still has to move through the region. his is all ahead of that cold front and unfortunately we may see more severe weather. >>> our first warning weather continues with megan mccorkel. she has been driving for the last hour to find damage and driving, what can you tell us about the conditions there. >> reporter: it's very been slow going. we are head into the town of leesburg. we've been trying to get there. we were on 140 west. we've been on that road for a while and it is bumper to bumper trying to get into leesburg. we had heard reports of multiple trees down. we heard about flooding in that area. we actually got off of 140 and we're trying to get into town another way. because everything is stopped. bumper to bumper there. we heard that there is flooding on 140 and 97. and that's probably the reason why the traffic is so backed up at this point. we are noticing ponding on the road, it isn't raining right now. we're trying to work our way toward where viewers have reported there was damage to us. the áf we're seeing wat

this isn't about china actually this is about the region. this is about the security at large across the vast expanse of the earth's surface. we are a pacific power and have been for over 150 years. we have obligations, security commitments there that we'll continue to meet. we have allies and partners who are much threatened there, not by china but by other threats as well. so we have to make sure we're able to meet those security commitments in a new and dynamic way. you talked about the permanent assignment. there will be some there in the region, but a large part of the rebalancing to the asia pacific is really about rotational deployment so it's trooping coming and going, more activity, more intellectual capital and more exercises being spent in the asia pacific. it's not simply just about a permanent footprint of any kind. >> has this been budgeted? obviously it is a period of fiscal austerity. there's been almost $5 billion in defense cuts. has this shifted in rotations which is an expensive way of doing rotations. has that been factor

would express itself in terms of agreeing with the basic outline of american foreign policy in the region rather than what's happening internally ok great do you think the egyptian people are going to disappoint washington. i don't think it's so much about the egyptian people disappointing washington but what the elected leadership will do in order to deal with the military now we see in egypt two states one where you have the political institutions which are being elected right now and the power of the presidency and the power of the parliament still haven't been defined yet we're going to still go through a constitutional process but on the other hand what a lot of people are talking about is the results of what will happen to the tonto we supreme council of armed forces now and the egyptian military they don't just exist as the body that the fens egypt but they also exist with the full economic structure the independence that they have in their ability to be able to dictate economic policy and as long as the elected official whoever ends up winning with their show thinker marci appease

we do not want any other country in the region acquire nuclear weapons. turkey is probably the only country most directly concerned about the possibility of iran acquiring nuclear weapons. such a development would gravely threaten the peace, security, and stability in the region by triggering a nuclear armament race. that is completely against turkey's vision for the region, and we have said so at every opportunity, new york, brussels, and in tehran. similarly, we are against any military intervention in iran. it would have devastating effects on an already volatile region. diplomacy is the only viable option in resolving the issue of iran's nuclear program. likewise, continued engagement and dialogue even at the point where it seems to fail is important to prevent iran from going further astray. therefore, we are committed to facilitating diplomatic dialogue among the parties. in this regard, we hope that the technical experts meeting to be held in istanbul next year on the 3rd of july will find enough common ground to resume the talks between p-5 plus 1

a lot of work went into that effort, not only by san francisco, but also by the rest of the region. i am also proud to note, one of the good things that happened was, there was a commitment that discretionary funding be focused on high priority projects that san francisco has, including caltrain electrification, van ness station, brt, among others. i want to thank my office and the office of supervisor wiener in what they have done for helping to make that happen. i know that it was important for san francisco to play an active role. i also want to thank the san francisco commissioners of abag that also made sure that our considerations were taken. i also want to thank the mayor's office who also played an important role in making sure that our concerns were taken into account. we also saw the introduction last week of an ordinance to put into place the transportation system of it -- sustainability program. we are going to make sure that we continue to monitor that the first. -- that effort. with respect to the transportation authority, we are continuing to hear directly on the vario

