It is an important step for a country with a fastgrgrowing economy. Itits a big boon for the envivironment. Prior to the solar park, many locals just used generators. Chigali is busy and booming. Growth rates on average years have been 7 or 8 . Rwanda is opening up new options as it expands its power grid. 60 kilometers east of the capital is the biggest solar power plant in east africa. It was built in record time, just six m months. The facility is jointly operated byby norway and the rwandan government. An engineering graduate hahas bn the plplant supervor. 8. 5 megawatt peak. 17 acr60 panels built on es. O of this sizarare hard to find. You want policies to take care of the environment. We have to take back what has been removed. Planted 5000 trees. The land the plant is built on is the property of the village. Caring for to orphaned children by providing them with a new home and education. It is a setup that everyone profits from, says the village director, jeanclaude. We thought
Chris sununu holds a narrow lead over frank ed edelblut. It is too close to call. Colin van ostern easily won the democratic nomination. Erin the republican first Congressional District race is too close with call with incumbent frank giunta holding a small lead over rich ashooh. Jim lawrence easily defeated Jack Flanagan. Sean senator ayotte easily won her primary race. You can see all of the bottom of your screen. Much more on the races in just a moment. First lets talk weather. Election day, it was gorgeous out there. Kevin were ahead of the front early this morning. That will mean on and off showers. In central and southern areas within we start with sunshine and warmer temperatures this morning. A lot of areas in the 50s to even lower 60s. Well see the clouds race in through the afternoon. There will be hit or miss showers and maybe even an afternoon thunderstorm. This is the leading edge of cool air that arrives for the end of the week. Huge range in temperatures. You are still i
Call with 93 of precincts reporting. Another race that is too close to call is the first Congressional District. Republicans frank giunta and rich ashooh are neck and neck. Giunta has 46 and ashooh has 45 of the the weather. Yesterday is going to continue today. Kevin we have a front making its way in. It could mean showers. Its been an increase in clouds up north. A broken line of showers back to the west eventually approaches. A couple of thunderstorms are a possibility along that line. 50s up north and 60s elsewhere early this lower 80s. Much more on the forecast looking into the weekend coming up. Were joined live by deb davidson. Good morning, deb. Deb good morning. We have road work throughout the state. On the spaulding turnpike northbound right around the milton area, we have lane closures. Also in laconia on route 3 and route 11. The everett turnpike northbound the exit two onramp is closed on t the left lane is closed. They are saying all of the road work will be wrapping up
Iraqi refugees working with iraq and along the lines i was talking about in the , day inional community and day out there isnt a single and respected advocate for religious freedom, the u. S. Commission for research on International Religious widely respected in the field. He hit the ground running when he came on and he will be working sidebyside with me and with our International Counterparts and with every arm of our government that it is doing programs dealing with defense and training and working with countries in the area and the intelligence communities, all of the human rights work we are doing here to help strengthen the work on behalf of these minorities. I could talk for hours about what is being done. Beingogrammatic work done, the relief and humanitarian work, etc. They are in the middle of a horrific war situation. Every day their lives could be imperiled. There is the magic button that can fix this. It is going to be long and steady progress here until we can reach a kin
Certainly my state as well. This also represents a milestone as members of this Committee Work to complete a multiyear highway bill the first time in a decade. And long overdue. With Service Transportation programs set to expire on friday, it is imperative we work quickly to reach a bipartisan and by cbicamybicameral agreeme. A number of issues happened to be particularly important to my state. For example, upgrading the freight corridors and interstate system that moved goods through my state to Global Markets every day and providing Additional Resources for Public Private partnerships and border infrastructure. Delivering investment certainty so we can plan for and deliver the highquality infrastructure that our country and my constituents deserve. This bill is important. But im proud to say the leadership in texas havent waited on the federal government. In november 2014, 80 of texans approved a Ballot Initiative that provides 1. 7 billion to upgrade and maintain the Transportation