their ultimate goal, a ban on every cell phone, every pda, anything that can distract. >> that woulds, no texting -- drive. >> reporter: the irony is that in florida, the state where heather was killed, they have no laws at all regarding cell phones or texting. the d.o.t. has just announced that in fact 1,600 companies nationwide have now adopted a zero tolerance policy for their employees on distracted driving. no texting, no talking on the cell phone while driving. that covers 10.5 million people nationwide. they expect even more companies will soon come on board. back to you. >> and tom, don't they say that the studies have shown that distracted driving is actually even worse and impairs you more than drunken driving? >> reporter: yeah. in fact, i was in utah at the university of utah going through one of these simulators in which they showed me, and the statistics seem to bear it out, that if you're distracted while texting while driving, that having that blackberry or pda in your hand, that can actually be worse than having a blood alcohol level of 0.08, believe it or not. so it

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continue to engage our school community on tailoring their specific plans by taking our councils, pdas, and other involved partnerships -- ptas and other involved partnerships. we want schools to revisit their specific plans and make sure what was originally outlined meets their needs after the have reflected on their data and inserted their upgraded priorities. we cannot do this work without involving the range of the professionals in our schools, engaging our labor partners to help strategizing about how to capitalize on what is going to be a significant but temporary windfall to invest in our schools and professionals so we are left with sustainable quality schools. >> i would like to add that we are very excited about this opportunity and want to thank you for giving us this opportunity to do the work. president kim: any comments or questions from the board? commissioner norton: i appreciate the presentation. but i guess i have a couple specific questions. my big question is how does this really look from the ground at some of the schools we're talking about. a number of these refo

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their ultimate goal, a ban on everyell phone, pda, anything that can distract. >> that would be our goal. no phones, no texting. drive. >> here's the irony, florida, where heather was killed still has no law prohibiting cell phone use or texting while driving. virginia by the way, bans texting while driving, but it's a secondary offense there. police have to pull you over for something else first. i rode with fairfax unty police recently. and one of the officers express frustration. they would see somebody texting while driving but they couldn't pull them over because it's a secondary offense there. they had to get them on something else first. >> they're helpless otherwise. >> yes. >> and the kindle behind the wheel of a bus, isn't that atrocious? >> come on. >>> authorities are reopening streets that were closed while investigating a suspicious package. a pharmaceutical company received an unexpected package that was leaking an unknown liquid. hazmat teams determined the substance was not dangerous. >>> the rematch between martin o'malley and former governor ehrlich appears to be neck

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. >> today said the mania for new cell phone and pda applications has its roots in san francisco. >>elopers are in all 50 states and if you see the top apps they're from all over the place. definitely a concentrati here but if you took it to the companies that are here in, the infrastructure of the business. the global app economy is headquartered in the san francisco bay area. >> an estimated $7 billion apps were downloaded last year. app organizers estimate it will be a $17 billion market by 2001. >> iphone users have the most apps per phone. that's about 40 apps average per individual. >> reporter: many of the products displayed today use gps to organize information or locate services. others are targeting medical markets but the flood of new apps means it's often hard to be heard. >> a lot of people are interested in that and a lot of people are interested in how do i make money in how do i break through the clutter and get my app discovered. it's only going to get harder when we go to 370 apps. we predict there will be 1 million apps by 2012. >> reporter: the app boom difference

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