and also the jim crow era in north carolina in fact wilmington was a among diversities north carolina to segregate the streets in the jim crow, they thought of the steel end midterm election attacking the black voters prefers, wilmington school leaders on how to do it. debbie smith later elected government said that we can handle the blocks away they handled them in wilmington, with their hanging carcasses. in most of you probably never heard of the wilmington coup until i read about it, and wilmington newspaper coverage in 1998, i had not either elwood high school college north carolina and the coup was never mentioned by any professor or by any history book and all the classes that i took and maybe in many people read the book of the same two questions that i had when i first learned of the coup in 1998 pretty one is how can i not know about this and two, how could this happen in the united states of america and i think that the best answer that i could give this is a forgotten chapter of american history that is covered up or mischaracterized for a century and a happened in a time

and from north carolina. three black aldermen were forced from office at gunpoint in 1898, no black citizens served on wilmington city council until 1972, more than 70 years later. the coup also provided a blueprint for terror and intimidation of black men who tried to vote elsewhere in the south, and ushered in the jim crow era in north carolina. wilmington was among the first cities in north carolina to get jim crow laws when they segregated the street cars. in 1906 white supremacists in georgia planned to steal the midterm election by attacking black voters. first they consulted with wilmington's coup leaders on how to do it. w. hoke smith later elected governor in a stolen election said quote we can handle the blacks the way they handled them in wilmington, where the woods were black with their hanging carcasses, close quote. most of you have probably never heard of the wilmington coup. until i read about centennial events in wilmington in newspaper coverige in 1998, i hadn't either, and i went to high sc

today is a - beautiful day in north carolina for justice.nd his family. it is a day that is so well deserved. i’m a day that is so well deserved. i'm auoin to a day that is so well deserved. i'm going to have so many... a surprise. a pardon of actual innocence, it lifts the burden off of my shoulders and my family's shoulders. just god bless everybody that helped me get from prison to this point of my life. hello there. it's been another chilly day today, but whereas we had sunshine across large parts of scotland and northern ireland, there's been much more cloud across england and wales, and we had some rain and drizzle for a while. earlier on, there was some snow in the north—east of england as well. the next weather front is coming in from the atlantic. this band of cloud here will push eastwards overnight and into tomorrow. ahead of that, we've still got some cloud, particularly across england, producing some rain and drizzle. that will tend to ease off, the cloud thins and breaks, allowing temperatures to fall quite quickly in advance o

north carolina alcohol law enforcement division. north carolina capital state police. juvenile justice. crime division and support positions within the department of public safety. i was ultimately responsible for leadership coordination of homeland security in the emergency management functions to provide comprehensive and coordinated preparedness, mitigation, prevention, protection, response and recovery for emergencies, disasters and acts or threats of terrorism. as the leader of north carolina state administrative agency for homeland security grant funds, administered funds to state and tribal and local entities across north carolina. i chaired the north carolina emergency response commission and through a talented team of professionals, coordinated law enforcement counterterrorism prevention, preparedness and response training on a statewide basis resulting in a cohesive team response by law enforcement and emergency first responders to acts of terrorism or a terrorist threat. i recently served on the executive committee of the natural governors homeland security

he is not asking for the state of north carolina to apologise.na to acknowledge the wrong and give him what is due under the constitution. when you get exonerated, you're supposed to be able to get pardoned. there's some actual other states that have automatic pardons after you get exonerated. north carolina's not one of them. i'm not begging for it, i'm not pleading for it. i'm just here to put mr cooper, this whole system, north carolina, on notice that i'm—a keep right on talking cos there's more guys that i left behind me that's innocent. they buried this man alive! | you're looking at a miracle. there was never an i intention for him to be standing here today. when you try to do this - and you do this and you kill a person's dream... thank you, reverend. all right. thank all of you. thank you. like, tomorrow. talking about freedom. god knows freedom come in all forms. land of the free, home of the brave. who are the free you're talking about? you're talking to? i'm glad dontae's out. yeah, these ought to be ready. can't get what i lost in 26

