gen. lynch: thank you all. good morning, everyone. ok, this is martin luther king day. good morning everyone! thank you for that kind introduction and for your outstanding leadership for the department, which has also been called the conscience of the department. i would like to thank my workney general for her and friendship. to serveen a pleasure with you and an honor to work with you to lead this great department. i also want to thank richard and ofny's and their colleagues the evil opportunity staff for organizing this important event. it takes a lot to pull this together. it takes just a few minutes out of the day to recognize the importance of the legacy and how it spurs us on today. -- i also wantis to recognize the senior high colorguard. want a great? -- weren't they great? i hope their mothers are here, if not let me tell you as a mother how proud i am. can we think again that dorothy williams from the civil rights of disability center? [applause] sitting therech: thinking, i am the at

gen. lynch: we are also working to ensure civil rights and criminal justice, in part by promoting trust and strengthening the relationship between law-enforcement in the communities we also. -- all serve. we're playing a leading role in this administration's effort to reform our criminal justice system especially through our ongoing work to reduce recidivism and improve reentry outcomes. just last year, our programs disperse $53 million in second it chance act grants. they went out to 43 municipalities nationwide. this work is as important as the work we do in prosecuting cases, ensuring the citizens who live out our in cursive tory incarceration institutions have the ability and right to go home. we have also joined in with other cabinet level agencies over the departments of education, labor, and housing and urban develop in to launch an innovative program in a number of areas. in particular, making helga rhodes, educational grants, -- held grants, agile -- educational grants available, to som

gen. loretta lynch spoke about criminal justice reform at the suffolk county 's of correction in south bay. this afternoon spoke about criminal justice and reentry services at harvard law school. >> seniors from the trouble of shoveling. city of boston considers changing its lots of force people to clear the walks hours after it snows. this is it already adopted the policy and why one boston city council wants to see a change. >> on the campaign trail in new hampshire how republican pres. all candidate chris christie is blasting the present state of the union address. the one part of it that opted him to call it storytime. >> police call back to the same two-year-old >>> worcester police were called to apartment for sick child. >> the same apartment on the street where two-year-old was found unresponsive in later pronounced dead. 525 and was to with the details. >> is certainly a disturbing coincidence to say the least. worcester police call to this apartment just behind me were unresponsive in later pronounced dead last temper. investigators telling me this afternoon this medical call in

gen. letter lynch book about civic house in this afternoon which spoke about criminal justice and reentry services at harvard >> cold out there today in the 20s and low 30s actually below average for high temperature boston average high 360 27 city worcester other towns between currently 25 in boston. with the wind gust is a wind chill out there feels like only 14 the wins only blowing a 12 miles per hour stronger gusts than that going down to the low 20s few clouds rolling in later on. mostly clear across the area worcester at 180 right now with the wind it feels like four. that's bitter cold no question about it which is going down to the teens tonight about keene new hampshire 19 here feels like 10 with the winds only blowing at 7 mph settling into the midteens later on tonight. cold temptress out there wind chills make it even worse. bundle of going out tonight. not all that bad we've seen much worse it's not snowing had some flurries early in the berkshires all melted away the seven vermont have a couple flurries and the concrete futurecast shows is going to stay mostly clear overnig