>> i would ask that john thomas, the project manager for the bond, start with that. he may be able to get the best context. >> thank you. project manager for the road safety improvement fund. supervisor avalos: there was a member of the public, actually the bart director, talked about how we are moving forward on issuing the bonds and appropriating, and we're not quite clear how we're integrating on complete streets in better streets program into the bond. what steps can we make to ensure that we're doing that? >> there are several facets to the bond program, one of which is the capital renovation portion, and that is our pavement segment of the bond proceeds. overall, we will spend about $145 million over the next three or four years doing pavement renovation. we have $50 million with in this bond for streetscape improvements, which includes pedestrian safety improvements, bicycle safety, and bicycle routes. that process has begun. obviously, we just had the body approved in november, but we have reached out already to the bike coalition and walk san francisco. the

to change the system but answer this question and more i spoke to mike norman chief economist of john thomas financial to start things off i asked mike what exactly do all these countries participating in this forum have in common take a listen. well i think what they have in common is an expression of outrage of what we've seen policies which have resulted in massive income inequality around the world any quality that has risen to a level where it's even being noted in the elite is gathering in davos not that anything is going to be about it and there's the point i have to make is that while this is a great alternate davos if you will i'm not very optimistic that anything is going to come out of that simply because we see throughout the world policy is being dictated and dominated by these elites look we're not even talking about the failure of capitalism or the problems with capitalism as it exists right now it's not capitalism we're really talking about socialism for an elite group of people corporate socialism where policy by design around the world in the wealthy nations and elsewhere h

anne arundel police arrested john thomas cook, iv and charged him with theft of more than $10,000. >> working with mall management. they were instrumental by providing us information, also assisting us with the surveillance footage and able to determine it was a mall security officer. >> reporter: mall administrators released a statement reading -- reading arundel mills maintains a zero tolerance policy. after police looked at the security footage, they went to cook's house. >> we followed up and conducted two search warrants. ultimately detectives were able to recover some of the stolen merchandise which included a significant amount of money and jewelry. >> reporter: cook has been released on a $25,000 bofnltd anne arundel police said there's a second suspectt( they're look% for. ñxdçó mills mall, i'mn harrison. >>> a man is behind bars charges with sexually assaulting a umb student after she stopped to fill up her car. the attend dan approached the woman and she politely carried on a short conversation. when she turned around mohammed zaman grabbed her buttock and kissed her on the

surveillance footage help them track down john thomas cook. police believe he may have had an accomplice and charges are now pending. today baltimore city police commissioner defended his budget, something he may have to do before the baltimore city council in just a few monthss attempts are made to close a big deficit. the city has one of the highest per capita budgets in the country. today he said the city's murder rate is also among the country's worst, and his department has already made sacrifices. >> their pension rolls and went from being able to retire with 20 years' service to now 25 years of service. you would not find people inside the police department that would say to you we have gone unscathed through these very difficult budget times. >> you can see the entire interview with the police commissioner on 11 tv hill sunday morning. >> a lot more ahead on 11 news at 6:00. >> the leader of baltimore catholic church talks about the new position he has received from the vatican. >> a bad week gets considerably worse for the ravens and

john thomas cook. investigators discovered the goods inside his home. police think he may have been working with an accomplice baltimore police commissioner defended the police budget, something he may have to do in front of the city council as members were to close the deficit. the city has one of the highest per capita police budgets in the country. the chief said the city also has one of the worst murder rates in the country and his department has made sacrifices. >> the pension rolls went from being able to retire with 20 years of service to now 25 years of service. that is in the middle of the game. you would not faint -- five people inside the police department that would say we have gone unscathed through these difficult budget times. >> you can see more of the interview on sunday morning at 11:30. police are investigating a shooting in northeast baltimore. we were over the same at 6:00 tonight. a man was shot multiple times. he was rushed to the hospital. no word on his condition, a suspect, or a motive. tonight, thousands gathered in baltimore

