less inhabitable yes yes the air the water we need leadership like obama showed with the water flint michigan. a crisis of lead poisoning hit flint in the middle of obama's term and he in the big i ignored it harder than i've ignored the ads for michael bloomberg. how about the water off the gulf of mexico as long as we're talking about water b.p.'s. deepwater horizon oil spill happened during obama's term and he made sure b.p. understood that destroying the gulf of mexico was frowned upon. the same will happen under donald trump he would boldly say he likes oil spills. because there are fewer dolphins to clog up the engines on his yacht. during this incredibly rare amazon b.c. climate change coverage this week katie tour was not done dropping truth bombs here's the thing we didn't always disagree on this this was something that everybody agreed on as late as the one $980.00 s. all politicians basically agreed on it it wasn't until there was a concerted dissin from ation campaign perpetrated by the oil industry yes and just after that she had to pause for an ad from shell oil. for katie turne

school children in flint michigan on a field trip all invited down to the local courthouse. >> welcome to the cothsen this amazing day. >> reporter: to attend a very special hearing. it was adoption day in family court. in all 37 foster children united with their new families. >> there are so many emotional stories. >> reporter: with paper hearts in hand, the friends of 8-year-old michael clark junior came to celebrate with him. [ cheers ] >> reporter: he's been with his foster parents for about a year today, they are one. >> you know, we asked him and he was just like, you know, the class is kind of my family. >> reporter: tonight, one special group of kids have found their forever parents. >> we were just kind of thinking how can we build -- >> i love my mommy. >> there are so many options, right, for building a family these days. >> reporter: one boy's classmates learned an important lesson about love and commitment kevin tibbles, nbc news. >> how can that one not get you? that's "nightly news". i'm lester holt. good night, everyone ♪ she just wants to be beautiful ♪ of a mama she g

right now after this deadly robbery caught on >>> we are back with this crash on a highway near flint, michigan. a semi-truck went off the road and up the embankment before hitting the bridge and bursting into flames. the truck driver is okay. >>> all right. in the race for president, a bold prediction about the democratic primary race. the website politico says many party insiders and experts now predict bernie sanders will be the one candidate left standing with joe biden at the end of the primary campaign. they cite elizabeth warren's declining poll numbers along with sanders' success bouncing back after his recent heart attack. they also say he has a strong chance of winning new hampshire and other than joe biden, has the best shot of winning the crucial early state of nevada. >>> we turn now to the killers on the run after a deadly shooting at a denny's in virginia. a delivery worker was killed walking in, just as the suspects were robbing the restaurant. a $10,000 reward is offered in this case. >> reporter: a manhunt for these two armed robbery suspects who shot two people at a denny's i

want to talk about the wellness you should be talking about -- >> host: the drinking water in flint michigan. >> guest: exactly. there is a kind of refusal to engage in reality and that's not to say that u. r. a white woman with money and want to di buy a thousand dollars skin cream if you are a person that does think critically about the systems in which we live, of course fine. and i don't expect every event to be a political rally, but there's just something so disturbing. i canter member of the year i went into trump was president or not, but regardless i just think that it feels like not everything has to be a political rally. but how hard would it have been to spend a little more time making sure this event has any level of diversity, or even had one panel that addressed politics in any way. there was a panel about having it all as a mom and no one talked about how they are all millionaires with clearly ate mayonnaise. >> host: they didn't subsidized day care or the family leave policies or higher minimum wages. >> guest: if you only care about things personally relevant to you without

with respect that i deserve and of course we go to the office of the member of congress from flint, michiganand so we walked in and we said can we get in? and he said i'm going over there now. i'll walk you in. so we sat in the part of the gallery that's for friends or family of members of congress. so we got to a really great seat. obviously, obviously, all the cliches, historic day, witnessing history. my cystssister and i said this flashback. in 1965 my mom took us towalk r washington d.c. and in the same balcony in the gallery where we sat in 1965 as little tykes with my mom, watching them pass the voting rights act of 1965. so to have two events in history >> that consequential. did you get a sense of, not just personal history, but the moment? these things come and go and donald trump himself was out giving a speech? >> oh, don't worry. he was paying attention. they just wrecked his last couple of days. if you follow him on twitter, it's quite a storm of insanity. when you watch it on tv t is a completely different experience. to be there in person and to really see the republicans. i

