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And thats the only thing thats moving this guy. when fedex and nike said, look, you have to change your ways. thats all of a sudden all the principles went out the window for anybody associated with the washington redskins, including daniel schneider. >> yeah, yeah. so we also have the nfl floating the idea right now of playing lift every voice during the first week of games in the fall. whats your reaction of this and what do you think the general public will think about it? >> this is the heig...

Forbes and rashad richie. we have the owner of washingtons nfl team saying seven years ago never going to change the name, right? what kind of pressure do i think is being applied to make this change considered. >> public pressure from general americans throughout the united states. remember, this is what has happened. black folks and brown folks were saying these names are insensitive, racist and the background is inappropriate, well, these owners said, we dont care. now that the sentiment has ...

In 2018. what does it mean that this change is coming now. does it mean that corporate america is taking equality seriously. does it mean that dan snyder is finally woke? >> let me start by saying im a washingt washingtonian. im a lifelong fan of the washington football team. but the name is racist. dan snyder is an awful owner that most fans cant stand. it seems like hell probably end up stumbling into the right decision, but only after being forced to by corporate influence. its always, at the...

Its past time for this team in washington to change their name. >> are you hearing anything, checking in with former teammates, other players and getting a sense of how they feel? >> yeah, you know, there are fans who understand the fight and there are fans who love the team in washington. this is one of the storied franchises in the nfl despite its original history, origin history, i should say and won championships and have had outstanding players and doug williams, the first african-american ...

Current owner dan snyder has long resisted calls to even consider changing the teams name. back in 2013, snyder told usa today we will never change the name, its that simple. never. you can use caps. but this week the public pressure was joined by financial pressure with several prominent sponsors calls on the team to change its name including nike, pepsi, and fed ex whose ceo is also the minority owner of the redskins. maryland senator ben carden says its about time. >> my goodness. were very p...

Reckoning over a lot of these things? >> i think its very important, andrea. ive felt for a long time that they couldnt exist as the redskins forever. look, i played on a high school team in south dakota in which we were named after indians and finally the community said look, this is not appropriate, so they changed the name and changed the logos, because it was frankly a kind of insult to the native tribes in our area about how they were referred to by a bunch white kids running up and down th...

Earned a degree in air aviation when the industry was booming, but here at kalamazoo in michigan, the coronavirus pandemic has brought the airline service to nearly a standstill. >> it is pretty unsettling, and we just hope it bounces back as soon as it, you know, as soon as possible. >> reporter: he helps to run the operations and maintenance for the airport and it now sees no more than three flights each day. on one day in april the restaurant recorded $50 in sales. the pandemic has cleared ou...

Yall. >> what you want to destroy who? >> you and a whole bunch of others like you. anybody who gets in our way. >> people started to say, we arent going to get our rights the martin luther king way. so what are we going to do? were going to build black power. were going to build black companies. were going to build back organizations. were going have our own power center. >> black power. black power, my friends, means that we are developing now a new breed of cats. >> this is what spurred stoke...

David: beaches in miami-dade will be closed for fourth of july weekend as cases rose 9 and a half thousand yesterday. arizona numbers are also surging. >> we are very close to overwhelming our hospitals in terms of the number of beds. david: in texas, another hot spot, the governor ordering bar owners to once again turn off the lights. governors of new york, connecticut and new jersey are requiring anyone traveling from those hot spots to quarantine for 14 days. on friday, the white house corona...

The nonprofit has now thrown about 400 flights since this pandemic began, 15 states. >> hi, david. >> volunteer pilot richard jacobs just back from a fright, checking in with us from a windy runway in massachusetts. >> in these covid times, we may lose track of the fact that there are people that have other medical issues they are dealing with. >> richard telling us why he does it. >> i became an angel flight pilot because i love to fly and this gave me a way to help people at the same time. >> ...