>> go on line to the taste of d.c..org. they can purchase tickets for our event and 50% of everything they buy today goes right to charity. >> it is trying to raise the money today but then again, the event as you brought us a poster is coming up -- >> october 8-10th next weekend on pennsylvania avenue between 9th and 14th streets. tell us about the taste of d.c. a lot of restaurants involved. you can buy lower priced tickets up to a better experience. >> we've got restaurants. we've got a beer pavilion, and a wine pavilion. our headlining groupon experience which is an 8,000 person concert venue. we have big and rich on saturday night. styx on sunday night. ed on sunday also and rusted root on monday. >> oh, fantastic. the web site for today for the quick $100,000. >> the taste of d.c..org. >> we'll link that to wusa9.com. andrea, anny, over to you. >>> thank you very much, mike. anny and i, look for us at fall for fairfax. you'll be there about when? >> about noon and 2:00 before coming in for the weekend shift. >> it will

the c.n.n. new york and i would tell you that in d.c. the property market is much tighter that may have to do with the fact that the government has become increasingly important in terms of spending things like that so i think it's an insurance is a great you bring up i think there is a connection between government spending and. wealthy districts around the d.c. area that makes sense but what i'm getting at is you have d.c. government contractors that maybe benefit in the d.c. area from government coffers you have corporations that you could argue have benefited from fed policy of cheap money big banks you know their c.e.o.'s that have benefited from bailouts is the trend that people better make it out well are benefiting from government coffers and programs and policies well some people are in for sure i mean you definitely have you know contractors for example the u.s. is building up to one hundred million dollar base or prison in afghanistan so obviously contractors that build prisons or benefit from that are people and military contr

the u.s. . it's thursday september twenty second it's five pm here in washington d.c. i'm laura lister and you're watching our t.v. while the. well the sixty six united nations general assembly continues aronian president mahmoud ahmadinejad addresses the assembly today and the american delegation leads the charge walking out take a look there this is groundhog day they did the same thing last year and also protests on the streets heat up against on the dinner job in new york take a look here he seems to be the favor. target as u.s. ire at recent u.n. g.a. says the year being no exception but what is it's really all about dion the cries on the streets and the accusations we've heard from u.s. politicians outright or without silent protest when they walked out we want to know what exactly on the did and john is saying we spoke to him directly our teeth were in a fortnight and that's down with him last night from what i heard from one of our producers some of his rhetoric reminded them of what we heard from u.s. president barack obama on the u.n. g.a. stage yesterday but

went to check on kids at the apartment complex. >> they had -- i'm still waiting to see that. >> the d.c. housing authority won't talk about why white was barred but says he has an office in the woodland terrace complex and they are investigating. >> metro officials say a department needed more peace and the expenses were covered by the existing budget. >> in this morning's "tech bytes," microsoft's upgrade could make it a contender. here's rob nelson. >> microsoft sweetens its smartphone operating system. they call it mango 7.5 and comes a long way from microsoft's business-oriented past. >> they have integrated multi >>> good morning. i'm george stephanopoulos at abc news headquarters here in times square. we're updating your regular program because abc news has learned anwar al awlaki who has been living in yemen. homeland security officials call him the most significant threat to homeland security has been killed. he's been tracked for months. ed there been a failed attempt in may. he got away. this time, we can confirm, that anwar al awlaki, the most dangerous al qaeda operative in

in the late 1800s people trying to get favors done in d.c. would hang out in the opulent lobby of the hotel waiting for politicians or cabinet officers or the president to come by that hotel so they could schmooze that person. the willard hotel lobbyists gave the lobby profession its name. that's the legend. which the willard hotel itself enthusiastically promotes. tonight the fund-raiser for rick perry constitutes what his

the children of this country. you cannot walk into any school anywhere in washington, d.c. and talk to any kid for more than 10 minutes and not believe that child has the ability to succeed at the same high levels that any kid anywhere else does, as long as we are creating the right system and have high expectations, and put the dollars in the classroom with the child. i have absolutely no doubt in the children of our country. i have the utmost confidence in their abilities. that is one of the things that drives me. i believe in america. the bottom line is americans are competitive by nature. we want to beat the pants off of china. i have to believe that at some point, if we continue to talk about education and continue to bring these issues to light, the american public is going to wake up and say we want to be number one in the world. we want to have the best education system for our kids. this is the ideal this country was founded on, the idea that every kid, regardless of their race, socioeconomic status, and zip code can live the american dream if they work hard and do

