Good morning everybody and welcome to ai. My name is robert gore and im so pleased to have you here this morning for this important discussion of education policy in the united states. We are particularly gratified and happy to have the secretary of Education Betsy Devos with us, her husband, Council President Kellyanne Conway. Its an honor to have them here for this discussion on a topic that is particularly important to ai and our Education Policy Team led by rick s area and were also pleased to have , i like to say that ai is a washington based think tank but we are not a washington focused think tank so we have three distinguished leaders around the country from tennessee to arizona and pennsylvania and they will talk about how some of these issues were talking about in washington to parents and schools in those parts of the country. Really thats what our discussion is all about. How can we make our schools better read a little bit about just to get a sense of how i come to this is
Wife, so why are so many outraged by it. But first the nightline 5. Number one in just 60 seconds. Good evening. Tonight, a controversial trend is taking hold in a place in america that you might least expect. Church. Christian ministries with a passion of fighting are bringing mixed martial arts to the congress grags. A time to pray and then fight. Theres no gospel in a gutpunch. Heres abcs bob woodruff. Did you know that jesus is angry. Reporter by day hes pastor Preston Hocker. By night hes one of a growing number of pastors battling out there. The enemy is trying to seek and destroy. Reporter that believe that the brutal sport of mma has a place not only in the cage but in the church. When the cage door closes, theres nowhere to run or hide. Someone shout jesus reporter theres now 700 fight ministries around the country. The whole reason having the fights here so that we can bring people in and tell them about god. Reporter a new documentary called fight church, explores the phenom
Emergency landing on the beach. Those are some offer top stories on this monday, october 6th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Feeling a little ill . You want to make sure you sanitize the room . Theres lots of things going around. Whats going around . Ebola. Ebola is not going around. Its not going around. Its not going around, but entero 68, right . Yeah. I am washing my childrens hands like multiple times a day. I wasnt really one of these parents that are constantly its a good reminder. Enterovirus is infecting all these kids. A simple thing, washing hands. Were going to kick it off with ebola. I was joking, people. Sense of humor, about ebola. You really have to be next to someone who fully had that disease. Good point, folks. One person in the United States physically right now has ebola. I understand this is something we dont see here. A lot of doctors are saying you just need to take a beat and calm down. The latest an ebola. Theres a patient fighting for his li
Schiavocampo. Blue ribbons across a small new jersey town as a family mourns the loss of their young son. The First Official fatality from enterovirus 68. 4yearold eli waller seemed perfectly fine but after going to sleep one night, he simply never woke up. He had no signs of any illness that night. This passing was sudden and shocking. Reporter in a statement, elis farth described him as a persistent child full of unconditional love and says the family is heartbroken. They are strong. They are passionate about his memory. Reporter eli was the youngest and only boy in a set of triplets. Officials say his sisters arent showing any signs of illness and they are monitoring the two girls. Health workers say this may be the first case where the virus alone is the cause of death. So it is the fifth fatality among children that have had entero virus. But a vast majority of children will only experience this as a mild cold. Elis School District is now sanitizing classrooms more often, trying t
Outraged by it. But first the nightline 5. Good evening. Tonight, a controversial trend is taking hold in a place in america that you might least expect. Church. Christian ministries with a passion of fighting are bringing mixed martial arts to the congress grags. A time to pray and then fight. Theres no gospel in a gutpunch. Heres abcs bob woodruff. Did you know that jesus is angry. Reporter by day hes pastor Preston Hocker. By night hes one of a growing number of pastors battling out there. The enemy is trying to seek and destroy. Reporter that believe that the brutal sport of mma has a place not only in the cage but in the church. When the cage door closes, theres nowhere to run or hide. Someone shout jesus reporter theres now 700 fight ministries around the country. The whole reason having the fights here so that we can bring people in and tell them about god. Reporter a new documentary called fight church, explores the phenomenon. Cage fighting does not speak about loving each oth