faith-based and neighborhood partnerships, david meyers, and the region nine fema administrator, nancy ward. we're going to begin the wram with a memorial service for all of those who perished in the crises and disasters over the last two years. interestingly, when we sent the invitation we extended it not just to the clergy, but the facilities managers as well as the key volunteers in communities, and we seat those who attend by neighborhood, so that they can get to know one another. this year we are really pleased to be working with the city in a neighborhood empowerment network. they are rolling out something called resilient bill. a tabletop exercise that's going to be making its debut both at our workshop as well as in new wellington, new zealand. so we will be celebrating that. following that there's going to be a panel of stakeholders who have had firsthand experience in the december, 2011, western edition fires as well as those who are doing ongoing disaster preparedness up in diamond heights. i'm pleased to tell you that our support -- the funding for this particular program is com

laws against graffiti vandals by hiking fines and threatening to jail time nancy loo has that story >>many homes in the 23rd ward were cleaned up recently but city cutbacks have fewer crews out to catch all of these britax and symbols and that raises concerns here just this weekend vandals' targeted the memorial for fallen police officers at soldier field the graffiti problem has this alderman proposing fines of up to $2,000 and a return of the cases to the courts system so that the vandals know they can wind up in jail >>people going to remember ... because of the fact that this is festering ... so i thought this was time to listen to my community the very people who brought these ideas to me lots of this happening now is just a slap on the rest ... the sanitation department and the past cartography in today's the with cutbacks in and takes two weeks ... there crews showed up shortly after we arrived today ... also parents or legal guardians of these channels may be liable in this new proposal for legislation it will be brought to the floor sometime next month >>is a visitor at an art museum in houston was admi

ward. the government calls for a crackdown on distracted driving. anna werner's on one town's decision to ban phones in cars. and nancy cordes with a member of the class of 2012 who can teach us all something about beating insurmountable odds. >> a lot of people use bad situations as an excuse and instead of doing that i used them as motivation. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. one sued a day-- that is the rate of u.s. military personnel taking their own lives just since the first of this year. more troops lost to suicide than died in combat. it's a sharp increase over last year, and it's caught the attention of the pentagon. david martin has been working on the facts behind the numbers and he joins us now. david. >> reporter: scott, the war in iraq is over, and the war in afghanistan is winding down, but the pace of military suicides is actually increasing to a record level. pentagon figures show that as of this past monday, 154 service members had taken their lives so far in 2012, an average of more than one a day, and much higher than the 138 kil

ward. the government calls for a crackdown on distracted driving. anna werner's on one town's decision to ban phones in cars. and nancyof the class of 2012 who can teach us all something about beating insurmountable odds. >> a lot of people use bad situations as an excuse and instead of doing that i used them as motivation. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. one sued a day-- that is the rate of u.s. military personnel taking their own lives just since the first of this

>> moving into the welcoming ñrremarks i would likexd to introduce nancy ward, theç fema regional administratoror region nine. [applause] ç