unemployment and poverty, while the d.c. debate is often about tax cuts for the wealthy. princeton professor cornell west and television host tavis smiley have been on a self-titled poverty tour, at times sharply critical and calling on the president to act. it's something i asked the president about during our white house interview. i want to ask you about african-americans. i'm hearing and reading from many, and not just professor smiley and professor west, who say you have exhibited what they see as a mystifying silence on the especially crippling unemployment rate, poverty and especially where young african-american males are concerned in our urban areas. >> the most important poverty program is a job. and so what we talked about on thursday will help most directly those who had the highest unemployment rate. african-americans, latinos, rural communities, young people. and so, you know, if you look at everything we have done for the last three years, my entire focus has been providing ladders of opportunity for people so that they can make it. and by definition, that

s in the d.c. area it's crony capitalism we saw under george w. bush and you know post katrina we saw it in iraq we see it with defense contracting all the time and the stimulus plan was a big boon for this type of cronyism if you will and we know that you know corporations for every one dollar spent in public for for representing the public when it comes to lobbying in washington d.c. three hundred dollars is spent by corporations so again it's no surprise we have this system where corporations have it rigged so that they can get the teat of government if you will and get most of the milk that's how our system is set up so it's not surprising that president obama hasn't been able to shift this despite his rhetoric during the two thousand and eight election that he would shift as caroline held in a professor of politics at occidental college now has developed nation struggle with debt and a eurozone crisis is probably the culmination of that we're seeing the major emerging nations today brazil russia india china and south africa together they're kn

they are setting the d.c. washington can the pursuit of a conservative agenda with centrist policies be depicted as a liberal reform. dylan? >> very well said and very well presented. let us dig a little deeper too, it shall we? i talked earlier about the podcast that we published today with senator tom coburn. one of the biggest reasons that i respect senator coburn is this. i find him to be one of the only politicians in washington, d.c. works will address what i call the delta or the order of magnitude of the problem. he's not saying do what i think tom coburn wants. he says we have tense of millions of jobs to create that's going to cost trillions of dollars, we have trillions of dollars in taxing and things that need to be debated. i, tom coburn, don't have all the answers. i have proposals and the balance of d.c. and the media refuse to even acknowledge the scale and size of the project because they are so lost in whether obama is a liberal or whether rick perry is a nut job. >> if obama sat down with cob

the mayor and d.c. council library said the city found the $300,000 necessary to keep the sunday hours for the king library. it won't be closing after all. >> at least this library is open. it's a great first step. we are pleased. >> reporter: the teacher agrees it's a good sign for more library branches in the future. good for the children? >> yes. it would be nice if they were all open. but, times are hard. >> the city is spending millions of dollars to rebuild the whole library system. that's the good news. >> that is good news. thank you, tom sherwood reporting. >>> still ahead on news 4 at 5:00. the task of inspecting the washington monument for cracks continue today. coming up, pat collins brings us the colorful history of what used to be the tallest building in america. >> paramedics take the stand in the manslaughter fril. the information they were given when they reached michael jackson didn't add up. >>> i'm liz crenshaw. what's the deal with the new debit car [ rock playing ] ♪ and the flowers

so the mayor of washington, d.c. is here. him a big round of applause. [ applause ] and i also want to thank somebody who is going to do go down in history as one of the finest secretaries of education we have ever had, arne duncan is here. now it is great to be here at benjamin banneker high school one of the best high schools not only in washington, d.c. but one of the best high schools in the country. and -- [ applause ] but we have students tuning in from all across america. and so i want to welcome you all to the new school year although i know that many of you have already been in school for a while. i know that here at banker you have been back at school for a few weeks now few weeks now. so everything is just starting to settle in. just like for all your peers all across the country. the fall sports season is under way. musical and marching band routines are starting to shape up, i believe. and your first big tests and projects are probably just around the corner. your circle of friends might be changing a little bit.

