Players in three states set to get that jackpot more than a half a Million Dollars, leaving the rest with us with 564 million reasons to be bummed out today, today, february 12th 2015. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. So many people are shocked and saddened about bob simon. So many of us looked up to him as a journalist. It is a terrible story. It is our top story, the tragic accident that has stunned our people all across the country. Awardwinning journalist bob simon killed in a car crash right here in new york city. This morning, he is being remembered as one of the most respected people in this deal. Willie is here. This was a gut crunch. Bob simon admired by those who only knew his work. Some say he may have been commuting home last night. A tragic end to the life devoted to covering some of the most important stories for the past 50 years.
A also identifies a great deal of information about the causes of errors which allows the specific and effective policy solutions. That policy solutions. They are challenges to improving accuracy and a vast and complex system whose main system is to educate children, not administer the meal programs. The School Meal Programs operate in nearly 100000 schools nationwide and theres wide variation. Their staffing and resources and technological capacities vary widely. Theres also variation in what children get meals in the lunchroom or classroom and have fiscal checks who is in which category. Small rural schools have different operational and administrative capacities in larger districts assert hundreds of thousands of students. Meal tracking systems can range from paper to stateoftheart software. Schools are not really set up to do the the eligibility determinations at the Public Benefit programs do. The step program for medicaid have teams of professional eligibility workers who spend a
Electronically traced to a location in montgomery county. Police say buckley was in good condition. We still dont know how he got to the campground or why he ended up there. Although among other things he does have a newborn baby. At the live desk im wendy rieger. Back to you. Fresh fallout even now from one of the most Contentious School Board meetings in Fairfax County history. Flooding School Board Members who voted to update the Nondiscrimination Policy to protect transgender students and staff. Northern Virginia Bureau chief david culver, reporter david culver is live at headquarter. Emotions from last nights meeting. Heated meeting floating right on over todaytotoday. Fielding hundreds of phone calls and emails from parents on both sides. Sides. The vote to include gender identity into the Nondiscrimination Policy wasnt even close. It was 101. Throughout the meeting the board struggled to keep control. Parents would stand up arguing that their voices were not being heard. Many fe
Didnt work so well, and what they perceive between now and the end of open Enrollment Period on march 31st as well as what plans theyre making for open enrollment next year which believe it or not is only nine short months away. So let me introduce our speakers now. First of all, Heather Howard is with us. Shes the Program Director of the state Reform Assistance Network thats a program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson foundation and its dedicated to providing Technical Assistance to states under the Affordable Care act. Shes also a Public Affair lecturer at Princeton University and a faculty affiliate for health and wellbeing. Heather previously served as the commissioner of the new Jersey Department of health and Senior Services and worked before that in the u. S. Senate, the house of representatives, the Domestic Policy Council and the trust division at the u. S. Department. Were also privileged to have audrey hane. Chief officer for the ymca in washington, d. C. Governor steve bash
The temperatures are ranging from the upper 30s to the upper 40s. It is 40 degrees out the door in concord. If you are headed into the afternoon it will be a pretty nice day with very mild conditions. 63 expected for concord and the temperatures will be the upper 60s for places like oakland. Livermore will have plenty of sunshine and a high of 64. High clouds will straight man later on today. There is a storm that a possib impact the bay streaming in later today. We may have wet weather in the forecast for thursday. It will be a 20 chance. But as we go to the rest of the week it will be dry conditions. Mostly sunny skies. More details on that coming up. Were not looking at any serious hot spots on the freeway. Heres a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. The traffic is moving well. As we head over to the san mattel of bridge to drive time is 12 to 13 minutes and no delays or accidents to reporters. A three yearold child was killed yesterday after a pickup truck hit him in the crossw