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i'm john header, an investor mer alabama. we're workers is amazon facility or voting to decide whether they should be the 1st in the country to unionize their workplace. will begin this bulletin with the latest on the war in ukraine. negotiations between keith and russian officials are getting underway in his temple. but there's a little expectation they'll help bring an end to the month. long conflict has been a regular contact between the 2 sides. although there was no breakthrough at 3 previous rounds of face to face talks. moscow is seeking guarantees, ukraine won't join at nato. keith, once a ceasefire at the very least, mental grima, the president of ukraine, give clear instructions to a delegation, read or not played people, land or so warranty does not subject for negotiation. hero positions reinforced concrete supplied by international law and you cleans armed forces. international sanctions that have been applying of russia and weapons that have been handed over to us today. that griffith on the gran ukraine's presi

i was fortunate huntsville, alabama. i went to enter me and my brothers were integration pioneers in the early early years, but each year for 12 years of public education the schools. i attended became more integrated and they were rel. such that i was able to leave those schools and get go to vanderbilt and compete and graduate summa cum laude in electrical engineering right that said the high school that i graduated from sr. butler high school became very impoverished after i left racially resegregated so impoverished and segregated that they closed the school down and that's the story right? we had i feel fortunate to be middle-aged in some way where i got to go to school in the south at a time and in the 20-year period when it was most trying to give effect to brown v board, and we've since kind of retreated from that work and the average black or latino child in public education today tends to be in a school in which a majority their peers are minority and at least half of their peers are poor and it it does not ser

and vonetta flowers from alabama. no african american athlete has ever won gold in the olympic winter games. gold medal, usa! she's ready. this is elana meyers taylor we're talking about. elana meyers taylor for team usa goes to the top! >>> starting on monday new york city will no longer require bars and restaurants to pretend to look at vaccination cards. [ laughter ] [ applause ] the city will be lifting its vaccine mandate for indoor dining and events. finally, said the next variant. >>> that is michael che from the "update desk." and in 1994 courtney cox was offered the role of rachel green in the pilot for a new show called "friends." she chosen stead to play a different character named monica geller. rachel went to jennifer aniston and the rest is television history. the group of six actor starred together for a decade on a beloved show that turned their lives joup sid down. since stepping off that ride 18 years ago with a finale watched by some 53 million viewers, the 57 yeerlgd cox has found success in a run

i'm john hadron in bessemer, alabama. we're workers at this amazon facility are boating to decide whether they should be the 1st in the country to unionize their workplace. we begin in ukraine where the country's military says it's pushed back. some russian advances, as talks between the 2 countries are set to resume. ukraine says it's retaken areas now i'm a kid in the east and the major he ever saw the above it pin that where there's been heavy fighting. oh, good point. if you store who you're bringing up, the occupiers of pushed away from air, pen and key, but it's still too early to talk about safety in this part of our region fight, continues russian troops hold the north of the key region and they have resources and manpower they are trying to rebuild destroyed units. the level of 90 percent of losses is none argument for them to stop it even while a man of the deceased port city of merrier poet says, $5000.00 civilians have been killed since the war began. now the 200000 people remained trapped there about both sid

david: having gone to medical school in alabama, having seen the threat in alabama where people couldn't access the care that they needed really solidified my interest in doing this work, developing the expertise that i felt like i needed to be able to move the issue forward, and help people have better access and make things more equitable and more just. i never thought that missouri would have become so challenging. kathryn: india is following a well-trodden path that many women make from missouri. she's crossing the border to illinois, where abortions are cheaper, and take just a few hours. india: we are crossing the muddy mississippi river. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ kathryn: one in four women in america will get an abortion during their lifetime. female: black baby, don't kill your baby, don't kill your black baby, we love him. female: please run! female: you are paying money this morning for someone else. kathryn: the laws here are more liberal, but the anti-abortion movement is highly organized. female: to that open purple door on the right. female: don't go in there. they have no idea t

