vincent paul society for a long time. we have a plan to bring it back into full service with long-term assistance from the public health department. the smaller scope we could have done would only prolong its life four or five years. the basic systems, in addition to seismic upgrade, it needs new plumbing and ventilation services. it is an old style who tell with bathrooms down the hall for most of the units, which has proven to be a less stable environment for the population we are trying to serve than one where folks have their own bathroom and acked to cooking. for these reasons we are asking specifically for an exception for the arlington hotel of this specific requirement. in our mind, the risk to be assessed is whether or not we will be able to count on it fulfilling its public purpose for the length of time we would be making this loan. it would be a 55-year deferred payment loan like all of our own loans. the question to ask would be whether mers could, with the assistance we put in place for operating costs, woul

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fenty thanked his supporters and said he will get behind vincent gray. paul wagner joins us live with more. paul. >> reporter: fenty spoke without bitterness saying he lost fair and square to sin vent -- vincent gray. instead of sadness and regrets, the mayor was smiles as he addressed reporters at his campaign headquarters earlier today. there were long faces and no tears as the mayor made his way around campaign headquarters this morning and fresh off of a loss to council chairman gray, fenty told reporters he has a great 10-year run in elected office and that it's time to move on to something else. the mayor declined to -- that cost him the election and speaking about the voter's choice to go in a new direction. >> and we made a lot of political decisions and there are other things that -- and factors in the race. you can go back to some of the things we say and the top decision-making. i think there were real concerns about how recent engagement. i said all of that publicly. >> reporter: mayor fenty praised gray for running a great campaign, adding he wil

conference, he thanked his supporters and said he will now get behind vincent gray, the man who soundly beat him in the democratic primary. paul wagner picks up the team coverage. >> reporter: adrian fenty declined to critique his campaign saying instead that the people spoke and he lost fair and square n. front of a small group of supporters, fenty smoke spoke without bitterness, saying he looked forward to helping gray get started. adrian fenty was all smiles as he greeted supporters and campaign workers at his georgia avenue headquarters, hours after losing to vincent gray he spoke positively about the city's future. >> i respect the democratic process and to me it would be overstepping my bounds to say as the incumbent mayor, i think the democratic nominee should do this or that and in fact, i'm here to support him. >> reporter: mayor fenty said he has had a great 10-year run in elected office and it's time to do something else. what that is, he wouldn't say. >> i feel like i have put everything in to it. i was excited to serve the city for four more years and it was not to be. that was not the will of the voters andy susp

paul wagner, we'll check back in with you. thank you. >>> another big story we're following at 5. no decision in today's high-stakes meeting. vincent gray and michelle rhee met for more than an hour. rhee, as you might remember, was a supporter of mayor fenty during the election and jennifer davis has more on this. >> reporter: the big question everyone's been asking is will michelle rhee stay honest when vincent gray is rung the city. the two sat down and the only news is no news to report. michelle rhee was quiet as she walked into the meeting at high noon with the d.c. council chair have an sent gray and as the two scared -- squared off, they decided not to talk about it. after the meeting, a serious looking rhee looked on and let gray do all the talking. >> the chance that finished was a productive meeting and what we agree upon, we want the best for our kids in the district of columbia. >> reporter: gray said that this is not a decision-making meeting but a philosophical discussion in general and said nothing was discussed about rhee's future with the school system. >> we'll have those conversations inar later discussion and w

ranks of rand paul in kentucky, joe miller in alaska, sharron angle and mike lee all of whom rode the tea party express to victory. fenty is running neck and neck with city council chairman vincent race for a second term. all right. how do we make sense of this? if anybody can give us the big picture and juicy details in two minutes, it is our cnn senior political editor mark preston who joins me now from our d.c. bureau for two at the top. take it away. >> as you said seven states and the district of columbia holding primaries today. this is very much the end of the primary season and we're going to focus in on the general election. this has been very divisive. you had a great list of insurgent candidates that came out of nowhere and beat the establishment candidates. just ticking off a couple of recent ones, bennett in utah pb murkowski in alaska. christine o'donnell as you said hoping to do the same with mike castle in delaware. a lot on the line. is this going to be an anti-incumbent year? so far it has been. >> let's talk about some of the other races. what are we looking out for tonight that will make a difference as we head into the midterms? >> let me go down the list in