collins. our liberal city produces great wealth and has many powerful people and leaves many behind. racism operates the way it always has in america, to divide communities of color, working class people of all races and allies and to understand the solidarity we need to create a world where everyone's dignity is fully respected. regardless of all that, the tweets surfacing in this moment have been especially painful in the his of the horrific violence against asian american community. i still have hope commissioner collins will take leadership and show hule -- humility and make amends and i will also continue to listen to leaders in the black community and other communities and support critical solidarity work in ways that i may be able to do so. thank you. >> the, commissioners. before i open it up to public comment i want to offer student delegates. >> i'm not offering a statement. i'm offering a project that my and my friends were able to create amidst everything that is happening. it may

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apollo 11 astronaut michael collins has died, a key member of the mission to the moon.sident biden called him a key member in that remarkable accomplishment. welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. in india, the coronavirus pandemic is worsening with more than 2 million people infected in the past week. the death toll has passed 200000 and experts believe the actual. number may be far higher. people have died waiting for beds as oxygen supplies run low and hospitals buckle under the strain. the bbc's india correspondent is in delhi and joins us now. the eyes of the world are on the suffering in india. what is the government saying about the crisis tonight? reporter: the pme minister yesterday held three meetings where he discussed oxygen shortages, the scarcity i medical facilities, and how to overcome them. the government is saying they are pressinghe railways into action to try to get oxygen supplies quickly to the places they are needed. what we are seeing on the field over the past several days is this help is not reaching people in time. we are s

collins says her first amendment rights were violated after she received a vote of no confidence for posting derogatory remarks against asian americans. we have more on this an lee ann, the unintended consequences of this lawsuit. >> as we know the school board has made a few controversial decisions and now this lawsuit. people are asking who would want to be superintendent of this district number one. number two recruiting families in the public schools have been hard. very hard. this makes it more difficult and unlikely that san francisco voters will be willing to pass another bond measure or parcel tax to support schools in san francisco. >> school board commissioner allison collins has set a price. $87 million as punishment for allegedly having her first amendment rights violated. >> this is an embarrassment and my hope is that it is one thing to sue in everywhere but you are going to sue for some money like i just, you know, that is something that a member of the school board who voters elected should never have the ability to do. >> collins is suing five of her fellow school bo

michael collins, the third member of the apollo 11 crew, dies at the age of 90.eady been protests. sweden says it received no warning of the accident. indeed, the russians at first denied anything had gone wrong. only when radioactivity levels began to increase outside russia were they forced to admit the accident. for the mujahideen, the mood here is of great celebration. this is the end of a 12—year war for them, they've taken the capital which they've been fighting for for so long. it was 7am in the morning - on the day when power began to pass from the minority- to the majority — when africa, after 300 years, reclaimed its last white colony. - this is bbc news, the headlines this hour... president biden is due to set out plans for trillions of dollars in government spending, but the republicans are wary. a formal investigation has been launched into the funding for renovations to boris johnson�*s downing street flat. the images out of india in recent weeks have been harrowing. one of the photographers reporting on the crisis says he�*s covered conflicts and w

you neil armstrong, buzz aldrin, and michael collins achieved you hael collins achieved something extraordinarymes the news of the passing of another member of this remarkable apollo 11 trio, michael collins. his family and nasa have announce his death from cancer at the age of 90. collins was an integral part of the mission, but is often labelled the "forgotten man" because he didn't actually go down to the surface. he stayed in the command module circling the moon, while armstrong and aldrin made their boot marks in the lunar soil. that he missed out was something he never complained about. i did not have the best seat of the three on apollo 11. but i can say, in all honesty, i was thrilled with the seat that i did have. i knew that i had somehow lucked into being one third of the team that was going to do this wonderful thing — and my function suited me fine. i mean, yeah, sure, iwould've preferred to walk on the moon, but that really seemed a trivial distinction at the time. i was very pleased with my responsibilities on the flight. his responsibilities on that mission included making sure

