the hearing will come to order. thank you for coming to the committee today to testify. we know you are on a tight schedule and in order to keep you on schedule and ensure all members have an opportunity to ask questions i ask unanimous can send members will be recognized during the question and answer session for three minutes. without objections ordered in the ranking member and i will be recognized for five minutes during the question and answer sessions. without objections ordered we will both be recognized for three minutes and they will now yield myself three-minute but once again thank you for being here it s been seven years since the chair of the federal reserve has appeared before this committee and we are very grateful for your being willing to do that i want to make sure that we support the independence and the repeated attacks are unacceptable and dangerous. i look forward to hearing the testimony and discussing opportunities congress and the fed have to suppor
the ranking member and i will be recognized for five minutes during the question and answer sessions. without objections ordered we will both be recognized for three minutes and they will now yield myself three-minute but once again thank you for being here it s been seven years since the chair of the federal reserve has appeared before this committee and we are very grateful for your being willing to do that i want to make sure that we support the independence and the repeated attacks are unacceptable and dangerous. i look forward to hearing the testimony and discussing opportunities congress and the fed have to support the workers and to foster a healthy sustainable economy that works for all americans and with that i will yield to the ranking member. it is an honor to have you before this committee as the chairman of the committee has said it s been many years since the researcher man has been here and now we are delighted to have you. i will submit my opening comment fo
house who wasn t supposed to be there..they came here to check it out. it ulimtately led to a shooting leaving the suspect dead. police say when the man and woman property managers arrived they went into the back yard first. they told police they found a black man in his 20 s. that s when a fight broke out between both men. police say the homeowner got socked in the face several times. and a dog with him at the time did as well. so the male property manager drew a gun and shot the suspect during the fight. the suspect was taken to the hospital where he died. right now police have the man and woman re-creating the scenario. detectives are also talking with neighbors to see if they heard or saw something. police are working to see if the suspect was squatting at the house or in the middle of a burglary. but authorities did tell us the suspect had a backpack filled with tools. ((mauricio marin)) police say the man that shot the suspect permit. detectives expect to be on scene fo
wounds after he says shots were fired out of a car..he was center. we don t know if this shooting was random or if the victim was targeted... i talked with a seventeen year old who lives here..he says he helped the victim who ran down the street...after he was shot. today s string of violence began around 3:00 this afternoon at a home near twain and boulder. property managers received word that someone was in a house that wasn t supposed to be there. a man and a woman who live in the home went to investigate and found an unknown man in his twenties in the home. there was a fight. police say the homeowner was times. that s when the property manager shot the suspect. he was taken to the hospital where he later died. detectives are working to confirm if this was an act of self defense. the property manager did have a concealed carry permit. the suspect s name has not been released. then around 6:00 this evening there was a shooting near cambridge and twain. i m told the victim w
thank you for joining us tonight im tim seaman jenna:and d jenna rehnstrom america represents roughly 5 percent of the worlds population and 25 percent of its prisoners. tim: covercrowded state and federal prisons are costing taxpayers around 6.4 billion dollars. tim: many of those prisoners serve drug related sentences and are on what are called mandatory minimums. it s a conceptdeveloped in the70 s..during the so called war o o drugs . with crack and cocain sweeping across the nation .. putting away offenders . even on small drug charges . was a priority. jenna: these minimums are still used today. but as overcrowding continues..there is a call for change .and it originates in iowa. abc9 s lukas voss has the story. lukas:s: tim and jenna . there is indeed a to adjust minimum sentences. the goal.. relieving overcrowded prisons and helping offenders reintegrate into society. representing that change is iowa senator chuck grassley . he is one of many who say there are a lot o