>> marty, don and everybody. it is manic monday coming up with cathy and the snookie man, that's right when the eyewitne,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> good morning maryland now don scott, marty boss, breaking news with wjz's news team, your first warning weather and wjz traffic control with sharon gibala. it is wjz, maryland's news station. >> it is 6:30 and remains a cold and windy start to the first work day of 2010 sharon will have the first commute. >> let look at the forecast. here is the number of the morning, 7. isn't that a number. >> you will not miss any wind chill. that's the wind chill right now. 7. that's what the 22 feels like, it is at best to feel like upper teens as winds move at 25 miles per hour steady. 31 had evening we will start to cloud up. >>> what awaits you on the way to work and/or r school. here is sharon. >>> good morning. we have the first day, there's a look at it. slow downs between liberty, it will take you about three minutes with an average speed of 47 miles per hour but it is starting

we're going to keep t-boz and marty with us.e joined by, when we come back with, michelle bond of the state department, dealing with overseas citizens and their involvement. and also, we'll meet the president of nights bridge international, a nonprofit dedicated to humanitarian assistance. right back. >> larry: soledad o'brien will host "a.c. 360" at the top of the hour. what are we leading with tonight, soledad? >> tonight on "360," haiti's orphans are what we are talking about. many are starting a new life here in the united states. tonight, we'll introduce you to one woman who is anxiously awaiting the arrival of her new son. she's actually been waiting a long time and she'll share her story tonight. >>> plus, president obama and the republicans go a couple of rounds. mr. obama making good on his promise to bridge the partisan divide, even meeting the republicans on their own turf. we'll bring you some of the highlights tonight. >>> and then crime and punishment, a verdict in the abortion doctor killing. defendant scott roede

, mary bubala and first warning weather with marty bass and meteorologist bernette woods. it's wjz maryland's news statio,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,, >>> five young men from the dc area are suspected planning to carry out terrorist attacks. group appeared in court in pakistan today. the defense lawyer says the court granted police two weeks to prepare terrorism charges. the men say they intend to travel to afghanistan to help their fellow muslims but denied involvement in a terrorist plot. . >>> police in arizona say a teen accidently accidently ran over and killed her brother with the car. the two were joke around in a mall park lot and he was jumping in front of the car while she slammed on the brakes narrowly missing him until one time she couldn't stop and she ran the 17-year-old over. >>> two fans were hrt following yesterday's st. louis rams game when they fell out of the stands. the men were reaching for a shoe thrown by one of the players. when they fell crashing through an awning and falling about 12 feet to the concrete below. one was taken away on a stretcher but polic

a claim that marty ginsburg thought was preposterous. he showed his wife the decision, and she agreed they had to take the case. and went on to conclude that the solution was not to invalidate the statute, but to apply it equally to both sexes. the ginsburgs won in the lower courts and the government appealed to the supreme court. the government said the lower court's decision cast a cloud of unconstitutionality over literally hundreds of federal statutes. to prove its point, the government appended to its briefs a list of hundreds of federal statutes. now, as nina notes, these were the very laws that ruth bader ginsburg would litigate and challenge over the next decade. by the 1970's, she had founded a special project on women's rights, the aclu, and was leading the battle in the courts against sex discrimination. and on the court, she has continued to be that voice for justice and women's equality under the law. so it is therefore with great gratitude that i stand here now as the u.s. ambassador at large for global women's issues. the

marty. good luck. amazing story of a story in haiti with you.en we come back. . >>> welcome back to port-au-prince right now. joining us right now is the administrator of the salvation army's children's home in port-au-prince. earlier today, she oversaw the delivery of a baby girl. vicki, tell us what happened? >> we had three pregnant women arrive at our tri-i can't imagine clinic at our compound in port-au-prince. she was the first one to deliver a baby. she's the first one to have a baby at our tri-i can't imagine center since the earthquake. this was also her first child. this is great to have something positive and hopeful happen where we've had a lot of difficulty in the last few days. >> beautiful little girl. how's the baby doing? >> the baby is fine, the mother is fine. which is an incredible feat considering she spent the night on a concrete floor and delivered the baby without any pain medication. >> she was nine months pregnant at the time of the earthquake. where was she when the earthquake hit? >> oh she was at her home. but she an

