cordish is the developer who wants to put in the slots parlor and he has been going door to door to garner support. he has knocked on 500 doors telling anyone who'll listen about the plan. the creation of 4000 new jobs. those who oppose slots have teamed up with the american jockey club. voters will decide this issue. if they vote no, slot zoning starts from scratch. this will be a giant step backwards, according to cordish. >> to get this back in gear, the lawyers we have heard on both sides say five years minimum. $2.5means the state's loss billion because you're starting from scratch. >> you may have seen those anti- slots tv ads. he believes they are funded by a company that already has a slots license in cecil county. reporting live, jennifer franciotti. >> thank you. that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. what's your position on building a slots palace at arundel mills? you can e-mail your response to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> police are on the lookout for those responsible for a string of robberies. arrest warrants have been issued but no arrests have been made. at

that is because he garnered more than 800 boats as a right in candidate for the republican party. that qualifies him to be on the ballot. he is a democrat and says he would not switch parties to run for mayor. he must decide by this afternoon to accept the nomination. >>> six weeks before the midterm election president obama is hitting the campaign trail in states that were once for democrats pretty is drumming support for rebel emblem and fall. --rick blumernthal. >> i understand his opponent has promised a smack down. [laughter] i guess somebody who has been in professional wrestling would think that they are right at home at the united states senate. >> despite polls showing a rising republican tide, nancy pelosi says she is confident that democrats will win in november. conservative leader sarah palin is back in washington for a value of voter summit. >>> voter turnout in the maryland primary appeared to be the lowest on record. the state board of elections has only about 24% of registered voters casting ballots. 2.4% of them were early voters. montgomery county had the lowest

the head of public-school garnered attention after closing schools and firing hundreds of teachers. >ot believe you will be the leader who will take the school and the direction it needs to go in and have the highest expectation for the kids. i am turn the mpáiterminating yl schnarincipalship now. >> the question is whether she will be able to continue in her post. adrian fenty supported her, but now with and svincent gray takig over, he could oust rhee. she says the re-election &ot is devastating to the city school children. -- re-election law is devastating to the city school children. >>> of all their faces charges after he boarded his child's school bus to avoid police. jones says are there that morning his daughter who has to reverse policy broke down in tears telling him students hit and shouted at her, twisted her ear, and even threw condoms at her. >> talk to your kids, ask your kid, call your school, what ever you do, but make sure the kids are safe going back and forth to school. >> the police were called and jones was arrested. he has no criminal record. he was released on

the behest of another part of the community, and have more community harmony, and i think that will garner more support and respect for the police of san francisco, which is currently severely lacking in some areas of our community. thank you. president marshall: alright, thank you. that concludes the general public comment. in fairness to everyone here, why don't we move the agenda at out of order once again and call item no. 5. lieutenant reilly: mr. president, we move the agenda to item five, which is a presentation by the public safety strategies group regarding the patrol special program review. this is a discussion only item. >> good evening, commissioners. i am from the comptroller's office. just a couple of sentences of introduction. it was some time ago that the police commission asked the controller's office to assist on this subject. there was also a request from the board of supervisors that we start out with our request to look at the issue of patrol specials. you may remember a couple years ago we did an rfq to pre qualify public safety matters on a number of different issues

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. >> fenty's oregon schools and reducing crime -- on schools and reducing crime have garnered him supporters. critics have pounced on his --le, alleging phony as a phonyism. but his charm and his endurance were evident. >> 8:00 p.m. -- 8:00 a.m., tell your friends. >> we do not know if mayor fenty is at campaign headquarters as we speak. he is not expected to come out until there are some definitive results. we have the board of elections and ethics results. there are about 4004 men's and gray and about 2400 for the mayor. -- about fourth thousand four vincent -- about 4000 for vincent gray and about 2400 for the mayor. >> baker has a wide margin. there is a 15 point spread. brown has reaction to these results. >> it has been a party here all evening. they have felt very confident that baker headquarters. officials, this raises is not being called. but anthony brown says he is ready to call the race. >> the numbers look very strong for baker. he ran a highly organized campaign, putting out a good message. the governor and nine are looking for a strong local parker. -- the governor and i are

senate race, bar ba mcculmikullki beats challenger s garner withh82% of the vote.ger ended up ithh35% of the vote. we are going to continue to go ttrouuh those numbees throughou3 the morning so make sure you -tay tuned. right now we need to get a checú of our forecast, meteorologgst steve fertig is here. ggod morning, steve. >>> good morning, patrice. another nice day in store for us tooay with dryyconditions as high pressure sits overhead just to the north and west bringing us a westerly low to start. nothing to see onnhd radar, a nice scan. as far as the temperatures, ome places are going to be cooler than others.ú downtown not too bad. winds are calm, 52% relaaive humidity, and he dew point is 48. with the low dew points and the winds dying down overnnght some3 salisburyyat 53 degrees and haguuers -- rather oakland at 54. hagerstown not bad at 52 and wilmington, delaware up toothe north and east, 52 degrees. this is what we're looking at,,3 after he hhgh pressure.ú the high will bring us ppenty of -unshine. we will get for of a southerly flow. clouds building to

