Year into indefinite detention people are willing to confess to anything in order to get there case moved into the court system. You see people get to court and want to repudiate their confession. Of course, what does the court turned around and do . You cant repudiate. Repudiate. I think that it is true that we didnt we do tend to assume that people detained are guilty. If you look at the number, in fact, it is not actually true. There is an earlier stage in which they accept the case. They used to give us those numbers in the annual report they have stopped doing it for whatever reason, but in the old days about half of those initially investigated never ended up with an indictment. What i assume is lot of those people end up getting an administrative punishment because it is determined they have not really committed a major offense. What we dont know is how many of those people get off because they are determined to be not guilty. But i think you are absolutely right. When it hits t
A captive audience. You can work with them in so many different ways to make sure that you do more and get that recidivism rate down to the 20 percent where taxpayers are no longer paying 30 some thought to 530 some odd thousand dollars a year to house these people. It is a win win for everyone involved. The notion of talking about reentry and figuring out Practical Solutions is something we need to continue to dialogue as we go forward. Thank you for that. We have time for two really good and short questions. [applauding] [inaudible question] and if you look at the issue of wrongful convictions, it is clear that wrongful convictions more likely affect africanamericans and other minority groups. So if we we are talking about bringing an end to mass incarceration, shouldnt we be talking about bringing an end to wrongful convictions . I think we would like to invite a comment on that. Just before we get there, before you get to the prosecutor you often get to lineups and things like that
Heard of that. We all remember typhoid mary of lore and she had the ability to infect people. Do your typhoid marys have the ability to infect people when theyre asymptomatic . We dont know. Thats the question. Typhoid mary, in the case of her, she was dealing with a bacterial infection. Right. What i do know for a fact, there have been a number of asymptomatic nonfebrill people whose blood has been drawn and they tested positive. I think there is something about the pcr test. In medicine, you never say 100 . The thing with ebola, if you dont bat 1 wh00 every day, it exposed. My point is we need go to africa and fight the disease over there and keep it contained. Two of your doctors were infected and werent sure why. We had two nurses in dallas and were infected and were not sure why. That underscores there is a lot more not known about this disease and is known and i would extend that to mr. Waxman, we all need humility on this. And what you did in dallas to have good discipline to wh
Well see you then. Lets begin our Live Team Coverage now from our abc7 News Reporters in the field. Flooding is bad people are told to just stay home. You can imagine, people found that message unusual and alarming. Police tell me they want peopled to stay home to lighten traffic so crews might get there on time. Mill valley resident spent the morning walking rather than driving. Doing her best to stay off the roads. I called to see if i can reschedule but he had just driven two hours to meet me. It should be a 10 minute drive. The Mill Valley Police department sent out this tweet, due to heavy Traffic Congestion and flooding everyone is advised to remain home. Unless you must leave. I was surprised by it. We have storms idea was to get people to work and crews where they needed to be as fast as possible. For Public Safety theyre trying to get these open. Its just less traffic, more we can mitigate everything. This was gridlock for miles storm mixed with high tides and in tiburon, pabl
The white house got much further than we thought. Omar gonzalez ran throughout the white house into the east room, and near the doors to the green room before he was stopped. Later today, lawmakers grill secret Service Director Julia Pierson about plans to change the agencys procedures. Nbcs tracie potts is in washington. Good morning to you, tracie. The question might be will she stick to a script or not here . Reporter or will she say a lot at all when it comes to details about how they protect first family. In this letter, she argues to the committee where shes testifying today that part of the hearing should be classified, it should be top secret because as she puts it, revealing too much detail about how they protect the first family is beyond reckless. Something needs to be done drastically. Reporter today, lawmakers want to ask secret Service Director Julia Pierson how a man jumped the white house fence, ran across the lawn, and according to the washington post, got all the way