i focus on the work of the pearson pew, national academy of public administration study choosing our nation's fiscal future and the still in progress domenici rivlin debt reduction task force. by way of background the pearson is members are those of the committee for responsible federal budget who are all former directors of cbo in many former directors of omb the budget committees and the fed. last december the commission released a six step plan and it proposed to stabilize the dead and what it proposes is number one committing immediately to stabilizing the debt. number two developing a specific and credible package as quickly as possible. number three beginning those changes gradually to allow economic recovery to take hold. number four, reviewing progress annually and implementing an enforcement regime to stay on track. number five stabilizing the debt by 2018 and number six continuing to reduce the debt as a share of economy over the longer-term. the national academy of sciences and national economy of public administration study funded by the mcarthur foundation and john palme

around the bay saturday looks to be the warmest day of the week warming it up even more tomorrow pearson it will cool it off slightly continuing with the cool down through next week. >> 5 06 is the time to check on your right all sensors green across the bay traffic moving fairly well westbound 80 moving without incident no issue on this and caltrans has picked up all the columns all lanes now and nine minutes from the mazes in francisco san mateo bridge moving freight no issues or reports traffic on westbound 92 the telex from hayward to foster city making the trek in 12 minutes for marin county national light despite the fog traffic moving at the limit last check high with 37 southbound into san francisco 21 minutes one last camera will mud creek 680 moving a good no issue on 24 other westbound 24 moving at the limit no problems to report. more weather and traffic in a minute on the headlines a to year-old boy dead after he was attacked and killed by three of his family's five spitballs. the owner has been arrested this is the deal from outside of their house yesterday the two year- ol

duane "dog" chapman and felicia "snoop" pearson is with us.ow do you ever get over that? >> that's something i have to live with each and every day of my life. as long as god forgive me, you know, there's nothing else more that i can say. if i can help change a few minds that's just like mine when i was younger. you know, so i don't know. i don't know, larry. i just take it one day at a time, man. >> larry: you sure did. judge, do you ever deal with prisoners who were murderers? >> yes, i try to inspire them to change their lives while they're inside. and if they are going to be released in the future, i try and change their mindset for their release. but my focus isn't on murderers. there are a lot less heinous crimes that we can focus in on rehabilitating for prisoners, particularly nonviolent offenses. 80% of those in prison are there for drug-related crimes. either drug use, committing a crime or selling drugs. and so that's one of the areas i focus in, particularly for african-american men who make up 62% of the prisoner population. >> la

david walker and pearson say, yes, we need a long-term plan to do something about our deficit and debtt at the same time we can have a short-term spending, government spending, that does generate economic growth. they are not mutually exclusive. of course, everybody knows they are right. let us get together and get it done. host: the front page of "the financial times" this morning quotes european central bank she is saying all industrialized countries need to tighten, cut back on spending and increase taxes. guest: well, i am sure it you will get agreeing the republicans to agree on cutting in spending but not increasing taxes. it is interesting, the caller, i think he is from -- i forget what state he was from, but he was saying it was a republican congress and not president clinton who produced the balanced budget an enemy of the deficit. it was both. it was president clinton's plan to increase taxes on the wealthiest 2 percent of americans joined with the republican congress and president clinton agreeing to cut spending. those two things eliminated the deficit. you really have to

david walker and pearson say, yes, we need a long-term plan to do something about our deficit and debt but at the same time we can have a short-term spending, government spending, that does generate economic growth. they are not mutually exclusive. of course, everybody knows they are right. let us get together and get it done. host: the front page of "the financial times" this morni quotes european central bank she is sing all industrialized countries need to tighten,ut back on spending and increase taxes. guest: well, i am sure it you will get agreeing the republicans to agree on cutting in spending butot increasing taxes. it is interesti, the caller, i think he is from -- i forget what state he was fm, but he was saying it was a republican congress and not president clinton who produced the balanced budget an enemy of the deficit. it was both. it was president clinton's pl to increase taxes on the wealthiest 2 percent of americans joined with the republican congress and president clinton agreeing to cut spending. those two things eliminated the deficit. you really have to do both. yo