Hearing live. The speaker the house will be in order. Pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the the gentlewoman from north carolina, ms. Foxx, for five minutes. Ms. Foxx thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it is good news that the jobless rate has dropped to 4. 3 . The lowest level in more than a decade. However, we still face tough challenges in building an economy that supplies employers with the talent needed to be competitive and educating workers with the skills needed for success in todays economy. Because our economy increasingly requires a more ski
We begin with that breaking news out of Sonoma County, the crash happened before 1 00 p. M. Today near the sonoma sky park airport. A single engine plane crashed just west of the airport. One person was killed in the crash, we are on the scene where officials are investigating. Tom . Reporter this is proof that no marry how safe you try to make aviation, and its getting safer all of the time, there is always a danger that something could go wrong, the plane that is out here is called a cirrus sr 22, this was made in minnesota. What you might see in the pictures, of course is that it looks like there is a para chute inside of it. This plane was designed so that the pilot could pull a parachute if they got into trouble. The problem is that we do not know if the chute was deployed before or after the plane hit the ground. We do not know yet what happened. So far we have not been able to run into anybody that saw what happened here, we are in a pretty remote area 1,000 feet from the airpor
Winter weather advisory for the area. This kicks in midnight tonight through 6 00 p. M. Torment. The concerns are temperatures. We are lucky. We are turning cooler but so warm yesterday and mild today. The temperatures will drop from the 50s through the 40s and in the 30s overnight. When the precipitation begins after midnight, i think we will be in the midtoupper 30s. So far, so good. The Problems Develop early tomorrow morning. 4 00, 5 00, 6 00 and beyond. The colder air continues to move in from the north. At the same time the precipitation approaches from the west. We will have a wintry mix. May start as snow. Minor accumulations if any. Freezing rain and sleet for a good portion of the day. As we get through the afternoon and the evening hours it looks like areas should start to dry out a little bit. So for most of the area Southern Maryland not included the advisory. Stafford, spotsylvania either included but most of the region watch out. Icy, potentially treacherous conditions i
Reporter good morning to you sam and kris. The Santa Clara County sheriff and one of her investigators had a News Conference here to give us more details on what led their office to find and arrest the suspect in the murder of gin lu tommy shwe, a 70yearold man who made a living investing in real estate. He had also employed this man for two years. Christopher christopher albrecht. Hes in jail now for murdering him. The Sheriffs Office tells us he left behind several clues leading to his arrest on wednesday morning, january 18th, the day after the family reported shwe missing. A morgan hill atm surveillance camera captured him attempting to deposit a forged check from shwes account. Another camera at a home depot recorded him buying a shovel on january 20th. Tulare county Sheriffs Office found albrechts van. And nearby evidence of possible foul play. Two Days Later Police arrested him for allegedly waving a knife at someone near a fast food restaurant. On him they say they found shwes
The National Governors association met this past weekend in washington d. C. For its annual winter meeting and focused on ways to combat childhood hunger and current initiatives at the state and local levels that have been successful atrophiedi feeding c at school. This is about an hour and a half. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, and i think we should get started. Its another important big day here at the nga and we have a lot of good work to do. Im dorothy mcauliffe, first lady of virginia and chair of the nga spouses leadership committee. And its my honor and great pleasure to welcome you all to this very special winter meeting, joint session for governors and for spouses. Today were talking about ending child hunger, improving lives and investing in americas future. I want to thank all the governors who are here this morning and their spouses and all the many Partner Organizations who are in attendance this morning. I will say its my understanding its been several years since