be the hero of the world right. washing. the in. with. joe biden inches closer to the white house holding narrow leads over president trump in georgia and pennsylvania but georgia is set for a recount because the gap between the 2 candidates is so small. oh i maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program we'll be looking at president trump's reaction to all of this the campaign remaining defiant insisting the election is in tova and continuing to alleged it to

allege irregularities. his supporters are continuing to protest outside voting centers as well but elsewhere it's a very different mood celebrations already broken out not dissipate the final results. well joe biden is edging closer that crucial number 270 electoral college votes that's what's needed to make him the next president of the united states in the past 12 hours the democratic candidate has overtaken donald trump in 2 states pennsylvania and georgia so this is the state of play at the moment just a handful of states still being counted biden is leading in most of them based on projections from the associated press he secured 264 votes so far donald trump has

just 214 electoral college votes and needs both georgia and pennsylvania to reach 270 in georgia it's still very close most of the remaining votes are from atlanta and its suburbs which leans towards the democrats which have helped joe biden get ahead but it is still by a slim margin well that might secure him georgia's coveted 16 electoral votes but the secretary of state has already made an announcement that is going to be a recount because the margins a so tight this time yesterday it was trump leading in georgia by almost $13000.00 votes then just 24 hours ago trump also needing. in pennsylvania by more than 100000 votes biden has overtaken him various well though in the past hour his lead has diminished slightly currently counting mail in ballots which are also swaying heavily towards democrats and could hand by in the state's valuable 20 electoral votes in nevada joe biden's lead there is so lightly widened the winner of this

state will secure 6 electoral votes in 2016 lost this state by more than 2 percent . another key state where this still counting is arizona where joe biden has a substantial lead the associated press has already projected the state for joe biden which took his electoral college vote count to 264. president trump has been saying that he easily wins the presidency with the legal votes cost and he says that the observers were not allowed in any way shape or form to do that job and therefore votes accepted jaring this period was be determined to be a legal vote so no evidence has been presented to support those claims the republican national committee chairwoman is also question the integrity of the election rhonda mcdaniel announced legal teams are on the ground in 4 states off to several allegations of voting irregularities seen some discrepancies in michigan and some irregularities that deserve investigation democrats and the media spent 4

years and millions of taxpayer dollars talking about a russian hoax on the grounds of election integrity now with just over 48 hours after polls have closed in an actual election for president they want to ignore clear irregularities russia call states as one and the selection we will not stand for that every candidate in every office from president down to the local level has a legal right to challenge irregularities that occur in the process of canvassing ballots we intend to ensure that every lawful voter has their vote counted in accordance with the law that observers are granted the access they are do under state law and that any irregularities that have occurred whether by a malicious attack intent or incompetence are fully investigated to the fully fullest extent allowed under the law. a very different message from house speaker nancy pelosi who is openly indicated that the democrats are expecting

a joe biden victory. this morning it is clear that the biden harris ticket will win the white house his election is historic propelled by the biggest vote ever in the history of our country 73800000 and counting americans the most votes ever received by any presidential ticket and history. well in a moment we'll get the latest on those counts in pennsylvania and georgia from our correspondents but 1st let's start with alan fischer he's there for us in washington d.c. and it looks like is poised to win the presidency but of course no confirmation just yet as the counting continues in those key states. exactly and you're seeing the republicans digging in saying that they're going to moan several legal challenges you've heard from rudy mcdaniel donald trump issued a statement in the last couple of hours he said that he believes the american people deserve full transparency to protect the integrity of the election of all

elections not just this presidential election and he said all legal ballots must be counted he said they're meeting resistance on that from certain democrats and they will pursue every aspect through the courts that they have to and ended by saying that just to reiterate he fights for the american people and he will never stop fighting for the american people so it's clear that donald trump who. really just told us what his strategy was going to be in the weeks before the election that he was going to take this to the courts if he didn't win the vote he's going to absolutely do that the difficulty they've got of course is to produce produce evidence of what they're alleging and not been able to do that so far let me give you one example they were in a pennsylvania court on thursday they suggested the observers were not being allowed the judge said hold on a 2nd there is someone from the trump campaign in the room though yes so i don't see what your problem is another judge said that the evidence presented to them was

