we're going to start with five things to know for this st. patrick's day, friday, march 17th. new overnight, china announced president xi ping is going to russia for the first visit since the invasion of ukraine comes at a very crucial moment in the war. there is growing fears that beijing might send weapons to help putin. >> and sheriff's deputies and hospital workers have been charged with murder this morning after a black man died in a mental health facility in virginia. prosecutors arguing that surveillance video shows him being, quote, mothered. his grieving mother says he was treated worse than a dog. >> a cnn exclusive. dozens of workers were called to testify in special counsel's investigation, a restaurant server and a house keeper could be key witnesses. >> this sounds like a movie. it is real. an absolutely monstrous 5,000 mile wide blob of algae is

headed to florida. you can see it from outer space. we're going to tell you when and where it is expected to come ashore. >> and taylor swift fans rejoicing this morning. we'll have the new tracks she dropped while you were sleeping. "cnn this morning" starts right now. >> a very big "newsday." it is friday. we're going to start with russia getting major show of support from china as the war rages in ukraine. beijing just announcing this morning that chinese president xi will head to moscow next week for the first time since the invasion they began. he will meet face-to-face with president putin. >> russia is desperately trying to turn the tide. china is thinking about sending

weapons to help. but beijing has been casting itself as a peacemaker and chinese officials insist that is what this meeting is all about. >> translator: china will uphold an objective and fair position on ukraine crisis and play a constructive role in promoting talks for peace. >> cnn's will rippley live for us in taiwan this morning. will, hello to you. will the kremlin -- or the kremlin says this meeting is about strategic cooperation. what do you know? >> well, it depends on what kind of strategic cooperation they're actually talking about. china is claiming this is about urging peace and promoting talks. they put o tut this 12 point document to end the special military operation using russia's lingo. they'r china refuses to call it an invasion. even though president xi is trying to portray himself as a neutral diplomat, a peacemaker, he hasn't even been willing to

get on the phone with president zelenskyy on the phone and now he was voted a third term in china. xi's priorities, are you know, on his authoritarian best bud. putin as they continue to entrench against the west and help really russia kind of minimize the impact for regular people of the sanctions by the west as well as providing potentially micro chips and other things that russia needs for the military and the u.s., of course, concerned as you mentioned, that they could be providing lethal support or considering providing leej ol sup -- lethal support. >> is there any reason to believe china? china says they want to urge peace here. >> well, their definition of peace is very different from the ukrainians. agai again, how can you paint

yourself as a neutral party when you won't talk to one side of the negotiation? because of this no limits partnership that xi and putin declared, you know, around the time of the winter olympics, essentially they're standing in each other's corner no matter what the west says. that could potentially be a problem. a lot of analysts think that china is supporting russia, even considering arming russia because a russian victory would be humiliating for the united states and could embolden xi's own potential plans on the self-governing democracy near taiwan. >> will rippley, thank you. also this morning, the special counsel that is investigating former president trump, jack smith, is digging deeper into his handling of secret and classified documents. sources tell cnn two dozen people who work at mar-a-lago have been subpoenaed to testify. it's no the just top people you may recognize from television. that includes restaurant servers, house keeper, members of trump's inner circle. they could potentially be key witnesses based on what they may

have seen or heard at the florida estate where fbi agents found a stash of classified documents upon that search warrant that was executed in august including some of the nation's most closely guarded secrets. just yesterday our cameras saw one of trump's top communications aides at the white house in washington where she appeared before the grand jury. you can see her going in there. senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid is us with. the i think what i'm struck by is the depth of the subpoenas, going from thsh di-- they want to trump's attorneys and those serving at restaurants. they want to talk to everybody. >> clearly the special counsel is going wide and deep down to the people serving burgers at mar-a-lago. have you seen or heard anything about classified documents or boxes that could have contained classified documents? they're investigating the mishandling of classified documents but also any efforts to potentially obstruct this investigation. for example, in addition to the grounds keeper and house keeper, they're talking to someone who

is seen on security footage helping another aide move some boxes. they're really talking to everyone in this investigation. leaving no stone unturned. >> evan cork rinne. he is a trump attorney. he represented steve bannon. we're waiting to find out what the chief judge in washington is going to decide. they're trying to get him to testify without using attorney-client privilege. >> exactly. he's already gone before the grand jury. during that appearance, he declined to answer communications about questions he had with the former president. the special counsel is aggressive here. they're trying to get around that. arguing that his advice may have been used in a crime. crime product exception. we're waiting for a judge to make this decision. now she moves on from the bench. she goes ton a new role at 5:00 pm fo p.m. today. she is really bringing it down to the wire.

