united players. i knew i would hear united players. individual volunteers. in business services division. all right. we were here a couple years ago, my first year as supervisor. actually, in 2009, the community claim team since that time, this whole area has been much better improved. i know you were here last time, thank you for your continued work. the department of corrections, project 20. all right. i got coffee from starbucks. we have members of the neighbors in action, thank you for being here today. >> another big hand for john. city agencies that have been a partner with us and very supportive from the very beginning, a recreation and parks department. let's hear from joe ginsberg. -- phil ginsberg. >> it is a pleasure to be here to celebrate our trees and celebrate our community partnership. the recreation and park department has 131,000 trees. 131,000. thanks to voters in 2008. we have $5 million from the park fund that we are using to care for and maintain our trees. he will do it in the 2012 park fund in november. i do what should celebrate the

you have the community center there, the united players, you have that -- i am trying to think. there are several organizations that work with seniors and youth. i know that mark also filled out there. that application they found very useful to be more in touch with the community and the people that are helping those communities in that area. i am sure april in jane kim's office would be happy to help you. >> hot of curiosity, you said you were going to do live music. what type? >> is an eclectic blend of music. most recently before we stopped the music program, a variety of cover bands, classic rock cover bands, live jazz musicians, of your original bands as well. as well as the local neighborhood, trying to help out people and the neighborhood, and never brought any large names to the venue. the classic cover bands seem to be filled proof. people are out trying to look for a good time. >> '60s music? >> as long as it is good, i don't mind. >> be you know what type of entertainment the other clubs are doing? >> not a lot in a few blocks. the closest of the top of my head would

i am the director of programs with united players. we are a youth-service organization in district 6. before i go on, i want to thank the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs and let everyone know there are interpreter services available to my right, if anyone needs them. let's get started. our agenda for tonight, we are going to go over the agenda and ground rules. we will have a budget overview from the mayor's office, and then we will have some constituent presented speakers, people chosen ahead of time to give short comments about how the budget will affect their constituency. then we will have a community open mike. we have a short amount of time, so i want to remind everyone to be respectful. everyone has written comments or placed their name in a bowl, and we will draw from them and alternate between districts 6 and district 5. has supervisor olague said, it will be hard to hear from everybody today, but the fact that you are here shows that you care, and we appreciate that. the comments that are in the bowl will al

we worked with united players in the past we also work with have it that as the same as on the otherut i think that the comment that is more general is not -- now. next speaker? >> thank you. i want to thank this committee for continuing to work on the items so that we could continue some community input. and just to characterize or augment some things and made before. and through a couple of city folk in san francisco beautiful on 18 of this street, that is also a billboard operators and is an essential part of that testimony. i have met with market in octavia, we he noted that. the they could not in a timely way and had promised to contract -- have attacked the board i will leave their property values would be for of operation

. >> i supported in creating united players with my facilitation skills in the 1994 riots. so i believe that schools are here to give you options and peer resources has given me many of them. my first job was cleaning bathrooms as a high school student for a dentist office and i remember being 19 years old and being able to tell my mom that i didn't have to do that. that i could get paid to facilitate work shops and facilitate retreats. i was getting paid to speak at stanford university doing star trainings and peer resources literally gave my mom the hopes that she wanted for us at such ar young age. >> and i really believe in peer resources. i've never once not felt like it was part of any family and today being able to come out and know everybody and feel the connection that everybody has, i feel like, it is a very special part of san francisco unified school district and i really appreciate that you guys took the time to listen to us. so thank you. >> morgan, i met morgan when he was a freshman and i had my eyes on him then that i hoped someday he would become a teacher

united players post york rebels last night at rfk. they abused to the red bull defense. hat trick. d.c. goes to second place in the east with the victory. a good day. it's 5:27, 40 degrees. the news continues at 5:30. still ahead in our next half- hour, bad news for arlington homeowners. property taxes will increase. >> george zimmerman walks out of jail overnight. details coming up in a live report. >> adam caskey in the belfort furniture weather center. more rain and snow >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. severalntinue to follow stores this morning including the release of george a quarter till posted $150,000 bond. >> we are waiting to learn if to a fatalds lead crash along the outer loop near georgia avenue. good morning, washington. it's monday, april 23. i am cynne simpson. >> i am steve chenevey. we start with traffic and weather every ten minutes. lisa baden. the accident occurred at 2:00 morning, outer loop between and georgiaoad closed.remains traffic is forced to exit on 29. right now, outer loop is closed between colesville r