hopefully marty will be here to join us.but for now, i hope that an introduction to some of the issues that we address in this book. >> thank you. >> it is a pleasure to be here with them, waiting for marty for the launch of their book. for me, this is much anticipated and waited event. so i managed to order back in 2003 where when the world bank approach, urban institute, and scholars from western europe to develop a training course for practitioner and policymakers, especially from our middle-income country clients. training course that together with urban institute we put together. and we tried to teach how to protect their poored. and i'm here probably because i share most of the time work withing with marty and demetra on the training events. but the idea of having a training course on the u.s. safety net was coming from my colleague, kathleen. i work on this course with my colleague margaret. and it was a very, very nine experience for us. i will cover three things. i want to be brief. so why this partnership? why worl

the third up will be marty west.ty's an assistant professor at the harvard graduate school of education. he also serves as an executive editor of the journal "education next." as deputy director of the program on education policy and governance at harvard university. before joining the harvard faculty, marty taught at brown university, and was a research fellow at the brookings institution. we will then have two discussions. first up will be lily an elementary teacher from utah who serves as vice president of the nation's largest teachers union. the national education association. she is one of the highest ranking labor leaders in the nation and one of the nation's most influential hispanic educators. lily was president of the utah state retirement system and president of the children at risk foundation, and a member of the white house strategy session on improving hispanic education. and last, but not least, on a long day is dwight jones, colorado's commissioner of education, since 2007. in that role dwight continue

a claim that marty ginsburg thought was preposterous. he showed his wife the decision, and she agreed they had to take the case. and went on to conclude that the solution was not to invalidate the statute, but to apply it equally to both sexes. the ginsburgs won in the lower courts and the government appealed to the supreme court. the government said the lower court's decision cast a cloud of unconstitutionality over literally hundreds of federal statutes. to prove its point, the government appended to its briefs a list of hundreds of federal statutes. now, as nina notes, these were the very laws that ruth bader ginsburg would litigate and challenge over the next decade. by the@@@@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @, >> on the court, she tibs to be that voice for justice and women under the law. it is gratitude i stand here as the ambassador at large for global issues. because of the position i now hold speaks volumes about the i am important abc of global issues in u.s. global policies. of women. women in the united states have the opportunity and re

marty, can we adopt a child from haiti now? >> well, right now the country is officially closed.if you have not had the paperwork in process and going, basically, it is -- it's -- you're done. >> larry: it would seem they would be open to it. >> well, they are. but you have to realize, the country is still instable, and they're trying to stabilize that. the country processes adoptions. so they first have to stabilize their country and then process adoptions. >> larry: so t-boz will have a tough time? >> she's going to have a tough time but there are things she can do in the meantime. she can start researching as she's doing right now, adoptions. if she really wants to adopt from haiti she may consider adopting an african-american child that's waiting in the united states and do so within a year. because there are many children that are basically orphaned, if you would say, in the united states that are waiting for homes too. but haiti, we don't know when they're going to open up again. we don't know. it's undisclosed and it could be years, but she can start -- >> larry: so it's e

marty chavez, are you here? where's marty? come here.[applause] while he is making his way here, marty was first elected mayor of albuquerque in 1993. he served one term, took a break to run for governor and then went to serve two more terms from 2001 through 2009. he served as chair of the conference of mayors water council, co-chair of climate protection task force, and he is also a trustee. he also played an instrumental role in the conclusion of our energy block grants in the 2007 energy bill. throughout his years of service he and his city won numerous awards, including 2007 may year posset climate protection award for a large city and world leadership award for utility. mayor chavez has the distinguished himself in the areas of water conservation, sustainability, development, and climate protection and other hit -- under his watch, crime and albuquerque decreased by 17%. please join me in honoring marty chavez for his commitment to the conference of mayors and the city of albuquerque. [applause] >> thank you so much, and thank you

