Name: TheWrap@NCCapitol (Nov. 5, 2021): Maps, budget, sports gambling
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Description: State lawmakers have redrawn congressional and legislative districts to reflect population changes in last year's census, but how long they last before another redraw remains to be seen.

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Good afternoon and welcome to the weekly edition of the Rap. I'm laura Leslie WRL Capital Bureau Chief Travis Fain WRL Statehouse Reporter and we have maps, it's been a whirlwind week. The maps were kind of rolled out on monday and they were enacted on thursday and legislators have already left and they're off for the next week. Both the House and Senate taking the week off. It was a pretty intense week and there was quite a bit of a pretty fiery debate this week. Yeah, I mean as we would expect the maps lean Republican of course, and as we would also expect, you know, their their lawsuits, there's at least one lawsuit over process that has already been filed and you know, depending on what time it is when you listen to this, there's a second one. I suspect there will be more than just that. We're gonna we're gonna do this uh through the courts as we always do. Exactly. You know, we did a lot of coverage this week on the on the redistricting maps and you know, what they do and what they don't do. Um And of course the key claim that legislators are making that they did not use political or racial data to draw these maps unlikely as that seems that managed to draw an 11 to or I mean 11 3 or 10 4 map for Congress without consulting political data. Seems a little unlikely. But anyway, that is kind of the gist of what marc Elias is saying, he's saying, you know, statistically, that's just not the thing. Uh so he's taking announced today that he's gonna be filing suit. I don't think that surprises anybody. He's sort of filed suit. I think he's in like 10 different states at this point combating redistricting Gerry Manders. And so of course he's coming here to um so a lot of interesting things in these maps, of course, some double bunking XKE double bunking in congress, Kathy manning would be put in with, I think Virginia Foxx. So, um you know, Manning is probably not going to survive this round. However interesting Bishop is in with atoms in Mecklenburg and that is a safety district. So I think we're pretty much d so I think I don't know whether he's planning to move or what the story is with that. I've heard some discussion, I don't know about moving, but that he plans to run a adjacent district. You can't because you don't have to, you don't have to live in your congressional district and like in the, you know, the House and Senate. Um So that's entirely possible. And then of course, the Statehouse map looks like if you if you if you're following Princeton scoring, which I like a lot Princeton read Princeton gerrymandering project is the name of the group starts a mouthful. Uh And they basically have looked at political performance of these new districts over the last two elections, two major elections presidential. Um and some state races as well to sort of predict this stuff. And so what they're coming up with is about 50 on Democratic House seats and about 74 Republican House seats. Um and so as you can understand that's really, really close to the 72, you need for a veto override margin right there. Um and there's a couple of the swing districts that are currently democratic that the Republicans can almost certainly pick back up. And then um on the Senate side, you're looking at 2030 2030 ar which would also be a veto proof majority. So, you know, if these maps are put into place and all goes as as seems likely statistically, it looks like we will have veto proof majorities back in both chambers come next year, which could mean, well, it might mean we get a budget right. Yeah. And of course we're a long way from there. Not only do we have to run the gamut of the lawsuits, but candidate recruitment is of course important. And you just never know what a year is going to bring your republicans talking about next year being a red wave. And I mean, sure, maybe, I don't know. I'm not going to base it off of what happened in Virginia and an off your election, even though the turnout was quite high. Uh I just, I am, I am willing to wait until November of 2022. So, so anyway, you're thinking that mike Hager is coming back into the House. So we've talked a little bit in the past about geography in the building, like who's where and why are they there? Um I think you or someone in the press corps had noticed that bobby Honig representative was kind of watching the Senate map making process closely. And then lo and behold he announced Run in Senate won the New Senate one. Um and then he was, he was double bunked in his house in his house district. So it sort of made his sense. And then one day I looked up in in a redraw and Mike Hager was the only lobbyists in the room uh kind of sitting in the in the The cheap seats in Washington process. Wondered about that as some scuttlebutt that he's going to get back in, try to run for the house. He's a member until 2016. He didn't confirm that for me, but just like we said, geography, Geography is important. Absolutely. Um The six open seats in the House, I want to mention um I had a look at them. All three of them appear to be safety and three of them appear to be safe. Art um Two of them are in wake three or in the Mecklenburg area or I should say comparison Mac area and then one of them is over in Harnett County. So that's that's what's sitting open at the moment, although of course there are retirements, people running for other other offices etcetera to factor in as we look toward the 2022 election as well. Big story this week. While the lack of a big story on the budget is my story for today. Actually, the fact that we don't have