that is the work we have begun at hud. i want to welcome my colleague in the cabinet, administrator jackson. .. >> and from green for all about their plans to involve communities in that transformation. they know better than anyone about the jobs it can bring, they know firsthand about the ravages of pollution and the health impacts that can come from pollution. just today eps will be announcing $61 million of recovery act money to go to brownfield's job training programs across the country and to cleanup. brownfield's training grant program is putting community workers, community members to work not beautifying, but cleaning up their community. those are high-paying jobs, they pay on average 13, 14 clash 15 an hour, and we have a very high placement rate for those jobs. that's an example of a company's and the president's belief of a pursuit of an idea you don't have to choose between economic recovery and environmental recovery. thanks very much. and now undersecretary christina johnson from department of energy. >> than

they said that they got my information from hud, obviously a reputable organization. i listened to what they had to say. the told me what their fee was. $1,700. >> she researched them and decided to go with them. >> i decided to go with them and told them everything about my story. >> while the company was working it out, her house went into foreclosure. >> they told me not to pay my mortgage. it said it showed that i could afford the mortgage and they would be leery 23 modify my lawn. she contact -- >> she contacted the congressman's office, and to the foreclosure was stopped. >> there are some people who take advantage of folks when they're going to the most difficult circumstances in their life. >> remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. >> do not pay upfront fees. it is illegal to charge the consumer an up-front fee to help them get a loan modification. you need to be licensed. >> you can get free help by calling 18774627555. congressman cummings is having a workshop at woodlawn high school from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.. this information can also

they stated that they got my information from hud and they are a reputable organization. i listened to what they had to say. they told me how much their fee was which was $1,700. >> she says she researched the company on the internet and decided to go with them. i gave them a payment. i told them everything my story. >> that payment was for $1,700. her house went into foreclosure. >> they told me not to pick up a mortgage. if i paid my mortgage, it would show that i can afford the mortgage and that they would agree modify my loan. >> she contacted the congressman's office. the foreclosure was stopped. his office also helped to get a loan modification. she shared her story with congressman cummings. she has been mourning those about such scams. >> there are some people who take advantage of people when they are going through the most difficult circumstances in their life. >> the maryland commissioner of financial regulation says if it is too good to be true, it probably is. >> do not pay up front fees. in the state of maryland, it is illegal to charge the consumer an upfro

tragic end that has left many questioning the safety of that busy flight corridor along new york's hud sob river. that as late thursday the faa announced the controller of t the -- while the faaays there is no roone to believe that contributed to the crash, both have been put on administrative leave. as the investigation continues. >>> hyattsville man who preyed on elderly women will spend his life in jail. a judge sentenced hem to life without parole. back in 2007, the 34-year-old was behind a series of violent home invasions in montgomery county and targeted elderly women who lived ale, breaking into their houses and hogtying them before robbing them. some women were in court today. >> the only, only thing that -- aside from the death penalty. >> anything less would have put us all in jeopardy at a later date. and other people too. because he is the kind of an individual. if he had gotten out. i feel certainly wouldave come back on us for retaliation. >> one of the victim who did not live to testify, mary havenstein, garcia polara beat the 63-year-old to death in her bethesda home la

hud said the reverse mortgage system is working well, by and large. but last week winning streak for stocks may not extend into today. jane king has a look at the business news in the bloomberg business report. >> we are seeing a global sell- off. asian stocks fell overnight in response to the historic elections in japan where the opposition won a landslide and marked the end of a single party government which was for a half century. stocks in china fell. investors are worried measures to curb lending will end up hurting growth. in europe there is a lower open. the u.s. is pointing to a lower start as well. there was a mixed close on friday. merck, mcdonald's, at&t were among shares coming under pressure. the deepest recession hair cut a guy can get maybe at home. a growing number of americans are bypassing the barber and beauty salon and taking matters into their own hands instead. there are growing store sales of electric hair clippers. jane king reporting. >> thank you. we'll see you back at 6:15. >> 61 degrees on tv hill. coming up, another look a

she has a strong track record as a champion for our 8a and hud zone programs.n addition, she consistently speaks out about the benefits of working with minority-owned small businesses, women owned, and veteran known to small businesses. in january, she was selected as the acting associate administrator for gsa's office of small business utilization. we know that she has helped build a foundation for successful contrasting at gsa. if you saw our scorecard last week, you saw the results of her work. gsa was the only federal agency to meet all five of its contracting goals. small business, small disadvantaged businesses, and service disabled veterans. she continues to set the bar. please help me recognize mary parks. [applause] ♪[applause] >> finally, i am pleased to present our national minority- owned small businesses person of the year award. first things first. like to recognize that 10 regional minority-owned small businesses people of the year. it is a very competitive process to become a regional winner. these dynamic individuals already own and operate 8a

