one of the saddest and most neglected, probably, other than m.l.k., was cobb. i think there was a sense among the staff, probably among the students and certainly anybody that drove by that this building had been neglected for many, many years and the question is, what was going to happen in its future? for those of you who have been by cobb in the last month or so, that's the same view today. this is not the same building. this is the view of the courtyard and the arcade. the arcade was turned into the new school entrance and a space they can use in the rain and during the days as an overflow space as opposed to being a gated off no man's land. that's the view today. completely different school. i have heard stories that the faculty at cobb actually is so happy with this building that there's a sense of camaraderie and spirit that people haven't seen in some time. i guess as an architect, i'd like to think the building had something to do with it, maybe a little, and if it did, i think that's honestly what we want to achieve in our projects. certainly it gave

commissioner wynns: i heard the buzz about cobb and made a trip out there for the purpose of seeing it. i have seen some of these others. i want to sewallenberg, haven't seen that, since we built the spaceship, i want to see it. i want to ask about the principal center, about the brickwork. i have heard the story -- story of of the presentation of the brickwork at roosevelt through one of our previous, even before my time, field act programs and i am really fascinated by seeing this seal work but i'm wondering about what we -- we don't have many brick schools so was work ever done to actually hold the brick facade onto it? and it's not necessary? >> if you go out to the 1350 site what you'll see on the, is it the eighth street side? the side that has the playground. sixth. the side that has the playground. in the 1950's, somebody came in and poured concrete all over the bricks on the outside. that side got completely stabilized. but the other three sides did not. so we've taken down the bricks at the ends and we're going to pour big, massive concrete walls and then put the bricks, some

more recently when i've gone into some of the ones you've shown, cleveland, cobb, and so forth, it feels like those schools i see in movies and on tv where it's what the kids deserve. and these are the schools that we have worked on recently. unfortunately, we've had several bond measures to support this work and yet, you know, as happy as i am with what we've done, we have almost 50 other buildings we have not touched and all our kids need to have the same feeling, as those kids that go to cobb and so forth. so hopefully, you know, i'm bordering on probably not -- probably shouldn't be saying anything but there's an opportunity for people in san francisco to sare about this stuff and maybe support it. >> thank you. other commissioners? commissioner murase: i want to congratulate your team for their work. i was a fifth and sixth grader at wallenberg when it was an elementary school, i was shocked when i heard they were making it a high school. it's wonderful to see that now it's designed for the state of the nsgo there. i've seen the work at modernization at rosa parks, it's made a huge

and >> this afternoon's quake did not cause this reaction from school kids in san francisco william cobb elementary. students participated in a drill held today. the mayor ed lee joined students in diving under a desk. this is just for practice. and was the biggest earthquake drill held in california. and more than eight million people participated all over california. >> people felt that shaking across the bay area from east bay to san francisco and peninsula. and tracked earthquakes around the globe. seismologist dz not feel the quake inside of the labs but their equipment and instrument dz and there is also tee detectived after shock autos so far a few small after shocks and there is a where we suspect addressal after shocks adds high as 2. >> usgs says it's possible for a larnler quake to follow this one. >> and people are certainly talking about the quake on facebook. hebry writes there is no way that was a 3.9. that was a jlt followed by rolling and denise writes it hit hard and fast. scared me. and you can join our conversation. >> join us at facebook.com/abc 7 news we'll continue

. >> reporter: william cobb elementary prepared for a quake yesterday, a few hours later they had a chance to put the lesson into action. a 4.0 quake on the hayward fault hit 2:30. the coliseum on the uc campus sits on that fault. it is being retrofited. an aftershock of 3.8 hit 8:00 last night, not large quakes but felt if the east bay to san francisco to santa cruz. this morning we asked folks in berkeley if they plan to better prepare for the next quake as a result of these quakes? >> i've been here for five years. the first year i felt it was scary. i made a plan. >> reporter: it made you make a plan? >> yeah. >> reporter: anything going to change as a rough yesterday? >> i don't think so. >> reporter: how come? >> not worry. >> reporter: you are not going to make any changes? >> no. >> reporter: no water? >> no. >> reporter: no emergency it can? >> no. >> reporter: you feel safe? >> i did. >> reporter: cupertino is not only planning what to do with children and adults but try to figure out what to do with the estimated 25,000 dogs and cats in cupertino alone. the message is, if there

