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Plan. tiffany says the plan is problematic. it feels to address the existing lack of social services for the citys most vulnerable. the mayor defended the plan this week. he said he would lead the city into uncharted waters. he blamed his predecessors for punting on the issue. join me right now is doctor mitchell katz, the ceo of new york health and hospitals. doctor, thank you for meeting with us. >> thank you. >> you told a new york times that it does not make sense to take people who are home...

Approach to what we call homelessness. this week, the mayor will begin hospitalizing more of the population that is, quote, in psychiatric crisis. in reading the new directive i was surprised by how little of a policy shift it should represent. section 9.41 authorizes a peace officer or a police officer, to take into custody, for the purpose of a psychiatric evaluation an individual who appears to be mentally ill and is conducting themselves in a manner likely to result in serious harm to self o...

Just spent months running around their districts vowing that, if elected, they would get rid of wasteful government spending. so i have an enormous miss for the party which was partly elected on that and yet in its first test of whether or not it meant it, it failed by voting overwhelmingly this week to retain the most wasteful example of government spending, earmarks. earmarks had gone away about ten years ago, theyre back. the appetite has only grown, and republicans are risking their credibil...

Rotate between the homeless shelters, the hospitals, rikers. the use of resources without actually being able to improve the quality of life. we are talking about a very targeted effort and a very small number of people who do not realize that because of their mental illness that they need treatment. if we treated them, the need for psychiatric emergency here would go down. we could then spin more of those resources taking care of people in the community for the long term. >> doctor, do you thin...

The meantime he is not going to get a say of the decision of this very conservative panel. so the case will go ahead and i would not even be surprised if, as a face saving move, judge aileen cannon were to decide simply to follow the directive of the court of appeals before its words reached her courtroom and simply dismiss the case to show that she can do something right. she is not done anything else right yet in this case. >> so there is the potential of donald trump using a couple of weeks i...

>> this plan represents a major shift in how we care for our fellow new yorkers in crisis. >> reporter: when it comes to the nypd, its unclear what additional training officers will receive. a statement from the department notes nypd is currently in the process of aligning its policy, guidance, and training in conformance with the mayors directive, pointing out that it first received the directive tuesday, same day of the mayors public announcement. i just dont see this being a fix in the immedi...

Lockdowns in four districts and scrapped district-wide tested. shanghai will lift lockdown measures starting tomorrow, which is today there. chinas national health commission is calling on local governments to, quote, resolve the reasonable demands of the masses in a timely manner. whether thats a real directive, we dont know. selina wang has more from beijing. >> reporter: anger boils over into violent protests at the worlds largest iphone factory. workers stream out of the dorms in central chi...

Amid a national debate about rising crime, policing, and homelessness, the mayor of new york city has issued a directive for law enforcement and emergency workers to begin hospitalizing more mentally ill people on the streets and subways involuntarily, not just for the safety of others but for their own welfare. >> it is not acceptable for us to see someone who clearly needs help and walk past. no more walking by or looking away. no more passing the buck. >> so, this has been getting some pushba...

Court, but they are still negotiating so if youre on the ground in mississippi now and youre wondering is the water safe, is this going to change my life? is doj is saying were trying to get there. >> thank you for being on this reporting for this for us. good to see you. still ahead, the new directive in new york city for police and other emergency workers to involuntary hospitalize people they think have significant mental illness. thats after the break. l illnes. thats after the break nts f...

Halting most migrant ex importanttations except in cases involving a serious threat to public safety. three issues. do states have legal standing or the right to bring the lawsuit? does the biden policy disregard federal law? and does the judge who vacated the directive in june nationwide actually have power to set the policy aside? big ones on the agenda for them. >> dana: indeed. there is going to be other states that are paying attention to this. i said it affects border states a lot. not jus...