>> Hello and thanks for joining us on Chicago tonight on Brandis Friedman.

Here's what we're looking at.

>> I think from the outside and probably looks back on looks like how are they going to get a deal done?

>> A report from Washington, D.C., as Congress tries to strike a deal to fund DHS and the debate over the save act wanes.

With board of Education is set to vote on the next full-time leader of Chicago Public Schools.

We have the details.

And local reaction to violence.

Allegations against late labor activist Cesar Chavez.

First off tonight.

>> Funeral services for fallen firefighter Michael Altman had been set for tomorrow but are being postponed as his widow has gone into labor with the couple's second child.

The Chicago Fire Department says today's visitation at Saint Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel on the Southwest side.

>> We'll still be held until 8 this evening.

The 32 year-old 4th generation firefighter was killed responding to a building fire in the Rogers Park neighborhood last week.

Police have charged a 27 year-old man with murder and arson.

He's being held in the Cook County Jail.

Some south suburbs are facing the threat of severe weather tonight as residents are still recovering from the last round.

The National Weather Service raised the threat level for severe weather today for the area south of Interstate 80 damaging hail and winds capable of downing tree limbs are possible.

A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect through midnight for several areas, including will and Kankakee counties.

It comes just over 2 weeks since tornado swept through Livingston and Kankakee counties along with parts of northwestern Indiana.

Earlier today, the group Black Men United Distributed supplies to Kentucky residents in need for tonight.

The National Weather Service is expecting a much lower threat for tornadoes.

For the 3rd time in the past year, citizens will gather under the banner of No Kings to protest what organizers are calling the authoritarian actions of the Trump administration.

Demonstrations are planned around the country for Saturday, including here in Chicago, local sponsors of the action include the Hands Off Chicago Coalition and the ACLU of Illinois, the largest local protest is planned for Grant Park this Saturday with additional events planned for the Lakeview in Edgewater Neighborhoods and several surrounding suburbs.

Unlike the previous 2, no Kings protests.

This weekend's event will take place amid the ongoing war in Iran.

For more details, please visit our website.

Illinois men's basketball team is still dancing, but they've got a big test ahead of them tonight, the fighting ally.

Now he's taking on number 2 seed Houston in a Sweet 16 matchup.

The 3 seed Illinois has handled their first 2 tournament matchups decisively beating VCU by 21.

>> And Penn by 35 points.

The game tips off at 905, tonight and let's hope they fare better than Chicago's baseball teams today.

It was opening day, but someone forgot to tell the Cubs and White Sox cut faithful poured into an unseasonably warm Wrigley Field this afternoon.

But the North Siders got behind after a six-run 4th inning by the Nationals.

The final was 10 to 4 nationals and a South Sider struggled to as the Sox opened on the road in Milwaukee, a leadoff home run by shortstop chase, my draft.

But then it was all downhill from there as Brewers starter.

Jacob Misiorowski struck out 11 and Brewers batters managed 12 hits final 14 to 2 Brewers.

But don't worry only 161 more games to go.

Chicago.

Up next, the latest on news out of Washington, D.C., including DHS shutdown negotiations right after this.

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>> There's a lot at stake before Congress members leave town at the end of the week for Easter and Passover break the partial government shutdown over funding for the Department of Homeland Security wades into its 6th week as TSA employees work without pay, resulting in long lines at major airports.

Meanwhile, senators continue to debate the save America at the Trump backed measure that requires voters to show proof of citizenship at registration.

So joining us now from Washington, D.C., is Lisa Desjardins, a correspondent for PBS NewsHour.

Lisa, thank you for joining us.

>> My pleasure.

>> So we'll get to the save more deeply in a second.

But it is particularly it's on the back burner right now as lawmakers are trying to pass the new homeland security budget.

We know that DHS has been shut down since February 13th leading TSA agents without pay many of the country's airports in disarray.

How are negotiations going for DHS right now?

>> Right now we're at a technical stand still.

And I think from the outside probably looks back looks like how are they going to get a deal done?

But I will tell you from having covered a lot of the shutdowns that there is a tremendous amount of pressure, especially on the U.S.

Senate, the at those TSA lines where they're happening or people are thinking about their travel or senators themselves who want to leave town.

I think that there is a good chance they figure something out in the next couple of days.

It really is hard to see them leaving town with the shutdown continuing.

But how they figure it to quote, Shakespeare in love.

It's a mystery, we >> Yeah, I'd be curious to see many of them fly commercial rights.

I'd be curious to see what the airport experience like for some of them.

If that should happen the save act, though it is particularly divisive among lawmakers with Republicans claiming that its common sense legislation while Democrats call it voter suppression.

