this side of the road, on the edge of the florida international university property, and then saturday it was put onto lifters and rotated out like a giant arm 90 degrees, placed on its support structures, that is when that big news conference and celebratory applause came from so many politicians here and project officials on saturday. apparently no one there that there was any risk of anything like this happening here and traffic was never permanently blocked off. there were still many months to go before students were going to be allowed to walk back and forth across the streets of campus and back, and we are told that one of the fatalities is confirmed as a young female florida international student who was either leaving campus or a waiting campus today which, by the way still in spring break. had it not been spring break, there would have been a lot more people in the area who could
long, spanning this busy roadway. also weighing about 950 tons. so this was a big engineering project. it was supposed to be state-of-the-art and revolutionary. it was designed and assembled on this side of the road, on the edge of the florida international university property, and then saturday it was put onto lifters and rotated out like a giant arm 90 degrees, placed on its support structures, that is when that big news conference and celebratory applause came from so many politicians here and project officials on saturday. apparently no one there that there was any risk of anything like this happening here and traffic was never permanently blocked off. there were still many months to go before students were going to be allowed to walk back and forth across the streets of campus and back, and we are told that one of the fatalities is confirmed as a young female florida international student
and the right who are part architects of this problem, admitting that they got it wrong then. now, the president, allison, made history last week when he was the first sitting president to visit a prison. here is what he said when he was asked what struck him the most during that visit. these are young people who made mistakes that aren t that different than the mistakes i made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys make. the difference is they did not have the kinds of support structures the second chances the resources that would allow them to survive those mistakes. that s what strikes me. there but for the grace of god. and that i think is something that we all have to think about. how can we prevent young people from getting into that system in the first place, allison? well the president is speaking to exactly the reasons
many as three men at a time. knight nine feet by ten feet. he spent time with workers who are in for non-violent drug offenses. these are young people who made mistakes that aren t that different than the mistakes i made and mistakes a lot of you guys made. the difference is they did not have the kind of support structures, the second chances, the resources that would allow them to survive those mistakes. i think we have a tendency sometimes to almost take for granted, or think it s normal that so many young people end up in our criminal justice system. it s not normal. it s not what happens in other countries. what is normal is teenagers doing stupid things. what is normal is young people making mistakes. that s what strikes me. there but by the grace of god.
many as three men at a time. knight nine feet by ten feet. he spent time with workers who are in for non-violent drug offenses. these are young people who made mistakes that aren t that different than the mistakes i made and mistakes a lot of you guys made. the difference is they did not have the kind of support structures, the second chances, the resources that would allow them to survive those mistakes. i think we have a tendency sometimes to almost take for granted, or think it s normal that so many young people end up in our criminal justice system. it s not normal. it s not what happens in other countries. what is normal is teenagers doing stupid things. what is normal is young people making mistakes.