board member chris zimmerman. >> reporter: arlington county's chris zimmerman gave an unqualified endorsementf metro general manager, john cato, in the midst of all the system's troubles. >> those who know him throughout the industry where he's been prominently through the decades now, generally regard john cato if not the best, among the very best general managers in transit that this country has. >> reporter: cato earns about $300,000 a year. he's in the last six months of a three-year contract. and zimmerman said the board should act resign him. >> my view personally very strongly is we're very fortunate to have mr. cato. there are many other agencies that really wish they had him and have tried to get him. >> reporter: several transit officials have dismissed two online petitions to fire cato. saying there's fewer than 200 daily ridership of 1.1 million. >> i think online petitions are generally worth the paper they're written on. this joins the group of petitions that includes one for reanimating the buffy the vampire slayer. >> reporter: tom sherwood, news4, washington. >> some riders c

arlington board member chris zimmerman says that metro should re-sign catoe when his three-year contract expires next january. tom sherwood reports. >> reporter: from the major wreck in june and its investigation to worker death, track suicides and transit operators talking on cell phones, it has been a rough year for the aging metro system. are you worried at all that it is losing its luster? >> of course. any time there is a period -- you know, from time to time things happen. you know, create the -- this kind of problem and certainly on the level of perception everyone involved has to be concerned. >> reporter: on the wamu radio program friday -- >> today we will be talking about metro's problems with wamata board member. >> reporter: arlington county's chris zimmerman, member of the board, gave an unqualified endorsement of metro general manager john catoe. in the midst of all the system's troubles. >> those who know him throughout the industry where he has been prominent leader for decades now generally regard john catoe as it. not the best among the very best general managers in tr

and chris zimmerman will give us a particularly real-life you how the stimulus has been working. arlington county board member and has been a resident of arlington county now for 30 years. so, i will start out by asking some questions of each of them. you've got a lot of papers you can look over. it might raise some questions and you're own mind. and then they will have some discussion. and about 11:00 i will open up to some questions from some of you, which i will be interested to get and take notes on, too. c-span's is covering this as some of you might know. so when you have questions, let's get to the plate and -- because there's a lot of people here that probably do have questions. but it's my rocket to get the first one, and with that i was interested in just asking barry to give the broad view and in light of this week in particular and the past two weeks we have seen some positive signs of recovery or at least as the federal reserve but yesterday "a leveling out" of what is called the great recession, and to what extent are those positive signs due to the stimulus, the $78

chris zimmerman will give us a particularly real life you of how the stimulus has been working. he is an arlington county board member and has been a resident of arlington county for 30 years. i will start out by asking questions of each of them. you can look over your papers and it might raise some of your own questions. they will have some discussion and about 11:00, i will open it to some questions from some of you, which i will be interested to get and take notes on. cspan is covering this, as some of you might know. when you have questions, let's get to the point because there are a lot of people that have questions. it is my prerogative to get the first one. that, i was interested in asking barry to give us the broadview. in light of this week in particular and in the past two weeks, we have seen some positive signs of recovery or at least a levelling out, as the federal reserve said yesterday, of what has been called the great recession. to what extent are those positive signs due to the stimulus, the $787 billion stimulus plan? >> the good news is that the recession is c

chris zimmerman will give us a particularly real life you of how the stimulus has been working. he is an arlington county board member and has been a resident of arlington county for 30 years. i will start out by asking questions of each of them. you can look over your papers and it might raise some of your own questions. they will have some discussion and about 11:00, i will open it to some questions from some of you, which i will be interested to get and take notes on. cspan is covering this, as some of you might know. when you have questions, let's get to the point because there are a lot of people that have questions. it is my prerogative to get the first one. that, i was interested in asking barry to give us the broadview. in light of this week in particular and in the past two weeks, we have seen some positive signs of recovery or at least a levelling out, as the federal reserve said yesterday, of what has been called the great recession. to what extent are those positive signs due to the stimulus, the $787 billion stimulus plan? >> the good news is that the recession is c

zimmerman lined one to right. chris dickerson couldn't handle the catch. dunn scored and then willingham caught the reds sleeping and took off for home scoring the winning run. the nats win 5-4. >>> this morning, american sports fans are learning the name ye yang because he is the winner of this year's championship and he pulled off one of the biggest upsets against tiger woods. he had a rough back nine missing a putt on 17. he bogeyed going to six under. yang had a fantastic day. the south korean birdie the putt to win. he is the first asian-born player to win a major tournament. >> i played well enough to win the championship but did not putt well enough to win the championship and didn't get it done on the greens and consequently i didn't win the tournament. i was a bad day at the wrong time and just the way it goes. >> reporter: early on it seemed as if tiger or patrick hairington would bring home the cup but both blew it. tiger shot a 75 and hairington a 78. >>> the redskins got back to work after the kings disappointing preseason start. the shutout m

