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there is a deep connection formed because there is so much common understanding of the challenges that go on with brain injury. the changes i see most after people with tbi practice yoga are probably a deeper connection to self. helping them sult straight greater awareness and self-compassion allows them to meet the constant changes so much more. >> for more on adam's work go to cnnheroes.com. while there nominate your own hero. thank you for joining us this friday. thank you for being here. >> my pleasure. enjoy your weekend. >> thanks. i will be off monday. >> well-deserved. i will see you tuesday. everyone have a safe memorial day, cnn "news central" is now.
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the race is on. run for the holiday weekend, but not before we tell you how jammed the roads and skies are. new data just released on crowded airports. a dress rehearsal for obstruction. a new report says mar-a-lago employees moved boxes of papers the day before the fbi searched trump's home for classified documents, and they allegedly held a practice session weeks before. what the fbi is now investigating. and the terrifying moments captured on camera after a passenger opens an emergency exit door mid flight. the incredible video from inside that plane. we are following these major developing stories and many more right here on cnn "news central". it's 9:00 a.m. do you know where your holiday weekend is? it is on.
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let us be your guide through the fun and frustration and maybe the other "f" words in what looks like could be a historic holiday rush. this is a live look at reagan national airport. air travel is expected to be up by at least 11%, 3.4 million people are set to fly and brand-new numbers just into cnn, more than 2.6 millio points yesterday, that is a post pandemic high, besting a record that stood for six full days. 250,000 more people than last year, overall this could be the third busiest holiday in more than two decades. cnn's aviation correspondent pete muntean braving the crowds at reagan national airport. pete, what are you seeing this morning? >> reporter: you know, it's a huge test now for the airlines and the numbers are actually maybe a bit higher than the conservative estimate by the tsa that we would see 10 million people in total screened at
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airports nationwide between yesterday and memorial day on monday, especially given that big number that you just mentioned, 2.66 million people screened at airports nationwide yesterday, we have seen numbers wednesday, monday, those were actually bigger than the same day back in 2019 before the pandemic. now the number to beat is the 2.88 million person record set back on thanksgiving 2019. we will see if they get that high. what is so interesting here is that memorial day last year really kicked off the summer of cancellations for the airlines, between memorial day and labor day airlines canceled about 55,000 flights. the tsa insists it's ready this time around, the airports insist they're ready this time around and airlines insist they're ready this time around with right staff, they'ved a..edded about 48,000 workers, also right size, operating fewer flights using larger airliplanes.
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listen to pan injuries who say the meltdowns of last summer still top of mind for them. >> i know it can get frustrating but it doesn't help when people have meltdowns and you're trying to get where you're going. and then the delays. delays have mainly been the hard thing. >> it is absolutely in the back of my mind but i'm keeping my fingers crossed that i got home without a hitch. >> reporter: airlines say that the fear of delays for them is really coming from the federal government because air traffic control operated by the faa still shot about 3,000 people, down from optimal staffing in the past. you know, what's really interesting here, though, is that it's really brushed off by transportation secretary pete buttigieg who insists the top driver of delays is really extreme weather and the faa is warning that could happen today in florida and denver where we could see ground stops later on, although so far so good, john. the delays and cancellations pretty low.
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in the u.s. delays in the hundreds, cancellations still in the dozens. i just heard from somebody who went through this line here at reagan national airport, only took her 11 minutes to get through pre check. things going pretty smooth so far. >> these are my fingers crossed for everyone trying to get somewhere. i always wonder, pete, people rushing around trying to get to their destination how psyched they are to be pulled aside by a reporter asking them questions about how it's going so far. but you're so kind, i would talk to you. great to see you. keep us posted on how the day goes, thank you. he got recognized today, he is the mayor of reagan national airport. >> it depends on the reporter. good to see pete. it's not just airports that will be busy because according korgd to aaa more than 37 million americans will hit the roads this memorial day weekend. cnn reporter matt egan here with the details. sounds like a lot. how do the numbers compare to last year? >> happy friday, rahel. listen, just like the skies the
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roads are going to be busy as summer kicks off. aaa says a 6% increase in road travel this memorial day weekend, but i am here with some good news because despite the rising demand the cost of road trips is actually going down. drivers are being greeted by cheaper gas prices this year, much cheaper, the national average is $3.57 a gallon, down by more than a gallon from the $4.60 years ago, miles away from the record high last june of $5.02 a gallon. gasbuddy says drivers in all 50 states are seeing lower gas prices, some of them a lot lower. in california the average is down by $1.31, new york, new jersey, florida all down by more than $1.20 from a year ago.
