. >> reporter: with the crunch of earth beneath her and a song in her heart, 68-year-old susan schwartz and a team of weed warriors is scanning for new species. >> working in the dirt is like play for schwartz. their goal is to create public space where is people can enjoy the outdoors and nature can flourish. schwartz along with an army of volunteers have spent 4,000 hours a year on 15 different projects in the east bay. >> when we started, there was no walkway there was just a dirt rut. >> reporter: that was back in 2001. today albany hills has a park, a paved walkway linking homes between san pablo avenue and home to. >> deer, hawks, owls. >> kind of a mother earth. >> reporter: bob case has been toiling the land with susan for the last ten years. >> she cares about what is out there. >> susan's success can be seen in those enjoying the outdoors. >> a lot of what we're doing is having beautiful places so that people don't have to get into their cars use their internal combustion engine for two hours to enjoy nature. you have nature right here. >> reporter: bill martin ktvu channel 2

schwartz, could you talk if you believe such an approach would be effective and then mr. hopkins, could performing thresholds get servicers to perform better on behalf of investors and borrowers? and at the same time avoid placing undue loan by loan regulatory burden on community banks that service loans? >> sure. so, there are already in a sense performance thresholds. fannie mae and freddie mac today have time lines required of foreclosure processes, they measure them against state law and other efforts, how long it takes to foreclosure on a loan and there are incentives in place for servicers to perform under their guidelines. certainly there are really great things being done by the small and special services out there, many who are members of hope now, who all they do is high high tough and feel and help borrowsers who are in stress. the larger stops -- shops of both performing and nonperforming aspects to their departments and have a lot of performing loans they deal with versus just a focused effort. a threshold and ability to move servicing by investors is probabl

schwartz: there's nothing isolated about the herminie situation. it's a very common problem. it's a town that was built before current standards. this is not backwoods rural america at all. it's just an unfortunate situation that was created probably a hundred years ago or more. and the people have to pay for it in a big way now. because the government is choosing to spend its money elsewhere right now, there's very limited money for communities to install adequate drinking water and wastewater, and i think it's criminal. that's my feeling. this country has to get its priorities right, and they're wrong right now. narrator: herminie faces problems because of the way its residents laid out the town generations earlier. across the country, many other cities and towns deal with the unexpected consequences from their early infrastructure design. los angeles county is a land of sprawling development. with development comes hundreds of square miles of concrete, leaving no way for water to naturally soak into the ground. in areas of such widespread urbanization, flooding can be deva

schwartz is an executive director of the hope now alliance. mr. robert couch as a counsel at the law firm of bradley arant boult cummpings, llp and finally we have professor peter swire who is appearing before the committee via teleconference. professor swire is a professor of law ohio state university and also the senior fellow at the center for american progress. welcome all of you here today and thank you for your time. mr. hopkins, you may proceed. >> thank you. chairman johnson, cementer corker, members of the committee, and jack speed, president and ceo of a successor to $60 million asset bank headquartered in mitchell south dakota. as a third generation community banker, i'm pleased to represent icba 5,000 members of this hearing. as this committee considers the development of the national mortgage servicing standards, i have an important point to make. community banks are successfully servicing portfolios and don't have the widespread servicing problems reported in the press. i would urge you to ensure any effort to the national standards

schwartz? >> yes, sir.i have seen from some of the largest shops is they have very impressive, web based access systems where they have a read only review in a private, secure setting to sea where they are. i think the industry has made great strides in that area. i am not familiar enough to know across the industry the consistency of that opportunity. >> what do you not to say to that? >> degette o observations -- washington mutual did provide me with records on that issue. they showed a lot of fees i did not think i allude. the second thing is this issue of access to records. there is no access -- right to access in general. in practice, it usually buys comply with it, but there is no legal right to our financial records. >> thanks again for all our witnesses for being here with us today. as more developments in the servicing industry continue to surface, the committee will continue to exercise oversight over this important issue. the record will remain open for seven days for additional statements and qu

day his second of the season on the cup the yankees back on track another of those four run homer schwartz had by russell martin in the next inning new york ten seven all this the bronx bombers farms could then put their feet all of us sold as the saying may be a hot dog to enjoy the historic outing which would on furl curtis granderson making a twenty one eight swiss third grand slam in the twenty two nine would finish. they had let its world championships start on saturday inside korea that will feature a first ever m.p.t. participant in an able bodied event oscar pistorius qualifying to race in the four hundred meter four by four hundred meter relay disciplines for south africa jacques rogge is though stating bladerunner participation in next year's olympic games is far from guaranteed. we. know that it is. the people who are. moving to the center for the person who is going to. be coming. with the final brown slam of the tennis season just around the corner of the u.s. open players are busy warming up on the american hard courts including in connecticut where three time defending champ

