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jackie heinrich and john monahan have been working the story all night. crews are about to pull the suv out of the building. >> that's right. you can see the front this building, that's where they will pull that suv from when they do so, and just a short time ago here on fox 25, we told that you they removed the bodies of the two victims that were inside. investigators say that the driver of each simply did not stop. he just kept going on to washington street and slamming into and ending up inside that restaurant. from the site of a horrific crash in wet new tonk as rescue crews rushed to the seen. >> seven have gone to the hospital, two deceased, yes. >> reporter: fire crews converge on the sweet tomato restaurant after an suv plows through traffic, then right into the restaurant. >> the car came down chestnut street behind us, did not stop, continued across washington street into the front of the sweet tomato restaurant. >> reporter: middlesex d.a. marianne rine saying the driver of the suv survived. at this point it appears people eating inside may be
jackie heinrich and john monahan have been working the story all night. crews are about to pull the suv out of the building. >> that's right. you can see the front this building, that's where they will pull that suv from when they do so, and just a short time ago here on fox 25, we told that you they removed the bodies of the two victims that were inside. investigators say that the driver of each simply did not stop. he just kept going on to washington street and slamming into and ending...
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jackie heinrich, fox25 news. >> daniel: the landry brothers have pled not guilty and are being held on $100,000 bail. >>> boston police are involved in a deadly shootout in dorchester, and just weeks later, fox25 has obtained surveillance video of the shooting. you can hear officers ask the suspect to drop the gun. gun! julie it happened february 12 julie it happened february 12. officers were responding and could see the suspect in the top right corner as the first officer arrives in a cruiser on left. officer was walking out from behind his cruiser with the gun behind his cruiser with the gun. one person was also shot in a home invasion. his family had asked the da not to release the video until after his funeral this past weekend. >>> two dartmouth police officers on administrative leave this morning for shooting a man who came at them with a knife. state police are now investigating. president suspect ryan kufal is recovering in a rhode island hospital. he fought with his mother and drove off when they were called to the home. officers say he ran at them with a knife. officers shot
jackie heinrich, fox25 news. >> daniel: the landry brothers have pled not guilty and are being held on $100,000 bail. >>> boston police are involved in a deadly shootout in dorchester, and just weeks later, fox25 has obtained surveillance video of the shooting. you can hear officers ask the suspect to drop the gun. gun! julie it happened february 12 julie it happened february 12. officers were responding and could see the suspect in the top right corner as the first officer...
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jackie heinrich and john monahan have been working the story all night. crews are about to pull the suv out of the building. >> that's right. you can see the front this building, that's where they will pull that suv from when they do so, and just a short time ago here on fox 25, we told that you they removed the bodies of the two victims that were inside. investigators say that the driver of each simply did not stop. he just kept going on to washington street and slamming into and ending up inside that restaurant.
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new at 10:00 fox 25's jackie heinrich joins us now. these who never told police what they found? >> no, mark, police only found out about it after a woman called police saying the men had asked her to cash checks for them. and the checks were stolen from the dead man's home. >> reporter: mark and steven landry both now facing felony charges for allegedly stripping a bellingham home electronics and valuable all body decomposing in the bedroom. police say the men came back to the house over and over after the grisly discovery taking the deceased man's checkbook and writing themselves checks. vehicle. unattended with no functioning utilities. police say the body was in decomposition believe hit been there for some time foul play. according to the bellingham assessor's website that home is owned by karen parker, and police say that deceased person had no next of kin. so landry brothers now facing multiple felony charges after a woman came forward saying the pair had asked her to cash checks for them and thought something was fishy. fox 25 talked to that woman tonight. she said she ne
new at 10:00 fox 25's jackie heinrich joins us now. these who never told police what they found? >> no, mark, police only found out about it after a woman called police saying the men had asked her to cash checks for them. and the checks were stolen from the dead man's home. >> reporter: mark and steven landry both now facing felony charges for allegedly stripping a bellingham home electronics and valuable all body decomposing in the bedroom. police say the men came back to the...
