Southeastern wisconsin today, who gathered for a remembrance blood drive. Nats 8. 45. 24 28were helping out with calls in honor of 911 when you call the blood center of wisconsin to make an appointment, you dont expect a firefighter or a Police Officer to answer the phone. Rich david flight paramedic 8. 20. 25 people are surprised they cant believe someone from flight for life or pd or fire dept. Is answering the phone at blood center of wisconsin. 8. 20. 31the First Responders are teaming up with the blood center of wisconsin drive. More than 400 firefighters, Police Officers and paramedics who rushed into the World Trade Center died instantly when the twin towers collapsed on september 11 2001. Lanny nye donating blood 8. 10. 18 the second tower came down in nyc, i knew we were under attack and we could go to war and we would need blood. 8. 10. 26lanny nye dashed to the blood center of wisconsin after he saw the second tower come down. That was nearly 15 years ago, hes and hes back a
Reorganization plan that would shift the balance of power from centralized office giving more power to roughly 300 schools within the school district. If you have School Principals and volunteer boards who will be given 80 percent control of the money going to schools. Some have been critical of the reorganization. Specifically a fear that money would be distributed unequally to different schools. So children in high poverty. Children who are english ua children with special needs will receive a higher weight attached to that pupil. That money will go to the school for the first time. Wont be Central Administration determining how much money that school gets. Krystal if lawmaker as i prove the reorganization, Clark County School district would get to work immediately with the changes going into affect the next school year. Michelle today the superintendent of the Clark County School district took questions about the mercury spill. Really that is still a big issue school. Krystal we lea
Appointment wait times is that correct . . I think i said the investigation didnt conclude. Before the investigation was able to conclude they retired from federal service. But this involves fraud and fraud is a criminal issue. How many criminal referrals occurred of people who were involved in this scandal . My understanding, i dont know whether the Inspector General can help us with this. Was we dont have i think h was senator blumenthal ask that the department of justice come in to look at this and they ended up declining on looking at most of these cases. But i know there are referrals from the ig to the criminal division. Could someone comment on that . There are referrals and i know in every case where we suspect something well make the referral. I can tell you and this is not my area of expertise but i think a lot of the money that youre referring to, the bonuses, while inappropriate is not necessarily a high dollar amount and theres not a lot of attraction so fraud is okay if i
Cell phone providers have spent millions to upgrade their systems in philadelphia. We invested 24 million to quadruple our cell phones in the downtown area. At t put up temporary towers and tested newly installed towers. And engineers tested the signals at the festival and verizon and at t saw limited temporary problems in areas like the main stage. For the most part what we saw was pretty good network performance. The mayor said that city hall did not receive complaintses. We do not have any level of reports indicating there were issues or challenges out there. I made any number of phone calls out on the grounds. Cell providers are going over the data, for the pope more mobile towers will be added to ensure that visitors can send their tweets. We still have work to do over the next several weeks, verizon says that the expectation is that your cell phone should work during the papal mass. The mayor added that if you did not like the way your cell phone worked that is something you shou
Obamas war. I dont support going to war. I support president obamas plan to not do that. But to make sure we can help people fight against this terror group, which is so frightening and so frightening to humankind. Then this week, Egyptian Forces killed 18 protesters as they mark the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled dictator hosni mubarak. We will speak with prizewinning film makers Jehane Noujaim and karim amer who document of the egyptian revolution in 2011 from its roots in tahrir to the square. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The jordanian government has agreed to release a female prisoner in exchange for the freeing of an air force pilot captured by militants in syria a month ago. The Islamic State had threatened to kill the pilot and a kidnapped japanese journalist if the prisoner, sajida alrishawi, was not released. She had been facing a death sentence for her role in a 2005 attac