The United States. Merrill newman is expected to arrive in, what, a couple of hours, mike. Reporter yes. I just confirmed with airport officials that he is expected to arrive around 9 00 on a United Airlines flight coming from beijing. His son will be here to greet his father as he finally arrives back in states. He is 85 and from palo alto and has been held by the south korea an government since late october. Before he was scheduled to leave, korean authorities detained him and held him for weeks. He is a korean war veteran and televised an apology for his part in the war. He briefly spoke to reporters on his way home at the beijing airport. Im very glad to be on my way home. I appreciate the so i can be on my way. How do you feel now . I feel good. I feel good. What do you want to do first thing. Go home and see my wife. Reporter now, in a statement, north korea an Officials Say taking into consideration his admittance of the act committed by him, an apology made by him, the above sa
Work and need to work all the time, and the way we work, role work occupies in our life for most men and women is complicated right now in our culture. The Nightingale School about 15 years ago, an allgirl school, had a career day. They invited a corporate lawyer partner, the mother of a child in the school, to come and speak, and she came, and she spoke, and she talked about all the wonderful things she did as partner, and then there was a question period. These were girls between 14 and 18. First question was, what time do you get home for dinner . Second question was, what happens if your child is sick . The third question was, how often do you spend the whole weekend with your child . Not one of these girls asked this woman a thing about the law or law firm or her political beliefs or corporate belief, so that the pressure on women who are corporate lawyers is enormous because underneath them, the generation that theyre raising are complaining, and with justification, perhaps, and
Dispair. In his american assumption, there was a version of the creed of exceptionalism that scholars came to regard as uniquely american, escaped from the rise and fall of history and universal opportunity for individuals, endless progress for the nation, and yet split historical second in the heat of radical reconstruction, they maintained that the american assumption was temporarily counterbalanced, alarmed by the return to congress in 1866 of unreconstructed southerners who might repudiate the civil war debt and almost certainly reduce the national tariff, they characterized northern industry has frightened and moving towards the stand which abolition democracy had already taken, namely temporary dictatorship, endowed negro education, legal civil rights, and eventually votes for negroes to offset the southern threat of economic attack. The american assumption was from radical reconstruction whether it was special order number 15 giving emancipated slaves possession their titles to
Altogether is gaining some momentum. A majority of the city council pledging to end policing as the city currently knows it. Also happening in minneapolis today, the former officer charged with murdering george floyd making his first court appearance. Derek chauvin will appear before a judge on Second Degree murder and manslaughter charges. We have a team of reporters to cover all of it, Steve Patterson in minneapolis, garrick haake in washington, d. C. What does this mean, the idea of having a city without a Police Department, what are the ideas that are being batted around out there . Reporter couple of things here, ahman. This is no small thing. This is nine city counselors who committed to dismantling the Police Department yesterday, thats a veto proof majority i want to be clear here starting off with the verbiage, the word is committed, not voted. It is a long process. You wont wake up tomorrow morning here at minneapolis and there are no police on the streets, in fact, we spoke
Largely peaceful in the twin cities. Sandra nine members of the Minneapolis City Council announcing a vetoproof push to expand the Police Department following the death of george floyd who died in because t cusr an officer knelt on his neck for 9 minutes. Saying it has become clear that reform is not enough. Our commitment is to end our citys toxic relationship with the minneapolis Police Department, to end the policing as we know it. And to recreate systems of Public Safety that actually keep us safe. Sandra matt finn is live on the ground in minneapolis this morning as we begin a grand nomadic brandnew week. This be my former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin is set to make his first appearance in the courthouse behind me. That killing happened two weeks ago today in minneapolis and shortly after that event, Minneapolis Council members promise to dismantle the minneapolis Police Department. Now the major announcement Council Members say they have a vetoproof majority and will