her supporters held a rally demanding that collins be reinstated into her previous roles. of course was accurate at that rally today. she joins us now live with more taylor. >> well, we saw a lot of different diverse groups out here today at the school district in support of allison collins. he saw parents, students, members of the asian american pacific islander community and also members of the naacp. however, the biggest shock today was probably that announcement filed earlier this morning. called is asking for 27 million dollars in damages. >> supporters of allison collins rallied around her on wednesday at the san francisco unified school district headquarters speaking out after she was removed from her position as school board. vice president last week. it all stems from tweets collins made in 2016 using racial slurs when writing about an anti-black experience. her daughter's faced in the school district that year. this misrepresentation. >> and the only black woman on the board of sweet. she may in 2016 after trump was elected when racism was on the rise in hate and

move comes after the school board voted last week to remove alison collins from her leadership position on the board because of tweets several years ago that were considered to be racist. hello again, everyone i'm frank somerville and i'm. lee julie haener today, colin supporters held a rally as she spoke out, ktvu deborah villalon joins us now live with her message. deb, julie apologetic. no more. allyson collins is on the offense, saying she is the target of a smear campaign to label her a racist. how grateful i am for all the love and support school board member allyson collins is being called on to resign by virtually every san francisco politician. after tweets surface from before her election, suggesting asian americans benefit by white supremacy on a stereotype of being the model minority. she apologized but said her words were taken out of context. in this rally with supporters, collins is now defiant, calling the campaign against her a toxic political attack. i am a black woman. i'm a mother. i'm an educator, all of these legacies mean that i have no choice but to fight and fig

and michael collins, one of the original members of the apollo 11 mission to the moon, has died, agedello, welcome. in the next hour, presidentjoe biden is giving a prime—time address to a joint session of congress for the first time in his presidency. he'll lay out what he's achieved in his first 100 days in office and provide details on his american families plan. it's a $1.8 trillion plan to provide more free education, help with childcare costs, and paid family leave. this comes after the coronavirus relief bill, and a plan to spend over $2 trillion on traditional infrastructure — and republicans are already asking how america can possibly afford it. let's talk now to our washington correspondent, lebo diseko who's on capitol hill for us. we are expecting a light. what we were initially thinking of as a traditional transitional president, he could potentially be transformational, a big, big announcement is coming up in the next hour.— the next hour. yes. i think that he — the next hour. yes. i think that he is _ the next hour. yes. i think that he is certainly - the next hour. yes

who was one of 3 crew on the apollo 11 lunar mission has died aged 90 collins orbited the moon while his crew mates neil armstrong and buzz aldrin to bear historic 1st steps on the surface in 1969 he died on wednesday after a battle with cancer his family said he had always faced life's challenges with grace and humility and faced his final challenge in the same way let's go to brian odom who's now chief historian he's joining us from huntsville that's in alabama thanks for your time with us on al-jazeera so how will you remember collins. yeah thanks for having me on your own or better circumstances but i think michael collins will be known you know forever as someone who have a passion for space exploration not only because he's a part of it i think they gave. somebody who dedicated his life to talking about scientific discovery human space flight a number of different ways he was known sometimes known in fact as the for a god an astronaut because he didn't get to land on the moon but just how important was he for the success of the apollo mission yeah like the other astronauts you

collins. and what i'm listening to today is deplorable in terms of her taking a position that she needs to defend through a legal system, which is a part of the process you need to take proactive action, to put a lawsuit in place. but to hear her being defamed -- and i don't know all of the circumstances, but i do know, i read the texts and i can see how it could be taken out of context. i support ms. collins wholeheartedly. i might live in oakland, but i can see injustice even if i'm across the bay. continue to do whatever you have to do to claim what is right in principle. i stand fully behind you. thank you for your service. >> thank you. hello, meredith? >> hi. thank you. this is meredith. i'm not going to comment on the lawsuit that was brought against the district and the commissioners last week because it does not deserve our time. i'm asking for focus on one thing, our children, that we somehow keep forgetting to prioritize. listen to all of the comments. the only thing we should be ta

