And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you, thank you. Susan burton is an advocate for criminal Justice Reform and helps formerly incarcerated women get back on their feet, a new way of life. Her powerful story is covered in a memoir, from prison to recovery, to leading women in the fight back to honor. Welcome susan back to the program. Having met you a few years ago, had you on this program before. Yes. I am so honored and just pleased and delighted to see that people are getting the work that youve been doing for some time. Sometimes you maybe in the vineyard and people never not that it matters because youre not doing it for the adoration. Exactly. Youre not doing it for the adulation or the praise. But it is nice when people finally catch up to what youve been doing and how well youve been doing it, how well youre handling all this Michelle Alexander, brian stevenson, john legend, Nick Cass Kristof love. Its wonderful. We dont i dont do the work for recognition
As governor of virginia want according to the best of my ability so help me god congratulations. [cheers and applause] how did you know, you wanted to get into politics quick. I didnt. I did not want to ask for money or their votes submerge i thought politics was a representative of people but people would say why dont you run . And just quit running a ralph and i just felt that that that i had come to know on the people did not have representation to the extent that they needed. Of the people and for the people and by the people. In sow to be a part of the Decision Making process. Where did you grow up quick. And richmond across from a church that it went to my Elementary School was not up to snuff with no loud or tories no cafeteria. Auditorium for all the principals and teachers were white. But that they looked upon us as their children but with that backdrop where Patrick Henry made his famous speech and learning about Thomas Jefferson and the unalienable rights i said this applied
More now from the alliance for health reform. This next panel takes a look at the challenges facing medicaid. Theres a discussion on healthcare trends. This is an hour and a half. With the failure to pass the bill in congress, some states are looking to expand medicaid. Some additional states. Many states are talking to cms about what might be possible in way of their talking about waivers, what can be done. So today well talk about our goal for this panel is to both talk about where we are going into this next year. What the aca did, where we are with medicaid. Whats under discussion and were going to talk about the considerations and possible implications moving forward. So we are lucky to have with us today three exceptional panelists, youll notice there is one empty seat and that belongs to trish riley. Unfortunately because of the crazy weather we had d. C. Trishas not going to be able to get into town. So she will not be with us. Fear not, our three other panelists here watch wha
Reporter they had shifted a bit and they had shifted back for the better. You can see how close we are to the flames. They have been creeping down the hillside for the better part of the last hour. And 10 minutes ago we had a shift in the wind and it changed the complexity of the situation and firefighters came up and said get ready to move unless the winds change back. Luckily, but in the last few minutes, the winds seem to have gone back to where they were. And that is pushing the fire back up the hillside. You can see where the homes are at the exterior of the town. It is a huge concern for the homeowners. Most of them have left this town because of the repeated warnings and the fact that they can seaplanes on the hillside. Next to the city. Firefighters have been out here all day and night since this broke out yesterday at 10 30 am. Theyre keeping a close eye on everything that is happening on the ridge line. You can see the firefighters just over here watching every second of this
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