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president, national retired enlisted association. rschel, national commander, military order of the purple heart. dana adkins, national president, military officers association of america. the associated members of the committee are located in the boxes to my left. i like the president and national commanders that comprise our associate membership to stand and be recognized. ladies and gentlemen please , recognize them with your applause. [applause] it is my pleasure to introduce our veteran organization host for 2016. polish legion veterans of america, usa. the polish legion of american veterans usa is honored to serve as the host organization for the 2016 veterans day national observance at arlington national cemetery. it was founded after the end of world war i, holding its first convention in 1920 one. -- 1921. today, they celebrate over 95 years of providing assistance to veterans and their families. it was chartered by congress and represents over 3 million veteran americans of polish the -- polish the dissent who have served in

denise merrill's president of the national association of secretaries of state. she joins us from hartford. jeff mason is the white house reporter for reuters. anna palmer is the co-author of the popular playbook pick sheets. repeatedlyrump has said that the system is rigged. calling into question the integrity of our elections in general. do you believe that he is sewing jeanette concerns about whether to havetions are going the right results at the end of the day? >> thank you. it is nice to be here. i would have to say about the question of rigging the election that even the question is is noctive. there evidence that there is a massive conspiracy to overturn or even change u.s. election results. the results of this claim has in thessive distrust system in connecticut and elsewhere i am having reports of hundreds of people calling in and saying how are you counting my vote, are there illegal aliens voting? the problem is that the claim is vague. when you say rigged the election, i'm not sure what he meant but it plays into the fear that people have that their

donald larson, national president, fleet reserve association. richard rinaldo, national commander. f valor, united states of america. executive director of the military chaplains association. donald youngblood, national commander, army and navy union of the usa. ostrowski, executive director, noncommissioned officers association. douglas bolt, national vice commander, the american legion. david riley, national commander, disabled american veterans. mike plummer. deputy legislative director, national association of uniform service is. clay lebron's junior, commander in order of the world wars. john adams, national president. herschel gober national , commander, military order of the purple heart. dana adkins, national president, military officers association of america. the associated members of the committee are located in the boxes to my left. i would like to ask them to stand and be recognized. please recognize them with your applause. [applause] it is my pleasure to introduce our veteran organization host for 2016. polish legion veterans of america, usa. usapolish legion of veter

case is a small people of much hearer that started in the early 1930s, which was part of the national associationor the advancement of colored people's, or naacp struggle to overturn segregation in public education. they were attempting to file cases that would eventually lead to overturn a call called my versus ferguson. that allowed the state of louisiana so segregate railcars by race. once the supreme court made the decision that was constitutional, you saul an explosion of laws, in the south especially, that permitted segregated facilities in all sectors in public life. so the naacp was attempting to overturn that precedent. they knew they had try to do it in one case so begins in the 1930s. they began to chip away and then work down to -- brown v. board of education, brown is the first name to appear out of the list of plaintiffs. here in kansas the local chapter of the naacp, both of lawyers recruited. and all 13 of those parents -- elementary schools here. so oliver brown was a friend of one of the lawyers, a man named charles bled so, so the lawyers basically recruited those that they kne

i ame: this year, president of the national association. a nonpartisan group where we share best practices and things like that. it is a one-year term and we rotate democrat and republican. host: and if you could talk a little bit about where the elections commission came from and what your budget is as you work to help voting systems around the country? thomas: it came about after the 2000 election, formed by president bush on october 29 of 2002, to basically help states with the administration of elections here and we gave out $3.4 billion to the states to purchase new voting equipment statewide databases for voter registration, to reform things like provisional ballots. one of our biggest functions is our voting guidelines, which we are updating now and we hope to have it finished by the and of next year and the beginning of 2018. the standards have not been updated for over 10 years. part of that is due to the fact it was not functioning for a number of years. my colleagues and i are working hard to make sure those are written in a way

the national association of realtors reports a 2% increase for october to the highest level since februaryf 2007. faster wage gains help propel the housing market, despite rising prices and shrinking inventory. as mortgage rates increase, some experts say the pace of sales may start to slow. >> and when it comes to housing policy, president-elect donald trump says he is seriously considering former republican rival, ben carson, to lead the department of housing and urban development. the department, which overseas home mortgage lending and other housing programs. >> carson is a retired neurosurgeon. >>> since donald trump became president-elect, there is a sharp increase in interest rates. with janet yellen and company expected to raise rates next month, how will all of this impact you and your personal loans? greg mcbride is chief financial analyst at bankrate.com. he follows the interest market very closely. greg, good to have you with us. do you think that this spike, which has taken the ten-year treasury from about 1.8% to 2.3% in about two-and-a-half, three weeks, do you think we're a