a plan at this point, you know, by my account, cooper and lawmakers been going back and forth for about six weeks. We keep hearing is coming next week. It's always next week, you know, but this week they're not saying next week, this week they're taking next week off. So that tells you that they're probably not real close to a deal. They're not real close. And, and also the will is not there immediately to just vote on their own budget, Republicans in the House or the Senate, which, you know, there's been some saber rattling on that. The speaker last week kind of suggested that, hey, this was going to be an important week and then now nothing happened this week and nothing's going to happen next week. Also, still, I just mentioned, we still don't have an answer to our public records request of both the Senate, the House and the Governor's Office sent october 18th for documents they keep sending back and forth to each other. Not aware of anything that keeps those from being public documents have not received response from any of them as to why they hadn't given them to us. I guess that's something we'll have to continue to push next week. I did a story this week on a sports betting, This bill that we covered earlier this year. It would legalize sports betting and taxes in north Carolina and excuse me. And so it would, um, it passed the Senate, I think in august and then it just sort of disappeared, dropped off the radar when I went over to the House. Well, it got its first hearing in the House yesterday, House commerce Past 12-4. But Jason saying who's handling it in the house? It's actually a Senate bill, but he's a big backer of as well. Was talking about, you know, they're not planning to move that really until probably spring. Yeah. And I don't have a good beat on why it got a hearing when it did. Uh, but yeah, well, we'll see. I mean, that that's one, there have been a few bills this session that had quite a bit of momentum even though they were a little bit controversial and then just kind of sputtered out, even though they're there with plenty of time on their hands, marijuana bill is kind of similar in the Senate. Although it is not clear the Senate yet, a sense that I get from from the House caucus for the folks who are talking about the sports betting. Is that the support just isn't there yet. What ST said yesterday in committee, is that he really wanted to just put this out there, have this discussion before the holidays and let people talk to their constituents of the holidays mull it over, you know, and, and, and see whether they change their mind, yep, yep. Uh, speaking of things that are being mulled over Medicaid, we finally heard from Senate President pro TEM Phil berger this week that yes, indeed, he'd be on board with Medicaid expansion as part of the state budget, as long as they got tax cuts in some other Republican priorities as part of that deal. That of course not supported in the House. And if something at this point is not supported in both the House and the Senate, it's not really on the table for negotiations with the governor, at least that's how burger described it. But of course, you know, bear in mind he's saying this publicly. Um, so I mean, it sends a message that for those who like Medicaid expansion, maybe you ought to focus on speaking to house republicans about it. We also saw a poll released to threat To that angle this week. That basically indicated there's a lot of really strong messaging that can be done with Republicans specifically was a poll of 600 Republicans that found pretty solid support for Medicaid expansion. You did a great story this week on money in the leandro report, tracking down where the money came from to pay for that report. Yeah, this is something where at some point we kind of skipped a step right, like the Lander report came out from west at a major consultancy out in California primarily about how much we ought to be spending on education. The report came out I believe. I can't remember what year now but I mean it was it was planned for in 2018. Believe it came out 2019. Most of it's two years old is very long. There's lots to it. But yeah we never reported how much it costs or who paid for it. It was like $2 million Friday Center and some money that went to another group that's got the word learning in it but whose full name escapes me at the moment. Um And a lot of it came from the state. About $800,000 of it came from the state itself and the rest of it came from from various private foundations including the smallest donation was from a J. Fletcher. Which I only mentioned because it's started by the founder of Capitol Broadcasting which owns WRL News. Uh just to mention that. But yeah just there's a list that we've put online. Uh And you can go check it out. Um Also interesting story this week john hardest er one of the lawmakers that signed onto a letter that was sent to U. N. C. Chapel Hill I believe is that right? Unc, right. And so this has to do with some I don't I don't even know what you would call it, like diversity training training. Yeah. Um and so I guess I guess um things were said in that training that um well I guess there's something, somebody got a recording of it and uh and leaked it to the corona. There were some excerpts leaked by a right leaning at news outlet on campus there. I have not seen the full thing. I doubt anyone who's seen the full thing that wasn't there. But I mean there were some things like uh some things were called oppression that I don't know, a lot of people would call them oppression. For example, like if you're left handed, you're oppressed. If you're uh we got stuff at the grocery store is up high on the shelf and it seemed like again we're judging off of clips. The presenter was trying to get people to think put themselves in other people's shoes, right? Like your oppression may not be that serious just because you can't quite