>> yes, ma'am in many cases take hud, most of d.c. with the fema programs are short-term to buy time to get it there is not find to be housing at the end of the fema programs we are unable to get out of whatever programs they've got to recognize early in a disaster that the hsing that will be available at the end of the fema program would not be sufficient to provide the solution. >> so we hands of responsibility and pass a temporary to another federal agency to decide what role and was funds are appropriate, is that once you are advocating? >> yes madam chair, i was safe to approach of the sampling you want stafford act to be all these things the program is to grow and raise judges' that usually will be implemented until disaster. >> to reconsider this, administrator fugate, i suppose an administrator of fema could decide that on his own and say at this point the agriculture department to should be responsible for this or it hud, do you think we need authority within fema so that there would be no doubt or bickering or exchanges abou

month's of rainfall drenched the area when an expressway was closed by much of the day by rivers of hud and debris. >>> for this morning's weather from around the nation, late day thunderstorms in the midwest. golf ball-size hail, gusty winds and flooding in iowa, missouri and illinois. heavy rain in florida, georgia and the carolinas. scattered thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds in parts of arizona, new mexico and colorado. >>> still very hot out west. 100 in boise, 98 in salt lake city and 90 in portland. upper 80s in chicago and detroit and 90s in st. louis and omaha. 86 here in new york and 89 in atlanta. miami and new orleans top 90 and dallas hits 100. >>> now when we come back, the wildly popular cash for clunkers program could be out of gas as early as today without a quick government fill-up. >>> jobs or the lack of them, the main reason everyone is being cautious about the economic recovery. the business news is next. these days, wouldn't it be great if saving moey happened as automatically as everything else? at bank of america, t practically does. use the bankamericard

meditators that said they got my information from hud. they are obviously a reputable organization, so i listened to what they had to say. it the told me their fee was $1,700. >> she researched the company on the internet, and decided to go with them. >> i gave them a payment and told them everything about -- >> while the company was working it out, her house went into foreclosure. >> they told me not to pay my mortgage. they said if i paid my mortgage, it showed i could obviously of for the mortgage. it they would be leery to read modify my lung. >> fortunately, she contacted congressman cummings office. the foreclosure was stopped. he also helped her get a loan modification. state officials want a home -- or want to warn owners. >> there are some people who take advantage of people when they're going to the most difficult circumstances in their life. dodge the commissioner of financial regulation says that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. >> don't pay upfront fees. and maryland, it is illegal to charge the consumer an u

we've heard from reggie hud lum, from debra lee, whether you like it or not. my question to you is, as someone who is intimately involved in bet.com, and when you take a look at the interest of young black america based on where they go on your website, what does that tell you, frankly? >> you know what? i want to address something really quickly. i think it's very easy for us to say we want to find this person, get the ceo of this corporation, we want to hold people accountable. the first duty that i have as a woman and as a mother is to be accountable for myself and my children. and i think that is the most important thing that we need to look at here. i raise my children every day, and i'm involved in their lives as well as the lives of the community that they're growing up in. i make an effort to go out to schools, talk to schools, and not just talk and wave my hand and say hi, but to further that relationship by giving out my personal phone number and e-mail address, because i believe in continuing the dialogue with that community. and i need to see mom o

but they told us to call another federal agency-- housing and urban development saying as of june, hudad taken over long-term housing of disaster victims. >> we're working with the state to remove all the bureaucratic red tape to make sure that those final families can be serviced by these programs as well. >> reporter: yet so many of these final families say the last thing they want is another program. >> i got the insulation sitting right there on that wall. >> reporter: but rather someone to listen to provide the help they really need. >> this is the toilet that goes in that bathroom. >> to close these doors once and for all. armen keteyian, cbs news, gulfport, mississippi. mitt submit coming up next, letting cooler heads prevail on the football field. a high-tech helmet that warns players when it's dangerously hot. discover a light yogurt like no other. activia light! delicious, fat free, and above all... the only one that has bifidus regularis and is clinically proven to help regulate your digestive system. activia light. ♪ activiaaa! . unlock an outdoor dreamland for your indoor

