. >> he is targeted because he is a pacific islanders. amily as well as the school superintendent. >> i wanted answers, i wanted to know why. teenage son tan, pacific a mother spoke of the anguish the mother felt. >> i was in raged. >> we are not disclosing the teenager's identity. the problem happened two weeks ago here at terra nova high school. she says a female school administrator brought the student into an office while investigating a report that a bottle of codeine medicine was being passed around the school. >> she then took off -- told him to take off his t-shirt, she put her hands like this. told him to spin around or turn around. so, he later had hand os on my son. >> his family says the young man is traumatized. >> is he not himself. he feels like when he goes to school he has to walk through, you know, hallway with all of these administrators looking at him. he feels like everybody is looking at him like he is being targeted. >> believing their son is targeted because he is a pacific islander. superintendent dan burnes wouldn

census estimates, in 2013, asians and pacific islanders made up 20.8 million residents, or 6.4%.ifornia had the largest population at almost 6.5 million, or more than 16% of the state. abc7's kristen sze is here now with leaders in our bay area's asian-pacific american community. >> thank you, cheryl. let's welcome today's guests. margaret abe-koga is a member of the san francisco regional water quality control board and district director for assembly member evan low. welcome. asha jadeja is highly respected as a venture capitalist, angel investor in more than a hundred silicon valley startups, closely affiliated with stanford university, and an active philanthropist. chris punongbayan is executive director of asian americans advancing justice, asian law caucus. thank you all for being here. now, this is meant to be a stimulating conversation, so feel free to jump in with your thoughts and ideas like you would with friends, because we are all friends here. all right? welcome. you know, cheryl cited the growing asian-american population in the u.s. this has historical basis, of co

maybe crucial, that this world be an inclusive place, when we use the terms asian-american and pacific islander, that's the name that many hapas would think of. we have an east bay author. you write about racial characters and they seem relevant to our world today. >> thank you for having me. >> we were talking earlier about hapas and characters like that. i know that's not what you always do. you were the first to showcase them as major characters. tell me why you do that and what's the importance of that? >> right. it wasn't something that was a big event for me. i thought that, you know, there aren't a lot of mixed race people in books to begin with. with diversity being such a huge topic, i thought, why not contribute to that. >> and you want to speak through your own voice? >> yes. >> something you've experienced. my wife is actually also multi-racial and i know a lot of hapas, and give me an idea in terms of what you thought was important, the unique point of view they might have to make them even more unique. >> right. i can only speak for my experience and from what i have written, and

well known in the community, but maybe not otherwise is cupertino is 63% asian american and pacific islander, so we'll look at the school district and several programs we feel are worth highlighting. having grown up in neighboring sunnyvale and having had family members living and working in cupertino, i fouloed the evolution closely before apple made the city so famous, and one of the things many people in the bay area know, cupertino schools are top notch. joining me now is the superintendant of the school district, wendy. welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> we were talking earlier. of course, when a school district has so much success, it's always sort of a result of the whole community working togetherering right? >> absolutely. it takes -- you can't do as well as we do without the partnerships we have with our parents, our community, and our excellent staff. we have a great deal, a great support system, a foundation that supports the music program, and you can see a little bit of that later. >> one of the things that just growing up in the area, even when i told people we were going t

many pacific islander parents say they intend to be there.oth ktvu fox 2 news. >>> san francisco police have announced today a vallejo man arrested last week in connection to the deadly shooting has been released from jail without being charged. 24-year-old jonathan santos was arrested wednesday. shortly after the shooting at plymouth avenue and broad street in the city's ocean view neighborhood. sources told us all of those victims, all three of them were innocent bystanders. one of them 65-year-old lian xiu wu died. santos was initially booked on suspicion of murder and two counts of attempted murder. >>> spending two years in the santa cruz jail in the heroin- related death of a former google executive is now in federal custody. 30-year-old alex tickleman was released last wednesday and taken into custody by immigration agents. tickleman served time for involuntary manslaughter in the death of forest hayes on his yacht back in 2013. homeland security says the plans to provide more information on this case soon. >>> a university study finds

the family believes their son was targeted because he's a pacific islander and other pacific islander families have told similar stories about the school. >>> mountain view police are looking for more potential victims connected to a red wood city man accused of a number of sex crimes. of an orchard supply hardware store. once in custody, police say yamagata confessed to have inappropriate relations with a teenage. yamagata was booked on multiple charges including indecent exposure, unlawful sex with a minor. >>> at about 7405:45 last night oakland police. five people in the vehicle were taken to the hospital. they are all reported in stable condition. no word yet on the charges those five will face. >>> russian investigators say they do believe a suicide bomber was behind the deadly attack on a subway in st. petersburg yesterday. it was a growing memorial to the 14 people who died in the attack. another 50 people were injured. a second bomb was found and diffused at another subway station. a second bomb was hidden in a fire extinguisher and was larger than the first. >>> france is in

