Book club get started quick. It exists because of one young man who wanted to give back but go his name was glenn and was on death row in texas at the age of 16. He wrote a letter to kelly taylor and myself at the time when we were Television News producers in dc at australia broadcasting and basically said i want to stay alive and i want the world to know how many men of color are on death row. He was next ordinary person and human being. And then they became friends. She is a book lover they would read the same book and discuss it by letters. So the idea for the book club was born because after he was executed in 2000, he wanted us to work with the youth charges we started free mines just for the boys that are in the adult criminal legal system. But then the insatiable curiosity and hunger for knowledge and learning took over and young men wanted to keep it going so eventually starting 2002 and 2005 we became an official nonprofit. Host how many prisons or jails around the country qu
Of Covenant House washington. And Christopher Hall is a 21yearold who is benefitting from the Career Pathways program. Welcome all you have to viewpoint. Thank you. Covenant house young people helps with homelessness, physical and sexual abuse kids who drop out of school and kids who need Vocational Training and career but homelessness is one of your big problems right now, isnt it . Homelessness is for young people oftentimes theyre called the invisible young group, you dont see a lot of homeless young people on the streets. It is a big issue. It is one where we talk about 18 to 24yearolds who are a core group of young people because of challenges of affordable housing, because theyre changing their lifestyles or whose families are at a point of saying youre old enough to get out early. Its a major challenge for us here in the nations capital. And you dont find many Homeless Youth sitting in the classroom, do you . Thats right. The problems in the classroom though are that the dropout
Of Covenant House washington. And Christopher Hall is a 21yearold who is benefitting from the Career Pathways program. Welcome all you have to viewpoint. Thank you. Covenant house young people helps with homelessness, physical and sexual abuse kids who drop out of school and kids who need Vocational Training and career but homelessness is one of your big problems right now, isnt it . Homelessness is for young people oftentimes theyre called the invisible young group, you dont see a lot of homeless young people on the streets. It is a big issue. It is one where we talk about 18 to 24yearolds who are a core group of young people because of challenges of affordable housing, because theyre changing their lifestyles or whose families are at a point of saying youre old enough to get out early. Its a major challenge for us here in the nations capital. And you dont find many Homeless Youth sitting in the classroom, do you . Thats right. The problems in the classroom though are that the dropout
Of Covenant House washington. And Christopher Hall is a 21yearold who is benefitting from the Career Pathways program. Welcome all you have to viewpoint. Thank you. Covenant house young people helps with homelessness, physical and sexual abuse kids who drop out of school and kids who need Vocational Training and career but homelessness is one of your big problems right now, isnt it . Homelessness is for young people oftentimes theyre called the invisible young group, you dont see a lot of homeless young people on the streets. It is a big issue. It is one where we talk about 18 to 24yearolds who are a core group of young people because of challenges of affordable housing, because theyre changing their lifestyles or whose families are at a point of saying youre old enough to get out early. Its a major challenge for us here in the nations capital. And you dont find many Homeless Youth sitting in the classroom, do you . Thats right. The problems in the classroom though are that the dropout
The simple device that could have helped and what others learned from their scary experience. We begin with breaking news and we got reports of a robbery and possible shooting at a Jewelry Store in san jose. Jeanine della vega joins us live to let us know about the situation, good afternoon. Reporter police have this whole area roped off and this whole happened by this Jewelry Store and right now officers are talking to employees to try to piece together what happened. We know two armed men are on the run. Lets go to some video we have from news chopper 2. This all started at about 10 10 this morning. Police tell us two men entered this Jewelry Store and they did have a gun with them and the store clerk inside had a gun and fired back at the suspects and it is unknown if he hit one of them. Those robbers ended up running out of the store and its unclear whether there was a getaway car and they did not tell us whether they got away with any items inside the store and this is what they h