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Off your weight or height. reporter: and that s why councilman bregu introduced a bill making illegal to discriminate against height and weight in snork city. he says people treated him differently after he gained 40 pounds during the pandemic. not only protecting people in the workplace from this or getting apartments, but it s also about changing the culture and how we think about weight. reporter: studies have found that weight discrimination is widespread and is comparable to the levels of racial discrimination in the u.s. this is a city that i love so dearly, it s built without my body in mind. reporter: victoria abraham testified in support of the new york city bill last month. she is a self-proclaimed fat activist and content creator. i know i m fat. that s not a bad thing though. and i think the more that we use it as a neutral, as a descriptor, the less power it has. reporter: do you think that ....
Clear instruction. very clear direction, a better a better descriptor. and also, you know, there s the key going in the lock. you might not be able to see it, but boom they get access. yes and that is crisis planning that a lot of places don t have. i tell that s one of the things that i work with my in my consulting work i do so much is that law enforcement doesn t know the building when they come in they fire department doesn t know who s where they don t know how to turn the fire alarm off. they don t know how to turn water sprinklers off if the water system starts going in when you have a crisis team for your company for your school, that s there and meets do you notice those individuals were hugging the walls? the brick walls. they re staying right near the brick wall, so they re safe, but they re there to tell lauren force mint. here s what we know. and right away. you hear them, say second floor. there s somebody on the second floor. we think right and the officers are sending t ....
Instruction. very clear direction, a better a better descriptor. and also, you know, there s the key going in the lock. you might not be able to see it, but boom they get access. yes and that is crisis planning that a lot of places don t have. i tell that s one of the things that i work with my in my consulting work i do so much is that law enforcement doesn t know the building when they come in they fire department doesn t know who s where they don t know how to turn the fire alarm off. they don t know how to turn water sprinklers off if the water system starts going in when you have a crisis team for your company for your school, that s there and meets. do you notice those individuals were hugging the walls? the brick walls. they re staying right near the brick wall, so they re safe, but they re there to tell law enforcement. here s what we know . and right away. you hear them , say second floor. there s somebody on the second floor. we think right and the officers are sending teams ....
County commissioner and union organizer. he s been endorsed by the chicago teachers union, what is he running on? books i think he is running on raising taxes and putting that money into social services including the schools free think calling him a teachers union candidate has a pretty good descriptor. part of what makes it so notable as i think you have a real choice here. paul is talking about more charter schools. he is segment creating mart magnet schools produce document hiring some pack 2000 more sworn police officers. even in the city and the size of chicago is a lot of new cops on the street and on the beat. as a non- chicago and i think this is fascinating to watch as may be another data point in these liberal cities who get fed up with the dysfunction. you can throw in san francisco, the fired mda there you can throw at new york were eric ....
The description of chinese cyber threats are they re not as sophisticated as russia, but they re certainly brazen in these efforts and occasionally sloppy, but effective. over ten years ago they were hitting us with spear phishing e-mails and if you knew what to look for you could catch them and oftentimes they were just as effective and the key scriptor of chinese operations was that they were brazen. they didn t bother to hide these efforts and the same is true with these balloons. clearly, someone messed up here because this was so visible it forced a u.s. response, a very public response that broke off talks between blinken and his counterparts in china and now we re dealing with the fallout. so is the u.s. capable and prepared to take on and fight back against some of these other threats that china poses? perhaps much more sophisticated and maybe not a balloon, maybe ....