black-footed ferret "stud book". paul: you and overall bodycheck. john: -- you can do an overall bodycheck. : most of his career has been spent studying the species. for 16 years, he was director of the u.s. fish and wildlife service's black-footed ferret conservation center in colorado . paul: we have a very stable breeding population that we oversee and manage very carefully. and that population isround 300 individuals. the wild population is is precarious in places. there are several populations that are doing really well, and westimate that there's between and 400 black footed ferrets 300 living in the wild, currently. it's kind of the perfect species to deal with, with a breeding program and a reintroduction program because they don't live that long. they are very quick to produce offspring. they produce a fair number of offspring. and that's the simple version. saving the species is much more complex. john: that complexity comes in part from the black-footed ferret's relationship with prairie dogs, which make up 90% of their diet. adrienne: they require prairie dogs to thrive. they req

black-footed ferret to be captured. he was quite prolific when it came to breeding, very overrepresented in the population. johnf the smithsonian's black-footed ferret stud book. most of his career has been spent studying the species. for 16 years he was director of the u.s. fish and wildlife service's black-footed ferret conservation center in colorado. >> we have a very stable breeding population, around 300 individuals. the wild population is precarious in places. there are several populations that are doing really well, and we estimate that there's between 300 and 400 black-footed ferrets living in the wild. it's kind of the perfect species to deal with, with a breeding program and a reintroduction program because they don't live that long. they are very quick to produce offspring. they produce a fair number of offspring. that's the simple version. saving the species is much more complex. john: that complexity comes in part from the black-footed ferret's relationship with prairie dogs, which make up 90% of their diet. >> they require prairie dogs to thrive. they require prairie dogs for their burrows, for t

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. >> john: black smoke and explosions filling the skies over gaza as israel resumes the war against hamas. john roberts in washington. so begins a friday afternoon. >> sandra: good to be with you. sandra smith in new york. after a week-long truce which saw more than 100 hostages released, talks to extend that ceasefire collapsed after israel said hamas launched more rockets toward southern israel and failed to release all of the women and children that were part of the agreement. >> john: idf appearing to move the offensive to the southern part of the gaza strip, they claim many of the terrorist group senior leaders are alive and hiding in tunnels. strategy is facing opposition from the biden administration. >> sandra: we have complete coverage for you now. former national security councilmember michael allen standing by on what can be done to rescue the remaining american hostages. but first, let's get right to greg palkot, live on the ground in sderot, israel. greg, you and your team have seen the explosions all day. what's the latest from there? >> sandra, john, we are just hearing it

black. gettysburg. scott, johnburns, we got 57 black is also the aliens home guard unit they're given guns by the militia men and they're out defending the river civilian clothing. here's the bridge on fire when shifts now the entire bridge is on fire. 6 hours later, the bridge is going to be gone. but that wind is now blowing from the east back across the river into the town's now on fire. and you got a problem the confederates, you know, lobby yards rolling mills. there's a big, big, big fire going on. how does john gordon react? he orders colonel clement evans of the 35th, 31st georgia to form a bucket brigade and to put the fire out. oh, by the way, nobody's got buckets, but now the town's on fire. suddenly everybody's got a bucket. you can't save the bridge or direct. say the town. he works long into the night. and yeah, they managed to save wrightsville at the cost of the world's longest covered bridge. thousand 629 feet of flames burning into theight. here's the canal there's climate evans they're going to m

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and he eventually graduates a few years later, after henry flipper the next west point black west point graduate is john hanks. alexander who was the second. and then the third and final black west point graduate in the 19th century, whereas charles young and he graduated in 1883, and when think about this. position he's in, right in 1884, you the first black chaplain to be formally admitted, the first ever black chaplain to serve in the military was henry mcneal turner in the war. but after that, it's not until 1884 that we get henry vinson plummer, who was a follower of henry mcneill turner to actually become official, first official, black chaplain in the regular army in the calvary and at one point in time in 1884, after he joins it's going to be henry vinson, plummer, john hanks, alexander and charles young all serving in the ninth calvary. at the same time. and it doesn't unnoticed right. but after charles young's untimely death, you do not get the first black general until 1940. and it is one of charles young's followers. bishop oh. bishop, i'm sorry. i'm bishop general benjamin ho. davies senior

