here's reuters business reporter rhonda schaffler. >> reporter: with dismal economic headlines out of europe almost daily and just days ahead of a very important e.c.b. meeting federal reserve chairman ben bernanke used part of his speech to hone in on the european debt crisis he urged policymakers to press ahead toward resolving that crisis i spoke about that issue with the i.m.f.'s david lipton >> we see decisions from europe in high political levels and i think we're going to see this fall this shift from the question of what's to be done to how do we go about implementing it. >> reporter: lipton also told me the i.m.f. would be willing to play a larger role in europe if asked. also making headlines here on the european front was the arrival of the president of bundes bank jens weidmann. there were press reports that he is considering tendering a resignation over a dispute with the e.c.b. on the planned bond buying program. when questioned by reuters he gave a terse no comment to those reports. rhonda schaeffler of reuters in jackson hole for "n.b.r." >> susie: still ahead, our mar

we have rhonda simmons, who heads up the office of work force development. rhonda, give a wave to the people. thank you. do we have a representative from america's cup? the port authority, the port? [inaudible] maybe they will be joining us a little bit later. so, i think, if i am not mistaken, we are going into a question and answer session that is going to be moderated by mohammed nuru, who had to leave earlier. so who is going to do it? [inaudible] no problem. let's get started. i hope you brought your thinking caps because we have thought leaders up here who can answer questions. let's go ahead and begin. thank you. >> hi. i am sarah. i am the chief financial officer with the trance bay joint powers authority. i do want to apologize on behalf of maria caplan, she is our executive director, and she did want to be here, but had some other appointments come up. so i will try to replace her only momentarily. the trance bay transit center program, if you haven't been in the san francisco market area lately is under construction. we are replacing the old trans

they were obviously distraught, obviously very upset, and then we heard prosecutor rhonda qualian, and she talked about the fact that the defense does plan to sgloor thank you, we are going to continue following breaking news, where the aftermath is threatening lives. a dam tested by isaac's heavy rains is ready to burst. about 50,000 people are in its path. evacuations are under way. in the city of slidell, there is still the threat of flash flooding, as national guard troops continue rescue efforts. meteorologist reynolds wolf joins us from slidell, where some businesses just reopened last week after katrina 7 years ago. >> reporter: i'm coming to you from slidell, louisiana, founded back in the 1880s, known as a railroad town, but today, the main feature you have in the town is not the railroad track, but rather the water on both sides. the main mode of transportation, you see right there, mostly row boats, a few people way back in the background walking through with the galoshes, also here comes another boat in with some people perhaps being evacuated. they had 40 people evacuated

rhonda simmons, our director of work-force development, is also here with us. a trend more -- see trent moore, phil ginsperbg, the direct picture of reparations and parks -- the director of rec and park. i do not see tony whitaker. jason eliot is in the back, from the mayor's office. the education and family services member is here. naomi kelly, our city administrator, is also with us. who did i miss? i know i missed somebody. >> donald leavitt. >> thank you so much. we also have someone from the department of youth and families. we have the director of neighborhood services in the back. [laughter] [applause] what we would like to do -- the mayor is going to make opening comments. we are literally going to have a conversation about what is happening nationally and locally. we want to hear from our

let's talk about rhonda sanderlin. >> look at rhonda. >> all these people have birthdays. >> and fran so sweet. >> thanks, everybody. okay, now. there's a lot going on out there. we're showing -- there's something out there called a hoda barbie. >> i'm not going to like it. you know what? >> charity moore from oklahoma said my 3-year-old was playing with her barbies. and she said look, mommy, i have a hoda barbie. >> okay. when is it over? when is that joke over? is that joke ever over? >> it will never die. as long as you all keep sending in those pictures. thank you very much. >> people are still clicking on our facebook page. our facebook like page, aren't they? >> but we need to get over 500,000, hoda woman. we need you to like us. we really do. we're very insecure, and we need it. >> we certainly are. you know a lot of people in restaurants, you see them on their iphones and blackberries and they may be sitting next to someone but they are totally preoccupied. and you often hear half of conversations while you're at a neighboring table. anyway, there is a restaurant that is givin

[applause] >> rhonda, you probably know the statistics when it comes to hunters view. >> let me talk about compliance in general. every time i come down here, it is about compliance. israel, it is part of the history here -- israelit is reat is part of the history here. in terms of compliance, we have a lot of compliance year. -- here. most of this is in good faith. ahead ms. jackson, a number of folks in this room, they have been in the struggle a lot longer than me. the compliance of section 3 that has been referenced by a number of you, i work with dominica and the housing authority. it is good faith, it is not a mandatory compliance. the first source is good faith. redevelopment policy is good faith. the new policy is mandatory, but a lot of these projects are not subjected to that. what good faith means is that we work hard getting folks ready, we spend a lot of money looking at -- there are a number of cbo's the receive those dollars to get the folks reheaready. we contacted out to help get the folks ready. to the degree that it is a perfect system, i get criticism on both side

