padron who is also a graduate of miami-dade college. he is widely recognized as one of the top educational leaders in the world. his time with miami-dade college has been defined by growth, trailblazing, academic and cultural programs, greater access and student success. he has produced impressive results in student access, retention, graduation and overall achieve. president padron has truly made a positive difference in the lives of so many individuals and we must commend him for all that he continues to do in support of his college, our college, and this college is a part of our community and our nation. so, madam speaker, with that i urge all members to please vote in favor of this legislation congratulating one of america's finest academic institutions, miami-dade college, for its 50th year of providing quality education for all. thank you, madam speaker, thank you, the gentleman from utah, for the time, and thank you, madam ambassador, for sponsoring this bill as well. and i'm glad to yield back to the gentleman my time. thank you

and he was i believe the principal investigator of this study of miami dade county. and you will see in the transportation research board published probably in the next few months and a paper they did, and by instituting, engineering and education enforcement measures, there was a result of a significant improvement in pedestrian safety in these targeted areas. quite a significant drop in pedestrian involved collisions. so, i urge you to attend. as i said on the sign in table, you will find the flyer that describes it and on the mta table, you will find my slide show that has jessica's contact information. and please never hesitate to contact me, if you want information or if you think you are not being heard by the district. the best way to work, if you want my help, to ask the district, if you feel you are not getting something, ask them to consult with me, and then i will, the district will contact me and i can help clarify best practices. thank you for letting me speak. [applause] >> thank you maggie, and it's important to note that her last slide was of miami da

>> i have to tell you, i'm a huge fan of miami-dade. i visited there earlier this year. it's a premium college in the country that's just doing an amazing job. we think about the next generation. 10,000 new math and sign teachers, we have to be more creative at bringing them in. you look at the stem results, math and science around 21st, 25th. we're nowhere near where we should be. so how do we do that differently? pay math and science teachers more money. not everyone agrees with that. we have critical need. figure out 5,000, 10,000 to bring them in. we need to think of creative internships where they can do research, partner with companies in the summer. we have teach grants available today, $4,000 a year, $16,000 that anyone can apply for. math and science teachers would be fantastic. they can apply for that as an undergrad as long as they commit to working in a poverty school for four years, $16,000 will come off of their tuition in college. we want incentives on the front end. in the back end, paying science teachers more is part of the answer. last week we put out

. >> reporter: in miami-dade county, revenues from property taxes are off by $30 billion. in neighboring broward county, where fort lauderdale is the largest city, property taxes are down $17 billion. taken together, that's $26,000 less in property taxes from every home and condo in the region. and that means more belt- tightening. workers in north miami beach will take a 10% pay cut and 10- day furloughs. hialeah, a city of 200,000, will lay off 50 employees, and could cut worker pay by a third. in broward county, 10% of bus routes are on the chopping block. along with millions of dollars less, says county commissioner stacy ritter, for law enforcement and other key services. >> you feel like you're stuck between a rock and a hard place. do you raise taxes and give them the services they want, but recognize that in this economy, raising taxes is a really bad thing to do? or do you cut the service, keep the tax level what it is, and just recognize that they'll be mad at you because the parks and libraries aren't open when they want? there's no good answer and no way to ple

, it's officially miami metro dade county now but you can see this guy is just absolutelyivious to anybody else's safety, he is roaring through residential neighborhoods. it apparently started as a traffic stop, after some kind of a car accident. let's listen in again to wsvn. >> -- for stop signs there, we are now continuing eastbound, we're going eastbound here, and i'm looking for an address. we're still to the south of amelia earhart park, it puts us just south of opilaka airport, we're continuing just past the opilaka flea market. i'm looking for landmarks to give folks at home an idea of exactly where this chase is continuing on. almost involved in an accident there, with another broward sheriff's office vehicle, now we have the vehicle making a left turn and coming northbound. again, it looks like we're getting to get of what looks like the tip that police officers are trying to get up to the back corner of the vig and just tip it slightly as it's continuing at high speed to get the vehicle to spin out. here you go, watch t. there it goes, there's the tip, with two

that's from the miami-dade miami herald that's being reported. this crossed two counties, miami-dade and brower when it finally came to an end and now we know according to police what started it all. we thought maybe the vehicle was stolen but now we know what these guys were apparently looking for was to steal equipment from houses in a nice neighborhood. you'll remember jenna kept bringing up, this is a residential area, this is not a freeway, these guys could hurt somebody, drive up in somebody's lawn, then they went for it and you saw the houses in the background. they were looking, according to police, to take lawn equipment from houses in this neighborhood, corral springs officers started off with a chase in the toyota camera in the 4000 block of corral springs, bringing this whole thing to an end and who are the guys? we have mug shots. lewis is 30 years old and then there were allegedly two brothers involved in this, joel and eric, you see joel's picture there, joel and eric sanudo, 18 and 19 years old, they are charged this morning and g