are very much engaged on turkey and the region around turkey. turkey emerged over the last 40 years for the relative margins of europe and the middle east, to occupy an increasingly important and influential place in the regional -- in the region and on the world stage. the country's new role is born of immense transformation. economically, socially and politically over the past two decades or more, that have made the country in many respects more successful, and certainly more confident that at any time in maybe 150 or 200 years. it's also made possible by reappreciation and reappraisal by turks. by citizens in the region, countrymen in the region. by the united states, europe and others. turkey's dual middle eastern and european character. the absent to some liabilities that come with that. this conference is an unusually important opportunity to examine aspects of turkish middle east character. i want to add my congratulations for organizing this event. thank you very much. >> and now it gives me enormous pleasure to welcome senator john mccai

these are articulated and the regional transportation plan, or rtp. the rtp has typically carried t wo regional priorities, based on past experience on what an estimate they can reasonably expect to receive during the life of this. and for many years the region's two priorities have been the central subway, in the first part of the san jose project. both of those projects are at the tail end of the new starts progress, which is a full funding grant agreement. it is a guarantee from the federal government's for a certain specified amount of federal funds and significant federal funds for construction of the transit expansion project. they receive sfga and april, and the central subway is on the cusp. it is expected to occur later this summer. in this we have a little bit of background about this program, but the key point is that it is up by far the largest discretionary funding stream that exist for funding base ig ii of the project. this is the most significant opportunity that has been out there and something we've been targeting for many years. gett

for positive not only fourteen easier but for the whole region but if you look at the statistics for example tunisia is economy fell down two percent this year unemployment is still high here president has fired they had of the central bank i think last week if i'm not mistaken it's not a crisis if you look at the figures to be more precise the economic situation is improving day by day when you started the government we have you know the level of course was one eight hundred zero growth rate and now we reach to five above zero the intention for investment is right in the rising craftily thirty percent so we are not really catastrophic situation is completed and destruction is improved you know not i'm not talking about any catastrophe my question actually was do you feel like things are better off now that there were year and a half ago or do you still need time to meet people's expectations because this is a revolution entrepreneurship by definition means to move move from one situation to another we are in process to dismantle the foundations and the pillar of the most despotic an

so be sure nancy talks to tunisia's foreign minister about the arab spring in his country and the entire region. that's six of the seven am tunisian foreign minister it's great to have you with us sara today thank you so another tunisia is now facing a political crisis over the extradition of a former top libyan official back to libya president has condemned the move and the parliament is ready to consider and no confidence vote to the government is your government not prepared to face the consequences alone of this one sided action that seems like they too could without the president of the there is no crisis of course crisis it's easier there is differences between you know position. the political position towards the critics tradition of what you already agreed as a government to extract it would you be ready to demand you know what i need to come back to return but i need to a tree easier to be subject to trade so it's a very normal you don't tool extra duty or do you after a certain conditions in the make conditions but you were provided just. in the pound that the tried and we are really

meetings, since in the number of us sit on the regional bodies, as we look at the sustainable community strategy, other projects, i hoped we could stay in touch and coordinate with other allies like san jose and oakland on issues like the regional housing needs assessment to make sure that the so-called wealthier areas are doing their fair share for affordable housing development as well. on the commissioner chiu: -- geary brt, i am happy to see that there are community meetings coming up soon. also, of ththank you for the ine people that these community meetings. commissioner campos: we have a question from vice chair wiener. commissioner wiener: i wanted to follow up on the question about the $660 million. it was an odd situation, awkward because the mtc representatives from the north bay has been extraordinarily supportive of san francisco projects because they really do think regionally and understand the importance of some of these projects, so it is always awkward and not to be agreed with them. i think we also all understood that th

