it is amazing. >> jackie calmes, 2005. anyway, stephanie?>> chris begquinn. we'll see. >> i think everybody should take a look the a george w. bush's paintings. i'm serious. >> how about that, art, sculpture. >> have you seen them? >> coming up next, chris jansing live from the vatican where they have a lot of pretty interesting paintings there, too. we'll see you tomorrow. >>> all of that rain from yesterday is moving off the eastern seaboard. we are going to see clearing skies in boston today. light snow showers through the lakes. we will see increasing sunshine, 53 today in boston. new york city, 54. almost 60 in washington, d.c. you get back into detroit, a couple of lighter snow showers with highs topping out around 40.

. >> stephanie: calm down. it is jackiast two americans and three afghans. american troops were visiting the police facility as part of the on-going effort to get the afghans ready to take over their own security. president hamid karzai had ordered all u.s. special forces out of there by yesterday in the wake of accusations that afghans working for those u.s. troops had tortured and murdered innocent civilians. general joseph, the top u.s. commander in afghanistan said he has spoken with president karzai about the issue and the u.s. is working on a plan to transfer vardok security over to u.s. forces. the general is rejecting president karzai's claim that somehow the u.s. is in collaboration with the taliban to prove that violence will escalate once u.s. forces leave. president karzai made those inflammatory remarks during a nationally-televised speech on sunday. >>> operation key resolve is now underway on korean peninsula. every year the u.s. and south koreans together conduct military drills. this year's comes at the sa

calming measures. thank you. >> yeah. >> thank you. let's open this up for public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? >> good afternoon commissioners. i am jackie sax and on the commission for the transportation authority. i looked over this item and one thing you have to recommend regarding the speed limits for schools. in most cities there's signs posted -- first of all there are speed limits signed posted on the streets how fast you can go on the street, and in most cities -- for example cleveland ohio as an example. that's where i am from. they have signed posted saying "school ahead, speed limit 20 miles per hour". it's also in the driving test, this sort of thing when you take the written test, when they want to know the speed limits on different areas, this sort of thing. that's another thing you have to look into. post the spreed limit signs and have the schools post signs prior to coming to school saying "school ahead. speed limit 20 miles per hour" end of that and after they leave the school then they can go back to where they were before. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning everyone. my name is [inaudible