and he eventually graduates a few years later, after henry flipper the next west point black west point graduate is john hanks. alexander who was the second. and then the third and final black west point graduate in the 19th century, whereas charles young and he graduated in 1883, and when think about this. position he's in, right in 1884, you the first black chaplain to be formally admitted, the first ever black chaplain to serve in the military was henry mcneal turner in the war. but after that, it's not until 1884 that we get henry vinson plummer, who was a follower of henry mcneill turner to actually become official, first official, black chaplain in the regular army in the calvary and at one point in time in 1884, after he joins it's going to be henry vinson, plummer, john hanks, alexander and charles young all serving in the ninth calvary. at the same time. and it doesn't unnoticed right. but after charles young's untimely death, you do not get the first black general until 1940. and it is one of charles young's followers. bishop oh. bishop, i'm sorry. i'm bishop general benjamin ho. davies senior

willing to get these policies passed and not running on the opposite, just running on anti-blackness. host: john in d.c. good morning. caller: good morning. it is a pleasure to hear. i am the chairman of what is called black wealth matters. we are an organization that focuses on one thing. payments for the injury of slavery to black people in the united states of america. the word reparations, i need to bring this up sir. that is a taxpayer responsibility and that is why we have not received any form of payment for the injury. it is also a warfare or military action implication. the correct legal definition of our injury is called slavery compensation. it does not go into the taxpayers pocket. it goes directly to the 82 actors that are still around today making lots of money. they are ready to pay. i've met with a few. there is no pushback. they just don't want to go down the reparations trail. and also, the presidents. everyone loves barack obama and i think that is a feeling to have, to see a non-descendant american as the president of the united states -- non-descendant enslaved american. he

it is not about supporting minority business development by helping black students go to harvard or johns hopkins. the minority aids initiative is about saving lives. it is, and you know, of course that that's what you do. that's what you been doing. you are seeing many of your friends and your associates have passed because they did not get the care that they needed. and while we all agree that there's been improvements and that we've made gains, we need money and we had to say the word money. don't even say funds. same money, money, money. we need money in order to deal with hiv/aids in the black community. latino, , latina, asian-american and native american's lives matter as well as black lives matter. we've got to work together, ask them for this they come to enhance and making sure that we get the work to where it needs to go. they could actually no doubt that the federal government does have a compelling interest in saving the lives of racial minorities who are severely and disproportionally impacted by hiv/aids. there's also no doubt that minority led committee based organizations

john. not just a best of black people and a best of the american empire and best of the human to know and i started my campaign. the only place that i can conceive of and that was delta mississippi went to lexington and jackson, mississippi. i was telling my dear sister anet taylor with her dear loved ones and marsha here and give it up for the taste and that's ground zero for the black freedom struggle and the blues are created and blues ain't nothing but a personal catastrophe of a personal narrative and kansas city chiefs toosh fio will lens in omaha and that was a catastrophe visited among black people. africa had a clonal problem and european empires and visited the phrenoand have we begin with keeping it real. oftentimes talk about presidential politics and get the little superficial discourse and don't realize there's a whole sky caving in. i start with the extreme wealth and economic catastrophe and political catastrophe and look at size of the souls of ourselves and our fellow citizens and you'll find a lot of spirit of catastrophe. the qualify of relations too often between each o

black man. a fellow inmate, john turscak, is alleged to have stabbed chauvin more than 20 times at a prison in arizonaexplosion at a house in edinburgh. earlier police said two people have been rescued. emergency services remain at the scene in the baberton area. now it's time for a look at today's sport with mike bushell. hello from the bbc sport centre. polish club legia warsaw have blamed aston villa for the violence that took place before the europa conference league match on thursday which saw four police officers injured. the uk's west midlands police confirmed that 46 men had been charged for the disturbances. in a statement, legia said: "regrettably, due to the actions and inactions of aston villa f:c., adverse incidents occurred. by disregarding our constructive feedback, the host club bears full responsibility for the situation." we are just a few weeks from the opening of the transfer window in the english premier league, and a big name playing currently in saudi arabia, has disappointing news for newcastle united fans. ruben neves says he will bejoining the newcastle united on loan, injanu