[applause] >> my name is rhonda simmons from the office of work force development. i think i'm last because my office provides services to every department up here. we work with all of them on all these contracts to try to ensure folks are getting jobs. we administer four different policies, if you will, the most recent being the local mandatory hire. i see some folks that helped get that passed. probably the largest project that is going to have the largest hire is the cruise ship terminal, d.p.w. we learninged the first source policy, which is good faith, and a number of the projects that were already in the cue before march 25th, 2011, are still subjected to first source, which is good faith. we also work with a lot of the contracts to ensure residents are getting in on these projects and getting in the unions. the unions are a big partner. contractors are a partner. all of the agencies up here are a partner. i see a number of community-based organization that is we work with. w.c.b., brothers for change, hunter's point families, a number of agencies in chinatown

i am going to ask from the to top a moment about 0 -- ask rhonda to talk a moment about tech sf. >> we have a dollars million in grants from the workforce innovation fund. our initiative is a continuation of what we started with our sector, and technology was and national -- a natural extension of what we of been doing. this is just the natural extension to continue to train folks. we have a lot of students we hope will go through and get a job once they are done, to receive an internship or some other type of employment opportunity. that is why we want to thank you and all the companies that will partner with us. the mayor has been engaged in just about every company, as part of what we are calling tech sf advisory committee. we have a number of community- based organizations that also a partner with us. >> i am pleased that you underscored the things the department of labour does. most folks do not fully understand that we have made, through the leadership of the administration and the president, some investments in reforming our program. this is unlike anything we have seen in the p

rhonda griffin spent the day putting out hotspots after a terrifying night captured on home video, watching the garage and shop next to her house burn to the ground. somehow, even though every bit of land around her burned, her home survived. >> look at this, and then turn around and look at this. they don't even go together. i mean, it's like somebody drew a line right here. the lord did it. >> reporter: the fire moved with incredible speed, blowing up hundreds to thousands of acres in just hours and nearly overrunning this sanctuary for rescued lab chimps. today, staff say the chimps are scared, but out of danger. >> it was fast! if you were caught in the wrong place, you were bugging out. >> you had a sleepless night? >> we had a very sleepless night. >> reporter: when we met tricia roghair, her husband and father-in-law were asleep in the living room after a night battling the flames with garden hoses. bone dry conditions, extreme heat and even dry lightening have scorched dozens of miles across utah, oregon, and northern california this week as well. in the danger zone, wildland firefi

shirt to discuss this r t correspondent rhonda rowland joins us now from hiram own so would you say this is get another example of freedoms being compromised in the name of security or a necessary precaution. that's right liz the reason that this story is really getting a lot of attention here in the u.s. and really around the world is because this really reinforces the beliefs of people who are really concerned about the increased scrutiny at u.s. airports whether this extra security is really justified and how much it's costing and really you know if our freedom is just going out the window now when it comes to argy his trouble started at the buffalo airport and it wasn't even t.s.a. as you mentioned which stopped him from going on the flight i mean they did a question about the sure but they obviously got the joke it was it was really delta who came out and really question is shirt saying that it was an inappropriate i mean he even changed his shirt so that he could get on the flight he allowed them to search him once again even though he had already been through a thorough search him

and some breaking news we're receiving this hour an explosion has rocked a shop in a market in this rhonda a city in russia's republic of. authorities say that at least three people have been injured by the blast no further details are immediately clear and we'll be bringing you more details as soon as we get them. now in other news in syria activists have accused the country's security forces of killing over three hundred people outside the capital damascus the death toll in the south west town of darius cannot be in a panel e verify but the government says it carried out and a terror operation in the area the british foreign office has responded that sunday's massacre highlights urgent need for international intervention against the assad regime moscow insists any unilateral action will only worsen the conflict that's already claimed more than eight hundred thousand lives president assad has vowed to stand firm in the face of what he deems to be a western plot against his nation this comes amid reports by activists that rebels of the free syrian army have shot down an army helicopter ove

colleague has been following this story closely though and joins us from fairfax virginia hi there rhonda i know in two thousand and two the u.s. supreme court ruled in i can see virginia that the mentally disabled could not be executed what was different this time. that actually would have a lot of the legal scholars shocked in fact that yesterday the supreme court wouldn't grant a stay of execution for martin wealth and even though he had been diagnosed by a court appointed. neuropsychology as being mentally retarded and had an i.q. of sixty one which is very much below the competency threshold of seventy so you know it's kind of shocking because in two thousand you like you said the supreme court ruled that it was unconstitutional so it came as a shock to his lawyers and it really came as a shock to a lot of people they were expecting the supreme court to side with the ruling i know right now you wrote a piece for salon in which you talked about a set of standards it seems to me some very nonscientific ones inspired by lenny in the book of mice and men to determine this characterizatio