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now, this is all evidence of the cost of living getting better. i mean, this inflation crisis isn't quite over, but it is easing. we should note that gas prices were cheaper in 2021 during that memorial day weekend and of course in 2020 when covid was shutting the economy down. also the reasons for this drop in gas prices, it's not all positive. some of it is good news like improved supply, but also it's those recession fears that have lowered oil prices and oil is the main driver of gas prices. still people are going to save a lot of money. gasbuddy projects americans are going to spend $1.6 billion less on gasoline this memorial day weekend than last and, rahel, that is undeniably good news. >> certainly. i remember last year, matt egan, you and i were both talking about that $5 a gallon gas.
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matt egan, thank you. a barrage of rockets hit a medical clinic in dnipro, ukraine, overnight. the attack killed at least two people and hurt 23 others including two children. video from the scene, just look at it, shows emergency responders battling the fire that engulfed the three-story building. cnn's sam kiley is in eastern ukraine with more on this strike. >> reporter: once again a night of bombardment from russia involving cruise missiles and drones has taken civilian lives, this time in dnipro. several missing following this bombardment which hit a neurological clinic. now, it could have been a lot worse, potentially with the attacks in the past have been focused on residential buildings with much higher death tolls, a number of people, more than a dozen reportedly injured in this latest attack as the ukrainians have been accused of continuing cross-border bomb pardon mts
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from their northern border area into the russian province of belgorod, this is a claim being made by the russian governor there. that would be consistent in the past where the ukrainians are hitting back at cross-border artillery strikes they have been suffering for more than a year from that same area and on top of that there has been a mysterious strike deeper into russia with a fire at a facility with neither side really explaining what has gone on there. but the ukrainians are conducting a destabilizing campaign, intended to keep the russians off balance as they get under way with what may be the early stages of their summer offensive. sam kiley, cnn in eastern ukraine. >> sam kiley, thank you so much. john? so this morning the indiana medical licensing board says it will sanction the doctor who provided abortion services to a 10-year-old rape victim last year. this all happened the day after the supreme court overturned roe
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v. wade and ended the federal right to abortion. the indiana board found dr. bernard violated privacy laws by discussing the case with a reporter. with us athena jones. why don't you walk us through what happened here. >> good morning, john. this is all about an interview that dr. caitlin bernard gave to the indy star which is the biggest paper in the state and the state and the attorney general issued a complaint -- filed a complaint saying she had violated privacy laws. so this is what this medical licensing board was discussing yesterday. this was a very long hearing, 14 plus hours, and what they found was that she violated three counts -- or she's liable on three counts of violating patient privacy laws, they fined her $3,000, she will get a letter of reprimand, this is important, she will be allowed to continue practicing medicine. now, one of the big issues here was did she violate privacy laws. under hipaa, that's the federal
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law that protects a patient's data, there are 18 so-called examples of protected health information. this doctor told the reporter about this young girl's age, the state she was living in, the fact that she was pregnant and the gestational age of her f fetus. her side argued that none of that is listed under the protected health information that can't be shared. the other side presented a hipaa expert that argued differently. this is how the board came down in the end. listen to one of the doctors on the board explaining why they made the decision they made. >> my reason to recommend a letter of reprimand would be that i don't think she expected this to go viral. i don't think she expected this attention to be brought to this patient. i do think that we as physicians need to be more careful in this situation and so my reason would be that i think she's a good
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doctor. >> and so just to recap the state's expert on these privacy laws said by dr. bernard saying this was a 10-year-old from ohio who was pregnant, the fetus a little over six weeks in gestational age, that that was enough information to identify this child. the state prevailed on that argument. >> what else are you hearing, athena? >> well, we know that dr. bernard is not happy with this result. this is the first time she's ever been reprimanded in any way by the state's medical board and she maintains she did not violate privacy laws and did not violate her hospital's policies. here is what the state attorney general had to say in part, this is from the state attorney general. he said this case was about patient privacy and the trust between the doctor and patient that was broken. what if it was your child or your patient or your sibling who was going through a sensitive medical crisis and the doctor who you thought was on your side ran to the press for political reasons. it's not right and the facts we
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presented today make that clear. so a victory for the state in this case, she does get a reprimand, she is allowed to continue practicing and they did not find her liable on counts like this idea that she didn't report the child abuse in the proper way in the proper time frame. she won on those points, but that is the ultimate result of this 14-hour-plus hearing. >> athena jones, thank you very much for that. coming up on cnn "news central," a imagine being on a flight when someone opens the door midair. this actually happened and coming up we have the video and the disturbing details. plus, a new warning to beachgoers in several east coast towns, watch out for sharks this weekend. what you need to know before getting in the ocean. and later, screens and cheers from new college grads in boston after a very big surprise. we will show you what prompt this had reaction coming up.