i'm originally from flint, michigan, which is another community with its own issues. and i lived and worked all over the united states, such as detroit, michigan, atlanta, georgia, boston, massachusetts, portland, oregon, and of course san francisco. since living in san francisco, i have only worked in the tenderloin. i started working at san francisco city impact, which is an organization that introduced me to the tenderloin. while working at this organization i developed relationships with residents, while being a resident myself, and i received access and inside look inside many of the s.r. o.s. my husband and i have become business owners of a marketing agency within the past two years. and we have had the pleasure of services businesses off of market street such as restaurants, and we are currently involved with the tenderloin community benefits district or the tlcb. throughout my time living here, i have witnessed many drug interactions during the day. and it ranges from the obvious with the groups of drug dealers around a particular area to the not so obvious c

gail inst call, flint, michigan. caller: good morning. i am wondering since trump has -- cheatingbreaking on the upcoming election and breaking the federal election laws or the rules, i am wondering how he is allowed to even be on the 2020 ballot. what rules izzy -- guest: what rules is he breaking? caller: federal election rules that you are not allowed to solicit help from a foreign country in an election. it is their rule number one. tost: you are not allowed solicit foreign funds. that would be an entirely different story and i know that there are cases every year, or every election year where candidates wind up having to turn money back to countries overseas because they are in violation of that and in violation of the foreign agents registration act. this goes back to world war ii, i might add. as for asking questions of a foreign government, i agreed earlier, it is a nebulous area, but the crime has not yet been established at this point. host: john gizzi, white house correspond with newsmax. what are you covering today? guest: i m

amy: we are talking about your city, michael moore, flint, michigan. people left that gymnasium that day and i knew what was going to happen and is what happened. in flint, if humans later at the election, 8000 roughly african-americans who had voted 2008 and obama in 2012, stayed home. she lost the whole staples of amy: hillary. they even had one of their last debates. >> how could she lose michigan? why did african-americans refuse to support her? because all we have heard brow many decades, oh, b black people of thehe clintons. remember? on arseniohe sax and said he was our first black president. remember that? i always found it so offensive. the truth was, at the debate in flint between hillary and bernie, someone at cnn gave hillary the questions in advance so she would know the questions. amy: donna brazile? >> donna brazile. you have a group of mothers at the ask hillary ando bernie about the water situation. knowing that hillary already knew they were going to ask this question or two --bernie did not know. hillary knew. a month later when it wa

>> i'm from flint, michigan, i started boxing at the age of 11 inspired by my dad and one of the sportse fighting, i love competing and i'm the greatest one of all time. charles: greatest one of all time already? >> yes. charles: i have to tell you something, but you initially had your own doubts when you were going up you talked about some of the early fights, some of the bigger women that, you know, had been training and, you know, when was the point when you gained your confidence that you said, you know what, i'm really good at this? >> you know i was 15 year's old. i had a coach telling me from the beginning, you're the best woman inspired ever and i didn't believe them until i turned 15. i fought against a girl that was 178, i was 152 at the time and big strong girl and i remember looking at her and i was like, oh, man, she came down to my gym to spar me, she was wearing number 2 in the country, as a matter of fact number 2 in the world at 178 and we sparred and i mean, i took her to school and from there i was like, show me who is number 1, that's who i want to fight. [laughter]

with the respect i deserve, and of course we go to the office of the member of congress from flint, michiganso we walked in and said can we get in. and he said, yeah, i'm going over there now i'll walk you in. so we walked in and we sat in the part of theb balcony, the gallery that's for friends or family or members of congress. so we got a really great seat. and -- and, you know, obviously all the cliches, a historic day, witnessing history. my sister said, god, this is kind of a flashback for us. in 1965 our mom took us to washington, d.c., she wanted to show us how government worked. and we looked right over in the same balcony in this gallery where we sat in 1965 as little tikes with my mom watching them pass the voting rights act of 1965. >> wow. >> so to have two events in history -- >> that are that consequential. did you sense it when you were sitting there, plot just a sense of personal history but of the moment? what does it mean for america? because these days these things come and go and donald trump himself wasn't paying attention. he was out giving a speech. >> oh, don't worry.

