Things that i can show you, you can see that highway 24 is off to a nice start, westbound, there are a lot of people out there and you will see slow traffic here and there. This is a look at the richmond bridge. This is very light, as you drive over to marin county. Thats go back to the headlines. We are following developing news, where violent protests over the killing of george floyd have erupted in the streets a, continuing through the night and into this morning. This is outrage all over the country. The death of an unarmed African American man, killed by Police Officers. Alyssa harrington is here with the very latest on what is happening. Good morning. Reporter good morning, dave, the mayor of minneapolis addressed the turmoil in his city, acknowledging the pain that so many eople re feeling about George Floyds death. Also condemning the looting and welcome back to mornings on burning buildings and the city. Protesters torched a Minneapolis Police station after breaking and. Outs
Enforcement professionals. Another protest started at wilsons park in vallejo. People marching with the same message. Asking for justice for george floyd. Before the walk got underway a message was read from the mayor saying that he appreciates the concern shown and asks for protesters to remain peaceful. The mayor said he stands in solidarity with the demonstrators. The u. S. Justice Department Said they will make investigation into the death of george floyd a top priority. They will be investigating the actions of all four Minneapolis Police officers involved in the arrest. She called the incident a disturbing loss of life. And the investigation will look into whether the four officers highlighted violated criminal law. The investigation will be comprehensive and conducted with the highest integrity that the community would expect. Minnesota governor declared a state of emergency has activated the National Guard. Protest continue in minneapolis we could see melted stoplights and shar
Notice that three of them are from ucla. I would like to remind those of you at nyu that these three people used to be at nyu, and i think their presence here today is a symbol of the fact that once you are at nyu, you never really leave. It is just like a magnet coming back. We would like to congratulate them on their new roles and especially on this study. I should also say to remind you at nyu, we are now the Global Network university. So in a sense, think of ucla sort of like nyu west. As we congratulate you, we are also proud of your competence. The way we are going to proceed this morning is, im going to introduce all of our speakers and they will follow each other without further introduction. Our first speaker will be are still as torres arose go. The other comment i want to to make, because we have very distinguished speakers, for those of you not in academia is important for you to know that when someone is a high level besser professor, they have this other name they start t
Numbers it is still something that is at a young age and something i would like to point out if it is great for the fight to have their resources create faculty and faithbased undocumented youth but its also important to note a lot of Higher Education comes from high school and it starts from there. That is very important to point out. Send the mouse ever mentioning about faithbased. I actually had the opportunity to talk to my counselor when she actually encouraged me. Unfortunately that is not the case for undocumented ear through their First Encounter as a guidance counselor, teacher considered being encouraged are actually being discouraged to even think about possibilities because that is due to the lack of knowledge. Something else we wanted to point out that we fundamentally believe the greater impact for undocumented people when undocumented people are part of the process. After all who better to understand the need for undocumented people than the undocumented people themselve
And minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. Poe, for five minutes. Mr. Poe thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the president , quote, avoid the battle, complains, and misses opportunities. Those were the words of leon panetta president obamas former secretary of defense and c. I. A. Director in 2011. At the time panetta, along with military commanders and joint chiefs of staff, recommended that the United States leave 24,000 troops in iraq to prevent that country from falling apart and becoming chaos. According to panetta the administration was so eager to rid itself of iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve american influence in our interests. So the president ignored the advice of his own secretary of defense and top commanders and pooled troops out of iraq in 2011. The timing just before the 2012 president ial leaks to me appe