Local officials from Foodlink, United Way and 211 met Tuesday afternoon to speak out against the federal shutdown, and discuss how it’s impacting low income and food insecure residents in Rochester.

The government has been shutdown for over a month now, and with no end in sight, the organizations are asking the community for their help.

Julia Tedesco is the President and CEO of Foodlink.

We continue our series of conversations about how workplaces are changing as a result of the #MeToo movement.

Attorney Melanie Wolk says the types of assignments men and women are given could change because of #MeToo. She joins us to talk about the potential impacts. 

The Gandhi Institute is preparing to host a program about the "diversity advantage" — how society benefits when inclusion transforms into full equality.

Our guests discuss the issue from different perspectives. In studio:

• Mary Scipioni, landscape architect, writer and critic, and owner of Pebble-stream
• Tanya Bakhmetyeva, associate professor of gender, sexuality, and women's studies at the University of Rochester; and associate academic director for the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
• Mara Ahmed, political activist, artist and writer, and independent filmmaker at Neelum Films

Police Chief Patrick Phelan says the investigation began last week when a 16 year old student showed a photo of another person to his friends and made a comment , claiming that the person looks like he could be a school shooter.

Others in the cafeteria alarmed by the comment told school officials. Through a series of interviews, Phelan says authorities uncovered a plot to attack the community of Islamburg  in the Catskills.

He says during the probe, police recovered 23 guns and 3 homemade bombs.