. >> reporter: chicago broker ian schwartz said he cannot waste time on ugly houses. >> i do not wantbe apologizing for the house when i walk in. i need to be confident. i need to say this is a beautiful house. >> reporter: staging is basically a facelift instead of major home surgery. this row house in chicago's pricey lincoln park languished on the market for two years before schwartz listed it and enlisted help. the. >> the first impression begins that first night like love. absolutely. when somebody walks in the front door, what we want is them to immediately feel comfort, inviting and wanting to see more of this house. i mean take me further. >> reporter: mona is one of chicago's hottest house stagers. her job is to turn lived-in into longed-for. >> the one thing that people have to understand when they sell a house is you have to let go of the house. it can't be yours anymore. you have to understand it's now a commodity. we need to appeal to the broadest audience possible. >> reporter: she showed us her handiwork in the row house. she says the most important changes are often th

. >> some of them w we saw standi right next to her there was the dnc chair, debby wasserman schwartz. still have tears in your eyes.s. >> been an emotitial few hours. >> how soon did you know, when did you know, she was coming back? >> late in the day yesterday i got a call from her husband, mark. they had -- gabby had been following the debate and the negotiations and felt very strongly that she wanted to come in and cast that deciding vote and even if it wasn't, make sure her district had a voice on the most important bill that we were going to -- >> and what was she saying and thinking? what were you saying and thinking down there on the floor as we watch you? >> well, i never seen more electricity on the floor erupt than when she triumphantly as we hoped and predicted when we talked about it a few months ago, when she walked up those stairs. it was just absolutely amazing. she received thunderous applause. hugs. tears. even the hardest hearts, which we had a lot of hardened hearts in this debate, just melted when she walked in the room. >> when she left? >> when she left, i think

tten i think what happened was myself and another writer, elliott kalan, one day foond out that fao schwartzices -- their store isn't too far from our offices. they have sooething called a make your own muppet workshop. [audience laughter] and for like $100 you can go and you can mmke your own muppet. and so elliott and i both wanted to go check it out. and i had wanted to go but i didn't want to go by myself because i thought there was something creepy abouu an adult man hanging out in the toy store. [[udience laughter] i don't -now any children. so it just seemed strange. >> but you, but you would actually if you weet. >> yeah. >> right. >> part of theeproblem, right..3 >> .ittjust seemed very strange. soothen elliott also wanting to go. >> yeah. >> and so the two of us were talking and we were like okay, well, we'll goo3 together, because then it doesn't seem as weird. [audience laughter] like you nevee hear of like, you know, pedophiles hanging out in groups. [audience laughter] like just a gang of pedophiles. so it was llke okay, well, we'll, you know, we'll, we'll go together. and so i

nathali moorehead, susan schwartz. arthur boone, christa and jeffrey beecher.ote now at ktvu.com/cox conserves heros. >>> the santa clairey district attorney said one of the most notorious criminal cases has now been solved. she died ten years ago. the keys to a break in the case, 27 distinct, and colorful rug finallers found in nasmeh's jeep. test results proved he killed harms and hit her body in the rug. >> this is not like finding a needle in a haystack. this is like finding a needle in a stack of needles. >> in january, jeanine harm's brother shot and killed nasmeh and killed suicide. >>> the family of a woman killed eight years ago is hoping to find her kill. she and her friend were shot in april of 2003, while walking along huntwood avenue in hayward. her mother says her family needs some answers. >>> several community groups are suing the city of san francisco in an attempt to slow down at&t's activity to install hundreds of u verse boxes. city planners have determined the report is not necessary. at&t wants to install 726 equipment boxes on sidewalks a

that's definitely the sense here in boston i mean for those who don't know eric schwartz was the gentleman with the city. who allegedly downloaded academic documents from the mit you know word and as the story goes it might not want to press any charges they were pretty much going with this according to public statements but they do you jay stepped in and said we want to prosecute scott on them shorts in boston is kind of you know the symbol of people charity he's an individual who. in the past has been very outspoken for open source initiatives so it's possible the u.s. government here is just kind of trying to really try to mix you are supporting intellectual do service groups like anonymous and we selves are going out looking at you know our it's a very tough time here and a bridge that everyone is a little free tell now you also mentioned and we're going to get into this in further detail that it seems like the government is a little scared right now when it comes to the hacker community but also asked about that second detail that i mentioned regarding their reasoning for holding thei

