>> we're going to talk more, irin and nick are going to stay with us. we're waiting for the unveiling, as we said, of paul ryan's budget. we'll see you shortly. >>> meantime, let's check the news feed this morning. the governor of washington asking president obama to declare a major disaster in his state so victims of that deadly mudslide can get quick access to federal relief funds. the death toll is now 24, with 22 still listed as missing, that down from 30. so members of the seattle seahawks stopped by yesterday to sign autographs and help serve dinner, a welcome distraction from families still going through so much. >>> the u.s. is considering the release of convicted spy jonathan pollard to try to salvage peace talks. pollard was arrested in 1985, after passing secret documents to israel. he could be payrolled in the -- paroled in the middle of the month. john kerry met with benjamin netanyahu to try to mediate a dispute between the release of palestinian prisoners. >>> the west is closely watching russian troop movements along the ukrainian border

and back to irin and rebecca, it is worth point ought that in the 120 midterms women voted republican 49% of the time compared to 48% of the time for democrats. very, very different than what we saw in the obama/romney split. so where is this debate going as we head towards the midterms? >> well, i would say that at this point, it is really the question is whether we can turn -- whether the democrats are able to turn out young women, women of color in particular who have been really crucial to the victories for the democrats in the past, and those tend to be demographics that don't turn out in the mid elections, and so a lot of it is, hey, a lot of this is at stake for you, and after the 2010 midterm elections, a lot changed for the women, and whether it is repealing acts like scott walker did or passing unprecedented restrictions on abortion. >> and political coe had a big article about this, but it is republicans trying to counter this that they have had the meetings that the rnc have had major committees getting together to talk about the pushback on this, and we have just heard fr

and so when you look back, irin, what is the effect here?well, it is staggering that the guns anywhere any time lobby is so tremendously activated and yes, some pushback from the religious leaders and notably from the ebenezer baptist church where martin luther king used to preach, but what they have stacked against them is any fear of any future federal legislation, the gun movement is enormously activated to expand the gun rights as much as possible. >> and perry to, you, the bill passing with the bipartisan support including the democratic party's no, ma'minee jason cart and this is what he said on "daily rundown" yesterday. >> we worked across the aisle to try to make the bill better than when it first started and we succeed in that, but ultimately, it is a license to carry in the state where the second amendment is incredibly important. >> and so, perry, is this the essence of the state, the state of georgia, and it cannot be turned around? >> well, it is broad in the state of georgia, but it is also in a number of conservative states i

this is going to your irin the risk of heavy rainfall and the threat of flooding across eastern parts of mindanao through midweek. we want to continue to keep an eye on this. let's take a look on what's going on in japan. decent weather. show you some video out of saitama. this rings back to february when we saw this very heavy snowfall. snowstorms hit the tokyo area, that caused damage to a few of these cherry trees out there. and it snapped a lot of the branches. well, some concerted effort to help save the trees from residents and visitors. well, it's allowing for these blooms to come out. very plentiful out here. so some good news with that. a lot of people still enjoying it. and through the next 24 to 48 hours for middle week, decent weather is going to be in place. high pressure is sitting out here across japan. it's pumping in warmer air, and take a look at your temperatures. they are on the rise. here's the extended forecast. >>> before we wrap up, an elementary school has reopened near the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. the government lifted its evacuation order after

but, what we have seen, what we have heard from miss irine is that there is a lot of flexibility and fluidty for the teachers who are participating and a lot of building capacity, and working together. the third thing that we were also very excited about hast year was the para professional teacher plc and the ideas that teacher and paras were working together side by side and that the content that they were working on was decided by feedback and by surveys and so it was very relevant to them. and last year, they were focusing on mathematics and adaptive pe and staff well sxns this year, they have also added behavior rti, and math core curriculum and next year, it sounds like we are going to be adding across the department para pd workshops and again, as a result of the focus groups and recruitment and so we like that this is really responsive to the needs of our teachers and para >> i just have the one question about the teacher leader model and so, maybe you can explain that what that teacher leader position is. page 3. >> and then, how is that incorporated and what role do the teac

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you can argue the legitimacy of these, but it's hard to argue that in the face of the sdast irin ben ghazi, and it's hard to argue this in the face of people say, well, we didn't have enough money. the other criticism i think that ought to be considered with regard to ben ghazi is that -- this is something i think the review board didn't adequately address -- is whether or not in the midst of a country coming out of war that really the state department should be in charge of security. whether they can adequately provide security. i think one of the biggest mistakes in decision -- these all happen from your predecessor, not you, but the biggest decision mistake i think in ben ghazi was thinking that ben ghazi was more like paris than baghdad. had we treated ben ghazi as a fortress in the middle of a military base, i think we might have had a better chance. nobody can predict exactly, you know, what could happen with different outcomes, but i think when we have a civil war raging, we have to consider whether or not one of the errors in decision was how we chose to protect or not protec