Lightning strikes across the northeast. Two military personnel are injured. Plus, tropical depression cristobal. The state of emergency already declared. New details on this massive landslide. Several homes destroyed. This morning, the dog that made it out alive. And the new normal. The six flags Amusement Park reopening today. The changes being made. Good friday morning, everyone. As we prepare for another weekend of protests, theres growing hope the death of george floyd will lead to substantial and meaningful change. A new poll out this morning finds 74 of americans view floyds death as part of an underlying Racial Injustice problem as opposed to an isolated incident. Most of the protests in recent hours have been peaceful but this moment in buffalo is drawing backlash this morning. Police seen pushing down a 75yearold man. The mayor and the governor of new york are speaking out this morning. Thebacksee floyd himsf after powerful om ti necks. But our coverage begins with abcs Megan
Department. Amy california has declared a state of emergency as fires rage. Gunmen shotere mass at 18 protesters overnight and people. Ured over 800 the latest bloody crack on and nationwide protest against corruption and austerity, which has killed 220 people overall. Youth are not asking for jobs or services. They want radical and real change of power. They have offered is nothing. We are fed up with them. Amy then mass protest against neoliberalism continues in chile , despite a reshuffling of pablo cabinet. Pineras chile has changed and the government must change with it and these two challenges and times. Amy we will go o to santiago. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The United Nations special envoy for syria is meeting with the Foreign Ministers of turkey, iran, and russia in geneva today, where hes arguing for the fragile ceasefire in Northern Syria to be respected. We are strongly appealing for
Fires rage. Gunmen shotere mass at 18 protesters overnight and people. Ured over 800 the latest bloody crack on and nationwide protest against corruption and austerity, which has killed 220 people overall. Youth are not asking for jobs or services. They want radical and real change of power. They have offered is nothing. We are fed up with them. Amy then mass protest against neoliberalism continues in chile , despite a reshuffling of pablo cabinet. Pineras chile has changed and the government must change with it and these two challenges and times. Amy we will go toto santiago. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The United Nations special envoy for syria is meeting with the Foreign Ministers of turkey, iran, and russia in geneva today, where hes arguing for the fragile ceasefire in Northern Syria to be respected. We are strongly appealing for the ceasefires to be respected and that we have also been appea
the military takeover there. we start in the uk, which has seen the biggest day of strike action in more than a decade, according to the unions, with up to half a million people walking out in disputes over pay, jobs and conditions. among those striking are train drivers from the aslef union impacting most train companies across england. bus drivers in london about 100,000 civil servants from over a hundred government departments. thousands of university staff from 150 universities across the uk. and teachers from the national education union. these aerial images show demonstrators marching past the bbc s headquarters in london. 0ur employment correspondent was with them nearby at whitehall. the scale of this. this is the biggest straight for more than a decade. there has been some sort of talk about, could this be the general strike? it is not that. there are unions who have decided not to strike today. it certainly could be a lot bigger. what s interesting is there are un
laid down and shed his blood, you have the unmitigated gall to beat your brother, chase im down and beat him some more. call for backup, and they take 20 minutes, and you watch him and you are too busy talking among each other, no empathy, no concern. if you read the story of joseph, when his brothers threw him in the pit, nobody came to help him. like nobody came to help tyre. waiting on ambulance service that didn t show up until it s too late. what will happen to his dream. we ll just tell them something else happened, but we are going to throw him in a pit, but i come to memphis today to tell you the same mistake joseph s brothers made, is a mistake you made. you thought you threw joseph in a pit. you thought you threw dr. king s dream in a pit. but every time you throw something in a pit, god takes the pit and raises it up and changes the whole world. e world. let me be clear, we understand that there are concerns about public safety. we understand that there s needs to