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How to use computers. >> my son just took a computer class in school, and he's only 8 years old. i figure i'd just as soon be as smart as he is. >> for all you hear about friendly, they aren't really, except for playing pac man. >> a small snag in computer marketing is called technophobia. fear of these bloodless little wizards. the manufacturers are trying to overcome it by making them what they call user-friendly. >> isn't that pretty? now what do i do? >> making computers easy enough to use for a beginner, it wasn't always true. people had never encountered this stuff. >> hold down shift an...

Confinement from federal prison during the covid pandemic. those 4,000 individuals may have to go back to federal prison if president biden doesn't act soon. one of those individuals is a 74-year-old grandmother by the name of gwen levi, this a case that has had awareness raised about. she went to computer class and she haase now been deemed an escapee buy the bureau of prisons. not only do they want to send her back to prison, they want to lengthen they are sentence. it is crazy. i think this is the greatest crisis before the biden administration right now. and moi hope is that a.g. garland a...

Right. >> merchanandi. craig, i know this is killing you, and it should be. this is embarrassing to us. monitoring matters, and let's be very clear. craig, why didn't your grandmother answer the phone? >> she was in a computer class. >> why didn't your grandmother answer the phone, craig? >> she was in class and she didn't want to disturb the class. >> did she know who it was at the time? >> no, she didn't. she just heard the phone ring and turned it down. when she got back home is when she found out what was going on. z >> this is the class your mother was in. is confused. she's got grandkids...

Levi served 16 years for dealing heroin. i'm not saying she's mother teresa, okay? you can do things in life, pay your debt and there should still be fairness in the law. last june as covid flared, she and other prisoners were released to home confinement. there were conditions. one of the conditions was you do something productive. she attended a computer class in baltimore. when she went to the class, it triggered her ankle monitor. it happens. she didn't answer calls to her phone for a few hours. a federal report listed the 76-year-old as having attempted an escape. gwen, 76-year-old levi, ...