>> and what is really amazing on this, the fraud end of it, the hud inspector general warned that allf the same shady characters that are being prosecuted and hounded for the subprime mess are now applying to be in the government program and the numbers-- being approved. so the number of people that are now qualified to offer the taxpayer backed loans are skyrocketing. >> james, thanks for the pleasant last word. ahead, california could be the biggest winner for the census plan to count illegal immigrants in 2010. will other states lose in congress as a result? find out after the break. to demonstrate the allergen trappers in pledge, we've trapped kimberly in this glass box... with all this dust. well, it's only dust. in that dust are allergens from pet dander and dust mites. eww! pledge with allergen trappers... traps up to 84% of allergens in dust. 84%? that's... nothing to sneeze at? yeah... no. that's great. allergen trappers. that's the beauty of pledge®. also available in wipes. s.c. johnson. a family company. a short time ago, this woman was limited by her lack of mobility. a m

>> and what is really amazing on this, the fraud end of it, the hud inspector general warned that all of the same shady characters that are being prosecuted and hounded for the subprime mess are now applying to be in the government program and the numbers-- being approved. so the number of people that are now qualified to offer the taxpayer backed loans are skyrocketing. >> james, thanks for the pleasant last word. ahead, california could be the biggest winner for the census plan to count illegal immigrants in 2010. in 2010. will other states lose in so, do you have any questions? what is your soup of the day? we have a mulligatawny soup. oh, do you have any specials? we have a steak special today. oh. how is that cooked? that's pan-seared and then... does it come with a side dish? is it grilled? can i have it steamed? so, what do you recommend? what kind of pie do you have? are you an actor? aren't you from ohio? any questions? >> we are a little more than six months away from the start of the 2010 census. if you think the goal is get an accurate count of u.s. citizens think again. i

for a second loan worth $30,000 since his first loan was insured by the federal government through hud, he faced a huge problem. the second loan then changed the terms and amounts of his first loan. >> my mortgage should be less than a thousand dollars when i took my loan. my first one. that has been increased to 1645. $1,645 a month. that's what i'm paying on it. i just got a second mortgage. of combine together it's almost $2,000 or over. >> reporter: for those who question his naove taste, no one asked for any document. >> if i provide that document at that time, i should never be broke for that long. >> reporter: attorneys know this rule is the unclean hands doctrine. they allow for contracts to be changed. and that is what he hopes to accomplish with a lawsuit. >> what happens. >> you may be wondered what they were contacting them with no comment. brittany morehouse. thank you so much. >>> someone out there has taken animal cruelty to a new low. somebody stuck this pit bull pup in a plastic bag and sealed it up with duck tape and then they threw it in a dumpster. the pup managed t

. >>> and according to the top fundraiser hud, so far there are. >>> and tonight the state of maryland is facing a shortfall and the governor is warning the state get ready. that means counties will have to reduce their services and maybe even eliminate their jobs. montgomery county says they're not sure where the cuts will be coming from in the county but he can guarantee one thing. >> we're not going to raise taxes in montgomery county. >> he says the county will do all it can to avoid cuts in education as well as police and fire services. the governor let the -- the governor will let the county know how much money is being cut by the end of this month. >>> ladies and gentlemen, check your credit card statements. the feds have just busted a ring of super hackers. and they're accused of killing 130 million credit and debit card numbers and the corresponding account information. it's looking to be the largest identity theft case in u.s. history. and among the targets, heartland payment systems. that is one of the nation's biggest payment processors. >>> well, meet tina. now, what would

largest of these allocated to i was $800 million comes from the committee to develop a block grant from hud. it's my understanding that the right to use of the funds after hurricane katrina continues to be an issue as well and as to was made of housing. a with the funds are not traditionally used as you all know for disaster relief. and therefore they're not ideally suited to be flexible and that commendable and now this is something i heard from you folks, then the printable this if you will to lead to immediate post disaster recovery needs of cities and communities. how secretary dog said it during a visit that the state of iowa in cedar rapids are models for officially utilizing the funds for disaster recovery. i am proud of that decision by to have to wonder why at this point the federal government is still looking for models of efficiency. i know it has of an easy journey from my district and the journey is far from over but as city rapids and i want to provide examples of best practices for the future, then i look for to working with secretary john evans to all of you on this committe

he hit the hud well the team, did a little footwork, and took him to talk to us, about his love of the game and who he calls the best player in league. >> inspiration to see how he can inspire his whole team and turn the level up and they go out there and dogs, just nasty on the field. i love it. i'm a football person. i am surrounded by people. i have my own football league. i love the players and the situation with the nfl. i'm a phenomenon of it. it's a natural thing for me to be here today. >> you can hear more from snoop and coach harbaugh coming up tonight at 6:00. >>> good news. you can tweet again. hackers executed a twitter takedown today. and for hours people looking to send tweets could not log on the twitter. a message on the twitter blog said they were, quote, defending against a denial of service attack, whatever that means. while twitter was being hacked, facebook users were also experiencing problems today. there is a whole group of people out there who have no idea what i just said. >>> the woman exsenator john edwards admits to having an affair with is in court, feder

