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less, there is a points of incredible frustration in new york city or any major city. you do the hard work, you take the criminal off the street and the system spits him back out. brian: let's make it zero cash bail, what's the result? >> the result has been horrible. the question is how do we solve that problem? we don't just eliminate cash bail and not have a mechanism by which to incapacitate dangerous people. we are the only state in the union that doesn't allow the consideration of dangerous. brian: do you think we can fix this? >> i do. the answers are not that complicated. we can make things a lot better. we went from 2,262 to 292 in
all over the world. i note the recall numbers are 292 in the us and 70,000 in germany and the rest are spread out. they are not going to be particularly easy to recall and service, given that the number and different models, the mls and gls and r class and such, they are a problem. the problem seems to be related to corrosion which could lead to the connection between the brake pedal and braking system failing. just explain how serious that is. whatjumped out of me is that all three of these vehicles, the series vehicles are suv—type vehicles, heavier, so the consequences of brake failure, while remote, are higher so their risk assessment was such that they needed to recall that in and it's also not one of those things that you can recall or you can fix really over the air, so many more recent vehicles, many of the problems people have are
as the battle for severodonetsk continues, on the streets, ukrainian police evacuate stranded residents. if russia can take this city, it will have a path into the donbas. if the ukrainians can stop them, they will win a battle that could determine the outcome of this war. joe inwood, bbc news, kyiv. mercedes—benz is recalling nearly a million older vehicles worldwide. the call back is due to a potential problem with the brakes of the vehicles built between 2004 and 2015. dan neil is the automotive critic with the wall streetjournal and hejoins me now from north carolina. it's a lot of cars and its over a number of years and it's all over the world. i note the recall numbers are 292 in the us and 70,000 in germany and the rest are spread out. they
older vehicles worldwide. the call back is due to a potential problem with the brakes of the vehicles built between 2004 and 2015. the problem is related to corrosion which, in the worst cases, could lead to the connection between the brake pedal and the braking system failing. so how significant is this recall? a question i put to dan neil, automotive critic with the wall streetjournal. it's a lot of cars and it's over a number of years and it's all over the world. i note the recall numbers are 292 in the us and 70,000 in germany and the rest are spread out. they are not going to be particularly easy to recall and service, given that the number and different models, the mls and gls and r class and such, they are a problem. the problem seems to be related to corrosion which could lead to the connection between the brake pedal and braking system failing. just explain how serious that is. whatjumped out of me is that all three of these vehicles, the series vehicles are suv—type vehicles, heavier, so the consequences of brake failure, while remote, are higher so their risk
rare public criticism of russia's military operations coming from a retired senior officer, he appeared on russian state television saying the war in ukraine isn't going well. let's go live to clare sebastian with more on this story. what exactly did he say and what has been the reaction? >> yeah, this is extremely rare to see on russian television, the control of information as you know has not been this tight really in 292 years that president putin has been in power. so very unusual to see this retired colonel go on this talk show. usually they include a panel of people frankly who all agree with each other. and he criticized not only russia's handling of the war, but its perception of it, he urged people not to drink what he called fortrainformation tra lizzers. listen to one area. >> translator: considering the european aid will come into it full effect and a million armed ukrainian soldiers can join the
THAILAND: A total of 301 road accidents occurred nationwide on Tuesday (Apr 12), the second of the so-called “seven dangerous days” around the Songkran Festival, causing 47 deaths and 292 injuries
so not surprising to see some of these storms produce tornadoes. and of course we saw those reports, five reports of tornadoes in the past 24 or so hours. but incredibly, the run of tornados across the united states has been as remarkable as it gets. look at the month of march. on average bringing 80 tornadoes. we saw a historic 292 preliminary reports of tornadoes. in the first 13 days 129 tornadoes reported. 155 is the average. mind you, we still have upwards of two plus weeks left before the month is over. notice the storm's now beginning to taper off. significant rainfall in place. some of these areas, two, three, even five plus inches of rainfall with flooding in place there. high pressure building on the back side of it. there is the storm system now pushing off the eastern seaboard. and yes, a level 2 on a scale of 1 to 5 for severe weather still into thursday afternoon, includes the city of philadelphia and new york. the good news out of all of this is no tornado risk. very limited for that.
the vast majority stretching over 220 plus. severe wind gust reports. some of these the strongest hurricane wind gusts across areas of mississippi, kentucky, the state of tennessee as well. very strong wind gusts in praise with the storms. look at the lightning data. able to tabulate 106,000 lightning strikes and it speaks to the height of this. the weekend and it moves away off the eastern 1/3 of the u.s. notice quite a bit of rainfall observed here. flooding widespread whether it's arkansas, wisconsin, as far north as iowa. we've seen as much as 5 plus inches come down. we've talked about the tornadoes. the preliminary number puts us at 292. 80 is the beginning of march. almost matching what we expect in the entire month as we approach peak season. laura? >> pedram we know you are
winds. significant amount of wind. widespread coverage of severe wind gusts that at times were gusting to over 16, even 70 plus miles per hour pushing up to hurricane force across the state of mississippi and really the intensity, the ferocity of these storms as impressive as it gets. in fact, look at the lightning data. in a 12-hour span, 106,031 lightning strikes. frontal boundary from louisiana all the way to ohio. that span about 830 miles across and it speaks to the incredible magnitude of the storm system. notice some of these like the tornadoes spotted across portions of louisville, kentucky, into the evening hours. any time you look at these, we talked about the tornadoes in recent weeks. we had an incredible and historic month of march. the month of march brings 180 tornadoes. this has it at 292 tornadoes, an