collins. and what i'm listening to today is deplorable in terms of her taking a position that she needs to defend through a legal system, which is a part of the process you need to take proactive action, to put a lawsuit in place. but to hear her being defamed -- and i don't know all of the circumstances, but i do know, i read the texts and i can see how it could be taken out of context. i support ms. collins wholeheartedly. i might live in oakland, but i can see injustice even if i'm across the bay. continue to do whatever you have to do to claim what is right in principle. i stand fully behind you. thank you for your service. >> thank you. hello, meredith? >> hi. thank you. this is meredith. i'm not going to comment on the lawsuit that was brought against the district and the commissioners last week because it does not deserve our time. i'm asking for focus on one thing, our children, that we somehow keep forgetting to prioritize. listen to all of the comments. the only thing we should be ta

collins, who is the only black female board member is a vocal supporter.asian students make up the majority of the student body, while 9% is black. black people make up 5.2% of the population in san francisco. >> this high school is not a private school. it belongs to every citizen in san francisco. >> reporter: her tweets were dug up by diane, the vice president of the friends of lowell foundation. she says she heard this from another local alum. >> she says she might have heard someone on the board say there were too many asians -- >> reporter: so she said she started looking up all the board members, but this is where collins supporters call her out. they say her commentary online feels anti-blackness, and that's why she doesn't want it to change. >> what is your response to people that believe you have antiblack sentiments that are driving this whole argument for you? >> so i be flabbergasted or flattered. i -- i am nobody. i have no power over anything. and all that i did, you know, was i found some tweets. >> you have here all minorities have faced s

remarkably of the apollo 11 crew, famed aviator charles lindbergh identified with collins, the most collins moon, lindbergh felt mirrored his solo flight across the atlantic over four decades earlier, they were both lucky. lindy felt. pilots on a lonely vigil, relatively inactive and unwatched. hello there, sports friend i got up to make it seemed everyone on planet earth was watching when extraterrestrial cameraman michael collins did his job, all right, but right now what about that? that it that david lee miller fox news? so they come today here on the four rising prices at the grocery store just how much more we're having to pay for certain items and why those prices are expected. to continue rising, plus airline bookings bounce back as covid restrictions continued to ease with flight bookings rising more than 100% have a look at the recent data. woul in our home, we trust dawn antibacterial. it cuts through tough grease with 50% less scrubbing... so our dishes get cleaner, faster. even better, dawn antibacterial removes 99% of bacteria from your hands. we're cleaning now more than ever

michael collins who is one of 3 astronauts on the apollo 11 mission has died at the age of 90 collins orbited the moon while his crew mates neil armstrong and chain to his story steps on the surface in 1969 he died on wednesday after a battle with cancer brian odama is not just chief historian and has more on michael collins legacy michael collins will be known you know forever as someone who have a passion for space exploration not only because you can feel part of it i think i gave him a platform. dedicated his life to talking about scientific discovery human space flight number. one the other astronauts you know armstrong was all over him collins who played an incredibly important role and he had to go through alone listen trainees you know he was the perfect person for that but you know if collins is not good at his job and doesn't offer an exact great way that route doesn't get home and that mission we know is a hollow 11 isn't the success that we think definitely played a critical role in the apollo program really did lay the platform for human spaceflight you know exploration p

who removed collins as vice president and from committees.ants those rolls restored within a week. they have a choice in seven days. they can do what we've suggested. and then this lawsuit gets threat. it goes away. the turmoil comes as school board members face a recall dr blamed for doing too little to get classrooms reopened as the pandemic east. collins backers say her tweets were unearthed as part of that campaign who dug out these tweets and rouz. chose to be opportunistic to push a political agenda. when a lot of a p i people are hurting right now, and supporters say collins rankled people by pushing for equity, namely the recent switch of lowell high school to lottery admission, ball together to get her in here, then they want her in here to begin. so let's go there the reason why they pick it on her because guess what? because she's a black woman with power. the lawsuit claims violation of due process and free speech. do not let me or anyone else be swept under the rug canceled or dismissed for speaking truth to power. dozens of civi

