who. 'd the only. multiple gunmen opened fire in central vienna in what's being called a terrorist attack at least one person is dead and several others seem james. hello you're watching al jazeera live from doha with me fully back t. ball also ahead one last push donald trump and joe biden bid for votes on the eve of the election. the x. shot in their classrooms gunmen stormed kabul university in an attack which has

left at least 22 dead and celebrating 20 years in space look at the past and future of the international space station. we start with breaking news from austria where a manhunt is underway for multiple gunmen who have targeted several locations in central vienna. gunshots rang out in the capital just after 8 pm local time in what the interior minister has referred to as a terror attack at least one person has been killed or at least 15 others have been injured including a police officer police say they are 6 crime scenes some close to vienna's main synagogue let's speak to michael bomb fellow who's a journalist he's joining us from vienna michael i understand that you are in the

center of vienna right now tell us 1st about what's been happening around you. yeah that's absolutely true. the city center of vienna is currently. fool with police the situation is still pretty unclear here so. prominently there are. heavy armed policeman driving through the city. center or is closed down there is no public transport right now in the city center of vienna and it's also not possible to enter the city center at the place of the original at tac there is. lots of ambulance flights now also firefight us and.

around that you can really see also like in the broader in a city of yen almost every color of the street is no fool with police i have the police right yes i have a police presence as we can see from some of the pictures we've received from vienna michael there there is confusion about the precise targets of the attack 6 different locations than what milton. well basically it's still unclear when there are different informations going around so like it seems very clear what is clear right now that one attack was very close to the main synagogue in vienna. and. it is now claimed that there was 6 places of attacks but it's not very clear like some say that all of the 6 attacks a very close to the synagogue others say that they might have been told so in other

districts of vienna but as i said it's still unclear which is an ongoing situation right and this is. coming just a few hours before a coronavirus strong don is due to come into effect in austria the attack began at 8 pm local how how are people reacting i know it's nighttime now there and many probably most people are sleep now but what have been the early reactions and were there any signs perhaps any alerts that something like this could be happening in australia capital no that was absolutely knows and before. the right. people of course shocked like i talked to some people on the streets and they were really shocked of course also. and most self. looked into some sort of policeman while they control my purse ideal like police is

also very nervous but on the other hand there are still people who try called on the stand which really sip or took so. long before the cops close india and india and to sit outside and have a look at all the chaos around them instead of trying to to hide to protect themselves thank you so much michael for speaking to us about this michael bomber not is an austrian journalist talking to us there from the center of vienna where there's been an attack this monday evening bringing dominic cain who's monitoring the situation from berlin for us berlin a situation rather a situation that's still unfolding in vienna but already a lot of reaction from european leaders. yes a chorus of condemnation from leaders across the continent as they see the scenes that have been unfolding in vienna we know that the austrian chancellor sebastien cortes has condemned what he calls

a disgusting terrorist attack and has applauded the role of the police and other services in trying to bring this situation to an end as expressed his his sympathies to the victims of this incident and to their families and promised that in his words there will should be no place for terrorism in his words i should say in his country but he's not the only leader or head of state head of government who's been talking about the incident we know that the french president emmanuel mccann has also referred to the scenes that he has seen in unfolding in vienna saying that he and the french share the shock and sorrow of the austrian people and he says perhaps in reference to other incidents that have taken place in his country and in recent days that after france it's another friendly nation that has been attacked and we've also had a reaction from the leaders of the european union on both from ursula funday lyon

who is the president of the european commission but also sharma share the president of the european council both of them saying that they share their sympathies with the people of austria and indeed for the victims and their families and they say that europe stands in solidarity with austria in such a terrible time the important thing here also of course is that what is going on right now is taking place jurong this corona virus pandemic and so in vienna a lockdown has just begun a very strict lockdown which might hinder some of the efforts that people might be undertaking to try to bring this situation to a close and. action there for from european leaders dominique this is coming at a time when european countries including france have been on alert there's a lot of nervousness right now and i know it's too early to draw a link to what's happened in austria to what's been happening in france but one

