chris jackson is on the selection committee that chose our team. thank you. john owns a condo right next to the site. thanks to you as well. on behalf of committee housing partnership and our future residents, they give to the immediate neighbors for their support and continued -- thank you to the immediate neighbors for their support as we complete construction. [applause] >> thank you. we are waiting for the mayor to arrive. he will be here any moment. i will make this quick. i am robert stephenson, the project manager with bridge housing. i had the great fortune of getting to work on the apartments with michael, chp, and other bridge staff. i have gotten to see the project into construction. on behalf of bridge housing and chp, i also want to thank a number of people who have made this day possible and worked extremely hard to get us to this milestone. i began working on the project barely six months ago. i inherited a team that has been truly a pleasure to work with. i cannot see you out there. you are somewhere out there. i appreciate you guys. this has

. >> also from city college, chris jackson. >> can you hear me? in the original mitigation agreement, this has been a history lesson for me. this building was charged to be an educational facility and myself and the rest of the board trusties, i cannot say this, we have not always been great tenants or partners. we have made the attempt and we have tried to continue to work with the pc. we have had some tough meetings and not been in agreement with this facility. we truly believe that this needs to be a community and educational facility to really empower this community. 8 at of 10 black boys will drop out before they get their diploma. city college's the only educational safety net that this community does have and i feel that strongly. over the past four years, we have been capped over $20 million from our city college budget. even though we have been cut, there have been great advocates in our chancellor. we have been pushing to put more resources even when we took from ocean campus and even as we took from other places. we have put more and mo

chris hemsworth, author. mark rough lows a the hulk, samuel l. jacksons a rick fury. how long did it take?d to let it go since then. >> he is not going to appearing in any more marvel moves. >> it's a shake. it was said here on "nightline." such a dear man. >> reporter: set to release on may 4th "the avengers" seeks to provide a story telling crescendo to a fan boy nation. >> the audience is kind of a character in the movie. >> reporter: brings together the mar value characters who have been laying down the smack down in the midst of megahits worldwide. captain america and thor, to iron man, into one dynamic, disfunctional unit. >> we're not a team, we're a time bomb. >> the real die hard fans, like the comicon, wonder if the avengers will happen. they get their wish this year. >> how significant is the response from your hard core fans to the movies? >> very significant. >> everything. >> yeah. >> these movies are interconnected. it had never been done before. we started it when we had samuel l. jackson in iron man one. and the fans knew what they want. >> reporter: the fans couldn't help

brian jackson and chris williamson. jewel began will continue to stay on with us as our guest host. >> plenty more to come. francois hollande has inched ahead of sarkozy. final round of voting concludes in two weeks side before stef e stefane. >> the big sur surprise came 18% of the votes to the extreme right, sarkozy claims that he'll not negotiate anything but crucial for him to convince more extreme right voters to supts him in the second round because for the time being, according to a survey, only 60% of the extreme right voters will vote sarkozy in the second round of the election. as a result, the social list leader would win the election with 54% of the votes according to a survey. what does it mean for the french economy, should the bankers be worried? we'll discuss the outlook with the bureau chief of the economies in paris and she will be with us in the program in 20 picture ins time. stay with us. ross, back to you. >> plenty to talk to you as far as that is concerned. politics dominating in the netherlands.

chris gordon. martin's mother was at a rally in miami tonight. she was joined by al sharpton, jesse jacksonnd florida congresswoman fredricka wilson. there were additional rallies around the country, including one in alexandria, virginia. news 4's darcy spencer reports. >> reporter: outside city hall in alexandria, dozens gather fair justice for trayvon martin vigil and a moment of silence in memory of the teen who was gunned down in sanford, florida, in february. >> tell us about why you came out to the vigil this evening. >> because i have three sons. six grandsons and three great-grandsons. and any one of them could have been a trayvon. >> it means a lot to me because i'm black. and sometimes you get scared because you think there's other people like that out there. >> reporter: the 17-year-old was shot and killed by george zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain. zimmerman says he shot the teen in self-defense, but the shooting has sparked angry calls for his arrest. >> when we see the kind of situation that occurred in sanford, it really tears at everybody's soul. we do not want to see

>> chris: with president obama >>chris: we thought this is a go time to look at how the general election campaign could play out. and now two party leaders from jackson, mississippi, former republican party chair and governor, haley barbour and from bulge -- burlington, vermont, howard dean. i will ask you to keep it short. 30 or 40 second answers. the big issue this week, obamacare, if the supreme court strikes down the individual mandate, governor dean, as you have predicted they will, will republicans be able to say this is a president so far out of the mainstream that his signature legislative accomplishment of his term in office turned out to be unconstitutional? >>guest: that depends. the mandate is something that is not necessary. if the justices strike it down it could help the president because people do not like the mandate. but not rest of the bill stays it will be seen as a victory and he will be fine. >>chris: governor barbour do you think that is a victory? and a problem the republicans have there is a lot in obamacare that people like. they like the idea that people cannot be excluded from coverage because of pre-existing conditions or

chris smith joining us this morning. thanks for joining us. we appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> coming up the next hour, we'll talk to natalie jackson, theg to folks and trayvon martin's girl friend, who was on the phone with him. the fbi has had a chance to talk to them. we'll get an update on what's happening there. also on "starting point," the real sarah palin joins the lame stream media. we'll talk about how that went. you can follow us on our live block which is cnn.com/startingpoint. bruce springsteen, "rocky ground." and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. at our kearl project in canada, we'll be able to produce these oil sands with the same emissions as many other oils and that's a huge breakthrough. that's good for our country's energy security and our economy. ♪ america, america >> we love prince in the morning. "america" from prince, off of ann's play list. sarah palin was a guest host on the nbc "today" show yesterday. watch this. >> it doesn't matter if that person h