afternoon to come here, three people jumped out of there and blocked my car to talk to me about the brooks park. why is it we don't do nothing for it and all that kind of stuff? i didn't know to answer. so i said, let me ask. you know, it's got a lot of high stuff up there and different things. and we did improve it, you know. we put a sidewalk and everything and steps to go up the hill and all that kind of stuff over the years and stuff like that. then you've also got a garden area, where the neighborhoods come in and do the gardens and stuff like that. so what should i tell them? >> as a reminder, this is discussion only for future comments and cannot be discussed right now. president buell: we'll ask the general manager to get back to you, commissioner, about the status of that park. thank you very much. commissioner lee -- oh, harbs, excuse me. commissioner harrison: i would like to, at some point, in the pretty near future, have a progress report on the deferred maintenance projects that we have done so far with that open space contingency money that we've put aside for those projects. pre

reports of a vehicle fire in brook lib park -- brooklyn park.wntown, expect to see road closures starting at seven for the veterans day parade near mount vernon place. charles street is closed between fayette and monument starting at 7 a.m. and up in towson, bosley at fairmount is closed in both directions because of an earlier water main break. stay with us because we have "good morning, maryland" coming back after this. what can i get you? i'd like one of those desserts and some coffee. sure. decaf or regular? regular. cake or pie? pie. apple or cherry? cherry. oil or cream? oil or cream? cream please! (announcer) when other toppings are made with hydrogenated oil, the real dairy cream in reddi wip's sure an easy choice. nothing's more real than reddi wip. fork or spoon? >>> we have a get dressed for this show every day. and you know what a hassle that can be sometimes. >> yeah. how would you like it if you could come to work in the buff? what? we will tell you all about a new talk show that only requires you to show up in your birthday suit.

. >> reporter: it was an all expense paid party at the brook field zoo. 2,000 rsvp for free admission, parking, gifts and fun for flood victim families. >> every penny spent is covered, not by county dollars. >> reporter: questions of how much, wgn investigation found it cannot be answered by cook county officials. months after we requested documentation of how the $10.3 million in homeland security flood aid was spent, we got this today, a haphazard stack of files, some missing, some with partial answers and much unanswered. what we did find was a lot of money not going to flood victims. $5500 for a lease for a chevy suburban. here's a check for the $1300 in charge of the flood program to park, thousands in cell phone bills for workers, $26 an hour for the brother-in-law of cook county homeland security chief david ra mos. when it was learned rams on got his relative that job, he was suspended by the county for ethics violation. they say the money was helping 300 homes that were flooded. if there were 300 homes helped, why were more than 2,000 people invited to the zoo party. not sure. the do

include the red line from shady grove to twin brook and the orange line from vienna to west falls church and the green line from prince george's plaza to college park. important news for drivers in d.c. ohio drive will be closed from the roast roosevelt bridge to independence avenue at 23rd street. from 11:00 p.m. tonight to 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning so the crews can do repaving work. >> the fight over a fairfax elementary school could take a new twist, a judge is scheduled to hear arguments from a lot of parents suing over the decision to close clifton elementary school. it would cost too much to renovate it but the parents argue the school is too much of a fabric for the neighborhood. >> a d.c. teenager who was murdered. a vigilant i will held for 17-year-old joseph sharp. it took place at spin garn high school where sharp had been a smplet his mother says he was ambitious and constantly talked about wanting to be successful. >> he said mom, i'm going to n.y.u. and i'm going to own espn. that was every day. >> he was a young man who was trying to get his life together. >> he was walking along holbrooke street with a friend monday night when he w

park here in l.a.. >> still a big question on everybody's mind out there why. brookeerson, thank you. >>> wolf blitzer is next. eligible for medicare or retiring soon, we may have a plan for you. are you turning 65, new to medicare, or retiring soon? there's an aarp medicare plan from unitedhealthcare. that may be right for you, call or visit us on the web at answerstomedicare.com. >>> cnn has all your latest political news with the best political team on television. cnn equals politics. wolf blitzer is at the desk. we're awaiting president obama here within another ten minutes or so scheduled to speak about general motors but also talking russia today. >> he's talking about the s.t.a.r.t. treaty which he negotiated with russia, but needs senate ratification and in order to get that treaty ratified you need 67 senators to vote yes, 67 right now. there are 59 democrats in the senate. the new senate that's going down to 59 democrats now 53 in the new senate. so it might be a more difficult sell in the new senate than it is right now because a lot of republicans have exp

parks. he doesn't return library books. and i'm mark shields and i paid for this. this is some bogus group with a euphemistic name attached to it. they can say david brookss a known public.... >> that's true. >> lehrer: we get the point. >> thesbian. >> i intuitively agree with that. it has to have a corrosive effect. >> lehrer: the dialogue. >> i saw a study recently where they measured public cynicism in districts with a ton of outside negative ads and without negative ads and there was no difference. people were equally cynical. there's a complicated relationship between what's on tv and what people think. there's aate low of cynicism out there. intuitively it feels like it must have an effect. >> you can't believe that we need more corporate money in politics. >> i never... i don't think i said that. i don't think i said that. >> that's what this... jim, it is going to be exponentially next time. >> lehrer: that's where we are right now. thank you both. talk to you later. >> ifill: the non-election developments of this day. at least 76 iraqis were killed in a bomb aimed at shiites in baghdad. new >> ifill: again, the non- election developments of thi