time for nigh cobb one replay cam -- nikon one replay cam.h a go-ahead run at second, start of the play in the top of the eighth. and now motte with the bases loaded, two-out. you know ron washington is in the rangers dug-out, in this park with the cardinal hitters coming up, craig, pujols, holliday, he wants more of those runs sitting out there. >> tim: that's right. even with neftali feliz in the bullpen, one of the great young closers. we talked earlier in the opening that both teams playing this like it was a game seven. i think that is still true. >> joe: andrus, strike one. we haven't seen motte since he was saddled with the loss in game two. the guy at the plate got him for a big base hit. to setup flying sac fly and the go-ahead sac fly. hamilton, young. strike two. 99 from motte. >> tim: i mean with the element andrus hits the ball to right field. on 90-mile-per-hour fastball. motte is not going to give him anything other than a 94-mile-per-hour slider. upwards of 97 fastball. so you have to swing your outfield toward the right-field

go in -- >> this time, the on-duty psychiatrist has managed to convince the inmate to let captain cobbs medication. >> hospital staff now face the unpleasant task of cleaning the inmate's feces-smeared cell. >> put him in the room. do we have an open room? >> which room? >> put him in cell 4. >> i'm a psychiatrist. i can't see you. >> across the hall, the psychiatrist is attempting to persuade another inmate to cooperate with medical staff. >> we need to come in and give you some medication. >> no, i'm not taking no medication and you ain't coming in! >> medical staff are now left with no choice than to hand over the situation to the prison security staff. >> i'm captain cobbs. i'm the custody operations captain. >> the inmate is refusing to remove the mattress, which is blocking his cell door and security staff fear that he may be planning to use his metal food tray as a weapon. >> i'm going to give you one more opportunity to comply with staff instructions. i want you to take the coverings down, turn around and submit to mechanical restraint. >> do what you got to do. >> medical staff

cobb, no, off his fingertips and picked. intercepted by rahim moore and he steps out, the rookie at the 49-yard line. so moore's first throw of the -- flynn's first throw of the season results in moore's first nfl interception. phil: it was a good job not trying to throw the short pass because it was covered so he looked down the field and, you know, your judgment. that's all i can say. matt flynn, tough luck. it really is. to come and make your first throw, to throw a seam pass. i'm sure he said, that felt good. just a little too far. this denver broncos team, though, just to finish up, they're making a transition, this football team is. talent and speed. jim: ball taking the toss. for about eight. this was a denver team really in ruins when john fox got here. phil: defense, the worst, the worst and stats were true, the worst defense in the nfl last year. so trying to change it over from a 3-4 to 4 opinion 3, i know for the fans that means more defensive linemen, trying to get bigger, more physical. i think the transition -

wjz cobbs to investigate the case and the re-- continues to investigate the case and the reaction. >> reporter: they waited and worried for weeks. sadly the ending they prayed for they did not get. the body of 11-year-old william discovered in a wooded area near interstate 270 just a few miles from his home. his class mates heard the heartbreaking news from his principal this morning. >> ms. davidson came on the announcement and said they found a body and it matches william and everyone was crying. it was just a tough day. >> william had been missing for 2 weeks. police found his mother jane beaten and stabbed to death. her estranged husband arrested in north carolina with her car and credit card now charged with murder. from a nearby storage facility police found surveillance video with lopez -- >> he appeared to be running around as you would expect a boy that age to do. >> reporter: near the crime scene a memorial william grows as parents bring their young children to pay respects to their friend. >> i was getting very emotional. that was like my best friend. >> i would rather reme

