let's give a big round of applause to jerry howard. >> part three, a new york version for a progressive future. we are still in a financial crisis. it's still taking a terrible toll on our state's homeowners. last year we created the department of financial redded by ben jan min lawsky. it was a new york state innovation, which combined financial regulation and consumer protection. this year we'll establish the foreclosure relief unit. which will provide counseling and mediation services to help banks resolve mortgages and help new yorkers stay in their homes, finally. last year we enacted the best tenant protections in 30 years. this year we're going to make sure the laws and regular lays are being enforced creating the protection unit at the department of homes and community renewal to investigate fraud and prosecute unscrupulous landlords. too many tents have been abused for too long and it stops now. we are committed to expanding mwbe opportunities and doubles the goal of 20% for mwbe. we've identified an obstacle which as many of the mwbe companies can't obtain the bonds that are n

let's bring in jerry howard from the national association of home builders. to have you with us. >> everybody is looking for clues. everybody is attending the companies that are participating in the show. have you seen pick up or drop off this year? >> it's been incredible. the signs of optimism we are seeing are being reflected in the attendance at the trade show. we are 10% ahead of last year and over 900 in the exhibiters and the mood among the exhibiters is more boy ant than it has been. we are excited about the way things are looking. >> a couple of large companies, especially appliance companies chose not to exhibit and we think they will be back when they are convinced that the market is coming back. that doesn't sound positive. >> they chose not to come and i can't explain why. all i can say is an exhibiter stopped me and said i can't talk quickly enough to talk to all of the prospects that are here in the aisle. i think that the international builder's show is coming back and the exhibiters will be back in droves. those that chose to stay out this ye

fired him in november following child sex abuse charges against his former assistant coach jerry sandusky. >>> howard is up with the forecast and monika is checking the roads. >>> see how a mom in new mexico gives super heroes like wonder woman a run for their money n. is a cool story. you'll want to see this one. we'll be right back. >>> n.f.l. great ernie davis was a force to be reckoned with throughout his college and professional career. davis a three-time all american half back and the first african- american to win the heisman trophy and the first black athlete to be chosen number one in the n.f.l. draft. davis set yardage and scoring records at syracuse. he won the mvp title in both the 1960 cotton bowl and 1961 liberty bowl. davis died of cancer in 1962. he was inducted into the college football hall of fame in 1979. log on to wusa9.com for more moments in black history. people! look at you! texting...blogging... all this technology, but you're still banking like pilgrims! get high yield free checking at capital one bank. why earn bupkis, when your checking could earn five times the national

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jerry leave leaver, you'd understand the point. i ordered a stove from vermont castings wood stoves because i thought -- i'd just done an event with howard dean and weed been very vermonty together, and i was thinking, getting a vermont cattings wood stove. the sort of thing -- has the whole -- the very name has the small-town green mountain folksiness where me and howard would sit around the wood stove shooting the breeze about -- imcame from ontario, the vermont castings wood stove. from a canadian corporation. none of vermont's boutique business are vermonty at all. i love the way that -- when you meet a young person in vermont. my daughter, bless her, is actually just started high school on the -- my town doesn't have a high school so she goes over the river to high school in vermont, and. >> host: -- high school. >> guest: it is, i'm happy to si -- well north that happy. it's a public school. and you talk to any young person in vermont, their whole amibition is to work for a nonprofit. any particular kind of nonprofit? no. they don't -- community organizing in southern vermont or saving people from the antelope virus in the congress