while there, he met two elderly sisters, catherine and cordelia norton. the last surviving members of an old texas family that made millions mining granite. the two sisters never married and lived in a large mansion while running separate businesses. 75-year-old catherine was the younger of the two. >> her nickname was girlie. she was very frilly, very lady-like. >> catherine ran a flower shop and met tim scoggin while he was working for a local funeral home. 83-year-old cordelia was a beer distributor and a cattle rancher. >> she was rough. she had a man tile haircut. she wore khaki clothes and she could cuss better than any sailor you ever saw. >> as scoggin got to know the sisters, he spent increasing amounts of time doing their chores, cooking for them, he acted as their driver and helped them with their medications. >> they were lonely. they needed someone to talk to them. they needed someone to care for them. and that's what he did. and they trusted him just like a son. >> he was at their beck and call. he would drive them anywhere, take them to the

host: welcome back author richard norton smith. a pleasure to have you. thanked for being with us. guest: my pleasure host: taking a look back 50 years ago, nomination of barry goldwater which would rock the gop convention. lee edwards called him the most consequential loser in american politics. it all began 50 years ago today in san francisco. let's take a look back at one of the news reels reflect okay what happened in california. >> the man who came from san francisco expecting to win in a walk appears heading that direction. barry goldwater is claiming more than he needs to win on the first ballot. when he addresses the platform committee, he appears to be a man who exudes confidence. he gives the committee at preview of his campaign tactic. he calls for less government at home. a rear guard, william scranton attempted a floor fight over the seating of a negro delegate from tennessee. he was defeated in a voice vote and his followers girded for another battle. meanwhile, former president dwight ice en hour arrives by train for the convention, mum on his choice. he says the g.o

we have differences from norton, many similarly. we like more translation. we like sometimes a cheesier books. we go to high quality books but it's a way of branching out the norton into in many ways we are a like but we express our editors differently. >> let's start with a couple of books you have coming up this fall. let's start with xhosa prizewinner edward o. wilson. >> yes. he has won the pulitzer prize twice for books. he has written a book called the meaning of human existence with 15 essays really examining how we came to be and the challenges of human existence in the future. he says we have passed the line on which natural selection of babies has ended and that we're designing our own children. he examines the genetic implications or this for our future. in another piece he examines what it would be like if there really were an et, an and extraterrestrial. he talks about the ending of biodiversity, that challenges to the environment. so it's a work of very thoreau would like meditation all scientific-based assays. >> terrence holt is another awful

delegate elliot norton -- eleanor norton wants to know why d.c. residents continue to have problems using their d.c. drivers licenses at airports. some tsa agents have even in rejected them, if you remember, as invalid. new hampshire recently clarified state law after a store clerk if used to sell out all to someone with a d.c. license. >> the push for d.c. to become a state has some big-name support this noon. president obama has come out in support of d.c. statehood. he was there at the event at the walker jones school. >> i am for it. >> i could not be more related by the president's full throated, unequivocal endorsement of statehood. delegate holmes norton has been fighting for d.c. statehood for decades. she represents the district of columbia in congress, but does not get the vote. statehood would change that plus give the district to u.s. senators. >> coming up, a consumer alert about a goodwill data breach. >> plus, what's in a name? we have details on a new study. >> find out where one man came into contact with bedbugs. it was not a bed

please welcome congresswoman eleanor holmes norton.nd applause] congresswoman, thank you so much for coming. good to see you again. you and i have been enemies long enough they think we're almost friends at this point. >> not quite. >> stephen: all right. all right. you represent the district of columbia where you are a non-voting member. i want to thank you in joining your republican colleagues in non-voting for any legislation. [applause] >> the difference is they can vote and still vote for legislation. >> stephen: but it's admirable restraint on their behalf. you're here to talk about the 50th anniversary of what's called freedom summer in mississippi. tell the young people what freedom summer was and the role you played in it. >> well, freedom summer was when large number, actually thousands, of students from all over the country came to mississippi to try to help mississippians who were kept from voting learn how to vote and to get them to the polls. >> stephen: okay. why wouldn't they just register? i understand that only 10% of