have gone up four or five times with plaque votes are, but black voters' view of biden has taken a dive and that is out front battleground and johng is at the magic wall. as you have dug into this in-depth what is going on with black voters and president biden? >> erin, as we go through this let's just start with the numbers and the numbers don't lie. take a look here. there's the president's approval rating among black voters when he took office. 2021, nine out of black voters approve. following it out, a 30-point drop from the beginning to beginning of the summer among black voters. that's an approval rating and let's translate it into other numbers and who will you vote for in the election? excuse me while i turn my back and stretch this out. three polls last month, 73% in the cnn poll, black voters said they'd vote for biden. 69% nbc and 65% said fox. seven in ten black voters said they would vote for biden now from 2020. his support and not only approval rating is down and other warning signs, you might call the non-biden warning signs, democrats did better than they thought, but black turnout was down and just recently, the

black man. a fellow inmate, john turscak, is alleged to have stabbed chauvin more than 20 times at a prison in arizonaed to apologise for mistakes made during his handling of the pandemic when he appears before the uk covid inquiry next week. the bbc has been told the former prime minister will also insist he was correct when it came to many of the big calls. two people have been rescued after a house was destroyed by what's thought to have been a large gas explosion in edinburgh. emergency services remain at the scene in the baberton area. world leaders are set to meet again in dubai for the third day of the cop28 un climate conference. already a major declaration has been signed, recognising, for the first time, that what people grow and eat is a crucialfactor in global warming. the agreement was signed by 134 countries, including the us, china and brazil, who together represent 70% of the world's food production. they have each promised to take into account greenhouse gas emissions from the food and agriculture sectors in their national plans to combat climate change. in 2015, farming accounted for

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john said he stabbed shelvin on black friday to symbolically send a message that "black lives matter"at's right. the guy listed as white with a last name indicating croatian dissent join the mexican mafia and as such a passionate blm supporter he kills for george floyd. we looked into john's history. he was a leader of a faction of the mexican mafia in la in the 90s and went by the nickname stranger. according to court documents, he has confessed to murder. it was his job to put hits out on people who violated the mafia code. the fbi flipped him in '97 and started feeding the bureau intelligence. he even wore a wire and helped the fbi takedown 40 mexican mafia members. the fbi says they dropped him as an informant because he was committing crimes. but stranger says the fbi told him to do what he had to do. the stranger says his fbi handler new all about his behavior when he signed up to snitch. he said the fbi condoned his criminality. so the stranger had a working relationship with the fbi for years and with less then three years left on his sentence attempted to murder america's mos

john brooks-slaughter once said he was the first black engineer he ever met and he worked tirelesslyt to entire college campuses. slaughter began his career in 1956 after receiving a doctorate in engineering. years later he was appointed head of the national science foundation by president jimmy carter, becoming the first black person to be named director of the independent agency. he left after just two years, taking a job as chancellor at the university of maryland college park and later president at occidental college, becoming the first black person to hold those high positions on both campuses. >> if i ran into a barrier, it just strengthened my commitment to overcoming it, to prove to people that i was as good as anyone else. >> in every place he worked, slaughter always championed diversity and worked to bring more opportunities to women and minorities. he was born in 1934 in topeka, kansas, and would tinker with his toys, even building his own. his parents encouraged him to follow his heart, even if they didn't always understand what he was doing. dr. john brooks slaughter, a

