Name: Researchers study how 'green light' can alleviate pain from migraines
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Description: Millions of Americans suffer from migraines. Researchers explored how different colors of light generate different responses in the brain -- and studies show certain treatments involving light can actually alleviate symptoms. Ajay Kori, a Durham native and Duke University graduate, is on a mission to bring this science to migraine patients.

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Millions of Americans suffer from migraines. Researchers explored how different colors of light generate different responses in the brain -- and studies show certain treatments involving light can actually alleviate symptoms. Ajay Kori, a Durham native and Duke University graduate, is on a mission to bring this science to migraine patients. 

<p>CAN MAKE A THE MORRIS. SO KIM LIGHT, LIGHT CAN GENERATE DIFFERENT RESPONSES IN OUR BRAIN AND STUDY SHOWS CERTAIN TREATMENTS INVOLVING LIGHT CAN ALLEVIATE SYMPTOMS FOR JOINING US NOW IS A DURHAM NATIVE AND DUKE GRADUATE TO HELP BRING SCIENCE TO PEOPLE. SO WHAT I WAS TALKING TO YOU DURING THE BREAK WE'VE ESTABLISHED THAT BOTH OF US, WE ARE LUCKY IN THAT WE DON'T SUFFER FROM MIGRAINES BUT IT IS CERTAINLY A HUGE ISSUE FOR A LOT OF FOLKS. HOW WIDESPREAD IS THIS PROBLEM?&gt;&gt; THE THIRD MOST COMMON ILLNESS IN THE WORLD WHICH IS CRAZY ABOUT 40 MILLION PEOPLE AND THE NUMBER OF SUFFERERS ARE GREATER THAN THE POPULATION OF THE U.S.. MIGRAINES ARE DEBILITATING. SO IT IS A VERY WIDESPREAD ISSUE. &gt;&gt; THAT'S ASTONISHING SO WHAT IS IT ABOUT GREEN LIGHT THAT HELPS OR WHAT MAKES LIGHT WORSE? &gt;&gt; ANYONE WITH A MIGRAINE KNOWS THAT LIGHT WILL MAKE IT WORSE. AND, THE RESEARCHERS REALLY STARTED HONING IN ON WHY LIGHT MAKES HEADACHES WORSE. ESSENTIALLY, IT PROVIDES BIGGER BRAIN WAVES TO PARTS OF YOUR BRAIN ROAD ARE OVERREACTIVE. IT CAUSES YOU TO HAVE A BIGGER HEADACHE. &gt;&gt; ON THE SCREEN WE HAVE A GREEN LIGHT SO TALK ABOUT YOUR WORK FOCUSING ON GREEN LIGHTS AND HOW IT IS DIFFERENT THAN OTHER COLORS AND IT HELPS CALM THE BRAIN. &gt;&gt; YES. SO SOME HARVARD RESEARCHERS WANTED TO FIGURE OUT WHY WE LIGHT WAS SO BAD FOR PEOPLE WITH MIGRANTS OF THE TOOK LIED MIGRAINE PATIENTS AND PUT THEM IN FRONT OF LIGHT AND EVEN THOUGH THEY COULDN'T TELL THAT THE LIGHT WAS SHOWN ON THEM, THEIR HEADACHES GOT WORSE. AND THEY STARTED EXPERIMENTING WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF COLORS ON THEM AND THEY COULDN'T TELL DIFFERENT TYPES OF LIGHTS WERE BEING SHOWN. BUT WHAT THEY FOUND WAS THAT ONE LIGHT, ONE COLOR IN PARTICULAR, A BIG NARROW BAND OF GREENLIGHT ACTUALLY HELPED MAKE THEM FEEL BETTER. MADE THEM FEEL NOT ONLY MORE, BUT BY DOWN THERE PAY LEVELS. AND MAY THE FEEL BETTER DURING A MIGRAINE. &gt;&gt; THAT IS INTERESTING. SO CAN YOU GO BY A GREEN LIGHT?&gt;&gt; YES, SO YOU CAN'T JUST BUY IT, THEY ARE VERY SPECIFIC SPECTRUM THAT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER. SO WE HELPED DEVELOP THIS AND WE TOOK THE PROTOTYPE THAT WAS USED IN THOSE HARVARD STUDIES WHICH COST $50,000 AND PUT THEM INTO $150 DEVICE FOR THIS LAMP. &gt;&gt; THIS COULD CERTAINLY BE A GAME CHANGER FOR THOSE WITH MIGRAINES. WE HEAR ABOUT BLUE LIGHT FROM THE SCREENS AND WHAT IS REALLY POPULAR DURING THE PANDEMIC, PEOPLE WEARING THE BLUE LIKE CLASSIC THEY ARE STARING AT THE SCREEN. DO THOSE REALLY WORK AND HOW EFFECTIVE ARE THEY?&gt;&gt; THEY DO REALLY WORK. ONE OF THE BIG FINDINGS FROM THE STUDIES IS THAT LIGHT NOT ONLY HELPS US, CONTRIBUTES TO HER VISION BUT CONTROLS DIFFERENT THINGS IN YOUR BODY. SO YOUR BODY IS EXPOSED TO BLUE LIGHT, IT ACTUALLY INHIBITS THE PRODUCTION OF MELATONIN WHICH PREVENTS YOU FROM GOING TO BED SO THERE IS CONNECTIONS OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF COLORS OF LIGHT AND FUNCTIONING OF THE BRAIN'S. AND SO LITTLE BLUE LIGHT BLOCKING GLASSES CAN HAVE A HUGE EFFECT IN HELPING YOU GO TO BED, BETTER AND GET BETTER SLEEP.&gt;&gt; AJAY KORI, I ENJOYED THE TALK AND IT IS HUGE NEWS FOR PEOPLE WITH MIGRAINES. WE APPRECIATE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE RESEARCH AND HAVING A DURHAM CONNECTION.</p>

