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done for descendants of slaves. reporter: after two years of deliberations, california reparations task force sent to final report to the state capitol for the state legislature and governor to decide how the state should handle reparations. many expected it to call for a concrete dollar amount, the task force is leaving that challenge to the legislature and it provides over 115 recommendations spanning from cash payments to policy reforms to a formal apology to eligible residents designated as descendants of slaves. critics call this effort fiscally irresponsible noting how california is facing a $31.5 billion deficit. reparations is the extraction of money from people who were never slave owners to be given to people who were never slaves. we will never see reparations paid in california. again, it s illegal. it s unconstitutional. it violates the equal protection clause. reporter: progressive governor gavin newsom signed legislation creating the first in the ....
the first time in a national opinion poll that says the social democrats launch a make or break so to enter another coalition government we ll get analysis. and there were more medals up for grabs at the winter olympics that s including in the ice dance competition where canada s graceful couple virtue and moir were vying for another gold will get you caught up on day eleven and sean chen. i m sumi so misconduct good to have you with us the united nations says the syrian government must stop targeting civilians in the rebel held on klav eastern hotel. now the london based syrian observatory for human rights says that a government to air raids on eastern how to close to the syrian capital damascus has killed nearly one hundred fifty people since monday hundreds more were injured the suburb has been under siege by regime forces for more than four years. let s bring in i ve not had died a syrian opposition activist who s been observing the situation from a turkey and not g ....
plus ready to wear. the evolution of spacesuits moves light years ahead. we ll bring you nasa s new design. we begin with the death penalty. we re not going to debate the issue, we know there are opinions on both sides. but tonight the execution of one condemned killer is raising questions about how capital punishment is carried out. the inmate was clayton lockett a man who buried his victim alive. his execution in oklahoma last night was botched. lockeett died of a heart attack more than 40 minutes after being given a lethal injection. oklahoma s governor is ordering a review to find out what happened and why today the white house had this to say about the incident the crimes are indisputably horrific and heinous but its also the case that we have a standard in this country that even when the death penalty is justified it must be carried out humanely. ziva branstetter is an editor for the tulsa world newspaper. she witnessed the botched execution last night and j ....
has final say over its spending. and bruce johnson reports the city leaders are taking a look at a plan to defy the congress and send all nonessential d.c. government employees to work anywhere even if there s a federal shutdown. d.c. mayor and some city council members were arrest thread years ago while protesting congressional authority over city affairs. it could happen again. if the d.c. council follows through with the threat to pass a bill declaring all city workers essential and thus able to work during a shutdown. i think we aught to basically ignore the fact that the federal government is being shut down. we should not respond to the office of management budget at all. d.c. would be treated like other federal agencies. you prepare to be arrested? absolutely. police, fire, and other essential workers would report to the job. dmv, libraries, and other services would be shut down. the d.c. council plan would defy the congress by having all agencies o ....