Hopes and cars are burned and whats next . Anne makove reports from emeryville. Reporter there are closed roads in the area. A couple of things going on at the fire scene behind me. Pg e trying to restore power and the Fire Department still spraying water on whats left of this building as the investigation into how this fire started begins. The fire start at 2 45 a. M. Quickly engulfing this five Story Building under construction, spreading to townhomes and an auto shop nearby. This is not something that you prepare for. Reporter Alexandra Grant is one of 50 people evacuated from nearby homes to woke up to an inferno outside their window. All you saw was flames from the buildings, um, kind of just taking over. You can feel the heat inside our house. Reporter at least 4 townhomes next to the building are damaged. And about 50 cars at james auto body are destroyed. I mean, thats a total. I can see that. So its a total loss. Reporter they are all his customers cars and he is hoping insura
Surrendering. In a mentally ill prisoner dies in solitary confinement in new yorks Rikers Island. When you put a person in the shu brought to two months, six months, you are breaking this persons mental capacity down to zero. He did something bad, fine. But treat him as a human being, not like an animal. He has rights. We will look at mounting pressure on jails and prisons to reform their use of solitary confinement. We will speak with the psychiatrist who is helping to reduce violence and prisons in the president of the texas correctional employees, the union which represents texas prison guards. They have called for the state to reduce the use of solitary confinement, including on death row, saying solitary confinement makes prisoners more violent. Then we go to the usmexico border where a phoenix man who was deported to mexico will attempt to reunite with his family today by crossing back into the United States. I think they deported me for the Hunger Strike that was happening at ic
Down limits on federal campaign donations, we will speak with independent vermont senator Bernie Sanders on wednesdays landmark decision and his effort to undo the 2010 Citizens United ruling edge open the floodgates are unlimited Corporate Cash in our elections. What will he do now . Than a deadly scandal at General Motors. When fixing the problem when it was discovered say the lives of many . Yes. Should gm be able to hide behind their bankruptcy not accept responsibility and liability of these young lives . No. In 2000 five, General Motors decided not to change a defective ignition switch redesign because it would have added about one dollar to the cost of each car. At least 13 people have died in accidents as a result. The number could be much higher. We will speak with the father whose 18yearold stepdaughter and another teenage girl died when their friends chevy cobalt crashed due to the defective ignition switch. We will also speak with Joan Claybrook, former head of the national
His hometown cancels it celebration for his release after coming under a deluge of angry phone calls and emails. We will go to idaho for the latest and then speak with Brock Mcintosh, who served in afghanistan near where bergdahl did and so to become a Conscientious Objector. Into seattle, washington, where the city council has passed an ordinance to phase in a 15 and hour minimum wage, the highest for major city in the United States. Todays message is clear. If we organize as workers, as the Labor Movement with a socialist strategy thomas we can tackle income inequality and social injustice. 15 in seattle is just a beginning. We have an entire world to win solidarity. We will speak with socialist Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant. And we look at the new epa regulations on coal power plants. Today go far enough . Do they go far enough . All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Obama Administration i
Rose to prominence through the help of the United States and other the u. S. Has helped pick his replacement but maliki is refusing to go, accusing his critics of staging a coup. We will speak with Spencer Ackerman of the guardian and the to Northern Iraq to talk to joe stork of Human Rights Watch was been meeting with yazidis fleeing. Then to ferguson, missouri. He graduated, on his way to college. We cant even celebrate. We have to plan a funeral. Protesters took to the streets for a third day in a row near st. Louis monday demanding justice in saturdays Police Shooting that killed Michael Brown, an unarmed africanamerican teenager just days away from starting college. All of that and more coming up will sto. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Bombing campaign in Northern Iraq has entered its fifth day. Obama authorized the strike last week and what he called an effort to halt the advance of Islamic State militants on the ci