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Hello everyone. I'm meteorologist Mike Mays in the W R L Severe Weather Center with our forecast update for this Friday night. Air quality is slowly improving. We've had code orange and code red over the past couple of days this weekend, code yellow on a scale of 1 to 300. Our air quality tomorrow will be about 100 and then on Sunday, it's down to 55. So it does improve over the weekend. And by Monday we're code green. So the smoke should be out of here. By the time we get to Monday, the upper level winds are changing directions over the past couple of days, we've had more of a north to northwest wind off carrying that smoke from the north to the south. Well, now by Monday, late Sunday, we have a southwest wind pushing the the smoke out. So for tomorrow, it will be a gorgeous start 58 by seven by nine AM, 67 by 11 AM, 76. And tomorrow will be a warmer today. We had 82 today, tomorrow we expect about 87 but the humidity will be the same tomorrow as we had today. So despite it getting warmer, if you're in the shade, it will still feel pretty good. So hour by hour tomorrow, 81 at lunch time, 87 high, there's no rain in the forecast tomorrow. So if you're heading to the lake or a pool, no worries that a thunderstorm is going to come along and disrupt your day tomorrow or on Sunday. Now, Sunday, we have thunderstorms that are moving through the mountains during the afternoon. A lot of that cloud cover ahead of it will start to move on in, in the upper levels. So we're forecasting 90 maybe the 1st 90 degrees so far out at R D U. If that cloud cover comes in early enough, it may deter us from getting to 90 maybe 88 or 89. But you get the idea, the dew points will be in the fifties, the humidity a little bit higher but still comfortable and no thunderstorms during the day. But in the night on Sunday and into Monday, that front that you see to the north and west, that's what comes on in. So our forecast tomorrow statewide looking great. It's warmer 87 in Raleigh, 89 in Fayetteville after a start in the fifties in the morning, 76 of boon 84 in Asheville on Sunday, you see the rain starting to approach. This is the time stamp for five o'clock in the afternoon that will break up before it gets here. So we're not expecting rain during the daytime hours. On Sunday. The way it appears right now, check back in with PETA and Anthony over the weekend 90 is our forecast high Monday. It's mostly cloudy showers, thunderstorms about a 70% chance. Some of the storms could be strong over the weekend. PETA and Anthony will have a look at the prospects for severe weather. On Monday. It will definitely be cooler but still humid. So our forecast overnight, it could be our last cool night. 54 the low here in Raleigh 48 in Roxborough, we had 50 for the low this morning in Raleigh. And then tomorrow it's comfortable humidity, mid to upper eighties, the highs with mostly sunny skies. Your seven day forecast notice after tonight, we're not in the fifties anymore. Maybe some folks in the fifties. Wednesday morning, good chance for showers and thunderstorms on Monday. Small chances right now for Wednesday, Thursday and also on Friday, that's our forecast update. Have a great night and have a great weekend.

