mr. o'brien has served. i believe he should be gracious and allows someone of the service. he has an opportunity in the following year, and just to be fair it is not right to flip- flop positions. should we no longer have any democracy? this is what it sounds like to me, and is a simple change in -- a simple staying. -- a simple thing. there is a problem here. commissioner o'connor: they would suggest that my desire to serve is not gracious, and i do not agree it is on gracious -- ungracious to want to continue to serve. as indicated earlier, i think the play of this commission -- i think deeply of this commercial. if my attendance record was staggered or are was not involved, if i was not able to talk about various issues before us, i would not be here, but it is because i really feel very important about my desire to serve on this commission, it is one based on public service. when senator brock obama was putting his name forward to run for the presidency, he was asked to please not go forward. it is really time for mrs. clinton. she should be there. she had been in the b

mrs. o'brien, we protect children from themselves.en to get married, we don't allow children to enter contracts, not without having an adult make those decisions for them. here's a 15-year-old girl who is going through a process and she is hearing the words i.c.e., deportation and she doesn't know what any of this means. >> we want to follow the story and if you're happy at home. thanks for talking to us, appreciate it. >>> still ahead this morning on "starting point" donald trump ready to announce a gop endorsement, apparently. we're curious to know who he is going to support. >>> music that you never heard, jakadrien, your mom and lawyer know who that is. listen to smokey robinson, "tears of a clown." this was the gulf's best tourism season in years. all because so many people came to louisiana... they came to see us in florida... make that alabama... make that mississippi. the best part of the gulf is wherever you choose... and now is a great time to discover it. this year millions of people did. we set all kinds of records. next y

o'brien: commissioner dooley? commissioner dooley: i agree with janet clyde that mr. adams will make an excellent president. he has great leadership qualities, one that we can all work with. i heartily endorse him in this position also. p commissioner clyde: -- president o'brien: commissioner clyde? commissioner clyde: the basis of my nomination is based on your strong work ethic, your ability to really judge things with a good, independent mind. i don't believe you come to the meetings with your mind made up and you do your research very well. i am actually very proud that it is the advocacy of myself and other commissioners for a strong commissioner to sit in your seat that brought you to the commission. i am very proud to nominate you because this commission worked very hard to put you here. thank you very much. president o'brien: i would like to say that being the president this year, steve has been on my side all the way as the vice president . we tried very hard to be very proactive with the director and a staff, discussing the agendas for the meetings. and to be heavily involved in the issues, especia

mr. president, can we please take -- president o'brien: i would like to take a recess for five minutes. we gosh we are back at the smal business commission meeting. we are about to call items 10 and 11. i believe the director would like to review the election procedures with the commission? >> we call each position separately, so we do the president first, the vice president. for each position, an individual may nominate themselves are have another individual nominate them. and in the order of nominations, the commission secretary will invite the nominee to be able to say a few words. and in by the nominee to say a few words. at that particular time, we take public comment on that particular item. excuse me, we take public comment on the individual nominees when that individual goes up for the vote. >> commissioner comments and then the nomination? >> and then public comment. what it is, each commissioner is able to make their statement of why they are interested in this position, and in the order of which the nominations are made leave the -- will be the roll call for a vote. prior to

o'brien is part of an elite group. what is next, when we continue. >> a big storm mrs. us to the south -- misses us to the >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning, everybody. welcome back to 11 news today. i'm stan stovall. >> and i'm mindy basara. thank you for joining us this morning. we lucked out with the snow. >> virginia and southern maryland and the lower eastern shore, it snowed at ocean city. >> would like to snow. >> today will be kind of a transition day behind the storm. the 36 at the airport. cloudy skies. reports of a couple of snow flurries. the skies will clear as we go through the morning. it will be mostly sunny with a high temperature around 48. will check the seven forecast when i come back in just a few minutes. >> an audit of maryland's book finds the state is falling behind to make payments to victims of crime. risk a backlog of $2.6 million. the state approved a $5.2 million and is working to correct the problem. >> it was a close vote but the bill to legalize same-sex marriage passed in the house of delegate

mr. gunther? >> same thing, sir. senator, we'll get back to you on that. >> okay. >> o'brien: the committee says it has not heard backrom the airlines.8 we wanted to ask both continental and colgan about their contracts and their relationship, but neither would grant an interview. in the case of continental, the company has made it very clear that they're not involved in how that airline does its business when it comes specifically to the issue of safety. they don't get in their hair. they say it's up to the faa. >> the most important point here about... about safety in this industry is that there can only be one regulator, because you couldn't have various carriers overseeing with different standards, different rules for any type of aviation, whether it's general aviation, commercial aviation. all flying can only have one regulator. and that's why we have such a safe system that we have today. >> o'brien: relying on the faa to ensure that all carriers fly safely has its limits. the faa has less than 4,000 inspectors responsible for overseeing the safety of some 30,000 commercial flights in the u.s. every day. the cr