Internet Is All Teared Up As This Bride Enters Her Wedding With A Picture Of Her Deceased Mom
Watching a bride walk down the aisle with a photo of her deceased mother, we all are teared up for sure!
Weddings have always had a touch of personal, intimate moments for the bride and the families of the loved ones. We see another one taking over the internet and giving us those teary eyes!
The Pakistani Bride With A Picture Of Her Mother
A touching video of a bride entering her wedding venue with a portrait of her late mother in hand has left thousands of viewers emotional. Footage from a wedding in Pakistan showed the bride getting teary-eyed as she entered the venue holding a photograph of her mother. Dressed in a red bridal outfit, she was seen entering the venue with her father, who also looked visibly emotional.
Footage of the emotional moment was shared on Instagram by photographer Maha Wajahat Khan, who dedicated it to all daughters who have lost their mothers. In the video, relatives of the bride were also seen wiping away their tears and comforting her. The 57-second clip ended with a shot of the bride and her father hugging during her bidai or formal farewell.
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A Priceless Reaction By The Daughter Of The Bride
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A clipping of a bride and her daughter at her wedding went viral through an Indian MUA, Guneet Virdi’s Instagram handles which have over 390k views. The video has sent the internet into a meltdown.
We spot the daughter, Deeva, entering the vanity room, where her mother is all ready to hit the venue with the makeup artist and throw in a compliment just as she has a glance. The little one is mesmerized to see her mother look absolutely stunning with all the bridal wear and setup. She has us in awe.
She is heard saying, “Aap toh bohot sundar lag rahe ho” and we can’t control our set of emotions for her.
As soon as the video hit the internet, people seemed to have fallen in love with the little girl. There are 390k views to the viral video. The comment section is flooded with comments for the mother-daughter duo.
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The Groom Touching His Bride’s Feet
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For years now, women have often touched the feet of their husbands' in respect in Hindu marriages. It is only now that many have started to question why this respectful and loving gesture is only one-sided.
Well, times are changing. Every now and then we see grooms breaking stereotypes and promising their wives an equal partnership. Recently, after the saat pheras, when the bride tried to touch the groom's feet, he refused but he quickly touched the bride's wedding to mark respect.
In this Instagram video which is going viral on the net, one can see the bride first bowing down to touch the groom's feet and then the groom touching her feet. The gesture was totally unexpected for the bride and she can be seen jumping back.
What are your views on the same? Connect with us over Instagram and let us know. Stay tuned to HerZindagi for more viral stories!


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"Pose has never been pristine prestige television; co-creator Ryan Murphy is too fond of spectacle and of melodrama and of using characters to painstakingly articulate big ideas for that," says Judy Berman. "Rushed, overstuffed and plagued by plot holes, this year’s third and final season was easily its weakest. Yet for all its cringey lines, this series about queer men and trans women of color forming chosen families within New York’s ’80s and ’90s ball culture never stopped hitting me hard in the heart. Besides, Pose’s legacy reaches far beyond the revolutionary story it’s been telling, to the very center of pop culture. It certainly wasn’t the first show to feature realistic, humane depictions of trans characters. Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black launched the career of Laverne Cox and exposed the plight of incarcerated trans people; Amazon’s Transparent took a broader approach to gender and sexuality, but one that was undermined by the choice to cast a cisgender man, who was later accused of abuse, as the trans heroine. The Wachowskis’ cult sci-fi hit Sense8 introduced a major trans character (Nomi Marks) played by a trans performer (Jamie Clayton) and created by a pair of trans writer-directors. And reality TV churned out flattering profiles like I Am Jazz and Caitlyn Jenner’s I Am Cait. In the second half of its 12-year run, RuPaul’s Drag Race has increasingly—and often infuriatingly—addressed the complex relationship between drag and gender identity. The big screen was a mixed bag of groundbreaking indies (Tangerine, Laurence Anyways) and bland studio efforts, like Dallas Buyers Club and The Danish Girl, that enlisted famous cis men to play trans women in what appeared to be shameless awards bait. Pose expanded the palette immensely, placing several very different Black and Latinx trans characters—all played by trans actors—at the center of its story, and thereby obliterating the binary of 'positive' vs. 'negative' representation." ALSO: Angelica Ross has "mixed-feelings" about her Pose character's tragic fate.
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Volkswagen in Europe has pulled the covers from a brand new ‘T7’ Multivan people-carrier. It’s much less van-like and extra SUV-like than its predecessors.
The brand new Multivan rides at the MQB structure that underpins nearly all of Volkswagen’s passenger automotive vary. Thus for the primary time the Multivan isn’t without delay associated with the Transporter business van.
The present T6 Transporter will proceed in manufacturing, and is predicted to get replaced within the not-too-distant long term by way of a fashion based on the Ford Transit.
Measuring 4973mm lengthy, 1941mm broad, as much as 1903mm tall, and driving on a 3124mm wheelbase, the Multivan will have to have numerous house for seven passengers and all their tools.
Even with all 3 seating rows in position the Multivan has 469 litres of baggage house. Folding down the ultimate row lets in the automobile to hold 1850L of stuff. Disposing of the second one row solely boosts capability to 3672L.
A prolonged fashion that’s 5173mm lengthy could also be to be had. This variant can raise as much as 4053L with best the entrance row in position.
Volkswagen says the seats in the second one and 3rd row are 25 in line with cent lighter to make seat removing a much less back-breaking procedure. As the second one row can swivel as much as 180 levels, passengers within the again can face one any other.
An to be had desk fixed on a central monitor completes the mini-boardroom really feel.
For the ones sitting up entrance there’s a ten.25-inch instrumentation show, a ten.0-inch touchscreen infotainment machine, and two USB-C ports. To be had options come with wi-fi smartphone charging, and a 14-speaker Harmon Kardon sound machine with a 840W amplifier.
Same old protection pieces come with self sufficient emergency braking, street signal reputation and lane maintaining lend a hand. A semi-autonomous riding mode that makes use of the adaptive cruise regulate and lane maintaining methods is an possibility in Europe, as is a surround-view digicam setup.
The headline drivetrain possibility is a brand new plug-in hybrid setup, dubbed eHybrid, which friends a 1.4-litre turbocharged four-cylinder with a 85kW electrical motor and a six-speed twin take hold of transmission.
A 13kWh lithium-ion battery fixed beneath the ground will have to supply sufficient juice for emissions-free town riding, even if Volkswagen hasn’t supplied a WLTP vary determine.
There are two different four-cylinder turbo petrol drivetrain choices: a 100kW 1.5-litre, and a 150kW 2.0-litre. Diesel consumers are served by way of a 110kW 2.0-litre.
Those 3 engines force the entrance wheels by the use of a seven-speed twin take hold of transmission.
After a number of teasers and spy photos, the Multivan’s design isn’t an enormous marvel.
In a smash with previous fashions, the bottom of the A-pillars were moved ahead and the bonnet flattened out. Skinny LED lighting are same old at each ends, and matrix LED headlights are to be had on high-end fashions.
“We don’t have an ETA however we have an interest. The T6.1 nonetheless has a large number of lifestyles but and it’s doing really well for us,” an organization spokesman informed us these days.


Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies took a shellacking on Monday, as China took further steps to limit its exposure to the banking system.
Bitcoin dropped nearly $2,000 in just 30 minutes around 2 a.m. ET, losing about 6% of its value. It briefly slipped below $32,000 before rebounding to about $32,200, down 5% over the past 24 hours. Ether, the second-most valuable crypto, fell below $2,000, off 7% in the past 24 hours.
The People’s Bank of China said it told domestic banks and the Alipay unit of Ant Group not to provide services linked to cryptocurrency trading. The central bank said speculative activities were disrupting China’s financial system and creating the risk of illegal capital outflows.
Major banks immediately announced moves to ban cryptocurrency trading.
China accounts for two-thirds of Bitcoin mining activities, according to the University of Cambridge. The country has been shutting off access to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as it promotes its own Central Bank Digital Currency, the digital renminbi. A Chinese bank recently made the digital renminbi available at ATMs in the country.
Bitcoin’s high of the year was $63,381.20, reached on Apr. 15. Environmental concerns as well as Chinese regulatory scrutiny are among the factors weighing on the assets.
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L.A. Lamoreaux, Secretary of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, suggests that municipalities encourage the construction of fireproof buildings by reducing the taxes on such buildings for a term of years. He holds that fireproof construction is so great a benefit to the community as a whole, because of its value as a fire stop in case of a conflagration, that the municipalities can well afford to encourage it. View Full Article in Timesmachine »
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Germany launches colossal network upgrade, 40 routes renovated by 2030
Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMDV) are about to launch an enormous infrastructure upgrade programme from 2025 until 2030. Forty critical route sections are to be renovated, some very important for rail freight transport. The long-term goal is to make German rail transport more punctual, but understandably, in the short and mid-term, traffic will be substantially disrupted due to the works.
“A big thank you goes to the federal government for its commitment to provide the necessary additional funds amounting to up to 45 billion euros to carry out the works. It is now up to us to roll our sleeves with the construction industry. However, the truth is that the enormous construction workload will be challenging for rail freight companies,” stated Richard Lutz, CEO of DB.
