Continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, r. Thompson, for five minutes. Mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to honor the life and service of alan al pingy. He passed away tuesday, april 23, at home. He was mcking county commissioner and i flew a flag over the capitol to be presented to his family and colleagues. Prior to becoming commissioner, he was part of the bradford professional firefighters and retired as captain in 1988. He then served as bradford township supervisor, 11 years as chairman. He enlisted in the u. S. Marine corps and honorably discharged as a corporal in september, 1970. Mr. Speaker, al pingy has served his nation and community. Above all else, he was family man, a loving husband of 36 years to his wife, deborah, and father to his four children, andy, scott, jeff, and jody. He was a grandfat
Earth day. I hope you go do Something Special for the earth but we are happy. We have an unbelievably special panel today. We are lucky. There will be a lot we can learn from these individual books that you think you know about these subjects but will find your surprised to learn, as i was when i read them. I will introduce myself. I am dan smith, a writer from montana. I like to come here and get sunshine in the spring so its nice to be here. We will be doing some book signings and i urge you to join us if you want to talk to talk to any of these authors. We will lead you out. I want to introduce each person with a brief biography so you know who they are. First, i would say this is one of my books, so i will let you know that i will have a book fair as well, letters from yellowstone, but to the important ones. First is david maraniss. He wrote this book, the life of jim thorpe. An associate editor at the Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at vanderbilt. Hes won tw
Rnet and unlimited calling. Say yes to more. Call now. Eyewitness news. New accusations hurled in the race for governor. why the Mccrory Campaign says votes were cast by dead people. how it could drag out the process even longer. Plusa wildfire surges in the North Carolina mountains. Why more trouble is in store for the weekend. And Community Leaders press for action after graffiti is found in durham. Eyewitness news begins right now. First at ten breaking news first at ten a car slams into a Durham Police car in a construction zone. It happened on highway 70 near holloway street. Police were on the bridge to slow down traffic. But a car woundup running into the cruiser. No one was hurt. Watch for the latest on air and online. Right now on Eyewitness News governor mccrory and tonight his campaign is filing a protest in 50 counties claiming dead people showed up to vote. Good evening im steve daniels. And im tisha powell. This comes as Elections Officials race against the clock to certi
Candidates within 4700 votes of each other, and night we learned governor mccrory challenging votes cast in 52 counties. Adam owens is live in downtown raleigh to explain what all of this means. Reporter it appear it is counting is not over. There are protests to votes in North Carolina counties. E latest challenge in the gorns race volves most of those counties. There are claims votes were cast by felons and in the name cast multiple balts. In wake county nearly 30 votes having challenged. Anotr sue, a federal cour order effecting the canvass in dozens of counties. Last month the judge id people whos registrations were not turned over by thdmv in a timely manner should be alwed to vote provisionally. Confming thecases uld take more time. Adto that allegations of Election Fraud fr governor mccrorys mpaigninvolving dozen counties. The outcome could effect close races across the strait. In the governors state. In the governors raccoer leads mccrory by roughly 5,000 votes staid white. A s
Okay dave warren. Heres the deal with everyone coming in from out of town this is worst possible timing weatherwise. Yes, you want that ac to be working, and make sure to drink fluids, make sure everything is good. It will be start of the heat wave. We had 89 degrees but to take we will put it at eight, not all that bad, just above 90, humidity will creep up a little bit but not the totally we will not see that heat index climb above 100 today. We have a air quality alert you get that with bright sunshine and light breeze, build up with you, and peaks right in the middle of the afternoon, young ailments, watch that today because code orange is exactly that. Higher amounts. Nothing on the radar, it is clear, it may stay mostly try but we could see a few storms popping up mainly north and west. Seventyfour, humidity fairly high because it is in the morning. By this afternoon we will start to feel that humidity increasing just a little bit. There could be a storm north and west but it is