and colleagues at abby general motors and delphi rolls royce at the university of texas at dallas, and now at the university of houstonhen i received the letter. at first i could not even believe that i was chosen for such a prestigious award this award definitely shows the importance of improving energy efficiency and reducing emissions, especially in the field of transport, which is responsible for a large part of them this award. it also encourages researchers and companies to further development of technologies in the field of transport and electrification. the electrification of transport has come a very long way in the 1990s , when i said that electric cars were the future, no one believed in it. and now we see them picking up the baton and being available everywhere 20 years ago when the conversation turned to fuel cell aircraft and electric planes and flying cars. people laughed at this when i talked about flying cars 15 years ago, everyone thought it was a joke, and now it's more hundreds of companies are working on flying cars and a lot of work is being done in the field of electric aircraft. thus, transport

houston community college as a licensed vocational nurse in 1967. he obtained a bachelor of general studies degree from the university of houston downtown college. . martinez put his education degree to use as an associate teacher at crockett elementary. mr. martinez was known for his collaboration with fellow members of the league of united latin american citizens to organize a gala for president john f. kennedy during the president's trip to texas. his torians credits this -- historians credits this meeting the first time a sitting president met with a latino civil rights group. he was a member and active participant in that civic engagement with the organizations, including the veterans of foreign war, the american g.i. forum, the american legion luluc, the knights of columbus. he was an honorary member of the goliad rotary club, an active volunteer for the american red cross. due to his 35 years of service, houston and harris county declared benny c. martinez d days -- day on august 27, 1997, and february 17, 1998. mr. martinez passed away at the age of 85 on december 29, 2019. i encourage my colleagues to join me in honoring his legacy by na

in dallas and william fulton who at the time of our writing was the director of the kinder center at rice university in houston. so we had you know anchors people in each of the parts of the metro of this texas triangle. let me just give you some numbers here real quickly. i'll be briefing going through this because it is numbers, but this is an amazing thing. few texans, i think understand 66% of the population of texas lives in just the 35 counties that surround the triangles metros. so if you take all the counties that constitute the dallas metro area and that constitute the houston metro area and the san antonio metro area. that's 35 counties out of 254 in the state. that's 14% of the counties, but they the population of them is 66% of the people of texas and those folks produce 77% of the gdp of the state. so they battle above their weight in the sense that 66% of the people produce 75% of the economy, and that's because the economy of texas is transforming itself from the land of wide open spaces and ranches and and oil wells being the dominant economy two the port of houston and its role the medical cen

university of montana researchers who study wildfires calling for americans to skip fireworks. >> you're going to hear these messages more and more every 4th of july. >> reporter: another concern -- air pollution, like houston saw after its new year's celebration fireworks in 2019. but the celebration isn't ending. in many places, it's evolving. some communities filling the void with drone and light shows. of course, many americans traditionally do it themselves -- backyard fireworks. jst as traditionally, we hear warnings of the dangers of doing that. ahead of tomorrow's celebrations, l.a. firefighters using watermelons to show the force behind even small illegal fireworks. other cancellations are happening for a totally different set of reasons. supply issues. they just couldn't get their hands on the fireworks. that's what's happening in phoenix and some other cities. but most places have found a way to put on their big show. whit? >> zohreen, thank you. >>> news tonight about a lifeguard bitten by a shark off long island, new york. the lifeguard nipped on his hand and chest during a training exercise at smith point beach. the area temporarily closed to swimmers. lifeguards using boats, jet-skis and dron

of president kennedy speaking in 1962. his famous speech at rice university and houston. about, we choose to go to the moon and do the other things. not because they are easy but because they are hard. so, tell us, how did he jump in to this space race? how did it become a race? can you place it in that context of the cold war? >> first of all, barbara, thank you for that really generous introduction. thanks to you, and christina, and all of you for having me here today. i'm excited to talk with all of you about this. and, let's start with the race. what is interesting about that term, space race, is that both eisenhower and kennedy really resented it. they really shied from calling it a brace from, frankly, admitting that it was a race. they felt that, to adopt that terminology, was to get backed into a competition with the soviet union that we might lose. in fact, we were losing it from the very beginning. from the moment when the soviets sent that first satellite, sputnik, into orbit around the earth in 1957. there was a whole series of firsts that followed that. the s

of 15. nehemia he's set to become the youngest graduate at sam houston state university, in texas.dy ready to start studying for the m cat. it is easy to get lost in the doomscroll that is today's news cycle. my next guest is living proof of an incredibly bright future. i am so happy to be joined by nehemia and his father raphael. gentlemen, good morning. nehemia it's, colleges not usually on the radar if you are 15 years old. what was it like to be the youngest guy there? what was your college experience? was it everything you thought it could be? that you hoped it would be? >> it was. it was very enjoyable. i do not know if i could say it was a different experience because i have never experienced actual school. i have been home schooled for pretty much all of my life, until i got to college. getting the chance to go to a college for the first time really was an experience,, being in a school. it was great. >> you are not even old enough to drive. you are graduating from college. do you ever stop and think, okay, this is kind of cool? this is a little different? do you ever suffe

of 20, which was the chinese communist party is inside the gates. we closed the chinese consulate in houston, texas because they were spying on american universities.s important. they're in our universities, they're all across our businesses. they own too many assetses here in the united states. this is not a foreign issue. this is an issue that affects american jobs, american intellectual property and was very heartened to see director ray speak about it. >> trace: you talked about 2020. i was at the anniversary of the pearl harbor attack and talked to admiral harry harris that was in charge of pacific centcom. he said we cannot allow china to build out these military bases in the south china sea. yet we have. is that a mistake strategically? >> yeah, it's a mistake. it's something that we have to go fix and certainly protect against going forward. admiral harry was my ambassador. we understood as did centcom the challenges to the south china sea. we knew we had to get it right there and at home. if we did both things, we could convince the people of china as director wray said, this is not about ethnicity. this is about a chinese communist party

. ♪ call one eight hundred, eight million ♪ >> ashley: houston texans announcing he has leukemia. former university ofted for the illness. he was drafted in the second round of this year's draft. meshy was supposed to be ready for training camp despite tearing his acl kyle schroder is the latest to stand out nfl team. is he being picked up by the jacksonville jaguars as they get ready to start training camp this week. he threw for more 1700 yards and nine touchdowns usfl season. all with the breakers. back to you. >> steve: thank you very much, ashley. did you know that today is national hire a veteran day. but according to a 201 pugh 201w research poll only one in have a job after they serve. after america's warrior partnership is helping to bring more troops from the battlefield to the boormd board room and beyond: colonel, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. how are you? >> steve: that is a shocking statistic. i know when people are in the service they think their next step is this and they have things lies up in heir head but it doesn't work out all the time. >> it doesn't. it's important

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