john hendern reports from besson, alabama. the amazon workers votes now being tallied, we'll decide whether organized labor can make a comeback in the heart of the anti union south. the vote counting that began on monday marks a 2nd battle between a corporate behemoth and pro union activists in bessemer, alabama. employees rejected joining the retail wholesale in department store union last year, but the national labor relations board rule that amazon unfairly influence the outcome and cold for a do over election. that's in part because the company set up a mailbox, it looked like a voting booth, giving some workers the impression amazon itself was running the election. we've turned a lot of nose into yes. is once they got the information, ah, that was more impactful to their lives. so yeah, they, on boards with the union's leaders, as the company's tactics have continued. they are, could duck take a ferocious anti union can pay union busting brig again outside union busters? hundreds of them in a statement, amazon spokesperso

john henderson, al jazeera bessemer, alabama. ah, this is all, these are the top stories, ukrainian military officials say the reclaimed opin from russian forces. the city northwest of ki has seen heavy fighting since russia began its pushed towards the capital. last month of we'll find gifts which stole hood your opinion. the occupiers pushed away from her pin and key but it's still too early to.

john henderson, al jazeera bessemer, alabama.

the move in alabama follows a recent votes still being counted at to amazon sites on new york, staten island, where workers projected their critiques of the company under its iconic logo unions . on the decline for decades, have seen a resurgence in the past year. signing up workers at starbucks doors in buffalo, new york, seattle in mesa, arizona. google fiber contractors in missouri and in new york city are sporting goods store workers, seem empowered by the great resignation, the wave of workers leaving their jobs. during the pandemic, the company has been calling workers in for mandatory meetings to explain to them why they should not unionize. the company's perspective is that it works better with employees when it does so directly and not through a 3rd party. many pro union workers say when that happens, it's the company that sets the rules. one alabama worker was confident enough to take aim at amazon's billionaire owner, who also owns the blue origin space company. it's not really worth it to stay with the company who doesn't care about me as much as they care about. just be t

alabama. this is just under an hour. >> before we get started, housekeeping for live captioning available by clicking on the closed captioning button at the bottom of the screen and we will be taking questions at the end of the panel by using the q-and-a feature and we will then get to your questions. last fall we published a report on pathways for women in the construction trade, and also published pieces about the role of unions in the recovery including the revolution in the canadian economy and close the racial wealth gap. one that is the engine of the high octane rip roaring economyy and i know this firsthand as a former organizer for the employees union. the sky is the limit and we know from history this doesn't happen on its own. there needs to be the purpose and drive to create equity. now we have a golden opportunity to do just that. november of last year the president signed into law the largest infrastructure bill in the history of the nation. the bail was set to create 800,000 jobs

but the southern portions of alabama and north georgia, there is the potential for isolated tornadoes as we go throughout the day. if that's not bad enough, we're still getting a lot of heavy rain in areas that had snow melt, and the rivers were high before this storm. flash flood washes around indianapolis, louisville and pad paducah. highest rainfall totals are expected areas louisiana up through mississippi, alabama, and a little n ri richmond 83. it's snowing in chicago. dallas, colder air moving in for you. but look at the high temperatures in the southeast. a lot of contrast. stormy weather is the recipe this morning >> that time of year all right, bill, thank you >>> two massive wildfires are burning in the florida panhandle this morning one is named the adkins avenue fire the other as been dubbed swamp road they have burned at least 10,000 acres combined this is video of a home completely destroyed by one of the fires. the fire activity has increased since sunday because of the high winds and dry conditions >>> more companies are taking on anti-russian approaches including tfx

que autoridades comiencen el proceso de rescate y de recuperación, si se fija, las lluvias están en alabama, en (nombre en inglés) y han dejado totalmente el estado de luisiana, es impresionante ver el número de reportes, más de 66 reportes de tornados desde texas a alabama, la noche debería ser una sumamente peligrosa, en la madrugada en (nombre en inglés) debería haber tormentas y tornados en ese sector, es el mayor temor que este evento es en la noche, donde los tornados ticamente son 2.5 veces más mortíferos que en el día porque están todos durmiendo sin alertas, mañana el grupo de lluvias va a las carolinas, georgia y (nombre en inglés) de florida, donde 21 millones de personas están bajo riesgo de ver más tornados, granizos y vientos, pero por fortuna el riesgo no es tan elevado y pienso que tormentas no deberían ser de ampli cobertura territorial, no podemosbajar la guardia, apenas la primavera inicio, abril, mayo, junio y julio son los meses con mayor desarrollo de estos aires, son días de estar atentos en las condiciones del tiempo, esperemos lo mejor en luisiana an

