mcdonnell: what is the first letter? >> p. mr. mcdonnell: ok. it is a p. >> excuse my spelling error. >> that is why we are editing. mr. mcdonnell: ok. again, we have selma, treasure island, mission bay -- >> i combined the list. i hate -- -- i have -- mr. mcdonnell: i thought we agreed, no institutions? >> yes. ok. mr. mcdonnell: south beach, rincon hill. any additions? >> there was a public submission about this was the reason for the line. >> there is no publicly- submitted neighborhood boundaries for yerba buena. there is not a boundary from planned neighborhoods. mr. pilpel: i think this is referring to treasure island and yerba buena island, not yerba buena center. >> they are recommending it as a neighborhood based on public testimony, as i recall. mr. mcdonnell: the proposal is to list yerba buena. >> maybe it was one of the colored maps. mr. mcdonnell: then we will not list it. any objection? mr. pilpel: i would separate them, but i don't care that strongly. mr. mcdonnell: any objection to adding central waterfront? >> i thought it was

mcdonnell: we are on 6 now. so, tenderloin. >> we look at district consultants now? where are we? mr. mcdonnell: we are on district 6. this is the consultants lists list association. all of those will come off. we will now refer to ms. tidwell's list. mission bay, south beach, rincon hill, treasure island, filipino community, and the tenderloin just added by ms. melara. >> are we keeping it together in district 6? >> we did not fully achieve that for the mission, either. mr. mcdonnell: we will not include the tenderloin. >> there is a planning department-recognized neighborhood. correct the spelling. replace "n" with "p." mr. pilpel: could i suggest combining those and saying south of market? that seems to be more of a neighborhood that we could recognize. >> they are separate, though. mr. mcdonnell: hold on. we have heard one proposal. i will confirm the spelling. >> no. that is not right. >> no what? >> we are not voting. >> could you repeat the question? mr. mcdonnell: silma -- recognized nei

chairman mcdonnell: ms. tidwell? >> no. chairman mcdonnell: thank you. let's go then back up to doctor sorry, give me one moment, please. let's go back up to north panhandle. mr. alonso? >> yes, let's get the population for the portion that is currently in 2:00-1, south of fulton and east of stan on-- -- stanion. >> that is a population of 2,855 people, to bring the deviation for district five for 3.89% and the deviation for district one to negative 8.01%. >> d-5 one more time? >> 2:00 p 5, 3.8%. chairman mcdonnell: thank you. >> and i would like to see the population of ansa -- vista. >> would you like me to put the neighborhood layer up and just select those census blocks, or would you like the whole chunk here? >> we will start with the neighborhood layer. >> ok. >> i think it is not the northerly blocks. chairman mcdonnell: he is trying to suggest to you what to consider. finish what you are thinking, and then we will give him a chance to offer a counter thought. >> this population is 1,051 people. it would bring the deviation for district one to neg

chairman mcdonnell: mrs. melara? >> no. chairman mcdonnell: ms. lam. >> i used to live at monterrey and juice, and i have for -- for several years, and i think i did have a closer -- the bordering neighborhood, but i am in in support of moving that border to monterrey. chairman mcdonnell: that was a yes? >> yes. chairman mcdonnell: and mrs. mondejar? >> no, wipet support this. chairman mcdonnell: all right. so we would not make that change. >> did we look at russian hill? can we get the count there? the 2-3 border and see. chairman mcdonnell: let's go for a moment -- i am going to come back to this area in a moment. let's go to another area. >> i am not sure how the legal description works here to go from mansell to bayshore because they don't connect. there is a freeway in between. my intent was to go m mansell, up san brunoo and east on paul. it end up selecting one block with some population, probably a couple of zdeno people and some freeway parcel. i also was interested in going to -- you wanted to do zero population stuff after. so i will ho

mcdonnell: ok. thank you. ms. mondejar: included in the body of the report. maybe at the last sentence. -- edit the last sentence. mr. mcdonnell: your response but the break for editing. ok. thank you. on mr. pilpel's? everyone take a moment to read this suggestion. >> the question you're going to call is all or nothing? mr. mcdonnell: that is correct. mr. pilpel: -- mr. schreiber: no. ms. mondejar: the question is to include it all or not? um -- yes. ms. lam: no. ms. melara: no, because most of it is already included in the report and some of the things that were not, i think we did not vote on them. mr. leigh: i am going to say yes. on the whole, i think it is fine. i appreciate member pilpel's attempts to respond to the issues we had. ms. tidwell: no. mr. mcdonnell: ok. it will remain in the individual section. ok. at the break on this section, mrs. mondejar will edit and give to ms. tidwell. the addition will be at tit -- added to lessons learned and recommendations. ms. tidwell: clarification.