this is really the most nationally nationally significant questions. >> paula reid, nice to have you on set. >> we're learning about first republic bank. set to receive a $30 billion life line from a group of america's 11 largest banks. shares in the san francisco lender had been sliding since last week's failure of silicon valley bank. the money will give first republic the much needed cash to meet customer withdrawals and build confidence in the u.s. banking system. let's get to christine romans. >> good morning again. >> again. we've seen a lot of you. you just sit here and we'll say christine, what is happening now? seriously, what is happening now? people are wondering why are first republic being propped up? >> first republic was really teetering here. a lot of people were worried this could be another bank that could fail. financial stability is incredibly important. you have banks bailing out r

rival, another bank. putting in $30 billion to help cover some of these uninsured deposits on the books of first republic. you have to think about financial stability like a public utility. it's almost like clean water and electricity. you want your banks to be healthy and work. it's good for these banks that are healthy to make sure they step in and prop up this bank that is not. this bank, first republic, i think 68% of the deposits on the books were uninsured deposits. people that have uninsured deposits are looking for places to put the money so where it can be insured. you've seen a lot of money flowing out of first republic. this is trying to stop that flow. >> yeah. "new york times" says the arrangement was about precedent in decades. just an indication of how dire -- >> it's an indication, look, first we had the fdic on a couple banks is going to insure all the deposits of signature

bank and svb. then you have this fed lend tag silt. i would like to say is a success so far. $12 billion has been lent out to banks under this fad faed facil. that is another sign of the different kinds of instruments deplowe deployed to make sure the oxygen in the banking system is working. >> everybody watching the banks. >> absolutely. we're track ag story out of virginia. three hospital workers are now facing murder charges after 28-year-old iva otieno died in custody last week. this is his picture here. seven sheriff's deputies are facing second-degree murder charges. brian todd is joining us live outside of the dimwitty county courthouse in in virginia. what do we know about this? what is the county saying about pieces of evidence here? >> as for that security footage,

the family of ibo has viewed that security footage of his death. this is video that has not been released to the public. the family and their lawyers have described to us what it was like to watch that saying it was excruciating to watch. >> reporter: today three more people charged with second-degree murder in the death of a 28-year-old man in custody. all three are employees of the central state hospital mental health facility in virginia where he was taken on march 6th. that's in addition to seven sheriffs deputies already charged with second-degree murder. >> he was my dad. they smothered the breath out of my baby. they murdered my baby. >> his family has now seen video of the fatal incident. >> at what point do we stop preserving life? and what point do we consider mental illness a crime? >> prosecutors say he died of asphyxiation after being held down for 11 or 12 minutes. >> restraints so brutally with a

knee on his neck. the weight of seven individuals on his body. while he is face down. handcuffed. with leg irons. >> reporter: he was arrested on march 3rd after police say they responded to a burglary call next door to his home. they took him to the hospital for evaluation where he became, quote, physically assaulted. his mother says she pleaded with the police. >> they pulled him off the treatment, took him to jail. didn't take him down there with any medicine. >> reporter: after a weekend in jail are where prosecutors showed he was pepper sprayed, punched and mistreated, he was brought to the central state mental facility on march 6 where authorities allege he became combative. >> in the videos are never confrontational with them. he is not posing a threat to

them. he's not violent or aggressive with them. >> reporter: in court this week, an early glimpse of the potential defense. one lawyer citing this. >> the on going issues that he had been -- that they had been ag having with this individual with regards to disorderly conduct, with regards to his aggression, with regards to his resistance -- >> reporter: but his family says what he needed was help. what do you want to see happen to the deputies? >> justice. i would like them put away if you ask me, for life. they don't see the light of day again h what they did to my son was horrific. horrific. >> we reached out to the central state hospital mental facility for their response. we have not heard back. we have also reached out to the attorneys identified so far for the deputy's charged in this

