by the time mid-may arrived we saw this really sharp transition. was there no weather trend that indicated that we would be in this situation? we had a la nina in place s generally indicative of a drought. is conditions were in place, and farmers were really hopeful back in the spring. but when june and july rolled around, 55% of the lower 48 in a moderate to extreme drought. your book is title the weather of the future i imagine people come to you all the time and say what is the future here? what is the answer. it death means more extremes, we re talking heat exstreams, wildfire extremes. obviously you know there are
contract. a deal is a deal. unless you declare bankruptcy. exactly. so now, because of those astronomical, the astronomical payouts the city has had to do. if they actually file bankruptcy since they just voted on it, then a judge can blow up all these contracts and redo them and people may be out scads of money that they now count on. they got this law 8506 in california that allows them to get together with mediation and decide who gets paid and how much they get paid and how to spread out the revenue that they have. they call it death by 1,000 meetings. these go on and on and they re endlessly tedious and they completed on monday at midnight and sadly, it doesn t look good. but they got to go in there and try to pay off their loans while keeping this keeping the city afloat somehow. if you re sawing saying it s a cautionary tale for other cities in the same predicament. at times, the unions have not wanted to negotiate at all banking on the a deal is a deal
it happened to our next guest. his name is frankie coreo. in 1991, he was just 18 when he was convicted of murder. solely on witness testimony. during a time in their lives, most people, in their lives, are going to college, building a career, or starting a family. frankie was behind bars, desperately trying to prove his innocence. he took 20 years. but frankie was finally released from prison after five witnesses changed their stories. he is just one of 2,000 people who, since 1989, have been wrongfully convicted. of those 101 were sentenced it death. for the first time, we are learning their stories from a brand new data base of exonerated prisoners. it is an important new tool in the fight for justice. more than 2 million people are behind bars today.
they are going to try to take some action to show that they are in poured concreter to warn south korea and the united states not to take advantage of this destablizing period and that could be a nuclear test, a ballistic missile test. it could be the type of action that they took against south korea last year such as shelling an island or sinking a ship. i think everyone needs to be prepared for that and that is why as you indicated at the south of the segment, south korea put its military on highest alert and i would expect american forces to be on highest alert as well. what might south korea could do in the light of king jon kis it death. if there is sign that the regime is losing control i think we can possibly expect beijing to try to move and secure its position there, secure its borders and expand its influence and that is something that we need to make very clear to beijing would harm u.s./china relations if they sought to expand their
years in the making and is detailed in a 22-page letter to the maricopa county attorney. detailing a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against latinos at the mcso, the maricopa county sheriff s office that reaches the highest level of the agency. sheriff arpaio s own actions have helped nurture a culture of bias. found latino drivers are four to nimz more likely than non-latino drivers and more documenting detention officers at the sheriff s jail using offensive slurs and profanities calling them wetbacks, stupid mexicans and slurs we can t mention on the air. according to the civil rights division they re reviewing allegations that sheriff arpaio s department failed to investigate hundreds of alleged sexual assaults and child molestation cases. many of the victims apparently were latinos. earlier this year, when 360 s ed lavandera spoke with sheriff arpaio he spoke as himself as a victim. have they spoke to you what an abuse of power is? i don t know what