quite a scary crash involving a tractor-trailer near flint, michigan. witnesses say the driver lost control, rode up an embankment, and crashed into that overpass. you can see that truck burst into flames. fortunately the driver only suffered minor injuries. both lanes of the highway were closed. they are now back open. >>> we know the roads can be treacherous during those winter months, and there is big concern about black ice on the highways. >> abc's gio benitez has tips on how to avoid having a black ice accident. >> reporter: it's a worst-case scenario. vehicles losing control. this deputy nearly hit by an out-of-control car in wisconsin. to find out how debilitating black ice can be -- >> the vehicle can spin out. >> wow. >> reporter: we head to the frigid gm proving ground in milford, michigan. here they use state-of-the-art tiles to simulate icy road conditions like invisible black essentially a runway to put its vehicles through the worst winter has to offer. josh is a chevrolet engineer, and he says some of those scary spinouts likely occur in

i'm sorry, is this -- i'm sorry, got a democratic caller, flint, michigan, lowell, is that you? >> caller: yes, it's linnal. >> thanks. go ahead with your comments or question. >> caller: my comment is this hearing today is the same as it has been since trump has been in office and i have been a life long democrat until we start trying to impeach trump, okay? and the thing is is that everything including the witnesses today they're supposed to be scholars but in reality they're just party line witnesses. just saying what they're led to say by the people whom they come to testify for. and that's what washington has basically turned into. also, it's not about right or wrong. but it's actually about influencing the communities of america to deem president donald trump as being a criminal because they're not discussing the actionable evidence. they're discussing their personal views of what happened. and so i would like to see them discuss the evidence which was said in the previous hearings and to discuss both sides of the witnesses just not one side of the witnesses. just to try t

a flint, michigan woman tweeted this video of a grandmother with a $400 bag. >> it has been seen moreupdate. >>> good morning the it is 8:55. i'm gianna franco. taking a look father roadways. still busy as you work your way in parts of pleasanton. a closure on foothill road between bernal and castle wood due to a fatal accident that happened late last night. traffic is busy in and around that area. is is not affecting the main lines of 680 but it will be there until at least 4:00 this afternoon. >> westbound 580 in the green. eastshore freeway highway 4 to the maze, 14 minutes. highway 4 itself is clear and 101 clear out of the south bay. metering lights are off. folks are taking that day off and sleeping in. no delays into san francisco. caltrain on time. 523 train behind schedule. >> we're watching the skies clear and beautiful blue skies on our tower camera. as we go through the day enjoy the sunshine with high pressure building in for us. we're looking at plenty of sunshine today, tomorrow and for saturday. showers return on sunday with our next weather system. daytime highs for t

. >> champagne, direct from flint, michigan like that? >> sure. i'm not a champagne fan.ystal. >> i want to come back to the court case, important one taking place up on pearl street here. they're not getting started today in the states versus t-mobile and sprint until about noon the judge will start then. you're going to have one witness and then charlie ergen, founder and ceo of dish, chairman of dish, will take the stand. gee, i wonder what he's going to say, yes, i think we're going to be a strong wireless nationwide competitor that's what one would imagine. >> there are cases where attorneys general from states have come in and blocked -- >> yes, there was somebody who sent you an email, when i said i was unaware of when the doj had agreed to a deal, and stated ags had come after one but there was a valero deal years ago. >> california blocked. >> yeah. >> pretty good. >> in this case, jim, i think people in the courtroom and i have not yet been able to attend, but people tell me they went in with the expectation that the judge would be perhaps sympathetic, certainly

. >> long way to go though, tom, because flint, michigan still has a problem and there are flints allr the country. i'm not saying you're wrong -- >> completely wrong. that's my point. >> it's hard for those communities to believe in any of this coming from government because they deal with the government. i know you've got to go. thank you very much. >> what a treat. >> in advance, best of holy days for you and your family. we see your wife over there. she looks better in the plaid than you. >> ophthalmology in your future. >> you've got a mic on. >> we're going to go to break so we can de-mic mr. steyer properly. when we come back, what's the state of play going forward? they're walking into a trap. your orders are to deliver a message calling off tomorrow morning's attack. if you fail, we will lose sixteen hundred men. if we're not clever about this... no one will get to your brother. i will. the ups and downs of frequent mood swings can plunge you into deep, depressive lows. (crying) take you to uncontrollable highs. (muffled arguing) or, make you feel both at once. overwhelmed by

