in connecticut on monday, sean lang of aids connecticut expanded on what this bill would mean for the people living with h.i.v. in this country. quote -- and i'm quoting sean lang -- some of us lived through the early days of the plague. when we went to funeral after funeral, memorial service after memorial service, week after week, month after month watching our friends wither away and die. the health care bill that is currently secretly weaving its way through congress would bring us back to the early days of the plague. h.i.v. is a preexisting condition. over half of the people living with h.i.v. in the country and in this state are over the age of 50 and rely on medicaid as their primary source of insurance. most of these people also have other commore bidties, like substance abuse disorders and mental health disorders. what little we know about this bill would be devastating to people with h.i.v. and aids, and it is essentially -- and it slings would amount to a death -- and it essentially would amount to a death sentence. again, having lived through those early days, we don't wa

connecticut. have that typical slowdown about 10 minute delay 95 over tom just past georgia avenue. 95 is looking good and 50 on your way up to bowie is nice and quiet. more traffic in a few. back to you. >> erin thanks. >>> coming up next on fox5 news morning the weather channel is trolling the president on social media. we'll tell you why coming up next. >> netflix pulling the plug on one of its gaining a new one documenting the life of an iconic singer. we'll tell you who coming up. be right back. >> ♪ >> ♪♪ introducing the italian collection from subway. head in now to grab the five dollar footlong spicy italian. loaded with salami and pepperoni. for a limited time, the spicy italian footlong is just five dollars. it's a big value for even bigger flavor. only at subway. tom went to washington to take on and the credit card companies and the wall street banks - that's what tom perriello is about. i was prou

the presiding officer: the senator connecticut. mr. blumenthal: i am proud and honored to follow my colleague from oregon, who has been such a steadfast leader when this comes to our nation's health care, particularly when it comes from women's health care. i am been really proud to stand side by side with him and senator murray and others today. my colleagues, sometimes at this time of the hour of day or night, we can feel alone, as though no one is listening. but i know that millions of americans are listening, because of the voices like my colleague, ron wyden, and i would join him in urging our fellow americans to make their voices heard, to be loud. and we're going to be loud in connecticut this friday at 1:30 in the afternoon when i continue the emergency field hearing that we began on monday, giving the people of connecticut an opportunity to make their voices and their faces known and seen and heard because, unfortunately, that opportunity has been denied by a process that has been secretive and hasty. secrecy and speed are tox

i'm sorry from east hampton, connecticut, right? caller: no, actually eileen, east hampton, connecticut. host: i had it wrong on the screen. please., caller: i'm calling about an addictionpic, opiate and options for that. ere in connecticut, we have medical cannabis and i'm a cannabis the medical program, my issue is not with opiate addiction, but they are with chronic pain. i think if not only the government, but i just think healthcare community medical accepting of cannabis as treatment for chronic pain and honestly help opiate addiction, i think hat would be helpful for like everybody in the nation, not just here in connecticut, and that is wehing about as patients now have been on program for a while and we have an awful lot of information think would be useful and honestly, we -- there aren't a us to be able r to talk to medical providers and state legislators about what some of the benefits and some of too, of the s, programs are so i think that hose are options that could be considered, along with a lot of opiate tions for t

connecticut, which has a clear definition of ineffective teachers, says it does not track where those educators work since states prohibit -- that state prohibits that information being available to the public. vermont will name every teacher who has a teacher certification as effective. let's talk about these different approaches. u.s. much more in your article, which you can find on -- you list much more in your article, which you can find on the website. mr. burnette: i started on this in northen i was dakota. a huge teacher shortage. they have all of the schools that are really isolated, and they cannot filter teacher that fill their teacher positions. that wouldided discourage teachers, be demoralizing, etc., you could if you saidchers there were three ineffective teachers at that school, everyone would know who they were. so they came up with this calculation that sort of takes hominy marks off at the teachers had in their evaluation and -- how many marks off of their evaluation, and how many ineffective teachers there are. we know we are kind of bending the rules here, we do no