the lower 70s. here is a look at sports with mike and andrea. >> d.c. ited slips in its efforts for a run at the post- season. >> the redskins have what should be an easier task this sunday in the st. louis rams. brett haber has the details in your morning sports. >> good morning, everybody. for all of the praise and support the redskins got for beating the giants and then the cardinals and starting 2-0, watch how quickly the bandwagon clears out if they post back-to- back losses against the cowboys and the rams. those would be the 0-3 rams, the ones allowing 426 yards and 32 points per game this year. both dead last in the nfc. they do have a talented quarterback, sam bradford but on the whole, the rams have been a mess. a team the redskins must beat if they want to be taken seriously. >> we don't want to fight someone who has nothing to lose. they'll come out swinging. great thing is so are we. >> they're a good team. they're an nfl team. they're off to a little bit of a slow start. if we don't show up and play, they'll beat us. >> high honors for 'ski

the d.c. police added 200 to 400 officers to shifts, 12-hour shifts that are overlapping. they're all paying attention. they want the public to pay attention. they do believe they're ready. let's listen to what the police chief had to say at her press conference? >> in terms of the safety of the city. i feel comfortable. we have a very safe environment. i want people to go out and do what they're going to do without this threat being present. >> reporter: so, as you heard, both the police chief and the mayor have told people they should go out and do what they would normally do. the park police yesterday said people should come and enjoy the monuments. keep your eyes open an stay vigilant, t.j. >> all right. athena, don't go away too quickly. still keeping an eye on our viewers on what we expect to see at the pentagon here. president george w. bush expected to step out and lay a wreath at the 9/11 stone. that's at the place where the plane crashed into the pentagon. 184 people died there. this

the money. >> kevin is a former d.c. cian. >> when i was chairman of the education commission on the d.c. council i gave the school system 300 million new dollars. the teachers got more money than ever to educate 1,000 fewer kids and the test scores went down. they grew central office. they had more deputies to the assistant to the deputy to the assistant. they grew the bureaucracy. >> and the former district chancellor found that the bigger bureaucracy didn't even get school supplies to the kids. >> walking in to school and seeing that there were no books in the library. kids didn't have supplies and pencils and then the following week i visited the warehouse of the school district where there were boxes and boxes of books and scissors and blue glue and computers. >> why didn't they get to the school? >> exactly. that was the question. >> why didn't they get to the school? >> it was just a complete and utter sense of dysfunction and the lack of accountability. >> the reason they call the school bureaucracy the blob, it i

d.c. students. the survey finds 10% of the d.c. school system's 4000 eighth graders have attempted to kill themselves. the number who attempted suicide is double the national average. these are obviously disturbing statistics but there are some ways that you can help your teen if you think he or she is depressed or suicidal. for that and more, we turn to a child psychiatrist. thank you for coming in here. before we talk about the warning signs and all of this, i want to tell about this story that we just did with the view that talking about this in the media and some these deaths that get reported and get celebrity attention, that can be sending the wrong message to young people who are at risk. is that a serious concern? >> it certainly is. there is some evidence now that, depending upon how it's portrayed in the media, it's paramount when it comes to the risk of copy cat suicide and when people see that, you know, families grieving and this has been major loss and, you know, actually there could be decreased risk of suicide. >> th

they make the trip from connecticut to washington, d.c., twice a year. she has never seen the washington monument like this. >> i think that would be great. >> new photos show the size of the falling out chunks of debris. as they continued to scale the monument, sightseers are turned away from entering. >> i was just telling my grandchildren that you can go up and the monument. >> that is crazy. >> it is still quite a sight. this is something in history that is worthwhile scene. >> they are done expecting -- inspecting, they have moved on to the six levels of stunt immediately below. >> they are moving lower the pace of their examination will pick up. officials are not putting a hard deadline on when the monument will be reopened to the public. >> we have our responsibility to return the monument back to a condition where the public is able to enjoy it. >> can you imagine doing your work hanging from a rope like that? it is amazing. no hard deadline for the monument to be open. they want to make sure the interior is safe for visitors. these guys will be w

the d.c. chain of command doesn't go to the mayor of d.c.ission to become airborne. as a young wingman, my job was to -- like up, i was standing around waiting for someone to tell me what to do so that i could support what we were trying to be able to get airborne. what i basically did was i took -- we had data transfer cart ridges. think of it as a large floppy disc or thumb drive. whether or not it was weapons information, navigational information, et cetera, that we program before we get to the aircraft. we can take this data cartridge and plug it into the jet and download all that information. what i was doing while my leadership was trying to energize the chain of command up ward to get authorization to launch, i was programming the jets, programming the transfer cartridges. it was based off of what was in the d.c. area. where is the capital, where is the national mall. where is critical infrastructure? where are all the little airports, things like that. >> do you remember what you were thinking during that time period? so much going o

