mr. gray has said he tried to reach the folks and does not hear back. >> good evening commissioners. i was the patrol special liaison up until last year. i came with the lieutenant in case any historical data needed to be provided. however i was only in that assignment for a year but i will answer whatever i can. to provide you with that information mr. gray did send me an email last year. i believe it was patrol special byer, the beat owner going to sponsor him through the program but i did not receive an application. >> the office never received one from him. >> no. >> did you respond? >> i did. >> that you didn't have an application? >> i never received an application. >> ok. just in the normal course of stuff if someone wanted to be a patrol and it would take you a couple of weeks to go through it and hand it up to backgrounds? >> it is fair to say that it would take a few weeks. >> i don't want to go on at length but if you could communicate with the commission the rough backlog and how l

mr. gray has said he tried to reach the folks and does not hear back. >> good evening commissioners. i was the patrol special liaison up until last year. i came with the lieutenant in case any historical data needed

are trying to reach mr gray tabby success and i want to talk to regarding press issues . person i think. blackwater so many times that we've lost count but they don't seem to want to talk to us. but it appears that the coalition doesn't just use blackwater. the fact is there are over twenty thousand private contractors in iraq because due to the second largest force after the american army. and hundreds of firms around the world around private contractors. have. one search for the romanian security company. who are in bucharest. show us what their services include. we were in. private company in other countries west and west. well maybe it is. right. in the private system more mobility. away because the. poor over the world. have the rules it's not the left not the right. only. you know what we've got is a situation where we haven't thousands of the westerners in iraq using their weapons without any rules without any rules of engagement with anyone or behind it that is no result for less. than forty thousand marines were killed in one week not a single story appeared in t

to provide you with that information mr. gray did send me an email last year. i believe it was patrol special byer, the beat owner going to sponsor him through the program but i did not receive an application. >> the office never received one from him. >> no. >> did you respond? >> i did. >> that you didn't have an application? >> i never received an application. >> ok. just in the normal course of stuff if someone wanted to be a patrol and it would take you a couple of weeks to go through it and hand it up to backgrounds? >> it is fair to say that it would take a few weeks. >> i don't want to go on at length but if you could communicate with the commission the rough backlog and how long that takes so the public knows after tonight's meeting. that would be fine for me. that is all i have at this point. >> i wanted a clarification talking about the gun holster, how many patrol specialists carry guns and are all required to go to the range? and how do they have the guns. >> they are supposed to qualify twice per year in april and october. >> are they post certifi

they write both sides of the debate say one problems that mr. gray, a relative new comer to elected politics is not well known so people jump to conclusions, including it would not continue with past reforms. how do you shake that if that's true? guest: all i have to do is look at recent months during which i've been in office. people question whether i would continue with education reform. i think there's evidence that we would. first of all having appointed henderson to be the chancellor of the schools. and secondly despite our financial challenges that i talked about earlier, we found out from the chief financial officer that we would get $105 million for next fiscal year. i took $76 million of that and invested it in the budget of public education. i have been a proponent of public education. i will continue to be. i've talked about my top priority being a zero to 24 continuing of services in public education. and what i've done certainly supports that. host: "the new york times" piece also points out that the city is changing demographic cli. bl

mr. gray and, what changes do you think politics and prose needs to make in order to stay competitive? >> guest: there's a lot that is very strong. sales are very strong and a very loyal customer base. at a time when the industry has been facing threats from the books and a declining readership the sales have continued to rise. we want to preserve everything that has made politics and prose a success. in order for these tour to remain relevant and influential and technologically up to date, there are going to have to be some changes. we recognize that over the years. the store has evolve under their leadership. just what additional direction we hope to movies tour in we are still formulating. getting the staff ideas and survey opinion among politics and prose's customers. this will be an evolving process in terms of deciding what new directions and initiatives to undertake. >> when you were researching whether or not to purchase the story you visited a lot of independent bookstores around the

they write both sides of the debate say one problems that mr. gray a relative new comer to elected politics is not ll known so people jump to conclusions, including it would not continue with past reforms. w do you shake that if that's true? guest: all i have to do is look at recent months during which i've been in office. people question whether i would continue with education reform. i think there's evidence that we would. first of all having appointed henderson to be the chancellor of the schools. and secondly despite our financial challenges that i talked about earlier, weound out from the chief financial officer that we would get $105 million for next fiscal year. i took $76 million of that and invested it in the budget of public education. i have been a proponent of public education. i will continue to be. i've talked about my top priority being a zero to 24 continuing of services in public education. and what i've do certainly supports that. host: "the new york times" piece also points out that the city is changing demographic cli. blacks are

