and i'd like to recognize michelle richards, who served as the executive director of the great lakes women's business council. we all know the counsel does great work. thank all of you for coming. ms. gore, we'll start with you. >> thank you for being here. senator wish and all of you, it's a real honor to testify about what i think could be the greatest bipartisan opportunity that this country is seeing, and it's women entrepreneurs. just this week i've been in san francisco, sioux falls, south dakota, new york city and now d.c. i'm from northern california, i can tell you that women in all of those areas have the most potential to succeed, but they are facing numerous barriers. while we are starting businesses twice as fast as our male counterparts as you said, very proud of that, we do have conservatively higher fail rate, only 2% of us are making over a million dollars with our businesses in this country. i think that is a 98% opportunity that we all have to improve many i hope none of you have the number seven as your favorite number. because for some reason we're stuck on seven

my name is michelle richards and executive director for great lakes women's business council. before i discuss the current echo system for women entrepreneurs i want to share our experience as an organization dedicated to supporting women business owners for the past 33 years. i i had a chance to start this organization, and as the sba micro lender since 1993 we 199e made over 6.5 million in loans of the average size is 20,000. these loans have created 1700 jobs. in early 1990, we became an sba women's business center picked this was important because it created a stable funding for us to build a platform for our training and counseling program. we've been able to serve more than 10,000 women business owners and entrepreneurs. for the past 20 years we've also been a certifying partner for the women's business center price national council, we currently have 1125 certified business owners that generate 12.3 billion in revenue annually and employ 48,500 u.s. workers. amazing. i am proud of our efforts to revitalize detroit. to date our detroit loan program has provided 1.3 milli

my name is michelle richards. now before i discuss the current e koe system for women entrepreneurs, i want to share our experience as an organization dedicated to supporting women business owners for the past 33 years. i had a chance to start the organization and as an sba micro lender since 1993, we have made over 6.5 million in loans with the average size of 20,000. these loans have created 1,700 jobs. early 1990, we became an sba women business center. this was important because it created a stable funding for us to build a platform for our training and counselling program. and we have been able to serve 10,000 women business owners in and entrepreneurs with it. for the past 20 years we have been a certified partner for the women business entrer niz national counsel. we bank. we currently have 1120 certified women business owners that generate 12.3 billion in revenue annually and employ 48,000 u.s. workers. amazing. i am proud of our efforts to revitalize detroit. to date the detroit loan program has provided

reporting live, richard reeve, abc7 news. michelle: thanks. naacp says someone is trying to suppress the vote in northern virginia. head of the prince william chapter said 50 voters received calls or texts falsely claiming the polling places have changed. >> it's terrible. i could think they are trying to set people up to not vote and trick people. i don't think that is a good idea. horrible. horrible. >> all the voters who received messages are registered democrats says the naacp. stay with us for "your voice, your future" vote coverage throughout the night. we have live reports on abc7 and results with the analysis throughout the night on the sister station newschannel8. jonathan: we see a lo videotape but this you have to see. two grown men throwing epic temper tantrum because the first attempt to commit a crime failed. michelle: first, though, breaking news. fire ripping through a d.c. row house. new information about the firefighters next at 6:00. michelle: we return with more breaking news tonight. this time from northeast d.c. where two

in landover, richard reeve, abc7 news. michelle: it has been three years since u.v.a.student hannah graham was killed. jesse matthew later pled guilty to her murder. graham's mother says if his d.n.a. was collected and authorities were alerted to his previous crime, her daughter would still be alive. >> but it's something feel i have to do to protect other women in virginia. hannah would be proud. michelle: right now graham is urging virginia state crime commission to take action. jonathan: surveillance video capturing a restaurant employee tackling a handcuff man running from police in west virginia. a good takedown. officers have taken the guy into custody for vandalizing a hospital. that is when he bolted, handcuffs and all. that's when redman stepped in. >> dodging cars like he was playing frogger. i sat there and i was patiently watching. jonathan: customers at the tudor biscuit says he is always ready to help. the man in handcuffs wasn't hurt and he received a ticket possessing drug paraphernalia. michelle: you want a guy like that on your team. jonathan: redskin

joining us is richard hunter, head of research, wilson king investment management. you have just heard from michellee leonardo da vinci painting which went for $400 million. a lot more to this story than what happened overnight. quite apart from the eye watering figure of $400 million, this is a painting which for example in 1958 was sold in a london auction for £45. there is a bit of inflation for you. underneath all of that it would appear in the art community there is some debate as to further its a real, genuine, da vinci at all. i always have my doubts! laughter soul underneath that, a quite extraordinary thing, not 100% justifiable potentially. the other thing, it's an absolute public relations triumph in terms of the marketing campaign for christies, they send out videos previous to the auction, they have been dropping up interest and they have had $100 million reserve. ironically it was sold in 1958 for $45. ironically it was sold in 1958 for $45, at auction in london. the way they describe it, fascinating, they hyped it up as this amazing event, it's like discovering a new planet. that was