today is a beautiful day in north carolina forjustice.a day that is so well deserved. i'm going to have so many, you know, a surprise — a pardon of actual innocence, it lifts the burden off of my shoulders and my family's shoulders. and just god bless everybody that helped me get from prison to this point of my life. hello there. thursday brought a day of contrasting weather conditions. glorious blue sky and sunshine in west sussex — nearly six hours of sunshine before the rain arrived late on in the afternoon. and as for friday, well, we could actually see plenty of sunshine yet again in many places. there will be a scattering of sharp showers and it will feel pretty chilly for most of us. however, as we head into the weekend, the story is changing. it will turn increasingly cloudy with some rain around but, more noticeably, it will turn milder. before that, though, this weather front continues to clear away. the winds swing round to a north—westerly and that's going to feed in some showers from the word go across the far north and west

today is a beautiful day in north carolina forjustice.amily. it is a day that is so well deserved. i'm going to have so many... a surprise. a pardon of actual innocence, it lifts the burden off of my shoulders and my family's shoulders. just god bless everybody that helped me get from prison to this point of my life. hello there. we await the arrival of the second named storm of the season. storm barra will bring the worst of the weather during tuesday as windy weather develops widely. added to that later on snow and blizzards over some of the hills in the north. this is the centre of the storm approaching western parts of ireland. it will push a band of heavy rain northwards and eastward across the uk. but ahead of that we start the day with a frost widely and some icy patches in western scotland and the northwest of england. a very cold start then. we got that rain sweeping its way across northern ireland, wales and the southwest in the morning, the winds picking up as well. that will be followed by some sunny intervals in heavy, bluste

today is a beautiful day in north carolina forjustice.is family. it is a day that is so well deserved. i'm going to have so many... a surprise. a pardon of actual innocence, it lifts the burden off of my shoulders and my family's shoulders. just god bless everybody that helped me get from prison to this point of my life. hello again. storm barra of course has been dominating our weather picture over the last couple of days with strong winds, heavy rain and some upland snow as well. but look at these big rocks. the seas have been chucking them onto the coastline of west wales. you know the seas are pretty angry when they throw brick sized lumps of rocks at you. there is barra, it continues to feel it's getting less intense. we do have a window of slightly clearer weather that's set to come in during thursday. that means we'll see these showers that we got at the moment fading away over the next few hours. but it's going to be quite chilly for those heading out across northern england and scotland, temperatures as low as —2, —3 c as you per

and that's what i've done in north carolina. donald trump and opposed him and his election. but at the same time i think people want us to try to work together in a bipartisan way. that's why i'm excited about this infrastructure bill in washington where the president has worked very hard to try to bring republicans onboard. they've been very obstinate about almost everything, even though they've agreed with the infrastructure bill policy in the past. in north carolina i've had to work with a republican legislature, and we've come together in a bipartisan way to pass strong funding for our schools, for our universities and community colleges. and it just -- it takes leadership. and i'll tell you what. governors have become more and more important in this country. particularly looking at our u.s. supreme court, they're going to put responsibility back on the state to protect the rights of womens health, protect voting rights, environmental safe guards. i'll be chair of the democratic governor's association next year. we've got 36

and joining us now is the democratic governor of north carolina, roy cooper., thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciated. >> glad to be with you, lawrence. lad >> i want to begin with that last item that was on the list of what the vice president was talking about in north carolina today. that is the 1.1 billion dollars for clean drinking water improvements. what clean drinking water improvements does the state of north carolina need at this point in the 21st century? >> well, trump promised and promised infrastructure bill in the states waited and waited. and finally, it took president biden to deliver. when you're talking about clean drinking water is something that every family should expect. in north carolina, we are ready have an infrastructure that is ready for this money. we're emphasizing regional drinking water systems. trying to get counties and cities to work together. and many of our smaller towards in our rural areas are living on water systems that are 70, 80 years old. and we need an upgrade. this money comes to us at exactly

