Victims to come forward. In the meantime, an out of state contractor has been called in to take over head start which is supposed to begin at 51 schools in the county on monday. We have more on that. Reporter yeah, thats a big deal when a School System loses control of a program like this. But thats whats going to happen. Independent contractors coming in to run the program. Meanwhile, congresswoman edwards calling for a sweeping independent investigation today with the crisis of confidence going on with the board of education, she wants parents who think their kids may have been abused while attending head start, she wants those parents to come forward right away. So we can get to bottom of this. Edwards issued a statement saying incidents such as these do not exist in a vacuum. They are indicative of the break down with the leadership chain that has in danger. This after the board of education met in private yesterday to decide not to appeal a federal decision to take the Head Start
Hour is a starvation wage. We need to raise the minimum wage. Mr. President , anybody who has kids in college today understands that it is harder and harder for workingclass and middleclass families to send their kids to college. And what the American People are saying to us, do something. You tell us what is true, is that its hard to make it into the middle class unless kids have a college education. Well, do something to make college affordable. Dont have my kid leaving college or graduate school 50,000 in debt or 80,000 in debt. Do something about that. And, mr. President , anybody who drives anywhere in america, in vermont or in indiana or anyplace else, understands that our infrastructure, our roads, our bridges, wastewater plants, water plants, our rail system is deteriorating rapidly. And they say do something about the infrastructure. And people are telling us that as Global Warming is perceived as more and more of a crisis, do something about energy efficiency. Why are we emit
Decision to cancel all flights out of this airport. Its one of the busiest hubs in the world. In addition to the thousands of protesters you had on both the departures and arrivals level here, you had a lot of dazed passengers who have been wandering around, wondering when theyre going to be able to get on their flight. Protesters were pushing for their demands, saying they would not leave. In particular, theyre looking for an independent inquiry into what they call police brutality. This went on for a number of hours throughout the evening. Then the mood did start to shift. There were protesters who caught who they believed were undercover Chinese Police officers. Became quite violent over the course of a few hours. The crowd would surge and cheer and then go quiet. Then there was the arrival of the police. Signaled first by the flashing lights outside of the airport terminal and then this scramble to try to get these undercover what we believe two Undercover Police officers out. A lo
And frankly, we need intelligent background checks, okay . This isnt a question of nra, republican or democrat. I spoke to Mitch Mcconnell yesterday. Hes totally on board. He said ive been waiting for your call. He is totally on board. We dont want insane people, mentally ill people, bad people, dangerous people, we dont want guns in the hands of the wrong people. I think that the republicans are going to be great and lead the charge, along with the democrats. If that sounds familiar to you, it might be because, unfortunately, weve been here before. Shortly after the mass shooting at a school in parkland, florida trump promised to, quote, be very strong on background checks. In fact, he said hed stand up to the gun lobby. But as you can imagine, trump ultimately backed down. And remember this is a president who has repeatedly declared himself a champion of the nra and the Second Amendment. You have a true friend and champion in the white house. No longer will federal agencies be coming
The network that called for parents who mask up their kids outside to be reported to child protection services is now concern trolling President Joe Biden about following CDC protocols for mask wearing.