can't help but think about that. yes it is interesting that we have had 2 separate incidents take place in france in the last recent days recent week or so and now we have another incident this time involving what would appear to be the heavily armed perpetrators and we know several different perpetrators and there has been sun rather gruesome footage on social media video that's been put out which of course has not been confirmed or verified but in the videos which are circulating on the on social media we see at least one of the perpetrators heavily armed with some form of automatic rifle no the police have confirmed that automatic rifles have been used here and i've seen several different videos which i don't think that we as a responsible television news channel would ever wish to to broadcast but which shows some of the gruesome detail of what has been taking place here and as you

were saying there's no question that what had heard in france will have worried police and intelligence agencies around europe that to put them on more alert to make them consider might something similar happen now we clearly must not make a link until we can until it is proved that there is any link but it is interesting that if you look at the area of vienna where this has taken place it's taken place in the heart of the city which is known officially as the new dishes fear to the jewish quarter close to a synagogue all 6 scenes of the crime as it were confirmed by a police officer speaking to austrian broadcast media saying that all 6 of them were within walking distance of this particular synagogue and while there has not been a confirmation that that was the target or one of the main hub targets as it were it is strongly suggestive thank you for that dominic kane in berlin with the latest

on the situation in austria. now there is less than 11 hours to go until the 1st polling bulls open in the united states president his rival joe biden are making their final pitches to voters on the last day of campaigning and records 97000000 americans have already cast their ballots more than 2 thirds of the total number of people who voted in 2016 but donald trump and joe biden is so busy making a last minute last minute push in states that could be crucial for their path to victory and i say a closer look at where they've been campaigning donald trump started his day in north carolina before making his way up to pennsylvania his since headed to the great lakes stopping 1st in michigan then wisconsin and finishing his day back in

michigan joe biden's not traveling as fausto ring in ohio before focusing on pennsylvania is doing 3 events in that state alone including a driving rally in pittsburgh where the singer lady gaga. is in houston texas but 1st we go to our white house correspondent kimberly hockett in washington d.c. so kimberly the clock is ticking away polls will open in just a few hours for what messaging have the campaigns been focusing on on this last day of campaigning. well they've been delivering their closing arguments and their very different and competing visions of the future of the united states and both candidates have also been introducing or are once again reminding voters that there may not be a clear winner on election day in fact the latest being the biden campaign the former vice president's campaign saying in fact that they're under no scenario will trump be declared the winner on tuesday now we already know that donald trump has

also said that he may not accept the results of the 2020 alexion and so what we're seeing is a very anxious the campaign on both sides kind of amassing legal teams for pairing to fight this in the courts and that has left a lot of americans anxious and nervous in fact we've already seen businesses boarding up from washington d.c. new york all the way to los angeles we've also seen american stocking up on groceries preparing that there could be unrest in america's cities much like we saw over the summer with the social unrest and protests in fact the white house now has a fence a wrecked it all around it so people are nervous most are hoping for a very clear result and if you're on the biden side you're hoping that the polls are right but of course donald trump supporters hoping the polls are very raw and we know that joe biden has had

a lead for some time that remains the case going into the final day of voting here in the united states but again it cannot be underscored enough that there are many that are feeling in this polarized nation that things are really on the cusp of a disputed potentially contested election committee allocates in washington let's cross now to heidi her castro in houston texas that's where a federal judge has just rejected an attempt by republicans to invalidate more than 100000 votes. that's right 127000 votes that were cast from voters cars and drive through polling locations here in harris county that's what these republican activists had sued saying that those votes should be deemed illegal and invalidated well a conservative federal judge who ruled in this case today tossed that argument out this is a year in texas where a $127000.00 votes could make

a difference because for the 1st time in more than 4 decades this is a competitive state and we have seen a surge in early voting turnout with 9700000 texans already casting a ballot which is already overshadowing the total voter turnout in 2016 question is who are the voters here that are turning out are they the biden supporters or those supporting trump while democrats say that many of these are new voters they're immigrants or 1st time voters and they claim to have the advantage because this year they say texas is finally a political battleground. the family may be the image of the newly emerging texas 16 year old gerardo is too young to vote but already campaigning for democratic candidates his parents who immigrated from mexico are new u.s. citizens they voted for joe biden i feel like them being 1st time voters is soo

green and full and life changing to them because throughout the throughout the last 15 years we've just been watching the news and we've been unable to have a say in what we want in the united states. and now that they can vote they truly have a voice latino's make up 40 percent of the texas population but struggle with low voter turnout democrats say this year that's changing helping to fuel infuse e.s.m. for biden and for congressional candidates seeking to flip republican districts i am 42 years old i've never seen this level of energy this level optimism here in texas because finally we are finally getting true participation from every community. all of us cross-checks a fact not lost on biden in a state long considered hopeless for democrats young voters and immigrants have turned out in historic numbers to vote early in texas that's despite the pandemic

