The National Governors association met this past weekend in washington d. C. For its annual winter meeting and focused on ways to combat childhood hunger and current initiatives at the state and local levels that have been successful atrophiedi feeding c at school. This is about an hour and a half. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, and i think we should get started. Its another important big day here at the nga and we have a lot of good work to do. Im dorothy mcauliffe, first lady of virginia and chair of the nga spouses leadership committee. And its my honor and great pleasure to welcome you all to this very special winter meeting, joint session for governors and for spouses. Today were talking about ending child hunger, improving lives and investing in americas future. I want to thank all the governors who are here this morning and their spouses and all the many Partner Organizations who are in attendance this morning. I will say its my understanding its been several years since
Orange county florida is in the state of emergency following yesterday mornings massacre. Gunshots rang out in the pulse nightclub right after last call, about 2 00 oclock in the morning leaving at least 50 people dead, and several dozens were injured. Hours later swat teams burst in, rescuing people inside, 39 were killed inside the club, 11 people died later at the hospital. Police say that guy the shooter 29 yearold omar mateen, mateen, Officials Say was not a stranger to the fbi. Were covering all angles from this. Dave kinchen is in our news room talking about omar mar teen. Steve keeley is live, from the security measures going on but first we will go to orlando. Orlando, florida where Chris Oconnell is reporting this morning from the scene of the shooting, chris. Reporter good morning, guys. Family members here in orlando will continue to gather at a local senior center, not far from here to try to get any information of their loved ones that were killed or injured in the pulse
And Philadelphia Police honor the sergeant that gave his life to save others during an armed robbery. And the big story on action news this noon is Second School scare in as many days in philadelphia. And this morning, Martin Luther King High School was put on lockdown after Police Received a tip that a student may have a gun. The student was taken into custody and no weapon was actually found. The Community College of philadelphia also reopened today after a 17yearold boy allegedly threatened someone with a gun yesterday. Action News Reporter john john rawlins is live on the ccp campus with more on both incidents that left thousands of students on edge. John. Sarah, its interesting. Educators, parents, even place will tell you, theyll volunteer in fact theyre anxious about what is going on in society as well as what happened here with the ccp yesterday. And what happened in germantown this morning at Martin Luther king. The 1100 student mlk high school was locked down 8 52. Students i
In West Philadelphia tonight where the department begins to say its goodbye. Shawnette. Reporter i can tell you has been a highly emotional afternoon here in this area. Hard to find a dry eye in this crowd that was gather outside the funeral home. Take a look behind me. Officers continued to go inside the funeral home to pay respects to fallen officer Robert Wilson. It was a moving procession as they stood in formation this was earlier this afternoon. They covered this West Philadelphia neighborhood surrounding the funeral home where officer robertville wilsons body is for a viewing tonight. Crowds of people stood on the sidewalks watching. Many could be heard saying it is such a sad time for our community. Most didnt know the officer but say he died to save the lives of so many others who were in that store the day he was killed. Emotional commissioner Charles Ramsay spoke coming outside of the funeral home. Ive only been here seven years and this is the eighth time ive had to bury on
Police are hoping teachers and administrators in the area will watch the video and recognize the suspects. He could have been seriously injured. Luckily he wasnt. I mean, you get a whole group kicking. It depends upon where they hit him how severe is this going to be. Reporter yes, that victim was taken to hon man hospital. Police tell me he was treated for minor bumps and bruises and is expected to be okay. Im live in center city, chad pradelli, channel6 action news. All right, chad, thank you. Engineers with Frontier Airlines have been working all day to remove a plane that got stuck in the mud at New Castle County airport. The front wheels got stuck last night as the plane was moving on the taxi way. Flight 1435 was heading to orlando. No one was hurt in the incident. All 105 passengers and five crew members were taken off the plane and spent the night in a hotel. They took off on another flight this afternoon. Barn went up in flames today here in Burlington County. Chopper 6 hd cap