Yorks Rikers Island jail. You going to be missed big bro. Me and him, we had a special connection, special relationship. Seven days later, he was found dead in his cell. They said he was baked to death. Heat. His Room Temperature reached well over 100 degrees with no ventilation. Theres no words to explain. It just looks like you came from a building that caught on fire. He was blacker than my hair. He was darker than my hair. Jerome was a former marine, who suffered from bipolar disorder and alcohol abuse. A week went by and we didnt hear from him, then two weeks, then it was 3 weeks. Then my mother started saying, something it aint right. His family says he never should have been in jail. But a judge had set his bail at two thousand five hundred dollars. Thats how much it would have cost him to walk free before his trial. Since jerome couldnt afford to pay, he was sent back to Rikers Island, to wait for his trial. In this episode of fault lines, we look at how courts handle the accus
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Members of the committee i call this hearing on agriculture and forestry to order todays marks the ninth hearing this your dedicated to stakeholders all around the country country, programs are working as we work towards a formal. This includes taking look and spending requests and proposals and do not have day budget baseline. As i said the committee must be mindful of a very tough budgetary impairment that we have to face while it is a principal duty to ensure the next farm bill provides our producers with the necessary tools and resources to feed a growing and hungry world with the responsibilities dont stop there the farm bill needs to support businesses with schools. Said and that is what the farmers and ranchers call home. We had the opportunity to hear from a number of stakeholders. Into the witness is a apologize. Looking at the electric cooperative. And then with an affordable and Reliable Energy. And with the commodities. The roll Telec
Nutrition for street to order. Todays hearing marks this committees ninth hearing this year, dedicated to enlisting listen to our stakeholders around the country on out our Office Programs are currently working or need improvement as we work towards farm bill reauthorization during this congress. This includes taking a look at spending request for proposals for 39 programs in the farm bill that do not have budget baseline. And as i said each of these hearings are committee must be mindful of very tough budgetary environment that we have to face. While it is a principal duty of this committee to ensure the next farm bill provides our nations agriculture produces with the necessary tools and resources to feed a growing and hungry world, our responsibilities and the will of the is a you not stop there. It is also critical for next farm bill works to support Rural Businesses and cooperatives and Health Clinics and schools, Renewable Energy, and biobased product manufacturers manufacturers
The Staff Members on the subject should state to the commissioners what is being done. You dont have to come here like the previous gentleman suggesting things but then, nothing is done about it. Water is precious. And we just take it for granted in San Francisco because we stole the water from different people we dont respect them at all. We dont even have them in some way even though we brought them here at one time and they promised to have them, nobody has reached out to them. They just take it for granted that okay that water comes so we use it for all her buildings, skyscrapers and everything. And yet, in a very general where we will talk about climate change, conservation and the footprint on not taking any concrete action in an unimaginable way to address a waste of water including our hydrant and huge pipes break. We need to capture that data so that we may have a dialogue thats gonna be a hearing. Thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comments . Thank you, and we will move o
Thats npclive. Now its time to introduce our head table guests. Id ask that each of you stand briefly as your name is announced. Please hold your applause until i have finished introducing the entire table. From your right, dylan brown, a reporter from E E Publishing; gene tighe, director of bbn technologies, and a Longtime National park volunteer; maria recio, a correspondent from mcclatchy newspapers; will shafroth, president and ceo of the National Park foundation; elizabeth bumiller, Washington Bureau chief of the new york times; the honorable john warner, former secretary of the navy and United States senator from the commonwealth of virginia. [applause] thank you, senator. Ferdous alfaruque, medical device reporter for medtech insight and a press club board member. Skipping over our speaker for just a minute, rod kurkro, reporter at E E Publishing and the press Club Speakers Committee member who organized todays event. Thank you, rod. Tom crosson, the chief of Public Affairs for