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Speaker 1 (00:02):
B I N News is Hour.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm Andrea Coleman. Coming up comments from DC Mayor Muriel
Bowser after meeting with Trump administration officials. More insight into
the man who brought fear and terror to the CDC
last week, and the union that represents CDC workers say
their members are traumatized. But first, here's BIN News Now.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Illinois Governor J. P. Pritzker says President Trump has no
legal authority to send National Guard troops to Chicago.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
That's not surprising to me that he suggests violating the law.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
He's done it many times and been convicted of it
thirty four times.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Black Mayor Brandon Johnson adds that homicides and shootings are
down since he took office and criticized Trump for cutting
one hundred and fifty eight million dollars from violence prevention
programs in cities like Chicago. Olympic sprinter Shakarrie Richardson is
taking accountability after her July arrests in an alleged domestic
violence incident involving her boyfriend Christian Coleman. In an Instagram post,
she apologized to Coleman, vout personal growth and said she's

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focused on facing challenges head on for herself, her family
and her fans. And Danielle Spencer, who played d on
the nineteen seventy sitcom What's Happening, has died at sixty
after a battle with cancer. Her co star Heywood Nelson
announced she passed Monday at a hospital in Virginia. Spencer
later became a veterinarian before being diagnosed with breast cancer
in twenty fourteen. I'm Imber Payton with Bi in News.

(01:17):
Now back to you, Andrea, Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Amber.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser says her administration is working hand
in hand with President Trump as he implements his crackdown
on crime plan.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
What I'm focused on is the federal surge and how
to make the vote of the additional officer support that
we have.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Bowser's comments come as National Guard troops arrived in her
city today. Bowser and DC Police Chief Pamela Smith briefly
spoke with the media after meeting with Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Chief Smith, who says she will remain in charge of
the DC Police force, was clear she wants a smooth operation.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
I answered to Mayor Miry Bowser, and let me just
say this you had to smith have any kind that okay,
because I know people want to build upon and create division.
We're good to work together with that Federal Parkers, and
that's what we're wanting to do.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Mayor Bowser says BONDI will serve as Trump's proxy on
the matter. We are learning more about the gunman who
opened fire on the campus of the CDC headquarters in
Atlanta last Friday. Officials say thirty year old Patrick Joseph White,
who was white, died by suicide. In an update today,
the Georgia Bureau of Investigation also said it had recovered
written documentation that expressed the shooter's discontent with the COVID

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nineteen vaccinations. Wide opened fire at the CDC on Friday,
killing David Rose, a black police officer with the Decab
Police Department. Authority say five guns and over five hundred
shellcasings were recovered from the scene. During a press call yesterday,
the union representing CDC workers spoke of the fear workers
are now experiencing after the shooting.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
They do not feel safe enough to return to the office.
They especially are not looking forward to returning to an
office where they're still you know, either boarded up windows
or bullet holes in windows, And I mean we have
to also consider that some of those bullets actually entered
the building, so it's not just where it was outside
surface damage. There was damage to the interior as well.

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So a lot of these employees, I mean, they're traumatized.
It's not every day they wake up to get shot at.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Union officials also said warning about the shooter being on
campus was slow to reach workers. They believe misinformation is
partly to blame for what prompted the shooting.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Having conversations around vaccine safety is important, but they have
to be rooted in facts. They can't be fabricated claims.
And when leadership, when your own leadership pedals falsehoods, it
doesn't just erode the public trust, it creates the conditions
for the kind of violence that we saw on Friday.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
One Union officials said, while they don't blame the Trump
administration for Friday's attack, they do believe the president turned
the agency into a political issue. Workers have been cleared
to work remotely through Friday. In the meantime, union officials
have a list of demands that they want addressed as
soon as possible. The next hour, we'll hear the primary
demand they're asking for to stay informed, stay connected, and subscribed.

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