that's what a study found when it cobbs to tablet owners. 11% of man adults who own a tablet ipad orse now the majority of it say they spend 09 minutes a day using the device. some of us use it more than that. consuming news is a major part of the popular activities with e-mail and popular things like social networking. 14% pay for the news content when they use the tablet. lynette. >>> all right. let's talk about what's going on for today. because you know what? we should be at 42 degrees but the record setback in 1962 was 28 degrees. so it was very cold back then. our high now should be at 64. and the record high was set in 1931. it was 77 degrees. and check out sunset now. 6:15 p.m. so yes, the day is getting shorter. the lows this morning, a little chilly into york, pennsylvania coming in the 30s. 44 in baltimore and 50s at patuxent river on the eastern shore and easton coming in around 50. highs yesterday made it up to 67 in baltimore and that's what i am forecasting for today. satellite and radar is not picking up on anything and we are not dealing with clouds. the front passed

important thing on the planet with -- which really is our children and to invest in them, when i went to cobb, when i've been to all the school, cleveland, you ask the kids, what do you think about your school? the gleam out of their eye, the big old smiles, the excitement that -- wow, people really care about us. that's what this is about. it's great to be in a city where the voters really care about the children. and you show it by passing the bonds an doing these wonderful things and you know, we have a third to go but you know, you ain't seen nothing yet. it's been wonderful work an it always seems to get better. every year we do a project you look at it and think, that's fabulous. and the thing, the credit i have to give, i don't know how david can put a presentation like this together and figure out which schools he wanted to highlight because when you go to our high schools, you know, go to balboa, go to lincoln, go to washington, go to, you know, galileo, any of them and you sit there and go, wow, these are world class, stunning, beautiful landmarks. they're not just schools, they're

underscore cobb is tweeting. now isn't he so mentioned in her report the mainstream us media reacted to gadhafi his death with a chorus of cheers and approval. reports from washington on how a brutal lynching was trumpeted as the dawn of a brave new world. it started with cheers and. the joy of killing the african leaders spread like wildfire in the us media it was just a trillion dollars to get saddam and a billion dollars to get gadhafi the libya says they're going to pay back the billion that we spent to so it's going to end up being sort of free for free for nothing so let's get in on the ground there's a lot of money to be made in the future in libya there's a lot all to be produced no american soldier killed probably great opportunities ahead seems like the perfect new world fears one that's meant to be a lesson to others but i think it's sense of an important message to other leaders in the region but i tell you that these are big hitters they are not very original just like saddam hussein caught a middle

on the antiwar protest the start of the latest on our twitter feed underscore cobb recent tweet quotes award winning war correspondent john pilger says the war afghanistan was a fraud as was the war in iraq and the attack on libya the latest we've got for you don't forget you can also see our footage of the protests as well at our to you tube channel. we can leaks founder julian assange who is among the high profile speakers that antiwar protest in london he spoke to him about the military interventions and the libya conflict in particular. the lesson for libya is that there are only two superpowers in the world worth speaking why one of the united states and europe these two superpowers have gotten together to take over the country the regional justification in the no fly zone over libya has been completely of use it shows the various no effective rule. night in nations is going to be a lesson to us every time that a small mandate is given. military and intelligence. it is a slippery slope that leads to the takeover of countries or hundreds. of people rallied in the center of london t

come tonight we have our fireside friday and then ahead of happy hour the nine hundred eighty six cobb actually think takes the death of that off plus we're still waiting on the rapture that can just not. wealthy british style. sometimes splits because of the. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports on our. mission in three cretaceous three in-store charges free from richmond free. three stooges free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free media and on to our t. dot com. from the days of the manhattan project to nine hundred forty two the university of california has been involved through the science of its provision and scientists and their relationship with the university you see since day one. in charge of research design testing nuclear weapons and to some extent producing weapons every single nuclear weapon in today's arsenal was designed by university of california. we don't want. to get a person californ

another great site on the issue is by lawyer and former green party candidate for president david cobb it's move to amend or apropos of that tony tweeted with this question your thoughts on a constitutional amendment of separation of corporation and state yes tony please offer them that's in fact that's why i wrote the book that i was reading from until a show yesterday on equal protection of corporations became people and how you can fight back in it you'll discover that no congress and no president has ever in the history of the united states suggested that corporations should be considered people or that money should be considered speech that is entirely a creation the supreme court it began back in eighty eight eighty six when several the justices were literally being bribed by the railroads the robber barons to kick off this whole idea of corporate personhood the citizens united decision was birth you know why and we need a constitutional amendment to fix it and we need it soon so please check out those sites you can find links to both of them also where thom hartmann dot com that