The 2025-2030 infrastructure upgrade programme is based on six main pillars that DB and BMDV have defined. First and foremost comes rehabilitating the highly congested network and expanding it into a high-performance 9.000 kilometres long network. Moreover, significant is the “targeted” expansion of existing lines and the construction of new ones to resolve persisting bottlenecks and increase capacity. Speaking of capacity, the German-wide ETCS roll-out, also part of the programme’s six pillars, could increase rail capacity by 30 per cent.
Furthermore, better capacity conditions could also be ensured via works that will target improving and increasing the number of transfer points, switches and signalling points. Last but not least comes the modernisation of several train stations, while at the same time, DB will attempt to ensure that the backlog of older investments, still not carried out, will be dealt with.
Upgrading diversion routes
As mentioned above, upgrading and renovating existing lines and building new ones will have a substantial impact on rail freight operations. That is because several routes will be closed for several months. To tackle this issue, DB says that it has developed a “high-performance transport concept” in coordination with the affected companies that will target, among other things, the upgrade of alternative routes so that they become more efficient and able to carry increased traffic.
The general renovation of the highly stressed sections of the route will begin next year on the Riedbahn between Frankfurt/Main and Mannheim, while the Hamburg-Berlin and Emmerich-Oberhausen routes will follow in 2025. Below, you can find an analytical overview of the upcoming route upgrades and when they will take place.
2025: Hamburg–Berlin, Emmerich–Oberhausen.
2026: Hamburg–Hannover (subject to further decisions), Hagen–Wuppertal–Cologne, Troisdorf–Koblenz, Koblenz–Wiesbaden, Nuremberg–Regensburg, Obertraubling–Passau.
2027: Lübeck–Hamburg, Bremerhaven–Bremen, Lehrte–Berlin, Hamm–Düsseldorf–Cologne, Frankfurt/Main–Heidelberg, Munich–Rosenheim, Rosenheim–Salzburg.
2028: Bremen–Hamburg, Nordstemmen–Göttingen, Uelzen–Stendal, Stendal–Magdeburg, Hagen–Unna–Hamm, Cologne–Bonn–Koblenz, Koblenz–Mainz, Bebra–Fulda, Würzburg–Nuremberg.
2029: Hamburg–Hannover (subject to further decisions), Bremen/Rotenburg–Wunstorf, Lehrte–Gross-Gleidingen, Bebra–Erfurt, Aachen–Cologne, Forbach–Ludwigshafen, Stuttgart–Ulm (old line).
2030: Bremen-Osnabrück, Osnabrück–Münster, Münster–Recklinghausen, Minden–Wunstorf, Weddel–Magdeburg, Kassel–Friedberg, Würzburg–Ansbach–Treuchtlingen, Mannheim–Karlsruhe, Ulm–Augsburg.


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Climate crisis bigger than coronavirus for business leaders, says Ikea franchisee as stores begin to reopen
Flat-packed furniture behemoth Ikea has tentatively begun to reopen its doors around the world in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. But Jesper Brodin, CEO of franchisee Ingka Holdings, says the threat of a second outbreak is dwarfed by the issue of climate change. A strong sense of purpose, digital and sustainable innovation and leadership are key to future-proofing business, he believes
Pictures emerged last week of customers around the world flocking to flat-packed furniture retailer Ikea’s stores – queuing for hours, though in a socially distanced way, of course. The company, which has 374 stores across 30 markets, is taking a “step-by-step” approach to reopening in close collaboration with authorities and unions, says Jesper Brodin, chief executive officer of Ikea lobal franchisee Ingka Holdings. And results have been a surprise. Germany, for example, is at an all-time high in both visitation and sales. It’s not been the gradual return to market Brodin expected.
“It has been a surprise how quickly people came back to see us,” he says. “It’s been a ginormous task in terms of the operational aspects. We said we would try to be perfect in implementing the best of standards to make sure Ikea is a safe and good place to come.”
Brodin says the retailer has weathered the crisis well, thanks to its agility, values-based approach and adoption of digital technologies. Founded 75 years ago, it is guided by its vision to create a better everyday life for its customers, co-workers and the people who work at its suppliers, and by sharing what it does and speaking up for what it believes in so that it can be part of a positive change in society.
“During the COVID crisis one of the reasons we’ve been successful is the speed of having a values-based organisation. It is not steered from the top but by people unleashing activities and doing the right thing at the same time. That takes some confidence,” he says.
Ikea was able to benefit from taking quick decisions in China early on in the pandemic, which meant it was ahead of the game when it came to Europe and the US. Unsurprisingly, online sales were key, as has been the case for the survival of many retailers during the crisis. “Online took off stronger than we planned and imagined,” says Brodin.
But, contrary to many reports, this does not mean the death of the physical store, he adds. “Pre coronavirus we realised our former model holds great value. I believe stores will be strong tomorrow. People have told us they want to experience the physical IKEA range. They might come for meatballs but also for the instant gratification of picking something up.”
He warns, however, that the company cannot rest on its laurels. “Success is always a challenge when you want to develop. It can become the biggest sleeping pill. Our concept and past may not have all the answers for the future. How do you lead in a world where you bring profound legacy DNA and play on uniqueness yet allow yourself to explore?”
New ideas are fragile, Brodin says. It’s therefore important for businesses to encourage mistakes, become more resilient and become even stronger with regards to entrepreneurship. Ikea is building a culture of entrepreneurship with its 66,000 people. Last year it launched a co-creation platform where people can post problems and come up with potential solutions, some of which slowly turn into ideas. It has also started to partner with external companies, such as audio firm Sonos for a range integrating light and sound in an affordable way.
“It’s easy to shoot down new ideas through the glasses of experience. You need to make sure you finance ideation. The people who are able to turn ideas into something tangible will be most successful. And it’s good to be consciously naïve as, if you can see troubles down the road you probably wouldn’t explore new ideas.”Innovation and digital transformation are core to the retailer’s future, with areas like virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) being explored.“When on Tuesday evening you’ve put the kids to bed and are on the market for four chairs and a table, how do we show up? We are headed to a place where in a year or two we will provide a very strong environment, where you can access more support through VR and AR to make your life at home better.”
Which brings Brodin to climate change. He believes the future of business is in digital smart and sustainable offers. And, while the threat of a second outbreak of COVID-19 and further pandemics is serious, it is the climate crisis that needs to move to the top of the business agenda, he says.“There is the risk of a COVID-19 second wave and we are not in denial that this is the only pandemic we will see. But we know the scenarios better now and what action to take. What is more important is to address the climate crisis. It is here now and is an even bigger challenge. This is the decade we need to come together with thoughts and actions on how to turn the tide on climate.”
There are three reasons why companies need to take action to mitigate the climate crisis, he says. The first and third are commonplace tropes in business today: the steep increase in demand from co-workers and consumers to take action here, and the fact it is the right thing to do. But it is the middle point that Brodin thinks needs more consideration. “A lot of companies have got it wrong. They see climate work as a premium and additional investment. When we look at it in our studies, we see this is the new way to low cost. It’s a new way of designing the value chain for smartness. You must use your balance sheet to address your impact.”
For these reasons, Ingka has a target to get to climate positive by 2030 by addressing the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon impacts. Brodin concedes it will be difficult but says it already has examples of success. For example, stores with renewable energy have seen growth of 5% while carbon emissions are -4.3.“It’s important to believe, roll up your sleeves and make the right investments. It’s all about running the company for the long term to protect its future as well as doing what is right. It’s people and planet.”
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Scope 3 – All Other Indirect Emissions from activities of the organisation, occurring from sources that they do not own or control. These are usually the greatest share of the carbon footprint, covering emissions associated with business travel, procurement, waste and water.
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I love comfort food; there's no doubt about that. However, with making great comfort food, you find yourself either using old family recipes or trying out a bunch until you find the recipe that is perfectly comforting for you and your family.
I love a good beef stew - always have, always will. My favorite "classic" comfort foods are typically stews, roasts with lots of carrots and potatoes, chicken and dumplings, pot pies, etc... In my opinion slow cooked and in lots of flavorful juices is one of the best ways to eat carrots as I'm normally not a huge fan (unless they're cooked in somekind of sweet, sugary substance but that kind of defeats the whole "eating veggies" thing!) Ever since I made this recipe from Williams-Sonoma I've loved it, however I decided to tweak it some to suit it more to what I wanted that night. There wasn't a lot of variation made, however those adaptations made me LOVE, LOVE this recipe.
NEW Favorite Beef Stew
2 lb. boneless stewing beef, cut into 1-inch cubes
Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
3 Tbs. vegetable oil
1 large yellow onion, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 cup red wine (I used Cabernet)
3 Tbsp. flour
1 cup tomato sauce
14 oz. reduced sodium beef stock (one can)
4 carrots, peeled and cut into 1⁄2-inch pieces
1 1/2 c. diced frozen green beans
4 medium red potatoes, cut into 1⁄2-inch pieces
2 bay leaves
1-2 teaspoons dried thyme
- S&P Beef to taste while heating 1 tbsp. vegetable oil in dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add half of the seasoned beef to the dutch oven and cook until brown, about 3-4 minutes, use tongs to rotate and continue browning on the other sides, about 3-5 minutes total. Transfer the cooked beef to a bowl and add 1 tbsp. oil, repeating beef cooking steps with remaining beef.