we'll show you the become cunited -- the bc united player that pulled that off. >>> according to a survey in women's health, what is the top gripe women have about flying. having to sit still the whole time, turbulence or not being able to talk on their phone? >> facebook friend caton na mason dixon wrote planes can be noisy enough without everybody talking for hours on end. >> we'll have the answer in our 6:00 hour. we'll be right back. >>> it is a raw day out there, we have a lot of light showers and fridaysal, mainly west of 95 -- and drizzle, mainly west of 95. snow in the mountains, especially above 1500 feet. you have 3000 or 4000 feet. we have school delays, a couple of hours in garrett county. notice the showers scattered about, temperatures barely moving by 3:00. still only 48 degrees. >>> thanks howard. the nationals missed their chance to sweep the marlins but the cap fans got to see another thriller. dave owens has highlights in this morning's sports. >> good morning, everybody. this incredible playoff series between the caps and bruins, is it over yet? less than 24 hours afte

speaking of players, dwayne row sash rio with the -- rosario with the header. d.c. unitedins 3-2, the first back to back wins since 2009 in a seven-game unbeaten streak. so good stuff for d.c. united there. finally, they're racing at richmond saturday night under the lights. older brother kurt busch not faring too well. look at him spinning out. we'll talk about his sibling in a second. 82 laps to go, carl edwards jump the restart. he gets a black flag which means you've got to get off the track. we want to talk to you. the younger busch, he hold off dale, jr., to win his fourth. it's been a great sports week in d.c. >> welcome to d.c. rg3. >>> last look at the weather. generally becoming partly sunny in the afternoon. temperatures near 70s. pretty nice day on sunday. >> thank you for joining us. have a great night and we'll see you back here tomorrow.

player participation and our bargaining in 2011 was extraordinary. even for our unit was unprecedented. as for player leadership we had a remarkably dedicated negotiation committee of 25 active players. a week after week of conference calls that were responsible for developing and approving all of our major bargaining proposals. those negotiating members attended session after session. player participation extended to the full union membership. we had 238 different major league players attempted to go see asian session in 2011. 238 players. players and their first week in the majors and players with 20 years of major-league service. players whose tickets to cooperstown had already been punched and players whose careers may not extend into 2012. players making a minimum salary and players making $20 million a year. players from every country represented in our bargaining unit. it was a tremendous show of force. in the power structure that is collective bargaining, it is natural to gauge the strength of your counterpart. those 238 players by their presence provided an u

united states. >> two high school lacrosse players can breath a sigh of relief after a reversal in their suspensions, ron matz has the update. >> the state school board has overturned their suspensions. last april the teens were suspended after a lighter and penknife were found in their bags at a get away -- an away game. the students argued the items were used to repair their lacrosse sticks. they said school officials did not use proper desecration in suspending the students and has ordered their records wiped clean that comes late as suspensions impacted their college applications. >> i applied for eight colleges, with seven of the applications had have you ever been suspended from school and if so please explain below. and if i tried to explain that to any college they would not have taken me. >> both dennis and edsell have been accepted to shenandoah university again where they will be on the same team. back to you. >> in its ruling the state school board argued the suspensions violated the county's discipline code. >>> in baltimore county dallas dance is officially the new superintendent. he w

security and put in the region has to think that in africa itself and then there's the outside players like the united states and nato when we look at what happened in libya is this going to be another mission creep or are they just going to sit there and watch and see what happens because we have this really hemorrhaging from issue from libya going into mali that's fueling this. right i think several points one is we're going to have a rougher now both united states and europe have law cut almost all assistance to mali except for basic humanitarian assistance feeding people from the drought and famine all the development assistance we've got and certainly military assistance has been cut so at some point there there would have to make a decision whether the whole at hearing to the principle of no extra legal unconstitutional changes of government where that creates a tension with security concerns and i agree with with james there are other in prison we have to recognize not just the u.s. and europe interested neighboring countries have their own interests and their own spins that they're going to pu

now been some movement, largely because he has been able to unite the divided security council behind him, in particular, working with players like russia to put pressure on syria. bbc news at the united nations in new york. >> colombia's farc rebels have released the last military hostages they have been holding. it is a big day. >> that is right. according to the red cross, the 10 captives were picked up from the jungle by a brazilian military helicopter and are being flown to safety. they had been held for more than a decade. our correspondent explained the reasons why they decided to release the hostages. >> there are two reasons. one is they're looking to open a peace dialogue with the government. one of the preconditions for even considering talking, the release of kidnapped victims. the second is that the farc have abandoned the plan that began more than 16 years ago, which was to collect through kidnappings soldiers and politicians and try to exchange them for rebels held in prison. it never came to fruition and unraveled in 2008 when the army managed to rescue some of the highest-profile hostages in farc hand. -- ha

