Wrong. Hopefully im right and we stay on the calm side. Well continue to monitor this. The debate over the Confederate Flag in South Carolina ended. Tonight new questions are being raised in northern virginia. We have Team Coverage and begin with jay gray in columbia South Carolina where the flag will be taken down in a matter of hours. Reporter it happens after debate overnight that was intense at times, emotional, ending at 1 00 in the morning here with an historic vote and sending many say, a strong message about the past and future of this state. This afternoon, governor nikki haley signed into law a measure to take down the confederate battle flag thats flown on the South Carolina Capitol Grounds for decades. The Confederate Flag is coming off the grounds of the carolyn state house. Reporter its history in the wake of heartache. Three weeks after a selfproclaimed white supremacist murdered nine people inside the emanuel amc church. The perpetrator wrapped himself up in the Confede
Today, he explained how hes going to start to try to do that. Governor larry hogan was greeted warmly by the legislative joint session but the mood in the democrat dominated chamber grew icy as he painted a grim picture of the state of the state. Marylands antibusiness attitude combined with our onerous regulatory policies have rendered our state unable to compete with any of the states in our region. Its the reason that businesses jobs and taxpayers have been fleeing our state at an alarming rate. Republicans applauded. Democrats sat stone faced as hogan revealed his legislative agenda which includes an expansion of Charter Schools and for tax cuts. He would repeal the socalled rain tax stop taxing the pensions of retired military and first responders. Stop gas tax hikes tied to inflation and reduce property tax for Small Business owners. Its time for a new direction in maryland. Republicans loved what they heard. The governor hit the nail on the head today. Democrats took the speech
Not have a sprinkler system. Asked if the sprinkler would have made a difference, a county fire marshal said without a doubt. Officials tell news4 that done pyle was found in the great room, his wife sandy and the grandkids on the second floor in the bedrooms. Can you say whether there was any evidence that mr. Pyle tried to put the fire out . And if there was any evidence to show that some of the victims tried to get out . I think that would be circumstantial at this point. If in respect of the family, we wont go into details. Reporter there were a number of questions that went unanswered today because they said they wanted to be sensitive to the family. That includes exactly where some of these bodies were found. Now, the atf plans to conduct this testing again to recreate what happened using Christmas Trees at their facility in beltsville in Prince Georges County in the next few weeks. In anne arundel county, darcy spencer. Just last month, the university of maryland demonstrated ju
Days get shorter. We do it right about the time daylight savings time starts because there is a measurable increase in the number of people hit by cars because of the extra darkness at the p. M. Rush hour. In the spring, this is a time when weather is et going better. Its a time when more people are out, more people active more people walking the street walking and biking. Everybody is a little bit out of practice drivers looking for bicycle i haves, bicyclists getting back on the birk after a few months off. Talk if you would, walter about this campaign and who its trying to reach. Sure i think we want to go long and wide throughout the metro region were an attractive place to come to shop and live. We have a very diverse region where we have people from walks of life and dak ground and speaking different languages. For us its imperative that we increase our education, our that we try to prevent fatalities or any kind of incidents. Weve had too many in our metro washington region abou
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