Yesterdays partisan primary elections in wisconsin. Taking a look now at the race for us house. House Speaker Paul Ryan crushes his primary challenger, paul nehlen. Taking 84 percent of the vote, to just 16 percent for nehlen. Ryan decided to forgo a traditional Election Night party for a News Conference instead. Political reporter theo keith was in janesville with the speaker. If this was little league, the this race was over early on tuesday night despite speaker ryans primary challenger, paul nehlen, lining up behind donald trump throughout this primary. Saying that he wanted to act like hed been here before, the speaker wouldnt respond to any of nehlens attacks from the primary. He also wouldnt criticize Donald Trumps comments that Second Amendment people could act against democratic nominee Hillary Clinton saying that he was a little busy on tuesday and hadnt heard the comments. Paul ryan says i heard about sounds just like a joke gone bad. I hope he clears it up very quickly. You
The graduation rate. Mauricio Marin the class of 2015 had a 72 percent graduate rate but the superintendent says that can be better. One of the School Districts biggest struggle in the past year has been to fill hundreds of teacher positions. After negotiations with the clark county education association. Th e district came to an agreement to give those teaching kids in classrooms a raise. And entice more educators to work for the district. Pat Skorkowsky ccs d superintendent i think we focused on professional growth and development for our teachers so theres new pathways for our teachers to become teacher leaders. And to help change the face and look of the district. Mauricio Marin to work to provide valley kids a good education for a better future. Mauricio Marin tomorrows state of the district starts at 10am tomorrow. The School District will stream it online. Well have a link on lasvegasnow dotcom. They encourage people to join in on the conversation on social media using the hasht
Kids coming to school ready to work and parental involvement. Raul says kids in Elementary School having a longer lunch. While angie says shed like to see kids have more time in recess. You can join the conversation. Just go to our 8 news now facebook page. paul joncich its feeling nice out today tedd is it already time for the big warm up . tedd florendo warm outside today and we already broke a record high by beating the previous 76 degree high set back in 1972. Staying warm right now and through this evening should be mild and comfy. Mostly clear skies. Evening planner calling for pleasant evening temps in the 70s early then nice 60s through the nigh under mainle clear skies. Well have more on your weeklong forecat comning up which also includes some shower chances. The man accused of driving drunk and causing a crash that killed two take a plea deal. Seong lee plead guilty to two counts of felony driving and or being in actual physical control of a car while under the influence. Le
Now it does. And with zaid jilani, whose latest report neoconservatives declare war on donald trump. Then president clintons labor secretary robert reich has officially endorsed Bernie Sanders for president. I think the Biggest Issue in this campaign is the increasing concentration of income and wealth and political power, which goes with income or wealth, at the very top which is undermining our democracy and making a very difficult for us to get anything done, whether youre talking about Climate Change or helping the poor or doing anything in this country. Bernie sanders is leading a movement to change that. Amy robert reich will join us from california. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Super tuesday has arrived. It is one of the most important days of voting in primaries and caucuses in the 2016 president ial campaign. Republicans and democrats each go to the polls in 11 states. About a quarter of a
1 submerged. 1 partially. Neighbor was up in the middle of the night, saw flames, called 911 mayor says some of the boats historic a hit to the local economy fire did not affect nearby condos state police and coast guard assisting update at 4 live in urbanna erin kelly we have a lot of pictures of the fire up on wavy dot com. Our web team put together a slideshow which shows fire was. You can find that by clicking on this story. Breaking news out of Hampton Police are investigating a bank robbery. It happened at the Hampton Roads Educators Credit Union on cunnigham drive near Thomas Easton middle school around 11 30. Police tell us the the school is on lockdown right now. Police are still looking for the robber. We are working to find out if anyone was hurt and what the robber got away with. Stay with us for the next hour on the air for updates on this story. Now we want to shift gears and get a look at the forecast. Heres a live look at tower cam 10 at the skies over downtown norfolk.