Here's what to lawmakers had to say that at this week.

>> Polls show that the common sense policies in the Save America Act have support from the American people.

But Democrats.

Have repeatedly demonstrated they don't share the American people's interest in securing our elections.

This legislation, the so-called save act, has nothing to do.

With ensuring.

Elections are conducted with integrity.

This is all about trying to prevent midterm massacre.

At the polls.

>> Lisa, remind us how we got here.

Why was this bill introduced?

>> We're a few layers to but their leader Jeffries is a grant in that President Trump has said that he does think the passage of this act would affect the midterms.

He just sees it from the reverse, a viewpoint.

Republicans believe that some of those changes made during the pandemic.

2 voting, many of which had to do with the fact that people were isolated, that we had social distancing those benefited unfairly.

Democrat.

So part of this is that same conversation.

The other part is an idea that President Trump has put out there falsely ridges that the 2020 election was stolen, including by things like mail-in vote fraud.

We know that there is little evidence of any widespread fraud in American voting.

And in fact, last election was declared to be the one with the least amount across measures of any, however, this is part of how President Trump has pushed his own past and the 2020 election south.

What we have now is an act that deals not just with requirements to register for a vote but requirements to vote at the polls.

And also whether mail-in voting should be allowed.

Now those issues all cricket different ways across American society.

idea of being required to present ID at the polls is generally very popular.

But the details matter and then those other 2 provisions on citizenship and on mail-in vote.

People feel differently about those.

>> It Lisa, we have a local political reporter here who says about City Hall.

When you have the votes, you vote, they've been debating this.

Does the Senate GOP today have the votes for this?

>> We do not have the votes for this.

It takes 60 votes usually to get past cloture on the save act.

They're nowhere near They have 53 Republicans, but we know that there are Republicans at least 2 who opposes one of them is the Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski.

She says this would just make a mess of elections in our state.

We have a rural state.

People would not be able to get the documents they need easily.

Mail-in vote is critical in our state.

We think this would prohibit it too much.

And some of the senators also say this particular version of this bill would go into effect immediately.

They just don't think they're states are ready for war that has been thought out enough.

Others disagree, of course.

But this is all to say Republicans, in fact, do not have the votes are a couple seconds left.

Lisa, if passed, if implemented, would documents would be suitable for voters to present.

>> It depends for citizenship.

Be would need an original birth certificate passport, some forms of military ID or you could sign an affidavit.

>> For voter ID, that also is in question.

But most realign tease would pass and he's a pretty issued to.

Each state, has different requirements.

Now.

And there there are a lot question marks about exactly how that would work.

>> Okay.

Whole lot of question marks Lisa Desjardins in DC they're breaking it down for us.

Appreciate it.

>> Not.

>> Up next, Chicago public schools could finally have a permanent leader.

>> Chicago public schools may finally have a full-time leader.

The Board of Education is set to vote on appointing interim CEO Macklin came to the full time position.

The former CPS principal has served in the interim role since last summer.

The vote will come after a monthslong search process which saw other candidates from across the country Vy for the position and then drop out of consideration.

If approved Kings $380,000 Year contract will take effect July 1st.

Joining us to break down the vote is our own Matt Masterson.

Matt, welcome back.

So I think, you know, the question a lot of people are wondering is why go through this months long candidate search process only to ultimately appoint someone who had been doing the job already since last summer.

You know, grants the board needed to be through our.

I don't think anyone wanted to see somebody appointed just to the full time position.

He wanted to go through this nation national search.

They went through a nationwide search of.

>> They said over 100 candidates who submitted their applications that ultimately ended up back on King.

But they went through this process and it did not go exactly as they had hoped.

There were dropouts of finalists whose names were leaked.

>> The firm that was brought on by the board to lead the search was let go last month.

Ultimately, though, the board did find someone that they feel that they're ready to name as full-time CEO in OK?

So as we mentioned, she's been the interim since last summer.

What's been what's been her record on the job?

Will she came in at a very difficult time, which typically the case with Chicago public schools.

But she navigated a very difficult budget process.

She came in as the district 730 million dollar budget shortfall.

She was able to pass a balanced budget last year and she did so in a way that ran contrary to what Mayor Brandon Johnson had been pushing for, which was significant borrowing by the district.

She passes budget without doing so.

She also came in during a time when Operation Midway Blitz was was going on in the city.

Immigration enforcement caused undue stress to families, students, staff teachers across the city.

She led the district to this time as well she launched a command center for CPS to result to respond to concerns and criticisms during this time as well.

So she received a lot of praise from the board from other education officials for how she handled the situations that she was thrown into last So just 2 weeks ago, we reported that the race was down to 3 finalists candidates.