case. we've only heard back from one of them that told us the client looks forward to being vindicated in court. >> yeah. we'll see what the evidence shows. brian todd, thank you. now to the weather. portions of the gulf, gulf coast bracing for strong storms today. it comes after dozens of powerful storms have pelted the region bringing hail in some cases as large as three inches in diameter. we have to get now to chad meyers. chad, you've been busy this week as well. you and christine romans have had a week. what is going on here? >> you know, the storms that were in texas are now to a place that is very close to your heart, baton rouge. we're not talking about severe weather. certainly thunder and lightning. get inside when the lightning is out there. this is the weather yesterday. 49 reports of hail. nun r nine reports bigger than two inches. here's a clementine in parts of texas. that's how big this hail was. and in ft. worth, we were talking bigger than that.

three inch hailstones. weatherford, ft. worth, that's where the weather was yesterday. today it is further to the south and not as severe. there may be a land falling water spout. there may be still something with some wind down there. but today has calmed down significantly compared to yesterday. there will be some showers in big cities that want to celebrate st. patrick's day today. maybe take ab umbrella or a poncho or whatever you do to stay dry. >> yeah. pack your green coat. i did wear green overcoat today. >> weathermen can't wear green because we disappear. >> neither of us wore green today. but i do -- i'll show you. i can get my green coat. >> i had a green suit on wednesday. >> that is good enough. thanks, chad. >> you know, it is a four letter word that is quite the tongue twister for some republicans. we're unpacking the word woke and what it could mean heading into the 2024 race. also, republican members of

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we'll end woke. wokeness is a virus more violent than any pandemic. >> they were the most woke banks in the quest for the esg type policy. >> i think it's all because of the woke mind virus. it is warping people. >> we'll never, ever surrender to the woke mob. our state is where woke goes to die. >> the culture wars is over weakness. politicians and media figures blame wokeness for everything from censorship to bank failures. what exactly does it mean to be woke? that means to be -- that term seems to be hard to define, really even for some of the greatest opponents. watch this clip of conservative columnist struggling with that question. here it is. >> would you define woke?

it came up a couple times. i want to make sure we're on the same page. >> so -- i mean, woke is -- sort of the idea that, um, i -- this is going to be one of those moment t moments that goes viral. woke is very hard to defun. >> that was -- our cnn political commentator joins us and communications director from the white house. we've all been on live television. you lose your train of thought. someone truzies to help you outn the moment. it happens. but that was a tough moment, don't you think? >> well and sound like the core of one of the arguments she is making in a book she writes. so woke is kind of become -- remember the dress? you either saw it in blue or white? it means something to certain people. there is a webster's definition of it which is being in touch with. >> yeah. >> and caring about social

justice causes and actively involved in them. but to the other half of the country, let's call it, that means something completely different. i do see why it has been a valuable and energizing rallying cry for the conserve tough base. i think how it is generally interpreted is to mean, you know, it's more of a fear of cancel culture. a lot of people say if i say something that is even slightly off the woke mob is going to come and get me. however, it's now turned into something where everything is woke. banks are woke. esg is woke. >> i disagree. i don't think it's a blue and white dress. it came to michael brown who covered this. i know it's something that has been co-opted by conservatives and people running for office. it gets a very big response from people like crt, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. >> yeah. that's definitely right. i'm not sure that -- i this i that word has become devoid of meaning if you use them for everything. this is such a catch all term. i think we're much better as

republicans when we're leaning into something like cancel culture. it is tangible. people get it f i say one word that is unpopular or i misuse the proper phrase, even if my heart is in the right place, your career could be over. that is a valid fight that resonates with people. the wokism is getting a term from another community and trying to make it a catch all phrase for things that bother you about the direction of culture. >> i think it's worth noting that republicans even view it differently. not all republicans are using it in the same way. like we've seen, you know, governor desantis use it. we've seen governor sarah sanders in arkansas use it. they say it is a candidate that is running for the republican nomination for president. interviewed him recently. he wrote a whole book called woke inc on this. i asked him to define how he sees it. >> i'm going define it in neutral terms. no the in critical terms. being woke refers to becoming alert, to invisible societal injustices based on inherited