so consider every city in the state of alabama has no home rule. the lack of home rule impacts our ability to be more inclusive. and equitable if if our state government doesn't agree which often we consider birmingham a blue barrier suit. this is a city that had a huge racial poverty gap of 21% over the last 41 plus years. but that figure came down. part of the question is how did that happen? well, birmingham's population composition changed which has a direct measure of our racial poverty gap. there are two dynamics that impacts our racial poverty gap. one is underemployed citizens have remained in our city limits. the white flight piece is self-explanatory which significantly decreased the city's population but also the economic impact on our city. but living on high wage jobs are not equitable. and accessible to our communities and neighborhoods which have kept some of our citizens at below the poverty rate. our citizens are working harder and primarily in the service industries which shoutout to the service industry, especially over the last

. >> reporter: in fultondale, alabama, 14 months after the storm tore through, the scars are fresh. >> it was an ef-3 tornado that touched down - >> reporter: that was hours after a tornado devastated this small town. impacting more than a third of the nearly 10,000 people here and today? just standing here now, i am counting one, two, three, four, five houses that are still damaged, still haven't been repaired from more than a year ago. >> that's right. >> reporter: why >> it's all about funding. >> reporter: funding that was denied by fema which determined the damage was not of search severity and magnitude to require federal help, so the federal government would not declare fultondale a disaster zone it's not just this town an nbc news analysis found this tornado was 1 of 33 disasters denied fema aid in the last three years when the federal government turned down nearly 40% of states' requests from fema's individual assistance program which provides money for people without insurance covering everything from housing to medical bills. the reason fema says certain disasters are too s

it's basically two thirds of the state of alabama. jackson is also heavily involved in forcing land sessions from the chickasaw the choctaw the cherokee at this point. the seminole are going to be kind of the end of this process and when you map all of that out, florida becomes sort of the last piece of the southern what today is the southern united states? that is still dominated by native peoples unclaimed by the united states and and clearly fitting into this established example of the south as an agricultural region. okay, so florida for jackson in many ways is representing kind of the end of a process and all of these land acquisitions and land sessions are happening concurrently with the seminal war while jackson himself is in florida and yet still very much involved in all the match nations that it takes to get this land seated to the united states when you add up all of the land sessions that jackson is responsible for during this period i mean you're talking about tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of acres of land

dÍas atrÁs, esto es mississippi, louisiana, vean donde el riesgo radica en nivel cuatro, mississippi alabama y louisiana son localidades que aÚn se estÁn recuperando de todos los tornadoss que estuvieron cruzando la zona. son 35 millones de personas bajo el riesgo de intensos tornados granizos y vientos que sobrepasan las 70 millas por hora. el nivel cuatro el que estÁ hoy puesto en vigor, en una escala del 1 al 5 siendo el 5 lo peor en nivel 4 representa que esas tormentas pueden ser violentas de amplia cobertura y de larga duraciÓn. hoy es uno de los dÍas donde nuestra madre naturaleza puede producir tornados con vientos de hasta 200 millas por hora. asÍ es que es muy, muy preocupante la situaciÓn que puede estar dÁndose nuevamente en estas localidades. y vean como todo va a evolucionar, miÉrcoles cercano a la una de la tarde, entrando en louisiana y tambiÉn arkansas ya cercano a las 6 de la tarde en alabama en tennessee incluso en localidades de kentucky y para horas de la noche sumamente peligroso, donde no se logran difÍcil sar los tornadoss sobre el Área de alabama, birming

