Business. If you want to clect a drug debt, you cannot follow lawsuit in court. You collect it with the barrel of a gun. Amy as attorney general Jeff Sessions vows a major revival of the war on drugs, well spend speak with susan burton. She spent 15 years cycling in of prison after her fiveyearold son was run over and killed. She has written a book about her life experience, becoming ms. Burton from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women. I believe in rehabilitation, not only for drug addiction, but for other areas. And we cannot continue to warehouse people and not provide ,evels of rehabilitation reentry services, training, jobs, and allow them to be an economy indd to this america. Amy we will also speak with Michelle Alexander, author of, the new jim crow mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. Is has described susan burton as a modernday Harriet Tubman. We have got to build an underground railroad for people returning home from prison. In undergrou
Tower of power were on their way to play at yoshis in oakland. Leslie brinkley has the latest. Reporter thats right, ama and dan. Tower of power had played ten out of the 12 shows they were scheduled to play at yoshis when this tragic accident occurred last night. Amtrak says the two musicians were not in a legitimate Railroad Crossing when this amtrak train came through and struck them at about 25 miles an hour. There are two train crossings by yoshis jazz club for pedestrians and for cars. Even a pedestrian bridge over the tracks. But two members of the tower of power band ran out of their hotel just before their 8 00 show was ready to start thursday night and apparently tried to jaywalk over the train tracks along with several others. A Freight Train passed. Then they ran out and were struck by another oncoming amtrak train. The drummer was rushed to Highland Hospital with face and head injuries according to a Facebook Post who also said a fillin bassist made it through surgery for
Respecting the office of the presidency. I just cant not celebrate in good conscience. Prnlly quick to follow. The thing that bothers me most about him his constant attack on american common decency, conservative, liberal, republican, democrat, i always thought americans had this desire to see people particularly elected office to be decent. When i know something deeply wrong is going on with our country, i need to send a positive message. So i have decide to be here in my district. He will be there to see trump sworn in. I think it is a personal choice. I am at this point, i intend to go. But i really understand and respect my colleague whose are choosing not to. New u. S. Senator caramela harris confirmed she will be there. Dianne feinstein has yet to commit. So far, no u. S. Senators have announced they will not be attending the formal transition to the trump presidency. In walnut creek, laura anthony, abc 7 news. I will be in washington, d. C. Thursday and friday with live reports
Trump is this friday, and you can watch it live on abc 7. Some members of congress will be watching it on tv because theyre refusing to attend the event in person. Among them are these four. All representing the bay area. So far another six from Southern California will not attend. Which makes at least 10 out of californias 53 representatives skipping the inauguration. Abc 7 News Reporter, Laura Anthony is live after talking with local politicians about why theyre not or are going. Reporter at last count there were more than 30 Congress People across the country who would not attend the inauguration this friday. And nearly a third of those are from california. But so far here and across the country none are senators. He said over and over again we, have a moral obligation to do what is right to speak out. Reporter in her home district to celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther king jr. , barbara lee invoked the word of the great civil rights leader to explain why she will not attend the
Also some tech m a. Oracle buying netsuite for 9. 3 billion in cash. That makes it the second biggest acquisition ever. Thats behind the 10 plus billion dollar acquisition just over ten years ago. Just had a conversation with people familiar with oracle speaking on this and i was wondering right now because larry and his Family Organization connected to him own about 40 of netsuite. This deal looks more expensive than oracle has been paying for cloud acquisition. So why do this now . It turns out if you look at what oracle has been up to over the past couple of years, they have been building out cloud infrastructure. Paying a lot of money for the Data Center Resources needed to become the Cloud Company that they want to be. They needed to get there before they could do this netsuite deal and make it flow and work and create the company and similar to if youre building out hotels you need to build the hotels before you can have the tenants actually make money. Thats something behind thi