Senator bennett classmates, thank you for the incredibly kind words. Why dont we give her a round of applause for her first year as chancellor. [applause] senator bennett i can tell you that we are delighted as a state to have you here, i look forward to the work that we will do together. I want to thank the board of trustees, proud parents and families, and of course, the brilliant class, my classmates of 2015. I also want to say hi to my wife who is here today and runs the Rocky Mountain land use institute. At least, she did run until i gave this speech. Chancellor, i have to confess that i consider this year writing a one sentence graduation speech for this class. That sentence was, how about our Mens Lacrosse Team 2015 champions . Boom. [applause] really, what more needs to be said . Not just about the team itself but about the character and commitment to excellence that it represents and shares with so much of du and its graduates. I thought i would give a one sentence speech too
But they shared one thing. A passion for on the one case writing and the other case collecting but put them in the context of their lives if you would, please. Guest shakespeare was writing around the 16 hundreds. His life 20 years before, 20 years after during the reign of elizabeth and james i and he was a wellknown playwright poet. He was also a businessman and a shareholder in the Theater Company in london. And and hes he is very well known for being a businessman. Henry soldier was the chairman of the board of the company the Largest Corporation in the world and the most reviled corporation as well during the gilded age. Shakespeare wrote these plays after he died his friends decided to create a memorial volume and published 36 of the node node known 38 plays of shakespeare had written and they are connected across time and across the ocean and the book saved the play from obscurity and henry the chairman wanted to own every known copy of the first. Host theres Something Interesti
But hesen innocent of any criminal charges. Now the scene of the derailment was a massive scene in which you had firefighters, crime scene technicians and bomb technicians thatten went to examine parts and pieces of the train. At one point today an officer with the Police Department testified hes with the bomb squad and went into the compartment and he says he saw bostians knapsack anden went through it and found a tablet like an ipad or some or device there. When he was done examining that, he put it back in the bag and then left. Later pictures were shown of that bag being ransacked and to this day the tablet has yet to have been found. Thats the latest on this. The judge ruling this an accident, not a crime. Deanna durante, nbc 10 news. Well keep updating you on this story. At 5 00 our legal expert will explain what todays decision means for the future of the amtrak case. Hurricane irma still being felt in the south. People are assessing the damage caused by the storm. Search and re
Trial react. The charges that were brought should not have been brought. And a good judge made sure that justice was done. Bostian was at the controls of amtrak 188 when it crashed in 2015. Blair berman had a few words using his cell phone to call family and the state called First Responders and a rail expert the contention was that the defense was negligent and pushing back findings that after being distracted by a rock attack on the nearby septa train it was possible that bostian lost situational awareness. But the judge says it was more likely an accident than a crime. Brandon bostian is a good man and his heart breaks for the loss of life in this case and the tragedy that occurred but he is innocent. Tom klein that represents many of the victims upset by the dismissal saying that eight people are dead. One man is aquadriplegic and others have life disabled injuries all because of what was done by one man, brandon box. Patrick murphy was on the train. The judge said it was an absolu
Death. All hands on deck. How everyone from nuns to celebrities are joining the recovery from hurricane irma. Right now at 11. Students exposed to a dangerous drug. And police in Delaware County say one of their own parents is to blame. Good evening, im jacqueline london. Police say a mother dropped 29 bags of a deadly opioid roigt in the parking lot of her childs school. Nbc10 was live at the school tonight. The school discussed this incident with parents tonight. Parents were reassured that staff is doing everything it can to make sure students are safe. Parents were alarmed it was found in a parking lot. And now parents been charged. Reporter its not the back to School Night Parents expected. One that touched on reading, writing and opioid. Shocking. Reporter more than two dozen bags of the sen thetic opioid for found last week during the second day of school. Williams left it behind in the School Parking lot. The 29 yearold daughter goes to the school. Its scary. To find out that i