in particular, i would like to recognize the honorable meier and when -- the honorable mayor edwin lee. we are equally on it to recognize the chinese deputy counsel. welcome, gentlemen. [applause] also with us today, we have officials from california tourism, community partners, and partners who are all part of bringing the chinese to this wonderful city. today, we are launching a new hotel service tailored to the needs of chinese travelers visiting all corners of our hilton world. from today in 51 hotels in 13 countries in cities as far apart as london, sydney, mexico city, toronto, san francisco, and new york, we will be offering unique services focusing on three touch points of the chinese traveling hotel experience -- there are rival, the guest room, and breakfast at hilton. the for your hotels in the program i am pleased to say are right here in the bay area. we are so grateful to hilton san francisco union square for hosting this event, and i would like to recognize the key members from those who tells -- those hotels are also in the room with us today. let's take a closer look a

kate meier, we appreciate you giving us the update. we hope we can continue to call on you as the storm makes landfall. >>> we are at the bottom of the hour here now. i was not supposed to be here in studio with you this weekend for this newscast. i was supposed to be in washington d.c. we were taking our show on the road. we will do it live from the national mall. this weekend was the big dedication of the mlk memorial on the national mall. that is just one of a number of things that had to be canceled this weekend because of hurricane irene. we will check in with d.c. and see how things are going when we come back. stay with me. or mical.. . major medical. ...but it helps pay the doctors. pays the doctors, boyyy! [ quack ] oh yeah? what about your family? ♪ we added aflac, so we get cash! it's like our safety net... ♪ to help with the mortgage or whatever we need! so my family doesn't feel the pain too. ha! [ male announcer ] help protect your family at aflac.com. [ pigeons ] heyyy! hooo!!! [ male announcer ] help protect your family

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. >> kate meier please be safe as you are out on the roads. a lot of them suffered a substantial amount of damage in north carolina. kate thank you from the american red cross. that is it for me in atlanta at the cnn world headquarters. we go to washington, d.c. "the situation room" with wolf blitzer starts now. >>> happening now, roads, homes, even entire towns under water, just some of the dangers left behind from hurricane irene. we're tracking the serious flooding threat in parts of the northeast. hurricane recovery is beginning further down the coast, some republicans are debating the role the federal government should play. this hour, disaster politics. who may be in need of damage control after irene? >>> plus graphic new evidence of brutality by moammar gadhafi and his inner circle. this just as we're hearing his wife and several children have now escaped libya. the pressure now growing to make sure gadhafi himself doesn't get away. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." raging water in the northeast so powerful it can sweep

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. >> hi, tina meier and i rented macon meyer foundation. my question to you as i travel across the country and speak to schools and rural communities in a very affluent communities. overall the same question comes as how are they dealing with the situations from top to bottom regarding bullying and cyberbullying? they are such gray areas. talking from the legal system, then filters into the schools is not the time superintendents don't know what's going on and we expect our schools to start taking care situations and very hard. so i signed one school district doing something amazing, but then a different community doesn't even know what to do and i find that very hard. >> so i don't have one easy answer. that's one of the huge challenges and opportunities. for all the problems we face, there's examples of extraordinary success, but we don't do a good job collectively taken as things to scale and replicating. the website i talk about where we consolidate all the best practices in evidence-based work to admit that transparent. we want to get

. >> hi, tina meier and i rented macon meyer foundation.my question to you as i travel across the country and speak to schools and rural communities in a very affluent communities. overall the same question comes as how are they dealing with the situations from top to bottom regarding bullying and cyberbullying? they are such gray areas. talking from the legal system, then filters into the schools is not the time superintendents don't know what's going on and we expect our schools to start taking care situations and very hard. so i signed one school district doing something amazing, but then a different community doesn't even know what to do and i find that very hard. >> so i don't have one easy answer. that's one of the huge challenges and opportunities. for all the problems we face, there's examples of extraordinary success, but we don't do a good job collectively taken as things to scale and replicating. the website i talk about where we consolidate all the best practices in evidence-based work to admit that transparent. we want to get t