Hearing in this committee on one of the most indefensible disparities in our system of justice and the bipartisan legislation designed to eliminate it once and for all, the equal act. To start things off id like to turn to a video about the history of this disparity and the racially disparate impact its had. Americas public Enemy Number one in the United States is Drug Abuse. It is epidemic and it can kill. We must be intolerant of Drug Use and drug sellers. The Crack Problem has become a Crack Crisis and its spreading nationwide. We must be intolerant of drugs not because we want to punish Drug Users but because we care about them and want to help them. In 1996 i was sentenced to 35 years. This disparate caused my sentence to be increased for 20 years longer than it would have been had it been for Powder Cocaine. In 1995 i was sentenced to 11 years. My 11 Years Daughter was molested while i was in prison at 11 years old. My sister was barrel 23 years old. She had been sentenced for po
israel s prime minister criticizes the united nations over the iran nuclear deal. and hurricane joaquin, we re tracking the category 4 storm. breaking news tonight out of roseburg, oregon. according to the state attorney general, and people are dead after a shooting at umpqua community college. the shooter has been identified as a 20-year-old male. he was killed at the scene. and the attack began just after 10:30 this morning, pacific time. the officials have not released information about a motive in the shooting. roseburg is a small community in southwest oregon. it s about 70 miles south of eugene, 180 miles south of portland. the students were bussed from the umpqua campus to the douglas county fairgrounds where they re meeting family members, and that s where allen schauffler is tonight. reporter: it s a heartbreaking scene, randall. we have talked to some of the folks here, who have gotten clearly bad news from inside of this building where people were brought from th
at the central bahamas and huge changes the next 24 hours and expected as 5:00 a.m. track which is the newest to go about 200 miles offshore from nantucket so that would keep it out to sea. i will have more on that coming up today more rain and more for the cape and islands and southeastern massachusetts is where i have the showers hovering right now. notice boston dry through about 9:00 a.m. and then by lunchtime we have actually got the showers getting up to about the mass pike, temperatures barely move at all, dress for upper 40s now and low to mid-50s for the afternoon. that s it. 5:00 p.m. your drive home from work involves some very patchy showers north of the mass pike even up into new hampshire and still the steady rain in southeastern massachusetts where we get some of the worst of the winds, 52 to 58, cool and wet with 50 miles per hour gusts for the cape and islands and more on the latest track for hurricane joaquin in a couple of minutes by with live drive time
are you a christian? he would ask them? and if you re a christian, stand up. they would stand up and he said, good, because you re a christian, you re going to see god in just about one second and then he shot and killed them. he kept going down the line doing this. reporter: thursday morning, around 10:38 a.m., 911 dispatch receives the first calls for help. the active shooter, ucc, 1140 college road. somebody is outside one of the doors, shooting through the door. reporter: the police say he was carrying body armor and ammunition, along with three pistols and one long rifle. he open fire on a classroom, shooting the teacher at pointblank range. it was rapid fire over and over and over again. you could hear the people you could hear them moving and c crying. i said to the teacher, we need to get out of here right now. we heard the second and third gunshots. reporter: within minutes, officers swarmed the campus. he s in a classroom. exchanging gunshots w