they say the teenager was targeted because he is a pacific islanders. ross spoke with the family. >> i was upset. i wanted answers. i wanted to know why. >> teenage son tan, spoke of the anguish and anger she feels about what happened to him at school. >> i was in raged. >> at the family's request we are not disclosing the teenager's identity. his mother says the problem happened two weeks ago where her son is a junior. she says a female school administrator brought the student into an office while investigating a report that a got he will of codeine medicine was being passed around the school. inside the office the student told his parents the woman made him remove his shirt. >> she took off -- told him to take off his t-shirt and she put her hands like this and told him to spin around or turn around. so she laid her hands on my son. >> nothing was found but his family says the young man is traumatized. >> is he not himself. he feels like when he goes to school he has to walk through the hallway where these administrators are looking at him. he feels l

now the family believes their son was targeted because he's a pacific islander. the district says it plans to address the issue in a closed session later tonight. >>> mountain view police are looking for more potential victims of a redwood city man accused of sex crimes. 31-year-old brand don yamagato on sunday. now once in custody police say yamagata confessed to having an inappropriate relationship with a teenager. unlawful sex with a minor, and drug charges. >>> a high speed chase in the east bay ends with the suspect's car crashing and flipping over. at about 7:45 last night oakland police spotted a car that was reported stolen and had been used in a robbery. at the 5th avenue onramp. there were five people in that car who were taken to the hospital. they are all reported to be in stable condition this morning. there's no word yet on the charges those people might face. >>> russian investigators say they believe a suicide bomber was behind the deadly attack in st. petersburg yesterday. the 14 people who died in the attack. another 50 people were injured some

that federal judge sitting on an island in the pacific, judge derrick watson, that island in the pacificto be the state of hawaii. your reaction when you hear the attorney general speak like this about that federal judge sitting somewhere out in the pacific? >> i'm not surprised at all. you know, sessions and, you know, president trump were also questioning where the president of the united states was born, whether he was born in hawaii, whether he was a legitimate citizen or not. this causes a lot of consternation and hesitancy when it comes to trusting this administration, when it comes to anything with issues of civil rights or immigration. we don't know the genesis or where the origin of their ideas come from. the first executive order was clearly a muslim ban, something that severely impacted the world view of the united states and i'm convinced this also a continuation of that. and if anything it only gives us more reason why we should make sure this ban is rejected because this is the kind of -- >> but it is pretty shocking that the attorney general of the united states is degradi

we profile some of the local teens with many asian american and pacific islander members including the science squad from fremont. next, the fire ninjas from an elementary school in milpitas and finally, trampoline because of their gymnastics

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well known in the community, but maybe not otherwise is cupertino is 63% asian american and pacific islander look at the school district and several programs we feel are worth highlighting. having grown up in neighboring sunnyvale and having had family members living and working in cupertino, i fo

we profile some of the local teens with many asian american and pacific islander members including the science squad from fremont. next, the fire ninjas from an elementary school in milpitas and finally, trampoline because of their gymnastics prowess and also they're in chemistry honors classes together. a few of the teens are focused today. the tech challenge is one of the big evnlts in silicon valley, and this year's tech challenge has a record level of participation with more than 700 teens from the bay area and as far away as oregon. joining me is abbey, the senior director of the tech challenge from the tech museum of innovation. she's a fully credentials teacher and lectures at the graduate teaching program and last year was named to the silicon valley business journal's annual 40 under 40 list. >> so glad to be here. >> on any other show, being under 40 would make you the youngest guest. not going to happen today. give us an overview of people who don't know all of the details. >> the tech challenge is an engineering design competition. students work in teams and we give them a

three black, and one would be latino on an average day and a native americ american, or asian or pacific islander would be rotated are in. five black, two latino and one is white on this particular day. this is not a typical day. if you picked a different day you would get a different book. >> host: next call for gary younge is erin in california. >> caller: hi, i want to make a point my dialogue is going to change after listening to the intervening speakers. but i wanted to point out to him any time you go to a foreign country, one that even speaks your language, you are going to be taken back a little bit by what people deem to be dangerous and safe. i feel safer in the united states than i would if i lived in france or even england because of the terrorist attacks. maybe i would feel differently if i had been in new york in 2001 but i think life is safer than it is in europe and possibly england and i am sure gary feels different living in england, maybe south of england like portsmith. so i think the idea of a psychological idea about where you feel safe isn't so much in the amount of guns th