hearsay of hearsay essentially someone that had someone see about something they had been told that would never stand any legal test in court and the judge threw it out so they've got this problem that they're making these allegations but they've got to put forward the evidence now the party highs in the last couple of hours set up a website and a phone line for people to call in with the issues that they have the if then. got to look at those process them find out which ones actually have any credibility and then put them in a document to present to the court and they are going to do that so this could take some time it is normally sometime in december when the state start to verify election results this whole process could drag on as long as that because i see donald trump is digging in and doesn't look as if he's going to concede this election anytime soon meanwhile allan the organization of american states has been monitoring some of the polling what is there what is what are their observations.

exactly the u.e.s. always sends observers to american elections they had them in some key states including michigan and pennsylvania in their report which is just been published they say they saw one of the presidential candidates has been saying about irregularities that for those at the back is president donald trump and his campaign and they see saw nor nor examples of voter fraud that they simply said none of the aforementioned regularities the 2 and they were particularly talking about michigan and also in georgia there are a number of other observers around throughout the election they will make their reports known in the next few days but of course this is something that donald trump will cast aside this far as he's concerned there was a real problem with the elections the difficulties got of course is convincing the american people that there was a problem with only one election he's alleging that tens of thousands if not

hundreds of thousands of ballots were cast in favor of joe biden and was done so fraudulently but apparently there were only done one in states where donald trump lost but also or only in the presidential election not in don't ballot races as well it's a big ask for donald trump but it's clearly something he thinks he can do in the courts in the coming days and weeks thanks very much from washington alan fischer well as you were hearing president trump has been very critical of the situation with counting in pennsylvania but philadelphia's mayor jim kenney is hit back at the attacks on his city's election integrity. the votes will continue to be counted until every valid mail in ballot absentee ballot and provisional ballot is counted so while some including the president continue to spew baseless claims of fraud claims for which his team has not produced one iota of evidence what we have seen here in philadelphia is democracy pure and simple our founding fathers who could see this system just

a 15 minute walk down the street i know would be proud and i think what the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on he needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner just as jimmy carter did just as george h.w. bush did and frankly just as al gore did and stop this and let us move forward as a country. christensen amy is covering events in pennsylvania joins us now from a demonstration of philadelphia to philadelphia we're hearing jim kenny the mayor of that really sounding a defiant no what's the mood meanwhile on the streets. who . well it's feeling a bit like a party just a couple blocks away from the convention center where the ballot count is on going down the street behind me and you see hundreds of people that have gathered waving signs counting every vote we just had a marching band come through here a short time ago people dancing in the street some charm supporters as well i should point out at the end of the street waving their chops and spam banners but

overwhelmingly a feeling of celebration here as joe biden continues to pull ahead in the race this is a heavily democratic city that saw lot of black lives matter demonstrations and a lot of support for joe biden so on that vote count as i said 30000 boy votes ahead now joe biden and some of the 100000 votes still outstanding and that includes provisional ballots which are some of the most difficult to count these are people who voted in person after requesting mail in ballots and so there's a process of invalidating the mail in ballot before they can count the provisional ballot it takes a little bit of time but the state has promised to do that carefully and quickly and for the next hour here they can continue to accept ballots that they received by mail as long as they were put in the mail and postmarked by election day

november 3rd so all of that is still happening president shop of course very angry about the vote count still ongoing here wednesday he was up in the state by more than 600000 votes but that's those mail and votes which lean heavily democratic in tend to be here in the urban areas. been counted he just saw that lead slowly and gradually slip away he is tweeting about it in fact saying that the pennsylvania authorities here have conducted themselves in a horrible lawless way but the fact that they are still counting ballots year in accepting ballots has been approved by the pennsylvania state supreme court who said that that was ok he was hoping that the supreme court of the land the national superior court would take on that issue still fighting to make that happen but even if he manages to get those votes thrown out it's

