i want to thank my colleague from rhode island, the senator from rhode island, for calling us together, senator blumenthal and i and others, and for taking action on climate change. there's been no one in this body who has done more to sound the alarm about climate change. i've enjoyed his regular time-to-wake-up speeches. i guess it is 49 -- 50 -- 48? his 48th. one of them was so good, i read it twice. but he's been relentless on this issue in a positive, articulate and superb way. and there couldn't be a better day to talk about climate change than today, because we are the one-year anniversary of superstorm sandy. senators whit whitehouse and blumenthal and i remember this vividly, each visiting our communities and seeing the table, terrible blow that sandy delivered to new york, to the whole east coast, creating such damage, throwing such upheaval into communities and lives. and i'd like to say, mr. president, i think the -- sandy was a horrible event but the one good thing, the one silver lining in this awful and large cloud is that people take climate change more seriously. i thi

>> we believe the suspects were involved in the kidnapping of this woman in rhode island. we think they travel through connecticut and new york into howard county. she was able to walk into a gas station while she was in our jurisdiction. >> the kidnappers were arrested during a traffic stop in outrage. >> police confirm christopher goode is a person of interest in a shooting in south baltimore last weekend. he is wanted in a stabbing last month and another incident in the state of ohio. police believe he is somewhere in the baltimore area. a grand jury indicts two post office managers.

, of course,sity based in rhode island.now one of the dewolfs wrote of brown.ater so it amorwne with an e, is a different brown. john brown was a slave trader and they both ended up in congress and work together to preserve the slave trade, to help protect the rhode island --ve trade and all kind of in cahoots even with president thomas jefferson around some of that. in any case, the economy of rhode island was steeped in the slave trade. it usually shocks people to hear that rhode island was the leading slave trading state in the country, not south carolina were virginia. --or virginia. that leads to the founding of the university and some of the early funds for brown university. >> it is interesting that ruth simmons, the farrar president of brown, -- the former president of brown, wrist african-american president of any ivy league university, and i want to bring greg wilder back into this conversation, commissioned the first ivy league study of brown university's connection to slavery, professor wilder. >> i think this i

. >> it was current will i reported there were 580 in rhode island. in iowa it was reported five in the entire state. enrollment -- let me make a second point. you said criticism of obama care is right-wing hisry onics. i'm curious if you think it was right-wing histrionics when james hoffa said that obama care is destroying the health care of millions of hard-working men and women in this country? >> i have heard that mr. hoffa said that you are using that quote as inappropriate and out of context. >> okay. >> well, then hold on. the nice thing about "crossfire", we can have some back-and-forth. >>> we're going to come intoic to these in a minute. keep it out. we have to take a break. i do want to suggest something surprising that i think probably senator whitehouse will not sgra el with. i think the president should be sending thank-you cards to all the republicans, including senator cruz. i'll explain why, next. ♪ norfolk southern what's your function? ♪ ♪ hooking up the country helping business run ♪ ♪ trains! they haul everything, safely and on t

running the rhode island website is the responsibility of christine ferguson. her 20 years ago when she was the leader of the republican senate staff who wrote the republican version of health care reform bill we always believe that the day would come when we would merge those two bills into a compromise joining me now. >> what -- i'm not sure if you know completely what the federal government has done. what have you done differently in rhode island that managed to get your website online. >> i think the last time we talked, we talked about the fact that it would be surprising if governors decided not to do state based exchanges. i think probably you are just as surprised as i am that so many chose not to. that put the feds at a disadvantage. our website and technology around the application and enrollment process, we got that up and running in a few months. so, i think it's a question of speed and all of the different aspects of the business processes that had to be put in place. and done properly and then translated into i.t. and that's a tough haul and the f

like melanie rhodes from bridgeport, connecticut. a few years ago, melanie was homeless, living out on the streets. things were really, really tough for melanie. melanie got pregnant, had a little boy about two months premature, a wonderful little boy named malacai. he had some developmental issues right off the bat, but she knew that her life had changed and that she had to do everything possible for her little boy, and so she got him into birth to 3, an early screening program, they got connected with the head start program in which he enrolled at about 9 months old, and malacai is behind his peers at 3 years old, but he is doing a lot better. he is beginning to finally communicate with a handful of signs. every day that he has been in that head start program, his life and her life has gotten better. you know what? even though she has been struggling through the worst recession of her life, of my life, of most of our lives, she has started to turn the corner as well. she applied everywhere over the last three years. she did everyth

