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And welcome. thanks for being here. thanks a lot. happy to be here. your organization just released their own data on treatment of lgbtq students in school and it is not a safe environment. so what impact will this bill have? yeah, listen, you know, the efforts to exclude positive visibility of communities that experience marginalization from the classroom, further stigmatized and isolates people in those communities, right. in this case it is lgbtq plus young people. it makes educators fearful to provide safeful environments that are free of victimization. we know that in order to be available for learning, young people have to feel safe and in their minds and in their hearts and in their bodies. we know that curriculum ought to be a window no into the world that is different to them and a ....
Decision to keep his state open. i never thought in february, early march it would lead to locking down the country. i think if knowing now what i know then, if that was a threat earlier, i would have been much louder. reporter: the key unknown here is former president donald trump, governor desantis had a long history of supporting the president, but newly elected glenn youngkin, he ran a campaign notorious void of my references to the former president and desantis and the former president had public disagreements in the last few weeks, so we ll see which strategy plays out for him here. bit of a power struggle there. thank you for the report. here is connected to all this, a republican led committee in the florida state house just advanced a bill that would ban most discussions of sexuality and gender identity in schools arguing preserves parental rights. critics call the don t say gay bill and our next guest says it ....
Thousand pieces of snow removal equipment but at some point they re not going to be able to keep up. that s why they want everyone to stay home. two major concerns, power outages with the high winds and heavy snow and also coastal flooding, not expected to be severe but we could see it here coming up as high tide arrives in just a couple of hours. certainly the plow drivers get finished with the route and when they re done, looks like they hadn t started, coming down so quick. ellison barber, bill talking about the wind being a huge story line here. what are the conditions where you are? reporter: normally i am standing in a part of brooklyn where you have a clear view of the manhattan sky line, just down the road here, you can see you really can t see any of it. when the wind starts to come through here if you watch the bits of snow that have already started to build up along the area, it becomes almost like a tunnel of white. that is what officials here are really worried about. ....
Classroom discussions on sexual orientation and gender identity is moving forward in the florida state legislature. critics have dubbed it the don t say gay bill and it also allows parents to sue schools or teachers that violate the measure. supporters say it is about parental rights but experts argue it could have say devastating impact. chasten buttigieg, the husband of pete buttigieg and a former teacher, slammed the bill saying it will, quote, will kill kids. there is a recent explosion surrounding race and sexual itd in schools and punished violators. of the 71 bills, 15 would give students and parents and people with no connection to the school in question, the right to sue schools and recover damages in court. joining me right now is the newly named executive director of the gay lesbian straight education network melanie william jaggers. congratulations to you. ....
People? reporter: the bad part is it s going to get worse. i keep reminding myself. it s hard, we re getting wind gusts in boston but not as bad as it s going to be, as bill said, as other meteorologists said, after 10:00 a.m. we re expecting the meat of this storm to arrive in the city of boston, when you re talking about the 30, 40, 50-mile-per-hour wind gusts, the real heavy snow, two to four inches. it s been snowing here since about midnight. we probably have three or four inches of snow on the ground already. it s hard to tell because of the blowing and the fact that it is very light in nature. for the most part, people are heeding the call, elected officialed have said it s saturday, stay home. this is going to be miserable and for the most part, they are staying home. it s much worse to the south of us on the south shore. they re getting it worse. we have heard of spinouts and accidents down south of boston ....