and accusations of voter suppression harris county which covers most of houston has 2400000 registered voters and just one location inside the arena behind me for anyone who wants to drop off their mail in ballots in person that is thanks to a controversial order by the state's republican governor greg abbott affirmed by the all republican texas supreme court some people would have to drive 40 miles or further just to get to a drop off site and i think best designed to make it difficult to do some voters outside of texas cities support for trump in wider more rural areas remains unshakable i look at the guy a man who is tough on friday the biden campaign cancelled a texas rally after trump supporters swarmed the campaign bus nearly forcing it off the highway and gerardo learns talking to trump supporters in this houston suburb

is no easy task donald trump said that coronavirus is a hoax i am a. supporter all right i understand now i fear my father the pleasure to me that has it's only true to good luck especially. if they're having taken up as well texas turning blue this election is still considered a long shot but experts say eventually it will and that's enough to keep democrats rallied castro al-jazeera houston said ahead on al-jazeera the w.h.o. warns of a critical moment as a coronavirus and then its 2nd wave gathers spurious.

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parts could see maybe 600 millimeters of rain over the next few days staggering amounts of rainfall and that is a lot it's a lead to life threatening floods then that wet weather stretches from panama into honduras with wet weather 32 for much of jamaica. when the news breaks and the racism protests continue in a number of cities across the united states when people need to be heard in this tulsa area 1000500 coins were destroyed and about 80 percent of this land the al-jazeera has teams on the ground people are just talking about wind and solar as if that's going to solve the problem if want to bring you new moon to new documentaries and light moves on air and online. to know the.

law. you're watching al-jazeera with me for the back to bore a reminder of our top stories a manhunt for several gunmen is underway in austria as capital vienna 2 people have been killed and 15 others injured in shootings at 6 different locations leaders from across europe have condemned the shootings which the austrian just read as cold a quote repulsive terror attack. in the u.s. donald trump and his rival joe biden are making their final pitches to voters on the last day of campaigning before election day on tuesday they're focusing on the states that could be crucial for their path to victory i recognize the 7000000 americans have already voted in advance. more now on our top story and the shooting

in austria's capital this monday evening let's speak to thomas mann who's the european editor at their standard he's via skype from vienna thomas thank you so much for being with us so it's been what over 4 hours now since the attack began in vienna what do you know about the situation right now does it look like it's under control at all. well the situation is not under control at the moment the action of police is still going on what we know for sure that there are several attack is in town who are still on the run one of them has been shot by the police another one has been kept by by the policeman but the minister of interior said this is still a dangerous situation and they are hunting for their people are asked not to leave their homes to stay safe 'd the city center the end of the whole city center is almost empty at the moment. 'd because police has asked people to leave the

center and to go out to go home as soon as they can and that's the situation at the moment what we know for sure is there have been 6 places 6 incidents where the attackers have shot they have killed one man and injured many others who are treated now in hospitals some of them as they say 'd in a critical condition the the chancellor the head of government gave a press conference some minutes ago where we were where he said that this has been an unacceptable terrorist attack and he said also 'd it was well organized right so this of the 1st signs that this was really a terrorist attack and not only a shooting between groups us or something else a well organized attack that is coming as australia is going into a new coronavirus knock down whether any signs that an attack of this came could be

happening soon when i was in that level raised in austria before this. no there was no alert level it was why sports today was a very nice evening and then it was warm people. went out in masses to restaurants to pause because they wanted to have a nice evening the last evening because the locked would have started at midnight so nobody could have. that this was what would happen and in the 1st moments everybody believed that this was an attack against the jewish community in india not because the shooting started very very near to the synagogue in the city center so it was really surprising. the city was not prepared for that and that's that's exactly why the shock is so. great between the

people if you if you can see. people running into the streets you can feel the anger they have this list of pictures you have never seen in vienna before indeed bashings very rare in austria thank you very much for speaking to us thomas mann european editor a dash bandit thank you. and afghanistan at least 22 people are dead and 22 others injured after gunmen stormed kabul university sparking an hour's long battle with the security forces sudanese were shot in their classrooms and as they try to flee the scene i saw says it was behind the attack attack which comes as the taliban and afghan government told peace talks in qatar. the corona virus pandemic now and the head of the world alf organization says global leaders are facing a critical moment with a 2nd wave of infections dr. says it's time to step up against

