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Largest number of chronically Homeless People. Skidrow is the epicenter of homelessness in los angeles. Tell us about that. Skid is this 54 block in the middle of downtown los angeles, and is surrounded lofts,rise and luxury towers,ours bank chinatown, then you have this little spot right in the middle or it is a compact, dense area of 10,000 people. A lot of my experience with , itlessness and the crowd completelyute different place from anywhere else i could imagine. People different names. Some people the devils den, some people call it this is where people go to die. Host in l. A. , homelessness is like the weather. Not worth talking about almost there is a crisis. It was like by this, local residents and officials are paying attention. L. A. County spent almost 1 billion a year simply managing homelessness despite that, more and more people are living on the street. A couple years ago, the city embarked on a plan to curb homelessness. Has it worked . Sophia lee we are still trying
The platform of a light rail station in north highlands. The deputy survived and has major injuries to his job. He made contact with the suspect, was talking to him, and then all of a sudden the suspect, unprovoked, jumped at the officer and began violently attacking him. Reporter span is originally from san jose. Court records show the 27year old was arrested multiple times between 2008 and 2013. A spokesman for superior court tells ktvu span was accused in a 2008 double homicide in Mountain View but the charges were dropped. Spans former Attorney Says span was never at the scene of the crime and was falsely identified as the shooter. Span pleaded no contest to lesser charges of receiving stolen property and being an accessory after the fact of the crime. In 2012 span was arrested several times on misdemeanor charges in sacramento county. He reportedly violated his probation in may, spent 45 days in jail, and was released earlier this month. He was arrested tuesday night outside a mot
We want to get legislation to end failed obamacare status quo. Through congress and to president s desk before his signature. Reporter initial amendments have failed to get 50 votes, rand paul amendment for straight repil repeal was rejected 4555, and ted cruzs proposal for selling strip down plans of rejected by 9 republicans and all democrats. We have to figure out a skinny down version. Had is disappointing, but we have to keep the process moving, otherwise were stuck with the mess that is obamacare. Reporter member of Republican Leadership signaled that could be path to 50 yes votes. Repealing the individual mandate is something we agree on. I think we peeling a lot obamacare taxing that are driving up cost of health care, are things we agree on. Reporter issue of two republicans who voted against even just debating the bill, Susan Collins from maine, and murkowski from alaska. President trump firing a twitter shot out this morning. Key democrats are focused on resistings republica
We want to get legislation to end failed obamacare status quo. Through congress and to president s desk before his signature. Reporter initial amendments have failed to get 50 votes, rand paul amendment for straight repil repeal was rejected 4555, and ted cruzs proposal for selling strip down plans of rejected by 9 republicans and all democrats. We have to figure out a skinny down version. Had is disappointing, but we have to keep the process moving, otherwise were stuck with the mess that is obamacare. Reporter member of Republican Leadership signaled that could be path to 50 yes votes. Repealing the individual mandate is something we agree on. I think we peeling a lot obamacare taxing that are driving up cost of health care, are things we agree on. Reporter issue of two republicans who voted against even just debating the bill, Susan Collins from maine, and murkowski from alaska. President trump firing a twitter shot out this morning. Key democrats are focused on resistings republica