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Good evening. I'm Tina Selon Cash with the night time lottery drawing for Friday, June 9, 2023. Our first winning pick three number tonight. Nine, second pick 35. Our third winning number another nine and our pick three. Fireball number is seven. Joining me for tonight's drawing is our auditor from Thomas and Gibbs. Now it's time for the Carolina pick four. Here we go. Good luck. First winning number nine. Second pick four tonight. Seven. Third winning number eight. Fourth pick four another eight. And our pick four. Fireball number is zero. Let's turn now to the Carolina cash five. If no one matches all five numbers to win the jackpot tonight, tomorrow's top prize is an estimated $259,000. 21 is our first winning cash five number followed by nine, third winning number four. Our fourth cash five tonight. 18, final winning number is 39. The North Carolina Education lottery has contributed over $9 billion to education and thanks for your support. Get the winning numbers every night right here on your exclusive station for the North Carolina Education Lottery. Thanks for playing and have a good Night.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is running against Donald Trump and others for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024, is speaking in Greensboro tonight.

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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden travel to Fort Liberty to will meet with service members and their families. The Bidens are expected to deliver remarks at an event in support of Joining Forces.

Us every day to support each of you, caregivers, Gold Star families, but all of you here that are active duty spouses in particular. She has a program called Joining Forces. Her White House initiative that makes sure that wherever you go in the world, no matter what happens, you have everything that it takes to get the job that you need to do and to continue your professional life, education and everything that you do. She has lived it, she understands it and that's what this is about today. She understands that our nation is protected by you, the family members as much as the military member to make sure that our nation is who we are. Ladies and gentlemen, please give an incredible center of the universe. Welcome to the first lady, Doctor Joe Biden, the president, United States and Tiffany Zeller, please. Right. We forgot those two. Ok. Ok. Is there? Thank you, General Donohue and thank you for your leadership here at liberty through joining forces. My White House initiative, support military and veterans families, caregivers and survivors. I've traveled to bases across this country and around the world and I've sat with military families just like yours to learn about their experiences and their challenges, even though every story is unique. Again and again, I hear the same thing that you're proud of your family service, but you miss the careers that you've had to leave behind, that you're stuck looking for work that doesn't put your education and your experience to good use that you take the jobs that you can get even if you don't want them because, well, there are bills to pay. You told me that the life of a military spouse is rewarding in so many ways, but it isn't easy. And as I was having these conversations, joining forces was working with military spouse, employee resource groups at agencies across the government to figure out the solutions that could make the difference in your lives. And when we brought these stories back to Joe, he listened, he understands, he understands that we can't ask our service members to choose between love of country and their love of family. He knows that supporting military spouses is a national security imperative. And in the last two years, he's done so much to respond to the challenges that you all face. He's committed all agencies to partner with the Department of Defense to hire military spouses. And he signed an executive historic executive order to improve care for hard working families, including military and veteran families. Today. Thanks to you, Joe is helping our country take yet another step forward with an executive order that addresses the challenges for those in the federal workforce, those looking to take a job with them when they pcs overseas or spouses trying to start their own business. And this will not only benefit active duty spouses but veteran spouses, caregivers and survivors as well. This moment, this moment belongs to your community. So I want to thank all the military spouses everywhere who made it possible? Thank you for sharing your stories. Thank you for trusting us to make this right. Of course, we know that this order won't solve the challenges of spouse unemployment on its own. So we're calling on employers everywhere to do their part, recruit military spouses offer flexible work opportunities so that you can retain their talent no matter where in the world they are working. Yes, it's vital for the future of our nation. But it's also a great way to find the dynamic talent that your businesses need. Spouses bring experience and adaptability that that really can't be taught. And when they get the opportunities that they deserve, our service members can do their duty, knowing that those they love most are able to thrive we all benefit. So with all of my heart, thank you for your service and your sacrifice. And now I'm proud to welcome someone who knows why this executive order is so important because it's made for people like her. Tiffany. Thank