mchenry of north carolina, i inform the house that mr. mchenry will vote yes on h.r. 5290. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. rush, i inform the house that mr. rush will vote yes on h.r. 5290. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by dr. joyce of pennsylvania, i inform the house that dr. joyce will vote yes on h.r. 5290. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. lawson, i inform the house that mr. lawson will vote yes on h.r. 5290. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from georgia rise? >> as the member designated by mr. jody hice of georgia, i inform the house that the house that mr. hice will vote yes on h.r. 5290. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from michigan rise? >> as the member designated by mrs. lawrenc

, but in this category of plastic bottles, 8% on north carolina. it's pretty far down there. has north carolina considered how to really focus on this problem of plastic bottles? there's the expression that was in the testimony of reduce, reuse, recycle, but with plastic bottles, the truth is it's burned, buried or borne out to sea, all three of which create significant environmental challenges. as we wrestle with this state by state, oregon was the first one to have a bottle bill. i'm disappointed to see that maine has a higher recycling rate than us, but at least we're hanging in there in second. hopefully, to improve. but has north carolina considered the possibility of doing something to boost themselves from the 8% level to the above 50% level through some sort of deposit strategy or other strategy? >> thank you for that question, senator. there has not been any bottle deposit legislation introduced recently. north carolina has focused on its return of p.e.t. bottles, though. we have some important industries and market demand in the state, it

this is a big deal for the folks in north carolina.aylor: they talked about some of the net migration down to maybe some of the carolinas. you talk about businesses and investing and where they are finding the labor, how they are helping to better control their supply chain. on the outskirts of greensboro, north carolina is where toyota is going. how are they thinking about controlling their battery, taking on ev's and investing in their own supply chain. then what that means for that town. in greensboro, north carolina. let's talk to the mayor. there's hundred and 26 miles when you talk about the state and the key logistics hubs. i'm curious as to how these conversations come up. d have to offer incentives or are they desperate to invest and you open your doors? >> they are making a huge investment, but any big project comes along with incentives. we think we had a good incentive package, but keep in mind we got to know toyota about four years ago when they came looking at this mega site. ultimately, they chose to go to alabama, but w

secretary, your experience in north carolina seems to enforce that. how can we help work with communities to build up technical capacity for these disasters? i would think that authorizing this legislation would give the incentive and legal authority to do so. dr. martin: there are two benefits around that specific issue of state and local capacity. one is having a clarity of the role. everything becomes less appropriation based as a directive. understanding the predictability , number one. second, technical assistance can be standardized. jurisdictions can be trained on how to prepare and roll out their programs more quickly. the biggest challenge for housing recovery has been that these are block grants, so let's be clear about how they get to use the money within statutory requirements. so don't have the time gap. having clarity allows technical assistance providers to be that much more specific in helping those programs launch more quickly. mr sprayberry, please? mr sprayberry: i agree with dr. martin. protect ability will allow hud to build those

john: but, can attend ball and in north carolina? -- ted bond win in north carolina? karen: there was some situational stuff in north carolina. including, a nominee who had some unfortunate -- john: it is the most entertaining season of 2022. it will not be baseball, football, or basketball. it will be the republican primaries. in 2010 we got sharon ingle against harry reid and harry reid should have lost and we won. we got christine o'donnell in delaware. karen: not a witch. john: right. murdoch in indiana. tony: but they won the house and took over as governor. john: the point is you should have taken it over that here and they didn't. candidates do matter. the fact is, the democrats are probably going to have compressor -- competitive races they should not have because of that. i want to go to your original question about virginia. i think there should be lessons learned. the fact is that in 2017 we had a historic off year election turnout everywhere. it did not matter if you are the mayor of cincinnati, we had double turnabout -- double turnout. because people wer

