The pennsylvania secretary of education, pedro rivera. Thank you for being with us. The proposed budget for your department in the coming year is about 6 billion. Where does that money go . Mr. Rivera first, thank you for the opportunity. It is an interesting topic of conversation as you are looking specifically at Education Funding. The vast majority of ending is actually passed through to School Districts. We are a relatively Small Department in terms of service to 500 districts across the commonwealth including 174 harder schools and Technical Education Centers Charter Schools and Technical Education centers. But most of our funding is for but how do you allocate that questio . Mr. Rivera we are proud of some of the work we have in engaged in. For the first time, pennsylvania has a basic Education Funding formula. Historically we had run our lending through a legislative process, meaning wherever you started ended last year is where you would start this year. The first time over two
Tough time. One other problem, san juan is getting most of the relief efforts such as it exists right now. Cities and towns outside of the capital are worried they will be forgotten. We have a report tonight from amanda ramirez. We are in the town on the east coast of the island one areas that was hit the hardest by Hurricane Maria. Where the hurricane entered the island and one right now the main problem is that there is no electricity and no water and gas supplies have not reached the area and there is rationing of food. We are here at a super market in the area one of the few open currently and the customers are telling us that the owners are rationing the food and people can only buy up to 10 items and have all sorts of food but only 10 items per family, there are dozens of people waiting in the line, they are here since early this morning. Many are worried because also even though the store says they have cheese and nuts and that sort of thing, most of these people dont have elect
Under reconciliation rules. U. S. Overage now of the house on cspan. House on cspan. Nnounces to the house his approval ereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from assachusetts, mr. Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The speaker without objection, the gentleman from louisiana, mr. Graves, is recognized for one minute. Mr. Graves thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to give tribute to pastor kevin mckee who opened the prayer this morning this this chamber. Kevin and his wife have been amazing pillars in our community as we have been through extraordinary associated with hurricanes katrina, rita, gustav, isaac, a 1,000 year flood last associated year, wor spill in the nations history. Incredible shootings of five of our Police Officers last year. In
Story. Also tonight, could be finally see a consensus on gun control . Tonight both sides of this divisive issue seem to agree on one thing. This device used by a las vegas gunman needs more scrutiny. Theyre called bump stocks and allow a weapon to fire rapidly like an automatic weapon. Were shown how these items have been flying off the shelves. Its resetting so quickly that it seems like automatic, but its not. Reporter luke kelly describes to us how this semiautomatic gun could be adjusted to fire at a faster speed. Its almost like a one piece type of thing. That you take off. Theres a bolt that holds the grip in here. Reporter its the kind of gun that can be legally altered using bump stocks. Were told some websites are crashing from high demand after the las vegas massacre. Others saying theyre stopping new orders from now. Kellys store already taking new calls from interested customers, telling nbc news nothing is available. Youre a responsible gun owner, you do it in a controlle
Friday sunset time at 6 35. We are looking pretty good for this day but what about the weekend . Of course we will have that forecast in a few minutes. We will check on Tropical Storm nate as well but right now lets check traffic at 5 01 and we will start with the schuylkill westbound at 30th street. Construction still blocking all lanes, but they should be picking that up any minute now that it is 5 00 oclock, and checking ben franklin bridge all clear no weather related issues today as we showed you and in lower oxford township chester county, we have an accident on lancaster avenue between street road and bethel road this morning. Thomas and karen. Well, we have Health Concerns for hundreds of students and their parents at a school in Gloucester County after mold forced officials to shut down this Elementary School, our jenny joyce is there with what we have learn, jenny. Good morning, live here at holy Glenn Elementary School in williamstown. We have been hearing from parents who s