a community foundation dedicated to improving lives of asian pacific islanders. we distriblted 1.3 mill-in in grants and scholarships and feel it is important for the commission to be aware of the unique needs of the api community often hidden from view given the portrayal of the model minorities. 4 out of 5 ethnic gripes with highest poverty is api. have the highest percentage of subsidized housing in san francisco is qu 27 percent have less than high school education. while we are the fastest growing racial gruch less than 1 percent of foundation funding in the bay area goes toward organizations serving our asian communeny. now more than ever we need advocates like all you committed to insuring the immigrant communities have access >> student support and opportunities. a few key concerns for those who we serve for you to keep in mind during the times of uncertainty are first the impact of severe funding cuts. the scarsty offunding is always a concern of nearly ever non-profit the implication of the budget cuts and executive orders creates anxiety. doing what yo

county department of public health is actually doing a project to reduce preterm birth with pacific islanders in alameda county. so, we talked about earlier expanding group prenatal care, and then, of course, increasing the use of low-dose aspirin for preeclampsia. we know that the only way to cure preeclampsia is by delivering the baby, so if we can get women started on low-dose aspirin, it might help reduce -- studies have shown it'll help reduce preterm birth. and then advancing some of the interventions for women with a short cervix, which can include cerclages or 17p. and then reducing multiple births through assisted reproductive technology. so we know if you're carrying multiple babies, it increases your risk. this data right here, these interventions are some effective strategies to reduce preterm birthrates across all our geographic and racial-ethnic groups. >> erica alexander, thank you so much for all of your work and all of your knowledge. and for people who want to know more about all the things that we learned about on this program today, you can go to the march of dimes website

they said hawaii is in fact a island in pacific. verybody that took sixth grade geography, he's correct, it is an island in the pacific. his granddaughter was born there. basically, what they should have done is he misspoke. he didn't mean to say that. he thinks the president's judiciary is you know, an -- is activist and it shouldn't be that way. to do what he did, i think was a huge mistake. >> he just went on fox and said -- similar to that statement he said it was a beautiful island. the democratic senator from hawaii tweeted in response to sessions' comment. hey, jeff sessions. this island in the pacific has been the 50th state for going on 58 years and we won't succumb to your dog whistle politics. hawaii was built. >> does she have a point when she says "dog whistle?" >> no i don't think so. if he would have said some judge sitting in some skyscraper in new york or some judge sitting in pittsburgh, which is where i'm from, you could say he's dising pittsburgh. no. he's making the point that at judge in a small corner of the wo

after the attorney general of the united states, jeff sessions, seemed to dismiss hawaii as a "island in the pacificcontext here, he was talking about president trump's travel ban held up in part by a judge in hawaii. >> i really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the pacific can issue an order that stops the president of the united states from what appears to be clearly his statutory and constitutional powers. >> all right, so, the justice department is trying to -- trying to explain this one. let's talk about it with jeffrey toobin, our senior legal analyst, former federal prosecutor -- >> friend of the hawaiian people. >> friend of the hawaiians. aloha, jeffrey. so, here's how he's trying to explain this one. hawaii is, in fact, an island in the pacific, a beautiful one! >> several. >> a string of them, where the attorney general's granddaughter was born. the point, however, is that there is a problem and a flawed opinion by a single judge can block the president's lawful exercise of authority to keep the entire country safe." all right, as you rightly point out -- >> yes. >> first of

it affects areas in maine and new mexico and nevada off the coast of massachusetts, pacific islands, off the coast of hawaii. anything will be able to be review, and the result -- i don't have a way of predicting what the secretary will say. i know there are things i would like him to say, but it will have to come under review and it also not simply be in the interior department. what the president can and cannot do also will have to come from a review of from the justice department. as well as will take place on plans that the company -- company a -- come from the ag department. it is going to be a multi-administration, multi-bureaucracy effort to tie together to do a really good, cumulative report to say maybe there are areas where we have private land and state land locked into a monument and that should not have been the designation. maybe there are some areas like in nevada that have circumstances that go beyond just the boundary of the monument itself. problems that develop because of that. maybe those should be looked at as well. and to see the antiquities act should ever be u