military-industrial complex and even further, next year, unfortunately, expect more problems in the black sea region and crimea. johnt biden is actually now at a dissolution, because the republicans essentially, well, put forward a condition for him, which may be some kind of bargaining with the white house administration, this applies to those funds that should be allocated for protection national but once again, the most important task of joe biden and the white house is to continue the conflict against russia, because we understand that he himself said this, he said that this is a conflict, the solution to this conflict will be decided by fate, the world community in the 20th century , he said it himself, well, everything is clear, yeah, but what about the impeachment of biden? we will find out, most likely impeachment will be announced, and this is more, this is more, hello, yes, yes, yes, the procedure, impeachment will not be announced yet, your announcement procedure is very complicated impeachment, they will begin the procedure, but will never finish it, no, they will start, i will definitely start, and this

black size of my prior tests. we've found that some of our white colleagues have actually started to listen to us. so john, cuz it does, he because he said he felt like things and got worse over the years. so do you, did you experience more racism? the racism was very, quite clear for black. this is where i worked in a, an area that is predominantly white. and the i've been watching in this a, in a for probably i didn't are. yeah. on the agency. and i became acutely aware that i didn't see any black patients, but obviously yeah, for, well, you know, it's is, is, is it for so many what area? so you don't really expect to see any black patients. what kind of it? oh, my gosh. that was such a difference to what i was used to seeing in that particular hospital. every single patient that come in was like a guess that kind of hot in my face because there was often times or i couldn't get p p a. and again, we found that we was being disproportionately allocated to more high risk areas, especially being like agency. and this is i'm not seeing quite a power across the board. and me and my black colleagues would lik

time to almost 19000 and they have been also assessed in telecommunications, black housing, guys as well as tv and canadian john list mine. so sure man has the details of the account, the the, the the problem is with the communication laptop, the middle when it comes to the top of places adjacent from north somehow there is no place left with from the east to west 11 i was here in the hospital and now those to like near a school happened in dire out, blah, him the central pac called the center plants of enclave. now we're told women and children were among those killed with the area on the continuous bombardment hospitals. one that may soon face a grim problem, a lack of coffins, a local john les rami, almo gary reports on this. these tough ends are seen all the time. it's all locks, monitors, hospitality. individual guys are stripped out of date, written by law every time and then during a day that people here carry the dead bodies and the such capital competence, which has as that, as you might see and was prepared for carrying that did buddies. and over the past period of time before and that goes us thread

black guy. host: watch the language, john. caller: that very winter i went to see the temptations. i had a very fortunate life. talk about the resilience that human beings have got. i guess i have a on around me. i am 73 years old and still blessed. i have grandchildren tha are happy. host: let's let the cumbersome respond. guest: thank you for your service. we in the navy love our marine corps brothers and sisters. i know the vietnam war wasough for people who felt they were not welcomed when they came home. you brought up somethg important and that is resilience. we are talking about ptsd about how it negatively affects us but trauma can also strengthen us. we have a choice in building our ow resilience by focusing on how do i build strength or move towards weakness. building strength in everything we do is part of that. another pa of self-discipline, making sure on a databases we are doing things to make ourselves stronger. don't spend our days thinking of negative attitudes. life is tough, everybody is picking on me, that is continuing to dwell. how we think so we feel so we ac

black man. a fellow inmate, john turscak, is alleged to have stabbed chauvin more than 20 times at a prison in arizonaurgh. two people have been rescued after a house was destroyed by whats thought to have been a large gas explosion in edinburgh. emergency services remain at the scene in the baberton area. ukraine's domestic spy agency detonated explosives on a russian railway line deep in siberia on friday. a ukrainian source has told reuters it is the second attack on military supply routes in the area this week. the explosives were detonated as a freight train crossed the chertov bridge in siberia's buryatia region, thousands of kilometres from ukraine. 0ur correspondentjessica parker has more on the attack from kyiv. this happened along a stretch of railway which runs through the border of china, it is in the far east of russia thousands of kilometres from ukraine. what a senior ukrainian official has told us is that the ukrainian security services managed to engineer two explosions, won in a tunnel and then later on a train running across a bridge. they say that was to try and disable a line they

