Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you and good evening. Good evening. It is a good evening. Mr. Speaker, mr. Senate president , members of the general assembly, distinguished guests, my special guests, my family, my husband andy and my son tommy and my daughter cici. [ applause ] and of course my fellow Rhode Islanders. [ applause ] tonight i stand before you filled with optimism for our future because tonight we begin this year stronger than weve been in decades. [ applause ] you know, four years ago, our Unemployment Rate was the highest in america. Today its in line with the national average. The number of people filing for Unemployment Insurance last year was the lowest it has been in 50 years. [ applause ] and our economy has more jobs than at nearly any other time in our states history. [ applause ] weve cut our deficit in half, t. F. Green is booming, and we are the first state in america to teach Computer Science in every public school. [ applause ] and its not
Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you and good evening. Good evening. It is a good evening. Mr. Speaker, mr. Senate president , members of the general assembly, distinguished guests, my special guests, my family, my husband andy and my son tommy and my daughter cici. [ applause ] and of course my fellow Rhode Islanders. [ applause ] tonight i stand before you filled with optimism for our future because tonight we begin this year stronger than weve been in decades. [ applause ] you know, four years ago, our Unemployment Rate was the highest in america. Today its in line with the national average. The number of people filing for Unemployment Insurance last year was the lowest it has been in 50 years. [ applause ] and our economy has more jobs than at nearly any other time in our states history. [ applause ] weve cut our deficit in half, t. F. Green is booming, and we are the first state in america to teach Computer Science in every public school. [ applause ] and its not
As an investigation continues, students at Hargrave Military Academy are back to their normal schedule. After an threatening message was recieved over social media last week with possible ties to isis, the campus shut down for the weekend. Law enforcement spent the weekend patroling the area and students were allowed to go home. School leaders say to normal and there are no updates on the investigation. Pittsylvania county Sheriffs Officers say they are aggressively following up on many different leads. The man accused of abducting and killing teenager Nicole Lovell now has a new attorney. David eisenhauer hired Tony Anderson from roanoke to represent him in court. The Montgomery County juvenile and domestric Relations Court confirmed the change yesterday morning. Eisenhauer was first appointed christiansburg attorney chris tuck by the court. Natalie keepers is also charged in lovells death. Both eisenhauer and keepers are in the western virginia regional jail. The Supreme Court of vir
Through social media. Why werent we updated sooner. Why did they wait until the next day . Parent Cliff Jennings says like many, he thinks more should have been done. Thank goodness it wasnt a threat, but had it been and something happen the next day and they didnt a alert parents, it couldve been a bad situation. School leaders admitted that more shouldve been done to alert parents. We should have sent you a message. Social media can be good, but in these situations, its really causing this the school. School board mccracken says the students safety is the boards top priority, i want them to be able to feel their kids are safe. Theyre secure, they can get refocused and this is a great need to have confidence in the our kids back on track off of social media and focus on upcoming testing. Either way, parents said they want re assurance that the most is being done to protect their children if another confidence that if it happens again, were going to be involved sooner. They will look i
School headquarters in upper marlboro, brad bell, abc7 news. Michelle thank you. New at 4 00, the body of a body was found inside a home on van buren street in northwest washington. The sibling of the child made the discovery. Stephen tschida has more. The details are horrifying. We are hearing there were younger children at the home . Stephen yeah, very disturbing situation, michelle. Six children under the age of 10 inside this home behind me here on van buren street. About 7 00 this morning a call came in about an unresponsive baby. One of the young siblings discovered this baby. We have video of the investigation as it continued today here in northwest d. C. We spoke with investigators. They told us that they do not believe there was an adult inside the home at the time that that call about the unresponsive baby came in. We also spoke with neighbors. They say they are stunned. They say there is a mother who lives here and a who lives here. They say the grandmother was attentive of