Act a year or so ago. Tell us how that impacted all and what that means for every one here. Sure. The pregnancy discrimination act is a part of title vii of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Congress passed the pregnancy discrimination act in 1973 after a Supreme Court ruling, and last year, about a year and half of those a case before the Supreme Court, young versus ups, and in that case peggy young had been working for ups. She had a normal pregnancy. So there was, she had no reticular medical issues with her pregnancy particular. Her doctor recommended that she can later in the pregnancy, not live more than 20 pounds. 20 pounds. Which if youre a driver for ups, you can imagine that might be a problem. She asked for an accommodation for light duty, gps said we dont give accommodations for people who have anything other than an on the job injury. So this is your only option is to not work, and you can come back after your pregnancy but thats your only option. So she sued under the pregnan
Office. Prosecutors will interview Julian Assange on october 17. He is wanted for questioning over an alleged rape. He has been holed up for four years. Bloomberg west is next. Emily this is bloomberg west. Selfs site droving driving cars are officially on the street. And twitch has made gaming a activity. Why social eating, yes eating to be the next big thing. First, to our lead. Uber Driverless Cars officially hitting city streets. Selfmers can help a driving car in pittsburgh complete with a human driver just in case. One day go away without those drivers. The first like driverless fleet on the road. Max spent the day testing out the service. Here is his report. Pittsburgh. Re in i am opening the app. Here we go. There is this pinwheel thing. That is the most important sensor mapping the road. In all there are dozens of these sensors. Seven lasers. Radar. We have these lovely safety drivers joining us. The idea is to get people to understand what it is like. Im going to press this g
This is a live look where hermine is passing now. This is pauley beach, South Carolina. Happening half an hour north of there, here is a live picture of charleston, South Carolina. You see the camera shaking there. Dark skies, rain in the area. And also in the last couple of hours, virginias governor declaring a state of emergency today ahead of hermine. It has been closed for more hours. That means that the winds are finally starting to die down. We have crews all over the bay area covering the damage left behind from e storm. First lets bring in shay ryan to show us where the rain is still falling. Shay. Lets take a look at titan Doppler Radar right now. You can see that anywhere from holiday and New Port Richey and farther north, some heavy batches of rain. So, again, weve got some spots where h not terribly widespread like what we have been seeing. In fact a lot of dry spots across the northern counties, with a few of the heavier downpours. Some into sumter county. As we look farth
At 8 p. M. And midnight eastern for classroom lectures from across the country on different topics and eras of American History. Letters in history are also available as a podcast. Visit our website at www. Cspan. Org history podcasts or download them from itunes. Ago it force of american soldiers invaded panama in operation just cause. General man when noriega who led ruled the country from 1983 until 1989 was removed from power, arrested, and brought to the United States for trial. Next, seven minutes of video from the cspan archives. First the announcement of the operation by white house spokesperson marlon fitzwater. Then president george h. W. Bush speaking from the oval office then video of the invasion. The president has directed United States forces to execute at 1 00 a. M. This morning a preplanned mission to panama to american lives, restore the democratic process, observed the integrity of the panama canal treaty, and upper hand noriega. The situation under general noriega h
Devastating new poll numbers that show mr. Obamas Foreign Policy failures have now gone beyond the tolerance of most americans. Public approval of the president s handling of foreign approximately see has now sunk to an alltime low of 36 . Six in ten now disapprove of his Foreign Policy, numbers that worsened whenec broen down into individual issues. The washingtthe malaysian passe that was shot down over the ukraine. Just 23 approve of his handling of the conflict between the ukraine and russia. 18 approval, the administrations response to the israelihamas conflict, 17 approval. 14 approval on the president s actions in regard to the rise of the Islamic State of iraq and the le vant in iraq. Here is president obama in his own words just three months ago as he described his Foreign Policy strategy as little more than trying to avoid making mistakes or as his senior aides put it, not doing dumb stuff. That may not always be sexy. That may not always attract a lot of attention and it doe