his name is marty cooper. 99.9% of americans do not know him and have not heard of him. he is in his 80s now, and you should have him on your program some time. his theory is that our spectral efficiency doubles every 2.5 years. how much information can we squeeze over the same bit of the airwaves, that doubles every 2.5 years. since the radio was first invented, we are over two trillion times more spec relief efficient today than when the radio -- more spectrally efficient than when the radio was first invented. when we hear about spectrum shortages, that can be measured in years before that can happen, before the commission can find it, get it clear, get it to option, and get it built out. it may be the better part of a decade before that happens. smart phones are consuming more and more of the airwaves to convey these wonderful technologies to consumers. this tension helped create an incentive to use the airwaves more efficiently. you begin to think of the spectrum as real-estate. is it efficient to build a one story gas station in downtown manhattan, or a 100 story o

. >> good morning maryland, now don scott, marty bass, breaking news with wjz's news team, your firstther and wjz traffic control with sharon gibala. it is wjz, maryland's news station. >> hello again. it is 25 seconds away from 5:00 in the fourth day of the year in the first work day of the year and it is cold out there. sharon will have

i'm in the camp of people like marty krugman and marty feldstein, expecting the recovery to be extremely subdued. i commit talking about this both at the u.s. and global levels. i would be rather concerned in policy-making circles before us all with a massive stimulus we have had a fiscal stimulus unprecedented and monetary ease -- 2.2% growth in the third quarter of the year -- the big question arises as to what happens when the stimulus fades? it certainly will fade in the second half of 2010. there's a real risk for double- dip recession . there are extraordinary strong headwinds against u.s. recovery right now. the most notable is the situation in the labour market. not only do we have 10 percentage points of americans out of work, but if you include those working part-time on an involuntary basis and nose discouraged. and if you look of the labor department's -- we are at 17.5%. that will exert a strong downward pressure on wage and income growth. without that growth there is no possibility of getting a meaningful recovery in consumption. additionally, what federal reserve officials

marty mckarri, why would a person be snoring after a car accident? >> we recognize heavy breathing or snoring to be the hallmark feature of temporary loss of consciousness. a head injury can quickly put someone into a deep sleep and the body will repeatedly gas of for air. it's sort of a fight-and-flight response, as we say. snoring is a function of loss of consciousness and related to your head positioning and any swelling in the airway area. we know that he had an injury to the lip. so it does make sense. >> the lip injury, could that have been either striking the steering wheel, or could it be something as simple as he bit his lip when he crashed the car? >> right now it appears it could have been either of the two. what we do know, and i would feel comfortable concluding that he does appear to have sustained a concussion. a concussion is simply somebody who lost consciousness temporarily and then had a normal head scan. because quite honestly, that's the only way you can get out of a hospital after any kind of head injury. so we know he was rushe

his name is marty cooper. 99.9% know he is the most influential person that nobody's ever heard us here at and he is in his 80's now. but he has a theory and doggedly a lot of deference because he invented the cell phone. cooper's law as it's known as better spectral efficiency doubles every 2.5 years. that means how much information can we squeeze over the same bit of the airwaves? that doubles every 2.5 years. so since the radio was first invented we are over 2 trillion times more spectrally efficient today than when the radio was first invented here at so i think it's important to understand that trend should continue at least for our lifetimes. so when we talk about or hear about spectrum shortages, guess we need to do what we can to get more spectrum to the marketplace. that can be measured in years before that happens for the commission can find or congress can help us with this, too. to get that spectrum cleared, get it to auction and actually get built out. you're talking about may be the better part of a decade before that happens. what do we do in the meantime? with a smart ph

do we know -- we should all know -- [inaudible] >> guest: his name is marty cooper. 99.9% of americans don't know him. he's in his 80s now, and you should have him on this program at some point. but his, he has a theory, and i'll give him a lot of deference because he invented the cell phone. his theory, cooper's law as it's known is that our spectral efficiency doubles every two-and-a-half years. that means how much information can we squeeze over the same bit of the airwaves? that doubles every two-and-a-half years, so since the radio was first invented, we are over two trillion times more spectrally efficient today than when the radio because first invented. so i think it's important to understand that that trend should continue at least for our lifetimes. so when we talk about or hear about spectrum shortages, yes, we need to do what we can to get more spectrum out to the marketplace, but that can be measured in years before that can happen, before the commission can find that or congress can help us with this too. to get that spectrum cleared, get it to auction and actually get it

