and establishes what we know as rhode island. it was the first colony to grant true religious freedom as we would understand it. you can believe whatever your conscience leads you to believe. and because of that it became a haven for dissenters, such as a woman by the name of ann hutchinson, mary dyer. we'll talk about ann and mary. here presently. by creating a haven for dissenters, by granting everybody true religious freedom doesn't necessarily mean he believed all of them were true. he thought you should be free to believe whatever you wish. but you recollected -- you should try to convince someone else of the truth of your religion rather than forcing them into the practice of your particular religion. he was passionately devoted to his own beliefs and would try to convince you of their truth. but not threaten to throw you in jail if you dissented from his religious belief. major threat, very very early. okay? to the entire puritan experiment. and he chose the option of leaving. before he was forced to leave. any questions?

the quaker records in providence, rhode island, note her passing in this way. mary dyer the wife of william dyer of newport and rhode island, she was put to death in the town of boston with the cruel hand as the martyrs were in queen mary's time. i have two pictures that later artists have painted of mary on her way to her execution. tell me which one is more accurate. >> the one where she's like holding her head up high. >> okay. the one on the right. not this one. why not this one? >> she's going to the gallows. >> why is that not in keeping with what you've just read or heard. why is this one more accurate. >> the one on the left looks defeated and she is going to die for a cause she didn't look defeated, she would hold her head up high and look like she's doing the right thing. >> i agree, i think this was a much more accurate depiction of what we understand of mary dyer's character from her behavior, from the things she said herself. okay. told you about roger williams. i've told you about ann hutchinson. i've told you about mary dyer. all three of whom ra

recently, she's the deputy education director at the hampton rhodes naval museum. been there since 2010 and works as an educator there and does special events. she's also worked, i should add, she's also worked at fort monroe casement museum. today she will be speaking to us about the civil warship wrecks, which is very unusual. in my seven years here, i don't think we have done anything that hasn't been on land, we have not done any naval operations at all. she'll be talking about the shipwrecks of the "uss cumberland" and "ussa florida." a note that laura and her husband have just recently published a book. you can see a copy of it just in front of the podium. the title of that book is "never call me a hero: a legendary american dive bomber pilot remembers the battle of midway." let me introduce laura lauffer. >>> good afternoon. how is everybody? good? stay awake after lunch, okay? no, i have to actually start out with a matter of disclosure. while i work for the united states navy at the hampton rhodes naval museum, everything you hear today is my opinion. it's

now ben rhodes? top of the clapper story last week with mark this is huge. >> obviously the mainstream media is not necessarily wanting to focus on these very big issues associated with the obama administration as we know with the unmasking of trump campaign officials, whether it be samantha powers or susan rice rated i think there's something that's happening here. we can call it celebrity media if you want to talk about that way, you have these individuals out there in the media it's not about fairness or objectivity, it's about doing what they can to continue to beat that drum on the president and this idea of impeaching the president. the president being dishonest, everything that's negative associate to the president. the american people are becoming normal. they get the joke. they understand there is too much negative media coverage against this president and i think at the end they look at this and say you guys are spinning yourselves in circles here while what we need to talk about are the ki

sarah carter, former obama national security advisor, benen rhodes is now a person of interest in theouse intelti committee's unmasking investigation, we'll get all the details coming up in mere moments, first, the five forces working to destroy the president trump are now kicking their efforts into overdrive, they want to bring down,wo delegitimizing him as commander-in-chief, laura ingraham will weigh in on that. our breaking news, the washington, d.c., swamp is waging an all-out war against the president, how is it possible for the presidents to govern when his own party is just pathetic. workings tonight's important breaking news and opening monologue. ♪ a reminder, as we've been telling you now four months, five forces aligning to take down president trump. what we are now seeing in this day and age unfold is far worse than ever before. let's start with the deep state, they are the most dangerous,y y selectively leaking information meant to damage and hurt the presidents.t the perfect example, it happened again last night. "washington post" citing an anonymous source, shocking an

