thank you, therese, thank you about the postcard. i really like that idea. you mentioned something really good i thought about the whole thing about taking photographs and sending them. and leading into instagram and using that social media. which hash tag should we use, should we use hash tag talking stuck in traffic, which ones so everybody starts being in the same conversation on that? >> oh, wow, that's a good question. maybe we should have a contest. get all your good ideas. >> #growamerica. >> stuck in traffic is a good one, too. >> there's so many elements. >> #dosomething. >> right. i want to bring up something that peter stressed so much in your tenure as chair of afta, how about #it's about people. i think a large part about this, if it's not an abstract concept, this is about moving the american public and the things that they need to do. and i think in all of our conversations, it is so easy to lose that piece of it. so an opportunity to reflect something that is a critical part of our conversation. >> i do like that idea of having a contest. we

first step is fta acting administrator therese mcmillan, therese is representing secretary of transportationo could not be with us. she will also speak specifically about fta's initiatives for 2015. therese joined fta's dispute -- deputy administrator on july 9th, 2009. she has assisted the administrator in leading a staff of more than 500 in the washington, d.c. headquarters office and ten regional offices throughout the united states. with the passage of map 21, she assumed a key role in guiding fta's implementation of transit-related provisions in the law and overseeing the development of critical guidance. she's also played an integral leadership role in advancing several critical fta priorities to improve the quality and delivery of transit services to the american public. including assisting in a streamline process for the new and small starts program and secure new funding opportunities for state and government transit assets. she took the lead in working with fta staff to ensure the allocation of 8.8 billions for 1072 grants. she also represented fellowships in the partnerships for s

to talk more about the crisis let's bring in anna therese day who just returned from syria.ing us from norman oklahoma. great can i to have you with us. >> thank you. >> great to be here. >> ms. day you said syria for me everything, you said it's the most important story now. what was it that the world did not grasp at that moment? >> i guess i would move back to 2012 when i began covering the crisis and really, i started the first time i went to aleppo was with university students. they had picked up arms after their school had been bombed, after their nonviolent protest for the right to vote in their country had been met with bloodshed throughout the country. so that's the syrian revolution that i witnessed early on and to see how it has deteriorated in a very terrifying but also predictable way. i would say it has been predictable to see how it has gone out of control. >> did you realize that this would be such a significant humanitarian crisis? >> i couldn't have ever imagined how the international community would have allowed it to get to this point. one little anecdote

there has been a comment he is a step ahead of some of the capitals and his public comments about theresencef russian forces in eastern ukraine. as he has pointed out he is drawing g on combined nato intelligence including from germany, the u.k., france, the u.s., and many other countries. he may see that information faster and it might catch people by surprise once in a while. he has total support and the speaking for all t the allies. vago: even the nations that helped negotiate the minsk accords have an uneasy feeling the cease-fire is not going to last and russia going to get back to its old tricks. it has the playbook. putin is driving this train. it is trying to take ukraine one bite at a time. even though there is a pause, eryone expects them to start ain to take mary apple -- mariopol. what can nato members do to stop further russian aggression in ukraine? guest: first of all, we hope the mik agreements will be upheld, and that they will lead to the ultimate g goal of restoring ukrainiann sovereignty over its east, including control of its border. the minsk agreements lay a path for

. >> when we pick up, teresa teresa, therese was her name. >> so annoying this woman. >> yes. >> so we call her and she doesn't pick up. so i think i hung up. >> oh, no. >> we're blasting this woman. as we are's going to pick her up. so, i go up to her house. she opens the door and in the background you can hear her playing the answering machine letting it run, i was just listening to your message. i was ripping her. >> what did you say. >> it was a joke. >> isn't that funny. >> i knew were you listening all along. >> whenever i get really long voice mails i listen through because you never know what you will hear. i don't believe them. >> i did a pocket dial yesterday, it was doctor mike. >> what did he say. >> he was at a car wash with his son. >> did you hear him in the background good nicholas, nicholas. >> that happens all the time. >> my husband has pocket dialed me before and then i did it to him once and he heard a whole conversation between my mother and me. i was in baltimore. he was here. but he started asking me all these questions about things i hadn't told him about. also

and i think-- and therese, my wife and i know the president and michelle reasonably well and the reality is that they've got two young kids, and there were -- >> the chinese understood? >> the chinese are very family people. they understand when you've got kids, and younger kids and from memory i think one of the kids had a birthday or some family celebration at the time. but here's the other point is that neither president xi jinping nor his wife had explicitly or expressly or solely come to the u.s. they had been visiting latin america, and there was a working level visit on the way through. besides if there was any difficulty arising from it, i think michelle obama's and the kids' subsequent visit to beijing as their host i think smoothed the way. i don't think that's a problem. the key thing, the chinese leadership, is the tin tacks of the one relationship in the world which fundamentally matters to their future, and that's this one the united states. >> rose: and what are they prepared to do to make it better? >> well, i think their first step in that direction will have been to see

thank you, therese thank you about the postcard. i really like that idea. you mentioned something really good i thought about the whole thing about taking photographs and sending them. and leading into instagram and using that social media. which hash tag should we use should we use hash tag talking stuck in traffic which ones so everybody starts being in the same conversation on that? >> oh wow that's a good question. maybe we should have a contest. >> #growamerica. >> stuck in traffic is a good one, too. >> there's so many elements. >> #dosomething. >> right. i want to bring up something that peter stressed so much in your tenure as chair of afta, how about #it's about people. i think a large part about this, if it's not an abstract concept this is about moving the american public and the things that they need to do. and i think in all of our conversations, it is so easy to lose that piece of it. so an improvement to reflect something that is a critical part of our conversation. >> i do like that idea of having a contest. we should take that back to d.o.t

this one fridays therese workman. she have says huge potholes after potholes in southwest philadelphia on 58th street atwood land avenue next to the save a love. just horrible. we will tell jenny joyce about that. >> jj is on pp, hold on. where did it the go. one at very beginning of the broad street coming out of the wells fargo center. massive pothole, at the the sports complex. >> did you that one. >> jenny joyce, you will be busy all morning. >> john berry has one for you, potholes up and down cheltenham avenue. >> all of phoenixville is one big potholes. >> the p for pp. >> hey, jj. >> reporter: yeah, guys i think they are every where. i know you wanted to us hit up old york road. we only had 15 minutes. we ended up on 27th street in camden. that was a tip from a woman at the cherry hill diner. man, it it was a bum py ride. we have seen, yep, we will see that school bus coming down this way with the kid jumping up and down and watch what it does. you have have to really take it slowly and messing up traffic here