flight down the hudson, and again, i will jump in, put somebody in my mane and we'll head down the hudn river. we generally fly southbound and cross manhattan at central park and fly over to the east river and loon around down by the statue of liberty and past the ground zero sight and so forth. it is a phenomenal view and my guess, absolutely the guests love t i'm not going to tell tourists it is a dangerous thing to do, because, again, i can't think of the last time this happened. there was a chopper that went down after it had engine difficulties in the hudson river three, four, five years ago, but, again, this kind of thing is very rare. it is sort of like akin to the terrible wrong-way crash that happened in new york about a week and a half ago when the apparently drunk driver had that collision on the taconic parkway. it doesn't happen often and that's why it is making news. >> if you are just joining us, let me bring you up to date. you are looking at live pictures of the hudson river. on one side, new jersey, on the other, the west side of manhattan. about noon today, a tour he

. >> worst, hud plans to take away the section 8 certificate. one strike and the family is out.d never thought her son would sell drugs and never discussed the nuisance policy with him. now they have five days left and she says it no where to go. reporting live from northwest, sam ford, abc 7 news. >>> thank you for joining us for ab7 news at 5:00. abc 7 news at 6:00 starts right now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> it is the glory and greatness of our tradition to speak for those who have no voice. >> senator edward kennedy's voice shaped the nation. it >> his ideals are stamped on scores of laws that have affected millions of lives. >> his plebiscite -- his legacy lives on credit >> the hope arises again and the dream lives on. >>> 77-year-old senator edward kennedy died late last night at his home in hyannis port, mass.. >> he was the last of the kennedy brothers. >> he had been fighting brain cancer at more than a year. neighbors say they knew his time was coming to an end when he did not even attend his daily sale -- sail and on tuesday

neither hud for fema had broken down who we were talking about, how close they were, whether they were disabled people, whether they were people waiting to build their homes, just who they were in the first place. so they have it all locked together by the press. how many are there? how many are left. your predecessor just or leaving office, promised this committee nobody would be put out in the street. but of course if you should notice is michael out to the committee does not object to that. we certainly are not saying that they should violate the stafford act and key people receiving federal funds in perpetuity, but we would like to wipe the slate clean of the last victims of katrina knowing that they are now someplace that is appropriate for them. >> right now there is approximately a little under 2400 families that are still in fema housing. we have been working aggressively -- >> otherwise known as traitors? >> some are trailers, some are mobile homes, but again, working to do casework. and we were working with the state of louisiana. we were able to enlist one of the other partn

workers were standing on a river in shallow water when they were hit with a hud rush of water. it swept them away. four of the workers drowned. one was found unconscious. more than an hour later in an underground water way. >>> the latest on what landed richard hatch, the first "survivor" champion, back behind bars. his rearrest came hours after hatch was interviewed on the "today" show earlier this week. now his lawyer believes she knows why. amy robach has the latest. >> reporter: richard hatch's big mouth helped him become america's first reality tv superstar outwitting and outplaying and outlasting the other contestants to win a million dollars on the first "survivor." but it looks like his mouth did him in as well. landing him back behind bars after a series of interviews this week. his first since he spent nearly four years in prison after he was convicted of not paying taxes on his winnings. while heave out on house arrest, hatch broke his silence tuesday on "today." an interview which had been cleared in advance with federal prison officials. he told matt he was the vic

national association of personal financial advisors or the financial planning association, as well as hud, get a counselor who can vice you whether or not this is the best plan for you. but again, usually a last resort, and you have to make sure you fall into those criteria. >> carmen, sharon, thanks a lot. stand by. we have more questions and answers right after these messages. >>> we're back with more of today's money 911, answering all your financial quandaries, we have personal finance corresponds at cnbc. let's go across the street, and nationally has another question from the crowd. >> that's right, i have an impressive young lady, 16-year-old lexi who is already thinking about her financial future. of go ahead. >> i'm 16 and i babysit a lot, and i'm wondering the best way to save my money to go to college. should i put it in the bank or put it into stocks or keep it you said my under my bed? >> great question. turn it over to you, carmen. >> lexi, i did the same thing for college, i baby-sat and i waited tables and put that money away. lexi, the thing is that most of the money you'

