larry harris andon -- harrison. thank you, larry. these dancers in front of you, nor than traditional, seven straight, double bustle, and our grass dancers as well. two starts. all right, looking good. good dancing, good singing going on. san francisco, look out. ♪ [inaudible] dance hard. sing loud. make them dance. all right, put your hands together one more time for our fancy dancers. all right. also, seven straight. all right. calling into the arena at this time, our women's traditional. come on out. women's traditional, all ages, women's traditional, come on out. no. traditional, southern co op , this is your contest. i'm kidding. the only one judging you is margin right there. make sure you have your numbers displayed. all right. when you are ready. two sides. the style of dance from our northern plains, our southern plains. kiowa, ajibwe, blackfeet, lakota. this is a side step. ♪ boys and men, stand by. once again, put your hands together for our women's no. traditional southern claw -- northern traditional southern claw. this

commissioner harrison: one of the things i wanted to do is come and -- commend jake. he met with every one of those people. he offered his time and expertise to do whatever is necessary to bring it forward. the results were impressive. on some of the applications, they were very well done and give us a good indication of what they wanted to do out there. i wanted to thank j. carroll of the work he has put an end of the work he is going to continue to do. again, thank you, jay. -- jake. president buell: i had a few comments from people that were not selected. is it your sense that the process can be improved in the next round and we have learned a lot? >> i have pages of comments from both applicants whose projects were awarded and applicants whose projects were not awarded. as well as committee members. ed before rte. 2, applications will be released in march. i am currently compiling all of that data and i will be coming back with recommendations to improve round 2. commissioner lee: i just had a question on process. with regard to the leverage to match, are you find

commissioner harrison: on that monitoring, would we use the park patrol to do that much during can't be cautionary about riding on the path when there is a lot of pedestrians or an event going on. there might be not enough room for the pedestrians that our park patrol can sort of monitor. and have some alternative routes. >> absolutely. commissioner harrison: if there tends to be the next six months, if there is a lot of violations, we would get some feedback. commissioner bonilla: i just wanted to ask, in terms of storing the equipment by the music concourse, which are the options in terms of where we could distort the equipment? or where we could operate? i guess it will be the main staging area. >> it is not an area where there are already five other storage containers. in the dedicated area, it will be dedicated. commissioner harrison: that is what you have -- commissioner bonilla: that is what you have to end up doing, correct? you have to create space? so we would be adding more containers, in other words. >> correct. president buell: i have a few myself. i remain sensitive to

president buell: commissioner harrison? commissioner harrison: i have a question. there is nothing on the exterior of the building that will be changed. >> there will be some new paint put on, and some of the elements that have been disrepair will be repaired. i should note that this is, as i said earlier, one of the reasons we chose ortega, they have experience working on his tour buildings. the recently completed a renovation of a concession where it was an approximately 7-year- old building. they undertook a historic round is -- renovation of the project. they restored it to standards. they had to balance the standards and the leases standards, at times, conflicting requirements. it speaks to their capacity in performing renovations on projects. one of the other projects they have worked on in the past, probably known as the oldest house in the united states, it was a property built in 1610, made of adobe mud. they undertook a renovation of that property. these are the qualifications we were soliciting, pursuant to the commission's direction in issuing the rfq.

charlene harrison. all right. when you are ready, make them dance.ll right, doubled the -- double beat. this style of dance once again coming to us from the north. the ojibwa, lakota, dancing throughout indian countries. again, one of our most competitive styles of dance. ♪ alright, one more time, give it out -- up for our jingle time dancers. [applause] coming into the arena, our women's fancy shawl dancers. make your way into the arena. when you are ready, make them dance. all right, one more time. good singing, dancing. all right. [applause] how are we looking over there, robert? good? all right, calling out our double bustle fancy dancer, mr. edgar santiago. all right. [applause] edgar, are you tired from last night? all right. when you are ready. make them dance. ♪ all right. [applause] thank you, mr. edgar santiago. [applause] all right, calling all our dancers into the arena one more time. a round dance. dancers, come on out. how about another hand for our dancers, singers? all right. rocket, city hall. here we go. all right, when you are read

