Good evening. And welcome to kqed newsroom. Eye thuy vu. We dedicate tonights program to the california criminal Justice System that affects prisoners serving life sentences. 15 years to life, 25 years to life, mostly for murder. Under governor jerry browns administration a Record Number of socalled lifers are being granted parole. The Governors Office says this has nothing to do with the need to reduce prison overcrowding. Instead they insist the trend is driven mostly by Court Rulings that make it harder to deny parole. Scott shafer takes a look at a no program aimed at addressing the growing number of lifers getting out. Reporter hundreds of inmates mere at solano prison in vacaville are hoping for a second chance, and officials think the key is rehabilitation. Hurt people. Reporter these prisoners are doing sentences like 25 years to life, some for the most heinous crimes imaginable. The hurt that we carry, we take it out on somebody else. Reporter they dont know if theyll ever get
Good evening. And welcome to kqed newsroom. Eye thuy vu. We dedicate tonights program to the california criminal Justice System that affects prisoners serving life sentences. 15 years to life, 25 years to life, mostly for murder. Under governor jerry browns administration a Record Number of socalled lifers are being granted parole. The Governors Office says this has nothing to do with the need to reduce prison overcrowding. Instead they insist the trend is driven mostly by Court Rulings that make it harder to deny parole. Scott shafer takes a look at a no program aimed at addressing the growing number of lifers getting out. Reporter hundreds of inmates mere at solano prison in vacaville are hoping for a second chance, and officials think the key is rehabilitation. Hurt people. Reporter these prisoners are doing sentences like 25 years to life, some for the most heinous crimes imaginable. The hurt that we carry, we take it out on somebody else. Reporter they dont know if theyll ever get
Director as just happened to give the final okay and all expectations are starting monday the u. S. Will be the first country in the world administering now two vaccines. Earlier in the week it was biontech and pfizer that was administered to front line workers. This is an extraordinary accomplishment. And with that hope remains this persistent problem, the u. S. Is in desperate need of extra help. A key model now projects 572,000 americans could die by april. The upward trajectory of cases, deaths and hospital sauizations so consistently awful and fear that people are desensitized to the word record but thats what we have, record highs every week by every metric. Right now congress is working on a saturday to try to get a covid relief bill across the finish line. Loaders say they have been close for a while but sticking tonights remain. And no vote is likely scheduled until after the weekend. So pete maunteen is standing by. Tell me whats happening there. Reporter we are standing by f
This ge jet engine can understand 5,000 data samples per second. Which is good for business. Because planes use less fuel, spend less time on the ground and more time in the air. Suddenly, faraway places dont seem so. Far away. Im Thomas Roberts for tamron hall. Following the white houses latest sequester strategy, one the politico calls shame. In automatic budget cuts, they kick in and president obama is doing local tv interviews in markets with significant defense presence including boston, charleston, wichita, Oklahoma City and San Francisco and honolulu. This comes a day after the president surrounded himself with First Responders he said could lose their job fist a meat cleaver of cuts take effect. The blame game rages on. Republicans thus far have refused to do this. They refused to go on with the American Public on the simple notion that balances the right approach to dealing with the problem. Its important to understand that if they hold that position and sequester those into e
Happen. From the republican side today after defense secretary planned to impose furloughs, 800,000 civilian employees if the sequester hits, john boehner responded president obama is ultimately responsible for the military readiness and its fair to ask, what is he doing to stop his sequester that would hollow out our armed forces. Joining me now is kelly odonnell. The president will kipitch this program that includes 50 billion for transportation infrastructure and a Publicprivate Partnership to attract financing that they have as a partnership to rebuild america and cutting red tape to get permits. Sounds like a decent start. Those are welltested ideas. They like to see government deal with red tape and infrastructure is popular. Those are solid ideas that the president can try to campaign on, if you will. He has the power of the office and the reach of the office that gives him a Real Advantage in this debate over the sequester cuts. Being able to do those interviews across the coun