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michelle miller spoke to regina rodriguez who lost her dad richard and his wife theresa.ack will stay with the community for a long time. >> for somebody to come in and take my dad and his wife's life away, they didn't deserve that. nobody inside that church deserved it, not even the children deserved it. they still had many years to live. so much stuff to see. they didn't -- he robbed them from that. now he's leaving us, all the family members that were close to all of the loved ones to have to spend the rest of their lives broken hearted and missing these people. >> you're right. nobody deserved that, regina. she says she has faith that god will heal the community and bring it back stronger. >>> nearly 10 months ago president trump tapped david should go kin to lead the nation's second largest agency behind the pentagon. the obama administration appointee had started packing his office. we spoke with secretary shulkin at a va hospital in new york and he opened yup about his successes, challenges and unique relationship with his boss, the president. >> you are the only h

michelle: today marks one year since president trump was elected. political analysts say one of the impact of that election is felt this time around. richard reeve reports a record number of women are in the running for house of delegate seats in virginia. >> with the election a day away she is still knocking on doors. >> i think it's important to have a seat at the table. >> a cyber security specialist and mother of two is political novice. running in the women's march on washington. >> you wake up november 9. a total different universe than what we expected. >> democrat she is running for the seat int she is not alone. 43 female democrats on the ballot. 26 never run for office before. >> the political landscape changing, too. more women are running for house of delegate seats than before. >> political science professor calls it the trump effect. >> a win or lose on tuesday, democrats demonstrate the key trump effect is a willingness on the part of many voters, particularly, women, to run for office. >> there has been a fire lit under a lot of people. >> she is running for campaign against republican richard anderson. his sign in the fron

michelle: the final push for votes, democrats and the republican gubernatorial candidates today. tonight we expect a close race and a lot is hinging on turn-out. richardeeve has been following the candidates and is in fairfax. key swing county. rich? richard: you have been talking about it and the candidates, too, how the voter turnout is crucial. we have a weather factor. we are at the secondary school and you can see behind the cardboard cutouts. this is where people are voting. paper ballots. you can see people arriving here. it's steady here. let's show you first the gubernatorial candidate out there this morning. northam, the democrat voting and republican ed gillespie in alexandria. there is 31% of the people voting so far. this is considered pretty good. 40% of the electric in an offyear campaign. that is pretty good. but the fly in the ointment may be the weather. will people come in or stay or go. we are getting fresh numbers coming in. at 5:00, we'll have all that for you. reporting live in fairfax, richard reeve, abc7 news. nancy: thank you. stay with us for the coverage throughout the everything. polls close at 7:00. we will track the resu

for weather now with the richard in the latest on some severe storms affecting a mediterranean area well let me interrupt and severe storms in the by the trains. running michel but the moment is really for no. number of storms we take a look at the satellite imagery where it's along this line that we're getting those storms developing at the moment to such an extent that we're seeing about nine thousand lightning strikes per hour and i didn't count those but that is reliable source suggesting that's the number we're getting associated with this was called a cutoff low just stuck there in the mediterranean having a big influence across not just the gulf of general region but further north into the alps and here we're seeing a lot of snow coming down not that the low center in fact sticks around the region over the next twenty four to forty hours so it's going to cause further problems now it's going to bring some benefits to the region because we're going to see a lot of snow developing across the alps we've had some heavy rain of general but up over the alps and sells above about eighteen hundred meters we're going to be seeing twenty five centimeters of sno

michelle alexander said this the new jim crow mass incarceration age of colored blindness, criminal justice system used the war on drugs to oppress minorities and marginalize communities. do you see merit in that richardn that there is republicans and democrats that agree. there was a bill introduced a couple weeks ago by camilla harris and rand paul to tackle that issue. justice reform is an issue. while david is right yes have you crack cocaine on your streets i don't care if you have a two family household or not you will be impacted by seeing a crack dealer on your street, period. i was lucky and privileged not to have a crack dealer on my corner. and i had a single mother who worked and gave me opportunity. but with that being said, there is a loft families both black, white, and hispanic that grow up in poor neighborhoods without a strong family structure that also have to deal with the systemic problems that we have from the lack of investment in community. from the lack of high quality public schools and from the lack of the fact that we're not dealing with the failed war on drugs. >> i would love to say i agree with you on that one, richard, but i really don't in this respect. it's what you d

michelle jean sison to be ambassador to the haiti. jamie mccourt of california to be ambassador to the principality of monaco. richard duke buchan of florida to be ambassador to andorra, larry andrew andrew to be ambassador to the republic of dijibouti. thomas l. carter, range of ambassador during his tenure of service as representative of the united states of america on the council of the international civic aviation organization. nina maria fite to be ambassador to the republic of angola. daniel l. foote to be ambassador to the public of zambia. w. robert kohorst of california to be ambassador to the republic of croatia. edward t. mcmullen jr. of south carolina to be ambassador to the swiss confederation and to the principality of liechtenstein. david dale reimer of ohio to be ambassador to the republic of mauritius and the republic of seychelles. eric p. whitaker of illinois to be ambassador to the republic of niger. carla sands of california to be ambassador to the kingdom of denmark. michael t. evanoff to be assistant secretary. manisha singh of florida to be assistant secretary. mr. mcconnell: i ask that we vot