Intervals and then there will be 15 minutes for all of you to ask any questions that you may have of them. The first panelist is dr. Thomas g. Burton, he is a Professor Emeritus of english at east Tennessee State university. He has produced three documentaries on sir spent handling and is the author of serpent handling believers, the serpent and the spirit, and Beach Mountain man, the memoirs of rhonda helix, his most recent book, voices worth the listening, three women of appalachia, is out now from Mercury University press. Please join me in welcoming tornado thomas burt dr. Thomas burton. The next person i would like to introduce is sarah smarsh. She is a kansasbased journalist who has reported for the New York Times, the guardian and other approximations. Per book pout working hard and being broke in the richest country on earth, very relatable title, let me tell you, what finalist for the National Book award, 2018 Research Fellow at Harvard Universitys center on media politics and
Environmental initiatives. [ applause ] governor, i would like to welcome you and look forward to what you have to say in the state of the state. Thank you, mr. Speaker, Lieutenant Governor long, mr. Speaker, mr. President pro tim, members of the 150th General Assembly, members of my cabinet, distinguished members of the judiciary, invited guests and my fellow delawarians, thank you, mr. Speaker, for inviting me today. Its a great privilege, and its great to be here with all of you. Before i get started, a point of personal privilege, if i may. Were joined today by my beautiful mother ann carney. [ applause ] she always gets the loudest applause. I told her that at least there would be one person in the chamber who would be cheering for me. Not bad. She raised nine children and taught school for 30 years and is here with us today, and she will be leading the applause so keep your eye on her. Mom is here with my brothers mike and joe. Joes wife gail, my brotherinlaw who you all know bre
kayleigh: this is a fox news alert. after nearly 50 days of captivity, hamas has freed 24 hostages, and they say they will release more in the coming days. correspondent jeff paul is on the ground in israel with the latest. yeah, and we are learning tonight that, on top of the 13 hostages released today, the israeli government believes there could be another 13 released tomorrow. but the mood right now a bit bittersweet on the ground in israel, because people know there are still more than 200 people being held captive inside gaza. nonetheless, today was a very significant first step, and we could see more scenes like that if this cease-fire that went into effect at 7:00 a.m. this morning holds. here s what we know about people released today. 24 hostages released by hamas, 13 are israelis, 11 are foreign nationals. among the israelis freed, we know four of them were kids ages two to just nine years old. one of the kids, the 9-year-old, actually had a birthday inside gaza
Style weapons and preventing those with Mental Illness from having guns and universal background checks on all gun sales. Since 2010 legislation required schools to conduct fire, security and active shooter drills and since that time the new Jersey Office of Homeland Security and preparedness working with the department of education has conducted hundreds of announced and unannounced School Visits to among other things, to assess the School Safety plans. Unfortunately there is not a Single Society cure all that led up to the shooting and very much encouraged that the leaders are taking a proactive multidisciplinary approach to head off tragedy before it occurs. The emphasis was the state to step up theests in any way it could and the state could do this as far as the gun laws and the legislation will pass and sign them here in new jersey and look at better ways to identify the individuals that may be at risk. Given Mental Health situation and announced that the state police planned to
During a connection here in phoenix the airline let the soldiers family get off the plane first so they wouldnt police their next flight and thats when some of the passengers in first class started booing and making nasty comments. Now is that a fairway to treat a military family. Vote in our live interactive poll right now. Kevin kennedy is in the live alert center with the heartwrenching story. It was going to be the worst flight of their lives. The that Sergeant John perry was killed that pain compounded when passengers on an eastern officials flight showed little sympathy. The heroic thing that my son did. The action of the flight being delayed because of a gold star family and the first class cabin booing that upsetting. It made us cry some more. Now it is unclear if passengers actually knew the perrys were heading to pick up their sons body but they did know they American Airlines crew appeared to be embarrassed and disappointed by the reaction of passengers. Were in the live ale