black man. a fellow inmate, john turscak, is alleged to have stabbed chauvin more than 20 times at a prison in arizona steinem has been fighting for equal rights. she has sat down with the bbc 100 women to discuss how feminism has changed over the decades and the impact of council quencher and what the future might look like for women's rights around the world. you and i have grown up in some form of patriarchy that says that even in the family, women are more responsible for taking care of infants and small children than men are. even though men are parents, too. so that's where a lack of democracy begins. and that's the beginning of change that we all can make. we shouldn't feel helpless just because we're not changing something globally. the idea of domination and a lack of democracy begins is in the family, and it's even more important and even more the cause of future conflict to grow up with that, with making discrimination and domination 0k. then national policies are what kind of change you wish to see that you think hasn't been achieved and you hope to see accomplished in your lifetime? well,

boxing day used to be a huge event but discount extravaganzas like black friday robbed it of some of its impact. marks and spencer and johnis remain closed. boxing day is the start. there is plenty of time for people to think aboutoing shopping before the new year. retailers need shoppers to come out in force. it is a vital time of year for them but the question is, with the cost of living high on bills to pay, do consumers have enough money to spend? early indications suggest while shoppers did splash out more in the run-up to christmas than they did last year, trading was far from spectacular. there will be the opportunity to buy after christmas but we have less money to spend. the cost of living crisis has an impact on how much we could spend. >> research from bouncer -- voucher codes suggests we will spend 14 billion pounds between christmas of the -- and the new year but that is down from last year. retailers the next few days will be crucial or. -- will be cute -- crucial. what happens this week could lead retailers into a difficult winter or set them on track for a prosperous new year. samantha: the amazon rain for

this is why the john hopkins health disparate solutionings along with our partner, national aids counsel, black caucus, the hispanic caucus institute, convened and is gathering todayment i want to thank the johns hopkins nexus program and the-- for the general support of the hope challenge breakfast forum here at the johns hopkins bloomberg center. our goal is to shine a spotlight on the 25th anniversary of the minority aids initiative policy intervention that was way ahead of its time thanks to congresswoman maxine water who championed it into existence in 1998. a health equity policy before the term health equity was in vogue. the minority aids initiative was thought to address hiv disparities in communities of color. today we're going to dissect its impact and figure out how we can super charge it and other policies so that we can finally end hiv disparity, but that's not all. we have something extra special in store for you. we have cnn commentator and political insider jamal simmons who will lead a fireside chat with some of our nation's legal wizards. the chat will dive head first into th

willing to get these policies passed and not running on the opposite, just running on anti-blackness. host: johnn d.c. good morning. caller: good morning. it is a pleasure to hear. i am the chairman of what is called black wealth matters. we are an organization that focuses on one thing. payments for the injury of slavery to black people in the united states of america. the word reparations, i need to bring this up sir. that is a taxpayer responsibility and that is why we have not received any form of payment for the injury. it is also a warfare or military action implication. the correct legal definition of our injury is called slavery compensation. it does not go into the taxpayers pocket. it goes directly to the 82 actors that are still around today making lots of money. they are ready to pay. i've met with a few. there is no pushback. they just don't want to go down the reparations trail. and also, the presidents. everyone loves barack obama and i think that is a feeling to have, to see a non-descendant american as the president of the united states -- non-descendant enslaved american. he ha

willing to get these policies passed and not running on the opposite, just running on anti-blackness. host: johnn d.c. good morning. caller: good morning. it is a pleasure to hear. i am the chairman of what is called black wealth matters. we are an organization that focuses on one thing. payments for the injury of slavery to black people in the united states of america. the word reparations, i need to bring this up sir. that is a taxpayer responsibility and that is why we have not received any form of payment for the injury. it is also a warfare or military action implication. the correct legal definition of our injury is called slavery compensation. it does not go into the taxpayers pocket. it goes directly to the 82 actors that are still around today making lots of money. they are ready to pay. i've met with a few. there is no pushback. they just don't want to go down the reparations trail. and also, the presidents. everyone loves barack obama and i think that is a feeling to have, to see a non-descendant american as the president of the united states -- non-descendant enslaved american. he ha