outer loop near connecticut avenue.ll take a look at the three circles in a minute. >> thank you, melissa. >>> following a developing story on capitol hill. democratic senators were on the floor well after midnight to blast republicans for holding secret meetings in their effort to repeal and replace the affordable care act. >> they expressed their fear that republicans will jam a bill through with little debate by the end of next week. >> i don't think we ought to vote on a bill that will touch every single human being in this country when one party is locked not able to read the bill and not able to discuss it and help make suggestions and changes. >> now, republicans could provide an outline of their health care proposal as early as tomorrow. they're aiming to get a vote next week. >>> 6:42. a postal worker murdered trying to finish up his route. >> ahead, a look at the video that could catch a killer in the community. >>> touched by a tragedy and saluted by a star. the surprise visit for heroic firefighters at a dev

early crash, on the ramp to connecticut avenue. all lanes open, outer loop looking good. the construction zone on the outer loop is before the toll road should be clear oh by 5:00 but a tap of the brakes as you across the bridge getting closer to the toll road on the outer loop. inner loop looks good. no problems in mclean as we move over to a wide view of morning commute, you can see the entire -- excuse me. tuesday, it's wednesday. that's not ok. any questions at erin@fox5dc, i can assure you it is wednesday. >>> 4:36, coming up. one of the most celebrated actors of our time is retiring. >>> people were wondering how much wonder what time was made compared to super man >>> the time is 4:37. 71 is the temp. back in a moment. back in a moment. . >>> the family shot to death by the same cops she h her home are demanding answers about her death. officers came to her home on sunday after a report of break-in, when they arrived, she talked calmly about the burglary and suddenly came at officers with a knife. family members say she struggled with mental health issues >>> days

they talked about the connecticut compromise. and as you well know, this was a compromise that allowed our republic to form. and in understanding that -- that we'd have two bodies, the house and the senate, and every state would have two members representing it. and in many ways the founders of our country coming out of this viewed this body very different liz than the other body. now, the other body you served in. i'm hoping maybe you could shine some light. i've been here three and a half years. you've had experience as a house member and as a senator. you said some people at home might dismiss this as hyperbolic partisanship. i think you're right. i've seen this body change. what frustrates me, i was here a brief period of time when democrats were in the majority and i heard my republicans on the -- colleagues on the republican side talking about regular order, how important regular order is, how when we're in charge we're going to have regular order. the leader spoke publicly about this thing called regular order. now, the ho

i yield floor. >> senator from connecticut. >> thank you, mister president. i want to pick up where my colleague in hawaii left off, there was a wonderful analogy president obama used after the 2016 election as you can imagine. president obama, put it pretty simply, these are intramural scrimmages. temporary pennies, republicans and democrats. we belong to the same team, legislative fights, temporary skirmishs and realize greater identity, we have this, now money. that is what the american people see, they think our primary identity is our partisan identity. there are a lot of days we give them fodder for that belief. it is amazing when it comes down to it, when you think about the healthcare system, we do have the same goals in mind. there are lots of issues we don't have the same goals. we want to go left or right. we want to go left. on healthcare we all went to get to the same place which is more people have access to health insurance, the costs of their insurance is less than what it is today, the quality of the care is better. underneath that it is mech

and so do the people of connecticut and our country. my colleagues have failed to hear those faces and voices, because they have refused to have hearings and markups and committee meetings and robust, full debate on the floor of this chamber as is the practice and should be in other pieces of legislation. why not for one historic and unprecedented importance to the future of our nation. instead it met behind closed doors, a group of men who maybe coincidentally produced a bill that defunds planned parenthood and in effect furthers a war on women's health, an assault on women's health care that will deny mammograms, screenin scree, preventive care, primary care to men as well as women around this country. it will gut medicare, medicaid. it will rob millions of people of the health care they now have through medicaid. higher costs and less care for america, and especially our seniors who will be among the most victimized by these cuts. and for anyone who cares about opioid addiction and abuse and everyone in this chamber by overwhelming m

schools were just getting started in connecticut. visit them.o what we found was they were absolutely the same. i need you hear this. upward bound program served historically -- kids supposed to be not on track to go to college. these elite new england prep schools are supposed to serve just the opposite. they begin with the same basic presumption, that everybody is going to college. the kids at the prep schools, hey, do you want to go to college? them.t never occurs to they just go. everything is designed for that. the same is true of the upward bound program. everyone just presumed. then they do a couple of things that are exactly the same. are no remedial classes in the elite prep schools. .one i didn't say that there were not children who didn't need them. i said that there are no re classes. what we find in many traditional schools, especially in urban, failed schools -- and there is such a thing as a failed school. they are schools that -- every year, 80%, 90% of the kids can't read, write, do math. that's a failed school. righ