of a dimension that john thomas from the department of public works is the department manager for this and he is here to answer any question and we also have a representative from the mta. -- we expect to see the projects coming back to you in the future. >> do have any information on the additional projects that were amended in the legislation? >> we are asking for this funding to basically coordinate our scheduling and timing with dpw's work. there will be work in upgrading certain traffic signals for signal priority which includes adding pedestrian signals as well as wiring under the pavement. it makes sense to determine where they are paving and to stay ahead said that we can lay the conduit's down in the pavement. the money that we are asking for, these are three different categories. the first one is to first upgrade what we would call the brains of the intersection witches' signal control and the cabinet. by upgrading those, this provides the architecture and allows us to implement traffic signal priorities. the second part is to install the five new traffic signals along the ra

direct from our studios in central moscow this is our john thomas good to have you with us to our top story this hour fresh clashes between government troops and army defectors in syria have left at least eleven soldiers dead and more than twenty wounded the violence has also claimed the lives of ten civilians meanwhile ministers from the arab league met in cairo to discuss the progress of their observers mission of the country with critics saying the bodies are failing to achieve its goal of ending the bloody crackdown opposition activists say at least four hundred people have been killed by forces loyal to president bashar al assad since observers started working in the country twelve days ago political analyst. thinks or believe he's going to find a solution to the crisis that sweeping the country but that it needs a little bit more time. the violence is two sided that there are attacks against government troops these realities on the ground need to be reflected by the observers the arab league observers and unless they have time to really see both sides of the story we're not goin

thomas jr.'s response to federal judge john baits. thomas sentenced may 3rd and could get four years in prison. then at the u.s. attorney's office and after months offal solid investigation, it was prosecutor's turn to display thomas's greed. and characterize how he stole money intend ford city children's programs. >> the victim its the whole of the district of columbia. including its youth. almost immediately, almost immediately upon taking office, he made a decision that he was going to systematically steal fund. >> thomas signed ape letter resigning from d.c. council. a special election likely held in may to fill the vacant ward 5 seat. with thomas' probe over, attention turns to the two other high profile criminal investigations. one into the mayor's 2010 campaign and possible illegal use of campaign fund. and the separate criminal probe into kwame brown's, 2008, council campaign spending. >> people are really concerned. now we are looking forward to two possibly elected officials under a similar cloud of doubt. >> the mayor and th

thomas jr. last night he resigned from council of and said he will plead guilty to two federal crimes today. john gonzalez has more. >> after months of denying wrongdoing, council member rice harry thomas plans to enter guilty pleas this morning to stealing $350,000 in government funds and filing false tax returns. >> it has been a rough day. very disappointing day. disappointed to learn the charges against councilman thomas. >> a sentiment shared by his colleagues and constituents >> . a bad example for people in those positions to do things like that. >> thomas issued a statement apologizing for its actions. >> "tomorrow morning i will plead guilty to committing two federal crimes. i am resigning my position as a member of the council immediately. i made very serious mistakes and exhibited inadequate and flawed judgment. i am truly sorry." >> the democrats stole guns between 2007 and 2009 using the money for his own personal use money intended for youth sports programs. the mayor, who urged harry thomas to step down, also issued a statement. "those who violate the public trust must be held acco

john. that was the year grand daddy thomas died. left the family worse than broke. e john stole a ham from the meat market. he was 17. lost his taste for it locked up 14 years. ham, cured and earth bred sliced with the fat hanging on. yellow sunshine on a white plate. the ham bone cuts crosswise. a dark eye all in the skillet making aggressive for grits. lost his taste for all things salt much the ocean he has not seen. woman and man. he don't ever want to see no more ham on his plate. hates pigs. hard for him. time off for good behavior. they didn't hold him to the last 6. he is a hog farmer. only eats beef and chicken and turkey. fish, turtle and rabbit. squirrel, possum and coon and seasons greens with smoked ox tails. can't raise white folks for slaughter. [applause] >> for those of you who have not heard this in person a big beautiful surprises, she speaks at tremendous authority of feeling. and very uniquely agile intelligence. >> we are the memory of that place without measure. that filled all space that never was and ever will be. that place existing as the p