mcdonnell: ok. let me suggest this as a weekend fully utilize the break for all the editing we need to do. there is another question that memberpilpel is raising. we will need to visit that. we have two sets of information. we have what is in the draft, and we have what is on the one- page that the consultants provided. member pilel is suggesting -- pilpel is suggesting we go district by district. mr. pilpel: in general, i like the language that was proposed. outer richmond, in a richmond -- inener richmond. >> to preserve? mr. mcdonnell: in addition to or replacing -- mr. pilpel: i am generally not with the language they provided. i think it is less hopeful. i think this language is better. mr. mcdonnell: we will go district by district. the proposal is to utilize -- the district is described on the bottom of page 8. mr. alonso: yes. mr. leigh: yes. ms. melara: yes. ms. mondejar: yes. mr. schreiber: yes. ms. tidwell: yes. ms. lam: yes. mr. mcdonnell: thank you. all right. district 2. oh, -- mr. pil

mcdonnell: ok. so we have one neighborhood list aed. anyone else. all right, moving into district 10. again, the note on the consultants listing gets eliminated, but and the reference to san francisco general hospital eliminated, therefore we have silver terrace, this the valley, the or hollywood, bay view heights, bayview, hunters point, the central waterfront, dog patch. jamie, of those, which should be eliminated because we do not have recognized neighborhoods or public submission? >> we did not have visitation, i believe the same is true of bayview hunters point. mr. pilpel: i would still include them. i think we should recognize them. and i think we should still candlestick properly -- we should spell candlestick properly. >> i don't know if they gave specific boundaries, and is that why it is not recognized? i believe we have kept that as a whole. >> sorry, i believe bayview, hunters point, i was incorrect about that. it should be listed. mr. pilpel: and i think potrero is potrero. mr. mcdonne

mcdonnell: one second? : i'm sang continue what you have done. -- could use which to this map for a second? mr. mcdonnell: i am saying continued as you have done. >> it is a nice way of showing that. >> we actually did a prototype. if one of you would like to look at that later. >> ok, it looks pretty. >> with the old maps/new map comparisons, with this be included in the appendix? >> and pictures? mr. mcdonnell: yes. our photos should be each of our respective districts, as a pop out. >> perfect. [laughter] we will work on that. mr. mcdonnell: okay, in terms of the final report, we are now entering the information, is there anything else that we need to consider? with respect to the final report? we're going to insert our final vote, retroactively, obviously. sorry, let me interrupt for just a second. ms. tidwell: mr. mcdonnell: i mcdonnell: no, i know that you are pulling district 7. what else do you need? >> other than the vote, no. mr. mcdonnell: okay, excellent. ms. leigh? is there, for purposes of app

chairman mcdonnell: thank you. >commissioner leighlam: i am interested -- as well as the last move to the ting lee andre. commissioner pilpel: i have a couple of tiny box that do have some population and applications, one of which -- couple of tiny blocks that do have some population areas. at the edge of portola. the more significant areas, south of st. luke's. i would like to look south including the block that was referenced tonight near 27th and duncan. we made be back to the border -- we may be back to the border along silver. if you rotate, you rotate. chairman mcdonnell: restate the last one for me. tbhe 0-19-11 border. i am concerned three is unpopulated. i could consider moving treasure island from 6 to three. chairman mcdonnell: you can have a reaction. it has to be silence -- silent reaction. commissioner schreiber: thank you. the other would be the 49 people in sea cliff we could consider looking at. commissioner tidwell: the other question i had and this was the district issue was the line between six

