British Passenger Ship titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the north atlantic. More than 1500 passengers and crew died. The deadliest sinking of a single ship up to that time. After inquiries in the u. S. And the u. K. , major changes in Maritime Safety were made. In the next hour, well learn about the american congresss response. Our guest, elise bean. Shes the director of the d. C. Office of the levin center for oversight and democracy. Rms been how quickly did the u. S. Congress take up the sinking of the titanic in 1912 . Well, its really, really pretty remarkable. They took it up in four days. The ship itself went down on a monday night. 1500 people died, as you mentioned. Over 700 were rescued and transported to new york city harbor. By tuesday, word was out. The media in new york reported on the tragedy. By wednesday, the u. S. Senate decided that they wanted to investigate. They had even though the ship was british owned and it had gone down in international waters, they decided
You know christmas is still a month away and sanity app clause took time from busy schedule to mack a appearance today. This marked the santa express on the railroad. Trains run from west khet to glen mills and back. Cecily tynan and jamie apody while waiting with their kid. The express runs through december 0. All right. Santa clause liked the action news van. Honored guest in media. Joined mummers and local mu suggestions and Dance Companies and and elvis and helped kick down the countdown for christmas. There was a block party and costume contest and bud run. Action news sports sunday is next on channel 6. Action news continues at 4 30 tomorrow morning with david murphy, tamala edwards, Matt Odonnell and karen rogers. Now for melissa magee, jeff skversky, Sarah Bloomquist and the entire action news team, im walter perez, have a great the entire action news team, im walter perez, have a great night and wonderful week ahead. So many story lines on a jam packed sunday. Just when you th
Before. And also contract with good people, people that are professional. Im happy to see bevan dufty here in the audience. Thank you for your leadership on this. That we contract with professional people that are able to manage not only their shelter, but the occupants. I have constituents email me today of a homeless man peeing in front of their business. So, we have a lot of work to do to get to address the challenge. Thank you. Supervisor farrell. Thank you, president chiu. And colleagues, i want to thank everyone for their comments. And quite frankly, the discussion as well. They werent here when i first started talking, but i want to acknowledge bevan dufty, [speaker not understood] who runs the outreach team. Thank you for all your efforts in this regard. And for working together and offering to continue to Work Together on what were discussing here today. So, thank you both. You are indisposable for our city, and thank you so much. I also want to acknowledge something i believe
Safe places for people to live. And once we are able to showcase that to a lot of folks on the street, a lot more people are going to be willing to accept the services and help that were offering. But frankly, some of the things that weve been offering in the past are just not places that i think any of us would want to spend a night in. So, thats one thing. The second issue with the medical Respite Center that weve had kind of longer discussionses with dph about is how do you create welcoming spaces for people . A lot of concerns that people have who are struggling with Mental Health is that they actually know that theyre struggling with Mental Health and they actually want support and services, but the way that we provide the support and services are often in these very cold mandatory like were forcing you to do this, this, and this. And none of us in this room want to be forced to do anything. Like if we were in that situation, we wouldnt want to walk into an environment where we kn
Medical Respite Center that weve had kind of longer discussionses with dph about is how do you create welcoming spaces for people . A lot of concerns that people have who are struggling with Mental Health is that they actually know that theyre struggling with Mental Health and they actually want support and services, but the way that we provide the support and services are often in these very cold mandatory like were forcing you to do this, this, and this. And none of us in this room want to be forced to do anything. Like if we were in that situation, we wouldnt want to walk into an environment where we knew against our will these are the things we had to go through in order to get services. So, how do we provide a different type of environment thats more opening and welcoming thats a 24hour center that can be a respite where we can build relace ship and trust with people on the street that are struggling with Mental Health and know that theyre struggling with Mental Health . I think t