they are not in connecticut.e of the things that's going to have to happen is you're going to have to restructure those in an equitable and sustainable fashion. connecticut and a lot of states have a lot of high debt, too. one of the things we need to recognize, joe and becky and andrew, we need to move away from this debt ceiling limit. it hasn't worked. we've gone from $5.7 trillion in debt in 2000 to almost $20 trillion. they passed budgets and appropriations bills that are guaranteed to run deficits and they have this big hoopla about the debt ceiling limit. we need to get rid of that. we need to go to a debt to gdp mechanism, which would be a pro growth mechanism, both on the tax and intelligent infrastructure, so you have to constrain the growth of debt. you grow the denominator faster than the numerator. we need to get down from about 78% of gdp to public debt to about 60 over 20 years or so and make sure we can keep it there, but to do that, you've got to force everything on the table, including the 69% o

and joe lieberman, the sort of democratic senator from connecticut. christopher wray is a much less political choice, and i think many people in the senate will find that a relief barring any surprising disclosures in the vetting process. it seems like he's very likely to be confirmed. he was head of the criminal division in the george w. bush administration and the justice department. that's a job that is a highly respected job, but not an especially political job. so i think that's something that this choice is likely to be very popular on both sides. >> we're looking at the hearing room right now for the senate intelligence committee and there's marco rubio right there and we were discussing him. it seems to me the democratic members got there a lot earlier than some of the republican members. maybe they were more eager for this questioning and some of the people testifying are now sitting down so we may break out the minute they start talking.

they talked about the connecticut compromise. and as you well know, this was a compromise that allowed our republic to form. and in understanding that -- that we'd have two bodies, the house and the senate, and every state would have two members representing it. and in many ways the founders of our country coming out of this viewed this body very different liz than the other body. now, the other body you served in. i'm hoping maybe you could shine some light. i've been here three and a half years. you've had experience as a house member and as a senator. you said some people at home might dismiss this as hyperbolic partisanship. i think you're right. i've seen this body change. what frustrates me, i was here a brief period of time when democrats were in the majority and i heard my republicans on the -- colleagues on the republican side talking about regular order, how important regular order is, how when we're in charge we're going to have regular order. the leader spoke publicly about this thing called regular order. now, the ho

reporter matt caron talked to experts at the airport in hartford county, connecticut. make sure you are ánotá unknowingly packing a weapon. "these are the items that have been confiscated from passenger carry-on bags here at bradley international airport in just the past 30 days. everything from banned liquid to different blades and weapons and tools to more unique and unusual items like this farm sickle."but bradley says your safety is in good hands.sot william csontos, connecticut federal security director"tsa has it covered and obviously we have a strong partnership with the connecticut state police here at bradley as well as u.s. securities also on the grounds so we have both the public and the secure side of the airport pretty well taken care of."but that searching slows the screening process.your encouraged to apply for tsa's pre-check.it's about 15 minutes faster and you can leave on your shoes and jacket. sot arturo & lucy bernardino, west brookfield"we are so pleased with it. we have never had difficulty. nothing. it's very smooth. it's so much easier too. you

the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. blumenthal: i ask that the mandatory quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. over the last ten days, i have conducted emergency field hearings, giving my constituents in connecticut an opportunity to be heard, a chance for their voices and faces to be part of considering the republican health care or really more accurately wealth care bill. indeed, that label or characterization of the bill came from one of my constituents who said this plan is not health care, it's wealth care because it produces a massive transfer in wealth from the poor and middle-class americans whose health care would be deeply harmed to the richest american who would enjoy the benefits of hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts. that kind of voice and criticism deserves to be heard here, and yet my republican colleagues and their leadership has gone from total secrecy now to total chaos. they are in chaos because they have refused to heed the

