doctor is a professor at ufc san francisco s collaborative research group. inventing new standards and reproductive, health a professor at advancing new standards of reproductive health. the author of no real choice, how culture and politics matter for reproductive autonomy. robbyn marty is the operations west alabama woman. center also the author of the new handbook for a post-roe america. i will discuss the latest on the debt ceiling standoff with democratic senator, chris coons of delaware. he says that defaulting would have a quote, catastrophic effect on the country and must be taken off the table. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning, it s saturday may 20th, as the old saying goes, if i don t succeed, stop following the republican playbook. you would think that after just one bat election cycle, the gop would have regrouped and reassess its shortcomings so it could rebound. but it s been nearly seven years since the republicans last truly significan
Tony, we now know from investigators that there were ne skid marks from that school buss before it struck the mta bus here on frederick avenue in southwest baltimore. Timo lets fill you in on some of the dead and the injuries. We that there were a total 616 people involved. Section are dead, 0 injured, five People Killed on the commuter bus, including the driver. One killed on the l school bus, that is a 67 year old driver. We know that the aid who was on the school bus survived. Bus. There are now two people inin Critical Condition still in the hospital today. Tod now, we want to tell you that a at 5 00 we had told you that Baltimore Police said that when the bus came down frederick avenue it first struck this fence over here. E. But we know know thats notnot correct. The Baltimore Police back tracked onalti that. They athe accident first ath happened when the bus came and struck the rear of a mustang officer. Then it continued down the street hitting a pillar in front of a cemetery a
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Dozens of port of oakland workers at the main entrance to protest the new contract. In the meantime that count of fact your air travel as well as our shopping. I will tell you more about that later and they were full report. Thousands of bay area nurses are off the job today and on the picket line. This is the second strike this month by the california nurses association. The windchill wipers and a live shot of s. F. 0 foregoing. We are picking up some light rain this morning on Storm Tracker 4. Initially it was up north of the Golden Gate Bridge but we are seeing some stray showers in parts of San Francisco. Parts of the bay bridge and impacting some of the east bay as well. Around the bay area you will need windchill wipers the oneon one approach in san rafael into ocean beach over to you richmond district. Were detecting a dry break for the bay bridge right now. Some of the showers and pushed their way east and were seeing light rain on highway 13 over portions of the caldecott tunn
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