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Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff there was no rest for the stormweary in much of the eastern half of the country today. For millions of americans, march lived up to its in like a lion reputation, as a latewinter storm brought heavy snow followed by frigid cold. In the process, the storm fouled travel by land and air. New yorks busy Laguardia Airport was closed for several hours after a delta flight arriving from atlanta slid off a snowy runway this morning. It crashed through a fence atop a berm just feet from the icy waters of flushing bay. The 127 passengers and five crew on board were safely evacuated. No major injuries were reported. Port Authority Officials would not comment on a possible cause they said an investigation will get under way soon the ntsb is on the way to laguardia. Well be cooperating with them closely as with delta. This particular runway had been plowed shortly before the incident and pilots on other planes reported good braking action. Woodruff all told, the winter blast caused 4,100 flights to be canceled across the country; airports in dallas, washington, new york, and philadelphia were hit hardest. About 74 Million People were under warnings or advisories from northern texas on up to parts of new england. The massive storm system also snarled road travel. More than 20 inches of snow were reported in western kentucky. Drivers on interstate 65 south of louisville were stuck in their vehicles overnight after snow shut down the highway. This motorist was stranded for nearly 12 hours. Theres literally hundreds of cars up there along the interstate there . Yeah, theres people with children, and you know, no food no water. Woodruff greg fischer is louisvilles mayor. We have no significant wrecks or injuries. I65 in Hardin County is closed due to 200 semis that are stuck there. Woodruff the National Guard has been deployed to the scene to rescue stranded motorists. It was a slippery sight in neighboring tennessee icy roads made driving difficult across nashville. The federal government was closed as six to eight inches of snow fell around the nations capital. And the philadelphia area was also under a snow emergency, with up to eight inches of snow expected. Ironically, boston did not expect any snow from this storm. The city has already gotten more than 100 inches this winter, and is only two inches shy of an alltime record. Ifill the state department will review emails provided by former secretary of state hillary clinton. She asked last night that the Department Release 55,000 pages of emails she provided. As secretary, clinton used her private email address, exclusively, for official business. Current secretary john kerry said today his aides will review and release the material as quickly as possible. Woodruff in saudi arabia secretary kerry sought today to ease concerns among persian gulf arab states over the iran nuclear talks. Kerry met with the Saudi Foreign minister in riyadh. He assured the saudis and irans other gulf rivals of full u. S. Support. And he said washington is not seeking a grand bargain with iran. Ifill more than 2,000 Russian Troops have launched a new round of largescale military exercises in southern russia, bordering ukraine. The drills are taking place in russias caucasus districts and at bases in armenia, breakaway regions of georgia, and crimea. That province was annexed by moscow last year. The war games are expected to last until april 10. Woodruff the u. S. Ambassador to south korea, mark lippert says hes doing well and will be back at work soon, after a knife attack. A korean man slashed lippert across the face and arm during a breakfast meeting today. It took 80 stitches to close the cuts and repair damaged tendons and nerves. South Korean Police say the attacker is a longtime opponent of americas role in korea, and of the latest joint military drills. translated the suspect kim kijong stated that he had committed this crime in order to protest against the military drills that interrupt the south and the norths peacemaking atmosphere. Woodruff north koreas statecontrolled media praised the attack, saying the knife slashes of justice were a deserved punishment. Ifill the last known ebola patient in liberia headed home from the hospital today. The first case was reported there a year ago. The resulting epidemic has since killed nearly 10,000 people across west africa. Liberia hasnt reported any new ebola cases for 13 days, but it wont be given the all clear until 42 days have passed. Thats double the normal incubation period. Woodruff wall street edged higher today in advance of tomorrows february jobs report. The Dow Jones Industrial average gained 39 points to close above 18,100. The nasdaq rose more than 15 points, and the s p 500 added 2 points. Ifill the former archbishop of new york, retired Cardinal Edward egan, died today of a heart attack. Egan presided over the archdiocese from 2000 to 2009 and overhauled its finances. He played a prominent role after the 9 11 attacks but was criticized over the alleged shielding of priests accused of child molesting. Cardinal egan was 82 years old. Woodruff still to come on the newshour. Racial bias and routine misconduct among fergusons Police Officers. Making sense of a still struggling real estate market. Rolling back protections for workers injured on the job. The ringling brothers move to retire elephants from its circus acts. And, two Musicians Team up to form a holocaust survivor band. Ifill following a damning report from the u. S. Justice Department Yesterday on misconduct by the Ferguson Police department, new shoes began dropping in the st. Louis suburb today on the streets and at the courthouse. Officer Darren Wilson did not have to shoot and kill mike brown junior in broad daylight in the manner that he did. Ifill lawyers for Michael Browns family announced the filing this morning of a wrongful death suit against the city and officer Darren Wilson himself. He had other options available to him and that he chose deadly force as his option and we plan to demonstrate in a court of law to reasonable minded people that the choice to use deadly force was unreasonable and unnecessary. The Justice Departments decision yesterday not to bring a federal civil rights case against wilson paved the way for the familys civil suit, but an extensive federal investigation into Ferguson Police practices also uncovered new details about the departments racially biased and profitdriven enforcement and prosecution. As detailed in what i will call our searing report and it is searing also released by the Justice Department today this investigation found a community that was deeply polarized, a community where deep distrust and hostility often characterized interactions between police and area residents, a community with local authorities consistently approached Law Enforcement not as a means for protecting Public Safety but as a way to generate revenue. Ifill among the incidents detailed in the report in 2012, an African American man was cooling off in his car after a basketball game, when police accused him of being a pedophile because there were children in the park; he was arrested at gunpoint and charged with eight crimes which, the man said, led to the loss of his job. That same year, officers sent a police dog to drag a 16yearold suspected of stealing a car out of a closet by his legs. In 2007, an African American woman received