- Reduce heat to medium and add last of the oil (1 tbsp.) Add onions, S&P and scrape up brown bits from the bottom of the pan. Cook about 5 minutes, or until onions are softened. Add garlic, stir and cook about another minute.
- Stir in flour and cook about 2 minutes. Add in wine, scrape bottom of pan and cook until flour is dissolved. Add in beef stock and tomato sauce, stirring to completely incorporate. Add bay leaves and thyme to taste and simmer a minute or two.
- Add beef, cut carrots and potatoes, stir tocombine, cover and simmer on low about 1 hour. About 10 minutes before planning to serve, add frozen greeen beans, combine and allow to heat through before serving.
Nutella is something that I love, but honestly don't really eat or bake with that often, always regretting that fact each time I eat something with Nutella. Well, I am vowing to change my ways - starting with these Cannolis! They're definitely not a traditional cannoli as the combination of cream cheese and whipped cream make them more like a cheesecake filling, or even mousse, but the cannoli shell makes them easy to grab and eat. No fork required - my kind of dessert!
Usually I prefer to make mini cannolis because sometimes full ones are just too rich for me, however any recipe could easily be adapted to a regular cannoli shell size (or mini size if the case may be). The combination of the cream cheese, whipped cream and Nutella definitely made these a rich bite-size dessert, that I think may become one of my go-to recipes when I need to make something quick and impressive.
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24 Mini Cannoli Shells
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
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This is a story I've been wanting to share for several years, in fact one of the reasons I decided to make the switch to more of a life blog versus a food blog. So bear with me here!
I have two children. I tried breastfeeding both of them, and was unsuccessful with both, for different reasons. One wouldn't latch. One my supply was too fast and plentiful. I tried a few things because I really really wanted to breastfeed, but it was stressing me out, so I looked in to other options, which is where I learned about exclusive pumping.
What is exclusive pumping (or EP)? It's when a mother expresses her milk to feed her child, rather than feeding "straight from the source". Prior to having Tyler, I knew very little about pumping, but I knew that since I planned to breastfeed and planned to work after maternity leave, I would need a pump. But that was about it. I remember the weekend before he was born sitting on my bed playing with the pump and thinking the manual was…
I'm from St. Louis. The home of Gooey Butter Cake. Many people think it's a Paula Deen creation, and how could you not when you see how much butter is in it, but you can't go in to a restaurant, bakery or grocery store without seeing gooey butter somewhere in St. Louis. We love it. What's not to love with butter, cream cheese, powdered sugar, oh my!
But, considering I've made it numerous times, I'm always up for a new variation. Nutella? Check! Cookies? Don't mind if I do! Pumpkin? Well of course! While talking to my mom about what to bring to a family function, she mentioned she saw a recipe for key lime gooey butter cake. Sold! I've never heard of the website she sent over to me, but it looked similar to the basics of every other recipe I've used for Gooey Butter Cake so I knew I wanted to give it a try!
One thing people may not realize is that Gooey Butter Cake is very easy to make. Just a few ingredients really! Just mix them, ba…

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captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: in a federal courtroom in washington, d.c., the alleged mastermind behind the 2012 attacks in benghazi, libya, heard more of the united states' case against him, as his lawyer insisted there's no evidence to support it. good evening, i'm judy woodruff. gwen ifill is away. also ahead this wednesday, with political turmoil in iraq, that nation's ethnic kurds look to separate their fate from baghdad and create an independent state. >> well there is no hope for us, and we don't want to stay within an iraq that has failed. >> ♪ on a mission to break all the rules ♪
>> woodruff: from outlaw to legend, willie nelson discusses his first album of self-written material in more than fifteen years. >> well i think i innately knew that music draws people together and that good music is liked by almost everybody, you know people are going to like, because you like it. >> woodruff: those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us.
>> supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: tropical storm arthur neared hurricane strength in the atlantic ocean today. by late in the day, it was centered roughly 200 miles south
of charleston, south carolina. it could skim the outer banks of north carolina tomorrow. a swath of about 200 miles of north carolina coast is now under a hurricane warning on this week that brings fourth of july vacationers. arthur is the first named storm of the atlantic season. a bipartisan government panel reported today the national security agency's internet surveillance is an effective
tool against terrorism. the "privacy and civil liberties oversight board," a group appointed by the president, said the so-called "prism" program, under a provision of the foreign intelligence surveillance act, "section 702," is constitutional. david medine chairs the board. >> overall the board has found that the information the program collects has been valuable and effective in protecting the national security and producing valuable foreign intelligence information. outside of this fundamental core, certain aspects of the section 702 program do raise privacy concerns and push the
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the line of constitutional reasonableness. >> woodruff: the panel's report on internet surveillance contrasted sharply with its earlier finding on phone data collection. it said that effort lacked a viable legal foundation and should be shut down. the federal department of homeland security is moving to increase security at overseas wairps direct flights to the united states. news accounts today said u.s. officials are concerned7umyç opd yemen are trying to create bombs to smuggle on to planes. the new security measures will take effect in the next few days. officials did not specify which airports are affected. israeli police and palestinian youths fought street battles in jerusalem today, as a new cycle of violence loomed the clashes were triggered by the murder overnight of a palestinian teen-ager. lindsey hilsum of independent television news reports from jerusalem.
>> reporter: the clashes began this morning after a 16-year-old palestinian boy was allegedly kidnapped by israeli youths in a van and his burnt body dumped in a forest in jewish west jerusalem. >> the air is acrid from the smoke of tires that the palestinian youths are burning as they throw stones at the israeli security forces. this seems to have been what some israelis call price tag, a revenge killing. extreme israelis, possibly settlers, taking revenge for the killing of the three jewish teenagers in the west bank. >> reporter: mohamed abu khadeir was outside the mosque when he was seized. the police have c.c.t.v. footage from a next door shop that apparently shows what happened. inside the family home, his relatives sit in shock, they say >> ( translated ): for three people they turned the world upside down.
but nobody cares about my son. >> reporter: last night a crowd of extremist israelis rampaged through the streets of jerusalem shouting death to the arabs. they attacked five arab men, two of whom ended up in hospital. this morning jewish settlers reportedly burnt a barn on a palestinian farm near nablus this morning. the graffiti in hebrew reads: price tag, jewish revenge. this afternoon they held the funeral of mohammed abu khadeir, a palestinian boy in the wrong place at the wrong time. the danger now is that someone will exact vengeance for his killing and the cycle of revenge will never end. >> woodruff: in washington, the white house called the killing of the palestinian boy a despicable act. it urged both sides to tamp down calls for revenge. >> woodruff: in eastern ukraine, government forces say they carried out more than 100 attacks on pro-russian rebels. the offensive began yesterday
after country's leaders let a cease-fire lapse. meanwhile, foreign ministers from france, ukraine, germany and russia met in berlin. german chancellor angela merkel warned that moscow may face additional sanctions. >> ( translated ): regarding sanctions against russia, we have so far reached level two and we cannot rule out having to go further. we discussed this as well with the ukrainian president and many issues will be further discussed in connection with this issue. but no decision has been made yet. >> woodruff: later, the ministers agreed on a series of steps leading toward a possible resumption of the cease-fire. police in hong kong forcibly removed hundreds of sit-in protesters in the city's financial district today. officers moved in around 3:00 a.m. after issuing a series of warnings to demonstrators who locked arms with each other. more than 500 were arrested. the protesters had staged an overnight sit-in, following yesterday's mass march demanding elections free from mainland
china's control. >> woodruff: on wall street today, the dow jones industrial average gained 20 points to close at another record high, 16,976. the s-and-p 500 added one point to finish at 1,974, also a new high. and the nasdaq fell about a point, to 4,457. still to come on the newshour: the alleged mastermind behind the 2012 benghazi attacks appears in court; iraqi kurds contemplate independence from baghdad; heroics and heartbreak for the u.s. at the world cup; how the civil rights act changed the nation; alleged fraud halts progress in afghan elections; and country legend willie nelson's new album. >> woodruff: the militia leader accused of involvement in the 2012 attack on an american
diplomatic compound in benghazi, libya, had his second day in an american federal court today. abu khattala was captured last month by the u.s. military. this past saturday he pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges. the attack resulted in the death of four americans including the u.s. ambassador to libya, christopher stevens. here to tell us more about this case and what happened today is new york times reporter michael schmidt who was in the court room. michael, welcome to the "newshour." tell us, what did you see? what did you hear? >> today was fairly uneventful. it started with ten minutes in the courtroom where they couldn't get the hearing device that mr. khatalla was supposed to wear to hear his translator to work. it was sort of embarrassing for the court. after this the government came in and laid out their case for why they think he should continue to be held. it was similar to papers they had filed last night in which they said he continued to plan
threats, i mean, plan thoughts against the united states in the past few months. and they said he had nowhere to go in the united states because he has no family here and he was likely to flee. after that his lawyer came up and said, look, we can't really question your contention that you want to hold him, but we do have some concerns about the case. you haven't really provided us with a lot of evidence to back up what you've said about my client, and from there the government came back and said, well, we gave you some stuff and we'll be giving you more over next few days. the judge order for him to remain in detention and that was it. >> woodruff: well, did the government provide any evidence linking khatalla to what happened? >> the government has yet to provide any evidence that he was involved in the killings. that has not happened yet. what the government has said is it has videotape and eyewitness accounts that show that he was at the mission when they went back there after the first fires were set, and then he was with other of his militia members at
one of their training camps before theyñ)%; annex and attacked that and killed two more americans. they have not given specific information, though, on his role in any of the violence. >> woodruff: but you're saying they're suggesting they have that kind of evidence or north? >> they're suggesting they have that. the thing here is they have not played all their cards yet. they have only indicted him on one count. that's a count of conspiring, a terrorist conspiracy charge. they haven't gone as far as the murder charges yet because they're still working on that evidence and they're looking at what he said and what other stuff that they may have. so they... we have not seen everything yet. we've only seen a little. >> woodruff: as you just reported, his lawyer, the publicly appointed or the government-appointed public defender challenged them on the evidence. is this going to be the defense? or is this just the early, i guess, posturing? >> this is still very early. this is sort of posturing. the government, i find it hard
to bereave the government would have gone all the way over to libya and used the defense department to do that without having a lot of evidence to base their case on and too bring him all the way back here. i think what the lawyer's trying say, he's trying to push the government as far as she can to learn as much as she can as possible. it's undleer -- unclear what her client told her. as she said today, "i have to look at press reports to learn what the government knows." >> woodruff: michael, tell us, how did khatalla look? how did he behave? >> he's very calm. there have been no outbursts. he's said very little. first day he had black sweatshirt and sweatpants. it was not a typical uniform by someone in jail. today he was wearing a green jumpsuit that said prisoner on the back in white lettering. >> woodruff: is very much known, i'm sorry if you're having trouble with your ear
piece, but is very much known about what happened to him on navy ship where he was held while they were bringing him to the u.s.? >> what we do know is he spoke with the interrogators. there he spoke with them as part of a sort of intelligence-gatherrering discussion. they were trying to question him under a public safety exemption that allowed them to ask him what did he know about planned attacks or about past attacks or about anything that may sort of impact public safety. beyond, that we know that he's cooperated with them. he's told them what he[bhíñq+÷c happened on that day, but what we don't know is whether he's told them anything about his role in it. we don't believe he's incriminated himself. >> woodruff: just quickly finally, michael, what happens next? >> well, he's scheduled to appear before a judge next week, and this is the judge who will be handling the case. the first two judges he's seen have just been judges he's give an plea to and who have discussed his detention.