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on our radar this hour, pope francis has just announced that he's canceling all of his meetings today due to a fever. that's according to the vatican. no further detail waaled for br. he is 86 years old. we're also watching this today, an investigation by the u.s. navy has wrapped and has now found inadequate medical screening and uninformed medical staff contributed to the death of a navy s.e.a.l. candidate. kyle mullen died in february of last year hours after he had finished a brutal part of the training course. it's known as hell week and during the training apparently suffered respiratory issues, but that information was not passed on to the navy's medical staff -- medical clinic so they concluded he was not at risk. the navy was revamped medical oversight during hell week and is requiring medical screenings every 24 hours. then there's also this, it
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was a big surprise for the graduating seniors at the university of massachusetts boston as diplomas were being handed out yesterday commencement speaker rob hale announced he was giving each graduate $1,000. it was broken into two envelopes for each person, hale said that the first $500 was a gift to each student, a celebration for all of them and how they got to this day. and the second $500 he said was for the students to give to someone else, an organization or a cause who could use it more than them. rahel? sort.kay. terrifying moments in the skies above south korea today. investigators are a door on thi in the middle of the flight. just as the plane was about to land. incredible. you can see the terrifying
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passengers gripping their seats in the exit row as wind whipped through the cabin. an official for the airline said a man in the exit row appeared to open the door while the plane was 700 feet in the area. he was arrested by local officials after the plane handed. paula hancocks joins us now. it sounds like a nightmare. how did this happen? >> reporter: well, rahel, is really is every traveler's worst nightmare. the way that they say this happened was when they were coming in to land there are about two or three minutes away from landing on this very short flight, it was less than an hour long and they were about 700 feet in the air. now, they say a man in his 30s who was sitting in the emergency row opened the door. e exactly what happened from that video. the strong gusts of wind coming through the air there. now, we have heard from aviation experts, they believe that technically it wasn't possible to open the door when the plane
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is still in the air, so there are many questions as to how this was even able to happen. now, we did hear from some passengers who were on board at the time, one woman said that it appeared as how he was trying to get off, saying that she heard the air stewardess shout help, help, and about ten people gathered around and pulled him back in. now, the police have arrested this individual, he is being investigated by police and by the government at this point. they say that he has confessed to opening the door, but hasn't given any kind of reason for doing so. one policeman who was questioned was saying to journalists that he didn't seem in a very good mental state, they weren't able to speak to him properly and certainly that will be something that they will be looking into very closely as to why exactly this happened. now, there were 200 people on board, passengers and crew, 12 of them were treated for hyperventilation, nine of them within a hospital, but all the injuries were minor according to officials.