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our jackie heinrich has new reaction from witnesses that we -- but we begin first with john monahan with breaking details on the investigation. >> good evening, vanessa. the d.a. would not rule out the possibility that the driver suffered some sort of a medical condition. take a look behind me right now. this is the sweet tomato in newton. the front row seats look right out on to washington street and that's where the suv plowed right in through that window and inside the restaurant. a man in shock is helped away from the site of a horrific crash in west newton as rescue crews rush to the scene. >> several have gone to the hospital, yes. >> reporter: the fire crews converge on the sweet tomato restaurant after an suv plowed >> a car came down, chestnut street behind us, did not stop, went straight across washington street into the front of the sweet tomato restaurant. >> reporter: middlesex d.a. marian rudy giuliani says the driver of the suv survived. at this point it appears people eating inside may be the victims. >> what we know right now, and this is preliminary, that the employees
our jackie heinrich has new reaction from witnesses that we -- but we begin first with john monahan with breaking details on the investigation. >> good evening, vanessa. the d.a. would not rule out the possibility that the driver suffered some sort of a medical condition. take a look behind me right now. this is the sweet tomato in newton. the front row seats look right out on to washington street and that's where the suv plowed right in through that window and inside the restaurant. a...
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front of 20,000 people.g to and then they pick dieppe and try to get me standing but is due in late heinrich maneuver. my legs still locked out of less so they pushes them off -- the now. getting awkwa and then he offered to buy me dinner i said i am very. [laughter] but you have the connection he felt something special percolation not have said that. [laughter] >> the veterans administration in has been. to make 300 and adjustments they are waterproof sabines i walked into a driving the road which i learned is complete the legal in maryland. that is true. i just got my license in maine. by air france with all the cops. no big deal. [laughter]30th in the cannot on any medication you will find out about the experimental drugs now works out really well so i quit all the education six months allergen they definitely support the. so i have nothing great to say but keep paying your taxes. sir. [laughter] >> and then how quickly did you get the net effect? >> it happened around 5:00 in the afternoon within 10 minutes was a helicopter. mine netiquette - - magnetic my right arm was disintegrated my
front of 20,000 people.g to and then they pick dieppe and try to get me standing but is due in late heinrich maneuver. my legs still locked out of less so they pushes them off -- the now. getting awkwa and then he offered to buy me dinner i said i am very. [laughter] but you have the connection he felt something special percolation not have said that. [laughter] >> the veterans administration in has been. to make 300 and adjustments they are waterproof sabines i walked into a driving the...
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. >> live scenes from five foxes we look here are jackie heinrich is joining us now on the phone i am right in front of the police headquarters across the street from the scene of the accident staring right at it right now looks like a silver volkswagen went straight to that storefront i'm told by folks around me that there was a counter where that car is now sitting. all the windows busted out several crews on scene talking some folks around here they say the least for people that they and ambulances. still waiting on official word from police and firefighters on how many injuries there were and what the situation was with the driver. but preliminary word just some witnesses out here said the driver may have run a light and lost control of his vehicle. pretty active scene out here and a lot of messy traffic and getting into this area we had a hard time getting down here ourselves. if you can avoid that area near chestnut street you should. >> took a while because of those road closures. >> that's correct everything is being shut down from the two roads that access this area the traff
. >> live scenes from five foxes we look here are jackie heinrich is joining us now on the phone i am right in front of the police headquarters across the street from the scene of the accident staring right at it right now looks like a silver volkswagen went straight to that storefront i'm told by folks around me that there was a counter where that car is now sitting. all the windows busted out several crews on scene talking some folks around here they say the least for people that they...