next week it's the judge who is going to have the actual case. could the jung set date for a trial? possibly. but probably there will be more discussion tact evidence in the case, about the indictment, about what else the government may have. so we really won't get to sort of that meaty stuff until then. >> woodruff: all right. michael schmidt with "the new york times." we thank u. >> thanks. >> woodruff: now to the crisis in iraq, where dozens more were killed today. here in washington, kurdish leaders are making their case for independence, despite pleas from the obama administration to keep iraq intact. chief foreign affairs correspondent margaret warner reports. >> warner: the city of tikrit has echoed with gunfire this week, as iraqi troops battle to regain control from sunni militants of the "islamic
state," or i.s.i.l. today, 100 miles away, in baghdad, prime minister nouri al-maliki warned iraq's neighbors that the fighting there is just a sample of what could face them too. >> ( translated ): whether it's al-qaida or i.s.i.l., their transformation to a caliphate is a message to all states in the region that you are inside the red circle now. i.s.i.l. talked about the state of iraq and the levant and now talks about a caliphate. no one in iraq or any neighboring country will be safe from these plans. >> warner: maliki voiced hope that iraq's parliament will agree on a new unity government next week. but the shiite political leader gave no indication he'd bow to pressure from sunnis and kurds to step down. iraqi kurds have enjoyed autonomy in northeastern iraq since the 1991 gulf war. millions of other kurds live in parts of iran, turkey, and syria. now, iraq's kurds are taking advantage of baghdad's battle with the insurgents. on june 12th, they took control of the oil-rich city of kirkuk,
a long-running point of dispute with baghdad. oil deposits that would eliminate any need for funding from iraq's central government. at the same time, their "peshmerga" militia blocked encroachments by i.s.i.l. fighters, and fortified new frontlines. and, kurdish leaders are vowing to hold a vote on independence, a move prime minister maliki denounced today. >> ( translated ): nobody has the right to take advantage of the current situation. saying we are going to hold a referendum on establishing an independent kurdish state. i tell the kurdish people now that this will hurt you and it will send the region into a disarray that you will not be able to get out of. >> reporter: the u.s. is also concerned. secretary of state john kerry met in erbil last week with kurdish president massoud barzani last week, urging him to works things out with baghdad. today, in washington, kerry received other kurdish leaders, including falah mustafa bakir, foreign relations chief for kurdish regional government. i spoke with bakir this morning. prime minister bakir, thank you for joining us. >> thank you.
>> we have seen the collapse of the iraqi army up in the northern part of the country, in the face both the sunni militants from the islamic state of iraq and your own kurdish fighters who seized all this territory up there, including kirkuk. are we simply seeing the collapse of the iraqi state? >> iraq as state did not exist that much. iraq is an artificial state. what's built on old foundations will not be able to survive. we as kurds have suffered a lot. we pay the price of keeping the balance between sunnis and shias in iraq. time has come in order to correct that critical mistake. we're not ready to pay more prices for the instability of that area. the iraqi army collapsed because it was built or rebuilt on old foundations. it was not an army in order to protect the country and the people of the country. it was used against the kurds when we had political differences with baghdad.
therefore we lost hope in the new iraq. this was not the iraq that we have contributed so positively, and this was not the iraq that the americans have sacrificed their lives for. >> warner: so this additional territory the kurds have taken, you're building fortifications around it now, this is for good? >> we have not taken new territory. it was our territory that was taken by others. so we have waited for ten years in order to implement a three-stage process of normal ization. indeed, we have been betrayed. we did not find partner, so therefore, today we proved in to protect the people of theseqn areas, regardless of their national, ethnic and religious backgrounds. we said that it's the people of these areas in a referendum, they will decide whether they want to be part of kurdistan or not. we're not --
>> when president barzani says there will be referendum and independence, that's for certain, and if, so how soon? >> we have done everything we can to help the political process succeed, but it did not succeed. people are not ready for sharing the power and wealth. people are ready only for monopolization of power, for denying others power. therefore we are determined to go ahead with the referendum. it's the people of kurdistan who would determine their own future, and we hope the international community will understand our position. in the last decade or so, we have introduced a successful government. we are land of stability. we are proud of our cultural tolerance and peaceful coexistence. >> is that your message to the administration coming here, that essentially you have not left iraq, iraq left you, baghdad left you, and now the kurds are going their own way? >> not only baghdad left us, baghdad betrayed us. therefore we are working on two paths. one path to help the political process in baghdad. if there were any hope for it to succeed, otherwise we have to go
our own way for the people of kurdistan to determine that. we hope that the u.s. administration understands our position, looks at kurdistan for what it stands for. we have been the most loyal and faithful friend and ally of the united states. we stand for the same values that you stand for -- freedom, democracy, human rights, women's rights. we are proud of our history. >> warner: is there anything at this point that could keep kurdistan within iraq? >> well, there is no hope for us. we don't want to stay with baghdad that has failed. we are not ready to repeat jñi baghdad does not accept us. baghdad does not want us as partners. baghdad doesn't want to share the power and wealth. and there's nothing in it for us. >> warner: how has this message that you've already conveyed publicly and privately gone over with the obama administration? >> not very positively.
