This i wont do it here. Normally, i would ask you to raise your hands. Do feel that with respect to yourself, your family, your pets, your community . How many of you raise your hand how many of you feel prepared for a major disaster in your community . How many . Ive spoken to all kinds of audiences you if i get more than two or three hands i test them. Who is taking care of your mom in the nursing home . What are you doing with important papers . What is happening . Yes, you could follow the guidelines with food and water. Nice job. [laughter] if you cannot define it, how can you fund it . Lets put that aside. Lets say it is lingering out there. The first is, the federal system we live under. In many ways that serves our country and our people very well. The point is that decision is decentralized. By design, the government decision is made by levels of government as close as possible to the people being served. It is a fundamental tenet of our society. The problem is it doesnt work
Coming up tonight on cspan, a discussion on u. S. Preparedness for a biological or chemical disaster. Then the parents of james foley a freelance reporter killed by isis discussed their efforts to free their son. Later, help Homeland Security care on the role of the federal government in protecting cyberspace. The blueribbon study panel on bio defense held a meeting on preparedness, response and recovery from biological threats. This Panel Features dr. Erwin redletter. He is a professor of Health Policy and management at columbia university. He expressed deep concerns with the u. S. Preparedness to deal with threats. His remarks are one hour. Thank you for accommodating our request to keep everything on schedule. We still have quite a bit of ground to cover. Im grateful for your willingness to help us keep the schedule. Our election is luncheon is dr. Erwin redletter. Many of you know him as the professor of Health Policy and management at columbia university. He is also director of th
They will be be live in our studio today, saturday november 23rd, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Im lester holt. Im erica hill alongside dylan dreyer and chrispen welker who made her way up from washington here to new york. Goo to see you in the studio. Im not all bundled up outside of the white house. I have other clothes. Do you live there . Its such a nice place. Sometimes it feels like i do. Great to have you here. Thanks. Great to be here. A lot to get to this morning including the scare at l. A. X. Miguel almaguer is inside the airport in los angeles. Miguel, good morning. Reporter erica, good morning. Air operations are back to normal here. All theclear given late last night but only after passengers and Police Feared the worst here. There was chaos and confusion right here inside this terminal. With high powered weapons drawn, police searched the terminal. With their highpaured weapons, pol
Being it is new years eve they know people will be firing their guns up into the air. In oakland, ann notarangelo, cbs 5. Now to san jose, which has also seen a rise in killings thisser. This map was generated by the San Jose Mercury news showing where each of the citys 46 homicides occurred. Cbs 5 reporter Patrick Sedillo has more on what was hopefully the last murder of 2012. Were treating it as a homicide scene. Reporter san jose marked the last day of 2012 with yet another homicide are, bringing the murder rate to 46 for the year. There are some cameras. We havent been able to pull up whats on them yet. Reporter at about 9 30 a. M. , San Jose Police received a call of an armed man in this apartment complex at the intersection of lewis and wong. So i woke up in the morning and then i heard eye loud gunshot and followed by screams. Reporter by the time crews arrived he was dead at the scene. Once we determined it was probably going to be a homicide, just ramped up the manpower. Repor
Leadership of trent roar clapping but we need to do more and the proof is what we see on the streets everyday. Too. People dealing with serious issues like schizophrenia and self medicaid with alcohol. We wont turn our backs on them but we have to help those who are clearly suffering. For those folks no matter how many times we offer stifrz they decline. Its not a lack of services we spend 2 million plus. Our department of health started a Receptor Program i call it San Franciscos of laurdz law and the result are in its working. Through this program were reducing hospital stays and a jail time and helping with the treatment and saving lives. Health experts estimate there are hundreds of people who could benefit from a stronger skoefrtship program in sews bylaw abuse so in 2014 we must expand and make permanent it conserve activeship program. Ill ask us to adapt a communitybased program and second ill work with the supreme courts to care and caution educating educating educate our judge