dr. stephens, who was not here. and as it was reported to you, has been actively meeting with the department and the staff. having communication several times a month with the director. i want to compliment ms. ha on her report. it was exceptional. the things i want to emphasize today, there was a lot of progress. particularly in the -- draft impact report. a lot of the bay studies are done, 79 intersections were reviewed with the lel of service. 79 intersections. the result of that analysis, is the improvement into the shuttle service. we have shaved off several months that we believe, from the original time, things have improved. i want to point out the work that has been done, as it was reported. millions of dollars has been spent. a considerable amount of progress has been made. and with the comment ms. hester has made. there is feedback over where to locate. part of this is in the study areas. we incorporate these in the draft eir. the master plan is going to be addressing those. the one comment i disagree with

tunisia where uprising saw its needed to post eighty dead and a cabinet reshuffle political scientist dr stephen which says the turmoil could spell trouble not just for north africa but for europe. well if everything breaks apart and particularly in the french speaking north africa that could lead to massive waves of immigration and that is a worry for europe especially of the european countries in the northern shores of the mediterranean spain and france and italy but the france would be the major part of this nation for these waves of immigrants because most of them also have some friends they speak french after all these countries were part of the former french empire and they're also in france a lot of arabic speaking population and so if any country who is extremely worried about this or could be worried about it is grand. as the clashes in north africa continue ati's alexy has cesky reports now on how they bear some striking parallels with elsewhere. george year two thousand and three. and ukraine two thousand four. cutest on two thousand and five. and egypt twenty eleven i think these are

dr. stephen rail we so appreciate your time. >> thank you, katie. >> couric: the shooter's motivation is still unknown, but as karen brown just told us, this is not the first time that congresswoman giffords has come under attack. congressional correspondent nancy cordes is in washington tonight with more on the congresswoman and her career. nancy, i understand during the election campaign, as we heard, she did-- her office anyway, came under fire. >> that is right, katie. shortly after her health care vote. and she told us at the time that her main concern was for her staff. she is known here on capitol hill for a caring, bubbly personality, which may have helped her to avoid the fate of many of her fellow democrats and win re-election in her tough district. >> gabrielle giffords was sworn in for her third term wednesday- - a conservative, blue dog democrat who previously served as a state legislator, and as c.e.o. of her family's automotive tire business. >> and liftoff of endeavor. >> her husband of four years, navy captain mark kelly, is an astronaut who is scheduled to command the s

dr. stephen lebarge trains people in lucid dreaming.n dreams, you could have a tryst with a total stranger. conquer a lifelong fear. or commit murder. without any fear of consequences. jared loughner's friend bryce tierny told "mother jones" magazine loughner kept a journal of his dreams and tierny saw it. "that's the golden place of evidence," he said, "you want to know what goes on in jared loughner's mind, there's a dream journal that will tell you everything." but tierny says loughner got in too deep, like the characters in the movie "inception," his dream life became more vivid to him than his waking life. >> don't lose yourself! >> reporter: psychologists say that's a very real risk. is it possible that when he allegedly pulled that trigger, he thought he was dreaming? >> it's certainly possible that this was very much like what he dreamt before. >> reporter: it might just be possible that on saturday, loughner's dark dreams became this community's nightmare. david wright, abc news, tucson. >>> and, after our break, let the games

well for more on the unrest in egypt and elsewhere we're joined by dr stephen ek of it she's so shipp professor of political science and history at the american university of paris thanks very much indeed for joining us instability has been gripped the greater middle east ever since the revolt in tunisia what do you think do you think we might actually see further protests in the wider region. there maybe more protests but there seems to be a general consensus among those who study the region and look at it in you know it very closely that this is not likely to overthrow in the immediate in the short term anyhow the regimes of egypt or other countries to me it seems is going there are always surprises but it seems that tunisia is going to make it through it remain a unique case here partly. because it's a small country has a large middle class it's very educated. will see what's going to come in the near future if anybody can get any country any people can move to a moderate liberal democracy the nations can do it i spent over a year in tunisia i taught at the foreign ministry i know