A former athlete shares his story of coming out at the height of his college career. 95 years old. Still going strong, how americas oldest paper boy proves that age is state of mind. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Much of the south is now directly in the path of a severe winter storm. The National Weather service is using words like mined bog lipping, and historic so describe it. Ice will be a major problem. Roads could be glazed over, making driving nearly impossible. The ice is threatening to cause widespread Power Outages. More than 3,000 flights have been cancelled. The storm is on track to go up from georgia up through the carolinas, to the northeast. Several governors declared states of emergency. That inclues georgia, including areas that shut them down last month. That is where robert ray is. How are things looking. I see that its already raining. Reporter good morning. It looks like rain, but its a sleet. The temperatures dropped here in the p
Darn good job and yet shes getting hauled over the firing squad. Dont we want any more dont people anymore wait a bit before they start to say ready, aim fire . Dont we give a person, even an important person, a little timeout before we start the attack, loose the dogs, start ripping at the skin. I know politics. I dont know this politics. Obamas the president. He will be for four years. Hes the guy who will make the calls politically until 2016. Is this about just attacking democrats . Is this about trying to convince her, mrs. Clinton, not to run . If so, it might just be the easiest way to guarantee she runs. Dont you think . Near ra is a former policy director to Hillary Clinton and ron reagan is an msnbc political analyst. Both of you are good people to have on right now. I want to get a comment from near ra and i want a gut reaction. This disgusting attack, the back benchers, each one of these nuts, they are nutty in their behavior, hannity, the New York Post with the disgusting
2020. List your President Biden appointed judge griffith to the president president of on the Supreme Court of United States and to the Bipartisan Commission was charged with analyzing arguments for and against reforming the Supreme Court. It you look at the merits and legality. Judge griffith welcome and thank you for being here. Thank you very much. Its such appropriate time to have you here with the Supreme Court wrapping up this dramatic and consequential turn but i want to remind her guess that they can ask questions of judge griffith and tweet us place to handle posts like and we will try to get them in a conversation. If lets are with breaking news President Biden and signed an executive order to ensure access to abortion and medication and contraception so given President Bidens attempt to find pathways around what the Supreme Court decided just last month since the Supreme Court has the final say. Doesne the Supreme Court have e final say . I just learned of the these a fewws
Fact that he is the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman means he cannot be too independent. Hes responsible for assuring some of the administration possibly guess priorities. In some of the administrations top priorities. Along those lines, theres no better example than what is going on with the nsa. The administration is pushing as hard as they can to defend these programs. Patrick leahy has said he is he said the changes. Nsa got out of their lane on this. This is problematic for the hiselligence committee. Willingness as a leader and chairman to take this position shows that he is an independent in the senate. They brought up the issue of immigration and gun control. Where are both of these issues . Guncontrol he said is over with. He sees immigration as still life. Alive. Even though it is now out of his hands, he is still going to work really hard at communicating with members of the house and trying to get the final product to the president does. President s desk. Thank you for b
The more lead time we give these contractors, the better the business that we get. It would save all of us money if we had some sense for at least a 12 month period of what is coming. Thank you for the comment, governor. I could not agree with you more. There is a substantial need for all of our stakeholders in the Transportation Industry for longterm look outs in terms of budgeting and Funding Availability and instability within the system. What i would also say to that is we have to see transportation in the context of what is happening globally, which is that the while i think American Workers are the best workers in the world, while i think we have the best infrastructure in the world, we have a world that is quickly trying to catch up to us. Tocannot afford to wait create the 21st century infrastructure that is going to make this country continue to achieve our goals economically. I havent strong belief that there is a bipartisan understanding of that i have a strong belief that t