investigation, bias, profiling, excessive force, so this is a full scale investigation. it could take up to a year or more. you ll have department of justice investigators in the police department, but the commissioner, the mayor, the governor, even the union all onboard. jose? interesting, and seema, let s talk about what needs to happen for communityies to feel as though they are finally being taken into consideration and their frustrations are being heard. great question jose. from my own experience asking people in the courthouse what would you need if you were in this situation, and it s really having officers come to the communities and having these town hall type of meetings but instead of lecturing, making it more one on one, getting down to someone s level and saying what do you need to feel safe and to trust me.
cameras to begin by the end of the year. something needed to be done in baltimore to regain trust between the police on the street and the residents and i think this is the move the right direction, jose. adam riess, thank you. we re also keeping a close eye on this story throughout the rundown. we ll bring you that announcement as soon as it happens. we re following two major and potentially dangerous weather events. first, the threat of more destructive storms in the nation s mid-section with up to 16 million people at risk. and second nearly a month ahead of the start of the atlantic hurricane season the first named system has formed off the carolina coast. let s start in the plains where forecasters are predicting another bout of severe storms today and tomorrow as residents clean up after already enduring two days of destructive storms. got a load of shop tools to get out of there and get under my shed and get them in to dry. we re trying to do what needs to
fourth amendment issues expands from training also to education, jose. it s important that these officers understand the underlying principles of the law that allows them to stop citizens on the streets. and howard i mean this is something that you re saying needs to be happening already, regardless of what the justice department does or doesn t do. quite correct, jose. it s a great need that we have in this study and exercise by the attorney general, but the citizens of baltimore understands that there is a problem with our police department. the mayor called for a review prior to this. there are certain steps we need to take immediately and we need to take those steps immediately. we also need to talk about the mental health of our police officers. they need to check their mental health status because there has to be a reason we are having these kind of problems on a regular basis in our city.
the big cities. doesn t mean they re out of the woods but the biggest tornados should be just to the east. also on mother s day we ll see more severe weather but it s not looking as bad for tornados again. it won t be fun if you get wind damage and large hail. quickly, subtropical storm ana is churning off south carolina s coast. this is more for the history books. this looks if you want to call it pathetic or whatever you want to call it it barely deserves a name at this point. as we go towards the weekend, it s supposed to drift towards south carolina. i m sure the people in coastal south carolina and north carolina aren t thrilled. it will ruin their weekend. they re telling everybody to stay off the beaches so mother s day weekend will be ruined by i expect very little in the way of any damage or more than rip current threats with that jose. so if we re going to get a first named system hitting the u.s. you want one like this. good news. bill, thanks i know you ll be keepin
days ago and pledged her support to take a good hard look at it she had had people on the ground here in baltimore, so when the mayor made that request, we were very pleased she has accepted it and is moving forward. and ari, when this investigation begins what s the process? the process typically is that investigators from the civil rights division of the justice department who focus on this and specialize on this will work with the management of the police department, down into the ranks. they will sometimes view voluminous materials. they can also go along and do ride alongs they can conduct their own investigation, they can review internal documents. let me give you one set of numbers, jose that s come up in this discussion. there s 610,000 people in baltimore. there were 120,000 police stops in one year. a lot of people are asking why so many stops, who s being stopped, how is that policing