starting with one ukrainian's escape out of the warzone and into the warm embrace of friends in alabama. >> this sty is incredible. ka aranslator from the city la summer whilionsritokrne.they >> she fled via two trains, a car ride with a stranger, then finally taking three flights, ending in huntsville, alabama. >> the church members are working to get another translator out of kyiv. >>> this zookeeper on maternity leave dropped in to introduce her newborn daughter to a 20-year-old gorilla named juba. >> so mary kay said she brought in her 2 month old to meet her buddies with whom she worked at the past four years at the zoo. >> after spotting them in the window, juba came and sat right in front of the pair and captured the sweetest video. the sweetest boy meeting my sweetest baby for the first time. zoo animals love babies. >>> and next from a gorilla to a giant porcupine puppet. >> percy the porcupine puppet emerged from her stump for kids and media at the los angeles park. >> adorable, sure, adorable beast, it stands nearly two storeys tall and is a joint project with the san diego z

the amazon alabama warehouse vote, right now alabama voting stands against 800 votes against unionizing, 678 for unionizing, but there are still hundreds of ballots to count. voting is going on at new york's staten island amazon warehouse where at last check labor was ahead. so at the moment the stock is not ahead. amazon is down 1.5%. if we get anymore updates in the last couple minutes of the show we will bring them to you. >>> three problems, inflation, higher rates, war in europe. our "countdown" closer has three stock solutions for your portfolio. joining us with 26 billion of assets under management huntington asset management chad obiat. what are the boxes you must check before committing or putting a stock in your portfolio? >> great question, liz, thanks for having us on. what we're looking at in this environment, as you mention it has been a tough quarter for stock investors so what we're really looking at, companies one help participate in inflationary environment. we're covering that in the last segment. you mentioned it on the intro here. inflation is definitely a concern.

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john hendern has more from eskimiya, alabama. the amazon workers votes now being tallied, we'll decide whether organized labor can make it come back in the heart of the anti union south. the vote counting that began on monday marks a 2nd battle between a corporate behemoth and pro union activists in bessemer, alabama. employees rejected joining the retail wholesale in department store union last year, but the national labor relations board rule that amazon unfairly influence the outcome in cold for a do over election. that's in part because the company set up a mailbox, it looked like a voting booth, giving some workers the impression amazon itself was running the election. we've turned a lot of nose into. yes. it's once they got the information. ah, that was more impactful to their lives. so yeah, the on board with the union's leaders, as the company's tactics have continued, they are, could duck, take a ferocious anti union care, a union busting brig again outside union busters? hundreds of them in a statement, amazon smoke, pe

tornado >> no tuve reaccion de ver >> miles de damnificados por los tornados que han azotado texas alabama luisiana que deja dos muertos veremos que se necesita un alivio para california el gobernador propone dar 400 dolares la iniciativa tiene que ser aprobada por la legislatura estatal la invasion rusa deja catastrofe humanitaria que crece dia a dia luce como ciudad fantasma donde se ven columnas de humo miles de residentes se suben para huir pero fuerzas ucranianas ganan terreno han hecho retroceder a tropas rusas la poblacion civil tambien se entrena en el uso de armas entre tanto volodimir zelenski pide a los ciudadanos del mundo a salir a las calles al repudiar a las tropas rusas de su pais al cumplirse un mes >> desde la invasion mas de 3 millones 600 mil ucranianos han huido en el pais 40 mil soldados entre muertos desaparecidos a bruselas llego joe biden mañana jueves propondra nuevas sanciones >> hola ¿que tal? es de madrugada en bruselas joe biden ha pasado la noche en la embajada de estados unidos ademas de la otan se reunira con lideres de la union europea tardan meses a vec

several people had been rescued from flooded roads near the university of alabama at birmingham. drivers were warned to avoid the entire downtown area. tonight, fire officials in plainfield, indiana, are looking into what caused a tremendous fire today at a walmart distribution center. towering plumes of black smoke could be seen for miles. luckily, the nearly 1,000 workers in the building all made it out safely. a powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake rattled japan's northeast coast today off the city of fukushima. at least one person was killed and dozens were injured. the quake was felt more than 200 miles away in tokyo. millions of homes and businesses lost power. the region is still recovering from that devastating quake and tsunami in march of 2011. all right, coming up next, we've got a sweet story of a lemonade stand and how it reconnected an evacuated family from ukraine. our client's portfolios for their long-term goals. (other money manager) but you still sell investments that generate high commissions for you, right? (fisher investments) no, we don't sell commission produ