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vinyl siding institute says flawed study, and at least six trade associations including the national association of home builders have expressed concerns to ul about the methodology, some bad science, some unrealistic conditions that are included in the study. >> reporter: her group says ul used a type of plywood not commonly used in most home construction in unrealistic scenarios such as a high en ignition source similar to a gas grill being pushed directly up against a house. what about this idea, though, that vinyl siding melts? is that true? >> it does melt at certain temperatures. well, it will actually melt and fall away even before it will ignite. >> reporter: eps industry alliance represents companies producing polysty ream foam board and says, we are aware of very few home fires involving this insulation and when properly installed and used in it tells the i-team the ul report is a self-proclaimed research project to help firefighters understand the fire dynamics in these unique scenarios. but would welcome the opportunity to work with ul to identify appropriate test protocols for foam

. >> so what is the national association of voting officials? it's a california nonprofit to design new voting systems utilized free open source software and inexpensive commodity components. the elections office here in san francisco hasn't finished their original count of the election from november 8th. they're going to have new results posted on that this afternoon and today they are starting the 1% hands count from each precinct. live in san francisco, ann mkovec -- -- makovec. >>> officers were at the corner of value vista and diksen. a suspect was just led away in handcuffs. >> reporter: it started in oakland before 11:00 last night and ended here in hayward at the apartment building behind me two ours ago. the suspect - was the hayward swat team's priority. .........trying to get him to d police says -- -- hours. . >> reporter: around 10:00 this morning a meal suspect exited with his hands up and no gun fire was exchanged. seven people inside left around 4:00 a.m. without a problem but one elderly man had no choice but to remaybe inside.

the chief economist for the national association of realtors says the rates will likely go up there the next year. >>> this thanksgiving is a some of those warm kitchens. jeremy swells is here with your first weather forecast. >> we have had a lot of clouds in our skies and so far it has been dry. those want amount to too much and they are gone by tomorrow and then we can focus on a warming trend for the weekend. tomorrow on cbs 2 this morning - thanksgiving may be over but the holiday season is just getting started, how you can give back to a corridor orga musical talents - at whatever level. that's tomorrow on cbs 2. right now -- an oil recycling business is engulfed in smoke and a firefighter is in the hospital in critical condition after a massive fir >>> welcome back. right now and oil recycling business is engulfed in smoke and a firefighter is in the hospital in critical condition after a massive fire broke out this morning in central city. this is what it looked like in when cbs2 news crews were there. the building houses oil bins that exploded. he see the massive amount of resp

because the latest map from the national association predicts that current conditions will persist through at least the end of february. the state climatologist says once the ground freezes, any precipitation, whether it's rain, ice or snow, stays on the surface. that means no replenishing the deeper ground water supply that's already in distress. so conservation is key. >> for areas where ground water levels are already low, people are going to have to conserve drawing from wells or municipalities drawing from streams. reporter: she says conserving will help keep the situation status quo and get us through the winter, but the hope is for a good lasting snow pack that melts evenly over time so things that improve in the spring. josh: commitment 2016. after a dozen years of democratic leadership in the state's corner office, a republican will in january. governor elect sununu will also work with the house and senate that's held by a g.o.p. majority and he dropped by our studio today for a taping of "close coming up." at the age of 42, sununu will be the youngest governor in the country, ask

the ul research product is a flawed study, and at least six trade associations including the national association of home builders have expressed concerns to ul about the methodology, some bad science, unrealistic conditions included in the study. >> reporter: they use plywood not used in most home construction, and unrealistic scenarios like a high energy pushed directly up against a house. what about the idea, though, that vinyl siding melts. is that true? >> it does melt at certain temperatures. it will actually melt and fall away even before it ignites. >> reporter: eps industry aluns represents company producing foam board and are aware of very few residential fires involving the foam insulation, and when properly installed and used of code applications, this is safe material. the eps tells us that the ul report is a self-proclaimed research project representing nonstandardized tests to help firefighters understand unique scenarios, but welcomes the opportunity to work with ul to identify appropriate test protocols for insulation. ul developed many of the safety tests building materials mont

