flint changed to a new water system, the flint river, to save money.his water flowing through the aging pipes caused lead, a neurotoxin that affects brain development, to seep into the water system. health officials estimate tens of thousands were affected, many of them children. bilal tawwab had been named the new superintendent of flint schools a few months earlier. >> i knew i was coming into a situation which was going to be a heavy lift. you have a district that some would say was failing academically. we had a huge decline in enrollment over the past few years, financial crises. >> reporter: then things got worse. pediatrician mona hannah-attisha conducted a study before and after flint's water source was changed. it showed the percentage of children with elevated blood lead levels essentially doubled. it was not an announcement state officials wanted to hear. >> the state was saying "hey, you're wrong. this research is not true. you're causing near hysteria. the state's numbers don't match my numbers. so my credibility, this data, this science w

flint river as a source for drinking water.cores of children and infants suffered health effects. it's important we don't forget our brothers and sisters affected by this disaster. >>> the two-day festival wrapped up today at winter gardens in san francisco. the annual event celebrates the history. there were several stages highlighting contemporary and traditional music. the event also included dancing, food, and artifacts. >> it's a family event. we love to see everyone, all the families coming together for this cool event. >> thousands of people were expected to attend the festival this year. this is the 24th year the festival has been held in san francisco. >>> fire crews are making progress on a wildfire burning in napa county near lake berryessa. the canyon fire is now 85% contained. the fire was burning southwest of berryessa. 114 acres have burned so far. fire officials have not issued any evacuations. >>> well at least the temperatures have been down for now giving fire crews a bit of a break. it doesn't look like we'r

says she started worrying about her tap water during the water crisis in flint, michigan. so what are you most worried igant, about your water? >> the chemicals that might in our water, that we can't see and we don't know about.

the community foundation of greater flint.id "we need top stand together make sure something like this never naps any community again." >> anibel creation is the number one movie at the box office. the movie which cost $15 million to make brought in an estimated $35 million on its debut weekend. "dunkirk" holding strong at number two. a new film, nut job two nutty by nature is in third place. >> today marks the start of restaurant week in the dmv. from today through august 20 you can chow down at more than 250 restaurants running deals on brunch lunch and dinner. costs range from $22 to $35. head to the web site www.rw dmv.com, that's rw dmv.com. >> we're now just fr this friday we'll be in gaithersburg maryland so come on out this friday august 18th. 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. i'm going to be there along with tucker barnes and allison seymour. we would love to see you out there as well. if you want to know where we're going to be we're going to be at the crown which is out in rio plaza right over there in gaithersburg. a lot of

joining me now is maury copeni, known as "little miss flint."rself she's raised more than $10,000 to distribute more than 1,000 backpacks. in the interest of helping others and her community. she goes well beyond backpacks with that. joining her is gailian miller, the president of pack your back. you know, i looked at a lot of your reposts and stuff. you're involved in. even at 10 years old. i started really young, so i really, really was captured by you. but you're in a city where a lot of young people your age, even a little younger and older, are going to school that had been contaminated with this poisoned water. but you chose, rather than to just deal with what has happened, which is wrong and egregious, you said, i'm going to do something positive to help them go back to school. what motivated you to do this? >> well, people. i mean, well, kids needed -- >> kids needed something to go to school with? >> yeah. backpacks and school supplies. because not a lot of parents could afford their kids' school supplies. like backpacks and pencils and

he runs against flint flint and he uses the label of ethics and it's a very interesting campaign you can look back on because you can see him develop many of his themes that will help him shape a lot of his career. flint had become the chairman of the house ethics committee which was not a very well respected committee at the time. the joke was if you want to kill an ethics complaint, send it to the ethics committee and gingrich made a point of that and used flint as a prime example of what was wrong with the democrats on capitol hill. the media begins to uncover more and more congressional corruption every day, and he said that the actions of the watergate babies had shown when they threw out several committee chairs in 1975 that something was wrong on capitol hill. it wasn't enough, flint was still able to defeat him. in '78 flint announces he's going to retire and part that his district has changed so much and he's out of touch with the new competition and gingrich runs a very famously vicious campaign against virginia schaaford using all kinds of underhanded techniques and she sa

