we've been doing that for nearly 10 years that's part of our standards to putten. if there is a crosswalk we need a curb ramp with that crosswalk and it's directional with the crosswalk. now this chart shows the request that have come in to the city to dpw for curb ramps. this is a count by intersection. certainly at the end of my presentation, we can always go back and check some of these if you have any questions on the numbers. but this shows the request that have come in and whether they are open, which means they have not been addressed yet. so they are on our books and we are working to take care of them if possible. and then the next line shows the intersections that have been assigned to projects. current projects that are either in planning, design or construction. then the bottom line shows that they are resolved or closed. usually they have been constructed and those corners are now accessible and there are some cases where curb ramps can't get in and/or it's been sent to another department because it's in their jurisdiction. so, but anyway, this shows t

some of those we can't putten curb ram ps for whatever reason or there shouldn't be a curb ramp there but we still track it in our data base. there are over 26,000 ramps that have been constructed over the years. not all of them are in good shape because some were constructed 20 years ago. we have curb ramps that are constructed in over 26,000 locations. we have nearly 12,000 curb ramps that are compliant to our current city standards. essentially those are the curb ramps that have been constructed after 2004 when we upgraded our standards and those curb ramps all have the detectable tiles, the yellow tiles on them. a little over 12 thousand location do not have curb ramps but need them and so we have a lot of work to do. there are probably another seven,000 -- 7,000 locations curb ramp location need repairs. we have about 1300 curb ramps a year that need repairs. >> could i just ask a quick question. using those numbers of 1300 curb ramps to be built, about how long do you think it would take to actually replace or build curb ramps in the city so they will be fully saturated, what is

. >>> putten is warning the west from taking action in support. he'll support a resolution on military strikes if there's evidence to back it up but will not support one-sided action by the u.s. putin hopes he and president obama will have serious discussions on syria during the g-20 summit in st. petersburg this week. >>> the crisis in syria continues to have an effect on our markets. good morning, bertha. >> good morning. the markets are jittery about the uncertainty over syria. futures this morning are lower, after the market started off september with a modest rally. stocks rose early on upbeat manufacturing data out of the u.s. and europe. but then we did see a lot of the gains taken back after president obama called for a quick congressional vote on his plan for limited military trikes? syria. john boehner offering support to that plan. today data on the trade deficit and report from the fed on regional economic conditions. the dow starts 14833 after rising 23 points. the nasdaq, at 3612 after rising 22. and samsung plans to announce it's go

. >> the president is happy to negotiate with slat mir putten wop did slad mir putin he-- vladimir putiniate with the government. >> the bill would deny funding for president obama's health care law. the president is warning he will veto the bill and senate democrats say it's not going to happen. there's no chance. >>> this morning the family of a baltimore school student was awarded 50,000 dollars following a playground accident. this is according to publish reports. the boy hurt himself on a faulty playground at francis scott key elementary middle school last year. settlement stems from a negligence lawsuit against the city school board. >>> apple fans may have a good reason for worrying about whether they will be able to get the latest iphone. the stock of the new iphone 5s is limited. it's on sale in 11 countries today including the united states, canada, china, australia and japan. this is the video that people have been waiting in line we hope to show you of people in australia hoping to get the phone. they are ahead of us in terms of the time zone. so they were hopefully the first

>> reporter: el, i think what you'll find here, what john mccain has in common with vladimir putten in this instance, apart from the fact they disagree on almost everything, they both feel misunderstood in countries they are trying to engage in. what both leaders have tried to do this in this case is communicate directly with the people, bypassing the local filters of politicians and journalists who they believe distort the message they're trying to put out. you can see that carefully in the way putin expressed the russian position on syria the way mccain is trying to stress the fact he's not anti-russian because that's what he's referred to in the country as. whether or not this is successful, i guess we might have to wait a little bit longer to find out. certainly we know putin was criticized heavily for his comments and certainly not everyone's going to agree with john mccain. generally most russians don't like being told what to do by nonrussians. >> pravda has been around forever, russian news publication. how widely read is it, let's be realistic? >> reporter: not very much, real

