Leaves families scrambling to find rides for their kids at the start of a new school year. Access to transportation is really access to education. Across the country we are also seeing an increase in chronic absenteeism. Geoff and with more children becoming social media influencers, one state works to ensure they are getting paid for their work. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions and friends of the newshour including leonard and norma core fine. The william and flora hewlett foundation. For more than 50 years, advancing ideas and supporting institutions to promote a better world at hewlett. Org. And with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Geoff welcome to the newshour appeared on this labor day, President Biden has touted unions in play
Minutes. Thank you. All guests should remain in seats until the witness is allowed to leave the room. So the committee stands in recess. The committee will reconvene and come to order following our recess. You are recognized for five minutes. Thank you so much madam chairwoman. Thank you so much a secretary at cardona for being here today. For keeping the focus i know it has been hard theres a lot of questions asked but i keep seeing you keeping the focus on education. Because we know education is the foundation of our democracy as well as the path for prosperity for our families. Now, i wanted to give you the time to answer a bit about the question that came up earlier. You were really not given the time i am sorry the respect to be able to explain the authorities that you have and the under the Higher Education to forgive student loan. And that authority was given to the department to the Higher Education act. Would you like to take a Quick Response to why you are acting regarding St
Nations that actually meets its financial obligations. The president prepares to head to germany next for the g20 summit. He will speak with several World Leaders including the highly anticipated meeting with Vladimir Putin takes place tomorrow. Delimit threat of north korea. President trump issued a warning over acts of aggression. Watch. I dont draw red lines. It is a shame they are behaving this way, but they are behaving in a very, very dangerous manner and said they will to be done about it. Resident travel delivers speech to the people of poland an hour from now. Well bring you his remarks live. Congressman Steve Scalise is back in intensive care this morning. He is back in the icu. Doctors downgraded his condition from fair to serious three weeks after he was shot at a baseball. The very latest this morning on Steve Scalise. A popular Tourist Destination may be forced to evacuate. The wildfire spreads near breckenridge. Details as they finally launches a satellite into orbit aft
His speech is about half an hour. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you very much. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you very much. Oh, my goodness. Thank you. Thank you all. Please be seated. Lieutenant governor kegel, speaker ralston, speaker pro tem shaffer and speaker pro tem jones, members of this great general assembly, constitutional officers, members of the consulate corps, and my fellow georgians, in 1944, georgias own Johnny Mercer wrote the lyrics of a song titled accentuate the positive. The most memorable lines from that song are, youve got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, latch on to the affirmative, dont mess around with mr. In between. Now, that was great advice for our nation as world war ii was drawing to a close. And its great advice for all of us today. For the past six years, ive had the opportunity to report to you on the state of our state. And i do so again today. The first year was 2011, and i was just entering the office of governor. Our state was s
It as rammed by a second train and pitched the lead car into the path of a third train. And the operator of the striking train remains in Critical Condition and why the collision occurs remains the big question, was it human error did the operator have a medical emergency or was there a mechanical problem. And they explain that the cars are quipped with automatic train control or atc an electronic safe guard that in part will maintain the safe separation of trains. Its a signal system the trains move under signal authority and the signal system keeps the train separated. The separation could also be monitored by septas command center and action news asked to talk to someone about the capability of the system. We were turned down because it would likely be a central part of the crash investigation. We are at an early stage of that investigation, the investors will collect data and other evidence and talk to people involved and they will even possibly run tests on certain systems and equ