and next up is marty. >> do you have it set up? thank you. good afternoon.wanted to just start out by laying out my agenda. i want to do that for two reasons. one is that i may not get through everything that i'd like to say this afternoon. the second is that the paperer as rick mentioned is not yet written. that was by design. i want to point out. the idea was that we would talk about overcoming the barriers of the particular kinds of change that was discussed. what is means is at one chance, at least until you buy the edited volume when it comes out. i really have three points. the first that the the title for this session and for my presentation overcomes the barriers to change isn't quite right. in fact, there are very few barriers to change. the question isn't whether change will occur, it's what that change is going to look pssures facing school districts already intense are going to increase. and june's paper provides a wonderfully colorful overview of district's ongoing efforts to respond to the decline in the economy in the last year. but clearly, t

caller: yes, my name is marty.ke to say on this global warming, i do not know if you guys are familiar with the slingshot effect, but scientists do not ever talk about it much. the slingshot effect is, once every 10 years, as we rotate around the sun, we get closer to the sun, and then after that 10 years of slingshot around the sun, i think we get a lot further from the sun. so you are going to have 10 years of warming and 10 years of freezing, the north and south poles freezing up. 10 years, if you check your compass, you will notice that that 10 years that we are closest to the sun, it will be exactly a half a degree off. host: marty, let's bring this back into the perimeter of climate change. are you saying that there -- back into the parameter of climate change. are you saying that there is an effect with this slingshot on the climate change we are caller: exactly, because you are going to get 10 years of warming, 10 years of freezing. guest: i have not heard anything about the slingshot effect. the trends we

marty is over at first warning weather. >> you were look at a 7-degree wind chill.. we are going for a high of 34. right now, it is in the low 20s, it feels like the upper single digits. that 34 will feel like yesterday and the day before, you know how it felt. this is day 3. sharon gee bah la now has our traffic control. >>> wind warning still on major bridges and the wind isn't helping things where we have a water main break, icy conditions causing the road to be blocked in both directions between thornton and old court road. watch for a wreck on 95 approaching the beltway and another one 29 southbound, one more in john oak. 95 southbound, that's now a 14 minute drive between white marsh and 895 with an average speed of 25 miles per hour. there's a look, slow, topside outer loop between 95 and 83. 38 miles per hour with a 16 minute drive time. there's a live look at the topside starting to back down there, the west side slow and go as well between 795 and edmondson. this is brought to you by ski liberty. come enjoy at the cloughsest most exciting ski resort, liber

joining us is hanz marty. he lost five relatives in the earthquake.is chair of the haitian american emergency relief committee. our deepest, deepest condolences to you. tell us about your relatives. >> thank you, wolf and thank you, cnn. thank you for having me. this is a very emotional moment for me. my relative, i lost a stepmother. look at her. she was right here in the state like three weeks ago and she left. and next i have this is half-sister and my brother on a mission in haiti. in addition i have my little nephew who is missing. it is a very sad situation for me and for everybody. >> do you have other relatives in haiti mr. mardy? >> of course. my brother in the orphanage is still in haiti. my father still in haiti. all of my family. >> how are they doing? >> very bad for now. it is a very devastated. but let me tell you in the middle of all of that there is hope -- it is bad but it could be worse because the house where my brother lived, he lived with about 50 to 60 children because he owned an orphanage. i could be in the worst situation. >>

