Im here because closing schools hurts black and brown students worse and worse. Reporter zach is one of dozens appearance outraged over the fact that his childrens at school is closing. He said he fears for what this means for the future of the entire district. We are here standing for the basic rights of education of all children across oakland and the same keep schools open. Reporter at the School Board Meeting on wednesday the coalition against the School Closure stormed the meeting chanting no School Closures, oakland is not for sale. Oakland Unified School District says they recognize the Kaiser Community is unhappy with the board of educations decision. District recommended this move in the interest of what they believe it is the longterm health and viability of the district and their ability to consolidate resources at fewer schools. And a statement this the district said currently oh usd operates to me schools for the number of students we have. Therefore, our resources are spr
I note this is presence of mr. Isa from california. I ask that he be able to fully participate in todays hearing. Without objection, it is so ordered. On september 11th, 2001, radical islamic terrorists killed thousands of men, women and children. Aided and abedded by the taliban spent years in afghanistan plotting, waiting for the moment to strike us at home. Throughout the 90s the United States suffered terrorist attacks at the cobart towers at our embassies in east africa and our uss call. The failure to act, emboldened al qaeda and threatand far more devastating attack. The useful staging ground for al qae qaedas malevolent designs. They responded with a roud of both al qaeda and taliban forces. Yet today, after more than 16 year ins afghanistan, its not clear things are much better than they were after the taliban first fell. Is the taliban on the brink of becoming a terrorist dream all over again . We should just be done with this entire god forsaken place or should we be concern
With no democrat support if the democrats when it explodes, which it will soon, if they got together with us and got a real healthcare bill id be totally opened to it and i think thats going to happen. I think the losers are nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer because now they own obamacare. They own it a hundred percent own it. Action News Reporter john rawlins has been getting reaction to the situation. Hes now live outside the office of congressman Brian Fitzpatrick in langhorne bucks county. John, what have you been hearing today . Reporter well, were here because there was a demonstration in front of there earlier today. But this week he had said that he was not going to vote for his partys measure. Earlier today we talked with two former members of congress, one a d, the other an r to get an idea about the sort of hardball atmosphere that can develop around major legislation. Usually you dont get calls from the president but in this case this bill you will so you got to figure out wha
Conditionsy will take it. Take advantage today. We have some rain chances, most likely later on during the afternoon and into the evening hours. It will be spotty, light stuff , not a wash out, whatsoever. Have the umbrella around especially later in the day, not everybody sees it. This morning we are quiet. Big difference in the temperatures, it is cool in some spots in the 40s. Fiftys showing up. Fiftytwo at the airport. Southwest breeze at 12, nice push of springtime air coming back in our region especially south of the city. Look at that 20 degrees warmer in philadelphia, now compared to this time yesterday. 20 degrees warmer in mount pocono. We are all positive numbers there. That means a warming trend on the way for the next few hours , and were anywhere from the lower 40s in the suburbs and maybe some 30s out there, to the upper 50s in south jersey, look at Atlantic City airport checking in. 58 degrees. Thirtynine in quakertown. Lower 40s in pottstown. You guys will warm up in t
And after a presentation inside of the boston inside the Boston Public Health commissions meeting, they had a lengthy presentation about the reasons why they want to raise the age from 18 to 21. They took that vote and it became unanimous that you will have to be 21 to buy cigarettes here in boston, and that includes ecigarettes as well as flavored tobacco. And there were many reasons and one of the main ones being that there is just no safe dosage for cigarettes. But there were plenty of opponents that were inside the room as well, and they say if someone who is 18 can go to war, fight for their country and vote for the president , cigarettes. I think what this really does is acknowledges the really danger of Tobacco Products and acknowledges that there is no safe dose or use of tobacco. Its actually really the only Consumer Product that doesnt have this is simply a way to harass adults smokers and the stores that depend on them. The small businesses. So again the age limit has been r