we are trying to work with the mayor's office and d.c. yn. >> there are a couple of youth empowerments. and the whole goal of that fund, which john may know about the details is to empower the people to be the victors of their destiny. it's a way to let youth identify their dreams and be the leaders in terms of allocations. they dole out grants. so the youth empowerment fund is an exciting way in come san francisco is engaging its young people. we have one of the few youth commissions. they work on the variety of youth issues. the ymc has launched big brothers and big sisters. nick cannon has an entire campaign of stop hating. kind of embedded in citiess and communities around california. in terms of digital media, i think that's a very important part. we have a lot of digital lead companies. you have new america media. youth outlook. you've not bay cat and bay vac. each of those are engaged with probationers. so i think that people recognize the value of digital media. we have to connect and explore those job opportunities directing our y

we want them to get it together. >> reporter: barbara lang is president and ceo of the d.c. chamber of commerce. >> the district of columbia relies on tourists and entertainment and the hospitality industry. that's a big revenue generator for the district. >> reporter: but the wizards aren't what they used ton. chris heller is a manager of matchbox china town. >> i'm going to miss it if the season is canceled, but or business probably won't get crushed. we'll definitely miss the fans, but it's never been a huge effect. >> reporter: perhaps that's why the current nba lane dispute hasn't been much of a headline maker. helle says the impact would be -- heller says the impact would be far greater if we were talking about hockey. >> if we lost the caps season, it would be devastating. >> reporter: the nan players union and team owners are scheduled -- the nba players union and team owners are scheduled to resume face to face negotiations tomorrow. commissioner stern says if the two sides aren't close to an agreement by the end of this coming weekend, he'll consider cancelling the

stunt now if you're familiar with them the d.c. area couple known as the white house party crashers they're accused of crashing president obama's first state dinner back in two thousand and nine and causing a media circus white house party crashers what was your reaction when you saw the headlines devastated areas there in the street or why why did the sharks devastated we knew. the facts which with time you know our side of the story and everything will be heard now while this law he's we're happy to tell their story to n.b.c.'s the today show after the story broke when they were called the capitol hill to testify before congress they refused to answer questions on the grounds that it might incriminate them but how does all of this a lot he's been using the white house party crashers label to seek fame and fortune . to me and my going. that's right the couple took part in the bravo series real housewives of d c and that series was the fifth installment of the real housewives series but the d.c. season was a total bust bad ratings o

there's a cold front moving across the area, mainly to the west of the d.c. area at this time. garrett county and allegany county. a few showers around cumberland. the showers will not amount to a lot today. mostly sunny. a beautiful day ahead 73-77. overnight lows in the 40's. tomorrow will be 57-62. we have the taste of the bethesda coming up and st. catherine's greek orthodox church is having their festival today through sunday. a lot to do this weekend. bundle up. in the meantime, traffic with lisa baden. >>> we spoke about maryland and showed you some pictures, so we are rounding out by going toccata virginia area. 95 and 66 look ok. getting inside the beltway, 395 edsall road, not bad. now to a corridonear the pentagon, looks great on 110 washington boulevard. looks pretty good across the potomac river. and across the roosevelt bridge. and no problems on the beltway. we will keep an eye on it. back to you. >> thank you. >>> 4:43, 60 degrees. cracks coming up, a big bank plans to make big bucks on your dime. >> and arch campbell pack as the odds on freight rail delivered ca

the d.c. s. you have to look at it in view of the terror plot revolving around car and truck bomb. they are taking the stolen vans seriously. police ooze of d.c. say the two white ford econoline vans were stolen at different times from two different u-haul lots today. they have arizona license tags and police say it may just be a case of stolen vans not related to the terror threat but they are being extra cautious. the d.c. police are stopping the u-haul truck and vans in the area. >> arthel: thank you for the update. >> rick: politics now. rick perry raising eyebrows when he called the social security a ponzi scheme. take a listen. >> fib for the status quo with social security today is involved with a monstrous lie to our kids and it's not right. the issue in the book set up as you say that by any measure social security is a failure. you can't say that to tens of thousands of americans living on social security. >> governor perry son record saying states should have the right to opt out of

or for that matter maybe we should look into whether their love david vitter whether they're using the d.c. madam i mean if we're going to really push this and i go to the rally to the left i think on to the left of you on that i'd rather just take away the big corporations welfare altogether. so. if you'd like to go everybody's wealth around. you know what i've done in favor of taking away i'm not in favor of taking away welfare ok then if your argument is that people on welfare but actually i'm not sure i understand your argument are you are you saying a that some people who are on welfare are on welfare because they have substance abuse problems and therefore we should punish them by not giving them welfare rather than deal no substance abuse or are you saying that some people on welfare have nothing better to do so they're going to get high and we don't want to be encouraging that is that your point that's a neither one of those is my point my point is we live in a time when republicans and conservatives have so d. . any government effort to actually help people if this is a measure th