adams, national president, the retired enlisted association. itary order of the verbal heart. and daniel atkins, national president, military officers association of america. the associate members are located in the boxes to my left. i would like to ask the president and national commanders that comprise our associate membership to stand and be recognized. ladies and gentlemen, please recognize our veterans national leadership with your applause. [applause] it is now my president -- pleasure to invite our host for 2016, polish legion of american veterans, usa. he polish legion also known as honored. founded after the ending of world war i, holding its first official convention in 1921. today they celebrate over 95 years of providing assistance to veterans and their families. chartered by congress, it represents over 3 million american veterans of polish descent who have served in all wars and conflicts of the united states since its inception. trainedwledgeable and service officers as well as representation and washington, d.c., it continues to

. >> reporter: jerry howard is the chief executive officer of the national association of home builders. >> i think the quality of housing being built is as good as it's ever been. better. >> better than ever? >> yes, sir. >> are they shoddy? >> i say no. >> reporter: builders are masters of enticing openers with a dream house, name-brand amenities, designer rooms. >> a fridge dare, galaxy series is their upper end, you'll see tiger woods and a lot of these stars will use those. >> what we don't see in the model home are the bones. the hidden parts of the home. >> reporter: veteran home inspector mark mcgovern says homeowners should always try to >> go into that neighborhood, knock on doors and say, i'm considering buying in your neighborhood, can you tell me what your experience is? >> point out all the houses where there are issues. >> reporter: that's what we did at a d.r. horton development in virginia where we met a lot of very unhappy homeowners with problems they say d.r. horton would not fix. >> i'm generally calm but i got to the point i was calling them every day and cussing a

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health care system and future of medicaid at a conference hosted by the national association of medicaid directors. that gets under way at 9:00 a.m. eastern. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily n 1979, c-span was created by a public service by america's television cable companies and brought you to by your cable or satellite provider. >> now on "american history tv, a program produced for the 1964 campaign of president lyndon johnson. hear it on national television on the eve of the general election, the half hour program begins with remarks by johnson's running mate hubert humphrey and includes remarks by lady bird johnson and the president himself. lyndon johnson defeated barry goldwatter in the 1964 election winning more than 61% of the popular vote and carrying 44 states. >> this program was prerecorded earlier today shortly before president johnson and his family left for texas and they join other maernz in casting their votes n a few moments, we'll visit the first family in the yellow oval room of the white house where he delivered his election eve message. the program is brough

. >> defining the role of law enforcement is considered a best practice by the national association ofchool resource officers. across the nine counties of the bay area, we discovered many schools get a failing grade. we spent months contacting all 161 school districts in the bay area. and we found police officers patrol half of all high schools. but of those schools, about 41% failed to define the roles and responsibilities of school officers. in total, more than 243,000 students in the bay area attend aid school district that doesn't actually outline what their campus police officers should or should not be doing. >> there will be no consistency across the board. >> the chief of police for the oakland unified school district. >> you have 5 and 6-year-old kids raised by their 12 and 13-year-old skis sister. they come to school angry and emotional issues. they have to handled by school not by the police. >> he serves on the education committee. after learning about our findings, he plans to look into the ideas of drafting new legislation to potentially require schools across california

for young african-american people in washington, but she was also the founder of the national association for negro women. an amazing character. a beautiful statute here at lincoln park, that everybody in washington, it's an iconic piece of culture in lincoln park in the center of washington. where we are right now is this is a painting rack in which we can use to store paintings and framed objects, so this is a beautiful framed object of abraham lincoln reading. these are associated with ford's theater. again, things that are gifted to the national parks service that might necessarily go on exhibit all the time. here's a picture of sherman. sometimes you wonder why we have these things. this cabinet has material from antietam national battlefield. this is obviously a bayonet used in the battle. artifacts of this type were picked up in the field either as souvenirs or relics after the battles. ooh, fun stuff. this was a cartridge case. i'm not going to touch it, but you can see, this is gorgeous. it's a leather cartridge case. as you open it, civil war period cartridges would have been --