. >> why are you protecting jim norton? >> that's my goal in life, protect my buddy jimmy norton. >> you didn't pull an anthony wiener. >> my brother at some point said can't you say somebody got your phone? i it doesn't work like that. first of all people who listened to me on the air would have known yeah he talks like that on the show all the time. for 10 years at siriusxm i had spoken like that. stringing together lines of obscenities and sensical non fashion. >> why didn't you wait a day? >> that's not what twitter is all about. it is instant pounding of a situation or a person you are mad at. yeah, maybe that would have been better to think out the wording perhaps. >> maybe if you rhymed. >> a rhyme would have been good too. to a nice beach perhaps. >> but things were pretty bad. >> yes, it was -- well i was pissed. i was assaulted in time square allegedly. if you listen to any left wing story that is agenda driven and they never acknowledged i was hit. >> you were punched in the face and my first question was how can

congressman thomas massie was conspicuously present when eleanor holmes norton and city officials held a news conference to denounce his bill to nullify bc's gun laws that passed the house yesterday 241 to 181. >> i just wanted to hear what they had to say. >> at one point, he left the boat. he says his bill would stop anyone from prohibiting gun possession outside the home, including assault weapons. the mayor, quoting a civil rights activist said he was sick and tired of being sick and tired. >> it's un-american, unconscionable and offensive. >> it's an attack upon our rights and public safety. >> we found no support for the congressman's push. >> he's ram kentucky. they shouldn't try it in our city. >> but he insisted he had it right. >> i don't think you get to violate somebody's rights, basic civil rights simply because you have home rule. >> norton was asked if she was confident the city could eat that this political attack. what stand up here and say i'm confident of would be a fools paradise. i'm not confident of everything -- of anything. thatssie seemed confident he would los

. >> miss norton, miss wynns? >> i. >> miss fewer. >> yes. >> six is. a: >> i wanted to say thankout to rita and joe. all these years i've been on this board, you've presented this budget and i wanted to say thank you. and thanks to joe for always spending a couple hours explaining the thing to me. thank you very much. so -- >> can i just add to [inaudible]. >> yes, rita. okay, may i have a motion and a second i mrooufl of the fiscal year 2014, 2015 adopted budget for the san francisco unified school district and the san francisco county office of education in the standardized accounts code structure form? so i think rita is going to read that for us. thank you very much. >> yes i am, thank you. so the with requested action is now that we've ordered on the adopted budget that we now vote on the -- that the board of education approve the fiscal year 2014, 2015 adopted budget for the san francisco unified school district and the san francisco county of education in the official state form [inaudible] in accordance of california education code sections 331

. >> what has eleanor holmes norton so fired up on the house floor today. >> aging shipping containers -- floor today. >> aging shipping containers -- 1 [ horns honking ] people are so impatient, right? you know what it is? it's waiting. 10 minutes or 10 hours, people don't like waiting. you know, at comcast, we don't want you to wait at all. with our new xfinity my account app, you can troubleshoot technical issues, request a callback, or r chk with an expert via twitter. can you wait just a second? hey, can you move, please?! i hate sheep. [ male announcer ] introducing the xfinity my account app. it's a whole new day at comcast. hold us to it. ♪ >> you remember the story for shipping containers to be brought into house local students. not everyone is happy with the creative housing idea. >> jennifer donelan is live in northeast where the shipping containers are now and she has more on the new backlash. jennifer. the first toou are do something, you better be ready for some opinions both bad and good. as two owners of the shipping and tanner, soon-to-be apartment homes, they have to

norton holmes, because -- and mr. shuster, because i believe that what needs to happen is we need to get what we can get done when we can do it. it may or may not be easier for us to do it now or later. but we can achieve it here today. and i believe that it's important for washington, d.c. to have certainty as to what we're going to do. and it's great back home in dallas, texas. so i'm glad that we're doing this. i thank all four of you, except my expression of thanks and i defer. >> thank you mr. chairman, i appreciate it. i'd like to take a very brief point of personal privilege and introduce a guest i have this evening. i have a teacher in congress, this is my ninth year of doing it, bring one or two teachers from my district for about ten days to washington to shadow me, and learn more about how we do our business, and give that person an opportunity to do some individual research and my 2014 teacher in congress is here tonight. michael mccullough back there. he's a reacher at r.j. reynolds high school in win sta

is that right, congresswoman norton and former eeoc member holmes-norton? >> i was surprised and pleased that a judge here in the district of columbia interpreted the word sex as it is written in the statute. on the other side, it is clearly the case when statute was passed if you look at the hearing, nobody ever mentioned sexual orientation. let me caution you about this. when a court interprets the statute they have to interpret the words. in be tore fretting the words seems to me that that judge is on -- >> i actually think that we can find more common ground. i would say that i think it's actually kind of dangerous, though, to conflate the two thingsw sex and to say gender discrimination is the same exact thing. supreme court ruling, my interpretation, would say that religious organizations can say that they don't have to hire you based on your -- sexual orientation but can't do that based on your race or your sex. so that completing the two might actually be a problem here. >> a problem for whom? >> a problem for the churches, first of all. i certainly