bright side least he's not trying to skip out of the president's speech for a rendezvous again with the d.c. madam at least we don't think yes and the very very ugly of bank of america even though the bank is on the verge of collapse. seen it still found time to harass one of its customers last month deborah crabtree lost her husband to cancer over her husband still owe the bank a three thousand dollar mortgage and bank of america wanted its money so the bank didn't even wait one day to begin own doing her for that money during the during the wake her husband's wake the bank of america called the crabtree home every fifteen minutes and called as many as forty eight times a day demanding that she pay up the bank even urge her to spend her last five thousand dollars on paying them rather than providing her husband with a funeral this is the same bank the gladly took forty five billion dollars in bailout money courtesy of taxpayers but deborah crabtree just when you thought the banks couldn't sink any lower they do that's a very theory. coming out the state of florida passes a controversy a la

the money. >> kevin is a former d.c. litician. >> when i was chairman of the education commission on the d.c. council i gave the school system 300 million new dollars. the teachers got more money than ever to educate 1,000 fewer kids and the test scores went down. they grew central office. they had more deputies to the assistant to the deputy to the assistant. they grew the bureaucracy. >> and the former district chancellor found that the bigger bureaucracy didn't even get school supplies to the kids. >> walking in to school and seeing that there were no books in the library. kids didn't have supplies and pencils and then the following week i visited the warehouse of the school district where there were boxes and boxes of books and scissors and blue glue and computers. >> why didn't they get to the school? >> exactly. that was the question. >> why didn't they get to the school? >> it was just a complete and utter sense of dysfunction and the lack of accountability. >> the reason they call the school bureaucracy the blob,

the d.c. ave added 200 to 400 additional officers to the schedule, depending on the time of day. they're doing 12-hour overlapping shifts. one of the things they're emphasizing for the public is general vigilance, to pay attention and to report any suspicious activity. we spoke with the assistant director of the washington field office here, james mcjunkin. let's listen to what he had to say about that. we should and do give a lot of credit to the public for what they do. the public understands what they do, what their surroundings are, what it looks like when they go to work in the morning, what it looks like when they get on the trains in the morning, what it looks like in their neighborhoods. they're the best people to know when there's something out of place. >> reporter: this is very important for the public to stay engaged. as much as 85% of the tips that the fbi gets comes from ordinary people just paying attention. one more thing, the d.c. police chief we spoke with earlier today as wel

i don't want to negate those efforts are being made from the mayors office and d.c. yf. i think john osaki mentioned it before. getting people to come together for the betterment of the community not for their department or organization >> one thing cheryl brings up. what i like to tell people. we have the very difficult task the balancing the public's expectation of today. they don't want to hear about the long-term strategies to make sure this isn't popping up next summer. it allows us to front load. we have turf issues. they are not in the western edition. they are among cv o. check the egoes at the door. they are costing us the lives of the young people. it requires us to have the will to come together to say enough is enough. >> i am on is this gun buy back. anything, any sense in your organization of any plans for any future coordination efforts? >> there are discussions about the gun buy backs. we have to deal with the issue of access to firearms. while i think that particular program is important, i think we need to go back to ernie's point. what are we doing abou

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the d.c. round $3.62 a gallon, down from $3.73, and our area, virginia has the cheapest gas prices now. a gallon costs $3.35. that's down from 9 cents higher than it was a week ago. maryland is down 9 cents from $3.53 to $3.43, and in west virginia right now, they're paying $3.57 for a gallon of regular. there is more good news because some analysts are predicting that in november we may be paying $3.25 for a gallon of regular. i'm tracee wilkins live this morning in capitol heights. back to you all in the studio. >> we'd like to see that. tracee, thank you. >>> mortgage rates are dropping fast as well. cnbc's bertha coombs joins us live with more on that story. good morning. >> good morning, joe. >>> it's this tantalizing thing out there. mortgage rates dipping below 4%. that could trigger a refinancing boom, or at least a desire for people who can. according to credit suisse, as of thursday, lenders were offering an average of 3.91% on 30-year fixed loans to borrowers who were willing to pay