ben rhodes, the latest obama aid that is facing scrutiny. congress is also looking for more information on unmasking. remember susan rice, samantha power, "the hills" john solomon reported that the former director of national intelligence, james clapper, made it easier for officials in the executive branch to unmask members of congress and their staffers. by the way, big surprise, james clapper, now a contributor for the fake news network. news today, james comey, he is writing a book that will be released in the spring. i told you this was going to happen months ago. let's go to the videotape. what did i say the day after he got fired. comey will get a multimillion dollar deal, a movie, a miniseries, primetime special, diane sawyer, and probably an msnbc contributor ship. now you have klapper over at the fake news network. he is apparently trying to take down the present, and to do down the president, and to do that, this has become a lucrative profession. if you make it easier to unmask americans, i guess you get hired by fake news cnn. y

it keeps me cool. >> change has also come to beauchamp's former cellmate, joey rhodes.has received permission to transfer to an all-straight, male, general population dorm. >> i requested to be moved out of the first place i was in. only because i had stalkers, and it got a little hectic there. it wasn't -- it wasn't what i was really expecting out of all that. i was going there to say, hey, maybe i'll have more in common with these people. maybe i will find better friends. every day i was getting two, three people coming to my window trying to get me to expose myself to them. and every time i would go take a shower, i would get people coming in sitting on the benches just watching me. i was like, hello? it's kind of scary. i'm not going to lie. so finally i talked to classification and they moved me out of there. i'm in a great new pod, and there's a lot of cool people here. a lot of cool new friends, and it's interesting. >> while rhodes must keep his homosexuality under wraps in general population, he's met at least a few inmates willing to share their opinions. >> i

up next, on afterwards, rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse officers his thoughts on how the government is impacted by corporate money and special interest groups in his book "captured". senator whitehouse is interviewed by new york times investigative reporter ache lipton. >> i want to start off by asking why did you write this book. simple question. >> i was getting disturbed at the frustration about the republican government. the real problem isn't the government but the corporate forces. if we can get them where the founding fathers thought, which is out of elections and politics >> you want to go way took to your beginnings. your dad went to jail. he was a diplomat in laos and thailand. tell me about your upbringing and the process of living through the experiences you lived through you developed these ideas. >> growing up in foreign service i saw two things, we were always in dangerous places. growing up, you cannot go to the hospital if you are sick, or go to the movies, if somebody got bit by a dog you had to go through the rabies series because it was probably rabid. people did

the little girl was last seen saturday in the 400 block of rhode island half northeast. someone called and reported the girl missing the next day. >> breaking news overseas. 17 people dead after a turkish restaurant in burkina faso became under attack last night by suspected jihadists. this is an area that's seen a surge in violence by islamic

>> well, some people in rhode island didn't seem to mind when this guy, yeah, that guy right there in the middle, showed up according to tmz, steph curry, and a group of friends passed by the newport house this weekend, heard loud music blasting and asked if they could join in, party a little bit. curry was in town for harrison barnes' wedding. >> you know who curry reminds me of right now? jim harbaugh. he's everywhere, right? he's popping up all over the place. but guess where curry is going to be thursday? not crashing a party. >>> i have breaking news tonight. the giants actually had a big inning, but would it st food. water. internet. we need it to live. but what we don't need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. i see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. you got me, mark. we just want fast internet for one, simple rate. for all the streaming and the shopping and the newsing, but most of all... for the this. internet for one everyday simple price and no extra monthly fees. irst, matching their biggest output in any in >> giants just haven't had very many big

well, some people in rhode >>> party crashers, they can be the worst, right? >> well, some people in rhode island didn't seem to mind when this guy, yeah, that guy right there in the middle, showed up according to tmz, steph curry, and a group of friends passed by the newport house this weekend, heard loud music blasting and asked if they could join in, party a little bit. curry was in town for harrison barnes' wedding. >> you know who curry reminds me of right now? jim harbaugh. he's everywhere, right? he's popping up all over the place. but guess where curry is going to be thursday? not crashing a party. >>> i have breaking news tonight. the giants actually had a big inning, but would it stand up in the series? we're up next. ♪ keeping up. it takes hard work, tight budgets and a little support. and pg&e is ready to do our part. our care program can save you 20% or more on your monthly bill. it just takes a few minutes to apply and you'll see the savings on your next bill. when having a little extra can mean a lot ...turn to care. go to pge.com/care and enrol