schwartz. arthur boone, christa and jeffrey beecher. vote now at ktvu.com/cox conserves heros. >>> the santa clairey district attorney said one of the most notorious criminal cases has now been solved. she died ten years ago. the keys to a break in the case, 27 distinct, and colorful rug finallers found in nasmeh's jeep. test results proved he killed harms and hit her body in the rug. >> this is not like finding a needle in a haystack. this is like finding a needle in a stack of needles. >> in january, jeanine harm's brother shot and killed nasmeh and killed suicide. >>> the family of a woman killed eight years ago is hoping to find her kill. she and her friend were shot in april of 2003, while walking along huntwood avenue in hayward. her mother says her family needs some answers. >>> several community groups are suing the city of san francisco in an attempt to slow down at&t's activity to install hundreds of u verse boxes. city planners have determined the report is not necessary. at&t wants to install 726 equipment boxes on sidewalks

representative alex swarer schwartz a philadelphia main lied modera -- main line modera. van hole len and john kyles senate republican whip. they were on senator bidbiden, e president biden's commission. >> looking at people who might be on the commission i want to turn to rich for just a second. it seems to me we are picking people deeply entrenched in their point of view. it is just as likely these people will disagree and not be able to come to terms as is the entire congress and senate. do you agree? >> gerri do you hear me? >> yes, i can. >> what we are hearing on the commission paul ryan said on fox news sunday this morning he is not looking for too much out of the super commission. it is only charged with finding 1.5 trillion in savings that could be a mix of tax increases or curves. what you are seeing now ever since this downgrade and before this downgrade is republicans continuing to reskis any type of tax increase. democrats continuing their call to protect entitlement programs. nancy pelosi will be holding a forum with senior citizens to discuss dem grat's com

charles in south carolina it will be a fascinating day tomorrow, and roland martin and mimi schwartz, executive editor of "texas monthly" magazine. mimi you live in texas an covering rick perry. will his jobs claim and budget claims hold up under campaign scrutiny? >> i don't think so. when you look at what's happened to the way people live here, our economy is really going to be suffering. once those budget cuts kick in you'll see a whole lot more employment maybe in time for the election. >> eric does it sound there's double talk on accepting stimulus money? >> yeah i think there is. keep in mind every governor opposed to the stimulus wound up keeping the money, in fact a lot of them did it because of pressure from state legislature or in some cases i think texas is one of them, their democratic delegation said we won't give you money for education unless you take stimulus funding and texas was affected by several but yeah he has to plain explain that on the trail. expect a mitt romney ad on the issue. >> roland martin jobs are the top priority with voters. >> here's one of the issu

. >>> a man named sherwood schwartz died last month after a extremely productive life as a tv producer. "brady bunch," also "gilligan's island," but he could never have anticipated one of his excellent tv characters would come to shape a leading presidential campaign in 2012. but it has and no, it's not sam the butcher or marsha, marsha, marsha. >>> gadhafi aefectively lived on a military base, and there were tanks inside this complex, if you -- it's effectively like the white house but he put the white house inside a military barracks. it is surrounded by high walls, the walls are built to be defended militarily, when you drive around the complex, there are small holes in the walls with little metal gates on the holes, little metal latches on them so the people inside can put guns out of them and fire to defend the complex, so it was built for defensive purposes, and it has many buildings inside, intelligence buildings, command and control buildings, gadhafi's private residences in there, bunkers and tunnels underneath the complex, it's an elaborate structure but it was built with the

charles in south carolina it will be a fascinating day tomorrow, and roland martin and mimi schwartz, executive editor of "texas monthly" magazine. mimi you live in texas an covering rick perry. will his jobs claim and budget claims hold up under campaign scrutiny? >> i don't think so. when you look at what's happened to the way people live here, our economy is really going to be suffering. once those budget cuts kick in you'll see a whole lot more employment maybe in time for the election. >> eric does it sound there's double talk on accepting stimulus money? >> yeah i think there is. keep in mind every governor opposed to the stimulus wound up keeping the money, in fact a lot of them did it because of pressure from state legislature or in some cases i think texas is one of them, their democratic delegation said we won't give you money for education unless you take stimulus funding and texas was affected by several but yeah he has to plaexplain t on the trail. expect a mitt romney ad on the issue. >> roland martin jobs are the top priority with voters. >> here's one of the issues in

this is according to a new article in the latest issue of "newsweek," the author, casey schwartz, joinst this. good morning. >> good morning. >> this is really exciting because in this article you talk about bilingualism being a super food for our kids' brains. explain how the research supports that. >> well, it turns out that being able to speak more than one language at a really high level and on a regular basis is like constantly flexing a muscle in your brain. and it carries over into all kind of skills beyond those of actually speaking a language. >> this is fantastic. i wish i was -- i wish i was a little better at a second language, but this is something that has grown in the u.s. over the past decade. take a look at this. according to the u.s. census in 1980 only 11% of americans lived in homes where language other than english was spoken. in 2007 that doubled to 20%. any lng languages better suited for the american culture to learn? >> right now there are about 440 bilingual schools in the u.s. the most popular language being offered in those schools is spanish. surprisingly, m

