Wit, heumann served in bill Clintons Administration shaping disability policy in the department of education and was appointed by barack obama as the special adviser on disability rights for the state department. She is also a former senior fellow at the Ford Foundation and advisor to world bank. She joins us tonight to discuss her life, work, and new book, being human, an unprepen tent enemy interior of a disability rights activist. She will in conversation with tam la edwards. The science yours. Thank you very much. Thats wonderful. Andy, in the news age of social distancinged a great to see we can get it done and judy it was an honor truly to read your book, running theme in the book how often people tell you, people who should know, say i had no idea and im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made, and in fact thats where i wanted to start to give
Pamela edwardss, anchor of 6 abc action news morning edition. The screen is yours. Thats wonderful. Andy, in this new age of social distancing its great we can get it done and judy an honor to read your back. A running theme in the book how often people tell you, people who should know, say i had no idea. And im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made and in fact thats where i wanted to start to give people a little bit of a perspective. I wanted you to do a compare and contrast what it was like when you were a young person. You opened the back talk about your childhood in brooklyn. What isth it wag like to be a person come thing into world with a disability and what its like now, the differences you see. Guest well, on the one hadnt the differences are very, very significant because when i had polio in 1949 in brooklyn, there was just the beginning o
1600 points. Fox team coverage, blake burman from the white house, Lauren Simonetti is watching the markets, Edward Lawrence is in washington also but lets kick it off with lauren. Lauren what a day to kick off the week. The dow was up more than 1hundred points. Up 7 . Ditto for the nasdaq and s p 500. Traders seem encouraged by news here in the u. S. The peak of coronavirus might be near. The winners on the dow, boeing. They have been slaughtered recently as you know. Bad news from the company. They have suspended their seattle factories, their Production Centers there indefinitely. Nonethelessing, look at the stock, up 19 today. You can see huge gains for raytheon technologies, american express, visa, as well as mcdonalds. Oil was in the red today. It fell for the first time in three sessions closing out 26 a barrel. The amount of oil on the market is growing. We are running out of places to store the oil. This big meeting from the major producers, well that has been delayed. That is
A virtual prison as bangladesh locks down hundreds of thousands of refugees. And the siege at a sikh center in the Afghan Capital of kabul as gunman stormed a 7 minute. Walk into the program the largest lockdown in the world this wednesday is in india where 1300000000 people have been told to stay home the Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the order which is expected to be enforced for the next 21 days airports roads Railways Services and ports have been closed in an effort to stop corona virus spreading through the dense population its feared 1000000 people could be affected by mid may lets join elizabeth prong of our correspondent in new delhi who joins me now from the indian capital a major lockdown as we said elizabeth across india and the reaction sort of being housebound with dawning on millions of people. Yes so and they have had a few days to get used to it because remember sunday was this voluntary curfew that was then extended to 10 percent of the country on monday it became
Coming across the country were now looking you are born with. Because the numbers are growing up that quickly. Turkey indicts 20 suspects said to be involved in the murder of saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in istanbul and a siege at a sikh center in the Afghan Capital as government storm a 70. Welcome to the program the largest lockdown in the world this wednesday is in india where 1300000000 people have been told to stay at home and the Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the order which is expected to be involved for the next 21 days ports Roads Railway services and ports are being closed in an effort to stop coronavirus spreading through the dense population its feared 1000000 people could be infected by mid may elizabeth problem is our correspondent in new delhi and joins us now a major lockdown across india and the reaction really of being housebound is dawning on millions of people. Yes so people are getting used to it after a few days of it now but the 1st official complete lock