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Rita Datta   |     |   Published 27.02.21, 08:01 AM It’s an arresting installation, like a scene right out of a new-wave film of the 1970s, rife with unstated menace. From a  faux mud wall facade, made with jute, plaster, sticks and newspaper, hangs the frame of a hurricane lantern that looks charred. On shelves are arranged the skeletal remains of a few more blackened objects: pots and pans, locks, kerosene lamp holders, baskets. Elsewhere, on another  faux mud surface, more thin...

Light sentence. five years later, she wants you to hear her story and know her name. welcome back to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> good morning. i'm dave briggs. 4:32 eastern time right here in new york. we start with breaking news overnight. a sudden resurge against for dorian. hurricane regaining strength and now once again a major category 3 storm. officials say landfall is possible anywhere in the carolinas. right now dorian is approaching the coast of south carolina. warning of life threatening storm surge and dangerous winds. >> dorian is forecast to run parallel to the coast o...

Oval office. the president pushing a fake narrative that dorian was a threat to alabama. in newspapers my name was unconscious, intoxicated woman. >> she was raped by a college athlete and then devastated at his light sentence. five years later she wants you to hear her story. welcome back to "early start." i'm dave briggs. >> i'm christine romans. 31 minutes past the hour. breaking overnight, a sudden resurgence for dorian. the hurricane regaining strength and now once again a major category 3 storm. officials say landfall is possible anywhere in the carolinas. right now dorian is approac...

Everyone gets to cut checks to everyone and i think there needs to be some value. >> let me just add one other thing on the 13 months. prosecutor recommends a 13-month sentence. do you know what that is? that's a slap on the wrist in the medical system. the judge could have to accommodate maybe given nine months, 10 months, 12 months. if you go under 12 months and joey knows this because a lot of his clients go to jail, but -- no, i'm only kidding, i've actually -- >> he's in the audience rooting me on. >> no, this guy can cross-examine. if you get under 12 months with time -- with time off fo...

Significant health issues, as a criminal defense attorney these are all things i would be arguing. when he looked at it he sent the sentencing guidelines are way out of whack. what's more, a testament to is not the fact that it was a light sentence. 47 months is nothing to sneeze at for a 69-year-old man with significant health issues who had no prior criminal record. what it does say is that the sele commentary on the fact that we really need criminal justice reform in the country. eric: why was everyone jumping up and down the streets and he basically got off with a slap on the wrist? >> aga...