talk a little bit this morning about business growth, a central market, development projects before john mackhose you in with a lot of the details, and get you involved in the wonderful environmental impact plans that we all have. then a little bit about our payroll tax. before i do that, i do want to say that we are going to need all of you to be part of a little miracle prayer for our giants this next week. [laughter] you know, obviously it is something we're all watching. but they are going to need a little bit of a miracle. that says to me that when it comes to our economy and job creation, we cannot depend upon any miracles at all. we have to stay focused, the professional, and stay engaged in our business community. we have to make right decisions every day. yesterday i was at a very successful launch of a little program was started in hunters point called college track. it takes some of the most challenged, low-income kids in our mission in neighborhoods and gets them into a track on college. and these kids, from high school all the way to hopefully when they are admitted to some of th

last week freddy mack asked you -- freddie mac asked for $6 billion. senator johnhe took to the senate floor to fight back. we spoke with senator mccain earlier tonight. >> i watched the video of you on the senate floor quite passionate about this 12.9 million dollar bonus to the executives at freddie mac and fannie mae. why can't you all just stop this? >> i think we're going to have to. we're just trying to find a vehicle. i'm glad to see that many are in agreement. it's outrageous. greta, the excuse that they're using is that somehow that fannie mae has done such a great job, we have other people who serve in government who do great jobs as well, and fanni fannie d freddie mac are owned by the taxpayers today. we paid $190 billion already, it's cost the taxpayers, and there's about 50 billion or more to come, so to somehow assume that people can't do their job correctly without millions of dollars in bonuses when every day we have men and women who are serving, some who are putting their lives on the lines, they're not getting millions of dollars worth of bonuse