norton holmes, because -- and mr. shuster, because i believe that what needs to happen is we need to get what we can get done when we can do it. it may or may not be easier for us to do it now or later. but we can achieve it here today. and i believe that it's important for washington, d.c. to have certainty as to what we're going to do. and it's great back home in dallas, texas. so i'm glad that we're doing this. i thank all four of you, except my expression of thanks and i defer. >> thank you mr. chairman, i appreciate it. i'd like to take a very brief point of personal privilege and introduce a guest i have this evening. i have a teacher in congress, this is my ninth year of doing it, bring one or two teachers from my district for about ten days to washington to shadow me, and learn more about how we do our business, and give that person an opportunity to do some individual research and my 2014 teacher in congress is here tonight. michael mccullough back there. he's a reacher at r.j. reynolds high school in win sta

his name is henry norton.ow henry was born deaf and he's going blind now because of his medical condition. >> and that's why so many people came out today the family and the friends it's more important than ever to help fund research to find a cure. let's get over to dave kinchen joining us in the newsroom. how much money are they trying to raise, joyce. they have looking to raise $30,000 to benefits organizations which help deaf and blind individualing. all while teaching people about henry's very rare condition. >> afternoon of summer fun in medford, new jersey, complete with swimming, some jumping around, a super hero, even a cook out. >> we have everybody here. >> seems like doesn't it. >> everybody here for kim norton's sick yeared oh son henry the real hero behind these second ever help henry see and hear family event. >> awareness is access. so if you're aware of people's needs and you meet them where they are, better place. >> henry is battling a rare condition called usher syndrome a gentlemen it in t

july 1, 2014, to june 30, 2015 on the budget and business services committee, the chair is rachel norton with mendoz-mcdonnell and joe wynns as members. building ground and services chair is mendoz-mcdonnell, fewer and haney. curriculum and program, maufas is the chair, with fewer and haney. rules policy and legislation, wynns is the chair, with is the chair with [inaudible] ad hoc committee on personal matters and relations is haney -- i think it's me -- fewer and murase. sorry, [inaudible]. and then on the city and school district select committee, it's me, sandra lee fewer, mendoz-mcdonnell, and wynns. okay. >> so the personnel matters in labor is main, fewer and murase. >> thank you. >> thank you. any other reports from board members? no. yes? yes. >> thank you. little confused. i just have a couple of things i wanted to announce. one is on this thursday we're going to be honoring 33 students, 28 of whom are from san francisco unified school district and 5 are from students that graduated and we invite everybody to come out and support. and then i also wanted to congratulate fred bla

take a look. >> i'm congresswoman eleanor holmes norton.who live in the nation's capital, the district of columbia. >> i'm tamika mallory, a community organizer and activist. my activism really was sparked when my son, who is now 15 years old, his father was killed, shot and killed when my son was 2. i believe that at that moment, my activism was really sort of sparked. i've led many campaigns against guns, trying to get reduced gun violence and get guns off the street. i think i'm more concerned with the fact that there are a lot of issues that young people are dealing with that makes them turn to gun violence. >> well, that just goes to show you how the issues differ. now, there was street violence and street crime, but the civil rights movement overwhelmed every issue. it was the most important issue of the day. it does seem to be for your generation income inequality. >> absolutely. >> much tougher issue. you can't legislate that. >> absolutely. when the feminist movement started, there was a woman here in new york that was very importa

he had been asked -- inspired by an account norton had given out to the crusaders. he likened the participation in the war to a crusade on the poor hapless holes of allies world and then ended the letter by saying he planned to re-up. at the time he wrote the letter, he was to face the last of a series of harrowing experiences. the chancellorsville and wilderness campaigns where the -- as he put it, one time, the bodies of men laid six feet deep piled up in corpses as he rode his horse on a walk as he put it through the blue line. finally, he comes to the realization that he just can't go back because, among other things, if he does go back, he is not going to be able to go back as an aid in a position that kept him out of the line of fire, but back into his infantry unit. as he says to his mother, the i'm waiving promotion and not going to reenlist. the sufficient reason is i can no longer endure the horrors. he said, i know i can face it cooly when it is my duty, but war demoralizes me as it would any nervous man. so, he left with a fair amount of guilt. his comra

