Ladies please give us a run of applause. [applause] live to an event in north dakota for a lowercase u. S. Efforts to address Human Trafficking held by York University washington d. C. Center. Live coverage began 15 minutes ago. You can see concerns or restitution. To put out a report delaware couple of years ago with enormous research with adopted across the country that only 36 percent did uh prosecutors ask for restitution. That it is a mandatory requirement. With the continuing care with the other needs but only 36 percent found that the request is even made. So if it speaks to why that is it what you can do with that problem. But the least likely bin is a child victim of sex trafficking. Number one getting a child into court to testify against a trafficker is a monumental feat. Once they get in to the have to testify or can they video . There is a number of factors so that is a long long road. So until we can actually have that difficulty with the last prosecution those that could
Ill go ahead and call this hearing to order. Ill go ahead and do my opening statement. When senator sanders makes it here ill allow him do his opening statement. There is a vote this morning and im not sure how it came out yet but i know its got quite a bit of interest over there. They should be back here pretty quick. So good morning and welcome to our hearing on growth policies for the new administration. First i want to thank senator phil gram for agreeing to testify this morning. He has always been one of my heros of the senate. He was one of the first people i met when i got to washington. After listening to a few of his debates i actually got to sit down and visit with him about some critical issues. I was on the Banking Committee he was the chairman of at the time. I learned a lot. I wanted specifically to have him here for a hearing because of his past experience not while i was in the senate but before that when he worked with redman and holings to do specific stuff with the b
Petersburg. Dont get used to it. It is gone by late tonight. Temperatures crash down to the 50s. 40s overnight. Our High Temperatures coming up for the weekend, not too great either. A snapshot of 6 00 p. M. With the storms coming into the area. New information coming in in the next couple minutes. Well update this and have the latest on the track of these storms for your evening rush in a few minutes. On the ground. Were learning at least one person was killed and an entire mobile Home Community destroyed after tornadoes and storms ripped through oklahoma last night. Just two years after the town of moore, oklahoma was torn apart by a deadly tornado, residents are forced to clean up once again. Coming up in our next half hour jay gray is in bhoormoore with a look at the damage. Shocking details out of france tonight in the crash of german Germanwings Flight 9525. Were learning more about the copilot now blamed for the crash. You saw the breaking details in our nbc washington app. News
Im rob madison and i had the top stories on al jazeera. Theres been a low turn out for a chin is in referendum on a new constitution. The president s critics say the proposed changes will return the country to dictatorship, but the state t. V. Exit poll predicts the referendum will pass. Presently i saw you to says he wants to crack down on a corrupt political elite. I so said our reports from chinas a task the internship with the Company Going to the pools for a controversial constitutional ref random. Thousands of Police National guards and Counter Terrorism unit standing by many indonesia hoping that mondays referendum would help improve the country. Gentlemen, who have sheila, jenna . Hi, katie. We expect the referendum to lead to a better life for our childrens children to have a better life for us. Its over. Why are we living under pressure . Schools are a disaster. The situation is catastrophic. Everything. The disaster but not all are expecting this water will bring change miss
Ada one. They focused on issues at pressing the region, including the conflict in syria. And also discussed a un backed proposal to resume exports of ukrainian grain in the black sea to help ease the global fruit crisis. He says, has been progress in negotiations, thanks to mediation efforts by turkey. If you have a true of probability, though, if you, if you know, i want to thank you for your efforts in mediation providing a forum for negotiation on foot problems on the problem of grain export by the black sea. Once we move forward under your mediation, not all the problems have been resolved yet, but its already good that there is a movement out there. A senior political analyst mala, bashar has more quite clearly. I think there is some serious progress on the great issue on ukraine exports, a grain that will resolve a good part of the for the insecurity thats going on and much of the global shop. So i think thats important. I think we probably will share dissolve. Weve seen earlier