a doctor seriously wounded two miami-dade. kelly swoope. the police have identified the gunman, paul partis of arlington, virginia, he shot a doctor who treated his mother and then his mother and finally himself. christian schaefer is live at johns hopkins where the medical campus is trying to get back to normal. >> reporter: we're told that dr. david company wednesday is together better tonight. the incident happened shortly after 11:00 t morning and the only thing that might have prevented it would have been preventing paul par advertise from bringing that weapon into the hospital in the first place. don't expect to see widespread use of metal detectors here at johns hopkins. the frightening news came shortly after 11:00. >> sounded chaotic, no one knew what was going on. >> reporter: thousands of hospital employees told there had been a shooting on the 8-t floor of the medical building, they locked themselves in not knowing where the gunman might beheaded. >> it's scary just knowing that someone is on the outside on a rampage. with a gun

. >> he is the only known survivor in the bay area murder mystery that left five miami- dade and, tonighthe is out of jail. charles righten house was freed less than three hours ago. police found the body of his wife and her friend on property last week and his lawyer is talking about his case and his alleged alibi. >> reporter: charles righten hawes has posted bail. his attorney snuck him out but how does the only man alive left with links to efren valdemoro and sources say lived with the body of his wife and best friend decomposing in his home get bail reduced from $2 million to $25,000. >> the 2 million was based upon the declaration of the officers indicating they were investigating his involvement in a homocide, they did not file homocide charges. >> reporter: the only charges the is a lab oh da's office can hang on him now is possession of explosives and making a destructive device. >> so his presence in the home alone is not sufficient to bring charges of a possible homocide? >> that's correct. >> cbs5 has learned the da's case is stalled because the bodies were so badly decomposed

so far investigators have found four miami-dade and the chp killed a murder suspect on tuesday night. but there is still one man who is missing. he is the son of one of the victims and, tonight, cbs5 has exclusively learned the search for him is happening in the town of pittsburgh and that's where robert liles is tonight. robert? >> reporter: ken, we can tell you that the hunt for frederick sales may have taken a very grim turn tonight. investigative sources are confirming to cbs5 that hercules police spent the better part of this day searching lapped fills that service hercules. that sent cbs5 cameras on the hunt. it first led us to a landfill in richmond and then that ultimately led us right here to the keller canyon landfill here in pittsburgh where we are told scores have investigators spent this day correspondence donning off the landfill. hercules police found more than rita allen's 2002 cadillac escalade in a ravine outside the entrance to by on add corporation. investigates eggedtive source essay they also found a machete near the suv. as they canvassed the area they quickly f

building in north miami-dade a free man, wearing jeans and a t-shirt he gets into an agent's car.in coral gables, police rush to the scene. >> you can see a gridlock. >> commuters couldn't go anywhere. >> everything is really messed up. >> officers got their guns and the bomb squad is called in. >> it all happened friday the coral gables bank of america. bank employs who you see with no shirt on tells police he was strapped with explosives and forced to hand over cash to robbers. >> it was kind of like serious stuff. >> police say the suspect claims it all started when he was kidnapped from his apartment. he was drin by the suspects to the bank. >> the device was placed on his body and he was transported to the bank. >> it's an unusual event to have explosives strapped to a victim. >> he says he was forced to get an undisclosed amount from the bank. branch manager was inside the bank and called 911. police swarmed the area and had their weapons ready. >> we were able to clear the bank, clear the safety of the individual and be able to deactivate the device. >> julie: thanks to kev

and privilege to recognize the many dedicated and hardworking members of citizens crime watch of miami-dade county and to thank each of them for what they do to help keep us safe. madam speaker, i would like to congratulate the international ballet festival of miami for another spectacular year of performanceness. since 1995, this yearly celebration of the arts has brought some of the world's leading ballet companies to our area of south florida. in addition to being known as the hub for international commerce, south florida has a thriving and diverse arts community. through the dedication of pedro pablo penia, the festival has become a yearly staple on the south florida calendar with five spectacular performances at four theaters. ballet companies from as far away as hungary, australia and italy have participated in this festival. i congratulate pedro pablo pena and everyone who made this year's international ballet festival of miami a resounding success. your efforts have enriched south florida and we are all the better for it. thank you, madam speaker. and i yield back the balance of my