i'm in the camp of people like marty krugman and marty feldstein, expecting the recovery to be extremely subdued. i commit talking about this both at the u.s. and global levels. i would be rather concerned in policy-making circles before us all with a massive stimulus we have had a fiscal stimulus unprecedented and monetary ease -- 2.2% growth in the third quarter of the year -- the big question arises as to what happens when the stimulus fades? it certainly will fade in the second half of 2010. there's a real risk for double- dip recession . there are extraordinary strong headwinds against u.s. recovery right now. the most notable is the situation in the labour market. not only do we have 10 percentage points of americans out of work, but if you include those working part-time on an involuntary basis and nose discouraged. and if you look of the labor department's -- we are at 17.5%. that will exert a strong downward pressure on wage and income growth. without that growth there is no possibility of getting a meaningful recovery in consumption. additionally, what federal reserve officials

marty, thank you very much. >>> jacqui jeras eric lot of people around the country, especially down in florida, looking for relief. is it on the way? >> it is coming. you just have to be patient. we're going to bottom out with some of the temperatures across parts of the south. and we are already seeing those freezing temperatures moving into florida. look at jacksonville, 32 degrees, orlando and tampa, not too far away from that. you're going to get down well below that freezing mark for tonight. and miami, we'll think that you'll stay to the -- just above the freezing mark. now, the radar picture here showing you that we have been getting some moisture across the region as well. earlier this morning in places like orlando, into melbourne into ocala, we have reports of sleet. this is the first time that we have seen this much widespread sleet in central florida since 1977. do the math. that's more than 30 years. and recently just in the last hour, we have been seeing it around west palm beach. and palm beach area. so that green little strip that moved on through there, that's probably

. >> marty has a response. >> if i could add one point, i agree with ron and his comments were eloquent- an eloquent example of the centrality of work. thank you for saying that. i agree that we should emphasize work more. one of the things -- and none of james is here today, but another in the urban institute but that we wrote called "the government we deserve" looked at the long- term trends of employment and to what extent is the current situation different than what we have historically had, and when many of the economists have identified is that -- and what many of the economists have identified is that the unusual trend was the post world war ii era, where we had an unusually strong economic growth over a sustained period of time. since the mid-1970s's, the trajectory, the plans have returned since before the world war ii era. so while i agree with ron that certainly the economy is going to rebound, it is not likely to rebound to the way it was in the early post-world war ii era, and we still are in the middle of a major structural transformation in the economy. that said, i think

marty st. louis and a back hand pass read by the 4th guy with the caps defender. joe: hedman and gliding away and gordon was on top of him. it is beneath the fallen rookie long enough for a whistle. craig: headmon touched the center. he is a great rig that can jet up the ice. he scored a beautiful goal and went end to end against the buffalo team and i mean into enfor a young guy like that, it shows you an upside of the back line for tampa bay for many years to come. joe: number two in the 2009 draft behind john ta var ross. alex ovenchin to the penalty box hearing the boos from those in tampa as this is an icing call against dc. craig: time winding down. time to prepare you would have to say a little bit for tomorrow. beware that the tampa bay lightning will continue to play happened and you have to keep your foot moving and continue to play hard getting ready for tomorrow night. joe: capitals 9 and one against the southeast division. that gaudy record in a little bit of jeopardy with less than four to play. lundin's wristster snagged by theodore and no rebound.

thanks again to our statistician, marty eranoff and the stage manager tracy roberts. 106-55 maryland. the cavaliers. the virginia state rivalry can be season in high definition. check local listings to find a game in your afternoons. for ron thompson and our entire comcast sportsnet crew. steve buckhantz wishing you a good night from college park. tonight's game has been a presentation of comcast sportsnet and the acc. maryland wins it, 106-55. >> the capitals have been nothing less than dominant lately, but the competition is about to pick up as they face last season's top two teams back-to-back, starting with the red wings. >>> they're fired up in college park. the terps back in action looking to wrap up non- conference play hosting longwood. >> and after a premature exit from the playoffs, the ravens find themselves at a cross roads with major changes possibly on the way. >>> good the tuesday evening, everyone. welcome into geico sportsnite. alongside greg tolin i'm kelli johnson. >> coming up a redskins plaster is arrested and the future of ed reed and derrick mason is in doubt. >

