and then i started working with this mainframe company called burroughs.y first job was to fix things. emily: you started your career learning how to fix things. i am sensing a theme. you worked your way up. 30 years, you became ceo of sybase. how did you do it? i mean, along the way, what did it take? john: i actually like fixing things. i think it's both a challenge and an opportunity to learn stuff. because i am kind of the old-school, loyal, stick-with-it type of person. today's young people are a little bit more entitlement-oriented. when we were growing up, we never thought about it that way. we thought that you have to create opportunity yourself. i tried to go and learn different areas. my first job is in fixing manufacturing hardware. then i went into writing software. helping run factories. i have done a lot of different things throughout my career. emily: you took sybase from a $362 million company, on the verge of failure, to $5.8 billion. how did you do it? john: first of all, you have to have a very good team of people. i spent a lot of time

d.c. 295 blocked at the off ramp to nannie helen burroughs. that's going to pose a problem. 3 1/2 backups to 95 south through dale city. we have the first 4 traffic tracker on the way right here a live picture of the problem in dale city. right now the traffic tracker has not hit the issue yet. 270 into and out of town no problems there. inbound, one right lane is blocked. back in ten minutes with more. >> melissa, thank you. >>> a blast so hard neighbors thought a meteor hit the earth. what sent giant rocks through several windows in loudoun county. >>> here comes the bride. here future husband, the man who once served jail time for his relationship with her. well what narrator: puerto rico's healthcare system is on life support, putting three and a half million puerto ricans at risk. it's an outrage. puerto ricans are us citizens and pay the same medicare taxes, but receive only half the federal healthcare funding as the other 50 states. the headlines tell the story... woman: "unfair treatment from washington." man: "thousands without medica

sky 9 is over the scene of prince william parkway near nannie helen burroughs avenue where that stretch of road was closed as a result of an accident. the southbound lanes are open. the westbound lanes are still blocked. you can see emergency crews still out there on the scene. so just asking drivers you might want to stay away from the area as the detours seem to be slowing drivers down a bit but you will be able to get around. pay attention to the detours as police are on scene. deb and nick, over you to. >>> drake, fun, a bunch of one- word names. >> you got my attention. >> some of the names on the lineup for the landmark music festival going down in the district in a few months. >> tommy mcfly is in the 94.7 fresh fm studios with details on how you can get feet tickets. don't -- get free tickets. don't forget about us. >> reporter: good morning. we give away free tickets all the time on fresh fm but it's usually a pair. how about a thousand free tickets to the landmark music festival. it goes until the 27th. that's when you have to get online and get registered for the land mark mu

police one lane of 295 southbound is now open at nannie helen burroughs. northbound is open. right now we are getting by without a major problem. we were shut down earlier. prince william is shut down at jefferson davis. southbound being pushed on to prince william parkway to get folks around that crash. taking a look now at 95 in virginia, southbound here through dale city. we are quite slow. 12 mile per hour at this point this morning. the right lane it sounds like is blocked here. this is a live picture, looks better than it did earlier here. but still quite slow this morning. 95 southbound right now is where the first 4 traffic tracker is heading. al going to get into some of the backups and show us what's really happening there. live here this morning, a wide look at things overall the beltway looking good. moving along nicely as we hit this memorial day weekend. >> thank you. back to the breaking news now. the manhunt is over for the man suspected of killing a northwest d.c. family and their housekeeper. this is new video where d.c. police arrested daron wint during a t

: new york city is home to thousands of citizens from nepal and we have districts throughout the burrough of queens. i want to thank all of your departments for the immediate response to the crisis and your ongoing efforts. a tragedy like this one every minute and hour is important and can mean the difference between a life saved and life lost. this has been a humanitarian crisis of immense proportion sm the government of nepal that 8,200 people have been killed and 17,000 900 injured. an earthquake in nepal was considered one of the worst case scenarios as far as environmental disasters in asia. how your preparations helped facilitate appropriate aid and what needs to be done to prepare for future disasters and i yield back. mr. brooks: thank you. we are proud and very appreciative to speak with a panel of some of the administration's most knowledgeable and senior figures handling this crisis. grad to have you, assist ant secretary of state for south and central asian affairs. and we are looking forward to hearing about your findings there. and we are grateful to hear from thomas staal u

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i have never seen this level of support and understanding from the state's and county is and burroughs. >> i suggest you put people in an airplane to fly over the serious you see the blue t.a.r.p. where you still have surviving structures. one quick question i was up in the territory for the arctic ministerial meeting with secretary kerry one of the things discussed was the effort to reduce plaque carded the viciousness. the council's action is probably more focused on man-made black carbon but the reality is but that is though wildfire. then i would ask if the forest service will have eddied role at all is of the black urban initiative if you don't know you can get back to me or submit for the record of what that on your radar screen. but the issue of wildfire is rbc that. >> i do know we have research scientist working with that group. looking at the carbon released we can make us a difference with us catastrophic size of the fires doing it through more above prescribed fire so those are the satanists looking at this problem we 82 factor all the benefits from having an approach that