mcdonnell: nice. we have one proposal on a press conference with less than a quorum, at a conference at event. mr. alonso: no. ms. lamms. leigh: yes. ms. mondejar: yes. mr. pilpel: yes. mr. schreiber: yes. ms. tidwell: yes. mr. mcdonnell: thank you so much. we will move forward with planning and event of some sort, less than a quorum, to be determined how and when. any public comment on the press conference item? thank you so much. item number 7, task force budget. ms. lam: there are no additional reporting, just a recap from the last budget. we are anticipating a net balance of " approximately $8800 related to the outreach and consultants. at minimum, we would have that balance if not more. mr. mcdonnell: any questions? mr. pilpel: consistent with the comment a while back, some funds existing, and consistent with the admen codes, could we arrange to. a small number of reports, in addition to having a pdf available on the website for download and printing? mr. mcdonnell: yes, thank you. ok, any other

chairman mcdonnell: sure. let's ask another question. >> we had significant testimony, i think, and i can remember now up on the russian hill. it seems like we go back and forth on this. chairman mcdonnell: you are making a case, but it is being promised, and with all proposals, we consider them. >> if anybody could just refresh my memory on what the testimony was. chairman mcdonnell: your memory is accurate. this is a reversal of where we were. >> and that is where we get in trouble. chairman mcdonnell: yes. >> and i totally agreed. it is easy to remember what my vote was, that we really had difficulty in trying to make decisions. we are on our second to the last meeting. i know we are trying to resolve some things, but i think we should find some options versus reversing what we voted on. >> i think we are allowed to reverse what we voted on. to chair mcdonnell's point, we need to make a decision and move forward. for me personally, that does not require that we are not allowed to consider any past decisions

chairman mcdonnell: ok? all right. we began this part of the discussion with the notion that there were three pieces to be considered, north pantonal and russian hill, north panhandle we decided to make the move and we decided not to make the move. let's go to russian hill, please. >> that is where we wanted to end. chairman mcdonnell: i am restating restarted. the three pieces we needed to start with. we have considered no. panhandle and the third piece of that was russian hill. a different point of view. >> when does the lake st. part [inaudible] >> after russian hill and cathedral hill. is their proposal in that question or just curious where it fits? >> the proposal is to follow-up on questions on adjusting lake st. to balance the district. chairman mcdonnell: let's go to lake street. >> i am happy to make a proposal. in order. i would propose that we move the boundary to ninth avenue. >> that is the population of 1006 people. the deviation is to -6.51% and the division for district 3. >> that is between lake and c

chairman mcdonnell: thank you. is there anyone else who did not have the opportunity to sign up and wish to share public comment tonight? ok. thank you so much. we will close public comment at this time and began deliberations among task force members to consider potential changes to the current draft maps. i will say thank you to everyone who is in the room tonight. everyone who has submitted oral and written testimony. we do value all and put an want to -- we want to consider. task force members, as we engage in this discussion tonight, and how both comments for context where we should directionally try to go. first that we will break from the discussion of -- [inaudible] the rest are population related proposals. i will go through a short list of some we identified in our last meeting as well as those who have come out at several meetings of public comment and e-mail submissions for it the second point of the map, discussing will put this on other proposals and we will do that. with all that, i would like it to

chairman mcdonnell: thank you. >> could you repeat district for? >> -4.90. chairman mcdonnell: going back up to russian hill. can you give us the population of that highlighted area and deviation? >> that is a population of 202 people, bringing the deviation for district 3 to -3.70% and the deviation for destitute to - 0.519%. commissioner alonso: no. commissioner melara: come back to me. yes. commissioner melara: could you tell me what the boundaries are? >> lombard, greenwich, and leavenworth. chairman mcdomelara: did we have testimony around us? >> we've received from don -- predominantly on monday. commissioner melara: yes. commissioner pilpel: yes. commissioner schreiber: yes. commissioner tidwell: no. commissioner melara: yes, because of the school. i am concerned about the other things that need to be done. chairman mcdonnell: thank you. please make this change and let's move to the other part of lake. if we could see the population for the block between 25th and 26. lake and california. >> that block? it ha

chair mcdonnell: ok. member tidwell: i am sensing we may not get agreement on what we think the record -- recommendations are. to the extent task members have suggestions, not responding to public comment, the charter amendment, there is can be included under youru! -- so ano suggest. if you have nine, that is a potential way to move forward. i would propose that. chair mcdonnell: mr. schreiber. member schreiber: ok. member lam: yes. member melara: yes, i am fine wiht that. -- with that. chair mcdonnell: the only thing i would ask is that he would title this section appropriately. that these are the recommendations of individuals. as opposed to minority opinions. there may be some constituents. so it is clear what folks are reviewing. member leigh: i think i am ok with this. i'm trying to imagine what it might look like and what it might contain. chair mcdonnell: in general, a volume and two sentences. member leigh: that is part of what i'm grappling with. if it ends up being completely open to whoever w