i'm from charlotte, north carolina. and it took me probably close to being in my 40s or so until i actually felt comfortable talking about, how can i say, my southern upbringing and the spirits that have guided my life. i wanted to start out, you know, just talking about the current context that we're in. we've heard a lot about the 1619 project. but this idea for most people of color in this country, particularly african americans, is our time in this landscape has been long, but our freedom has been very short. and so how we begin to kind of think about ourselves in a place that at once is foreign but is also very familiar. you know, we have to find our own path. and as someone working in landscape, i've been keen to look at -- and i've taken the same maps and looked at the establishment of landscapes that we tend to canonize. they hold sacredness in the way we think of our country. if we think of the middleton plantation, the 1730s, i remember in undergraduate school, it was the first colonial gardens. mount vernon,

in educating the people of north carolina was very important to them. these are important names to know. in trinity college this is what it was with the redline it became in 1892, very slow going and what are the requirements to get the money, 300,001 of the requirements was to educate women on equal basis, this is the only southern wide institution to come to campus and progressivism and it does change dramatically. 1924 out of the inventor of trust, $40 million about $630 million today. with hospitals and orphan care and methodist churches support other educational institutions in north and south carolina. importantly set up a new to be named for his father in $6 million will be made available with duke university another little thing, kinda clever, i do institution designed to become equal at stanford. and no shortage of ambition here, duke like stanford, this is his gesture he was given be involved in the process of all the other names that are less important when history needs to acknowledge the two jolly looking german william was the first presid

she left fayetteville, north carolina, without a trace.here with the conclusion of "deadly ambush" is keith morrison. >> leaven worth federal prison. do intime doesn't come much harder than it does here. this is where john diamond was serving a life sentence for murdering air force captain marty theer. but his former lover michelle seemed to have dropped right out of sight. where was she? people weren't seeing her around fayetteville. the da meanwhile was convinced she must have conspired with john diamond to kill her husband. she was the brains, he was the brawn, or in this case the shooter, though it was all circumstantial, said greg butler. it was persuasive. >> there was a significant amount of evidence. i don't think there was any question as to who was involved, diamond and her together. >> the evidence? a life insurance, the affair, the access to a murder weapon, those e-mails, the coverup. taken together it was enough to convince a grand jury, and, finally, in may of 2002, nearly 18 months since her husband was killed, michelle the

educating the people of north carolina was very important to them. these are important names to know. trinity college, you see what it was. this is what this became. it came to durham in 1892. it was very small, very slow growing. one of their requirements to get the money, washington duke gave 300,000. one of the requirements was they had to educate women on an equal basis as the man. which was fairly progressive. this was the only southern, white institution that invited booker to washington to come to campus. so, there are hints of progressive-ness there. all of this change -- the story of duke change dramatically in 1924, when james duke did his trust. 40 million dollars, which is about 630 million dollars today. at this, he was going to find hospitals, orphan care, rural methodist, support other educational institutions in north and south carolina. and importantly, set up a new university that was going to be named for his father. there you see, 6 million dollars will be mailed made available at once for launching duke university. another little

the governor of north carolina is a democrat. the attorney general, i am not familiar with any anti-semitic statements. he is also democrat, but it would not surprise me if he said anything like that. i think back to the question of popular control. from the founders point of view, our state legislatures are supposed to represent we the people so we send them to the state capital and they are going to make the decisions and we trust them with that. if we don't like it, we can kick them out and they are easier to kick out than a member of congress. that was the reasoning behind having some of these roadblocks and not just having pure democracy. one point you are getting at and i think a lot of people feel your frustration. we look at who is in office. we say, this person does not represent my values and quite often, we are right. you mentioned your medical cost. healthcare cost is the leading cause of bankruptcy for households in america. the two major parties give us either government run healthcare or none. most americans want s

