. >> john ray is a direct question. if you are presented with evidence that the police officers have committed perjury, or if you ha

this time it was the firefighter's union who weighed in on fire chief john ray, saying they have no confidence in his leadership to the union said the chief neglected staffing and safety issues, failing to meet national standards in some areas. there was a vote of no- confidence in the police chief and county executive john leopold. >> this sends a strong signal. it says that we have no confidence in our leadership, they need to step down. that is a strong message for rank-and-file police officers and firefighters to said their bosses. >> the fire union says that the votes prove that the county government is dysfunctional. in our "session 2012" coverage, the general assembly is one step closer to raising income tax rate. a committee approved a budget plans the that, among other things, raises income tax for most marylanders by 0.15%. those making half a million at year or more would see as 0.25% increase trade it would add a sales tax to online purchases, but not online music sales. it also includes the governor's plan to increase the wholesale tax on cigars and other tobacco products. here is

. >> john ray is a direct question. if you are presented with evidence that the police officers have committed perjury, or if you have this attorney in your office who has hidden evidence in the pursuit of a conviction, will you take action against this? >> we are aware that we're looking at many cases -- with the first homicide -- homicide conviction for this case that was over 20 years old at the office was working on for over one year. and we have the prosecutorial problems in this case. it appears that this was possibly prompted by the police. we believe that this evidence was material, and we decided to read prosecute the case. we have an integrity and it today, and we're looking at a series of cases and convictions. the answer is that i will hold those individuals accountable, and if there is a case to be prosecuted i would do so. as far as the prosecutor is concerned, if i find that he withheld information intentionally, we will assess a fee should be prosecuted. if we have police officers committing perjury, we

this time it was the firefighters union who weighed in on fire chief john ray, national standards in some areas. earlier this week, the police union cast a vote of no confidence in police chief james teare and executive john leopold. >> this sends a strong signal. you're literally saying we don't have confidence in our leadership. they need to step down. that's a strong message for rank-and-file police officers and firefighters to send to their bosses. >> the fire union says these votes prove the county government is dysfunctional. >> a rationally charged message sprawled all over the grounds at towson university is creating tension on campus. 11 news reporter jennifer franciotti live at towson university with the story. jen, what's going on there? >> hey, you're absolutely right, racial tension here at towson university after the words white pride were written in chalk on area sidewalks. last night, students held a for her toum talk about the issue. it was the student youth group, youth for western civilization, that's taken responsibility for using chalk to write their messages all

john ray has the latest now. >> reporter: good evening, lester. for all his diplomatic clout it could be damascus is already a mission impossible for kofi annan. as he began two hours of talks with president assad, yet more fighting, including this, a government assault on the rebel-held city in the north. activists there tell us there has been heavy shelling and the refugees are trying to make for the safety of the nearby border with turkey. and in homs the city which more than any other has come to symbolize the uprising, these images of rebel fighters apparently celebrating the destruction of a syrian army tank. now, kofi annan came armed with a peace plan, humanitarian aid. but president assad said there could be no deal if armed gangs are causing chaos in the country. the two men are due to meet tomorrow, but hard to see any of this halting the serious slide to all-out civil war. lester? >>> now to japan. it has been exactly one year since that devastating earthquake and tsunami devastated the country, killing thousands and triggering a nucle

instead he hired john ray of philadelphia to make the upholstery for the entire room in the red velvet. and latrobe was certain that the room would get such poor reviews he would never be forgiven. this also goes to show, as i said, that he became more of just the surveyor public buildings, maybe the newspapers weren't too often referred to him as an upholster because he worried so much about the fabric. the reason why we focus so much on the elliptical salon is that's what most of the information that is available today survives. we do understand from latrobe's letters that the mantle on the east wall which you see right here had a long french plate mirror above with a lamkin balance atop trimmed with guildguil balls and cloth. here we have president madison, mrs. madison, steven decatur and several other guests. ornamental palmettes were gilded as were the other greecian-inspired accents. here's the design latrobe came up with with, the palmettes. the walls were papered and, perhaps, brushed over with a light coat of fleck coach paint and the wood work was -- george bridgeport of phi

