mr. douglas you have residency for 61 years approaching. >> good morning, supervisors, my name is shat, and i will attend when i turn 100 too. >> i was wondering in this maintenance report there is going to be any discussion about the ongoing program to cut down dangerous trees throughout the city and there was a recent call article saying that there was going to be an active cutting of the trees, which you know, will prevent people getting hit like at sigmond stern grove and i wonder if it discusses the privatization of the public facilities and recreations of parks departments and i am a little disappointed and i did not see the codray of demonstraters that i have seen in the past whether or not park and rec has a hearing. there is usually some elderly women demonstrating in regards to the accessive private use of public facilities. also, i am going to thank this committee for having this hearing. as usually, i feel that in the recent past, too many committees have canceled meetings, and my opinion short changing the public because in effect we are paying for not getting any service. and

mr. douglas kaerny. [applause] >> how many know the song living in the city by stevie wonder. that great skit at end where stevie plays all the voices and gets arrested. new york city, skyscrapers and everything. this is a poem that reimagines that gentlemen exists the bus in that skit as john henry. this is a section of it. skyscrapers and everything. j hammer henry mallet [inaudible] could barely fit hammer poking out like natural man's skyscraper to the concrete for deep machine sleep abouts income. don't go john henry traffic man, don't go across that street. the flood song poems were poems written in reaction to katrina. how can i enter that space of writing poems about that. i'm not from there and don't have family there. who benefits from that tragedy? who benefits from that disregard for humanity and the thought animals would benefit from that. this first poem is flood songs number 4 mosquitoes drinking didy. >> drink every hour next up this hour and every hour after. was born in the river there is enough to go around. drink every hour on the hour and every hour after.

mr. douglas' body still in the vehicle at that time? >> i'm not find anything blood of any sort. >> a blood spatter expert named dr. john nordby. the car's interior should have been covered in blood if that was where russel douglas had been shot. >> the shooting seemed to me like it did not occur in this vehicle because there are empty spots where you would expect blood to be. >> permission to approach the witness, your honor? >> yes. >> on cross-examination prosecutor banks challenged the defense's only expert witness pointing out that in his written report on the case dr. nordby had cited the movie pulp fiction as the kind of example of the kind of blood spatter he would expect to see in russel douglas' car. >> the two characters in the film were facing in front and they actually got back spatter, the bullet went toward the backseat, but the spatter went through the front so that's the illustration i was meaning to convey. >> so you chose to rely on an illustration from a fictional movie produced in hollywood to help describe this scen

airway ceo douglas parker, and amr ceo douglas horton, welcome to you both. mr.rker to you first, on the senator's fears it would hut consumers, what do you say? >> well, we're happy to address the senator's concerns, this merger is great for consumers, we have two complimentary networks over 900 routes served by two airlines only 12 have which overlapped. we putting it two airlines and fly to more places for more people, it will be good for consumers. neil: do you get a sense. address this to you mr. horton, that there is a consolidation going on in the industry. after delta bought northwest, and united and continental, and southwest, and they are 4 super carriers here. so by just the virtue of fewer choices there is a fear that they will get stuck behind the 8-ball, lay the elay them of thr concern. >> i think it enhances competition, before this deal you had two mega-carriers with delta and united, now a third that is fully competitive with those two on a global basis if you look in global context, you have their global alliances, sky, star, -- star, sky team

douglas brinkley. caller: i would like to ask mr. brinkley if he remembers vietnam in 1954. president eisenhower signed the agreement to the vendor -- to defend the vietnam people from communist aggression. i think that is what started the vietnam war. guest: eisenhower also did not come to the aid of the french in 1954. he did not want to get brought in to another land war. he got us out of korea. he was not happy with the results. i do not think we can blame the onus of the vietnam war on eisenhower. there is some evidence kennedy was sending advisors and ratcheting up american involvement. there is also evidence that before he died, he was not going to be brought into a land war with our troops in vietnam. we will never know. we do know lyndon johnson did got -- to get us into vietnam. i view vietnam as johnson's war. nixon continued and extended it. we did not get much results. we lost 58,000 men and an untold number of americans wounded psychologically or physically. host: mass., clay, independent caller. caller: as i understand it and i read jim douglas' book and sever

he started the duty along the southwest border in 1987 in douglas, arizona and deputy patrol eight in michigan and arizona. mr. kevin mca lean and, acting assist ant commissioner where he is responsible for the anti-terrorism, immigration, trade compliance and agricultural protection operations at the nation's 331 ports. rear admiral lee is the deputy for operations pollly and capability for the united states coast guard and in this role, he oversees integration of all policies. he spent 13 years in six different command assignments and specialized in boat operations and search and rescue. rebecca gambler, acting director of the u.s. government accountability office of homeland security and justice team where she leads the work on border security and immigration issues. and marc rosenblum is a specialist in immigration policy at the congressional research service and associate professor of political science at the university of new orleans sm the witnesses' full written statements will appear in the record and the chair recognizes chief fisher for his testimony. >> thank you. chairwoman miller, ranking member

mrs. obama to launch a new program to increase physical activity in schools. also expected to appear at the yvette, olympic gold medalist at gabby douglase right back. >> welcome back the time is 7:29 a.m.. >> tomorrow will certainly be the day for you to be out and about. today however we are celebrating 40's and low '50's outside right now. yesterday were clinging on to low 20s. tomorrow is expected to be the warmest day of the week and we do have big changes to talk about with the potential of sprinkles. >> they quit the commute check from the golden gate bridge. the traffic is doing well and we are seeing heavier traffic through the east bay perry ed moderate to heavy conditions for the south bay freeway but it is still not too bad for the peninsula and north bay rides. >> 7:30 a.m.. we are following the latest this morning out of santa cruz were two officers were shot and killed tuesday before the suspect was also killed. kron 4 will tran is liven santa cruz. >> the communique continues to come out and we just saw a family of four with two young children who brought flowers and lit candles. i wanted to know if she wanted to go on c

douglas, arizona. he served as deputy chief in the detroit sector and assistant chief patrol agent in tucson, arizona. mr. kevin maclaine and as the assistant commissioner producers possible for rovers being anti-terrorism immigration from anti-smuggling, trade complaints and agricultural protections of the ports of entry. admiral dean is the deputy for operations policy and capabilities for the united states coast guard and in this role overseas integration of operation, capability can a strategy and policy. he spent 13 years and a career as well specializing in operations of search and rescue. rebecca gambler is an acting director of the u.s. governmental accountability office of homeland security were sudanese gao smirk on border security and immigration issues. mark rosenbaum is a specialist in immigration policy at the congressional research service and an associate professor of political science at the university of new orleans. the witnesses forbidden statements will appear in the record in the chair now recognizes she fisher or his testimony. >> thank you chairwoman miller, ranking member jackson