one, how's the tap water in flint, michigan? the other part of the question is what are the chances right now of the democrats retaking michigan in next year's election? >> really good questions, thank you and i was going to mention the lead in the water. it's not just in flint, but it's certainly in flint. we also have the same problems in detroit and other urban areas. so i welcome the president wanting to talk about water. but he should go to his epa and tell them to raise the lead levels that the standards so that we can really tackle it. in michigan, we're doing that, the governor is doing that. but federally they are not doing what needs to be down protect our water in any way. and in michigan, i can tell you that we're going to work very hard to make sure not only my friend, senator gary peters is re-elected, but that the people of michigan come forward as we did in 2018. we just did this in 2018 with democrats winning across the board. we've kept the organization going. the focus going. i will be very involved, continue t

host: we will go to a democrat in flint, michigan. here is david. caller: good morning c-span.t like the former lady said she can't understand why anybody would be a democrat, i can't understand how anybody in the united states can be a republican. know that we have a president that has been led by putin from russia. of like theall nancy pelosi says all roads lead to russia with this president. i think this will go down in history as the worst mistake united states ever made, electing summary calling themselves, saying he is supposed to be a businessman. he does not know the constitution, don't know none of the u.s. rules. i support the democrats. shift -- i think adam schiff had done a beautiful job with the impeachment. i think he is highly intelligent. i enjoyed it. i can't wait i want the democrats to be tougher. it seems like we are always cautious, and the republicans conniving, we are trying to be professional all the time but sometimes you have got to get dirty and fight back. host: we will go to our republican line. bill in sherwood, oregon. caller: thank you for letti

. >> flint, michigan can't get tap water. >> infrastructure is tangible and something everyone understandstely and it's a blue collar issues. >> yeah. >> and that's -- from that point of view, it may seem modest compared to medicare fora a all but it's a winner in a lot of the states. there's no such thing as an election poll. on election tday there are 50 elections. talking about national polls isn't what matters. what matters is where do voters in pennsylvania, michigan, florida, north carolina, and wisconsin go in november. >> you write the winning democrat will need to make trump's presidency seem insignificant rather than monumental. what you to mean by that? >> here we are talking about trump and in some ways we are feeding -- feeding bat feeds. they there are huge nishes this country that we don't talk about like a 23 tril job dollar deficit because we're so obsessed about what trump may have said in a conversation way foreign leader. i'm not saying that that's unimportant. but to some extent we've had a three-year experiment in free public glis bli bub u publicity for a president t

it all started when they volunteered to help the flint water crisis in michigan.o with all of the plastic? they decided to make eyeglasses out of waterbottles. so, creating jobs and helping people see. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> kind of works out. and tonight, just in time for christmas -- >> hi, david. >> ally rose in flint. they've now made glasses out of 40,000 plastic water bottles. >> our first employee just came up on her one-year work anniversary. right now, we're busy assembling orders and shipping for holiday. >> the design they open under your tree, the roper. the glasses come in several colors, among them, classic black, crystal fog. hoping to give you a clearer view of christmas. >> made in america! >> and tonight -- >> hi, david. and the made in america game. i'm step, this is my husband jimmy. >> the coauthors of authenticity 50. >> 100% in america from seat to stitch. supporting 500 jobs here. >> from the cotton to the final cut and sew, all of it done here. the sheets cut and sown in north carolina. the packaging in illinois. so, tonight, all over this c

health and safety of our citizens be awarded $100 million to improve water infrastructure in flint michig michigan. who were the geniuses that did that though, you have clean water coming in. they have to pay a little piece of instea instead they go into s horrible, horrible relief polluted water and it comes out of their. they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to save a couple of bucks and the water was so typical and it hurts the people thabut we are getting it stuck d i know the previous governor was a republican, but i wasn't a big fan of his. but i'm not a big fan [inaudible] we are committed to ensuring that america is the cleanest air and water on planet earth and that's what it's about, it's about clean air and clean water and keeping the industry, not closing it because of the ridiculous paris climate accord. how is terrorist doing, i don't think too well. they raise gasoline prices so they can send money over the world. the people in france never even heard of and it isn't working out too well. we are lowering prices, we are making it impossible. i mean, look at gas prices. i recogni

host: i know that we normally talk about drinking water in relation to flint, michigan or other citiesan urbans a solel problem or are we seeing it in rural areas as well? guest: so i write in my book "troubled water," i break it down into a variety of areas. i break it into homes and businesses that get their water piped to them by public utilities, some 40 million americans who get their water from private drinking water wells. these are two different phenomena. for private drinking water wells, it is even worse, because the e.p.a. has taken the position that they have no relationship whatsoever and no oversight whatsoever to private homes or people or offices will get their water from private drinking water wells. this is a separate water crisis. the extent that it is researched at all, and it is vastly underresearched, somewhere 30% to 45% of all private water drinking wells are contaminated. public utilities are also subject to the same problem, a vast number of different contaminants with unknown health effects in our drinking water. host: so, what's the main problem here, is it