parking tickets totaling 150. Over time she was forced to pay 150 in fines and fees and still owes the city more. The Department Found racist emails like the one that said president obama wouldnt Number Office long because what black man holds a steady job for four years. Fergusons mayor said one of the employees responsible for those emails has been fired. Two more have been suspended. Let me be clear, this type of behavior will not be tolerated in the Ferguson Police department or any department of the city of ferguson. Ifill the mayor promised to do better as a city, but last night, protesters returned to fergusons streets. We turn now to two members of the independent Commission Set up by the state of missouri to look into the events in ferguson. Starsky wilson chairs the commission, and is pastor of st. Johns church in st. Louis, and Kevin Ahlbrand is a Police Detective in st. Louis and president of the missouri fraternal order of police. Tonight, hes in san diego. Reverend wilson, that was just scraping the surface of the findings in that department of justice report. What surprised you the most about what you read . Quite frankly, while the report was disheartening, the overall findings were not surprising. We knew, based on the testimony we have heard from people not only in the streets but through our commissions work over the first 100 days that people experience racialized policing, that they believed in their truth that this was driven by profit. We now see the evidence of that. The things that surprise meade quite frankly, were the kind of salacious narrative of the fact that we have an email from from the finance director of the city directly to the chief of Police Suggesting that revenues, raised through direct policing practices. These are the kinds of things that should never be in public in the Public Administration of justice, quite frankly, and theyre the kind of things that undermine the trust in governance that we need for the project of inclusive democracy to work. Ifill Kevin Ahlbrand, what struck you, especially this part about policing for profit that reverend wilson just brought up . What struck you the most about that report . Well and basically, that, the whole Municipal Court system. Weve known for a long time that its been a problem. We have never condoand ticket quote as. We are vehemently opposed to them. We are supporting a bill currently making the way through the Missouri Legislature which would reduce the percentage that cities could use fees and fines for their budget, and weve always been opposed to that. Part of the big problem is the Police Officer has to write x number of tickets, thats time he cant be out in the community doing communityoriented policing and thats what weve gotten away from and what i believe we need to get back to. Ifill reverend wilson were you disappointed that Darren Wilson was not charged . I recognize thats a difficult hurdle to climb, to prove intent, to prove someones mindset, we have always known what would be significant or difficult for the Justice Department to do. So im not necessarily surprised by that, either, quite frankly. What concerns me is the connection between these two points. If we recall, one of the things we see in the report is that some 90plus percent of those who are stopped for walking in the street in ferguson are African American. This whole incident with Darren Wilson and Michael Brown began because of someone stopping someone in the middle of the street. So when we think about the culture thats created in the policePolice Department and we connect it to the incidents of that particular day, then we see how the leadership and culture niedz to be reformed, and that is what concerns me more than anything else. Ifill Kevin Ahlbrand because you both served on the Ferguson Commission together, maybe you talked about this, but what about this idea of a culture that not only rewarded officers for writing multiple tickets for what seemed to be a passing violations but also, that could be the situation, say stopping someone for walking in the street that could escalate . Is that typical . Is that fair to say that that is what many people in the Ferguson Department expected . Well, gwen, im not sure, and the whole Michael BrownDarren Wilson case about why he was stopped, there are only two people that know that. So i dont think thats a good example. This is not only a police problem. This is a societal problem, and we have to get back to, like i said before, the communityoriented policing. Much of the problems with Police Departments are the federal cops grants went away. Cities face budget crises. Police departments were downsized, and a lot of these departments, they do not have time to get out there in the community and do what they really need to do. Ifill let me ask you to expand on that. Im curious what you mean when you said communityoriented policing. Of if all the incidents in the report are true dogs being sent after individuals, or people being pulled over because of a nonfunctioning traffic parking light that turned out to be functioning and then put in jail. If these kinds of things happen how do you separate that out from the kind of situation that Darren Wilson found himself involved in that escalated so tragically . Well, and i dont really want to talk about anecdotal incidences, but, hey, if there are systemic problems, i believe that those problems start from the top, if they truly are systemic. The rank and file go out and do what they are told to do. So i think we need to start looking at management and some in some of these instances. And like i said, the time spent writing tickets is the time they cannot be out there doing the proper things. Ifill Starsky Wilson, your job as chairman of this commission is to try to figure a way forward. After a year of this and now with this report on the books, do you see a way forward . I do see a way forward. I encourage people who read this 202 page report to read it to the end because there is hope around page 90 when we begin to look at the recommendations going forward. Theyre the kinds of things kev sin talking about, to reorient policing in this particular department and, quite frankly, regionally, on things like communityoriented policing, to begin to look at and to appropriate not only Community Engagement but in some spaces, community accountability. And to take this report and to put it in conversation with the 21st Century Task Force report that we got from the president s task force on monday to continue to review the criminal justice systems. To kevins point, i think appropriate, this is not just about policing. It is about policing as connected to the Municipal Courts, and our region, it is uniquely driven by municipal fragmentation that costs money and so the Revenue Source that is most controllable is that comes from tickets, fines, and fee, and thats the spicket that got turned on in this situation. Ifill Kevin Ahlbrand, does that mean the basic structure has to be reordered, whether its expanding the Police Department in the city or change the Municipal Court structure . Well, and i think thats a big task to take. There are 65, i believe, Police Departments in st. Louis county. I think thats way too many. I think the discussion and it has started that we need to look at reorganizing this and its going to take a long time. But if we get the right people involved and the Community Behind us, i think we can get it done. Ifill Kevin Ahlbrand, the