miami dade has not closed any doors but university of miami campus is across the street and you wonder in these situations whether or not police on the outside have contact with the guy on the inside. martha: let's hope so, or at least trying to establish it. bill: back to that story, live in miami. >>> in the meantime, here's a shocker, huh? de russianal, that's the reaction from diplomats today after iran's president accused of government of plotting 9/11, his fiery speech to the u.n. triggering a walkout yesterday. >> some segments within the u.s. government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining american economy and its grips on the middle east in order to save the zionist regime. bill: that was part of his comments. after that, the u.s. delegation got up, they walked out. that was after ahmadinejad delivered a speech earlier in the week and did not make any reference to september 11th but this time, it was too much for anyone to not take a stand. speaking of taking a stand, p.j. crowley, state department, he jumped on those comments by the iranian leader. roll this: >> i

it went to miami dade county and lasted 20 minutes.e used a stun gun to subdue the man who tried to run away. police were also seen dragging another man from the vehicle. all of the men were hauled into custody. is not clear why police were chasing the vehicle. a big political battle is brewing in alaska. the senator who recently lost the prime rate to 80 party can it has launched a ride in campaign. and as some people calling her a sore loser. >> how do you tell the voters in a mistake and you are wrong? now let me. missed me the first time. yet to get the next time. >> i'm more concerned about the people of alaska are saying rather than what is being said in washington d.c. >> the gop is backing the winner, joe miller. >> keep doing it until you get right. >> many people are in the dark tonight after hurricane igor swept through the film last night with 100 mile per hour winds and 8 inches of rain on some parts of the island. many roads are closed because parts had watched out. a search is expected -- parts had washed out. an elderly

miami dade county, two largest cuban american groups, little havana and another is not in the congressional5th district. more important is how the district is increasingly hispanic and democratic. the rope republican is leaving it for the much safer 21st district. >> president obama's re-election prospects are not good in a poll from george washington university, 38 percent say he deserves another term and 44 percent will vote for someone else. and 13 percent will "consider" voting for someone else. they favor congressional republicans by 11-point margin over president obama to create jobs. >> who is the better campaign for democrats? president obama? or bill clinton? stay tuned. [ male announcer ] millions of men 45 and older just don't feel like they used to. are you one of them? remember when you had more energy for 18 holes with your buddies? [ glass shatters ] more passion for the one you love? more fun with your family and friends? it could be a treatable condition called low testosterone, or low t. c'mon, stop living in the shadows. you've got a life to live. [ male announcer ] so do

ankle monitor strapped over her matching stiletto heels, the so-called beauty bandit paraded into a miami-dadeand theft, identity theft, and fraud. prosecutors say 29-year-old maria chryyson, obsessed with her looks, systematically visited various plastic surgeons. getting botox injections, sculpting her looks, the price more than $5,000. but every time she cut out of the before paying. >> yes, this is the first time i had anybody accused of stealing botox. >> her lawyer says the deal offered by prosecutors was picture perfect. restitution to the doctors, a $500 fine, and community service. >> well, i'm just glad that i'm off of my house arrest and i can move on with my life. >> the unemployed beauty bandit still faces charges in another jurisdiction, although on her facebook page, which has dozens of photos, some not appropriate for television, she claims that plastic surgery patient who nipped out after tucking her wallet deep in her purse was a look-a-like, not her. >> she has pictures that are very unique. so i could see her in china, and i know that it was her. >> her monitor is off, and

this morning in miami-dade enough to cause a few traffic accidents and that's what we heard so far with respect to this. school's in session and government office is open and everyone is pretty much going about business as usual as what is really going to be an all-day rain here in south florida. should end about the time the sun goes down this evening. so, storms go, hopefully this one will go pretty well for florida as we look down the road, though, another risk into early next week of this area possibly being affected by a tropical system. we will keep you posted on what happens next week. i'm meteorologist jim cantore, back to you. >>> let's go to bill karins. heading up the east coast. >> florida is like a sponge, sandy soil, it could rain all day in florida for the most part. that's not the case when you go up through the eastern seaboard. flood watches through canada and mid-atlantic and boston area won't be too bad with this one. how much rainfall we are expecting with this storm and adding it up as it goes in time here and the possibility of a six to seven inch localized rain e

the chase went from broward county down into miami-dade and then on to the sidewalk. >> he is going toe, looks like a bailout is occurring here. a door was open. the door is open again. police officers now a collision there between a broward sheriff's office vehicle as it makes a right hand turn here. >> shepard: finally one police car nudged the suspect's rear bumper, performing what they call a pit maneuver that ended the car chase once and for all. >> there it goes. there is the tip drill, collides with two other vehicles. people inside, there is going to be a bailout. one person running and another person with their hands up. >> police ran down all three suspects. and used a tase tore subdue at least one of them. >> he is on the ground. suspect is in the custody being dragged out here. one guy being dragged by his heel. >> shepard: there is moment you may have missed in all this action. watch what happens after the suspect's car hits that other one just parked there see the big cloud of smoke just pouring right out the door? wonder what that is? and it looked like police later pull