a pandemic that has chief has been placed under quarantine after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for call the 1000 the organization says he won't be tested for the virus and mess he develops symptoms for the. we saw that while many countries have brought in 1900 quadro cases in countries in europe and north america continue to survive this is another critical moment for a. critical moment for leaders to step up and critical moment for people to come together for a common purpose. good unity it's not truly. and several countries across europe are imposing tougher restrictions as infections continue to rise france 34 did another record jump in new cases on monday with more

than 52000 cases confirmed hospital admissions have also had a 4 month high with just over 25000 patients france or impose a nationwide lockdown on fighting to stop the virus from spreading meanwhile in the u.k. prime minister voice johnson has defended his decision to impose a national lockdown in england to control the pandemic critics say he has been too slow to act but johnson insists he wasn't slower than other e.u. countries starting on thursday all nonessential businesses will close and everyone must remain home and new coronavirus restrictions have come into effect across germany the so-called wave break a lock down is not as restrictive as the one imposed in spring schools will remain open and public protests will be allowed but restaurants bars and recreational facilities will stay shut until the end of the month now 20 years ago the 1st group of people went to the international space station since then more than 200 others have followed the for me experiments that have led to scientific

advancements here on earth and looks at the future of the i assess as it heads towards free time it's. switched to a wider 350 kilometers above the earth the hatch was opened on a newly assembled station and on a new era of permanent human presence in space 20 years or $150000000000.00 later the international space station has grown to the size of a football field circling the world every 91 minutes. the middle. of the day. this is where we eat we have a dining table and with this we can get hot and cold water and make ourselves something to eat. scientists from 1000 countries have spent time on the i assess each day we are learning something new we find something that breaks in a different way than we expected performing experiments that have led to life saving advances here on earth from vaccine development and robotic surgery to air

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business opportunities tourists are expected late next year after hitching a ride on a commercial space x. rocket we have bob behnken from space x. demo to mission entering the international space station another private company axiom plans to attach a module to the i assessed which would eventually break off and grow into the 1st commercial space station and his nation's again look to the moon and onward to mars the experiences aboard the i assess over the past 20 years will prove invaluable preparing women and men for the more grueling journeys ahead islam glum. it's not just like a business trip to another city or country where you feel nostalgic but it's the absence of the earth itself it's difficult psychologically and the next generation who fly to mars need to confront this. it'll be even tougher for them because they won't even see the earth out of their windows we could at least see the earth from our window it is the most audacious thing we've built so far proving almost anything is possible when we put our minds to it and are chappelle al-jazeera the

very latest on all of our top stories on our website at al-jazeera dot com including the attacks in austria's capital vienna this monday evening will have more at the top of the hour. so again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera a manhunt for several gunmen is underway in capital vienna at least 2 people have been killed and 15 others injured in shootings at 6 different locations leaders from across europe have condemned the shootings which the austrian chancellor has called a call repulsive terror attack michael vaughan on is a journalist who is in vienna and he describes what the scene is like right now the city center of vienna is currently. full were police the situation is still pretty unclear here so. prominently there

are. heavy on police driving through the city. center is closed down there is no public transport right now in the city center of vienna and it's also not possible to and to descend at the place of the original no attack there is. lots of ambulance life now also fire fire. in the u.s. president trump and his rival joe biden are making their final pitches to voters on the last day of campaigning and recognize the 7000000 americans have already cast their ballots more than 2 thirds of the total number who voted in 2016 donald trump and joe biden is still busy making a last minute push in states that could equal shelf for their path to victory this time you're not this country there's an amazing thing about this moment our history

on the water and refresh the biggest threats through we are what we believe. in our lifetimes but other hand our future has never been more promising but the man from scranton that he left at 9 years old and that's ok as ok but this guy's a stone cold phony hand and a sleaze that equipped mentally to be abrasive he really you know i know it everybody knows it i have foreign leaders calling me saying are they serious. at least $22.00 people have died and $222.00 others injured after a gunman stormed the university sparking and hours wrong with the security forces students were shot in their classrooms those are the headlines in an election that's seen as a test of its 1st him across a key elected government will vote for a new parliament faced with international pressure over

a military crackdown ever engine muslims will choose national league for democracy hold on to its majority. on al-jazeera. t.v. . in august we received phone calls from inside california's oldest prison in san quentin doing. a number of inmates at san quentin who are now positive for cub in 1000 exploited over the weekend more than 2000 men or over half of the incarcerated population tested positive for corona virus despite being on lockdown since march health officials called it the biggest prison health catastrophe in the state's history. richard and those we tracked down described their fear and anger what's your experience been like these last 2 months were. very eerie.