michael collins. i hated to leave it. just without saying something.d have put "thanks a lot" on there. i don't think i put that on but i should have >> reporter: tonight, we thank him for helping put man on the moon michael collins was 90 years old. >> you can watch a special primetime "inspiring america" event that i'll be hosting with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb this weekend our 2021 inspiration list featuring stories of some extraordinary people, among them actor and director lin-manuel miranda >> how do you define inspiration? >> i define it as -- it's the thing that won't leave you alone. right? that's how i experience it. it's that notion that just kind of keeps coming back around and being like, hello, hello. >> more of that conversation this weekend and a reminder, i'll see you back here tonight for president biden's address to congress, coming up next that's "nightly news" for this wednesday thank you for watching i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night >>> tonight, president joe biden center stage. his fir

alysson collins has been facing backlash for weeks now over some resurfaced 2016 tweets that some feel are racist. >> and she's now seeking millions of dollars in damages. abc 7 news reporter j.r. stone was at a rally where she spoke to a rally. >> reporter: collins was accused of racist tweets and wednesday evening she fired back. >> so much of what i am and how i am in this world has gotten lost due to this targeted smear, to label me as a racist. >> reporter: in 2016 collins who is african-american had numerous tweets directed at asian-americans and one saying that asian-americans in her words used white supremacist thinking to assimilate and get ahead. she has since said they were taken out of context but did not address that wednesday. firing forward instead. >> i will unapologetically pursue equity and empowerment of black, latin x, asian, arab and other communities regardless of the opportunistic and meritless attacks. >> reporter: in a lawsuit also filed wednesday, collins is suing the district and five board members who voted to strip e her of her vice president title and comm

alysson collins has been facing backlash for weeks now over some resurfaced 2016 tweets that some feel racist. >> and she's now seeking millions of dollars in damages. abc 7 news reporter j.r. stone was at a rally where she spoke to a rally. >> reporter: collins was accused of racist tweets and wednesday evening she fired back. >> so much of what i am and how i am in this world has gotten lost due to this targeted smear, to label me as a racist. >> reporter: in 2016 collins who is african-american had numerous tweets directed at asian-americans and one saying that asian-americans in her words used white supremacist thinking to assimilate and get ahead. she has since said they were taken out of context but did not address that wednesday. firing forward instead. >> i will unapologetically pursue equity and empowerment of black, latin x, asian, arab and other communities regardless of the opportunistic and meritless attacks. >> reporter: in a lawsuit also filed wednesday, collins is suing the district and five board members who voted to strip e her of her vice president title and communit

famed aviator charles lindbergh, identified with collins, the most collins solo orbits around the moon. mirrored his solo flight across the atlantic over four decades earlier, they were both lucky. lindy felt pilots on a lonely vigil, relatively on active and unwatched. hello there, sports friend i got up to make it seemed everyone on planet earth was watching when extraterrestrial cameraman michael collins did his job, all right, but what about that janet that david lee miller? fox news. the third man of the moon landing, right, let's talk about what's happening here on the bay area front as we look ahead, mark tamayo twosome increasing temperatures. yeah, that's right. guys had to find the shade in the backyard because they have the sunshine. the warmth definitely kind of highlighting our forecast for today. fact today forget it right? probably one of the warmest days of the week. we'll take off a few degrees as we head into it tomorrow and into a friday take a look at the forecast. if you can't see coming up 44 today, lots of sunshine even for the coastal neighborhoods and temperatu

michael collins will be known you know forever as someone who have a passion for space exploration not only because you can feel part of it i think i gave. somebody who dedicated his life to talking about scientific discovery human space flight number. one the other astronauts you know armstrong was all over him collins who played an incredibly important role and he had to go through alone listen trainees you know was the perfect person for that but you know if collins is not good at his job and doesn't fall through in exactly the way that crew doesn't get home in that mission we know it all 11 isn't a success that we think definitely played a critical role in the apollo program really did lay the platform for human spaceflight you know exploration that continues today space programs the nasa as we look to go back or you know to the moon as part of the art of this program i think we can look back on the work that was done we're all alone and the path and the great platform and work it was done by michael collins to get us there i think he's you know he's he's he was someone who did it