mark strait, john, promiseland. thomas didn't have a chance. 1-0, isles.aps look being to capitalize. let me show you my work. later, the islanders per entoe with a little guidance. islanders win 3-0. fans were booing and afterwards, the caps with some choice words. >> their mistakes and people getting beat and the video don't lie. who gets beat or not. so, they'll know their mistakes. >> a complete 180 for us. it is just very, very frustrating. >> the video -- hoyas in chicago taking on depaul. full-service basketball featuring henry sims. pat jam on one end. on the other, flush work. hoyas up 6 at the break. second half, jason clark, 20/20 vision with a career high. georgetown wins it by 8. they host rutgers on saturday. maryland, terps trying to win their fourth straight against florida state. terrell says mem row to florida state. my jumper is baking. the acc's leading scorer had 20 plus. he had 24. no one else scored in double digits. bernard james, former staff sergeant in the air force, just popping in as air force i. florida state wins 84-70. that

i guess john locke. thomas stole. we are putting him down as philosopher. not russo. >> host: we got about a minute left. davenport, iowa. >> caller: as a conservative graduate of the jesuit university i'm interested in your comments about jesuit university having the craziest liberal students. i would definitely agree. do you have any idea why that would be the case? >> guest: that is a good question. i have no idea. we may need to talk to our catholic friends to find out why that would be but i must tell you it has been my experience that the jesuits cool -- jesuit school produced linda blair of the exorcist in the audience. most appallingly it tends to be the female students screening out things. first time i put in "demonic" but would not dare say on television or radio or a lot to one of my friends in the most intimate of moments there are so vulgar. they are genuinely demonic. >> host: follow-up to that color, recommend any colleges or universities for students seeking an academic atmosphere free of liberal bias? >> guest: great question. hillsdale. i

thomas jr. stepped down from the d.c. council for ward 5. >> johnz joins us with what is next for a city in scandal. good morning. >> good morning. what is next is that it could cost the city $300000 to replace councilman harry thomas, the now former councilman who resigned last night. in a few hours he faces two felony charges accused of embezzling and stealing $350,000 in city funds, money designated for youth programs allegedly used for personal use, such as an suv, motorcycle, and expensive trips. last night thomas resigned and release a statement apologizing and taking full accountability. council chairman kwame brown calls this a dark day in the district. the mayor, who urged thomas to resign earlier this week also released a statement saying the "to those who violate the public trust must be held accountable." thomas will be in federal court just after 11:00 this morning facing up to 13 years in prison. reporting live, john gonzalez abc 7 news. >>> looking at the day ahead, a -- the woman who grew her granddaughter to her death at tysons corn

. >> i'm will thomas. >> john huntsman is out.ign officials say he will withdraw from the race for the republican presidential nomination and endorse mitt romney. >> huntsman finished third in the new hampshire primary. but today he even received a key endorsement from south carolina's biggest newspaper in advance of the primary there. huntsman makes his official announcement tomorrow. we have a political analyst joining us by phone from myrtle beach, south carolina. what do you make of this? >> i'm really not surprised. stephen colbert was running ahead of huntsman in polls. he knew his numbers in south carolina were going to be terrible. he finished third in new hampshire. he had to do better than that. and he still wants to be politically viable. rather than be embarrassed, there was no political future, this is probably a wise, strategic move. >> mark, with huntsman being president obama's ambassador to china, how big of a hurdle was that for him to overcome that he served in the obama administration and criticized that admini