for delegate norton, the battle is to ensure what was once gained is not lost.he is working to arrive the 1965 -- to revive the voting rights act, a key section which was overturned by the supreme court last year. >> we see laws deliberately enacted to inhibit the right to vote. so there's no question that there's some who want to turn back the clock. >> reporter: clearly, america will never return to the nation it was 50 years ago. but it is still struggling to fulfill the promise so many fought for. lisa stark, al jazeera, washington. >> coming up: they could not hold the world cup without them. we will meet the people making soccer balls for the big tournament. > and he spent a month living and working underwater. we will dive into what jacques cousteau's grandson was trying to accomplish in a lab called ah conveyor yus. aquarius. >> here is a look from on top of our building from the area. things have cleared through. thunderstorms have cleared out, come back to the weather wall and look what did come through. that line of thunderstorms all the way from new

norton smith? correct? i just wanted to kind of reminisce with you.4, i was a 19-year-old student in atlantaa and there was a mock con convention at emery university and the goldwaters were there. there had been a parade in atlanta for barry goldwater and then they came to emery, and i was almost swayed but not quite. there was so much going on, especially in atlanta. and i am a native georgian and with the desegregation and martin luther king was right there in town. and so much work needed to be done on that front that they didn't sway me but they were charismatic. i remember that and a great orator. a wondesh man. thank you. >> alexis thank you for sharing your recollections from 50 years ago. we will go to plymouth, new hampshire. valerie is next caller: good morning. how are you guys doing? host: host: fine. thank you. caller: i am glad to see a historian on t.v. can you hear me? >> we can. go ahead, valerie. caller: okay. i want to know: are you aware that ronald reagan back in the 20s, before f.d.r. was a communist? >> ronald reagan was born in

it is jim norton. his latest special, "american do general rete" is available at jim norton.com. >> a block. the lede. that's the first story. people say you are the perfect idiot, greg. i sigh you are not perfect, but you are doing all right. >> thank you. he is on a vein campaign. brad jenkins, seen here, an associate director in the white house public engagement, whatever that means, usually spends his team getting -- his time getting hollywood celebrities to push obama's agenda. and now he wants their vote. on on monday he had his intern write to the artist e-mail list explaining, quote, i know brad would be honored if you voted for his nomination for "the hills" most beautiful list for 2014. share on facebook and twitter, whatever that is, mike. we knew the white house was concerned about appearances. the e-mail included jenkins' bio and it notes that he was, quote, part of the brains behind president obama's emmy nominated appearance on "between two ferns." jenkins' campaign is the subject of ton

he had been inspired by an account norton had given out to the crusaders. he likened the participation in the war to a crusade on the poor of the world and then ended the letter by saying he planned to re-up. at the time he wrote the letter, he was to face the last of a series of harrowing experiences. the chancellorsville and wilderness campaigns where, as he put it, one time, the bodies the chancellorsville and of men laid six feet deep piled up in corpses as he rode his horse on a walk as he put it through the blue line. finally, he comes to the realization that he just can't go back because, among other things, if he does go back, he is not going to be able to go back as an aid in a position that kept him out of the line of fire but back into his infantry unit. as he says to his mother, the i'm waiving promotion and not going to reenlist. the sufficient reason is i can no longer endure the horrors. he said, i know i can face it cooly when it is my duty, but war demoralizes me as it would any nervous man. so, he left with a fair amount of guilt. his comr

norton smith? correct? i just wanted to kind of reminisce with you. in 1964, i was a 19-year-old student in atlantaa and there was a mock con convention at emery university and the goldwaters were there. there had been a parade in atlanta for barry goldwater and then they came to emery, and i was almost swayed but not quite. there was so much going on, especially in atlanta. and i am a native georgian and with the desegregation and martin luther king was right there in town. and so much work needed to be done on that front that they didn't sway me but they were charismatic. i remember that and a great orator. a wondesh man. thank you. >> alexis thank you for sharing your recollections from 50 years ago. we will go to plymouth, new hampshire. valerie is next caller: good morning. how are you guys doing? host: host: fine. thank you. caller: i am glad to see a historian on t.v. can you hear me? >> we can. go ahead, valerie. caller: okay. i want to know: are you aware that ronald reagan back in the 20s, before f.d.r. was a communist? >> ronald reagan was