flint has to deal with dirty water. people all over this issue have to deal with contaminated water. do you want to know what unites us? water. there are people that live in this country in conditions comparable to a third world country. there are sacrifice zones in this country and that is unacceptable. we have to unite for water. that is the one thing that unites us all. we cannot live without clean water and air. we can talk about budgets all day long but we have to create a good economic infrastructure that does not kill everybody. if you want to know about climate crisis come to west virginia and i will give you a tour. [applause] >> as drew mentioned a moment ago, my training is as a climate scientist. before i decided to get into politics. to me, the intersection between climate and racial injustice is so clear. just in the work i have done, and i have worked on black carbon in the arctic and in the andes. it is so clear that climate change to me is the infection coming to the surface. the disease is the exploita

flint's water crisis started three years ago.ee people died and thousands were exposed to water contaminated with lead. >> announcer: now your accuweather forecast with lisa argen. >> well, here it is again. once again the low clouds, the fog will be making a push further inland and that is going to impact our monday significantly. so as we look at droneview7 this afternoon, you'll notice that we did look at a lot of sunshine here in the city just for a short time. you had to run outside and enjoy it for, what, like 30 minutes, maybe an hour, and then the fog moving back in. but a pretty afternoon with temperatures in the 60s. and we have a fall-like afternoon on the way tomorrow. so, the clouds are going to be very stubborn and hard to scour out. as we look at live doppler 7 you can see already the push across the bay and we widen the perspective. as this incoming system that will allow for the low clouds, the fog to deepen as much as 1800 feet. so, right now from our east bay hills camera, look how pretty this is. you can see t

we have mist and drizzle but no metering lights yet. >> thank you. >>> thousands of people in flint, michigan, are getting a helping hand from bruno mars as they continue to deal with the impact of the water crisis there. he's donating $1 million to help the city and the music star made the announcement during a concert saturday night in detroit. concert promoter live nation is chipping in part of money. three people died and thousands were exposed to water contaminated with lead when the city switched water sources in 2014. epa officials still encourage the residents to drink or bottled water. >>> new york city may install high-tech l.e.d. lights on the bridges. they're questioning if it's the best use of public money. the mayor wants it to fix the troubled subway and governor cuomo said the lights will be a tourist draw. critics say the estimates that the lights will cost more than $200 million are likely exaggerated. >>> a baby panda in japan is healthy at 2 months old. this is when it goes from the naked stage to the cute stage. the zoo says it's about 16 inches tall and weighs j

and people in flint have to deal dirty water. as people all over the country that have to do with contaminated water issues. what unites us? water. it's a basic human right. there's people who live in this country and conditions comparable to third world country. their sacrifice owns in this country and that's unacceptable. we have to unite for water, is one thing that unites us all we can't live without we have to create a good economic infrastructure that doesn't kill everybody are working to die. you know about climate crisis come to west virginia. i'll give your tour. [applause] saw a moment ago to me the intersection between climate and racial injustice is so clear. just in the work i've done i worked in the in it so clear that climate change for me is really like coming to the surface and the disease is the exploitation of land, resources, just the way we have trash where we live and we treated the and places is disposable. so the intersection is so clear, we know that we saw that was sandy, we see that every time it's a na

flint still was able to defeat him. '78, flint announces that he is going to retire, part because his district has changed so much, he's very out of touch with the kind of new composition, and gingrich runs a very famously vicious campaign against virginia schaapered, who is a democrat in the state legislature, using all kinds of underhanded techniques. there was one ad after she said that she would move to washington, her family would stay in the district so her husband could keep working, he blasted her in an ad as an antifamily democrat willing to break up her family in pursuit of the career. gingrich springs into action right away, and the first issue he takes on is ethics. his first target is congressman charlie diggs, the african-american democrat from detroit who is elected, i believe, in 1954, is in trouble. in march of '78, a grand jury had indicted him. one of the founders of the congressional black caucus, for having accepted $60,000 in kickbacks from his staff. a jury convicted him on october 7th for 11 counts of mail fraud and for having falsified payroll forms. but his c