instead he hired john ray of philadelphia to make the upholstery for the entire room in the red velvet. and latrobe was certain that the room would get such poor reviews he would never be forgiven. this also goes to show, as i said, that he became more of just the surveyor public buildings, maybe the newspapers weren't too off when they referred to him as an upholsterer because he worried so much about the fabric. the reason why we focus so much on the elliptical salon is that that's what most of the information that is sa veilable today survives. we do understand from latrobe's letters that the mantel on the east wall, which you see right here, had a long french plate mirror above with a valance atop, trimmed with gilded balls and cloth. this is actually a modern-day interpretation that peter waddell was commissioned to do for the white house historical association, taking all the information that we had available of this period, of the time, and of what the white house looked like, and dress, he created this in 2010. here we have president madison, mrs. madison, steven decatur and se

the case against john robert ray came less than a week after a grand jury indicted county executive john leopold. it's being seen by some has fallout from that indictment. in a statement chief ray wrote i have proudly served the citizens of anne arundel county for 34 years and believe my record speaks for itself. he will work closely with the firefighters union to resolve any issues. >>> leslie johnson is expected to serve time in prison today. johnson was sentenced for a year and a day for her role in a corruption scheme with her husband and jack johnson. in a telephone conversation she was told to get rid of a $100,000 check and money she hid in her underwear. >>> looking at temperatures. they are running cooler than they have bfnlt 50 in baltimore. 50 in easton. the overall setup is one of chilly breezes. temperatures continuing to drop. you look good on this friday march but realize this will be getting chillier by 8:00, 9:00, 10:00. tomorrow it's a steady climb to 47 degrees, another wild swing for sunday into next week. we talk about that in just minutes. >> the debate over medical

last night the fire chief john robert ray received the same treatment. the vote came down 396-14. the union said the effort had been planned long before leopold's indietment. they said the main issue is staffing and there are 60 unfilled positions leaving working firefighters at a potential disadvantage. ray responded saying i have proudly served the citizens of anne arundel for 34 years and believes my record votes for itself. that doesn't mean ray has to step down but their intention was to bring attention to these issues. >>> had some morning cloud cover. you see the sun coming out in earnest allowing the temperatures to get into the mid-50s. temperature wise low 50s now. you can see it's cooler north and west. 43 in manchester. look at these wind gusts so far today. we've gusted to more than 40 in german town, rest ton, nearly 40 in woodbridge. the current steady ones closer to 10 to 15. 50s, breezy and mild. we will be turning cooler quickly as we go into the late evening hours. we'll talk about that and how your weekend is a sort of split scenario. >> abc2 continues to lead

the firefighters union votes it has no confidence in the leadership of fire chief, john ray. the union says the chief has neglected staffing and safety issues, failing to meet national standards in some areas. the police union already voted it has no confidence in chief james teare and county executive john leopold, who was recently indicted on charges of misconduct in office. >> this sends a strong signal. you're literally saying, we don't have confidence in our leadership, they need to step down. that's a strong message for rank-and-file police officers and firefighters to send to their bosses. >> the fire union says the fire and police votes prove the county government is dysfunctional. >> in session 2012 news this morning, a senate committee takes steps to fill a billion dollar hole in the state budget. to save $239 million next year, the panel is phasing in a proposed split of teacher pensions with local jurisdictions and raise income taxes. the committee green lighted a plan to hike taxes by .5% to those making $5 hundred,000 a year and .25% for those more than making t

john ray of independent television news reports. >> reporter: the scene was carefully crafted for state television. among the crowd a weeping man to greet president assad this was the long-time rebel stronghold of be be am. government forces have reduced much of it to ruins. for many in this city the president is no liberator, he's a murderer. >> the people that were there in be be, they are refugees in other area. they look and see this criminal who is killing innocent people, killing children also. >> reporter: not far away, opposition groups tllttles stil. it's hard to verify when these images were filmed, but the fighting is intense. this activist says he's in central homs. then shells begin to fall all around him. shattering the narrow streets. amid this violence, news of an unlikely diplomatic break through. in china, u.n. peace envoy kofi annan announced syria has agreed to his proposals for a cease-fire and talks. >> i have received a response from the syrian government and we'll be making it public today and we hope to work with them to translate it into action. >> reporter: fe

the agency passed the judgment on fire chief john ray thursday, saying he has neglected >> we have someestern maryland. it looks like we are done with that weather system grid mixture of clouds going to sunshine today only in the 50's for the highs.

be found in memoirs by nixon and some of his closest and most loyal advisers such as ray price, leonard garmet and john ehrlichman as well. these writers stressed his policies and accomplishments, such as his peaceful desegregation of southern schools in 1970 in the wake of the supreme court's ruling in holmes versus alexander, which said that the south was to desegregate at once and to hereafter only operate unitary schools. also in his support for affirmative action and minority businesses, you can see this being stressed. differences among the nixon memoirs, mixon painted his actions as being statesman-like. others portrayed him as being pragmatic in his approach to the south. ehrlichman probably the most critical depicts nixon as wiley and effective. the president rode white southern backlash to re-election in 1972 while at the same time doing more to desegregate southern schools than any previous president. one thing the nixonian accounts had in common, none of these memoirists made several rights policy the dominant theme or the lead subject in their books. third school of thought would be the sc

