Today and always. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Reporting from new york city, i am laura freud laura trevelyan. A man whose death in Police Custody has launched a global movement. This is the time of building accountability in the criminal justice system. Laura the tributes come as President Trump is under pressure for his handling of the crisis. His former defense secretary accuses him of trying to divide the nation and a republican senator struggles to support her leader. June should be boom time for new york florists. As the city prepares to reopen, they are reeling from coronavirus and now the prote protests. For all of you watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world news america. It is time to stand up in georges name and say, get your knees off of our necks. The civil rights activist said the protest signals a d
A little thing called courage at least thats according to top engineer and now former amazon Vice President tim brady the Washington Post reports that he was giving up his job and forgoing a paycheck that could top 1000000. 00 because he no longer felt comfortable working for a company that is comfortable firing whistleblowers with legitimate concerns and just what were these whistleblower concerns well you know the Little Things like oh workers Safety Climate change issues and the need to unionize in fact the guardian is now reporting that at least 6 amazon workers who have participated in protests or vocally advocated for improvements to worker safety in conditions have been fired during the pandemic in one of these incidents leaked amazon memos revealed that p. R. Executives in a meeting attended by the grand poobah himself the worlds richest man jeff bezos plan to publicly character assassinate up by. Warehouse employee Christian Smalls were simply organizing a small walkout over e
Is now reporting that at least 6 amazon workers who have participated in protests or vocally advocated for improvements to worker safety and conditions have been fired during the penn demick in one of these incidents leaked amazon memos revealed that p. R. Executives in a meeting attended by the grand poobah himself the worlds richest man jeff bezos planned to publicly character assassinate fired warehouse employee Christian Smalls for simply organizing a small walkout over employees safety concerns so one former Vice President amazon tim bray writes that the firing of whistleblowers isnt just a side effect but that its evidence of a bane of toxicity running through the Company Culture is it really that big of a surprise i mean who can blame bays oser amazon for treating their warehouse workers like easily replaceable cogs in the machine i mean after all we are living in a society that is right now right now as i speak seriously fighting for the right to sue. Sacrifice the weak and eld
We are almost to the weekend, at funeral, this is via zoom on may least, and meteorologist, kari hall, is here with us as well. 31st, and this is to honor what and thanks to the team back at they are calling the end of an home, theyre helping us. They deserve a nice day today, kari. They do. Era. And we are going to get it, we olympic Gold Medalist shaun have nice weather before the hot white showing off his area arrives in the bay area. We will start out with low 50s skateboarding skills with kids at 7 00, and then can you see in the neighborhood. The kids held up a sign asking the trend as it goes up to the him to join him. Mid70s by early afternoon. He decided to stop and skate once again, it will be a nice day and we have been talking with them from a safe distance. About highs in the 90s, and we will take a look at that, and its coming up in a few minutes, the kids had masks on, and he marcus. Scary. Was happy to put smiles on their overnight the number of coronavirus cases worldw
Be a member of congress. We welcome suzanne spaulding. Also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all, i want to thank the cochairs and the two commissioners for their important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has some solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction and will be working hard to vault those and the ones evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law. They can be done through executive action. I would like to spend my time, enter my formal written statement into the record. I just want to talk about two of the commissions of recommendations. When i got here in the congress in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. It is not going away. But i remember the buzz word back then is we have to do something about this. We have made a number of attempts and quite honestly, we have made a fair amount of progress. My own sense