it gained national attention because of the crisis in flint, michigan.n california one proposed bill would urge doctors to ask more questions to assess a family's risk of lead exposure and the health department would be held to higher standards when it comes to reporting that data. another would require school districts to test their water for lead and fix any contamination. >>> in flint the cdc says 5% of kids under age 6 had elevated lead levels. we investigated overnight and numbers are comparable or higher. 7.5% of kids under 6 had elevated lead levels in oakland. more than 4% tested positive in san francisco's mission district. alum rock tested at 3%. the latest numbers from the state health department are from 2012. >>> new this morning president trump signed a bill to help speed up dna. it was sponsored by senator dianne feinstein who requires police agencies to use new technologies that can process dna samples in 90 minutes or less. that new testing can happen at the time of the suspect's arrest. >>> an east bay state senator is introducing a bil

it has higher lead poisoning in our blood than flint, michigan. >> really?> yeah. >> what are you doing about that? >> we have a moms campaign that is coming up. one of the things that we know, is whether you're a mom in flint michigan or in oakland like i am or a mom in new orleans, no matter the context of which you live, it's nonnegotiable. and i can't let the kids play in the backyards often and to have the ability to walk to your mailbox without a mask on. that is happening in richmond, california, and bakersfield, california. and the buget cuts that the u.s. president is proposing to cut the budget by one-third, it's abhorrent. we want people to join the campaign with moms across the country protekting kids. >> your parents were vietnamese refugees, and can you tell us about that experience? >> that's right. they came here as refugees from vietnam after the war. and the only jobs they could find was picking strawberries and snow peas in portland, california, and went to suite shops in oakland, california. my mom wanted me to the first kid in a family o

like you mentioned they're donating him and live nation a $1 million for flint.ll right. we are only a week away, monday, august 21, marks the first total solar eclipse. the first one to be seen in 40 years. as many as 7.4 million people are expected to travel to see it and amtrak has routed the eclipse express. that's a special round trip train service to and from one of the best eclipse viewing areas in southern illinois. the train sold out in less than a day and it will carry 409 passengers across the land of lincoln to carbondale, illinois. riders paid about 150 bucks to leave chicago at 3:00 a.m. to see the moon cover the sun for roughly two minutes and 38 seconds. so not a lot of time but it's going to be such a great phenomenon. check it out. >>> cruise lines are upping the ante with the size and features of the ships but how about this, a new 4,000 passenger alaska bound norwegian bliss. it will feature a racetrack where passengers will be able to race each other in electric go-carts. the ship will have a water park with a slide that extends over the side

and the united states that have more lead in the water, more late in the blood of our children and flint, michigan, does. we are in a crisis in this country and it's affecting the next generation, affecting our economic competitiveness, affecting the greatest national treasure we have which is at the genius of our kids. i'm blessed to have a guy here who is one of the -- doing a strong network and a difficult environment in a city that has had a lot of challenges any candidates had a lot of challenges with drinking water. .. even opt to the northern counties. he is renowned in his deal for the work is done to rebuild an upgrade or water treatment plant, implementing really cutting-edge changes including focusing on marine infrastructure solutions. if you look at cutting-edge solutions, in order to help address the other issues, including the combined tour over challenges. he and his team were able to make these treatments and there is some good news all of us while holding user rates steady for 17 years. he currently serves on the board of the national association of water agencies come

but the fact is that we can go to east chicago or flint, michigan.e environmental injustices that do not happen in orange county. there are places that do not happen in affluent white areas of this country. in south carolina -- >> how about poor white areas? >> no doubt about it. they are suffering. but let's have a conversation about systemic injustices we have. there's a direct -- >> systemic injustices are not necessarily race injustices. >> you're saying they're class is what you're saying? >> look, this is an issue about -- i think we can agree on this. there are problems in this country where there are millions of people who do not have opportunities to be able to rise. you can find that in rural areas of this country throughout appalachia, west virginia and kentucky just as you can find them in detroit, philadelphia and other places and to suggest that is racist in base, i think, clouds the issue that we have serious problems to confront here and covering it with race, i think, is not -- >> let me touch on a couple of things. i think there's g