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now, it was an airbus plane, we have just had a statement from airbus saying, quote, we are looking into circumstances of this incident. aircraft doors can usually only be opened upon touchdown. so it is a terrifying end to a very short flight for these passengers and some very important questions waiting to be answered. rahel? >> certainly important questions. paula, thank you. john, as good a reminder as any to keep your seat belt on. >> totally scary stuff there. new reporting this morning from the "washington post" that two of donald trump's employees moved boxes of documents at mar-a-lago last june just one day before fbi agents arrived to get classified records in response to a subpoena. investigators reportedly view the timing as an indication of possible obstruction, at least that's what they're investigating. the post is also reporting that trump and his aides allegedly carried out what investigators referred to as a dress rehearsal for moving sensitive papers before he received that may
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subpoena. with us now is a former federal prosecutor and criminal defense attorney. if we can put the calendar up so people can see what we're talking about here, the visit from the investigators and prosecutors to pick up the classified documents to serve the subpoena, which i think you will be able to see on the calendar here was june 3rd. the day before that on june 2nd is when these documents were moved. why is that significant according to the "washington post," i should say? >> sure. this is an obstruction investigation and i think the bigger question here is really the status of these documents but barring the fact that there may be an open question about the classification status and that's something that ultimately the supreme court will have to weigh in on, this is an obstruction investigation when there is a known investigation that's going on by the feds if people take actions to interfere with that in any way, like moving documents that they know that the feds are seeking, then that is very strong evidence that there could be obstruction charges coming, whether that's for donald trump himself or for other people who are involved with that, but, again, this is a very complicated area because it
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was a former president that had these documents and, therefore, the status of them remains a very open question at this point legally speaking. >> the status of them does remain a separate question but that might -- an important question but might be a separate question here. if you know that people are coming to serve a subpoena or execute i should say a subpoena on one day and then you move stuff the day before, that could be problematic because? >> sure. and that absolutely could be the basis of an obstruction prosecution. i think when we are talking about the fed seeking documents, you're still going to get to the underlying question about the validity of their search and whether there was basis for them to seek those records, but here because there was obviously the open question about the status of them, i think that that's absolutely a very strong basis for an obstruction prosecution, maybe even regardless of the status of those documents. >> that's my point. i do know it's rare to prosecute on obstruction if there is no
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what is called other underlying crime, but in a vacuum you can, correct? >> you absolutely can, it's just a matter of proving intent in some cases and so when you don't have the proof of, quote, unquote, an underlying crime then often you're going to lack some of the intent you're going to need to show that the obstruction was a criminal act. so when you're talking about proof beyond a reasonable doubt these are the kind of considerations that the prosecutors have to look at. so here the only way to get these answers is for files -- or charges to be filed and for the case to be looked at, probably ultimately by the supreme court because we are talking about a former president. so, yes, absolutely you can prosecute, but there's questions about the prove ability of the intent in some of those cases. >> talk toe me more about intent and how you would prove intent if you are the special counsel's office. >> when you are talking about intent you have to show that there is an intent to commit a criminal act -- >> or that you know that what you're doing is a criminal act, correct? >> sure, that you know what you're doing is a criminal act
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and that what you're doing is to further that criminal act. people may take actions that may seem similar but when talking about proving intent in a criminal court that's the nuanced part of the case that needs to be looked at. people can move boxes but if there is a clear claim to i own these boxes the federal government can't come into my house, execute a search warrant because they think they might mind something on me, i'm allowed to do that. but if there's a question about whether my actions are within the realm of the law or not that's where you're going to have those differentiations. so it's a very difficult case on a prosecutorial side when you don't have proof -- clear proof of an underlying crime but it's not an impossible case. here because we are talking about a former president, i keep saying that, but that is nothing that the supreme court has ever weighed in on in terms of the classification status of documents kept by a former president because there is no specific process in place and i know that that's something people have disputed, but there's been no court that's weighed in on t we don't know what that will look like when it
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happening now, airports across the united states are seeing the busiest memorial day weekend in years. new data release add few minutes ago shows more people passed through airports yesterday than at any time since thanksgiving of 2019. and today is supposed to be even busier. ukrainian officials say at least two people died after a russian air strike on a medical facility in dnipro. according to officials, 23 people were injured in the strike, including a 6 and a 3-year-old. ukrainian military officials say they downed several of the 17 cruise missiles and 31 attack drones used in the latest round of attacks. kate? the best way to put the state of play on the debt ceiling is potentially the following, there are some signs of progress, some hints that they're getting closer to agreement, but honestly that can change in a nanosecond. what hasn't changed is the real
