Launched the me too hashtag more than a decade ago. Then, thousands of people marched for puerto rico in washington, d. C. This past weekend. Well look at the lack of progress in puerto rico, where Hurricane Maria devastated the island two months ago. This slow pace, getting relief to people. People . T we get to its s unthinkable. Amy we speaeak with san juann mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz. Then, from Hurricane Maria in puerto rico to Hurricane Harvey in texas, we go to dr. Robert bullard, the father of the Environmental Justice movement. What is environmental racism . All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman on this democracy now special. Over the last two months, the political, media and entertainment worlds have been rocked as thousands of women and some men have come forward to share their stories of Sexual Harassment and abuse. The catalyst was the historic disgracing of hollywood mogul harvey weieinstein, who i
Over her newborn. And the british are coming the british are coming not really, hamilton making its london debut last night. But do they know what its about . Ahead of time . You know, that little war . That they lost . That we keep reminding them about . Well see what the audience said in the skinny. Its thursday, december 7th. From abc news, this is world news now. They know we won that war, right . I dont think they realize. When they see like our lust for the royal family, they think, no, we won in the end. We got this. We will check out how hamilton is doing in the uk in a bit. But were going to start in Southern California where fires are spreading so quickly crews can barely keep up. This is how close the flames came to the 405 freeway. Fire Officials Say theyve now been able to reopen that road in what a sight. An incredible sight to see traffic actually moving on the 405, if you know that area. Officials say at least five active fires are burning now with more likely to be ide
Tand, our adulte children are here. So, we save by using tide. Which means we use less. Three generations of clothes cleaned in one wash. Those are moms. Anybody seen my pants . Nothing cleans better. Put those on dad its got to be tide. Were keeping an eye on so many fires burning out of were keeping an eye on so many fires burning out of control in Southern California. This one in particular is the creek fire burning in the area of sylmar, just northeast of los angeles. As you can see, it is still burning quite a bit of acreage, and thousands of acreage at this point. And tens of thousands of firefighters are on the front line. All over Southern California at this hour. Jimmy kimmel is off this week as his son billy recovers from another successful heart surgery. But we got an update overnight on the seven month old. He is eating, smiling, all of this after surgery. He was born with a heart defect and had emergency surgery in may. Jimmys wife molly has given a new interview now about
Clakik, and atema omara could be the first real legislative win for the republicans this tax bill absolutely. I think this tax bill is going to make it through. We just heard today that marco rubio is behind it now that the Child Tax Credit is up to his standards. They moved it from 1100 to 1400, and hes voting yes, i believe senator bob corker said this afternoon he will vote yes as well atema it will certainly be a legislative win for trump and the gop but this is not popular even with folks in their own party, you got a lot of economists, and right leaning comic organizations saying this will not be able to generate sort of the growth that you think it will, which might be why theyre currently thinking of theyve been keeping it hush hush and a lot of the details and details as late as tonight why havent we heard more republicans come up and say wore a like this . At this point looks like you have bob corker seems to be a tough one and marco rubio, he final. Said ill sign off on this
It took broadway by storm now the hip hop musical hamilton is already sold out over here we talk to the musical director. We will have sportsday on the bbc news channel with all of the latest reports, results, interviews, and features from the bbc sports centre. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Theresa may has joined several tory mps whove been questioning the conduct of the retired Police Officers involved in pornography allegations against her deputy, damian green. They revealed that pornographic images had been found on his commons computer nine years ago. Last night the Prime Minister sacked mr green after he admitted making misleading statements about the affair though he denies viewing or downloading the images. Asjohn pienaar reports the loss of damian green adds yet another challenge to whats been a year of political turmoil for the Prime Minister. Sacked, not for a crime, sacked, not fora crime, but fora cover up. Have you let the Prime Minister down, mr green