that's dawn in north carolina. she mentioned ukraine. that's the topic of a story of the "wall street journal" this morning about the secretary of state warning his russian counterparts over issues of ukraine. if russia decides to pursue confrontation, there will be serious consequences. that was secretary of state blinken at the start of a meeting with the russian foreign minister on thursday. it was reiterated president putin's assurance assures russia does not conflicts. they want a balance of interest in the region. the senior diplomat warned russia wouldn't stand be by what it perceives threatening moves by the north atlantic treaty organization into its region. the "wall street journal." bloomington, indiana. independent line. daniel. caller: morning, pedro. one thing's always consistent and that's c-span. i thank you for this opportunity to come on. my top story for the week is one i don't hear anyone talking about. it's regarding bail reform. with 24 whole bail reform idea, the idea to get rid of bail and release prisoners over 1

the march, got the pulitzer prize, about a soldier's experience on the eastern north carolina. absolutely, great book, and again, not overlook killer angels. i mean come on, there's not a book that had a greater influence on our field than killer angels and it did so much good so, you know, i think fiction can do a lot for us and give people access to think about the past in a serious way and we've had some really great fiction out there. >> in reference to, you know, john's comment about my -- you may not know that i've been recast in the remake of solomon and sheba and, you know, we're still going to make sure there's a much more historical accuracy. >> i think you'll be beautiful as sheba and -- [ laughter ] every generation has books, novels, has movies, because movies tend to not be based on history anyway, based on best-sellers or novels. if you go back to every movie you can think of has actually been in print but the idea i think in part you got a built-in audience to come to the movie so i think part of that, but, you know, ken burns, though it's not fiction, you know

north carolina race is always up in the presidential year.for coming on and sharing your perspective. >> thanks chuck. appreciate it. >>> coming up, dr. fauci is warnings things could get really bad. the latest on omicron. and ahead the nation's highest military honor is about to be bestowed on three u.s. soldiers. two who gave their lives for this country. the ceremony is about to begin at the white house. begin at the white house o man, that's a whole lot of wrinkly at least my shoes look good! looking good start with bounce wrinkleguard, the megasheet designed to prevent wrinkles in the dryer. it's our holiday savings event on the sleep number 360 smart bed. what if i sleep hot? ...or cold? no problem, the sleep number 360 smart bed is temperature balancing so you both sleep just right. and it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. so, you can really promise better sleep? yes! you'll know exactly how well you slept, night after night. we take care of the science. all you have to do is sle

leonidas polk is born april 10 in raleigh, north carolina. his father william is a revolutionary war veteran. wounded in the war. and his mother sarah hawkins polk is native of north carolina. he was born into considerable privilege. by the time he was born his father was a wealthy landowner with holdings in north carolina and also extensive holdings in middle tennessee. leonidas had a traditional i guess southern upbringing. he was very much raised in wealth and privilege. member of the southern planner class. his father who was good friends with andrew jackson owned 100,000 acres of land in tennessee just to give you an example. i always like leonidas and his brother lucias were clearly named in the sort of antebellum classic tradition. he will have a nephew named lucias as well from his brother who will serve as a brigade commander during the war. in 1827 -- well, in 1823 leonidas gained an appointment to west point. he expressed interest in military career. his father after all was a veteran. and he did well at west point. he graduated in

so going back and looking, did north carolina have slaves? was this a free man? i mean, why in '95 did we choose to depict this history. i would argue this is the ostensible past, how cities really reclaim the history and want to rewrite the narrative. and in charleston as i noticed from your reading list, you've seen a lot of this, right? from the early parts of the 20th century to changing the narrative of the civil war and how we allow for the history of blacks to be present alongside the history of whites. i mentioned that mayor riley i met in macon, georgia, and this is a project that i won a competition for, and this is like 1998, 1999. that's the doors of the confederacy. we cleaned it off. we made a set of yarns that talked about a blue collar relationship. we wanted to make it more visible so we made fountains to go around it. then i placed colton bales next to it. i wanted there to be this tension between this fiction of the daughters of the confederacy, this reality of this place being a place that stored cotton. this is 20 years ago, and people were -