characteristics like race, sex, and sexual orientation and then being called upon to act on those injustices using whatever potential legal means are necessary including the market to do it. that's a neutral definition that even most proponents of wokism in the united states would agree with. my criticism of this is i think it's inherently divisive to say we're nothing more than the characteristics we inherit on the day we're born. that divides us on the basis of race and sex and sexual orientation. and then when that merges with capitalism which i've been the biggest critic of, we lose the apolitical sanctuary in our economy that brings usz together whether we're black or white, democrat or republican. >> he's essentially saying don't just use it as a tool. present an alternative, affirmative action, vision to it. >> i mean that is probably a better definition than i've seen among most republicans. even so, i think it goes further than anything that translates into tangible policy. i take issue with, you know, ron

desantis is making this a focal point of his soon to come campaign. what does it mean to you? is it the war with disney? is it a war with dei and esg or is it more about cultural norms and the way that we interact with the people around us. >> he's wrong on that. it is not about defining people for a characteristic. it is become aware. it is being aware of issues that have to do with minorities, destruction of the country, have to do with women. issues that have to do with any marginalized community. it's not defuning ining people. it's 5:00 ware of the structural injustices and trying to be better. i think that he's wrong on that. i always tell my friends who, you know, use woke. i'm like, don't use that word. you know, there are certain words, like, it's not a good look. >> if i could be honest, republican voter and a base voter, i don't care about this. >> it is -- i do see why it

polls well. i don't think it's going to last. like, if -- >> you don't? >> it works in a republican primary. but then we're going have the nature of our country is something that is going to happen that requires you to care and be attentive to social injustices. then it's once again going to be envogue to be woke. i don't think it's a lasting argument. >> i want to switch topics slightly to move on to pence. y you used to work for the vice president. he came under criticism for a comment he made about pete buttigieg. he was criticizing him for taking paternity leave. and pete buttigieg's husband said it flies in the face of what he is, family values person. pence did not apologize. he said not only can putbuttigi do his job, he can't take a job. >> did it surprise you that pence went there with that? >> i asked about it recently. i didn't think the joke landed. i thought the maternity part of it particularly bothered me.

it's a father. it's also women that had to fight a lot for getting, you know, pawed family leave and those things. the joke didn't land. i also think at the same time we've been to that event. it is a roast. there were anti-lgbtq undertones to it which i don't think is wise for pence who has to make end roads with that community if he wants to be a general election candidate. but it was a joke that didn't land. >> and he has to make end roads with that community because of his history of -- >> correct. >> -- as governor of indiana. >> you would know. >> and also now running for office what he said about the lgbtq community and the conversion therapy as well. not wanting to put things into law. we shouldn't encourage this behavior and for people that want to change that type of behavior -- >> i remind my party, 67% of republicans believe in rights to support and protect the lgbtq community. yet we keep boosting politicians who seem to be going backward on

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march madness has officially begun! there is nothing more fun than carefully filling oit ut your bracket and then losing to a co-worker that pronounces ucla uckla. >> i know more than him.

>> you do. >> the crimson tide did advance to the second round of the tournament. there were huge upsets that busted millions of brackets on day one. andy shoals breaks it down for us. >> what is uckla doing? >> it wasn't even sun down on day one and president biden's bracket is broken. he had arizona winning it all. >> if you're president biden or anyone that had arizona this is what your bracket looks like this morning. it's red xs all over it. and you're in for a tournament of sadness now. you have no chance of winning your pool or competition if that's what your bracket looks like. filling out a perfect bracket is impossible, right? out of the tens of millions of brackets that were filled out this year, this is it. 787. the only ones that remain perfect according to ncaa.com. and that's because we saw so many crazy things happen yesterday including an all time great win by the fuhrman

palatins. >> clark. gets it in if. gets it back. with ten. clark. double-teamed along the baseline. throws up and intercepted. for three! and the win! he got it! with 2.2 to go. >> incredible virginia fans in shock of what they just saw. check out this furman fan. praying every single prayer she knew hoping her team would win. and they did. furman, smallest school in the tournament, less than 2700 students knocking off virginia 68 huff 67. greenville, south carolina, making the pick to march madness in 43 years. they're moving on to the second round. but furman wasn't the biggest upset of the day. princeton, they took the lead on two seed arizona with two minutes to go. and then the wild cats didn't score in the final four minutes and 45 seconds of the game. tigers just a massive upset there.