people in groups who take the armageddon idea, transfer it to a country like the united states, but rearrange the players in the game, and let me tell you a very disturbing one. part of the motivation for timothy mcveigh to blow up the federal building in oklahoma clearly, clearly came from him drawing on the apocalyptic myth. how that works is instead of the antichrist being some demonic religious being, the antichrist for timothy mcveigh, militia groups, patriot groups, white supremacist groups, that's the united states government. and their idea is the antichrist is the attempt for the united states government to bypass the constitution and take away their rights. so what does he do? a dangerous thing in the secular apocalyptic theodicy- he says, "i can bring on armageddon, because after armageddon becomes paradise. i'll survive it, so i'll initiate it. how will i initiate it? i strike at the belly of the beast." and so he puts that bomb in the truck outside the building, and hundreds of innocent people die- who may or may not have believed in the apocalyptic myth, but armageddon came to them that day

. >> reporter: jokes aside, united airlines' executive chef jerry mclaughlin is a critical player in the multibillion dollar competition for customers, especially those in first class. >> those are the customers that pay the higher tickets and the expectations when we look at competition are higher. >> reporter: at united's test kitchen outside of chicago, mclaughlin designs high-end designing options for the world's largest air carrier. >> a pork chop with a bread pudding, a beautiful amazon cod. this is done with sweet plantains. >> reporter: but several factors are working against him. >> when you're in the air, you lose about 20% of your taste buds. >> reporter: at 30,000 feet a dry pressurized cabin dulls the taste buds. research shows airplane noise can make meals less enjoyable. to compensate for all that, mclaughlin cooks with some kick. >> you need to spice up the product a little bit. not necessarily salt and pepper but to bring out more intense flavors. >> reporter: those flavors must survive a process of partial cooking and then cooling. once onboard flight attendants will

and when it comes to major services players and major services traders, we, the united states have a real problem with negotiating a deal that then gets extended to others on a free riding basis. that's when it comes to major players. one of the things that we have been looking at in this discussion, that's separate from that discussion is whether there are ways of involving ldc's example, perhaps on a nonreciprocal basis. so i think we have to have this discussion in a very open way, that makes the types of distinctions between different developing countries that i discussed earlier today. >> excellent. all right, let me open it up now. i have to give it to bob, coalition services industries. >> thanks a lot. >> thanks very much. in discussing the isa with colleagues in europe and europeans here and others, we commonly have a response that why do we wish to antagonize or offend the biggest emerging markets that are growing so fast that are indeed our future, in a sense, it's where the growth is happening, what is it -- and i would like to know, i guess how you respond to that. becaus

not a condition that was put forward in coffee and his plan or indeed any united nations statement on syria in doorstep player and the friends of syria meeting that happened several days ago really has become the friends of the syrian opposition and here too we hear even more pledges to increase support for the rebel fighters now the rebels as i say have yet to officially agreed to indorse a man's proposal and this is some. it has many an international community concerned among the moscow which has made the point that as countries continue to indorse finding as well as supplying arms to the rebel fighters this is nearly going to inflame the situation and the violence on the ground. bahrain security forces feinstein gas and water carried out thousands of protesters across the country it happened on friday about only became known a day later the vents in the country are currently hard to monitor times traitors marched in support of a jailed human rights activist who is serving a life sentence for taking part in last year's anti-government uprising has been on hunger strike but eman sound is being treated in a m

been an extraordinary leader in biofuels and obviously is also becoming a world player when it comes to oil and the unitedates is not only a potentially large customer to brazil but we think that we can cooperate closely a whole range of energy projects. >> by the way, brazilian president rousseff has a national approval rating of 77% in brazil. question, is brazil walking a tightrope between its relationship with china and its relationship with the united states? pat? >> they are. that's right, john. the decisions are here and the united states is pouring all this money out and investments come into brazil and exports are becoming more expensive and their trade balance is bad. they've got their own problems also with the chinese, who are being pretty tough. but brazil is not a world center power. it's the greatest power in south america. that's it. military it's not a great center power. >> china is its number-one customer. >> china is number-one trading partner -- >> doesn't that concern you? >> the chinese are getting all this money from the united states, and they take it and invest it in in the world

