History, in a nut shell, people are working harder, they are working longer hours, and they are getting paid less in real dollars. This is not true for corporate executives. The ceoworker pay ratio was 21 in 1965. Today it is more than 300 to 1. I am fine with paying for Exceptional Results and investing in talent. I believe in that but i believe the gaps in practices should be transparent. I think the state Investment Board can help. I have asked the Investment Board to go further and exercise its Voting Authority to reduce the widening pay gap between ceos and their workers. [applause] i am encouraging the board to promote this policy with other states and instew institutional investors. Small steps like this can be the beginnings of bigger journeys. I started a different journey with my new executive order in Public Health and firearms. You know, more people in washington are dying from firearm fatalities than even from traffic accidents. We have a Public Health crisis. We need a Pu
Modest is unjustified costofliving adjustment adjustment, the first since 2008. Also made paying for college easier on family budgets. The only state in the United States to pass a to wishing cut this year for students. [applause] republicans had a great idea to have the tuition cut and i gladly give them credit. [applause] also gladly give democrats credit that we should cut tuition for every one including community and Technical Colleges. [applause] together we found a way. This is something everyone in the chamber can celebrate. We restore funding for one of our most precious public assets, our state parks. It was heartbreaking to even consider having to close some of these parks last year there is a family frolicking on the beach i remember my own childhood when mom and dad would throw was the back of the Station Wagon and taken sell for the day or the weekend just knowing this tradition will continue is extremely gratifying. One of the biggest performance it will continue to be fe
Oklahoma swallowed up cars and roadways. Highways are littered with abandoned vehicles. Homes were knocked off their foundations. At least nine people are reported killed. More than a dozen are missing. 4,000 homes in the houston area are damaged or destroyed, and 1,200 in wimberly, texas outside austin. Omar villafranca begins our coverage. Reporter its the worst flooding this region has ever seen. This aerial video shows the remains of a bridge come completely washed away by catastrophic flooding from a raging blanco river. The river rose 26 feet in just an hour, uprooting home, snapping trees washing away cars and creating massive piles of debris up to 20 feet high along an 87mile stretch. Wimberly, a popular bed and breakfast getaway has taken the biggest hit. A dozen still remain missing. Will conley is the county commissioner. We have over 150 personnel continuing to scope the river through air, by boat and by land looking for any survivors. Reporter 33yearold laura macomb and he
Oklahoma swallowed up cars and roadways. Highways are littered with abandoned vehicles. Homes were knocked off their foundations. At least nine people are reported killed. More than a dozen missing. 4,000 homes in the houston area are damaged or destroyed, and 1,200 in wimberly, texas outside austin. Omar villafranca begins our coverage. Reporter its the worst flooding this region has ever seen. This aerial video shows the remains of a bridge come completely washed away by catastrophic flooding from a raging blanco river. The river rose 26 feet in just an hour, uprooting home, snapping trees washing away cars and creating massive piles of debris up to 20 feet high along an 87mile stretch. Wimberly, a popular bed and breakfast getaway has taken the biggest hit. A dozen still remain missing. Will conley is the county commissioner. We have over 150 personnel continuing to scope the river through air, by boat and by land looking for any survivors. Reporter 33yearold laura macomb and her tw
Spying on heads of states. Its part of a fallout following revelation thags the u. S. Has spied on german chancellor Angela Merkel and 34 other leaders. President obama said he was unaware of high level eavesdropping but the New York Times said the state department signed off on the process and a key part that is calling for total review of u. S. Intelligence programs. Susan mcginnis is in washington. Good morning. Reporter good morning, annemarie. Theres no final decision yet from the white house about ending these programs, the white house is waiting to see what happens here in congress. And more lawmakers now calling for changes including the head the Senate Intelligence Senate Intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein scompreft outrage that the u. S. Spied on allies including german chancellor Angela Merkel. She issued a statement saying i totally opposed. The finestein and her Senate Colleagues want to go one step further. Shes calling for review of all operations. Senator feinstei