Went awry. Then we look at the crisis of Sexual Assault on campus. 2013, i was 2, tangled twice and raped by another student. I should have been kept safe. In fivees show one women are sexually assaulted in college. We will look at the white house s new efforts to protect students and speak to two women who were raped, one at Brown University, the other at tufts. You may be surprised by how the colleges reacted. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Oklahoma governor mary fallin has ordered a review of the states execution procedures following the botched lethal injection that induced a prisoners fatal heart attack. The prisoner, clayton lockett, had initially won a stay for challenging the secrecy surrounding the untested execution drugs. But fallin overruled oklahomas Supreme Court last week and ordered the execution to proceed. On wednesday, fallin defended the Death Penalty and appointed a cabinet member
He created one of televisions most iconic characters j. R. Ewing on the longtime drama dallas. A rather nasty guy that people loved to hate. Before that, he played a nice guy, captain tony nelson on i dream of jeannie. He appeared here on today last june, and well have a look back at his life and career next. A legend, absolutely. It is the day after black friday and people were going crazy hunting for bargains, so as you do your shopping this weekend, well reveal some ingenious tricks retailers use to get you to spend more and more of your hardearned cash. Speaking of shopping, today is Small Business saturday. A day for you to support the local mom and pop shops in your town. You can do it every day, of course. Something very important to new york city mayor michael bloomberg, who will join us to talk about it in our next half hour. Then an unusual punishment for a convicted killer in oklahoma. A teenager was sentenced to spend ten years in church after pleading guilty to manslaughte
Ravine after a terrible car crash. 18 month old lily survives and her entire rescue is caught right there on camera. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Hello and thanks so much for joining me. Im fredricka witfield. We start with a state of emergency declared in the South Pacific after Tropical Cyclone pam with the power of a category 5 hurricane struck the island chain nation of vanuatu. The fourth most powerful storm ever to make landfall took direct aim op the capital city of port vila. At least six people are confirmed dead. 20 others injured. And there are fears the death toll just could rise. Wind gusts up to 200 Miles Per Hour tore houses apart and knocked down trees. The australian red cross says shelter, food and water are urgently needed and an official from world vision it looks like a bomb. Joining us is unicef acting chief parker. How bad is it in your assessment . Ive seen many emergencies, fredricka, and many cyclones, typhoon typhoons. This is as bad as any. Certainly the
The OU Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion released its monthly Diversity on Campus newsletter Wednesday, honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and announcing changes to DEI, including a
Sen. David Bullard, R-Durant, has filed Senate Bill 1858 that would place privately funded Ten Commandments monuments inside and outside the Capitol “as a symbol of its historical significance for