, invest in rhode island's future, and continue making progress toward our rhode island 2030 goals. housing is one of the most critical issues facing rhode island today. and over the next decade. that's why our administration proposed the once in a generation quarter of a million dollar investment in creating and supporting more housing at all income levels. i want to thank the members of the general assembly for acting on that proposal last year. since that historic investment -- [applause] since that historic investment was passed, our administration has worked to put that money into action. right now we have over $90 million in funding from the historic $250 million available for developers, and 39 projects have already been funded. they are anticipated to create or preserve over 1000 units of affordable housing. in addition, the general assembly created a standalone department of housing that went into effect january 1 of this year. i am committed to building a capable department of housing that is up to the challenge and opportunity that this moment represents. my budget will c

so rhode island, it is our time. we have mom >> so, rhode island, it is our time. we have momentum, and if we keep up this tremendous determination, that we display during the pandemic, we will be ready to embrace the significant opportunity ahead. we have the tools, and with all of us working together, we have the team to be successful. let's go right our seats next chapter. thank you so much for being here tonight and listening. rhode island is ready. thank you so much for being here tonight. and listening.

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and rhode island is not alone. the u.s.as nearly 13,000 miles of coastline, 40% of our population lives along the coast. more than a trillion dollars worth of residential and commercial real estate is coastal. and for most american households, their greatest wealth is their home. first street foundation whose ceo testified at thorngz's hearing -- this morning's hearing examines floods. it shows increasing risk to residential properties over the next 30 years. and rhode island does its own flood projections and they show similar risks. just two weeks ago a study found real estate exposed to flood risks was overvalued, i.e., the flood risk had not yet been taken into account by up to a staggering $237 billion with the worst property overvaluations along coasts, and of course florida with all of its coasts is the prime liability. the study warns that as a result, coastal real estate values may plummet, and that can cascade into systemic risks for the mortgage market. freddie mac, the mortgage giant, has made very similar warni

they moved to rhode island last summer.is wife and their three youngest children, share a two-bedroom apartment. the children attend a nearby christian school. the parents study english at a refugee resettlement agency. kreshchuk now has a social security card. and he's looking for work. alex: and i visited many countries and know it's one side when came this concert or came as a tourist, but another way to come as a refugee. i met a very deeply party and compassion and people with deep love, with this open heart. justin: does it make you sad to think about your former life? alex:'m just saying that life is a journey on the way, a journey from day of birth until day of death. and we must came through different events in our life. and when i see back on my life, it's not sad. i'm only thankful to god he gave this experience, this chance to live. and now i undersnd it's a new period of my life. justin: finding peace in their music, even when there's no peace back home. for the “pbs newshour,” i'm justin kenny in east providen

it does incredibly excitin work here in rhode island.o make life better for rhode island or. 's doing it back home. i've been in elected office fo almost 30 years, almost half m life, i'm really excited about this new adventure and the opportunity to lead this incredible institution bac home >> you are leaving congress bu he will still be in public service. >> absolutely! >> congressman david cicilline as always, thank you for comin to the sunday show coming up after the break it i time to sound off with my pane as we continue coverage of donald trump's, potential, indictment don't go anywhere! chairs, gotta go... okay! i'm thinking couches... or loveseats? yeah, loveseats. something about loveseats make me feel happy. kevin...? i bought the team! ♪ cash brothers! ♪ ♪ we're reinventing our network... ...with smarter, more efficient routes... ...so you can deliver more value to your customers. fast. reliable. perfectly orchestrated. the united states postal service. >> tech: when you have auto glass damage, trust safelite. my customer rea

a bill proposed in rhode island would allow drivers on the autism spectrum to add the word autism to their license or their vehicles. license plate, the decals would be optional. the goal is to ensure a driver with autism is not deemed a threat if they're stopped by police, a nonverbal teen with autism testified in support of the bill. goal is to avoid misunderstandings between the officer and the driver. but some people with autism opposed the idea. one critic saying it is literally labeling us and putting us into a bar. looks rather than uplifting and supporting us. others support the bills intention, but say it goes too far. if there is a subtle way to say there's somebody who has a different communication style. there's somebody who has specific medicaid medical needs. there's somebody who is medically fragile in the car. that is important information for them to have. but how do we do it discreetly, so it's not screaming out to the whole world. new figures out this week show the number of children with autism is rising. the cdc recently studied eight year olds across the country

