is that right? for members of congress? 12 years for members of congress, aggregate. one house or the other or both. not only that, what i m proposing is under article five of the constitution i know when i talk about the constitution, it s very quaint, but these guys, they swear to uphold it and so from time to time, we ought to refer them to it. under article five, there s two ways of amending the constitution, through congress or through the state legislatures. the framers at the time said in 1787, some day, your congress may become oppressive. some day, your federal government may become oppressive. there has to be a way for the american people to react to this, respond to this in a constitutional legitimate and civil way, and that s through the state legislatures, proposing amendments to all the states and just like if the congress proposes them, three-fourths of the states would ratify. the problem right now is we have a centralized government, concentration of power, unmoore
highly emotional and physically draining experience. the death of a teenager weighed heavily on our hearts but in the end we did what the law required us to. her conscience seems completely weighed down by what happened. it s burdened and seared. feel the pain. empathize with her. she empathizes with trayvon s martin. we should empathize with the fact that this jury was given a set of directives from the prosecution that all but, to me, lost the case. because they weren t willing to make explicit what their beliefs were. they didn t have a narrative. they didn t draw the lines between the dots for these jurors. they were left on their own. they were unhinged and unmoored, to mix metaphors, on the judicial deliberation. the fascinating thing to me about this, we found out the jury had four white women, one woman who was not white. her ethnicity was not disclosed. we now know she s puerto rican.
draining experience. the death of a teenager weighed heavily on our hearts but in the end we did what the law required us to. her conscience seems completely weighed down by what happened. it s burdened and seared. feel the pain. empathize with her. she empathizes with trayvon s martin. we should empathize with the fact that this jury was given a set of directives from the prosecution that all but, to me, lost the case. because they weren t willing to make explicit what their beliefs were. they didn t have a narrative. they didn t draw the lines between the dots for these jurors. they were left on their own. they were unhinged and unmoored, to mix metaphors, on the judicial deliberation. the fascinating thing to me about this, we found out the jury had four white women, one woman who was not white. her ethnicity was not disclosed. we now know she s puerto rican. the crudest, racial stereotyping
between the dots for these jurors. they were left on their own. they were unhinged and unmoored, to mix metaphors, on the judicial deliberation. the fascinatining thing to m about this, we found out the jury had four white women, one woman who was not white. her ethnicity was not disclosed. we now know she s puerto rican. the crudest, racial stereotyping of how these jurors would come down, now, appears to me, coming out to be true, in the sense we know in the first vote there was one juror who voted for second-degree murder and we now know that was the only nonwhite juror. we also know, therefore, what conclusion do we draw from this? the racial divisions that are poisoning the well, no. it means we have to have diversity on the juries, chris, because without that we won t have an alternative perspective that allows us to arrive at a cogent, compelling explanation after the data that obviously is
people stranded. thank you so much let me go to janet shamlian. was we re getting hit by another wave of this storm right here in the french quarter, what s the latest from your vantage point in mississippi? reporter: we are being hit just, as well. i want to show you what s happening here. this is usually a calm body of water, tamron. right now it looks like an angry ocean and it s covering a road that leads to the marina. it the marina is no more. several of the boats including this big, probably about a 35-foot motor boat have the become unmoored. this one basically rolled right up the street. there is debris flying all over here. everything. there is chlorine from the yacht club s pool. there s pylons from the pool. you ll see that children s park is about four feet underwater. and authorities here are saying we could see the water rise even a little bit further. so it has been a really hard hit for this community pass