Their stalled contract negotiations. And it may be working. Heres cbss mark strassmann. Reporter l. A. Is a city counting strikes like a bowling alley. 11,000 city employees, all Union Service workers, are staging a 24hour walkout. Theyre indignant. Contract talks with the city have sputtered. Think of all this as a warning shot, a 24hour reminder of what disruption feels like. Here in l. A. , its the cost of living. Reporter custodian phyllis stringer echos the frustrations of hundreds rallying outside city hall. Double trouble low wages, high inflation. We need some help. Youre working too hard and making too little . Yes, yes. You know, we need a lot more employees to come out to work with the city. Reporter more walkouts. Two hollywood unions have struck the set. Without the more than 75,000 actors and writers, all Studio Production has stopped. Whats scarce here, insight into an end in sight. L. A. s labor actions just the latest in americas summer of strikes. Widespread walkouts
cast their ballots in this critical midterm election at stake. control of the u.s. house of representatives, control of the u.s. senate, plus control of governors mansions in state houses all across united states. the polls and political history point to a likely good night for republicans. since 1990, the president s party has lost seats in the house, sometimes in the dozens, when the president s approval rating falls below 50%. and biden s sure is below 50%. trying to ride that momentum, sources tell cnn that donald trump has been discussing with aides whether he should announce his 2024 presidential campaign tonight. it s all unknown as of now, but what is clear, we probably will not know the results in a number of the elections tomorrow night. it will likely take days to count all the ballots. so, what to watch out for in the meantime? beware of bad actors who will try to take advantage of these delays to spread false conspiracies about election fraud. let s take a momen
so maybe 14. anyway, all move on. the midterms are coming in 13 days, we ve got mayors and lot enforcement officials who are getting a new warning, sadly, about election intimidation. we have extremists who are looking to disrupt the midterms, at the local level, targeting voters, targeting candidates, targeting election workers, all according to axios. let s bring in our panel, we have cnn chief law enforcement intelligence analyst john miller. new york democratic senator mondale jones, and political analyst ron brownstein. so this is so disturbing, guys, obviously when we think of extremism, i think we think in terms of january 6th, the insurrection, something on a national scale. locally, there are all sorts of examples of people be unintimidated, and just awful things happening. here are a few examples, this comes from axios. in 50 out of 67 pennsylvania counties, election chiefs have left because of threats, harassment, and intimidation. in idaho, protesters and hung i
i suppose, to the outsider, we might seem a little unorthodox, but what does this outsider know anyway? who is he to judge us? the whole notion of the outsider. i mean, it s a strand that goes through most sitcoms, i think. you took tongue right out of my mouth. outsiders help us relate as an audience. what are you some kind of nerd? i m not some kind of nerd, i am the king of nerds. [ laughs ] they re seeing everything with fresh eyes. you rang? that dynamic is pretty awesome, it s special. that confidence really made people feel like they could be okay to be whoever they are. did i do that? and i think, if i believe in who i am and own it, i can still be cool. hello? anybody in there? fly, be free! the absolute essence of a successful sitcom is one word, and that is emotion. we abolished emotions on ork a billion bleams ago. they took a vote, and everyone said all in favor? eh. we have a great love for these alien characters who were st
Alexandra, im so excited to be here with you today. I could not put down the teachers. It was like reading a novel, even though its its very deeply reported. So just to give some background before your past books have really dived into the lives of high school students, fraternities, sororities and nurses. What made you write about teachers . Ive always been drawn to education. I think i keep coming back to the education beat. Its just its really where my heart is for teachers. It just seemed like the teaching profession was getting more and more difficult. Things were changing. I didnt know why. In 2019, that was the first time that demand outstripped supply for u. S. Teachers by more than 100,000 people. So i was wondering, where are they going and why is this happening . So i ended up wanting to write a book that amplifies teachers voices in sort of, you know, as you say, a readable novel like way. So its not, you know, so its not dry and its something that people can get engaged wi