they were trapped in tiny cells or shared dorms going days without showers and fresh air and illness and death surrounded. how concerned are you about your own health. and. their families wanted them out. this group of activists and relatives of incarcerated people are marching band clinton right now where they're calling for more humane conditions that i was in and i want to also fault lines investigates

how san quentin prison became the site of one of the largest coronavirus outbreaks in the united states was. one of. the virus likely came to san quentin from this prison 7 hours south of the california institution for men or cia it's located in chino not far from los angeles when the pandemic hit the prison was that nearly 120 percent capacity more than $3000.00 men many of them were housed in tight dormitories toilets showers and sinks. a perfect breeding ground for covert 1000. belinda's fiance marcos trevino was serving

a life sentence as. we would crack you gave me joy. belinda was worried when she heard about the 1st covert 19 cases at the prison marcos was a diabetic and had other medical conditions that put him at high risk i think the majority of good time he was trying to keep me from worrying because he would turn the it's not on my yard i would tell him are the guards wearing gloves or anything like that and he said that's not going to happen here he said they don't care about it i used to tell him make a mascot of your socks because it's killing people marcus got sick in may by that time the prison had reported more than 500 cases he called me he said don't worry. there are. 14 days i'll call you when i get out he says i have a little fever. you know you recall.

one week later belinda got word that marcos was dead. she was 57 and one of at least 23 people who lost their lives to the virus at the prison. he is. going to be accountable for you get. pressure to ease overcrowding at sea i am was mounting. in late may state prison officials decided to transfer 121 medically vulnerable men to stand clinton. up to that point there had been no reported cases among the prison population there it was later revealed that some of the men from cia were not tested for as long as 4 weeks before the transfer really were very good at keeping. out of sen clinton andrew pullman worked at san quentin at the time and spoke exclusively to fault lines everything

we were doing to make sure that it didn't enter the facility was working just monitoring your. thing in making sure people were jelling up making sure people wearing. then the all faded bus ride. so we was informed that 6 or 8 buses from c.m.i. chino are on the way to san quentin right now as we speak what did you think when he told you that i was you know mean shocked i don't know if it was me or one of my coworkers saying can we say turn the bus around no there are in route. to croydon we spoke to a nurse inside san quentin who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing their job. or it. goes on to school. how did you feel when you heard about it. the story. of the world that was covered

. going to log. on. i was thing i was like they were in a bus for like 7 hours together they're all affected i was like yeah it's over it's here it was. when you do the work to do the course. work. prisons are designed to to hold people in close proximity for control purposes they are ill equipped to deal with a pandemic one building design for 400 people with 800 people in it every part of the building just massively overcrowded. if you could just imagine walk into a. dungeon door and then the whole thing just open up and you're like well there's

a syringe and. there's no. windows are welded shut their doors over the front of the door so everyone is greeting the same air all of the time every day the cells are about 4 biden. and you live in that cell with another person. men transferred from cia and were placed in such cells not isolated in a separate house. the 1st reported case confirmed case the mood of the prison really went. down past dreary you can hear people yelling out the doors. how this is nonsense is why you bring them here why are you making a sick we said oh no here we go it's going to be it's going to be inevitable that we all get it. tonight nearly one in 3 prisoners is now infected with that virus the virus spreading rapidly in

a population that is already 42 percent medically vulnerable once covert came i knew it was a deaf sense for a lot of people and i was like man if i ever get out i'm just going to hear names coming out and i'm going to remember. and it happened. i mean i feel bad for him predicting that when i was there i was like. he's going to die it could be you can barely breathe now things are reaching a critical point a virus spreading so fast the prison is running out of places to safely howz inmates and to spread like wildfire who do you blame for that. i mean administration it's c.d.c. does the thinking does the planning doesn't so they're all to me responsible for all of our well being. c.d.c. are or the california department of corrections and rehabilitation is the agency that carried out the transfer on july 1st the state senate how the hearing to address the unfolding crisis. diaz was the head of steam d.c.