.♪ >>>rhode island now the fourth state offering free community college.ol graduate. tennessee, oregon, and new york have similar programs. this fall, the city of san francisco will also offer free tuition at city college. enrollment is already up 17%. yesterday, the city supervisor helped celebrate the event. the free program will be paid for by a higher real estate transfer tax. to qualify, students have to live in san francisco and have lived in california for more than a year >>>the once massive fleet of ships is shrunken and that's good news >> a 50 year old military ready cargo ship is the last of 59 such ships of this class to leave the dwindling mothball fleet over the last few years. such ships carry supplies should war arise. this now leaves just 13 ships in the fleet. in 2010, a court ordered these toxin laiden ships to be -- laden ships to be cleaned up. 24,000 cubic yards of asbestos >> after the court order, instead of encaging in an endless appeals war, they engaged in a partnership to get the clean up done as soon as possible >> it can help

we don't get here, susan rice, ben rhodes, now the general counsel of the fbi.l these people involved in leaking and unmasking people. have you enter the anything like it? have you ever seen a leak like this? >> what you have, you're exactly right. the administrative deep state its news media allies are all determined to destroy donald j. trump. it's a very straightforward fight, i remic i recommend to everybody sidney powell's book license to lie about the justice department which goes through in detail both with the u.s. senator stevens how deeply corrupt parts of the justice department are. the fact is the susan rice case unbelievable. the ambassador to the united nations is even worse to susan rice. more of whom aberdeen's emails came out and there are direct quotes of this person gave a million dollars to the clinton foundation, we need to take care of them. how can you not be indicting these people for playing out corruption? >> sean: wears robert mueller on this. if he's hired all of his obama clinton democratic donors and even hillary clinton's attorney.

roundtable which was basically like the build their birth groups of that era and rhodes had made his fortune in south africa and diamond mines and gold mines financed by the father of the rock child they sent a letter to and of course rhodes had this idea of maintaining the british empire and part of it is the holy land of you know what it becomes to israel no it's also interesting though when you get into like the disintegration of the middle east and you talked with him about that as well absolutely so try to take it to the present day and how what we're looking at to me is very much ok we have the maps of the of the map makers of that era of the twenty's but now here we are we're seeing you know syria is being broken up iraq is has been broken up in many ways you know libya sudan it's been splintered somalia all this fracturing yemen so i was trying to get basically his response as to what is really at heart of the disintegration of these artificially constructed nations to take a war. that's actually the question of the day. this is the question that the vicious murderous group k

into new jersey and rhode island and other places are doing it and you know?the business community is onboard. they are fully onboard. and you know, some of the largest industries as you know because you are working with this are doing it. so we need to make it possible. and the system that i introduced said we are going to have an empl employer participate as well as the employee. it is like social security. let's make it possible for them to do it because they have people of good will. it is in fact, you know, all employers are terrible, it is not the case. it is not the case. >> it is nice when you look at the small businesses and so many say we are an employee business and we don't penalize our employees for taking time off when they are sick or having a child. i agree with you. your mother was a strong willed mother and encouraged you and other women to get into politics. you talk about how tough it is being in a congress dominated by men. talk about that. >> my mother is 103 years old. she lives us in new haven. extraordinary woman. she finished formal s

