[applause] [applause] [background noises] before you begin tonight, i went to apologize to all of the ku basketball fans i am fully aware of the game just started at 6 00 p. M. Majority leader croft, i understand you are an alum of the losing team tonight. It. [laughter] very good. Mr. Speaker, mr. President , madame chief justice of the entire kansas supreme court, members of my cabinet, leaders of the kansas tribes and all of the constitutional officers and legislators assembled tonight, it is an honor to speak with you. It is also my honor to welcome Lieutenant Governor along with his family his wife beth and their children caroline and william. [applause] this time last year, i stood here and reviewed the tremendous turn around our state had made in just fourr years. Four Straight Years of balanced budgets. Four Straight Years of fully funding schools. Planning the Largest Economic Development project in the history of our state. I didnt clear the state of our states to be very str
Looping back around heading back out into the sea possibly restrengthening and doing a second landfall near houston. So we are talking a very prolonged period this is all the way through the next four or five days that this storm is going to be bringing rain to the coastline of texas which is why we are talking very very high amounts of rain. From Corpus Christi up to houston. 15, 25inches of rain. Thats the big concern about flooding but there are other concerns with this storm. The surge six to 12 feet from Padre Island National seashore up into sergeant, texas and winds 74 Miles Per Hour or more. Thats that Hurricane Force winds. Very scary and then theres a severe component guys they could be seeing tornadoes as we head through the next few hours. Ill be keeping track of it, as well as our forecast back here, guys, looking absolutely beautiful. Its tough to talk about texas want theyre expecting down there when its so gorgeous out here. Well check in a few minutes. Thanks mon any k
Vandalized so he built a new one to commemorate her birthday. He has no connection to the girl at all. He was just touched by her story. I have 12 grand kids and i could never imagine my kids doing anything like that to my grand kids. The children are the future. And to have one of them snuffed out at three years old, it is crazy. Tonight, wally and some volunteers will go to the site in orlando and release balloons in caylees memory. Search crews have now found the black box of freighter el faro. Now, that ship sank near the bahamas during hurricane joaquin. The National Transportation safety board retrieved the ship from 15,000 feet of water. That is roughly three miles down. Search crews actually found the recorder in april, but they couldnt remove it then. The ntsb will begin processing the data when crews return from sea and that should be by the enof the week. Now, at 5 30, 8 on your side is helping you to get schooled as the new school year that are nervous. Lindsey mastis shows
. Right now on news channel 8 at 11 00. We are tracking wet weather across the bay area tonight. Ian oliver has the complete forecast for you. Plus, they say cats have nine lives. Thanks that an alert driver, a kitty has all of them still. Good evening. Im rod carter. Ian oliver is tracking them for us right now. We wrapped up what a soggy weekend for many of us. Southern spots got heavier rainfall today that they missed out on yesterday. This is 48hour doppler rainfall tallies. Areas south of i4 that missed out on the rainfall the first half of the weekend, picking up two inches of rainfall. The nature coast, we have seen big time rainfall tall hes over more rainfall making its way in we will teak a look at what to expect for your workweek tomorrow when we get back to warmer, brighter weather coming up in a few minutes. Looking forward to it, ian. Thank you. You can track the weather any time by using our app. It is free to download in your app story. An amazing story of survival. A d
Bad as it was yesterday morning. Yet. But we do have that heightened chance for rain. Especially right along the immediate coastline during the Morning Hours and then shifting inland for the afternoon. Right along i75 there near osprey up to just east of sarasota. A little bit of rain, i mean not bad. Starting oh of this morning also have a couple of showers very close to the Pinellas County coast. But we just got a lot of moisture in the atmosphere. So whoa. Hello. Frm spider. Oh my gosh. That is so cool. 80 degrees with south, southeast wind at 7 miles per hour. That is really cool. Okay. Anyway at showers will take over later this morning along the coast move inland for the afternoon, here your highs in the upper 80s. Was that the same camera that had watch on it . Yeah did the spider eat the watch . I dont know. Breaking news investigate dave that is so cool. All right thanks so much. Time right now about to switch over to 8 02. As we mentioned here at the top of hour we do have bi