The hoff and the entire cast divulge the hidden clause in their contract that caused reallife drama on the beach. What they needed to do to stay in their swimsuits. And good morning, america. A whole lot to get to this wednesday morning, including big news from the white house. President obamas nomination of skwan january janet yellen for the fed. Thats coming later today. She will become the first female chief of any major central bank. One of the most important Economic Policy jobs in the world. Well talk to jon karl about that. See if the senate says. First woman to hold that kind of position. Lets get right to the Government Shutdown and its impact on the families of these american servicemen and women youre seeing. The ultimate sacrifice. The socalled death benefits cut off to families of those fallen soldiers. Abcs jim avila is in washington with much more on this. Good morning, jim. Reporter good morning, robin. Sick children that cant get into clinical trials. Capitol cops work
Robin. Sick children that cant get into clinical trials. Capitol cops working out pay. And now, Fallen Heroes without family death benefits. They paid the ultimate price. But families of the war dead are being asked to suffer even more, due to the Government Shutdown. At the top of the list of things not working, for now nine days of shutdown, is what the pentagon calls the death gratuity. A 100,000 death payment to families of war dead. Theyre supposed to receive within three days of the death of their loved one. But thats now held up in political red tape. Im ashamed. Im embarrassed. All of us should be. Reporter since the shutdown began, 17 Service Members have died. Six in afghanistan. The pentagon says, with its workers furloughed, it cant process the paperwork to pay the surviving relatives until after the shutdown is over. Washington may be shut down. But its still asking people to go to war. Repeporter the money is use by families to arrange for funerals, fly to dover to greet
Reason has to do with toxic stress. And for those who dont know, toxic stress shows in people who are exposed to trauma, violence, much like what were dealing with in the city, the number of shootings that weve had in this entire city. So, its not a surprise that the numbers would be very high when we think about how many shootings weve had in the bayview and Visitacion Valley neighborhood alone. It is of epidemic proportion. So, i want to give some voice to what supervisor kim has raised. I think shes nailed it, which is interesting, because ive come to the conclusion to support lauras law because of that, because we need to provide support for people who are hurting. I appreciate the efforts of the colleague bringing this issue forward to the forefront where hundreds of individuals are suffering from Mental Illness. Many who i see encounter my district and quite frankly who i have in my own family. Many of the people that i seek to help are unable to recognize their own diagnosis and
Debate and i was ultimately persuaded at that time because the leadership of the department of Public Health, dr. Mitch katz, for those of you who remember that time, he was opposed to moving forward because he didnt think that laura alps ~ lauras law could be effectively implemented. Today we have department of Public Health leadership that think differently, that are ready to implement assistive treatment. And we should give our Mental Health experts time to do t. That being said, we should put together the best program we can. I do want to thank supervisor farrell for his leadership and advocates who who are moving forward because, as supervisor cohen said, we do have to do things differently. And i do support that. I just want to make sure we do it with the strongest program possible. Thank you. Supervisor kim. Thank you. I just wanted to clarify my earlier comments. My point was not that there are more Mental Health illnesses documented in the africanamerican and latino community.
Within the guidelines and its a small number of people that may be impacted, but i feel like its going down a road of further stigmatizing already stigmatized population of people. I wanted to also add that i think voluntary treatment thats culturally com p e he tent with Strong Community based but also San Francisco department of Public Health services is the answer. ~ competent i think healing of families and strengthening of our Mental Health is critical, and this policy doesnt go anywhere near enough to do that, and i do feel that it may lead to further the danger of violating civil rights of many mentally ill people in our neighborhoods as well. Lastly, i wanted to say that the advocates from nami and others have really helped me understand how the system functions for families and the grieving and high emotions among people, but i do feel again that this is a critical issue that without Adequate Funding and i think more time to think through how our systems could work in San Fran