Our ancestors were first brought to the shores of america in shackles. We know that while weve come a long way in this country, we still have a long way to go. And we are living with the regular eas of slavery and jim row and racial compression that takes over every part of life and weve seen it the past several months in such a stark and striking fashion. Covid19 pandemic, a twin crisis, both a Public Health crisis and economic crisis has impacted everyone, but disproportionately impacted in an adverse fashion the africanamerican community. In terms of pain and suffering and economic dislocation and in terms of death. And then of course were dealing with the continued epidemic at the same time of Police Violence, Police Brutality, police abuse. All across the land, impacting every aspect of our lives. Shopping while black. George employed. George floyd. Sleeping while black, Breonna Taylor. Jogging while black, ahmad arbery. The names are too numerous to mention. Those tragedies are j
Good morning and thanks for joining us. Im darya folsom and im James Fletcher we want to get the hour started with a check of the forecast john trouble standing by on this june 15th john halfway through june already. No crazy a time is flying by and we are almost done was spring saturday being your first day of summer and it feels like it out there for sure this next few days. You can see skies clear across the bay going to have plenty of sunshine to start our day but do expect cloud cover to increase later on weve got a cold front. Thats pushing in right to our north not going to result in any rain but we are going to see winds picking up cloud cover moving in as well so a few changes to know later on today as of right now were in the 50s and 60s now Alameda Oakland, each at 60 degrees. Concord pittsburgh. Fairfield 60s for you as well 50s elsewhere in the bay to kick off this monday morning so pleasant start com for the time being not so much this afternoon cloud cover increases wind
Intellectual property, this is about two hours. Come to order. Well im disappointed we cant all be together in person today, im grateful to the chairman graham, and our clerk for facilitating this through web apps. I want to be clear that this subCommittee Hearing is not distracting from the full committee. Congress must address issues of Police Brutality and horrific circumstances that led to the murder of george floyd, and the senseless deaths of so many of our African American brothers and sisters. Thats why im grateful to senator graham for holding eight full Committee Hearing until the sink in america and i fully support that effort. We also have to continue to address the covid19 crisis in the impact its had on millions of americans and livelihoods. Just this morning the full Committee Held a conference on covid19 and its impact on tension. Centers im also glad mcconnell and several republican senators will take up the protection program. We are going to continue to address this
Justice. Reporter an emotional funeral for george floyd whose death sparked a Worldwide Movement for change. We are rising in love. He went down and injustice and we are rising up for just is. It is our time to honor his life and death by becoming one family with one teacher. Reporter the eyes of the world were on houston, texas as leaders gather to bid a final farewell to george floyd. 500 people were invited for the private service. Silent says his casket was carried into the church. Reporter it was a heartwarming celebration including emotional remarks from the grieving family at the video message from former Vice President joe biden. Unlike most, we must grieve in public and that is a burden. A burden that is your purpose to change the world for the better in the name of george floyd. Reporter an impassioned eulogy by reverend al sharpton. Asbury lake you to rest today, the movement will not rest until we get justice, until we have one standard of justice. Reporter the mayor and th
the daily death toll falling to a four month low on monday. at the very same time roughly 10% of the population has now been fully vaccinated, while nearly 20% have gotten at least one shot. an average of 2.2 million vaccinations are being given out every single day in this country. and we ve got to remember, all of this is happening just a year after the country first shut down. i want to start with my colleague peter alexander at the white house. peter, what is the administration doing to mark this one-year anniversary? yeah, that anniversary, of course, a somber one this thursday, now 48 hours away, and we at nbc news can now confirm president biden will be delivering his first primetime address at 8:00 p.m. eastern time this thursday to commemorate the day that the outbreak, the coronavirus outbreak was first declared a pandemic. jen psaki the press secretary detailing the tremendous loss, more than 525,000 americans who have now lost their lives in the course of that t