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fear of what happens after june 1st, that's the earliest estimated date that the treasury may not be able to pay the government's bills. cnn's arlette saenz is tracking this for us from the white house, joins us now. arlette, what are you hearing from there at this point this morning? >> reporter: well, kate, i think what's clear this morning is that these negotiators are really racing up against the clock when it comes to trying to secure an agreement. really with these next 24 to 48 hours serving as a critical time period for that. president biden has said that he does believe they can get to an agreement, but so far there is not a clear deal in sight. there are contours of what an agreement could potentially look like, including increasing the debt ceiling for two years and pairing that with spending caps for that same length of time. but there's still a number of sticking points when it comes to spending levels and other issues that are taking place in these negotiations at this very moment. but one thing that the president and the white house have
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repeatedly tried to hammer away at is stressing the point that congress needs to act in this moment and that it's only legislative options that are available when it comes to raising the debt ceiling. some progressives have pressed the president to use the 14th amendment to raise the debt ceiling on his own, but this morning the treasury secretary was very emphatic in saying that that option is a no go. take a listen. >> 14th amendment can't solve our challenges now. >> is that a no? >> so the question was whether the united states would use the 14th amendment and i think the president and the secretary have been very clear that that will not solve our problems now, so, yes, that is a no. >> reporter: now, negotiators are expected to continue speaking throughout the day. president biden for his part is set to depart for camp david a little bit later this evening. the white house has defended that decision, saying that he can address and work on these issues from anywhere, but it's
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very clear that these negotiators are heading into a very serious time crunch, especially when you take a look at the legislative calendar. >> absolutely. it's great to see you, arlette. thank you so much. let's see what happens truly in the next minutes and hours from the white house while we wait for that let's go straight to capitol hill, that's where cnn's lauren fox is standing by. lauren, haven't moth lawmakers left town already? and then my next question is, is that a good sign or a bad sign? >> reporter: well, kate, it is a sign that it's memorial day weekend, lawmakers had plans in their districts and the reality is the people in the room are patrick mchenry, garret graves, white house negotiators, they are all still going to be working around the clock. if a deal comes together, they can call lawmakers back to washington, get them back here within 24 hours. it's just a good reminder even if a deal comes together in the next few days, lawmakers on the republican said still are going
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to get three days to read over that legislation so that gives them a little bit of a window and some flexibility. there is still a lot of concern about some of those outstanding issues. there's also growing concern from conservatives and from progressives that the deal that is starting to take shape, the deal that they are making progress toward, it just may not be something that everyone can back. and that was always going to be the reality, but democrats especially are warning the white house that they cannot take their votes for granted, the democrats had a caucus meeting yesterday where they addressed some of these issues, there was a phone call last night between steve ricchetti and hakeem jeffries just trying to reinforce once again that this is a deal that still has to get the votes. i think that we've been talking a lot about what the contours of a deal with, when a deal could come together, but it's also important to remember that's just the first step. they have to pass it out of the house of representatives, they have to pass it out of the senate, which could take some time, if any one senator objects
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to moving forward on a time agreement. so that just gives you a sense that, yes, time is running short. potentially there's going to be a lot of work to do to get the votes needed to get this through the house or the senate. arlette brought up a good point, the 14th amendment appears to be off the table in the white house's mind so this means the only path forward is getting a deal and passing it through congress. >> to get to the final step you have to take the first step, getting to an agreement. thank you very much. i do also wonder, kate, about the possibility of announcing a deal on friday evening of a holiday weekend if that takes maybe some of the pressure off some of the members. >> a lot of deals are struck when lawmakers are far away from cameras and from each other. >> big moment friday night on memorial day. very shortly jessica watkins a member of the oath keepers will be sentenced for her role in the january 6th insurrection. this afternoon kenneth harrelson
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will be sentenced as well. stewart rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy. cnn's katelyn polantz is with us this morning. talk to us about what's important today. >> reporter: john, we're going to see a series of sentencings for people that are convicted as part of this group of the oath keepers that were led by stewart rhodes the founders of the oath keepers on january 6th, organized, planned for that attack at the capitol and made sure that there were people there to help support them and also to make sure that there were guns around d.c. today the two people we're seeing being sentenced are just another set of people in that group under rhodes. if rhodes is at the top of this structure, below him there was kelly meggs who was sentenced yesterday to 12 years and then there are a series of other team leaders essentially, one of them jessica watkins, she was called cap for captain because she was a leader. she was part of this conspiracy as well, not seditious