reach something on the grocery store shelf, but think about other examples of oppression in our society and try to put yourself in those shoes. But of course she also told the crowd and again, these are unC fraternity students that they're all oppressed in some way, you know, we're starting to lose the definition of words at that point. Um Well again though, let's let's back it up again though and say this was a context, not contextual, right? We don't know what the context of these clips was. I mean, you know what came before, What came after these little clips and be this was training that apparently from what I've been told the fraternities and sororities actually requested. It was voluntary. Yeah, I think there was some mandatory attendance, but it was requested ahead of time. It's a little hard to suss it all out. There's a story on its capital that everybody can check out, but any rate hardest deal for kind of Republican. A number of other republicans about the House and Senate signed onto a letter asking us what's a number of questions suggesting that this would they didn't call it indoctrination, but they certainly uh, suggested, uh, in that direction. And again, we've talked about this before, right? You know, in these ongoing culture wars and being exposed to an idea is not being indoctrinated. And indoctrination is a real thing. Just like oppression is a real thing. And I, I think we're talking past each other in this world a lot about what we really are trying to say and what words really mean in the meantime surprising no one cooper vetoed the bill that would restrict his emergency powers. Um, I can't remember how many of these he's vetoed at this point, but this one was of course to be towed as well. It will join its many colleagues in the veto garage. Um, which none of which have been picked up yet, but you never know. Right. Also monday night we had a new swearing end that was Donnie loftis. We talked about him last week, his replacement for representative Dana baumgartner had passed away. Is that correct? That's correct. Yeah. Gaston County. Yeah. And so, um, so you did a story with him about his attendance at, at the January six riots. Right? Yeah. He was there and he said on Facebook at the time, he's close enough to get gassed. He said that he and other veterans, he served many years in the army. I felt like they had to be there. I mean, it was all, he did not say. He did not apparently go inside the capitol at least didn't say it didn't, but I mean it was, he was not negative on the rioting that was occurring in front of him until people asked him about it in the context of, hey, you know, you're about to be a state lawmaker and he said, oh, I condemned the riots. Just wasn't really totally the same as what he had said on facebook. Anyway, he gets picked by the local Republican Party in Gaston County to fill this seat. He gets sworn to that office. Monday night democrats got up and walked out. Representative carla Cunningham stood up to ask the speaker hey or they're going to be any votes tonight. Speaker said no, All that. I think six democrats left the floor at that point just as a, as a show of, you know, you're kind of turning your back on having that that particular person is serving in the state legislature. Yeah. Uh it makes for a warm and fuzzy rest of session, doesn't it? You did a story today, just quickly on on the push to buy some groups to try to get a couple of the Republican justices on the state Supreme Court to recuse themselves. Exactly, it's a Phil berger Jr who is of course Phil berger sr the Senate leaders, son, uh and Tamara Barringer who is a former state senator. These are two of the three Republican justices on the seven member state Supreme Court. Uh and the court is hearing a CPV more which is a challenge to two constitutional amendments. Probably the most interesting one being the voter idea amendment. Uh and the idea being, hey, maybe someone who voted for this thing in the legislature and someone whose dad is literally a named defendant because berger and moore both named defendants should not sit on this. They're not recusing themselves. We want the court to recuse them to force them to recuse. I guess that's never been done and we're not really a mechanism for that, is there? Well, that's what the court is going to figure out now is can we do it? And then should we do it? And then of course, will we do it in this case. So briefing with due on those arguments this week. I wrote them up there on N. C. Capital. Now I'm just trying to imagine the precedent that would set. I mean you know I mean the people get on this court for the most part after they've been pretty preeminent lawyers you know and involved in a lot of cases and a lot of times some of those cases are political. You know and I just think about you know what kind of recusal requests you might get you know for for some of these more contentious cases. You know every time it rolls around whether it's democrats or republicans and that is the argument that burger and moore's attorneys and some others are making is that hey we don't think you can do this and be if you decide you can do this you should not do this because it's open. Yeah open the doors I think the phraseology and in one of the brief so keep watch that space. A lot of attorneys are watching that one closely. Yeah I think we're just about out of time here add that's enough for the good of the order. I think this week we'll see what happens next week as to whether or not we bring you a rap while they're taking a little time off. I feel like there's probably enough to do what usually probably somehow things always seem to happen regardless of whether they're in session or not sometimes despite it uh we will of course be watching out for all those lawsuits piling up against the new maps, and we will let you know what happens next time we talk to you here on the rack.