rhonda just moved to richmond. >> this is scary. you know? i heard this boom. then, the smoke. it's just frightening. my face started burning. >> now there are flames continuing to burn. this will the line is empty. >> this stays small and won't impact the community and you won't be able to see it or smell it they're allowing a flare to control this situation. >> we're taking pressure built there, and letting it burn so it can safely consume that product as opposed to creating a larger incident, again. >> and there is a notice of the leak at 4:30 in the afternoon. a small leak in the number four unit line. saying workers began to take a look at options. >> there is that leak to see what is causing it it began to grow. workers told to back away. >> and there is a back away, it opened up and found a source, lit off. once we saw this grew, we notified city and county and activated the warning system. >> there is a director. >> one week, wrong place, wrong time, you can have a dropped tool, any type of mishap. and happen at any time. >> chevron apologized twice for the fire and man

we cannot afford to have even one more rhonda thrown out of her home. we're going to put an end to that. that is why the green new deal guarantees health care for everyone as a human rights through medicare for all. this not only provides quality comprehensive care for everyone, it will restore your choice of provider of piggybacking control of your own health care decisions and said it you having them made for you by a profit sharing ceo. -- instead of by a profiteering and insurance company ceo. it will save trillions. it does not cost us trillions. it saves us trillions by streamlining the and wasteful health insurance bureaucracy and putting an end to run away medical inflation. as part of the green new deal we will forgive the crashing student debt burdens. we will liberate an entire generation of young people who have been turned into indentured servants. we will provide tuition free public education from pre- kindergarten through college. this is an investment and our future. it pays off enormously. we know that from the g i bill that provided $7

. >> i'm thinking tony's wife, rhonda might be upset about that. >> i might even bring you along if you behave yourself. >> the two of us alone on an island, only one of us is returning home. >> if you travel over towards kenilworth avenue, we have reports of accident activity. stay to the right to get by. the remains of accident activity off to the left shoulder so our lanes are open as you work your way northbound. you are experiencing delays out of woodbridge so leaving route one, it is heavy and slow up towards the fsp and headed out towards the exit for the outer loop. southbound 270 not too busy right now out of hyattstown. lanes are open out towards clarksburg. clarksburg. >>> maryland governor martin o'malley expected to sign a bill expanding gambling in the state. >> the general assembly worked well into the morning to get the legislation passed. melanie alnwick is live at the statehouse in annapolis with the new developments. >> reporter: first, we have to get the ballot referendum in november. it was about 1:00 in the morning when prince george's county executive rushern bake

college station police spokeswoman rhonda seton tells "the dallas morning news" that there are -- well, they say including two law enforcement officers there are reports that there are two. the spokesperson does not know the extent of the injuries. they haven't gotten any answers. the university issued its alert on the website just before noon 30 today, so 1:30 eastern time word of an active shooter near the texas a&m campus has the football stadium there, the warning told residents and students to avoid that area. the spokesperson says it happened within a block or two of campus sometime before 12:45. we know it was 12:30 because that's when the alert went out for the first shooting. i am getting one more alert from the associated press. police now say this is confirmed by police, shooting near texas a&m campus injuries two officers and one civilian. the shooter is in custody. here is what we don't know, was the shooter the one injured? was it the one civilian injured? they might put it that way. it is possible that the shooters have been hit. but we know of the report of the constabl

rhonda, i get up at 4:00 a.m., walk on the elliptical, i am 54 years old, blessed with my first grandchild thanks to her. >> and marizza says, mine is i am an ovarian cancer survivor and have another shot of making the most of my life. that's what inspires me to exercise. >> that is inspirational. >> don't know, but honest, chris says, hot chicks, oh, and heart attacks. >> hot chicks. >> good inspiration to stay skinny. >> what inspired me? >> hot dudes. >> the reason you didn't see any pictures of me and my sisters on vacation, we took them all on the beach. i don't look like that in real life. i'm not saying that i'm large, when you see yourself after two kids on the beach. like pictures, whoa. >> you look fantastic. you just setting me up so i will throw compliments your way. me, fat? go on. >> i'm not saying that. you never, really, realize what you truly look like until you see those pictures. your sister sends you. >>> coming up, a connecticut woman who was overbilled for electricity for years and years. >>> and an president obama medal up for sale for a good cause. all next. for sal

