happily commissioner lim has been reelected to this board. as you know we went through a whole process of authorizing an amount that was a handsome sum of nearly $35,000 if we had to conduct an election. he has saved that money and i think we should thank him for that because he was unopposed in his election happily so please join me in congratulating him on his term. >> [applause] his term expires in 2020. it's hard to believe that where will we be? so with that election we now come to some full strength. we still have a cacan'tacy, a replacement for commissioner fraiser and we hope that the mayor's good offices will work their will soon to complete now so we're now at a time of the election of the vice president of the board and i am more than willing to entertain a nomination. >> i will nominate commissioner lim for vice president. >> is there a second? it's been properly moved and seconded. any discussion or comments from the board? that means everybody but commissioner lim. he can't say anything. any comment at this point? hearing none i

. >> commissioner lim. >> present. >> commissioner shlain excused. we have a quorum. >> the printed agenda is before us, and i know that we're going to be going through the minutes and so forth, but i'm going to reorder a couple of items and i will indicate what they are during my ordered president's report. and so we will go through the minutes first and then i will pick up after that so item 3. >> item 1 -- action item approval with possible mod i wases of the minutes of the meeting below of the regular meeting of january 8, 2015. >> are there any amendments or adjustments or is there a motion? >> i move to approve. >> second. >> it's been properly moved and second that the minutes of the january 8 meeting of the board be approved as distributed want is there any discussion by board members? any public comment? there is public comment. would you please come to the microphone. please identify who you are. >> my name is is aerial go tey. >> i am sorry. all right thank you. >> and the comment is not just for those in front of me -- hello catherine but

price will fall once row bow robo-lims become morelimbsbecome more. >> always here, the tiger has been revered. there are monuments to this rare beast documented around the city. four miles out of town, biologist and tiger expert briefs his team. part of a team surveying. they have to be alert. every now and then humans are attacked and killed. they know tigers are nearby. the snow apparently is an open book you can read if you know how. a tiger's age and gender can be identified from their paw prints and the number of tiger cubs there are. >> this is the male we met earlier, over there. he passed through around three days ago. >> given dire state of tiger populations, the story of this tiger is a good one. the population has increased more than tenfold to around 500. this is nature in the raw where all kinds of wild animals thrive and everything, everyone is aware what's top of the food chain. suddenly there is a cool-out and we find a warden who's visibly shaken he hears of a tiger that just made a fresh kill. sure enough, evidence all around. the paw prints and the tiger's prey a wi

commissioner lim. >> [inaudible] based on the dates or the study? >> the document that we presented and we look at the various enclaves and study on that and keep what we think is the right amount of money at 99% confidence interval so if it exceeded that we wouldn't have ultimate funds but 99% of the statistically modeled% -- the 99% confidence interval this is the amount of money that the program says it should have so you're comfortably reserved. >> this is based on prior year's experience. >> yes and we forecast it forward and apply the statistical tool kit and come up with a number. >> based on the last three years? >> 36 months, yes, three years. >> any other questions from members of the board? on these items they're list listed as discussion items and i know public comment should come after each one of them. i have elected at least at this stage to ask the public comment be slightly defer because these items are existing policies and come back for full public comment. this data will be updated in the june period, so if there is any public co

people who lost two lims in limbs in the boston bombing got 2 million, those who lost one limb got one million. i'm going to press ken fineberg on the like logic behind calculations. how society puts a value on the hundreds of men and women who have been wrongfully sent to prison. the sad truth is that some barely self an apology, duarte geraldino has the story of one man's struggle for being sent to death row for a crime he didn't commit. >> the person just didn't seem real. actually being on death row, i was a kid. >> it's been more than 15 years, and slifs sharif kasin can't shake the louisiana prison life. >> i need space. i don't like to be closed in. >> he was in high school when he first made headlines. charged with first degree murder. 16 when he learned he was to be strapped into a cot and, in front of state-selectwitnesses, injected with a lethal cocktail that would kill him. the attorney for sharif kuzan says he has uncovered proof that the 16-year-old could not have committed the april murder -- >> sharif remembers the prosecutor being so sure of himself. >> he's pointing t

i mean frank lim frankly speaking i think it would be great if the aging and adult services based in dc would use that money to work to build the information systems that are needed for us to really track what's going on across the country. i think that is probably the only way for a significant dollars to come to funds the bill itself. and i think there's a necessity to have that information if we're ever going to realize concretely the magnitude of the problem. >>thank you. commissioner sims. >>quick question. [inaudible] men, women, any demographic demographic? >>i left that information back at the office. it's not a huge number of people and a lot of the older -- i should say, the very old, it's a very tiny tiny percent, that group that's in there, is a very teeny percentage in the 50s and 60s. the older group is the largest group. we could have a presentation from kathy davis' staff who is on this group and has done work in this area for many years so we could do that as a presentation if you'd like. it'd be very interesting. >>thank you. president james. >>i had one question. n