would those impact your state of rhode island? ep. degette: any bill that would reduce access to medicaid reduce aid expansion or affordable health insurance would have a negative impact on rhode island as 77,000 lives are covered approximately by medicaid. that's 77,000 in rhode island covered by the medicaid expansion? degette: correct. >> the medicaid expansion counted for more than 60% of the medicaid spending on substance abuse treatment in kentucky. between 2012 and 2014, there's been more than a 700% increase treatment e abuse provided to kentucky residents expansion. aid's so i guess i want to ask you, it like medicaid has been particularly helpful in kentucky's fight against the opioid crisis. with that? ee >> let me say this. unequivocally u, of our governor's equipment and, 1115 , exampled by the waiver and i refer to it at this very moment to expand our treatment option under that. me ask you my question. ould you agree that medicaid has been particularly helpful in kentucky's fight against the opioid. tilley: i would agre

would those impact your state of rhode island? ep. degette: any bill that would reduce access to medicaid reduce aid expansion or affordable health insurance would have a negative impact on rhode island as 77,000 lives are covered approximately by medicaid. that's 77,000 in rhode island covered by the medicaid expansion? degette: correct. >> the medicaid expansion counted for more than 60% of the medicaid spending on substance abuse treatment in kentucky. between 2012 and 2014, there's been more than a 700% increase treatment e abuse provided to kentucky residents expansion. aid's so i guess i want to ask you, it like medicaid has been particularly helpful in kentucky's fight against the opioid crisis. with that? ee >> let me say this. unequivocally u, of our governor's equipment and, 1115 , exampled by the waiver and i refer to it at this very moment to expand our treatment option under that. me ask you my question. ould you agree that medicaid has been particularly helpful in kentucky's fight against the opioid. tilley: i would agre

some of the staffers, ben rhodes is gone, but his staff is still there. snake next to your bed and anything you are nice enough to the snake -- its am not like that. the president has been someone who was successful in delivering expectations and outcomes. h.r. mcmaster and company have been brought up through the military to follow process and if you don't win, that's okay. i think there is a mismatch of what the president wants done and what the staff and people like h.r. believe their job to be. this is something i think is not serving the president well. lou: nor the american people. the american people want the president to have the vision he articulated. it's stunning to me there was no accountability. there were no consequences or disappointing the commander in chief of a plan for afghanistan which he had been very specific about the me tricks he wanted met. >> there were people out there who wrote a book about it. i'm baffled by the fact people tried to put forth ideas which never make the cut to go to the president on this issue. let me cite clea

for ben rhodes to talk about iran, this is what is going to happen in iran.hat is happening in north korea, the same thing we'll see in iran where the iaea can't get into military sites where they dot hard- koer development. that's a problem. ben rhodes, susan rice, ought to zip it and stay out of it, leave to it trump administration, they'll do the right thing. >> laura, last question here, the chinese are looking at a possible party congress this fall, possibly, in november. how important is it for president xi to have a good conversation with president trump today to be cooperative with the united states so that he doesn't have an international crisis to deal with ahead of that meet having the communist party in china? >> well the party congress in china is extremely important. 2012 as xi was taking the reins, north korea engaged in a series of provocations that really rattled the chinese government, got under his skin. i think it's really going to be an important thing to be able to have stability heading into the party congress for xi. it's really import

about 6:is a this morning police were called to the 4300 block of rhode island avenue. the report was for a man down. when they got this the victim outside a business suffering as trauma to the upper body. dead at the scene. carl robinson grew up here. his family active, known in the community. he has a hard time recalling a scene like this one. >> this community was like a family. we were all a family. >> reporter: you hear it at crime sense. that sort of thing doesn't happen here. here in mounts rainer it carries more weight. even the police struggle to remember when was the last time a homicide was. maybe four, fire years. today police collected evidence while those who remember the victim consoled each other. what was left was a sense that after years of relative peace something was changing in mounts rainer. >> it's going bit. >> reporter: a man's death on a sidewalk early on a bright saturday morning that hope is important. >>> police have caught the driver who ran off after this deadly crash that came dangerously close to gas pumps. this happened about 3:00 in th