michigan were related to transportation. we had carriage companies operating out of flint. railcar companies operating out of detroit. shipbuilding was a huge industry in detroit. one of the biggest early manufacturing centers in michigan's history was a fact that michigan, by 1900, had become the stove capital of the world. jeremiah and james dwyer had three of the four most successful stove companies in detroit history. here is an example of some of their work made out of iron mind in the upper peninsula. about 1900, michigan really became known for the industry that it is still known for today, and that is the manufacturer of automobiles. in order for that to happen, we needed the successes from the early industry. money and capital to to invest in these new companies. lumbering and mining. we also had the infrastructure and the factories that made the stoves, made the transportation vehicles. it could be repurposed for this new phenomenon of the gasoline engine. the last piece that helps michigan become the motor state, was the ingenuity of some of the early founders of the automobile industry, from henry ford, wh

michigan,ie in flint, on the line for democrats.aller: i was a regular caller for three years when i retired and i quit calling because i was tired of the republicans calling in and talking about that video with joe biden. we know who joe biden is. all the smearing in the world is not going to change that. in 2015 when this was going on, republicans were in charge of everything. i have three quick questions for republicans. how do they explain to their children and grandchildren the may 20, 2017 meeting with kislyak and lavrov in the oval office? number 2, helsinki. how would they have felt if president obama got up every day of his presidency and called them names? i would like to see how they would feel. host: why all those things matter in terms of the impeachment process? caller: it shows he is not our president, he has chosen to only be the president for his pocket of people and i think that is horrible. there is a lot of democrats, me included, that were willing to give him a chance until he started calling us names just becau

there were 90,000 people in michigan who went to the polls, mostly democratsin very large numbers of them in detroit, flintntiac, saginaw -- these are all black cities, majority black. they stood in line in the cold for two to three hours to vote. they went in and voted for state reps, state senate, county commission. .rain commissior they stood and voted for the democrats all down ballot and left the top box blank. she only lost michigan by 10,000 or 11,000 votes. 90,000 wanted to send a message to the democratic party, you forgot as a long time ago out up with we will not put th anymore. we're not going to vote for trump, but we are not going to tolerate you sending us another republican, white democrat. if we go that route, if we go that route it is guaranteed we will lose the electoral college. we will win when we put somebody on that ballot tt excites the color, women, people of young people. when they wake up that morning, they feel the way many of you watching felt the -- in 2008 when you're going to get to go and vote for barack obama and you cannot believe this was happening in your lifetime. if y

what's gone wrong in pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin, i used to think, that's one of the first places to look at that. >> my family, my uncle was in the flintcember, right about this time of the year. the uaw was formed and had their first victory when they forced general motors to acknowledge the union and got something like a dollar a day. >> right. >> but, so i lived this life because then i was raised in the y union family. my dad, whose job entire work life was to build ac spark plug on the assembly line. when i got out of that of completely free healthcare, no copays and deductibles. fried free dental, free eye care. it was four weeks paid vacation, factory workers. >> i know. >> and finally the last benefit they got was free lawyers. any time you need a lawyer for civil manner, the union will provide it for you. >> your dad is like suing people left and right. [ applause ] >> it is like who would not want that? every year one of the polling companies does a poll and ask, do you support the idea of the labor union. i don't know how many years it has been. it has been 60% of the american public even only a small percentage of them. >>

say what's gone wrong in pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin, i always seem to think one of the first places to look is that. >> my family, my uncle was in the flintit down strike 1936 it began in december right about this time of year. and they took over the factories for 44 days in the middle of winter, and the uaw was formed and had their first victory when they forced general motors to acknowledge the union and got something like -- i don't know what it was -- like a dollar a day. so i've lived this life because i was raised in a union family, and my dad whose job it was his entire work life was to build sparkplugs on the general motors assembly line. what i got out of that as a child growing up there was completely free health care, no copays, no deductibles, free dental, complete. free eye care. it was just a four weeks paid vacation, factory workers. >> i know. >> and then finally the last benefit they got was free lawyers. any time you needed a lawyer for a civil matter, the union provided it for you. >> your dad was just like suing people left and right. >> yes. and it's like who wouldn't want that? every year one of the polling company d