you consider reading, writing, math, science, they say too much time is spent on gender issues, and most concerned too much time is spent on sexual orientation. and some believe it s going to energize more voters going forward. what you are seeing is the vast majority of parents, wherever they are in the political spectrum, democrat, republican, want schools to focus on the basics, focus on reading, writing, science, math, civics. outside d.c. in fairfax county, the school district plans to ignore new education policies out of the state capital, richmond, require use a bathroom with their sex assigned at birth as opposed to the sex they identify with. decision sets up a political
have the glaad awards take us off the air tonight. on that note, i wish a very good night. from all our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, state thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. of tomorrow thanks for being with us tonight, it s good to have you here. a bit of a sigh of relief within just the past hour as we got positive news about the two congressional staffers who were attacked in virginia today. members of congress of course have their main offices in the capital in washington, d.c.. but of course, they have offices in their districts back home. this attack today happened at the district office for democratic congressman virginia the democratic virginia congressman who you see here. it s his district office in fairfax, virginia. it s northern virginia, outside d.c.. the congressman himself was not in the office. he was out apparently add a
were badly hurt. they were taken hospital after the plane made an emergency landing at an airport in alexandria, virginia. cnn s pete wanting reports on the dramatic scare in the sky. the in-flight thrashing came on without warning, wednesday night german airline lufthansa flight for 69 was in route to frankfort, from austin texas, federal investigators say as the flight flew over tennessee at an altitude of 37,000 feet, the crew reported in countering severe turbulence, the result, according to passengers, like unexpectedly free falling for five seconds of the top of a rollercoaster, planes and glassware were up at the ceiling. and about 3:30 four reported severe 70 the flight diverted to washington dulles international airport outside d.c. where first responders met in the flight at the gate. the airport says, in all, seven people were taken to nearby hospitals. it is a significant concern.
being soft on crime and to the left of biden, one democrat telling cnn they cannot trust the white house. was this a misstep for the white house? well, i think that, you know, president can do what he wants, but i do i do believe fundamentally that this is about an issue of 700,000 people living in the district of columbia that don t have representation in the federal government and yet here we are, republican senators coming in, trying to tell them what their city code should be. and it seems counter to how republicans don t want big government. this is definitely government coming in and big footing a city. but also i think that where the white house might have made a misstep is that by taking the bait for republicans about a soft on crime narrative. joe biden has made it very clear that he supports police officers, that he believes in a new vision for public safety, which you just laid out in the state of the union. and allowing people to do criminal justice reform like the
governor. that s what cpac candidates want to see. they will see it soon. jeff zeleny at cpac, thank you. many democrats are fuming about president biden s surprise announcement that he would sign a republican-led bill that would block a washington, d.c. effort to overhaul the city s criminal code. the president s decision comes after house democrats rejected the gop bill last month by a vote of 173 to 31 and after biden previously said he would oppose the measure. tom foreman is digging into what is actually in the d.c. crime law for us. so, tom what does this bill actually do and why are so many lawmakers opposed? this is complicated. let me make it simple here. d.c. wanted to rewrite its criminal code, which had been around for a long, long time. a whole lot of time working on it and came up with an approach that was generally more progressive than punitive. some of the measures they re talking about there are things that would sort of lessen the mandatory minimum sentences fo