it's heavy asian-pacific islander, latino, african-american. >> the elk grove mayor's job pays a whopping $9,500 a year. >> it's very lucrative, yes. >> i can see why you went after that. your day job is a juvenile hall counselor. what made you want to become mayor? >> you know, i started out in this business as an activist, and i remember going straight out of college and i looked in sacramento, and i saw that there was a tremendous need for advocates in the community. when i started organizing the mung community and the southeast asian community in general, i learned something and that is if you keep organizing, they'll keep calling on you to organize. i hit a sort of a barrier as an activist, and that's when i realized i really had to run for public office is we went before the sacramento city council, asked for police officers that can actually speak multiple languages to make that a priority. the answer that i got from that city council at that time wasn't supportive, and that was the moment in which i thought, you know, i've been organizing the community long enough. what would it b

enforcement agencies, including the f ei, -- fbi, investigating possible human smuggling of the pacific island stephen engle was the man behind the breaking news story. this is a story which is developing overtime. stephen: there are so many angles to this. let me update you with the latest. the fbi raided offices in saipan of the gaming industry building this new mega-casino there. they have been working out of a temporary casino for the last year. $3 billion in revenue in one month alone. the per table take has been one of the biggest -- more than one of the biggest in macau. this drew our attention. rishaad: also, passports turning up as well. the raid, according to the fbi, netted a carbonate full of chinese passports for construction workers who did not have proper work visas or credentials. at least one person was arrested on reports of "systemic human smuggling concerns." addition, people familiar are telling bloomberg that the u.s. justice department is also investigating the activities of the casino itself. the race with the passports, associated with contractors and the building of i

gap is even worse for women of color, african-american women $.63, native, hawaiian and other pacific islander women $.60. native american and native alaskan women $.58. hispanic or latino, conservative estimates, women employed in the united states lose combined total of $500 billion due to wage gap. we have a president that says it is okay not to pay women fairly. where do you stand on this issue and how will you vote for hr 2095? >> as i said i don't take a position on a bill until i have read it and i haven't seen the bill. i said i haven't seen the bill, i don't take a position on any legislation i haven't seen. this gentleman up here. >> i didn't hear that. >> what is your position on the issue? >> i believe in letting the market set wage rates. that is the best way to go. i don't like government mandates. >> so it is okay not to pay women fairly? >> i have two daughters and i went them to get every dime they deserve, believe me. >> what is the republican congress going to do about it? >> what are we going to do about it? i will read the bill and we will see. disinterest you bring this u

the family said he's been targeted because he's a pacific islander. >>> and it's been a great weekend. we had a great day today. steve paulson is standing by with what we expect for the rest of the week. >> we had a lot of high clouds this morning. most of those have kind of cleared out. a little haze in the air. partly cloudy skies. but it was almost overcast this morning except for a few locations. it looks like some of the heavier bands have lifted north. 60s for many. now we're 50s, 60s coast and bay and upper 60s, 70s you start to work your way inland. temperature trends about the same as yesterday. sfo's running a little cooler. concord, livermore 1 degree warmer. the allergies, the pollens, yes, you can blame those trees they're just through the roof. the rain coming up this week will suppress that a little bit but they'll be high today and tomorrow. what's happened is as this system continues to deepen that allows the teeth er teeter to thor effect. look for a mix of sun and clouds more sun here in the afternoon than what we had in the morning that's for sure and this will tur

but the family believes her son was targeted because he's a pacific islander. the district says it plans to address the issue in a closed session later tonight. >>> today the san francisco board of supervisors will start considering a plan to start safe injection sites. those are areas set up for people to inject drugs where there are also social and health services offered. supervisor london reed wants a task force to consider the idea that's already being used in canada. that group would include a representative from the community. and health departments. the department of public health says there are more than 20,000 people who inject drugs in san francisco. >>> people living in downtown oakland are cleaning up once again after another tree came down. the latest incident happened last night. the tree came down. you can see there it hit several cars. the trunk and tree limbs did some considerable damage to the owner's truck. >> this is the third one. the first one took out my buddy roy's el camino. the second one went down in the middle of the night. and now

have selectively targeted our young adults and the african american community, in the asian pacific islandermunity, in the lgbtq community with products that have deceptively associated with fruits, mints, and candy. >> santa clara county has already ended the sale of flavored tobacco for all of its unincorporated areas and oakland is also now considering similar regulations. >>> still ahead, bart says it's a problem that's costing the agency millions of dollars each year. >> and we're hearing now from a bay area woman who's little dog was snatched by a mountain lion in the middle of the night from inside her home just a few feet from where she was sleeping. >>> a mountain lion came in the bedroom, killed the dog and left with the dog. they're requested contact in the area. >> the words a mountain lion in the bedroom stand out. in that 911 recording some terrifying moments for a family in the peninsula as a mountain came into their home and snatched their small dog. >> this happened just a few feet away from where family members were sleeping. >> i said i think a lion just got lenore. >> las