hud the picture so far is morning has been fairly nice in terms of the live shots that seep. there are some clouds xe d in with the sunshine. all the precipitation is well off to the west and atth precip remains there for the time being. as awe frontal system pushes into our area, or towards our area for today, we'll get some of that moisture moving in here. currently, reagan national airport, the temperature remains 79 degrees. relative humidity remains 79% and our winds are out of the west at 12 miles per hour. partly cloudy, i think mostly cloudy late this afternoon. scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms, some with heavy rain. high today in the low 90s, about 92 degrees downtown. coming up in about 15 minutes, today's ask the weather guy question is about hurricanes. we'll have that coming up shortly. >> fair enough. very good. >> let's check in with julie wright and got a look at traffic. >> not a lot happening right now on the top side of the beltway and for those routes coming southbound to merge onto 495, you find yourself in good shape along 95, 295 as well as

steve doocy and -- hud could is playing for -- lives in st. louis. like in on the action.com. ok. the great american news quiz. hillary clinton lashed out at a student when her translater botched a question. >> wait, you want me to tell you what my husband thinks? my husband is not the secretary of state. i am. [inaudible] you ask my opinion, i will tell you my opinion. i'm not going to be channelling my husband. bill: ok. where was secretary clinton? bill: huddy breaks into the lead who doocy who covered the story had no idea where she was. question number two. rod blagojevich everybody's favorite sang an elvis presley song at a chicago party. >> 1, 2, 3, 4, ready. ♪ ♪ when i walk through that door ♪ baby be polite ♪ you gonna make me sore. >> can he be arrested for that? bill: which song did he sing? bill: the answer is, roll the tape ♪ when i walk through the door ♪ baby, be polite ♪ you're gonna make me sore ♪ if you don't greet me right ♪ don't you ever kiss me once, kiss me twice ♪ treat me nice ♪ bill: a little bit of an improvement there, i would say. all right. hu

. >> it is for free and go with a hud approvalled counseling agency. >> reporter: is there any legal recourse if you are the victim of one of these foreclosures? >> there are resource -- recourses of action. one thing we encourage people to do is to contact the local counseling agency. my agency, for example, will take those kinds of inquiries and we will work with the client and working with probably the federal trade commission or the local attorneys office to see if there is a case that can be made for that client and try to recoupe those funds. >> a lot of people are using credit cards to try to get out of mortgage debt and putting it on their cards and making things even worse. how can $10 help in this time of desperate need. >> the thing is you have to smart somewhere and in a time where we see people depleting their retire and savings and going to every source they can in order to get through, it is important to start to rebuild as you can. and that might mean $10 a week or $10 a monday or whatever you can spare but have a longer- term vision in mind that you have to have an e

. >> is noaa working with hud and other agencies to tie the science and the coastal management and community preparations together? >> noaa is working with a variety of different agencies. i would point out since we are in the department of commerce, we work closely with national institute of standard -- >> senator martinez, i wanted, before you left -- and i really appreciate your being here -- i just want to, since you and i introduced this package of bi s bills, do you all generally support this six-pack that we put together? basically, the legislation is a lot about what we have been talking about here. is there anybody that doesn't? >> senators, as you know, the reinsurance sector has always had an ongoing dialogue with you, senator martinez and the state of florida about the value of the private sector's role in financing catastrophe risk and the role government can and should play with it. with that caveat, we are strongly supportive of the bill you and senator martinez have introduce bed d about increased research and we think it should be more. >> so it is fair to say the reinsuranc

white sox retreated on a home run and a fan accidentally bumped his suds as the ball sailed into the hudswas soaked, no charges were filed. oddly enough, the moment was captured by an associated press photographer named charles e. chuck knoblauch. and a security video of a guy with a blue bandanna over his face and a hand in his pants pretending to have a gun trying to knock off this bar, this bar filled with 20 off-duty policeman. the robber was quickly subdued in the men in blue, one with who did not even bother to put down his beer. he was charged with one count of disorderly conduct. >>> why the second bush administration might have been scarier than the first. john dean's read on the cheney revelation promise. >>> and in nigeria, the secretary of state warns of the growing pains of young democracies, like the 2000 election -- our 2000 election. these stories ahead. >>> but first, "countdown's" top three best persons of the world. dateline columbus circle, number three, best news decision, john klein, president of the cnn, says he will ban radio talk show hosts as guests henceforth, b

as was announced in the regulatory reform package last month, treasury and hud are working on proposals and working very closely with them, and the president working group on proposals for the future of freddie and fannie. i am sure that there will be a lot of hearings. we have already had one a month or so ago with house financial services, and i would like to see is a lot of good ideas out there, but again, we need to focus, and that's what i keep saying, we need to focus on what we want the secondary mortgage market to look like in the future. it has been so important for the housing finance and the mortgage market in this country over the last 75 years, that it is extremely important we get it right. of course, my exteriors unfortunately with government programs is we don't always get it right. at the pension benefit guaranty corporation, i probably almost have been less than 40 year history. so i think it is really useful to have this dialogue over the next year or so to really look through that there is alternatives and model them out, work with fannie and freddie and the federal