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. >> senator cantwell had to go off to another committee, so let's turn to senator heinrich. >> thankyou, very much, madam chair. secretary moniz, i'm very pleased to see your continued focus on getting w.h.i.p. reopened and i want to thank you for the focus that d.o.e. has put on safety throughout that entire process. i just want to ask you, are you on schedule and are there any budget or schedule issues that should concern me at this point? >> senator heinrich, we believe we are on schedule for safely restarting operations late -- >> december? >> -- later this year, exactly, yes. and the budget request for fy-'17 is on track for our program, right. >> adequate. fantastic. >> we will, as you know, down the road need more capital funding for the full ventilation system for full-scale operations at the beginning of the next decade. >> we look forward to working with you on that. switching to los alamos real quick, i was hoping you could talk a little bit about why we don't have a current consent order in place with the state to be able to guide budgeting and spending issues, as well as
. >> senator cantwell had to go off to another committee, so let's turn to senator heinrich. >> thankyou, very much, madam chair. secretary moniz, i'm very pleased to see your continued focus on getting w.h.i.p. reopened and i want to thank you for the focus that d.o.e. has put on safety throughout that entire process. i just want to ask you, are you on schedule and are there any budget or schedule issues that should concern me at this point? >> senator heinrich, we believe we...
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of new york, senator blumenthal of connecticut and senator boxer and senator markey and senator heinrich, all parts of the country, different parts of the country all saying you know what? our citizens 9-1 want a simple, fair statement or symbol on the ingredients list that that is just the right way to go. if you're going to step on the authority of states to provide information that citizens want, you've got to provide a simple, clear indication on the package. that's the deal. that's the fair compromise. that's standing up for citizens' right to know. that's honoring the public interest. that's a compromise in the classic sense that works for the big issues that the companies are talking about. they don't want the expense of individual states and they don't want the complexity and confusion from individual states. and what consumers want, a simple indication on the package. so let's do the right thing. let's not be worse than china and block our consumers from having access to information. let's do the right thing that virtually every developed country has done and provide a simple, c
of new york, senator blumenthal of connecticut and senator boxer and senator markey and senator heinrich, all parts of the country, different parts of the country all saying you know what? our citizens 9-1 want a simple, fair statement or symbol on the ingredients list that that is just the right way to go. if you're going to step on the authority of states to provide information that citizens want, you've got to provide a simple, clear indication on the package. that's the deal. that's the...
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. >> senator heinrich. >> thank you, madam chair. chief tidwell, welcome back to i want to start with a collaborative forest landscape restoration program. and we have a couple of projects in new mexico that have done some really great singing work. it's a tool in the toolbox that's working for all the things we say we want to do on our forest. we are about seven years into the program and am starting to get questions from collaborators about how to continue the progress that we been able to make in these forests. for meals in particular as you know three years is just not a lot of time. i wanted to ask you to support an extension of cf lrp or maybe a second round of authorization projects and how can communities that are successfully implement these projects make sure that the work continues after the end of the authorized collaborative in -- collaborative project. >> we are in our 17 budget request to continue the funding for the 23 projects we have ongoing. also for our year we want to expand that to be able to expand the program
. >> senator heinrich. >> thank you, madam chair. chief tidwell, welcome back to i want to start with a collaborative forest landscape restoration program. and we have a couple of projects in new mexico that have done some really great singing work. it's a tool in the toolbox that's working for all the things we say we want to do on our forest. we are about seven years into the program and am starting to get questions from collaborators about how to continue the progress that we...
