statistic drew just showed us, 96% of the arrests for outstanding warrants are black people but the community is only 67.4% black. so there s definitely something wrong and the doj said so and said clang your ways. so cedric alexander, what s wrong? we ve been months and months since that report came out. the doj has to have people in place to oversee the process and make it better. does it take a long time? are expectations too high that a year later things would change? well, let s consider the fact of this. there appears to be from us on the outside looking in and i ll speak for myself and the organization which i used to be president, there s a stubbornness coming from inside of ferguson s leadership there in terms of really trying to mend some real bridges. there s a lot of work that has to be done. not just with the police department but with the judicial system itself because they s got to be changes and there has to be some letting down of this
country. you know, 7.4% of our gdp is tied into the federal government, from if the contracting or federal spending, and so, again, i go back to for a state that s run by republicans that tend to hate the federal government, i tell you, the federal government sure is signing a lot of paychecks for a lot of good hard working folks here in south carolina, and so sequester would be devastating, for not only poor people but for the military. and so we we need to turn this around, and we need some people that we send to congress who will say yes to things instead of no all the time. i do want to pick up where jamie left off a little while ago. if if republicans in south carolina and they more so than a lot of their ilk throughout the rest of the country, if they believe in small government so much, why are there so many clamoring for that spot? well, you know, being a congressman is public service at its height, and to have 16 people wanting to be a
what explains that. yes, smith travel research issued some numbers for the most recent week they have statistics for, the week ending june 19, and during that week, you had occupancy rates along the gulf coast of 67.4%. in other words, just under 7 out of ten rooms, occupied for the average hotel, and, they say that this is a 9.2% improvement over this time last year, however, smith travel research cautions that last year, was particularly bad for the hotel industry and it is dangerous to use last year as a baseline and anecdotal evidence from hotel owners and workers is you have much more of a business traveller than a tourist. you have people with the media here, you have government workers. you have bp cleanup crews here. they spend their money in different ways, and, also, the concern is they are less likely to frequent a mom and pop hotel
millio137 milliongallons of oilo the beautiful. more containment ships could arrive as soon as the storm lets up. thad allen is in washington today and he will give us an update on the cleanup efforts. a new survey shows gulf tourism was up in the mott of june. but hotel operators say those numbers only tell half the story. jonathan serrie is live in pensacola with the latest. the report reports show hotel occupancy up over last year, but hotel owners say they are still hurting. what s that about. reporter: the numbers come in from smith travel research. they say hotel occupancy in mid june was 67.4%. while that s a 9.2% increase over last year they point out