john from caramel, was santa invited to the boston christmas party? yep, he was, black target. denniss from boston, i heard the theme of the boston mayor's party was the not cracker. yes. john from virginia, to quote joe biden if woo's husband went to that party then he ate white. james from north carolina, please don't say vaca. real men just say vacation. you know what? noted. i'll ban it. pete from new york, can i ask a question to hannity through you? we're not going to allow that, no. definitely not. ♪ hey sean. always remember, i'm watters and this is my world. ♪ >> sean: welcome to hannit

this is why the johns hopkins center along with our partners, the national minority aids council, the congressional blackaucus foundation, the congressional hispanic caucus institute has convened this gathering today. i want to thank the johns hopkins university awards program and the professorship for their support of the hope challenge breakfast for him here at the johns hopkins bloomberg university -- johns hopkins bloomberg center. our goal is to shine a spotlight on the 25th anniversary of the minority aids initiative, a policy intervention that was way ahead of its time thanks to congresswoman maxine waters who championed it into existence in 1998. a health equity policy before the term health equity was invoked. the minority aids initiative was thought to address hiv disparities in communities of color. today, we are going to dissect its impact and figure out how we can supercharge it and other policies so we can finally end hiv disparities. but that is not all. we have something extra special in store for you. we have cnn commentator and political insider jamaal simmons who will lead a fireside c

black hat. the cover unleashed a mix of reactions, some sorts as a step towards equality. but among the critics, for me, the john to office p, our expert and john list fashion has also been an interest of has and she was skeptical that my issue made me with the cover was the fact that it was obviously an exaggerated idea of blackness. and the models had the skins darkened um for the shoots. so for instance, in this, in this picture here as part of the general idea to really you can see that the, the skin has been dolphin significantly. that and the straits had whigs, she says, corresponds with west and ideas about africa, rather than representing a step towards racial equality on the catwalk. while it's stunning and visually appealing, it's not exactly a realistic day to day representation of the everyday black personal, the every day black model. so i think if you look at the objective of the sheets versus the execution, it didn't necessarily match up, which was my main, my main issue. i think the black community deserves to critique these kinds of images and the ways that they are produced. yet the campaign st

john from caramel, was santa invited to the boston christmas party? yep, he was, black santa in the wheelchair, rolled right over from target. denniss from boston, i heard the theme of the boston mayor's party was the not cracker. yes. john from virginia, to quote joe biden if woo's husband went to that party then he ate white. james from north carolina, please don't say vaca. real men just say vacation. you know what? noted. i'll ban it. pete from new york, can i ask a question to hannity through you? we're not going to allow that, no. definitely not. ♪ hey sean. always remember, i'm watters and this is my world. ♪ >> sean: welcome to hannity and tonight a dire new warning from a prominent democrat, joe biden is in deep trouble after very, very dark news for his campaign. we have a full report tonight. plus we're going to take you inside joe biden's very creepy christmas celebration at the white house that you've got to see to believe. but first, fear and loathing at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. a new political report now claiming that biden is frustrated and anxious and

john roberts in washington. end of the week. >> sandra: we made it this far. sandra smith in new york. internal memo obtained by fox business says the mexican military seized 10 ieds filled with black powder and shrapnel, found in mexico at the arizona-mexico border. >> john: and a gun fight in mexico. hillary, we are hearing the dhs secretary is on the hill today. has he had any response? >> no, he has not. he did not say anything to reporters asking for an update about the border immigration talks on this border deal that congress is trying to work through here. but in regards to this story, we do know that border patrol is warning agents to be careful after the mexican military found 10 explosive devices on the mexico side of the u.s. border. a federal law enforcement source shared with us an officer safety alert that went out to cpb agents this week, r agents should exercise extreme caution and report any possible armed subjects approaching the border with possible explosive devices. also describing the explosives, saying the mexican military seized ten ieds filled with black powder and shrapnel in an area located east of the sasabe port of entry. border patrol agents stumbled