so to come tonight we have our fireside friday and then i had a happy hour and i think eighty six cobbs actually predict the death of that author plus we're still waiting on the rapture back into some of. the beliefs of the left anything. like what a fantastic nobody seems to know. that it will persuade the face of the are going to take it being overly dramatic. so. you know. to tonight's. speech. this week we're blessed with a whole new boatload of show us just how dire the economic situation in. our political establishment is for little. americans. released yesterday shows that poverty rates rose. in almost every single state in the. country in mississippi and in mexico more than one out of every five people are now living in poverty and i remind you what living in poverty actually means for a family of four that's just over twenty two thousand dollars to live on and here and here is an even more difference and thank you for you the debt of poverty also increased and that means when i was six point eight percent of people have incomes that are no more than half of that threshold or al

and students at william cobb elementary joined five million other youngsters. the mayor practiced the technique as did the police and fire chiefs. and officials hope that will encourage their parents to hold drills at home. similar drills held at office buildings across california today. >> what an appropriate lesson there. we received more than 100 comments about the earthquake on our facebook page within just minutes of the shake. sheila said it was very loud and jolted the house real good. and no damage, i went outside to calm down. >> denise said it hit hard and fast. and scared me. marion said it sent my heart racing. if you survived a 1964 alaska earthquake is this is just a shutter, really. good perspective. >> you can join the conversation. >> and let's move on. tonight we have a new sense of a terror. the morning a gunman stormed in a cement plant and started killing. tapes of the killing has been released and they are haunting. >> right. the voices you hear on the tapes are chilling at times, people calling in are just stunned. and in disbelief z othe

the kind that we have our friday and then i had a happy hour and then i think eighty think cobb actually the death of the last we're still waiting on the rapture thank you does not. thanks. to the police corruption i. think what a protester nobody seems to know. but never a pepper spray to face but already argument that they're being overly dramatic. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then a glimpse something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize that everything is ok. i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. mr. to tonight's. speech. this week we are blessed with a whole new boat load of statistics to show us just how dire the economic situation is in this country and just how to move our political establishment is from it all you see officially you will hear the recession ended last year but the millions of americans simply doesn't feel that way then those data released yesterday shows that poverty rates rose in two thousand and ten in almost every single state in the country in mississippi and in mexico more than one out of

people money isn't speech we need to we need to do something about this amend the constitution david cobb over move to a man as this specific language stripping corporate personhood on the other hand dylan ratigan or unless you want to preserve corporate power but limit campaign contributions and then on the third hand you've got tom lindsay in the community environmental legal defense fund sold off out there just basically having communities helping communities pass laws denying corporate power by the force of law any thoughts from either of you on on strategy or the best way to go or is is this principally designed to be educational let's get going. with this we the people. i think this is about getting going i mean keep american people know that that corporations have far more power than they do in this system that is on the front page new york times today the recognition of essentially regular people don't have power or they and that's what's behind the occupy wall street so simply showing folks that there is a channel for change i think is the first step and then we can work out the

. >> reporter: william cobb elementary prepared for a quake yesterday, a few hours later they had a chance to put the lesson into action. a 4.0 quake on the hayward fault hit 2:30. the coliseum on the uc campus sits on that fault. it is being retrofited. an aftershock of 3.8 hit 8:00 last night not large quakes but felt if the east bay to san francisco to santa cruz. this morning we asked folks in berkeley if they plan to better prepare for the next quake as a result of these quakes? >> i've been here for five years. the first year i felt it was scary. i made a plan. >> reporter: it made you make a plan? >> yeah. >> reporter: anything going to change as a rough yesterday? >> i don't think so. >> reporter: how come? >> not worry. >> reporter: you are not going to make any changes? >> no. >> reporter: no water? >> no. >> reporter: no emergency it can? >> no. >> reporter: you feel safe? >> i did. >> reporter: cupertino is not only planning what to do with children and adults but try to figure out what to do with the estimated 25,000 dogs and cats in cupertino alone. the message is if there is

