extensive quite long new diversity and inclusion strategic plan. now, the one thing we know about that plan is that it will result in the dramatic lowering of standards within our elite ranks. probably already has. so how will that make america safer? well, the general has never said you couldn t find that on the website. instead they told us that, quote, all of us understand that diversity and inclusion are operational imperatives. they didn t say how they just said they are imperative. so this is the initiative that richard tores he is central da will be running. the question is who is richard torres he is strad can a his yod crude blm and donald trump holding a bible in front of a church. next to trump is a photography of adolf hitler. the point is, they are the same. so this is the guy who now oversees hiring for the navy seals. if you are wondering whether our military leadership has gone woke can you consider that question settled for good. the pentagon is now the yale
diversity and inclusion strategic plan. now, the one thing we know about that plan is that it will result in the dramatic lowering of t standards within our elite ranks. probably already has. so how will that make america safer? well, the general has never said you couldn t find that on the website.e. instead they told us that, quote, all of us understand that diversity and inclusion are operational imperatives.er they didn t say how they just said they are imperative. so this is the initiative that richard tores estrada will be running. the question is who is richard torres estrada his you will find crude blm and donald trumpmp holding a bible in front of a church. next to trump is a photography of adolf hitler. the point is, they are the same. so this is the guy who now oversees hiring for the navy seals. if you are wondering whether our military leadership has gone woke can you consider that question settled for good. h the pentagon is now the yale faculty lounge but with
saying this. we have all got to do our part and pitch in to end this virus. we still need you to social distance, wear a mask and get yourself and your loved ones vaccinated. the only way out is through, and the only way through is together. there is simply nothing more important than getting the resources that we need to vaccinate people in this country as quickly as possible. we are not going get our economy back in shape and millions of people back to work and our schools and businesses fully reopened until until, as he says, we beat this virus. and that is where i want to begin. joining me now, someone who has been following the deadly pandemic since the very beginning. dr. peter hotez. doctor, thank you for joining us on this. you and i have actually spoke together on a couple various grim milestones that we have reached throughout this pandemic because there have been a few of them. and this is the worst. half a million lives now lost, unnecessarily so, from this pand
the s.w.a.t. team responded to congregation beth israel, the synagogue in colleyville about 17 miles northeast of fort worth. they responded to what is, what we now know, to a hostage situation. abc news is reporting there are four people being held hostage including the rabbi of that synagogue. the rabbi of that synagogue is named as rabbi charlie citron walker, known to be the full-time rabbi of congregation beth israel. right before 2:00 there was a live stream of services there this morning for the sabbath today, a religious day, obviously, for jews. and on this live stream it was cut right before people could kind of hear muffling in the synagogue. you couldn t really see much, but there was a fixed camera shot of the pulpit, you could hear the faint voice of a man heard in the background. the fort worth telegram is reporting that this man repeatedly mentioned his sister and islam, and he said a few times that he didn t want to hurt anyone, and he mentioned he had childr
such a thing as a gun violence archive certainly says a lot. mostly, obscene. but as tempting as it always is to simply be numb to it all, try to think of all the kids who don t have that option tonight as they try to cope with what they have gone through. there isn t enough numbness in the world to blur the memories that they now have or blunt the grieving they have yet to go through. or erase even a second of what even the lucky ones endured today. reporting from the scene for us tonight, stephanie parkinson from local cnn affiliate weyi. stephanie, what s the latest? reporter: we know right now that 11 people were shot today and of those, um, three of them passed away. 16-year-old male, a 14-year-old female, and 17-year-old femalefemale all killed inside oxford high school. we don t have identities yet. what we dough no about when this all happened is a very quick response. we are talking within five minutes of that initial 9-1-1 call that they had that gunman in custo