>> the region. the countries in the region. what are their concerns? >> well, the countries that i visit -- i haven't visited all of them. the country i visited they had two questions. one question is, are you trying to come back here to establish bases, and, you know, a permanent presence? and the second one is, are you coming back here with the intent of containing china? so to the first of those two questions, i don't carry around a backpack with american flags and run around the world planting them. in fact, quite to the contrary. what we want to do is, consistent with our new strategy, we want to be out there partnered with nations and having the presence that would allow us to build up common capabilities for common interests in the region. because we think that will be stabilizing. we think, in fact, the opposite. our absence will be the destabilizing unit. to china, i assured anyone that dhoez ask the question, our strategy and rebalancing to the pacific is not intended to contain china. it is -- it seems to me to be somewhat evident that the st

that concern the united states and the concerns of course other regional powers but let's not forget where the caucasus is located it's in russia's backyard it's only natural that russia's historical relationship with the region in the various countries would be superior to that of america certainly at the present time mrs clinton's biggest influence is likely to occur in georgia let's not forget that georgia has had a historically close relationship with united states for a number of years now and that it was particularly close during the bush era georgia certainly seems to want to be heading in the direction of nato and i think that she is likely to see the most success and the most influence there. a lot of coverage as well. as you see here and a lot more as well online. you can discover there. ten years. also exclusively. we report on. drug drug screenings in the. building. mission to teach. only. through the. technology innovation. beasts which brightened if you move the song from plants to crash in movies. on t.v. dot com. it's . easy to. see. in a world view swati the bin scuf

you could see the impact of the rising, social, economic and political expectations in the region. you could see the breakdown of the rentier state model where odd krats could buy off, effectively. you could see the impact of global trends in democracy and theceptions in the middle east. so all of that was creating a very volatile mix. now, was al qaeda one outcome of that volatile mix? i think that's a complex question with a lot of -- with a lot of variables. but what i would certainly say is that people in the region were and are reaching for dignity and there are different political entrepreneurs, if you will, arguing for how that dignity can be achieved. and al qaeda and al zawahiri in egypt before al qaeda were among those saying you get dignity through resistance, confrontation, through violence. the tremendous opportunity presented to the region, to us, to the world, by the arab awakening, is a counternarrative that comes from within the middle east, itself, that says, no, the way to dignity is through peaceful participation in politics. and that's a big part of what's at st

expansion in the asia pacific region artie's a lecturer jet skis in beijing for us. it is the first state visit to put in as russia's president to china something that each president of any country can do only once during his presidential term definitely many experts have already been saying that the fact that. china as one of his first destinations to becoming russia's president for the third time means that russia and china will continue to be very strong strategic partners the main focus among all the media and everyone here was at the for invective the relations between beijing and moscow and certainly the two leaders have reconfirmed that they have unified stances on most of the issues they touched upon the growing concerns in the asian pacific region namely certainly the growing a military presence of the united states here and that's where. both said that they have a unified stance as well as mentioning the events in north africa and in the middle east basically we do understand as well that russia and china have a unified position on the syrian conflict and th

foreign minister about the outcome of the arab spring in his country and the entire region. that's weeks of this and them tunisian foreign minister it's great to have you with us today so another tunisia is now facing a political crisis over the extradition of a former top libyan official back to libya president has condemned the move and the parliament is ready to consider an no confidence vote to the government is your government not prepared to face the consequences alone of this one sided action it seems like they too could without the president of the there is no crisis of course crisis it's use your differences between you know. the political position towards the extradition of what you already agreed as a government to extradite to would you be ready to demand to know that i need to come back to return but i need to try to be subject to try. it's a very normal you do over two weeks. or do you after a certain conditions the many conditions are provided just to pound that to try to. read you confident that this is would happen if you need to be talking about the fair tri

the amount the region is putting the city on the hook for is $450 million. this plan with largely get us there. it would not get as all the way there, but very close to meeting the region expectations for camp -- for san francisco's expectation for making this happen. it is a very important aspect. this is billions of additional savings. the funding program is laid out in the implementation project as reviewed last session there is a large table that shared the allegations of all of the projected revenue and identified funds that will be used to build the infrastructure in the future. you have a nice copy at your desk. there is one item i wanted to call your attention to. yesterday we sent you a sheet with a couple of items that have corrections and minor modifications to the package that you already received. this goes in the clarification column. there is a line item or previously a line item that allocated $12.5 million from the projected open space impact fees for fees for open space improvements outside the plant area and the broader downtown san franci

