sonali rodrigues, will you go to the prom with me. sonali said, yes. and the school said no.ho put up the message were suspended for the day and banned from the prom. the school won't budge. there's a facebook group now called let james tate go to the prom. 50,000 people gave it a like which means they support him. i do, too. to me, it's kind of crazy, it seems the punishment doesn't fit the crime. tonight, we have james via video chat from his home in shelton. hey, james, how are you [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: james, have you always been a hopeless romantic? >> yeah. >> jimmy: you have. i had to use tape to get a girl to go to the prom with me, too. but i took a different strategy with the tape. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: tell us what happened, james. >> well, i went at night and taped it up. and got in-school suspension. >> jimmy: who suspended you? who made this decision? >> the administration at the high school. >> jimmy: and has gloria allred contacted you yet? >> no. i don't know who that is. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you will. [ laughter ] . what would you have done if

sonali rodrigues, would you go to the prom with me? she said yes.ol said no. charging he had trespassed after hours. his punishment? no prom. >> i was telling her for the longest time i was going to go with her, but i was waiting for a special time to, a special way to ask her. and i did that and this is what happened. >> reporter: in high school, of course, word travels at the speed of text and four days later, there were 10,000 twitter defenders, 175,000 hits on facebook. a local state representative drafting an appeal and a surprise ally. jimmy kimmel. >> i guess they're worried the cardboard would flutter down to the ground and injure some lady bugs or something? i don't know. >> exactly. >> reporter: so, while they may be bending the rules in the name of romance, the faces of the sweethearts say, better than not bending them at all. >> will you go to prom with me? >> yes. >> reporter: no guts, no prom glory. and so we choose james tate, who says even if he can't go to the prom, he wants sonali to go without him, dance for both of them, and he'l

until colonel gadhafi goes contrary to the original way that the campaign is fueling mores of repeat sonali here in syria as the u.s. builds pressure on president assad with fresh sanctions. walsall step up their cooperation and investigation the act crash which killed president chimpsky and ninety five others in the us and russia a year ago moscow has already released over forty don't convince a promise is sound david david rieff in the plane by the end of the summer. scotland will consider whether it's in loosen the leash with a referendum on separation from the united kingdom nationalists a majority in the country's devolved a parliament of the first time i think the scottish can survive on it so you know oil revenue it's now aussies but also what kinds of tea just scotland could have by breaking from britain with a senior member of the ruling scottish nationalists. today i mean as in great talking to kenny macaskill he's the scottish justice minister and he's a member of the scottish national party which of course recently gained enough votes to be able to promise a referendum on scotti

did you ever consider you might get in this kind of trouble for inviting sonali to the prom this way?hey would appreciate my sincere creativity and judgment and realize that me and sonali are both good people and we should have been able to attend the prom together. >> so when you got called into the head master's office you thought they were going to talk to you about the mischief part of this but you had no idea that you would, a, be suspended, and, b, be grand the prom. >> right. instead there's an investigation that's escalated to this. >> sonali, just give me your reaction when you first saw the sign on the big wall inviting you to the prom. did you think it was sweet or did you worry it could get james in trouble? >> i thought it was really sweet. i never, ever thought he would get in trouble. so when he actually told me he was suspended i thought he was joking because he usually tends to do things like that. >> sonali, weren't you also called into the office? >> yeah, i was. >> did you get in any trouble? >> no. they asked me what i thought of the sign. they never really talked

. >> sonali bose will now speak to you regarding item 12, which is electronic -- >> both items were called together. all right, i will. all right. item 12, amending san francisco transportation code division ii to remove the specific deadline for implementation of electronic waybills. >> good afternoon. thank you, members of the board. i want to speak to item 12, but before i do, i just want to -- i also attended town hall meetings, and i was very impressed with the turnout. i specifically want to thank julie m. rosenberg and henry epstein, who meticulously recorded every comment the drivers made so that the board could get an understanding of some of the comments that were made. what we're trying to do -- the board of directors originally required a mandate by march 23 -- march 21. subsequent to that, extended the date. item 12 is requesting an amendment to this to remove the july 12, 2011, date requirement, and allows 120 days to do some outreach and respond to some of the concerns we have heard from the industry on electronic waybills. our next set of town hall meetings on june 6 and 7