Laura Leslie

Travis Fain

Matthew Burns

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Boviet Solar plans to spend $294 million by the end of 2027 as part of the deal, state economic development officials said Friday. Commerce officials approved an incentives package worth up to $16.4 million.

<p>To, to all of you and we bring you greetings. I would like to also extend gratitude to other elected officials who are joining us today. If you'll please stand. Thank you. I want to also start by expressing how thrilled we are to have you here today. We are proud of our city here in Greenville. And I think that pride is evident in this room today and why wouldn't we be proud? Greenville is a thriving hub of, of eastern North Carolina. We have a growing population, a diverse based manufacturing manufacturers, top notch educational institutions, state of the art, medical facilities and vibrant art and entertainment scenes. The people in Greenville are as friendly and as talented as they come. We all work well together and that is a tremendous, tremendous key to progress. There are so many reasons to be proud of Greenville and today I'm thrilled that our city is getting even better with all of that being said, I would like to introduce to you a Greenville native and Chief Deputy Secretary of Commerce Jordan Richard. Well, thank you so much. Uh Mayor Pro Daniels. Uh it is a beautiful day and uh uh especially great day to be back home in Greenville, North Carolina. Uh So, on behalf of uh our North Carolina Secretary of Commerce Michelle Baker Sanders, uh Good afternoon. Uh Today really is not only the celebration of an incredible partnership uh with the city of Greenville, Pitt County, uh the Greenville Eastern North Carolina Alliance, the Department of Commerce, our, our partners across the state. Uh But it's also calls to celebrate uh some really exciting news and the first uh such announcement this year in Pitt County across the state in North Carolina, we are uh already ahead of our pace from last year. Uh Having a wonderful year in terms of economic development. Today is a wonderful announcement of that. Since January across the state, we've announced uh 39 projects and this will be our 40th, more than 3600 jobs across North Carolina and over $2.5 billion in economic development investment statewide. And today's news uh is also great as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of Greenville, North Carolina. Over those 250 years, we've seen Greenville change and evolve and the evolution of Greenville as a community is parallel to what we've seen across the state from an economy once dependent on agriculture and tobacco. Pitt County and Greenville is transformed into an economy that's supported by medicine uh and advanced manufacturing and clean energy jobs like we're here to talk about today. Uh having grown up here and watch that evolution and watch Downtown and Dickinson Avenue evolve and having gone to school across the street at CMXS Middle School, it's especially gratifying to be back and to be working on wonderful announcements like this. Uh And today, it's also an incredible honor to introduce uh someone who I've had the great pleasure of working for in Raleigh for the past 7.5 years. Uh He's been working to build a stronger North Carolina uh where everyone has as an opportunity to live in safe communities, get a quality education, uh have good access to great jobs and great health care. Uh And where everybody has a chance to live lives of purpose and abundance. And today he'll share with the Greenville community some outstanding news. Uh that'll help get us closer to North Carolina, North Carolina. That's more diverse, more inclusive works uh even more for all the people of this great state. Uh So it's my honor now to introduce to you the 75th governor of North Carolina Roy Cooper. Thank you so much, Greenville, aren't you proud of Jordan Witcher? Let me just say, Chief Deputy Secretary of the Department of Commerce. And uh you might notice that I have a lot of people in my administration who are from Eastern North Carolina. It's because I grew up here and I know the kind of people that they are. So I am so happy to be here. With you today, seeing so many friends and familiar faces uh and to celebrate what's gonna happen today. Uh Thank you Marquita for being here, Representative reader. Thank you for, for, for being here. Thank you representative for you. Uh Thank you, appreciate all of you guys candy. Thank you for coming. Very grateful for you coming and being part of this. Um II, I wanna thank Mayor Pro TEM Daniels and say thank you very much for your hard work here. But it's great to join with you today with an outstanding announcement for the city of Greenville, Pitt County, eastern North Carolina and I am our entire state. I am so proud to announce that Bovi at Solar, an international renewable energy company has selected North Carolina for its first North American solar panel manufacturing facility that will create 900 jobs and invest $294 million right here in Greenville, North Carolina. Our economists predict that this project will lift North Carolina's economy by more than $2.9 billion over the next 12 years. This economic development. When shows us how teamwork, teamwork and that's a fitting word here in front of Dowdy Ficklin Stadium, teamwork and our amazing workforce. Keep bringing advanced manufacturing jobs to our state here in Pitt County. You have a great legacy of manufacturing, making everything from life saving pharmaceuticals to packaging personal care products and now comes important