across this country, on weekend night looking for friends house and this was a senseless tragic incident. monahan, who is 65, has ple not guilty and is expected i court tomorrow he is attorney tells nbc news, the shooting was a series of errors which resulted in a tragedy. joining me tonight adam winkler, professor at ucla, an author of gunfight, the battle over the right to bear arms in america. adam, there s a lot to cover the big legal question in th kansas city case centers missouri s self-defense laws could ralph yarl s shooter b protected by them? and if so, what does that mean for a black america, if a 16 year old who is just ringing a doorbell can be viewed as threat well, it is possible that w will see the defendant andre lester, the 84-year-old man wh shot ralph ralph yarl use
the post on wednesday and the vote was ta ken the post on wednesday and the vote was taken during an extraordinary objective of parliament. he has been seen as close to the most powerful politician in the country, the secretary general. fbi director, christopher wray, says it s most likely that covid 19 emerged from a chinese government controlled laboratory in wuhan. in response, china has accused the fbi of politicising the investigation into the origins of coronavirus, and says there has been no new scientific evidence to support the theory. other us agencies believe the virus developed naturally. our north america correspondent john sudworth reports. let s speak now to a professor of epidemiology at ucla who joins me from los angeles. thank you forjoining us. without any new evidence, are these comments help or are they just politicising the issue? we re just trying to sound with
shows more than 80% of hospital beds across the u.s. are currently in use, meaning hospitals are more full now than they ve been at any point in the pandemic so far. and a professor of epidemiology at ucla joins me now from los angeles. great to have you with us. thanks for having me, rosemary. o the covid pandemic isn t over yet, and now public health officials are worried about what some are calling the tripledemic made up of covid, flu, and rsv. how big a threat could this prove to be given we re already seeing record rates of hospitalizations and empty pharmacy shelves right here in the united states. the thing that we worry about when we see so many cases of all three viruses surging at the same time is what s going to happen with our hospitals. are they going to be able to have enough beds? are the icus going to be overwhelmed?
inthact in my life. reporter: they are first star academy at u.c.l.a., this privately funded national program on 15 college campuses recruits practically rescues, foster care kids when they re high school freshmen. it teaches them life skills, and you could say, improbably pulls college dreams up on the of a black trash bag. a lot of foster youth know what the black trash bag means. sometimes they only get a couple of minutes to pack everything that they have in this room and take it to the next placement. reporter: when a case worker shows up with a black trash bag, they know it means it s time to go again. yes. sometimes they don t get an alert. reporter: nationally, roughly half of foster kids graduate high school. 10% go to college. but first star seniors, 97% graduate high school. roughly two out of three enroll in four-year colleges. what is it your program is doing right? we are providing them
duncan,a former marine reservist was bright and funny to ron s quiet tried. duncan got a job after high school, we ll run went to college. they both grew up in l.a., and we re best friends for years. duncan stepfather was a professor at ucla where ron went to school. nathan was from detroit. ended up in l.a. after serving in the army. he had been a great athlete growing up. a football star. runner up boxing champ as a teenager. he was the most recent member of the trio. duncan told detectives that on the night of the murder, summer souls this, ron had planned to take the bus to ucla to visit his circle friends. he adds for a ride to the bus stop. so they dropped him off. and ron went where he went. and that, said duncan, was the last time he and nathan ever