baltimore mayor stephanie rawlings-blake is also taking part.hey're dealing with much more higher homicide rate this year. mayor bowser is sending more staff to her new office in the southeast including kevin donahue. mayor bowser has pledged to put more resources east of the river, the anacostia river because of the unemployment rate there. >>> this week neighbors have a chance to weigh in on the future of old town, alexandria. they're having open meetings with designers and leaders. you can stop between 9:00 and to give your comments on the development. >>> the drive in the cost of turkeys. more than 7 million turkeys were lost. there's good news. frozen turkeys, which many of us do prefer to buy were actually frozen before the outbreak. >> what ten the turkey comes from the farm it's taken to be packaged, steal s.e.a.l.ed up and instantly flash frozen down to 0 degrees 678. >>> breaking news again in northwest washington. we still have this closure here this morning. take a look right now at what i'm talking about. we're talking about northwe

maryland's mayor stephanie rawlings-blake is also taking place today. mayor bowser has pledged to put mer in place. they're much high theirtown rest of the district. >>> this week neighbors have a chance to weigh in on the owner. you can stop by daily to give your opinions on development. planners and designers will use a public plan to put things in place. >>> a possible turkey shortage. the blame, the outbreak of avian flu back in may. there is good news. frozen turkeys were actually frozen before the outbreak. >> when the turkey comes from the farm, it's taken to be packaged. it's sealed up and it's instantly flash frozen down to zero degrees. >> they're still predicting a 20% increase because of the av yacht flu outbreak. >>> a star-studded event. only our cameras were allowed inside the american portrait gala. they unveiled the portraits and celebrated the achievements of five remarkable people. the honorees are corporal carpenter, aretha franklin, our own barbara harrison interviewed them all exclusively. >> it always makes you feel good when you'

and baltimore received a lot of attention because of this, sheila dixon was the mayor and stephanie rawlings blake was the city council president. and pat chesley was state's attorney. and lots was made of that, nationally. at the same time i remember and i'm sure all of us are member that on the front page of the sun newspaper there was an article that said the mayor prior to sheila dixon and martin o'malley literally went into a meeting with pat chesley and commanded her to get off her fat, lazy, so i guess i'm asking the question, the continuum on one hand black women can do everything and there is this outside kind of expectation of selflessness and nurturing, but on the other hand that level affordability from a woman who is sitting as a state's attorney in baltimore. speak on that a bit. >> that is actually the point of the book is to say that black women have-- i actually argue that this is a role that many women have played in any culture, but black women in this culture have been-- they have perfected it because of their social position of many social events and i argue that she-- that im

another item from baltimore, last march, mayor stephanie rawlings-blake went to the state capital inan apples to ask for legislative changes that would allow her police chief morley would -- annapolis book festival to discipline and get officers who were convicted of crimes to get them off the government payroll. convicted of crimes, under current law officers that have been convicted in criminal court of misdemeanor crimes like perjury and assault, they remain on the payroll for many months while they appealed the department disciplinary procedures to labor arbitrators. .. >> >> we do not have data about the number of people who die each year in police custody. we don't have that number and police is very decentralized. we do have some departments that make this information transparent and other departments to around the country will not make such information available. governor walker in wisconsin to his credit signed legislation after an incident in that state where now there will be an official tally of anybody killed that is tallied at the end of the year with an explanation to