announced that's donating a million dollars from that concert to flint's community foundation. the city as you know has been struggling with high lead in the switch of water sources and 12 people died from legion air disease outbreak affected by the water. >>> britany spears give back to the end of the year. she is donating one dollar from every ticket of her show to help louisiana schools because of the floods. spears' mother and louisiana first lady are friend and once taught together in the same school system. >>> it's been a century since philadelphia built the benjamin franklin parkway which was designed to emulate the champs elysees in paris, france. the parkway is celebrating the summer in 6abc loves the arts, david murphy explores some of the fun. >> reporter: it is benjamin franklin parkway is philadelphia's museum row. and this summer there is special things to do ups and downs the grand -- up and down the grand cultural boulevard. >> it's bigger than ever, free mini golf, movie night, concert series. >> reporter: the theme is what's your parkway with three colorful o

flint's water crisis started three years ago.eople died and thousands were exposed to water that was contaminated with lead. >> announcer: now your accuweather forecast with lisa argen. >> hi, everyone. hope you enjoyed the day. it was nice inland, but certainly breezy and kind of cool around the bay. a pleasant afternoon for most. take a look at live doppler seven. the fog has moved in quickly to our east bay. it's going to move out just as quickly out of the north bay, but the higher clouds are going to linger into much of the afternoon for the peninsula and the south bay. let's go in a little bit closer. live doppler 7, you can see the fog around 680, san ramon, 580, oakland, emeryville, down towards fremont already, and of course all of san francisco shrouded in the fog. as we go towards half moon bay, wouldn't be surprised to see some mist and drizzle throughout the evening hours and the overnight hours. so the culprit is this area of low pressure. pretty strong for this time of year. a fall-like system bringing just a littl

surprised an audience in michigan by announcing a one million dollar donation to aid the victims of the flintater crisis. closing arguments are set to begin today in the high profile civil suit involving taylor swift. she is accusing a former radio personality david mueller of groping her during a meet and greet, a claim that he denies. on friday, a judge threw out claims against taylor swift that she tried to get mueller fired. however the judge is letting claims proceed against taylor's mother and radio manager. actor jesse willimas creating some conversation this morning at refusing to stand for the national anthem last night at basketball tournament at the staples center in la. according to tmz, he later tweeted "we'll stand when you do.." which seemed to be aimed at president trump who was criticized for not directly calling out white nationalists who were at the center of the violence in charlottesville over the weekend. coming up at six - charlottesville still reeling after a weekend of violence johnny live tease giant has unbelievable pro tip produce prices. : so you'll never have to

. >> flint, paying it forward, spreading goodness. we wish you the best of luck. i know you are headed back out on the water to save more lives. flint, thanks so much. >> caller: thank you. >> more than 17,000 people are in shelters across texas due to harvey. at least 3400 people have been rescued in houston alone. we are waiting to hear from the houston mayor looking at live pictures on the left side of the screen. we'll get updates including the status of the reservoirs chad myers is so concerned about. >>> north korea launches a new missile over japan. president trump says all options are on the table. what does that mean? ♪ if you could book a flight, then add a hotel, or car, or activity in one place and save, where would you go? ♪ expedia gives you the world in your hand, so you can see more of it. ♪ expedia. on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. switch and y

and in flint the cdc says 5% of kids under the age of 6 had elevated lead levels. and in certain bay area spots the numbers are comparable or higher. 7.5% of kids under 6 had elevated lead levels in oakland and more than 4% tested positive in san francisco's mission district. in the alum rock area of san jose tested at 3%. the latest numbers from the state health department are from 2012. >>> at 6:47 this morning more complaints over apple's new headquarters in sunnyvale. the people living in the bird land neighborhood talked to the mercury news this morning. they say the new spacious campus is now blocking their view of the santa cruz mountains. they call it a prison wall and construction continues to disrupt their daily lives. apple says they see the complaints and is working to minimize the impact of people in the area. >>> and happening today we have a vta bus stop closure at san carlos in san jose. crews will replace the curb and sidewalk. construction may last up to six weeks. if that's not your stop, officials suggest walking one block west to stop at the st

he brought up the flint michigan, that whole thing in terms of the fact that they still, almost fourture that's necessary to give them clean water. now, i will add a point there are 3,000 other areas in this country where the lead levels are higher than that, but when you look at environmental injustice or racism you look at communities mainly communities of color and on the other side communities that are poor. so, we got to deal with this. >> so, let me ask you. the idea of the framers writing all men are created equal. it seems to a lot of people that the aspirations of the framers -- remember it says all men, dozen even mention women. that the aspirations are important not necessarily who they were at that moment in time is that not a fair argument? >> i think that's a legitimate argument. it help us when donald trump was some what wh-- we nee to reckon with that. he was -- his goal was a more perfect union. robert e. lee thought slavery was good for the fran african. he thought that was good. that's not where we are. i have to comment quickly because i want senator santorum so u

