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Staff who just bought a lifetime supply. Today is saturday, november 17th, 2012. From nbc news, this is today. With lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. And im erica hill. Many of you may be in mourning this morning for the twinkie. Or the snowball. Or the ding dong or the hoho. You know, they overlook snowball. That was your snack of choice . And . And, its good. Its like sugarized r...

49 degrees by lunchtime. Quite chilly and the sunshine and the clouds still mixing together. By the afternoon, the High Temperature coming in at 51 degrees. And dont think we will be socked in like i toll charley. We will get sunshine High Pressure is going to do its thing. Lets check the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. Reporter good morning. We are dealing with a very serious crash in baltimore county. Its in white marsh and has shut down philadelphia road at bradshaw road. Baltimore c...

Heroin, crack and cocaine. Although these individuals havent been charged with the violence down there, theyre contributing to the violence and are a driving force. Reporter police go on to point out that most of these suspects have long and violent criminal histories and pulling them out of the community should stabilize the area immediately. A targeted enforcement these authorities hope will stem the west baltimore crime search. In baltimore, brian kuebler, abc2 news. While this was originally...

Twisted metal, to safe a baby at the last minute. And are you ready for this . Lindsay lohan set to walk into our times square studio this morning for her only live interview. She is playing the worlds most famous movie star. But first, she is live on good morning america. Good morning, america. We have breaking news just as we come on the air. Sirens welling across southern israel and tel aviv right there. Palestinian rock et cetera targeting tel aviv just exploded. Were right on the edge of wa...

Caused a light of the span to go out for a couple of hours. We will talk about that more in a couple of minutes. First we will look at some rain in the bay area. Let us check out our forecast with erica. Good morning anny. You may encounter what roadways. Palo alto receiving light rain the green on your screen over in sunnyvale, cupertino as a zoom in on the east bay. Lightly browned haywood union city stretching to north. Norge. You may need to use your windshield wipers for portions of highway...

Extremely organized and vocal and participation during the budget process and because that really has a significant impact, and i think on the mayor and on the board in terms of making sure that priorities are actually getting addressed. For the next steps we need to finalize the planning and determine what is the best fit in order to provide a modern facility that meets the needs of the animal and refine our own work load and look at best practice and smart practices and talk to our partners re...

I just wanted to add, to my comments that if you have not visited the facilities, if you have your image of dog catchers in mind and as what the department represents it could not be further from the truth with the really caring people that work under really difficult facility and conditions there. And so i am glad that you have some slides on Facilities Needs and i think that is coupling up and i know that there are a ton of people that want to speak. And i did want to say that the increased th...

The term zero tolerance has been used as a pejorative term to criticize broken windows, and appropriately so. Broken windows wasnt zero tolerance. Zero tolerance, first of all, implies a zealotry about you will have no discretion. And the second thing is, it says you dont have any discretion which is exactly what we want to avoid which sets up a high arrest thing. But let me just talk about, zero tolerance can be a useful tool at times, at particular locations around particular problems. But you...

It down to 78 cases where there was a real case negligent hiring. Not just a one of the lawyers threw up against the wall like spaghetti to see what would stick. We found 41 cases and all those years that were true that legit hiring. We whittled down even further to see if it was a primary claim, the primary claim was in 28 cases, 19 plaintiffs and nine settlements. We then wanted to know how many of those involved the criminal records. What we discovered was only 11 out of the 28 involved the c...

These consequences. They include but are not limited to loss or restriction of professional licenses, ineligibility for public funds including Public Welfare benefits, Public Housing, and student loans, loss of voting rights, ineligibility for jury duty, and a big one in colorado is loss of hunting privileges. And deportation of immigrants. While collateral consequences have always accompanied criminal convictions in the United States, their number in impact expanded dramatically during the 1980...