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War zone with barricades and personal items strewn all over. it could be weeks before it reopens. keep in mind around the detroit area 80 schools shot down today due to copycat threats. >> dana: two days in a row on that. >> bill: follow-up from milwaukee. the county d.a. there john chisholm blaming the $1,000 bail set for the parade attack suspect in the domestic violence case was in court the first week of november. he blames it on an overworked assistant who rushed the case and apparently nev...

Law. these organized crime waves millions of dollars of materials will be taken. that has nothing to do with prop 47. >> dana: do you agree the crimes no longer being felonies is okay? >> well first i disagree with the governor about prop 47. i dont think it has been helpful. here in our county we have a d.a. prosecuting those who have been arrested on crimes on felonies and they are felonies. particular tlarly if you use force or threat of force. we have folks using guns in some of these robber...

The new policy of the democratic party is no one should be behind bars, no one literally. if you murder someone, let you out into the street. even this guy that murdered five people, he had a criminal rap sheet since 1999 and was continuing to be a criminal yet they let him out. when did he turn his life around? . >> dana: the district attorney in waukesha said an assistant attorney is overworked and millsed it. there has to be some sort of way to be able to say you dont have to be overworked to...

With his s.u.v. and later used it to mow down others. the assistant saw brooks had a $500 bail in a pending case and doubled it. six people are dead after brooks ran that same s.u.v. through a christmas parade two weeks ago. his new bail was set at $5 million. keep an eye on the story. a d.a. in milwaukee pushing for a lot less bail for a lot fewer people in jails and this may in the end prove to be the result of that pollz. were watching that. >> dana: that policy is replicating itself across t...

Protests last summer, protests that lasted for month. officer corey budworth was charged with four degree assault from this incident youre watching. he is accused of pushing a photographer from behind with a baton and hitting her again in the face with the baton while she is sitting on the ground and conduct jacob said left her with neck and back pain and conduct that the county d.a. said crossed a lionel. >> in thline. >> in this case we say no -- it was excessive under the circumstances. >> cn...

The good stuff brought to you by theraflu. the power is in your hands. time now for the good stuff. a wrong number turns out to be the right call in new mexico. bernice thought she was calling a medical supply company trying to get a walker before her grandsons wedding. turns out she was calling the county d.a.s office, off by a digit. the people who got it didnt brush it off and they decided to help, surprising bernice with a new walker. >> might have purchased three walkers before we got it ...

Need decision makers who have a credibility to. walk you through moves and im in a coalition i support manfred vega but not all of my partners do all the same the principle of the lead candidate is important to c.b.c. as michael says the social democrats in the european parliament want to see their own hopeful fronts to months take the news top job but they also support the lead candidate process and they are glad to have merkel on board at least on that that was the message from the social demo...

In september, 2005, four years after his wife michele vanished, cal harris was charged with murder. >> well, it hurts, absolutely. you know, i had a good standing in the community. >> yeah. >> had a successful business, donated my time and money and resources to a lot of good causes in the community, raised my kids in that community and, you know, all of it was just taken away. >> but, the county d.a. had become convinced that cal killed his wife, late on the night of 9/11. and as the children s...

Dismissed. but waller county wasnt done. in 2003, the county d.a. published a letter in the county newspaper declaring that no matter what the law said, no matter what the court said, he still considered it to be illegal for students at prairie view to vote. he personally pledged in the local paper that he would indict any students who voted for criminal voter fraud. that was 2003. 2006 in the elections that year, hundreds of prairie view students had their votes challenged, again, on the base c...

Us. 19 students indicted. clearly an effort to keep students at that school from voting in the 1992 election. ultimately, the department of justice sent a nasty letter to county officials amid that pressure from washington, amid the uproar over the students being indicted -- see that photo there, quoting, public enemy? remember, it was 1992. ultimately after the uproar, all those indictments did get dismissed, but waller county wasnt done. in 2003, the county d.a. published an article in the new...