Dressed in a full marine uniform when he doust himself on gas and set himself on fire outside a coffee shop. Bob jones is where it happened temperature the veteran is still in the hospital getting treatment for serious burns. 69 years old and he remains in the Burns Institute at akron hospital. He set himself on fire on west market saturday morning. Before that, he caused some concern and worrisome customers inside this coffee shop. It was just shock. Surveillance video from angel falls coffee shows the vietnam veteran dressed in a marines corp union trying to get into a political conversation with customers. The owner of the coffee shop toll me the vet wanted to know who organized recent protests against donald trump. Against trump. And he talked to my customers about how people needed to protest more against trump. When no one engaged in a conversation, the veteran left a shop and handed his cell phone to a stranger and toll him to record a video and what happened next was horrifying
Critical social programs such as wic which provides 9 million moms money for infant formula and baby food have been deemed nonessential. How am i supposed to get the extra 200 a month to pay for formula . Reporter head start is beginning to shut down across the country. In connecticut, there was no preschool program for geraldine bryants twin sons. Its going to impact them in a big way, especially academically. As far as them not being in school. Reporter trouble for military families too. Commissaries on base and post have been closed. This has a fwrood impact on the american economy. 12. 5 billion a week. 300 million a day and 12. 5 million every hour lost in productivity. Jim avila, abc news, washington. All right. That brings us to our facebook question of the day. What would you do now to end the Government Shutdown them political debate is heating up at wnnfans. Com. The shutdown has personal meaning for jodi and michael. They planned to be married at the gettysburg ampitheatre o
Look at the politics of diversity in america. A debate reignited by Donald Trumps win. Conservatives have been accusing progressives of dividing americans. Focusing too much on race. Ethnicity, sexual orientation. They call it identity politics. What the American People voted for was the end of identity politics. Were not going to be fooled by people who dont want to play identity politics. I dont like identity politics, no matter who plays it. Let the left play identity politics. Thats their currency. Democrats play identity politics. They put people in groups, youre a woman, you care about this, youre hispanic, you care about that, youre africanamerican, you care about that. This idea has gained steam. A New York Times column made a big splash, even Bernie Sanders picked up the theme saying that to win elections, the left needs to move beyond, quote, identity politics. But, of course, there is an elephant in the room, during the campaign, there was a candidate who used ugly rhetoric