have you harmed yourself today at all? an increasing proportion of 999 calls to the police relate to a mental health crisis. have you tried to take your own life before? she s saying she can t breathe. this is wrong, man, this is wrong. and now the metropolitan police commissioner has made it clear that from september his officers won t attend mental health incidents unless there s a risk to life. in a letter to health and care agencies, sir mark rowley says londoners are being failed by sending police officers, not medical professionals, to those in mental health crisis and expecting them to do their best in circumstances where they re not the right people to be dealing with the patient. some of the national analysis suggests that the work going on across the country where police officers dealing with mental health is the equivalent capacity that could deal with 500,000 victims of domestic violence. the suggestion that officers will refuse to attend many calls relating to ps
Americas story. Funding for cspan 2 comes from these Television Companies and more, including charter communications. Chter is proud to be recognized as one of the best internet providers. We are just getting started. We are building 100,000 miles of new infrastructure to reach those who need it most. Charter communications, along with these Television Companies supports cspan 2 as a public service. This course, as you know, examines the development of the u. S. Welfare state, the way americans have gone about making social provisions for themselves. Social provisions include programs that aim at reducing risk and enhancing quality of life. Our focus has been on the relief of poverty. Im going to depart from our usual format here. Im going to do a fair amount of reading this afternoon because im concerned about covering all the material that we have to cover. Over the course of our exploration of the construction of the american welfare state, we have encountered several different pers
Wider regional war are heightened once again, and one of the biggest escalations weve seen since the israelhamas war began 100. Its a very, very delicate moment, very, very dangerous indeed. And reportedly waves of Ballistic Missiles from iran are heading towards israel as well. They are more deadly and they fly much faster. Both israel and the United States say they will aim to intercept as many of these drones because and missiles as they possibly can. But this much is already certain. These attacks directly from inside iran. And indeed the suspected attack from israel to which arrived says its responding that these two nations, both with a lot of military power, as close to all out roar as weve seen in recent memory and that could have farreaching implications within the region. And certainly well beyond the region, are reporters and our analysts are standing by. Theyve been covering this from All Over The World and concluding our Nic Robertson in jerusalem, Clarissa Ward in tel avi
Im erin coleman. Damage totals more than 1. 5 million. The question now, how will the district get all of its kids to School Next Week . Nbc 10s Randy Gyllenhaal is live in south white hall township with the very latest. Randy. Reporter those 25 bright Yellow School buss have been turned into 25 charred black metal skeletons. What you see behind me used to be a building, a garage outside Orefield Middle School in Lehigh County. As you can see the zbrath gone, all thats left are those busses that were inside. Some of them also outside the garage, damaged as well. Fire Officials Say the call came in about 3 00 a. M. , first reported as smoke then the fire consumed everything in that garage. There were no injuries, but it took firefighters thundershowers get this blaze under control. The School District here, the parkland School District had to cancel classes because those buses are used to transport students. It makes about a fifth the schools entire fleet. The cause is under investigati
6 million over the last two years. The number of people in poverty decreased from 2015. Adults 65 and older are the only group to see an increase. Poverty, theo u. S. Rates were under 10 representing about one million families, declined from 10. 5 or 8. 6 million families in 2018. Robert rector, what do these numbers tell you. Tell you in regards to poverty . They are misleading. You have to understand the welfare state is not counted in these numbers. Example, last year we spent about 360 billion for writing cache food and housing to lowincome houses with children, twice the amount needed to raise every Single Family out of poverty, but when the senses goes to count if the family is poor, it excludes almost every single time of welfare spending. If you count the welfare state, what you find this rather than having 40 Million People in poverty, it is closer to Something Like 17 million or 18 million. It cuts it in half, and that is a good thing, but we need to be honest and we need to