fireworks lit up the fort collins sky.ext morning at an apartment complex a fire of a different sort altogether. >> we've kicked -- we just kicked the door in, we're screaming for somebody. the upstairs is -- we're just calling for somebody to see if there's somebody in the apartment. >> reporter: oh, yes. there was someone in that building. and this much we can tell you. that someone is not travis forbes. >>> "dateline" returns after the break. but that's all thanks to ted, a man who possesses an innate understanding of dimension. uh... ted... (ted) sorry, i was in the zone. also my name is brian. (brad) apartments-dot-com! the most popular place to find a place. saturdays happen. pain happens. aleve it. aleve is proven stronger and longer on pain than tylenol. when pain happens, aleve it. all day strong. to my great-granddaughter sarah, whom i disowned after she recommended i go with the general - i leave my estate. what?! turns out, sarah's right about the general. i told you guys! oh, can it sarah! for a great low rate

by the way, collins is also suing to have her title restored as vice president. one more thing, when served with litigation, the legal department assesses the litigation and will hire outside counsel as needed. the money comes from the general fund, which as we know, also pays for educating students. >>> this could come out of the kids education pocket? >> correct. >> all right. leanne, thank you. >>> we have had some gorgeous warm spring weather with temperatures teetering toward summer. these are pictures from san jose, the brooklyn marina and chrissy field in the san francisco. >> spencer christian joins us with a lovely forecast. >> we will take a look at current temperatures. we had one record high yesterday. that was 83 in san jose. some of the locations are reporting higher temperatures than at this time yesterday. it is 90 degrees in san ramon. it is 89 in fairfield. we have mid-80s across the middle and areas warm day. i will have your complete forecast with includes a a a cooldown >>> spencer, thank you. coming up, our of terror. life savings lost durin

collins efforts were on the lunar landing.on it now but i wish more kids are grew up knowing his effort >> yeah, and his story is, he came from military families, expected to go to west point and his idea that he wanted to fly and not be on the ground was its own sort of amazing amazing part of his history and he wrote a book called "carrying the fire," which is to this day an absolutely terrific read >> oh, wow. >> i was just going to bring that up. that and "american moon shot great stuff. >> that was beautiful. thank you so much. >> thanks harry. >> memories, wow yeah. >> extraordinary human let's get a check of the weather now from mr. roker >> we are seeing more changes, this from the journal of nature. our glaciers are melting faster than ever with these warming temperatures global glacial melt per year from 2000-2004 just the glaciers. not the ice sheets 250 billion tons of ice melted in the last five years, 328 billion tons of ice have melted. that's a 30% increase. if you were to take all that water that's melted and

we lost collins today, of the three only buzz aldrin survives. is collins on the floor talking to a class of kindergartners because if you know little kids, you know the best way to talk to them is get down on their level. this guy was an air force test pilot. he retired at the rank of general, astronaut, gemini missions, apollo missions as love gentlemanly as anyone you'd meet. he also stands for a dying idea when america of john f. kennedy made its effort to go to the moon. we made it under the decade time line he gave us. >> right, even despite that terrible fire that apollo suffered in january of 1967, and michael collins, you know, he's such an american figure, the kind of person that we'd want our children to grow up to be like, almost mr. rogers like, and you saw it in that photograph we just saw when he was 85 and lovely and gentlemanly are the two words that i would use, and also modest. he was a test pilot, but he was not a swaggering self-promoter as at least a few of the astronauts actually were. and i always thought that nasa was ver

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alison collins is suing some board members. the district and the county of san francisco. that's a lot. this comes after she was removed from her position last week because of controversial tweets that she made back in 2016 with kron four's taylor the second with a closer look. >> supporters of allison collins rallied around her on wednesday at the san francisco unified school district headquarters speaking out after she was removed from her position and school board. vice president last week. it all stems from tweets collins made in 2016 using racial slurs when writing about an anti-black experience. her daughter's faced in the school district that year. this misrepresentation. >> and the only black woman on the board of sweet. she may in 2016 after trump was elected when racism was on the rise in hate and white supremacy being fueled by trump 20 all and calling out the fact that she's morning meaning now. that doesn't make her raises some of those tweets from 2016 start out by saying, quote. >> and looking to combat anti-black racism in the asian-american my daughoer's m