our first two vice presidents, john adams and thomas jefferson, both became president. so why wouldn't aaron burr? um, he also, though, was a different sort of person. he had -- i don't mean to make, be too flip, but in many ways he's the bad boy of the founding. he had a different take on the great figures we tend to mythologize, the leaders of that era. it is something i probably participated in some of the myth making myself. but burr knew them, and he didn't think they were such hot stuff. he thought george washington was sort of dumb, he thought alexander hamilton was really unpresentable, just -- he was a bore, just was unacceptable in his behavior. and he thought thomas jefferson was a coward. he, in his personal life, made some unconventional choices. he married a woman ten years older than he. certainly not the custom at the time. she was a widow, at the time, of a british officer. that was a controversial thing to do. in fact, when they had started keeping company together, the british officer was still alive. [laughter] he did, somewhat conveniently for the m

that was harry thomas junior's response to federal judge john bates who recited the thomas crimes. thomas will be sentenced may 3rd and could get four years in prison. then at the u.s. attorney's office and after months of silent investigation, it was prosecutors' turn to display thomas' greed and characterize how he stole money intended for still children's programs. >> the victim is the whole of the district of columbia, including its youth. >> almost immediately -- almost immediately upon taking office, he made a decision that he was going to systemically steal funds. >> reporter: thomas also signed a letter resigning from the d.c. council. a special election will likely be held in may to fill the vacant ward five seat. with the probe over, attention turns to the other two high profile criminal investigations. one into mayor vin vent gray's 2010 campaign and possible illegal use of campaign funds. and a separate criminal probe into brown's spending and fundraising. >> i think people are really concerned. now we're look at two other elected officials. >> mayor gray and chairman b

revolution was based on the values of the enlightenment as articulated by john walk in john jock rousseau and even arguably thomas hobbes and certainly by franklin roosevelt. benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson and james madison we seem to have forgotten how to win wars consistent with those kinds of values with those and lightman values but george washington understood this at the battle of trenton for example he'd captured a thousand has sions these were german mercenaries base and he ordered his troops to treat them in accordance with the values that this new nation it was not yet even a nation actually was fighting for then a battle of princeton washington sent this order to his troops in regard to how to treat british prisoners of war he said treat them with humanity and let them have no reason to complain of our copy in the brutal example of the british army in their treatment of our unfortunate brother and who have fallen into their hands is the fact the matter is the british army when they took american soldiers as prisoners they would torture them many of them died being tortured they would indefinite

debates many of the candidates named thomas as among the jurists that they add mire and they don't seem to have a problem and their word and anthony ska lea and john>> across the board, thomas is an example of the top that they respect and admire and would appoint on the eve of the first voting i think americans need to know this. >> well, i think you're right. in this particular supreme court, it's clearly on the side of free market fundamentalism. this is the court that brought us citizens united. they believe that corporations are people, too in fact, i think mitt romney said that. citizens united is one of the greatest threats to the body politic in a generation because we're going to see a flood of money from undisclosed sources coming into our tv stations and all over throughout our lives because this supreme court believes that there should be no or very minimal restrictions in terms of regulating corporate activity. so this is a big deal and it's reminiscent of 100 years ago. we had something called the lawsuit ner era and it really took a generation after this, a set of policy to run us into economic ruin and great depression for us to em

demaryius thomas with the touchdown. denver wins. there is john elway. s move on to foxboro. >> first snap of the overtime. down at the 40. down to the 30, to the 20. thomas to the 10. >> that was the call of the touchdown. denver plays new england on saturday. the first home playoff game for the ravens in five years. we'll hear from the houston coach in the next half-hour. merrill and men's basketball team on the road in north carolina at to play nc state. lund in red. pe'shon howard to stoglin -- maryland in iran. a nice pass for the slam. nc state wins. maryland women won, 16-0. ravens are back to work to get ready for houston. >> a big demand for data with data. >> this dog is back home after disappearing on thursday. why he is so important to the community. >> these folks in mexico taking the term flash mob literally. >> oh, my goodness. i have to follow that. we have cooler conditions and temperatures in the 40's. >> hard to follow that up. the morning commute is so far looking good. will update you on any delays. >> two people are dead and two othe