. >> i gave you a lengthy introduction as it relates to the overtime report, so i'm going to sonali bose who will report on the overtime and its utilization at the san francisco m.t.a. >> good afternoon, again. what we wan to do this afternoon is walk you through a couple of issues related toover time. hopefully you remembered mr. ford's opening statement since he made that statement but i'm going to read some of the points. we want to talk a little bit about the transit division, other divisions in the agency, executive director ordinance that's going to affect the board supervisors and some of the key considerations that drive our overtime and then the management strategy. so here's the m.t.a.-wide overtime picture for this fiscal year for the first nine months. the top left-hand pie chart shows you the trends division accounts for 90% of the division and as you can see our annual budget was $33.3 million

dragged a ladder and 12-inch cardboard letters to campus, taping this message onto a school wall "sonali rodriguez will you go to prom with me?" >> i figured i would do something special, and it was a mistake. >> reporter: rodrigues, a class mate and friend, said yes, but officials said no, suspending him and his friends for tres passing and banning him from the june 4th prom. as news spread, so did the outrage. >> i think it's kind of ridiculous. >> reporter: and it went viral. supporters gathers online, enchanted by the romance of it all. thousands tweeting words of encouragement. the "let james go to the prom" facebook page has nearly 180,000 fans. the town's mayor said he's been inundated with e-mails from far beyond connecticut. >> china, japan, australia. >> reporter: every last one supporting tate. >> it doesn't make sense. there has to be some common sense. >> reporter: but not everyone has been swayed. thursday, the head master made one thing clear, rules are rules. >> students receiving an in-school or out-of-school suspension after april 1st for any reason would not be allowed

champions league final at wembley on may the twenty eighth a repeat of the two thousand and nine sonali united sets up the clash off the crushing german side shock a four one with a week inside in the second leg of the semifinal at all trafford ferguson made nine changes the size that last one and now it's all snow star striker wayne rooney and sent a hot rio ferdinand well rested but united easily dispatched that one does leave their opponents thanks to goals from tony allen c.f. darren gibson and the grayson anderson putting united through six one on either get my face plastered with a chance to avenge their defeat at times of pat god be on the side in the two thousand and nine finally right i'm vegan says his players well short of confidence and i think you'll pull relatively close joseline when we open sets off the rail last of us up in the other side a final. word from wall street. i mean those experiences are very real where the different from us for a start. you know knowledge of personal histories of growing never seen before. for so many games this season. but you know it's cra

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champions league final at wembley on may the twenty eighth a repeat of the two thousand and nine sonali united set up with russia after crushing german side shock a four one with a weakened side in the second leg of their sunday final assault trafford thanks to my mind changes inside the last one and arsenal star striker wayne rooney and sons of health rio ferdinand go rested but you know i think easily dispatched that in this league or opponents are two dogs from antonio valencia far and gibson grace around us and that's a united states six one on aggregate from our first boss over the chance to avenge their defeat at the hands of qatar the elliston live in the two thousand lines on the world ferguson says his players quite short of confidence and that it will call right on this poll shows a really open to it without loss to boston legal the semifinal. i mean those experiences are very real madrid different from what is for a start. i think we were depending on knowledge of course on this was a never seen before. or so many many times a season. where you know there's been three i would

sonali bose, sfmta. bob sitting in for phil ginsburg from iraq and park -- from rec adn park. -- rec and park. next up, we have greg wagner, who is going to be via a little bit on the budget. you can use that microphone right there. >> thank you very much, supervisor cohen. i wanted to set the stage by walking briefly through an overview of what our budget problem is, to set the stage for the conversation we are going to have and give a little bit of background on why we are all here tonight and what the challenges are that are facing us collectively over the next three months as we need to balance our budget. so as you know, the city charter requires us to have a balanced budget every year. unlike the federal government, we cannot borrow money and operate at a deficit. this is an ironclad requirement. it requires us to ensure that our sources and the money coming into the city are equal to our users, and that is the expenditures we make. when we look ahead at next year, we do a projection of what our re

