Catholic organizations. Read more at thehill. Com. Next up, lawmakers education advocates, students and former Education Department officials talk about race and education, including improving urban School Systems, desegregation and Minority Access to Higher Education. Its from the Congressional Black Caucus foundation from last month. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us today. Todays Education Brain trust is called from brown to fisher. Increasing racial diversity to improve Educational Equity. I am Melanie Roussel newman, the chief Public Engagement and Communications Strategist for the naacp Legal Defense fund, the organization that i am proud to say i work for and that is responsible for brown and fisher. And so, i want to give a little bit of hello . Oh. Sorry. I want to give a little bit of background about myself. I am i have been with the Leal Defense Fund since march of this year but worked in the Obama Administration and on the hill for quite some time.
You. 49 now at eight as milwaukee heals from violence today family and friends will say goodbye to a man shot and killed by police. Ahead in a live report details on the civil rights leader attending the funeral for Sylville Smith. Plus two nuns murdered in mississippi. One of them with ties to milwaukee. What people are saying the legacy they leave behind. Good morning and welcome back to wakeup. Time now x xx adlib Weather Forecast High Pressure moves ne across our area today and into canada. As it passes over wi, we enjoy partly sunny conditions and stay dry. Highs will be cooler today, hitting the upper 70s. Dewpoints will be in the upper 50s to near 60. However, a love moving our way tonight will push temps into the 80s again and take dewpoints into the upper 60s to near 70. Rain and storms are likely saturday and may linger into sunday morning but clear by next week but well be mostly dry. Highs will stay in the low 80s until midweek when we drop into the 70s. Today partly sunny.
Airline flight 270. Bundling up, how a few layers of warmth and compassion make all the difference. Give you a big hug like a big bear on you. Good evening, thanks for joining us. Im joie chen. Tonight more attendance is focused on a National Crisis weve covered extensively on america tonight, the vicious spread of open yet drugs. Earlier today, a just released drug became the target of a sharp debate on capitol hill and the senators demand that the f. D. A. Be forced to recall it. Addiction experts warn these become gateways to the exploding heroin addiction problem in places like in rutland vermont, which has a stunning level of heroin addiction and addicts caught in a vicious cycle. Kim, how long have you been clean now . 16 months today. Today is 16 months. Yeah. Congratulations. Thanks. How does it feel to say that, that youve been clean for 16 months. Its surreal. I never thought id ever say that. 25yearold Kimberly Jones says she was one of the busiest heroin dealers in this ver
By rebels who want to exchange them for jailed for fighters. Its her birthday and cant happen. Reporter the recalled vehicles may be responsible for hundreds of additional deaths. Malaysia airlines 370 disappeared a week ago today and its going west to the indian ocean and a u. S. Navy ship is heading there. Im stephanie and the search was expanded after a report said the plane may have continued flying for hours after its last radar contact and a chinese ship and radar found nothing off vietnam and we have the latest on the investigation. One of the most confusing and intriguing questions, did the plane keep flying, was the jet in the hour for hours after it disappeared in the air and they reported from the wall street journal that investigators are looking into in and systems that automatically send out engine data continued to operate for sometime. Malaysia officials refuted that. Whenever there are new details they must be corroborated. And these media reports talks specifically ab
Collapsing. 149 Passengers Evacuated safely. Diplomacy amend at diffusing the crisis in ukraine. Secretary of state john kerry is set to meet his russian counterpart in london. A day after moscow started drills near the ukrainian border. Russias region is clearing up for a vote in crimea. The referendum violates international law, says the e. U. Firefighters recovered an i think body. Four are missing. Federal safety authorities launch the an investigation into the explosion. Those are the headlines. America tonight is coming up next. Also tonight, just when the mystery cant get any stranger, new twists and confusing suggestions about what might have happened to Malaysia Airline flight 270. Bundling up, how a few layers of warmth and compassion make all the difference. Give you a big hug like a big bear on you. Good evening, thanks for joining us. Im joie chen. Tonight more attendance is focused on a National Crisis weve covered extensively on america tonight, the vicious spread of ope