a relatively small amount the secretary of state estimated 'd about $3000.00 but a whole host of legal challenges going on here as the president attempts to lay claim to pennsylvania even as it seems increasingly to be slipping away thanks very much from philadelphia pennsylvania kristensen amy. let's go to georgia now but let's get the latest on the count in georgia i should say and gallagher is following those figures and with a difference of just a few hundredths of a percentage point between the 2 candidates there is going to be a vote count there a recount that because the margin is just is just too small and of course at stake you have 16 electoral votes high in the balance. yeah i mean the margin between these 2 candidates is less than 0.5 percent which legally means either candidate can ask for a recount that's what the secretary of state in georgia has said is going to happen so at the moment joe biden is leading trump by about 1500 votes now this is

a state that no one ever really thought was going to be play georgia has been a republican state for decades the last democratic presidential nominee to win there was bill clinton back in 1992 and if we go back in time to election day on tuesday which feels like a very long time ago president trump was leading by and 537-0000 votes that's a considerable margin but again just like in pennsylvania all these other states as those mail in ballots started to pour in that lead was being eaten away very very slowly until we woke up this morning joe biden is now in lead but as one state official there said the lead of 1500 is less than the population of a local high school in that state so we are looking at a recount there's about $4000.00 mail in ballots yet to be counted and about $9000.00 overseas and air force and army and navy boats still to be counted as

well but it seems almost certain that there will be now a recount in the state of georgia with 16 electoral college votes and there are a couple of senatorial races in that state there are extremely important that look like they're also heading into runoffs and they could very well decide the power who are old power in congress for the next 4 years so all eyes are on georgia at the moment as they continue working night and day to get these last votes in they are still counting although it now looks highly likely that there will be a recount in from my understanding that has to be done by about november the 13th they may do it sooner but again we'll have to wait and see thanks very much and following count there in georgia for us thanks andy. watching al-jazeera live from london still ahead house divided the number of republicans slammed president trump accusing him of undermining the democratic process we'll have that story and.

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the you. come back. now joe biden is edging closer to the magic number of 270 electoral college votes that would make him the next president of the united states is now overtaken donald trump in 2 key battleground states pennsylvania and georgia based only so i say to press projections biden is secure 264 electoral college votes so far donald trump has 214 and needs both georgia and pennsylvania to reach that crucial number of 270. 2 months bailey is assistant professor in the

department of political science at shippensburg university in the united states joins us now via skype i'm just looking at these reports on the reuters news agency saying that the republican national committee is looking to raise at least $60000000.00 to fund those legal challenges that are being brought in several states by president trump against the well against the result that we have so far now how significant is that in light of the fact that we know if it would was to pursue these claims it would cost a great deal of money it would be very expensive does this make it more feasible. no i think the money making aspect of it is just that it's a fund raising opportunity to be honest it's a little bit of a jaded view to think about it but money is not an object in these legal battles in many cases teams of lawyers of volunteer for the party. i don't see the money being particular issue there are there are no as you've been reporting no evidence of any

for art or any other kind. a systematic fraud or other issues going with it all the cases have been baseless at this point they have nothing to hang their hat on at this point to be honest. and the money part of is just a way to raise funds for the party and yet we see some high level republican figures defending the president or at certainly not criticizing the unsubstantiated charges he's made what does that say about the effect president trump is had on the republican party in the pos he has the way he has shaped the policy which seems to be now very much that the party of trump that's a great observation i do believe what we're saying is a party that is highly dictated by the individual and it trumps case the sort of this more tribal in state behind it and all our candidates run as personally and it senator campaigns we don't have party center campaigns but in the case of trump clearly there's a certain kind of iconic piece to it and

