Good evening. Im Joshua Johnson of qkqed news. Imagine that your fate was determined by a coin toss. Heads you win, tails you lose. Or die. Sounds extreme. But that is what many africanamerican boys in oakland face as they work to complete high school. In the last decade, the number of black males who have died on the city streets is nearly equal to the number who have graduated from its high schools ready for college. But now there are new efforts in the School System to turn this around. The strategy . Pair black boys with upstanding black men. In hopes of teaching the kids a better way forward. Morning, sir, how you doing . Good. Siswe teaches the Manhood Development class at oaklands sky lie high school. Glad you could be with us. He and about a dozen africanamerican male teachers are focused on making sure plaque boys graduate high school. Take a step back. Yall ready . Were trying to make transformations. A lot of our brothers are failing disproportionately. If we look at statist
Revelations about the nsa surveillance programs. The agency has the ability to monitor up to 75 of all u. S. Internet traffic. I mean, that is just incredible. 75 of my traffic to steal a joke from one of our producers is a lot. Imagine that from the entire country. It can retain written content in emails and filtering domestic phone calls made over the web. Meanwhile nbc news reports the nsa still doesnt know exactly how much information Edward Snowden took from the agency saying officials are, quote, overwhelmed while trying to assess the damage. Snowdens leaks have also raised a question of how the media investigates and reports on the intelligence community. The guardians Glenn Greenwald spoke about that last night. All the best reporting over the last 40 years involves journalists having classified information. The pentagon papers, illegal warrantless eavesdropping program. If you want to start criminalizing that, it means youre asking as a citizen to be kept ignorant and to allow
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Because they said they were bored. Lets go outfront. Good evening, everyone. Im erin burnett. I want to begin with the breaking news with the new details breaking tonight about a gunman who opened fire at a Georgia Elementary School today. The suspect was armed with an ak47 when he began firing inside the school. You can see here the footage of the children sprinting hundreds of panicked children then ran for safety. The miracle here was that they werent injured, none of them, but were learning tonight that the gunman was armed and ready to kill a lot of people. Our David Mattingly is outside Ronald Mcnair Discovery Learning Academy outside of atlanta with the very latest tonight. David, lets start off, first of all, with this gunman, what did he find . What was he prepared to do . What do you know about him . Reporter well, when police first got to the scene shortly after 1 00 eastern time today, the gunman inside fired about a half dozen shots at them. They returned fire. That was al