and 2016 president donald trump won the presidency and had majorities in house and senate. 4 years later, republicans were out and democrats controls everything. the good thing about democracy there is always another election on the horizon. if past is prolong, election night 2022 will be a long night, democrats face several headwinds, the pandemic is still here, the economy is sputtering, and crime, and history what is likely to happen in midterms, the question is why does it always seem to happen? do political parties over read election results, democrats control the senate right now, but they control the tie breaker, if not for joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. democrats would control senate at all. how much of a mandate can you have if your power comes from a senator in west virginia, a state where biden did not win a single solitary county. perhaps american people like checks and balances, perhaps we like change or perhaps this is how people respond when politicalforget ab
good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much for joining us today. today s education brain trust is called from brown to fisher, increasing racial diversity to improve educational equity. i am melanie newman, the chief public engagement and communications strategist for the nacp legal defense fund, the organization i am proud to say i work for and that is responsible for brown and fisher. so i want to give a little bit of hello? oh. i want to give sorry. i want to give a little bit of background about myself. i am, i ve been with the legal defense fund since march of this year but worked in the obama administration and on the hill for quite some time. but this issue and the reason i am happy to be here with all of you today is personal to me. i am originally from new orleans but also went to school in selma, alabama. which i m sure all of you are familiar with. my father, dr. norwood, was the first black school superintendent in selma, alabama [applause] thank you.
set in. if you were a cherry blossom you d be frozen by now. absolutely. reporter: many of the blossoms had hit what is called the puffy white stage. those petals are already wilting and turning brown. how is it pretty of like this. reporter: temperatures dropped below 24 degrees for a more than five hour stretch overnight. that has the backer service predicting damage to 90% of the blossoms. and we still have two more icy nights to go. it is very sad. you can see they were trying to bloom and then it s just not going to happen. reporter: now the horticulturists have been taking cuttings from some of the trees that have been slower to develop like this one. they re going to take those branches inside, see if they can force them to bloom and then some time in the next 24 to 48 hours we ll know blossoms, these slower developing blossoms have been protected inside their kind of woody buds. live at the tidal basin, bruce leshan, wusa9. breaking our hearts, bru
and if they really protect you. plus to the rescue. one of the remarkable efforts to save the earth s most endangered species. there s no mistake tonight that iraq is in the throes of a civil war. the violence brutal and bar ba barbaric, the world is watching. the white house is watching and tonight, president obama is taking steps to safeguard americans at the u.s. embassy in baghdad. ordering 750 troops back ting baghdad. and talking with a foe, iran, on how to deal with this quickly unfolding crisis. mike viqueria reports. the crisis has come to this: secretary of state john kerry says the country is willing to work with iran to turn back rebel gains in iraq. i think we are open to any constructive process here that could minimize the violence, hold iraq together, the integrity of the country, and eliminate the presence of outside terrorist forces, that are ripping it apart. for now, that does not include military cooperation with iran. this as the pentagon sends
matthews in washington. this afternoon in the white house pressroom general john kelly spoke to the country about how this country shows its respect for those who give their life for this country. kelly told the steps the military take to preserve the body of those fallen, how it honors and respects the beloved ones who feel the loss most greatly. most americans don t know wh what happens when we learn our soldiers, sailors, marines and cost guardsmen in combat. let me tell you what happens. their buddies wraps them up in whatever passes a shroud, puts them on a helicopter as routine and sends them home. their first stop along the way is when they re packed in ice, typically at the air head and then they re flown to usually europe. general kelly spoke in some detail, including the account of the words his fellow officers spoke in consoling him, john kelly, on the loss of his son in combat. and those he said today were the words he advised trump to use in consoling the lov