27 four month after giving birth to her second child. attributed her failing health to the trauma of racial injustice. racism kills. amy: we will look at a remarkable investigation by propublica on how hospitals are failing black mothers. bottom line is in the united states we have some of the highest rates of maternal death in the industrialized world. this is driven by the high rate of black mothers. like mothers are three to four times more likely to die in childbirth, and this is something we should all be talking about. amy: we will discuss how the fallout of police violence is killing black women like erica garner. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. president donald trump hardened his position on immigration wednesday, a day after he appeared to support a wide-reaching deal on immigration that could grant millions of undocumented people a pathway to citizenship. during a meeting with cong
tired, so be patient if i stumble here and there. it s just in time for halloween which is ominous on the golden gate bridge. there are a lot of clouds and low fog with temperatures in the 50s areawide this morning. sunshine later today with temperatures continuing to cool. a significant cooling trend in time for halloween and a chance for stormy weather. we are looking forward to changes. now here is a look at what to expect today at the boo at the zoo. it will be cool and you will need a jacket for the kids. i will have a forecast coming up . smoke and flames at a home in san jose kept firefighters busy. it was apparently a hoarder situation making it tough to put the fire out. old cars, trailers and debris around the property sparked the fire and fueled it on friday. fire hides deep in those piles and it takes a long time and hours and hours of water application to get to those deep-seated fires. reporter: legally, firefighters cannot force people to clean their homes
and the seafood industry and failed schools for minority students. this is about one hour and 40 minutes. good morning, everyone. i m tom patterson, the interim director of the shorenstein center. this is the follow-up to last evening s goldsmith awards program. event this part of the where we have a finalist for the goldsmith investigative reporting award take us a little bit behind the story. how they came to it. some of the difficulties they faced, and then we can all have a conversation about these stories and investigative reporting generally. i would like to thank the greenfield foundation which underwrites the goldsmith awards. they have supported it through its 24 years unveiling way unfailing. it would not be the type of program it is without that marvelous family. what i am going to do, i will introduce you to the panelist. i think i will do them one at a time when you are up, rather than going down the line. by the time they come up, you sometimes forget which
post your comments on facebook.com/c-span. us,can also e-mail journal@c-span.org. the front page of the wall street journal frames the issue of poverty with the headline we want to get your thoughts this morning. start dialing and now. it can also go to our social media pages and join the conversation there. the wall street journal says this as well. those six republicans joined all including senators ayotte, murkowski, portman, and coats. the washington post reports this morning the president obama made coat made phone calls to sever all those republicans and urged them to vote yes on a procedural vote. this is part of the overall theme by democrats wanting to highlight what they call income inequality. chad and override chad in rhode island, what you think? i think that we have lost the war on poverty. thank you for your time. host: why do you say that? caller: when you have people working on a daily basis and have to apply to food stamps and , when our jobs have be
washington journal continues. we want to welcome to our table congresswoman barbara lee. thank you for being here. we talked about the 50th ofiversary of johnson s that president lyndon johnson s war on poverty. 50th anniversary of president lyndon johnson s war on poverty. the supplemental poverty rate in 1967 was 20%. if you look at why it has to do ,ith a lot of the tax credits the food stamp program, medicaid, medicare, all of those great societies that provide us opportunities for people. we are a long way to go because we squeeze all of these initiatives and policies. primarily the tea party republican congress creating the job opportunities of people who are living or want ,o be lifted from the poverty they had those opportunities to get job training and jobs. what are the democrats solution? need to immediately extend unemployment, taxation. when you look at the fact that 11 million people have been killed have been kept