Mr. President , mr. Speaker, senator mckinney, representative cafero, lt. Governor wyman and my fellow state officials, ladies and gentlemen of the General Assembly, honored members of the judiciary, members of the clergy, and all the citizens of our great state who are watching or listening today thank you for the honor of inviting me into the peoples house to address you. Id like to offer my sincere congratulations to the newly elected leadership of the democratic and republican caucuses in each chamber, and especially to speaker sharkey and majority leader aresimowicz as they take on their new roles. Congratulations as well to the new members of the General Assembly who were sworn in earlier today. I look forward to working with you in the months and years ahead. As we gather in this historic chamber, let us always keep in our thoughts the brave men and women of the great state of connecticut serving in our armed forces around the globe. We thank them and our veterans for their serv
War in the white house after taking punishing criticism for saying the strategy to fight isis is a work in progress. According to multiple reports, hes looking at plans to post hundreds of u. S. Troops to a brandnew training hub right in between a pair of isis held cities, but the white house says its not a done deal yet and says a final decision wont come until after the president sits down with ash carter later today. Kristen welker is at the white house for us. Good morning. Jim, lets start with you. What is the plan they are discussing . Well first of all, some officials that weve talked to senior military and diplomatic officials are saying when the president says the strategy is a work in progress they say that he gets that mixed up with the plans are a work in progress that the strategy is still pretty much the same to train, equip and advise the Iraqi Military in terms of how to take on isis. Now, within that strategy there are still some uncertainties about exactly how to do t
Tonights installment of our weeklong series gone to pot, the parents who want to take their child off chemo because they believe marijuana is curing their childs cancer. Well look at the medical evidence. We begin tonight keeping them honest with the breaking news. What started as a local traffic story became a statewide scandal and now has gone national. At the center of it all, the worlds busiest bridge and the man seen by many as the republican partys leading hope to win the white house in 2016. The bridge in question is the george washington. The man is Chris Christie. The governor the new jersey. The scandal involves lane closings from the city of ft. Lee, new jersey, on to the bridge that tied up traffic so badly, ambulance crews were complaining about being able to respond to emergencies and school buses were delayed for hours. Now, the allegations that Christies Office and potentially, potentially the governor himself, ordered those lane closings to snarl traffic as political p
Theyre following around 80 contacts. 80 contacts of the man who was in the hospital right here who has been diagnosed with ebola. What were told is many of the contacts are contacts of contacts, in other words the patient had contacts around him, mr. Duncan, and some of those contacts then had their contacts and theyre all being monitored, theyre taking their temperature, theyre watching for signs of ebola. Carol . Describe to us how concerned we should be that this number has ratcheted up to 80. Reporter you know, i dont find it too concerning because theyre doing it as that phrase they love to use out of an abundance of caution. The people who really need to be concerned are the ones who had close contact with mr. Duncan who were exposed to his bodily fluids. I this think they are trying to have a wide margin of error and thats why they expanded this list. Something else interesting happened the Texas Department of health told us four close family members have been ordered to stay ho