gentlemen, it s important to talk about the positive successes that you re seeing. you re seeing some incredible results. america s education crisis. this continues all week it culminates on sunday and you can join tamron hall along with actor and activist hill harper for a two-hour special making the grade this sunday at noon eastern right here on msnbc and then this comes ahead of education nation. an unprecedented week-long event examining education and it starts september 26th and among the highlights for this, nbc news is going to host a two-day education summit on rockefeller plaza right here in new york. we have some big fwhus right now to pass along from general motors this morning. it just announced that ceo ed witacker is stepping down come september 1st. he took over gm operations last fall and be succeeded by daniel acreson. this news comes just hours after they reported a second quarter profit of $1.3 billion and that is a really big turn around from a year ago when gm l