you for your service as an army spouse and as a Proud Womack Army medical center employee. Here's Tiffany. Thank you, Doctor Biden. My name is Tiffany Zoller. I'm a military spouse of five years and my husband is sergeant first class Lee Zoller. We have two handsome sons, Jaden, who's nine and Jackson who's three. I'm also a federal employee. I work for the dental department at Womack Army Medical Center for the Advanced Education and gen General Dentistry program. Um, it's a two year residency clinic here at Fort Liberty. I love what I do as a secretary of the program and appreciate the people I work with. I was able to get the opportunity to support this program due to the military spouse hiring authority. I may still be looking for employment if that door was not open for me. I'm personally grateful for the recognition and support the Biden administration is giving to military spouses and their families. This allows, this support is so important to allow families like mine to thrive while our loved ones are serving in uniform. And it is now my honor to introduce the president of the United States. Joe Biden. Yeah. Oh, for liberty. It's great to be back in the center of the universe, especially all you crazy guys that jump out of planes. Tiffany, thanks so much for that introduction and for your family. Service to our country. General Donohoe Command Sergeant Major Holland, general officers, the governor of the great state of North Carolina is here with us. Congressman from the district is here with us. It's an honor to be here with you this afternoon. I'm not going to take a lot of your time. You know, people like to joke when the president calls 911, the phone rings at Fort Liberty. Well, that's not too far from the truth. When you answer, you answer freedom's call every time you, it's you who take on so many of the nationals, the nation's toughest missions you deploy quickly and quietly, you risk your safety, protect the safety of Americans all across the world and all around the world. I've been in over 80 countries seeing how you work and you're incredible. We literally have the single finest fighting force in the history of the world. That is not hyperbole. That's a fact. That was the fact as an English poet, John Milton once wrote, they also serve to only stand and wait the years. My, our son was in Iraq for a year before that in Kosovo. I get up in the morning. See, my wife who teaches school, she'd start earlier than I would and she'd be standing there at the, at the sink, drinking her coffee mouth in a prayer. Every one of your spouses knows what happens. What's possible can happen when your son, daughter, husband, wife are deployed and Jill and I never forget the military spouses, caregivers and survivors serve and sacrifice as well. We never forget that you've also answered the nation's call and together, Jill and I, and my entire administration has never stopped working to do right by your service. You know, uh we're with, uh, with you at the, uh, here at Fort Liberty all the way for liberty. And I tell you what, as a nation, we have many obligations, but we only have one truly sacred obligation. And I used to criticize years ago as a young senator and I'd say this but not anymore. The most sacred obligation America has is to prepare those we send them into harm's way and care for them and their families. When they come home. We deployed today, we're taking an important step towards fulfilling that obligation. This new executive order established the most comprehensive set of administrative actions in our nation's history to support the economic security of military families, veterans, spouses, caregivers and survivors actions have boiled down into three main goals, more flexibility, more support and more resources. I'll start with the flexibility piece. This executive order encourages all federal agencies to do more to retain military spouses through flexible policies, policies like granting leave when their partner has to pcs, improving remote work opportunities for military spouses, including when they're stationed overseas. And it's just common sense to keep families together. It keeps the talent workforce together and look, it enables our government to carry out its global mission. Second, the executive order means more support for military connected families, changing duty stations is already hard enough. You shouldn't have to navigate a complicated tax regulations or work requirements, but all by yourself just to do that, if you, if you're certified in one state and your military should be certified in every other state. When you move to that state, the first time, this executive order will enable spouses to seek advice on overseas employment issues through military legal assistance officers. But also you also need support to navigate challenges unique to military families, challenges like juggling childcare and work while your partner is deployed or when you're caring for an injured loved one, too often, too often the people you work with, they just don't know, not, they don't care, they don't know, they don't know what you're going through. They don't know how it works. They don't understand everything you go through. That can be tough and it can be isolating. That's why this executive order establishes new training for federal human resources and hiring personnel to ensure that all our military and veterans, spouses, caregivers and survivors feel seen and supported. And finally, this executive order means more resources, especially when it comes to improving military families, access