zimmerman a walk, run, o-2.   >> bob: chris narveson ma the most valuable player for thet 2 2/3 and didn't give up any runs. he did give up an r.b.i. hit and sacrifice fly but not charged with any runs. he did a good job of cleaning up the mess that mark difelice left behind. then he shut them down in the 5th and the 6th. giving teammates time to forge a lead.   zimmerman waits for a break ball. pops it in to short center. mike cameron two outs. 3 for 3 tonight coming up and the big blow of the game the grand slam in the third and made an 8-2 game 8-6. >> rob: you saw that hanging and breaking ball. this what he did to a hanging breaking ball earlier in the ball game by burns. launched that suck are. hitters get up set when they miss hanging a breaking ball like belliard did. >> bob: he started the night at 228. he is at .241 now. coming into this. and the season. and 11th. and. quiet and @x@0@p@0@6p)@)@)p,  >> bob: long game, long nig mcgehee coming up. johnny holliday and ray knight standing by for nats post game. john lannan's ou

ryan zimmerman pinch hitting for the first time this year sends one to right. chris dickerson can't make the play. adam dunn scoots home. the reds fall asleep. they lob the ball into the infield and willingham heads up races home. here comes the throw. it's high. willingham crashes into the catcher, safe at the plate. the natsake a 5-4 lead on a heads up play. bottom of the ninth. mike mcdougal on to close it out and he does. strikes out joey vatto to end the game. >> josh is just a ballplayer, you know. he hit what might have been earlier one of the best balls he's ever hit in his life. just a great at-bat against a guy that was pitching us tough. and then totally other extreme, the base running, the aggressiveness that he showed there. heads up play. just, you know, you can't teach that. that was all him. and just -- you know, he's been doing a lot of great things for us. that's just another one that he did. >>> the orioles give up nine runs in the 13th inning and the angels win it 17-8. ouch. this morning at redskins park, a fight or a brew ha ha if you will broke

ryan zimmerman pinch hitting for the first time this year sends one into right. chris dickerson can't make the play. adam dunn is going to score. the reds, they fall asleep on the play. they lob the ball in the infield and willingham races home. here comes the throw. it's high. willingham crashes into the catcher, safe at 1 atple. the p. the nats take a 5-4 lead on a heads up play by willingham. mike macdougal up to close it out. picks up his 13th save of the season. nats win 5-4. they've now won three in a row. >>> baltimore, jeremy guthrie and the os face the angels. top of the first. singles through the right side. here comes juan rivera. nick mar kay sis cokakis coming throwing. safe. matt weeders just misses him and rivera gets a hand in there. sneaky. angels take a 3-0 lead. top of the third. the angels pour it on big time. rivera at the plate with two runners on, hits one to left. nolan reimold tracking it. it just gets over the wall for a three-run homer. it's rivera's 19th homer of the year, capped a nine run inning. the angels crush the os 17-8 in extras. nas

zimmerman. same score. strikes out. adam dunn. nationals. fall, 5-4. the final game of the series is tomorrow night. tampa now. o's taking on the rays. chris pillman on the hill. was not a night to remember for tilghman. pat burrell gets good wood on this one. sneaks over the wall. home run. 12th of the year. three solo homers in the ball game. so things could be a little bit better for the os. not happening. bases loaded in the fifth. no outs. and lines this one right up the middle. melvin moore back to second. bartlet bobbles, goes home. still gets the out. what a good throw that was. and at home plate. os would not score in the inning. they go on to lose, 3-1. folks, the redskins players can absolutely taste it. training camp is almost over. and we still don't really know how good or how bad the team is going to be. defensively some of the players believe addition of albert haynes were makes them the best in football. safeties coach, steve jackson. landry is better than all pro. we will be able to contrast and compare when the steelers come to town saturday. the most important thing right now -- the skins are healthy for the most part.

against chris volstad and the marlins, 22-year-old right hander from palm beach, florida up the road from their ballpark. nyjer morgan. scored a couple for six. on base three times. tied with ryan zimmermants at 22. tenth in the league. there is another one of those basketball front line pitchers, rob was talking about. 6'8", nearly 230-pound. volstad. and morgan flips one foul. left field side. >> rob: pnc bank scouting report. too many, too many walks, too many home runs, 10 in the last starts. equal 34 runs. big angle bob talked about. >> bob: morgan on a bunt. volstad plays it well and throws him out. >> rob: worked with hall of famer jim palmer in repeating his delivery. 22 home runs, bob, and 22 starts coming into today. way too many. gave up three home runs last year in 84 innings, that is 14 starts. so he has given up a lot of walks and a lot of home runs and eight walks and two starts before the last start when he didn't walk anybody. we can get back in the ball game. >> bob: one month ago minus two days at san francisco five shut out and went all the way in the game. against the nats. pitched into the 5th inning on april 19th. and give up three runs on six hits. and ronnie bell