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we are engaging some of the other d.c. government employees as well. >> the whole country, and certainly in d.c. and new york, people have been told to be vigilant. here they are on the ten-year anniversary of 9/11 to be vigilant again. talk about what that means. you have to take each potential threat seriously, and it's hard to gauge them. is there any reason that this one would make the hair on the back of your head stand up any more than another and therefore maybe the public should be a little more nervous this time around? >> the fact that we have, you know, this kind of information, you know, it's a credible, specific set of information, and not corroborated at this stage. i think people should have a heightened awareness, and this is the weekend. this is the 10th anniversary. we know there are threats that have been made in the past about seeking retribution on america. i think both of those things together call for us to pay more attention than we normally do. >> what have your officers there in d.c. been told to l

today, as i said on the board of the asian american justice center in washington, d.c. off, and the locally, and my day job is helping to supervise immigration attorneys at the immigration clinic at davis. i see a range of clients that have pressing needs. while we all hope and wish for compehensive immigration reform, i have got to tell you from what i've heard the last several months, the question we all have to ask ourselves is at what price? if we get an immigration bill introduced that a serious blow for the spring, i'll tell you right now the provisions i will not be happy with. i know they're going to be in there. you should be aware of these provisions. first of all, the price that the estimated 10 million to 12 million undocumented immigrants in the country may be to pay is they may all be forced to plead guilty to a crime before they can file their application. that is before they actually have to pay a fine that is attached. right now what is seriously being discussed is what level of crime should they have to plead guilty to before they apply for legalization

. >>> a man is in the hospital after getting hit by a truck here in d.c. it happened on fourth street near independence avenue around 7:00 this morning. rescuers call the man's injuries serious as drivers made their way into the district. the truck driver remained on the scene and was interviewed by police. >>> a pedestrian was hit by a car this morning on calvert street and happened just after calvert street. the pedestrian is a female and it's not yet clear and new this midday, engineers rappelling have discovered cracks along the walls. megan is live at the national mall with this discovery. megan? >> reporter: barbara, that is what they were basically expecting after this earthquake they knew they had an issue with cracks, loose mortar, and the like. the big question is, how much damage was done. and that's what this whole operations about. take a look behind me. you can see he that we have the team out here once again today. they are concentrating on that area at the very top. that's where the majority of the damage is. they are taking a second look he

the d.c.ice have reported an uptick in suspicious activity -- reports of suspicious activity, i should say. these are leads they're tracking down. nothing so far is turning up on that, thank goodness. but they want to encourage the people to continue to call in. and the fbi official we spoke with earlier today, the assistant director here at the field office, said the same thing. he said about 85% of the tips they run down come from ordinary people. they want to continue to see that, continue to see people staying vigilant, don. >> yeah. you can't really be too cautious when it comes to this. athena, where are you standing? behind you, i see a lot of apparatus. i see an fbi van. i see some other things. is this a command center where you're standing? i'm sure this is not every neighborhood in washington, d.c. that has this much presence. >> reporter: no, no, no. we're outside the field office here. that's a bomb squad truck behind me. back behind there is the command center -- the mobile comma

inaudible] [laughter] >> [inaudible] >> autodesk is a company that started in the bay area, reached to the d.c. area. started at the same time as companies like microsoft and adobe, so it is a 30-year-old company. it was originally headquartered in sausalito. about 15 years ago, we moved headquarters, and we have always had a small presence in san francisco. there has always been a fringe element to the company. we had a more urban setting that attracted different kinds of talents. a few years ago, we really increased it up to about 500. we were going to increase a couple hundred more. the interesting thing is that so much of our business is outside of the united states. about 75% of our business is outside of the united states. what we look for is really the place where we can get the best talent. that is generally where we look at ourselves. our big motivations, particularly for research, development, or marketing is where we can find the best people, and we found that in san francisco. >> [inaudible] >> pretty much across the board, but the two main functions we have is software development

not the same but the d.c. metro area so wealthy so incredibly rich. we only cal look at look at that thing. as a car coming behind us we've found none that i really think where somebody you know you're a lobbyist when those are the monuments to the corporate takeover of america and elsewhere around the country in the communities crippled by foreclosure and unemployment and the families now living in their cars or in homeless shelters you see the consequences of this very same crony capitalism sarah palin is right we need to end the corruption in our lobbyist infested government that has led us to this for the rich by the rich economy course sarah palin thinks the best way to do that is by electing people who will dismantle government which will totally leave those corporations and wealthy people to step in and fill the void i didn't say she's bright or that i agree with her solution. which really was just a side ways of attacking rick perry but i think it's great that she's willing to identify an attack crony capitalism but the truth is we need people