Darren walker to do serving as president of the Ford Foundation and will be the 2020 stanford distinguished lecturer and given all of his extraordinary accomplishmentshou whoever introduces him has their work cut out for them. Born in louisiana one of the first children of the nation to benefit from the Headstart Program he went on to earn a scholarship at the university of texas austin where he would graduate with degrees in government, speech communication and lobby for pursuing a successful career as an attorneyyst and investment banker. For the past three decades, mr. Walker has been one of our nations for most philanthropic executives. s serving as chief operating officer as the Largest Development Corporation Vice president of the rockefeller foundation, cofounder and chair of thehe us Impact Investment alliance and for the past seven years as president of the Ford Foundation. He oversees an endowment of 13,000,000,000. 600 million of annual grant money. He is dedicated to tackli
I assume that everyone here is impressed with my control of this convention and that my choice for Vice President was challenged by only 39 other nominees. [laughter] but i think we learned from watching the republicans four years ago as they selected their Vice President that it pays to take a little more time. [applause] and i can tell you that eleanor is very grateful that the oregon grateful that the oregon delegation at least kept her in the race with martha mitchell. [applause] i congratulate you on your patience and i pay my respects to those two superb presiding officers of this convention larry obrien and the bond breakaway bird. Bird. On [applause] tonight, accept your nomination with a full and grateful hearts. Heart. [applause] the afternoon, i crossed wide missouri to recommend a running mate of wide vision and compassion, senator tom eagleton. [applause] at my sideo have him and im proud to have been introduced a moment ago by one of the most eloquent and courageous voice
Durhamorange county line, that tree landing on the road, blocking traffic. Tisha here are some looks at breaking news one. You can see the wind on the windshield on new hope road in raleigh. Chief meteorologist Chris Hohmann joins us from the first alert raleigh storm center to show us what we can expect. Chris the good news is, as of 11 00, no warnings in effect, at trying to wind down. I dont think there are going to be a lot more warnings, but there may be one or so. Here is first alert doppler xp. There, especially the northern half of halifax county. Wake forest. This is tracking to the northeast. There could be some small hail into franklin county, there is a strong thunderstorm there. At least some small help that has been the main threat. Look at these reports of hail, northern wake county into Durham County. The largest hailstones we could find were golf ballsized. Most have been dimesized hail through the evening hours. Its going to continue to wind down, but theres another b
Serious condition, a third in custody after this incident. Police say two men were shot during an argument with a third man. That person was taken into custody. One person died at the hospital, and another is in serious condition. Tisha it is primary eve in North Carolina, and that means president ial candidates spent the day in our state in an effort to woo voters. Joel brown joins us with more and what the candidates had to say on the trail today. Joel in the long run up to tomorrows primary, it has been donald trump and Hillary Clinton leading in the polls, but both frontrunners are fending off challengers who want a share of those precious tar heel state delegates. In charlotte this primary eve america will start investing in North Carolina. Joel Bernie Sanders, hoping to do in North Carolina what he did message to pull off an upset against Hillary Clinton. Tomorrow, if here in North Carolina there is a large turnout, a very, very large turnout, we are going to win. Lets do it. Tha
Crowding out the rising cost of the pension and and healthcare for Public Employees that is pushing so much of the compensation back into retirement has led to a squeezing of public budgets such that activist government cant do anything that they might otherwise want to. I think that i will run up here. There have been questions whether the Agency Provisions or other surrounding the collective bargaining in the Public Sector actually compromise the workers rights and thats been the subject of the Supreme Court litigation and highprofile recent cases, box versus sci you on whether this is actually a violation of some workers First Amendment rights by organizing it this way. I guess i would just finish with the promoters of the publicsector unions havent made a positive case for why organizing the public labor markets in this way benefits the broader public. That it benefits the Public Workers themselves and it would be surprising if it didnt do that. But what benefit to the consumers of