Welcome to the National Press club, the place where news happens. My name is andrea edney. Im part of the breaking news desk at Bloomberg News and im Vice President of the National Press club. Before we get started i would like to remind everyone again, please, to in our inhouse audience to please silence cellphones if you havent already. For our viewing and listening audience follow along on twitter using the pressclub. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. Any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. Now, i would like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. We have jamaal abdul allen, senior staff writer at diverse issues in Higher Education. We have jerry weller, former u. S. Representative from illinoiss 11th district and president of t
Welcome to the National Press club, the place where news happens. My name is andrea edney. Im part of the breaking news desk at Bloomberg News and im Vice President of the National Press club. Before we get started i would like to remind everyone again, please, to in our inhouse audience to please silence cellphones if you havent already. For our viewing and listening audience follow along on twitter using the pressclub. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. Any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. Now, i would like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. We have jamaal abdul allen, senior staff writer at diverse issues in Higher Education. We have jerry weller, former u. S. Representative from illinoiss 11th district and president of t
Situations. Tim barber is inside the casino, watching the first guests pour in. Tim, show us around. Tim well, everybody else has gone through the door, so why not. Inside this historic moment is the grand opening of the mgm. People coming off the elevators from the parking area, then walking right into theas thousands of square feet, tons of gaming machines, and this is the first opening. It is a 24 hour operation. Tonight was loud and in your face. It had las vegas pizzazz with hollywood elegance. We even spotted Sarah Jessica parker signing shoes at her new boutique. Time. Working with per georges county and prince Georges Community college. Tim if gambling is not your thing, no problem. You can pamper yourself at the spa or catch a show at the 3000seat theater. The project is creating 4000 local jobs. The 24story hotel has hundred hotel rooms that cost a few hundred dollars up to several thousand dollars per night. There are 15 restaurants, including the restaurant fish. Again, thi
Broken fibula that he suffered sunday against the colts. His mother posted this update. Derrick is out and doing excellent. We are very pleased. As a family thank you all for your prayers. As you may remember carr suffered that season ending injury saturday at at the coliseum. 6 to 8 weeks for recovery but coach del rio says the raiders will carry on. We will do what we always do. Feeling of stepping up. Feeling about it being the quarterback. It is about us as a team. Matt mcgoin is now the starting quarterback and if the raiders beat denver on sunday they get a buy and if the raiders lose and kansas city wins, the chiefs get the afc west title and the raiders would be a wild card team. The good news, derrick carr recovering. Now to the violence that happened at malls across the country and suspicion that social media played a role and then encouraging the brawl and disorder and injuries during the post christmas shopping. We have a look at what happened and the chaos that broke out i
Jonathan a day without a woman becoming a day off from school. Georges county schools are closing because of the strike. Women are expected to stay home in solidarity with the movement. Jonathan it will impact a lot of your day tomorrow. Tim barber joins us with the growing list of School Closures that is catching some parents offguard. Tim Prince Georges County school is the latest. Center city Charter Schools decided to shut down, and yesterday we told you about alexandria city Public Schools closed tomorrow. But its not just schools. Businesses are also joining in. Tonight, women are working, but tonight men will be making the drinks. It was being able to recognize everybodys right to protest and strike if we wanted to. Tim this restaurant is one of many without a woman, which comes more than a month after the womens march on the mall and three weeks after people participated in a day without immigrants. Across the river in virginia, this coffee shop and this company are also joinin