Today, a leading Silicon Valley company tries to level the Playing Field by launching an Internship Program for Community College students. And not just any Community College, it is the one embraced by the late secretary of state colin powell. We will talk to the bloom energy ceo and an intern about the unique opportunity. Also zoom is now employees to return to the office. We will talk to our media partner, the San Francisco standard, which has seen employees messages on this new policy. First, a new uc berkeley study shows even though california has made boating easier, many younger people and people of color are still not making it to the polls. Joining us with the details and the impacts is paul mitchell, Vice President of Political Data inc. Thanks for having me. Kristen this new survey was done by uc berkeleys institute of government studies but you provided some of the data . Yeah, our Company Provides the data for their polling. We were able to provide them with the Contact Inf
Of. Youre about to finish your first year. How much money do you owe . None. How much money will you owe at the end of four years . Zero. I visit Marshall University in West Virginia to learn about their program to help students graduate debt free. Plus, state leaders are trying to Work Together to address issues facing americans without getting bogged down by political divisions. We cant solve problems if we all hated each other. I talked to governor spencer cox about how his disagree Better Initiative works, and what we could all learn from it, and discovering a dinosaur launched a career he never knew existed, just really kind of a dream come true. A look at what goes into bringing relics of the past to life. Those stories right now on matter of fact. College in the United States is expensive. Tuition at a Public University averages about 26,000 a year for a private college, its 38,000. Increasingly, middle class families are finding themselves in a bind. They make too much money to
More. There is a little website that they have put together for that. We have it listed on our nbc washington app, guys. You can check there. Back to you. Adam tuss. Adam, thank you. In southeast d. C. , Kramer Middle School will open this morning on time. Crews worked all day yesterday to fix a pipe that burst in the basement. That caused flooding and a big mess. School officials are asking students and parents to use the front entrance today. Archbishop Carroll High School is closed because of plumbing issues because of the cold weather. Millions of americans are dealing with this blast of arctic air. Take a look at this scene in florida. Icicles on the orange trees there. Sheena mentioned they got know in northern florida. There are winter storm warnings in effect for much of the deep south all the way up to new england. Biting in the face, just cold. Its no way around it. I dont think you can prepare. There are at least 15 deaths that are being blamed on the deep freeze across the
Good morning and welcome to news4 midday im chris lawrence. And im erika gonzalez. National Weather Service says Dulles Airport hit a record low temperature of one degree early this morning. Right now you are looking at the current temperatures. Big improvement from the one degree. Dont get too 457happy thoug. We have nor snow. Lets get the latest from the meteorologist sheena parveen. Hit a record low this morning about zero degrees. So, yes, its very cold weather. Locally very cold weather in florida wintry mix and snow moving into parts of georgia and carolina as well. This is our next weather system. Heading out into the atlantic, and tonight part of the area start to see snow falling. Ill show you how much coming up in a minute. But temperature wise low to mid20s. Well be breaking 30 degrees this afternoon for some of the area. Big improvement compared to what we have seen over the past few days. In the suburb there you see 31 degrees, then well see the snow moving in. For some of
American artifacts, Wake Forest University professor david lubin shares images from his book. Watch American History tv this weekend on cspan3. Next on cspan, here West Virginia governor jim justice announced several initiatives to discuss the drug epidemic and to prevent child sex abuse. Now, only briefly do i want to belabor the past with you. I am going to stay back here. I am going to spook myself a little bit closer. Ok. , when i got here, this is what we were facing. Like it or not liking it, when i got here, it was in the middle year, the 16 17 year. We were supposed to have a balanced edge it but it looked like we were going to come up because things kept running away from us. It looked like things could be even more dire and we could very well have a 200 million hole in the budget. The next year, my first full year, 497 million in the hole. In the years thereafter that, going up to 722 million. Now, i said a minute ago, just imagine the miracle that has happened. The miracle t