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i spent most of my life in connecticut. well in connecticut amongst working—class democrats, independents, and sometimes republicans. because they knew i was not a captive of any political group. really fighting for them, trying to get things done for them. helping them economically. 0ne element you have just said in your attraction to a certain brand of democratic politics was a muscularforeign policy. ultimately you walked out of your party precisely because of your differences with the mainstream of the party on a host of foreign policy issues, most particularly iraq. seems to me, you have not learned the lessons of what america has done in the middle east over the last two decades. endless interventions, endless commitment and belief that america could change the rules of the game. sow the seeds of democracy in a host of countries where they do not have a history of democracy. it has failed time and time again. yet you seem to remain a hawkish liberal interventionist. why? because i believe that is the right place for u

and jordan spieth wins the travellers championship in connecticut after chipping in for birdie on thelay—off hole, sparking wild celebrations with his caddie. hello and welcome to the programme, and it's formula 1 where we start. the azerbaijan grand prix had everything on sunday. it featured three safety cars and several crashes, the most talked about between lewis hamilton and sebastian vettel. and tom clarkson was in baku. the azerbaijan grand prix turned out to be one of the most chaotic races in recent memory. lewis hamilton started on pole position, but he did not win the race, not by a long shot. please guys in azerbaijan did not point to a storm, but chaos reigned from the start. kimi raikkonen‘s hopes were ended early. lewis hamilton did not get escape controversy after he had to restart with a safety car. sebastian vettel got too close. sebastian vettel hit me. there was so much debris that the race was suspended for 20 minutes. lewis hamilton's hopes of victory vanished after the restart. his headrest had to be replaced. he recovered to finish fifth. in front of them, danie

joining me now is connecticut state senator ted kennedy jr., who is newly elected chairman of the board of the american association of people with disabilities. i know you've been active in it a long time. >> i have. >> good to see you. >> thank you, andrea. thank you for having me on your show. obviously what you've seen here on capitol hill is the reaction to people with disabilities, millions of people with disabilities are very alarmed and upset about the current health care reform proposals now being forwarded by the republicans because they eliminate a lot of the protections for people with disabilities and they cut medicaid in a dramatic way that people with disabilities need to live their everyday lives. >> now, not only are you a life-long activist on behalf of health care as, of course, your father was the chief legislator for decades on this subject. you are a person with a pre-existing condition. >> that's right. i mean, i was diagnosed with bone cancer when i was 12 years old and that really became the dominant focus of my life is to advocate on behalf of people with disabi

signs the card, to play that 18th hole all over again with the tournament on the line in cromwell, connecticut. swhen it comes to molding young minds, nobody does it better. she also builds her own fighting robots. destroy. but when it comes to mortgages, she's less confident. fortunately for sarah, there's rocket mortgage by quicken loans. it's simple, so she can understand the details and be sure she's getting the right mortgage. apply simply. understand fully. mortgage confidently. jim: we're back at the travelers championship and a playoff is coming up soon. jordan spieth and daniel berger will collide. daniel berger with a birdie at the 71st hole. there was a lot of action around that lake today. jordan had one over in that area that berger could watch. a putt that stopped him dead in his tracks. ian: it finishes. short par 415th. back around the lake at 17. 18 is such a good driving hole with the new bunkers. you never know what's going to happen here at the end. jim: they are scrambling. just relax. it will slip in there just fine. here we go. everybody feeling a little pressure here as

the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. i'm proud to join my colleagues tonight because this nation stands at a precipice on the verge of a tragic mistake, about to embark on a travesty that mocks the democratic process. truly the combination of secrecy and speed are a toxic recipe in our democracy. secrecy and speed will bring us recklessly over the edge of that precipice to tragic mistakes that belie and betray the people of america and the values that we all share in this chamber because they are basic to the american way of life and health care is a right. it should be recognized as a right. and the goal of extensive and comprehensive insurance coverage has to be ultimately a goal that we share in common. but right now we are speeding secretly toward a betrayal of american values and even of our constitutional duties. i'm deeply disappointed that the secrecy employed by my colleagues has brought us recklessly and rep hencably -- rep hencably to the verge of gutting the affordable care act. the absence of hearings before

jim nantz saying so long from cromwell, connecticut, where jordan spieth is the champion. natasha brown intense flames in wildwood crest a three alarm house fire sent nrulz of black smoke billowing in the air and live on the scene and thousands flock to philly for a triathlon. we caught one some of the athletes, chelsea. >> refreshing weather on the way. i'll let you know the next chance for rain and the >> intense flames in wildwood crest, new jersey, this was the terrifying scene as beachgoers captured on video as a three story home went up in smoke during a busy afternoon do you remember the shore. and that plume of smoke could be seen billowing for miles from the home