. >> commissioners, you now are on item 18. 2652 harrison street. it is a request for a conditional use authorization to allow construction of a four-story apartment building which -- with 20 dwelling units. >> good evening commissioners, sanchez with the manning department. you presented a questionable use authorization under section 134, 140, 175 e 1 and 215 a and 303 to demolish a industrial building and construct a four-story 40-foot tall multi-family building. it proposes 20 residential units and 16 off street parking spaces and two market rate units or affordable housing units. it is located at 2652 hairston between 22nd and 23rd street. it is a pipeline project. sponsor has elected to utilize planning code 1756 to seek approval under heavy commercial, the c.m. zoning district and 40 x height district. under the neighborhood's control, it is urban mixed use and is within a height and bulk district. the sponsor seeking conditional use authorization to provide a rear yard that doesn't meet 134, 14 requires that the rear yard at the lowest level

. >> i would like to congratulate commissioner harrison and the staff. it looks like a lot of work went into this and nothing but good is coming out of the other end of the process. congratulations. >> i just would like to echo your congratulations and a time of scarce resources and some challenging decisions we have to make, this is nothing but good news. this is the product of the commitment to our parks and the park spawned in which a very good decision was made to put aside a pot of money for community-driven projects. this is the first round of funding, the first fruit of that seat that was planted. i would like to thank our staff who really shepherded the community opportunity fund task force in cooperation with meredith thomas. i don't remember every single committee that participated but these are very challenging conversations. even though we have $5 million, we have maybe 100 times the need. it just designing a program was about how we were going to if a minister the program in a monumental and delivered his undertaking. i would like to offer m

i am going to ask for comments and start with commissioner harrison. vice president harrison: i have been around the department for a lot of years. i started working as a gardener in 1964. over the years, i and my fellow gardeners have expressed concern over the hanc and the effects. the term homelessness is not a real term. what i feel is that the hanc center is a resource for these addictive people. they go there and they collect -- and during my term on this commission, i have heard people from the neighborhood come in and complain about the hanc and the folks that go their raiding their recycle bins, leaving the dust behind and the papers and whatever. as far as my fellow gardeners were concerned, one in particular had such fear from these addictive people that he had to go to psychoanalysis. that may in part be being a gardener. be that as it may. i think that from listening to the folks over the years complain about this hanc thing -- not hanc in and of itself, but their customers rating the local garden cans, and pudding burdens on our gardeners

. >>> plus, does harrison ford have a plan to make sure no one else ever plays the role of indiana jones again? >>> also a buzzer beater in indiana. sid the kid turns 21 and brett farve makes his return. but did it last? you're watching "early today." >>> good morning, and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry. here are some of your top headlines this morning. according to the "new york times," top u.s. military commanders in afghanistan are pushing for more special operations ground raids into pakistan's tribal areas. the military believes special ops could capture militants and reap a intelligence windfall. until now, intelligence operations have currently been carried out by drones. the procedure would need to be approved by president obama. >>> capital execution was down this year according to a report by the death penalty information center and the report says part of the shortage of executions is because of lack of the drug available. >>> a car packed with barrels of gasoline drove through the gates of school. four children were hurt. amazingly, their injuries were not life

abc2 news don harrison explains why. >> reporter: a search and rescue is going on in a park in anne arundel county today. everybody turned up ok, mainly because it was staged. county police sponsored the full scale search and rescue exercise today. the exercise involves several county fire, police and emergency agencies, along with state police and some volunteer groups among others. some park residents were curious about all the activities. just talking about how to work together in a conference room is not enough. >> they have to come together and share information. the only way to do that is get together and do exercises such as this. i believe we see one of the victims. >> reporter: one of the narrows was a person lost down -- scenarios was a person that to needed to be transported across the water. >> it gives us the skills we need and to be compatible with other jurisdictions. >> you see him there? >> reporter: the mobile command unit is very valuable for all the different agencies involved in one incident >> that unit gives us the ability to patch together a variety of different radi

i need to get out of this and actually go and serve. >> reporter: harrison left new york to volunteer, and that's where he found his life's true calling. >> this was a fact that blew me away. 80% of the disease on the menest was directly related to unsafe water and lack of toilets. >> reporter: the cruel irony is that for millions uncontaminated water is flowing likely wednesday gold just feet underground. >> that was your aha. >> that was the aha. >> you can catch the rest of the series tonight. stay tuned for super nanny at 8:00 followed by what would you do at 9:00 and 20/20 at 10:00. >>> right after that on abc2 news at 11:00 we'll profile a local organization that played a real in that abc2 news special. don't miss the story how folks in our own backyard are coming up with innovative ways to help save the lives of women and children around the world. >>> we've got a lot more ahead at 6:00. new at 6:00 why one harford county community with won't be graceed with a living christmas tree this year. plus college students deal with a lot of stress and depression how mcdaniel college is