Good evening. And we begin this monday night in baltimore, where there is an intense focus on several videos now captures of the same arrest. The suspect being put into the back of a police van. That suspect, freddie gray would end up with a severed spine. He would later die. It is unclear how it happened. Late today, Baltimore Police saying none of the officers described any use of force. You can see gray being put in the back of that van. Tonight, the Justice Department telling abc news the Civil Rights Division is considering opening an investigation into the death of gray while in custody. Tonight, the Police Commissioner acknowledging this is a community on edge with many asking, what happened while in that van . Abcs david kerley is in baltimore tonight. Reporter tonight, new video from a Police Camera that still doesnt explain the arrest and death of freddie gray. This cell phone video shows him being take on the a police van in a high crime area. Seven days later, the 25yearold
Important byproduct of whats happening. Host from Medicare Part d, Lessons Learned you had cited Crisis Management teams that were created to come up with metrics to gauge progress dealing with technology glitches. How did that work . Created teamsally in anticipation that we would could deale that with the problems separate from those who were having to deal with the ongoing management of the program. It turned out to be a very wise decision. Just like they are experiencing now, there was a need to have people fixing software glitches. If they were the same people running the computers, they would stop doing that. We had a bouncy six weeks. I was a time when in 20 states and 13 days trying to keep people calm to say we are working on fixing this so be patient. Some of the same thing is going on now. We made a decision that we wanted to be transparent about the way in which we were making progress. , numbersd some metrics by which we could measure our progress. Say this days we would i
Implementation that has cost the american taxpayers over 400 million the cost is continuing to rise. These are more than glitches. They cant be fixed. Im going to explain why i believe they cant be fixed when i get back. It can be replaced. I dont know the large cost to the american taxpayer but they cant be fixed. I will explain that when i get back. What was going on, that changed came in to two weeks before so people couldnt just browse and take a look at it. That appears to be a political change. I know, you cant make that statement. Let me ask you this, when the request came in from cms did you tell them it was going cause difficulties in getting the website lawmpleghted by october 1 . Its us, its a flag in the system. We turned the flag on and turned it off for the particular component. You didnt think it posed any problems with any system. Thats correct. And mr. Slavitt, if i read your testimony, it says you reported you did some testing and reported back to the cms and the rele
Heres another view of tamny that you dont often aero. On july 4 1937 at the annual Independence Day commemoration, one of the machines greatest members, senator Robert Wagner, had this to say about the machines place in history. Over 30 years ago, new york was [inaudible] in social welfare legislation. They forgot the lost souls tied day and night to the factory bench. But about that time a small group from tammany hall were elected to serve in albany. We remembered these lost souls and guided them to an earthly salvation. We passed law after law and made new york the shining mark for the world to emulate. Tammany hall may justly claim the title of the cradle of modern liberalism in america. Robert backer in, of course was one wagner, of course, was one of the rhyme sponsors of the Social Security prime sponsors of the Social Security act, making him the greatest legislator of the new deal era. So he knew many something about the birth of modern liberalism. So did another tamany figure
Joining us is angela agree link keene. What was the president s reaction to the bee heading of the second american journalist . We spoke today for the first time about the murder of mr. Sotloff. The obama said was much the same as what he said when he spoke about the murder of james foley, which is that he wants to go after isis. He says that anyone who attacks americans should be weary because the u. S. Will retaliate. So he spoke very firmly about the beheading. I expect to hear more from him. He said the United States will not be intimidated and hell build a coalition to degrade and destroy the group. Did he set out a time line . He did not put a time line on such a coalition, but clearly he signaled a desire for the european allies to step up and join the americans in that effort, and he of course will be meeting with leaders of many of the European Countries the next two days in wales. Host what is his schedule . For the rest of today he is in estonia. He is meeting shortly with t