are at the time but the question of who was responsible for the transfer is complicated in 2006 after decades of overcrowding that led to illnesses and deaths a federal court appointed overseeing for to oversee health care in california's prisons that office signed off on the prison transfer perspective what responsibility do you do you take with our current level outbreaks with them why i share all of the same accountabilities as the secretary. on all matters and i'm accountable and. responsible both for the successes. and for the failures after the disastrous transfer and. that was nothing more than the worst prison screw up in state history we see the same kind of lack of regard in our own c.d.c. our system when it comes to how we treat these prisoners we have

a responsibility to care for them as human beings. and we're not doing that there's a thought but the department of corrections or myself. elation are we we view them subhuman or they don't deserve the same considerations as all of us are all of us receive out here that's a concern that sets us apart from the truth. meanwhile the outbreak and. it was the 1st largest outbreak in. are you sick left and right for a week straight then be these alarms is called man down everybody's been sick starving man down and down man down all day on a siren when blam and he will begin taking out on a 900. 000-000-0000 extension 000 security worth it there was a. little boy there we believed. to

be doing. it. he was. pretty good. we. just heard. were super. hero. really it unfolded into chaos there was virtually no way to keep up we would train one group of people in the am really get revised instructions and what we train people that afternoon would be different. and it kept changing like that on a rapid basis what was being required of stuff from the outbreak happened a lot of over time and as a result of that people are just getting burned out i am high risk they would not accommodate my risk factors. that's why you're retired that's why i'm retired. how and why do you think the situation got so out of control.

i was given chills and headaches and temperatures at night and i was scared and i thought i'm out of luck the infected man were sometimes isolated in cells used for solitary confinement to avoid ending up there some refused to be tested because there's no medical treatment that they're receiving if they test positive unless they have to go out of the on a ventilator base people see no benefit in taking the test and once a person test positive they'll put that person in the hole in administrative segregation as a way of isolating them from the larger population that person is removed from all of their personal items usually the cell in the whole this dirty filthy

a lot of people are scared calm and down to see if they can ride it out because they're locking you up and when they lock you up they put you in a worse place but there were too many sick men to isolate so some had to remain in their cells confined with their healthy cell mates if you were positive and your selling wasn't there said you know what you guys just stay together because you're exposed. but that don't make no sense as the visa exposes neighbor exposed this guy's exposed could you imagine a big warehouse with no air people coughing it's just there there's nowhere to go. to any of your friends. yes i had 2 friends that died. eric was myself for about 2 years and he was he was worried about it he always had 2 masses on he was like kept himself away from people but i think he caught in the shower if he has to go shower and that's only time he took off his mask. eric was one of the 1st person that helped me change because when i arrived in san quentin our i didn't understand

the nature of san quentin so out of promise like you know what i'm going to go beat this guy up and then before the door could open eric called me he's like you know what you don't have to live that you can live with me and just avoid all that problem. so he took me into his his cell he took me in his house and we were selling for like 2 years. he said when he got out came in his brother was going to travel the world by train or boat i said wow it's. your compass and you know he just run a nice air to the to the situation that was we was in a tommy inside of. ours live and under my circumstances and ministering to the above my circumstances my brother really became sort of this role model prisoner he really had a purpose in life and he was really helping others and i'm proud of my brother. can you tell me about your last conversation with aaron he was really struggling for

every breath of air. i bring i've been with my brother through this journey there was never a moment we cave on his freedom and so i wasn't going to give up on his life i wanted him to fight to the end for his life and for his freedom. so i never gave him permission to let go. never encouraged him to give up. snottiness. you fought to you. but he was fighting for those guys too. eric warner died on july 25th he was 57. incarcerated men weren't the only ones getting sick prison staff were also affected. one of them was a corrections officer named gilbert. that's white house but. he worked at san

quentin for 34 years a great man he is the man. you dream about marrying you know it's real because all my friends a lawyer make comments about it do like how are you so close with your dad he's a vest friendly i tell him everything so we start making mass for him i was i was scared you know i didn't want him to get sick he was scared he was scared i know he was because he would tell me in heels i don't know if i can deal with this any any longer you know. but i have to do it because all the officers are falling down there they're not coming back to work they were getting sick they were getting sick gilbert was around it so much you know that he also drove the end mates to the hospital that had kogut so i mean he was close up front you know he started coughing and he thought it was just exhaustion of him going to work so he working