a transactional relationships involved with that he's established and so what you see is the vast majority republicans rejecting. these bases claims that the president is man but that his loyalists and his insights circle types of these people people who feel like they want to be within a circle regardless continued to defend him at some point on a mcdaniels says who reports essentially directly to president trump and a couple of the senators that did this but those i would count as sort of the way a list category at this point. oh it's not been declared officially it does seem as though the trajectory of this election is clear with joe biden on course for a victory obviously depending on the figures that come in but that is what the current figures suggest what are we likely to see and hear from the president trump as that moment gets casa. yeah right so that the normal norm the tradition in the

u.s. setting is that a candidate when it becomes inevitable will concede and that helps speed up the process and help sort of smooth out the i just every state in the union right now is still counting votes and they always have counted votes for days if not a couple weeks afterwards to certify them but we're not going to get that with president trump it doesn't appear to provide a concession to this that would help and sort of the intrigue and the potential for a clash is perhaps on streets and what not and so what we're likely to see is everybody else or 2 thirds of the country sort of understanding of the election is over and a 3rd still sort of fighting on the edges i suppose the things to be concerned with about would be somehow something and gets a foothold in a court someplace or you might see violence out of the going to see rounds in a widescale elections a very decentralized united states so you're in a philadelphia that's just that is counting those that look at it and thought up is

just counting that county right so that's a very small piece of the bigger piece and so i guess supposed to be worry about those other things but we're not likely to get a concession from the president but i think a good part of the country will be moving on as best they can he was saying the supreme court should weigh in on this and he's not made any secret of that even naming specific think is on the supreme call i mean on what basis would they intervene it's not likely to even get that far is that no i would be surprised by it i mean wait wait we've say it's 2020 so you can see anything i suppose happening . but i don't see it reaches the supreme court certainly nothing that we've seen yet would ever make it to the supreme court under normal circumstances the courts in general are very loathe to be involved in this kind of decision and our courts are their force is largely about their reputation or they don't we say they don't have the power of the purse the sword they don't have a police force they don't have

a budget and so their decisions need to be respected and so it's unlikely even the supreme court would hear a case like this you cannot force the supreme court to hear a case. and as well the supreme court can't go out and find a case a case has to be brought into the system before the supreme court would hear it i think it's highly unlikely given what we've seen at this point that would be anything that would be substantial enough to even make it to an appellate court intermediate appellate court never mind the supreme court we're just talking to our correspondent about as fake as enjoy a few hundredths of a percentage point between the 2 candidates as of they're going to be recount that but it's very close in other states as well this will come as a big disappointment for the democrats what nothing went wrong for them if and when they punch that victory that it should have been that it won't be a victory that is more convincing more decisive right now there is a sort of general. well you know when you sort of see that. the leadership in

other talking heads so to speak about from the from the left side from the democratic side of. disappointed that there wasn't a more decisive conclusion or a conclusive repudiation of trump in his approaches and what we really still see is a highly divided country. and clearly democrats are not relishing the victories they have had which is electing what yet again if the election goes as we expected the 1st woman vice president of flipping several states that did not vote for them in the 2016 election a putt potentially flipping georgia with a miss and so there are a lot of victories that the democratic party should be proud of i also think there's a lot of victories in which the republican party is going to be feeling good about even if they lose the presidency thanks very much joining us again along spade from shepherd's packing of us a appreciate it thank you thank you mary well as we've been saying we've been

seeing crowds building in cities right across the country democrats a senate race in what they anticipate will be a biden victory his supporters are holding don's party in the streets of philadelphia and washington but they've also been counter-protests being held in places like detroit last republican demonstrators echoing donald trump's kinds of election fraud and they are calling for the vote counting to stop. now the cheating they're making ballots to fraud they're clearly cheating the democrats have dead people voted for and they do this every single time this time we're not putting up with it but i want i want the boats to be counted that that got here 1 november 3rd and nothing further i don't want the ballots that came in november 4th i don't want the ballots that came on november 12th december 1st january $2390.00 those don't matter because if they matter they were came here on time. meanwhile joe biden supporters have said that they have faith in the u.s. electoral system. to me

