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When you believe that youre using your voice. you have reclaimed it. you are advocating. you have the attention of the prosecutors and they have exercise or discretion to prosecute and now it feels like its been transformed into an exercise in futility where people will believe, not only do i risk become public about this, but now at the end of the day, even if i have some semblance of justice, it might be fleeting. one thing to keep in mind here is his sentence was a range, 3 to 10 years. he wa...

Using was actually set aside for covid-19 relief. you wrote a letter to the treasury secretary janet yellen asking her to step in and block thissest. what can the treasury department do to stop this, and if the administration doesnt ability, whats the next step? >> reporter: thanks so much for having me on your program and, yes, unfortunately what were seeing today is donald trump at the border with greg abbott, greg be a bolt who was completely abandoned any semblance of governing. you know, we...

Starting to find it painful to hold on to any semblance of hope that theyre going to be one of the lucky ones, chris, and i am eager to talk to folks how theyre going to process all of this because what ive consistently heard when they come out of the press conferences that theyre not getting the amount of information they get and they dont fault first responders and officials for that, they understand how complicated and terrible this has been and you can imagine this is agonizing and people ho...

You have to look at the entire pile, confirmed in regards that we need to go to the next phase and again, ive got to re-mention the fact that we are just not there yet. we are just not there yet. >> now that we have some semblance of the dna, whats the timeline from recovering someone to identifying, what timeline are we working off of? >> this is whats so amazing, the homicide detective and crime scene personnel and our medical examiner, our rabbis are also on the scene helping us, when we are ...

We still have some hope. >> well, lets hope indeed. dave downie, thank you very much. thanks for what your friends and colleagues are doing. were counting on them. we appreciate it very much. right now hundreds of families are vacillating between hope and grief. up next well take you live to the reunification center where people are so desperate for not only good news but indeed for any news. >> one second, you know, youre overwhelmed. its really difficult not to break down now. and then, you kn...

>> news is busy right now. heads up tomorrow former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin will be sentenced. chauvin was convicted in april on three charges of murder and manslaughter for nearly on george floyds neck for more than nine minutes. the judge tomorrow is expected to consider a sentence for chauvin as far as the two years in prison. chauvins attorney on the other hand is asking for a semblance of probation with no jail time at all. we are going to be watching that. itll be interest...

Some semblance of normality, that people only focus on the bottom line and less on the well—being of their people and so in the uk where i live, i am campaigning forthe uk campaigning for the uk government campaigning forthe uk government to mandate mental health reporting in a similar way they have mandated the gender pay gap and putting the essence on it being a positive exercise where best practice has been made easy to access for companies and allowing not just an assessment of the behavio...

Pick him up to take him out to lunch. you know, they came over every single weekend to spend the day with him. so its -- my son -- its going to be difficult. >> i mean, are you even able to grapple with what has happened here? i mean, this is just -- this is something that no person would ever even comprehend or imagine happening. >> its hard to explain. its waves of devastation with troughs of disbelief. its just one second, you know, youre overwhelmed. its really difficult not to break down no...

Any process. but it is frightening to me that theyre removing any semblance of fairness to the process and turning it into we have to do this so we can make sure that we put somebody like donald trump in office even when he doesnt get enough votes. its infuriating. >> can i ask you a blunt question, claire? i feel the more progressive representatives and senators are out front. when the most vulnerable democrats -- are the democrats that win in swing states and red states are not out front on th...

But instituting a vaccination day, to strengthen an bolster the effort of the process. what we have in jackson is a population, which is about 85% black, and it has been proven that this pandemic has had a disparate effect on black and brown communities, so im certainly fearful of that. i think the semblance of returning back to our normal economy, our normal way of life somehow creates a delusion in peoples mind that were beyond this pandemic. so its important to not only stand up our effort to...