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worked hard to clear amendments offered by many democrats, including senators durbin, gillibrand, heinrich, kaine, mccaskill, blumenthal, heitkamp and cardin. but the democratic leader objected to completely uncontroversial, commonsense amendments offered by two republicans that would be in the package. senator johnson and senator kirk. why? simply because these republican senators are up for reelection this year, and under those circumstances we couldn't reach an agreement. so all these democrat amendments didn't go because the democratic leader had objection to two republican relatively noncontroversial amendments, one of them absolutely noncontroversial. how noncontroversial amendments were these? so let me give you one example. senator johnson wanted to add the indian health service as a member of the task force, the bill creates to develop best prescribing practices for opioids. i suspect many americans, including even people living in the state of nevada, would think senator johnson's idea is a good one. addiction is a problem for so many in our country, and the native american commu
worked hard to clear amendments offered by many democrats, including senators durbin, gillibrand, heinrich, kaine, mccaskill, blumenthal, heitkamp and cardin. but the democratic leader objected to completely uncontroversial, commonsense amendments offered by two republicans that would be in the package. senator johnson and senator kirk. why? simply because these republican senators are up for reelection this year, and under those circumstances we couldn't reach an agreement. so all these...
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that's why today i'm proud to be joined by senators gillibrand, murray, feinstein, heinrich, baldwin, stabenow, and brown to introduce the women and minorities and stem booster act to improve the recruitment, retention, and success of women and minorities in all stages of the stem pipeline. this bill authorizes the national science foundation to award competitive grants for outreach, mentoring, and professional development programs. the stem booster act also authorizes funding for stem education outreach programs at the elementary and secondary school levels. funding fomenterring programs and -- funding for fomenterring programs and programs for increasing retention of women and minority faculty. i'm also working on another bill to address the cultural and constitutional barriers that i've mentioned today which impede women's and minorities' advancement in stem fields. in addition to increasing mentoring and outreach program, this second bill will improve guidance, training, and coordination among federal stem agencies and universities to pro actively combat bias and discrimination. w
that's why today i'm proud to be joined by senators gillibrand, murray, feinstein, heinrich, baldwin, stabenow, and brown to introduce the women and minorities and stem booster act to improve the recruitment, retention, and success of women and minorities in all stages of the stem pipeline. this bill authorizes the national science foundation to award competitive grants for outreach, mentoring, and professional development programs. the stem booster act also authorizes funding for stem...
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. >> so here we go jimmy heinrich purple haze teachers calling for a raise as the false money system the fred's don't laugh well over one and 50 millions along with lincoln and jfk murdered and dead the santa ross gave an assignment to the students so they might see regarding the banker corrupt government that made it clear that in respect to the government we better feel fear now then came cause to be nervous he was visited by the secret service and yet soon after none of that was dloshsz at his eulogy the system supports the one percent and our local teller it is correct billy clinging is the rocker fell and as preachers preach reverend pinckney being angle expectation walking at all pubically challenges the state get 10 years in prison yes absolutely teachers will be fired and arrested for encouraging each other a far safer for the service degree and actually funny to be asking for money maintaining the system as fools to access it embrace the revise the veterans and seniors they're ready to strike now get on board as our hearts living lord remember that super duper schools out cl
. >> so here we go jimmy heinrich purple haze teachers calling for a raise as the false money system the fred's don't laugh well over one and 50 millions along with lincoln and jfk murdered and dead the santa ross gave an assignment to the students so they might see regarding the banker corrupt government that made it clear that in respect to the government we better feel fear now then came cause to be nervous he was visited by the secret service and yet soon after none of that was...
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. >> so here we go jimmy heinrich purple haze teachers calling for a raise as the false money system the fred's don't laugh well over one and 50 millions along with lincoln and jfk murdered and dead the santa ross gave an assignment to the students so they might see regarding the banker corrupt government that made it clear that in respect to the government we better feel fear now then came cause to be nervous he was visited by the secret service and yet soon after none of that was dloshsz at his eulogy the system supports the one percent and our local teller it is correct billy clinging is the rocker fell and as preachers preach reverend pinckney being angle expectation walking at all pubically challenges the state get 10 years in prison yes absolutely teachers will be fired and arrested for encouraging each other a far safer for the service degree and actually funny to be asking for money maintaining the system as fools to access it embrace the revise the veterans and seniors they're ready to strike now get on board as our hearts living lord remember that super duper schools out cl
. >> so here we go jimmy heinrich purple haze teachers calling for a raise as the false money system the fred's don't laugh well over one and 50 millions along with lincoln and jfk murdered and dead the santa ross gave an assignment to the students so they might see regarding the banker corrupt government that made it clear that in respect to the government we better feel fear now then came cause to be nervous he was visited by the secret service and yet soon after none of that was...
