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[inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone. Thanks for coming and tonight we are in here to talk about the new book weapons of math destruction and we are excited to get into this discussion have the few housekeeping notes first if you have any noisemaking devices and also with the format you will have the opportunity to ask questions after the presentation please raise your hand when you have a question well bring the microphone around to record that so everybody can hear we will be doing a book signing after this is over. If you like to purchase a book they are for sale up front at the bookstore also this is a politics and prose event if you pick up a calendar you can find but to go beyond the simple challenge where we live in the age where it affects our lives to be paid for Health Insurance and by the mathematical models. And then the opposite is true. And even when they are wrong. Cathy oneil is the ideal person to write this book those have been involved with occupy wall s
Investigators released this Surveillance Video hoping for a break, at one point, the person drops the package, in front of the door. I dont want anybody out there thinking there is some random person delivering these things, that is not the what we believe has occurred here. Reporter sixty yearold jim alden seen here recovering from his injuries opened up an envelope he thought was medicine. He is currently out of the hospital and told investigators that he doesnt recognize what they say appears to be an asian person, of interest, late teens to late 20s. Police say alden also told them he does not know why he was attacked, bomb itself sent to the atf lab in virginia. Authorities say it was a rare homemade device. I have been in this city for last 16 years. I have not seen anything like it, spoken to our collogue is here, they have not, even beyond this city here, we have not really seen this particular type of device. Reporter atf officials declined to say what made the bomb so rare, b
Investigators released this Surveillance Video hoping for a break, at one point, the person drops the package, in front of the door. I dont want anybody out there thinking there is some random person delivering these things, that is not the what we believe has occurred here. Reporter sixty yearold jim alden seen here recovering from his injuries opened up an envelope he thought was medicine. He is currently out of the hospital and told investigators that he doesnt recognize what they say appears to be an asian person, of interest, late teens to late 20s. Police say alden also told them he does not know why he was attacked, bomb itself sent to the atf lab in virginia. Authorities say it was a rare homemade device. I have been in this city for last 16 years. I have not seen anything like it, spoken to our collogue is here, they have not, even beyond this city here, we have not really seen this particular type of device. Reporter atf officials declined to say what made the bomb so rare, b
Hospital an hour later. We have a protocol and pursuits are very difficult because its a tough situation about when to make that call. When to terminate it. Reporter commissioner ross says the chase was the result of a gun battle between some guys in the maxima and a white car at 48th and west minster. Police heard the gunfire and actually saw a man jump into the passenger sight side of the maxima. They chased it for obviously several blocks before ultimately that vehicle crashed into our victim which is absolutely horrible thing. Reporter police are investigating to make sure proper protocol was in fact followed. We want to listen to police radio tapes which obviously will be pulled to see whether or not there was talk of conditions, speed and things like that. Reporter investigators have not said how fast the car was going. The two men in the maxima were arrested and a gun recovered. In the rear of that nissan car was a nine mil hill meter handgun with an extended magazine. Police ar