That this was a heart breaking tragedy, by any standard. And many, many people will be affected by this terrible act of violence every day for the rest of their lives. And we should keep them in our thoughts and prayers. On the other hand, i think we all need to be very thankful that this incident wasnt much worse. We will take you live to portland for more on the shooter in just a moment here. But first, the victims. And this is where this briefing got emotional. I want you to listen here to the sheriff spokesman describe the victims and the requests on behalf of the families. This first statement comes from the family of cindy rule, age 54, from portland. Cindy was everybodys friend, she was a wonderful person who was very caring and put others first. The family has advised us they want time and space to grieve their loss and will not be giving interviews at this time. The family will make a statement at an unspecified later date through the sheriffs office. This is a statement from
Unguided scudtype missiles. And were also learning new details of the latest phone call between president obama and House Speaker john boehner did not go well. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with todays longrange rocket launch thats managed to put a satellite in earths orbit. Heres why it is important to all of us. Even though north korea is one of the poorest countries and many people are starving there, the Korean Peninsula is the most tense, most dangerous places on earth. There are roughly one million north korean troops on it is side of the militarize zone separating from south korea. As well as nearly 30,000 u. S. Forces. Not only are they within strikes distance of the launch site, a longrange rocket shows north korea is on its way to developing technology to launch a rocket at the United Statess west coast and hawaii. Officials tell cnn that the working assumption is that the North Koreans got outside help from others, including iran. So todays launch is
Pennsylvania law school to exam statistics relating to arrest, bail, plea bargaining and sentence nothing the system and expect well be able to have a greater impact on these numbers in the next in the year and years ahead. This is a summary of our budget, and ftes. As you can see, for the most part, our fde and budget have remained flat comparing last year to this year, the difference between those our budget and numbers are 500,000 is due to negotiations by the city over labor contracts. The fdes, from 157 to 158 as i mentioned later are due to two positions that will be used to fund our Legal Education advocacy program. We measure the quality of our work through the work load. You can see, this is our felony in miss demeanor case load. We handle 10,000 case loads and 6,000 miss demeanor cases and youll see our annual case load in all categories is beyond that, which is represented by the American Bar Association National Associations standard and youll see we use case waiting which
Some challenges. You know im a former commissioner for the department and this particular Department Needs Additional Support and so i am hoping that this information thats provided to us would give you a clear understanding why we need to make changes to the Fire Departments budget in order to potentially include a request that could help in that regard. Its a very important department. Its not funded at appropriate levels, but i think we need to do something about that particular issue, and so i am hoping that we can get that information sooner than later. Absolutely. This afternoon. Okay. Thank you. Supervisor mar. Yes. Thank you for the presentation and i really appreciate chief hayes white letting know early she had the obligations in dc as well. I wanted to just ask about overtime. I know the chief of police sure give us the charts and making efforts to reduce overtime. I dont see that in this presentation. I know we had good data last year from you on the impact on the Academy C
Understanding why we need to make changes to the Fire Departments budget in order to potentially include a request that could help in that regard. Its a very important department. Its not funded at appropriate levels, but i think we need to do something about that particular issue, and so i am hoping that we can get that information sooner than later. Absolutely. This afternoon. Okay. Thank you. Supervisor mar. Yes. Thank you for the presentation and i really appreciate chief hayes white letting know early she had the obligations in dc as well. I wanted to just ask about overtime. I know the chief of police sure give us the charts and making efforts to reduce overtime. I dont see that in this presentation. I know we had good data last year from you on the impact on the Academy Class and the stabilization increasing of your force, but i am just wondering are we seeing continued progress in reducing over time expenditures, or is your industry so different that its different and thats not