i got a real job where i tomorrow morning will be back in bridgeport, connecticut. a place we started a school where over 85% of the children could not read, write, or do platte on grade level, 85%. but y'all said you want parents to be more involved. 1,000 applied to our school. that's pretty damn involved from where i sit. they voted with their feet. oh, yeah. but my good friends the dems in connecticut are against school choice. 850 of them went right back to the old school. we can't change this until we start to change how we look at the problem. if we can always pass it off on a convenient enemy, the person we're used to blaming for these things, then we never hold ourselves accountable. look, i can send my sons to any school. because i know the game and i can make my way through a school system and show people how to be successful even in the worst school systems. and we can always find the anomaly. there's always some school with a large population of african-americans with a strong history that we can focus on and talk about. but we can say we want to send o

account street northwest one lane blocked east on k street between 14th and connecticut avenue.e caution there. give yourself little extra time. beltway looking good. earlier construction but traffic moving along fine not causing any slow down. yesterday the last dave metro safe track work. metro should be on time starting at 5:00. i'll let you know if anything changes. any questions at erin fox5 d.c. on twitter. >> thank you. >>> senator bernie sanders and his wife are set to be the subject of a federal probe. >> and you will never believe what every day item is now selling for $180 on a high end fashion web site. >> heading to break with a live look across the d.c. region, it is 4:37, 71 trees 71s your temperature. we are back with more fox5 news morning after this. >> ♪ >> ♪♪ >> stepped outside with his department issued weapon lookig to help. his attorney says that's had he was shot in the arm by a fellow cop who had mistaken him for one of the suspects. the two officers work together in the same department. >> senator bernie sanders and his wife jane are lawyering up. the t

sky track 7 is with , checking out the ride on the outer loop to accident connecticut avenue. we had a fender bender at the end of the ramp and lanes are open but still a slow exit to exit onto connecticut avenue. back in 10 to update your ride on 270. larry: summer is officially here and it is not too late to save big on that summer vacation. say hello to the new frozen dunkin' coffee. real dunkin' coffee, blended frozen, creamy smooth. a whole new way to enjoy your favorite coffee. try a small for $1.99. america runs on dunkin'. >> now, "good morning washington," on your side. >> in this morning's gma first look, summer travel is right around the corner but it is not too late to find big savings in an unlikely place. big box are great for laundry detergent, paper towels, and also vacations. at costco? scouring the internet, cosco and bj's offered travel services were paid members. >> the reason these big box stores can offer amazing travel deals is because they have so many members. the more members, the bigger t

and is a black college professor at an elite connecticut college calling for white genocide? that and the college's response. as obamacare continues its heartless death spiral, those who hoped a liberty-rich solution would spring up in its place will be disappointed by the senate version. it's called the better care reconciliation act of 2017. the changes between this and the aca are nominal at best. the individual and employer man days are gone, but medicaid continues its expansion for three years, giving republicans cover. healthcare shouldn't function as a political umbrella. it's basically a hunk of moderate meat thrown to senators like susan collins and lisa murkowski. it puts their collective longing for a below thed state more in line with teddy kennedy. there are still federal subsidies disguised as tax credits. and which elements they can opt out of so there will be more to reconcile. children under 26 are still covered by their parents plan. as if your bad college loan choices are somehow my problem. the adults are treated like mindless children. mark my words. nann

you were in connecticut. do you feel like they've got any kind of a point to say, hey, just don't come here >> i did it a couple years ago, the same thing i've traveled the country as the state's raised taxes and increased regulation look, what they ought to do is what we've done urks cut your taxes, reduce regulation you'll get more jobs i'm responsible for florida families i want more jobs in our state and i'm going to travel the country and the world to get more jobs for florida families that's what i ran on and what people care about. >> governor scott, you may not have to travel at all if, indeed, they eliminate the deduction for what people pay in state taxes when it comes to federal taxes. you've got no income tax, right? people might naturally come to florida because their tax bill is going to go up so much more in states with high state taxes. >> absolutely. we already have about 350,000 people moving to the state a year, and they're moving because we have better weather, better taxes, great educatio

