Rehabilitation and you over emphasize that concept, it often turns into being a very manipulatory, exploitive, discriminatory tool. Many say that led to decades of explosive growth in our prison population. Now the governor is pushing a ballot measure to allow them to get out of prison sooner. It would change who decides whether young defendants should be tried as adults or juveniles. Scott schaeffer sat down with Governor Brown to talk about his change of heart. Governor brown, thanks so much for talking to us. We are, as you know, in the midst of conversation about criminal reform and bipartisan agreement. In comes your proposal for sentencing reform. How do you see it fitting into this Larger National conversation . Well, it fits in in this sense, that as part of a reaction to the 30year prison building binge. Somewhere in the 70s with increasing acceleration to the 80s and 90s most of the states of many of the countries of the world went on a lock em up binge. The increases in many
Welcome to mornings on 2. It saturday, april 16. The start off this halfhour with breaking news. A gas leak a gas tanker spilling gasoline onto the roadways. Firefighters are urging the public to avoid the intersection of stewart consider boulevard because of this accident. The gas tanker hit a fire hydrant and gas is spilling onto the roadway near 76 gas station. Strong winds are comforting answers complicating matters. We are expecting a warm up this weekend. Here is the forecast. With rosemary. Usually i were my big park a but i didnt either today. Keep it just in case. We are warmer especially in spot or we have the north wind blowing. In this afternoon were looking at temperatures five in 10 degrees warmer than yesterday. Temperatures are well into the 70s for the afternoon. A beautiful view of the Rolling Hills of the east bay. Plenty of sunshine to start your morning. Rapid warmup into the second part of your morning. Here is a look at where we start. 74 degrees in santa rosa. I
Fixed. Reporter of course the big new out of the press conference that just watched up here a little while ago is that metro plans to open the system again tomorrow but both the general manager and the chairman of the metro board say that the issue that inspectors found as they walked through that hundred mile of tunnels make them convinced that shutting down the system today was the right call. Inspectors found 26 areas where jumper cables were damaged or frayed, most of the problems on the silver line and blue and orange line. This he have replaced 18 of those and they are not done. They still have at least eight more frayed cables they fled to relace and about 14 of the system left to inspect. The main concern is getting the line opened for tomorrow. Getting all the lanes opened for tomorrow. My task today is to quiet the system open by 5 00 a. M. Tomorrow. That is what we will focus today. Theres a lot more that i have to do to find out how do we get to this position that i found m
When i was born. Thats a long time. Been a long time. Were soror for them. I feel badly about that. They e longsuffering fans, arent they . I know. The question is is who will the mets play, the Kansas City Royals or the toronto blue jays. That will be tbd. If you havent heard, yesterday was s ack to the future day. The day where marty and doc would have landed the future. Jimmy kimmel had michael j. Fox and Christopher Lloyd appear in character as marty and doc. He asked what lets just what 2015s like. Yeah, lets watch. Are people watching us on tv right now . Yeah, people are. People are watching us on tv right now. Alalough honestly, most t ople will probably watch this on their phones on the toilet gross got flying cars yet . No, we have not. Do you have hover boards . They call them hover boards but theyre not really hover boards. Did you achieve peace in the middle east . Oh, no, no, no. If you dont mind me asking, what the hell have you guys been doing for 30 years . Well, lets
One goes onto the beach, due to the high surf and rip tides. Residents are being extra cautious. Parts of the rockaway boardwalk remain unfinished after being wiped out by Superstorm Sandy. I went back to my house and seen it picked up and cross shore front parkway. Im afraid. Reporter many homes are still being rebuilt in bell harbor. We took it on the chin. We are a resilient bunch. Another blast like this, it is going to be devastating. Reporter barriers have been brought in in the rockaways for flood protection. Flood logs, aluminum panels will be used to cut off the beach. In addition to dunes that have been cut to prepare for the worst. We are preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. With a situation like this i even with a noreaster we are going to have problems here. Reporter thirty agencies are coordinating together, even the Police Department who tweeted these photos. We want equipment in all of the areas. Even if we put it in Staten Island. If we need something we ca