International sanctions you see with us here on innovate africa is next i have more news for you straight after that thanks so much watching in bit by fire. This is innovate africa a new series highlighting innovation and creativity across a continent that is on the rise. Today and innovate africa. Powered taking high tech teaching to South African townships they are. All lead to put money on using low cost tablets to bring local content to primary schools in kenya a disruptive intervention is what were doing and they can manage getting kids into coding using robots built from scratch. I has a hidden camera that is. One of the uns aid to Millennium Development goals is to achieve universal primary education however with massive inequalities between rich and poor its a tough challenge in africa but innovative thinkers are coming up with fresh solutions. Nairobis i hope is a place designed for kenyan innovators as space where smart young thinkers can share their ideas. Mary get thingee a
Black members of the jury. We want to talk about your confidence level in the criminal Justice System. If you are in the mountain , andic, 202 7488001 experience with criminal justice, we want to hear your story this morning, 202 join us onu can also twitter or facebook. We will get your calls in just a minute but lets kick off the conversation with president recent weekly address he made about the criminal Justice System. Some 2. 2 Million Peoples behind bars in america and millions more are on parole or probation. Papernd 80 billion tax doll taxpayer dollars every year to keep people locked up. Many are serving excessively long sentences for nonviolent crimes. 60 have Mental Health issues and 70 were drug users. The population is disproportionately black and latino. Plenty of people should be behind bars but the reason we have more people behind bars than any other country, it is because we have criminal justice laws that need to be reformed. Simply locking people up does not make Co
There. And its only going to get colder in the mornings to come. So here we go. I mean, were getting to late october. Its time to bundle up. Its going to be a good weekend to have the fireplace going as well. If you havent picked your pumpkins because you havent gotten in the spirit yet, this weather will get you in the spirit. We have freeze warnings, the areas in purple, for tonight. Areas west of 95, it is likely that you will see temperatures at freezing if not a few degrees below. Including everybody else in purple just underneath there, that freeze watch is in place for sunday night. It will most likely get upgrade today freeze warning which means that conditions are within a few hours. One at a time here. It will be a beautiful day. You can make the plans outside. No rain to worry about. Its just going to be cold. 51 degrees out there. Nice dry air in place. Temperatures into the 30s and 40s across the region. 42 for chevy chase. Temperatures will be cold tonight and even colder
Things are happening rapidly in places like syria and as weve seen in the news today, ukraine. If this escalates, i dont know if we have the will. Shannon, comment . Especially if you can tailer the holistic view of things. Back to the removal of the expatriates, i think we spent a lot of time focusing on the message that that conveyed and i couldnt help but wonder what that had to have felt like, almost encapsulating the points we touched upon earlier which basically speak to the fact that the western world was saying you dont matter, well take out the people who do. Even if these are the people that raised you as orphans early in life, were going to separate. One of the things weve said in here in other classes, in earlier classes this xhsemester is that genocide undoes, things fall apart with genocide. The ties that bind people together, jep side genocide is fundamentally about breaking apart things like Family Structure and communities. Yet the failure of humanity in rwanda demonst
We are going to hear from ian heating, High School Senior suffered us of your head injury, across game in the sophomore year. Despite his impressive recovery, later identified as his third head injury, left him with a limited ability to enjoy the activities Many High School students and classmates take for granted. His story should serve as a reminder youth sports injuries could have a devastating and lasting consequences. And we will also hear on this panel from brianna scoury, an olympic soccer cup champion, goalie force from the field after a career and traumatic brain injury. Chris struggle to overcome the cognitive, physical and psychological injuries illustrate even our sports heroes are vulnerable to the worst sports injuries. They should be commended for their courage in their recoveries and their willingness to testify on this critical issue. Dave brewerson, a member of the Chicago Bears tragically committed suicide just over three years ago. In doing so he shot himself in the