. >> north carolina. >> yes. that's where he was -- he was born in north carolina. yes. his mother's family was from newburn, north carolina. that's where he was born. but he's a virginia -- they moved to virginia quickly. his father bought a farm in virginia. his father was a virginian. the armistead family, they're virginians. so i think -- i think he would consider himself a virginians. but it's true he was born in north carolina. >> some of the family is still there in north carolina. >> i'm sorry. >> yeah, i had a couple family related questions. do we have any good sense of what this illness was that killed armistead's wife -- you said both wives? >> they believe both were call cholera. both times it wiped out people at the post. it was ripping through the army posts. so they were dealing with this. it was a really tragic time. and there was one account of him coming upon his wife, the second wife who died. the first one died of cholera. he got remremarried. >> almost all of these generals on both sides had children dying, wives dying. >> in the country, too. they

cawthorn of north carolina, i inform the house that mr. cawthorn will vote no on the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york seek recognition? >> as the member designated by chairwoman nydia velazquez, i inform the house that ms. velazquez will vote yes on the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. troy nehls, i inform the house that mr. nehls will be voting nay on the previous question. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> the gentleman from california rises as the member designated by representative linda sanchez, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that representative sanchez will vote yea on the previous question h.res. 852. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. kay granger from the great state of texas, i

senate to prevent efforts to close north carolina military bases. both doles reside at the watergate and remain one of the d.c. power couples. please join me in welcoming bob and elizabeth dole to the stage where they'll be interviewed by bill lacey. plus applause elizabeth: hello. bob: a lot of people out there. elizabeth: i'm right here. ok. elizabeth: thanks very much. great. bill: thank you all for coming out today. can everyone hear me ok? no? how about now. it's great to have you here today for what is a program i've been working to organize for a long time but it's a sad day for americans because of the passing of a good friend of the doles, secretary jack kemp. i just wanted to ask both of you to share a story or insight on secretary kemp and what he meant to america. elizabeth: let me say that just a few months ago, when i was running for re-election to the senate, jack kemp was with me in north carolina traveling on a bus through the mountains and you know, he was so full of energy and enthusiasm and just a great example of the public serv

leon artists polk is born in raleigh, north carolina. his father, william polk, is a revolutionary war veteran wounded in the war. and his mother, sarah hawkins polk, is a native of north carolina. they were born, or rather, he was born into considerable privilege. by the time he was born, his father was a wealthy landowner with holdings in north carolina, and also extensive holdings in middle tennessee. leon nervous -- had a traditional, southern upbringing. he was very much raised in wealth and privilege. he was a member of the southern -- his father, who was good friends with andrew jackson, owned 100 -- acres of land in tennessee, just to give you an example. an i always like leonidas and his brother, lucia's, they were clearly named in that antebellum classic tradition. he will have a nephew named lucia's as well from his brother, who will serve as brigade commander during the war. in 1827, well -- in 1823, leonidas gained an appointment to west point. he had expressed interest in a military career. his father, after all, was a vete

he joins us today from asheville, north carolina. you began your opening statements by saying "the question of this case is really a simple one. the question is, is compassionate crime?" talk about why you did this, we call rescue, and respond to your sentence. your convicted, but then given a suspended sentence. close to be out of jail right now, i very much expected to be -- the reason i'm out of jealous because of mediattention from places like the intercept and democracy now! the reason we are doing this is because there is incredible amount of animal cruelty unfolding in states like north carolina, which has a very powerful agricultural industry. when citizens complained about this, including employees as some of the farms, the vernment has consistently, instead of trying to hav accountabili, pass laws to prevent local citizens from suing farms for polluting the local air and water, so activists have started resorting to direct action tactics to expose what is happening and to give some direct care to the animals who are sufferi