i now recognize the ranking member, my friend from rhode island, mr. maziner. >> i thinkhe chairman for calling this hearing and thank the witnesses for coming today. i want tohank doctor tyler om rhode island for joining us along with otheexpert witnesses. it's an honor to serve as ranking commit or that as ranking member of the subcommiee and i look forward to working with all mbers of the submmittee on a bipartisan basis to protect americans from those who seek to teaten the security of the homeland. make no mistake. china is the competitor th the greatest combination of intent and capity to threaten us global leadership. president xi himself stated by 2049e wants to ensure china and the ccp lead the world in terms of composite national strength and international influence. this is concerning for all of us who bieve deeply that democracy and human rights must be advanced and protected in r own country and across the world. just last year, fbi director christopher ray -- chriopher wray warned the greatest long-term threat to our nation's information

i like to once again recognize the ranking member, john went from rhode island for brief introduction and our next witness. quick thank you chairman very o pleased to welcome a fourth witness doctor tyler, is an assistant professor of political science and international public affairs at brown university the great state of rhode island. he is also the watson institute's assistant professor of chinese his time and effort to improving our understanding of decision-making in the people's republic of china. also previously served as a military intelligence officer with assignments in afghanistan, u.s. cyber command, and the office of the secretary of defense spray thank you to all of our witnesses for being here today i yield back. thank you very much. and again thank you for taking time here. i now recognize for an opening opstatement. we do have a time limit will keep it to five minutes, you are recognized. >> chairman, ranking member, and members of the subcommittee. it's an honor to be here with you today to discuss is very important topic. i spent 32 years of my career working in the

. >> [inaudible] >> the junior senator from rhode island. >> thanks, madam president. i'm delighted to join my colleagues here to talk about this so-called anti-woke capitalism or anti-esg scheme that has been propagated. i think the important thing to begin with is to understand what is happening out there, why in the has happened. the republicans -- why this has happened. the republicans would like us to believe that some bizarre viral epidemic of wokism has spread if into america's great financial companies, into the investment advisers, into the banks, into all kinds of fiduciaries ask, and that needs to be somehow excised. that is not what has happened. that is preposterous, magical thinking. what has happened is that the long-forecast danger cans of climate -- dangers of climate changech that scientists have bn telling us about for years have now gotten so real and so immediate that they have fit the due diligence -- hit the due diligence horizon for big banks, big investment companies, corporate boards and other fiduciaries. when you owe somebody else a fiduciar

i now recognize ranking member, my friend from rhode island for his opening statement.s good morning. i want to thank chairman for calling this important hearing and thank our witnesses for comingng today. i especially want to thank doctor tyler from brown university in rhode island for joining us along with their other expert witnesses. it is an honor to serve as ranking member of the subcommittee and i look forward to working with you mr. chairman and all members of the subcommittee on a bipartisan basis to protect americans from those who seek to threaten thehe security of the homeland. make no mistake, china is the competitor with the greatest combination of intent and capacity to threaten u.s. global leadership. the president himself stated last year himself by 2049 he wants to ensure china andf the ccp lead the world in terms of composite national strength in international influence. this is concerning for all of us who believe deeply democracy ano human rights must be advanced and protected here in our own country and across thehe world. just lester fbi director

remember how feg feds were targets parents, one rhode island mom is fighting back, nicole solis filed public requests for her daughter's school cr curriculum b . -- because of that she became subject of a secret meeting and teachers union sued her because she was concerned about her daughter and what she was learning, she is backing a republican push for a parental bill of right, it is rhode island mother of two, nicole solis, how did you find out you, you were target of a secret meeting at your daughter's school. >> this began because my school told me too submit public records request to know what my kinder gartner would be learning and i had a teacher leak slides to me, showing me they had my picture on slides, pain liked a criminal, they wanted to organize against me and send a meangs to message to other parents that you will be retaliated against if you ask questions. the slides were created by a middle school math teacher who thought it was the normal to cut and paste pictures of my face. after they sue need bully me and silence me, they went on twitter, executive director of ne

today, we discovered, thanks to senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island, that the supreme court hasy been forced to take one small step from the darkness toward the light. not into the light, just in the direction of the light, in the direction of transparency, but no we're really close to it. this happened two weeks ago, but it was a secret until senator whitehouse received a letter last week from the administrative office of the u. s. courts, replying to questions that he has asked in his official capacity as a member the senate judiciary committee, with jurisdiction over the courts, including the supreme court. supreme court justices are now going to have to, according to a report in today's washington post, quote, provide a fuller public accounting of free trips, meals, and other guests they accept from corporations or other organizations, according to revised regulations quietly adopted this month. and to triumphantly explain to us what we might now be learning about supreme court justices in this small step toward transparency is senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island. he'