chairman mcdonnell: thank you. >> good evening. i have sat on the board for four years and have been a resident for 10. i want to encourage you to stick with that decision. there are many reasons, most of the neighbors are in overwhelming favor of keeping the area in the-5. i will resonate the same tackling --comments. please note in doing all this the neighborhoods of district 1 and 2 did not participate because there were not interested in it. we have spent countless hours working with one supervisor and working with multiple supervisors, twice as much work and many meetings. we are strongly aligned with d5 and splitting us would make us a minority in voicing our opinions. our neighborhood is fragile. andou our advocacy is needed to improve the area. this is a natural boundary that does not divide the community. if you want to go back to the street, our supervisor would no longer be in d5. this represents the voice of tell us neighbors, some of whom might have made it to me but many have not and on their behalf i

chairman mcdonnell: thank you. folloiwnwing supervisors chiu and avalos. president chiu: i want to know -- that you know that you have onrun a tremendous process in taking in the feedback and i know you look forward to april 15 coming. i do hope that all of you will continue to serve in other capacities in the city. there are a number of questions i have found -- been asked. whenever a set of decisions you come up with in the next few days i look forward to that and i think i speak on behalf all my colleagues that whatever decision you make we look forward to serving our constituents. there have been questions about where the russian hill line ought to sit. and you have heard a lot of testimony over the last couple of meetings from the russian hill neighborhood and neighbors that their preference is the line remain where it is. recently there have been some proposals to shift more russian hill from district 32 district 2 and if that is where the committee wants to go, that is where the committee goes but i think a

chairman mcdonnell: for what purple? >> for the panhandle remaining whole. it would be whole, just in a different district. then we could add the population perhaps a block here and block there in russian hill. chairman mcdonnell: thank you. just to summarize, the initial change was 1,460, ansa vista. deviation would be a -- >> negative 2.12%. chairman mcdonnell: and district two a negative 6.18%. mr. leigh? >> can i ask some clarifying questions? chairman mcdonnell: you may. >> i know we had talked about the u.s.f. campus in those three blocks. can we have the population of those? for me personally i would want to see more on sort of -- i think the implication is the russian hill area. so i would like to see more

chairman mcdonnell: thank you. please make this change. >> could we get the deviation for one in two -- and two? >> the deviation for district 1 is -4.70%, the deviation for district 2 is -5.19%. >> could we look at the block -- let's go to the west. so this would be moving to 24th avenue. within that boundary to twenty- fourth. -- moving that boundary to twenty-fourth. >> that is 165 people, bringing the deviation for district 2t to -4.69% and [inaudible] >> i propose we move that blocked. -- block. commissioner alonso: no. vice-chair lam: yes. commissioner pilpel: yes. commissioner schreiber: yes. commissioner tidwell: no. chairman mcdonnell: please make this change. >> i just realized something. since we moved over to fifth avenue on the other side, if we left this one alone, it could go back to six. that is another way of doing it that would come closer to preserving the current boundaries. >> mr. leigh is proposing we reverse the action we just took. >> could we look at that block bounded by california and lak

chairman mcdonnell: please make this change. >> can you go back in for a moment? >> eight? >> yes, please. commissioner leigh: could i also ask and ne -- that needle that goes down, circular, is there population there? >> those are freeway parcels. >> 27 people. >> i take it back. >> we have got 27 people that are on a severe peninsula. >> it is not -- >> that may be 280. >> san jose becomes 280. >> we could do a satellite overly. -- overlay. >> 280. when we click on it, it comes back at i-280. >> the border between 7 and 11 ought to be to 80. and stuff that -- to render aid. stuff that is north of the freeway in that area ought to be in seven. i do not know where there are actual people in that zone, if there's a house there i missed or something. or homeless. the center line there really ought to be 280. [inaudible] in that area. >> i wish we had not made the move we just made but we just did it. i do not know what else to say. >> are you proposing the needle? >> where is it now? >> in eight. >> i would propose to move that to

