Anger and some encouragement. Peggy fox tells us how the proposal is offering hope to some educators in high immigrant d. C. Area communities. Reporter virginia education secretary anne holton is here at Highland Valley Elementary School celebrating a success. The school has pulled out of warning status for accreditation. Were proud of those results and its been through a lot of hard work in the last several years. Reporter haidl valley elementary has more children in poverty than any other Fairfax County school. For more than 84 of the students here, their first language is spanish. Its so exciting to see a school dealing with the challenges, very high free and reduced lunch and english language learners and yet doing phenomenal work. Reporter but 20 other Fairfax County schools are still struggling failing to meet accreditation. 92 of the children here are on free and reduced lunch which is an indicator of poverty status. Immigration attorneys are hopeful the new policy will help lif
Program. Should the Boston Marathon bomber steve the Death Penalty . The numbers are on the screen. Massachusetts residents have your own line and we especially want to hear from you. A very good thursday morning to you. We want to start with some of the headlines, starting with the Boston Herald this morning. Marathon bomber tsarnaev guilty evil did not win that day. The boston globe headline guilty on all counts. Now the real question, should he die . The jury found him guilty of all 30 federal counts against him and there is a rundown of the charges, including the 17 Death Penalty count including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death. Using a weapon of mass distraction resulting in death. Aiding and abetting, and use of the firearm in relation to a crime of violence, and so on down the line. From the boston globe this morning, kevin has kevin has this to say. That is kevincul;l culen;s piece in the boston globe. We want to hear from you. The numbers are o
Good morning. 11 news today continues with continuing coverage of sandy as it comes up the coast. Im live at ocean city where conditions are at their worst. Yesterday we just had wind and now we have rain driving in our faces and waves starting to push toward the shore. There is a chance some areas will continue it see flooding. We are seeing the water spill through the walkway here at 32nd street and starting to pool toward the homes. We continue it watch this flooding and that will be an issue as we continue to head toward high tide. We will continue to track this. The winds are picking up as they continue to gust to near 60 miles an hour right now and could get stronger as the storm continues to approach us. To check what is happening right now in annapolis wove kim dacey. How we have kim dacey. I will have the latest on the conditions her as wind an rain continue coming up. When will the worst of the weather arrive . Tony is tracking the storm as 11 news today continues right now.
And Zerlina Maxwell will be swroining our discussi joining our discussion which gens with the braking news of rachels interview that mary trump has heard donald trump use the nword and other hateful expressions including antisemitic expressions. A post quote she was saying, growing up it was normal to hear them use the nword or use antisemitic expressions. I just wanted you to expand on that. Do you mean just jen wale within the family that was an accepted thing or do you mean specifically you heard your uncle donald use that kind of language . Just generally with the older generations as if it were perfectly commonplace and ordinary to say such things. I had the benefit of living in jamaica, not jamaica states and going to school in forest hills, so i didnt share their ideas about race and and judaism at all. But, you know, when you grow up with that being perfectly normal, then you dont really think twice about it. I have to press you on it a little bit just to ask if the president ,
But john boltons publisher, simon and schuster, they went to the mattresses for him. They fought tooth and nail. They defied the white house bluster and threats. They fought every legal action and they got that thing out. And, you know, Simon Schuster has the First Amendment on their side, and they were righteously and effectively standing up for the First Amendment rights of themselves and their author for sure. To be honest, though, Simon Schuster also knew that it was really important that the bolton book hit bookstores because they knew it would sell a ga jillion copies, and it did. The bolton book has been a huge bestseller. Something like 800,000 copies in its first week. That was a record for Simon Schuster until today, when the same publisher Just Announced that mary trumps new book about her uncle, the president , her account of her life in the trump family and what she came to learn about her uncle and what she describes as his manifest unfitness for office, we learned today