those are the things we are worried about in miami-dade and broward counties.lowered the canals, which is where all the water drains into. so if we get a heavy dump of rain that water will be able to flow freely in there. the radar certainly shows us we have much more to come before all is said and done. by this time tomorrow, we should be back in the sunshine, which is what folks here in the sunshine state are used to. >> yeah, but sending it up to us. jim cantore from the weather channel. thanks. >>> just over a month until election day. and our new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll is shedding light on what voters really want from washington. >> it's an age-old question. >> they don't want washington. >> what do voters want? let's get to the results. fred yang is democratic pollster with ger hart yang research. both firms co-conduct this poll. i want to start with tax cuts. we are trying to get at this debate. it was the big debate over the last three weeks. should the tax cuts for the wealthy expire and we asked it two different ways. should they expire f

a lot of automatic weapons and right now we did see the miami-dade county bomb squad drive by just a few minutes ago. so, it seems like they're in a bit of a holding pattern. they did ask us to step back and they tried to pretty much clear the parking lot because earlier, if you can imagine, there were a lot of bystanders, people trying to take pictures with their cell phones just to avoid any possible danger, they asked people to clear the parking lot of this supermarket. you mentioned the riviera day school. that's about one block away from where i'm standing right now. things are quiet but i noticed they cleared the air space because there were a lot of helicopters flying around and there haven't been any for quite a bit. so, it looks like there isn't much traffic right now on south dixie highway, which is also u.s. 1. so that is a very heavily trafficked area. that's basically what we're seeing from here. as you mentioned, it's unclear exactly how many hostages are in the bank and it seems like they were brought into the bank. that this might have started else where and ended up

and alex, as far as the bomb goes, right now the fbi and miami-dade bomb squad are examining it to determine if it was real or fake. but so far, as you did mention previously, they have been able to confirm that it did, in fact, include some bomb-making materials. alex? >> carolyn, how about the father? what is his situation right now? >> reporter: they are not releasing a whole lot information on the father right now. all we know is he was left back at the apartment with one of the suspects while the other two suspects took the bank teller over to the bank. so we know that he was there while all of this was going on at the bank of america. this is 20 minutes from coral gables so they are not releasing too many details other than that. >> a well thought out plan it would seem. carolyn ryan, thank you so much. >>> destructive floodwaters are slowly receding in southern parts of minnesota after storms dumped ten inches of rain earlier this week. residents are facing a tremendous cleanup there. in pine island hit particularly hard, the city estimates 150 homes have severe flood damage. for the

the school program was created by miami-dade county superintendent alberto carvalo, who is also the principal>> what we're doing here is actually providing the environment where students use technology as a way of living that accelerates their learning. >> reporter: the school was designed like a giant ipod, with a central classroom and several small rooms where students take virtual classes at the same time as teens from other states or countries. >> very possible to have a student in -- taking science in miami, one in gainesville, one in uk and, you know, anywhere around the world really. >> reporter: casey flamedo applied to iprep because she was bored at her old school. >> you actually learn a lot more, like faster. >> you learn much more? >> yeah. so it's been three weeks of school and i figure i learned like what i learned like in a whole semester. >> reporter: they learn music by downloading their favorite songs from itunes. their physical education instructor is the wii. the most important thing, this teacher sarksz is that they are given the tools they need for the future. >> we're p

building in north miami-dade a free man. wearing jeans and t-shirt he gets into an agent's car.rly friday in coral gables. police rushed to the scene. >> you can see a gridlock. >> commuters can't get anyway. >> i've been taking the backgrounds. >> officers grabbed their guns and bomb squad is called in. >> it all happened friday at coral gables bank of america at 1500 block of the street. you see him with no shirt in the picture tells police he was strapped with explosives around forced to hand over cash to robbers. >> this is serious stuff. >> local and state police say he kliarms it all started when he was kidnapped from his apartment. he was forced to put on some sort of explosive device and was driven by the suspect to the bank. >> the twice was placed on his body and he was transported to the bank. >> it is unusual event. >> he told police next he was forced to get an undisclosed amount of cash from the bank and had to hand it over to the robbers. the branch manager was inside the bank called 911. police had their weapons ready. >> we were able to secure the safety of the