chair mcdonnell: think about that for a moment. i will last a few of any recommendations in that regard. hold that for a moment. the other piece of the report we need to consider, thank you for an initial draft. >> are we going past community outreach or are we leaving that out? chair mcdonnell: everything else, we will do individually. >> i would make section 5 of the report with their reasons for increasing deviation. chair mcdonnell: did you have a point of view on where? ok. what you have is an initial first pass on the justification for the deviation. the requirement, and get ready because this may or may not be read correct, this is the requirement is that we offer this for plus or minus 1%. not necessarily for all of them. yes or no? >> yes. >> that would be great. if you could send me a revised version. >> who is sending it to me? >chair mcdonnell: we can list them all. we are only required those better over plus or minus 1%. >> can i give more background on how i drafted this? chair mcdonnell: in a moment. to the first que

first, virginia governor, bob mcdonnell. then new jersey governor, chris christie and finally, florida senator marco rubio. some could discount the importance of the mcdonnell mention since romney was trying to raise money in virginia. >> the next president of the united states, mitt romney! >> reporter: but nine months later, romney's back in virginia, campaigning with mcdonnell. many believe it's part of a string of tryouts, testing candidate chemistry. in this case, in a swing state, won by president obama in 2008. the commonwealth of virginia is seen as crucial to republican chances in the fall. >> i sense virginia is -- is still at its core, a right-of-- center state. with fiscal issues will revert to the national tendencies and voting right of center, mitt romney. >> reporter: but it's purple? >> yeah. it is. last 10 governor, five republican, five democrats. >> reporter: cracking the electoral code in virginia, traditionally coming down to locking voter enthusiasm in washington, d.c., an area that puts the swing in th

if it is, i think bob mcdonnell is in that v.p. conversation to the second question because he is extremely popular, the one thing that bob mcdonnell is going to hurt his cause, if you believe mitt romney has a woman problem and if you look at the data he's clearly the gender gap is broader right now than it's been in past elections, bob mcdonnell caught wake-up the virginia state legislature about transvaginal ultra sounds won't help his cause when it comes to the v.p. sweepstakes. >> and bob mcdonnell was asked about that on fox today. >> any candidate that calls a potential nominee and says listen, you can help the party, you can help the country, of course you consider it but i'm not asking for it, interviewing for it. i want to see mitt romney win. we've got a great team out there, people like chris christie, marco rubio, bobby jindal, others that are great options. >> and you're talking about virginia, we're talking about virginia but also look at the new quinnipiac battle ground. florida in play, pennsylvania not in play. ta

. >>> virginia governor bob mcdonnell will also be at the romney event. mcdonnell is reportedly one of the people being considered as a vice presidential candidate with mitt romney. >>> a new poll shows that mitt romney trails president obama in virginia even if romney were to pick governor bob mcdonnell as his vice presidential candidate. the poll was released this week by public policy polling. the service suggests 51% of virginia voters would choose president obama on voting day. 43% would choose romney- mcdonnell ticket. >>> new information about the secret service sex scandal is being revealed. it deals with the lie detector test taken by the 12 agents implicated in the scanned arl. according to new york representative peter king, three of the acts refused to -- agents refused to take the test. nunn of the remining nine agents failed the test. >>> hillary clinton is in china for economic talks but so far most of the attention has been centered around chinese activist chen guangcheng. china's president said china and the u.s. must respect each other e

mcdonnell has a 46% approval rate in that state.nd president obama wins by an even bigger margin if romney would select congressman eric cantor who has only a 27% favor ability compared to 41% unfavorability. >>> and with ground to make up, romney will spend today in virginia. he's holding two events, including one with mcdonnell in pentagon city. romney also has a campaign event scheduled for tomorrow in virginia. details for that event have not been reloewsed yet. averages -- released yesterday. >>> also in virginia, newt gingrich is expected to suspend his presidential campaign and eventually endorse mitt romney. newt gingrich and romney will make a joint appearance in the next few weeks. >>> 6:47. maryland's attorney general wants the state's court of appeals to reconsider over or suspend a ruling that struck down part of the state's dna collection law. the ruling prohibits officers from taking dna sample was people who are charged but not convicted of crimes. the court ruled the practice is a violation of the constitutional rig