putten. >> congressman mcdermott from washington state, thank you for talking with us. >>> putin called secretary john kerry a liar. he made the charge for what kerry had to say about al-qaida's presence in syria. >> i have watched debates in strong. the congressman asked mr. kerry. is there al-qaida? people say they have got an stronger. kerry said no. they know about this. it was not pleasant for me to see this. we communicate with them and assume that they are decent people. he lies openly that he knows that he lies. this is sad. >> well, that attack on john kerry came hours after president obama arrived at the g-20 summit. al jazeera's barnaby phillips has more on the already icy relationship between the two leaders. >> well, leaders arrive in st. petersburg for the summit that might highlight the glaring dinnerses between thedifferencee issues of the day. putin does not look like a man ready to compromise with the united states over syria. >> i have watched the debates in congress, and when they asked secretary kerry if there is al-qaida in syria, i say no, and they are not there.

. >> now putten is saying that -- we don't know because now russia has withdrawn their request for consultation the u.n. we don't know exactly where it is. putin has said that he can get syria to basically give up their chemical weapons. now, this is interesting, because assad, first of all, denies using them. number two, he has at various times denied having them. now he's going to give us the weapons he doesn't have. right? i mean, the amount of lies that have gone on here are monumental. >> how much of a risk is syria to the world? or to u.s. national security. >> syria is a risk, because of iran. iran virtually controls iraq, because of all of our mistakes in iraq, starting with not getting the status of forces agreement that biden was unable to negotiate. so they control iraq. if they control syria, that's quite a large axis of shiite power, which is the reason saudi arabia, turkey, israel, are so worried about allowing assad to remain in power. >> let me switch gears to the mayoral campaign that's taking place here in new york city. >> the one i voted in this morning. >> who did you vote

. >> reporter: what is frustrating for american leaders putten's ties to syria would avoid any effort to punish assad. putin may be the only world leader to get assad to give up those chemical weapons. >> our thanks to brian. >>> also in washington, the senate for now is setting aside the resolution for authorizing military force against syria. it will not vote on it or try to amend the language as the administration works on a diplomatic solution on russia. >> the obama administration and iran are apparently communicating about syria. los angeles says the president and iran's president have been exchanging information and they will try to meet with him when he comes to the united nations later this month. the iranian president indicated he wants more outreach to the west than his predecessor ahmadinejad. >>> pictures appear here appear to show steam rising from a newly reconstructed reactor at the nuclear complex. it was shut down in 2007 under terms of a disarmament agreement. pyongyang announced plans in april to restart it and at that time the state department said that would be e

goodness with a high price, the president is going to have months perhaps of playing it out with putten in the driver society. my goodness what a price and your thoughts on that and charles krauthammer's as well. what did he have to say? >> a month ago, there was a war criminal and putin was a piria h for covering in the un on the poisonous gas attack. and because of our our president is. he steps in now and instead of a piriowa aircraft h he is a partner of peace and now in a position to lecture the united states of america. >> can you imagine that a week ago this conversation would not have included the thought that somehow the assad regime would survive. it locks like assad will be in power but more than that, he is now joining the ranks of those speaking and lecturing and talking to the president about this. and there he will stay. and that is how to get back in the dynamic. if it were not so disturbing in terms of american pour in the world and the potential loss of it. it would be a fascinating look at the dynamics of power and how easily they shift and one person's move on the ch

and let me also add this putten putten -- putin overture that we find some peaceful way to resolve this, i hope it turns out to be true and is something that works. if it does, give credit where it's due. this president stepped up and said we have to challenge the use of chemical weapons in syria, even if it doesn't affect the united states directly or its allies directly, we have to stand up to them, and if this putin overture leads to some containment of those -- or destruction of those chemical weapons, give the president credit for it. don't criticize him for not leading. he has shown more leadership on this issue than, frankly, many politicians of either party wanted to face. i think when it comes to a credible strategy, this president has one. it's a strategy which is ending two wars, which has put an end to the leader of that terrible terrorist attack on the united states on 9/11. it's a strategy which has improved the image of the united states since this president has come to power over the last several years, and it's a strategy that we can build on in the future. but we need