. >> sonali bose will now speak to you regarding item 12, which is electronic -- >> both items were called together. all right, i will. all right. item 12, amending san francisco transportation code division ii to remove the specific deadline for implementation of electronic waybills. electronic waybills. >> good afternoon.

a series of french talks at the summit in france as a main meeting and its second day artist any sonali tells us what lies ahead. a joint declaration is expected from leaders as the g. i will wrap up later today but first the biggest fashion of the summit will take place and this time around there are some new gas delegations from tunisia and egypt will be taking part for the first time there of course the situation in north africa is going to be spoken about very intensely we're hearing also of course the situation in libya is a very big issue the first day of the summit allowed leaders to meet on the sidelines in bilateral meetings and there libya came up in many of those bilateral meetings between very different leaders and in fact russia was asked by g. eight leaders to be a broker in the libyan crisis and russia did come to the summit with the intention to try to influence these global powers about the situation in the war torn country they did not veto the resolution to intervene in libya but they have raised concerns about the fact that they think that in one way or another the r

and during settling in round three it's four seed andy murray the scotsman at classing sonali by lenny in christ three sets are still friends make a grand slam title screw it. well mardy fish is the latest american standing after the tenth seed stronger robin haas of the netherlands. moving to ice hockey and we have to stop because has been sacked as coach of russia's national team this follows a disappointing fourth place finish at the recent world championships in slovakia the country's ice hockey federation voted to drop him and his assistant equal to the internet because five year reign the duo left russia to back to back world championship titles however the low point was the quarter final loss to canada at the winter olympics in vancouver russia did respond to the runners up spot in the following world championships but the poor showing in slovakia was the first time russia finished outside the podium and that because i've seen the tool that is the front runner to fill the vacancy. with the relationship broke off from the talking many questions were asked on the development of ho

the struggling euro currency was also in the critical list for the world's richest countries and he sonali reports. new world new ideas post france put that concept on the g eight table at a time when it looks like the old ways aren't working a war in libya on the front line with the euro crisis in the background leads to questions like this will sarkozy be known as the man who saved tens of thousands of civilians and garcia well he was the man who promised to economic ruin a never ending war in libya he must go g eight leaders agreed word for word in their declaration about gadhafi saying he has lost all legitimacy now it's understood behind closed doors there was harsh debate on the sidelines russia was asked to step in and broker a cease fire and accepted and will send an envoy and we are in touch with most lloyd's the new forces in benghazi and representatives of gadhafi breaking out it's a matter of time but do you think it's useful in any case because we're trying to make closer approaches to the reasons for the escalation of violence which is still go if we discussed it at the g eig

able to meet the national security demands of both countries possibly by twenty twenty artie's a new sonali has more from their. one of the big topics of discussion here at the summit is of course going to be the economy the crisis especially the one facing the euro and that's actually one of the first strong statements that we've heard come out of the g. eight from from in prague rocky who is the president of european council he said quote we will not let the euro fail now this is the most frank statement we've heard from a high ranking official on the euro in months now and it could be assumed that that means after this blunt statement that european leaders are scared that it is actually possible for the euro to fail they're going to be doing their very best to make sure that doesn't happen so we're going to hear a lot of discussion on how best to deal with the girl crisis of course there's a lot of criticism coming from people when it when you look at the fact that these spending cuts are being made at home and will be this money is being spent on military interventions in foreign countr

who says he wants sonali to go without him, and dance for both of them.e rooting for you. >> reporter: over the weekend, an about-face. the hoedmaster announcing that james will be allowed to go to the prom after all, that cases like these will now be decide on a case by case basis. even the superintendent said the kids taught them a lesson. >> students are much more adept at the social networking media than we are as a school system. >> reporter: perhaps a lesson learned by the school, and james, too, who discovered that wearing his heart on his sleeve might be safer than the school wall. he did get the girl in the end. david muir, abc news, new york. >> he did get the girl in the end. school officials said, the moral of this story, don't mess with facebook. let's get back out to sam. what else do we have coming up? >>> as we settle in for the second cup of coffee -- can you get cash for trash? and what is the most popular destination in vegas now? could it possibly be "pawn stars"? pawn stars. george is there. behind the scenes in a sneak peek behind th

