And misery, but fundraising following the 2010 earthquake was a disaster in itself. There are some calls for funding to be channeled elsewhere now. Does that mean that the American Red Cross has lost its credibility . I think theyve certainly lost some credibility. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] . Sharyl welcome to full measure. Im sharyl attkisson. Hurricane matthew is still impacting the southeast. Some rivers crested just this weekend and parts of North Carolina are still underwater. But some u. S. Communities hit again and again find theyre in too deep to think about surviving in the longterm. One of them is an indian tribe in louisiana. Project to relocate together to Higher Ground at taxpayer expense. Some are calling them the first Climate Change refugees. But we found that other manmade factors could be largely to blame. Albert naquin we had chickens, we had pigs, we had cattle. Sharyl Albert Naquin has lived here on isle de jean charles his whole life, a sliver of an island in the south louisiana bayou. Hes chief of the islands band of biloxichitimachachoctaw indians who first settled here in the 1800s. They grew into a Fishing Community that stayed selfsufficient for a century. But today, the island is literally shrinking down to nothing before their eyes. This used to be land . Albert this used to be land all all along here. Sharyl an aerial photo from 1963 shows how much marshland there used to be. By 2008, most all of it had become water, as the gulf of mexico swallowed up the land. The tribes plight has been documented in numerous films, including cant stop the when i was growin up here, a hurricane, we used to ride em out. D we didnt worry about flood, we didnt worry about the wind. Pat forbes the Community Gets flooded more and more and more often, and its size has shrunk 98 from its original size, and the population has also shrunk along with it, because people have gotten tired of living with storms and floods on an annual basis. Sharyl pat forbes heads up louisianas office of community delo hes helped the tribe win a first of its kind federal grant 48 million tax dollars to move the last island inhabitants to Higher Ground, keeping them together as a group, preserving their culture. Pat and the important part of that is that we are moving the community en masse, this hasnt really been done before. Albert hopefully, we bring it back to where our kids, and all of the kids that are off the island, would reunite and, you sharyl some reporters have dubbed the indian tribe the first Climate Change refugees. But wi millions of americans in the same boat living in coastal areas being drowned by water spending 48 million on 60 people is bound to raise eyebrows. There are a lot of people in trouble facing similar circumstances and they may wonder, why these people and not them for all this federal money . Pat obviously, federal limited. And so there was a competition and we won that competition with a project based here. Sharyl about 30 miles south is leeville, a small, but oncebooming seafood industry and oil town, where don griffin has coowned a marina and ice house thats been in business since 1977. Don before the only time wed have water was for hurricanes. And now just your regular real water constantly on the back dock, on the parking lot, you know . Sharyl leeville, too, has dwindled down to a skinny town just a mile long with a handful of year round residents. But theres no federal relocation project coming to their rescue. Don im glad that theyre able to get help, but i mean who decides who gets help and who doesnt get help . Windell curole leeville used to be four feet higher just 100 years ago. Sharyl Windell Curole manages the areas manmade levee system, including this lock. Puts unlucky leeville outside the Hurricane Protection system. Windell as we look to the south, these people are not on the flood protection. Sharyl but theres a twist this story. Curole and many local experts say there are other factors besides Climate Change to blame for louisianas shrinking land one of the biggest causes Oil Companies. Windell south louisiana, since 1930, weve lost probably the size of delaware since 1930. Remarkable land loss. Coexisted with the oil industry. But it turns out the oil company canals, dredged for shipping and pipelines, washed away protective marshland and brought the water ever closer to residents doorsteps. Chris brunet and his family are among the 60 or so tribal residents who live in the remaining homes on isle de jean charles raised on stilts to try to stay above water. How high have you seen the water get here . Chris on about four foot, about as high as this and this is without a hurricane. Sharyl its no longer just the vicious hurricanes that cause problems. With widening canals dredged by Oil Companies now in brunets backyard, even a strong high tide can flood the neighborhood. One state study found the oil and Gas Companies are responsible for more than 90 of the islands damage. Do you see Climate Change as a bigger factor to the change in your way of life or the Oil Companies . Albert i see the Oil Companies guess the destruction of our