will: coming up, a roy mother -- rhode island mother claims the teachers union is trying to harass here has proof. rachel: plus, will reparations from slavery stop children from busting into liquor shops and stealing from grocery stores? that's the belief of some hoping to get hundreds of thousands of collars from the state of california. -- dollars from the state of california. ♪ lomita feed is 101 years old. when covid hit, we had some challenges. i heard about the payroll tax refund that allowed us to keep the people that have been here taking care of us. learn more at getrefunds.com. second date, wish me luck buddy. mouth to mission control. we have a denture problem. over. roger that. with polident cleanser and polident adhesive refresh and secure for any close encounter. if your mouth could talk it would ask for polident and poligrip. ever better. it's when disruption hits your supply chain and ryder makes sure you're ever delivering with our portfolio of transportation services from freight brokerage to transportation management, truckload capacity and dedicated trucks and drive

where were we, rhode island. a beautiful flower farm in rhode island kyra found. we shot the movie.t. she's a great director. >> jimmy: i thought it was funny, she said that you were not her first choice for the role? [ laughter ] >> what? no, i don't know that. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you really don't know it? >> no. where's my phone? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i actually have a quote right here. "i didn't offer my husband the part of the father at first. the actor who was supposed to do it fell out and i was like, hey, is there any world where you might consider doing this? kevin was like, i've been waiting for you to ask me." >> is that for real? >> jimmy: yeah, that's for real. >> who's the actor? >> jimmy: did you really not know there was another actor? >> no, but in that one i knew who it was. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: maybe you weren't her first choice for husband either. [ laughter and applause. >> i'll start to question everything. i don't think i was. >> jimmy: it's going to be a very tense vegan bolognese tonight. [ laughter ] the title of the movie, "space oddity," obviously af

with us for, more democratic congressman david cicilline of rhode island.use speaker kevin mccarthy to schedule a vote on assault weapons ban. congressman, i appreciate you being here. we've had an assault weapons ban in this country before. what you want our viewers to know about your plan? >> first of, all the assault weapons ban worked. when the assault weapons ban was in place, there was a 25% reduction in mass shooting, a 40% reduction in fatalities. these are weapons that were designed for the battlefield. they're designed with one person, to kill as many people as quickly as humanly possible. they have characteristics that are designed for warfare. they don't belong in our communities. they don't belong in our schools or theaters or shopping malls. and we had a ban, it worked. and we have tried every sense to put it back into effect. we passed in the last congress out of the house. in a bipartisan vote, we reinstated the assault weapons ban. it was not taken up by the senate. but this is something we can do to take these weapons, which have such leth

congressman seth magaziner of rhode island, thank you so much for joining us this morning.he cavaliers are playing with four guards, and the four guards out there along with several of their best free throw shooters >> he threw it away! >> clark will inbound. 2.4. they added a little bit of

frank served as chief justice of the rhode island supreme court from 2001 to 2009. and as chief judge of the u.s. court of military commissions and remains active in arbitration and like lincoln frank dogs, most especially. so you can talk to him about that too roger lowenstein is making his inaugural appearance the lincoln forum and we welcome him to the lincoln family as well or the lincoln forum. family. roger has forged a distinguished career as a financial writer. he reported for the new york or the wall street journal for over a decade and his writings have appeared in bloomberg, the new york times, the washington post, fortune and the atlantic. just to name a few outlets. he is also the author of several books on finance in history, including buffett the making of an american capitalist origins of the crash, the great bubble and its undoing and america's bank epic struggle to create the federal reserve, an institution which has also been much in the news over the last few months, roger traveled further in time with his new book, ways and means lincoln and his

i even met another parent in rhode island who was threatens to be schooled by the same teachers uniontern of harassment by this teachers union. i have another parent in oregon who contacted me and said their local teachers union threatened to sue them to suppress their criticism of the teachers union. i think there's a something we have to start looking at, how teachers unions are targeting parents who dared to challenge their radical agenda and who also just dared to ask what they are learning in school because there are parents who don't even know the indoctrination that is going on, they just want to know what they are learning and they are getting attacked for that. >> john: yep, it is going to be a big issue in 2024, i think you're clinical, great to talk to you. >> sandra: nicole, thank you for joining us. best to you. and john, we will be right back. did you know it took our founders 116 days to debate and draft the u.s. constitution? turns out they didn't trust the printing of paper money, but they did trust gold and silver. article 1, section 10. gold and silver. good for the