. >> idaho state police lieutenant john ganski and detective andy thomas of the bannock county sheriff's office lead the investigation. >> there's the house. >> and we had tape across this whole area here. and then we had one point of entry to the scene. >> there's a door going into the home through the garage into a basement. immediately in the basement is a master bedroom. and then there's a stairwell going upstairs. as soon as we start going up the stairway, one of the investigators noticed very minute small droplets of blood on the stairs. and we started to mark those. the trail of blood obviously leads right to cassie's body. >> cassie is cassie jo stoddard. she was only 16 years old. >> cassie. hello, cassie. >> hi. >> i'm getting you on tape, okay? say hi, please. >> hi. >> okay. see you. >> over here is cassie's bedroom. >> cassie's mother anna has left her daughter's room just the way it was. she hasn't touched a thing. >> i just left things as she had them. this is her artwork. >> kassie was intelligent. she knew what she wanted out of life. she talked a lot about being a lawye

councilman gary thomas john roll akely resigned as part of plea deal.than $300,000 in city funds for personal use. federal agents raided his home month and newschannel 8 will have much more at the top of the hour. let's go to lisa baden. metrorail is reporting a the coldail because of temperatures. affecting the yellow and line customers between city and l'enfant plaza. the just posted on their a separate track problem for the red line. coming out ofs cheverly. accident and we that inbound on york avenue before south dakota ave. this is virginia live would slow northbound 395 on the accident near the pentagon. it is called this morning, district and the airport and only 10th in winchester. luckily, not much wind this morning but increasing clouds cannot rule out a few flurries later this evening and through the night. to a lightake up dusting. warmer tomorrow. we will be back ♪ i'm feelin', feelin' a sunny day ♪ ♪ sunny day ♪ i'm feelin', feelin' the taste i crave ♪ ♪ subway ♪ i'm makin' it, makin' it how i like ♪ ♪ it's meant to be ♪ i'm feelin' subway

john mccain defeated mitt romney in 2008. wjla.com has all things related to politics. >>> harry thomas jr., reports he will resign from counsel. jennifer donelan is live in northwest washington with more. >> good morning. this is a developing situation. the news broke last night. according to reports, it is not a question of if he will resign. it is a question of when. the scandal appears to be coming to a head. his council seat may soon be vacant. fbi agents last month raided his palace on 17th street. he's accused of diverting to $300,000 in taxpayer funds to himself. the money was supposed to go to sports programs. the city attorney general said that he used the money to pay for golfing trips and a luxury car among other things. as part of the agreement the embattled councilman has agreed to step down, to resign from his position. it's not certain when he will leave office. as part of the deal struck with prosecutors in which he did not admit guilt, he was supposed to bbegin paying the city back. he missed the deadline to deliver the first $50,000 installment last night. his lawyers said, they are working on the terms of t

tonight police arrested a father, john robey and his two sons jonathan and thomas and charged them with emergency calls go out for a toddler that almost drowned. the boy is two years old and lives here on linden avenue in arbutus. just before two phis afternoon, the child fell in the waaer. at some point, the boy started breathing again. he was taken to the hospital for care. a huge fire engulfed a home in edgewood this morning. firefighters approached the flames from the back yard of 1251 valley leaf court. they crouched down low to avoid the heat as the fire consumed the lumber of the deck and house. one firefighter was burned as he battled the flames. the fire started in the basement but it is still unclear what caused it. still no arrests tonight in the stabbing death of an elderly wwman in east bal. baltimore... investigators say mary hines was stabbed...and her home set on fire. flames destroyed much of the evidence...making the probe even more difficult. neighbors are still coming to terms with news that the neighbor was murdered. (mr. west/neighbor) "if anybody killed ms. mary,