community. And that is because of all the canals they dug out, allowing the salt water to come in a lot faster and go out a lot faster. Sharyl so thats not a Climate Change probl, thats a company issue. Albert thats not a Climate Change problem, thats a company issue. Yl it sounds almost as if federal taerars picking the tab for something the Oil Companies nt pay for. Albert i agree with that. The u. S. Government is picking up the tab for the Oil Companies. Sharyl curole argues the oil and gas industry hasai billions of dollars in federal taxes over the years. Now, he says, its time for the community to get some of that federal money back in terms of assistance. Windell since 1995, the average is about 6 billion thats come from this little corridor thats going to the federal government and weve had basically zero of any of that money. So, its not just a oneway street. Sharyl whatever is to blame for the sinking of isle de jean charles, the unprecedented supporters see it as a Pilot Program that other doomed coastal communities could follow. Some people might think 48 million to resettle 60 people is a lot of money. Pat it is a lot of money. It would be far less expensive for us to just buy people outd p somewhere thats safe. But again, we lose that resilience that being part of a Community Brings to a community. And thats a thing that we think, that culture lose from our coastal communities across louisiana and around the country. Albert we didnt create this, but i think you know that our federal government ought to be responsible or the Oil Companies ought to pitch in, as well, to help us get out of here. I think that the government and whoever created the pipeline canal should put a few pennies into that to help us get out of here. I guess to reunite our community and families, as it was when were living here back when it Louisiana Oil and Gas Association and they told us the primary cause of coastal erosion is the Mississippi River levees built by the army corps of engineers. A footnote. The money to move the tribe came from leftover Hurricane Sandy funds. Instead of returning it to the treasury or saving it for the next disaster, the government came up with new ways to spend it. Still ahead on full measure in the wake of matthew, the American Red Cross is raising money for haiti. Some think that effort is worth questioning. Have created a new form of reality tv. But some say the attempt at transparency is trampling sharyl police in charlotte, North Carolina finally released all of the body camera footage from last months shooting of a black man that sparked riots. The graphic video was shown to the family before the public. Full measure correspondent joce sterman found as other cities rush to equip police with cameras, o i victims. [gunshots] joce Police Body Cams are becoming a new and sometimes disturbing reality tv. Im shot. Joce with his body camera rolling, this florida officer pulled an injured mother from the scene of a domestic shooting. Then he stepped even closer to coax her Young Children out of the house. Come here, sweetheart, come here. Joce to many, what the officer did appeared heroic. His department thought so and victims advocates say thats a privacy violation of the highest order. Theres no question to you, videos like this cross the line . Jennifer storm absolutely. In my opinion, totally. Joce Jennifer Storm is a victims advocate who has helped shape state and federal laws for crime victims. This video, posted online by police and shared, has now been viewed millions of times. The family was not asked for consent. Believe its a classic example of a forgotten issue in the great body camera debate. Jennifer a body camera is going to get every single thing the officer sees. Youre going to see it. Joce youre there . Jennifer its like reality tv and not in a good way. Its bad reality tv, incredibly traumatizing for these families and survivors. Joce what the lens captures can be a complex issue of privacy. But privacy is often a casualty in the larger concern over transparency in cases of murder, sexual assault, and domestic pictures can bring the accountability that many demand, but theres a price. Jennifer all of a sudden your loved ones death becomes a hashtag. And it becomes seen by millions of people and forwarded and retweeted and facebooked. Joce thats what happened in a pennsylvania case where video of a deadly encounter with a suspect went viral, the mans last moments now online. They hop his family haunt his family. Jay stanley the real challenge is balancing how to get the advantages of these cameras without turning it into a privacy meltdown. Joce jay stanley is with the American Civil Liberties union which has a split take on body cams. While they take a dim view of surveillance cameras, they do support Police Cameras as a check against the abuse of power. If theres a question of police abuse, the aclu supports reasing the tape. Even against the wishes of a victim or their family. Into direct conflict, you have to make very tough calls. We think, in those situations, the default should be that they should be made public because of the overwhelming Public Interest in