and a mother. i want you all to imagine for a moment that you are eating ice cream with your three-year-old child, grandchild, niece or nephew, and suddenly they start words,e off, slur their and they fall over when they attempt to stand up. next, you are in the parking lot of a mini mall in epping calling 911. imagine after year of antiseizure medications and fearing every day that your child will have a very dangerous seizure, you are told that your four-year-old does not in fact have epilepsy but a rare neurodegenerative disease that occurs in less than 20 children born in the u.s. each year. you are told that your child will continue to have seizures that will only worsen. you will he will rapidly progress to dementia, lose the ability to walk and talk, and will become blind. by six years of age, your child will be completely dependent on caregivers and will lose his life between the ages of eight and 12 years old. of are told other doctors one of the best hospitals in
i don t even have to say his name. heartke straight from his , straight to the issues, took no corporate money, and said i am here to fight for you. i said, this is someone different. you can be involved in politics, in office and fight for the real issues affecting us. apparently he is somewhere nearby. [laughter] and volunteered for him that you re reregistered over 2000 students to vote on campus. we got local folks involved in burlington politics in a few years later they asked me to run. i lost in 1994 by 59 votes, but i rangain in 1996 but again in 1996. i spent four years in the state senate and i got elected lieutenant governor in 2016, the same night we should have elected bernie sanders as our president. now, bernie spoke, as you well know, about the environment and about social justice issues, but he focused that core message on economic injustice, and he has been talking about economic injustice and inequality for his whole 40 years in politics. he has been figh
Difference for families. Also to make sure for family business, family farms, that kind of thing, Small Business, we double the estate tax, the death tax unified credit and we include the stepup in basis. Hugely important to make sure that you can transition a Small Business or a farm or ranch from one generation to the next. To save for college, we enable the 521 savings accounts to continue for parents that are saving for that college education. Another one thats very important is we encourage businesses to provide paid family and medical leave by giving them a tax credit to partially offset an employees pay while caring for a child or a family member. Other things that we keep in terms of deductions that are very important again to hardworking families. The mortgage interest deduction. We make sure that they can continue to deduct the interest on their home morning. The deduction of charitable contributions. Obviously very important for the greater good of our society, that people c
Good morning, this is al jazeera america, live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. The head of the epa says the agency is working nonstop to clean up a major toxic spill in colorado. Today they will visit sites along the rivers, and the agency is set to release testing samples. Mccarthy says the epa takes full responsibility. It is a tajjic and unfortunate accident and epa is taking responsibility to make sure it is marined up. The most important thing is ensuring the health and safety of the residents and visitors near the river. The spill is still flowing at a rate of 500 to 700 gallons a minute. The rivers snake west through the fourcorners region into utah where they empty into the Colorado River. The spill is expected to reach lake powell today. The Colorado River system is considered the life blood of the west. It is one of the few major rivers in the region, stretching 1400 miles from the rockies to the gulf of california. Seven states and some 40 Million People, including 22 n
We are going to give you a bill for what is yours. As the u. S. Is prepared to open up a new chapter, havana keeps the 100 billion question on the table. The sound of music. We love to play for people who have no idea who we are. After playing for packed venues in the u. S. And moscow, the controversy slovenian rock group prepares to rock. This is al jazeera america. Im libby casey. Antonio mora is on assignment. We begin with the massive explosion in northeast china, all out rescue effort is under way. Chinese president xi jinping is calling for a investigation in the port city of ti rarvetionnjin. Meanwhile these are some of the images of the aftermath of the explosion. The area resembles a post apocalyptic scene. Authorities say they expect the number of casualties to rise in the coming hours. Adrian brown filed the report from nearby beijing. This is an incident continuing, according to the local authorities the force of the first blast equaled more than 3 tons of tnt, and the seco