$13 million to settle a class action lawsuit over police tactics used during the george floyd protests. that money is going to more than a thousand protesters who said the nypd violated their rights by unlawfully subjecting them to force. their lawyers say it s the largest settlement given to protesters. today an alabama death row inmate is set to be executed, the state s first since last november. the inmate says he s skeptical of the ability to carry it out, after an internal review of the lethal injection process. alabama isn t alone. at least 16 states have not carried out a singling execution in the last five years, largely because of issues with lethal injection. oklahoma s problems forced them to pause executions from 2015 to
states. they know their citizens and what needs to be done. we still have hot spots in states that are rapidly increasing cases faster than they would expect. everyone thinks that new york city is the hot spot and that s the only one that s going to be but that s not true anywhere can be like new york city we are seeing right now. just a few weeks behind. brian: some of the governors that haven t done it yet, kaye i vey the republican governor of alabama said i put down a marker last week affirming that we are not having an order to stay in place. we are not louisiana, we are not new york state and we are not california. look what s happening in the state right now. brian: make a blanket policy. louisiana is bad but alabama isn t. so, and missouri. alabama is starting to have increase in cases too. i agree that each state needs to do what s best for their state however, you are starting to see those cases increase and what s happening in louisiana is going to happen in alabama, too
noaa administrator, putting out that statement saying, you ve god to do something to clean this up. the backdrop to all of this is that it appeared as though president donald trump was wrong in his forecasting when he said alabama would be hit. that was way back on september 4th. and then you heard the national weather service from birmingham say, look, alabama isn t going to be affected. big back and forth. long and short of it is, the head of noaa is down there talking to a bunch of meteorologists in huntsville, alabama, trying to clarify things, but i suspect we haven t heard the end of the story, hallie. in part because the inspector general of the commerce department is also looking into this matter. hallie? hans nichols there at the white house. thank you, hans. back now to capitol hill. just within the last hour, democrats on the house oversight committee are again demanding the defense department turn over to documents relating to military spending at president trump s reso
line and on to the governor s desk. as this new data shows while alabama has a female governor, only four female state senators and that puts alabama in 47th place. women represent just 15% of alabama s legislature. but alabama isn t alone. two other states that recently passed restrictive abortion laws ranked in the bottom ten. women control 13% of mississippi state house and just 22% of kentucky s legislature. georgia, which passed a heart beat bill earlier this month women representing 30% of state lawmakers. despite men controlling the labors of legislation across the board, the associate director of this study says one thing is clear, quote, women on both sides of the aisle are particularly passionate and they feel that they as women are best suited to speak to it because of its correct affect on women. and that does wrap up things for this hour. i m kristen welker in washington. ali velshi picks things up.
so they can overturn roe and declare that abortion can be banned in states that are republican controlled and anybody that wants to do it across the country. all these republican-controlled states this year are tripping over themselves to make it happen. but alabama so far is in a class by itself. lots of other states are trying to ban abortion at six weeks, which is before 90% of women wouldn t even know they were pregnant. alabama isn t even bothering with exceptions for pregnancies that took place because of rape or incest. this guy who wrote alabama s total and complete abortion ban says bringing one of those laws was the exception to the supreme court right now. he said that would be a wasted opportunity. he said, quote, why not go all the way? in response to this alabama ban, the new york times editorial board interestingly sort of pulled the ripcord today. i read this as them breaking glass in case of emergency with the times editorial published today was essentially a pri