mcdonnell's popularity and the importance of virginia in the 2012 race has put mcdonnell on the viceresidential short list. as romney secures the nomination, the questions have resurfaced. has mcdonnell been asked? >> they've asked for my schedule to see when i can campaign for him. that's it. >> reporter: and he repeated what he said before. if called, he would listen. >> anybody who gets a call from the party's nominee saying you can help our country and our party, of course you would listen. i've got the best job in america. the job held by thomas jefferson and patrick henry. >> reporter: he will be very valuable in the months ahead helping to shore up support. >> that movement is made up larchly of evangelical and born again conservatives, many of whom are very skeptical of a mormon as a presidential candidate. i think the governor can do a lot to overcome those potential difficulties for mitt romney. >> reporter: but he says the vice presidential prospects may have been damaged by the contentious 2012 election. >> the women's issues and other social issues in the general assembl

can close your eyes. >> the president, of course, referring to virginia republican governor bob mcdonnell and the new forced ultrasound law and the pennsylvania forced vaginal probe, forced the image into your sightline ultrasound bill, which is supported by republican governor tom corbett of pennsylvania. >> making them watch, does that go too far in your mind? >> i don't know if you can make anybody watch, okay, because you just have to close your eyes. >> in this political climate, created by a whole new radical republican era of policy making on this subject, the issue of abortion rights is one where democrats are starting to feel less shy. democrats are starting to feel about their political responsibilities on this issue, given how far and how fast republicans are pushing on this issue on the other side. in the great state of michigan, in a congressional race in the state of michigan, support for abortion rights is becoming a major issue between the various democratic candidates who are vying in the democratic primary. the battle creek michigan enquirer reporting that while serving

mcdonnell? >> i say no for the same reasons. i am actually opposed to splitting the park at all. >> so we will not make this change. >> thank you. >> i thought the eastern side had more merit. thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. are there any other non population based? >> yes. i had, i was wondering if we could consider moving all of the uc campus into district 5 and keep it together. initially, i had suggested district 7, but it looks like more of district 5 once it, so i would propose doing that. >> could you please highlight that? >> it is, the borders are? drive, clarendon and up. all of the way to parnassus. >> do we know if there is student housing or graduate student housing? it is within a region highlighted? >> the population. >> in the highlighted area, there is a population of 405. would you like to know the resulting deviation? >> yes. >> 2.69% for district 5. for district 7 -0.84%. >> ok. i will propose that. >> thank you. mr. alonso? >> yes. >> mr. leigh? >> no. >> ms. lam? >> yes. >> ms mondejar? >> i thought

let's avoid them upfront. >> commissioner mcdonnell? >> i don't think i can improve upon that answer. >> that's nice and short. why do it twice if you can just answer it once, right? >> this is something i've been working on with senator warner, we introduced a bill known as dig once. which requires states to install broadband conduits. could you just address how you're going to work with the secretary of transportation in carrying out this program? >> we're encouraging the transportation department and others to move on this as quickly as possible. because it is a no-brainer. since the idea was first conceived, it's clear it's fwlot own will a wire line opportunity. but a wireless one as well. many people don't realize that a wireless call. most of it -- distance travels through wire line networks, lowering the cost of infrastructure buildout of fiber in the roads will help not only wire line but wireless and we're hopeful we'll see some action concretely in the near future. >> very good. >> mr. chairman, last weekend the senate approp

romney's spin putting a renewed spotlight on virginia governor bob mcdonnell.e jumped behind romney long before it was clear who would come out on top in the gop race. the governor's popularity as a result and virginia's key role as a swing state have put mcdonnell many pundits' vice presidential short list. for now the governor is not taking the bait. >> anybody who gets a call from the party's nominee and said, you can help our country, you can help our party, of course you'd listen. look, i've got the best job in america. the job held by thomas jefferson and patrick henry. i'm not looking for anything else. >> mcdonnell told wto p yesterday that he is not being vetted by the romney campaign and is planning to finish his term which ends in 2015. the. >>> transportation the safety of canada is leading the investigation of a deadly midair collision in northern virginia. u.s. investigators revealed the planes involve read owned by employees of the faa and ntsb. therefore, those agencies are not investigating. the crash happened monday in fauquier county. two peo

