To move the country forward. I want to be a Police Officer because if the law doesnt change nothing else is going to change. Nightline starts right now with juju chang. Good evening, thanks for joining us. Tonight, the calls for justice for george floyd growing louder. The black man in minneapolis dying after an encounter with police. His death causing national outrage, with new video emerging. We caution you, some of the images you are about to see are disturbing. Please, please. Please, i cant breathe. Reporter with every passing second, George Floyds life was slipping away. Ah, ah. Reporter this tenminute video is difficult to watch but impossible to ignore. Now crucial testimony bearing witness to an ugly reality. Mama. Mama. Get up reporter face down on the pavement, crying out for his mother, a Police Officers knee to his neck. My stomach hurts. My neck hurts. Everything hurts. Ah. Theres water or something. Please, please. Ah, i cant breathe, officer. Reporter a bystanders cell
Wright. And the temporary jobs that companies are looking to fill over the next 30 days. Early today starts right now glad youre with ustion this thursday, im Frances Rivera im david gura. A dangerous situation is unfolding in the streets of minneapolis. Protests over the death of george floyd who died after being pinned to the ground by a Police Officer another man has died overnight after being found near these protests with a gunshot wound. The victim did not survive now the mayor and governor are pleading with people to leave the area other demonstrations are now popping up across the country in solidarity with minnesota. Protesters marched downtown. For more on this growing outrage heres more. Reporter more anger in minneapolis following the death of george floyd. For a second day protesters converged on the citys third police precinct. Armed officers deployed on top of the building. Reports of looting at a target store. Everybody deserves equal justice and we have to send a messa
Good afternoon, everyone. First off, id like to thank the Clermont Institute for sponsoring this panel and for sponsoring all of its panels here at the american Political Science association, and thanks to all of you for coming to hear whether congress is still dysfunctional. I suspect you already know the answer to the question, but maybe well provide a fuller background and explanation about whats going on these days on capitol hill. Its no secret to political scientists that congress is a mess. Its no secret to the members of congress that congress is a mess. And nor is it a secret to the American People that congress is a mess. Routinely, congress polls very poorly when people are asked whether they approve of the job its doing, and this trend is bipartisan whether democrats or republicans control congress, most people assign it a failing grade. The trend is also long standing. Over the past Decade Congress has not once achieved an Approval Rating above 30 . It wasnt always this wa
to get to it. you can tell me in the hall later. as mentioned tom hanks is our special guest tonight. the oscar winner who campaigned for biden and obama is here tonight. he has a new book. we re going to get into a lot more. that s tonight. we begin right now with this. you know the sound. new election votes in america. voters just went to the polls in four states and some results have some of the republicans shook again, and we all remember the fizzle of the 2022 midterms. now democrats won in several more key states, including ousting republican mayor in a conservative city in florida. last night florida democrats scored their biggest election victory in years. a stunner in jacksonville, florida, the most populous city. a democrat has flipped the mayor s office. this is really important a democrat won the mayoral seat in jacksonville, florida. it s all new. they re calling that republican loss there in the largest city in florida a stunner because the desant
town hall where they were supposed to get the chance to confront the people responsible company let a train full of chemicals fly off the rails and lit it on fire ceo of norfolk southern alec shaw shown right there just decided to back out of the meeting. allen shaw and rail company won t even show their faces. primetime has a producer out there, so we will be giving you updates throughout the hour. can you imagine how angry these people are? the company responsible for potentially cancer clustering the town is hiding from them. after they were riding the rails with bad parts. surveillance cameras caught the train sparking unjust 20 minutes before derailing. but now alan shaw and his rail company seem pretty comfortable turning their backs on ohio. is it because they line the pocket of every politician in ohio? probably. maybe norfolk southern didn t have the spine to face their victims. i wake up every day. i have been sick with my upper congestion. this morning i wok