Good morning. Thank you all very much for joining us today. We are going to talk about a very serious and urgent situation confronting puerto rico, the home of 3. 5 million americans. The territorys economy as we read every day has been declining for a decade. It has accumulated huge debts that it cant possibly pay. Puerto rico owes 72 billion to investors, about 46 billion to Pension Funds. Started missing bond payments in january and is expected to default on nearly 2 billion payment due july 1st. That is roughly 100 of its Gross National product. Thousands of residents are leaving the island for the mainland every month to look for jobs and better public services. The exodus is accelerating. In this context, congress and the Obama Administration have come up with compromise. The bill would establish a financial control board to oversee the island government and help restructure its debt in federal court. Require the government and the board to adequately finance Pension Funds that a
This is about 15 minutes. [applause] dr. Carson thank you. Thank you. I feel like i am at a political rally. Want to congratulates the i want to congratulate the. My wife and i have a high esteem for dr. Ingle and this university. Gray happy to be part of it. Travelortunate enough to i am alwaysies and welcomed happy to give back to this country. Some people tend to take that for granted but i do not. That was so important that each one of you developed the tremendous talent that god has provided and are to help maintain as a free country that and it is going to be a fight, it is going to be a struggle. A lot of times people ask me was it really worth getting into the political arena and having people savage her reputation and family, tell lies and do all the things, was it really worth all that and the answer is no. Not if you are doing it for yourself. Othersare doing it for and answer is a resounding yes. Can is him to elevate other people. I had an opportunity over the last year or
Dont get the support. There are many factors. One of them being that again, its largely an immigrant community. You have a lot of the resources, that are provided by either the government or by lgbt organizations, not always in the languages that they speak. Theyre not always addressed to their specific needs. In a lot of the Hindu Community centers, there tends to be a lack of focus on lgbt people. I think thats because its such a new issue for many. There hasnt been a very large hindu Lgbt Community. It is growing very quickly. As a result, when you have issues, hindu students who to want come out and fight, any potential backlash, in many cases they face communities who dont know how to help them. So they are in a curious bind. In my time, i have had a chance to have these conversations with them and also, to work on both sides on educating the community, on how to help them and serving as advocate. Its important to expand this conversation beyond just the Public School system. Talk
Heat warning in effect across i95 and the adjacent counties, temperatures climbing easily into the mid 90s, and it will feel even hotter than that today, it could feel as hot as 105, at the peak of the afternoon here, so again bear with us, but we continue to tell you what, perfect, highs in the mid 90s, feeling like anything from 100, to at least this weekend, as high as 110, ill tell when you that happens. So please take it easy today, for partly sunny skies but scattered showers and thunderstorms. Meisha, we send it over to you. Thats no joke. Katie, thank you so much. Looking outside guys, by the way, happy friday. Tgif. You can see some activity going on, not quite sure, not getting complete confirmation what exactly that is, just know it is, there pulled off to the right. Wont slow you down. You can see just not a lot of vehicles out there anyway. But just know it is out there, have the flashing lights, probably could slow you down in the 7 00 hour, but right now, all right. Look
We will thrive. Now from abc7, live breaking news. The breaking news is from North Carolina. Teargas x fires and s. W. A. T officers in riot gear. Tonight a state of emergency as the charlotte protests grow out of control for a second night in a row. Good evening. Im kristen sze in for ama daetz. Im dan ashley. The North Carolina governor made the Emergency Declaration after a prayer vigil for the man shot and killed by Charlotte Police earlier this week turned violent. These are some of the images playing out courtesy of our charlotte abc station. Lilian kim is monitoring the unfolding situation. Lilian . Reporter kristen, the protests tonight are worse than the night before. One man is in Critical Condition for what they say was a civilian on civilian confrontation. There were clashes between demonstrators and police in riot gear. The worst Case Scenario in charlotte. Police launching teargas into the crowd. We dont know what that was and if that what is a flashbang or what that was.