he was wearing a bright red sweatshirt that said "ctu." this is democracy now!, i'm amy goodman.e turn now to gambia, where a gambian beauty queen who says former president yahya jammeh raped her when she was 18 years old has testified before a public truth and reconciliation commission. fatou "toufah" jallow has become a leading vovoice against t the former presisident, who rurulede west africican country o of 2 million people for 22 years before hisis regime endeded in . this is s toufah speaking before the commission on thursday.. a warning -- she describes the attack in grgraphic detail. toyahya jammeh decided penetrate me. but before he didid, he took oua needle from his pocket and d he injecteded me onon my arm. i'm not sure e of what it i is r whatat it was f for. - -- jammeh did not oncee want sex with me or pleasure with me.e. what h he wanted to do was to ht meme. what hwanted to do was to teach me a lesson. what he wantedo doo w was to manyifest his egojust likee of us can't belieieve a girl can say no, someone likike yahya jajammeh in his position found t ary disrespe

it was your family home, the ctu had grown up m, family home, the ctu had grown up in, we are family friends still lived in. how are the memories of what you saw when you return to what had been your home? those images in my mind are indelible. they will a lwa ys my mind are indelible. they will always mark a distinct period in my life. for all of our lives, always mark a distinct period in my life. forall of our lives, really. there is always pre— hurricane katrina and post hurricane katrina. it will be a defining moment in new 0 rlea ns it will be a defining moment in new orleans recent history. my father was 80, my mother was in her late 70s. in their golden years and to see everything you have built destroyed at that time of your life. i lost my older brother used before. and those are just two of the darkest days for my parents. i vowed then to make sure to get them back into their home before their dying day so they could actually have some sort of sense of redemption and recollection of what they had built their lives around. redemption is a powerful word and it is one that yo

. >> i am happy to announce, we have reached an agreement with the ctu president, jesse sharkey.e teachers union reached the deal last night after agreeing to salary increases and limits on class size. the walkout affected some 360,000 students that are now scheduled to head back to school tomorrow. throughout the strike a teacher said they just wanted to get back to work. >> it is tragic that we have had to do this. if you talk to any teacher, anyone will say this has been exhausting. it has been worth it. >> the two sides agreed to add five days to the end of the year to make up for the teaching time that was lost. chicago runs the nation's largest school system after new york and la. >>> north korea launched two missiles today. the short range missiles lasted off from the province just north of the nation's capital city of pyongyang, shortly after dawn and landed in the sea of japan. marks the 12th missile test since may. it is why we believe that north korea has in launching these with a clear political objective. >>> the u.s. can't take north koreans for granted. c negotiati

more on tonight's hearing comin up, ambassador ctu had nothing to do with the.faces the rest of his life i prison. we will speak with his daughter after the break. don't miss our weekly news quiz we have it tonight just ahead. 's - do you have a box of video tapes, film reels, or photos, that are degrading? legacybox professionally converts them to dvds, thumb drive, or the cloud. legacybox is simple and safe, with over half a million satisfied customers. visit legacybox.com today, and get 40% off. >> every day it see >> tucker: every day it seems like the last session with race gender, and sexual orientation, things that don't change is getting more intense and weird. so bad ethat they can't even s themselves even while trying to impeach the president. instead of a exposing high crimes and misdemeanors, the impeachment hearing somehow ended up being a fable a moral fable about gender. the washington post is in this had lynford trump, the testimon brings a moment of reckoning on gender. members of congress agreed with the process. >> i have four little girls in

republiccked up the two state assembly seats that cover the area he is from an state senate heat he -- ctull hold and that is a white working class area of southern new jersey, the kind of place where donald trump performed well in 2016. we see those results, those places may be trending away from democrs. judy: you mentioned the suburbs. philadelphia suburbs, democrats did well. is there something about the kind of suburbs where democrats are getting stronger and whet? they aren' kyle: if you look at census numbers and whether a place has higher than average four-year college attendance, the national number is 30% but if a county ha35%, 40% for your college democrats., that will go towards various places are in stages of transion but that number tells the story. if you look at a place that is overly white, doesn't have high four-year college attainment, a white working class area like southern new jersey am a trending towards the republicans. there are lots of varieties and fferences in the outcomes, but those big picture t trends, nationalization of the split in the white electorate amon

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