gretchen?eo with seconds to spare, people forced to dive out of the way after an s.u.v. comes barrelling into a barber shop. there it goes. it happened in encino, california, the driver misjudged a turn crashing through the front window going 40 miles an hour. two people suffered minor injuries. >> that was a close shave. all right, time for the playoffs report. >> let's go to the second round where the jazz were waiting for the lakers. they played game one in los angeles for the third consecutive year. all right. how did it go for the lakers? well, they almost lost this one. lakers had to rally late for the victory. kobe pretty good as usual. he's still hurt. 11 of 31 points came in the fourth quarter in the final four minutes, i should add. lakers go on to win 104-99. game two tomorrow night. they'll wash their uniforms, i promise. golf now, big news entering this weekend's event, the quail hollow was without tiger woods. he missed the cut and quit on the last few holes. pga shows it's more t

. >> gretchen nielsen: we want to develop extraordinary human beings, one by one. >> simon: gretchendirector, runs yola. what do you hope to accomplish? >> nielsen: i think we're... we're really striving to change the landscape of los angeles. we want to see these kids graduate. we want to see them just connect to the world in ways that they might not have normally otherwise. and... and we want to see it across this city. >> simon: you're speaking of something which resembles a revolution in this community. >> nielsen: it feels like a revolution, because it builds. >> simon: from nothing three years ago to a free music education program that, after school four hours a day four days a week, teaches the basics to 300 kids from south l.a., one of the city's poorest neighborhoods. everything from the language of music to the fundamentals of rhythm to how to get that clarinet to make a sound. >> now, we're officially all now clarinetists >> simon: on saturdays, all the kids get together in an orchestra. the day we were there, so was gustavo. he's been conducting youth orchestras back in v

the nature of government formation and of course it is also very difficult to decide whether or gretchenike a lovely running the next-- or influence behind scenes by somebody like muqtada al-sadr. the other.ellen alluded to is that iraq is still very much focused on its internal political problems and yet to lift its gaze from those problems to decide what we think is going to be a regional role, and what they think their international role is going to be, and that i think will come to a certain extent of the next government but we are simply not there yet. however, i think there is still a certain lack of leadership in washington devoted to figuring out how we want this relationship to go, and how we want the leverage to-- to leverage the relationship to leverage stability in the persian gulf. we seem to have been focused on the august withdrawal which by the ways a self-imposed withdrawal and does not have anything to do with the agreements already reached with the iraqi government, and we are also focused on final pullout at 2011. this seems to me to be dominating strategic thinking o

as recently reported by tkpwre chen morgue -- gretchen morganson, "freddie's report says it continues to rise throughout ten. even more troubling, while the g.s.e.'s have considerable legacy problems associated with the older loans in their portfolio they are being used by the obama administration to take on additional risks." on christmas day of last year the obama administration announced it would prop them up with unlimited taxpayer funding, and that's exactly what they're doing today. the administration took this step so it would have the flexibility to continue its efforts to support housing market. some now are questioning those efforts. in "the new york times" piece that i mentioned, mrs. morganson quotes dean baker, codirector for the center for economic and policy research who noted -- and i quote -- "i do not understand why people are not talking about it" -- referring to freddie's losses. "it seems to me the most fundamental question is: have they on an ongoing basis been paying too much for loans ever since they went into a conservatorship?" mr. president, this begs the qu