arizona, griswold versus connecticut. bill of rights cases you now know enough to know the answer was cases are they. they are 14th amendment cases. no state or localities shall make or enforce any that is the second founding. a second bill of rights that is more intuitive for most americans today because the states misbehave because matheson lost. no state shall violate the senate didn't go along so he lost that fight but he wins in the end thanks to the 14th amendment and we gave madison the credit for the final amendment but it's a little bit ironic because all of this is precipitated this 14th amendment by the slave of crises and the abuse of power and madison and jefferson were charter members of that and found it a political party whose base was basically a southern base that benefited hugely in the electoral college and elsewhere from the presence because of the three fifths law jefferson and madison and their party is going to get extra electoral votes because the southern states are voting for them are getting ex

host: howard from connecticut, thanks for the call. mr. trump's dangerous indifference, a look into the russia investigation. the president's tweets and comments is the editorial this morning in the "new york times." former director of national intelligence, james clapper, has also been weighing in on any parallels between where we're at today and what we saw 45 years ago. t reads in part as follows -- host: one of our viewers saying, we may need to take a road trip. the new exhibit on watergate, yorba linda, california. let's go to deborah, joining us from florida. good morning, republican line. caller: hello. host: good morning. caller: yes, a previous caller had said that nobody listens to newt gingrich. that's not true. i listened to him for years, and he really explains things very well. he's got a good grasp on things. and as far as the watergate investigation goes, i think he needs to get rid of mueller, because that definitely is a collect of interest there. i don't know why people can't see that. he's very tight with comey, and as

we ended up across from each other at a diner in connecticut. jeremy laughed as we walked back to my car. he said that is the longest conversation you've ever had with her. maybe i should ask her out. i never spoke with her or saw her again. some overlap and some are a pa part. i do not know what they need to mean in this universe. my religion is a man shouldn't be alone with a woman but a man shouldn't be so alone that he needs to be with a woman to be like her life is worth living. all of them she provided to the universe i otherwise felt misplaced by. from the first time she offered her as a skating rink to the last when we left the dance floor it may be you hated things it is good for you beyond my desire for her was in loneliness feeling only briefly interrupt interrupted. it was no life at all. this made the world stark and beautiful but it haunted and the person would be. something always comes from nothing and with every difficulty there is relief. it could be this is me or all of us and we stumbled onto the places that we live but do no

still doing really well from our camera here on the beltway, the inner, outer loop close to connecticutll. if you're going to be making your way into the district, still doing well there this morning with no issues close to connecticut avenue there. >>> you can now get regular updates on accidents around the district. city transpti data on d. c.'s open data website daily. one dangerous intersection is at 9th and u streets in northwest d. c. >> it's a car that swerved around the car that had stopped to blast through the traffic light. >> it's a combination of engineering fixes that we can take on as ddot, bad driver behavior that sometimes individuals need to take responsibility for and also sometimes enforcement issues. >> ddot unfortunatelies inspected engineering inspected intersections. >>> tennis superstar venus williams is being blamed for a deadly traffic accident. >> that's according to a police report released on thursday. the crash was in fort lauderdale near one of venus home. venus said she drove into an intersection on a green light and ended up getting stuck behind traffic.

. >>> well, a woman from connecticut is rowing her way to a longer and better life.caught up with her. >> reporter: huge sports are as grueli grueling as competitive rowing. 76 yeardley maxine has been rowing for 15 year. she's the oldest member of her team, the blood street skulls. >> the whole idea is to literally row as one so that the boat moves together. >> reporter: as a 26-year breast cancer survivor, she was looking for a new challenge and took up the sport on a lark. during a race she didn't believe the man steering the boat, they were actually in the lead. >> he's saying, guys, keep it up, you're in first place. none of us believed. we said, you're just saying that. >> because the constant job is to motivate. >> right. >> reporter: turns out they won that race and many others. she has a table full of medals. >> how mr. do you have? >> i don't know. a couple does snn three dozen maybe? it's not for the medals. i enjoy being able to do it. >> reporter: being able to do it is four days on the river and five days in the gym. she doesn't want to let her younger