they'll be putten on the blitz as the president tries to go ahead and convince him of doing somethinging. fox news alert. faceoff happening right now between world powers. that is live look, st. petersburg, russia. he president obama will come face-to-face with russian president vladmir putin as the specter of syrian airstrikes loom in the air there. good importanting, everybody, i'm bill hemmer. welcome to "america's newsroom." how are you doing? martha: good morning, bill. i'm martha maccallum. hours before the president landed, president putin slammed u.s. secretary of state john kerry over his testimony on the civil war in syria. the russian strong man calling kerry a liar. watch this. >> translator: i watched debates in

putten is saying, chris, he said a lot of other times before. this time, though, he's addressing the american people. so what he's trying to do is say to the american people, i wouldn't take it as a big criticism, it's more kind of putting his arm around mr. obama and saying, look, is this in your own interest? to take this military action, to do this? because it can backfire. that is what putin would say, it could backfire, create more problems. it could destabilize the situation. chris, you know, a lot of what he is saying actually has been heard in the halls of the u.s. congress. it's not that wild. take away the part about the opposition carrying out this attack. a lot of the other points that he's making aren't that extreme, even in the united states. but i think it's the fact that the president of russia made them and you heard from that lawmaker that he wanted to throw up when he heard it, coming from putin. that's the unfortunate context that no matter what putin says, he's going to have a tough sell. >> it's not always the message. it's

putten is taking his case on syria directly to the american people.s he got some traction there. >> steve: he went right to the "new york times" to avoid the filter, the media filter. >> brian: it would have been nice if the "new york times" wrote a counter editorial. i don't mind that they accepted it, but wouldn't you think they would feel compelled to give a counter america might be exceptional, or whatever they want to ad lib? >> gretchen: yes. that would have been a great idea. they do that frequently. should we do some headlines on your friday? let's do it for the final half hour. al-qaeda's number one man issuing these threats against the united states. a new video released calling for sporadic attacks on american soil aiming at collapsing our economy. >> steve: meanwhile, it's the brokest state in the nation. what does california do? hike up the minimum wage, of course. the state legislature passing a bill late last night that raises minimum wage to ten bucks an hour. making it one of the highest rates in the country. the change set to happen

. >> anything embraced by vladimir putten and assad fills me with skepticim. do you trust putin? my answer is are you kidding me? my bottom line is that i believe to blow a bunch of stuff up over a couple of days to underscore or validate a point or a principle is not a strategy. >> brian: one thing about gates, he was against the libya operation. he said setting up a no fly zone would be a mistake. he was a member of the iraqi survey group that told president bush the best thing you could do is basically call it a day. then he became secretary of defense, and presided overt success of the surge, which went phenomenally well and he has a book coming out shortly and he tends to tell the truth and be somewhat bipartisan. i'm very curious to see it when it's released. >> elisabeth: he also said the u.s. should push for assad to be labeled a war criminal. >> brian: the down side of that, the minute you declare someone a war criminal, they know if they give up, they're going to jail. geraldo taught me that. he said that the minute you say they're a war criminal, th

. >> constantine is one of many who have challenged putin's russia, but many support putten. >> mr.people with a sense of security because he keeps telling them that he saved them from the chaos of the 1990s. >> reporter: elena and her daughter don't feel secure. we helped them connect via skype with constantine in paris. it's the first time she has seen her father since he hurriedly left. in paris, constantine wipes away tears. >> it's good to see him? >> of course. >> yeah. >> her family divided in a country where for some, freedom of speech is still a dream. >> reporter: we are expecting thousands on the streets of moscow today in support of a candidate for the moscow mayor opposed to putin so it would be wrong to suggest that opposition is tamped down on. you remember the rock band last year were jailed for two years for insulting people, so clearly there is still this tamp down has been going on particularly against artists has been going on the last year or so. >> keir simmons, live from moscow, thank you very much. joining us now here on set, the host of pbs "news hour weeken