my name is james robinson. i have and big business on westboro avenue for the last five years along with my wife, who will be speaking shortly after. the cbd's have a tremendous track record, where they go in and help improve the neighborhoods and to manage with the existing organizations, and i urge you to wholeheartedly support this, as i do. thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> below, my name is gail. my husband and i have owned a business for five years. we are very excited about this. we believe it will bring continuity and unity, and it will elevate the business district, which is so sorely needed. thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is bob presley. i am neither an owner or a merchant. i live a couple blocks away. i have been around there for 10 years. we have enjoyed watching the good things on west portal. we have done a lot of shopping there. there are restaurants. we eat out a lot there. there are a fair number of new people moving in. there are five new families

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>> my name is james, i have been working as a president for the city, experience with mr. tham, diane robinson, and also lawrence. that is my comment. they are very good people to work with. thank you. commissioner elsbernd: is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor farrell? commissioner farrell: thank you, everyone, for coming forward. mr. ridgell, i like you are a local. i would also like to consider the others, but in my opinion, if you would like to come back and apply for this another time -- getting to know people before and is a good thing. i love your experience and your willingness to come forward, so we would love to afford you had a different time. i am torn between mr. tham and mr. campana. mr. campana has been here before and has pushedon alonso we are y to support either one. commissioner elsbernd: i think now might be the time. i would like to go with mr. campana at this time. if we continue to report the new blood, all of this could be stifled. not a reflection on mr. tham's service, but i think we should give some chance to somebody who's a

robinson. it is 8:25. here's a look at our top stories. police are investigating a shooting in annapolis overnight. juan brown and jamesng with gun shot wounds near capital circle. both men are in the hospital this morning. investigators say no arrests have been made in the case. >> firefighters were called to the reflections complex in the 12000 block of detective parkway 12:30 yesterday afternoon. it took fire crews 30 minutes to get the fire under control. no word on how the fire started. one person treated for smoke inhalation. >> a water power station lost power. this affected 150,000 people. residential and business people were urged >> welcome back. not the prettyest start to your sunday morning. it has been cloudy and chilly. a lot of drizzle being reported across the area as well. here is our southern storm system spinning across the mid-atlantic. it is not out of the question as we head throughout the day. we can see more showers push back in. that is the forecast. we are mostly cloudy with a chance for showers. temperatures started off in the 40's. we are barely warming up into the 50's in the afternoon. win