Thank you so much. Weve got a lot to share tonight, so lets get down to business. Mr. Speaker, mr. President , members of the legislature, congressman seth magaziner, thank u for being here. Our general officers, chf justice and meers of the judiciary, municip leaders, members of my cabinet, and my fellow Rhode Islanders whore watching at home, including my mom, willa and i want to thank everybody always asking how my mom is doing. Good evening. When i staed thinking about this years state of the state address, i thought back to the first inaugul speech i made in march of 2021. Rhode island was in a time of significant change. We were faced with many challenges and what felt like endless unknowns. At that time, i asked my fellow Rhode Islanders to join me, to come together as one team and meet that moment head on. On that day, i shared something i used to tell the players i coached in basketball. The team i coached was called the rhode island shooting stars. They were a group of young
It was only supposed to last half an hour. Instead it was two hours. 2 15 in fact. Details what was discussed hine closed doors. Were learning hack attacks hitting Nuclear Facilities in the u. S. And abroad. The clues pointing to russian hackers. More on the alarming threat. David well get back to that. Riots in hamburg. Market stocks soaring on heels of a better than expected jobs report. Phil flynn at cme in chicago to tell us about commodities. First to Nicole Petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. Nicole, the jobs numbers, they liked them. Abs you absolutely. You saw the board with red and green. Apple leading Dow Jones Industrial average as it closes up about 93 points, moved into positive territory on heels of better than expected job growth. That really gave a boost to the futures before we traded this morning. You saw the pop. Dow finished higher and s p 500 and what is interesting about the nasdaq, it has snapped a recent losing streak that weve seen for the nasdaq an
Our hotel, probably only maybe 100 or so feet. But this just gives you a sense right now of just how engaged the fighting is along the entire coast. And really, were in a hotel. The idf, the Israeli Military, knows where were at. Hamas knows where were at. Everybody knows where were at. And we have seen tight, tight closequarter fighting all up and down this area by hotels, in civilian areas, really everywhere along gaza and even here in the International Sort of journalist area. Its no different, really, shepard. Conor, i want to lift the veil a little bit for our viewers and let them see what you were seeing and experiencing in the last three minutes. Look. Get that door open just in case. [ explosions ] get down, mel. Hey, guys, were ducking and covering right now. Jesus mel, get down. Mal, down. By a wall. Hey, were not moving right now, guys. Were not moving right now. We are not moving right now. Better they know were up here. Theyre not shooting at us but by us. In other words,
Although the black flag of isis is flying over portions of kobani. Were learning a Police Station controlled by isis was hit by coalition bombs. As turkey stays out of the fight for this keyboarder town. Sparking riots among kurds in turkey, killing about 25 according to reports. Greg pal scott in the thick of it, live near the turkeysyria border. Greg . Reporter shannon, were back from the border and the fighting is intense. The latest release, centcom claims that a Kurdish Militia is in control of most of the city. We can tell you from our Vantage Point it looks very different from that. Fighting all over. Look at some very closeup image s cameraman mal james got from our position. From our reckoning the isis group is in control of the eastern side of the city. They might be making inroad into the center. On the west side, there is a battle royal going on between isis and kurdish defenders. We saw one, maybe more isis truck bomb or car bomb hitting kurdish positions. A lot of casualt
Im martha maccallum. It comes down in many way ways to the city of kobani. This town terrorists are fighting to seize. The headquarters of the Kurdish Forces has fallen to isis. Bill back to greg palkot live on the border, center of it all. Greg . Reporter bill and martha for the past two hours or so weve been listening to a battle royal going on in the syrian town of kobani the i will ask my cameraman mal james to zoom beyond me. You cant see too much. I think you can make out a line of trees. That is the center of kobani. That is the headquarters where kurdish defenders are. That according to our best source inside of the town has just fallen to the isis terrorists. Weve been hearing a lot of shooting, a lot of firing around there. The fight might not be over but that would be a big, big strong hold for isis terrorists if that were to happen. Were hearing the border crossing, between kobani and turkey, the only border crossing, is controlled by isis. If that is confirmed, that is the