a blue wave saw the senate stephen good. and yeah i'm just really excited to see him next couple of days once he's out from tea ballots are all counted feeling good i thought it was going to be kind of the landslide but. it just makes us see how the world really is here in our country. our country is so scary that it's so divided it's important that every vote is counted every vote matters makes a difference every vote should be absolutely well jim joins us live now from outside joe biden's had courses in his hometown of wilmington delaware and recent days and we've been hearing from joe biden he's been. edging people to remain calm to remain patient to wait for those votes to be counted and really trying to maintain that sense of faith in the country's institutions what are we likely to hear from him when he gives a speech a bit later on. well i think more of this

same particularly on the lining of the message that he has that he wants to be a leader for the whole of the united states this idea that the division that has only increased over the past 4 years and really been put or highlighted onto the world stage over the past few days with this election needs to be overcome and what he keeps saying is you know reminding people that this is the united states of america and that people should be united regardless of their differences obviously those words will be received well by his supporters how much impact it will have on the ground is difficult to see and to see it to say not least that the divisions are very real primarily right now in these hours we're talking about divisions over this accusation that there's been trickling that as we heard some of the trump supporters there firmly believing that there has been the democrats are essentially trying to cheat their way into the presidency or whether it's about the divisions

that have existed for decades but have only become a lot more. visible recently with the. impact that they've had in terms of economic disparity and so forth that's taking place here what's important is that when biden does speak it will be seen as an address to the nation will be seen maybe as of the 1st signs of how he wishes to proceed in the interim period and that is what everybody will be looking forward to see. thanks very much jamal michel in wilmington delaware thanks miles. well president trump has prematurely declared victory multiple times since election day while also making those allegations about irregularities and vosa fraud is latest comments on thursday night have driven a number of republicans to distance themselves from that posses candidate for example jeff flake former republican senate so for arizona called on republicans to defend u.s. elections and democratic institutions saying no republican should be ok with the

president's statements just now maryland's republican governor larry hogan joined the condemnation of president the president's comments tweeting there's no defense for the president's comments tonight on demining out democratic process america is counting the votes and we must respect the results as we always have before election or person is more important than al to mock crecy but then that contrasts with the likes of lindsey graham a leading republican senator of course who is standing by the president democracy depends upon parallel actions president trumps team is going to have a chance to make a case regarding. voting irregularities they deserve a chance to make that case and will stand with the pros of trump your democrats were doing this would be cheered on.

joe biden is edging closer to that magic number of 270 electoral college votes that will make him the next president of the united states he's overtaken donald trump in 2 key battleground states pennsylvania and the georgia based on projections from the associated press biden to secure 264 college votes so far donald trump has 214 and needs both children pennsylvania to reach 270 meanwhile the republican national committee chairwoman has question the integrity of the election announcing legal teams are on the ground in 4 states following several allegations of voting irregularities we have seen some discrepancies in michigan and some irregularities that deserve investigation democrats and the media spent for years and millions of taxpayer dollars talking about a russian hoax on the grounds of election integrity now with just over 48 hours after polls have closed in an actual election for president they want to ignore clear regularities russia call states as one and this election we will not stand

for that. these are the 2 states we continue to watch this hour the race is tight and both of them and of course trump needs both to win the presidency in georgia most the remaining votes from atlanta and its suburbs which are leaning towards the democrats and have helped joe biden get ahead but by a slim margin secretary of state says there will be a recount because it's such a small difference between the 2 of them and then biden has been overtaken trump steadily in pennsylvania but his margin is shrinking slightly so some fluctuation in the faith is that meanwhile crowds have been building in philadelphia and washington as the democrats across the u.s. celebrate what they anticipate to be a by huge victory the levels have been counter-protest as in places like detroit. that's our top story i'll see you at 2100 g.m.t. . who.