the national guard will be at the ready in the event that we need to deploy them, general schwartz was here with us this afternoon. we worked with them to try to prepare the way for them as well as fema. i think i'm going to call upon them to speak. >> let's go back to joe williams from politico. joe, we have been watching literally a parade of mayors, governors holding these news conferences for the last couple of days. of course, we heard from president obama today. certainly it was a hurricane that in many ways defined the presidency of george w. bush. how important is this do you think in the way he and the federal government handles this to barack obama? >> i think it's very important in the fact that you have a president on vacation making a state his message was clear, expect the worst, but be prepared. be prepared for the worst. that way we can help everyone. the specter of hurricane katrina is still with us. that's another message from the white house. we all remember the photos of george bush peering out of the helicopter as we passes over flooded areas. barack obama does not

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in his book, "deadly indifference," co-authored by ted schwartz, michael brown poignantly describes the role of politics and a risk-aversion society facing natural or manmade disasters. in his book you will read many excerpts from if a journal mr. brown maintained when he was working for president george w. bush. eventually, his journal reached several hundred pages, and he thought that one day his wife and possibly his children or his grandchildren would read it, and they would come to understand why he agreed to take a job that took him so frequently away from home. whatever the case, he intended to keep the entries private. but four years after leaving the bush white house, he used them in writing of this book, "deadly indifference." mr. brown says that hurricane katrina was a disaster on many levels. every participant has his own version of the almost heroic personal actions taken in a desperate race to beat the storm, protect the people and then ultimately blame fema. he feels that most people do not know what should have happened and that there were many self-serving spin books wr

bill frist; usaid administrator raj shah; eric schwartz, our assistant secretary of state for populationrefugees, and migration; and gayle smith from the white house. they saw the best and worst of what is happening on the ground. they visited the kenyan agricultural research institute, a top-notch facility long supported by the u. s. government. and i had the chance to visit it on my trip to kenya two years ago. i was very impressed by the work that i saw there by scientists who are cultivating crops that can thrive in drought and are enriched with essential nutrients. these breakthroughs have already saved lives and i'm sure will save many more in the future. but the delegation also visited dadaab, the refugee complex in eastern kenya. even before this emergency, it was the largest refugee camp in the world. some people have been living there now for 20 years. it was originally built for 90,000 people. twenty years later, more than 420,000 live there, including thousands of third-generation residents. so the current refugee crisis is taking place against the backdrop of a prolonged ref

bill frist; usaid administrator raj shah; eric schwartz, our assistant secretary of state for population, refugees, and migration; and gayle smith from the white house. they saw the best and worst of what is happening on the ground. they visited the kenyan agricultural research institute, a top-notch facility long supported by the u. s. government. and i had the chance to visit it on my trip to kenya two years ago. i was very impressed by the work that i saw there by scientists who are cultivating crops that can thrive in drought and are enriched with essential nutrients. these breakthroughs have already saved lives and i'm sure will save many more in the future. but the delegation also visited dadaab, the refugee complex in eastern kenya. even before this emergency, it was the largest refugee camp in the world. some people have been living there now for 20 years. it was originally built for 90,000 people. twenty years later, more than 420,000 live there, including thousands of third-generation residents. so the current refugee crisis is taking place against the backdrop of a prolonged r

administrator, raj shah, eric schwartz secretary of state for population refugees and migration and gail smith from the white house. they saw the best and worst of what is happening on the ground. they visited the kenyan agricultural research institute, a top-notch facility long supported by the u.s. government and i had the chance to visit it on my trip to kenya two years ago. i was very impressed by the work i thought there, by scientists who are cultivating crops that can thrive in drought and are enriched with essential nutrients. these breakthroughs of art he uninsurable save any more in the future. but the delegation also visited dadaab, the refugee complex in kenya. even before this emergency, it was the largest refugee camp in the world. some people have been living there now for 20 years. it was originally built for 90,000 people. 20 years later, more than 420,000 live there, including thousands of third-generation residents. so the current refugee crisis is taking place against the backdrop of a prolonged refugee crisis. the united nations is working as fast as they can to buil

i'm speaking for the military, but i'm sure general schwartz would echo this. we're closer to the garden reserve, and as restraints collapse around us, how do we maintain that relationship? how do we articulate what capabilities have to be available in the active component, which capability have to be available in the garden reserve. one of the things i mentioned in response to the hpq was that i think there is an opportunity here to reconsider and adapt our relationship with the garden reserve. so that as we become smaller, which seems to me to be in evide inevitable, just give them actio options, because that's our responsibility, to provide options to meet our security needs. so that issue of future relationship of active guard and reserve will be at the forefront of any decisions we make in responding to these budget issues. >> i would also ask if the goalposts we use to measure our objectives change, which they apparently are, and if you need a new set of requirements based on those changes before the end of the summer, i'm hopeful you'll let us know so we