. >> and look at you have john mackey and founder of hotel foods and rachel rays and none of them wentcollege or finished. >> they are the most talent amazingly brilliant people in the world. but for regular folks like me, college is an answer. unemployment rate 8 percent. only four percent with people with college degree. you will earn one million more with a college degrees. >> and the point is, you don't have to go to college to be successful. >> you don't. you don't. and yet, we are in a society that somehow says that said a college degree means success. rick said earlier, you shouldn't go to college if that is not a good fit for you. we are in a society . challenge something he said. somehow, being a waiter with a college degree in history is a better outcome we think societally than a plumber. we need to put pride back in trade. >> okay, that is the last word from viktor yampt and coming upment informers might not be able to push down the prices in the pump. but they say they can pump with acorn, next. by a certain date. you always have homework, okay? i don't have homework today

nixon and some of his closest and most loyal advisers such as william saffire, ray price, leonard garment, george shults. even john urlichman. these writers stress nixon's policies and accomplishments such as peaceful desegregation of southern skooms in 1970 in the wake of the supreme court's ruling and holmes versus alexander. which said that the south was to desegregate at once and to hereaft hereafter only operate unitary schools. differences among the nixon memoirs, as you can imagine, nixon painted his actions as being statesman like. saffire, price, garment and shuls portrayed nixon as pragmatic in his approach to the south and school desegregation. the president rode white southern backlash to re-election in 1972 while at the same time doing more to desegregate southern schools than any previous president. one thing the nixonian accounts had in common, none of the memoirists, with perhaps the exception of garment, made civil rights the tom nant or lead subject in their books. the third school of thought the scholarly revision of the civil rights policies of nixon had its origins in the 1980s and 1990s and f

ray mavis. we heard from former secretary of the navy and senator john warner and also from some of the top-ranking officials within the navy and the marines about what they are doing to implement energy, efficiency, and new sources of energy within the navy and among the marines who are on the front lines in afghanistan. and we heard a couple of things that i think are important to this discussion. one is that being able to look at energy sources that in the field are critical, reducing our dependence on foreign oil is vital to our national defense and that there is a direct correlation between our dependence on fossil fuels and casualties on the battlefield. now, one of the things that i would hope you might address this morning and i would point out that i know the department of energy is working closely with the navy, the department of agriculture on biofuels, which are a critical piece of trying to reduce the dependence of our military on foreign oil. but can you talk about how the programs that we're talking about, as part of the loan guarantee program relate to our national defense and how c

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ray ez is the father in san jose. he said the hope pope is not as popular as pope john paul ii. >> i think now he is doing a good job andrying to carry the harmony and to? many countries. >> after his visit, he will head to the cuban cities of santiago and havana. it will mark his first visit to spanish speaking countries in latin america. >> all parents would love to see their children eat healthy like apple and celery sticks, but it's not always a reality. >> i know that for a fact. the healthiest possible packaged snacks. here's erica edwards. >> 2 1/2-year-old calvin is a master smoothie maker. banana, milk. >> how much? >> five! >> chocolate protein. it's easy for the parents to feed him healthy snacks at home. >> it's not like there is a lot of choice. >> the choices at the grocery store are wide ranging. all of that eye canned ke make a mom's eyes roll and heads spin. >> we try to go for the healthiest possible and we have to lie on packaged stuff. >> from the universe hospital case medical center. >> kettle corn is really good. >> this is a brand called pap porn indiana. no one is suggesting they are as healthfu

ray of 8%. now it's growing a little the rate of 2%. >> are you going to put this on a column where we can read it? >> i think that's a very good inside, john. you're right. >> when will -- >> on next week! in a magazine called u.s. news and world report. i'm glad you asked! i'm going to listen to your comments and see what i add to it. >> you must feel quite disenchanted? >> i think there are good signs out there for the economy. it's weak. i think the president is doing the right things and i think the republicans do not have a credible alternative vision. so right now -- working pretty good. >> let's go to the heart of that matter. time warp forward. eight months from now, election derek november 6, 2012, will gasoline prices then be so high that they will lose the election for candidate obama? pat buchanan? >> i think that definitely prices could be up to $6 a gallon. i think this iranian thing won't be resolved before then. and if it is resolved, it will be by some kind of conflict, so i only see gasoline prices headed north. >> president george w. bush got hammered when gas prices went up. they fluctuate. if israel does not attack gas

