Jerry Askins News Today

voicesofoklahoma.com. please welcome our candidates to the states. -- to the stage. [applause] by way of introduction, congress grant mary fallin is the candidate for governor of oklahoma with of 19 years in office. she was first elected as a state representative in 1990. if she was legislator of the year for her work in the oklahoma state legislature. she became the first woman lieutenant governor in 1995, a position she held for 12 years. in 2006 she was elected to the united states ...

state. that means getting money to the classroom where it belongs. it means working at any kind of duplicative administrative costs that might take away from getting money to the teachers and the classrooms. it means having high performance standards. we also need to work on making sure that each child as they move from grade to grade is proficient at great appropriate levels. there is a great saying that says from the first to the third grade a child learns how to read, but from the f...

Decision 2010 time. if it is wednesday, that means we have results. and the results are coming in from oklahoma. the next governor, i can tell you this, it is going to be a woman. we can call it here on nbc news. oklahoma will elect a woman for governor. she joins new mexico as one of two states featuring an all female general election match-up for governor in the republican primary. congresswoman mary fouler won with 55% of the vote against randy brogden who picked up 39%. on the democratic sid...

all right. time now to talk about what we learned today very quickly. >> we have so many people here, theres no time for me. well go to carl. >> i learned that there is no appetite for celebrity news according to mika. >> tom? >> i actually learned we won world war ii. >> yes. >> barnacle. hurry. >> ill go to chris. >> hurry. >> i live in a town with a documentary on hunger coming out. >> i learned we have a vice presidential candidate on "morning joe" today, governor chris christie, g...

Runoff early on, a lot thought baker and barnes might avoid the runoff. we will see. wrapping up, on the 30th, term limited brad henry in oklahoma. democratic attorney general drew ed monson and lieutenant governor jerry askins are running but this is a state that may be primed for a takeover. congresswoman mary fallin has a tea party challenger in state senator randy brogdon but gave older the republican side and end up in the governors mansion. as i promised you, savannah, i know your going to...

louisiana, this morning. anne, good morning. >> good morning, salve van nah. like everything else involved in this crisis it is not going well and the reason this time is the weather. bp hoped to put online smug called the helix producer, that would be the third containment system and essentially double their ability to capture the oil going from about 25,000 barrels a day, which they are at to 50,000 barrels a day, some say as much as 53,000 barrels a day that would gift vast majority...

Im john rachels, chairman of the oklahoma city national foundation. this morning we have several special guests with us. we have secretary janet napalitano, united states department of homeland security, governor brad henry and first lady kim henry. lieutenant general jerry askins, mayor mick cornett, congresswoman mary fallon ford bell, executive director of the american association of museums, governor frank and kathy keating, anthony russell, regional administrator fema region six. thank you ...