she is an associate professor of history at rutgers university and new brunswick chapter president ofaup-aft, one of the academic workers unions on strike. professor, welcome back to [captioning made possible by democracy now!] democracy now! can you lay out exactly what is at issue here and also when you go to the rutgers website, he says business as usual, people should go to class -- yet, this is the first strike in 257 years and it involves thousands and thousands of workers there. >> thank you so much. it is a pleasure to be here and talk about what is going on at rutgers, which is very exciting. i would say the core issues that brought the unit coalition together -- union coalition together, they are very connected to what happened to the university during the pandemic. riker response to the pandemic was to lay off 5% of its workforce. when it laid them off, they lost her health insurance and tuition benefits at a time when covid was hitting new jersey and new york like a storm. that necessitated the unions come together and begin to bargain and think of themselves as really a w

. >> new brunswick, new jersey. you are on book tv. we are listening. >> hi. thank you so much for the two of you writing this book and that you focused on his life. i have a quick question. since this is a broader issue, i had no idea all of these things occurred in his life that were extremely positive. do you ever think about the possibility of a play about his life? i think there is a movie. i am about 20 minutes from manhattan so i am thinking play or theater. i would love to see a play with all of the things that you talked about, what he did and accomplished. because it is a broader issue of racism, injustice and being underserved, i think that would be awesome. have you thought about the possibility of a movie or play? >> thank you so much for the question and for the suggestion. we are journalists what we are open to any form of art that allows a story to be told in a powerful way. the world of theatric arts, the world of dramatizing stories will allow people to connect with the story. i hope that in some moment, when the time is right, that this stor

coming after nearly a year of stalled contract talks, let's get to cnn's athena jones live in new brunswick, new jersey with the very latest, athena good morning to you. where do things stand right now? are you seeing protesters? anything like that? good morning. don will not yet it's about nine o'clock is when we expect to see these striking workers hit the picket lines. this is one of the areas on the campuses where we're expected to see some of these 9000 educators, researchers and clinicians who say they're striking for better conditions among the things on their list, living wage for graduate school workers, affordable student housing access to affordable health care, equal pay for adjunct faculty, but as you again, john, as you mentioned, this is the first time time we've seen a strike of academic workers at this school is nearly 260 year history we're talking about 67,000 students that could be affected, and graduation is just about a month away. and so the university of saying, this is a legal this strike. it's unclear at this point whether they're going to be bringing here is what

faculty and academic staff have gone on strike at rutgers university's three main campuses in new brunswick, newark, and camden. they're demanding increased pay and better job security, especially for poorly-paid graduate workers and adjunct faculty. it's the first strike by educators in rutgers' 257-year history. and here in new york, family and community members are demanding justice for raul de la cruz, a 42-year-old man from the bronx who was critically injured in late march after new york police officers shot him six times. de la cruz was experiencing a mental health crisis when his father called 311 for help. police began firing at de la cruz within seconds of arriving, claiming he had a knife. de la cruz was taken to the hospital where he remained unconscious for days and is now slowly recovering. his supporters held a rally outside the police precinct in the bronx friday. this is de la cruz's nine-year-old cousin juliana fuentes confronting police officers. >> youth abusers. your abusers. [indiscernible] for what? for what? amy: and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy

mitchell in new brunswick, new jersey. thank you for your awesome audio for wine and what propels you to become a historian -- thank you for your awesome body of work. when and what propelled you to become a historian? jeff: i extorted down the path when i read a book called travels with charlie by john steinbeck. i am reading the book and am thinking this guy that i only know because teachers made me read the pearl and the red pony, he got in the car and drove all the -- all over the country, talk to people, wrote about it and got paid for it. i want a piece of that. when i was in college following around lyndon johnson, listening to the way he told the stories i thought it was superior to the audit valve the fees he had written. they were all formal. i kept thinking, there are better ways to tell all of this bread i became a journalist. i was an investigative journalist. i learned how to look for things and i got very lucky. i was one of the few fortunate enough when i wrote books about history that enough copies sold th

. >> new brunswick, new jersey. you are on book tv. we are listening. >> hi. thank you so much for the two of you writing this book and that you focused on his life. i have a quick question. since this is a broader issue, i had no idea all of these things occurred in his life that were extremely positive. do you ever think about the possibility of a play about his life? i think there is a movie. i am about 20 minutes from manhattan so i am thinking play or theater. i would love to see a play with all of the things that you talked about, what he did and accomplished. because it is a broader issue of racism, injustice and being underserved, i think that would be awesome. have you thought about the possibility of a movie or play? >> thank you so much for the question and for the suggestion. we are journalists what we are open to any form of art that allows a story to be told in a powerful way. the world of theatric arts, the world of dramatizing stories will allow people to connect with the story. i hope that in some moment, when the time is right, that this stor

