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The nation was focused on the us capitol, as president barack obama gave his 7th and final state of the Union Address last night. Night. But instead of focusing on a long list of things to do in his final year the president told the country hes looking beyond that. That. I dont want to talk just about the next year. I want to focus on the next five years, ten years, and beyond. But it also involved looking back at his last seven. The president said the us is in the longest streak of private sector job creation in history and he championed the Iran Nuclear Deal and Climate Change agreement made in paris last month. He also laid out a few bipartisan agreements he thinks should get done like criminal Justice Reform and preventing Prescription Drug abuse. The president said he strained relations between the two parties. Its one of the few regrets of my presidency that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. Better. Tomorrow the president will visit
The mountains and upstate. 3 3 3 3 3 3 we have an update this morning on a house fire that left one man dead. Investigators do not believe that fire is suspicious. It started sunday morning in the living room of his home, but investigators dont know how. Jack penland. An original member of the stoney creek boys blue grass band. Was killed. His wife pat made it out safely and has been released from the hospital. Several churches in weaverville are now collecting donations for the family. To learn more. Go to wlos dot com. 3 3 investigators now say yesterday mornings fire in asheville was caused by a heating system malfunction. We brought you the story as breaking news. It happened at a home on North Bear Creek morning. The family of six says they heard a pop. Then their smoke alarms went off. Everyone made it out safely. 3 3 we have an update this morning on a georgia woman who faces federal charges in a series of Jewelry Store robberies, including one in North Carolina. Abby kemp will
Mr. Walsh madam president . The presiding officer the senator from montana. Mr. Walsh request that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Walsh i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Walsh i ask unanimous consent that following disposition of calendar number 635, rose, there be three hours of debate equally divided in the usual form on the motion to invoke cloture on calendar number 1084, saldana. Further, that the time from 2 15 p. M. Until 2 30 p. M. Be equally divided in the usual form, with all other provisions of the previous order remaining in effect. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Walsh i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to executive session to consider all nominations placed on the secretarys desk in the foreign service. That the nominations be confir
All title 6 report shows no impact to Minority Community or low income communities. Thats because over half of the routes that benefit under these proposals are minority and low income routes. The title six documents were included in your packet. Since the new circular came out, a pretty good change is that you will be adopting the title 6 analysis. Previously title 6 analysis was something we did and had on file with staff, but wasnt included in the board packet. Here is just an example of the map of the minority routes that benefit. These are routes that a percent of customers who use them exceed our citywide average of 58 percent. And then this shows the low income routes that would also get increased frequency. These are routes that exceed the citywide average of 51 percent. Even our least low income route though still has almost a quarter of its customers of low nvenlth in addition to doing the more formal title 6 analysis, we also did an overall Equity Analysis that fall outside