a lot. because there was no one to fill in those spots. i think it was the 2nd day after he tested positive where he was not doing well he said that's it i can't i can't breathe. sergeant along go went to the emergency room on july 3rd now that his ill the you know then mates have been telling officers what they're feeling and saying prayers to him and our family which says a law it's it's it's a law you know speaks volumes we were on a video they were sedating him and getting him prepared to be on the ventilator we were just telling him everything we could possibly in within that minute or 2 couple minutes that we had to. you know we love him don't worry we're going to survive this you're going to come come through you will fight to the end you know. 3 days after this interview on august 9th sergeant gilbert along go died

ringback. we tried to speak with representatives from the c.d.c. are you know or you know not yet here i'm going on you wouldn't care for you but they declined multiple interview requests hi my name is dina secretary i'm actually standing right outside your offices in sacramento right now hoping for an interview in an e-mail statement a c.d.c. or representative said they implemented unprecedented measures to address the coven 1000 outbreak us one clinton. after transfers from c i am tested positive they set up a $220.00 bad alternative care site provided all staff and the incarcerated population with it and $95.00 respirators and sent hundreds of additional stop to san quentin . but for those with loved ones inside it was too little and too late.

to look. if i would find the. can you tell us what. women want to know me through human beings they have one son. was a little over 33. i know. you learn a thing when you live in london or. the cove in 1000 pandemic has cast a spotlight on overcrowding in u.s. jails and prisons for 2300000 people are locked up california has struggled with this for decades. in 2011 the u.s.

supreme court ruled that overcrowding in the state's prisons violated the constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment this extensive and ongoing constitutional violation requires a remedy and a remedy will not be achieved without a reduction of overcrowding loads are in there but there's surely when the pandemic hit lawyers are good for people to be released. for cold good public health requires population reduction for the culture it requires staff testing public health requires complete control over transfers mean you would have avoided some of these disasters i think the crowding is the biggest thing that led from the strike and it can still happen today because it was so crowded the greater public would expose more than 50 percent of people must be reviewed to make social distancing possible within these facilities because in the way they can't imagine seeing can't since april the state has released some people early to reduce the population but many california prisons have remained at well over 100 percent capacity.

advocates and public health experts say c.d.c. r. and california. gov must do more. than welcome home celebrations though we are done most of the people that have been released so far have been accelerated release he was going to get out anyway i just let him out 30 days earlier 6 days or 90 days they're not based by the way on covert risk at all they're not based on their risk aversive of us are there not based on whether or not these people are the safest to get out. free my husband my husband has a home to go to he has a community he has a family he's left i believe that at this point in time he's learned his lesson he's a liar how to become that productive citizen in society we need everybody talking and then we need everyone to contact the cases of corona virus have been reported at every california state prison without least 15 of them having outbreaks of more

than 100 people. out there out of how many we can't hide from covering 1000 pretend our prisons are not part of our communities these are dangerous sources of outbreaks the largest outbreaks in the united states right now are in prisons and jails. rather sulkily. prisoners are always going to public health issue for people who are incarcerated it's now a public health issue for the entire state in the entire country really but beyond that it's a human rights travesty that we are. refusing to release mostly elderly and infirm to people because of our fears and bias sees. every time i look at that coal bit and i see that another loved one has passed away

he dies all over again i hear the car were again. those guys in there they have boundaries. the government just won't take responsibility i know they're scared you know what it is they release a mass amount of people but. right now in the condition that we haue tomorrow it's not promised. since a coronavirus arrived in san quentin one section of the president has avoided a large outbreak. lisa ling and euna lee reach some of the men being held there literally. in every police union yet you're. being monitored

not even internally a little girl and you are in your living alone we learned in the looted. the highest rate for action in the world and all foreigners are afraid or are searching for this still over capacity where is the party right now or would it be acceptable for a public official to $300.00 perfect capacity would be accessible scoles restaurant caroline anywhere during a scaly i think that the virus will be here it will come back. and when you get here do you honestly think your life can worry that your sentence was calvin turning it would get. the us.

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