. >> reporter: friday morning she garnered the strength to be put in a wheelchair, she did not want to miss this evening. >> she's here and we're very thankful for that. >> she's really appreciates everyone coming and supporting her and everyone singing. >> reporter: she appeared to be in high spirits. her priority now is going home from the hospital for good. she's working with doctors to rehabilitate her leg as an inpatient. her family is not sure when they'll be able to check her out for good. >> thank you, weijia jiang. wjz is always on for information on how you can help emily. click on our website wjz.com and click on local news. >>> a judge's ruling against a columbia teachers's aide sets a precedent. she is accuse -l of sexually abusing a third grader, but there's no evidence he ever actually touched her. it's the first sex crime conviction of its kind. walker could face up to 18 years many in prison. >>> a terrifying bus ride to school for a group of students. it was involved in an accident with two other vehicles. nine people were injured, one is at shock trauma tonight. gigi

sanchez pitches well and garner gets the run support. >> actually i don't think they will.ou got a lot of strong teams out in the nl east such as the braves and phillies. plus you have the rockies. >> pretty much on fire now. hitting l. everyone is kind of in the groove now. >> i think they will make it mainly because of the pitching and the offense. >>> sports in the bay area coming off terrible losses on the road last sunday both the raiders and niners will look to even their record this week in the home openers. the raiders will host the rams and the niners host super bowl mvp drew brees and the new orleans saints. the game takes off for the raiders on sunday at 1:05 while the niners game will be nationally televised on espn on monday night. that's all for sports. >> thanks. >>> now for a new feature called student on the spot. finding out about a random student. joining us today is a senior justin riray. >> justin is not here. actually that does it for update news. >> this week's edition of update news. thanks for staying with us. get some rest and we'll see you next we

this is balm garner live to right center. juan tries to score all the way to first.l to the wall. scores standing up actually balm garner draiving in a run. 6 innings of 1 run ball. welcome to the agony. in the eighth. moore almost never see a right hit it out to right field. gone. tied at two have no fear. torrez is here. he clubs one. almost in the same spot as moore. 14th of the year. game just wewent final. 5-2 jaints now 4 back of the first place padres game and a half back in the wild card. a continue the series with the yankees and bronx and pitching good for most of the year but the offense is better writ now. if switcher 3 hits last night. old team again tonight with an assist from ellis who botches the ball twice on one play. 2 out. score a run for the yankees. up 2 zip. swisher this is no ground ball to second. this is a moon shot with swish admiring the work. 25 of the year. 5-1 yankees and mark. my goodness. just getting bludgeon in the game. that was a 3 run homer. yankees cruise to victory in this game. time 9-3. college football season begins this wee

since we have conducted this our reach since 2007, we were able to garner more interest and support, especially after the petitions were sent out. back when many of the properties were more interested in learning about how they could help and how we could give property owners involved in the community. i have a letter here from a man that could not be here today, but he has been a property owner of ocean avenue for 13 years. saying that many dedicated individuals have sacrificed their time to make a corridor vibrant and attractive. they will continue to market the corridor to attract aid averse and mixed pool of businesses to create foot traffic, increased decency, and improvements to generally enhance the business district. that is just one of the letters that we got. we have a lot more from merchants and other property orders in the quarter as well. thank you so much. supervisor avalos: next speaker, please. i have more cards. [reeadads names] the microphone to your right is the one that will be working. can you hear me? >> back in 1997, the ocean avenue lost the bank of america an

the midst of one of its most defining political debates in years, although as yet it has failed to garner the pipe -- the type of public and media attention when it comes to decisions affecting the future of the german military. germany's defense minister is calling for an effective end to the conscript army that has been the pride of germany's postwar democracy, and it has long been considered one of the most important guarantees that the country would never again become home to at the type of militarism that spawned world war ii. plans to replace the citizen in uniform with a professional army has found a surprisingly few critics, as the government looks to cut its budget deficit. >> the crew of this plane had a very important passenger on board, the defense minister guttenberg on his way to a military training exercise in bavaria. guttenberg is a man on a mission. he wants to fundamentally reform the military. precise details are still not known to the troops. >> it is a real talking point. there are rumors. it is definitely being discussed. >> what does the future hold for the german

did been garnered visit some of the sentences for beaches. >> china beach, offered a beautiful view of the bay and the bridge on sunday afternoon. until the fog rolled in. but that was just the temperature reconditioned. as the fog bird offer the second time for the day. the people you come. >> do not tell anybody. >> it is usually too cold to come here. i usually come here when this study which is to not very often in san francisco. >> there's >> >> their fireplace to be. typically these places in the fog, it is just a little joy in sentences for a period >> on this date people were this treated to several dolphins swimming near the shore. of course china beach is workable go all natural. you'll the fog that is shown up throughout the day, just some people from china but the shores. some of the couple thousand people were at the beach on saturday on sundays growth is estimated to be half that sides. people were prepared, there were soccer, there is a volleyball, and there were balls of all shapes and sizes these two on to bring yours were into the eyes cold lemonade business. for the