doing that oversight and it cant be vetoed by the family or the victims themselves. Joce the debate is complicated by the fact that police are the ones who usually have veto por. But a study on body camera use funded by the Justice Department found something stunning many departments dont have specific written policies for how they should be used and when video should be released. Lindsay miller goodison it was very concerning, because obviously we want agencies to have good strong policies in place. Joce Lindsay Miller goodison conducted the survey for the Police Executive research forum. What that study offered were strong recommendations about informing victims they are being recorded, getting consent, and crafting Firm Policies for when its appropriate to make footage public. Vulnerable situations and those agencies need to think about how theyre going to handle those types ofituations at the outset. Joce even big agencies can be behind the curve. The nypd says is still drafting its formal body camera policy without a fedel andard to base it on. And some in Law Enforcement claim they dont want one. Jonathan thompson every agency is different. Every community is different. Joce thats why jonathan thompson, the executive director of the National Sheriffs association, says each jurisdiction needs the freedom to map out their own policies with input from their own communities. He suggests concerns over victims rights are not forgotten by Law Enforcement, just carefully balanced. Joce whose voice wins in this debate . Jonathan thats been a very big debate internal to the discussion. Who wins . Is it the victim or is it la enforcement or is it transparency . I think there is no real correct answer. Police body cameras, a dangerous dilemma remains. Jennifer they shouldnt have to think, oh my god, if i call 911, is it going to be filmed and am i going to end up on the internet . Public safety should never come with those kinds of questions or consequences ever. Sharyl we blurred the identities of the victims in the videos. Much of the debate over creating a policy on the release of body cam videos hinges on state laws. Right now, 17 states he at least one law specific to the release of body camera video. 17 more have attempted to pass legislation but failed and 16 havent yet tried. Still to come on full measure we look at a Missile System thats supposed to protect us from nuclear attack. So far, it doesnt work well, and wait until you hear about the big bonuses to the company this is ned. The family dog. And your current security system. Protecting your home from a breakin is a bit much for ned. [ snores ] for live twoway voice and 24 7 security that alerts the authorities, sharyl for the last 14 years, the pentagon and boeing have designed to shoot down Nuclear Missiles fired at the u. S. From enemies like iran and north korea. But it turns out the interceptors failed to destroy their targets in 6 out of 11 tests all while boeing got an incredible amount of tax dollars in bonuses. We recently spoke to david willman, the pulitzer prizewinning reporter at the l. A. Times who investigated the story. What was in the information that should give the public pause . David the best Available Evidence is that the system is not reliable, cannot be depended on. And, in fact, in the flight tests that have been cducted, no more than half have hit the target and these are meticulously scripted for suesflight tests. So, its a system that taxpayers of the United States have paid in excess of 40 billi that is nowhere near being reliable. Sharyl explain how the bonuses worked. Obviously, the contractor wants the system to work, but if they can make it look like its david the system is all about hitting an enemy missile and yet thcriterion for success has been more broadly defined. Sharyl the criterion for them getting bonuses or finci centives has loosened, in other words . David yes. Sharyl these are test missiles, but what are they shooting at for the tests . David theyre shooting at rockets that are typically launched from the marshall islands, from kwajalein, that go empty pacific, they soar up out of earths atmosphere. We have lift off. David our interceptor would typically be fired from vandenberg and would get up into space, threestage rocket. The final stage is called a kill vehicle and, by that time, its flying four miles per second and its doing what it can to hit that enemy missile, that mock warhead, in space at those speeds its a tremendously sharyl whats in it for them to be financing with our money a system thats not working out so well . David they really believed with great zeal that this form of Missile Defense were using a kinetic collision of an interceptor could and would work. And the only Thing Holding it back was essentially too much oversight and too much government control. The Bush Administration was all in with it. Then secretary of defense don rumsfeld exempted the Missile Defense agency from standard procurement, in testing standards. It was huge. And that really is a condition that persists to this day. Sharyl is the status quo is that were gonna keep going full speed forward and no one seems to care that its not particularly accurate or how much money weve put into it so far . David thats true. And now theres big push in congress to expand this system even beyond 44, that would be to build a third interceptor site for the eastern United States of 3. 