marty schottenheimer coached the team in 2001.has been the coach for the past two years. >>> gilbert arenas says he'll meet with investigators about why he brought guns into the wizards locker room at the verizon center. even said he used bad judgment but still will not comment about reports that he and teammate critic drew guns on each other in the locker room during an argument last month. even said he's not worried about the situation. >> i'm a goof ball and, you know, that's what i am so even during something like this i'll make fun of it. that's how i am. some people say i'm not taking this serious, but why be depressed at home. >> the nba bans players from possessing firearms at league facilities or when traveling on league business. no word yet on whether the league will suspend or fine arenas. >>> france is trying to sell off excess stocks of the swine flu vaccine that were purchased in anticipation of an unprecedented pandemic. the french government bout 94 million doses of the vaccine and so far has used only 5 million d

>> what we found is that somewhere in the chain, and the number was quoted by marty because what they're talking about is either fraud for profit or fraud for housing. and again, you're talking about two different animals that someone might fudge the numbers to get into a topic that they will can't afford. so that in essence is a fraud. however, it's not something that we are really going after. were going after the fraud for profit. and the criminal conspiracies that are involved in that. >> i see. thank you. that's all. >> let me on my time ascot is a follow-up to this, which is let me understand it. in the 70, 80% number does include both the fraud for profit, conspiracy for profit, as well as the fraudulent documentation. >> that's correct. but what's happened is the fraud for property has actually hurt the market and hurt the economy as well because now you're looking at all the foreclosures that have occurred because of that. >> and i do want to emphasize i think whatever data you can provide us on the pervasiveness of fraud, and i want to direct our staff to make this a work item.

marty well ahead of him h he has 43 wins against this islander team. >> joe: schremp scanning the defense. back for schremp. too hot to hand. alexander semin and brooks laich going the other way. alexander semin realizing he had no numbers advantage pulled up. schremp makes the steal. the trailer is nielsen closing. frans nielsen looking for rob schremp. it's 5-1, dc. a pass to the goal mouth played away by fleischmann. john erskine adding to the total in the second period. ovechkin rink wide. one more for fleischmann! that was going to be perfect and it just failed to connect. >> craig: that was textbook passing play. the caps are just rolling here. they're just passing. they're skating. everything is going their way. >> joe: ovechkin with a wrist tier need by dipietro and he'll hold. 12:16 to go, middle stanza. washington capitals in com co whhat? i know somei a ma do? fic p] at d? we thor a i y be anke te. [tape rewindin do well than ask ri-- yeahtill le w anr: ag's le, ep tg. arte on your own inventions or just play some games at... i'm sta forfas fn ta nesms? i bring you ariche ied s

] leaving aside the current -- i'm very much in the camp of people like janet and paul krugman and marty bell steen, expect a recovery to be extremely subdued. and i can be talking about this at the u.s. level and at the global level. i would be rather concerned in policy-making circles it i saw with the massive stimulus we've had a in places in the u.s. economy and fiscal stimulus that's unprecedented in monetary ease that we only managed to reach 2.2% growth in the third quarter of the year purpose some of the big questions are arising, what happens when the fiscal stimulus fades as was costing less will certainly fade and the second half of 2010. and the real risk that we do get a double-dip recession as that paid. of the reason i say that is there are extraordinarily strong headwinds against u.s. economic recovery right now. now the most notable of those headwinds is the situation in the labor market. not only do we have 10% points of americans out of work, but if you include those who are working part-time on an involuntary basis and thus discourage, if you look at the labor departm

[applause] >> marty?>> randy, thank you very much for providing inviting me to participate in this and i'm grateful to you for organizing this forum year after year and it's a pleasure to participate with everyone on the panel. i'm going to talk about three topics. i'm going to start by talking about the use of fiscal policy as a countercyclical instrument. i then want to say a little bit about fiscal deficit and then finally i want to talk about what was the key fiscal economic policy of the past year in my judgment. and that is the health insurance legislation. so i'll start with a countercyclical instrument. this really has been a different business cycle for previous business cycles. we look at previous economic downturns that were caused by a tightening of the federal funds rate, the fed tightened because it was concerned about inflation either actual or incipient inflation. and when it had succeeded in doing what he set out to do a good lower the short-term increased rate the economy could recover.

