The National Governors association met this past weekend in washington d. C. For its annual winter meeting and focused on ways to combat childhood hunger and current initiatives at the state and local levels that have been successful atrophiedi feeding c at school. This is about an hour and a half. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, and i think we should get started. Its another important big day here at the nga and we have a lot of good work to do. Im dorothy mcauliffe, first lady of virginia and chair of the nga spouses leadership committee. And its my honor and great pleasure to welcome you all to this very special winter meeting, joint session for governors and for spouses. Today were talking about ending child hunger, improving lives and investing in americas future. I want to thank all the governors who are here this morning and their spouses and all the many Partner Organizations who are in attendance this morning. I will say its my understanding its been several years since
Orange county florida is in the state of emergency following yesterday mornings massacre. Gunshots rang out in the pulse nightclub right after last call, about 2 00 oclock in the morning leaving at least 50 people dead, and several dozens were injured. Hours later swat teams burst in, rescuing people inside, 39 were killed inside the club, 11 people died later at the hospital. Police say that guy the shooter 29 yearold omar mateen, mateen, Officials Say was not a stranger to the fbi. Were covering all angles from this. Dave kinchen is in our news room talking about omar mar teen. Steve keeley is live, from the security measures going on but first we will go to orlando. Orlando, florida where Chris Oconnell is reporting this morning from the scene of the shooting, chris. Reporter good morning, guys. Family members here in orlando will continue to gather at a local senior center, not far from here to try to get any information of their loved ones that were killed or injured in the pulse
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Moment, but hell get here. And when he does, it will shall the beginning of a twoday experience that catholics in the philadelphia archdiocese and the surrounding diocese, and people of all faiths in this region will never forget. It is one of the markers of the francis papacy at this point, that he has reached across religious divides. He has reached out to other religions. Number one, the eastern church, of course, but also judaism, islam, he wanted to bring everybody into the same tent and do so with efficiency and effectiveness. In argentina we met two of his close friends, one a rabbi, and the other a leader of the islamic community. They are both in philadelphia with this pope for this journey. And they are a symbol of his efforts to reach across to other religions. And youll see it graphically when he arrivals in philadelphia. Philadelphia, a Patchwork Quilt of catholics and protestants and muslims and jews and he will reach out to all of them when he gets here. He was expected
And Philadelphia Police honor the sergeant that gave his life to save others during an armed robbery. And the big story on action news this noon is Second School scare in as many days in philadelphia. And this morning, Martin Luther King High School was put on lockdown after Police Received a tip that a student may have a gun. The student was taken into custody and no weapon was actually found. The Community College of philadelphia also reopened today after a 17yearold boy allegedly threatened someone with a gun yesterday. Action News Reporter john john rawlins is live on the ccp campus with more on both incidents that left thousands of students on edge. John. Sarah, its interesting. Educators, parents, even place will tell you, theyll volunteer in fact theyre anxious about what is going on in society as well as what happened here with the ccp yesterday. And what happened in germantown this morning at Martin Luther king. The 1100 student mlk high school was locked down 8 52. Students i