With humor. Well, im not a politician. Comedian roy wood jr is an alabama native. His state just went to the primary polls with new congressional maps that give black residents more of a say. All right, you can redraw the districts. But now, how many polling stations are you going to have open in those black parts of town . We talk election season and join him as he visits his childhood baseball field in birmingham. To be able to play here, its like sitting inside a history every week. Plus, about 20 of our electricity still comes from coal. Theyll cut this rock and stuff. So much dust. Uh, guys in their 30s needing double lung transplants. We meet a former miner who says despite his own battle with black lung disease, he understands why young people are still choosing to go underground. And imagine being a person without a country. It feels like youre invisible, feels like you dont belong anywhere. Why . Nearly a quarter Million People in the u. S. Are considered state less. Those sto
Could bring about some major changes, including whats posted to social media. Were going to find out for the first time whether the Supreme Court thinks the platforms have First Amendment protections in this law. Professor and Supreme Court expert digs into the docket with me and explores the potential impact on social media. Consumer protections and gun laws, plus, a dad on a mission to end teen suicide. Absolutely. Are we going to speak up how his sons memory is pushing him to talk directly to High Schoolers about doing whats most difficult, asking for help. But first, imagine being a person without a country. It feels like youre invisible. It feels like you dont belong anywhere. That story coming up. Now on matter of fact. Today, millions of people around the world are living in limbo without a country they can legally claim theyre the socalled stateless. The un defines them as someone who is, quote, not considered as a national by any state under operation of its law. So how does t
Once the Iran Nuclear Deal moves forward. The gulf coast remembers the wrath of one storm as another churns in the caribbean. Forecasters say Tropical Storm erica has the potential to dump several inches of rain on florida next week. As that storm moves west, the u. S. Is marking 10 years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the gulf coast. More than 1800 people died in one of the worst natural disasters in american history. Former president george w. Bush returned to new orleans today to praise the citys comeback. His administration was severely criticized for its response to the storm. Jonathan martin joirnzo joins us live from new orleans. Good evening, jonathan. How was the former president received . Reporter erica, good eveni eveninging to you. He was received pretty well by the people he came in contact with. Its important to point out this was a very brief stop for the former president. He made one stop here in new orleans at a Charter School, a Charter School he visited before on t
This is al jazeera america. Two days staff g. O. P. Seized full control of congress can, the Top Republicans in the house outlined their agenda for the next two years. House Speaker John Boehner health a News Conference today, and had a warning for president obama about acting alone on key issues. Lisa stark joins us now, lisa, good to see you, so the president says he is ready to act on his own. But speaker mainer says not so fast, huh. Ehe did indeed. Saying if the president tries to go it alone, he will be playing with matches and he risks burning himself. When it comes to Immigration Reform, that should be left to congress. Oil prices made clear can to the president , if he acts on his own, he will poison the well, and there will be no chance for Immigration Reform moving. The white house indicate canning that the president is likely to take executive action, given his tone today that will not sit well at all. During his News Conference, and in a wall street your honor nah add with
He said what they were eating or what they were talks about. Lisa stark nor us, thank you. John boehner capturing bipartisan ship. Age era in which committees conduct meaningful oversite. And where members of the Minority Party are given the opportunity to participate in the process of governing. Now, federal officials have shut down silk road 2. 0. And say its founder is a flight risk and ding tore the community. The fbi estimates more than 100,000 people bought and sole drugs on the site. Tom ackerman has more for us, what more can you tell us. Well, he appears before a judge in San Francisco today, a day after he was arrested. The government alleges that he is the man who goes or went by the name death con and actually ran this website. By the way the alleged administrator is supposed to do to trial in january. In any event, he apparently conducted business on this website, just about picking up where the previous website left off and the government says that being brokered on this