Tonights event is going to be a doubleclick event. Talking about confronting, but also the revolutionary life of paul robison. His birthday was actually a week ago. This guy, horne is a brilliant scholar, brilliant historian and i want you to give a round of applause and welcome him here. [applause] all night, all day. We are going to be fighting for freddie gray. All night, all day, we are going to be fighting for freddie gray. First of all, let me say that its an honor and pleasure to be back here to read and not. I was here months ago to introduce two other new books that ive written and i can iterate to be quite an honor that theyve invited me back again. For those who may not be familiar, freddie gray was the young black man who had a fatal encounter with the police in the city of baltimore. And he is in a long list of such young but people who have had fatal encounters with the authorities. Im thinking of khmer rice in cleveland and eric garner in staten island, new york and Mich
We dont know the extent of their injuries. You can see crews on the scene there. The destruction of that house. 7 people were inside at the time of that explosion. Authorities are still very active at that scene. Trying to figure out what happened to cause that explosion. Were still looking at the possibility that one person may be trapped inside. Weve not been able to confirm that. What i can tell you so far at least 4 had been inside the house when it collapsed. Several of them were outside when the responders arrived. They were injured and transported to the hospital. Since ive been here rescue crews pulled a young child from the home. Reporter further rescue teams and investigators are working there. In the newsroom im Ryan Schulteis 7 news. Anchor the sun now setting before 8 p. M. Its bringing the heat. The week. Chief meteorologist Jeremy Reiner with a check of the forecast. Reporter boston 81 sunny skies. Dew points these are low. No humidity across southern new england. And ov
Cinderella story. Committing in the olympic games. Anchor first, a dog sitter accused of abusing a dog. The owners say they want on vacation. Their pet was in terrible condition. Anchor the dog sitter claims she didnt do anything wrong. She faced the judge today. Reporter she did, a local firefighter and he was on vacation, his pet was cruelly treated. He says the dog has open wounds, and was crying for hours while he was away in mexico. Mean time, the accused says the dog is recalledly, familiars down on his own. May of caused the injuries to himself. Anchor tears come to my its so sad, what that dog is going through. She will face a criminal arraignment after sitting for a 13year old dog overnight for a week, late last month. While his owner was vacationing in cancun. The owners found the dog living in filth and bruised when they got home from the trip. Said youre going to be charged with animal abuse and theft. I am. Its all false. I mean im im wrongly accused. A quincy magistrate f
We will be back. I went to see if there are any other Opening Statements and i want to make sure we have plenty of time. Any othe other members Opening Statements introduced in the record without objection will be entered into the record. Let me introduce the witnesses for todays hearing. Doctor tim pearson will lea leaf the panel, the scientist in the Government Accountability office in july, 2008 and as such he is a member of the Senior Executive service of the u. S. Federal government and also serves as a director for the center for Science Technology and engineering. Thank you for being with us today and we look forward to your comments. Also would like to welcome from ththe centers of Disease Control and prevention with 30 years of Public Health and science and Emergency Response in medical Training Experience she now serves as the Deputy Director for the office of Public Health preparedness response thank you for being here. Next steve munro for the laboratory of science and Safe
And again not crafting it as a harassment statute but rather a privacy when. And making it a criminal offense. I think it is moving forward in trying to get laws like this past in all the states is that it educates prosecutors throughout, up and down the levels of government. It really gets the word out to all of Law Enforcement that this is, in fact, a crime. We still need to maintain state laws in all 50 states need them. The fbi is not going to be looking into every single case. We cant expect them to. They have much more discretion about what case to take, so we are local on four servers to be stopping nonconsensual porn on a local level. The Cyber Civil Rights Initiative has a model on our website which is very similar to the illinois law that josh talked about which we would recommend that the 15 remaining states look to. And the other trend we are seeing more and more to civil remedies. Weve been talking about how criminal laws really deter, but we should all have options. And s