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the debris, but the odds of it actually hitting you, we took this a step further. that's one in several trillion, trillion with a t. chad myers, so the news today, we are now in the strike zone. is that for now or for good? >> that will be for good, until it falls out of the sky and we'll know. we were doing this little tweet thing back and forth a little bit ago about how the earth is not round. the earth is not round. it's fatter at the equator. so this thing will be closer to the atmosphere every time it passes the equator. every time it goes around the earth, it will start to dra...

Most but a debate about how you measure quality and the testing. i want to read you something from a report, the research arm of the michigan education association which to be clear is the teachers union but they say u.s. states with high academic standards fare no better or worse than those identified as having low standards. research support for standards driven test based accountability systems is similarly weak and nations with centralized standards generally tend to perform no better or worse on international tests than those without. essentially they're challenging this idea that the whi...

Community leaders, was opening an investigation into whether the chicago police department had engaged in a pattern or practice of violations of the constitution or federal statutory law. and for the past 13 months, our investigators have worked tirelessly to obtain a full and an accurate and an impartial picture of policing in chicago. they have conducted hundreds of interviews with citizens, with officials, with officers. they have reviewed thousands of pages of documents. they have observed chicago police department officers on the job. and on the basis of this exhaustive review, the depart...

Cpd's greatest resource is its officers. the men and women who every day put their lives on the line to keep the nearly 3 million people in this great city safe. many officers feel let down. our investigation determined that for too long you have been forced to do your jobs without the training and republic source and equipment that you need and when accountability systems are broken and individual miscon didn't goes systematically unaddressed in your midst, it hurts the entire police department and the city. this can change. the city and cpd need to consistently incentivize and reward effect ...

Human rights groups to call for the prosecution of any u.s. officials responsible for torture. they say there should be no statute of limitations. the white house now finding itself in the uncomfortable position of both condemning torture, while at the same time, urging closure, as we heard from the president on "the rundown" this morning. >> that does not excuse all of us from recognizing our responsibilities to look squarely at what happened and to make sure that it doesn't happen again. and, you know, not only did i order that we don't engage in these practices in the future, i also and am ...