How did she emerge as the the apparent full-time CEO?

Well, her background certainly is a teacher and principal in Chicago.

Public Schools helps.

She's worked in City Hall with Mayor Brandon Johnson.

That is obviously working in our favor as well.

>> But you also have something that no other candidate had, which was a 9 month head start on this position.

She has been in this role.

The board has been able to see that.

They don't have to guess what look like as CPS CEO.

They've been able to watch it for months and months.

>> And we'll see how Monday's vote goes.

But it appears that they're fully on board with her vision for the future of Chicago public schools.

Some members of the Chicago Board of Education.

accuse the Mayor, Brandon Johnson of sabotaging are attempting to sabotage the selection process.

Of course, Macklin King, as you mentioned, former education policy adviser to Mayor Johnson.

Tell us about some of those accusations.

Well, as you know, the board is currently split between elected and appointed officials, board members.

>> This was a group of elected officials who said that Mayor Brian Johnson and his appointed board members were trying to politically interfere with this process, that they slow things down.

>> These elected members instead wanted to hold off until 2027 when the board will be fully elected to pick a new CPS CEO.

But those elected members did in that letter where they accuse demerit, the sabotage they offered a full-throated support of Macklin King staying on through the next school year.

So they're very behind her vision.

As I okay.

We'll see on Monday.

Matt Masterson, thank you.

Thanks for >> And you can read Matt's full story on our website.

It is all at W T Tw Dot com Slash news.

Chicagoans are reacting to abuse accusations made against the late labor leader, Cesar Chavez.

New York Times investigation last week found Chavez groomed and sexually abuse young girls who worked in his movement along with Union co-founder Dolores Huerta.

95 year-old Huerta says she kept her silence for 60 years out of fear of harming the movement in response to the allegations, cities across the country, including Chicago, have been grappling with removing his name from Parks and other landmarks.

Joining us now are Angela Anderson, president and CEO of New head is that he doesn't actually own Samantha Royal institutional Advancement director with the Latino Union of Chicago resume State Representative Norma Hernandez, a Democrat whose district includes Melrose Park Bentonville and Franklin Park among others.

Thanks to all 3 of you for joining us.

So obviously, this this investigation and breaks last week with these disturbing details hard to process it first, right?

Because this new Mary News.

I want to get your initial reactions upon hearing Angeles.

Let's start with you, please.

>> I think first and foremost, we're devastated.

You know, we're really thinking about the survivors.

Rethink about Deborah, reading about the lot is we're thinking about everybody else who's had to be silent.

Maybe just happened recently.

Maybe it's they've been holding it for a long time.

And I hope, you know, the way the community has reacted, that they feel accompanied.

Yes, I think.

>> This only shows us that.

Even though we have our in modern times, there's still a lot of fear about and around situations, especially within woman within children.

There are victims of this and now better than ever we can.

for those have raised their voices.

Representative, some question to you.

Yeah, I mean Want anyone here seeing really shocked.

>> But Moore shocked about how long it, you know, women have been having to hold inside and protecting the movement even though it's hurting them inside to keep the silence.

So just really shocked disappointed because women are always having to, you suffer in silence.

And I'm just grateful that they're not being able to open and use your voice for this moment.

>> Representative say more about that about feeling the need to protect the movement's and by that degree feeling the need to protect the man.

>> I mean, did you know when we think about even now when we do this work, it's it's not just one person writes about a bigger picture and further notice, for example, in the other women to spoke up, it was a selfless thing to do think about themselves.

First and to think about others and to protect the bigger picture, even though it's killing them inside to keep silence.

And it's something that's a pattern, culturally with woman of color interview.

somehow women end up having to suffer morning incense silenced and having to protect themselves protect others.

>> Enjoy your organization has looking isn't actually own you work with survivors of gender-based violence toward us with us as she was that she remain silent for 60 years as we've set out of fear of hurting the movement.

What are some of the obstacles that survivors that they face when when they think about avoid sharing your encounters?

There's so many obstacles from shame from fear of retaliation.

You know, if you're a woman with limited resources.

>> You know your family, your children can be put at risk, you know, just even being able to provide and have what you need a roof over your head.

There's so many factors, think, coach early, you know, we grown up with so many others silent around us into one.

We don't talk about it and we don't have a model of how to speak up for ourselves.

It makes it even that more difficult some of these instances happened at a time when wind like you say victims, survivors were treated the way you describe harder to come forward.

Even then yes.

>> Samantha, the World Health Organization estimates one in 3 women and girls ages 15 and older worldwide have been subjected to physical and or intimate partner violence non partner, violence or both at least once in their lifetime.

>> 263 million girls and women age 15 and older experiencing violence from someone other than a partner at least once in a lifetime.

