and now, we will hear from peter rosen, the german counsel general. >> thank you so much. and thank you, especially mr. mayor for gracing this ceremony with your presence tha, is appreciated and i would like to thank individually the chief of the police and the chief of the fire department for joining us here today and for interrupting their important businesses for joining us here at this ceremony, ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for coming and also to my colleagues from russia and from insurance, this is a great honor for me. i think and i will be very brief. i think that this is really a day of which we can be of which many of us can be very proud. but, probably most of all, i think that he must be very proud to see this beautiful bust now in this wonderful position standing in city hall because he has been working so long on this project. and i really would like to commend him and thank him for his tenacity. of course there are many more that i have to think, the artists and the sponsors and the political leadership of the city who all have supported this project b

bring you the simulcast throughout the preseason, starting with our director, peter, our preand post-game producer, larry rosen, our associate director, matt, ur subproducer, jay o'brien. technical director, brian exles. graphics, derek, production assistant cindy, radio producer, johnny. and special thanks to kevin burn and the ravens' entire p.r. staff who have been so helpful to us throughout the preseason, throughout the season, the best in the business. on second down. chase reynolds, dancing his way around. o stand on the 18-yard line. gain about two on the play. qadry: that's what happens at nfl. that might have worked at montana, maybe got him a big chunk of yards but in the nfl it's called pursuit. >> here's one of the ravens' players who throw out a first pitch at camden yards. when you when the super bowl as justin tucker found out, you get a lot of invites. jacoby jones always the entertainer. the orioles winners tonight in boston, 3-2 over the red sox. they avoid a sweep. try to stay in the opportunity or the american league east. harr bah using his third and final time-out stopping the clock with

chief washington correspondent james rosen is live from the state department on that. i wanted to ask you, colonel peters who is a former military analyst had said on this network yesterday that the u.s. has no -- and this is what he termed it -- strategic interest in syria. do senior officials in the obama administration agree with that? >> certainly none have voiced such a view publicly to the contrary. many see the geo political stakes involved here clearly defined by the looming presence of the greater regional power, syria's chief muslim ally, the islamic regime in iran. across the two plus years of civil war, they have supplied asad with cash, weapons and intelligence and over the last six months an influx of foreign fighters which has helped the regime gain the upper hand militarily over the syrian rebel forces. appearing on special report last night, retired army general cited the tehran factor. >> the strategic interest of the u.s. is a stable regime in syria, friendly to the united states as a buffer against the iranians. strategic objective here should always be the interest of iran. and what