University North Carolina chapel hill. My parents earnest jones and mom pertis jones. Dad, a farmer born and raised on a farm. That was his life. Thats what he loved to do. Im a member of a family of ten children, 6 boys and 4 girls. And the first five children was born as routen because their dad was routen and he was killed cutting logs in the wood. So that first five were very young when he died, and then my dad, earnest jones married my mama and has five more children. But my dad raised all ten of us because they were very, very young when their dad got killed. And basically what he did was we were very disciplined, had a seventh grade education. Mom had a seventh grade education but very bright, brilliant people. And one of the ambition they had and they gave us as we were little kids he had two goals for us. He wanted all of us educated and he wanted to see all ten of us in heaven. And so he wanted us to be committed to church, hard work and school. So i had the pleasure of going
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The news that High School Sports teams and fans had been waiting weeks for is now official. There will be no sports in the fall because of the covid19 pandemic. Right now High School Football is scheduled to start january 7th, 2021. Basketball, march 20th. Baseball, march 27th. Of course thats assuming that the virus is dealt with at that point. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Im ama daetz. And im larry beil. Reporting chris nguyen has the story from the south bay. Reporter at high schools across california football stands are going to stay empty a little bit longer because of the coronavirus crisis. I kind of saw it coming. A lot of the talk was the season would move back to january. But it didnt really hit me until this morning. Wow this is really happening. Reporter the announcement from the California Interscholastic Federation that fall sports including football wont resume until winter under a modified activities calendar released earlier today. Very excited about the
And setting it up again. With a long tunnel Boring Machine, you can just keep going. It may take a long time, but it can be cheaper because you arent assembling and disassembling the tunnel Boring Machine again and again. Reporter prep work has already begun with geologists gathering samples deep underground by the plan route. Engineers will get a sense of the rocks below the surface allowing them to better estimate the total cost and speaking of cost, the gilroy chowchilla section was budgeted for 5. 5 billion, but the l. A. Times published an analysis saying a 13. 5mile tunnel could make or break the bullet train, interviewed several experts from around the world and said it could cost from 5 to 14 billion. This engineering professor was quoted saying this is not good news for taxpayers of california. I dont agree with that. There is no option of doing nothing. Were going to have more people in the state. The cost of doing nothing means more people stuck in traffic, more airline dela
Im dion lin. Three former Trump Campaign associates are under indictment. He pleaded guilty to lying to it fbi about his attempts to connect the Trump Campaign with associates of russian president vladimir putin. Abc News Reporter lana zack is following all the details from the district courthouse in washington. Reporter good evening, it was here at this u. S. District courthouse where Paul Manafort and his long time associate rick gates pled not guilty to charges that included conspiracy against the United States, false statements to investigators as well as many charges of money laundering. Paul manafort was once charged with overseeing the Trump Campaign, but now hes charged with 12 counts following a grand jury indictment. Manafort and his former deputy at the Trump Campaign rick gates are now both under house arrest stemming from charges they worked with ukrainian officials with ties to russia and from from 2006 to 2016 they hid 75 million in offshore bank accounts. Both have pled