we hoped there would be a better reception. we are friends with the united states. we want it to be a long-term relationship, but we want it to be a two-way relationship. >> warner: what is the administration saying to you? >> they say, let's fix baghdad, but the kurds have suffered a lot. we the people of kurdistan have challenged saddam hussein. chemical gas was used against us. our people need and deserve a better future, and we hope that the u.s. understands this position. >> warner: have you been planning this all along, as many people thought, or has the sudden advance of this sunni militant group i.s.i.l., did it create an opportunity that suddenly the kurds could exploit? >> not really. all the way through we have been thinking about that. we wanted to have an independent state. but the reality on the ground was difficult. the neighborhood is a difficult one. and the circumstances are such, but we have never given up on our identity. >> warner: but then the sudden
advance of i.s.i.l. essentially upended the chess board, and you think now the world is more ready to see this situation from the kurds' point of view? >> after the events on the 9th of june when i.s.i.l. came and occupied new territory, we woke up in the morning and we have got a new neighbor, a new state emerged next to us, and we have 1,055 kilometers of that new neighbor, which is the islamic state, only 15 kilometers with the rest of iraq. this is a new reality. we're determined to fight terrorism, and kurdistan is the only state that has secured part of iraq. but we need the support of the united states and the international community to strengthen our democratic institutions and to be able to fight the terrorists. >> warner: do you feel you need a green light from the administration to go forward with this? >> we hope that the u.s. administration and the u.s. public understands as a friend and ally, as a people who are looking to the west, as a people
who want to strengthen our democratic institutions would stand by us. >> warner: but if the administration said to you,, no now is not the time, would you still go ahead with independence? >> with all due respect, it's the people of kurdistan who decide, and, yes, we will go ahead. >> warner: mr. minister, thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: america's exciting run in the world cup may be over, but these past two weeks have generated a new level of interest in the future of the u.s. team, and the sport itself. almost 22 million people in the united states watched the match against belgum yesterday, strong numbers and particularly so on a work day, higher than the average ratings for the nba finals or the world series. and today there's still plenty of talk about what lies ahead. jeffrey brown has more. >> brown: from sea to shining sea yesterday, americans
embraced the role of "soccer nation." >> i believe that we will win. i believe that we will win. i believe that we will win. >> brown: even president obama joined in the fun,taking in the match with a group of white house staffers. >> go, go, go! whoa, that's a foul!" >> brown: the u.s. squad forced belgium into extra time, before falling, 2 to 1, despite the heroics of american goal keeper tim howard, who had a world cup record 16 saves. howard spoke this morning on a.b.c. >> our heads are high because we couldn't have given anymore. we played four phenomenal games and last night everybody gave everything they had and sometimes you don't win but um we're proud of ourselves. >> brown: head coach jurgen klinsmann, speaking just after the match, saw a big upside for american soccer. >> we now know that we can play eye to eye with the big nations. the teams that we faced here are pretty much everyone's favorites to win the world cup. >> brown: as for the fans, the
outcome produced a full spectrum of reactions, some serious, some less so. >> i feel that we played our hearts out, i think we did an amazing job. i look forward to the future, i can't wait, i cannot wait. >> i'm boycotting belgian waffles, chocolates, stella artois, everything belgian is boycotted in brooklyn! >> brown: u.s. soccer praised the fans, in a message to more than one million twitter followers. it read: thank you for your support, passion and pride, the whole world cup. in the meantime, the competition continues friday with two matches featuring world cup powers: germany v.s. france and colombia against host-nation brazil. >> brown: with me now is a woman who knows something about goal- keeping and world cup madness: briana scurry tended goal for the 1999 american team that won the women's world cup after she made a crucial save. she's also a two-time gold medla winner in the olympics as part of the u.s. team. she retired in 2010 after an illustrious career, but also
after suffering a severe head injury. welcome to you. >> thanks for having me. >> brown: i had to laugh. tim howard told an interviewer, with so many shots coming at him, it began to feel like the clock was broken. do you know the feeling? >> yes. i'm sure his minutes seemed like an eternity. tim had fantastic game yesterday. you couldn't have asked more from him. being a goalkeeper myself, i understand what it feels like. can we get to the end of the game already? you're playing a great game, which he did do, and he just wanted his team to be able to move forward in the tournament, unfortunately, they weren't able to do that. >> i'm sure this is different for everybody, but i wonder your experience, watching him, when you're in goal like that and shots just÷ ke. thinking, oh, my goodness, it's one of those days? they just won't stop. or are you just laser focused, you're not even aware of how many shots you saved. >> it's interesting because belgium was coming at him wave after wave after wave.
in watching tim's positioning, he was dialed inch he was a warrior. >> brown: when you say "positioning," explain what you mean. >> his angle in the goal compared to where the person was with the ball. most of the time you couldn't get the ball past him because his angle play was so spectacular. that's because he was focused. he knew he might have to take the weight of the team on his shoulders. at this point in the tournament when it's round robin, it's one thing, but in the knock-out phase, a goalkeeper can carry team through. >> brown: that's the key to goaltending, positioning? >> yes, it's always been the key. it doesn't matter how it looks, as long as it's effective. he was more than effective yesterday. >> brown: so it was a loss, but it's being seen as a great... this whole experience is being seen as great victory for american soccer. now, what has to happen to maintain that, you know to, make it more than just a once every four years experience? >> this world cup was one of the
first that had social media just all over it. i think that was the one thing that got people more involved, feeling like they were part of team u.s.a., was the social media. the players were very blue collar, very american, very much roll up your sleeves and get it done. they may not have been the best team on the pitch, but they sure worked hard. i think a lot of americans could relate to that. now moving forward, we've got a new fan base bubbling up. now u.s. soccer and all its entities need to take that momentum forward and grow the game. >> brown: and that can happen through the professional game here, through young people? you think that can be maintained? >> i definitely think it can be maintained. we have a great momentum right now. if anything in soccer works, it works for everybody. so whether it's the men's team doing well or the women's team doing well. this event really put soccer into the mainstream. so we need to grab on to that momentum and keep going forward with it. >> brown: even while
celebrating what's happened, you're also trying to raise awareness of a problem in this sport, which is head injuries, not just for this sport,-hief, for many sports. it's something you experienced firsthand. first, how big a problem is it with this sport, what should people know? >> well, people should know that concussion and female soccer is the second highest rate of concussions. so it's alarming. it's alarming. our youth players, female in particular, are having more concussions reported than just about any other sport. now with the world cup being as successful as it's been there are going to be more kids playing. so youth safety with concussions is even more important now than before because you're going to have more youth wanting to play and we need to keep our kids safe. >> your own experience came in 2010. it was not what we think of as the headers, which is probably where we think of concussion, head to head. yours was what, a knee to your head? >> right. i was playing goal for my team,
the washington freedom. we were playing philadelphia. i was coming out for a routine ball. i was going to pick it up and the forward crashed her knee into my head. unfortunately with concussion, it's often not head to ball. it's head to head, head to knee, head to post. the side impacts are the worst impacts. unfortunately, in april that's what happened to me. 2010. it changed my life. it hadn't been the same since. >> brown: how much awareness is there even to this day? in the world cup there was at least one incident that got a lot of attention. a player from uruguay was knocked cold. he came back and played. >> that was unfortunate situation. fifa didn't handle that properly that. uruguayan player was knocked out for 10 to 15 minutes, and they let him decide whether or not he should continue play. at that point you take that decision out of the player's hands. it should have been clear to the
medical staff and the officials that that player should have been done for the rest of that game because there is no reason to risk it. >> brown: so when that happen, how did it change your life? >> i had many different symptoms that i suffered through, and i continue to deal with. one was really difficult headaches, intense headaches. i had balance issues, problems with memory, concentration, learn, retrieving information. i had a basket of symptoms. it took me three years to even get to the right doctor to be able to diagnose what i had going on and to be able to get me on the road to recovery. >> brown: let me ask you briefly for now because we'll continue our conversation online, but what do you think should be done? is it an equipment problem? is it stopping headers, for example? is it a training issue? what should be done in. >> the solution with concussion awareness is multifaceted. there are things that can be done on the prevention side. one of those things that i am in favor of is not teaching kids
how to head until they're 13, 14 years old. there niece need for an eight-year-old to be heading the ball. we know that is true. then after the concussion happens, knowing what to look for as a player, as a coach, as a parent, understanding the differences in your child and your player and knowing that, you know what, we might need to take this player out and be safe and get them back in when they're ready. >> all right. we will continue this conversation. i'm going to invite our audience to join us later online. but for now, briana scurry, thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >> woodruff: today marks 50 years since president lyndon johnson signed the landmark civil rights act into law, outlawing discrimination based on race, ethnicity and sex. gwen talked recently with author todd purdum on capitol hill to discuss his new book, "an idea whose time has come: two
presidents, two parties, and the battle for the civil rights act of 1964," a detailed back-story of how the legislation came to be. >> ifill: todd purdum, author of "an idea whose time has come." thank you so much. one of the interesting things about this book i find is that as we sit here on capitol hill, there are so many people who most folks have never heard of, who really were the force behind the civil rights act >> no, absolutely. i mean one of them worked here in this building in the judiciary committee hearing room, congressman bill mccolloch from ohio who was the ranking republican on the judiciary committee. conservative from west central ohio, his district is represented today by john boehner. and he was just as conservative as john boehner in most ways, but, he was a fierce supporter of civil rights. his ancestors had been abolitionists before the civil war, and as a young man out of law school at ohio state he's gone to practice down in jacksonville florida and was appalled by jim crow segregation, and made it his
business to become a strong supporter of federal civil rights legislation. >> ifill: it was easy to look at the way things happen on capitol hill now and the way they happened then, and you have to think to yourself, where does a bill mccolloch get the room to run, to be that kind of advocate? >> yeah i mean he had a population in his district that was 2.7% black, but he had something else, which was the republican party in those days still took very seriously its legacy as the party of lincoln and the party of civil rights. and remember that for most of the 20th century, to the degree that either party was paying attention to civil rights, it really was the republicans. most black people in the south were republicans. so mccolloch made a deal with the kennedy administration when he proposed the bill. he said, "if you promise not to water this down in the senate, as had been the usual practice, and if you promise to give us republicans equal credit going into next year's presidential election, i'll bring along my republican caucus. and that's just what happened. but could you imagine that happening today? one party removing the single most contentious domestic issue, as a political issue, and working cooperatively? >> ifill: republicans actually, a greater percentage of republicans in the end in the senate voted for it than
democrats. >> by far, because the senate democrats were totally divided on the question of civil rights, the southerners, 18 southerners lockstep in unison against any change. and if it weren't for the republican leader everett dirksen of illinois and his colleagues, they could never have achieved cloture and passed the bill. >> ifill: bill mccolloch's partner in all of this was a democrat who was very much unlike him, he was from an urban area, emanuel celler from new york. >> yep, from brooklyn, he was a immigration lawyer, he was a staunch defender of liberalism in all its disguises. he'd been in congress for already by this point something, more than 40 years. and he and mccolloch were polar opposites in many ways but they were close friends, and they and their wives socialized together. so while mccolloch was trying to work with the kennedy administration, manny celler was having to deal with the civil rights coalition and the advocacy groups who wanted the strongest possible bill. and in the fall of 1963 they came to kind of a clash because the administration was afraid that the bill would be so loaded up with a christmas tree of items that it couldn't pass, and they had to work to work a compromise.