>> you probably know that connecticut has access to the arts in its list of indicators and i think access to physical education, as well. there are other states that are trying to look at how you get measures of access to a full, rich curriculum including science, including social studies, et cetera, because the curriculum got so narrowed. of course, some states are looking at measures like for the school quality and student success indicator school climate, as another part of what can be looked at at the elementary level. so, folks are reaching for ways to describe the students' experience beyond the english language arts and math test scores. >> but i think it's telling that so few states have come up with other measures for those grades that aren't test scores and the reason is, it's really hard to come up with measures that are valid and reliable and statewide and can be desegregated by the subgroups. and one lesson is that, even though everybody loves to hate tests, there is a reason that we use them. and it's that they are valid and reliable measures, they're not perfect. but they'r

i yield the floor. >> the senator from connecticut's thank you mister president. i want to pick up where my colleague from hawaii left off. there's this wonderful analogy that president obama used after the 2016 election, if you can imagine mister president, democrats were pretty dejected the day after and president obama put it pretty simply. he said listen, just remember. these elections are intramural scrimmages. we put on temporary pennies, republicans and democrats but in the end we all belong to the same team. we are all americans and elections and legislative fights are just temporary skirmishes before we recognize and realize our greater identity which is that we have this commonality. clearly that's what the american people see. they think that our primary identity is our partisan identity and there's a lot of days in which we give them fodder for that belief. but it really is amazing when it comes down to it that when you think about the health care system, we do have the same goals in mind. there are lots of other issues where we don't have the same goa

. >> this was at the giant store on connecticut avenue right near the metro station. d.c. police tweeted that they apprehended the suspect. you can see crime tape up inside the store. we're working to learn the condition as the person who was stabbed and we'll keep you updated on the nbc washington app. >> now video just released in connection with the shooting at come met ping-pong in dc. >> edward welch recorded this message to his daughter as he theory. he said he was trying to protect children when he opened fire inside that restaurant. tonight, he's in prison. news 4 darcy spencer has more on his sentence and reaction from there who was in the court from back to back. darcy. >> reporter: we're right across the street from cumming ping-pong where this all played out about six months ago. i covered it as breaking news. you can see it is open. some of the employees, as well as the owner showed up in court today to talk about how this shooting has impacted their lives and this business. >> it sort of jumped off the internet into the real world. >> eric o'connor and his wi

and is a black college professor at an elite connecticut college calling for white genocide? that and the college's response. as obamacare continues its heartless death spiral, those who hoped a liberty-rich solution would spring up in its place will be disappointed by the senate version. it's called the better care reconciliation act of 2017. the changes between this and the aca are nominal at best. the individual and employer man days are gone, but medicaid continues its expansion for three years, giving republicans cover. healthcare shouldn't function as a political umbrella. it's basically a hunk of moderate meat thrown to senators like susan collins and lisa murkowski. it puts their collective longing for a below thed state more in line with teddy kennedy. there are still federal subsidies disguised as tax credits. and which elements they can opt out of so there will be more to reconcile. children under 26 are still covered by their parents plan. as if your bad college loan choices are somehow my problem. the adults are treated like mindless children. mark my words. nann

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she is in connecticut, the republican line. good morning and thank you for taking my phone call. the london county area of connecticut, we are the silent majority that voting in president trump and i believe president trump has the right to dismiss an employee. he knows things we don't know. people that are calling don't understand that the president is privy to a lot of information and his decisions are based on facts that we don't hear. testifiedr. comey tomorrow, let's hope he is an honest man and tells the truth. will you be watching? absolutely. what are you going to watch to for? i wantfically to see what his side of the story is. and let's hear the man out. fair is fair. i would hope that the democrats would be just as fair with our .resident mr. comey has a right to his testimony. president has the inside information that we are not privy to. he made the decision to dismiss mr. comey. there is a lot of things going on that we will never know. they will have a closed session with this testimony. things are never going to know. regular people in the united states. i am part

reporter matt caron talked to experts at an airport in connecticut... they say ...e sure you are ánotá unknowingly packing a weapon. "these are the items that have been confiscated from passenger carry-on bags here at bradley international airport in just the past 30 days. everything from banned liquid to different blades and weapons and tools to more unique and unusual items like this farm sickle."but bradley says your safety is in good hands.sot william csontos, connecticut federal security director"tsa has it covered and obviously we have a strong partnership with the connecticut state police here at bradley as well as u.s. securities also on the grounds so we have both the public and the secure side of the airport pretty well taken care of."but that searching slows the screening process.your encouraged to apply for tsa's pre-check.it's about 15 minutes faster and you can leave on your shoes and jacket. sot arturo & lucy bernardino, west brookfield"we are so pleased with it. we have never had difficulty. nothing. it's very smooth. it's so much easier too. you don

