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Mayor today? >> this was great training. when you look at what they're -- >> because training doesn't -- can training change the things we're talking about here, which is the snap judgments, preconceived bias, a set of cultural assumptions about people you're dealing with? do you think that can be trained out of people? >> i think your question is a great question. i can't modify your heart, but i can modify your behavior. and if you can't modify your behavior, i must remove you from the agency. what we are doing differently now is that when officers leave the academy, within six days they for...

We're following some new developments out of the u.s. skour supreme court today. the first has to do with this high-speed chase that ended with a police shooting and killing both the driver and the passenger of the car they were chasing. the family of the driver wanted to sue the police over the death. with us now is our senior white house correspondent joe johns who's heard the argument. what did the court say about the use of deadly force in this speed chase? >> this was a case that is essentially closely watched. because it was expected to clarify the rights of police officers making snap j...

How about lebron james the most decorated player in the nba. >> a black guy with tattoos is a different than a white guy in a hoodie. >> that's very different. those stereotypes have empirical consequence. police departments, people who have guns. they watch committees and neighborhoods, make snap judgments based upon the perception of what this black kid is like lir to do. those people who say and i had a debate stayed with my very good friend steven a smith. he's like black people should dress right and wear the right stuff. >> i said, barack obama doesn't dress like that. he's treated like ...

Michael chertoff ultimately got it. he did not have a tremendous wealth of experience. why was he the right man for the job and compare him to jeh johnson? >> i think there are a lot of similarities between secretary chertoff and jeh johnson. chertoff was the right man for the job because he's incredibly smart. dhs has a lot of very difficult issues, a lot of first impression issues, and he could look at those and decide them very quickly. >> you really need to be able to make snap judgments? >> to make judgments quickly. you can't mull over things for years. dhs is not the kind of agency wher...

Would be riding on. so instead, you have all of this sand. this is the cleanup that's going on right now here in boulder. but it's some of the outlying areas that have absolutely been devastated. again, as you mentioned, 19,000 homes damaged, alex, or destroyed. we understand it's about 1500 of those homes have been destroyed. it's going to be years before things return to normal here throughout parts of colorado. >> a dramatic and catastrophic amount of rain oncoming during what is boulder's driest month typically. thanks for your time and explanation, chris. coming up, a new analysis shows...