. >> we are not flint, michigan. 300 water agencies, 300 communities without safe drinking water. it speaks for itself. >> california water agencies called the fee a tax and say the money should instead come from the general fund. >>> speaking of money, we're less than three hours away from tonight's power ball jackpot drawing. at stake $700 million. players are mathematicians say maybe you shouldn't be. >> reporter: they're only saying that about the odds which is are astronomical. we're seeing a more stream of steady people coming in to buy their power ball tickets. he decided there were 700 million good reasons to buy a powerball ticket today. >> i did like my wife's birthday and my birthday. >> reporter: we asked some players what they thought about their chances of winning. not that good. >> about 700 million to 1. >> reporter: nope, not that bad. >> the chance of winning the powerball jackpot is about 1 in 292 million. >> reporter: that's because there are 292 million different numerical combinations possible in the powerball drawing. buying a few more tickets won't help you

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in flint, from alex michigan, independent caller. what do you make about this conversation and the use of twitter? that it isot an idea kind of like my teenage daughter who has been in her bedroom that notand i told her to use her phone after 9:00. can i make a statement about the job market? the economy? host: sure thing. caller: how can, i am 69 years old, i have never been involved in anything for six months and everything changed. economy and the stock market and all of the growth we have had, it has to be done at least a year and a half out, not six months. that's a let's you owe that trump is taking to the credit and is -- that lets you know that trump is taking the credit. and the people who believe it, what is wrong for them? have they lived? host: a sampling of the president's tweets and he wrote just yesterday about economics and wrote so corporations have never made as much money as they are making now. jobs are starting to roar. and he wrote the wall -- of the stock market hit an all-time high. more about what the preside

well, i've actually followed this issue and covered it for some time way back in flint, michigan.r and publisher of a newspaper that i founded there, a weekly. and back in the late '70s and early '80s when general motors started the first layoffs and a lot of people were losing their homes and whatever, the neo-nazi movement sort of came into michigan to essentially recruit people who were angry at the system for the cards it had dealt them. this is essentially -- >> what was their pitch then? >> their pitch was that -- you know, i don't even want to repeat their pitch. >> okay. >> let's just say a certain group historically biblical group -- >> had conspired to create -- >> had conspired with the corporations and the banks to make their lives a living hell. >> yeah. >> and fortunately most people didn't bite. a few did. and i remember actually before i made my first film, a group of filmmakers had come from new york city to do a documentary on this movement. it was called "blood in the face," and they came by my newspaper and asked if i could help them with this film. i knew noth

michigan, bruno mars announced he and live nation are donating $1 million to help the victims of the flintn a statement he said it is important we don't forget our brothers and sisters affected by this disaster. >>> and a woman who lives outside of tokyo says she's been living off the electrical grid for five years. she uses solar panels and a bicycle linked to power generating equipment so to save electricity, she doesn't use a refrigerator or an air-conditioner. >> i guess no wi-fi for instagram. >> doing your part. goodness. >>> just ahead, a group of teens shows what holding truth to power means. you're watching "early today" on a monday. for 100 years, heritage and innovation have made gillette the #1 shave in america. now get gillette quality at lower prices -- every day. brought to you by 1200 workers in boston -- we're proud of giving you our best. gillette. the best a man can get. why do people put why does your tummy go "grumbily, grumbily, grumbily"? no more questions for you! ouph, that milk in your cereal was messing with you, wasn't it? try lactaid, it's real milk without tha

the funds will be donated to the community foundation of greater flint.rothers and sisters acted by the disaster." >> today marks the start of restaurant week in the dmv. from today through august 20 you can chow down at more than 250 local restaurants running deals on brunch lunch and dinner. the cost ranges from $22 to $35. for more information and a list of participating restaurants head over to web site www.rw dmv.com. >> ♪ >> we're now just four days weigh from our next zip trip. this friday we'll be in gaithersburg maryland. come out this friday august 18th, 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. we'll be there in the morning. wisdom martin is going to be there, tucker barnes is going to be there, allison seymour is going to be there. did i mention that wisdom martin will be there. >> really dude, really? the wisdom martin, right. >> we would love for you to come out and hang out with wisdom martin. >> his head is on full swole. let me move over. >> i'm just reading the prompter. >> can your head accommodate the screen anymore. >> no it can't and i was just readin