components for clean renewable energy. North Carolina is becoming an epicenter for clean energy that's putting money in the pockets of North Carolina families and small businesses. And as we've learned in North Carolina the last few years, a clean energy economy is a strong economy, providing American security. North Carolina is a leader in that 19 billion in capital investments and nearly 16,000 good paying manufacturing jobs created here since 2021 with the fourth largest producer of solar energy in the country. And with our bipartisan clean power plan that will get us producing zero emission clean energy by 2050. That means a lot more solar panels need to be made right here in North Carolina. This announcement means that they're going to be made right here. And North Carolina's emergence as a clean energy leader has fueled our growth and helped set us apart as the number one state to do business in the country for two years in a row, we all get to celebrate that recognition and much of the credit goes to our well trained, dedicated and diverse workforce, the people of North Carolina, they make up the best workforce in the country. And Bovi at solar is gonna find out about that. And our university Chancellor Rogers, thank you for hosting this today. Our university and community college systems including East Carolina Pitt community College and our research institutions and workforce partnerships help North Carolina stay first in talent coupled with our central east location, East coast location and includes easy access to transportation infrastructure by land, plain sea. And of course our excellent quality of life. North Carolina continues to be a top choice and we don't take opportunities and announcement like these for granted because we know that companies like Bovi at solar can choose to locate anywhere in the world, but they chose us. And that's why we must continue to increase our investments in education, workforce training in our public schools and in early childhood education, that is absolutely critical. This announcement is the result of strong collaboration by company executives, elected officials across both aisles and economic development professionals. In addition to Secretary Sanders and the Department of Commerce, I'd like to thank our Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina that works so well led by Chris Chung works so well with our Department of Commerce, our North Carolina General Assembly. Those members are here today, our Golden Leaf Foundation, our Greenville Eastern North Carolina Alliance, Pitt County Electric Cities, Greenville Utilities Commission and the city of Greenville. At this time, I would like to, to welcome to the podium, the CEO of Bovi at Solar, Jimmy Shea. And I'd like to present him with a gift on behalf of the people of North Carolina, Jimmy. If you could come forward, Jimmy, this is a piece of pottery made one of our, by one of our famous artists uh Ben Owen. And on it has the great seal of the state of North Carolina and it has a part of it. Our, our motto, Si Quam Beri, which means to be rather than to seem, we want you to know in North Carolina we are who we say we are. And we look forward to this partnership for years and decades to come. Congratulations. Thank you for being here. Uh This is uh cup of the Chinese tea. Oh, outstanding. Thank you very much. Well, on behalf of the people of North Carolina, we accept this gift and hopefully we can sit and drink some tea and talk about the great success of this company. Thank you, Jimmy very much. Thank you. Mm Let uh let me begin to say uh by saying, thank you to the press, our partners and everyone who took the time to join us at today's event. Uh We are around to be receiving this investment grade and uh we are excited uh for how it uh will enable us to get our first us solar panel manufacturer facility up to and running and uh created, created uh economic uh uh our opportunities for the pul air. Yeah, for those who uh who aren't familiar. Let me introduce the about the poet founded in 2013 poet, solar head office in Unite, unite us Germany and our group uh headquarters in Vietnam. We have a proven track record of successful working with many of the industrial leading players. And our PV module are known for their power performance. And quality. This is evident because Bo has uh maintained its uh pos uh position at a Bloomberg new energy financing T one solar module manufacturers. Since 2017, we have been written at the top performance on people's PV module reliability uh score card since 2019 BB. Successfully completed. And in the independent e estimate of bo uh uh water solar manufacturers facility in 2022 the US uh solar industrial had been in K for water solar since we first uh entered the uh in 20 17 as of 2020 f uh three world solar PV sales and the PV models manufacturing capacity is more than three gigawatts and it's a shar a total of more than 6.6 gigawatt since uh in fabric, manually operating in us. Marketing. We are dedicated uh to helping to build uh American solar manufacturers uh with our new facility and uh filing, you know, cutting power in uh petit county, North Carolina and the, the natural. Uh let me tell you more about our plan for the manufacture plant. First one of the project, we use the building to manufacture our solar modules per to will including contracting uh start uh start off the art 500,000 to 60 thou uh 100,000 square foot factory on 34 acres to manufacture of PV cells which are used to build the solar panels. The location is expected to output the two gigawatts of solar and