you lose a union vote, you know, 70% in alabama i don't know you're going to blame a mailbox? i don't buy that that doesn't hold any water with me but they soldier on, and labor deserves its voice to be heard we'll see what they decide speaking of zbik tech and its influence, a trade association says it supports small business. apparently it's actually backed by two of the biggest tech companies on the planet. eamon javers has that. eamon. >> good morning, jon, that's right. the connected commerce council or ccc describes its as a corporation that advocates on behalf of small businesses on issues until recently t they had a group of its businesses on its website. when cnbc, more than 20 said they were not actually members or never heard of the group. some members we talked to said they are active participant os the group. critics say it's an astro turf lobbying group that's washington slang where it a claims to be there for grass roots entity thees but is there forbid industry. it's financed by google and amazon and advocates against anti-trust legislation on capitol hill and

mañana en alabama esta tarde y el área de missisipi. tornados que pueden tener vientos de hasta 130 millas por hora. vientos que sobrepasan y hoy llega alabama y en misisipi y para el día miércoles comenzará en georgia, carolina del sur y carolina del norte. el riesgo mañana se reduce a 20.00000 de personas en riesgo pero no debieran ser intensos. así que hoy es un día para tener su teléfono consigo. tiene que ir a las indicaciones en pantalla para recibir las alertas de tornado. si tiene iphone o android se indica así. durante horas de la noche >> bien pendientes. importa la vida >> así es. >> gracias, carlos. >> ♪ [música] ♪ >> es jornada maratónica para que brown jackson, la jueza nominada de la corte suprema se defiende y fija temas polémicos. buenas tardes, cuéntanos, cómo ves todo? >> en marcha esta jornada intensa de estionamientos a la jueza. está nominada a la corte suprema y ha adelantado su punto de vista. uno de ellos central en la estrategia de republicanos para tratar de hacerle ver ante débil ante deli

suozzi of new york and ins sewell of alabama and ms. delbene of mr. moulton of massachusetts, these members will vote yes on h.r. 5616. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. long of missouri, i inform the house that mr. long will vote yes on h.r. 5616. and madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. desjarlais of tennessee, i inform the house that mr. desjarlais will vote yes on h.r. 5616. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> as the member designated by chairwoman lofgren and johnson and kelly and bobbie rush, these members will vote yes on h.r. 5616. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north dakota seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. timmons of south carolina, i inform the house that mr. timmons will vote yes on h.r. 5616. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr.

john 100 is in chelsea, alabama, where the storm has damaged homes. this was a broad swath of storms is stretched from texas over to the florida panhandle in the east. and then as far north as missouri, thousands of square kilometers of territory and a series of storms brought in with heavy, heavy winds. and you can see some of the damage here, the roof being taken off, partially that house over there, on the hill. you can see that trees have just been down one after the other. and as i look over here, i spoke to the owner of this house and she says, now this is a job for the insurance, but she says the good lord did her, his work. he's still here. i spoke to the mayor of this town, tony pika timer, who said no one seems to have been in here despite extensive damage throughout the town of chelsea. and we were told that this happened with no warning whatsoever. it happened in the dead of night about 7 seconds is what it took for this storm to sweep through this particular town. there's a lot of damage and a huge debris field. the mayor says, thank good

the book marks a second battle between a corporate behemoth and prounion activists in alabama. employees rejected joining the wholesale department store union last year but that national laborers relations board says that amazon unfairly influence the outcome. that is because the company set up a mailbox. giving the impression that amazon itself was running the election. >> the company taxes have continued. >> they are conducting union busting, hundreds of them. >> in a statement, they said as a company we don't think that unions are the best answer for our employees. our focus remains on working directly with our team to continue making amazon a great place to work. workers projected their critiques of the company under its iconic logo. unions on the decline for decades have seen a resurgence in the past year. google fired contractors in missouri. workers seem empowered by the great resignation. the company has been calling workers into explain why they should not unionize. the company's perspective is that it works better with employees when they do so directly and not throug