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. >> senator heinrich. >> thank you. chief tidwell, welcome back.i want to start with the collaborative forest landscape restoration program. we have a couple of projects in new mexico have that done some great thinning work. it's a tool in the toolbox that's working for all the things we want to do in our forests. we are seven years into the program. i'm starting to get questions from collaborators about how to continue the progress that we have been able to make in the forests. for mills in particular, as you know, three years is just not a lot of time or certainty. so i wanted to ask you, do you support an extension of cflrp or a second round of authorization of projects? how can communities that have successfully implemented these projects make sure that the work continues after the end of the authorized collaborative project? >> senator, we're in our '17 budget request we continue funding for the 23 projects we have ongoing. then also, in our -- for out year, we want to expand that to be able to pand the program both financially but also to be
. >> senator heinrich. >> thank you. chief tidwell, welcome back.i want to start with the collaborative forest landscape restoration program. we have a couple of projects in new mexico have that done some great thinning work. it's a tool in the toolbox that's working for all the things we want to do in our forests. we are seven years into the program. i'm starting to get questions from collaborators about how to continue the progress that we have been able to make in the forests....
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. >> senator heinrich. >> thank you. chief tidwell, welcome back. i want to start with the collaborative forest landscape restoration program. we have a couple of projects in new mexico have that done some great thinning work. it's a tool in the toolbox that's working for all the things we want to do in our forests. we are seven years into the program. i'm starting to get questions from collaborators about how to continue the progress that we have been able to make in the forests. for mills in particular, as you know, three years is just not a lot of time or certainty. so i wanted to ask you, do you support an extension of cflrp or a second round of authorization of projects? how can communities that have successfully implemented these projects make sure that the work continues after the end of the authorized collaborative project? >> senator, we're in our '17 budget request we continue funding for the 23 projects we have ongoing. then also, in our -- for out year, we want to expand that to be able to expand the program both financially but also to
. >> senator heinrich. >> thank you. chief tidwell, welcome back. i want to start with the collaborative forest landscape restoration program. we have a couple of projects in new mexico have that done some great thinning work. it's a tool in the toolbox that's working for all the things we want to do in our forests. we are seven years into the program. i'm starting to get questions from collaborators about how to continue the progress that we have been able to make in the forests....
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michelle lujan grisham, and tom udall and martin heinrich, i called for an investigation into this unwarranted and reckless disruption of services to some of our most vulnerable citizens. i'm also working with the delegation on legislation to prevent something like this from ever happening again. and i'm working to strengthen the behavioral health system that is currently in shambles through legislation that would provide enhanced funding to states that prioritize behavioral health infrastructure, data and access. if we want states to build and maintain strong behavioral health systems, then we must provide states with the necessary support. during our many conversations with c.m.s. on the crisis and its impact on new mexicans, it has been clear there is a lack of meaningful data that is needed to hold policymakers accountable. it is unacceptable that after months and months of requesting state-provided data on the behavioral system data in new mexico, c.m.s. would simply determine that this data to have, i quote, significant limitations, unquote. a report from new mexico's legislative finance
michelle lujan grisham, and tom udall and martin heinrich, i called for an investigation into this unwarranted and reckless disruption of services to some of our most vulnerable citizens. i'm also working with the delegation on legislation to prevent something like this from ever happening again. and i'm working to strengthen the behavioral health system that is currently in shambles through legislation that would provide enhanced funding to states that prioritize behavioral health...
