Bipartisan inhofemikulski amendment to the National Defense authorization act. What does our amendment do . It stops the privatization of commissaries which are an earned, earned benefit for our military and their families. Every year when the Senate Debates this bill, we talk about how we love our troops and how we always want to support our military families, but if we really love our troops, we need to make sure that our troops have the support that they need. One of the earned benefits that does that is the commissaries, and if we love our troops, why would we want to proceed in the direction that we are . Our troops dont view commissaries as a subsidy. They view it as do i as an earned benefit. Im fighting here to preserve this piece of the earned benefit compensation package. Now, what are the commissaries . Since 1826, military families have been able to shop at a network of stores that provide modestly priced groceries. The commissary system is simple. If youre active duty in y
Has not destroyed any homes and intense heat and smoke has a force regulators to issue a smoke advisory from the Gabriel Valley and san burden nino riverside counties. Together the two fires are burning over eight square miles along under way monday and there is no containment here. Reporter now 70 percent contained 2070 structures still remain at rest at this point only one helping has been destroyed. Clay grant headquarters today this time can with a list of demands for change demonstrators say that is needed because of embarrassment and people related to the Oakland Police sex scandal as physique reports. O pd was the backdrop at the protesters calling for change at city hall. Reporter criticized the mayor for ross recent sarraute run the Police Department. Councilmembers has the the Police Require more than just another sigh air department. Try reaching here in a city hall of the veil what she has to say about all of this, but she was not available. In oakland Haaziq Madyun kron4ne
Its an embarrassment to be a witness of what the police does and is allowed to do on the streets of San Francisco, going around and killing people. The police are here to the job of the police is to help, to assist, and it prevent the killing of people, but instead what we see happening is that they are going around the streets killing people as if they were animals. Its very saddening for parents, for mothers and fathers to hear that their loved ones have been assassinated on the street by the Police Department. If there are indeed changes happening for the better, there are improvements happening, reforms happening, we should be able to see them . We should be cognizant of them and be able to see them on the streets, but we dont see them at all. This cannot and should not stay as it is. We need to actually see the reforms that you all talk about on the street. We need to see them here and we need to see them on the streets. So thank you very much and in ending, i would like to thank
From the sugar cane plantations in the Dominican Republic, a story of insecurity. And how changes are building more secure lives. Hello and welcome to 21st century. Im daljit dhaliwal. The legacy of slavery in the United States lives on today in South Carolina and georgia. The gullah geechee people, descendents of african slaves, are facing a struggle to hold onto their land and culture. Harmonica playing John Herman Blake up and down this coast there were literally thousands of african descendents. Im John Herman Blake. Im a seventh generation descendent of a woman who was enslaved on an island in the Savannah River on a rice plantation. Most of them came from west africa, sierra leone, and gambia. Music it really began about the 18th century as the atlantic slave trade began to prosper. As people began on acquire property here, who saw the potential for growing rice and cotton, and they began to import africans who were enslaved on plantations. You could buy a plantation, buy 10 to 2
Former washington mayor, marion barry. Six World Leaders are in vienna trying to make a deal on Irans Nuclear programme. The deadline is tomorrow. Jonah hull reports from vienna. A flurry of diplomatic activity. The russian Prime Minister Sergey Lavrov is due, the British Foreign secretary and his french counterpart are coming later. The German Foreign minister is already here, and we understand that in the coming hours john kerry will sit for their one on one private session, the Iranian Foreign minister. Up to now theyve been accompanied by baroness katherine ashton, negotiator for the p5 1. In the face of these suggestions coming from anonymous source, that a deal is no longer possible, but an extension is in the works. That may or may not be. There are long hours to come, including monday night. With all the decision makers, it would be unwise to rule anything out. Jonah hull reporting. In iran students rallied in support of a Nuclear Programme called no stop. It was organised by v