chief economist for the national association of realtors lawrence yun says ... the rates will likely continue to increase throughout the year. president obama has done his ?official duty?--- pardoning two turkeys -- tater and tot. he also had a little fun.the president said... his daughters were ?fed up? with all his bad puns at the event ?refused to show up.?he brought his ?nephews? instead. instead.1:05-28 melia and sasha by the way are thankful that this is my final presidential turkey pardon what i haven't told them yet is we're going to do this every year for now on. no cameras just us every year, no way i'm cutting this habit cold turkey. good one, that was pretty funny. the two turkeys will ?spend the rest of their days? at virginia tech ... being cared for by vet students there. presidents as far back as "abraham lincoln"... have spared turkeys. but president george "h-w" bush is credited with beginning the ?tradition? of a pardon. 3 3 3 3 3 3 do you still need to do some last minute shopping for your thankgiving meal this morning? you're not alone. comi

for 25 years was was the founding president chairman of the national association of scholars and it's a great organization dedicated to these traditional principles and liberal arts education. he has a long history history of doing this. this institute at texas tech is probably one of the rare places of its kind in the united states. finally we have a distinguishe scholar doctor peter an anthropologist who holds a tenured faculty position and he also served as the provost of boston university. in addition to scholarly work is published hundreds of articles and publications like national review and the partisan review. all of them have a great contributions to the literature in their fields. [applause] i invited my lot collects to come today they're worried about whether it'seing taught in our college's about that. you see there's extraordinary ignorance about anything related to american government and history in the free market system and needless to say, the west. in context the gentleman here published a long study of whether or not or how western civilization is taught in our coll

. >>> a california group called the national association of voting officials sent a letter to at least four battleground states asking them to hold off on certifying election results. among them florida and north carolina. the group says it wants further investigations after unprecedented discrepancies between exit polling and final vote counts. >>> the future president is responding to calls for recounts on twitter. he's even throwing out accusations of voter fraud here in california. president-elect donald trump wrote, serious voter fraud in virginia, new hampshire and california, so why isn't the media reporting on this? serious bias, big problem. there's no confirmed evidence of fraud anywhere in the country. mr. trump also tweeted, millions of people voted illegally. oklahoma senator and republican james lankford responded to that. >> i have not seen any voter irregularity in the millions. there's always some on the edges, but i've not seen anything on the millions. i don't know what he was talking about on that one. >> the soon-to-be president tweeted out several messages blastin

the national association of voting association said letters went to "close," states with unprecedented discrepancies between exit polls and final vote count. >> i don't think this has anything to do with the candidates. this is the american people wanting to know what will happened in the 2016 election. >> president-elect donald trump had this to say on twitter, serious voter fraud in virginia, new hampshire and california so why isn't the media reporting on this? serious bias, big problem. >> there is no reported evidence of widespread fraud anywhere in the country. >> a manual count is underway in the bay area. >> 1% tally required before election results can be survived. matt keller is in san >> this is the final step in california for the less so today forget the machines it is talking about the hands. all the ballots have been cast and tallied. today, to make it foil they need to do 1% manual tally. that will take place in san mateo county. how do they do it? reroll three, 10 sided dice and match it to a corresponding number and officials work in teams of fur to manually call out,

colleen: by e-mail, wisconsin's insurance commissioner says the national association of insurance commissioners is working on legislation to require companies to check death records for beneficiaries. kathy: northwestern mutual says it is now checking death records. colleen: northwestern tells 12 news it support legislative efforts to bring uniformity to the process and has retroactively gone back to 1992 to locate people who may not have been aware they were beneficiaries. so, how to know if you are due life insurance proceeds? a national website is expected to go online soon. for now, you can find more information on our website, wisn.com. joyce: you may want to adjust your holiday plans if you are heading north. mark, some snow is on the way. mark: the picture to the left of your screen. i will show it to you now because when you were go, this was us. remember this? joyce: i block it. mark: seven inches of snow in 10 to 11 around the southern counties. we had a big blanket of white that was pretty much gone before we made it two things giving. i think we will have a not white thanksgiving th

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the national association of voting association said letters went to "close," states with unprecedented exit polls and final vote count. >> i don't think this has anything to do with the candidates. this is the american people wanting to know what will happened in the 2016 election. >> president-elect donald trump had this to say on twitter, serious voter fraud in virginia, new hampshire and california so why isn't the media reporting on this? serious bias, big problem.