the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: i thank the distinguished senator from south dakota. and i notice that he was on the floor during the remarks that the presiding officer now, the senator from maine, made just a moment ago. having heard those remarks, i would ask the senator from south dakota if he would concede that there is a difference between negotiating and negotiating with hostages, whether the hostage is shutting down the government or whether the hostage is defaulting on united states obligations, there is a difference between negotiating and negotiating while holding hostages. mr. thune: i would say through the chair, mr. president, to my colleague from rhode island that i think what makes a negotiation successful is when both sides are sufficiently motivated. and it strikes me at least that if you're going to have a successful outcome, that both sides have to have incentives to be at the table. i think republicans have indicated very clearly that we believe that one of the ways in which we get le

give the floor to my friend from rhode island, let me just say two things about that insistence from republicans that the problem here is not their demands that the health care law be repealed before we open the government, but that the democrats won't sit down and negotiate. well, i think the senator from louisiana said it best. it makes no sense to negotiate with a gun to our head. open the government and we'll sit down and talk about anything you want to talk about, but let's also discuss what the positions of the two parties are republicans want the most important achievement of president obama's first term repealed. we want the government to just continue to be operational. republicans want a law that will ensure 30 million more people with health care taken off the books. we want the government to just continue to pay its bills. what i'm trying to say here, mr. president, is that we don't

in newport, rhode island, for "teen kids news", i'm nicole. >> that's our show for this week.watching "teen kids news". we'll see you next time. >> here's a shout-out to pr newswire for including "teen kids news" on their big screen in times square, new york city. "animal adventures" is brought to you by anheuser-busch theme parks -- a pledge and a promise, hoping to preserve the world we share. hanna: with its extremely long legs, slender body, and heavy tail that's used for balancing during quick turns, the cheetah is built for speed. hi, i'm jack hanna, here at my base camp on the serengeti plain at busch gardens, tampa bay. as they race after their prey at 70 miles per hour, the cheetah is the fastest of all land animals. it wasn't long ago that very little was known about the elusive cheetah. but all of that changed when a south african named ann van dyk followed her dream. [ african tribal music plays ]

police took the man and a rhode island couple into custody... in two unrelated cases that were reported just days apart. craig anderson has been arrested and charged in the first case. according to charging documents... his alleged victim told police that anderson forced her into prostitution. she says its been going on for two years... but last week... she was able to make her way to a fire station in sykesville... where she called police for help. <(llewellyn) "clearly, she had been assaulted and our officers arrived, they saw visible injuries to her face and they began talking with her and it became clear that the person who assaulted her was actually somebody who had forced her into prostitution."> gary maddox and amina philip are charged with human trafficking and other offenses... in the second case. investigators say they kidnapped their victim in rhode island before coming to maryland... where the victim walked into a gas station in elkridge and called police for help. bond has been set for all three suspects... ranging from 75-thousand

oh, ben rhodes, he wrote, "the sad and pathetic life of constantly spinning appears to be getting to you." >> in one fell swoop joseph managed to trash all relationships he's had both inside and outside the administration. it will be very difficult for him to repair. he also lost his top security clearance and he'll have a very hard time rebuilding his career. >> reporter: then he took it further, accusing rhodes of leaking confidential information. >> he also took issue with mr. rhodes' personality, his appearance, and accused him on several occasions of leaking classified information including the latest virus, the u.s./israeli secret project to thwart iran's nuclear program. >> reporter: the white house would not comment to cnn, but former national security council spokesman told us i sat ten feet away from ben rhodes for two years. he spent countless days trying to prevent or mitigate leaks of classified information that could harm our national security. these accusations are ridiculous and wrong. >> the handle attacked many reporters and guests we have on the show regularly. a y

change has come to cellmate joey rhode. transfer to an all straight, male, general population dorm. >> i requested to be moved out of the first place i was in. only because i had stalkers. and got a little hectic there. it wasn't what i was really expecting out of all of that. i was going there to, say, hey maybe i will have more in common with these people. maybe i will find better friends. every day i was getting two, three people coming to my window trying to get me to expose myself to them. and every time i would go take a shower, i would get people coming in and sitting on the bench, just watching me. i was like, hello? it's kind of scary. i am not going to lie. finally, i talked to classification, they moved me out of there. i am in a great new pod. there is a lot of cool people here. a lot of cool new friend. it's interesting. >> while rhode must keep his homosexuality under wraps, for general population, meet at least a few inmates willing to share their opinions. >> i will be straight up. i do have friends that liv