i cried every single day going home i cried before i even got to the house and my son wouldn't see me i don't want to see i have so much woods i'm pretty sure he felt in the early months of the pen demick jessica duran worked as a housekeeper at a nursing home in california it had one of the worst coded 1000 out breaks in the area i had to go out in quarantine in my brother's garage. and hear her because i heard my son on the other side of the door. say i just want to sleep with you are just you don't hug and i couldn't. i couldn't do that all i can just text them up here right here i love you i'll be ok you'll be ok and. that's the thing that scared me the most is i was going to bring something into my family. when the pandemic hit the us nursing homes became ground 0 for the virus as of october more than 55000 nursing home residents have died we have

a tradition of very poor infection control in these facilities and i think what it comes down to is we don't treat older folks the way we treat others and we don't value their lives as much that's that's been evidenced in the pandemic in california nearly 150 nursing home workers have died jessica was afraid she would bring the virus home to a young son who suffers from asthma so she quit in may but still thinks about the elderly residents she left behind i was still dream about them and some of them just screaming and then there are some of them down walking down the hall saying how. and some of you like i just want water and until this day i even asked i wonder if they're still there. california was one of the states hardest hit by the coronavirus. and nearly a 3rd of its death toll came from nursing homes. fault lines investigates how an already troubled nursing home industry imploded under the weight of the pandemic i

think says that in many instances we put profit of book patient care. but isn't that the american way. bakersfield is a city in the heart of california's central valley when we went there in mid august it was one of the worst coronavirus hot spots in the country. according to the california department of public health there have been multiple deaths due to cope and 19 at the kingston health care center here in bakersfield in early may nearly half of the cases here came from the nursing home where jessica worked kingston health care center 9 residents of the facility have died so far making up for 60 percent of the total couvade 19 deaths in the county. when kobe hit. had been a resident at kingston for nearly 20 years he was very stubborn and he had roles

for us all the time. but he was a good man he was good to us he provided the farm labor on his life. he started having many many strokes. i just got worse every. day for a year and a half and then eventually i had a bit of a home. minerva and her daughter angelica would visit gonzalo every day until the lockdown in march perona virus came around and i couldn't visit so we did face time but every single day that i was saying to him he was either and this was gallant laying in bed all day long sometimes i found him dirty. and i just broke my heart to see all that because they just figured well the daughter's not coming and any more you know she's not going to complain. i just wanted him to be clean. that's all i asked all i asked us for he asked hands to be cleaned and him being fed. gonzalo tested positive for cocaine 1000 in late april very you're going

nowhere. after you will. find that. this was the last time angelica spoke to her grandfather. i was going to quarantine once and. i said i don't know i'm going to put on by his coming home. and then i saw. a bunch of birds. i say you keep right on come when he said ok. he died less than a month after he became sick. 18 other kingston residents also died of corona virus and more than $100.00 residents and 60 workers were infected. i just want to know what happened where what went wrong. why why did he go through

all the. based on what i know it strikes me as you know you've got a lot of people there in prague close proximity to each other and you have inadequate staffing and at least in the initial stages you had staff that were even provided with p.p. that sounds like a recipe for an outbreak in some ways the outbreak at kingston and other nursing homes all over the u.s. is a reflection of everything that went wrong with the country's handling of the pandemic a lack of personal protective equipment contact tracing and widespread testing feel to the crisis the thing that really went wrong in the united states and actually most of the world was a lack of recognition of the fact that this virus is absolutely deadly. to older adults but more specifically to older adults who live in congregate senior housing but for nursing homes like kingston the problems

go beyond the federal response it was spreading you know it was like a fire in there basically and it was not not contained at all they tried but a lot with a lot of failure and then you had the health department come in same different things but they failed their you know to give us the right information on how to use that little bit of p.p. that we did have sold that's what we were and struggling to keep everything clean and sanitized that's what we were dealing with it was almost a nightmare you kind of wake up from we don't know what to do and we were scared for our families we were scared we were scared of bringing something home though or giving us masks that we will have to use 4 or 5 days saying it's ok even though i will look it up and i would tell my manager on my supervisor this is not right we're not supposed to it's fine just leave it in the sun it's fine there was