to quality, defendable and affordable, affordable child care. Today, we're accelerating the implementation of the dependent care flexibility spending account, which will give military families the option to receive a pre tax benefit for day care, pre school, summer camps and much more. This order also focuses on providing resources resource for military spouses or entrepreneurs, like some of the folks here on the stage over here in the moment that includes exploring new funding options like grants and loans to help military spouses start and sustain their businesses and developing new resources. They're going to make it easier for entrepreneurs to relocate their businesses if they have to P CS folks, let me close with this next month, we will celebrate 50 years of the all volunteer force. At the time, there was some debate about whether or not we could draw in the talent we needed about whether Americans would answer the call to serve. But 50 years on, we see so clearly all of you who raise your hand. All of you who volunteered are the reason that our military today is the greatest fighting force in the history of the world bar. None. That's the reason and the reason we've been able to sustain that for year after year, decade after decade, because military spouses, caregivers and survivors have answered the call as well. You have your loved ones back just like they have the country back. So the only way, the only way to keep this force strong for the next 50 years and 50 after that and 50 after that is that we keep our promises. If we uphold the sacred obligation, we bear to our military members, our veterans, our spouses, caregivers and survivors. So today I'm here as commander in chief to sign this executive order because it matters, it matters to our military recruitment and retention. It matters to our troops readiness and resilience and it matters to our nation's safety and security supporting our military and veterans family is not just a moral imperative. It's a national security imperative and I'm not joking. It is. And that should unite all of us, public and private sectors and together we're going to keep doing everything we can to make sure if you receive the flexibility, support and resources that you deserve, things are going to get better. That's my promise to you and to all military and veterans, spouses, caregivers and survivors. May, God bless you all. May God protect our troops. Now, I'm going to go over and sign this executive order and thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your service. Yeah. Uh You got a kit. Wow, that's so come on up here. This is everybody here. I think everybody's here. All right, advancing economic security for military and veterans, spouses, military caregivers and survivors. It's now the law all looking like. What's he gonna do next? By the way? I, when I right.

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Authorities took two adults and three children to an area hospital after the crash on North Roxboro Street. The sound is muted in this video.

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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visit Nash Community College in Rocky Mount to speak with students and staff about workforce training programs.

Thank you. Please have a seat. So, hello everyone. Good morning. I think it's morning. I don't, no afternoon, I lost track. Anyway. Uh You know, most people believe that success means one thing getting a four year degree. But I teach at a community college outside of Washington DC. And while my, some of my students are working towards their bachelor's degree, probably like some of you that path just isn't right for all of them. And Joe understands that for most people, a high school diploma alone isn't enough to find a great career. But that doesn't mean that there's only one path to success. And that's why he's bringing together our entire government to bridge the gap between learning and earning students can take college courses in high school. Like some of you have told me that you've done or enroll in registered apprenticeships, they can train in growing industries and find great jobs with associate degrees. Now, a lot of these programs aren't new, but here's what is jobs through the Biden's administration's investing in America agenda. We are strengthening our nation's infrastructure and creating millions of jobs in growing industries like clean energy and manufacturing recently, um, I met a young man in Texas who, when he finishes his manufacturing apprenticeship, next year will be able to take a job right away with a starting salary of $50,000. Pretty good. Right. And then I met a 16 year old Welding student in Seattle who told me he was making $25 an hour. Thanks to the dual enrollment training he received at his high school. This work pays well and often doesn't require four years of college. That's the Biden education pathway. It starts with free high quality universal preschool and creates a high school experience that prepares students for their next steps. It provides two years of affordable community college and opens up avenues if you decide to go to a four year college, and you're going to hear about how that pathway is connecting students with great jobs right here in North Carolina as well. This is the future of our workforce and in a time when, ok, maybe sometimes we can't all agree. It's an area where we have so many values in common because we all want hard working students to be successful. Even if a four year degree isn't the right path for them. We all want