Future. It comes as new fox new polls reveal what voters think schools should be focused on teaching in the classroom. Im john roberts, welcome to friday and to you. Aishah im Aishah Hasnie in for sandra smith. Voters of all political stripes are finding Common Ground on a couple of key issues. Public schools should teach more about being a good citizen, less about gender identity issues. John parents are protesting over transgender policies which prompted a Court Battle In One State Andout right defiance by a School District in another. Mark meredith joins us with more on all of this. How much are voters do we think focusing on education . John, quite a bit. Seems like this issue has broken up ever since the pandemic. Of course, always Hot Button Issues in politics, but education has played a more prominent role in the daily debate and new fox news polling explains why. Not enough time is spent on what you consider reading, writing, math, science, they say too much time is spent on ge
watch this. we made it just in time. it was right on top of us. this is devastating. i have so many family members, friends, memories that has been destroyed. this is a whole community that has lost everything. so, it is just very sad here. it s going to take a long time for people to heal to get back on their feeds. alexandria hoff from washington with the latest. this is horrible for these people. you can hear her break in their voice and the center of the community blown away essentially. ashley, todd, the white house said things like temporary housing loans for uninsured property will become available for the residents of mississippi county pummeled by the storm. homeland secretary alejandro mayorkas took a tour of small delta community which residency it is nothing but a hollowed show. flower shop, beauty shop, barber, law offices down the street all gone. an auto parts store, a local restaurant that has been there for i don t know how many years, since i w
israel says its ground forces have now reached the centre of khan younis in the south of the territory to which many palestinians had previously fled on israel s instructions. israel urged civilians to leave the city s centre and move to safe zones. the head of the un agency for palestinian refugees has described gaza as hell on earth. meanwhile, civilians living in the other palestinian territory the west bank have had their rights and freedoms severely curtailed by israel since october 7th. our international editor jeremy bowen reports now on the situation on the ground in both the west bank and gaza. at al nasser hospital in khan younis, they laid out the wrapped bodies of people killed in the night by israel. at the end of the line was a baby killed on the day she was born. laid across the bodies of her mother and her father. don t cry , he told theirson, mohammed. they are in heaven. gaza has been turned into a living hell for civilians by israel s offensive.
them to be together. that s what s in their best interest at a time of need like this. aishah: even if she decides not to do that, let s say and her parents don t either, the other set of grandparents, they have some rights here, too. correct? they are blood relatives, they should be able to at least have visitation rights, if not custody rights. what can they do legally here? well, they can petition the court. that s what family court is about. a judge will make a finding what s in the best interest of the kids. we hear that phrase constantly and a judge would sort it out. grandparents have the right to show love, assuming there is unconditional love for their grandchildren and the kids have a right to be with other kids, especially during this traumatic situation. aishah: they have lost their father and now might lose their mother. stability is key here. you know, shana claimed her innocence last month to a local television station down in
treatments that are permanent and will sterilize the child for life if they are being denied those treatments that are in the same category as kids who are being abused or neglected. todd: that is a key point. a key distinction. let s make that abundantly clear. you are basically saying these parents trying to protect they were kids from life altering procedure is the same ones that abuse those kids come abandon those kids, because those kids to be what we would consider to be actual words of the state of that point, correct? exactly. where they take emergency custody. nobody has custody rights or and at risk of being harmed. the mechanism of the courts is designed to intervene decisively. that is where this bill puts those children and parents in