the state of rhode island turns into rhode island archipelago.arrick neck becomes an island and on and on you go. behind all this blue of flooded land, there will be a zone of potential storm flood zones and velocity zones that interfere with property there as well. we are looking at a potential economic catastrophe if we don't get ahead of this. the point of this hearing, right about here, the town of warren has its sewage treatment facility. if you live near the coast, if you're building sewage treatment facilities, you're building them right along the coastline. you want that gravity assist bringing water and sewage down to the treatment plant. so when you start to look at this, you're starting to look at significant replacement requirements or hardening and protection requirements for our infrastructure. we're not even really talking about that. i know we're not even talking about that cause sea level rise is climate change and we're not allowed to talk about climate change in an effective or meaningful way. but this is coming. the infrastruc

island -- north as rhode island. it caused more than $34 million in damages to the national cathedral. >>> and so many of you remember that day. exactly where you were. you know some people were in the gym. they felt if shaking and heard the -- the shaking and heard the shaking and it's crazy because you don't think of earthquakes here in virginia and d.c. but it's possible. all right let's turn to the weather today. we are starting off on your wednesday afternoon almost half way through more than halfway through the workweek now. and we've got a mostly cloudy sky. here's the deal. we've had a couple of showers around. spotty showers this morning. and we have in general lower humidity and very comfortable finish to the workweek heading this way. 80 degrees right now still feeling muggy out there. the lower humidity will be working its way in by the evening hours and here are the few shower i was talking about. right now they're in parts of spotsylvania county. a few showers back to the west of that in orange county a

the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: i think we're simply waiting for senator grassley to come and we'll be ready to proceed. i don't think we need to go in a quorum call right now. mr. portman: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. portman: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are not. mr. portman: i would appreciate the indulgence of my colleague from iowa and rhode island. i would like to talk today about the criminal act of sex trafficking. today we introduced legislation that is incredibly important to combating sex trafficking. the senate also passed a resolution today by unanimous consent to provide information to the justice department that comes out of an investigation that we did here in the united states senate regarding sex trafficking. this is an important day in pushing back. let me talk about this for a second in personal terms. imagine, if you will, that your daughter is missing. you do everything you can do to find her. finally, you see her picture on

this is where it happened here along montana avenue, rhode island just a block away. the car came to rest right about here, in this area, we believe that she was shot as she was driving. we are not identifying her because she a victim of a crime. but we also, since we heard the chief talk about it this morning, we wanted to look into this case, tell you a little bit more about this woman tha good things about. let's take you to video now and show you the scene from last night. the chief says the teenager was caught in the crossfire and we're told she was hit in the head. this is video of the scene. chief compared the shooting here around 3:00 yesterday to another shoot-out that happened in southeast recently. neighbors tell us the teenage her recently graduated from a local high school, than she and her mother just returned from a trip to florida, to take a look at the campus. both neighbors describe the teen as sweet, and driven. >> i invited myself to her graduation party, because i saw the balloons, everything, and went in, and congratulated her, and i was just rea

. >> guest: i've been to new jersey and rhode island and other places they're doing this.n the business communities on board. they are fully on board. some of the largest industries as you know because you're working have room. so, we need to make it possible. the system that i introduced said were going to have an employer participate as well as the employee. and a shared responsibility. your point earlier, we want to allow employers to be able to do what they would like to do. so many would like to but they can't. let's make it possible for them to do it. they are people of goodwill and isn't that all employers are terrible, that's not the case. >> host: when you look at small businesses somebody say we are in a play business. we don't penalize our employees for taking time off. i agree with you. >> host: your mother was a strong role model for you and encourage you and others to get into politics. you also write about how tough it is to be a woman in a congress. >> guest: those instances that you read about, my mother is 103 years old. she lives in new haven with us. an

