Across the southeast are assessing the damage of following an onslaught of Deadly Wildfires and tornadoes. The tornadoes are blamed for at least five deaths. 13 confirmed tornadoes caused significant damage across four states. Hardhit alabama is under a state of emergency. Roxana saberi is here in new york with the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The twisters touchdown down in alabama, louisiana, mississippi and tennessee from tuesday into wednesday. They left behind death, search and rescue teams spanned out across parts of the southeast into the night. We got crews out doing home searches making sure everybody is okay. Reporter as residents in alabama took stock of the devastation around them. In the small town of rosalie yesterday, a tornado ripped apart homes and businesses and killed three people waiting out the storm inside their mobile home. Jim smith knew one of them. It was a friend of mines daughter. Ill get it altogether and restart. Reporter 100 miles north, ma
Other areas. The tornado was on the lower end of the intensity scale, but for some homeowners in concord, the storm caused an epic amount of damage. The National Weather service says the tornado formed somewhere near cambridge turnpike, then headed northnortheast. At about 3 17 a. M. This morning, we received a report of a tree down. The reporter many more calls would come in, but all from within a tight corridor. The tornados path, 400 yards wide and half a meant some got lucky. Your house is fine. The reporter yeah, it was scary, because its so close to my house, but yeah, so far away. The reporter and some did not. Thats the one tree we left when we moved in. Now we have zero. In fact, just outside the swath of heavy damage, houses and trees untouched. That distinct path a strong marker for a tornado. You have one area where trees are down all over the place and the next house over has nothing. The reporter dozens of utility and tree workers flooded after the storm, the cleanup was
Fellowship former president of the prison fellowship when he was there he liked to talk about the fact that today we lock people up because we are mad at them when we should be reserving prison and jail space for people who we are afraid of. There are obviously people who have committed crimes and who are dangerous enough that they need to be kept away from rest of society. They built the prisons and the prosecutors build them up. I have to say one thing in trying to get real Prison Reform through and we have done most of our work at the state level as im sure doug knows, we have had Great Success working with democrats, republicans conservatives and liberals than with governors who are concerned about two things. One, the way their systems are working or not working in the cost of the systems in many states across the prison system is greater than the cost of a Public Education system and they both work just about as well but maybe a reallocation of resources might be in order. I have
Your specific term. I just want to say this, that the word institutionalization, for these programs, is not one that weve started talking about as a community, say, in the last six months. Under the leadership of the agac, the attorney generals advisory committee, our first chairman was todd jones who had been a former u. S. Attorney in the late 1990s. He came back he said he is a recidivist came back as u. S. Attorney again starting in 2008. Todd preached from day one in institutionalization. Paul did as well, Loretta Lynch as well. Lanny wanted to respond though. I was just going to give an answer to the judges question, one example that my colleagues can talk about what theyre doing in their districts. But the attorney general was mindful of it, so one of the privileges when you are the head of the Criminal Division is you work with the u. S. Sentencing commission and we did do that. We also are able to work with the attorney general and with your colleagues in the u. S. Attorneys o
Are able to function with it and they are able to get through, weather with their colleagues or because they know how to manage it, they continue with it, but they still have some of the symptoms. That is another thing that goes along with what you were saying, you have ptsde does not mean you are addled with all kinds of disabilities, but it could be that it is something it affects your sleep light might narrow like nightmares. And traumaticsd brain injury overlap, a lot of times has to do with the way that somebody thats a traumatic brain injury could be through a that theyevent, so might have ptsd associated with the dramatic brain injury. If traumatic brain injury toelops later on in dimension, which we are seeing more and more evidence that that is a possibility, i am optimistic and i would be surprised if it were not the case that the v. A. Is going to look at that and take that into consideration. [indiscernible] i think that is another panel. We could answer your questions afte