Charge he looked stunned staring down and shaking his head. He was devastated. The attorney told me why a few minutes later, thacker had just learned the victim died. He just found out literally minutes before he walked into the courtroom. We wondered how that could be if he had been served with a murder warrant he should have known tammy was dead. Nobody told him before . No. Authorities told us he had been charged with murder since he was behind bars paperwork would have been served there but did that happen . We asked the jail and we were told they did not see any paperwork in their files and asked the Clerks Office and they had no paperwork, either so we asked the District Attorneys Office and they discovered that no murder warrant had ever been issued. Thacker went before a judge on a murdr charge before he had been charged with murder. The wrong paperwork a summons had been issued. Murder case. Error this warrant was drawn up and served and thacker went back to courtment because
One of the Fastest Growing countries in all of africa haunted by a horrific past. Remembering the horror of the rwandan genocide 20 years later. Translation its amazing and beautiful. They seem to come out of nowhere. They are so friendly. Grey whales battle the brink of extinction. Good morning to you. Welcome back to Al Jazeera America. We begin this morning with a possible break through in the monthold break through in the search for the jetliner. Chinese ships picked up two signals. They also spotted debris 55 miles away from where the sounds were heard. All of this was happening in the association of american publishers off the coast of western australia. Search teams picked up the efforts. The man in charge says its too soon to say whether the pings are actually from the missing plane. These signals and the objects could not be verified as relating to the missing aircraft at that time. That remains the case. Here is how the ascertain works. Crews use a Remote Control to drop the
A Doctors Without Borders letters just back from sierra leone is being held in isolation in a new jersey hospital despite showing no signs of having ebola. She says shes going to sue over her treatment. We will speak to a nurse just back from guinea and economist Jeffrey Sachs of the Earth Institute at Columbia University which has a team in guinea. We will also speak to John Hopkins University professor nancy kass about the use of experimental drugs to treat ebola patients. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The governors of new york and new jersey are facing federal pressure to reverse new quarantine rules on medical workers returning from west africa. Under the policy, arriving passengers with the risk of ebola exposure will be placed in a 21 day quarantine. Illinois hasnt limited a similar policy. White house officials lobbied new Jersey Governor Chris Christie and new York Governor Andrew Cuomo over t
Africa, debate grows in the United States over quarantining Health Care Workers returning from the region. A Doctors Without Borders letters just back from sierra leone is being held in isolation in a new jersey hospital despite showing no signs of having ebola. She says shes going to sue over her treatment. We will speak to a nurse just back from guinea and economist Jeffrey Sachs of the Earth Institute at Columbia University which has a team in guinea. We will also speak to John Hopkins University professor nancy kass about the use of experimental drugs to treat ebola patients. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The governors of new york and new jersey are facing federal pressure to reverse new quarantine rules on medical workers returning from west africa. Under the policy, arriving passengers with the risk of ebola exposure will be placed in a 21 day quarantine. Illinois hasnt limited a similar policy.
100 representative American Kids entering high school. What does fate have in store for them . 25 out of that 100 wont graduate from high school. A total of 50 wont go to college. Thats half the class that wont go on to higher education. 50 will attend college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. Meanwhi meanwhile, other countries are outstarting us. On a recent international test, u. S. Students ranked only 15th in the world in reading, 23rd in science and 31st in math. Overall, the World Economic forum ranks the quality of our education at 26th. Whats odd is that weve been outspending most developed countries by a long shot. In 2007, we spent over 10,000 per student versus the 7,400 average for rich countries. How can we spend so much money and have so little to show for it . Well ask that question and others to some of the leading figures in American Education here on this special essay. Well examine the role of teachers, testing ands technology. And we ask the man who spent