. >> now, i was interviewing the former deputy national secure adviser ben rhodes from the obama white house about his response to the language that is being used t. way the president ad-libbed, improvised his comments about the nuclear threat, obviously, an alarming nuclear threat. but the way he spoke in comparison to the way previous presidents, republicans and democrats have addressed this kind of issue? let's play it. >> we're talking about nuclear weapons, we're talking about a conventional war that could put tens of thousands of americans at risk. so millions of south koreans and japanese, we're not talking fake news and dig blumenthal's service record. we're talking about the most serious security issue in the world. >> ben rhodes was alluding the president attacked you personally on twitter. what do you think, what do your colleagues, democratic and republican on armed services think about the way the administration is handling this in terms of their strategy, their game plan for addressing the north korea threat? >> the hyperbole and overheated rhetoric raises questions about

rob porter was a rhodes scholar.is father, roger porter, is a good friend and professor at harvard, rhodes scholar. they're the only two father/son duos in history to be rhodes scholars. >> david, can i ask you, can he tell the president no? i think general kelly probably can't. they have to go to him. i remember this, probably before you even joined the clinton white house, in the first couple of months, president clinton wanted to call the deputy assistant secretary. john podesta, awesomely powerful job. he stood face to face with president clinton and said, no, sir, no, you're not allowed to call that guy. we're working through a process and then it will come to you when it's ready. it's not your job to circumvent that process. which was terrific. i hope mr. porter and mr. kelly will do that with this president. >> i do think that general kelly has more leverage than anybody else who's been around. if he walks, it will be so destructive of the trump presidency. everybody knows that. >> nancy, you talked about this

joined now by senator jack read of rhode island. the senate intelligence committee and if you have been a watcher of that hearings you know what that means. it means he still gets to participate in those meetings. welcome, sir. >> thanks very much. >> let's start with the caveat that we have not yet confirmed that bob mueller has impaneled his own grand jury. what does that poishl development, though, mean to you, say to you? >> well, it says that the case is proceeding forward, and it also, if in fact there is a grand jury impaneled, means that bob mueller has more powerful investigative tools at his disposal. the grand jury can subpoena records, call witnesses. those knsz can invoke the fifth amountedment, but they are not represented by an attorney. essentially it's the government prosecutors who are controlling the grand jury proceedings. so it's a very powerful investigative tool and it sooms in keeping with very thoughtful, very thorough, very deliberate way that bob mueller is proceeding in this investigation. >> what does th

>> up not surprised ben rhodes doesn't like what trump said. i hear president trump under scoring how effective our arsenal is. and we have our fully tested minuteman. trump is just reminding north korea that they will never catch us with it comes to being a nuclear power. and we have an effective, reliable layered missile defense. different from the cold war. gerri: i was looking at the numbers on the nuclear warhead. we have 6,800. the russians have 7,000. 4,000 are stockpiled. only 1,800 are deployed. what do you make of that when you look at those numbers. is that concerning? are you totally confident in our nuclear capabilities? >> yes. i would say this. our slbm capability and land-based missiles are extraordinary. the way we would go about this if we had to respond in a nuclear sense, we would use a b2 or dual-capable aircraft. they wouldn't be able to see the b in 2 coming in and they would be able to lay down the munition effectively. we would hope we could do other covert measures to take them off before they got to that point. but ou

curry is in rhode island for harrison barnes' wedding. finally, the world champion cubs extending an olive branch to perhaps the most infamous fan in all of sports. steve bartman...the man responsible for this fateful play in the 2003 nlcs....that many feel cost the team a trip to the world series is being given a championship ring. this comes 14 years after that play where bartman touched a foul ball that could have been caught for an out. unfortunately--bartman was humiliated...and practically went into exile. he has not made any public appearances since the incident... but bartman released a statement saying while he feels he doesn't deserve the ring, he is thankful for the honr. food. water. internet. we need it to live. but what we don't need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. i see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. you got me, mark. we just want fast internet for one, simple rate. for all the streaming and the shopping and the newsing, but most of all... for the this. internet for one everyday simple price