[applause] >> marty?>> randy, thank you very much for providing inviting me to participate in this and i'm grateful to you for organizing this forum year after year and it's a pleasure to participate with everyone on the panel. i'm going to talk about three topics. i'm going to start by talking about the use of fiscal policy as a countercyclical instrument. i then want to say a little bit about fiscal deficit and then finally i want to talk about what was the key fiscal economic policy of the past year in my judgment. and that is the health insurance legislation. so i'll start with a countercyclical instrument. this really has been a different business cycle for previous business cycles. we look at previous economic downturns that were caused by a tightening of the federal funds rate, the fed tightened because it was concerned about inflation either actual or incipient inflation. and when it had succeeded in doing what he set out to do a good lower the short-term increased rate the economy could recover.

marty west and others. and found that it's a question of your teacher capacity.good teachers, capable teachers can manage large classes with ease. but it's, you know, it's not about size. it's also about who's in the class. not how big they are. and class formation is a much neglected topic. if you have students of widely disparate, prerequisite knowledge in the class the teachers task really requires a hero to achieve. if instead everybody knows the skills in advance, just the way if you were in college and you went to chestry 2 class, you wo'tw e skills of chemistry 1 and yet that's the circumstance that routinely attends in school every day. so if you fix that problem by paying attention to who's enrolled in your classes and if you overcome some of these current trendy mistifications like differentiated instruction, then you have a manageable task. you prevent learning gaps from forming in the first instance by frequent assessment. not assessment that is worrisome and disturbing. but is something that just is like breathing every day for kids. and mainly to in

marty west is going to talk explicitly about these seven issues.let me ask a couple questions and i will open it up for conversation with the audience. first of all, the jim he raised the question about a comparison made. you want to say why it may be useful to think about the military spending chairs as a metric or what are the limitations of doing so? >> the only reason i used to in the paper there is a comparison with defense expenditures over time and are also comparisons with other sectors of the economy, manufacturing, finance, transport, communication etc. in the only reason i brought those up is not that i would prefer we always be at war and that we always be spending more on defense than schooling, that's not my preference at all, but just to show that when education comes up against what i think is this curve pending set of conditions over the next 10 were 20 or 30 years, that education is not alone in this. virtually every other segment of society, virtually every other segment of the economy has been facing the same things for logger.

we've spent a quarter of a billion dollars sending television signals to the cuban people in tv marti. yes, we have spent that. and they are television signals that are beamed from 3:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. and blocked by the cuban government so nobody can see them. so we've spent a quarter of a billion dollars sending television signals no one can see. i guess some people feel better about that. i've been trying to shut that down for ten years and can't even shut down that kind of insanity. so cutting spending? yes. how about asking those that aren't paying their fair share of taxes? yes. let's do all of that. and perhaps we are requiring that that be done if we set up this mechanism. perhaps that's what will happen. i wish we didn't have to do this, but do you know what? with the choice of yes or no, which is a very simple choice, should we do something or should we just continue down this bumpy road that leads to a destination none of us want and none of our children will like? my answer is let's vote yes on this resolution, let's decide to do something that maybe can put this country

[laughter] i am very much in the camp of paul krugman, marty feldstein come expecting the recovery to extremely subdued. and i can be talking about this both at the u.s. level and at the global level. i would be rather concerned in policymaking circles if i saw with the massive stimulus that we've had, you know, for instance in the u.s. economy but is go stimulus that's unprecedented monetary ease though we managed to register something like 2.2% growth in the third quarter of the year. you know, the big question arises, what happens when the fiscal stimulus fades as the fiscal stimulus certainly will fade in the second half of 2010? and there really is a real risk that we do get a double dip recession as that faith. another reason i say that is there are extraordinarily strong head winds against u.s. economic recovery right now. the most notable of those headwinds is the situation in the labor market. not only do we have 10% interest point of americans out of work, but if you and those who are working part-time and on an involuntary basis in those discouraged. if you look at the labo