Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thanks for joining us. It is day two of the government shutdown. And both sides appear to be at a stalemate, this afternoon a Bipartisan Group of more than 20 senators met to come up with a deal to fund the government for at least three more weeks and address immigration. But as hundreds of thousands of federal workers from almost every agency wait for word on whether to show up for work tomorrow, at this hour there is still no deal. Both the house and the senate were in session today and leaders from both parties say they wanted the shutdown to end, but each continued
Instead they say they favor what they call a merit based immigration system. The way that system works in canada, for example, people who are fluent in english and have higher educational degrees are given preference to legally enter the country. What this does is it lets everybody compete individually. What fairer way can you do than have a situation where everybody has a same level right to get into this country if they qualify . To get more analysis on this bill we spoke with the bills pen, professor at university of San Francisco. He says switching to a merit based immigration system here in the u. S. Could create more competition for jobs for College Educated americans. A proposal to put in a skills based, merit based system really is going to compete with high skilled american workers. What is being proposed, actually, is green card status, lawful status for merit systems so this does benefit silicon valley, it benefits other industries, but there is a good question that needs to
Were few people in this coffee shop behind me when a man walked in with an Assault Rifle capable of carrying up to 70 rounds. They were sitting in a coffee shop, you know, taking a small welldeserved break, and they were basically surprised by this gunman. Reporter two Vallejo Police officers were taking a break on sunday night when police say 41yearold adam powell walked in and namaimed a Assault Rifle directly at them. His weapon malfunctioned and he was not able to get off the shot. Reporter powell ran away as shown in this Surveillance Video from the gas station next door. Seconds later the officers caught up with him. He was attempting to clear that weapon plume presumably to use it as they were chasing him. Reporter powell was shot three times. Police say besides the loaded assault weapon he also had a loaded handgun and was wearing body armor. The suspect is the father of 2yearold Adonis Powell shown here in a family video. The toddler was shot accidentally five hours earlier in
Has been working the story for us. The Vallejo Police chief expressing relief he did not lose two of his own. Reporter they are counting their blessings. On a coffee break when they were confronted by a man with an salt weapon hours after his 2yearold son accidentally shot himself at a home. The Surveillance Video is chilling. The police say this is 41year old adam powell calmly walked into the front door on of the starbucks off of i80. He is wearing body armor and has an Assault Rifle with a 70 round magazine. He pointed the gun at two officers at 8 45 sunday night. When he tried to fire the gun jammed. He tried to clear it while running away. A man with a riffel decided to am ambush us at the starbucks. The two officers chased him for a block and shot him three times when he allegedly, again, tried to clear his gun. He was carried a loaded handgun. He is in critical condition. The police say he drove passed the starbucks six minutes before the confrontation. We presume it was a preme
Live where you live, this is abc7 news. Now at 11 00, hit and killed by a pick up truck. Tonight east bay authorities Authorities Say they captured a driver who plowed into a warehouse with wadden pallets. I am eric thomas in for dan ashley. Police say a man in a truck ran over the warehouse worker who tried to stop him from stealing wooden pallets at True World Foods. Hours later police in oakland spotted the truck believed to be involved in the deadly attack. Abc7 News Reporter Cornell Bernard is live at Police Headquarters with the developing story. Cornell . Reporter eric and ama, we still dont mow the name of the man who bravely tried to stop the suspect from stealing the pallets today. Tonight he is under arrest charged with homicide. A ford f250 pick up with wooden pallets is hauled away with evidence where it was spotted by Oakland Police officers hours after the truck was involved in a deadly hitandrun. We know we have located the vehicle responsible for todays homicide. You s