we had people from across the region. they were pretty angry at the united states. but we actually had trouble getting them into the sessions of the conference because they were all watching the abu ghraib hearings up in their hotel rooms. they were fascinated by the fact that our defense secretary was getting hauled up on the hill to face this questioning. and, you know, as bad as that series of events was, the fact that we could demonstrate instant and serious accountability for our public officials, i think, was really important. >> mike? >> yeah, just to sort of echo what tamara just said. one of the things i feel really proud about that we've done in the last couple of years

some people blame islam as the region and civilization. thers negate this pushing the example of turkey. some blame colonialism from the cold war for supporting the oppressive government. lack of middle class and leadership missing institutions were also cited as reasons for autocracy in the middle east. some of these analysis racked the school orientalism. other specter and inevitable inescapable and ultimately vicious cycle of casualty but where there was a backdrop and the jury is still out, is ostensibly infinite group was broken of the young men to nisha. over the next few months the demonstrations led in search of fundamental rights and freedoms across the arab world. they didn't burn american flags. they just demanded to live their lives in the same way that you and i do. and the authoritarian regime can be toppled in one night but it takes years if not decades to build a strong government institutions and cultural democracy. and lest we forget many have successfully been hijacked throughout history. the forces of change in the middl

now the great lakes region has warnings posted. similar areas where the storm activity are still not out of the question. some storms that hit the minnesota region yesterday has downed 70,000 power lines. out towards the cascades and northern rockies, you may even see some snow trying to accumulate in higher elevations but toward the other side of the jet stream here in the four corners of southern california still excessive heat warnings are posted. phoenix, take a look at that. 44 degrees. 35 in chicago. well above average. over to the european continent, we have a jet stream sinking towards central european continents. so here, wet, chilly and unstable conditions. but towards italy and balkin regions, take a look that. vienna up to 34 and on other side, london at 22. here is the extended forecast. >>> we'll be back with more updates under 30 minutes. . i'm gene otani in tokyo.

the board of tradede is t the regional organanization. bc-centric business orgrganization. dc is still running pretty well. if you can getet past the fact that so many elected leadeders seem t to be under investigation the moneys still coming in, the tax revenue e still l coming in, service is being run well. >> still a city wi a big perception problemem. let's talk aut michael brown. he is going to be chairing the economic committee. you wrote a big article. "w"what can michael b brown do for business?" marion barry said he was opposed to michael brown stepping into the e positition. what can he do for business? >> he can continue to move the major projects through t the pipeline. they? the projects like soututhwest waterfnt or the macmillan redevelopment. he moves those throuough the pipeline. >> do you think h he was aood selectionn for theob? >> i think he was one ofhe only ones. ththe busisiness commumunity is skeptical of m because of his role in the d.c. hiring laws that they are concerned with. but they seem to believe thae underst

it is moving towards the baltimore region. you can see it is directly moving to the city. if you are in the southwest of the city or the fallston area, it is moving in your direction and could be strong wind gusts. there's a change right there and heading to the northeast around 20 miles per hour. that warning officially in effect until 7:30 unless they cancel it. let's take a look at the area, plenty of rain across central area. nothing is going on now. the sun has popped up and a lot of flood warnings. the flood warnings in harper and baltimore county and dc area and to the west and tornado warnings and portions of the west virginia area moving towards pennsylvania. we will be dealing once again with heavy rain, heavy storms possible this evening and later on tonight as if one comes through, a squall line develops along that cold front and that will change tomorrow. it looks like an awfully nice weekend after the storms come. high dew point air and a cold front under cutting it, this is what can happen and it is very typical of what happens in the midwest where you get t

eagerness to declare islamic states in the region was moderated by bin laden's patients to secure public support and while they aim to win the short-term battles, and his eyes were on the larger prize. he wanted to defeat the united states and i do what -- its support for the corrupt muslim regimes and liberate his fellow muslims. bin laden knew how to articulate the grievances he believed moslems suffered at the hands of their regimes in western countries but his private letters show that saving his fellow muslims from the attacks of his brothers were on his mind. thank you. [applause] >> can you hear me? i am going to ask a couple of questions. i had some written down and i kept writing more down as you were talking. let me ask you about this notion that bin laden was not in control. some of the conversations in washington after the letters were released emphasize something different, that he was, in fact, in communication with elements of the al qaeda empire around the world. there was the assumption that that kind of a communication did not occur. how do we understand his abil