would take more than 1,200 refugees that australia houses in detention camps on the pacific island nations. many of those refugees are from iran. reuters reports they would resettle refugees from guatemala and el salvador. >>> tre is a new twist over conservative speak ann coulter. lawyers are drafting a document against the university. they said they to did not have a secure venue for her. >> reporter: they say the lawsuit filing against uc berkeley is not about money or anne coulter. >> this is about berkeley's persistent refusal to honor the constitution when it comes to conservative speech on campus. >> reporter: dylan says this is the third time of canceling conservative speakers. >> the same constitutional requirements and bait and switch that berkeley did with the miloi miloyanopolis speech. avenue after initially can selling her april 27th visit the university proposed a may secretary alternative a. date coulter says she is not available. >> it permits limited use of its space for certain viewpoints, it is required under the constitution to provide equal access to other groups. >>

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the celebration of asian and pacific islanders in the united states.re at kpix 5 we are getting the party started early. veronica de la cruz joins us from a reception we are hosting now in our studios. hi, veronica. >> reporter: hey. this is the asian pacific american heritage month kickoff at kpix 5. i have my man here, kenny choi morning anchor here at kpix 5. we come on the air every morning at 4:30. so bedtime was about an hour ago but i still got some gas left in the tank. >> he is still standing. we are joined by all these fantastic people tonight. >> whoo! [ applause ] >> it's a rowdy bunch. >> like you said we are getting started early and now, we wanted to know what you guys are thinking about. the issues that are on the minds of the asian-american population in the bay area because asian-americans make up what, kenny? >> 35% of the people who live in san francisco are asian. >> which is pretty significant. we want to make sure we are doing a good job getting your stories on air so go ahead and email us if you have anything to say. tune into k

. >>> like the rest of the allied bases springing up in the pacific, the island of new georgia had been seized from the japanese. munlda has a reputation for being a malaria hell hole. what was it like? >> miserable. >> terrible. >> did you get malaria? >> no. i got hepatitis. it was nice, because it was the first time i really saw those nurses, giving alcohol back rubs and all that stuff. >> at munda, the only females they saw were the insects and i will -- and liz sards. >> the welcoming committee arrived at 0100 in the form of a bombing raid. >> they would send bombers at night to drop bombs on the americans so they couldn't sleep. >> three times that evening alone. by 0400, the exhausted squadron was out on the flight line for another day's run. ed harper earned himself the nickname the mole for his ability to dig into the side of his foxhole. he would soon learn another. >> the nickname was the sleeve. the sleeve was a target that the aerial planes pooled. >> boyington gave me that title after i got shot up the first time. >> it was october 17th. the black sheep were over the japan

his attorney says he suffered a broken nose, concussed, asian pacific islanders are air, their grievances about what happened. >> you know the pirates are also angry. >> yeah the pilot's union which never had a good relationship with management is now speaking out. >> we continue our coverage. >> good morning the pilot's union, laura, putting this squarely on the city of chicago and the chicago airport police. they say the response was grossly inappropriate, their words, the union said any social media ire should be directed at the city of chicago. we pointed out response by law enforcement was excessive. we don't know what the pilots and flight attendants told the police. did the police know they were not facing a dangerous passenger neighborhood, according to department of transportation, you're most likely to be bumped involuntarily by skywest and then southwest and then frontier. least likely, jetblu, virgin america and hawaii. in the coming months, there will be no chance you will be bumped involuntarily by united. >>> tesla will roll out a tesla pick-up truck. the first prototype el

i really am amazed that a sitting on an island in the pacific can issue an order that stops the president of the united states from what appears to be clearly his statutory and constitutional power. >> a judge sitting on an island in the pacific. i did not know that hawaii statehood was up for debate. what do you make of that, senator? >> well, it's just, you know, jeff sessions, first of all, they're wrong on the muslim ban. it is unconstitutional and racist. that's number one. number two, this is part of a pattern of jeff sessions and donald trump. i don't know what's in their heart, but i can tell you that they, both through their words and their actions, seem to target communities of color. and hawaii is the only state that is majority non-caucasian. that's something we're proud of. that's something that makes us a special place, and it's something that jeff sessions clearly doesn't understand. again, i don't know what's in his heart, but the sort of disparaging tone, the sort of dripping sarcasm when he's describing an island in the pacific -- i live on that island in the pacific. it