back as he go through those slides i'll be able to describe that in great detail the enar restrict norton and others talk about the people come from jessie and come through the enhance you'll enter into a lobby entry staying space with elevators a connection to the retail store that enables the museum and the groundless are not open you'll transition along this long gradually stair cake and circulate around where you came from the mission street facade and go up to the upper level. once our on the second level of the museum both the second and third floor became the main areas within the museum one the key project development i keep losing my cursor i apologize in terms of transparency and flexibility of space is this long gallery that faces towards jessie plaza known as the gallery and we'll see imagines e images it is a visual screening and assessing access to jess i didn't plaza but serves asia multiple use and in terms of programming events for earned revenue etc. as you come up 9 stairs the main lobby where coat check and others services and you'll travel around the building over to

petri, and ranking member eleanor holmes norton. i rise today in support of h.r. 5021, the highway and transportation funding act of 2014. in particular, the bill before the house this afternoon would do two things. first, it will provide a total of $35.3 billion for highway public transit and surface transportation programs. secondly, it will extend surface transportation programs authorized under map-21 through 14. 31, 20 i support this bill because it takes almost 50,000 construction jobs in texas out of harm's way, and it ensures that over 3,500 active highway and transit projects in texas will not be slowed or stopped by the highway trust fund's shortfall. however, my support for this bill is reluctant. as i believe we have missed another opportunity to craft a long-term highway program yet again. while i'm pleased that we have come together to address the impeding highway crisis, we're also kicking the can down the road again. today's 65% of our nation's roads are rated at less than good condition and 25% of our bridges requir

henry norton was born deaf and going blind because of his until condition. >> that is why family andend say it is more important than ever to help fund research to find a cure. our dave kinchen was at this benefit. >> afternoon of summer fun in medford, new jersey, complete with swimming, some jumping around, and a super hero, even a cook out. >> we have everybody here,. >> reporter: everybody here for ken norton's six year-old son henry, rare hero behind the second ever, help henry sianni hear family event. >> awareness is access. if you are aware, of peoples needs and you meet them where they are, you are in a better place. >> reporter: henry is battling a rare condition call usher syndrome a cause of steady loss in one here's and vision this fundraiser working to raise three grand for people like them. >> everybody should be able to read something in brail. everybody should be able to be safe without curbs falling all over, and everyone should have an interpreter to be able to sign. >> reporter: we introduced to you henry a few days ago as he took fox 29 around his house. the ligh

the meeting is held at the west norton building. >>> seniors are getting help getting their fruits and v vegetab vegetables, vouchers are being handed out today and next wednesday. they are giving them out between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. the state and federally funded vouchers can be redeemed at other locations, call the number on your screen, for more details on eligibility and on the locations. >>> still to come on "action news" at noon, stuck in midair for hours, two dozen people are trap ond a ride when a roller coaster suddenly stops. and coming to an end, the defense ends in the oscar pistorius trial. and our call to action volunteers are standing by with any consumer issue you may have. >>> a roller coaster got stuck in the air in six flags in atlantic. a roller coaster got stuck in the air and on an angle. it hit a tree branch. four people were left there for hours. the ride is closed while this is under investigation. the defense has rested in the murder trial of oscar pistorius. the chief defense lawyer said he is finished presenting the case for the jury. pistorius says he

officials from pennsylvania american water and west norton will testify. >>> pennsylvania drivers areng fees go up starting today. the cost of the replacement license plate will be $11 instead of 7 another $50. a vanity plate will cost you $76 up from $20. the money will be used to fund various projects in our region. highway budgets were strained with plowing costs andç pothol repairs from our harsh winter. the spring garden bridge over the schuylkill, here's a live picture, the bridge is structurally deficient. work will begin in mid-july. the price tag for this, $6.5 million. you're watching nbc 10 news. nbc 10 news today at 6:00 a.m. starts right now. >>> nbc 10 news starts now. >> get ready for a hot and humid day. temperatures will be in the 90s and it will feel even hotter. >> let's get a live look at the radar. we are keeping an eye on this tropical depression after the coast of florida that could become tropical storm arthur today. and the path it could take. >> i believe that we will win! i believe that we will win! >> world cup frenzy is here as the u.s. prepares to take o

they put finder to the test at their norton, village test site. >> all right. i think i got it from here. so just fyi, i am a little bit currentlier phobic but i am putting my life in the hands of finder. i am going to climb into the rubble pile and hopefully, they will be able to detect my heart beat in there. minutes. but i certainly wouldn't want to be here for any length of time. and i truly, truly cannot imagine the stress and anxiety one would experience being trapped in rubble like this. >> the first responders go in teams of two usually, one holds the laptop and carries it, sets it down on the ground about ten or twenty feet in front of the rubble. >> okay. it's working. yeah. a real good heart rate, and ris pration rate. i am pretty enthusiastic about this one. the goal of finder that i am hoping is that it will speed the process up. if you could talk a little bit about your interaction with the developers of the technology. >> they have the ability to do the engineering and the construction background that i don't have, but i have the real life experi

