rest? >> it is. i just talked to brianrd, he thinks greg williams is done in football forever. this tape, this speech that greg williams allegedly gave ran 12.5 minutes. laced with profanity and had some very descriptive statements. talking about frank gore the running back and he said i'm quoting here we have got to do everything in the world to make sure we kill frank gore's head. we want him running sideways. we want his head running sideways. about quarterback alex smith he says we hit blank smith right there. pointing to his chin. remember me, i've got the first one. i've got the first one. as he said that shep, is he rubbing his hands together indicating there is money in it. here is coach billick. >> when that transcends we are specifically targeting this athlete in very specific ways to legitimately harm him, to take him out of the game, now you have taken that to a whole another in my 40 years i have never heard or been around that. >> and when williams allegedly gave the speech you mentioned he knew he was being