capital program staff including director brian strong as well as [speaker not understood] coner, elliott chang and until his recent departure, brian benson. i am also introducing today, colleagues, ~ our five-year information and community technology -- i'm sorry, five-year information and communication technology plan. several years ago i passed legislation to require every other year that we update a five-year ict tech plan to provide a framework for how our city thinks about plans for and invests in technology. as i know you have heard me describe before, i think we need to be doing better about moving our technology out of 1999. we're making progress, but we have a long way to go. the plan identifies four strategic it goals, making government efficient and effective through technology, improving public access and transparency, strengthening security and disaster preparedness, and maintaining and supporting critical city infrastructure. the plan identifies significant information and communication technology needs which will need to be prioritized by [speaker not understood]. in fact, there

the changes have followed pressure from hedge fund elliott management, a 4% stakeholder that has previously pressured the company to reign in its operations. shares of hess were up 3.5%, closing the day at 68 dollars. though he's dropped on the list of the world's wealthiest people, what warren buffett says is still treated as if it was words from the oracle. in a long appearance on cnbc yesterday, he had some things to say about apple. in a nutshell they were, "don't sit on all that cash [$137 billion and growin. with your stock hitting 52-week lows, start buying it back!" mr. buffett said apple's ceo should stop worrying about pushing the stock price up and instead get to work on building the company's value. well, maybe we'll have to "watch" and see. consider all the new patents for which apple has applied. 79 of those patent requests have the word "wrist" in them, and new reports say apple will release a smart watch, or iphone-like wristwatch, in 2013. according to bloomberg news, the tech giant has dedicated 100 designers to the vision. the nicknamed i-watch has been rumored for some t

so who is this man, and will he bring change to the church at the crossroads of a new time? abc's josh elliott with the tens of thousands of people in st. peter's square today. josh? >> it was a day that began as last night had ended, with a midday plume of black smoke after the first two votes that revealed a still undecided electorate. but at 7:07 local time, as day turned to night over vatican city behind me, the church, after five eagerly awaited votes by those 115 cardinals, had a new supreme leader. the electricity and awe were palpable, as plumes of white smoke rose into the cold, damp, night air. just moments later, there could be no doubt as the bells of st. peter's basilica pealed and sent tens of thousands massed in st. peter's square and beyond, into euphoria. [ crowd chanting ] and as the celebration continued, the vatican and military marching bands provided a soundtrack, a tangible anticipation filled the air. until history's 266th pope was introduced, the 76-year-old jorge bergoglio of argentina, who will now be known as pope francis. a theological conservative, he's known pers

change. it will have to be an e pope. >> let's go back to josh elliott down in the square. >> reporter: the crowds have certainly amassed now, diane, we have just learned that now within the hour those words will be spoken hab nus papam and

elliott spitser." [laughter] the point is, when party leaders make this a priority, you can see change. the problem is, it just hasn't been a priority. the point is, i'm going to turn it over now to dennis to show you the numbers. kelley: i want to crush >> i want to crush any illusions that what we do is glamorous. what we do involves looking at those individually. just as one anecdote, we code whether any primary candidate listed in the single result is male or female. now, that strikes forward a lot. barbara, no problem. how about pat? rob? so it also involves digging through some archival of anything we could find at that point. now, barb said we're interested in sort of the big picture over time. there are three steps in getting to the house of representatives. you have to put yourself out there, first of all, to run in a primary. and this pattern will become very, very familiar. so we start here in 1956, and you see sort of basically partisan equality. it tells you until the -- until you hit the late 1980's, and then the percentage of democratic women seeking the nomination starts

change types of media. and i give you two examples of this quickly. okay. this is elliott house who went from the dallas morning news to the wall street journal in 1984. and she says, one of the stories i did that i think made the journal want to hire me was during watergate. it was a young man named bud crowe who was working at the white house who was one of the low level people that got in trouble and got sentenced to prison. the day he was leaving the court i called the white house and asked to speak to him. of course you're from the dallas morning news so nobody wants to talk to you. but my picture happened to have been on the front page of "the new york times" standing behind him so i said to him, i'm that woman whose picture is in the paper standing behind you. i want to talk to you, how you tell your kids how you're going to prison. he said i don't think i whatnot to -- i want to talk and he put me off and that evening i was driving past the white house at night, with my boyfriend, and i saw him walking, and i screamed, stop the car. and i got out of the car and jus

activist, 9 million hess shares, comes out in support of elliott yet again after yesterday's announcement from hess announcing a series of significant changes sale of the downstream assets, return of cash or $4 billion repurchasing. they say that we found many responses to shareholders concerns to be misleading, self-serving and defensive. they go on to urge hess to cooperate with associates, appoint all or some of the highly qualified nominees to the board and warn at end of the short letter that other shareholders of hess will overwhelmingly support the elliott associates nominees. those are the nominees from elliott we saw. so this battle continues. relational yet again, saying we're with elliott. carl, over to you. >> dow, awe sa as we said earl slightly off the high. a slow creepup all day. what is coming up tonight? >> a powerful rally on the nasdaq. we'll have louise yamada give us her take of where we are on the rally, the nasdaq and the dow, and which sectors are poised for the most catch-up in this bounce higher. >> all right. technicals key to watch. some pointed out the vix not hitting new lows today, even though the s&p is hitt

change. he views himself as an insurgent. meanwhile, meanwhile, there are a lot of meanwhiles, meanwhile there is a professor at the school of advanced international studies in washington d.c. named elliott cohen, imminent military historian, also a leading neo conservative. one of the people signing petitions that react to invade iraq and invade saddam hussein by force. he is a member of the defense policy advisory board. he goes over to iraq to look at what is going on. the only member of the board did go there. this insurgency mounting and nobody knows what to do about it. he comes back feeling upset because feeling pangs of guilt because he was advising this administration. he advocated for this war. his son who like him had graduated from harvard had recently joined the army and was going to be sent to iraq, sent into this mess that he sort of helped create so he thinks he has to do something about this so he sets up a seminar in vermont and goes through his military journal and invite everybody can find who has written anything remotely interesting about the subject of counter insurgency warfare and comes up with 30 people. they all assemble for five days to discuss these things. t