in newport, rhode island, for "teen kids news", i'm nicole. >> that's our show for this week. thanks for watching "teen kids news". we'll see you next time. >> here's a shout-out to pr newswire for including "teen kids news" on their big screen in times square, new york city. it's no coincidence that the great medieval sights of europe lay along important trading routes, like the rhine. it took big money to build the structures that we travelers would marvel at centuries later. since ancient times, the rhine has been one of the world's busiest rivers and this region's major trading route. today, there's a steady flow of barges with thousand-ton loads, while busy train tracks and highways line both banks, all under the watchful eye of once-mighty castles. many of the castles were robber baron castles, extortion stops built by petty princes and two-bit rulers back when there were 350 independent little states in what is today germany. the shipshape pfalz castle, actually built midstream, effectively taxed river traffic. its town grew rich as the castle raised its heavy chains ac

i went into our insurance exchange in rhode island when i was home over the weekend.re was a family at the front desk. they had been in earlier to get waited on and to get served. and they were so happy with the way they were treated that they were now coming back. they brought in two big tubs of dunkin donuts coffee and stacks of doughnuts for everybody. the report from kristi ferguson who's running it is that people are hugging their employees when they find out what the options are. the idea that cms, that's a pretty anecdotal story. cms has adjusted the long-term 2010 to 2020 costs for medicare and medicaid down by $1.2 trillion from the 2010 estimates to 2013. you got to believe that obama care has something to do with those huge savings. the republican party decided that obama care was going to be a failure early on before obama care was even decided. it was a political choice to pull all support for everything that this president wanted to do. now they have to live with it so they have to maintain that story line. i have to tell you, senator cruz, i don't see i

christine ferguson is the director of rhode island's health care exchange. known as health source rhode island. she's joining me right now. good to have you on the program. thanks very much for being with us. >> great to be here. >> so talk to us about how things are rolling out. i mean, one of the main selling points was that you can keep your doctor. but in many cases, that's not true. what is your response to that? are people keeping their doctors or not? >> so there's a couple of things in response to that, to the lead-in. one of the big advantages of having a state-based exchange is that those are things that you can build into your system. and we were very fortunate with govern governor cheyefy who made a commitment very early on to have a state-based exchange. and for us, we have 16 plans that small businesses can choose from. and we focus very, very specifically on small business. and the aca gives you the ability as a state, or at the federal level, to have that focus. and that focus means that in rhode island, a small business can come into the exc

the other two suspects are a couple from rhode island. they're all suspects in two related cases.. that were reported just days a part. howard county police are working two seperate human trafficking cases.. both victims, 24-year-old women. in the first case, police have arrested and charged craig anderson, 32-year-old man who faces numerous charges, including human trafficking, prostitution an assault. according to charging documents, his suspected victim told police that anderson forced her to perform x for money with various men in various states for the past two years. but last week, october 3.. investigators say the woman, who'd been beaten, made her way to a fire stion in sykesville. .where she called police for help. (llewellyn) "well, initially it came in as an assault report. but our officers are trained to look for this kind of thing, they're aware of the issue of human trafficking. and so, they spoke with her and in the course of that conversation, she shared with them that in fact, she'd been forced to act as a prostitute in the past two yers." in the second case, a rho

the state of rhode island for about 30 years. unfortunately due to budget cuts to the poor, i had to put 16 people out on the streets unfortunately. kind of upset about that. the reason i'm saying this, because i think rhode island is a micro-- can you tell me what you're doing to address the debt. are you putting any specific type of legislation forward? you personally to address this clip that we're going to go over eventually and unfortunately probably going to be on the backs of the poor like they were in rhode island. anyway, do you have anything specific that you can tell me that you are doing to address this $17 trillion elephant a room that nobody is paying attention to. guest: i can tell you some ideas i had along with some of my colleagues. there are none among us who agrees it's a good idea for us to have $17 million debt. the question is, how you reduce that responsibly and still meet the obligations that the american people expect. for example, i think that the more that we could focus on job creation and on incentiv