the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from north carolina is recognized. ms. adams: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in support of my amendment to ensure transparency in our elections. the american people have a right to know whether a candidate for president or vice president has unethical foreign intanglements or compromising debt that can be leveraged against their administration or worse. my amendment requires the federal election commission, the f.e.c., to make an income tax return publicly available within 48 hours after receipt of return. in cases where return requires extensive redactions, the f.e.c. may make the return available after 48 hours, but no later than 30 days after receipt of the return. only a full release of tax returns can ensure that our president and vice president are working for us, the american people, not anybody else. i urge my colleagues to vote yes on this amendment and yes on h.r. 5314. thank you, i yield back. mrs. maloney: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves the balance of her time. the gentlelady re

butterfield of north carolina, i inform the house mr. butterfield will vote yes on h.res. 848. 34*ebmen mr. -- as the member designated by mr. peters, i inform the house that mr. peters will vote yes on h.res. 848. as the member designated by mr. ryan of ohio, i inform the house that mr. ryan will vote yes on h.res. 848. as the member designated by mr. kilmer of washington, i inform the house that mr. kilmer will vote yes on h.res. 848. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. kim of california, i inform the house that ms. kim will vote nay on the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois, for what purpose do you rise? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. rush i inform the house that mr. rush will vote yes on h.res. 848. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. jacobs of new york, i inform the house that mr. jacobs will vote nay on the rule.

this is what the north carolina piedmont looks like per duke forest today. so they bought 5,000 acres of land. this is like a mile west of the women's college which we just saw. i think romantically, the duke community has sort of thought about this as this virgin forest that they come in and carve this university out of. the reality is the land was a lot of abandoned farms, a lot of successal woodlands so you weren't cutting down the forest to put in a university. the land actually looked like this. you see the city encroaching from the north, and you can see the football field being laid out. this is during construction. there's the cross axis. so when i was looking at this the first time i was thinking about the -- you know, you have the topography, you have the trees, you have a very specific image of what the piedmont landscape is. you think about what's driving the design, and i think we have talked about that earlier today. it's like does a designer come in here and say this is what your campus needs to be, and i started looking at james duke's estate

. >> reporter: just days before christmas, tragedy at this north carolina distribution center for the tv shopping network, qvc. one day after a massive fire tore through the building, authorities finding the body of 21-year-old keyvon ricks. his family says ricks had just started working at the facility three weeks ago and leaves behind a 1-year-old son. >> i have been crying all day. i'm not hurt for just myself, not just for his mother, not just for his son. i'm hurt for my son. >> reporter: at least 75% of the building is destroyed. north carolina's governor tweeting, i have been in contact with local and state officials about that tragedy and taking steps to help families hurt by the loss of more than 2,000 jobs. ricks' family frustrated after authorities initially said all employees inside the center had been accounted for. >> i'm hurt for people that know he's a humble guy, like, he's a great person. >> reporter: qvc says it's not yet sure of the impact the fire may have on the shipping and delivery of products this holiday week, tweeting, we are currently focused on our team. t

i've also chair of the southeast corridor commission, a regional partnership of north carolina, washington, d.c., virginia, south carolina, tennessee, georgia and florida. the. the commission is charged with developing the southeast regional rail plan, reporting on the economic benefits of rail along the corridor, creating an implementation plan and prioritizing major projects. the goal of this effort is to improve the mutual cooperation and planning between states and stakeholders to position the corridor to receive direct fall funding. our states work together to advance our shared vision for high performance rail throughout the southeast. because we have a shared understanding of the power of rail to connect our states and our communities. and equally important, we know that rail infrastructure investments create economic growth and opportunity. the commission is now looking to the infrastructure investment and jobs act to provide the federal funding needed to continue our work together and to advance our plans to construction as well as initial operating support. north carolina and vir

