And we thought, oh my god, this is such a big hotel, we will never get 200 people. We lasted at that hotel only for a year, and we have moved from one hotel to another weve held the convention every other year in washington, d. C. And this year there are almost 1300 folks registered already. [applause] with all those conventions, weve always started in the same way, and that is having an invocation to get started on the right foot. Each of us who have not drank alcohol or use drugs today is grateful, but we remember that seldom do we take credit for that all by ourselves. And two years ago and several other times in our history, deacon ron ely has been wanting to come early in the morning to start us off on the right foot. Deacon ron, could you get started on the right foot . [applause] god bless you, paul, and thanks for the introduction. God bless all of you. Im happy to be here. I dont know how many times, but truly indeed this is a pleasure for me to be here amongst all of you as w
Derrick barnett. The city of philadelphia showed off its best on Opening Night in the nfl draft. They are hoping the edge rusher. Barnett broke whites record for sacks at the university of tennessee. Take a look at this scene last night. Fans are taking advantage of the beautiful weather. Good morning. Im tracy davidson. And im vai sikahema. Get ready for round two and three. The draft continues. Local fans will continue to take part in the excitement. Pamela osborne is live along the ben franklin parkway with more on the activities. Reporter we have been telling everyone at home this was going to be big. As you said, we are talking record breaking big. Nearly 100,000 people participated in the draft experience. It is the largest attendance ever far draft related event. You can see them checking out festivities as we speak. This is all about the fans. We met a very special mother and son. They are a gold star family. Her husband died in combat in afghanistan in 2011. His wife thinks he
It will fill in on parts of the coast, not all of it but it looks solid on santa cruz, more of a coverage today. We will have say little system dipping in. Thats all it take, 50s, 60s on the temperatures here and on the peninsula, stanford is 52. 50s, mid 50s around san mateo, but woodside is 50. Over to union city, also 55. Westsouth west a little stronger put it is decreasing, but i still think were set for a cooler day, nice though, 60s, 70s, 80s far enough inland, voluntary manslaughter 80s. It is 701 tim. You have what. We inland. It is 80s. It is 7 01. You have what. We will start with a look at the commute at the toll plaza. It is backed up to the mcarthur maze the meter lights are on and traffic is slow getting on to bridge. You will see slow traffic on that upper deck or i say upper deck, west of treasure island, and on the span on the suspension span there into San Francisco. Lets move along and take a look at some of these other communities. I am looking at 880, you industri
Just onenchanged, point down. A lot of that has to do with two groups, Consumer Discretionary and financial. Take a look at the imap of the groups on the move. A pretty mixed picture if you look at the imap materials and telecoms are higher. Groups worstperforming dragging on the major averages. Suffering frome a downgrade at Morgan Stanley. The analyst sing it could be years before the company gets the analysts saying it could be years before the company gets its sales back. Wells fargo coming out with analyst that matched estimates but did fall yearoveryear and there were some relatively this in the mortgage banking business that and there was some relative weakness in the mortgage banking business. We have not seen a losing streak for amazon like this in quite some time. Ironic because this week was they come amazons prime day come amazons selfcreated holiday. ,ooking at the japanese yen talk of more stimulus in japan, concern on the part of investors for what that means for the jap
From any of your states or dea. When our state senator just [inaudible] brings to me some articles is and studies that i, he thought that i should consider. I pay little attention to him until a couple of years later that i went to a conference he was giving to many people. And he explained x then i went back to those articles. I thank the nga staff and my taffe to be included one of those articles, and we all, all of us have it right now is an article by glenn greenwald, a yale professor on drug decriminalization in portugal. And this is a very touchy subject, i know. But just to give you numbers, in 2001 people that died by heroin is and opiate in portugal where it was, 281. In 2006 it was 133. They decriminalized all drugs. Just, i know its a very touchy subject, but i think its a good article to take a look at. On page 18 theres a table that shows how decline number of dead people by consumption of illegal drugs. Its something that i am, i havent been able to put forward in pert ri