capitol to protest and was willing to and did get arrested for after seven hours gray and others were released from jail well done mr mayor the bad ikea . the global furniture giant up to in virginia try to discriminate against workers and group anyone from unionizing despite massive profits at this particular ikea factory workers have seen their wages and benefits. and now six employees are filing a lawsuit against the corporation for discrimination to see just how bad the situation is for american workers that i and in general figure that the average i.q. worker in sweden that's the headquarters of the company and where the biggest factories are that average worker gets five weeks vacation and makes one thousand dollars an hour. but in third world america yeah average ikea worker only get. twelve days vacation and makes eight dollars you know. it's like america is sweden's like he has sweat shop. and the very very ugly one back on his radio show this morning beck came to this conclusion about labor unions and in particular the service employees international union as i. look at what i see are you has done to our n

gray behind us. >> scattered showers out there. >> i like it when you talk meteorology, mr. mcgrew. one of the many things i like about you. marla, you have the right idea today. dress in layers. what's happening out there is we have showers. they are moving through very quickly. they are going to clear out by 11:00 a.m. and the sun will come out. temperatures today, mid-60s, not too bad. 70s tomorrow. upper 70s later this week. right now, we zoom in to show the heaviest showers. north bay, a bit of a break. showers from napa to navato and fog developing other the local bridges. watch for that until 10:30 a.m. a few showers early. mostly cloudy. showers will clear by the second half of your day. this week, a warming trend kicks into high gear. high pressure is moving in. it's going to bring the high pressure up into the 80s on thursday. this is what we are looking at. the majority of the area sees inland temperatures in the 70s. the coast 70s. not too bad. you'll be able to break out the short sleeved shirts this week and open-toed shoes, ladies. i know, you have been waiting. 55 in

gray hair, wrinkled, trying to blow a sax so phone -- saxophone. not pretty. [laughter] in the audience when we were at the brooklyn fox a gentleman from princeton university said, mrnton, we'd love to have your daughters play at the cap and gown club. so from 1963 to 1976, 13 years, my sisters and i and my mom were in a little van. we were like the chocolate partridge family up and down the east coast performing at every college we could in order to generate money to pay for tuition to go to college. now, that's 13 years every friday night, every saturday afternoon, every saturday night, every sunday afternoon the thornton sisters were on the road. but my mother said, yeah, we have the money now, thank goodness, but you're still going to have to be smart. so on the weekends we were performing, on the weekdays i was studying organic chemistry, and that's the way it was for 13 years. i performed with my family straight through until i was a resident, an ob/gyn. we all went to college in new jersey. why? because monomouth college was five minute away. we live inside long branch, and my father said that's as far as i want my daughters to go. now, we had planned to go

mr. cartwright. he is one of the most experienced marine corps officers we have had. all the way back to general gray in the first bush administration. widely respected in the administration, around town. he is the odds on paper. but until the president actually makes the decision -- each of the services always try to put forward their top candidate. it is a game of washington politics, which is different from other washington politics games. the military does not play games, except when it comes to appointments. i think the list is probably dominated by general apart right at the moment. >> and general eikenberry is also leaving -- host: and ambassador eikenberry is also leaving afghanistan. guest: he has felt strongly about what should happen in that part of the world. there has been some debate about how things should be handled in afghanistan and pakistan. with a new commander going in there, it is not only fitting, but it will probably help the end game execution there, having a new person in charge coming in there. host: first phone call comes from miami. wilson, on the republican line. caller:

mr. speaker. i come to the floor today to celebrate the 41 district of columbia elected officials and residents led by mayor vincent gray and five members of the d.c. city council who were arrested in front of the hart office senate office building yesterday evening and hundreds of others who gathered to protest their second-class treatment as american citizens by the republican house, the democratic-led senate and the administration. the 2011 continuing resolution, due on the floor this week, contains a sinister trade that takes the district's self-governing rights to spend its own local funds on abortion services for poor women, as many jurisdictions have long done. the c.r. also funds the startup of a new private school voucher program but only in d.c. about which no local elected official was consulted. it is the house republicans who have been on an un-democratic war path against the district's home rule, but yesterday residents did not stand it who in the end accepted republican demand. the house will hear from me again as i try to remove this. but they have turned a deaf ear to me on the city's most basic rights