. >>> a sex trafficking case stretching from rhode island to maryland has been busted up. mike schuh is live with details. good morning, mike. >> reporter: good morning. three people have been air force arrested in two separate cases just a day apart. >> craig anderson behind bars after a 24-year-old woman said he held her captive for years and forced h her to have sex for money. >> she's actually been forced to be a prostitute for the last 2 years working for the same suspect. >> the woman who had been beaten went to a carroll county fire station for help. just a day before another woman called howard county police with a similar story. she claims 29-year-old gary maddox and 27-year-old amina phillip kidnapped her this rhode island and forced her to have sex for money over three days. the couple was arrested. both suspects were advertising on the website backpage.com. >> it's becoming more and more concerning for law enforcements. it's a coincidence that website was used in cases. >> victims advocates said it's a growing serious problem in harold. maryland -- in maryland.

we have great partners in rhode island, the rhode island school of design, where i think we're really going to begin to understand that design is going to be an important part of this new manufacturing and it's going to make really everyone in manufacturing to have the ability to print products. so you're right, our competitors around the world know this and they're making very substantial investments. i think this is one of the moments in the history of our country that we have to realize if we're going to continue to lead the world economically and continue to be a place that products are produced that are the envy of the world, we have to create countries that will help companies and individuals innovate, to be successful in making things so that we can start shipping american-made goods all over the world and not american jobs. one thing to look at it is how do we support american manufacturing in tax policies so we're not incentivizing companies that ship overseas and instead incentivizing companies that keep jobs here? how do we have tax credits that are nor generous and importa

and now the list of investors was released yesterday at the federal hearing in rhode island. and mccauliffe's staff said he was one of hundreds of passive investors and had no idea of the allegations against the defendant who at the time was widely respected by business leaders and elected officials. the allegations are horrible and he never would have been invested if he knew he was being deseifed. when an investor contacted him by phone, terry answered a few questions and never heard from him again. this is a developing story we'll continue following for you. also tonight, d.c. democratic congresswoman eleanor holmes norton holding president obama's feet to the fire. >> she is pushing a house bill that would allow the district to use locally raised money during the next few months and today at the white house things got heated. ken molistina caught up with the d.c. delegate in the northwest this evening. >> reporter: she was over here at may flower hotel for a different event. but she was only a few blocks away from here at the white house. just like you mentioned, she was

this is maliki rhodes. he has autism. he's been getting regular speech therapy here in bridgeport, connecticut. he was lucky he did not lose his spot there because of the sequester but when the government shut down, his school shut down, too. he got back to school after a few days because of a private donation. i recently asked arnie duncan about this climate. >> politicians think short term. they think about the next election. they think short term. early childhood education is a long-term investment. >> long term. so few people are focused on the long term and that prevents some parents like melanie, a single mom, from planning long term in her own life. she was worried she'd have to give up her new job as a school bus driver when her son lost his spot. she has a message for congress. >> y'all need to work together, stop, you know, fighting amongst each other, think about us. think about the single parents, think about the ones that need daycare to take of our children. >> we couldn't agree more. we hope everyone keeps

a day before a woman called and said she was kidnapped in rhode island and forced to have sex in threerested placed an ad on a website looking for women. i'm mike schuh reporting live. back to you. >> thank you. >>> in anne arundel county for the first time ever a woman is charged with manslaughter while texting. 19-year-old elizabeth meyers hit and killed jonathan meyers. the prosecutors said she can prove meyers was texting while driving. she's now facing several charges including negligent manslaughter. >>> a water main break in baltimore county. check out the scene from sky eye chopper 13 at putty hill avenue yesterday. it was a 24 inch diameter main that ruptured. it did not impact water customers but shut down the road through rush hour. >>> stay with wjz 13, maryland's news station. up next an undercover nypd detective has been arrested in connection with the road rage attack that shocked this ú x/k?mf >>> in the american league division there was a controversial call on the detroit tigers. in the bottom of the seventh, victor martinez hits the ball into the stanlsd. he leapt

in rhode island, and i can talk about rhode island or california because its opposite ends of the spectrum in scale and in geography. in rhode island, because of our past obligations, both in financing, using the rv financing to do big projects over the past decade, long-term multiyear projects that require multi-years of obligations, our existing commitment is out there, meaning that if we can't rely on a 2015 level funding, we are basically in a position of not being able to obligate any new funds, even next month for fiscal year '14. huge impact with small states like rhode island, louisiana, some of the small states but even in a state like california which has a huge program. À la forney is facing this year without obligations in 15, plan the construction of 250 states sponsor projects costing $2 billion are put at risk. so it's not just the small states that are dependent upon federal funding for a large portion of our program. it's the big states also. >> you're saying it's already being felt? >> it is being felt, and i don't think that it's truly understood exactly -- we've all bee

