silence your telephones if you haven t already. for our viewing and listening audience feel free to also follow along on twitter using the #pressclub. for our c-span and radio audiences please be aware in our audience today are members of our general public. so any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. now, i d like to introduce our head table. please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. head table participants please stand up when i say your name. we have jamal abdul alim, senior staff writer at diverse, issues in education. we have jerry weller, foformer u.s. representative from illinois s district and the state society in washington. we have mike, a supervisor here in washington, d.c. we have tony trem, star scholar graduate of harry s. truman in chicago and an incoming northwestern student who s planning to study neuroscience. we have armando rodriguez. we have lisa matthews co-leader of the n
audience feel free to follow along on twitter using the hashtag press club. for our c-span and public radio audiences please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. any applause or reaction you may here is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. i would like to introduce our head table. please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. we have jamaal, senior staff writer in higher education. we have gerri weller, former us representative from the 11th district and president of the illinois state society in washington. we have a supervisor for ap radio in washington dc. we have star scholar, graduate of the harry truman college in chicago and northwestern student planning to study neuroscience. catherine, washington correspondent for the chicago tribune. arm and oh rodriguez, president of the sarah good stem academy. we have lisa matthews, vice president
constitution. and the resolution of that battle is vital to the future of our country. that s arizona supreme court justice, clint bolick at conservative forum silicon valley. can you see the entire speech tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. chicago mayor rahm emanual on his initiatives for education and college preparedness. one of them would require chicago public high school seniors to have a post-graduation plan in place before receiving a diploma. so long before today s guest became a politician, he attended sarah lawrence college. at college, before politics, and long before he was president barack obama s chief of staff. chicago mayor rahm emanual taught preschool. mayor emanuel s love of education followed him throughout his political career, into his tenure as chicago s mayor, wherever he oversees the third largest school system in the united states. he is credited with adding more than 200 additional school hours in the year. he s taken chicago school system t
reporter karen castro is live with what she s learned. karen? ((karen castro)) police say an ex-couple was fighting over their child when a third person got involved. that s when the confrontation ended in gunfire, leaving neighbors shaken up. ((yanel mercado saw ex-couple fighting: i just heard the loud screaming from the front of our house.)) ((karen castro)) yanel mercado lives across from the woman who police say was fighting over custody with the night. mercado says the argument spilled over to the parking lot. ((yanel mercado saw couple fighting: she was really mad, really upset, really loud and she was asking for her keys back.)) ((karen castro)) mercado recalls hearing the woman go back into her apartment while talking on the phone about the fight she was having with her ex boyfriend. she says she saw the woman go outside once again where they continued to argue. when suddenly another man drove up and got involved. ((yanel mercado saw couple fighting: then i heard t
more people are putting cameras out. )) ((paul joncich)) while video of an item being stolen rarely leads to getting your stuff back, you can sometimes get a refund if you attach the video to a claim. ((paul joncich)) here s what else you can do to protect your deliveries. sign-up for text alerts anytime you get a delivery. have your packages mailed to your workplace. ask for signature delivery, that way y get a post office box just for the holidays. finally, the number one remedy according to police, know your neighbors and call on them to pick up packages or at least keep an eye out for strangers. by the way, video of that package thief has been shared hundreds of times. there is still a chance the woman will be recognized and caught./// ((dave courvoisier)) two more casino groups are phasing out free parking on the las vegas strip. last night. caesars entertainment announced it will follow mgm resort s lead. in fact. beginning on december 29-th. locals will no longer ge