What do you think perpetuates this kind of violence?

What we know?

>> I think as a here was mentioned, there's a lot of cultural factors.

There's a lot of social factors of Purpa tweet.

This actions.

And it's also that this respect that has been historically against woman men society.

We live in a system that it's a preserve of woman woman's rights, women's health.

And so all of that, it's part the problem that puts woman and dispositions of being vulnerable.

>> Representative Hernandez, how do you think this news will impact the legacy of the Farmers United Movement?

>> Well, I think it impacts and legacy of Cesar Chavez, but I also believe that one person doesn't mean the entire movement and there's many new leaders and leaders are still doing their own amazing work in creating their own legacies.

>> So I think it's important to highlight that more that this is the one person, you know, get this impacts Cesar Chavez's legacy, but it has an impact.

The former his movement because the movement comes from many.

And it's important always remember that.

>> Angeles in question, you have think that the movements and its legacy, the memory will be impacted.

>> I mean, I think for me, I'm thinking more about how it effects, how we organize, how we hold each other accountable.

How do we even hold power?

You know, whether we are the leader, whether we're leading a group of women, whether wear, you know, trying to organize people and get them to volunteer.

So what are the messages and how can we recalibrate how we communicate and reflect on the impact that we have on one another so that that we can build safety.

And if there's an event and that they know what's appropriate and what's not appropriate so that they can stand up for themselves and let other people know that this isn't have to happen again.

Samantha's, in questions like how is some, you know, someone with Latino Union?

How do how do you think the legacy will be impacted?

It's definitely that that.

>> The power this not only led by one person.

The movement is not only led by one person is collective power.

The union of different leaders.

And so first and foremost, the recognition of that and just 2 replicate what it was said just to be educated and to protect who has to be protected and to expose who has to be exposed.

It's not about exposing or leaving the movement to the side.

It's about individuals.

Damaging to movement.

Representative Hernandez, how do you think community should handle the naming or renaming of schools and other memorials in his honor?

>> Now that this has come to light.

>> Yeah, I mean, signifies accountability.

We saw this happened during the 2020.

But Senator movement where statues are being taken down, so it's a sign of accountability.

Obviously, there's many other instances with other leaders and we know have caused some damage to others and their stances are still there.

But I think for the for this moment meant to signify accountability and and I agree, you know what needs to get do needs to get done.

Angela, what might justice look like for the survivors?

>> I better believe there is justice for the survivors.

They have to live with the wound for the rest of their lives.

I think if we have to look at it through the lens of just it's I think how do we work with our legal system so they have more rights and resources available to them when they need them.

Also, how do put into question the behavior and patterns of men been sort of, you know, in a condition by patriarchy and also different privileges.

Its it's more.

I think I want to focus on the hearing right?

How do we get past healing while being wounded at the same time?

And I think we can get past that we can kind of look at broader horizon.

>> This man you know, how do you have sort of reconcile flick, the man that so many people revered right with what we now know about him.

How do you have you hold those 2 things in one person.

I think its important too.

believe.

The victim in this case, the victims 100% because they have nothing to lose.

The one thing that they have to lose.

Apparently in the past.

They did a last stand.

This is just like I think since he's been such a long time and such different times, it is one thing to to hold on.

Representative Hernandez in question to you.

How to you.

How do you know how hold these these 2 things that you know about about one man does what you know about him now, take away from what he did from the from the positive legacy that he also leaves.

I think, you when it comes him and his actions separating what happened with the movement.

>> again, it was a collective of people that he had been to be a part of as well and had help lead.

And I think at point to recognize descent.

But at the same time, how much abuse occurred during the moments that he was doing that?

I think that also educated and told so we have to call that for for what it is and that education piece and it will have to come with that as well.

We can no longer hide that he was.

Dispersant into any of that.

So I do believe requires to understand, yes, he was able to get accomplished.

This this word.

But at the same time, there was a lot of harm that was done by his actions as well.

>> He's definitely not the same leader anymore.

He's an abuser.

He's a predator and he is a model now that we're going to have to keep in mind when we watch out for other predators and abusers in our community.

that hard to come to?

It's already because unfortunately, the data tells us that there's so many abusers out there and there are many other cases, as we've seen at the Epstein files, we see how families are being abused in ICE detention and so forth.

He's not a stand-alone by his violations towards people in our community.

That is what we'll have to leave Thanks to the 3 of you for joining us Angela Anderson, Samantha Royal and Representative Norm or Hernandez.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

>> And we're back to wrap things up right after this.

>> Reflecting the people perspectives that make can This story is part of Chicago tonight.

Not the >> And that's our show for this Thursday night.

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