the mayor ed lee practicing diving under a desk at san francisco williams cobb elementary. five million students participated stayedwide. officials hope they can use the lesson at home. >> this is oufr goal and hope they take it home to their families and talk about what they did today and the more you prepare, ahead of a disaster better off all of us will be. >> shoppers at a southern california target took part in the great shake out. and this year expanded to oregon, nevada and utah. >> turned out to be a right day to stage the shakeout. >> let's turn to michelle bachmann, a featured guest at the common wealth club. >> and mark matthews joins with us more. >> the minnesota congress woman sold out the club, critical of the president she doesn't like the occupy movement and thinks building a fence along the mexican border would be a good investment. >> thank you for that lovely introduction. >> a friendly audience greeted michelle bachmann, commenting on the death of muammar gaddafi. >> it's my hope that gaddafi's reign of terror will be replaced with a government that res

time for nigh cobb one replay cam -- nikon one replay cam.ghth. and now motte with the bases loaded, two-out. you know ron washington is in the rangers dug-out, in this park with the cardinal hitters coming up, craig, pujols, holliday, he wants more of those runs sitting out there. >> tim: that's right. even with neftali feliz in the bullpen, one of the great young closers. we talked earlier in the opening that both teams playing this like it was a game seven. i think that is still true. >> joe: andrus, strike one. we haven't seen motte since he was saddled with the loss in game two. the guy at the plate got him for a big base hit. to setup flying sac fly and the go-ahead sac fly. hamilton, young. strike two. 99 from motte. >> tim: i mean with the element andrus hits the ball to right field. on 90-mile-per-hour fastball. motte is not going to give him anything other than a 94-mile-per-hour slider. upwards of 97 fastball. so you have to swing your outfield toward the right-field line. give him the left-field line. that appears to be what craig

the drop and cover technique was practiced at cobb school. >>> and alameda homeowner had some broken glass and other damage from tonight's second quake. we'll take you inside her home at 10:30. >>> new at 10:00 tonight, police are warning parents and students about a threat of violence tomorrow at concord high school. >> we will have extra administers at those campuses for additional support. >> the mount diablo school district sent out an audio warning. they received a threat that someone was going to go to school and begin shooting at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. police are investigating and they will have extra security. >>> there is word tonight that libyan dictator gadhafi will be buried tomorrow in an unmarked grave after months of violence, rebel fighters captured gadhafi today. as rita williams reports, some are now questioning just how he died. >> reporter: libyans celebrated the end of the only leader most have ever had. ♪ >> reporter: word spread quickly. rebel fighters had captured gadhafi in his hometown of syrt. >> we are so happy, the greatest moment in all my life. >> reporte

the drop and cover technique was practiced at cobb school. >>> and alameda homeowner had some broken glass and other damage from tonight's second quake. we'll take you inside her home at 10:30. >>> new at 10:00 tonight, lice are warning parents and students about a threat of violence tomorrow at concord high school. >> we will have extra administers at those campuses for additional support. >> the mount diablo school district sent out an audio warning. they received a threat that someone was going to go to school and begin shooting at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. police are investigating and they will have extra security. >>> there is word tonight that libyan dictator gadhafi will be buried tomorrow in an unmarked grave after months of violence, rebel fighters captured gadhafi today. as rita williams reports, some are now questioning just how he died. >> reporter: libyans celebrated the end of the only leader most have ever had. ♪ >> reporter: word spread quickly. rebel fighters had captured gadhafi in his hometown of syrt. >> we are so happy, the greatest moment in all my life. >> reporter:

that happened at william cobb elementary in san francisco then came the real thing. the hayward fault running through the memorial coliseum on the uc berkeley campus gave us a 4.0 in the afternoon, 3.8 about 8:00 last night, fell in the east bay, san francisco down to santa cruz. these are not big quakes but they were felt. experts say there may be more to come. >> i've lived here 32 years. i don't like this. i'm nervous. >> there are aftershocks happening even right now, which are at -- which are small we call them microearthquakes. these are going to be happening through the night. there's a chance they may feel a magnitude 2.5 or magnitude 3 or 3.2. i would not be surprised if people at 2:00 in the morning say, was that a quake? >> reporter: we didn't have any quakes at 2:00 in the morning that we know of. but night is not really over yet. students and everyone else keep that in mind. the quakes come on the same week as the anniversary of the loma quake in 1989. we are on shaddock we'll be talking people as the coffee shops open. did yesterday's quakes do anything

if you're overseas, that makes it difficult for to you cobb tact a consumer advocate in your state liker state attorney and this is a one-stop shopping place for all to go to get help with their financial issues. >> good for them. >> thank you, mel. >>> and if you're looking, the check's in the mail. victims of bernie madoff's ponzi scheme will get some money back this week. the man overseen a ligation of firms said the first batch of checks were mailed out. the total? $312million that is to be split between more than 1200 account holders. madoff is serving a 150-year prison term. >> the study on alzheimer disease. the researchers at the university of texas medical school in houston believe some cases come from an infect. they could be transmitted under some conditions. mice developed the disease and that spread throughout the brain. most people would never have contact with brain matter. searchers are not sure if they can be transmitted through a more natural exposure. >>> the widow of a navy seal killed in a helicopter crash in afghanistan this summer is asking for your help. she lost

. >> reporter: and, says faux fox news correspondent chris cobb, that's okay. >> because groups like the tea party are created by central messaging. they're created by being in a board room figuring out how they can finance a political movement and make slogans that are catchy. this movement is absolutely not like that. that's why you don't have everyone on the same page. people came from all over the country to try to figure out something to do. and so their message is they want to provoke discussion about financial injustice. >> reporter: one frequent theme, though-- young people, out of work, even with college degrees but financed by debt. >> reporter: so this is your transmitter? >> yes. >> reporter: timothy grantham blogs the demonstration on facebook while also running an in-house radio station with a broadcast radius about the size of this park. >> you know, i went to school and a lot of these people went to school and now that we're out for the summer or out completely, there's no jobs. we can't pay those student loans back. and all we keep hearing from the creditors is we're

here with us now is charles cobb, the president for the committee for economic development, which boastst of heavy hitters on its money and politics subcommittee, including presidents from nyu and washington and lee, chairman of adp and the stern group, just to name a few. how is it that a man who looks like you could have so much agreement in principle anyway with the people across this country? >> particularly downtown. >> we got into the issue of money and politics, almost 15 years at the committee for economic development, and we were concerned as business leaders that the way money was coming in back then, soft money, unlimited months as corporate treasuries were coming in. frankly it was giving the business community a bad reputation, and we said in 1999, our very first report, we as business leaders want to compete in the marketplace and not in the political arena, and what you have right now in washington is rent-seeking. that's what's going on. >> what's going on? >> what ron paul called auctioning. >> okay. >> it's people who don't want to compete in the marketplace. they think

>>james: you can feed children that william cobb elementary getting an important reminder on how to drop, cover, and hold. the police chief of joy and the kids cried to a good the desk. the mayor said it is good to practice things like this to the they will be less frightened when the big one hits. like we said this was that a good timing because i know my kids actually had to do that when the earthquake struck in the afternoon. stay with us as we continue to cover yesterdays and quaking will be on the lookout for anything else that will happen this morning. follow ups on facebook and twitter as well if anything happens we will let you know as fast as we can. >> it is time to check out our weather forecast. cooler weather has been in store for the past couple of days and what about the weekend? you know who knows, lisa. >> temperatures are considering--continuing to warm up. you'll see a lot of sunshine saturday and sunday there is patchy fog and the warming tray and kicks into high gear. the ellis taking a look right now homicide at your three day forecast right through the weekend. it

