Class learners is our mission and we answer it in our classrooms every day. Thank you secretary duncan for your advocacy of authentic learning and service for our students and your support of teacher leadership. Thank you to my wonderful family. Im nothing without you. Thank you to kayla, my student to the texas delegation and to my administrators. [ applause ] finally, thank you to the talented passionate and remarkably goodlooking group of state teachers of the year with whom i am privileged to join today. Each of them is a study in excellence and each of them is a representation of what a great teacher is. I am honored to stand here today. As a teacher of refugee students, i have been privileged to see Public Education through the eyes of students from countries as diverse as berm a, somalia, iraq, and cuba. Being here today makes me think of my student. She was a shy teenage girl who had little formal schooling and much suffering in her native berma. One day a snowstorm shut down t
Used. And the reality is sometimes it does go in the wrong place. But we find it collectively, and then we bring people to justice, either through the and people are actually going to jail for first time for corruption in the health system. In many countries around the world. Theres actually really exciting to see this is something that these Health Programs we dont talk about much has driven accountability in a way that really never existed before. Doctor let me ask you a different version of that question. We should really care about corruption when our dollars are on the ground. But we should frankly care just as much when our dollars arent on the ground because we wont need to use as much money if the systems arent efficiently run. In those cases whos the right Government Entity to try to build that capacity . Is it our Global Health dollars or should those be reserved for programs or other pieces of the state department who are more in the business of working with governments at l
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along side Natalie Morales and al roker that just dropped a bomb on us. You say you have amazing video later. Amazing video. Of the aurora borealis. Youll want to stay tuned for this. Hell show you next week. Lets start with the top story. The suspicious packages that led to tense moments at the Jacksonville International airport. Kerry sanders is there for us this morning. What happened. Well it is now confirmed by the Jacksonville Sheriffs Office that one man is in custody. He has been arrested. Police say the zelko told the security checkpoint that, quote, ive got a bomb here. That setoff a response that landed him in custody. For unknown reasons, another man in the security line ran. He is manuel rivera. He was chased to the parking garage where he was arrested. The two men we
Diverted to nearby airports. The flights that were on the ground here, passengers, as the planes moved away from the terminals passengers had to deplane and come down and depart and make their way back. They spent the night at hotels. According to the local authorities a man that was here and made some sort of verbal threat. A man who is known to the fbi. The fbi and the joint Terrorism Task force are now investigating the details of what happened here last night. Reporter i pulled up and they said theres a bomb threat. Everybody started running to get up. Reporter tense moments at Jacksonville International airport. Shutdown by police because of two suspicious packages. A lot of people started ducking behind where the packages go. Reporter the airport was evacuated when a bomb squad found one package in the terminal and another in a nearby parking garage. The airport tweeting details about the incident in real time. Jso bomb squad on site conducting their investigation. Currently no i
Charles, and now regards championing Environmental Action is one of his key responsibilities. Justin rowlatt, bbc news. You can hear Prince William talking about the launch of the earthshot prize in a bbc news special, and theres a further interview with Sir David Attenborough in the new podcast, what planet are we on . Both are available now on the bbc sounds app. Time for a look at the weather. Over the next few days as we head into the weekend, its going to be feeling a bit cooler. Lower temperatures by day and by night. That is because we have High Pressure to the west of the uk. We are drawing down this cold north and north west air stream, bringing cold airall the north west air stream, bringing cold air all the way down from iceland. Earlier today, we had milder conditions across southern areas of the uk. But it has come with a lot of cloud and there has been rain and drizzle. The last of that is clearing away from the south east of england. That rain is moving out into the engl