>> ifill: in the popular retelling, lyndon johnson gets a huge amount of credit, which, a great deal of which he deserves, in getting this bill through the house and the senate just by sheer force of will. you describe him in the book as a riddle, sprawling riddle wrapped in an enigma. i love that term. so what was it about lyndon johnson that deserved the credit for getting this through, and how much of the credit did he not deserve? >> well the credit he deserves is being fiercely in favor of it, and never compromising, never weakening the bill. after all, his reputation was as a master wheeler-dealer, who in 1957 and 1960 had watered down the civil rights bill so that it could pass the senate. but in this case he said, we're gonna pass the bill the kennedy administration had, it's gonna be a strong bill, i'm gonna sort of make my bona fides on civil rights and there's not gonna be any doubt about it. he never once wiggled. but the other thing that i think is quite admirable and against the popular image, he had to restrain himself, he had to hold himself in check. he knew that he couldn't go in and micro-manage the process in the senate because his former colleagues would resent him. so even though he resisted it
and he was chomping at the bit that the pace that hubert humphrey the floor leader and mike mansfield the majority leader were setting, he let them have their day, and they prevailed. >> ifill: you tell a story about, some point during the debate there was a black man in the gallery who was watching this as a citizen, what happened to him? >> well he said, this is crazy, you know, how can you be making, there's not a single black person on the floor and you're talking about 10% of the population here. how can you be doing this? he was taken off to washington hospital for mental observation, but it was a very reasonable statement to have made. >> ifill: it was a reasonable point. but there were a lot of african- americans, civil rights activists, clarence mitchell among them, who were basically in the gallery watching. >> all the time. all the time. there were five black members of congress, but we forget people like clarence mitchell, who was the chief n.a.a.c.p. lobbyist in washington. he was such a constant presence in the corridors of this building and the capitol that he was known as the 101st senator. and he was there day and night; in fact, he and his colleague joe rauh who was with the leadership conference on civil rights, when the bill was about ready to pass the house, they were in the gallery and they got
a frantic call from the white house operator that the president's trying to find them, wanting to know what they're going to do about the senate. before it's even passed the house. >> ifill: before it even passed the house. it's interesting because when you look back on it now, there were all these pressures coming from all these different angles, but in the end was it a legislative victory, was it a moral victory, what was really driving people to what we, to the outcome? >> well that's a great question. and i think at the end of the day you have to say it was a moral victory, because it wasn't just the insiders here on capitol hill who were doing it, there was a massive grassroots coalition of church groups, interfaith groups of all kinds, not just dr. king and the s.e.l.c. and the marchers on washington, but people in their communities day after day lobbying their members, knowing that you know, this person was a catholic and that person was a methodist and you should bring to bear, and it was really president kennedy in his speech proposing the bill who said: we face primarily a moral issue. it's as old as the scriptures and as clear as the american constitution. and at the end of the day, even the southerners said you couldn't fight the golden rule. you couldn't fight do unto others as you'd have them do unto you, it's the most basic
idea of fairness. >> ifill: fifty years later, it's hard to remember why people objected to what seems to be a given now, equal rights, and a level playing field, which is how johnson put it. but at the time, this was an argument which was familiar to us now, which is an argument against government expansion, and government expansion over basic people's control. >> this was gonna be a government takeover, this was gonna be a usurpation of private property rights, this was gonna tell businessmen who they had to serve and who they, it's so much like the arguments that were made against the affordable care act, that you can't force people to buy insurance, that's un- american, that's, it's gonna destroy the constitution, it's gonna create an army of snoops from washington, it's gonna, and it's very, that part of the argument that was in fact sounded very familiar to me as i was doing my research and it occurred to me there's probably not any nasty email that could ever cross president obama's desk that would too much surprise john kennedy or lyndon johnson in terms of the kind of interpretive mail they got.
>> ifill: as you were working on this book and you looked back in that 50-year span, did you, and you spend a lot of time in washington covering the issues of the day, do you feel like washington has grown in that time, or did it stop? did its ability to do big things end then? >> it seems that the poignant part of this story is that this and the voting rights act are two of the last greatest achievements congress managed to do. and in some ways the coalition that brought these bills into being began to splinter as the 60's wore on, and debates grew up about affirmative action and busing and vietnam, dr. king and lyndon johnson were essentially estranged at the time of his death because of vietnam. so the paradox for me is that 50 years ago the country was every bit as divided as it is now, probably more divided. but the congress still managed to work together. now, congress is much more divided than the country as a whole, partly because the districts are redder and redder and bluer and bluer, and people are worried not about losing in november but getting a primary from the right or the left. so i do worry that we've lost something essential that we really depended on 50 years ago.
and just as we seem awfully lucky to have had the particular cast of characters we did at the time of the founding, it seems to me that 50 years ago we were pretty lucky to have that cast of characters too. >> ifill: todd purdum, the author of "an idea whose time has come: two presidents, two parties, and a battle for the civil rights act of 1964. thank you so much. >> thank you so much for having me. >> woodruff: uncertainty still reigns in afghanistan over who will be the country's next leader, weeks after a presidential runoff election. preliminary results had been scheduled to be released today but were delayed after continued allegations of fraud. n.p.r. reporter sean carberry has been covering the story from kabul. i spoke with him a short time ago. sean, thank you very much for talking with us. first of all, fill us in on what's happened today. happen today was the election
commission didn't release the preliminary results from the run-off election. what they did announce is that they're conducting an audit of about 1,900 ballot boxes, which consistent of roughly a million plus ballots that they're reviewing. this audit was triggered by a determination that any ballot box containing more than 599 ballots, although the maximum is 600, will be audited to make sure there was no fraud. and this comes as a result of persistent calls by candidate abdullah abdullah, who has said from the moment the polls closed in the run-off election, that there was widespread fraud against him. he's been pushing aggressively for measures such as this to conduct audits and evaluate the vote. >> woodruff: we know abdullah has been calling on this for several days. why did election officials finally agree to go ahead and have this recount? >> he has been. and it got to a point where he's been releasing supposedly audio
evidence, recordings of elections officials, other officials who were allegedly involved in coordinating fraud for the opponent. so there's been a building pressure from the abdullah camp. it got to be point that the united nations has stepped in and has been doing behind-the-scenes negotiations with the campaigns and with the elections commission to try to find a way forward where abdullah will eventually accept the results that are determined by the commission, whether or not the results show he won or asher afghani won. >> woodruff: so is abdullah satisfied with the procedure at this point? >> he's satisfied with this step. he's sent a letter to the election commission with a number of demands, with a number of conditions for him to accept the outcome. this is one step. it's start. he wants to see a number of other audits. he wants to see a number over measures take on the determine
whether there was fraud and to remove fraudulent ballots. he says ultimately if it gets to a point where the fraud has been excised from the vote count, he will accept the outcome. >>u >> woodruff: what about his opponent, asher afghani, who as you point out, had almost a million votes more in the run-off? >> right, asher afghani has basically been taking the high road since the vote. he's been saying they won the election, they ran a better mobilization campaign before the run-off, they turned out more people, they won this fair and square. there is not widespread fraud on his behalf. he's been calling on abdullah to honor the election commission process and procedure. he's been critical of abdullah's pressure from outside the system and his withdrawal from the system. so he's basically convinced that the numbers he's seeing show that he is going to be the winner of this election. >> woodruff: so will afghani
abide by this recount? >> he is grudgingly. he sent out a press release today saying they must honor the time frame and respect the afghan people by giving them the results. today his campaign softened a bit and said they are concerned with the ultimate transparency of the outcome. again, they believe there's no fraud on their we half, so they are accepting this, but they're still continuing to put pressure on abdullah and the election commission to adhere to the time lines and the procedures set out by afghan law. >> woodruff: finally, sean, how long is all this supposed to take before we know the results? >> the final results are supposed to come out on july 22nd. after these preliminary results come out, which are now scheduled for monday, there's another appeal period, another fraud evaluation period, and final results are scheduled for july 22nd. afghan officials say this delay in the preliminary results will not affect the timing of the release of the final results. >> woodruff: npr's sean
carberry in kabul, thank you very much. >> you're welcome, judy. >> woodruff: finally tonight: the continuing musical saga of the great willie nelson. jeff is back with our profile. ♪ i'm making music with my friends. and i can't wait to get on the road again ♪ >> brown: he's 81 years old, hair still long, though no longer all red, more legend these days than outlaw, but still very much on the road. ♪ and i can't wait to get on the road ♪ >> everybody say it right here. >> brown: willie nelson has just released a new album entitled "band of brothers," first album in years to feature primarily his own original material. at a recent concert in columbia, maryland, i asked him tact burst
of songwriting. >> some days you write it. some days you don't. you learn to live with that. roger miller said one time the well goes try and you have to wait until it fills up again. >> brown: you know what makes a good song after all these years of writing? >> i think i do. brown yeah? indeed, nelson has been writing songs and hits for five decades. ♪ crazy for feeling so lonely >> brown: "crazy" made famous by patsy cline in 1961, "always on my mind" in 1982 and dozens of others from more than 100 albums. all the while he's performed around the world, long ago becoming one of music's best-known faces and voices. ♪ time just slips away all this began in the tiny town of abbott, texas, a childhood in which he and his sister bobbi, who still performs with him on peian know, were raids by their grandparents. he wrote about those beginnings in his 2012 memoir entitled "in
pure willie fashion: light me up and smoke me when i die." i read in your last memoir you started writing poetry as a kid. >> as i kid before i could play guitar, i was writing poems. once i figured out a couple cords on the guitar, i started putting melodies to my poems. nobody ever told me i couldn't, so i went ahead and done it. >> brown: you knew the words first? >> usually, yeah. usually something is said, and then the melodies are out there. >> brown: in that memoir you write about working in the fields picking cotton in 100-degree-plus weather and thinking, maybe playing the guitar would be a better way of making a living. >> i would see these cadillacs drive by on the highway with the air conditioner and all, that and i would get a little bit jealous. rion brown yeah? you remember that feeling? >> heck yeah.