monitor strapped just over her matching stiletto heels, the so-called beauty bandit paraded into a miami-dadeudged. her appearance before this bar on charges of grand theft, identity theft and fraud. prosecutors say 29-year-old maria christen, obsessed with her looks, systematically visited various south florida plastic surgery clinics, getting botox injections, sculpting her look. the price of beauty, more than $5,000. every time, she cut out before paying. >> this is the first time i had anybody accused of stealing botox. her lawyer says the deal offered by prosecutors was picture perfect. restitution to the doctors, a $500 fine and community service. >> i'm just glad i'm off my house arrest and can move on with my life. >> reporter: the unemployed beauty bandit still faces charges in another jurisdiction, although on her facebook page which has dozens of photos, some not appropriate for television, she claims that plastic surgery patient, who nipped out after tucking her wallet deep in her purse was a look alike, not her. >> her features are very unique. i could see her in china and i know

. >> reporter: miami dade fire rescue rushed him to sun is the light staim stadium. >> the drive downunce over the fence. that's a double. >> reporter: durl the second inning of the marlins versus cubs game, a fast-flying chunk of wood pierced tyler colvin. >> he was coming in from third on a hit, and the bat just boom right 32 his chest, the pointy end of it, too. he stopped for a few seconds and kept trotting in but he was stunned. >> when we saw colvin go down to his knees when he was crossing home, you knew something was wrong. >> reporter: colvin came off the field and was air-lifted to jackson memorial hospital. the cubs say colvin is stable and only suffered from a little external bleeding. >> he's a strong guy up here. maybe that had something to do with it, and i more importantly, he dodged a bullet. >> reporter: colvin's wound will heel but after getting hit, he may not hit the diamond for a while. >> dangerous game. the ball is being thrown hard and that's just part of it. >> once again, that's wsbn reporting. tyler colvin is being treated with a chest tube in hopes of prev

the clerk: house resolution 1571, resolution acknowledging and congratulating miami-dade college to the occasion of its 50th anniversary of service to the students and residents of the state of florida. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and agree to the resolution as amended? members will record their votes by electronic device. s this a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 378, t are zero. 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the resolution is agreed to and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the house will be in order. will the members please take their conversations off the floor. the house will be in order. will members please take their conversations off the floor. the

and miami-dade police are interviewing the 70-year-old man. no explosives have been found. four of miami international airports and concourses were evacuated thursday night. but the airport fully re-opened just after 4:00 a.m. this morning. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> tonight, book tv prime time looks to the stars. planetarium director neal describes death by black hole and other cosmic quandary. timothy fairs talks about the importance of amateur astronomy from "seeing in the dark." book tv prime time on c-span 2. "washington journal" continues. host: well, on your screen is professor lara brown who is the author of this book, "jockeying for the american presidency." we're going to be talking about presidential campaigns and elections and congressional campaigns and elections and scandals. professor brown, 44 men have sebbed as president of the united states. do they have anything in common? is there one commonality among all 44? guest: well, that's exactly what i set out to find. i tend to think about presidents as being a group of winners. t

she was attacked by the so-called day care rapist while speaking of her children at day care in miami dadeunty. she later appeared on america's most wanted. thank you for appearing. merika thank you very much. good afternoon, chairman specter and distinguished members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to participate in today's hearing. i hope that'll this empowers you to fight this crime. the investigation of rape will happen only when we are committed to providing it does with comprehensive support services, from the first 911 call all the way through to sentencing. my story supports this. the support services by sustained through the longest, most grueling years of my life, at times giving up seemed the best thing to do. i was raised in miami, fla., and graduated from the university of virginia and spent a brief time here in washington working for the department of justice. after graduate school i got married and my husband and dial chose to -- by husband and i chose to settle down in the same miami area where i have grown up. one afternoon i went to pick up my 3-year-old d

then, i ended up becoming the best student in the whole state of florida when i graduated from miami dadend just because i don't have legal status, i'm not allowed to become a teacher which is my dream. >> you have a similar story, you are an illegal immigrant living in florida and also a bright student. >> that is correct. and not only that, but i have three degrees. i graduated from high school and my degrees are actually in special education and i want to work with autistic children and i think that it's not that i am illegal or undocumented, it's just the situation and the laws in country have not properly been able to allow me to be able to get residency and be able to contribute and give back to the community i love. >> when you say that, gabby, what have you done? many of our viewers will say we understand this. they've worked hard. they've done well in college. but what have you done to try to become a legal citizen? >> well, i've gone to many, many, many lawyers and i've tried to talk to them. and there's no options for me. a student like myself that came when i was 7 years old,