depends on how you how you look at it i think last year actually the hedge funds underperformed in rhode island compared to some index investments. but it's not so much how they do in the short term it's how they do over very long periods of time pensions are the ultimate long term investments the whole point of them is that they're supposed to be extremely long term and the whole idea of investment is not in these kinds of funds is not to be constantly making adjustments and constantly making redemptions over time hedge funds will lose to simple index investments and something like the stock market. even that least that's what my sources tell me i talked to somebody who worked in illinois managing state pension funds there and he said you know the way he put it to me was look there's just not enough efficiency in the market to make it worth it to us to pay one hundred or two hundred times the cost for a private equity fund or. do you think this is kind of the yale model run amuck i think it's i think it's more of just simple old school political graft basically this is a situation where

the top republican in the house at the time was congressman john rhodes of arizona, and he told "the new york times" when all this was happening, "i think the democrats fear a balanced budget like the devil fears holy water!" mwah! so, while three mile island melted down in pennsylvania, in washington, in congress, they fought and fought and fought and fought and fought right up until the deadline. three mile island melted down on a wednesday. the debt ceiling deadline was the following tuesday. congress waited until the day before the debt ceiling deadline to finally raise the debt ceiling. and no, the republicans did not get their balanced budget amendment. they got some sort of meaningless, symbolic promises in that direction, but they did ultimately raise the debt ceiling. turns out, though, they did not raise it fast enough. they got too close. the fact that they waited until the very last minute had really big consequences, and i think part of the reason that this has been sort of lost to history is that nobody was paying attention to it at the time that it happened, because th

. >> well, it doesn't take a rhodes scholar to realize they had some outside help. >> pelley: john miller has the story. the government reopens. can washington keep it that way? >> let's be clear: there are no winners here. >> pelley: nancy cordes and john dickerson i don't know they go from here. scientists say this may be the missing link that ties all of humanity together. jim axelrod and the discovery that may upend what we knew about humans. and testimony comeback of the humpback. an american biologist tells "60 minutes" about one of the great success stories in all of conservation. >> reporter: so you speak whale but you don't understand it? >> absolutely. (laughs) (laughs) captioning sponsored by cbs nsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. who knew that breaking out of prison could be so easy? prison officials in florida admitted today they released a convicted murderer after receiving a forged court order. and if you think that kind of thing could never happen again, it did-- with another murderer less than two weeks later. a manhun

>> we believe the suspects were involved in the kidnapping of this woman in rhode island. we think they travel through connecticut and new york into howard county. she was able to walk into a gas station while she was in our jurisdiction. >> the kidnappers were arrested during a traffic stop in outrage. >> police confirm christopher goode is a person of interest in a shooting in south baltimore last weekend. he is wanted in a stabbing last month and another incident in the state of ohio. police believe he is somewhere in the baltimore area. a grand jury indicts two post office managers. managed the post office branches in waverley and pikesville. police say the took money from other vendors and split the proceeds totaling tens of thousands of dollars. lawmakers will consider a plan to help some of the unintentional victims of the budget standoff. payments to the families have stopped. funding for the government has not been restored. hallie jackson is live as the shut down enters its ninth day. is there any progress? >> the fight over funding has escalated into a war of wo

i went into our insurance exchange in rhode island when i was home over the weekend. a family at the front desk, they had been in earlier to get waited on and to get served and they were so happy with the way they were treated that they were now coming back, they brought in two big tubs of dunkin' donuts coffee and stacks of doughnuts for everybody. the report from christi ferguson who is running it is that people are hugging their employees when they find out what the options are. the idea that cms, that's a pretty anecdotal story, cms has adjusted the long-term 2010 to 2020 costs for medicare and medicaid down by $1.2 trillion from 2010 estimates to 2013. you got to believe that obama care has something to do with those huge savings. the republican party decided that obama care was going to be a failure early on before obama care was decided. it was a political choice to pull all support for anything this president wanted to do. now they have to live it w it and main that story line. >> let me respond to that with two things. number one it's interesting that you app

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this is malachai rhodes. he has autism.regular speech therapy from this head start program in bridgeport, connecticut. he is lucky he did not lose his spot there because of the sequester. but then when the government shutdown, his school shut down, too. but thanks to a private donation, he got back to class much sooner than our elected officials were able toeach a deal. politics think short term. they think about the next new cycle. they think about the next election. early childhood investment is the best election we could make and also the ultimate long term election. >> so few people in washington are focused on the long term. and that sort of thinking prevents some parents, like melanie, a single mom, from preventing long term in her own life. she has a message for congress. >> you need to work together. start, you know, fighting amongst eep other. think about us. think about the sipgle parents. think about the ones that need daycare to take care of our children. >> we couldn't agree more and hope everyone keeps that in

