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This horrific scene. They are working also from below to try to tunnel in to search for the missing and now you see in these live pictures they are working from above. Which i mean bucket by bucket trying to pull out debris. It is now been about 34 hours since that building just crumbled. Cnns rosa flores and sanjay gupta are at the scene and both joining me now. Rosa, first to you, what is the latest on the Search And Rescue operation . Reporter well you know, kate, the death toll increased overnight from one to four. Also the number of people accounted for increased to 120 and the number of people unaccounted for increased to 159. I just heard from Jackson Memorial hospital, they say that they are still treating two individuals, for privacy reasons they will not let us know what type of injuries they had. But spl of the challenges that firefighters have been dealing with overnight. I was here last night at about 10 00 when this started pouring. They also saw fires that they put out a
i was scared to write portions of it because it was really my deepest thoughts and what i was feeling and thinking the entirety of my career at some points. i tell you, it s the idea that you think. when i started out, i went to the voting rights section of the civil rights division, and you are by de facto a champion of civil rights. what a transformation when i became a federal prosecutor in the criminal context and being questioned about my allegiance. i had these personal battles between what i was ordered to do and where my moral compass pointed. the idea of having to trust what police officers say and to watch a parade of black and brown men and women, thousands of them at a time, only on one hand can i even count the number of white defendants, and i wouldn t even need all five fingers to do so. knowing there was not a monopoly on crime but looking at the prosecutorial decisions, the police decisions, and knowing those things and then weighing against my lived experience as a bl
voting rights section, the civil rights division and you re by de facto a champion of civil rights, nobody questions what side you re on and what a transformation when i became a federal prosecutor in the criminal context and being questioned about allegiance and personal battles between what i was ordered to do and where my moral compass pointed. to watch a parade of thousands of black men and women at one time could i count the number of white defendants and i wouldn t need all five fingers to do so knowing there wasn t a monopoly on crime but looking at the decisions, the police decisions and knowing those things and weighing against my lived experience as a black woman as a mother, as a wife, as a human being and constantly at odds trying to reconcile the two and thinking who i believed i would be when tested with the decisions. i gave the audience a real insight into what that feels like to make those choices and
from what it means to really believe women in a court of law not just the court of public opinion to mistaken identity cases when you have a blink moment do something about it. even to my time in the voting rights section, civil rights division, about what the so-called post racial u.s. looks like when you re monitoring elections and the clawing back of voting rights. all of it is in this brand new book and it is time for people to really have a conversation and vicariously experience it and understand with empathy and an eye toward reform what it could mean if the pursuit of justice was finally caught, wolf. in very personal terms why was it so important for you to share these stories? i didn t want to have just a legal textbook you could find in a law school classroom. it was important for people to understand me as the actual vehicle of the story telling. i think of it as a form of activism and really helping people understand this is not meant to be a legal chronicle. it is mea
President Biden and the Democrats in Congress continue their effort to pass legislation to federalize our elections. Most recently, they’ve taken a no holds barred approach in their attempt to