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Public universities and Government Agencies stopped considering race in their hiring and admissions decisions. Today the assembly approved a proposal to repeal that ban. The bills author says recent police traiks tragedies are showing that race and gender still matter. The bill could be ratified later on this month and be up for a vote in november. Happening now, calls to disband Oakland Unified School Districts Police force. Kpix 5 is live in oakland with the plan and how backers say they would...

Reporter floyd joined self owitnesss to deliver powerful testimony to the house judiciary committee, one day after he and his family buried his brother, george floyd. My family, they just cry, cry every day and just ask why, why. He pleaded for his life. Reporter mass demonstrations erupted around the world calling for police changes. Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle vowed to work towards solution, but the Republican Committee members also bashed calls to Defund Police departments. If you ...

Ready to get started. We have the after lunch session. Vicki and i happen tasked with getting everyone really ready to go. Do not embarrass us. My mom is watching. All right. Im excited to start the second part of our program today. We still have a time of candidates to hear from. I am so, because they are not just articulating how they will protect access. They are talking about expanding it and getting bolding getting visionary. Exactly. Do you feel like you are hearing what you want to hear ....

Everyone. Es from this is a very important issue to me. Im happy married 29 years and have four daughters so this is an issue i wont be saying these have daughters but very four daughtersnt make it personal. E, wife has been very activ shes on the board of an Organization Called International Center for research on women. Which deals with womens issues around the world. And the war were seeing waged on womens reproductive freedom erica United States of am is administration is also doing globally...

All of our team members in the back or making this happen, thank you so much. So we are going to keep the program rolling. You. Candidate is senator Bernie Sanders. Please join me thanks for being here senator. Here. A lot of love for you today, mr. Senator. This. Jump so you have done such a great ow of clearly articulating h to enact your Economic Policy agenda in the face of g. O. P. Opposition. My question is as president , how would you also persuade or work around those who dont agree with...

That is the highest one day total ever. August is the wettest month on record in texas. And to put this in perspective the National Weather Service Today added two new colors to its rainfall charts including light pink which signals 30 inches or more and 40 inches have fallen in dayton, texas. Ten to 20 additional inches are forecast by friday, at least two people have been killed. That number is expected to rise. And there have been thousands of rescues in houston and surrounding towns. Anthony...

Even closer towards wednesday morning. By wednesday afternoon, then, making another landfall. Right near probably port sabine, pushing inland as tropical storm. By thursday, friday, working into the Mississippi River valley. Downgrading to tropical low. You can see, still a lot of rain. Falling through parts of houston. Near galveston, that rain spreads into southwest louisiana. New orleans. I sample the rainfall rates. 1 2 inch to inch and a half of rain per hour. Adding more rain on top of the...

The Football Association has apologised to two female england players who were found to have been discriminated against by coach mark sampson. Im a human being, ifeel relieved it suggests that it was all worth it to go through the trouble to now have that vindicated. As concerns grow for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Refugees who have fled violence in myanmar well have the latest from neighbouring bangladesh. And well be talking to the cia official who interrogated the former iraqi leader Sa...

Aircraft carrier vincent which is in striking range of north korea. Alex ortiz for cbs news, the united nations. And tillerson says the United States has given 1. 3 billion in aid to north korea and he says the u. S. Is willing to resume that aid once kim jongun begins to dismantle that nuclear program. On the eve of his 100th day in office, President Trump touched base with some of his most loyal supporters. He went to atlanta to speak at the annual convention of the National Rifle association....

Now. Crews are checking weak spots. There could be more closures to come. Bryan slayeder is live at a huge hole in i40 in Johns Ton County and bryan, are you saying they can get this thing ready by tomorrow . Thats the plan. When we showed it just about a half hour ago here on fox 50, its a huge hole. Its about 10 feet deep and maybe 10 feet across theyre out there working on it now. You can see the excavator and backhoe trying to get it all prepared. Yesterday they were working all day on it. A...