streetscape layout should be primarily defined by a system of regular spacing of street trees and secondarily by street lighting where it's present so that you have this sort of primary rhythm that as you go down the sidewalk you see this and other elements are placed within and among that overall rhythm that sort of gives you the overall esthetic of the street. so, that's sort of it for the better streets plan. and just to switch gears for a moment, planning department is also responsible for the development and maintenance of the general plan which is guiding policy for the city as a whole and this really means that it guides the actions of all the different city agencies and changes to the public right-of-way and other things as well. and as i mentioned, the better streets plan is referenced in it. here's just one policy from the general plan from the urban design element which says remove and obscure distracting and cluttering elements. and this is referring not just to the street environment, but the streetscape is clearly a key component of this policy and one that the city has direct c

the primary one is to help protect people's lives and, secondarily, property. can get a better idea of what the forces are on the structures. we can maybe get an idea of how the winds destroy them. with that knowledge in mind, we can develop better designs that will better protect people. >> they are also testing designs for shelters to see which materials will withstand the impact of tornado-driven debris. unfortunately, due to political budget battles in washington, funding for scientific research has been cut, including money for the wind institute and its research. as a result, scientists fear they may have to slow down or put on hold projects that could one day save lives. rob reynolds, al jazeera. >> a child has been rescued after getting a head wedged in the window bars of a high-rise apartment. the five-year-old girl was left hanging from the apartment. firefighters had to break into her room and cut the bars to rescue her. like the young boy rescued on saturday, the girl said her mother had gone out, leading her locked in the apartment alone. -- leavin

and then, secondarily, the scene photographs and such.ut what you're looking at mostly is the autopsy and the very detailed and excellent report by the firearms examiner. >> so would your analysis include, for example, trying to reach an opinion as to the distance between the end of the barrel and the skin? >> yes, sir. >> would it also include trying to reach an opinion from the end of the barrel to the clothing? >> yes, sir. >> trying to reach an opinion, what effect, if any, the clothing may have had in the appearance of the wound on the skin? such things as that? >> yes, sir. >> we'll talk about some of those details in a moment. but some of the things that i would also like to talk with you about today is your opinion of how long trayvon martin may have been alive. and also, how long trayvon martin may have been conscious, if those are different opinions. >> they're different opinions, because you can be alive and unconscious. so, right, they're two separate things. >> we'll talk about that more. i also want to ask you some questions

secondarily, you criticized what the administration hadn't done. what should it be doing in your opinion? >> we should be standing -- first of all we should be helping the resistance in syria to stop the massacre that's going on thanks to russia, hezbollah, iran. we should make it clear to iran that their progress towards a nuclear weapon has to be stopped. we have to help jordan and lebanon in this problem. iraq is unraveling. i don't know what you do about iraq. we've already lost peace there. but we have to exercise leadership and in egypt we have to make it very clear that american assistance will be directly related to their transition to a civilian government and we don't claim it's going to be easy but for us to continue to support coups is a lesson of history that we should have learned a long time ago. >> garrett: are you alleging that the obama administration is tacitly approving a coup? >> i think it would be a mistake. >> garrett: do you think that's what's happening? >> i think they're in a dilemma. i think they're -- as usual on these

secondarily we are talking about freedom of the press. we are talking about trying to some way chilled the rise of journalist to get out the truth, to get the news on the screen in one of the things you had to appreciate about mexico is in that first year that i was there, the first couple of years and leading up to it one of the things that the press had fought for was essentially the rights to print stories about the government. they have gone from an environment where they felt freedom had been suppressed by government to one where are we going to let the cartel suppress that freedom? in a sense you have two very important interest from my perspective. you have the protection of the u.s. citizen abroad and you had to put a very clear stakeout on what the rights of journalists abroad should be. it really wasn't that difficult a call. >> you were you faced with that ever before this particular incident or did you say something similar subsequent to that? >> with respect to journalist's? mexico had become a very tough environment for jour

secondarily, mr. zimmerman has the means in order to give compensation.llected -- he's amassed somewhere in the orbit of $500,000, averaging $30,000 a week since he's opened up his online giving. and i think that the family needs to be compensated for their grief and they really cannot in fact pay for that life. what african-americans are really championing is that what that verdict says is that you are reducing the value of black children, that there's nowhere in the world a young man killed down in cold blood, that the murderer is walking away, and to add insult to injury you give him back his gun. if we look on the news and see an african-american go to jail for dog fighting, an african-american go to jail for shooting himself, but when one of our children are killed the message that goes out to our children is that your value doesn't mean anything. and so what we want to do through that civil suit, and let me add that the family requested that over a year ago, so this is not reactionary. and to mr. webb's counterpoint, we are not struggling between be

absence of evidence is not evidence just because you don't have evidence something didn't happen, secondarilysays he was grabbing for the gun and maybe he never got it to. maybe that heightened hisself defenseness awareness. before we condition with i say-you say. if zimmerman's school records are relevant, does that mean trayvon martin's school records are relevant? quick answer on that? >> it's a different relevance standard, right? candidly, there's a strong argument that zimmerman's school records were never relevant because even if you tend to believe that it gives you an idea about his state of mind that night, we have a rule called 403 or whatever the applicable state rule is, that even if you believe that that goes to his state of mind that night, the potential for prejudice from showing that evidence is so high that it should be exclude. o'mara has made that argument. however, some observers say in high profile trials there's a tendency toai err on the side o letting evidence in. there's a strong argument to be made maybe this is improper character evidence. o'mara has maintained and

they need to focus on that and then secondarily focus on the absence of ill will, evil or hatred. >>n thank you. we'll be watching at 8:30 when they'll have discussion about the jury instructions. we'll tell you more about them in a little bit and then the defense will begin its closing. at the end of the day we're not going to say who has an up or down. it's about the jury, the strategic decisions are over. it will be solely and exclusively in the minds and hearts of the six women who have to make this decision. kate? >> thanks, chris. we'll be watching that very, very closely in the coming hours. >>> next up on "new day" a famous murder that may finally be solved. now, 50 years later a break in the boston strangler case. (girl) what does that say? (guy) dive shop. (girl) diving lessons. (guy) we should totally do that. (girl ) yeah, right. (guy) i wannna catch a falcon! (girl) we should do that. (guy) i caught a falcon. (guy) you could eat a bug. let's do that. (guy) you know you're eating a bug. (girl) because of the legs. (guy vo) we got a subaru to take us new places. (girl) yea

secondarily, the sustainability of the program, which was long term, something that we didn't visit every one or two or three years. so let me just get into specifics because there are four proposals out thr-fplt one of them has already passed the house of representatives. the house of representatives has a ten-year variable rate that fluctuates annually for unsubsidized loans, the rate is 4.31. for subsidized loans the rate is 4.31, for plus loans 5.74. it removes the consolidation cap. removes it. and it creates caps of 8.5 and 10.5%. now, the vote that we will have at noon, i think everybody knows, it is a 6.8% rate for most students. 26% get a subsidized rate of 3.4%. the plus loans are at 7.9%. and that's 18% of the loans at 7.9%. under the president's proposal, the unsubsidized is, i think this is backwards. i think it is the subsidized at 10-year and .93, the unsubsidized at 10-year, 2.93. the plus at ten-year plus 3.93. and it's uncapped and fixed for life. so it brings us to the bipartisan bill. the senator from west virginia said it well. what were the agreements we made? we're