here to discuss, howard glazer a former hud advisor during the clinton administration, and susan walkter, president of real estate and finance at the wharton business school at the university of pennsylvania. susan walkter, this is a very surprisingly strong report, and 15 or so of the metropolitan areas showed monthly price gains. there are seasonally adjusted data here. what do you make of it? >> i think it's good news. look, we're not off to the races, but this is a turn. of course we can go down next month, of course unemployment can go up. but this is signs of a bottom for me. >> yeah, howard, looking back at the numbers, so month over month, prices are up 1.4%, i went back and looked at june versus may for '08. it was down half a percentage point, not up. if you look at june versus may for '07, that was also down. so kind of no matter how you turn this cube, i know year over year, prices have obviously declined a lot. but it's up this month, and it isn't usually up in this month. that's a positive. >> we're gaining ground. and that's with more sales. that's good news. and this is j

i'm not insulting the toledo hud hens but they're a double a baseball team.t they think about the new york yankees doesn't matter. i hate to brag, but we're the highest rated cable news program 30 and younger and highest for all not on fixed news. and fixed news is now catering to tin foil and ratists, it is not a news organization, making this show the highest-rated news program period. more importantly, the toledo mud hens are a double a baseball team. triple a. they have been since the reclassifications, triple a, single a, went into effect in 1946. bill-o can't tell a single a from a double a. this from bill o'reilly, who claimed he got a tryout for a pro contract from the new york mets in 1970 or 1971 and told author marvin kitman, he was warming up on one of the mounds in the bull pen at shea stadium, when next to him another young pitcher, who o'reilly insisted nobody ever heard of was also warning up, who he revealed was tom seaver, who would have been in his fourth season with the mets, including the year he led them to the miracle www.msnbc.com win

yes, the addition of hud housing has helped in the recent disasters. the additional rental assistance has been helpful. if you do the math, the sum of all the options that we have an hour tool kit today is not big enough. no one option is the answer. the answer is to maximize each of the options, to develop new options and great work is being done in this regard. maximizing options, developing new options. this is not something that fema does. this is a decision made locally with and by fema. we need the research work done. we need to let state and local government work with the month. as juneau, the urban solutions are very different from the real solutions for distance matters greatly. i would suggest that the task force that has stood up to be the focal point needs to be energized and move more quickly. i think we heard the administrator speak to this. we're not constructing a response community have been dealing with the exceptions, the exceptions being the frail elderly or children with disabilities or people with medical needs or people with pets

. >> speaking of markoff, the media portrayed him as a clean hud med student, very intelligent.ngs that suggested a darker side to not just his past, but his present. >> he, for example, graduated in three years from college. unquestionably an intelligent person. you guys broke the story that he has been e-mailing on craig's list and men for trannies. transvestites. i spoke to them and all the messages going back and forth. he sent in his facebook picture and there were other things also for example in the third attack he had, he tried to gag the woman with an s and m device and they found when they googled his name and phone number after the crime, these s and m websites came up as well. >> let's talk about his fiance at the time. megan was supportive of him and couldn't believe this was the man to whom she was engaged and eventually gave in and said yes, this is not the man i knew. how is she doing? >> she has begun medical school in the caribbean. the interesting thing is they were plan ag i great big wedding and had a beautiful site. they were not even going to live together

promised chairman frank we would stand up the agency quickly, pulling together the finance board and hud'smission team. i am please report today that we did it despite the many turmoils in the housing market. this morning, i would like to talk about our accomplishments over the past year, there have been many, and the challenges we face, and there are many. from the beginning i have stressed the results oriented culture to our work. i can tell you our 425 employees that worked long hours for the past year know that we have extremely important mission. that mission is to provide effective supervision, regulation and housing mission oversight of fannie mae, freddie mac and the federal home loan banks to promote their safety and soundness, support housing finance and affordable housing, and support a stable and liquid mortgage market. i have been especially pleased to see how well fhfa have tackled the challenges. i have no doubt they will continue to do so. the obligations -- and the federal home loan banks, is $6.6 trillion which is close to the public debt of the united states. a year ago