that all comes after a series of tweets collins posted in 2016. she said asian americans used white supremacist thinking to assimilate and get ahead. collins says her words were taken out of context an has apologized. >>> a santa clara city councilmember who wanted to speak during a stop asian hate rally was told he couldn't and he is asian. the stop asian hate rally in santa clara was hosted by the city's mayor and a councilmember. this is what she said after the korean american councilmember asked to speak. >> no, i am sorry. this is my event. that's okay. thank you anyway. thank you for being here. i appreciate the support. >> it was about unity. it was about togetherness and openness. i feel that the actions hijacked, you know, the theme. >> she responded via e-mail to kpix that the event which was permitted for an hour had 11 speakers and performers and councilmember park hadn't rsvp' d. she said had he responded he was coming, she would have scheduled him to speak. >>> bay area tech companies announcing major donation to help stop attacks ta

this comes after a series of tweets collins posted in 2016. she said asian americans used white supremacist thinking to assimilate and get ahead. collins says her words were taken out of context and has apologized. >>> one of the east bay's largest school districts announcing all students continue distance learning through the end of the school year. fremont unified school district said it wasn't able to reach agreement with the teachers union on a plan for a safe return. >>> a santa clara city councilmember who wanted to speak during a stop asian hate rally was told he couldn't and he is asian. the stop asian hate rally was hosted by the mayor and a councilmember. this is what she said after the korean american councilmember kevin park asked to speak. >> no, i am sorry. this is my event. so that's okay. thank you anyway. thank you for being here. appreciate the support. >> it was about unity. it was about togetherness and openness, solidarity. i feel that the actions hijacked the theme. >> she responded via e-mail to kpix that the event which

alone now in the command module. >> michael collins staying back.d module pilot. >> we crew felt the weight of the world on our shoulders and we wanted to do the best we possibly could. >> he'd been asked over the years if he felt left out for not walking on the moon, too. >> as far as feeling left out or anything, not at all. i felt very much an equal partner with them. >> today, michael collins' family revealing he has died at 90 years old after a battle with cancer, saying they are celebrating his life, his sharp wit, his quiet sense of purpose, his wise perspective, gained both from looking back at earth from the vantage of space and gazing across calm waters from the deck of his fishing boat. tonight, michael collins in his own words of his view of earth. >> beyond its size and its gloss, it's a fragile little tiny thing, beautiful, shiny though it may be, it's very fragile. >> words to remember. ♪ ♪ ♪ when it comes to your financial health, just a few small steps can make a real difference. ♪ ♪ ♪ guidance on your terms. confidence feels good.

we learned that alison collins is asking for 27 million dollars in damages. >> supporters of allison collins rallied around her on wednesday at the san francisco unified school district headquarters speaking out after she was removed from her position and school board. vice president last week. it all stems from tweets collins made in 2016 using racial slurs when writing about an anti-black experience. her daughter's faced in the school district that year. this misrepresentation. >> and the only black woman on the board of sweet. she may in 2016 after trump was elected when racism was on the rise in hate and white supremacy being fueled by trump 20 all and think calling out the fact that she's morning meaning now. that doesn't make her raises some of those tweets from 2016 start out by saying, quote. >> and looking to combat anti-black racism in the asian-american my daughter's mostly asian-american school. >> she goes on to write many asian americans believe they benefit from the model minority. they think they won't be deported. profiled be in being a house and word is still being

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liz: collin, allen, thank you. the stock is trading up about 1% ahead of the numbers which come out after the bell. thank you so much. here is a question, will elon musk, during that earnings call, take a swipe at the long-rumored apple car maybe, and will apple ceo tim cook even mention a car when the tech giant reports earnings wednesday? well cook already is making big news today announcing that apple , are you ready for this? is prepared to spend $430 billion to create 20,000 new jobs across the u.s.. how is he going to do that? by directly spending on parts and materials from american suppliers and data centers and the build-out of a new $1 billion campus in north carolina. putting apple stock for the moment aside, what's the stock you might want to buy now that could pay off from this announcement that came today? floor show traders, phil, you get to try and you late first. and the investment implications from this announcement which stock could benefit from $480 billion whopper spending by apple? >> well, wh