looks like a nice weekend for the region. watch out for the storms this evening, though. >> bob, thank you. >>> still ahead on eyewitness news, a day in court. what the man accused of plotting to bomb the u.s. capitol has to say for himself. >>> how people are remembering the worst accident in the history of washington, dc's metro system. >>> making his case. president obama speaks to latino leaders. why he's defending himself. stay with us. . >>> it's 6:29, stormy and 89 degrees in central maryland right now. good evening. thank you for staying with wjz eyewitness news. here are some of the stories people are talking about tonight. it's the viral video that's been seen around the world. boys bully a schoolbus monitor in western new york and now they are getting death threats. dick brennan reports for wjz. the vacation fund for the woman is now up to nearly half a million dollars. >> i'm sorry. >> reporter: this apology was a start for bus monitor karen klein. >> thank you. >> i apologize. >> reporter: robert helm is the fathe

as far as the rest of the region goes. if you're traveling on the topside of the interloop we're still looking at a 20 minute delay there over to 95. on the west side of the inner loop still heavy in that direction over to 95 and security boulevard. we also have massive delays in the outer loop from providence road to national pike. as far as the harrisburg expressway goes just bumper to bumper still in that northbound direction from tamonium road well past the belfast. and problems continue on the beltway, very heavy from 29 to marysville road. let's go back now and take another live look. traffic is beginning to move there. white marsh, northbound i95. use caution, if you're taking off at 40 or bell air road as your alternate. we will continue to bring you up to date. you can always check our website. >> thank you, kristy. we're going to go to the phone with harper county fire department. >> hello, how are you. >> we understand you have some reports of tornadoes that may have touched down in your county. what happened and

that is in part due to events in the region. that is also due to progress on the common frame of the security policy on the part of the eu, in particular with the instrumental changes we have implemented recently. it was a case a year and a half ago. obviously, the chassis of our dialogue has a lot to do with growing shared intellect and common relation between u.s. and turkey. the first point on the negotiation, and it may have our dimension, we all know the criteria, defined in copenhagen, it is political, economic, and the negotiation corresponding to the mix of commitment, realization, and asset management. at the present time, out of 35 chapters, negotiations with 30 have been done on 30 chapters and close on one. the last chapter actually opens in june 2010. nothing has happened since. there are elements that were raised by the previous speaker. they're probably related to the challenges that turkey is in. nevertheless, i want to say that there are three chapters, the one on public procurement, the one on social policy and

the leaf. it's just silly. which eleven's region is full of sprawling woods and forests so it's hardly surprising that the locals have developed a taste for country sports and i had to just outside the capital to see what i could back for a very long time the british have enjoyed shooting small flying things with large guns and that's not something i've got a how to go at until today or i think i'm going to be able to break my duck or at least. i'm pretty sure that sign means i really do not want to be in this area. the course being kind and gentle souls here on discovering russia the pigeons we were after were a lot of official i'm murat was my cock shot instructor. a very rare my name smart. because it's been open for more than ten years and it's the most popular in the area and soon i was ready to blow away some clay. locks and loaded. and i'll take a little beginners wherever i can get it. you never believe it. can i carry on. who. gets like this according to murat the secret is to shoot the clay right top of the arc don't turn

the countries in the region the major powers in this region russia china pakistan others should really step in and try to sort of contain some of the mess that these western powers are leaving behind or i thank you for your thoughts are there on the line from islamabad president of the park matchless form as you are. so international news in brief now at seventeen minutes past six o'clock moscow time hundreds have marched through to rome to in support of quebec students have been rallying for months against jewish and hikes since february hundreds of demonstrators have been detained with almost two hundred thousand refusing to attend university wednesday's toronto rallies united local students and labor activists with another protest federal for a fortnight's time. north korean leader kim jong un's given his second public speech since taking power in front of tens of thousands of children wednesday marks the anniversary of the country's union organization that helps ensure the young generations of loyalty to the regime know that comes two days off the north korea with a s