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conspiracy as far as her convictions go, but she was part of the group that was convicted and had a leadership role. the government is asking for, i believe, 15 years for her -- i'm sorry, 18 years for her and then the other person sentenced today, kenneth harrelson, they're asking for 15 years for him. he was another team leader from florida coming and organizing people. and the big thing to watch for today, john, is that yesterday a major moment in rhodes' sentencing was not just what he said, but also how the judge viewed this as a domestic terrorism crime. he said it was and with watkins and harrelson today the justice department is, again, going to argue that these people should have their sentences much harsher because they are domestic terrorism. we will wait to see what the judge does there. >> katelyn polantz in washington, thank you very much. let's now go to orlando in florida where florida governor and now republican presidential canada ron desantis is delivering what is his first
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speech since he is -- or became an announced presidential candidate. he is speaking to the florida homeschool association. >> -- we showed and we really blew up that entire narrative in the state of florida by standing against it. obviously when you saw the rioting going on in minneapolis, i didn't just sit there and do nothing, i called out our national guard, we were not going to let florida cities burn down and that did not happen here and it will never happen here. and so we have to be honest about the destruction that we have seen throughout our country over the last three years, particularly in these urban areas that turn their back on our school children and put the interests of school unions ahead of the interests of parents and students and education is an important issue. as a governor i know how important it is for the state, but i also look at it through the lens of being a father of a
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6, 5 and 3-year-old. my wife and i, we really believe in our bones in the rights of parents to direct the education and upbringing of their kids. we were one of the first states in the country to sign into law a parental bill of rights. and part of parents' rights means you have a right as a parent to curriculum transparency. you have a right to know what is being taught in your kids' school and if there are materials that are inappropriate because of age or they violate florida standards, you have the right to blow the whistle on that now. we have empowered parents to do that, parents have been doing that and most school districts have been fine, but there have been some that have done some really questionable things.
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so the parents will blow the whistle if they see something like pornographic books in the middle school library. of course that is not appropriate and so they will do that and that book should not be there. the media, they try to say that this is, quote, banning books, but what you have in a school, you have to make judgments about what's appropriate or not. it doesn't mean you as adults can't buy these books, some of them i don't know why you would buy, but they are available in florida. go ahead and knock yourself out if you want to do that, but that's much different than what should be in front of a 10-year-old school child. so the media when they talk about book ban, understand, that is a hoax. they are creating a false narrative. we actually did a press conference that we titled "exposing the book ban hoax." before i had any of the parents talk, before i even talked, we played a short video that just showed what it was the parents were objecting to. it had some graphic images, it
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had some very graphic language, and the news stations who were covering that press conference had to cut their feed because they said it was too graphic. well, if it's too graphic for the 6:00 news, how is it okay for a 10-year-old school child? and the latest thing they're trying to do is down in miami dade you have legacy media outlets creating this poem hoax. so what this is, this is some book of poems, i never heard of it, i had nothing to do with any of this, but it was a book of poems that was in an elementary school library and the school or the school district determined that was more appropriate to be in the middle school library so they moved it from the elementary school library to the middle school library. legacy media outlets are saying that miami-dade is banning books. literally just moving it from
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one part of the school to the next is now considered a book ban. so you know when they're doing that, and even the school district had to come out and say that's ridiculous, we made the decision, we think it's better to be in middle school, but when they're doing that you know these legacy media outlets are lying to you. they are trying to create a political narrative that is totally divorced from the facts and if they're going to do something like this ridiculous poem hoax and actually put that out there and think that you're going to believe it, honestly, that just shows you they're insulting your intelligence. in our country a republic requires citizens to be engaged, and if you are a citizen who is accepting legacy media outlets uncritically, their narratives uncritically without using your own independent judgment, you are failing at your duty of being a conscientious citizen. do not buy what they're trying to feed you. >> and if there was any -- ron desantis speaking at a
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homeschool convention in florida. a lot like what we've seen from him as governor, leaning into culture wars that he will be running on as a presidential candidate, leaning into taking on the media as you can see very clearly. and leaning into parents' rights as they continue to talk at this homeschool convention about education and schools and what he's been doing in florida. we will obviously continue to follow ron desantis on the campaign trail. also this ahead for us, we are hearing now from the mother of the mississippi boy who was shot by a police officer after that boy called 911. he was the one that called 911 for help. what that mother is saying now. we will be right back. with flonase, allergies don't have to be scacary. spray flonase sensimist daily for non-drowsy, long lasting relief in a a scent-free, gentle mist. (psst psst) flonase. all good. (bridget) with thyroid eye disease i hid from the camera. and i wanted to hide from the world. for years, i thought my t.e.d. was beyond help...