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police took the man and a rhode island couple into custody... in two unrelated cases that were reported just days apart. craig anderson has been arrested and charged in the first case. according to charging documents... his alleged victim told police that anderson forced her into prostitution. and gary maddox and amina philip are charged with human trafficking and other offenses... in the second case. bond has been set for all three suspects... ranging from 75-thousand dollars... to 1- million dollars. today was supposed to be "trayvon martin day" at one pennsylvania high school. but after parents complained... the commemoration is canceled. carrick high school in pittsburgh had planned on having students wear hoodies to pay tribute to the late teen as part of spirit week. but after several parents became upset the homecoming committee reconsidered their decision, morphing "trayvon martin day" into "pirates baseball day." kagle says: "i am a little worried about that with the different people how they're going to react." bergener says: "if they

nancy rhodes has defense contractor friends. >> we are in jeopardy of losing a great deal of revenue. >> he woke up again at the theater would be open tonight for the new project. then, he received a letter that said the doors would have to stay closed. it cost the government virtually nothing to allow the performance. >> we try to look at this in a practical way. if anyone was looking at it this way, we would have performances tonight. reporting live from northwest tonight. we will stay with abc seven news and wjla.com a surprising announcement from sydney. he revealed that he is retiring after five years of running the school. he will retain his title. up day-to-day control immediately. he recently signed a contract extension. a committee of trustees who oversee the search for a permanent successor. a debate is underway in montgomery county. their support behind a plan to delay the start of the day for high schoolers. he wants to push the start back to a: 15. he says this can make students safer and improve their self- confidence. minutes the extra 15 will not make a difference and

they are brooklyn, deanwood rhode island avenue. metro said more than 50% of crime is cell phone and bike theft. >> and a protest involving thousands of truckers snarling traffic on the bellway was a hoax. he said he wanted to ruffle feathers. >> expect to see more students on the roads and watch out for they will and keep themself. now time for a round up of today's top stories. >> begin with brianne carter live on capitol hill. >> scott we understand that d.c. leaders bringing their message about the partial government shutdown right here to capitol hill later today. d.c. mayor gray and councilmembers will hold an event about 11:00 this morning asking dong free d.c.'s budget and talking about the impact this showdown shutdown is having on d.c. residents and workers. this comes as democrats and republicans seem no closer to reaching a deal as we draw closer to that new deadline of reaching the debt limit. john? >> brianne a living wage deal will be introduced today in montgomery county. that bill that will force businesses to essen

judge rhodes is going olook at the witnesses which will include mr. orr and governor schneider, responding to this criticism. basically what the objectors were saying, the fix was in. they knew they would file the chapter 9 all along. let's hire a bankruptcy lawyer, put the city into bankruptcy and who cares. but no no, we sat down with people our door was always open and that's much more of a credibility thing who is the judge going to believe. as this trial unfolds, it's a bench trial, no jury, you'll be looking at what the judge's actions are, he might be keeping a poker face, make asking his own questions, which he's allowed to do. >> you have to help us, those of us outside the community looking inside on this, it's hard to understand why the city would want to declare itself bankrupt. >> i tell you it is really, tempers are getting hot here. you see signs pensions before picasso. you have to prove that you're eligible for bankruptcy. you have to prove that you're bankrupt enough to go into these federal proceedings. and the city wants to go into

and then sharifa rhodes-pitts comes. it's all good. so, okay. [laughter] pleasure.pplause] pleasure. [applause] >> so questions? i think -- do we have time for questions? to or are we done? i think there are time for questions. i think there's a mic here, so if you want a question, go to the mic. >> when you talk about the notion of place in harlem, you know, in this new restaurant, the cecil and menton's are just opening up. ask and it seems almost sort of prophetic to me that in preparation for the opening of these museums -- excuse me, for these restaurants the original neon signs for menton's was taken off and given to the yet-to-open african-american museum in washington at the smithsonian. and i would just like to ask both of you if you really seriously think that harlem can avoid becoming a place where the schomburg is sort of like a synagogue in chinatown? [laughter] >> that's very real. >> michael, i've heard you express that before, and i think it's absolutely something anyone who cares kneads to have their -- needs to have their eye trained on. i also thi