Of wilmington and the surrounding area. The city was praying for hope that some how she would pull through but new the odds were long. The wilmington fire chief was emotional during his Media Briefing this morning. Fire chief anthony good speaks this morning. The third firefighter, hope died vault of a late support arson. 68 days ago that fire left burns over 70 of her body. Weeks ago on a thursday we were called to the hospital and we worked diligently to get the family members to the hospital for what we thought would be arty hopes last night and she lasted two more weeks. Hope was a 23 year veteran of the department and two other veterans perished in the inferno. They were killed september 24th when the first floor of the house collapsed and a fellow firefighter Brad Speakman was also injured during the disaster and was released after six weeks in the hospital. His road to recovery is a long one, he and hope became trapped as they tried to rescue captain leach. And hope was due to r
Rememri taken way too soon, the story book dedication for a new jersey toddler. Plus, get ready for possible wintry weather, meteorologist chris sowers is at the action news big board with more. Chris, winter weather. Reporter good afternoon, gray, just a little bit of winter weather, its december, its about time we started talking about this stuff. Some of us could see light snow overnight tonight and into tomorrow morning for areas well north of the philadelphia. Generally speaking temperatures are in the mid 40s, because we lost the gusty breeze of yesterday, it actually feels like the mid 40s. Go over, 47. Millville, 47. Dover, 47. Today woe dont have to we dont have to deal with the all the wind. But we have a couple of storms approaching the delaware and the Lehigh Valleys. They will get in here overnight tonight. For the remainder of the afternoon partly sunny, combination of sun and clouds, breezy. 49 degrees is the forecasted high. Taking a look at the weather headlines, snow
Somewhere and thats not cool who works for aei and she is the timekeeper. Shes over there and she will be giving signs so that we can keep everybody on schedule. Im sorry to say that but thats part of what happens when youre trying to run a wellrun seminar. I want to say one last thing about seminars because roberta is from chautauqua county. Some of you may know that Chautauqua Institute is one of the earliest sort of institute of good thinking and sharing of ideas of the United States, and when president johnson was president , he would get frustrated with things that he would say we will have one of these darn chautauqua seminars. That didnt get a laugh i was hoping for but thats okay last night but the point is this is Something Like that. We want of a free and open discussion. And with that i will start with codel. Thank you very much. I do want to thank you all for coming. Its interesting we talk about it ever looks at the baptist preacher and said okay. Thats who we need to keep
And we are pleased to have three members of the house today to talk about their report and here reactions from notable experts on the programs. But first, and perhaps most importantly, we are going to start outside of washington. And hear from experts in the field of helping lowincome americans moving up. They work in places far removed from the halls of congress about their work has informed some of the ideas contained in the steering committees report. I have a special affinity for these outside of washington experts, as that is where i worked prior to coming to washington. I spent 19 years working in social Service Agencies in the state and city of new york and i have some idea of the dedication, hard and wisdom of people who work in peace programs, and i always love to be among them. So im very pleased to welcome and introduce to you the first panel which features three 3 mef communitybased organizations. First will be owed l. Cleveland the Administrative Officer for the Baptist Ch
Death penalty and my name is dale. I teach law at georgetown and to run a Supreme Court practice. We are here to talk about the Death Penalty, where its going and i cant imagine a better group of panelists. Over here is the president of the Southern Center for human rights. You know in my mind the leading Death Penalty litigants in the country. And has been for a number of years traveling throughout the country to bring these cases. He had a big one in the Supreme Court or couple weeks ago ago which may be i will tell you a little bit about that hes been teaching at Yale Law School since 1993 which yesterday was significant because that was my first class on the Death Penalty which he taught and was just a marvelous in its rationale figure and its a delight to be here with him. Roy adams is the director of the center for effective justice of the texas Public Policy center. Mark does interesting work in the cause of the criminal Justice System and is making the case for a conservative c