senate garnered most attention. whitman, brown, boxer signs could be seen throughout the crowd but the only one of the four to actually appear in person was carly, attorney general candidate spoke for sandra boxer who he said had another engagement. brown sent a stand in but meg whitman was confirmed to show up but we are told is sick today. most called the forum a good chance to learn more about the candidates but the candidates themselves used it to criticize opponents and drive home platforms with less than a month before election day. >> i've created jobs voters are interested in more jobs created. i cut spending voters are interested in expenditures being cut in washington dc. >> boxer has been aggressively promoting the interest of californians. her opponents shipped 30,000 jobs overseas. >> this is the first time. i have never been to an event like this seem like a very good education for people like me. >> reporter: boxer currently has a lead over fiarina but she accredits that to her negative ads. san franc

the midst of one of its most defining political debates in years, although as yet it has failed to garner thee -- e type of public andedia attention en it comes to decisions affecting the future of the german military. germany's defense minister is calling for an effective end to the conscript army that has been the pride of germany's postwar democracy, and it has long been considered one of the most important guarantees that the country would never again become home to at the type of militarism that spawned world war ii. plans to replace the citizen in uniform with a professional army has found a surprisingly few critics, as the government looks to cut its budget deficit. >> the crew of this plane had a very important passenger on board, the defense minister guttenberg on his way to a military training exercise in bavaria. guttenberg is a man on a mission. he wants to fundamentally reform the military. precise details are still not known to the troops. >> it is a real talking point. there are rumors. it is definitely being discussed. >> what does the future hold for the german army? mili

presenting the information to do is to show you where there is an opportunity for this measure to garnerthe supermajority it would need to not even be affected by the statewide initiative. that is something i should be in a position to give you when the commission is ready. that is my report on that. as i said, i am not recommending action on this because i want to be able to give you enough information so that you feel like you are making an informed decision. supervisor campos: thank you. i want to ask you, i think it makes sense for us to wait until the information is finalized, but in terms of the poll itself, i know that there is some concern of and the legality of a public agency doing polling of this type. i wonder if you or council could address that, assurance that we are complying with all the rules? >> i would be happy to defer to counsel on that. stan taylor. supervisor campos: good morning. >> the short and to your question is the issue has been looked at already. polling in connection to recertification of the measures on the ballot is authorized, in terms of information ga

in that case, it would allow the department to garner that additional revenue. i am more than happy to answer questions. i respectfully ask for your approval. commissioner lee: given the choice, why not go straight to option b, since that seems to be the best option? why have an option a? >> if there was an option for the department, it is not to our benefit. the way the agreement is structured, we are getting a 3% annual increase regardless of whether the mta approved a rate increase. this way, we get that annual 3% every year, plus the difference between that and an additional increase. commissioner lee: in your opinion, having a and b is preferable? >> yes. >> is there any public comment on this item? public comment is closed. >> i will make a motion that we approve this item. president buell: it is unanimous. thank you very much. >> we are now on item 8, the golden gate park seguway tours. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am pleased to discuss with you today segway tours in golden gate park. it is a possible action to approve the selection of the san fran

also, i've garnered support with the assemblywoman. it goes back to the original point.e do need a consensus builder. we need someone who understands the challenges on a daily basis. thank you. when i first started running, people told me that i needed to pick a certain look because i looked like a hippie. then i got some suits. people said i looked too conservative. i would say that i made good, solid democrat. i think district 10 is different, and so am i.. i think of myself as an independent. i believe in good government. i believe in putting the community first. my tagline has been, we live here, let's tell our own story. that did not come from a poll or a consultant. that came fro year experiences and 500 meetings working on the issues facing this district. i'm focused on solving problems. that's what i will bring to the office. >> our next question is from the audience. i am sorry. >> no one is going to let me ducked >> i am chris jackson. i used to chair the budget committee. it is the only major public institution to submit a balanced budget without laying off a

expressed concern that if they did not look like the san francisco police department, they would not garner the respect of the people in public. so it is a known confusion. they are aware of it. people and the public are aware is hard to distinguish. so patrol specials could be doing something improperly and be mistaken for a member of the police department. that is all of concern. the fact you had to create interim rules to address the fact that people under your authority refused to wear the light blue shirt is of concern. it shows blatant disregard for the rules. certainly, they have said if they wear a light blue that they are going to be visible to criminals. they don't want to be seen by criminals. there is law enforcement across the country that wears light blue. there are many other law enforcement that where other colors. there is no reason for patrol specials to look like the police department itself. one of the other things we discovered it is there has been great discussion of how the patrol specials or the entity that should be performing community policing activities. if you l