date of alabama, causing widespread damage. hello, we begin with the economic fallout from the war in ukraine. russian president vladimir putin as issued an ultimatum to the so called unfriendly states. he wants payment for russian gas and rubles as of friday, or have their contracts canceled. hooton's as foreign buyers will be required to open accounts with russian banks. the decree could pose a serious issue for europe, which gets around 40 percent, if it's gas from there. germany says they're being blackmailed by the kremlin. meanwhile, the u. s. is set to release millions of barrels of oil from reserves to try and lower it soaring crude prices to study bentley. i find an order that establishes the rule of trade with natural gas with the so called hostile states. we are offering a clear system that they have to open accounts and roubles, and payments have to be me through these accounts from the 1st of april. if they don't, we will consider it a non fulfillment of contract. nobody sells us anything for free and we will not d

today marks the 57th anniversary of bloody sunday in selma, alabama. vice president kamala harris joined hundreds of people crossing the famous edmund pettis bridge their march commemorated the march from selma to montgomery on this day in 1965. alabama state troopers violently attacked about 600 peaceful protesters who are rallying for voting rights after today's march vice president harris spoke about the current fight for democracy in ukraine. their bravery is a reminder. that freedom and democracy. can never be taken for granted. by any of us she went on to the people who marched across the bridge in selma also fought for economic racial and social justice. she implored americans to continue the fight. hundreds of vehicles drove just outside of washington dc today to protest covid-19 mandates the convoy of trucks vans and motorcycles more slowed traffic on a beltway a 64-mile highway encircling the nation's capital. members say since most states have dropped mandates, their protest is also to end the government's ability to invoke emergency powers.

but here in chelsea, alabama that just not what happened. this came as a complete surprise, and again, so far it seems that nobody here was injured. thank you so much, john henry, reporting from chelsea, alabama. sure. lincoln's are being war and to expect more electricity cuts at least until may millions are suffering. blackouts are up to 13 hours a day. the government's struggling to afford fuel imports for power stations because of the worst economic crisis in decades. leaders say nothing else can be done at the moment to avoid the blackouts. chinese leaders are choosing britain's government, pressuring. 2 british judges to resign from hong kong, highest courts, the judge, i say, there rolls at the court. a final appeal became untenable. that's after being introduced new legislation in hong kong, which has restricted free speech and civil liberties. adrian brown reports the, an independent judiciary has been a defining feature of hong kong since it was returned from british to chinese rule . nearly 25 years ago. its legal system is unique

and vonetta flowers from alabama. no african american athlete has ever won gold in the olympic winter games. gold medal, usa! she's ready. this is elana meyers taylor we're talking about. elana meyers taylor for team usa goes to the top! >>> welcome back to nbc bay area news tonight. so, this is a pivotal day for all of us in california. we now have the option not to wear that mask. at least that's what the governor said today. beginning tomorrow, masked or unmasked -- excuse me, vaxed --'d or unvax'd. it's up to the schools if students are required to wear masks in the classroom. >>> let's bring in one of our covid experts, dr. monica gandhi of ucsf. from a medical standpoint is this a safe move what the governor announced today? >> this is the safe move. so, what happened is, as you know, the cdc guidance was revised on friday to really say, when do we have to mask, when do we not have to mask. it really was based on hospitalizations in a region. and the reason that's so important is that's why all of our non-pharm

debastacion en texas mas de una docena de tornados ahora el peligro temporal avanza a mississippi, alabama, además, este martes (música) mmente ruinas sobre ruinas, escalan bombardeos rusos en ucrania, la resistencia dice haber frenado invasiones. >> tragedía en río bravo, 20 migrantes han perdido la vida en el río en los últimos días (música) (música) el acordeón del policía, esentamos a este policial de san diego, que es una sensación en redes sociales (música) noticias telemundo con julio vaqueiro (música) (música) (música) (música) vemos la fuerza de tornados que azotaron gran parte de texas, el torbellino pasa cuando una camioneta avanza en esta localid,la fuerza del viento la hace dar varias vueltas hasta el conductor retoma el control y huye del lugar . >> bienvenidos, soy vanessa hauc , la serie de tornados en texas y oklahoma ha causado muerte y pánico, una mujer de 73 años perdió la vida al caerse su vivienda, estamos en texas con lo último . >> esta es la furia de tornados en oklahoma y en condados en texas declarado en estado de emergencia por el gobernador

