h&m got in trouble last week over an ad for what some said was a racist hoody. over the weekend the news of what they did got to the capital of black people and they are not having it. videos and photos are popping up all over social media of protesters ransacking some h&m stores in south africa after the clothing company released a controversial ad the critics are calling racist. earlier this week the clothing company apologized for the widely criticized ad and removed the hoodie from its stores. whoo! trevor: they really trashed that h&m. look at that place. that s got to be at least $26 worth of damage easily. speaking of brands having a rough time. tide s in, smart s out. a government watchdog expressing concern over the dangerous misuse of laundry detergent. in the latest social media fad teenager are putting the detergent pods in their mouth and posting the videos online they call it the tide pod challenge. oh, my god! the 19-year-old did it on a dare. he to
from comedy central s world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with trevor noah. ( cheers and applause ) trevor: thank you so much, even! thank you, everybody! thank you so much! wow, you guys are amazing! thank you, everybody, and welcome. welcome to the daily show. i m trevor noah. our guests tonight just won an naacp image award last night, author and illustrator vashti harrison is joining us, everybody! ( cheers and applause ) but first, you guys remember how h&m got in trouble last week over an ad for what some said was a racist hoody. over the weekend the news of what they did got to the capital of black people and they are not having it. videos and photos are popping up all over social media of protesters ransacking some h&m stores in south africa after the clothing company released a controversial ad the critics are calling racist. earlier this week the clothing company apologized for the widely criticized ad and removed the hoodie from
we ll be in the 60 s. by the time we get overnight we will turn cooler with strong, gusty winds, temperatures in the 40 s by tomorrow morning. this after hitting 80 degrees today. the wind gusts looking on our storm watch 7 future cast will be in the 25 to 30-mile-per-hour range overnight early tomorrow and then stay very breezy throughout the day with a fair amount of sunshine. the winds finally dying down tomorrow night. all these little blue dots you see, the dark blue, are wind damage reports, and the lighter blue are high wind gusts about 129 as we can count them through the mid-atlantic area reported so far and no surprise with the high winds. one of the reports is in kensington we received a report of a wind gust there that was in the upper 50 s to about 58 miles per hour. that is a really strong wind gust but very typical of what we dealt with around the area. kensington is where we find abc 7 meteorologist josh knight who was out during the height of the storm chasin
for a moment and as it rushed through the court and the wires were shaking we heard this crash. it wasn t raining or thundering. we saw the tree fall into the house. josh: they saw the tree fall from their house across the street but what was actually going on inside one of the owners of the house was in the basement and didn t realize this had happened until she came upstairs. fortunately, she is okay. everybody is doing all right. the family does have a place to stay nearby. that s what s going on in kensington. latest. to ony for the reporter: josh, remarkable scene here in gaithersburg. a tree brought down a power line and it caused a crater in the middle of the roadway. the asphalt almost looks like lava. the crater goes down about a foot into the ground and take a look at this. you can just see how soft this asphalt is. it really burnt it up. still smoldering at this hour. the smell not very pretty. down. you can see that people in the neighborhood were using chain saws
series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. sally wright did not grow up up back then the job was not available. she was born in may of 1951. the united states space program was a men s club, a white man s club restricted to fighter pilots and military men. a few women who did apply and keep in mind we had a lot of very qualified women pilots in those days in the early to middle 50 s out of world war ii and the work they had done. but all of these talented women were summarily rejected. women were considered too weak, too unscientific, too womanly to fly in the space program. one newspaper editorialized that a female in the cockpit would be and i quote a nagging backseat rocket driver. thank you very much. another newspaper columnist who ridiculed the prospect of women as astronauts by calling them gnats. sally ride love science as a kid but her interest in nasa was a spectator. like kids from that era and certainly some of you she watched those early lift