introduce enders wimbush who is a senior vice president at international programs and policies at huds institute. [applause] >> thank you very much, richard. this is indeed an impressive audience, and i'm sure that this is going to be an impressive location. today's events are a tribute to a remarkable individual, mary c. fitzgerald, a hudson expert for more than 20 years and a good friend and a colleague. i am particularly grateful to richard weitz, and my old friend and colleague, stephen blanc, from the army war college, for putting this event together a mang it possible. so thanks to the two of you. let me say a word about mary. from 1989 t 2009, mary fitzgerald served as a research fellow in sino russian military of cells at the hudson institute. she was fluent in russian and she analyzed russian and chinese military writings for the department of defense on their impact, revolutionary impact with respect to emerging technologies, military doctrine strategy, operational concepts, organizational structures and defense industry imperatives. mary served as a consultant to the white h

how about raising the question of whether hud should be applied to low-enriched uranium, refined over seed pursuant to separate work unit, agreements? still no-- okay, you have to know kennedy versus plan administrator, a tantalizing erisa case looking at whether it planned administrator lights some beneficiary designations or a divorce decree manufacturing to limit the beneficiaries rights? great and exciting cases, but no, why did you come today? because of the tmz like gover jeb stip searching teenage girls. i know, i know for quite sure our distinguished panel slid to a better job of picking cases to highlight the nine have so i shall move to their deductions. we will begin with lytle denniston. lyle is a legend in the supreme court reporting. he is celebrating his 59th year as a journalist and his 49th year covering the supreme court. during his extraordinary career he has covered one in every for justice-- justices ever to sit on the supreme court. he currently reports for the indispensable, which i am sure you are reading and if you are not you really should. he also reports on

all kinds of things at boot tomorrow of the hud -- at the bottom of the hudson. they need to take the cameras and go down and see exactly what they are dealing with. we thought we would have pouring rain by this point. there was talk of thunderstorms. the weather is humid and hot and sticky but at least the rain has stopped. they can always work through rain, if the fear of lightning. the weather is good. the current has settled down. it is the next few hours. the 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. window we talked about earlier from the river experts was really the best window of time. these divers, our hats are off to them, went in at 8:01 and got their work done and secured as much as they could underwater and they have been going nonstop ever since. now, that it is past 1:00 when the current is going to change again, they do have significant challenges ahead of them. they have all the ex-pearls here to help guide them from what is coming and predicted as far as the tide and weather conditions so we are hoping that they will be able to come up with more stuff before the

we have plans coming from hud, transportation, we have a homeland security plan, health care plans. we all know the energy plan. i see broadband as being the innovation platform to support all of this. second point, in terms of the web portal you hear -- you have here the fcc, let us make a dynamic and collaborative and a place where millions and come and share ideas about this plan, and we can suck up the great information coming from the innovative proposals in the first round of the broadband stimulus money. the last point -- how do you take the innovation success stories of places like the national institutes of health, national science foundation, and others -- how can we create may be 100 cities, in network, a competitive process where we say indiana, in your city, you have high-speed broadband, let us now create an incentive for bringing innovative broadband applications right down to helping people get better health care, improve public safety, improve the energy costs of their homes, figure out ways to get higher levels of education? and maybe that innovation can spread and

she has a strong track record as a champion for our 8a and hud zone programs.y speaks out about the benefits of working with minority-owned small businesses, women owned, and veteran known to small businesses. in january, she was selected as the acting associate administrator for gsa's office of small business utilization. we know that she has helped build a foundation for successful contrasting at gsa. if you saw our scorecard last week, you saw the results of her work. gsa was the only federal agency to meet all five of its contracting goals. small business, small disadvantaged businesses, and service disabled veterans. she continues to set the bar. please help me recognize mary parks. [applause] [applause] >> finally, i am pleased to present our national minority- owned small businesses person of the year award. first things first. like to recognize that 10 regional minority-owned small businesses people of the year. it is a very competitive process to become a regional winner. these dynamic individuals already own and operate 8a firms that have begun to sho

to compensate the justice department and hud for having pursued the this and for punishing westchesterere another shoe to drop? >> no. westchester will have a lawyer appointed as a monitor to make sure they take another $30 million, buy real estate, and develop it. the mentality behind this wall is the same mentality behind health care. it's as the right to live where everyone is a right. it is not a right. the law says you get to live wherever you want. well the counties have to buy land and develop low-income housing. big brother is right here. this is an example. brian: we will talk about this much more a little bit later. >> it is so nice to see you. dari: it is good to see you. brian: these two had a bitter rivalry when they worked together. stop dari: it. dari: the secretary of state it wants you to know she is the boss. >> you want me to tell you what my husband thinks? my husband is not the secretary of state. i am. dari: what is the deal? was hillary clinton jet lagged or jealous? glenn beck is here next. brian: has olivia newton-john's long-lost boyfriend surfaced? new detail

another place is for hud- approved counselors at hud.gov. it has intermission on local councilors. they can work with you. -- it has intermission on local councilors. they can look at your budgeting and help you to figure your best course of action. host: is that a better first stop then immediately calling your mortgage lender? guest: to the extent you want to make sure that you have your ducks lined up before you ask of the mortgage lender, it is a good idea. but if you are facing notices of foreclosure and have other threatening letters, i would make the call to the servicer first. i would tell them i'm working on this and ask for their assistance. host: las vegas, the republican line. caller: just recently we called bank of america and ask ed for the modification. guest: the modification program. caller: apparently, we answered all the wrong answers to their questions and did not fit into them all. we have the savings and checking account. the checking account is depleted. my husband who is a plumber has been unemployed for about three months. i am a hairdresser. the numbers to

