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6:31	mbinker - The N.C. House and Senate are going into session at 6:30 p.m. (as I type). They're due to have Gov. Bev Perdue begin speaking at 7 p.m. We are told the speech will be about 35 minutes.

6:31

binker - Live-blog feed active at: http://tinyurl.com/dcb338 #ncsos

6:33

binker - Sen. Phil Berger, a Rockingham County Republican and his party's leader in the Senate, will give the GOP response 5 mins after speech.

6:37

binker - I'll put up an embargoed copy of Perdue's prepared remarks once she starts speaking.

6:40

binker - #ncsos If listening to the House feed right now, you're hearing Speaker Hackney refer bills -This would be a good time to go get a beverage.

6:47

BoyumNews14 - Getting microphones on and guests arriving (David McLennan, Bob Orr, Chris Fitzsimon). We go live in 9 minutes #ncsos

6:52

binker - #ncsos House and Senate are still doing the preliminaries to prepare for session.

6:53

binker - #NCSO Lt. Gov. DALTON: "The Senate stands ready to repair to the hall of the House."

6:54	mbinker - For those watching unfamiliar with Twitter parliance, #ncsos is a hash-tag used to indicate a common theme events. This feed is also using them to pick up what others are writing about the STate of the STate, which is why you've just seen a notice from Tim Boyum at News 14.

6:56

binker - #ncsos Speaker Hackney: The House is ready to go.

7:01

binker - #ncsos: The Senate is being admitted to the House chamber.

7:01

wccubbison - #ncsos apparently a budget deficit of over 2 billion dollars isnt large enough to justify tv coverage

7:03

wccubbison - #ncsos nevermind found it on wral. wunc doesnt have it for some reason

7:04

binker - #ncsos: The Council of State and governor's cabinet, along with other dignitaries, are now being admitted.

7:05

ryanjradford - Watching this in non-HD is going to be awful #ncsos

7:06

binker - #ncsos: Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton will now preside.

7:07

binker - #ncsos: Gov. Perdue is in the hizzle and about to start speaking, after all the applauding and what not.

7:07

wccubbison - #ncsos Lt Gov Dalton now has the gavel. Introducing the Governor

7:08

ryanjradford - She has a teleprompter? #ncsos

7:08

wccubbison - #ncsos Senator Soles just said something I couldn't hear. another round of applause

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