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i am told allison collins will be speaking shortly. that is the where we got a little while ago.while ago.whil. they responded and learned of the lawsuit and have no comment at this time.this t >>> we were at the rally. we will stay there and bring you more as it develops. thank you.>>> we enjoye beautiful weather all around the bay. here is a view of oaklands lake merritt from sky 7. it was sparkling and gorgeous and getting a little toasty. >> it sure was. let's go up on the roof of the building. spencer christian could not keep away from the sunshine. he had to get up there. >> i am your guy. we had one official record high today. it was certainly warmer.certain. apart from 75 and half moon bay and 79 at sfo, every other location on the mapthe mapthe mp above 80 degrees today. tomorrow, it could be even hotter in some spots. i will have the forecast coming up a little bit later.>>> thank you, spencer. >>> coming up next, the first visit for the first lady. we are live in central california where dr. jill biden california where dr. j

i'll call on vice president collins. >> vice president collins: so i guess, you know, we have two. i just -- well i guess i just want to say we've had this ongoing covid memorial adjournment of the families that have been impacted by all that's been going on, but i think now i don't know if there's another adjournment on there, but i also think we should be recognizing the lives that have been lost. and i think now is a very trying time for all of us right now. and so i just wanted to open this up for space for folks to just hold space and remembrance for those of us who are going through whatever we're going through and the loss that we're experiencing whether that be covid, the violence that we're seeing or just the hard times that we're having right now and let's all just hold space for a minute of science for folks to be mindful of that. thank you. >> vice president collins: thank you. >> president lopez: at this time, we will take public comment before closed session item. there will be a total of 5 minutes for public comment. >> clerk: thank you, president lopez. please raise

michael collins dead at age 90. we will miss him. and his urge to explore. ♪ ♪ >> jesse: hello, everybody, i'm jesse watters along with dana perino, juan williams, katie pavlich and brian kilmeade. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." open up your wallet, america, president biden wants trillions more of your tax dollars. four hours from now, biden will be giving his first address before a joint session of congress, the president's american families plan coming with a whopper of a price tag at nearly $2 trillion. including items like free universal preschool, two years free community college, 12 weeks of paid family leave and child care assistance. end biden plans to pay for it by raising the top capital gains tax to nearly 40% in giving $80 billion to the irs to boost audits on high earners. republican lawmakers ripping into this spending spree. >> president biden is governing like a drunken sailor, when you talk about the spending, my god, trillions and trillions of dollars in one bill was over $2 trillion, who do you

francis collins. dr. collins, thanks as usual for joining us.ates that vaccine milestone, we're starting to see vaccine supply, and this is worrisome, outpace demand. what needs to be done, dr. collins, to ensure americans are willing to get these shots as they become available? >> well, it is a milestone now that we've got 200 million doses in arms and more than half of americans have had at least one dose and more than a third of them are fully immunized having had both doses. but the hard part lies ahead. there's 130 million americans that haven't started yet. a lot of the polls would say a lot of those folks still aren't sure if they want to take part in this amazing opportunity to put this virus behind us so we have to really figure out how to get the message out there. those who are still undecided, get the information they need to see why this is really something they would want to do. for me as a physician, a scientist, director of nih, it's a very compelling case but not everybody has bought into it. >> you and i have known each other q

who removed collins as vice president and from committees. she wants those rolls restored within a week. they have a choice in seven days. they can do what we've suggested. and then this lawsuit gets threat. it goes away. the turmoil comes as school board members face a recall dr blamed for doing too little to get classrooms reopened as the pandemic east. collins backers say her tweets were unearthed as part of that campaign who dug out these tweets and cruz. chose to be opportunistic to push a political agenda, and supporters say collins rankled people by pushing for equity, namely the recent switch of lowell high school to lottery admission, the reason why they picking on her because guess why?ower lawsuit claims violation of due process and free speech. do not let me or anyone else be swept under the rug. canceled or dismissed for speaking truth to power, deborah villalon ktvu, fox two news coming up at noon. it's been a pretty dry year so far with some storms in the sierra. we'll take a look at how much snow was falling. his crews do thei

