And this family has neither but it did not stop the robbers from threatening to kidnap a child. Asleep before school, 13year old pedro and 7yearold sister gladys were jolted away by three massinged men who broke their back door. Pedro awoke to find. A guy pointing a gun at my head, pointing at me. Reporter the men bound their wrists and ankles with plastic zip ties on their mom alvina too. Six months pregnant. All the while demanding money and marijuana that they thought was here. They came in here. Pulled everything out. Reporter while alvina tried to explain she had nothing they wanted. Reporter the robbers may have thought the barn behind the house was being used to grow marijuana. Last year, on some streets near by authorities seized more than 1,000 pot plants from the backyards of the few dozen homes. But in the alcazars big garage a car and the remnants of their familys halloween party. Until the robbers unlocked it to see for themselves they even threatened abduction. She was sc
Villalon live and tell us the family didnt have what the robbers were after. Reporter money and marijuana. And this family has neither but it did not stop the robbers from threatening to kidnap a child. Asleep before school, 13year old pedro and 7yearold sister gladys were jolted away by three massinged men who broke their back door. Pedro awoke to find. A guy pointing a gun at my head, pointing at me. Reporter the men bound their wrists and ankles with plastic zip ties on their mom alvina too. Six months pregnant. All the while demanding money and marijuana that they thought was here. They came in here. Pulled everything out. Reporter while alvina tried to explain she had nothing they wanted. Reporter the robbers may have thought the barn behind the house was being used to grow marijuana. Last year, on some streets near by authorities seized more than 1,000 pot plants from the backyards of the few dozen homes. But in the alcazars big garage a car and the remnants of their familys hall
After a journey through montgomery and the nations capitol through key locations in this town where congressman lewis, his activism through legislation as he moved from one phase of his life to another, spending decades as a member of the house of representatives. So, we are awaiting this moment. As you see there are socially distanced members of congress and of the senate. You see the Senate Majority leader next to House Speaker nancy pelosi. I want to bring in dana bash as we await this moment. She is there on the grounds of the capitol complex and far away in the canon. Actually, we do not have dana right now. But we are awaiting this ceremony. As you can see, this is something that, under ordinary circumstances, you would have more people in attendance. But because of times being as they are, you see the Senate Minority leader, Chuck Schumer there. Times being what they are, this is an invited group of law makers and they are here to pay tribute to john lewis. Let lets listen in. I
Raise we know that many of those workers work in the fastfood industry. The c. E. O. Of a fastfood corporation makes, we figure, about 8. 7 million a year. While his average employees make something about around 19,000 a year. And i dont im not one of those that says, well, thats you know, they have to work a million hours to get to the 8 million a year, but just to put in perspective whats happened with wages. As wages for c. E. O. s and for top management have gone up and up and up, and weve seen productivity of workers go up and up and up, we know that wages for those workers have simply not kept up. Not just minimumwage workers but workers overall. So since the 1970s, and especially since 2000, profits have gone up, productivity has gone up, executive salaries have gone up dramatically, yet workers wages have been stagnant. No better example of that, mr. President , than the minimum wage. The minimum wage was raised my first year in the senate, my first speech on the senate fliewfl
It is published only a week ago and it feels like a little kickoff of what is going to be a number of talks that i will be doing here and there. This is the first one. A chance to try it out on all of you what i might hope to be doing later on as well. I will find out what works and doesnt work when i talk here tonight. Let me just say that my plan for this presentation has 23 different parts. I will start by saying a little bit about how i got on to this project in the first place and something about the process of working with it for a good number of years. Then i will move to a thumbnail, 1520 minute thumbnail of the story that lies at the heart of the book, and then i will do a little reading from the book, a certain passage or two from the book to give you a sense of flavor of what is in between the covers, and maybe at the very end i will say a little bit about what drew me to the project and while i think it was worth spending a few years working on and it might be worth reading