. >> reporter: it's been called bullying by dc mayor vincent gray, el norhomes norton referred to the actions befitting a tyrant. so many in the district are crying foul. >> she should have no role. in my view, these congressmen and/or senators who include themselves into local matters are just looking for publicity. >> mid-stride in decreasing marijuana, andy harris introduced a bill in congress prohibitth using taxpayer dollars to decriminalize small amounts of pot. >> i don't usually get involved in dc affairs but this was so egregious. >> reporter: the white house administered this statement. they allow dc to spend its local taxes and other federal funds without approval. the president sides with dc and agrees gop shouldn't trample home rule with writers attacking criminal marijuana and abortion laws. abortion laws are on dc's rand's radar. former dc attorney general peer nickols, who's been pushing for greater overall autonomy for years, says when he was ag, members of congress let it be known if they wanted to get a voting representative in congress, there might be something the

six-year-old henry norton suffers from usher's syndrome.e was born deaf and is happenedly losing his vision as well. captain america, american ninja warriors and lots of other supporters turned out for this fundraising event. >> they are coming out to raise money for access, that's what we're all about is access, everybody should be able to read something, if it's in braille everyone should be able to be safe without curbs falling over and everyone should have an interpreter to be able to sign. >> his family hopes the fundraiser will bring awareness to this genetic condition. in the u.s. about four babies in everyone hundred thousand born have usher's syndrome. >>> the faithful in our area gathered to pray in the name of the newly sainted pope john paul ii. first class relic the blood of the pope still in its liquid state was used to bless all of those who gathered for weekend masses at the cathedral basilica of saints peter and paul. some touched their rosaceaes to the relic, others carried prayer cards. the knights of columbus have been e

the public hearing takes place at the west norton township building at 11:00 a.m.icials from pennsylvania american water will be there, the utility that experienced the problems. >> we have new information on the rollercoaster accident that injured four people in southern california. this is the scene late last night at six flags magic mountain in santa clarita. investigators say the ninja coaster hit a tree branch causing the front car to break off the track. nearly two dozen people spent several hours dangling up to 30 feet in the air until rescuers brought them to safety. all of the injuries, though, were minor. >>> the walls literally came crumbling down in west philadelphia's cobbs creek neighborhood at the site of a row house collapse. two of the homes caved in on each other yesterday endangering a neighbor's house on the 6000 block of spruce street. fortunately no one was inside when the walls buckled. a dog however was pulled out safely. the red cross is assisting 10 people as inspectors try to root out the cause of the collapse. >> now for your first look

is not a state eleanor holmes norton norton has a lot of sway over the kinds of the.congress that are you trying to tell me that if the district or cliff that if the despondency if the if the republicans allows represented had the ability to change the gun laws in new york unilaterally against against new york's opinion but they wouldn't do it all of this is that like i said this is a states' rights issue i mean. if it were all about felon or holder on or off there's a floor of the house that says d.c. the d.c. residents have said they want to have less restrictive gun control congress would pass it with a gun just as the opposition here say i'm going to give you i'm going to give the republican party the been a for the doubt they're so focused on home constituencies that they're not going to not thinking about what's going on their district ok final word to see if you and your you know some teenage screenshot noble thank you good going to you coming out battle o'neal the republican méribel haven north carolina has walked almost three hundred miles from his hometown t

and so in terms of the work that commissioner norton and commissioner fewer launched in all the other commissioners have engaged in in terms of vision 2025, we haven't even really begun to fund our vision of what the school district will look like in 2025, and so while this is a tremendous improvement over the past four, five, six, seven years, where we have been looking at budget cuts and furlough, otherwise known as no learning days, we really are only just now digging ourselves out of that hole thanks to the chronic underfunding of the state. so thanks to proposition 30 and the support from the community for local revenues we're at this place, but i would like to emphasize that we really need to make up much larger investment in our school budgets . >> okay. last comment . so i -- i think this book looks way better too, josh. and part of it is the paper's very nice, and it's easier to reads, i like the format. but still, it's a really complicated process, i think, this budget. i would like to simplify it a little bit meaning that -- i'm looking at our multitier support from 2013, 2