i want to bring in charles cobb now, the committee of economic development, where you are, focused on the need to invest in children, and you saw the budget process in your experience from the white house to omd and the department of education. what do you have to add about the way the process works and how hard it is or isn't to get something done for children. >> first of all, judy, i think we can fix this problem right now if we wanted to. i understand that there are budget constraints, there are all sorts of issues that the conman mentioned, but let me state what i think a fundamental problem is, and it's not the budget. it's not appropriations. it's cultural and it's political. the cultural issue is the fact that this country simply lacks a strategy for investing in human capital. we don't like at our young people from an investment perspective, and it's actually across the entire education con continuum, judy. for years, and the system wrote on this, we brought business leaders in to encourage greater public, private, state, and local investments in the years, and we under inves

she opened a shop in east cobb county in marietta, georgia, called cest moi.nce. for ten years he ran the restaurant. for 23 years, she ran the store successfully. difficult in the last three or four years because of the economy, but they stayed in business. but finally, she threw in the towel and sold the company. she sold her shop, jim, her husband, sold his restaurant. they sold them because they were up to here with the oppressive regulation of our government and the continued threats of things just exactly like the surtax on their small business at a time in which sales are very difficult. and that's not an abstract story. that's the truth. i'm sure it's happening in mississippi and i'm sure it's happening in wyoming. let me talk about a little bit larger small business. hen he see -- henesey jaguar. on january 3 of this year, i went to a cafe in atlanta to meet a couple for a meeting about some legislation. walked in, it's kind of the watering hole for breakfast in atlanta. everybody who is anybody kind of goes there. it's a great place to eat. when i wa

first let's hear from the commissioner cobbs, please. >> thank you all. a lot of folks we cooperate get here today. they said universal service was too complicated and too convoluted to permit comprehensive reform universal service was sadly out of step with the times and was broken beyond away. yet here we are this morning, making telecommunications history with comprehensive reform of both universal stories and intercarrier compensation so i want to at the chairman for the leadership be brought to bear to get us to a place where no previous chairman has managed to go. today, thanks to his leadership, we build a framework to support the infrastructure that our consumers and citizens and country so-under -- urgently need. so join in the thanking him for his commitment, his courage, and his effort to make this happen. in the face of the complex systems we modernize today, it's all too easy to forget the simple timeless goal behind our policies. all of us benefit when more of us are connected. the prim of universal service is the life blood of the communica

on my left is charles cobb, president of the committee for economic development.king on economic, education, legal and regulatory matters. as an assistant general counsel at the office of management and budget and deputy under secretary for planning, budget and evaluation at the department of education. sitting next to charles is olivia golden, and the two fellow here at dearborn institute. her research focuses on human services programs, helping children and families. she has been director of state operations for new york state governor, child and family services v. and has been his secretary for children and families of health and human services. seated next to olivia between olivia and the is robert reischauer, a familiar face to everyone, president of the urban institute. he was director of the congressional budget office or 1989 to 1995. bob is of interest to all of us today as one of two public trustees of the social security and medicare trust funds and he brings that experience to bear in his observation. moving on to my right is former congressman, james

first let's hear from the commissioner cobbs, please. >> thank you all. a lot of folks we cooperate get here today. they said universal service was too complicated and too convoluted to permit comprehensive reform universal service was sadly out of step with the times and was broken beyond away. yet here we are this morning, making telecommunications history with comprehensive reform of both universal stories and intercarrier compensation so i want to at the chairman for the leadership be brought to bear to get us to a place where no previous chairman has managed to go. today, thanks to his leadership, we build a framework to support the infrastructure that our consumers and citizens and country so-under -- urgently need. so join in the thanking him for his commitment, his courage, and his effort to make this happen. in the face of the complex systems we modernize today, it's all too easy to forget the simple timeless goal behind our policies. all of us benefit when more of us are connected. the prim of universal service is the life blood of the communica

the cobb of production would go up 7% to 10%, a huge hit for any business. they'd have to import materials from china, materials of a lesser quality. and those increased cost would call them to scale back the american work force. can he want let the e.p.a. impose these burdensome and job-crushing regulations. when we take up h.r. 2681 later today, we have the chance to help an industry that has already been hit hard by the recession. i urge my colleagues to support this measure, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? >> i ask permission to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you, sir. mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize to us the leading sports youth organization to construct activities for youth. up to us supports the national network of nearly 500 member organizations in all 50 states serving more than 25 million youth through traditional