The citi foundation. Supporting innovation and enabling urban progress. Sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. The United States has made a show of force to bolster south korea, five days after what north korea claimed was its First Hydrogen bomb test. Which has yet to be confirmed. Today, the u. S. Air force flew a nuclearcapable b52 bomber based in guam on a lowlevel flight over south korean air space. It was escorted by american f 16s based in south korea and south korean fighter jets. The u. S. Military calls the exercise a demonstration of commitmen
Announcer it is 10 00 p. M. Do you know where your children are . Right now on fox 5 news atten wow. If you stepped outside tonight, you know we are in for it now. After a relatively warm month of december, we are about to get whit the arctic blast tonight. Temperatures are dropping down the teens. In fact, it is 1718 now. Digits. Everybody bundled up in the new winter coats everything they got for christmas. Nick is wheel the forecast. The good news is, it long. Correct. Boy, a a blast. That is sure . No question are in january today. Temperatures in the teens now. 17 in the city. 18 bellmawr. 13 poughkeepsie. 10 in sussex. 13 monticello. Here tonight. The sky is clear. We have a few skater clouds lout. No issues from that department. Fox 5 will confirm that. Couple of snow showers well offshore. The wind has been issue. It is gusting out of the north. 15 to 25 miles per hour, so we see those windchills down. I will show them to you. Oh, look at the 24hour temperature change over 20 t
Over 350 baltimorians were killed last year. 350 dead. Some of whom were little children who were killed as innocent bystanders where theres a question about the revenge killings. This was criminal work. The growing nexus of drugs, crime, guns, violence, murder. My question to you, when i look at the 350 deaths, what can we do in just plain english to keep the guns out of the hands of the criminals . I know we were talking about Second Amendment rights and maryland is a state with enormous numbers of hunters. The gun tradition in Baltimore City shouldnt be that the drug three there is not the one who gets the guns. How can we in either the president s proposals or in current law really have an aggressive effort on this issue of guns and criminals . Thank you, madame vice chairwoman. One of the most important things we can do is make sure the atf is fully resourced. Our request for 200 additional agents and investigators for fiscal year 2017 is something that will be coming before the s
Students are getting the education they deserve. This is a large problem. Nearly a nearly 100 schools in detroit Public Schools, 60 Charter Schools in and around the city, 18 Educational Achievement schools, several adjacent charter and school districts, yet parents cannot find the quality education they seek. One of the issues is detroit Public Schools are in debt. By this summer it will be over 515 million in debt. To achieve the needed academic outcomes Financial Stability and detroit Public Schools must be achieved. Going1100 per student is to debt service, and not to classrooms. Problem lets solve this problem and help the kids. Prompt legislative action is needed to minimize the fiscal impact on both detroit, and the rest of michigan. The time to act is now. And avoid Court Intervention that could cost all this much more and be more detrimental. I want to thank senator hanson for the legislation and the input of many legislators that they provided over the last several months. I
Also, i am looking for tour conversation about our primaries and what they all mean to us because in a few weeks well be in the midst of it all. One one of the real questions i think is whether it will be a rare instance where this is a form policy election or an election that is driven in a large part by Foreign Policy rather than domestic issues. We have a number of experts with us today. Opens, charlie cook editor and publisher of the cook report, a colleague of mine, sam feist was senior vp of cnn who can entertain us with stories about organizing debates. , jim lindsay who is chair of the council. His long time partner. Well have an initial period where i lead a conversation but we will have ample time for you to ask your questions and make comments. I will get you out of here at 930 a. M. , as promised. I would remind you this is on the record, well simulcast of my casting this. This is not a typical cf our event where it is on what we call house rules. Let me start off by asking