single judge can block the president, adding, for the record, quote, hawaii is, in fact an island in the pacific. thank you for the clarification. hawaii's democratic senator brian schatz not amused, tweeting, you voted for that judge and that island is called hawaii, it's my home, have some respect. >>> president trump will it will visit the treasury department, and sign orders targeting dodd/frank. he'll direct steve mnuchin to review regulator's authority on banks in trouble. he'll also ask a label insuraso firms as risky and look for regulations that are too complex for taxpayers. deregulation is one of the big hopes for wall street and one of the reason we've seen stocks climb since trump was elected. and the treasury secretary is giving reassurance to investors. mnuchin said this, whether health care gets done or health care doesn't get done, we're gonna get tax reform done. we hope that this won't take until the end of the year, it will be soon, very soon. mnuchin says it will cut taxes for both individuals and businesses. and that is certainly an ambitious goal there. >> that was big new

. >> attorney general jeff sessions dismissed hawaii as a, quote, island in the pacific. >> what? >> i wasn't diminishing the judge or the island of hawaii. give me a break. >> he's amazed that a judge, quote, sitting on an island in the pacific ruled against the president's travel ban. >> i think that was a politically correct statement. >> the government is coming along pretty well. >> next saturday will be the 100th day of president trump's administration. >> nominated neil gorsuch. >> got to love that list. >> we'll be having a big announcement on wednesday having to do with tax reform. >> are you going to do health reform? >> we'll see what happens. no particular rush. >> we will see next week if they can get it through the house. >> it is remarkable how hard this white house works to screw this thing up. >> this is a new era. this is the trump era. . >> jeff sessions was confirmed as attorney with a two-vote margin. in january, he promised a skeptical set that he would put politics aside and follow the law. >> the office of attorney general of the united states is not a norma

were african-american. 45% were latino. 2.5% was white and 1.7% were asian american pacific islanders15, a very different picture. many african-americans moved to the suburbs and now make up 29% of the population. that's 21% decrease. meantime, more latinos have moved into the area increasing their population by 20% to 65%. the white population has stayed roughly the same and asian americans make up 2.2% of the community. much of the racial tensions during the uprising was between korean americans and african-americans. just days after the rodney king beating, 15-year-old latasha harlins was shot to death by a store owner and he thought she was shoplifted. a judge sentenced her to probation and she never served jail time for the crime. tensions between the two communities boiled over during the riots. a report says that 2,220 korean businesses were looted or burned. 30 to 40% of the total damage. economics also playing a large role in fuelling tensions between the two communities. take a look in 1990, african-americans made a median household income of about $34,000. compared to $40,0

asia pacific islanders will join the china town group to air their grievances about what happened. >>> well, it turn out, united airlines is dealing with another unfortunate incident from that very same day involving an unlucky passenger aboard a second flight. in this case the airline says a scorpion fell from on overhead bin and stung a man mid-flight. the plane was on its what i from houston to calgary last sunday. united tells cnbc the flight crew contacted doctors on the ground who eventually provided some guidance, excuse me the man's life was not considered if danger. >> laura, you said stung there it turns out the pilots have zinc of their own. good morning, the pilot's union, lawyer remarks putting all of this problem with dr. david dao squarely on the city of chicago and the chicago airport police. >> that i say that response you saw on strd was grossly inappropriate, their words. the union also says any social media ire as they call it should be directed at the city of chicago. as we pointed out before, we don't know what the pilots and flight attendants told the police. di

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native hawaiian and other pacific islander women -- hispanic or latino women, $.54. a conservative estimate is that women employed in the united states lose a combined total of $500 billion every year due to wage gap. we tell the world how to treat presidentt we have a who says it is ok not to pay women fairly. where do you stand on this issue and how will you about your hr 2095? rep. palmer: i don't take a position on a bill until i have read it and i have not seen the bill. i have not seen the bill so i do not take a position on any legislation i have not seen. this gentleman over here. >> what is your position on the issue? rep. palmer: i believe in the market setting wage rates, and i think that is the best way to go. i don't like government mandates. >> so it is ok not to pay women fairly? rep. palmer: now. i have two daughters i want them to get every dime they deserve. believe me. >> so what is the republican congress going to do about it? rep. palmer: what are we going to do about it? i will read the bill. it is interesting you bring this up. you try to cast