this is the third straight year and 11th time overall 15th seed is able to beat a number two seed in the first round. i want to say i told you so. i told you so. i said you have to be top 40 offense and top 22 defense. these are the only teams that can win now. they're close. all of these teams are still alive. or haven't played yet. who was it on here i said? arizona. i also showed you this map. since 1997. every single champion was east of this line going down the middle. where is arizona? they're over here. so it's not looking good again for the west coast, guys. they only have ucla and gonzaga over there left. texas on the other side of the line as well. we'll see what happens. we should be in for more chaos later today. >> i'm not going to start -- i know. i'm not going to start an sec champ. i would like to. even biden's bracket is busted. he had arizona winning it all.

>> yeah. not good. not good. you had arizona winning it all. >> that's your answer. not good? >> that's rough. that's rough. >> and who are you watching today? >> well, you know, today, let's see. you got purdue in action as a one seed. and then -- you know, there are a lot more potential upsets today. miami versus drake. a lot of people like drake as a 12 seed. indiana versus kent state. they have a lot of veterans on that team. that's a situation we could have a 13 and 12 moving on. those are games i'm excited to watch. and, of course, you know, you can't go wrong with any of the games especially early. michigan state in action. >> i thought drake was canadian? >> oh, boy, don. oh, boy. don is going to win the bracket, you watch. >> andy shoals, my favorite time of year. thank you so much. >> all right. we'll take you outside now. this is a live look at sunny

isles beach, florida. a large stretch of seaweed has hit barbados already. it is threatening the ecosystem and the tourism industry. scientists are worried about the environmental and the health impact as it invades coasts along the caribbean and heads to florida. let's get straight now to our reporter live in key west. so, listen, it sounds weird and funny. but this is actually very serious. the we're seeing a massive bloom of seaweed. what is causing this? >> yeah. listen. here it s here is some of that stinky seaweed that you just mentioned here. scientists have been tracking this particular patch of it since 2011. they say this year it could be coming in record numbers. we could see the largest bloom yet coming this way and it could be a new normal.

>> it's thick in the summer time. build up and smells terrible. >> joe captured the images about a week ago. massive amounts of seaweed washing up at the beach, a beach he knows well because he walks it several times a week. >> i was shocked when i saw that day where it wasn't even spring yet. it still winter. that is very unusual. and this is the 5,000 mile long. >> professor who is one of the leading experts on what many have referred to as a massive blob of seaweed heading to florida's coast. fair to call it a blob? >> nope. >> we can't call it a blob. okay. >> i'll never call that a blob. >> why? >> because it's not. >> satellite images show it's not one massive body of seaweed, rather, a punch of patchy clumps traveling from west africa. it is called the atlantic sargasam belt and a natural phenomenon.

right now it is twice the width of the u.s. carrying six million tons of seaweed. >> in june this year, it may turn into 20 million pounds. so this, what we're seeing is six million tons and it's going to get bigger? >> yes. there is no way to stop that. this is nature. no one can stop a hurricane. >> should we be worried about that? >> nope. >> why? >> the reason is it's not toxic. >> but it smells bad. it's a nuisance for those trying to keep beaches clean to tract tourists, just a few years ago here's what it looked like in mexico. officials in monroe county which include the florida keys have set aside more than $200,000 to clean and remove this from the beaches. >> seaweed is a mixed blessing. we need it. seaweed is a nursery for all these large fish. the negative sued to that seaweed is it comes in the concentrations that are believed we're going to see, our fishing grounds are going to become