mary in washington, d.c., said she started worrying about her tab water after the water crisis in flinte you worried most about your water? >> the chemicals in our water that we don't know about. >> reporter: we showed her a new report. >> nine contaminants above health guidelines, but there's 18 other contaminants. that's kind of crazy. >> reporter: the database allows consumers to go online and see exactly what contaminants are in the water in their area. a new report says almost 19,000 water sources have lead and 93 have increased risks to cancer. >> who is most at risk? >> most at risk are young children, babies, and pregnant women. >> reporter: they said in a statement america's public water is among the safest in the world. the agency also says more than 90% of the nation's water drinking systems meade the standards. >> they meet the standards. does that mean the water is safe? >> absolutely not. they're set based on a compromise between health and economical and political interests. so it's not purely health. >> reporter: mary marr wonders what it means for her young daughter. >>

the funds will be donated to the community foundation of greater flint.ing like this never happens in any community again. giving back where he's performing. love that. >> annabelle creation has created a lot of interest at the box office. the movie which only cost about $15 million to make brought in an estimated $35 million on its debut weekend. "dunkirk" still going strong. it came in second place in its four rounding out the top three nut job two nutty by nature movie ticket sales in north america running about a half million dollars behind last summer's box office making this one the lowest grossing summers in years. >> all righty. i think tucker is -- >> don't run, mike. >> serious weather conference right now with mike thomas but mike is scattered. >> right. >> you didn't have to do that and we say good morning, tuck. >> you scare people away. >> it's not like he doesn't work here. he acting like he doesn't belong in the building. >> he's the brains behind the operation. >> he did run off like he doesn't long here. >> like he's an intern again. >>

the most visible of these was in, obviously, flint michigan.ut closer to home for me, like people in upstate new york have been experiencing nothing short of a tragedy because their drinking water has been tainted with the chemical pfoa. we've seen in the newburgh and on long island so when we talk about water infrastructure we need to talk about how we're going to keep our drinking water safe. this is a real challenge for small communities like hoosac falls. how do we do a better job of helping communities test contaminates like pfoa in their drinking water systems? >> i think the usda and epa need to address those issues in small communities like where i'm from. and i mean help from our government, federal government. >> thank you. >> thank you, senator, for example, in the instance of lead, i think lead awareness is very important. we not only need to make sure we're treating water at the source, the drinking water treatment plants itself but making sure the conduits from the plant to the home and the internal plumbing within the home are su

you remember the flint water whistleblower that said that scientists have become beholden to government for their funding and knowene knows who john baits is the noah whistleblower that said they rushed the report to beat the paris a cord and finally describe what kind of shenanigans australia are playing with temperature stations i'm not sure what they were doing? can you explain that for me? >> so i'm not sure about the australian news. i wasn't paying attention to that in particular but no, there is a claim that people make on the right that federal scientists are you know dependent on the government for grants and that they then take up policy positions that you know they think that their contemporarys will agree with. i don't really find that to be valid. scientists are very thorough people and they don't try to come to a conclusion before they do their research. there's always high path assist but they don't want to necessarily get to that. they want to do the work the scientific work. they would be pretty shunned by contemporarys if they did bad work that's the whole process of p

from flint michigan, good morning. i have witnessed this at our michigan works program where it was like unknown carriers came in and promised $400,000 a year and nobody knew who was supplying or paying for it, but they promised you would get a driving gig and a truck, and this was through the michigan works program, several years ago. takingy were just vulnerable men out. >> thanks for the call. sounding similar situation to what we found out in l.a., and long beach. guys who had in working this job for years really did not know anything else. they had been truck drivers for a long time. a lot of them love doing it. they love driving trucks. environmental regulations hit around 2008, suddenly overnight they could not do it anymore but they were desperate for work. that made them easy targets in a lot of ways. they walked into work and were told your truck cannot go on to the docks anymore but don't worry, we have one out in back. just sign here and we will get you back up and on the road. we have a truck and in five y

