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white and affluent drivers are polluting the air breathed by people of color, mr. roth is racked by guilt for how he is driving on the 405 to the valley and it s not only growing his carbon footprint, he s fueling other racist outcomes as well. he said i couldn t help but consider my only complicit while reading a new study from usc researches, found that angelinos who drive less tend to be exposed to more pollution. now the argument is that low income communities of color were torn apart to make way for freeways over the decade, while the whiter, richer, this constitutes environmental racism. environmental racism, it s about policies that practices that discriminate against communities of color by making them live near landfills, sewage plants and polluting facilities. by making people live near landfills? we re making people live next to polluting facilities? well, that s obviously ridiculous. and this is obviously not about race, it s about poverty. and who is to ....
and. then spend those moneys on sustainability projects that make their donors and their cronies rich. also if freeways are racist, the king of bigots must be president dwight d. eisenhower who commissioned the construction of 41,000 miles of highway in the federal highway act of 1956. i want you to meet the godfather of the environmental justice movement, robert bullard. when we talk about infrastructure in the past. infrastructure like highways and roads. that infrastructure was detrimental to many communities, black and brown communities and destroyed a stable community. so we have to be careful not to assume that all infrastructure is created equal. people actually write those lines. of course, what this is really all about is control. democrats don t have any real plans to raise the general standard of living for working people. white black brown. in fact, they re doing the opposite. their wrecking our economy without a control spending and by limiting our oil an ....
i m lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters. right now are criminal charges on the horizon for former president donald trump, he s been invited to appear before the manhattan grand jury, investigating a hush money payment to stormy daniels, why legal experts say the move could signal the end is near in this investigation. also this morning, california just cannot catch a breather from this wild weather, right now 16 million are under flood alerts as parts of the state are still buried under mountains of snow and now brace for landslides and heavy rain from an atmospheric river. we re tracking the storm as folks there brace for the rare high risk of flash flooding. plus, in just the last hour and a half, we got our hands on a bigger than expected jobs report. president biden is set to talk about the report and the overall state of our economy this hour, especially as the federal reserve eyes more interest rate hikes to tackle inflation. we re going to get insight from l ....
unleash another eight feet of snow in some places up to eight inches of rain along the coast. and in the midwest and northeast tonight, chicago to detroit to new york, what so many are bracing for. heavy snow, rain, and strong winds. rob marciano timing it all out. tonight, the republican leader in the senate, mitch mcconnell, in the hospital after a fall overnight at a washington, d.c. hotel. the 81-year-old being watched after suffering a concussion. rachel scott with what we know so far. just hours before the ceo of norle toing southern was set to testify today on the hill, yet another train derailment. gio benitez in that hearing room. the war in ukraine tonight. russia unleashing a massive seven-hour missile barrage across ukraine, including hypersonic missiles. what they were targeting. and james longman tonight inside ukraine. president biden unveiling his new $6.8 trillion budget, proposed increased spending on defense, border security, and social progra ....
just ahead on cnn newsroom i m 22 and i have not seen this much. it has been a mess. if you don t know how to drive in the snow, stay home. some of the top hosts at fox news were peddling false election claims. certainly helpful but doesn t get them to the finish line. there is a new sheriff in town. the corporate kingdom finally comes to an end. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, fu , februar, 1:00 a.m. in california. and on both coasts and states in between, millions will be waking up to extreme winter weather. new york s governor says parts of her state could see up to a foot of snow. the great lakes can also expect cold wet weather. and in michigan, hundreds of thousands are still without power after a winter storm passed through on monday. and there is a blizzard warning in the sierras. several feet of snow over the weekend left some residents trapped. people there also are running out of ....