for the daily beast, kirstin powers, jim pinker toton and cal thomas, and bureau chief of talk radio news service, ellen ratner. i'mon john scott, fox news watch is on right now. >> let me just make my prediction instead by it isn't going to happen. >> why are you so sure? >> there's something i know. the republicans, if they choose to nominate him, that's their prerogative. i don't think that's going to happen. >> i think if she knows something, she ought to say it. if she doesn't, she ought to quit saying it but this is bologna. i don't think any republican is threatened by nancy pelosi and frankly i would rather have her threaten me than endorse me. >> a little bit of the political theater covered in the media. what about it? that's the second time nancy pelosi has implied she knows something dark and sinister about newt gingerich. should the media push for answers? >> and the second time she backed down. first time was the ethics committee now this. she just appears not to like gingrich and the media happen to quote her. to their credit, they're in small fonts reporting she says she has nothing. >> they did sit on the

after all, john adams is president between church rushing 10 and thomas jefferson. harry truman between you and clint roosevelt and. all are accounted figures, and history at a new icon who humanized history. and he is also celebrated the human stories behind great event that the building of the panama canal, the brooklyn bridge and also a historic tragedies like the johnstown flood. david mccullough is our season chronicler. his latest book is the greater journey, americans in paris. the 19th century story of americans turning back across the atlantic to discover the science, the art and learning of the old world, even at a time when other americans were churning physically to this specifics to discover national resources, national beauty of challenges of the american frontier. america was opening up a new world physically in the west while in reaching itself culturally and intellectually in the great city of lights and the journey eastward across the sea. ladies and gentlemen, david mccullough came into my office two days after the first national book festival to

thomas came up big. >> all right. wizards visiting chicago. blatche out for tonight. john wall with the dunk. puts the wizards up 2.nd then walls to the rookie kris singleton for the jumper. they tie it at 51 but the bulls just too much more the wizards down the stretch. only 3 of 17 in the fourth quarter. wizards only score 64 points, a franchise all time low. maryland hosting lake forest. terps blew an 18 point lead tonight. but down the stretch the jumper, terps back up 7 at this point and then watch this great offensive play. rebound. can't get it the first time. stays with it. finally gets the two points. it was a tense night, but maryland holds off to get their first acc win. george washington hosting rhode island tonight. but the lite o'the nite came from pellen. gets the steal. watch this. he had 17 points, 11 boards. gw wins. improves to 6-10. so besides the wizards, a good night. >> and that is a rare thing we

fox 5's will thomas is following the investigation for us tonight. >> his name is john kiriakou, 47 years old, a father of three small children living in arlington. now after a 14 year career with the cia before moving to the private sector he faces up to 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine if convicted. he appeared in federal court today in alexandria, our cameraman rolling on his walk outside the courtroom. kiriakou is accused of leaking the name of a covert cia officer to the new york times and other media outlets and identified him as taking part in the interrogation of this man, al-qaeda financier abu zubaydah. he was of special interest because zubaydah was reportedly waterboarded more than 80 times, a controversial interrogation technique. the charges also allege kiriakou leaked information about the identity of another cia officer who participated in zubaydah's interrogation. back in 2010 he published a book called the reluctant spy and appeared on fox 5 morning news to talk about his life as a spy. here's a clip. >> the chief of the counter terrorist center implored a foreig

john, bob, aldo, nanette, jim chapel, jennifer warburg, ernestine waters, bob, tim, julia sullivan, thomas ryan, dave stockdale. i have called a number of cards. i still have quite a few more, but if people could come forward. thank you. >> hi, my name is nannette. i am a middle class single mom who lives in the district, and i am here as a member of the golden gateway club. we are excited about the renovation that is going to happen at the club. we come here because we love to swim outside. our kids take swim lessons and good to camp there in the summer. although there are likely disappointed tennis players. i believe that the new club will serve as majority of members in a much improved facility. for most of us, the new club proposes a much better, larger pool facility, greater recreation and more kids programs as well as popular exercise and yoga classes, which we all look forward to enjoying their. in addition, the new park's that's around the club will add the public recreation and be an amenity to the surrounding residents, and mothers and families city-wide. however, it is just as i