businesses to have the skilled employees that they need through the Biden education pathway. We can fundamentally transform what it means to make a living and make a life here in America. Thank you. Thank you. And now it is my pleasure to introduce an incredible student and a free apprentice here at Nash and her name is America America. Hello, everyone. My name is America Alonzo Gomez. I am a student enrolled in the Center for Technology in industry, technology and innovation in high school. And I'm currently in the set for growth clean vehicles program here at Nash Community College. My time here at NASH has been great and I'm really enjoying this program here at Nash. We just uh completed art OSHA 10 lean six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification. I am beyond excited for this program and I and I entered this program to help bring fields that are so important to this country and a to my community to light energy and manufacturing are changing our very future by generating renewable resources by creating resources that are replacements for resources that are currently depleting at risk of depleting. It's so cool. I wanna, I wanna make this future a better reality. Abraham Lincoln once said the best way to predict the future is by creating it. And here I'm working with these others and to make this future the best for everyone here and to be able to make it for everyone. And with that being said, it's my honor and my privilege to be able to introduce the president of the United States, Joe Biden. Hello. Well, thank you all for allowing us to come governor. Thank you for honors to be here. I think we have everyone in the city council here and the County council and uh and uh Congress anyway, is uh North Carolina is a great state in America. Thank you for that introduction. I told America the hardest thing to do. At least for me when I was her age was to introduce someone, I think it's really needed. I know. Anyway, I won't go into all that. But anyway, folks, uh I'm Joe Biden's husband. Uh And we brought some friends with us today. Governor Roy Cooper, a terrific partner, creating economic opportunity for the people of North Carolina. Congressman. Don Davis used to work in tobacco fields, became an officer in the United States Air Force, a minister professor of the doctorate member of the House of Representative. What's hell to call him? Doctor Minister Reverend, but he's got it all. He's got it all. And he's got three sons with them. We're gonna take care of him. All these boys sitting next to him and Mayor May. Mayor Robertson. Thank you for the passport into the city. I appreciate it very much. And I wanna thank everyone in Rocky Mountain City Council, Nash County, uh uh excuse me, Edgecomb uh County. And they're here today because we believe in you all the students here. We're proud of you and that's not hyperbole. Great things ahead of you. And there are a lot of training you're gonna be getting. But, you know, Jill, my wife has taught in community college now for some years. And she's as a doctor and a professor there and she has an expression, he says that, you know, community colleges are the best kept secret in America. And then she goes on to say, and I, she's right that any country that out educates us will out compete us, any country that out educates us will outcompete us. And we're in an incredible competition worldwide, economically, politically and militarily. And you know, uh just uh this best kept secret is not being kept secret much anymore, just in this community, in the community colleges. Since in North Carolina, since 2021 private investors have invested $16 billion in community private investors, 16 billion that doesn't count the billions of dollars we're investing from the federal government and the programs we've had. The point is these investments were made in good paying jobs all across North Carolina. Not just here. Let's remember where we were just a few years ago. And when I took office, the community was, economy was reeling. We were in tough, tough shape, unemployment was extremely high and across the country, the pandemic, it hit us very hard. Millions were out of work and I'm not hyperbole, millions were out of work. But the problems we are facing started a lot earlier than that for decades before the last administration, Democrat and Republican, the middle class and working class, folks, families I come from were being hollowed out too many good paid manufacturing jobs are moved overseas. Why? Because they're cheaper labor. So we started, instead of sending product overseas, we send people our jobs overseas and they send product back to us and factories closing down all over America. I look at a few guys and, and, and the audience who uh go back a little bit may remember what it does when a community has a factory that's working where you had 1000 700 or 2000 people working. And all of a sudden it closes down, the community loses its heart. It just is absolutely gets as devastated what to do. How many people in North Carolina in my home state of Delaware and around the country have had to walk up to mom and dad and say mom, I got a, I got a good high school education but I gotta leave. There's no jobs, there's nothing here. Well, guess what? It's coming back, it's coming back big time. No, it really is. And so one of the things that, uh that, that we're talking about here is what do we do to make us once again, the most competitive nation in the world? And uh you know, uh we're here today because Jill said we believe in y'all and that's not hyperbole. We