The National Governors association met this past weekend in washington d. C. For its annual winter meeting and focused on ways to combat childhood hunger and current initiatives at the state and local levels that have been successful atrophiedi feeding c at school. This is about an hour and a half. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, and i think we should get started. Its another important big day here at the nga and we have a lot of good work to do. Im dorothy mcauliffe, first lady of virginia and chair of the nga spouses leadership committee. And its my honor and great pleasure to welcome you all to this very special winter meeting, joint session for governors and for spouses. Today were talking about ending child hunger, improving lives and investing in americas future. I want to thank all the governors who are here this morning and their spouses and all the many Partner Organizations who are in attendance this morning. I will say its my understanding its been several years since
The Research Evidence does show us that there is a Clear Association between access to healthy food, particularly fruits and vegetables, and Better Health outcomes such as lower rates of all of the things that dr. Angel laid out earlier today. So i could not come to Georgetown Law Center and not cite professor lawrence gostin. He is cited here, when we were looking at the universe of policies that can address fruit and vegetable consumption its vast. Many things we have talked about today can be influenced by Public Policy. To organize our thinking we used this framework to think about the different strategies and put them into some context. We also looked at the different settings where its possible to implement policy related to increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables, those settings very broadly are government settings, school settings, which we just mentioned as an important kind of access point. Early childhood settings, retail settings, work sites and generally community
Look like. Reporter they were sentenced during the height of the cocaine epidemic when former narcotics detective tells me dealers capitalized on the power of addiction. I can only tell you what one drug dealer told me. If they are stupid enough to not, im smart enough to sell it. Reporter ohio sentencing guidelines reflect how seriously police and prosecutors took the epidemic. Heroine was much less potent at the time, penalties smaller. Possession of 50 grams for firstdegree felony versus 27 grams of cocaine. Today, heroine is become far more potent. Its one or two steps above the best cocaine. Reporter sentinel is in the picture as well. That would be enough to kill someone if it was just a few loophole in ohio law keeps county prosecutors from charging some and no sentinel dealers. We want to make sure the penalties are there. Reporter they both agree that ohio needs to catch up adding dealer should be treated differently than their clients. Jail is where the traffickers. Jail is f
The one that led to this new bulletin yesterday morning of lone wolves or self radicalized actors that could strike with little or no warning. President obama because they are smaller, they are harder to detect. That makes it harder to prevent. The majority of americans are skeptical of the government s ability to prevent lone wolf attacks. The president says changes are being made to strengthen the security of the Visa Waiver Program and they questioned immigration officials about their inability to keep track of every violation. How many of those people are still in the United States . I don t know. President obama we can t give in to fear or change how we live our lives. That is what terrorists want. She will head to will stop in San Bernardino to meet the families of the victims. Most of us seeing rain tonight. It makes for a miserable commute. Harvey is checking all the changes. Harvey you mentioned the double whammy. Let s add darkness so it s a triple whammy. Only a quarter of a
And then he will head to hawaii for family vacation. Harvey is tracking a wet and foggy ride home. Is the steadiest and heaviest rain. Far western new england is tapering down a little bit. Is pretty heavy rain falling there. Especially Worcester County down towards new bedford and parts of the maine and New Hampshire coast line. Here s the heaviest band of rain from southern connecticut right through long island. It looks like the heaviest rain will be southeastern massachusetts and cape cod is this chunk of moisture moves northeast. The Northern Edge of that could clip into the boston area and it all kind of slides offshore pretty quickly after that. They could be just a little bit of additional rain at times midday and along the coast. The temperatures, it s in the 50. It will stay that way pretty much tonight and tomorrow temperatures will not rise very much. It will feel very different on saturday. A fight ends with injuries and arrest. They say there was a brief fight between thr