Bringing a chicago neighborhood together by focusing on its most basic needs. How you going to change anything in your neighborhood, if you really cant start with the place that really sustains the neighborhood . And thats the food, right . Woodruff and, its friday. Mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the weeks news. Sreenivasan all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan the Senate Republican Health Care Bill has suffered another critical defection the fifth so far. Nevada republican dean heller announced in las vegas t
Flood warning the last couple of days. The river level is receding a bit. We still have a Flood Warning in effect, however, until 2 48 a. M. The flooding has not ended you about an update on the current levels. The river is just a few inches above flood stage and expected to drop below flood stage in the next hour. A Flood Warning remains in effect until 2 48 a. M. Theres another area we want to focus on between watsonville and las lomas. That expires at 10 15 tonight in that area. 5 00 this afternoon, into the evening hours we see pockets of showers and light rain fade away giving way to partial clearing. So that will be the end of the rain for a while and ill show you what the week ahead looks like for a few minutes. Larry . Spencer, thank you. All you have to do is download the abc7 news app. San jose firefighters rescued a man trapped by the fastflowing water of coyote creek. He had been stranded there for two days. Were talking about 48 hours in your car. More than 20 water rescue
Happening involving race, the break down of structure in society. I was suddenly out of the seminary and there were no rules. Things were falling apart and you know without structure its very difficult to navigate. I was extremely fortunate to be a i was extremely fortunate to still have had a residuum of the way i was raised and the structure that the nuns had given me and the structure that the seminary had given me. I was also strictly fortunate because i had already been in predominantly white schools. I was the only black kid at my high school in savannah so the transition to a school with very few lacks in a very difficult set of circumstances academically and otherwise, i had sort of a jumpstart. I was ahead of the game so i had something. It allowed me to continue to do well even though it was very very difficult. Now a conversation on genetics and law from the tenth circuit bench and bar conference. A symposium about Forensic Science in the criminal justice system. In colorado
Night, atord, monday nine eastern, live on cspan. Next, using genetics and forensics in crimes and in society at large. The 10th circuit bench and bar hosted a conference in colorado springs. They met for about three hours. Let me try the experiment with the microphone. Ok. Hows this . Great. Well, good morning, everyone. It is a pleasure to be here with you today. I would like to thank the organizers for inviting me to come to this very beautiful place. What i would like to talk with you about his morning about this morning as hank mentioned, we will start with a very basic review of dna, what is dna, how it works, why you , andd be interested in it focus on an important intersection between dna and the law, and that is forensic genetics and forensic applications. I will illustrate some of the points with case studies in which the na has been used inference of context. In which dna has used has been used in forensic context. Cells,almost all of our in the nucleus of the cell, we can f
I remember you when you were mayor when we visited stanford and my question really relates to their relationship in piggybacks on your rick question the relationship of schools and generalpurpose government. In stanford you are one of them a oral pioneers in pushing the kinds of relationships that you just discussed. My question relates to this philosophy particularly in light of the profound demographic changes. Have you been able to take the kinds of initiatives at the state level bringing in the department of social services and juvenile justice etc. And breaking down the traditional isolation of schools from general purpose government . Yes and no. We made some progress but not enough. Some of that affect structural change and i go back to Early Childhood education. We created an office of the Early Childhood. We took operations out of four different departments and put them in one office to be housed within the department of education but now we have one operation concentrating on