completely covered. we're spepding the entire day cleaning weed off our lines. >> as the belt heads towards florida -- another natural phenomenon is already hitting its beaches on the west coast. red tide. it can be toxic, kill fish and cause respiratory issues. this year's concerns were enough to cancel one major event where one family visited told us -- >> as soon as my son and i husband got out of the car, we all started coughing. >> but for spring breakers like this group from iowa, the keshz of massive amounts of seaweed or red tide were not enough to change vacation plans. >> i would rather it be red tide than raining every day. >> tourists noting friends back home -- >> they're jealous regardless of having a little bit of the red tide symptoms. they'd be jealous that we're here and they're not. >> the pristine beaches of the sunshine state are hard to resist for many, despite what may be looming off shore. >> and, don, take a look. you can see they're actually cleaning the beaches.

something they do normally every day. but, yeah, they're going to be pretty busy if this seaweed comes up to keep the clean beaches. scientists will tell you they have somewhat of an understanding of the currents and the tide that move this stuff around. still, more research is needed to be able to forecast it. and there is concern that if we try to, you know, quote, fix it or find a solution, it's the ecosystem. there could be unintended consequences here. when i asked him what the best recommendation was? avoid it. don? >> wow. that would really throw a drag into -- it's a drag for summer. one of the joys of summer is being able to go to the beach. thank you. appreciate that. all right. it is being called the selfie effect. how picture perfect photo shosh shopped posts are impacting he people's mental health. including that of young girls. sanjay gupta is here to explain next.

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many of you -- how many of you have caught yourself scrolling through social media being inundated with picture perfect images. go the to get it right believe it or not, there is a name for it. it is called selfie -- the selfie effect. not surprisingly, it can have a huge impact on your mood and psychological health, sliespeciy young female users. dr. sanjay gupta explores this phenomenon. i'm sure his daughters have a lot to do with this. dr. sanjay gupta joins us. the did your daughters influence you on this? >> good morning. absolutely. i think it's the reason that i did this season was because of -- i never included my daughters. i have three teenage daughters. i never included them in

anything i did in the media. but this issue of social media and selfies and all that was something that, you know, it's talked about all the time. i learned a lot. which i know is your question. let me say this. this idea that the selfie effect, it's really interesting. first of all, it's a term that was coined by a professor sinclair mcbreide at harvard. it has to do with the idea that we're constantly looking it at the selfies of ourselves, people take a lot of selfies, and comparing them then to these really remarkable photo shopped filtered image that's we see on social media quite a bit. so there is this constant comparison that is happening between ourselves and between these, you know, basically unfathomable images. it can lead to feelings, changes in the brain, people feeling inadequate, requiring more dopamine in order to get the same satisfaction from your own looks. it's really interesting.

and we're just so inundated with it. people know the photo shop and the filters and all that exist. and they're aware that they're hooking at images that have been heavily filtered, yet, they still cannot help but compare their own images to those other images and that's leading to this selfie effect as professor mcbride describes it. >> that's amazing. it changes the chemistry. it altered the chemistry this in your brain. i have a little sister. she is 16 years old. my brother is 19 now. i think about this and the effect it had on them. up with thing i think is difficult for parents is how to talk to their kids about it. parents did not grow up with instagram at age 12. they didn't go through that experience. this is the first generation that is living through that. so what are parents supposed to do here? >> well, you know, it's interesting. first of all, so my kids are your siblings age, first of all. i'm dealing with this as a parent. a lot of times i look at my own experience. we did not have this growing up. but we did have, you know, m

magazines and there is always this sort of unattainable imagery that we're surrounded with. that's always been there. what has changed, kaitlan, i think over the last 10, 15 years is that we're now completely inundated with it. so you're carrying around this device in your hand. you may have had a mad digazine the past, now there is a constant abundance of images and persistent. abundance and persistence of the images really makes all the difference. you just can't get away from it. there is also something else. when you look at the filters, for example, they are -- and really dissect them and try to understand what do the filters do? they are creating a conformity of images as well. i asked the professor sinclair mcbride about this. >> a lot of the filters kind of have a very euro centric lens.

