i'm cynthia goldstein, board's executive director. in the front row we have representatives from some of the city departments. the deputy director of the department of building inspection. sitting next to him is scott sanchez, acting zoning administrator who will also represent the planning department and planning commission. we also have in the audience dr. johnson ogzo from the department of health and a representative from the transportation agency and division of tax aries and accessible services. at this time if we can go over the board meeting guidelines and the swearing-in process. >> the court requests you turn off all phones, beepers and pagers so they do not disturb the proceedings. please carry on conversations in the hallway. the board's riles are fonetprigses are as follows -- appellates or respondants have seven minutes to present their cases and three minute for rebuttals. people aeighted must include their comments within the serve an or three-minute members. members of the public not affiliated with the parties have u

goldstein has been mayor of the settlement block for eleven years he's furious with israeli premier benjamin netanyahu who in his latest bid for peace allegedly offered the palestinians ninety percent of the west bank if they agree to direct talks palestinian president mahmoud abbas is under pressure to give an answer in the coming days if the government of israel. would decide to go out of there so why are forming committing suicide there with of israel if we're going to give them our is it came minutes drive for a tank look for a vehicle tearing drive it for ten minutes who can defend it these really government spent more than two billion dollars evacuating a thousand cities from gaza it would need to remove nearly fifty times that number from the west bank a financial and logistical nightmare a more thorough assessment the principle of thing until we thoroughly everything thief numbers will be for location. was the for therm maybe we could reach an agreement. for many of those to the palestinian sovereignty today more than ever israeli settlers in the west bank have the sympathy of the is

with -- with the chancellor, with chancellor griffen, we have had a few conversations with peter goldstein about this. this was a letter that again repredated my tenure as g.m. in june asking for a reconciliation with city college on various deeds for fields and facilities. there has been a year's worth of e-mail back and forth with city college and also -- also involving some of the -- of the group that is are here today. they discuss the challenge of not having -- having the -- the facility out there not leased in some of the budget challenges of our department and our desire to put out an r.f.q. and things that tom talked about. so, you know, sort of time back -- back to the outreach issue. we came here today, you know, the item proceeded and said look, there are ways in which we need to do better on outreach. this happens to be one where there's -- there's well oaf a year's worth of communication back and for the. while maybe not everybody -- knew exactly what was going on at every time, there's a definite -- there's a deff fit effort by the department as tom said, we actually did post

like most doctors researching alzheimer's disease, jerome goldstein uses tests but has been employingew technology that could have a draw matic impact on the way doctors treat and research the disease. >> this is a different perspective to test someone to ask what day it is and what week it is. who is the president. and questions like that. and it's a different issue to actually see what is happening the brain. >> to make that possible, a company developed a dye that binds to proteins, tangle switch known as plaques. now, using pet scans researchers are able to see those plaques building up in the brain. >> people here where you can see a lot of red, these people have alzheimer's disease. >> dr. winer is researcher at ucsf and director of the imaging initiative funded mull yi million dollar project to find a way to detect the disease. >> until now we've been unable to diagnose whether or not someone has alzheimer's disease unless there is an autopsy. >> he says a method of early diagnosis could be key to preventing this disease because it can take up to 20 years to develop. and until

goldstein said, we don't know how they split on some of the other counts. that split is important. if it was 11-1 on all those the prosecution would feel much more confident going forward. we don't know that right now. certainly the jrs can talk to the press. this is a real issue now going forward for the prosecution. the defense should feel -- i think we saw it in that interview, that erica did, defense is feeling pretty confident now. >> they do feel strong. all right. jan crawford, thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> lot more to get to this morning. not just blagojevich. other headlines. jeff glor standing by at the news desk with those headlines. >> good morning. we have more now on a deadly confrontation in texas. a man with a trailer full of explosives opened fire outside of a police station. his motives are unclear but some officials are calling it suicide by cop. cbs news correspondent donn teague is in mckinney, texas, this morning with details. don, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. there were students registering for classes at a nearby college a

i wanted think others and jeffrey goldstein, all of home work together to put together this conference. they will carry this burden of designing proposals for reforming the housing finance system. i want to thank all of you who came to participate today. you bring a lot of experience and i diversity of opinions and perspectives. we appreciate that you wanted to spend the day with us and to hear it buys. we are looking at building a more stable housing finance system. fixing this system is one of the most complicated economic policy problems we face as a nation. it is worth stepping back and asking basic questions. what went wrong over the past few years? what are the most important problems in the system that we have to fix? along side the many broader failures that contributed to this crisis, there are several that directly involve the covered -- government sponsored fannie mae and freddie mac. they lowered their ratings standards, providing guarantees for increasingly risky types of mortgages without charging enough to cover the risks. fannie mae and freddie mac were allowed to build