Its really difficult especially to just find ways to get through day to day from you know finding clothing to finding shelter to finding you know where youre going to eat. Tonight its pretty hectic because of the snow outside and theres not a lot of places for us to sleep now, so everybodys kind of coming in. In just a decade, the number of People Living in new yorks homeless shelters has nearly doubled reaching 60 thousand a night last year. Its a homelessness crisis unprecedented in any american city. What we see today the homeless that we see the exodus from this city, families doubling, tripling up, the rent skyrocketing. This has been a crisis thats been cooking for 20 years. Why are so many in new york homeless . This week, fault lines looks at the forces that are displacing thousands from their homes. Were on our way to the south bronx to new yorks only Intake Center for homeless families. More than seventy percent of people in the citys shelters are families with children. Home
Theos downtown diner. There was a problem with her new electric supplier. Within months she was paying five times what she had been promised. Do you think this company was ripping me off . Yeah. Thanks for joining us, im joie chen. For most of us electricity is just a basic necessity look food and water something we often take for granted. We hardly Pay Attention unless the lights dont come on or the bills are suddenly skyhigh. But that is actually happening in more states over a dozen already where deregulation now mean a lot of Companies Want to be your power provider. Adam may provides the story. They told me it was going to be a specific rate, a set rate, a two year contract. Gretchen and her husband other than theos downtown diner. She quickly knew there was a problem with her electric supplier. It ented up end it up being not a fixed rate. Not a rate they had propositioned not a 36 month rate. It wasnt what you were promised. The very first rate was 8. 133. Within months she said
The president s response has been what are the other options. Thats not a reasonable goal. Hes telling the country that that approach would lead to another war in the middle east. The republicans counter that is not what happen. They want tougher sanctions on iran and then iran will capitulate and give up its nuclear facilities. What were hear something that they dont trust that iran will live up to the deal. They dont think that the inspections are tough enough. They dont like that they will be able to maintain some of their centerfuges in storage and they dont like some of the facilities will be remain open in some form or fashion. They found a lot not to like about this deal. All right thanks so much. Patty culhane there. Well look at whether nigerias new president is the right man to tackle the threat posed by boko haram. Going home at last after years of being forced to work as fishermen without pay. Well have all the details still ahead in sport. The final line up for the the mia
Stashes of every kind of seed imaginable in this mountain. Imagine if something really bad would happen, human kind could start over again. We focus on some of the solutions out there to solve them and we introduce you to some of the smartest minds looking to change the world for the better. Los gohn leading maker of electric cars of the day. Vivec, who also lapse to run the nba sacramento kings. He wants the worlds talented minds to come to the shores and promote opportunity to address some of the planets challenges. And salman kajabke predicts worst case Health Scenarios to better prepare for pandemics and other tragedies that threaten our world. Playing disease, climate change, some of the threats that confront us. And californias agriculture, in most instances weather appearance recover and water levels are restored but there are people out there whose job it is to plan for worst. Thats very much the case in a special bunker located 800 miles north of the arctic circle. Thats where
Threats to their kingdom did. Found. We have things going on our world right now like Climate Change thats, you know, ultimately a threat to the entire world. The author who first wrote for television decades agoing talks about the script feedback he received back then. Would you please cut these 107 characters down to 6 . And, you know, this giant battle you have at the evened with 100,000 me. Could you make that a dual between a hero and a villain. He teamed up with two fans of his work to create his latestbook which doc youths history of the fictional world. They displayed from the first an obsessive knowledge if to my world would to the extents i have often said they know it better than i do. We spoke to him as the world of ice and fire was being published. You started writing it in 1991. It got published in 1996. It took 20 years from the time you started writing until it hit the New York Times number 1 best seller. What do you think accounts for that delay . Did built slowly. Gam