About social inequality in the United States as well. Host the next call from evelyn in tuscaloosa, alabama. Youre on booktv. Evelyn, are you with us . Doesnt sound like evelyn there is. Lets move on to terry in brooklyn, new york. Terry, youre on the air go ahead. Caller seem to be having problems with the phones here. This text message came in for you, and in specific terms, explain the end result that your movement wants to achieve, how will you measure success or failure . Guest well, thats a great question. I think that there are short and longterm goals. Theres a longterm goal that looks at how we have to actually attack social inequality, racial inequality in this country to deal ultimately with the question of policing, because policing really isnt about crime. Its not really about stopping crime or anything like that. Policing has become a way ofor dealing with the social crises that exist in communities across the country, and so thats a longterm understanding of what is happ
Glow sticks and candles to a vigil to honor the victims last night. At least 36 people were killed, including teenagers. Late last night, authorities released the names of ten newly identified victims. So far, 22 victims have been positively identified and 11 tentatively, but three victims will require scientific identification. A criminal investigation has begun and the alameda District Attorney said it could lead to charges of Involuntary Manslaughter or even murder. The manager of the warehouse and his wife feel like theyre being unfairly blamed. Do i take blame or responsibility for this . Like we have done everything that we possibly could afford to do. While most of the building has been searched, firefighters were forced to pause their efforts earlier because walled were caving in and needed a crane to continue. However, authorities do not anticipate recovering any more bodies. Turning now to politics, and after a night out on the town, dining with family members at new yorks 21
Nightly news begins right now. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Reporting tonight from oakland. Good evening. There are so many reasons why the tragedy that happened here in oakland friday night shouldnt have. From the illegal Living Spaces to a makeshift stairway, to the dangling electrical cords and stacks of flammable materials. Was a disaster waiting to happen. As we come on the air tonight, the number of bodies recovered as has reached 36. Authorities believe there will be more. The victims were here for a party in a warehouse known as the ghost ship. An Art Collective where the very things that made it avantgarde may have also made it a fiery death trap. Now tonight, the man who ran the place is talking to nbc news. Miguel almaguer is here to start our coverage. Miguel . Lester, good earlier today because the walls of the warehouse threatened to collapse on them. This is now a criminal investigation. Murder charges could be filed. Firefighters are trying to recover bodi
His book watchdog when is about investigations you went through and the troubled asset relief vote, your vote election to congress, interesting for readers is the gray davis recall in california and the behind the scenes story of how that came about and was financed. Has a little of chairman tom baits in it. Guest a little of that. Host what prompted you to write a book . Guest i think voters have lost a little hope. They see the wrongdoing, not all of it but some of it, and dont see what difference it makes. I thought a book about taking the stories people know about and link it to what difference it makes would help people. There were things done as a result on our successes. You sent out 2,000 letters in a congressional cycle and most of those end in government complying, and making changes and investigations. Many led to fundamental changes. There were lavish parties held on taxpayers money and our oversight changed how the administration oversees that to make sure taxpayer dollars
Come out yet but that may have information on the convention in chicago 1969, june of 1969. One thing i do know is that the people i talked to were getting pamphlets from the black panthers. They were completely salacious that Bernadine Dohrn is sleeping with the panthers and that was absolutely obviously ginned up and a lot of the behavior was clearly classic disruptive, and behavior, and also we do know that not that many people penetrated the weather, but a lot of people penetrated sds and so im sure and im sure that there must have been multiple disrupters at the convention. And the hard hat thing, we know that nixon invited the hard hats. So the hard hat rebellion was 200 construction workers who just beat to a pulp hundreds of kids and while the police just watched, and one of the things that infuriated the explosion he hard hats was john lindsey ordered all the new york city flags to be at half mast after kent state. And actually i interviewed a policeman in madison, wisconsin m