it would be better if they didn't change how big the eyes are or change the noses and make them to a certain standard of beauty that may not be from the culture that they're from. right? like i think that would be really clutch. it would be nice if when you put a filter on it's like you're beautiful as you are. but you can play with this if you want. this is a tool. something that is here. but also this picture of you without the filter is also really cool. >> i learned something. i learned so many things from this poed dcast. the idea that filters create this edthnocentrism. it changes the face to create this conformity is what professor sinclair-mcbride was saying. it's true. also to your point, kaitlan this idea as a parent or maybe even as an older sib liling to continuously remind people and my kids in this case, they're beautiful the way they are.

they'll roll their eyes at you as i found. dad, of course you have to say that. but they remember it. they remember it. >> it's true. >> it makes a difference. >> it is true. it is true, sanjay. i'm so glad. i can't wait to listen to this. i notice that these filters, why are these sort of european sort of projection of, you know, narrow nose or whatever, lighter eyes. that has always been frustrating for me. but when i tell my nieces -- even, you know, people i know, gosh, you're so beautiful without the makeup and all that. right? beautiful with it. but it's just weird performing at the oscars with no makeup. right on, lady gaga. that's amazing. >> no filter. >> no filter can be a role model for kbyoung people. >> i can't wait to listen either. it's such a good note. >> make sure your younger

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country's history. the district superintendent and board of trustees are expected to be replaced by a new board appointed by the state commissioner of education and there is were concern that the new leaders may not reflect the city's ethnic and racial diversity. now, the move comes just weeks after the state supreme court ruled that the state can remove district officials if their schools fail to meet certain standards. we are talking to talk about this. the president of the texas state teachers association joining us. thank you for joining us. i appreciate it. >> appreciate it. good morning, don. >> you just heard from the officials there. specifically, the governor calling this a failure on the part of the school district. how do you respond to that? >> i say he failed all of our schools by underfunding them. he is part of the problem and should step aside so the school district can continue to get better. >> in an op-ed in the "houston

chronicle" the democratic state representative that authored the amendment to the bill allowing the state to take over hisd writes he has no regrets. when a student fails once, you there are consequences. when the district fails at least five consecutive times, there should be consequences. hisd failed. you say what? >> we said that 94% of the schools in hisd are performing a, b or c. this is something where you are punishing the whole for a small number. and hisd has made strides. we went from a 50-school -- 50 schools with d or f ratings to only ten. the superintendent currently has a five-year plan he is not yet at a two-year into. so if we are going in the direction where we want to be going in hisd, why stop the

momentum now? >> you believe that there is momentum, there was momentum being had and you said that a small number are punishing the whole. explain that because the scores are not good. >> well, and in texas we're graded by the star test. our schools are graded by the star test and performance. we know our students are not standardized. a standardized test should not tell you everything about what the students or schools are doing. it should be one thing that is taken into account. currently, in texas if a child fails the star test, then everything that they have done for the whole year gets wiped out. and that's not fair. >> yeah. well, listen, you are talking about the star is scores which are standardized scores on hisd's website. we have the most recent. they scored 10 points or more lower than the state average.

>> yeah. and as i said before, these are schools that have about underfunded by the state for many, many years. instead of wrapping around services with our schools that are struggling, instead of pouring into our students a little bit more and listening to educators to see what will actually help with our students, the state wants to just tell us what to do without really looking at what the student needs, which is what we do. >> and i wonder if you think this is political because many officials are calling this move political. houston is a democratic majority city. the state leadership, including abbott, are republican. houston clash with abbott and others during the pandemic over masks and the school reopening plans there. do you think this is a political move? >> there is definitely something going on because we are taking the rights of elected board members away. we are doing away with an elected school board and making an appointment. and these people that are going to be coming into the board of

managers don't have to have an education background. we are working with trying to help an education system. why wouldn't we listen to educators and want community input? our schools need to be poured into and not attacked. our governor is taking the wrong approach, as usual. there is no plan that we know of. our parents, our students are in spring break right now, so they have no idea what's going on let alone the he had ceducators in hisd. >> we appreciate you coming back. thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. the cavaliers are playing with four guards and the four guards out there along with shedrick the best free throw shooters. clark in a straitjacket. >> he threw it away! ooh!