warren: when communities like flint are living with poisoned water and polluted air, when there is still no justice for eric garner, freddie gray, philando castile, and so many more. yeah. [applause] sen. warren: the system is rigged. and keep on going. when you can still be fired from your job because of who you love. when you cannot use a public restroom or serve in the military because of your gender identity. when you are afraid to report a rape because ice can split up your family. you are treated like a suspect every minute of your life, yeah, the system is rigged. [applause] and if you don't feel like anyone in politics is doing anything to unrig it, or you feel like it is too broken to unrig at all, that is what a lot of folks felt last a lot of november. folks who should have been with us on election day, but who just stayed home. so spare me the argument about whether we should be trying to bring back folks who voted for donald trump, or trying to turn out votes who just did not vote because we cannot do either of those things until we show that things can change, and that we w

host: a truck driver from flint, morning., good caller: hello, good morning. yep. -- ve witnessed this host: morning. caller: good morning. 've witnessed this at michigan works program, where it was like unknown carriers came in and supplying who was for it. they promised a driving gig in a truck. michigan hrough the works program. they were taking vulnerable men on. host: thanks for the call. guest: similar sounding l.a. and long beach. it's guys who had been working they didn't years, really know anything else a lot of the time, they did it in countrys and had been truck drivers for a long time. it.ot of them love doing they love driving trucks. when the environmental regulations hit around 2008, was saying, suddenly overnight, they couldn't do it anymore. were desperate for work. that made them easy targets in a lot of ways. walked into work, they said, hey, your truck, your rig docks anymore, it is okay, we have one out back, just sign here and then get you back up and on the road, we have a truck, five will ownven years, you the thing and in the meantime,

flint is still able to defeat him. gingrich runs a very famously vicious campaign against virginia shafered, a democrat in the state legislator. it was one add after she would move to watching. gingrich springs into action right away, and the first issue he takes on is congress. the african-american democrats from detroit who was elected i believe in 1954 is in trouble. in march of '78, a zrrj had documented him in having arrested $6,000 of kick back. but his constituency reejected him. during the election while he hated sentencing, he was still a member of the house. gingrich called this outrageous and pointed this as an example of what's owe going on with the democrats. digs disagreed with that, said the right he had to vote. and in february 1979, he delivers his first vote and gingrich goes on the attack gingrich -- today in his private diary, hoe voted in the house. the notion was made by a freshman. perhaps there is frivable snns in a first term member's complicic aview. gich rch he would be vindicated soon after

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still shocked and indignant over all this attention that's been devoted to his to his meeting with flint he asks since when a diplomats forbid an agent with politicians with members of an administration that is after all their entire job with regards to this to this talk this conversation between himself and mr flynn says that they talked about straightforward things pressing concerns but simple ones such as terrorism for example there were no secrets mentioned he says regards the sanctions and by the way it was sanctioned as their potential talk of sanctions that really forced mr flynt to resign mistake his access he had very direct orders from the top not to mention sanctions. i do not comment on our daily contacts with our colleagues and i had instructions not to discuss sanctions we never discuss sanctions with anybody and i assure you i've honestly followed the instructions we don't discuss or bargain about sanctions because we believe they were implemented in an illegal politically aggressive way to begin with. so gay also says that he doesn't take seriously all these allegations o

slavery to jim crow to separate water fountains to situations now like the poison water crisis in flintmichigan that disproportionately impacts lack people -- impacts lack have beenack people willing to go to court to peacefully protest, but there's something about being attacked by the police, the people who are supposed to protect and serve you that affect african-americans like nothing else. when you look at every major civil insurrection that has risen up in the united states when black people have abandoned peaceful protests and taken it to the streets in baltimore, in ferguson, in los angeles, it's because of something the police have done. attack byeel under your own government, that is an extreme form of frankly prejudice and makes you want to rise up. it makes black people rise up like no other kind of discriminate in. brian: you've been a professor for 20 years. you teach at georgetown law school and you are a graduate of harvard law school, graduate of yale undergrad come a graduate of saint ignatius high school in chicago. how did you do all of this? paul: i'm fortunate and