we are fortunate enough to have two public artworks by mai ling. e first is on the west terrace where the land meets the sea. mai is a dedicated environmentalist and this is consistent with who she is as a person. we are quite have this book and did by her works. this is an extension of all that is in between it and it encourages people to think about the world and their responsibility to it. the academy is all about two questions, how did we get here and the challenge of sustainability? i suggest that there are no more important questions for our time and all that you see around here deals with those issues. we will hear from maya in a few minutes. i would like to think many people who made this possible. first the members of the art advisory committee, bill wilson and mary [inaudible] and the arts commissioner. the golden gate music conkers advisory committee. -- concourse advisory committee. the former curator of the deyoung museum. can you imagine? this is fantastic. the academy scientists who work during the early design phase of this installat

ling to my blog investor agenda.cnbc.com. >>> a look at stories in the week ahead that may move the markets. monday is labor day. all u.s.arkets are closed in observance of the holiday. wednesday the federal reserve's beige book will be released. that's a monthly measure of activity in the u.s. regional economies. thursday the numbers on international trade will be released by the government. the trade balance tells us if the u.s. is importing or exporting more goods. that's the show for today. thanks so much for being with us this weekend. next week a look back at two years of financial crisis, from the september weekend that changed wall street to today. each week keep it right here where wall street meets main street. have a great week, everybody. happy labor day. i'll see you again next weekend. the kincaids live here. across the street, the padillas. ben and his family live here, too. ben's a re/max agent, and he's a big part of this community. there are lots of reasons why re/max agents average more sales than other agents. experience, certainly. but maybe it's also because they care about the markets they serve an

mark halprin, what about lisa ling's sister? that mays a cutting issue with the top 50 swing districts with that question. >> afghanistan real quickly, mark, you were in new hampshire the night before we were at the same institute. are you not struck by when you talk to republicans, independents, democrats, everybody is asking the same question, why are we in afghanistan? why are we spending $2 billion a week in afghanistan? when are we going to get out of afghanistan? >> iowa and new hampshire, the states that will dominate the republican contest, both had those isolationist, passivistic. those two conflicts in iran and afghanistan are costing the united states too much money. as we've said before, even though the republicans tend to be critical of the president for not being tough enough in those conflicts, there's room for a republican to come in and stay these wars are too expensive. in new hampshire, i found what you found, lots of people feel that way in the republican party and independents. >> also, i think that was the number on

ling in our direction. it's a warm front. that will get through the region thursday afternoon and may give us a brief period of showers, not a of rain. most of this will go to our north. a little cloud cover. you can see it in the maryland area moving away. clear skies tonight, pleasantly cool temperatures probably in the low fist fi. the front's gone through. nice weather for wednesday. most of thursday, by thursday late in the dray or thursday night that low and front approaches with the risk of just a few showers into early friday morning. west winds in the bay and small craft advisory through the evening, the bay temp 74. tonight pleasant, low 50s, nice and cool. tomorrow lots of sun, a few clouds here and there that's just about normal. we said normal is 79, so close to 80. it will be a pleasant wednesday and then thursday nice as well. >> perfect weather. thank you, bob. >>> still to come on eyewitness news tonight. >> a con ten shuls campaign -- contentious campaign. it's up to attorneys to decide who will be baltimore's top prosecutor. prosecutor. yo,,,,,, - friend: yeah? car owner: and this is what he had in my budg