it's sponsored by republican rhode island senator jack reed and california congressman eric swalwellho stood in front of the group this morning. pete henriquez told the story of a passenger who would not sit down no matter how many times he was asked. then he held up a picture of himself taken in the hospital. >> we want the rest of the flight to be calm and unevent. so everyone was safe. upon landing, he was arrested. it is disappointing to me that a passenger arrested for physically assaults and spitting in a flight attendant's space can continue to fly on commercial airplanes in the united states. >> the flight attendant said the attacker was sentenced to community service and said why do people seem to get lighter sentences when they attack somebody in the sky than if they just come up and punch me on the street? >> what do the airlines think of it? >> they like it. certainly the airline unions, the flight attendants and the pilots unions, they back it. the ceo of delta who first came up with the idea of an industry-wide do-not-fly list. >> so they know about -- >> yeah, or at th

. >>> the "boston globe" says the operator of addiction treatment centers in massachusetts and rhode islandan alleged multimillion dollar health care fraud scheme. recovery connections centers of america, its owner, and an employee are accused of fraudulently billing health insurance problems. they're also accused of depriving treatment for patients with substance abuse disorders. >> not only was this scheme, as we allege, designed to defraud by enriching these defendants with federal and private health care dollars that they did not earn, but that in the process it cheated a vulnerable population of recovery patients. >> authorities say about 1,500 patients were affected. >>> and "the washington post" says almost 200 human rights groups called on the u.n. to intervene over access to abortion in the u.s. the groups including amnesty international issued an urgent appeal yesterday claiming america is violating its obligations under international human rights law. it comes after the supreme court overturned roe v. wade last year, and some republican-led states implemented near total bans on a

it's rhode island. they do a lot of reform in rhode island. hom so the homelessness problem, ifu i democrat mayors arr e listenig ,get them housing, get themet te medical carem and give them something to do tucker. >> dr. marc siegel for saying. thank you very much. thank you. youthe fentanyl epidemic hass killed hundreds of thousands of americans. one mother who lost two of herns sons to it joins afterll join the break with a message for congress. looks like you've been sleeping well. god , he's back to my pillow guy and you're looking good. >> still feeling good. well, just when you thought it couldn't get any better, we've got the best pillow over mypillow 2.0. oh, so soft and smooth. it's cool to the touch. >> how did you do that? well, we took my pillows patented bill and combine it with this new technology that we didn't have back then when i invented mypillow to bring you the best pillow in history. mypillow 2.0, just like all of you, i never imagined that mypillow could get any better. that's why i haven't changed it in nearly twenty y

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global security and its own backyard, its own interest in particular, in regard to taiwan self, rhode island, that they didn't consider as its own, train you out 0 for inside story in beijing ah, so let's bring in our guests for today's discussion and a mock is a senior research fellow at the center of china and globalization. he georgia, far skype from beijing. in washington, d. c. a. shirley, you, she's a senior fellow with the ash center at the harvard kennedy school and via skype from hamburg is adrian geiger's, his co author of the book. she's in ping, the most powerful man in the world are welcome to we're a warm welcome to all of you, adrian. let's start with you. the most powerful man in the world. i thought that monica belonged to the u. s. president. why did you give your book that title is here about the world's most powerful math? yes, he absolutely is the most powerful man and the events today have confirmed this because he has such a power. now in china for us like nobody's hinz, melissa dome, but more important, china is economically so powerful it nowadays that which is diffe

my efforts to try to get end-of-life care model set up in rhode island just let us try it.have been working for years. he left was groundhog day was chart of his successor. change is groundhog day again it's not lissa fowler. a pool of waivers that relate relate to how people near the end of their lives can use. the three date rule. it is preposterous to take someone who's in weeks or months of dying's in the family think sending to be a nursing home and you insist on two nights and three days in a hospital on the way there? that is frightening, that is expensive. that is just unjustifiable. would like to see that people in that category but curative and palliative it should be proceeded in parallel. home health resources ought to be available. if you were towards the end of your life but you can still walk out in the garden that should not bar you from being home health services because going elsewhere to get the services is again more expensive and cruel to the family. so i really want to try to land this and get to say yes. the three date rule you already agreed to under

