Overnight the death toll climbing even higher. Its august 16th. This is today. Daunting task. 106 now confirmed dead on maui as the first victims are identified. Federal officials joining the search for the hundreds missing. It is the worst thing ive ever seen. This morning our closest look yet inside that burn zone and the investigation to uncover what sparked the historic fires. Countdown. Donald trump and officials in georgia preparing for the former president s surrender following his fourth criminal indictment. Trumps new claim that he can prove fraud in the 2020 election and how his legal troubles are playing out on the campaign trail. Escalating tensions. North korea breaks its silence on the american soldier detained there for nearly a month saying he crossed into the country to avoid mistreatment and racism in the u. S. Army. This morning the pentagons response and the growing push to bring him home. Shakedown . The family at the center of the blind side fighting back, calling
2003. Investigators made an extensive search through a rural farm and salvage yard on highway 21near irving after a tip lead them there. Police say the owner of the salvage yard was purks cousin. Police dogs were used to search the scene eventually finding bone and bone fragmentsalong with pieces of womens clothing. But the dna results werent a match to onkonskis. Kwwl spoke with onkonskis father during the time of the search in 2003. Jerry okonski the best thing that can happen is that sh but we dont expect that to happen, we think shes dead. And so the next best thing, you know, knowing that shes dead, is that we can find her body, find her remains and give her a and now sixteen years laterthe family awaking to a new possibility of finding out just what happened to cora purk is serving time in federal prison on unrelated drug and gun charges. He is set to be released from prison in april. Police have not give any indiciation as to whether hes still a suspect in the investigation. If
Recall that moynihan was complaining primarily about black families and his these is was that because of weakness in black Family Structure, blacks would not be able to seize the opportunities that were coming available to them as a result of the Civil Rights Movement. And i can tell you that what i am going to say to you is moynihans concerns now apply to hispanics and to whites, to the whole country. And here are the numbers. I got these by i recently analyzed the censuses. This is representative of the whole country. Here is what happened with family composition. First, marriage rates declined for every age group and every ethnic group every education group, with one exception thats quite fascinating, declined in 1970 and 1980 for College Educated women, but have been stable and risen a little for College Educated women. I think theres a lesson in that. For every other Group Marriage rates have declined. Now im going to tell you a fact demonstrated by social science. This fact will
Selective institutions like brown, et cetera. There do exist highly competent students people of color. We cant walk away believe all is lost and theres no theres not a sufficient quality pool. We just also have to encourage people outside of our community to think about other places from which they need to source candidates. I want to say that. Thats not to suggest that overall relatively speaking there are far more students under utilized than should be but i do want to make the point its important that we all know, as you guys, to your organizations, that there really is not any kpoous the argument that, you know the myth that the talent pool does not exist is not true either, to be fair. Theres bias issues in there when and i true story, sent my colleagues a resume of a cap candidate, classic, on paper, 3. 9, blah, blah, the whole story. What happened is hes, oh, my gosh, get the kid the interview right away. They misred it. They thought it said harvard university, and it said howa
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