chairman. >> thank you, senator collins.now some senators may be going back and forth as i mentioned. i will start a second round of questions. ranking member scott may have questions as well and we will see where we are when other senators are moving back and forth. but i wanted to go back to ms. white for a question. i was particularly moved by your testimony, as someone who had the experience you had and was able to take the time to write about it and provide guidance to so many americans who have experienced job losses and have been challenged in some of the ways that you outlined. i wanted to ask you about the topic of age discrimination and the workplace. but also, the need to make sure that workplaces are welcoming of workers of all ages. in your written testimony, you talk about the need to tackle ageism in the workplace and to ensure they are not denied opportunities that they would deserve. this is critically important that we strengthen both legal protections for older workers but also make clear to employers that

>> commissioner collins, it's always been my practice. i'm not going advise the board on legal matters in an open session. i'm happy to provide that advice to the president and vice president privately or in closed session. >> i would assume it may be a violation of our brown act or something like that and -- >> commissioner: excuse me, i just want the record to be clear. i can't control what you assume but that's not what i said. >> commissioner: but you don't want to discuss it in public? >> commissioner: this not a matter i'm going give you legal advice on in a public session. >> what i want to know is it's very important for folks on our board to know our rules and procedures. and there are some and i think the person taking on the vice president role should be informed and be able to work effectively with our president. i'll leave it at that. thank you. >> there's policy and procedures and something we're all committed to. and we are committed to strengthening our roles as commissioners continuing to work together. >> well continue t

i will open it up when he comes back vice president collins. >> vice president collins: thank you. i agree. i think commissioner sanchez, are you back? >> commissioner sanchez: no. i'm done. i'm fine. >> vice president collins: we didn't hear you because you froze. >> commissioner sanchez: i just said that i don't support having a board member become interim superintendent. >> vice president collins: okay. so i agree with what's been said previously. i mean, i've been with the district 20 years. i've been through a lot of superintendents and i do want to say that this is a scary time i think to be going through a transition and, at the same time, i was -- i mean, one of the first superintendents we had, we had to, you know, there was a lot of scandal. there are superintendents where there's a lot of upset and, you know, we had two of those in a row. i think there was a lot of -- and we've even had to buy out contracts before in order to get new to go first because it looked like they wanted to respond to something. >> commissioner moliga: i 100% disagree waiting a whole entire year

the apollo 11 astronaut michael collins has died this wednesday of cancer.the news was revealed by his family. he was 90 years old. collins was part of the three-man apollo 11 crew that ended the spacers between the u.s. and russia. before president john f. kennedy's challenge to reach the moon by the end of the 1960's, he traveled some 230,000 miles to the moon. collins never set foot on the moon's surface like his crewmates, who passed away in 2012. we will leave you with these images. stay with us. ♪ ♪ >> hello, and welcome to correspondence, our weekly selection of reports from around the world. this show takes us to tunis, south africa, and italy. at the first up is panama. with turquoise waters and white sandy beaches, the islands are a little slice of paradise. but due to rising sea levels, because of climate change, they risk disappearing under the waves, despite the best efforts of the inhabitants to save their home. we have this report. reporter: hundreds of tpical islands surroundedy turquoise waters, a true paradise, but the arch of oligo could d

abc7 news reporter was at a rally where collins spoke to a crowd of supporters. >> reporter: alison collinst week she was accused of racist tweets back in 2016. wednesday evening she fired back. >> so much of who i am, and how i am in this world has gotten lost due to this targeted smear to label me as a racist. >> reporter: in 2016, collins, who is african american, had numerous tweets directed at asian-americans. one saying that asian-americans in her words used white supremacist thinking to assimilate and get ahead. she has since said they were taken out of context, but did not address that on wednesday, firing forward instead. >> i will un apologetically pursue equity of black, latinx and asian communities. >> reporter: in a lawsuit also filed wednesday, collins is suing the district and five board members who voted to strip her of her vice president involvement. her lawsuit questions that move, and goes on to say that it is a violation of her freedom of speech, as the tweets were made before she was voted to the board. she now seeks $87 million in damages while many spoke to support he