us to discuss from ghazi, it's up activist and co founder of i q piece nuf, asi and providence, rhode island, professor and director of the center for middle east studies at brown university nadia ali. and with us from mister bull journalist and author of a stranger in your own city gate of hud. and of course, there's one more seat at this table. and that's you. if you're watching live on youtube, see the box over there. we have a producer waiting to get your comment to me so i can get them to our guest. all right. case, i'm going to begin with you because i just recently read your article in the guardian with reflections about the day that you realized us troops had arrived and baghdad. you can walk me through that that, that memory. well, i mean, i was in my house, i went to the balcony to the roof to actually and i, so these are american helicopters. i realize that what american because they're small and nimble and british kerry and just kind of like an angry wasp, which i thought was a yes, a little corruption because we'll used to these kind of fat kind of russian and 8. so you know, th

rhode island, delaware , new mexico and texas. new research shows that some cities are recovering from the pandemic at a slower rate. compared to others as ktvu is. lamonica peters reports. san francisco is one of those cities. struggling while others are not. after coronavirus spread throughout the world in 2020, california governor gavin newsom declared a state of emergency implemented mass requirements and issued a stay at home order. when the pandemic hit. it was very easy for these, these companies to pivot to remote work, and a lot of them did that area council economic institute says. as a result, san francisco's tech employees had more options when choosing a place to live. we also have affordability, crisis of housing affordability crisis and that paired with you know this. this concentration intact made it very easy for workers who no longer had to commute or come into an office to just say, hey, i'm going to go to austin, texas, instead where i can afford a single family home for $400,000 institutes. pandemic recovery i

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the communist party is concerned by increasing tensions around taiwan a self, rhode island claimed by they ging, sheeting things as peaceful the unification is preferred. although he has not rolled out the use of force. beating his also troubled by the continuing roar, ukraine. tensions on the korean peninsula and the re arming of japan, although it denies targeting any 3rd party room or junior should assume. therefore, china's military modernization this now pose a threat to any country far, but rather is a positive for steve, for maintaining regional stability. and whoa, peasy didio, and yet this leakage of last recitation of the annual communist party were report as premier role he held for 10 years. premier little curtain was known for his reform minded approach to managing china's economy. he'll be replaced by his chung loyal support, a student king with limited international experience. analysts say this will likely lead to a step back in the liberalization of the autonomy and more power being concentrated in the top ranks of the communist policy. which renew out 0 later. soldie

much of connecticut, rhode island, even boston tomorrow, 7:00 a.m., still in heavy rain. but berkshires, over to albany, that kind of circle is where we're going to anticipate some of the highest snow totals. green and white mountains will pick up a lot of this. by 7:00 p.m. tomorrow night, it's still snowing in interior new england. so, this is a big one for albany to the north, with a foot plus. i'd say new york city to be lucky to add up a quarter of an inch or so, but even for this season, that would be big, david. >> ginger zee tonight. ginger, thank you. and i mentioned there a moment ago this new atmospheric river pushing into california yet again. news on that levee break and those evacuations tonight. and now a flood watch in effect until at least wednesday in parts of california. senior meteorologist rob marciano on that part of the story tonight. >> reporter: tonight, communities inundated, levees breaching. and yet another atmospheric river set to strike northern california. one that the national weather service calls "a direct threat to life and property." in

hadn't yet even decided to join, which was -- especially with respect to tiny rhode island, posed a real bone of contention in congress and it was actually debated whether or not to send troops to the border to bring about regime change in providence. fortunately that didn't occur. at any rate. opponents of the constitution were demanding wrath of the amendments, 200, even a new constitutional convention to reinvent the system and basically destroy what had been done by the constitutional convention we always refer to. the government had no reliable source of revenue and more than 50 different currencies in circulation. there was no permanent seat of government, sectional suspicions were intense. there were fears, well founded fears of the west and when we speak of the west in 1789, it's west of the appalachians, we're not talking about wyoming and montana here, that the west would break off into another country or maybe even several, quakers and some others were demanding an end to slavery, southerners meanwhile threatened succession if the government tamper with the peculiar insti

rhode island and massachusetts. including, of course, massachusetts historical society. so i'm gavin kleespies i'm the director of programs, exhibitions and community partnerships for the massachusetts historical society. anyone who might be joining us for the first time, the mass historical society is the first historical society in america. we were founded in 1791 and for the past 230 years, we have been collecting and preserving, making accessible the history. massachusetts in america. we maintain a fabulous research which has a collection of close to 14 million manuscript pages. and these include the papers of mother soldiers, artists, activists as as three u.s. presidents. we make this collection available, the public, for free. and we also a wide variety of programs such as this evening's our program season is wrapping up for the year but we still have a couple programs left. next monday, we will host our film club and this one will be discussing the film. good will hunting, and we'll be joined by tim kraft, who is the former deputy deputy director of the massachus