news out of southeast georgia. this is a look at the massive plume of smoke in the town of brunswick, georgia. people who live within a half of a mile of this are being ordered to evacuate their homes at this hour. it's a fire at the panova manufacturing plant. you can just see some of these images now are the plume is just massive of fire broke out there earlier this morning and was thought to be contained after three hours, but this afternoon that glenn county board of commissioners posted on facebook that the panova plant fire has reignited and the evacuation order was put in place. you can see some of the images coming in from the scene, just showing some of the danger to the community there. it includes parts of the resort community of st simon's island. which of course, is a big holiday destination for people in that part of the country will keep an eye on all of this. and we'll give you the latest as it comes in. we'll monitor that for the rest of this hour tonight. in the meantime, the pentagon is scrambling to assess the damage of leaked classified documents. 21 year old jack to share

policy interval, cnn new york the flames are finally out at a plastic reason. plant in brunswickgia. the fire triggered a shelter in place order in the south georgia city, but it has since been lifted. evacuations while not mandatory , are still recommended for those within a half mile of the plant. it's unclear what caused the fire. are no reports of injuries. and meanwhile in indiana, fire crews have contained nearly all of the fire at a plastics recycling plant. the fire chief says 99% of the bly's has now been extinguished , but his team is planning to remain on site through the weekend to assess the situation , since there are still a few hot spots that need to be put out, and he also says that additional meetings and data analysis must take place there before the evacuation order can be lifted around 2000 residents have been under mandatory evacuation orders since the fire broke out on tuesday night policing in mexico have released a new footage showing officers shooting a man dead after responding to the wrong address. the police chief, calling it unbelievably tragic. cnn'

new information on the hopes for peace. >> yasmin a u.s. official tells me that navy ship was called the u.s. and s brunswick.t long. it is a rapid transfer vessel that has been used by the u.s. on the pass to respond to humanitarian missions. to do disaster relief. it is well equipped for an evacuation effort. as the u.s. tries to get americans safely out of the country, including some of those roughly 300 americans who made it to ports today yesterday on the first u.s. government organized convoy. a group of about a dozen or more buses that made a harrowing 500 mile journey from the capital courtroom to ports to do -- u.s. drones flying overhead. we are also getting where that a delicate cease-fire between sudan's military and the paramilitary rapid support forces has now been extended to another three days. that cease-fire was set to expire on midnight, tonight. both sides now saying after efforts in the u.s. in saudi arabia to mediate they will extend that deal to lay down arms for another three days. all of the previously fires that they have announced have been incomplete. mark by gun fights in addition

new glass that service on our time safely repair safelite replace. this morning. a huge plant fire in south georgia is out. this is what neighbors in brunswick saw saturday afternoon after the resin plant there caught fire. heavy black smoke billowed into the sky. that smoke caused officials to ask people across the entire city of brunswick to either stay indoors or evacuate . cnn's isabel rizal is joining us now, here in studio is also good to see you. so the evacuation orders have been lifted. but i guess the question is, is the air safe to breathe? and that is an excellent and valid question that frankly, we've seen all over social media. with residents asking exactly that. we posed this question over to authorities in brunswick and in glenn county, but what we do know at this time is that the fire triggered a shelter in place and evacuation orders. that fire has then been out. those orders have been lifted again. those air quality questions are valid from residents there, but we have not heard of any sort of complaints or any sort of issues with that. these concerns are raising questions over and indiana and richmond, indiana, where they

airlines waiting for new planes are waiting on a fix, jim all right, thanks to pete for that this just in to cnn. take a look at these live pictures. we're showing you right now out of brunswickgeorgia in southeast georgia residents in brunswick within a half mile radius of the panova chemical plant are being ordered to evacuate their homes of fire broke out this morning and was thought to be contained after three hours. but this afternoon, the glenn county board of commissioners posted on facebook that the panova plant fire has been reignited. and that an evacuation order has been put in place will keep an eye on this story, but you can see that smoke billowing above the trees there in brunswick, georgia, the county seat there in glenn county, georgia, very close to some very beautiful islands and beaches off the coast of georgia will stay on top of that and bring it to you. if any new information comes in on all of that. in the meantime, wrongfully detained behind russian bars with no end in sight. that's what we're learning about. evan gersh devic. the reporter for the wall street journal, as he is sitting right now in a russian prison will have the latest on his condition

record being queen was new being queen consort was not new because if go back to no, because if you go back to oh no, queen caroline of brunswickte and prince princess mary, was married to take. mary, who was married to take. exactly. all exactly. yeah. they were all princess consort and so they wanted till the coronation. yeah. so it just keeps the show straight. yeah so it's, it's the money. i'm just wondering, you know, i get the tradition and the pomp and ceremony and it attracts to everything, but i think. yeah, but it's going to cost a lot of money. well, do you think the public health system money? absolutely. it's worldwide media attention that we focus on great britain policy. this is a matter national pride. if we can't have a good coronation, a good anointing of our monarch, then we'll always a nation. think we'll always a nation. i think that british people , even at that the british people, even at a because if remember a time, because if you remember the previous, know, queen the previous, you know, queen elizabeth, crowned and elizabeth, she was crowned and her coronation was at a time when they were still ration