Good morning. Welcome to mosaic. I am your host today. My cohost is ron swisher. You will see him at another show in the future. With me is chaplain Dave Robinson. You are recently retired as director of the correctional institutionals chaplaincy. Welcome to retirement after many years serving in corrections. Tell us more. Cic ministries is a nonprofit formed in the early 60s and incorporated in the 70s as joint effort with evangelical association and council churches. It was one of the few remaining love childs of that movement. We are there with a specific purpose of serving all the men and women, youth incarcerated in santa clara. We are nonprofit, so part of our budget comes from the county. Okay. Part of our budget comes from local churches, faith communities, individuals who are supporting of the ministry. Tell us a bit about Santa Clara County system and who is there, how many prisons there are, what kind of population is there . Yes. The population there is down to about 3500 p
Good morning. Welcome to mosaic. I am your host today. My cohost is ron swisher. You will see him at another show in the future. With me is chaplain Dave Robinson. You are recently retired as director of the correctional institutionals chaplaincy. Welcome to retirement after many years serving in corrections. Tell us more. Cic ministries is a nonprofit formed in the early 60s and incorporated in the 70s as joint effort with evangelical association and council churches. It was one of the few remaining love childs of that movement. We are there with a specific purpose of serving all the men and women, youth incarcerated in santa clara. We are nonprofit, so part of our budget comes from the county. Okay. Part of our budget comes from local churches, faith communities, individuals who are supporting of the ministry. Tell us a bit about Santa Clara County system and who is there, how many prisons there are, what kind of population is there . Yes. The population there is down to about 3500 p
by a single missile fired by a us fighterjet. now, president biden had apparently given permission for such a strike on wednesday, that is a day before the actual presence of this balloon was made public. military officials decided to hold back for fear that it could spray debris down onto the mainland and hurt people on the ground below. then, today, as it was crossing the coast of south carolina, they closed local airports, they cleared all airspace and the order was given to fire. well, a short while ago, this is what president biden had to say about the operation. they successfully took it down, and i want to compliment our aviators who did it, and we will have more to report on this a little later. i told them to shoot it down. on wednesday? on wednesday. but the recommendation was. they said to me, let s wait to the safest place to do it. the challenge now will be to retrieve equipment from that downed balloon and to try to find out if indeed it was on a spying mission
may be slowing down. hello, and welcome to bbc news. the giant chinese balloon that had been floating over the united states has been shot down by an american fighterjet off the coast of south carolina. the balloon, which the us says was being used to spy on military sites, appeared to plummet straight into the sea. china continues to insist it was a stray civilian weather observation airship. david willis is our correspondent in washington. officials here are saying that this chinese balloon was brought down about six miles off the coast of south carolina by a single missile fired by a us fighterjet. now, president biden had apparently given permission for such a strike on wednesday, that is a day before the actual presence of this balloon was made public. military officials decided to hold back for fear that it could spray debris down onto the mainland and hurt people on the mainland and hurt people on the ground below. then, today, as it was crossing the coast of south car
and a peace mission to south sudan the pope makes an unprecedented visit, alongside the leaders of the church of england and church of scotland. hello, and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. the giant chinese balloon that had been floating over the united states has been shot down by an american fighterjet off the coast of south carolina. the balloon, which the us says was being used to spy on military sites, appeared to plummet straight into the sea. china continues to insist it was a stray civilian weather observation airship. a short time ago, this is what president biden said. i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down as soon as possible, they decided without doing damage to anyone on the ground. they decided that the best time to do that was as it got overwater within a 12 mile limit. they successfully took it down, and i want to complement our aviators who did it, and we ll have more to report on a little later. our north america correspondent david wi