the two gigawatt uh PV cells since the future, uh uh will help bring our top performance PV modules to our variable clients to foster stronger connections with the independent uh power products. EP CS product uh developers, solar in, in installs and the contractors. We will have product uh they need uh in increase the deve deployment of uh uh U utilities, commercial industrial and uh dangerous solar project. We will require a strong workforce to product pro produce these solar panels so we will hearing about uh 900 employees uh over the next five years, job are expect expected to increase engineers, product workers. And so on, on behalf of uh B solar, I would like to thank everyone in involved in making this uh weight of product uh possible. The first is the governor uh Rio Cooper and uh and the secu uh secondary security Sanders and the North Korea development of the commerce tr uh territory uh D feature and the e economy uh economic uh developer partners of the North Korea Carolina, North Carolina General and Een North Korea uh communi Community College System, Go Goen Le found uh Foundation, Yanda down uh and the team at the Greenville East, North Carolina Islands, Kelly Andrew and the Peter County developer office, as well as the Pitter county government, Kathy Howard and the leadership team at the Greenville Utilities Commission City of the Greenville Electricity of the North Carolina and our advances today, our dream are coming true. We are upon the to begin pro product in our pe models in the US, bring our manufacturers exciting excellence to our most important uh solar market, creating jobs and the ma uh making up in impact. Solar energy in the United States is a bombing driving by its many benefits. Solar is an economic engine, a source of clean cheap um produce energy set and make a electricity affordable for customers and improve the air quality for health uh communities. We are surrendered to help uh future wills rep reputation for the green. I I can economic and uh manufacturing. We look forward to working with all of our partners, our path towards a cleaning future in the United. Thank you. I wanted to make sure I recognized Senator Candy Smith and Representative Glory Steam Brown and Representative reader, the legislature helped us a lot with this too. So, thank you very much for. Ok. Mhm. Good afternoon. My name is Anne Lord Huggins and I serve on the Pitt County Board of Commissioners. In conclusion of this momentous announcement, we must emphasize how truly honored we are that Pitt County was chosen over the many communities that were under consideration for this project. We are not only announcing the selection of Pitt County for a new industry that will bring strong economic growth to our community, but we are celebrating the collaboration that have developed and will continue to develop among Pitt County. Our partners and this esteem company. This announcement is the culmination of shared vision. This company's vision for its first us manufacturing facility in a business friendly asset, rich and welcoming community and Pitt County's vision for growth through strong industry partners that create highly skilled high paying jobs for our citizens. This vision will come to life in the, in the gr in the green corporate park and we look forward to our continued partnership to make this project successful. Beyond expectation. On behalf of Pitt County and the Board of commissioners, we extend our appreciation to each and every individual who has contributed their time, expertise and passion to make today possible. Most importantly, we extend heartfelt thanks to Bovier Sola for choosing us to communicate, to commemorate. Excuse me, this day, we would like to present a sculpture crafted by local artist Jordan Pera titled Connecting the Links May this day be a continuation of connections that will ensure your continued success. We are honored to be your partners and your chosen community. Welcome to your new home, Pitt County. OK. And I accept this on behalf of pick him and now and welcome to the podium, Thomas Taft Junior Board of Directors of Greenville, NENC Alliance for a toast. That's good. Not a force of guys. II, I had a prepared speech, but I'm gonna take this in a slightly different direction because II I, everyone has, has talked so much about the relationships and everything else. That got us to this point. But all I can say on behalf of Pitt County and on behalf of the Greenville NC Alliance is we won. We have won, we have beat out other communities, phobia technologies to come here. It's everything that we've all been working for, for years and years and years. I look at so many of you out here that uh were participants in that. And again, all I want to say is we won. Pitt County won North Carolina won. Thank you, Governor Cooper. Cheers, everyone. Cheers. Thank you. I don't mind. That's fine. No, no, no, no. Well, I would just add that this is the single largest jobs announcement in Pitt County's history. Uh, I don't believe we've had a governor here in, uh, about 15 years to announce anything, uh, economic development, a new, a new, uh, I'm sorry. But, uh, but either way we're proud to have you here. We're proud to have you guys here. Cheers again to a victory for Pitt County here here. Thank you. Thank you very much. Ok. Thank you so much. I'm ready to provide. Yeah. Yeah. Ok. They see. All right. Right. Yes. That's first. He said going across the way, come back in time.</p>

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A lockdown has ended at Enloe High School in Raleigh, police said Friday.

