VICE News Tonight: Episode 198

Overview

2:43 Top officials from Facebook and Twitter testified before Congress today, but the hearing didn't really get that in-depth. Sheryl Sandberg and Jack Dorsey mostly sounded like corporate leaders whose words had been lawyered 7:06 California's lack of affordable housing is creating a new and fast-growing class of homelessness: people who in the past would have been able to afford a room or apartment but now live in their cars. VICE News meets a single working mother who has been living in her van with her daughter for five years. 14:48 It's the first week of school for public school students in Detroit and water fountains have been shut off after tests showed some had high levels of copper and lead 18:11 The state of Texas decided this week that they would not fund the education of nearly any migrant children who were set to start school this week 20:45 10 tons of mail were released to the Palestinian Authority after being held for 8 years in Jordan