as we saw in north carolina when hb2 pass, so many companies decided not to invest in north carolina. our leadership convened, replicated in texas, had almost $4 billion worth of assets invested in north carolina and $6 million invested in texas i've assets is that the discriminatory policies at both north carolina and texas around trans people increased the risk in the marketplace and decreased the return on the assets invested in those states. there is a direct return on investment for equality in economic consequence of discrimination. the short answer is, yes, absolutely. companies pay attention to this significantly. there youth, especially gen z and y, won't come to companies that are not lgbtq inclusive. if there are based in lgbtq- unfriendly, it is an economic problem. >> there's a benefit but also -- i don't to say penalty, but i guess it is. i think that is why this won't want to highlight these issues. the next question is for miss watson. barriers your community faces every day. can you speak to the issues created with the financial services industry not actually measurin

he cites georgia, north carolina, pennsylvania, north carolina trump won. >> but no one was waiting. >> right. >> for the voters to vote. they were ready to go in, send your own electors. ignore the voters. >> and we only have had eyes into a handful of these texts when mark meadows turned over 6,000 documents. >> i think this is a very key point, jake. we know -- you and i have both heard that in other instances where we're seeing text messages, it's not just one text message. we don't know yet, but were there multiple text messages from this phone, how did mark meadows respond to that? and remember again, mark meadows voluntarily handed this over without any claim of privilege to the committee. it's one of the first texts the committee has released. they clearly see it as important. and despite the fact that perry says he didn't author it, we do know it came from his phone, and i'm told that eventually all of these texts will be identified. >> it's easy to deny something through a spokesperson. it's less easy to do so when you're under oath. we should note about governor perry, and

this is what the north carolina piedmont looks like in duke for us today. they bought 5000 acres of land. this is like a mile west of the woman's college, which we just saw. i think, romantically, the duke community has thought about this as a virgin forest. they come in and become part of this university. the reality is the land was a lot of abandoned farms, a lot of succession woodlands. it was not necessarily that you are cutting down this forest put in a university. the land actually looks like this. you could see the city encroaching from the north, and you can see the football field being laid out. this is during construction. there is the cross access. so, when i was looking at this, the first time, i was thinking about the topography, the trees, and you have a very specific image of what the piedmont landscape is. you think about what is driving the design. i think we talked about that earlier today. does the designer come in here and say, this is what your campus needs to be? i started looking at james duke's a state. this is his park as it was cal

you may be interested in, gettysburg and really rich and so to give you an example, john - and north carolina, and his brother charlie, guided his arms and died on july 3rd and preceding the case for the campaigners, and they give us a glimpse of the homeless north of wilmington and didn't own any slaves and then put into the the storyline is crucial to understand why gettysburg had the impact that it did on him and another soldier as charles, 12 years and the book is very difficult. and is published by the publisher no longer in existence but charles going, gave opportunity and a man in new york and he was a farmer, excuse me farm laborer and he wrote about the war in a way that not the way that he thought the people wanted to read into see, he was the war in which he just pulled back the curtains pretty in his descriptions of the opening attacks, against petersburg, it just makes you shutter after you read them. so as we all know, we have ranked sources that are truly extraordinary and they give us a look into the interior world of these men and so yes, it's exciting project and i'm have be

and as i was growing up in north carolina, unbeknownst to me when i was young kid, but there were also these reminders that you stay in your place. and remember spending summers here and told that you cannot go out at night. this was clan country. and then being able to move around that and i remember many times with my family going to atlanta and other places and he stayed and other places that were not deemed normal places in these kind of ideas and unpopular culture to the left which does not really deal with the reality. and then when we think of our world, i can't imagine having to erase those images and i don't remember the bookmarks and i don't remember the color entrances but i can't imagine it how one would begin to erase that even with nature itself and to begin to see the tree of white only versus seeing the tree of everybody. and then the idea of a specific day, i was reading earlier about the early memorial days and charles to and after the that literally became memorial day rated the blocks in the south and there was one day in north carolina, black saturday, that was the