Is a suicide epidemic across all graphics. That was something all demographics. That was something my editor and i talked about and the more we dug into it, the worst of it was among middleaged men. As someone who is a member of the demographic, i became intrigued and fascinated about why this was and just kind of started to investigate it from there. Host lets give our viewers and listeners a snapshot from your extensive piece, men in the United States average 22 suicides for 100,000 people. 45 to 64, uped to 30. 1 in 2017. The states with the highest rates are montana with 28. 9 per 100,000. Alaska, 27 . 9 which is all doubled the national rate. New mexico, idaho, and utah round out the top six states. What do you think is causing the geographic centrality of the state and these high suicide rates. Guest all of the states and even alaska which he really did not get into, but shares the same characteristics is that, these are states where men, speaking into the little bit of , these a
Is 202 hat line 7488001. We also welcome your comments on twitter. Tweet us cspanwj. Post your comments on facebook. We are talking about the federal Death Penalty being reinstated by the department of justice effective as of thursday. The executions set to begin in december of this year. The Justice Department plans to restart Capital Punishment after long hiatus. The attorney general william barr ordered the euro of presence to schedule executions for five inmates on death row. Each was convicted of murdering children among others. Owe it to the victims and their families to carry out the sentence imposed by our Justice System. They write that by diving into the Death Penalty debate, the Trump Administration is pushing back against the countrys recent trend of declining executions. More on the washington post. One of the authors of that piece, mark berman, is on the phone with us this morning. What was behind the administrations decision to reinstate the federal Death Penalty . Guest
That would be fit for public release. That is nowhere in the rules. I was to prepare a confidential report that was comprehensive and thorough of what is in the rules, mr. Hur what is in the rules is you dont gratuitously do things to you dont add language you know would be useful in a political campaign. You werent born yesterday. You understood exactly what you were doing. Thats democratic congressman adam schiff pressing former Special Counsel robert hur on his choice of words in his report on President Bidens handling of classified documents. Well have much more on the political theater from that high stakes hearing in just a moment. Meanwhile, on capitol hill today, the house is set to vote on a bill that could ban one of the most popular apps in america. Plus, well have the latest on the ceasefire negotiations between israel and hamas, which appear to remain stalled now two days into ramadan. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this wednesday, march 13th. Im jonathan lem
And although i will no longer be a candidate, i will not stop using my voice for the things i believe in. In all likelihood donald trump will be the republican nominee when our Party Convention meet in july. I congratulate him and wish him well. I wish anyone well who would be americas president. Our country is too precious to let our differences divide us. That was part of nikki haleys speech yesterday announcing the end of her president ial campaign. It means we are now 242 days away from a rematch between President Biden and former President Trump. But today the focus shifts to washington and President Bidens state of the Union Address. Well go through what hes expected to say tonight to congress and the american people. And meanwhile, on capitol hill lawmakers appear to have another deal in place to avoid a partial Government Shutdown. But speaker johnson again needed support from democrats to overcome dissent from within his own party. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on
Little bit towards dublin and pleasanton. These showers are going to collapse. More shower activity that was around union city and fremont is drifting further along. We have more showers around mountain view. And the advisory there is now almost rain free as the rain has started to drift at a greater pace. Thats been the problem that the thunderstorms are largely parked in place today, dropping quite a bit of rain in a short amount of time. Maximizing the flooding threat out of not a lot of moisture overall in the atmosphere. You can see the trend, but what has been a lot of rain in the cloudtoground lightning strikes as the sun goes down in about an hour. Well lose the energy and the atmosphere that was helping to fuel these storms, dry within a couple of hours. We should stay dry tonight through the rest of the week as well. Details on the rest of the calmer forecast, at least the next couple of days. Along with the explanation of why the system will overachieve so much in a few minu