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new this morning, an attorney in mississippi says no way the police officer could have mistaken an 11-year-old for an adult. the child called 911 for help, and earlier this morning the child's mother spoke out. >> he said, "i don't want to die." that is what he was saying. while he was on the ground, i said "you are not going to die." was he expecting a kid to come around the corner? there is protocol, and i want to see him fired. >> he is at home recovering from his injuries, and she says that he is traumatized. can you bring us up to date on the developments? >> the families says that he is
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getting some counseling to help deal with the incident. and we are seeing the extent of the injuries which is a bandage over the hole in his chest and all of this is according to nakala murry who says that the father of another child came and she was so afraid that she snuck aderrien a cell phone and told him to call 911. when the officers responded, he came in with the gun drawn, and ordered everyone out of the house, and this is when he came around the corner, and he was shot by the police officer. this is what the police officer said that there is nothing he could have done differently to avoid being shot. >> this is sounding like the boy did everything right. i mean, everything right.
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he is a good student, and he obeyed his mom, and the request to call the police for assistance and called the grandmother, and when the police officer said come out with your hands up, and he did, and then he was shot. and the adult was over six feet tall, and this 11-year-old child is about 4'10". >> reporter: the incident is caught on body cam, and the police department is referring all questions to the mississippi bureau of investigations, and they are not going to be commenting any further, and they will not be releasing any more foo footage. >> and hopefully the young boy is at home and recovering as well as he can.
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a word of warning now for folks headed to the beach this weekend. you may not be alone in the water. this week three shark sightings prompting an alert for safe swimming. the attacks were in the florida keys and new jersey and so now, let's bring in miguel marquez, and what do we need to know about shark season?
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>> if you are in the oegts, you in their front yard and ba backyard. so here at the rockaways, it is business as usual which is surfing on a beautiful day like this. new york officials are concerned about the sharks, and they are putting more drones in the air over the beaches to look for the sharks, and more boats to get people out of the water if necessary, and this is following shark attacks. there was one in the turks and caicos where a 22-year-old woman had her leg taken off by a shark, and that is concerning. they were snorkeling off of the reef of a private boat, and that is when the shark struck. maybe it mistook her for prey, but they are not entirely sure. a young woman was swimming off of the coast of new jersey and she was bit by what she believes was a shark.
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and a young woman wading out into the water in florida, and she was bit on the stomach and arms. it can happen, and it is rare. but the best advice, if you are seeing the schools of fish an seals, stay away from them, because most of the time, the sharks will mistake people for food. >> is you are thinking that the people are confused in the inc incidents, and this is what is leading to the incidents? >> the sharks have become confused. it is that the sharks are seeing somebody in a wet suit, and seeing something out there on the water, and they are not sure if it is prey, and they strike. the thing about the woman in the turks and caicos, it took her leg off, and if it completely took the leg off or if they had to remove it after she was bitten. it is a much more serious bike
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than sharks usually do. they usually strike and then back off. >> thank you, miguel marques. still ahead, we will have more on the stories that we are learning about. pope frances has canceled all events due to a fever. the latest that we are learning from the vatican. one for the record books as aaa is predicting a record travel weekend, and tens of millions heading off for the weekend. ed here. narrator: speaking of cycycles, mary's period is due to start in threeee day. maryry: how do they know so much about us? narrator: your all sharing health data without realizing it. that's how i know about kevin's rash. who's next? wait... what's that in your hand? no, no, stop! oh you're no fun. [lock clicks shut]
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