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As a community we will create an alternative safety plan and a transparent. Any intentional way including stop. Students community and board and books. Now at 9 the Oakland Unified School district is looking to join the Police Free Schools movement. Thank you for joining us tonight, everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis this renewed push to eliminate Campus Police comes in the wake of George Floyds death were educators held a meeting tonight to introduce the proposal kron fours gayle ong has live with us now to talk about what was discussed kale. Grant and making it is called the george floyd resolution and its demanding the School Districts Police Department be eliminated. The board of educators held a zoom meeting tonight where superintendent kyla johnson trim l announced the new legislation to push Oakland Unified School Districts Police department, the Districts Police department is separate from opd and according to district unit consists of more than 100 sworn personnel
From the darkest moments. In the midst of this historic storm of the people of texas have responded with their very best. This could well be texas finest hour. Drain to the damage could wreak havoc on the busy travel season. Gas prices hitting a twoyear high as the nations largest field pipeline runs from texas all the way into new jersey, new york city even with temporarily shutting down its main fuel line from texas to new york because of outages. Turning to tax reform, President Trump calling on congress to get to work when they return to washington next week despite the push to many polls say americans are not confident lawmakers will get anything done. Futures are showing this in your market. Dow futures up 72 points. Much to miss them. Weve got the good reading on secondquarter Economic Growth coming in at 3 yesterday. The dow up 27 points yesterday and had he not at least the start of the last day of trading in august. Europe stocks higher across the board. Case in england, fran
Nomination for treasury secretary was reported favorably out of committee. That will now advance to the full senate, a final vote on janet yellen could happen today. Meanwhile, at the white house, over an hour from now, we will hear from the new press secretary and the director of the National Economic council because the focus there today at the white house is on the economic turmoil that millions of americans are facing right now because of the pandemic. In a couple of hours after that, President Biden will sign two more executive orders. These will be aimed at addressing that issue, central to this administrations economic strategy, of course, that whopping 1. 9 trillion bill that President Biden is calling the American Rescue plan. Our reporters and correspondents are on top of it. Kelly odonnell is covering the new white house. Garrett haake is on capitol hill. And Senior Business correspondent Stephanie Ruhle is following the financial implications. Garrett, lets start with you,
Feinstein four years. We are back in 30 minutes. Captioning spo captioning sponsored by cbs glor on the cbs evening news this wednesday stunning new video from inside and outside the passenger plane that went down in mexico as all survived. And, an american couple vacationing overseas is killed by isis. But first, the headlines in 60 seconds. Reporter a miracle in mexico. Reporter the plane crashed on takeoff. Reporter 103 people on board. Reporter incredibly, no one was killed. I said, give me the best tequila you got, because i just fell from the sky, and im here to live and talk about it. Reporter police in houston have named a suspect in the killing of a cardiologist. Reporter . Who treated president george h. W. Bush. We need to find this guy. This man is dangerous. This man is capable. This man has some skills. Reporter 17 large wildfires burning in california. I dont care where you stand on your opinion of global warming, theres something changing. Reporter for the first time, P