lester, joshua. he said he was awarded, what, $5.4 million from 77 schools, but this goes beyond curriculum. what kind of ethics and and values are y all instilling at, those students there? i want to say that leadership is the one that they have exhibitedded the most. just today i was with lester and malcolm at an earlier event, and they had a chance to interact with younger students. those students saw what it took to get where they are, to have over $4 million in scholarship money between the two of them. so the from the time they entered st. augustine high school, they ve put in the work, they ve listened to what we ve had to say, they ve been disciplined in studies, building their resumes outside of school, and this is what they have to show for it. they re here on national tv being able to be celebrate for the great academic success over
welcome back, control of congress is up for grabs as we head into the final hours of voting across the country in this momentum election. right now, we have a break down of early voting in key battleground states, and we re finding some interesting twists. brianna keilar is at our voting desk. more than 45 million ballots were cast before election day in 47 states, and here s what we know about where those early votes are coming from. you can see here on the map, the states that have cast the most early votes, texas, has the highest count with more than 5.4 million votes. next is florida with 4 p.9. 4.7 in california. 2 2.5 in georgia and here s what we can tell you about who is voting. in pennsylvania, we see a pretty
and this is a big deal, here is why, the republican commissioner in harris county, have now stopped millions, funding increases for really important things, like flood control, a public health system, and wait for it, the police. here s a houston chronicle, quote, the sheriff s office will lose 16 point $6 million for petrol and administration. including 8.25% raises for frontline deputies. the harris county district attorney s office will lose out on a 5.4 million budgeting grace. the eight county constables will lose a combined eight point $1 million. and to say, it s not the best time to limit law enforcement in harris county, from accessing millions and funding. to say that is quite an understatement. because texas, harris county especially, are reeling from the effects of a new republican backed law, passed last year. that allows most people over the age of 21 to carry a handgun, without a license or
such low figures. a mixed picture on crime today- such low figures. a mixed picture on crime today. the such low figures. a mixed picture on crime today. the crime such low figures. a mixed picture on crime today. the crime survey - crime today. the crime survey suggest crime is down since the pandemic but there are some quite worrying rises, particularly the number of sexual crimes being reported. we are focusing on crime outcomes today, the outcome of the crime that has been reported to police. we have been tracking that for quite a long time. looking back to march 2015, we will see there are around 3.5 million offences recorded by the police, of which 15.5% resulted in a charge. you might not think that is a brilliant set of figures. look what happens next! in the latest set of figures, 5.4 million crimes recorded but only five point 4% resulted in a charge. you might because the number of crimes being recorded has gone up, does mean there is something going
american history, unemployment is at 3.5%, the lowest it s been in 50 years, 5.4 million americans applied to start small businesses the highest level ever in american history and because of the actions we ve taken gas prices are declining we re down a 1.25 since the peak this summer and they ve been falling the last three weeks as well and adding up real savings for family, today the most common price for gas in america is $3.39. down from over $5 when i took office. we need to keep making that progress by having energy companies bring down the cost of a gallon of gas, that reflects the cost they re paying for a barrel of oil. used to be a direct correlation. taking average profits they ve