mcdonnell issued a statement hisat 72% of didn't survived.dit soon will be easier for get to and from the metro station. metro is opening its first bike ride at the college park metro station this morning. people can park their bicycles secure enclosed area and have card access. you can see the bicycles there overnight. the facility has more than 100 bicycles. metro holding two public meetings this week on potential routesments to f4 silver springen carrollton, a first onting at 5:30 this evening road.ale of the meeting is tomorrow at the takoma park community center on maple avenue. tuesday morning, 63 degrees. cracks coming up, could the be the nextk dancing?t on what professional dancer wants her to be his partner. >> [ female announcer ] with xfinity, you can always expect more. like more on demand shows and movies than ever. and more ways to discover them too. plus more speed from america's fastest internet provider. so you can run more devices at the same time. ♪ feel a firework [ female announcer ] and best of all, it keeps getting bet

now virginia's governor bob mcdonnell is offering his thoughts on what should happen.hat story is coming up at 5:50. >> at 5:24, we have wizards coaching news coming up in sports. >> next at 5:15, howard has a couple of beautiful days in his seven-day forecast. we'll be right back. >>> good morning. welcome back to 9news now. 5:15. we've had some pretty miserable days and humidity but we get a break coming up in howard's forecast. >> i love the heat and -- some love the heat and humidity. i'm not in that camp and neither are you. tomorrow night is a thursday, going to be gorgeous. really going to be nice. this morning we have a couple of showers still to deal with, especially southeast of town. and then this afternoon an isolated shower there. but we'll get it. we'll get a nice break just to keep andrea happy. here's your bus stop forecast. if andrea's happy, everybody is happy, right, mike? >> you got that right. >> bus stop forecast. we've got a couple of showers out there. temperatures are running in the 60s to low 70s this morning. sunrise about 5:45. sets about 8:

mcdonnell thinks be an asset in our region. brianne carter joins us to tell for.at they could be used >> good morning. that's right. the governor now says he in northern virginia itr the next couple years could be the criteria to use drones to monitor the roads and other areas. he says he believes the idea great.e new support for additional eyes in the sky to fight crime. >> i think it's great to use technology to make law- more productive, manpower, and safer. we use it on the battlefield. virginia governor bob became the latest virginia leader to support police using drones. >> i believe if you are keeping officers safe and making productive and saving using this in a special weapons operations like we did in the battlefield, absolutely worth it. >> the unmanned aircraft have by the military overseas. over the past few months there's using themalk about in the commonwealth. the police chiefs of fairfax also endorsede the idea. however, residents have mixed whether it's right to add this new technology. >> i would probably be

coming up this morning, what virginia governor book mcdonnell is -- bob mcdonnell is saying about speculationt he could be mitt romney's running mate. >>> why strong storms angered a number of people who turned out to pay their tributes to chuck brown. >>> another round of rain moving through the area now. [ creaking ] [ male announcer ] trophies and awards lift you up. but they can also hold you back. unless you ask, what's next? [ zapping ] [ clang ] this is the next level of performance. the next level of innovation. the next rx. the all-new f sport. this is the pursuit of perfection. >>> looking at stories making headlines at 5:30 -- a culpeper police officer is behind bars facing murder charges for the shooting death of a woman. >>> he's got the delegates he needs, but mitt romney's campaign is being overshadowed by one of his supporters' remark. >>> and why fans of chuck brown missed out on a chance to say good-bye to the godfather of go-if. >>> good morning you to, i'm eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. welcome back to "news4 today" on this wednesday, may 30. as we look outside, 68 degr

even if we were to pick governor bob mcdonnell. it was released by public policy polling and says 51% of virginiaen voters would choose the president. 43% would vote for the hypothetical ticket. that poll -- >> michael gardner is headed to prison for 32 years. the falls church community activist and businessman was found guilty this afternoon on three counts of molesting three girls during a sleep over last summer. our peggy fox joins us live in the courtroom with a difficult case and a tough sentence. >> reporter: that's right. that jury recommending 22 years behind bars. earlier today, finding him guilty of sexually abusing two girls. they were at a slumber party at his house for his daughter's birthday party. the jury believed them. they found the evidence very convincing. the testimony from the little girls and also dna evidence very convincing from the girls who were at the slumber party. a short time ago, we spoke to some of the families involved and here's what one of the fathers had to say. >> there's some soul searching th