it was among the worst in the state of alabama. what does that tell you about the current state of voting access in this country? >> it tells us a lot. it tells us that, one, access is stopping things and it tells us that we have to inspire people to go past the road blocks, as they did in the '60s, as you talked about john lewis and jose williams. you have to remember that according to the reports, over 30% of the early voting ballots in texas in this pass tuesday's primary was rejected based on new texas laws. so we're going to see low amounts of voting everywhere if we do not challenge and turn around a lot of these restrictive laws that have been put in place since 2020, in 1 states or more. we are dealing with a voting emergency in this country, as we deal with ukraine, and we need to deal with it, and that's why this weekend in selma is extremely important, because we need to underscore that we cannot be global liberators and at home ignore the threat to democracy right here. >> vice president is going to be marching with you

tornados also struck mississippi and alabama. it is still capable of unleashing more severe weather, including more tornados, large hail and damaging wind along the eastern seaboard. and back behind it, it's much cooler. you might see snow in chicago on your thursday with a high of 12 degrees and it's much warmer than normal thanks to strong southerly winds in the u.s. capital and only 1 in winnipeg, 9 degrees in vancouver. still rainy weather continues across new south wales. sydney could see 17 degrees for the first dave april. sydney experienced exceptionally wet march so far. and the capital city of new caledonia could see 29 for a high and a chance of thunderstorms. it's getting cooler across western europe. so paris could see only 2 on friday with rainy weather. kyiv will stay above average and moscow will continue to see snowfall into the weekend. that's it for me, stay safe. >>> and that's all for this edition of nhk "newsline." thanks for watching, and do stay with us for more. >>> this is "newsline" biz, i'm gene otani.

john henderson, al jazeera bessemer, alabama. ah, this is al jazeera and these other top stories, ukrainian military officials say they've reclaimed opin from russian forces. the city north west of cave has seen heavy fighting since russia began. it's pushed towards the capital last month. by gifts which stole hood your opinion, the occupiers are pushed away from her pin and key. but it's still too early to talk about safety in this part of our region fighting continues, russian troops hold the north of the key region and they have resources and manpower. they are trying to rebuild destroyed units. the level of 90 percent of losses is none. argument for them to stop it, even nearly 5000 civilians have been killed in merrier poll since russia's invasion began. that's according to the city's mer also says almost 200000 people remain trapped in the besieged city. a fresh round of talks between russia and ukraine is due to begin in turkey. go shooters from both countries will meet face to face danville on tuesday status. president re

carl of alabama and ms. cathy mcmorris rogers ofashington, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that mr. carl will vote nay on the previou question and mrs. mcmorris rodgers will vote nay on the preeves question. the eaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. reed of new york, i inform the house that mr. reed will vote nay on the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. boks of alabama, i inform the house that mr. brooks will vote nay on the previous question. thank you. the spker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> as the member designated by dr. joyce and as the member designated by congressman meuser of pennsylvania, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that dr. joyce and mr. meuser will vote no on the previous question. the speaker pro tempore

today marks the 57th anniversary of a bloody sunday in selma, alabama. vice president kamala harris joined people crossing the famous edmund pettus bridge. it commemorated the march on this day in 1965. alabama state troopers violently attacked 600 peaceful protesters rallying for voting rights. vice president harris spoke about the current fight for democracy in ukraine. v.p. harris: their bravery is a reminder that freedom and democracy can never be taken for granted. by any of us. dion: she went on to say the people who march across the bridge also fought for economic, racial and social justice. she implored americans to continue that fight. moving onto the east bay where city hall will reopen to the public tomorrow after a two month closure due to a spike in coven infections. the building was originally scheduled to reopen february 20, but city leaders delayed it until march. starting tuesday, city council will welcome the public back to in person meetings. the city strongly recommends that visitors and staff wear masks inside city hall regardless of