you built submarines in connecticut.a gentleman said, too, people, democratic party back at every turn. trying to. so,. pete: what do you make of the response of the attacks in london. >> i don't like that at all. pete: the attack, obviously? >> oh, the attack, the whole thing. i mean them people, they can get rid of them if they can. pete: he talked about a travel ban which is something he talked about for the country. >> oh, yeah. pete: tony, you mentioned north korea. an issue that's huge on the world stage not being talked about that much. >> i served in korea in 1962. today i sit here with all of you because i did serve there denial after me. today we are watching this fellow leapfrog to the united states with nuclear power. god forbid it only takes one. i want america back and trump can do it. pete: there you go. what we haven't heard this morning is russia. no one talking about russia. i wish we could have gotten to lenny a painter and reggie as well. a lot of common sense. you guys are literally on the menu this

the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. i came to the floor to talk about health care, but i want to be here on this occasion to join my distinguished colleague from texas in supporting this measure because it is so vital to protecting children like the distinguished senator from texas. i too was attorney general and we in connecticut have been at the forefront of fighting this internet and cyber threat to the welfare our children. so i want to express my thanks to him for working in a very bipartisan way at a time when the public and many of the commentators and media question whether we work together across the aisle. this bill is a very apt example of how we can and we must work together to protect our children, to advance the national interest, and to make sure that criminal justice is effectively enforced in this country. i look forward to working with my colleague in making sure that this measure becomes law. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. cassidy: m

morgan brennan is in windsor, connecticut with an inside look at how the insurance industry is >> maybe we have damage to this roof, maybe it's hail, maybe it's wind. >> reporter: at travelers claim university, 7500 adjusters come through each year. they learn how to assess property damage using two model homes inside the hartford area facility. why did you choose these two model homes to use? >> really to reflect the differences in complexity of properties that we see all around the country. >> reporter: the senior vice president of claims for travelers. >> this might be something typical of tree damage. >> reporter: but this year, there's something new to learn. drones. the company began using the technology in an official capacity last year, deploying drones to help assess damage from hurricane matthew. >> it can take days off the process. >> reporter: meaning checks can be cut more quickly for repairs. travelers has 150 faa-certified drone operators and hopes to have 700 by next year. and they're not alone. state farm and all state are working to expand their usage as well. it's not

reporter matt caron talked to experts at the airport in hartford county, connecticut...they say ... make sure you are ánotá unknowingly packing a weapon. "these are the items that have been confiscated from passenger carry-on bags here at bradley international airport in just the past 30 days. everything from banned liquid to different blades and weapons and tools to more unique and unusual items like this farm sickle."but bradley says your safety is in good hands.sot william csontos, connecticut federal security director"tsa has it covered and obviously we have a strong partnership with the connecticut state police here at bradley as well as u.s. securities also on the grounds so we have both the public and the secure side of the airport pretty well taken care of."but that searching slows the screening process.your encouraged to apply for tsa's pre-check.it's about 15 minutes faster and you can leave on your shoes and jacket. sot arturo & lucy bernardino, west brookfield"we are so pleased with it. we have never had difficulty. nothing. it's very smooth. it's so much eas

that's also causing huge delays on connecticut avenue southbound. rough ride for montgomery county drivers. southbound 295 super jammed up. we also have red line delays because of safe track. we'll steer you clear of all of these problems. maureen and steve. >> erin thanks. see you again in a few minutes. let's update our breaking news story out of montgomery county your screen was found about 1:45 a.m. walking by himself along westlake drive in bethesda near montgomery mall. >> right now he's with officers at the bethesda police station. annie yu live there. what was a pretty heart heartbreaking story [inaudible] >> reporter: heartwarming story. you have officers out here, they were with the boy, they kept him safe for all those hours. he was found around one:45 this morning as you mentioned walking along near montgomery mall and, you know, we've been airing this photo all morning long and it was because of media coverage that police say brought those tips in, apparently some teachers and counselors, some of them recognized him and they called poli