using data analysis alone and set of a proven 10. what does that mean for your agency? are we going to see more aggressive breaking news cases? julian: this has been just a tremendously important tool in ensuring communities can ensure themselves fair housing opportunities across the board whether it is race or disability or other protected classes. we have been doing this for 40 years now. what it does do is it gives us certainty as we go forward with complaints that we can fully use this tool of impact, and we will use it. i believe in using it we will ensure that more people of different backgrounds have the opportunity they ought to have in america. emily: it is not about getting it over discrimination, the kind of discrimination where i will not rent to you because you are black, it s about getting different kinds of discrimination that exist in zoning laws and the formulas of how we decide where affordable housing in communities. can you give us a sense of how pervasive
the big story on action news tonight is the sour reception from mayor kenney s proposed tax on sugary drinks. action news reporter christie ileto is live outside city hall tonight. christie, this soda tax, prompted serious opposition, today. that is right, jim. it is a hot button issue for months. supporters say this will fund much needed programs like prek but critics, businesses and even some consumers say this will hurt their bottom line. right here in the neighborhood everybody is talking about it. reporter: proposed 3 cents per ounce tax on sugary drinks is talk of corner stores across town. dollars will go toward city programs like prek. thank you. do you think that will hurt the store. to go to the store to buy soda, no. reporter: a many small businesses, workers and consumers voiced their displeasure at city hall followed by pun hearing inside council chambers. it costs all of us. yeah. i don t want to meet those kid in my er, i want them to go
they protested outside city hall, on the streets of center city and they protested inside, city hall. they are store owners, union members and dead set against a proposed soda tax. it is wednesday night and the big story on action news tonight is the sour reception from mayor kenney s proposed tax on sugary drinks. action news reporter christie ileto is live outside city hall tonight. christie, this soda tax, prompted serious opposition, today. that is right, jim. it is a hot button issue for months. supporters say this will fund much needed programs like prek but critics, businesses and even some consumers say this will hurt their bottom line. right here in the neighborhood everybody is talking about it. reporter: proposed 3 cents per ounce tax on sugary drinks is talk of corner stores across town. dollars will go toward city programs like prek. thank you. do you think that will hurt the store. to go to the store to buy soda, no. reporter: a many small bu
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lamont, it s a bit of a mess out there. michigan henry ford system has reached capacity. we are going to speak to michigan s governor in just a few moments. zblnchs also today, spefeveral e states finally doing what design tickets have been announcing for some time. florida s republican governor issued one finally carving out exception for houses of worship. just a day ago, the governor was holding out from declaring an order, citing there was no guidance from the white house. then, yesterday, painted a stark picture of 100 to 240,000 people dying. and that was if their social distancing guidelines were followed nationally, which they are currently not. after florida s declaration, from georgia and mississippi. tennessee, though, they are taking the opposite approach. its governor said he will not issue a stay-at-home order. and i am quoting governor bill lee. quote, there is a wide range of efforts across the country. none of which has given much real data or evidence of wha