believe in y'all. You know, the uh we're in a position where things ahead of you are thanks to the training you're gonna get and investments we made gonna be good paying jobs all across, not just here in the east, but all across North Carolina entire state. Let's remember who we are. You know, as I said, just a few years ago, we were really in trouble but the problems we're facing today started, as I said, a lot earlier than that, you know, the bottom line of this. I ran for president, I ran for president for a basic reason. I hadn't planned on running again for president. I had run while I was vice president. And uh then, uh Barack and I spent eight years together and then the new administration came in and in the meantime, things changed in our life and our family, I lost my son, we lost our son in Iraq. Anyway. I had planned on running. But one of the things that did make what I really decided was we stopped paying attention to the neighborhoods I came from, you know, I, I come from a neighborhood like maybe a lot of you in Scranton, Pennsylvania, which closed down because of the mines closed down. And then we moved to a place called Claymont, Delaware where they had 4500 steel workers working in, in the factories that shut down completely all across the country. We're seeing things change and I came because I thought we could fundamentally change the direction we're going in to make sure the economy works for everybody. Feel a sense of pride in what we do. You, you've heard me say it before but where in the hell, where in the heck is it written? I scream. Where is it written? That America can't lead the world again in manufacturing. Where is that written? I was determined to make sure it got unwritten because folks look here we are. And just in a few weeks after I became president, I wrote that we wrote the American rescue plan, the most aggressive economic recovery package since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, it delivered immediate relief to folks and most in need to get our economy back on track. Next, we, I enacted what we told. We couldn't do. I was told by the press and everyone else that we couldn't do a bipartisan bill. Well, we've invested more money on roads, bridges, internet and clean water, et cetera. The largest investment in infrastructure since Dwight Eisenhower's interstate highway system. And now we have the best economy in the world. We need the best infrastructure in the world. How can you be the best economy without the best bridges, roads, ports, et cetera. So to date, we've invested nearly $5 billion.05 billion dollars in 100 and 58 infrastructure projects just in North Carolina, $5 billion just in North Carolina, including roads and beds and public transit, clean water, high speed, internet and folks. It's working after I had this idea. We uh so some of the other team didn't like, but they came along, at least the minority of them did a thing called the Chips and Science Act. We used to, we used to invest 2% of our gross domestic product in research and development. We got down to 20.7% China leading the world, not us. So we put together this whole program called that related to investing in science to bring key parts of our supply chain back to the United States like semiconductors. You know, there's 300 semiconductors are growing on automobile. Well, guess what, when they, when we had a problem with the, the uh the uh pandemic in Asia, those places shut down, we had to stop making cars and the price of cars and used cars went up skyrocketed. And the biggest reason for inflation now chip companies are investing billions billions of dollars, over 30 billion including over in Chatham County where speed invested $5 billion in a semiconductor manufacturing plan. It's gonna create 1800 new jobs to pay an average salary of $77,000 a year. These jobs and the jobs they need at the plant, setting up electric vehicle system, operating machinery, running the, the the the facility are exactly the kind of jobs you're being trained for here at this community college. Then we passed, which was didn't get much help from the other team. The Inflation reduction Act, most significant climate legislation ever in, in the history of not just America but the whole world over $368 billion for energy. And here's what happened, companies, companies are seizing the opportunity. For example, Toyota is investing $6 billion in a new plant over in liberty building lithium batteries for electric and hybrid vehicles, creating 2100 new jobs, good paying jobs. All told, all told, we've attracted 470 billion, almost a half a trillion dollars in private investment all across the country including $16 billion right here in North Carolina, private investment, not the government, private investment. And here are the results. We've created nearly 400,000 jobs in North Carolina. Remember gov, when we first started together, we were, we're losing jobs. We're hemorrhaging jobs here, created 400,000 jobs in North Carolina and here and by the way, we've now in 2.5 years, created 13.4 million new jobs. More jobs in two years than any president has created. In four years, nearly 800,000 manufacturing jobs, brand new 800,000 manufacturing is back. Wanna make sure these jobs, these jobs that give workers free and fair choice. By the way to join a union, if they wish to do that, I want to make sure, wanna make sure the skilled workers is ready to fit these jobs. Look, you can't have advanced manufacturing without a highly trained workforce. They don't go together. That's where you all come in here. At this college, you're learning every aspect of advanced manufacturing, machining to robotics. So you can do everything from cell phone to rocket ships, literally not figuratively electric systems. So you can build everything from electric vehicle parts to uh to the assembly lines. They're carried on automated packaging to ship goods and quickly and safely all around the world. 