Our hoarses here today, the guilder r. Ford school for Public Policy and the International Policy center, and we also want to give a person thanks to cspan for the interest theyve taken in this conversation today and for joining us here to capture the discussion. Im lynnnet, the director of Wallace House. Its the livingston awards for young journalists that brings us here today. Their livingston award is a prestigious prize referred to this thats pull letters for pulitzers prize for journalist under the age of 35. Our special guest visiting won the livingston award for National Reporting in 2017 for her story, unclaimed and it is that story that brings to us our talk today with the title beyond the wall the human toll of border crossingsment unclaimed tells the story of an anonymous, undocumented man, left in a vegetative state, after a tragic truck accident during a border crossing. Unknown and unclaimed, he languished in a hospital bed for now nearly two decades. The man came to be c
Chemical before it was dumped . We always encourage, whether its merck or anyone else, to notify us about a possible crime as soon as possible. Reporter within cyanide in his warrington home and now under suspicion, police say orourke dumped all of it in a storm drain before they were able to interview him. Once confronted by police, they say he was helpful, but couldnt remember the exact location of the drain. Only that it was somewhere near county line road and street road. Perhaps in lower bucks county. It was a snowy night and that, police say, could have helped dilute the cyanide, that has not shown up in any Drinking Water in the last two months. As soon as Law Enforcement was made aware of this, we were in constant communication with the epa and other environmental groups to let them know about this and try to locate it. Reporter police say the criminal charges are not just for the theft, but risking the lives of other people. Orourke told police, he has no knowledge of how stor
Signed by the mayor and approved by the board of supervisors, which is the immigration detainer policy. And we released him on april 15th. Reporter today, steinles father had this reaction to the revelation that sanchez was released, rather than deported. We dont need that in our hearts and souls. Were just were here for kate and so its its i think i can speak for my wife and brad that its a nonissue. Reporter at pier 14 where steinle was shot people have been leaving flowers. Nick dumbrowski wanted to pay his respects. I asked him if the killing changed his mind about San Franciscos policy regarding cooperation with immigration. Its such a slippery slope on that matter. We have more details now on sanctuary cities that mark was mentioning. The bay areas three largest cities are all sanctuary cities. 31 in the u. S. Have sanctuary status. In 1989 San Francisco passed the city and county of refuge ordinance, which prohibits City Employees from helping i. C. E. With immigration investiga
Out. Someone reported hearing gunshots inside building one. Thats the iconic building for this facility with the tower. Now, everyone on the ground of the sprawling campus was ordered to shelter in place and teams from the military began a systemic search of building one, assisted by some Montgomery County police teams as well. Now, all 20 stories had to be searched. As you might imagine that did not happen quickly. It took almost four hours for shermgt in place to be the allclear being given. It turned out to be nothing, but no one is criticizing the person who made the call, as we hear from Montgomery County Police Captain paul starks. Given the times we live in and this facility we wanted to ensure that while we didnt have any indication at the time, except for the call, we want to be able to set up a perimeter and make things safe for the thousands of people on this campus. Reporter now, one of the things that did happen is all nonemergency applications and nonemergency appointment
And ems, even though this is a medical facility. Even though there was one specific is threat thatfully turned out not to be real there was more than one specific threat prepared for and what we might say, this is an example of the emerging science of safety. Attention. Attention. All personnel are directed to shelter in place. Reporter the siren and the recorded message was clear, something was up. An employee at this facility heard what sounded like a gunshot. An employee did what was expected, reported it First Responders did what they are trained do here. A systemic search floor by floor of the 20story tower that is building one. Theirs was just the first phase of the sweep. Then dogs trained in the detection of explosive devices will enter those floors and look for explosive devices. Reporter this, even though the initial report, the call to 911 was for a gunshot. And there was no indication that there was an explosive device. We are here. We will do a complete job. Reporter a job