expansion in the asia pacific region skis in beijing for us. well it's not only just a visit any just official visit it's a state visit the first one since i've been put in became the president so unless you have some certain details about its protocol because as we know any president of any country can perform only one state visit to any country during his kadam see certainly this outlines how important this visit is that for some experts this has already been a declaration of intent and the declaration of a live event which is the show that the foreign policy of russia with his new term will not change now first went to europe now if you go straight china basically the relations between moscow and beijing have been very strong over the last several decades the trades are an over has been reaching one hundred billion dollars in its turn over every year so definitely this is russia's closest ally not only in terms of economic ties but also on very many international issues as well just in particular the syrian issue within the u.n. security coun

in the past, it has bn important to get the seal of apprrom themt tosa is is regional party. it help our degaon in washington. traditnally, this was a focus on the majorailexnsn. when the game anger s here, we have this new pot of money called small starts. we havprojects like van ness brt andea mving forward. it is a major disappointment for geary. t vanes h been named as cart -- party for small starfuwhat did not make t cut for u were geary brt, santa clara projects, under velopment expecting to see mobere thenexrtp od. we are technically precluded from seeking a small start fund but we would potentially be doing so without the benefit of them'benefi-- silver approval. i still tnk we need to ink about how wwill approach this. we have e ck of a federal bill appearedhen the bill passes, we need to see the revenue level, eligibility requirements. mtcafincl in tir lguage, even though it gave prairies to thenext project to the north bay and east bay, the carefully inserted warning that they have to go thugha performance analysis and comply with all the requiments. itay bthat somo

the regional countries are are interfering in syria this easily becomes a regional conflict and it's devastating for lebanon which has suffered enough already so many years of civil war between one hundred seventy five and one thousand nine hundred and now you know the violence is happening on a much more extreme level in the north and the lebanese are getting nervous they don't want to have to live through another civil war and it seems like the international and foreign in the gulf states are only encouraging the lebanese to get more involved and to drag it into a civil war and again i think this is more a political agenda than anything else this has to do with the resistance access this has to do with hizbollah this has to do with the launch of the west determined attempt to undermine these players in the regional politics because they know how popular they are and they know how powerful they are and it's just going to make the whole region into a complication are huge conflicts and this could be avoided if the gulf countries step back didn't get involved in lebanon didn't get invo

we're seeing this i think in rivers across the region. how will you work with iraq's neighbors to develop sustainable use of water, and how can the u.s. work to leverage its scientific and engineering talents, especially those at the national labs to find a long-term solution to the problem? >> senator, it's a really great and overlooked point. the water situation in iraq in the region is very serious. if you look at iraq's agriculture, it used to be breadbasket of the world. today agriculture is approximately at best 20% of gdp. but agriculture in iraq uses 90% of iraq's water. that is not sustainable. and it's to the point if we get their agricultural going again, they're going have a serious water problem. maliki and the iraqi government recently hosted a conference to discuss this with some of the regional neighbors in baghdad. and maliki said we face a real crisis. so the iraqis are now ceased of it. we have a way forward because it calls on cooperation between the u.s. and iraq to address issues like this. and to call on the expertis

so the stability of the region is at stake. and the wrong actors are waiting and perhaps as brian will say they might actually be beginning to infiltrate the country. so time is not on our side. the time to act the now and my call on this administration is that while i understand all about the calculations of elections and so on, but there are larger calculation at stake here. the geopolitical interest of so many countries including this one and humanitarian issues that are at stake and we cannot wait anymore. the time to act is now. with this i and turn the table to you. >> thank you very much. i want to thank michael in particular for having me here. i will talk a little bit about the increased or the reflections we see that seem to indicate a larger jihadi presence in syria. i want to also sort of step back. i think i'm going oh be a discordant voice. i'm not as optimistic about the prospects for military action to produce the outcomes we would all like to see in syria. and i do think that jihadi elements are likely to benefi