but they all did agree to this draft resolution our russian envoy to the united nations vitaly churkin said that the external players that are involved in this syria the syrian crisis such as a group or friends for syria and the coalitions that supporting the opposition groups that they hope to abide by the security council resolutions they have to help enforce the resolutions put forth by the security council and not try to undermine the road of resolutions by by promoting more more plans by the opposition groups now let's take a listen to what ambassador churkin had to say. but it is a new super you don't need resolution is of fundamental importance for a peace settlement in syria in shaun's a consensus rebuilding kofi annan six point peace plan the main goal should be to comply with the resolution any deviation in terms of the interpretation of the mandate is unacceptable the libyan model should remain in the past the resolution establishes clear parameters just don't violence and cooperate with the observers mission it's principally for the external. in the syrian issue to act very responsibly only the un securi

ground and they're being used for geo political aims in the united states nato has already been mentioned here we have saudi arabia a major player and of course a lot of it is a directed against iran so it's not really about great ideals is it it's just about power as usual. well i don't think so i think geopolitics is important and the social politic and social religious elements are important so we can for instance let's say for united states as hosni mubarak to be to step aside i don't think so united states should. every every arab country who faced uprising united states should immediately as the head of that seems to be a step aside i think this is would be simplistic unrealistic and doesn't reflect the reality on the ground i think and doesn't reflect the complexity of the social politics of the different countries in the middle east. strategic geopolitical elements are very important but i think we have really a new phenomenon year if you see like what i notice is that you seen united states or european countries are not taking in regard with syria or egypt or other libya or yemen they're not taking a unilateral actions

but two of the three players there, the united states and iran, really do not have any incentive to seern into a conflict. obama primarily during the election year, iran for obvious reasons. i really think that a lot of the talk of air strikes is really a matter of hardening positions at negotiating table. >> interesting. what about europe? >> europe, i think spain is an enormous problem. and it has been for some time. i think the focus has been on greece rightly in that greece is essentially a solvent. but spain is where a collapse would cause really global problems. >> do you think it will collapse? >> i think that the ecb has -- and european leaders have kid themselves or thought that the latest plan would stop investors from being concerned about spain. and even italy, although it seems to be under, you know, good management with mario monti. >> do you think they will roll over? >> i think they will not. i don't think the ecb will allow it. >> a lot view stress where america fits in the world and how it should view itself. why are you so pessimistic? >> i think the u.s. has a fetish

to come into india to sell military technology france the united states the united kingdom and russia are four of the key players who are interested in selling military technology to india the world's biggest importer of arms and india is expected to spend one hundred billion dollars on military equipment in the next ten years and russia has that it can provide three billion dollars of equipment in the next year one of the pieces of military equipment that the russians are trying to sell to the indians are the four hundred surface to air missiles. so the final moments of the prostitute going to crush the western siberia the air. through the virgin see that it's left twelve survivors only other the forty three that were on board of the time poll so the stakes so high for italy these days that's comforting a burgeoning gambling problem as people place more trust in the law through even. with the government. it's no easier for political groups who are in russia to register as official policies president would go to the paper on a new law which is the first of a series of major reforms to diversify the country's pol

to come into india to sell military technology france the united states the united kingdom and russia are four of the key players who are interested in selling military technology to india for the world's biggest importer of arms and india is expected to spend one hundred billion dollars on military equipment in the next ten years and russia has said that it can provide three billion dollars of equipment in the next year one of the pieces of military equipment that the russians are trying to sell to the indians are the at four hundred surface to air missiles. but still ahead for you this hour the final moments of the passenger plane which crashed in western siberia the aircraft came apart on impact or university landing. survivors out of the forty three on board. also the stakes are high for italy which is causing a burgeoning gambling problem as people place more trucks in the lottery than turns their luck with the government that's coming up later this summer. first it's now easier for political groups in russia to register as official parties president admitted it has put pen to paper on a new law which is th

saudi arabia we can look at qatar these are major players and they are not for these arab spring values not by a long shot well you can look at the united arab emirates which arguably is the most western facing nation in the gulf to has this sort of first anniversary of the spring decided to make sure that citizens and expatriates know that it is not looking for the power of the arab spring movement to reach this country and it has started cutting back on. rights groups to democratic groups even its own citizens who had sort of freely operated under the system here which had been more permissive okmulgee what do you come out on this in los angeles here where is the arab spring going is it is it freezing up. well it i so it's important question to answer your question first i would like to put arab countries governments monarchs and regimes into three different categories on their one hand we have those arab governments who've faced citizen revolves our pricing citizens who are seeking rights of freedom dignity or equal opportunity and derision do not want to to introduce political reforms and the people who are able to to overthrow the