Hi, evybody. Thanks for being here. Its great to moderate a panel with three of the Outstanding Young jonalists covering politics. And when i say young, i dont mean to slight their experience, but theyre all young to me. I also cant fail to observe the big picture here and place sort of in context. The problems were about to talk about. The last te jackie and i were together, we were traveling in israel in the west bank with an organizaon called peace players, which tried to bring israelis and palestine together through basketball and seein the ghastly events that are unfolding inhat part of the world right now, it makes me be thankful that our problems are onhe scale that they are. Nevertheless, we do have problems, and one of them is how journalism treats this moment of peril for democracy. And so. Well, let me kick it off this way. The role of journalism in our democracy is embedded in the constitution. Um, and throughout all of our careers, we have had embedded in the ethic of our
Holy [bleep]. Bill we begin with a fox news alert looking at one of the many tornadoes that ripped through iowa yesterday and communities across that state. Look at that aerial view. Obliterated as violent tornadoes ripped through a heartland. Three are dead. Todays Severe Weather is still out there. Well get to iowa live today. Plus there is this. The border in the dark. Iran, iran. Why did you come . No freedom. Yes, in iran. Iran is a country, no freedom for speech, writing, for singing. Bill the line is never ending. Those are migrants from near and far converging on the southwest border. They have never stopped. Most are adult men, many deemed security risks, no one is stopping them despite the attention that we gave the trump trial, we have a little bit away from the border but back on that today as we say good morning. It is wednesday midweek, bill hemmer live in new york city. Thats some video from bill melugin. Dana there is only so much real estate in an hour and a lot of new
In 43 years. As. In 43 years. As. As always, we to love hear from you. This show is nothing without you. We especially want to hear about what you make of labours plans for compulsory toothbrushing in schools. Is that a good idea or is it a step too far for teachers who have too far for teachers who have too much on their plates already . Big question. Yeah big question. Yeah gbviews gbnews. Com. But first, get a news bulletin first, lets get a news bulletin with. Tamsin with. Tamsin elly thank you and good morning from the gb newsroom. Its 931 so sir keir starmer is celebrating what hes describing as a sign mic win for labour in the rutherglen and Hamilton West by election i declare that Michael Shanks is elected to serve in the United Kingdom parliament as a member for rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency. Hamilton west constituency. Michael shanks won the seat with 58 of the vote, more than double that of the snps. Katie loudon. The by election was called after a recall petitio
The territory of the temporarily occupied crimea, the Southern Defense forces reported. As a result of the hit, administrative and residential buildings were destroyed. Ponivychyna hospital and educational institution, the local Representative Office of the commissioner for human rights was damaged by the blast wave. Ukrainian ombudsmen Dmytro Lubinets informed. Also , the number of dead as a result of the attack on april 29 increased to six. A man died of serious injuries in the hospital, according to reports. Mayor gennadiy trukhanov. In loud temporarily in occupied mariupol, the adviser to the mayor , petro andryushchenko, writes that the russian analog network for air defense has worked in the northeastern part of the city. The locals saw the rocket fly by, and the occupiers had to raise the plane into the sky. According to preliminary data, there is a hit. Andryushchenko promised to provide all the details in advance. And the collection of the tv channel for means of communication
Cosponsors, supervisors kim,fewer ronen, cohen, and safai. We really need to help our allies at the staff level to help us pass this legislation. I really hope we have a hearing on this and that everyone can be convinced that this is what we need in San Francisco. Thank you supervisor yee. Supervisor breed. And supervisor cohen, you indicated that you were submitting, correct . Yes, that is correct. Supervisor farrell. Last week we had a few Affordable Housing deals coming through our ordinance and we all agreed there were too many questions for the developers to afford. I think supervisor kim for getting this together. In addition the Planning Department staff had paired our supervisors. Our staff in this department provided a Financial Analysis of this but maybe im just used to the budget and finance committee but there is no process to verify these financial deals done for ordinance. I commend our staff to do their best to evaluate the ordinance for fiscal impact but i cant consciou