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. >> so here we go jimmy heinrich purple haze teachers calling for a raise as the false money system the fred's don't laugh well over one and 50 millions along with lincoln and jfk murdered and dead the santa ross gave an assignment to the students so they might see regarding the banker corrupt government that made it clear that in respect to the government we better feel fear now then came cause to be nervous he was visited by the secret service and yet soon after none of that was...
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senator heinrich talked about that, that that's one issue that has grown in importance to parents because they don't want to give their kids food that was covered in pesticides, if they have an option, if they have an option. so the power that we give the consumers is critical. the power to know, simply know the truth. and to me, knowledge is power. to me, it's respect. you tell people the truth. you don't give them a sham bill and say well, we won't do anything for three years, but then we'll have a bar code and then we'll have a 1-800-number. no. pretty simple. require a label. require a label. a label is simple. a label works. and senator merkley, i see you're on the floor, and i'm finishing up. we have various ways we can do the label. one way is give it to the f.d.a. and tell them to come up with it. another way is the way senator merkley has proceeded in a way to attract more support. he's given four options, all of which are very good. and all of which would immediately give you the information that you need. now, in 2000 when i introduced the first senate labeling of g.e. foods, m
senator heinrich talked about that, that that's one issue that has grown in importance to parents because they don't want to give their kids food that was covered in pesticides, if they have an option, if they have an option. so the power that we give the consumers is critical. the power to know, simply know the truth. and to me, knowledge is power. to me, it's respect. you tell people the truth. you don't give them a sham bill and say well, we won't do anything for three years, but then we'll...
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heinrich: mr. president, addiction to prescription opioid pain relievers, and for that matter, heroin, is a growing public health epidemic that's taking a heartbreaking toll on families and communities in every state of this country. in 2014, more than 47,000 americans died because of prescription opioid and heroin overdoses. this crisis is very real in my home state of new mexico. for years without adequate treatment resources, communities in my state have suffered through some of the highest rates of heroin and opioid addiction in the country. far too many new mexico families have lost loved ones, and many more are struggling to find treatment and recovery resources for a father or a mother, a son, a daughter, or for themselves. two weeks ago i visited the espanola county in rio uriba county, which is largely rural and has predominantly hispanic and tribal communities, is filled with beautiful mountain and desert landscapes, the kind of places that attract artists and visitors from around the wor
heinrich: mr. president, addiction to prescription opioid pain relievers, and for that matter, heroin, is a growing public health epidemic that's taking a heartbreaking toll on families and communities in every state of this country. in 2014, more than 47,000 americans died because of prescription opioid and heroin overdoses. this crisis is very real in my home state of new mexico. for years without adequate treatment resources, communities in my state have suffered through some of the highest...
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earlier today senator flake, senator klobuchar, and senator heinrich and i met with the hispanic chamber of commerce about the urgent need to confirm this nomination. our business leaders in new mexico, arizona, and every other state in our country are telling us they need an ambassador in mexico city. we have ongoing border-related business, issues that need attention. from time to time we will call on the mexican government to work with us on coordinating ports of entry, infrastructure, and other important issues. we are at a disadvantage without an advocate for america in mexico city. it's very frustrating, and this is not the first time we've faced this kind of dysfunction. i pushed for reform of the senate rules in the last two congresses, and we did change the rules to allow majority votes for executive and judicial nominees to the lower courts. but that does no good if they remain blocked. and that is what is happening in this congress. this line gets longer and longer of perfectly qualified nominees denied a vote, denied an opportunity to be heard. roberta jacobson was approved b
earlier today senator flake, senator klobuchar, and senator heinrich and i met with the hispanic chamber of commerce about the urgent need to confirm this nomination. our business leaders in new mexico, arizona, and every other state in our country are telling us they need an ambassador in mexico city. we have ongoing border-related business, issues that need attention. from time to time we will call on the mexican government to work with us on coordinating ports of entry, infrastructure, and...