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at 10:00. i'm shawn yancy. >> i'm brian bolter. tonight two local counties admit they have a 911 problem on their hands and both wonder what verizon is doing to fix it. fox 5's roz plater working the story down in the newsroom. >> it was a terrifying night for a silver spring community. the system they counted on to call for help was down and now lots of people are asking verizon what happened and why. just after 8:00 the night of january 26th this house on lanock way in silver spring on fire, trapped inside a 94-year- old woman. it was the same night of that horrible thunder snowsto...

that may sound touchy-feely but there are excellent methods to standardize these encounters and follow them. as far as what is referred to as the cultural competency, i think that the physician is an important figure. when it comes to chronic illness, patients have this lifelong diet and exercise, if you are poor and your life is chaotic that is not always a priority. have a relationship with the halo personnel, the nurses and secretaries in the clinic, the ones that patients have the best relationships with. the nurses are the folks who are drawn from the community to -- they are th...

part of the development of both radio and television. which is why the name is somewhat familiar. i do like to tell the story that he fundamentally got it wrong which is, as we can now see, television really should go through wires and telephone should really go through the air. [laughter] and so they essentially had it slightly reversed, but it worked for many decades, and he was a great man. >> host: richard sarnoff is co-chair of the bertelsmann corporation. thank you. >> guest: thank you. >> a look, now, at minorities and health care disparities. we'll hear from a number of medi...

this is the most malfeasance explanation of care and is perhaps one reason why there is so much interest in this mechanism, but disparities they also rise from in prison discrimination, where a herridge provider, operating in a time- sensitive -- they also rise from a discrimination, where a busy provider, operating in a time since the environment, makes choices. if, for example, african- american patients are less likely to be compliant, then a physician may assume that her african american patient is less compliant. such reasoning will worsen outcomes for that patient. if he is dif...