[applause] >> as the health-care conversation continues, c- span's health care hud is a key resource. also, keep up-to-date with health care events like town hall meetings, house and senate debates come even at load your opinion about health care. the c-span healthcare have th h. >> this fall, entered the home to america's highest court. the supreme court coming this fall in october on c-span. >> secretary of state hillary clinton released a statement today expressing deep disappointment in the decision to release the only man convicted of committing the 1988 bombing in scotland. the move was one of the main topics at the state department briefing. this portion is 21 minutes. >> good afternoon and welcome to the department of state. i will begin by reading a statement by secretary clayton. -- clinton. the united states is deeply disappointed by the decision of this got us executive -- by the decision of the scottish executive for releasing this man who took the lives of 370 persons, including 189 americans. we have continue to communicate our long-standing position to the united kingd

they did send me a letter saying we want a copy of the hud and documents.it is not like a regular tax credit. >> okay. all right. you have to back it up. >> yep. >> all right. thanks. appreciate the heads up on that. >>> a california prison just had its worst riot in more than two years. hundreds of inmates were beaten and stabbed but why? officials think they have figured it out. >>> prison officials say that tensions between hispanic and african-american inmates likely led to a massive riot that injured more than 250 inmates. they say hundreds of prisoners also started a fire that seriously damaged one prison building in chino, california, saturday night. dozens of officers stepped in with pepper spray and foam bullets. 55 inmates went to the hospital but no injuries are considered to be life threatening. >>> south carolina governor mark sanford may have violated state laws sometimes using the state plane. according to an associated press investigation, sanford flew to places where his kids were having sporting events and dentist and hair appointments. th

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funds allocated to iowa $800 million comes from the community development block grant program through hud. it's my understanding that effective use of cdbg funds after hurricane katrina continues to be an issue as well, and mention was made of housing. cdbg funds are not traditionally used, as you all know, for disaster relief, and, therefore, they're not ideally suited to be flexible enough, nimble enough. this is something that i heard from you folks, the need for nimbleness, if you will, to meet the immediate post-disaster recovery needs of states and communities. during a visit to my district that the state of iowa and the city of cedar rapids are models for efficiently utilizing funds for disaster recovery. i'm proud of that distinction, but i do have to wonder why the federal government is still looking for models of efficiency. i know it has not been an easy journey for my district, but as cedar rapids and iowa can provide examples of beth practices -- best practices for the future, then i look forward to working with all of you on this committee, to those who are about to testify,

at the federal level with all the other national plans taking place, we have got plans coming from hud, transportation, homeland security plan, health care plans, we all know the president's energy plan. i can see broadband in this plan being the innovation platform to support all boss. and we can suck up the great information that will be coming from the proposals in the first round of the broadband stimulus money. last point can this one is, how do you take the innovation success stories of places like the national institutes of health. how can we create maybe 100 cities, network, competitive process where you say green cassel, north dakota, new york city, you have highspeed broadband. let's create an incentive to help people get better health care, improve energy costs, higher levels of education, and maybe that innovation can spread and we can be the leader in the world in terms of innovation and use of broadband. thank you for the opportunity to be with you. >> thank you, mayor. [a >> for our final presentation for the first panel we have this noveck cement i want to thank the ent

. >> is noah working with hud and other agencies to time the science and coastal management and the communityreparations together? >> noah is working with a variety of different agencies. i would also point out of course since we are in the department of commerce we work closely with the national institute -- >> senator martinez, i wanted before you left and i really appreciate you being here -- i know you do, and i just want -- since you and i introduced this package of bills, do you all generally support these -- this six pack that we put together? [inaudible] [laughter] >> basically the legislation is a lot about what we have been talking about here. anybody that doesn't? >> senator, as you know the reinsurance sector has always had an ongoing dialogue with you, senator martinez and the state of florida about the value of the private sector role in financing risk and the role that government can or should play with so with that caveat we are strongly supportive of the bill you and senator martinez increased research in fact we think the funding is more modest than it should be it should be