Good afternoon. My name is Lieutenant Jason with the Public Information Office of the Raleigh Police Department. Deputy Chief Boyce is going to provide an update on the incident that happened at a high school today. Uh Good morning, uh Deputy Chief Rico Boyce of the Raleigh Police Department. I want to provide an update of the incident that occurred here at in low high school this morning. I'm joined here with Major Harrison of the Field Operations Division as well as major latour of the field operations division. I want to begin by saying that everything and everyone is safe at Inlow High School. There's no students, no staff that has been injured as a result of this. Obviously with uh with the allegation of a firearm on campus, it really has an effect on the students and staff, but I want to alert the public that everything is ok. Uh Wake County schools have been very helpful in investigating this matter with the Raleigh Police Department. So what happened just after 10 a.m. this morning, a student approached the principal and made the principal aware that there is a subject on campus with a firearm. The principal immediately placed a school on code red lockdown and with the assistance of the school resource officer, additional officers were called to the scene. Once officers arrived on scene, they began to do a systematic search of the entire school interior and exterior of the school to determine that there was no one on campus with the firearm. Obviously, when you talk about a firearm on campus, it has a very large impact in our community and that's why we had a very large presence of law enforcement. But I will say Raleigh PD working with the Wake County public schools, we have determined that there is no threat on campus. We took this matter very seriously. We're going to continue to investigate and see how this all originated. But at this time, I just want to let the community know that this threat is unfounded, right? There's no threat, there's no firearm, there's no one injured at in high school. So we're going to continue to make sure that the message get out and Wake County public schools will put out an update of how the rest of the school day is going to go as far as any potential early release. I cannot say that right now, what I can say is a student made the principal aware that there is a potential of someone on campus with a firearm. The principal took that information very seriously and placed the school on a code grade lockdown and we began to investigate from there. So at this time, I can't determine if it was a hoax or not. Are you looking for anyone else? I mean, there have been a report that there was a student who said her boyfriend was with a gun. Are you looking for that person? Since no one was found in the school with a gun? We're investigating right now, like say this originated from a student and the information was shared with the principal. So we're still trying to determine what exactly was shared with the principal to lead to the core lockdown. So right now that is like say under investigation, did you guys do a systematic room by room search? Yes, we did. Like I say with this being a school and the threat of a firearm on campus, the Raleigh Police Department's selective enforcement unit, state capital PD County Sheriff's office, they all responded to help us do a systematic search of the entire campus, not only inside the school but it outside school in the surrounding neighborhoods is the lockdown lifted currently. No, it's still code red lockdown right now. We're just finishing up like say some last minute details with Wake County public schools and they will update us when they're going to lift that code red. One more question. I just want to make sure I'm clarifying this correctly. A call from the principle that a student had reported this. Are you still on the lookout for someone who might have been on campus and then left or are you investigating this in a different way? We're investigating this in a different way that this was a alleged threat of someone with a gun on campus. So right now, there's nobody on campus, but we're trying to get the exact details. Like what else was involved in this communication with the student and the principal. Can you really quickly just talk about the response? I mean, this is a massive response to something like this and the impact that has on officers, parents, students out there actually has a huge toll, a huge effect on our officers responding to any school with the potential of a firearm b on a campus. That's why you saw the response to get today. Uh We work very well with our law enforcement partners and we're very thankful for them helping us to clear the school. Uh And obviously with parents, of course, this is going to have a huge impact on parents as well as student and staff. Anytime you see a large police presence on a, on a school campus, but it's all to make sure that everyone is safe. Uh And then we're quickly, we'll try to get the school back to normal operators uh operating as soon as possible. So yes, we came with a lot of resources if there was a threat or would someone would have gone, we wanted to quickly mitigate that. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you.

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Sky 5 flies over code red lockdown at Enloe High School 

Enloe High School is under a code red lockdown. Sky 5 is flying over the school.

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