We will ask how serious is the problem of youth radicalization in germany. And new plans to stem the flow of migrants from africa to europe. We will speak to our correspondent in malta where eu ministers have been meeting to find solutions to one of humanitys biggest crises. Brent it is good to have you with us. He has only been in office one week but donald trump is drawing fire yet again over his comments and those executive orders. His renewed support for using torture and his insistence on building a border wall with mexico getting lots of attention. The u. S. President is in philadelphia where he addressed were to look at their annual policy retreat. During the speech trump again insisted that mexico must agree to pay to the wall for the wall or its president need not come to washington. The diplomatic fallout has begun. The president of mexico and myself has agreed to cancel our planned meeting scheduled for next week. Unless mexico is going to treat the United States fairly, wit
But how we celebrate is also changing, and its not just chocolate and roses. While the percentage of americans buying candy has remained relatively stable over the last decade, the number of consumers buying greeting cards has fallen off nearly 15 and the number buying clothing has increased by more than 5 . Many couples now celebrate the couple with a night out, which may include dinner to a restaurant or tickets to a show. 30 years ago, jim mccann was a disrupter before we ever knew what that term meant. He changed the name of his flower stores to a 1800 number. Today he leads the company with more than 1 billion in sales. Jim mccann is 1800flowers. Com founder and ceo, and jim, thank you for joining us. Good to see you. Good to see you, becky. Jim, ive known you for a lot of years, and ive never really known how you got started in the flower business. Is it true you were moonlighting as a bartender and heard about a it was across the street from the place i worked at here in manhatt
Engineer who worked in biotech over 20 years, understand their dilemma. I was one of maybe two or three students of color in my Electrical Engineering class when i went to college. Reporter bryant founded black girls code with hopes of literally changing the face of technology. When we generally think of a Computer Scientist now, it does not look like a woman of color. Its very much white, male dominant. And thats important for us to show that black girls can code. Most black girls arent into computers and stuff. But its really cool and fun. Reporter black girls code held its first event four years ago in San Francisco with eight girls. Today the none profit has chapters in eight u. S. Cities and johannesburg, south africa, with plans to expand to dallas and miami this year. Its funded through corporate sponsors and partnerships, donations and a 35 fee to attend workshops which can be waived in some cases. Code has offered workshops to about 5,000 girls ages 7 to 17. Theyre learning ev
And ice this morning. Yesterday many people got lucky with yesterday many people got lucky with yesterday many people got lucky with the timing of the storm and that it fell on a holiday when many people were already off work and out of school. But thats not the case today, and this latest round of winter storm may cause many headaches for people today. Wdbj7s shayne dwyer is live in Downtown Roanoke for us this morning. Morning, and most importantly how are the roads . Kimberly its downright dangerous out here. The primary roads are in as good as shape as they can be, the plow crews have been working all through the night to get those clear. But there is a lot of standing water and slush on the roads. My 15 minute commute into work this morning took me over 30 minutes. If you went slow yesterday, try to go about half that speed today. Kimberly ice can come out of no where and turn a normal day into a power crews are very on power lines and trees. More than 14 thousand outages reported
Aidens favorite hockey team, the Boston Bruins play. They flew from raleigh to boston, and were greated by the Boston Bruins mascot and ice girls at the gate. Leo won the trip after writing an essay in september about why he and his son deserved to see the team play. Leo also got to go out on the ice between the 2nd and 3rd periods to take a shot at the net. He won an autographed puck and a team autographed stick. We all know what a big hockey fan leo is, so i can just imagine how much fun he had during his trip. Marco rubio is hoping Campaign Stops in virginia can give him the push he needs on super tuesday. Wdbj7s Christian Heilman was at the rally at Roanoke College last night and has more about the event. These are the kind of days Everyone Wants to be back in college. Its also one Patrick Stone probably wont forget. Patrick stone, coming to hear rubio 00594014 its a great opportunity. Its not where a president ial candidate comes to you, you know . 00594621 this is the first time