thing every year so sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don t. coming up, we ll have the latest weather forecast with what you you can expect today during your celebrations. we re going to start with two u.s. cities responding to a series of mass shootings last night that left a combined eight people dead in fort worth, texas then in philadelphia. in fort worth, three are dead and more than a dozen injured after two separate shootings. while in philadelphia, a gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and armed with an ar type rifle killed five people and injured two. a toddler and a 13-year-old boy. at least one man is now in custody and officials there are set to give a press conference at the top of the next hour. we ll cover that for you live. in a statement, president biden responded to the violence writing quote, today, jill and i grieve for those who have lost their lives and as our nation celebrates independence day, we pray for the day when our communities will be fre
Disparate impact on black and other minority students. so the department of education is the right entity to bring a lawsuit and this action by the lawyers teased that process up. joyce, the complaint states that, quote, nearly 70% of doe nar related applicants are white and nearly 70% of legacy applicants are also white. this results of this preferential treatment are substantial, end quote there. does that help the argument? is it strong enough? are these numbers more or less correct? so that s exactly the important part of this complaint, richard. because these are the numbers that establish there s a disparate impact. colleges and universities, if they wanted to support this process, might say well look, we re just trying give a nominal preference to people who have supported the school over time. but it s that disparate impact that makes it violate the civil rights act. how does this link, if at
Exactly why we have that problem. tom, the first amendment issue. i believe in transparency. what i like to see is instantaneous electronic ways that you can see at every moment during the day, who s writing the checks. the superpac. his pac was financed by and you get the names and addresses and who they are. actually be in the advertising. california, it doesn t do anything. it s not just about disclosure. it s about who it s a say. and the fact is that a working class person is never going to be able to compete. if we just have the swrm the person with the most money gets the loudest voice. the it s the fact we have citizens united and there s no indication it s going to be overturned. you can still have small doe nar matched public financing. i m going to stop this conversation here because we can t solve it. good news is there is sort of public outcry about this, that does cross partisan, but nobody