. >> all right, good morning everyone, and welcome, i am maureen conway, imd executive director of our opportunities program, and i am so delighted to welcome you all today to our lunch and work partnership program. we are happy to be working with the commerce department on this really important initiative. i just want to say a few things before we get started, because we have a real treat for you today. we are being joined by walter isaacson, but a few things first, i would also like to acknowledge and's -- and thank the important initiatives that help us out, and we are filming this and if you are here in the room please do quiet your phone. third, following the event today, we will have application materials for the regions up on our website. that website address is written down in materials and everything so you won't lose it, but just wanted to let you know that that will be going on today, and that is all i need to say for my announcements, but it is my distinct pleasure and thrill to introduce to you jay williams, the assistant secretary, sorry, i was promoting you, and he is go

maureen conway: sure, just in terms of increasing this, one of the things that the secretary mentioned earlier is that a lot of these issues are driven a locally, and one of the things that we are looking for it, in terms of the application and in terms of what we are hoping to work with, is that we raise the issues that are being struggled within the community and we work with public agencies and others to think about how we can address that, so how can that sort of come from them, if this is an issue they want to work on together. walter isaacson: jay, do you wan t to? jay: is the work that we do in the native american tribes across this country. they have a specific different set of needs different from some of the rural communities and urban communities we work in. by having them as part of the conversation, having our staff on the ground, it gives us the extra sensitivity that we're addressing those and being inclusive and diverse in terms of our investments and our approaches. >> ted welsh from stem connector. one of the issues in the work that we're doing is some of the opportun

maureen: thank you diane. a prince george's county police officer is jailed tonight accused of helping his mother attack the mother of his children. officer richard conway was arrested yesterday at his mother's waldorf home. police say conway's mother caroline shot the woman and her new husband robert mange outside a waldorf mcdonald's last week. mange was killed, his wife, officer conway's ex-girlfriend was injured. her name has not been released. police say officer conway let his mother use his service weapon and picked her up after the shooting to craft an alibi. both are charged with first-degree murder. the city of cleveland agreed to overhaul the police department in an investigation with department of justice. this comes days after a white police officer was equited in the -- acquitted. it led to a investigation that found pattern of force and abuse by officers. now to a developing story in texas. state of disaster has been declared as the floodwaters continue to rise. close to a foot of rain fell overnight in the area of houston. at this moment, more than 40 people are missing. many of them were in a vacation home that was swept down the blanco