Wit, heumann served in bill Clintons Administration shaping disability policy in the department of education and was appointed by barack obama as the special adviser on disability rights for the state department. She is also a former senior fellow at the Ford Foundation and advisor to world bank. She joins us tonight to discuss her life, work, and new book, being human, an unprepen tent enemy interior of a disability rights activist. She will in conversation with tam la edwards. The science yours. Thank you very much. Thats wonderful. Andy, in the news age of social distancinged a great to see we can get it done and judy it was an honor truly to read your book, running theme in the book how often people tell you, people who should know, say i had no idea and im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made, and in fact thats where i wanted to start to give
President obama pushed back. In a virtual commencement ceremony, the 44th president saying, this pandemic finally has pulled back the curtain on the idea that people in charge know what theyre doing. This as the number of coronavirus cases in the United States has reached nearly 1. 5 million with almost 90,000 deaths. Well have a live report and get into it with chuck todd. Plus, well have the latest on breaking news overnight from los angeles where nearly a dozen firefighters were severely injured after a massive fire and explosion. We are life on the scene. All that plus the first named storm of what is expected to be a very busy Hurricane Season just ahead. And later, in our sunday spotlight, we take you inside one of the worlds most famous casinos as it sits eerily dark and quiet. In our sunday closer couples getting married any way they can right now, even in the parking lot of a hockey arena. Later, another favorite sunday sitdown wfany haddish e difficulties that brought her fro
Call . [roll call] chairman commissioner adams . Hes on another call. Hell join us later. Chairman okay. Commissioner gilman . Yea. Commissioner macros . Yea. Chairman commissioner wuho . Yea. Chairman the approval of the minutes, march 10 and march 19, 2020, minutes . So moved. Second. [audio background noise] the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, i indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. The pledge o pledge of allegiance. Chairman item 4. [the pledge of allegiance said again] [audio breaking up] okay. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent comments on each agenda item. Please note that during the Public Comment period, the moderate will instruct dialin part parents to partici. Audio promps will signal to dial in when they are enabled for commenting. Item 5, executive directors report. Good afternoon, commis
Pamela edwardss, anchor of 6 abc action news morning edition. The screen is yours. Thats wonderful. Andy, in this new age of social distancing its great we can get it done and judy an honor to read your back. A running theme in the book how often people tell you, people who should know, say i had no idea. And im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made and in fact thats where i wanted to start to give people a little bit of a perspective. I wanted you to do a compare and contrast what it was like when you were a young person. You opened the back talk about your childhood in brooklyn. What isth it wag like to be a person come thing into world with a disability and what its like now, the differences you see. Guest well, on the one hadnt the differences are very, very significant because when i had polio in 1949 in brooklyn, there was just the beginning o
Yea. Im sorry, we need to do a roll call. Amy, can you do a roll call . [roll call] chairman commissioner adams . Hes on another call. Hell join us later. Chairman okay. Commissioner gilman . Yea. Commissioner macros . Yea. Chairman commissioner wuho . Yea. Chairman the approval of the minutes, march 10 and march 19, 2020, minutes . So moved. Second. [audio background noise] the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, i indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. The pledge o pledge of allegiance. Chairman item 4. [the pledge of allegiance said again] [audio breaking up] okay. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent comments on each agenda item. Please note that during the Public Comment period, the moderate will instruct dialin part parents to partici. Audio promps will signal to dial in when they are enabled for comme