Family to pay their respects. Devastating. Lives shattered. Later today, President Trump will be visiting pittsburgh as a community really divided. Wrestles with whether he should visit now or at all. I do believe that it would be best to put the attention on the families this week. And if he were to visit, choose a different time to be able to do it. Our focus is the city. Well be on the families and the outreach that theyll need this week and the support that theyll need to get through it. Once we get past that, then i think theres the opportunity for president ial visits. Also this morning, word of a growing list of elected officials who have now declined the white houses invitation to join the president in his visit today. But to be clear, that one issue is the farthest thing from the minds of those who matter most right now, the families laying their loved ones to rest. Lets go to the ground right now. Cnns jean casarez is outside the tree of life synagogue. Shes joining me now. T
A cohort of local government workers, University of South Florida students, Audubon Florida representatives and ICLEI trainers will be tracking greenhouse gases this spring semester.
A regional climate change advisory group that s been in the works for years will start meeting soon to determine just how it will operate.
The Southwest Florida Resiliency Compact includes Lee, Collier and Charlotte counties as well as the municipalities in those counties and one erosion prevention district. Nobody knows what the next step is but they will next week, said Mike Savarese, a professor and researcher at Florida Gulf Coast University who has spearheaded the group. One would argue that we’re late to the table.
Similar groups exists in other regions of the state, and others are developing in the Big Bend area and the Panhandle.
the synagogue massacre, the deadly and senseless violence saturday in pittsburgh, didn t suddenly erupt out of the blue. anti-semitism in the united states has spiked dramatly in the past couple years. why is this happening? here is sara sidner. investigators say robert bowers wanted all jews to die. the suspect using his arsenal of weapons to try to kill as many jews as he could. now facing a myriad of hate crime and murder charges. in squirrel hill, the center of jewish life in and around pittsburgh, resident halle goldstein says fear was never part of the equation until now. before, everyone was just saying how they felt stronger and they felt braver. i don t feel brave. i just feel scared. now there is reason to fear. 11 people were just slaughtered in a synagogue in america. for years, incidents of anti-semitism were on the