. >> journalist rhonda colvin covers the state senate for alabama public television and was there thatlast day of the session, so usually they stay until about midnight, getting a lot of last-minute legislation through. it was very mundane, actually. >> but mundane quickly turns to exciting when senators from both sides of the floor start spatting. >> and you can see between mr. barren and mr. bishop there was a heated exchange. >> republican senator charles bishop and democratic senator lowell barren, both notoriously outspoken, begin to argue heatedly. >> you definitely see when you watch the tape that there are some words being exchanged and you're not quite sure what they're saying, but you knew that there was an argument at least. we didn't know, you know, what the outcome would be, but we just sat there and watched it for a little bit, and all of a sudden it happened and it happened very quickly. mr. bishop had hit mr. barren. he had punched him. and there was a little bit of a struggle for a few seconds. the security guards ran out. they tried to break them up. a few other legis

. >> brown: rhonda slim what do you think is behind this decision by kofi annan, what's going on? >> i think i agree with colum in terms of he realized he doesn't have the backing of the international community any more, with pointing the finger at the disunity inside the national security-- inside the security council. however, i would like to argue here that his plan was, in a way, i mean was dead on arrival. partly because as he pointed in his resignation letter today, the protagonist in syria, whether it's the regime or the opposition, were not on board. the regime on one hand was not willing and not ready to go with the political transition process. his only plan, the only plan was to solve this conflict literally by force. and on the other hand the opposition, the fact that the plan did not call explicitly for assad to step down as a precondition for the political process to be launched, deligity myed the plan in the eyes of the opposition, especially in the activist inside syria who are now the most important player. >> brown: so you met with-- we have a loud-- well, okay t

and, actually, one of my -- within that family, um, a couple who, one of the hawkins' daughters, rhonda, married a great guy who, um, she was working as a receptionist, he was working in the restaurant industry when they had their first child. he was making much more than she was, and he came to her and said, you know what? i want to stay home with her. and the reason was he had been raised by a single mom. he wanted to have a relationship with his daughters that -- and be a father to them in a way that he had not experienced. and she knew that the restaurant industry has brutal hours, and so it was going to be very difficult for him to be a hands-on father. so she said, okay. okay. you know, we'll make it work. i know that you'll pick up work, you'll be a bartender, you'll -- if we're stuck, i know that you'll pick up work. so for about a decade, that's how they lived. she was a primary breadwinner, he was a stay-at-home dad, and then gradually -- they have three daughters, and gradually as they got older, he found his way back into the restaurant industry which he loves and had a job

talk about rhonda. all these people have birthdays today. >> and fran.> it will not as long as you all keep sending in those pictures. thank you very much. >> people are still clicking on our facebook like page. >> we need to get over 500,000. we need you to like us. we do. we are very insecure. we need it. >> okay. you know a lot of people in restaurants, you see them on their iphones and blackberries and they may be sitting next to someone and are totally preoccupied. there is a restaurant that is giving you a discount if when you walk in the restaurant you hand your phone over to the maitre d. >> keep your old phone then give it to the guy at the front and keep it. >> they are giving a 5% discount at eva in l.a. that's smart. >> i used to being so against it. i'm a little lax now. >> with what? >> with the phone thing. my kids are not home. so it's about that. i have to check to see if it's cody or cass. >> all the kids are home? >> yeah. >> how's that going? >> it's good. it's good. it's wonderful. cody came home last night. he's taller, bigger than

[applause] we cannot afford to have even one more rhonda thrown out of her home.use] that is why the green new deal guarantees health care for everyone as a human rights through medicare for all. [applause] this not only provides quality comprehensive care for everyone, it will restore your choice of provider of piggybacking control of your own health care decisions and said it you having them made for you by a profit sharing ceo. -- instead of by a profiteering ceo. it will save trillions. it does not cost us trillions. it saves us trillions by streamlining the and wasteful health insurance bureaucracy and putting an end to run away medical inflation. [applause] as part of the green new deal we will forgive the crashing student debt burdens. -- crushing student debt burdens. we will liberate an entire generation of young people who have been turned into indentured servants. [applause] we will provide tuition free public education from pre- kindergarten through college. [applause] this is an investment and our future. it pays off enormously. we know that from the

where we will no longer sit by while rhonda, glenn and misfran who sit in the front row here, lose their to the banks. we will no longer sit by as united states of america continues to have politician in a u.s. house of representatives that is proposing cutting 300,000 children from free school lunch programs. we will no longer sit by as the united states of america continues to have politicians in the u.s. house of representatives that are proposing cutting 300,000 children from preschool lunch programs -- free school lunch programs. we are the unsettling force that dr. martin luther king spoke of. [applause] the daugther and woman and doctor that will help lead this new and unsettling force to create another country and another world that values the human rights of all human beings. it is my distinct honor to into duce my running mate and green party nominee for president of the united states, dr. jill stein. [applause] ♪ stand up stand up stand up for the rights stand up stand up stand up for the rights stand up stand up ♪ [chanting jill] >> i love you back, all of you. it has been su