M its good to have you with us today members of the European Parliament made history by electing the 1st woman to be Commission President that woman germanys outgoing defense minister ursula fun. Now she will succeed john called younger in the top job after being voted in by a narrow margin of just 9 votes underly and will be as we said the 1st woman to ever serve as the Commission President in the European Union. Of underlined as promised a united and strong europe saying that she will work constructively and pragmatically to achieve that we want to go live now to our Brussels Bureau chief rex hoffman he is standing by at the European Parliament in strasbourg and i think i understand he has the newly elected president with a mass. Thats right brant we do was alive on the line is with us today and i have a very simple question the start of the interview are you feeling. Relieved and happy because it was a tough ride over 13 days now i had to. Formulate the guidelines the political guid
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Berkeley. Reporter hundreds of people are here at berkeleys Civic Center Park for a city sponsored rally. Were city leaders are telling their own personal immigration stories. I think about the fact that that couldve happened to my family, if they were a younger me. Reporter her voice, shaking, berkeley city auditor jenny wong addressed the crowd gathered just the on the steps of city hall. We couldve been rounded up and placed in detention centers. Reporter wong says she, her parents, and her two sisters came to the United States illegally from taiwan when she was only six years old. Her family became legal citizens in 1986 thanks to Ronald Reagans amnesty law. That is what i experienced as a child. A government that showed compassion for immigrants. And, now, we dont have that compassion. If ice comes into our community, we will protest, we will fight for the rights of our immigrant brothers and sisters here in our community. Reporter todays rally was originally planned to demand mor