hisge washington said in address to rhode island his vision for our country was a government where bigotry has no sanction. in his second inaugural address he called americans to bind up the wounds. we are reminded of that today. thatthe racial tensions increase our nation. reconciliation regardless of skin color and ethnicity. defininge ,haracteristics of advancement with the money you came from. that is why millions of americans have risk their lives to protect this country and to protect this country. there is a chance to fulfill your aspirations the matter your background. you will succeed on your efforts. said thed friend essence of america is what unites us. idea, you can come from and it does not matter where you come from but where you are going. representing america around the look, it should be a clear at american values and our people. but theyin our vision catch of our workforce. department that reflects the american people. it reflects who we are. the state department was redouble our efforts included at the ambassador level. our senior12% of officers are not white. that numbe

and we have to respond. >> massive breaking story, former obama national security ben rhodes is now asking investigation.

the victim was spotted in the 3400 block of rhode island avenue.olice say he had trauma to his face and chest and that the victim looks to be in his 20's. we don't know his name. investigators still trying to figure out who killed him and why. >> to arlington now, a fire earlier today has left some people looking for other places to slope tonight. it happened at an apartment building on columbia fight. arlington firefighters were able to put the fire out in about 20 minutes, the building was evacuated. some have been able to return, but not all. >>> metro, transit police are still looking for of taking pictures up women's skirts. a woman reported that while riding the escalator at the columbia heights metro station, she felt someone's hand up her skirt. investigators say the incident was caught on surveillance camera. the footage shows the suspect committing other up skirting offenses. if you have other information, contact police. >>> take a look at this video, dc still looking for two people following a deadly shooting in northeast at an exxon ga

rhode island now the fourth state to offer free community college.esterday, leaders announced a two year pilot program. eligible applicants have to be a rhode island grad and be a high school grad. this fall the city of san francisco will offer free tuition at city college. enrollment is already up 17%. yesterday, the supervisor helped celebrate the program at an event. the program will cost about $6 million paid for with a higher real estate transfer tax. to qualify, students have to live in the city and they must have lived here in california for more than a year. >>> environmentalist can celebrate a new milestone in the clean up of old military ships. the last of 57 former reserve cargo ships left yesterday. all this began as part of a court order back in 2010 to clean up hundreds of tons of asbestos. >> and the recycling process is a reincarnation if you will. a reincarnation to a different type of history. that steel that you see there could be in the next ship that we build, could be in the next bridge that we build, could be this the next tank

george washington said in an address to the synagogue in newport, rhode island that his vision for our country was, i quote, a government which gives bigotry no sanction, no assistance. the second inaugural address abraham lincoln called on americans to bind up the nation's wounds. what lincoln knew and we are sadly reminded today, the painful racial tensions are part of our experience as a nation. we too seek to bind up the wounds, we must pursue reconciliation, understanding and respect regardless of skin color or ethnicity or political views. one of america's most defining characteristics his promise of opportunity for advancement regardless of skin color, how much money your parents make or where you came from. it is why millions of americans, millions of people have risked their lives and fortunes to protect this country, to come to this country because they know america promises a chance to fulfill your aspirations no matter your background. you will succeed based on your efforts. as my good friend condoleezza rice has said the essence of america is that which unites us. it is no

this is a map of rhode island. this is the northern part of rhode island.ur capital city providences right here. this is bristol and warren. what we have here is the latest information from our coastal resources management council about the coast. and here is the existing day. light blue is actually land now. right now that his land. but what we are looking not in the light lou is all these areas are acted to be flooded and underwater by 2100 if we don't get ahead of what is happening with sealevel rise. the state of iran turns into an archipelago. work next becomes island could warn of bristol becomes one of bristol island and on and on you go. behind all of this blue blooded land, there will be a zone of potential storm flood zones in velocity zones that interfere with property ownership there as well. so we are looking at a potential economic catastrophe if we don't get ahead of this. the point for the purpose of this hearing is right about here the town of warren has its sewage treatment facility. if you live near the coast, if you are building sewage t