>> brown: are you surprised these years later that it worked out? >> no, i'm a little surprised at how well it worked out. ♪ a band of brothers and sisters ♪ on a mission to break all the rules ♪ >> brown: not only has it worked out, but it seems to have done so on nelson's terms. he had success as a songwriter in nashville in the '60s, went from his new base in austin, texas, he helped create a new sound for country music dubbed "outlaw country." ♪ whiskey river take my mind he appeared first "austin city limits" program on pbs 40 years ago and in the '80s was part of an all-star collaboration with johnny cash, whalen jennings andxdf)l chris mcgrathñ stoferson -- chris mcgrath
kris kristofer son. he also reached new audiences with recordings of american standards. >> i innately knew that music draws people together and that good music is liked by almost everybody. i don't know anybody who doesn't like star dust, moonlight in vermont, crazy arms or your cheating heart. there are just certain sounds, music, that sort of you know people are going to like it. you like it and you try it out on an audience and sure enough they like it, too. >> brown: you come across in song as calm, gentle. i'm a little surprised that i read in your memoir where you talked about the rage that has been there at times and that drinking somehow pushed that and marijuana later kind of helped it, suppressed it >> well, i think there must be a
little bit of truth in high temper and red hair. >> brown: high temper and red hair. >> have you heard that? >> brown: i've heard that. >> i'm sort of living proof of that because i had flaming red hair and a high temper. and that's something that i've had to control and live with all the time. but at least i know what my problem is. >> brown: whatever you call it, even after all the awards and honors, there's clearly still a drive that comes out on stage. the guitar, as well worn as it's owner, named "trigger." ♪ i can be old and i can be still ♪. >> brown: the unique phrasing has made nelson's singing so familiar to millions. behind all this, it turns out, is a great deal of attention to keeping in shape. nelson has a black belt in karate and another in korean
mixed martial arts. while on tour, he told me, he rides a bike, works out with a punching bag, takes walks and that's how he can do this into his 80s. >> really i thinkq/ < exercise that i do is singing for an hour and a half out on the stage because i use the lung, the biggest muss until your body, and i use it continually. i kind of watch myself and i kind of feel how that singing is helping me as i do it physically. >> brown: after a show do you feel better? >> i feel much better some does my sister bobbi and the members of the band. >> brown: so you think being on the road is keeping you healthy? >> you have to be a professional athlete to do it. >> brown: a professional athlete maybe, but somewhere in every tour he decides at least for the moment he's had enough. he wrote abot it in a new song
entitled "the wall." ♪ i hit the wall >> that really happens to you along the way, but i enjoy playing music and then i get back to it. >> brown: what happens when you haven't played for too long? >> you get bored being home. you're used to coming out and doing it. it is an addiction, no doubt about it, but it's one of the good one, i think. >> brown: not only the performing, but the songwriting continues. nelson has already announced that another album of new material will come out later this year. ♪ you can't tell me what to do you can't tell me what to do ♪ >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day. a federal magistrate refused to release libyan militant ahmed abu khattala from custody, pending his trial in the 2012 benghazi attacks. tropical storm arthur neared
hurricane strength as it headed toward the outer banks of north carolina, where some areas were ordered to evacuate. and a government oversight board found the national security agency's internet surveillance is an effective tool against terrorism. on the newshour online right now, scientists in maryland want to know everything about a six- millimeter see-through fish because of what their brains might be able to tell us about our own. see how they peer into the minds of zebrafish, on our science page. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. and that's the newshour for tonight. on thursday, what the latest jobs report says about the health of the u.s. economy. i'm judy woodruff, we'll see you on-line and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us here at the pbs newshour, thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by:
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. this is "nightly business report" with tyler mathisen and susie gharib. >> hiring sprees, private businesses add more jabs than expected last month increasing optimism about tomorrow's employment report. >> traders can find value in this record-setting market. >> side effects, are discount prescription drugs not purchased at pharmacies safe? the results of a six-month investigation. we have and and more tonight on "nightly business report" for this wednesday, july the 2nd. i'm bill griffeth in for tyler mathisen tonight. >> i'm susie gharib. good evening from me, as well. more americans are back on the job at the office, at school, at the mall and at construction


A House committee in Olympia has unanimously approved a bill that would help local fire agencies get a head start with aerial support when a wild land fire breaks out.
State Representative Mary Dye reminded lawmakers of the 2015 fire season that burned across 16-hundred square miles of Washington, destroying nearly 300 homes, businesses and outbuildings.
The Pomeroy Republican says quick response and the right resources could help prevent such catastrophic damage. She’s sponsored a bill that would create a pre-mobilization program to help local agencies pay for aerial support during the initial attack of a fire. “The idea of having a few buckets of water or retardant from a helicopter in the initial attack of a small wild land fire while the pumpers and the brush trucks arrive intuitively suggests that fewer fires will grow to need a state mobilization.”
In the summer of 2015, four U.S. Forest Service firefighters raced down a winding dirt road in a fire engine near Winthrop, trying to escape a wall of flames. Blinded by smoke, the engine went off the road. The sole survivor, Daniel Lyon Junior, got out and was immediately engulfed in flames, suffering third degree burns over 65 percent of his body. Lyon submitted his testimony to a House committee via video on behalf of Rep. Dye’s bill
Lyon’s fallen partners were Forest Service firefighters Andrew Zajac, 26, of Winthrop, Rick Wheeler, 31, of Wenatchee, and Tom Zbyszewski, 20, of Carlton.
Dye’s bill would allow local fire agencies to request reimbursement under the assistance program after first deployment of aircraft during a wildfire. The House Public Safety Committee gave unanimous approval Thursday and now the measure awaits being sent for a vote on the House floor.


The John Batchelor Show is an essential tool for understanding the new order in the 21st Century. The world is now facing a dangerous and fanatical enemy determined to destroy Western civilization on both political and military fronts. In this, the first great ideological battle of the new millennium, it is imperative to know the major players and the theaters in which they operate.
The John Batchelor Show features a multitude of distinctive elements. John’s themes cover every detail – from military battles, presidential campaigns, planetary exploration, and Hollywood politicos to his own international travel. John has broadcast from many corners of the world and in his program he calls out to all points, including New York, Jerusalem, Des Moines, Kazakhstan, Orlando, Manchester, Morocco, Boston, Taipei, Washington, and Baghdad.


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So….someone wants to acquire your company, and you’ve signed an LOI – now what? Will uncertainty in the market slow the process down (or speed it up?) Negotiating the sale of your business requires providing unfettered access to some of the most confidential aspects of your business – sharing that information can be scary.
As a seller, what will buyers be looking for in a post-pandemic world? How can you prepare? The challenges that are inevitable to this phase must be carefully navigated to avoid the collapse of the deal.
You Will Learn:
- Why so many acquisitions fail during the due diligence phase
- Areas that buyers will focus on that you may not have thought about
- Negotiation tactics used by savvy buyers and their acquisition teams
- Tactics to avoid major post-sale surprises.

