michael smerconish in philadelphia. it s hard not to jump to conclusions about the tennessee state house. the r word it needs to be reserved for clear and convincing cases of prejudice, discrimination or antagonism. against the person or people based on their membership in a racial or ethnic group. after all, there is an appropriate permanence to labeling conduct as racist. but from the outside looking in, this sure does seem to be such a case. three tennessee state legislators who engaged in roughly the same behavior were meted out disparate treatment. just days after 39 year olds and three adults were murdered in a mass shooting at the covenant school in nashville. these legislators led what was described as a disorderly gun reform chant that interrupted house proceedings. there seems to be no debate as to whether they broke the rules. justin jones of nashville, justin pearson of memphis and gloria johnson of knoxville the only difference between the behavior of the three i
and bond. about half of them, according to the washington post , playing video games in their basements. for leadership. they look to the o g original gangster, a 21 year old air national guardsman his motivation. said to have been to inform and to impress, allegedly revealing state secrets that became his stock and trade and when his transcriptions of classified information no longer held the interest of the group. he shifted to photographing materials that should never have seen the public light of day on video. he s reportedly shown shouting racist and anti semitic slurs before firing a rifle. and said to be wrought over government action at ruby ridge and waco. after being arrested on thursday suspect jack to share a was charged friday with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information as well as unauthorized removal of classified information and defense materials. it was described by a classmate to cnn as a loner. and having a fascination with w
philadelphia yesterday, outgoing chicago mayor lori lightfoot, a democrat, put her party on notice for its rhetoric on crime. as democrats if we do not speak the truth about violent crime in our city, we will be the worst for it. if we say yeah , the police department is spending all this time and resources to rest put a case on and then the judges and the prosecutors say, you know what? we re going to let you out on electronic monitoring to wreak havoc again. and if we don t call that out every single day with these prosecutors and with the judges, many of whom don t live in our city and don t care about what s happening, then we are going to lose an opportunity to advocate for the victims and the witnesses and a resident who just want in deserve peace. we gotta say it. she was one of the four black mayors leading america s biggest cities who gathered at the african american mayors association conference. new york city mayor eric adams made a similar point. we need to be hon
Museum you know the route, broad street, around city hall , parkway, boom, bring out card, letters whatever you want to do. Im looping at sunrise. Coming over the stadium. Yeah. Is it another nine today. Is it a 10. No. Is it an eight. Yes. Ding, ding, ding, ding. I had to pick a number, there it is, it is an eight out of 10 today all in green once again is your pal bus stop buddy, nice warm coat you need because temperatures are in the 20s, out there. Appropriate for early february , 28 degrees, and a calm wind, and moments away from official sunrise time. Watching snow out to the north and west but that is not the main event what we will see tomorrow is quite messy but watch out if you are driving up around pocono mountains, because it is a little slippery this morning. Mostly cloudy for us and seasonal High Temperature of 42 degrees, our cliche will be the calm before tomorrows storm but we will get tomorrow s storm out of the way, in time for the parade, on thursday, the forecast f
Rishaad uncertainty of geopolitics affecting sentiment out there. Having a look at the volatility index, going to show you what is going on, because weve got levels being elevated. Ofe risk since the end october. This is where we are at the index. With the vkospi we have missile tests that elevated risks, but not quite like this. Normally south korea is sanguine when it comes to the threat from the north, but nerves are creeping in, haidi. Haidi thats right, and just as well that the japanese markets have closed. To latest Public Holiday appreciate the beauty of the terrain in japan. That does not mean the yen is not trading. We are seeing further demand as a result of the safe haven that picked up pace overnight. We are 15 minutes out from the opening of china and hong kong. Dave will take a look at the markets. Dave we went from 112 to 109, i guess keeping with your mountain day theme. We are offpeak. Far, inrkets opened so the past hour. Three markets opening up taiwan, singapore, m