few days has been extraordinary in the sense that it started a much greater conversation about ,ommunication and consideration and, most importantly, respect in the workplace. she also said she was thrilled for michael strahan and proud of everything they together.ed millions are bracing for strong storms today from texas all the way to nebraska. brandy: the heartland on edge bracing for severe weather. strong winds, heavy rain and leavingg, already behind a path of destruction. in southern california, this canopy blowing away. in arizona -- a transformer exploding in texas. severe weather is now threatening the planes. >> we want folks to pay attention, have multiple ways of getting warnings, and most importantly, has a plan and be ready to use it later today. brandy: more than 35 million people are in the crosshairs in an area well known as tornado alley. >> main threat with these thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight will be damaging wind. there will be large hail, and unfortunately, i think we will see dozens of tornadoes on the ground. >> the danger so great some schools have cancele

publicub schools is going to go out into other communities,ommuniti, there's going to be an event aton elementary schoolment where they're going to showho the lead level testing processno for water and also answer someee questions. from out of here at capitol hill hospitality sorey montessoe students that had their blood level tester none were w elevateed. >> students at chevy chase high school are being asked tosk pay close attention to their t e health after a case of tuberculosis was found in their school. schoo a letter assured them there's no risk of additional exposurelu to students or staff. staff montgomery county healthy coun department will continue toill provide free testing for for anyone who may have come in com contact with that individual.iva >> efforts to combat the zikahez virus hit a snag. ana house democrats rejecting a bipartisan effort to boostanort funding for combating theti t virus saying it falls short of t president obama's original request.requ two month ago presidenth ag obama's original proposal was for $1.9 billion.biion. that's a figure derived from mee

bloomberg explains how amazon .com discriminates against mostly african-american ommunities nationwide by shutting them out, shutting them off from receiving its delivery same-day service. mr. speaker, it must be understood that mostly predominantly african-american zip codes in this nation have en excluded from receiving same-day ime day -- delivery service. it must be understood, mr. peaker, that this is absolutely unacceptable. amazon's vice president for global communications, mr. feeblely n, attempted to justify this -- feebly attempted to justify this by saying, and i quote, demographics play no role, end quote, in the determination have ch neighborhoods access to prime free same-day service. i goes on to state that, quote, distance matters, end of terms of that in determining factors, close proximity to our warehouse is rtainly one of the factors that they consider. well, mr. speaker, on the face that seems to be both logical and understandable. however, when viewed through a some lens, there are glaring flagrant inconsistencies. . take my hometown of chicago, illinois. ust for

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it happened because millions of people stood up with the gay .ommunity the gay community and their straightid, in america, people will have the right to love whoever they want, regardless of your gender. [applause] that is how change comes about. people are looking at the status quo and saying, in this great country, how does it happened that we have more wealth and inequality than any other major country on earth? that we haveappen a proliferation of millionaires and we have the highest rate of childhood poverty on earth? how does it happen that our infrastructure, our water systems, our roads, our bridges, our airports are crumbling in this great country? how does it happen that we are the only country, major country, that doesn't guarantee paid family and medical leave or health care to all? how does it happen that we campaignwith a corrupt finance system? , people this country this is not what the status quo should be. we are going to change the status quo. people understand a very profound historical lesson, and that is that no president, not bernie sanders or anyone else, can do it al

ommunicate with it the regime rear admiral lewis: outside of me being a military officer, i would sayussions , those automatic discussions, political discussions are happening. they are being played out and alternatives being addressed, but this is not something i am involved with day to day, or even at all. -- from thek washington post, going back to those strikes that were not planned, can you speak to the u.s. ground force that targeted five al qaeda militants last night? rear admiral lewis: i will not accept -- a specifically t that. i will say that the authority did it strike. aq have stayed in place. we continue to execute those strikes. >> and then the second follow-up , is unrelated. there has been reports coming out of theater about a lot more u.s. equipment flowing to syrian army divisions that we previously have not worked with in the past. now there are pickup trucks, mortars, have we changed how much we are equal being the syrian rebels we support -- equipping the syrian rebels we support? rear admiral lewis: no. whatever force we are supporting with equipment, there are