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Free music at Central's Citibank Tower every Friday
Musica del Cuore
Interested in listening to some quality music free of charge? Some of the city's keenest amateur musicians and singers turn it on for audiences at Musica del Cuore (it's Italian for "Music of the Heart") every Friday from 6pm at Citibank Tower in Garden Road, Central. On any given week, you could be treated to soloists or chamber quartets, opera singers or jazz ensembles. So grab a brew from Pacific Coffee and a freshly baked pastry from Simplylife and sit back and enjoy the show.
For more information visit musicadelcuore.com.hk


text: Douglas Hannant shows his spring-summer collection which was inspired by his trip to the Canary Islands. The landscape which he saw there is shown in the collection's color palette of the next summer is mostly done in ivory, sunset pink, sand gold, orange-pink and island colors. You are about to see evening appropriate gala gowns, ruched tulle dresses, special event gowns made of high quality fabrics. All in all, the next spring is going to be stunning and luxe. I personally like the variety of lengths and styles: here are shown long designs as well as cocktail-appropriate lengths.

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VisualAnalysis Advanced Tutorials: Time History Analysis
This example will use the following frame to demonstrate a ground displacement time history analysis.
Modeling the Structure
Create the model shown in the above diagram. The beams and the columns are all W24x94 and the column bases are fixed. After you have modeled the basic geometry, select all the members and split them into 5 equal segments. We also need to add some extra mass to this frame before we set up the time history case. Where the interior columns cross the beams, we need to add translational mass of 3500 K to each of the four nodes. You can add mass to a node in the Modify Tab when nodes are selected. Similarly, specify a translational mass of 1750 K to the 4 nodes where the exterior columns cross the beams. Do this on both exterior columns for a total of 8 nodes.
Loading the Structure
If you started with the Auto-Generated project you may already have a number of service load cases created depending on your customization settings. For this tutorial we will not use these service cases and instead must create a new time history case. To do this, select Load | Load Case Manager, click the "Dynamic" tab, and click the Create Time History button. Name the case "Base Displacement". For time and Newmark Integration parameters, specify the number of time steps as 50, time increment as 0.05 sec, gamma as 0.5, beta as 0.25, and delta as 0. From the "Forcing function data source" drop list select "From file". We have not created a text file that contains our displacement field over time. To do this, open a text editor such as NotePad and enter the following information. (Note: that you can leave this dialog and VisualAnalysis open while you do this.)
0.0 0.0 0.0
1.0 5.0 0.0
2.0 -5.0 0.0
3.0 5.0 0.0
Note: The last displacement value we entered was 5in at t = 3 sec. Since we only have 50 steps with 0.05 sec increments our total time will only be 2.5 sec. The value at 2.5 sec will just be the linear interpolation between the value at 2.0 sec and 3.0 sec. Also note that the data as shown is tab delimited but can be spaced delimited or comma delimited as well.
Save the text file to a location you can locate again and call it BaseDisp.txt. You can now close NotePad (or similar) and go back to VisualAnalysis and the Forcing Function dialog. Click on the ellipsis  where it says "Click button to choose file." The dialog shown below will appear.
Clicking the ellipsis in this dialog will allow you to browse for the file containing your displacement information. Once the file is selected, VisualAnalysis will automatically try to determine the contents and read it in. If the drop down box does not change to the proper information type, you can manually select the proper information type using the drop down box in the upper right corner of the dialog and VisualAnalysis will then try to re-read the file. If the file still cannot be read, please refer to the User's Guide as there may be something wrong with the format of your text file. After your data file is read-in, click OK to close the Dynamic Time History Case dialog box. You have now successfully created a new time history case for your structure and we are now ready to proceed with the analysis. Close the Load Case Manager.
Analysis & Results
Now that we have our model created and the time history case defined, we should check our model for errors before setting the analysis options and actually analyzing the structure. Select Analyze | Check Model for Errors to make sure there are no problems. If something looks like a potential problem it will direct you to where to start looking. With a good model, we should set our analysis options. Go to Analyze | Advanced Analysis Options and make sure the Calculate dynamic mode shapes check box is unchecked. The results are displayed at each of the specified time steps showing the response of the structure at that particular instant. Now select Analyze | Analyze Now or click the lightning bolt button on the toolbar. You can view the results for each of the service cases by switching them in the drop down menu above the Result Views. Select the Base Displacement load case and expand the General section on the Filter tab of the Project Manager if it is not expanded already.
Deflected Shape due the Base Displacement at t=2.5 sec.
Similar to checking our model for errors before analyzing, we should also validate our analysis results before reporting and working with our results. From the Analyze menu, select Result Validation Checks. If no problems are found with your results, the dialog displayed below will be brought up.
Dialog Brought Up If No Problems Are Found
If problems are found, a report indicating potential problems and summarizing the basic checks VA has made to validate correct results will be brought up (See example report below.).
Example of Result Validation Check Report with Warning
The Result Validation Checks check translations in the model to verify that the small deflections assumed in a linear analysis are not violated. The validation checks also report the applied loads and reactions to make sure the statics balance. Lastly, the report also performs basic material strength checks. In the example report above, the displacements, loads, and P-Delta results check out. The maximum stress in at least one member exceeds the member's yield stress so a warning is presented.
There are a number of ways to view the results for time history load cases. One interesting way is to graphically plot nodes over the applied time. Select the top left node of the structure, right-click and choose Graph Node Results. This will bring up a plot that we will adjust to show only Displacement Y and Displacement X. On the Filter Tab of the Project Manager you should have six plots. Change the top two to Displacement X and Displacement Y and the remaining plots to No Results. The plot should look as follows when you are finished.
Displacement Y and Displacement X for the top left node (N5).
This plot shows the displacement in the X and Y directions for node N5 over the complete time the base displacement was applied. In a similar manner, you can plot the reaction forces for the supported base nodes as well.
There are three main reports specific to time history analyses; Time History Cases, Forcing Function Details, and Forcing Function Summary. Feel free to experiment with creating these reports. You can use many of the "static" reports normally available such as Member Internal Forces with time history cases as well. These reports are available at any of the various result time steps.
Additionally, you can animate your results to view the structure's response with time. Simply go the View | Animate Results View and choose the video compression if desired. When done, exit the animation window.


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News from CCSD15 Board of Education
December 13, 2019
Second Language Programs in District 15
District 15 welcomes and supports learners from all around the world in our learning community. As the 13th largest second language program in the state, our district provides eight program models to meet the linguistic and academic needs of students whose native language is other than English. The purpose of our programming is to accelerate English language literacy and value each child’s social and cultural knowledge while creating bilingual and bicultural individuals.
The Second Language Department presented an overview of its programs to the Board on Dec. 11. The Dec. 11 presentation includes:
- CCSD15 demographics
- Overview of academic program models and curriculum
- Community programs and enrichments
- 2019 ESL/Bilingual student performance
- Department vision and goals connected to D15 Strategic Plan
Two-Way Spanish Dual Language Student Recognition
Students from the two-way Spanish Dual Language program were recognized at the Dec. 11 Board meeting. Now in its second year in District 15, the program is in place at Winston Campus and Jane Addams Elementary Schools in kindergarten and first grades.
Five-Year Financial Forecast
Tax Levy Approved
The Board of Education approved the levy of $131,424,565, a 4.5 percent increase over the 2018 extension. This is sufficient to capture the five-year average of new growth and the 1.9 percent CPI increase. Although the Board approved a levy that is 4.5 percent higher than the prior year, the District believes that the final levy, which will not be determined until late spring, will be approximately 2.36 percent.
Every Student Succeeds Act School Improvement Report Approval
Lincoln Students Lead Pledge of Allegiance
Students who participate in Lincoln School's Latino Family Literacy Program lead the Board in the Pledge of Allegiance.
The program at Lincoln is led by a group of Lincoln's bilingual teachers who meet with families to spread their love of literacy. Each meeting affords families the opportunity to share a different story and learn a reading strategy their child is learning at school. The teaching staff encourages the importance of sharing the new literacy strategies at home while reading with children.
At the meeting, students shared their favorite books they've read with their families through the program.
Coming Soon: Kindergarten and New Student Registration!
Parents needing assistance completing online registration may attend an in-person help session from 5-7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 14 at Winston Campus and Willow Bend Schools.
New this year, English language proficiency testing will NOT take place during the in-person help sessions. Instead, parents will be able to sign up for an appointment to be tested at a later date.
More information about registration will be shared Jan. 7.


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Jail trusty captured after walking off from Washington Parish Jail
WASHINGTON PARISH - A jail trusty who walked off from the Washington Parish Jail Friday night is back in custody.
According to the Washington Parish Sheriff's Office, 30-year-old Timothy John Williams was captured in Bogalusa Saturday night.
Deputies went to a house on Michigan Avenue around 11:00 p.m. after an intense daylong manhunt focused inside the city limits of Bogalusa.
Williams was discovered at the house on Michigan Avenue and initially resisted arrest. However, after a brief struggle, he was taken into custody. Williams was then transported to the Washington Parish Jail.
"This was a very long day for our officers who searched diligently until Williams was captured. I am so grateful that the search and capture ended the way it should have; namely, Williams went back to jail and all of our officers went home to their families," Washington Parish Sheriff Randy Seal said in a press release. "I am so appreciative of the fine work of our officers and am so fortunate to have the privilege of working with them on a daily basis."
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