Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. Thanks for joining us. Im annemarie green. Propose francisope francis arrives in the United States tomorrow his first trip ever to the u. S. Today he continues his trip in cuba with a mass in the eastern part of the island nation. Yesterday he met with fidel castro and celebrated a mass urging cubans to care for one another out of a sense of service, not ideology. Adrienne diaz has more from reporter it is capturing the attention of hundreds of thousands, both old and young. Despite rain, thousands of young people welcomed pope francis like a rock star. Some climbed trees to get a better look. He spoke off the cuff at an event for cubas youth. This 17yearold rodriguez was there. What did you think of the popes speech . I loved it, she said. It blew me away. I felt like it was my mom or dad speaking to me. It was the popes last public stop on his first full day in cuba. He shook hands and kissed babies before
Your driveway. This just in. Weve expand the Winter Weather advisories to include Southern Maryland until 5 a. M. , the advisories north of town expiring at 3 a. M. Primarily for sleet and freezing rain, but i think there will also be a little snow by daybreak, not a big deal. Heres the radar now over the past couple hours. You can see the activity mainly kicking over to mixed precipitation, although a lot of the ground observations are reporting rain even up in baltimore, rain and 31. Some of this is sleet, some of its wet snow and some of its rain indicated in green especially south and east of i 95. Go up 270, a little bit of mixed precipitation out fairfax. Temperatures are 35 downtown, 34 in manassas, 32 up into frederick. Coming up want to talk about a couple of thing. Coldest day of the year friday through sunday. Prepare, check your car battery and furnace. Prepare for it like a 96 hour stretch below freezing. Temperatures sunday could fall below 0. Well come back, let you know
Second. May we have a reading of it. Yes, i would like to ask the chief officer david golden to do the read. Thank you. It is the most exciting time of the year again, where we bring the annual report for the collection of Developer Impact fees, which is a statutory requirement, required each year, under the government code, which we faithfully, follow and do. And the requirement, essentially involves, several procedural things, including posting of a copy of the report from the board office, putting it online, on the web and having an outside consultant perform the report and bring it to the board of education for passage and review. And so this is an annual event. And just as a brief summary, you may remember historically in the last five years, our developer fee collection was low because the economic climate of both the nation and the world was wo ful. It is a good indication, for both the School Districts and i think, the city and San Francisco, in general. That last year, we went
Less than that because we do believe that many of the students will be able to complete option one. Commissioner wynns . I had a discussion of the at the committee of the whole meeting but i think that this we are going to pursue, this is a big israelsue issue, and again, one of the disincentives to encourage the students to stay for a 5th year taken care of through the waiver work and that is it will be different and, it will be a different part of our district accountabilities system. I understand that that is not why we did it, but it made Everything Else harder, i mean the state and all kinds of things were really making it practically impossible to have fifth year plans for students, but, so that issue about, if we could say to the kids, now what we say to them, here is your option and it is Continuation High School because it is the only way to get those credits in there so that you can graduate on time and if we could do better about suggesting you will be far more likely to be
But a continuation schools and we reran the data on the december third and it looks like there is potential that either 30 students could be impacted at those particular schools and there are some of those studentses that i want to add that we do believe that those students can meet the option one, graduation requirement s and we want to provide every single opportunity for that to happen and through the office of extended learning that is one of the thinks that we are using to do that, but potentially, 30 students is a board number, but we do believe that it will be less than that because we do believe that many of the students will be able to complete option one. Commissioner wynns . I had a discussion of the at the committee of the whole meeting but i think that this we are going to pursue, this is a big israelsue issue, and again, one of the disincentives to encourage the students to stay for a 5th year taken care of through the waiver work and that is it will be different and, it