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As women opted to stay home in protest. We checked in with San Francisco unified school and a representative tells us they had a typical amount of substitution requests no, no more than usual so schoo in session as planned. The International Womens day is being observed not just here in the bay area but across the country and around the world. Jessica castro is here with the round up around the world. There are many events going on. In fact, i want to give you a glimpse. This is a live image from new york right now where there is a march through manhattan and actually their in front of the Trump International hotel and tower right now. You could see many of them holding up signs, a lot of the marches have turned political. But i do want to show you other images coming in from earlier this morning, also in new york. Where several women took to the podium to share stories and that is the case across the world. This is an event that wrapped up just within the last hour or so. This is was
Two in front of the white house here. They are essentially, they say, fighting for their rights, abortion rights and against what they call president trumps global gag rule, a policy that prohibits nonu. S. Organizations from getting money from the u. S. To provide abortion services. They are having a speaking portion of the event. They did some marching. Lets talk to one of the protesters here. You marched moments ago and just arrived at the park. To me it is simple. ,uman rights, women rights equal. They are all the same. We feel it is time to bring it to everybodys attention again. John thank you so much. These folks believe that this policy will help with 6 million unauthorized pregnancies and some 2 million unsafe abortions. President trump has made it clear during his campaign and as commander in chief that been prolife and antiabortion and he said he needs to defend all americans, including the unborn. The crowd is growing here at lafayette square, very vocal this afternoon. Jum