6 billion just to build it and then youd be putting in as many as 100 or more interceptors into that site. Getting it right, getting the technology right, getting the Systems Engineering right, its taken a back seat. Sharyl the feds told the times the payments complied with all appropriate regulations. And boeing says it met contractual requirements and a variety of incentives across a objectives. Still to come on full measure sharyl haiti was still recovering from a catastrophic earthquake in 2010 when it got hit hard by Hurricane Matthew. Scott thuman says some are questioning whether the red cross is the right agency to manage donations. Scott from impoverished haiti up the east coast as far as North Carolina, Hurricane Matthew left his mark and misery. Hit, the need is great in haiti and the International Effort to the American Red Cross. Now is the time to help by giving to the red cross. Scott the red cross has been the American Standard for Disaster Relief for years, chartered by congress, supported by the president. President obama now is the time to show the kind of generosity that makes america the greatest nation on earth and a good place to express that generosity is by fundraising fast lane of the likes of apple. But an investigation in 2015 indicated that fundraising following the 2010 earthquake in haiti was a disaster in itself. Justin elliott the American Red Cross had raised Something Like 500 million. Scott investigative journalist Justin Elliott of propublica along with npr spent years trying to find out how that money was spent. Justin in one area of portauprince where we went, we just started talking to people and very quickly we found the community had a lot of anger towards the American Red Cross because they had made promises about building homes and several years had gone by and, supposedly, millions of dollars had been spent and no actual homes had been built. Scott this summer, senator Chuck Grassley issued a scathing report on the red cross efforts following the earthquake. The investigation revealed that a quarter of the money donated was spent on internal costs far more than the red cross previously disclosed, that the red cross ceo at the time made false statements to the inquiry, unitas severely undermanned and supported. In haiti, there are some calls for funding to be channeled elsewhere now. Does that mean that the American Red Cross has lost its credibility . Justin i think theyve certainly lost some credibility. As we were travelling around haiti and talking to people, we heard similar complaints again and again about their failure to consult with the community there, their sort of lack of knowledge about more basic things, like how to speak the language. Scott in haiti now, according to senator grassley, theres a real need and a chance for the charity to fix the faults of the past. Sen. Grassley we want it to be a strong organization. But when people contribute to it, they ought to have confidence that the money is going to be used for the purpose it was given for in the first place in this case, the tell me these stories are myths and misleading. They claim 91 cents of every dollar donated to that 2010 earthquake went to help haitians. They also say in light of senator grassleys concerns, theyve provided full, unprecedented transparency. Sharyl thanks, scott. And next week, youre here. While im off, your cover story will look at some of the militarys best. Ry is ramping up the use of special forces in our war against terror. We wanted to find out just how those soldiers are made. [sounds of gunfire] scott counties and 10,000 square miles, the men who survive this final exercise will join the elite ranks of one of the Armys Special operations units, the green berets. The drill is called robin sage. We were granted rare access to observe the 118 soldiers on the brink of becoming special forces. We are going to show you what is unique about the making of a green beret. Sharyl thats next week. Thanks a lot, scott. This is ned. The family dog. And your current security system. Protecting your home from a breakin is a bit much for ned. [ snores ] everything is a bit much for ned. For live twoway voice and 24 7 security hello. Im bill lumaye. And thank you for watching community matters. We hope youll continue to watch as we discuss issues facing our community and provide you with the resources and information needed to find solutions. . . The world from october 1416. The 31st annual International Festival will be held in raleigh. And joining us today are festival chair, bearta alchacar, and joe walton, a local brewer participating in the festivals newly expanded beer garden. Thanks for joining us, guys. Appreciate it. Thanks for having us. 31 years the festivals been taking place. Tell us about this years festival. Ok. This year marks our 31st year. 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