ray. this comes days after police officers in the county voted no confidence in their chief and county executive john leopold. leopold was indicted last week for allegedly misusing his police security. some firefighters say the chief is deliberately holding open more than 60 vacant jobs in a money-saving move. today's vote allows all firefighters to cast this in a secure system. >> reporter: the no-confidence voting for the anne arundel county fire chief continues until 9:00 tonight. >>> four firefighters are recovering today after their engine is involved in an accident. the firefighters were responding to an accident when their car hit this truck on richie highway. three other people were also injured. one person was rescued from the building where the original fire call came from. he is in critical condition. the cause of the fire and the crash are still under investigation. >>> let's check on the roads now. here's kristy breslin at wjz traffic control. >>> we're definitely starting to see some rush hour traffic out there. traveling on the north side inner loop, you'll prepare to see some delays t

ar magazine saying ray dalyo earned the most of hedge fund managers at nearly $4 billion and followed by krarl icahn. johnf the list this year entirely. >> microsoft is hoping its upcoming windows 8 will help it make inroads in the tablet market. that's every's question about whether it can really work. rick shirlen joins us. if they mess this up, it's not good, right? >> pc is not where the growth is. microsoft has not been well positioned. there's windows 8 that will position them better -- >> it operates on touch screen? >> yeah, it's touch screen. apple will continue to dominate the tablet market. microsoft might get like 5% of the market in that sector. the other half of the consumer market has value associated with office and i don't think you'll see office on the ipad. and there will be a new device called the ultra book touch, your really thing mac book era-like notebook. it will be able to pull a screen off, use it as your tablet, handwriting recognition, save the files up to the cloud, go back to the smart, pull the same files off, put the screen back on, it's your full featured notebook. it giv

you have 40 or 60 dot-nothing -- this is what ray lahood called them yesterday, do-nothing republicans that johnou, you know secretary lahood is a former republican member of the house. this is just showing more clearly a number of other recent conflicts, the deep divide between the tea party freshman republicans who are against federal government, who think we shouldn't have a department of energy, department of education, who think we shouldn't have -- we took a vote on an amendment by one the tea party senators that would have essentially eliminated federal highway funding. with the entire program back to the states stop theed federal gas tax collection and funding of interstate highways. >> theback wasn't it republican dwight eisenhower, the father of it. >> yeah. three parties, democrats republicans who think we ought to have a federal government and republicans who think we shouldn't have a federal government. that split in their party in the house is getting in the way of reasonable, responsible progress in getting people back to work making our economy more competitive, putting in place

john f. kennedy. according to rules set by the candidates themselves, each man shall make an opening statement of approximately eight minutes duration and a closing statement of approximately three minutes dur ray. in between they will answer questions put by a panel of correspondents. in this, the first discussion in the series of four joint appearances, the subject matter has been agreed will be restricted to international or domestic american matters. now for the first opening statement by senator john f. kennedy. >> so, bob, that was really the span of 27 years from radio and fdr to television and the first of four debates. historic moment in 1960 and another example of changing technology. >> yes. i really particularly love listening to roosevelt, because it's a reminder that although people recognize now that john kennedy was a great communicator with with electronic communication particularly because of those debates and televised news conference and we know ronald reagan, barack obama, but you can hear that fluid did it and sense of confidence instilled through the radio waves that franklin he would voez velt. he was a master of using electronic media. we're now in a new stage where all

ray suarez has the story. the man commanding u.s. and nato troops in afghanistan was far away from the battlefield today. marine general john allen testified at his second congressional hearing this week. >> my opinion is that we will need significant combat power in 2013. >> suarez: allen told the senate armed services committee that keeping 68,000 americans on the ground is a good idea, down from 90,000 now. but he acknowledged again that the killing of 17 afghan civilians, allegedly by a u.s. soldier, and other recent incidents have strained relations with the afghans. >> these events, in many respects, have struck a blow at the core of the relationship. >> suarez: there's also been a war of words with afghan president hamid karzai, who at one point compared the u.s. to a demon. as to that, the general said: >> these incidents can't be ignored, and he has to explain those incidents to his own population. now, some of the terms that he has used i reject. i reject the use of the word "demon." i understand why, in frustration and in anger, those words can come out. but on behalf of our forces, on behalf of the american peop