95% of the students who study advanced manufacturing at this college get jobs right after graduation. And you know, like Jill said, community college is the best kept secret in America for the longest time. No one wanted to talk about every time I'd raise it for the last 12, 14 years. I said, uh and uh well, here at Nash, you can see why it's important. And now now we want to build all that what you're doing here all across America. We've invested a half a billion dollars in what we call the good jobs challenge. Now, that's goal to create good training jobs all across the countries and industries of the future. Like clean energy here in North Carolina, you accepted that challenge led by the governor with a group called the North Carolina Business Committee for Education A North Carolina A N which graduates more black engineers than any other institution in America. By the way, we provided billions of dollars for H BC US as well, which is another story, but we created a coalition of community colleges partners, including the I B E W more than 40 employers, different employers, these employers committed to hire at least at least 3000 trainees to build solar panels, electric batteries and clean energy technology. The folks, the benefit of that is you're not only getting a good paying job, you're going to be doing something to help save your country. Not, no, no kidding anybody. I have a lot of folks I came to work with, uh, in the, when I was president who, uh, who thinks there's no such thing as global warming? Anybody doubt it. I have literally as President United States flown over more territory where woods have been forced, been burned to the ground from New Mexico all the way up to Washington State, Montana. That equals the size of the entire state of Maryland. That's how much has been burned to the ground. And we're building more, more partnerships like, like in places like Phoenix, Arizona, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We're investing in America workforce hubs all across America. Look, Joe launched one just a few weeks ago. Folks, I guess what I'm trying to say is I think that it's important when you have a job that not only your work conditions and your salary and your benefits reflect how you're treated with dignity, but where you really feel like you're doing something that matters. What you're doing is gonna matter to people. It's gonna matter to your country. If we don't deal with global warming, it's the only existential threat that exists for humanity. All of the data shows that we don't stay between 1.5 degrees Celsius by the year 20 anyway, we're, we're gonna be in trouble. Here's the bottom line. Manufacturing and innovation boom is happening all across America, not just in North Carolina, but the support of people like Roy Cooper and Don Davis with the leadership of community colleges like yours back in 1964 President Johnson Linda Baines Johnson came to Rocky Mountain and spoke and here's what he said. He said the time has come for us to see that every American gets a decent break and a fair chance to make good. That's exactly what we're working to achieve. That's what this is about. I'm so sick and tired of my whole career of what they used to call trickle down economics. If the folks at the top do well, everybody does. Well, my dad was a hard working guy, busted his neck. We lived, we weren't poor. We lived a middle class life with four kids in a three bedroom home with the grandpa living with us. And, but the point was it was, it was in a decent fair neighborhood and we were just like everybody else, but I never saw any of that economic benefit trickle down on my dad's kitchen table. So I decided not a joke and you're, you're gonna make me a profit and that is that we're going to build this economy from the middle out and the bottom up when that happens. Everybody does. Well, the wealthy still do very well. I'm a capitalist so you can go out and make a billion dollars have at it, man. Just pay your fair share of taxes. So look, we made a lot of progress. Now, we've got to keep it going. We just have to remember who we are for God's sake. We're the United States of America. This is not hyperbole. There's never been a thing. We've set our mind to as a country, never been a single major initiative. We set our mind as a country and we, and we worked together, we haven't accomplished it. Let's not remember who we are with the United States of America. So look, let's get together and move this and I promise you, you're gonna, you're not gonna remember who the hell said this to you, but 15 years from now, and this state is even better shape than it is now and continue to grow. And we're the epicenter of economic growth in the world. You're gonna say, I think I heard somebody say that but it's because you, when it happens, it really is. There's nothing, nothing, nothing beyond our capacity and there's nothing beyond your capacity. You just have to believe and be given half a chance. I'm so damn proud to be with you all. So thank you very much and gov thank you for what you put together. In the state. I think you're the best governor in the country. But thank you.

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