Baltimore has a real opportunity to brand itself as a leader in education technology. There are a large handful of EdTech companies that are already based in Baltimore and with the real problems our city schools face, a self-awareness campaign might push even more developers to focus their products for the classroom.
that today, hashtag baltimore lunch. the principal joe manko told us nine out of ten kids at his school qualified for free meals. today, people at that school brought breakfast, lunch and dinner for a few kids who showed up even though school was technically closed. then there was spontaneous. will barton is a baltimore narve. he drew a big peaceful and young crowd. the story is not over in baltimore, not by a long shot. it is already a way more complicated and frankly a way more constructive story than what you have seen just from the burning cars and the angry fights that we showed all night last night. joining us now, councilman mosey. thanks for your time tonight. thanks for having me on again. we re heading towards this
assassination of dr. martin luther king jr. baltimore rioted for more than a week after that assassination, and 6,000 national guard troops were deployed in baltimore for those riots in 1968. today the number of national guardsmen and women on the streets sort of grew steadily over the course of the last 24 hours. it seemed to be an initial deployment of about 500 national guard troops. and it increased over the course of the day to what is now expected to be a deployment of about 2,000. there s a total force of about 5,000 troops that could be deployed by the maryland governor if he says to but right now, again, that deployment of national guardsmen and women in the streets of baltimore stands at about 2,000 and those thousands of national guard members, should be clear, they are in military fatigues they are members of the united states military, they are armed with live ammunition and military weapons. and as always in these rare cases when our own military is called out i