With both scheduled for 6 30 eastern. Irs oversight later in the week. The senate comes in as well at 2 00 p. M. Speeches until 5 00 p. M. The confirmation vote at 5 30. They may return to the Human Trafficking bill. Live coverage of the senate on cspan 2. The third republican, senator marco rubio of florida will announce his body 16 president ial candidacy later today at 5 30. Earlier today we spoke with a political reporter who talked about the announcement and where it is taking place. [video clip] we are joined by mark computer on the line marc caputo on the line, joining us to talk about the announcement of marco rubio. Tell us about the setting and the expected teams that marco rubio is going to talk about expected themes marco rubio is on to talk about. The Freedom Tower built in the 1920s in downtown miami. Really iconic building. He was named the Freedom Tower in recognition of the fact that in the 1960s it was used as what became called it the alex island of the south the ell
Can you talk about the driving force for you is right teeing drink . Guest it is decades old liger up with an alcoholic mother who was cross addicted to valium like much were in the 50s and the 70s depending on mothers little helper. A stay at home mom and a poster girl for that era. I have always been interested why she dropped and i said i never would but in my fifties i had a bad patch in my own life and i would say a poster girl for this era. Welleducated, highly professional, the other, and not drink two or 34 glasses of wine per night the five or six and i caught myself quickly and went to rehab. Can you talk about that with the addiction . I was full of shame. I was deeply humiliated by my a behavior. But i did blackout. Right before i went to sleep. I said i would get a handle on it. Of favorite cousin was killed by a drunk driver. I will just quit and i couldnt. I knew i was addicted. It was confounding. So i thought it could not be the alcohol. Host just like the year on the
And we kind of stay there for some time. Why did it wane . Look at drug patterns. They remain there about 15 or 16 years and a run in 20year cycles. The crack cocaine cycle is no more. There are still people who use crack cocaine. It is nowhere near where it used to be. In the absence of that driving the violence, and then we are down in the 200 range and we got stuck there for a long time. Even when i took over in 2007, in 2006. 69 one hundred 81 in 2007. We are persistent with yang violence. And violence was born accelerated during the crack cocaine. Even when the crack cocaine one away, the gangs didnt. Coming down from the 186 down to where we are now, about a 54 drop in murders. It has been constant focus on end guns, the high offenders and bring the community into work with us. That is been key in dropping at that last 54 . That was a portion of a presentation of q a. You can see the entire program today at 7 00 eastern here on cspan. Some news to share with you today. Just. S. P
Just make sure there is someone in front of you. If there is somebody you can focus on it is easier. How far are we going down . We will stop here. One of the things i wanted to point out to you here coming down the steps you will see that the 36 rib trusses that form the superstructure of the dome converge here to the 12 that go up to support the statue of freedom. As you can imagine, trying to merge 36 items into such a small space at the top was too great so every third truss is the one that continues forward and the two that flank it merge into its side for buttressing support. What you also see is the enormous super structure has very slender bands that reach down to suspend the shell below. And it has a very thin element that reaches out to the shape of the exterior dome. The brilliant thing about this design is that the dome is exposed to very harsh conditions on the outside, very cold in the winter, extremely hot in the summer under direct sun. Some plates may approach 130 degr
Friday night and they dont understand the lynchings in mississippi and brown v. Board of education. So on top of that when we as teachers are exhausted and we dont have the time to get out in the streets and from about how were being about how i worked out of contract after years of seniority because our superintendent is a guy who could put his funds towards evaluation systems and, you know, sort of this attack on teachers instead of supporting me with lower class size. I mean, theres so many complexities and nuances, and when you throw in 72 of my school is at poverty level. I transferred from 95 , when youre reporting child abuse speakers im so sorry, we are getting no, no. No note were over our time and thank you. My voice will live on. Spent thank you all so much for being here, and please if you want to continue this conversation, and i sense many of you would like to, come to signing area five where they will be with her books. Thank you so much [inaudible conversations] you are