good evening. i m tom foreman filling in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, fiddling in washington while bankruptcy burns across the nation. san bernardino, california, is the latest american town unable to pay its bills. the math is $46 million in debt. they ve made drastic cuts in employees and services. and the city has only $150,000 in the bank. that s it. residents are coming unhinged saying, why wasn t this calamity headed off at the pass? what about two years ago when they took $10 million from the employees? what were they doing then? now the city is forced basically to file bankruptcy because they have this tremendous amount of debt over their head. in the last 14 days, two other towns near los angeles have gone into bankruptcy. other places across the country have done the same or tried to in idaho, alabama, pennsylvania, rhode island, dozens of other local and state governments have made dramatic cuts just to try to stay solvent while they wait for the econo
good evening. i m tom foreman filling in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, fiddling in washington while bankruptcy burns across the nation. san bernardino, california, is the latest american town unable to pay its bills. the math is $46 million in debt. they ve made drastic cuts in employees and services. and the city has only $150,000 in the bank. that s it. residents are coming unhinged saying, why wasn t this calamity headed off at the pass? what about two years ago when they took $10 million from the employees? what were they doing then? now the city is forced basically to file bankruptcy because they have this tremendous amount of debt over their head. in the last 14 days, two other towns near los angeles have gone into bankruptcy. other places across the country have done the same or tried to in idaho, alabama, pennsylvania, rhode island, dozens of other local and state governments have made dramatic cuts just to try to stay solvent while they wait for the econo
science of decision-making is is a difficult job, we decided to assign our sunday morning cover story to susan spencer. reporter: remember the old joke about the psychiatrist who asks his patient if he has trouble making decisions? well, the patient says, yes and no. we ve all been there. i like to think of life as just one decision after another. i mean this is everything from the most mundane decisions what kind of toothpaste to buy all the way up to who to marry. reporter: decisions, decisions. later on sunday morning. osgood: stories of crime and punishment are just about the oldest stories there are. whether the guilty can ever truly earn redemption sometimes defies a simple answer. this morningerin moriarty has such a story. i m a very, very fortunate man. reporter: he s an award- winning journalist, an author and an advocate for prisoners rights. he s also a bank robber and convicted killer who spent years on death row. i grabbed a knife and stabbed he
to assign our sunday morning cover story to susan spencer. reporter: remember the old joke about the psychiatrist who asks his patient if he has trouble making decisions? well, the patient says, yes and no. we ve all been there. i like to think of life as just one decision after another. i mean this is everything from the most mundane decisions what kind of toothpaste to buy all the way up to who to marry. reporter: decisions, decisions. later on sunday morning. osgood: stories of crime and punishment are just about the oldest stories there are. whether the guilty can ever truly earn redemption sometimes defies a simple answer. this morningerin moriarty has such a story. i m a very, very fortunate man. reporter: he s an award- winning journalist, an author and an advocate for prisoners rights. he s also a bank robber and convicted killer who spent years on death row. i grabbed a knife and stabbed her. reporter: later on sunday morning, the case of wilbert r