School Security Preparedness across the state in the wake of the deadly parkland florida , high school shooting. Today we will review current protocols and outline additional steps being taken at the state level to augment the vigilance already being practiced by local law enforcement. Reporter over in south jersey Washington Township schools, sent this letter to parents last night a reminder of the safety plans already in place. Our secure is this building i feel like measures we have put in place have absolutely up the security of this school and district. Reporter School Spokesperson jane is talking about recent changes, two years ago, district made all High School Students wear id badges before entering the building, all 11 schools are now secured with vestibules and inside security cameras at each entrance and in the hallways, the footage is now live streamed directly to the Washington Township police department. There are two security drills among including lock down evacuation,
Nearly 48 hours after the fire. Nbc 10s, Aaron Baskerville is joining us from the block. Still blocked off tonight. Jim, jackie, the work continues at this hour. You can hart. Definitely see it. This block will likely be blocked for a day or possibly two. Right behind me the work continues. The middle building charred from the ground to the top floor. The focus from the last 48 hours. Theyre concerned it could partially collapse. Theyve been working on the fire escapes, tearing them down. From the ground by the big orange vehicle. There are some of the fires escapes, down below. Firefighters today, continue searching for a cause. I thought i would beer. Now i dont know what i will do. Reporter for the woman and her family the fire on chestnut caught them offguard. They traveled all the way from brazil, scheduled to stay at best western hotel. Quickly realized that wasnt going to happen now. The street that the hotel sits on, now blocked off, because of the fire. I had to try to figure
All right. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for coming. Welcome. I my name is Amanda Woodword and im the dean of the division of social sciences here at the university of chicago. Im just delighted to be here with this group of faculty for this event. This evening is continuing a yearlong series of events at the university of chicago commemorating the 75th anniversary of the first controlled selfsustaining Nuclear Chain reaction which happened just over there. Over the past five months, there have been events across campus xh commemorating the breakthrough and exploring the experiments long term impact, and the events have presented u opportunities to engage scientists, artists and policy makers and the public around a set of events that grew from that original event 75 years ago. This evenings discussion im particularly delighted because it brings in social science in just the way it should be. Our panelists will be introduced in a moment. Each is a scholar and International Relation
Area, but around the country. Lets hear your reaction. What do you think really happened here . Well, we can only talk about we dont know what happened other than the feds did not see anything they can charge him with, so the statute of limitation passed. He is still the chairman of the Democratic Party and still has tremendous amount of influence in capitol hill. I mean, they call him the mayor of capitol hill. Now, what we have lost is a Senior Leader who would have been chairman of committees from congress. You know, this is a trend where more and more members of congress who are incumbents are dissatisfied with how what the job is, and because its such a tough job youre all day long reacting to complaints and criticisms by the constituency. There is no resultoriented job anymore because youre not accomplishing much. Youre just sort of dealing with crisis and complaints. He did mention partisanship. You know, trey gowdy, congressman brady, many of them are not deciding to run again.
Was of President Trump, actually before the election and shortly after when i listened to him and he expressed this sentiment, which was, with Hillary Clinton and her transgressions and the way she handled the classified material and up to the secret server next to the bathroom up in new york, in her place, the president s position was, we need to move America Forward and we shouldnt go backwards on this or looking back. Lets move forward. And the public has litigated that. Thats where President Trump wanted it to be, but it wasnt to be because the left could not accept the idea that the American People had spoken. So they began to manufacture and continue the manufacturing of this Russian Investigation, allegations that there were investigation and i dont doubt that they made it. But we doubt that they had any impact on our election and we have seen zero evidence that the campaign of President Trump had any kind of relationship that went on with the russians that promoted or coluded i