i went to a job there as part of the national association of black journalists. i had done no internships. there were some class papers to the managing editor at the observer at the time and he very kindly told me don't ever come to a job fair with class papers again. you need to go get some clips. i took his advice and came back the next year with clips and he hired me as an intern. when i graduated, he hired me as a reporter. my first job was as a public schools reporter in the city of durham, which was half black, half white, pretty liberal college town, that's where duke is and since i went to carolina, i hate duke. [laughter] prof. gessen: i started covering public education in a high poverty school district right at the height of no child left behind. we saw the rise of high-stakes testing. and, the belief that if we test and hold segregated high poverty schools to a high level of accountability that suddenly we would get results like white schools. this is where i started my journalism career. very early on i was looking at the results come of the devastat

i am the president of the linn county chapter of the united nations association. rapids from september through may and invite speakers to come and discuss issues that are important internationally and to the united nations. leon tabak: you told me you have an interesting personal background as well, right? your origin's in africa, is that correct? chris dahle: i was born in raised in south africa. i came here to go to college, but i've bee iowan. leon tabak: alrighty. our second member of our panel is lynda waddington who is a columnist here with the gazette. tell us a little bit more about your interests and role in the community here, lynda. lynda w: oh my gosh, i do quite a few different things within the community. i do a lot of public mentor some young writers. i'm really enjoying living here in eastern iowa. tonight i think we're going to talk about the election and its aftermath, so i think i'm here tonight both as the woman, which i've kind of been a lot lately in this election cycle, and i've also covered politics here in iowa for over two decades, so a li

the national association of athletic trainers says one should be present at all games lot of money on helmets and computers and balls and we have five sets of uniforms. right? >> wears the trainer? >> where is the one looking out for my kid? >> should i let my son play football? >> yes, but is my answer. i don't think i want my nine or 10-year-old out there hitting has with one developing. but what i be comfortable with my son here under my care? absolutely. >> reporter: in the last few years doctors have increasingly said the brain inflamed with injury needs time to heal. and continued trauma can lead to a brain disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy >> we've put a warning label on cigarettes. why wouldn't we put a warning label on a football helmet? >> cindy is telling us that her husband grant. he played 11 seasons in the nfl. in retirement cindy says their life became almost unbearable. he was an alcoholic and impulsive and depressed. >> his speech became stuttering. at one point, he would just say the same thing over and over again. >> reporter: after grant died at 52 ci

honoring yvonne garcia phone for her work as national chairwoman of alpha which is a leading national association of latino professional which will focus on "urban update" before to give us greater details on the work of children's trust and the event join ussing this morning is susan partly the executive director of children's trust and investment manager services group for state street corp. welcome to"urban update." i am excited of i have november 30 on my agenda. i guess i have to be there too now. >>> i think so. >> anchor: i'm looking forward to that. i try to give a little overview of the organization but i know you probably did a much better job. how do you describe what you do and why you do in the community? >>> what we're looking to do is to partner with parents to make sure they have the skills and the confidence sure chin are raised in safe and healthy environments. we all know that parenting is the toughest job we take on. kids drive us crazy. we want to get in there early and make sure that parents have a whole toolbox and that's really what we do. >> anchor: now i will ask yvonne,

he is the former president of the national association of school safety and law enforcement officials. larry, can you hear me right now? >> i can hear you. go ahead. >> ok, larry. well first thing i did want to ask you just to get some analysis of this, one of the students saying -- run, hide, fight. what are your thoughts on that? was that the best thing that they could have told students at that time? >> absolutely. run, hide, fight is a great concept for the college environment. and, at this point, while they are in a situation where they don't know know all the tangibles of what's going on, getting students to safety and staff to safety is of utmost importance. >> what are your thoughts obviously, twitter, i have heard people calling in t in to us, students, sometimes the information is accurate, sometimes it's inaccurate. what should people at home do? how much should they listen to, with a grain of salt, so to speak? >> so parents across the country at home now have to trust in ohio state officials, those officials at the college or the university there, trust that they are goin

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national association of chicano and ciacana studies. there are many of them. this has been a significant development i think just in the last three years, really. divestments. the lutherans have called for end of aid to israel. in universities have called on their companies to divest from company that is profit in israeli human rights investigations. these are huge victories. they have caught the attention of israel and its allies. we have artists and musicians and actors speaking out on this issue. so let's talk about the response to this movement. i think what is most important to realize here is that this is a testament to how successful the movement has become. how much it has changed public discourse to the point where a presidential candidate can say what he said. the backlash we are seeing originates with israel itself, which has pledged millions of dollars to combatting bds specifically and is supported by dozens of groups in the united states that specifically support israel and the zionist agenda. we have sheldon aidle son rai