some lim sunshine. high temperatures right around or jt above freezing in washin. a high of 35. now some light snow showers are poss overnight tonight and y tomorro morning, but litt or no accumulation. n you believe march 1st is on sunday? so for saturday it's cold. but at leas it's sunny. now, l in the day on sunday, especial durg the early eveng hours on into the overnit hours, we could see a wint mix, changing over to rain. saturday might be the best bet to plan somethg outdoors but sunday is warmer with a high e of 39. >> meteorologil spring starts on sunday? >> doesn't feel like it. doesn' like it's coming. >> thanks a lot. and we'll see you later. okay thas news4 midday for today. thanks for joining us. be sure to tune in for news at 4:00 5:00 6:00 and tonight at 11:00. we'll be right back here tomo with news4 midday. l then have a grea. as a small business owner you wouldn't deliver just half of what you have to offer to your customers. so why are you settling for half-fast internet? only verizon fios comes with speedmatch-- upload speeds as fast as your download speeds

if you have to use lims to get up you lose points. >> or if you lose your balance you lose points.try this. we might not have it on camera, but -- >> and you have to be in comfortable clothes no shoes. >> so maybe not today. >>> you may not be able to smoke marijuana everywhere you thought you could. landlords will not be required to allow marijuana use on their property. so if you rent your apartment it's up who whomever owns the building whether or not to allow smoking. land lords can also include anti-smoking claws in lease agreements. so if you do own your own home though, you still may not be in the clear if there is a condo board or homeowner's association, those groups could create rules against you allowing marijuana. 5:57. >>> a mayor bowser is expected to make a major announcement this morning at 11:00. the announcement has to do with education policy and personnel. we'll be watching the story and update you you on nbcwashington.com. >>> busy day ahead after winter delayed trash pickup. the extra steps being taken to make sure your garbage is not left overflowing. >>> rig

a an injury convicted lim and ed robles of stealing thousands from drug dealers did along with electronicsand gift cards. video shows them walking out of hotel rooms in san francisco. two other former officers are now awaiting sentencing, as well. >>> yesterday, he was busted for stealing money from the girl scouts. tonight he explains why he did it. we have the exclusive jailhouse interview with the 23-year-old self-proclaimed heroin addict. marianne favro joins us from the santa clara jail. >> reporter: rog, cody gintz walked out of this jail about 90 minutes ago released on bail. he says he stole money from the girl scouts to buy heroin. 23-year-old cody gintz says yesterday in front of this store in san jose he reached his lowest point. >> i took the money box from a girl scout. basically because i needed money for drugs. >> 10-year-old sophia says he snatched the cash box from her hands as she was selling cookies with her girl scout troop. >> i didn't know there were people around here that would do such a thing. >> cody grew up in san jose and says he's been on heroin for more than t

not just the lims down and garbage flying it will be downed trees, downed poles, we expect to see power outages tomorrow night, and that is not good news. we're talking power outages on one of the coldest nights that we see so far this winter. so be ready for this as it moves on in. amelia is talking act those extremely cold temperatures because it's not the wind it's the windchill. >> yeah so, when you factor in the winds and the temperatures this is how it's going to feel during the time period we're most concerned about. again, saturday evening through sunday around the midday hours. feeling about 7 in washington heading out to dinner on valentine's day. by midnight you have a late dinner everybody feeling sub subzero temperatures across the area. don't want to be outside for an extended period of time. 7:00 a.m. sunday morning, 16 below zero in cumberland 9 below in washington. a lot of people have dinner plans tomorrow night, not just the cold and winds but some snow as well. i'll be talking about the timing of that coming up in a little bit. jim? >> thanks. >>> a new security meas

he wants to limit himself, fine.ame o the congress should say you should have everything you needto limr. president, and you have it in the 2001 resolution. >> what about the democrats who you say no that's too much. >> they want to try to make thathat abou case, let's have them make it too the american people. i don't think it will go very far. >> antjulie, for all the talk about limits and as the president and his securityty strategy last week and talked about quote strategic patience when you see the collapse of yemen, and when you see what's going on right now in anbar province in iraq where what isis forces are getting very close to a military base, al assad where there are more than 300 u.s. troops based and the danger to them from that is there any second guessing?danger is there any rethinking at the white house about the way they're conducting this war? >> i think what's tricky for this white house, they use whit phrases like strategic patience thin long-term commitments. fo and then you have these situations that are craving, like demanding for some kind of -term immediate act

the foreign ministry said the creme lim would see u.s.ed weapons to ukraine as a threat to russian security pi. so so far kerry is just offering money in aid. >>> and headed to ukraine,ry a peace proposal, but secretary kerry said the u.s. is rung out of patience. >> we're not seeking a conflict with russia. no one is but we cannot close our eyes to tanks that are crossing the border from russia and coming in to ukraine. we can't close our eyes to russian fighters in unmarked uniforms crossing the border. our choice is diplomacy. our choice is a peaceful resolution. but russia needs to make its choices, and those choices are not just declared by words. they have to be declared by actions. >> nbc'sneely is in key rev with much more. bill? >> reporter: good morning, jose. from a bleak and chilly kiev that just about sums up the chances of any diplomatic breakthrough or any de-escalation of this terrible war in ukraine. the last time john kerry was here was last march. since then, cryimea has been absorbed into russia ukraine virtually split