. >> reporter: today those facebook posts read things like "people have spoken" and "sonali is a luckyate now is an international inspiration. >> certainly for all of us gentlemen here james tate has set for us a new standard for romanticism. >> tate says he has no hard feelings and is going to be quite a prom for the couple. they've had offers to do their hair and her makeup. a local car dealer is offering a chauffeur-driven car, and, jenna, there is now an on-line push to crown them king and queen. >> i assume she said yes? >> she did say yes. they are going together. even though he has had people like kim kardashian giving input, and he probably could have gotten another date. he is excited to go with her. >> i love it. >> i think they're probably a lock for king and queen. >> that is so great. thank you so much. imagine if she didn't say yes. >>> up next, the secrets big retail stores are using to make sure you spend more money. what to look out for after these messages. tores are using to mak tores are using to mak low back pain. imagine living your life with less chronic osteoart

dragged a ladder and 12 inch card board letters to campus taping this message to the school wall, sonali rodriguez, will you go to prom with me. rodriguez, a classmate and friend said yes. but school officials said no, suspending tate and his friends for trespassing and banning him from the june 4 prom. as news spread, so did the outrage. >> i think it's kind of ridiculous. >> it went viral. supporters gathered on-line, enchanted by the romance of it all, thousands tweeting words of encouragement. the let james tate goes to the prom facebook page has 180,000 fans. the town's mayor says he's been inundated by e-mails far beyond connecticut. >> china, japan, australia. every last one supporting tate. >> it doesn't make sense. there has to be common sense. >> not everyone has been swayed. thursday, the school's head mapser made one thing clear -- rules are rules. >> students receiving an in school or out of school suspension after april 1 for any reason would not be allowed to attend the prom. >> while tate's sorry for his message on this wall. >> i'm sorry. it won't happen again from me an

. >> reporter: support for james tate's bid to go to his senior prom with sonali rodriguez has been building for days but it took just seconds for headmaster beth smith to make one thing clear. rules are rules. no prom for tate. >> there has been a practice for years that students receiving an in-school or out-of-school suspension after april 1 for any reason would not be allowed to attend prom. >> reporter: late last week in the night tate and two friends dragged a ladder to the school taping this message to a wall. rodriguez said "yes," but the school said "no." suspending tate for a day for trespassing. the headmaster said seniors are told if they are suspended during the last month of school they can't go to prom. tate hoped support might change things. supporters rallied online. >> he got in trouble. we all put our twitter status as "team tate". >> reporter: the facebook page has more than 100,000 likes and is growing fast. on the shelton page, a folk song for the young folk hero who appeared on "today" with matt. >> i feel it would have been more appropriate to make me clean up the let

james tate and his prom date sonali are with us now exclusively. good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> i thought you were toast. seriously, when the headmaster ms. smith said she was upholding the decision wednesday or thursday i thought you guys were done. when did you get the good news? >> saturday morning. i woke up to my parents on the phone getting word that there would be a press conference at the school. we didn't know if we were supposed to go or not. so i just went golfing instead. >> had you had any further private discussions with the headmaster before she reversed her decision? >> yeah. i had one on friday morning in school. she told me that i was handling this well and if i needed any help for the stressful situation that she would be willing to help me out. >> talk about the stressful situation. let's talk about the reaction to all of this. it came from near and far. there were hundreds of thousands of people weighing in on websites. there was a sit-in. there were politicians weighing in. not the school test test sup so nally