a lot of negligence on their part management supervision you're telling your staff you know your nursing staff that this is how we're going to do it no i didn't do that and was there supervision or management or anyone continuously on these people no do you think the facility was prepared for a covert 1000 now. why do you think there were so many cases at euston i don't know i just. think. it just didn't know that it would spread like it did. kingston is on a government short list of the worst nursing homes in the country it's been flagged for having a history of serious issues with patient care facilities with poor track records prepared to make have had worse. breaks. down the facilities that with a better track record so i mean nothing really that surprising facilities that are

as equipped to do good infection control did worse with infection control with covert 19. so these are all the complaints filed against kingston in just one year this year 2020 state inspectors cited kingston 39 times for health violations more than 4 times the national average there was a lot of mismanagement it goes down to when i would be cleaning my showers there would be fecal matter you know just left so when these people you know the nursing they would take the president there shower you know you're supposed to rinse it off you know it was just a lot of things like that and then you had residents that were digging you know scuse me i mean digging you know in their pamper it's because it's a natural instinct to try to clean yourself because they're waiting for so long there and weaves i've seen that you know so many times there. kingston has lower than average near staffing levels according to federal records. experts and

advocates we spoke to said that understaffing is a chronic problem in the industry kingston is a for profit facility. about 70 percent of the school nursing facilities in the united states and so how is that facility able to generate a profit we have to cut back on stuff it's the only way matt clark is an attorney in bakersfield whose firm has filed multiple lawsuits against kingston over the years i think that there's one answer to what amounts to really 2 questions right why have they had so many citations and why were the epicenter why would they the epicenter of the covert outbreak at least for a period of time in cook county inadequate stuff it's always the the answer that there's not enough staff to meet the needs of the residents they don't get fed as much staff that are in a hurry a lot of times make more errors so there's more medication errors they cut corners things don't get done and people die as a result. minerva says conditions at kingston worsened after he changed ownership

they took turns visiting gonzalo every day my biggest pick with them was my dad having feces and his now so i asked the nurses you can see his hands filthy oh the night shift got him up this morning and i said but you guys don't even wash their face or their hands she goes oh well make sure next time i said ok so maybe a day would go ok and then you weren't feeling the same thing again. it was all the time. despite these problems kingston gets millions of dollars from government health care programs like medicaid and medicare to take in residents including low income patients like on salo do i have a system i want to put my parents on no. no i mean if you're filthy rich others of working elder care system private pay system that i think is probably sufficient

but for everyone else you know. and we know there's only going to be more elderly people coming down the pipeline. in my opinion it's a completely broken system if it's broken who do you think is accountable i think that owners of nursing homes. at least in the for profit or. how the county right the ownership of these things the way it's structured it's like an onion and you've got to peel back the layer and you'll be another layer in the new peel back a layer and there's another layer and to get to the center and almost never. we wanted to know who's in charge of kingston. want to ari you have reached a number that is connected or no longer. and we weren't having much luck in bakersfield to hear your recorded terror he tracked her and tried your call again actually this is pretty amazing these are all the numbers we've called and we haven't been able to reach anyone. so we travel to one of los angeles's wealthiest

neighborhoods beverly hills to the home of the man we've been trying to reach for several weeks and. he's listed by the state as kingston's owner dr david silver. doesn't look like there's anyone there but we did find out about silver's other job he's the c.e.o. of the largest nursing home management company in california rockport health care services security told us we can't go without in a point. we've been calling the office number to try to get an appointment so it's kind of like a catch 22. we found truck or its previous c.e.o. dr michael wasserman alone dr wasserman how are you. thank you so much for your time i was told that i would be running the company. along the short

was that wasn't true. took me 15 months to figure it out. so it's complicated it is comp and it's done deliberately so i believe so and the challenge is there's typically multiple ownership layers the lawyers do it that way so that the real estate on this will say we don't have anything to do with operations so things go wrong it's not our fault i think what we're really going to have to look at. is what kind of influence do the real estate owners have on operations we took a closer look at kingston's records kingston rents the property from shlomo reckon it's or to be precise from one of his many companies the l.a. businessman employs rockport health care services to manage his nursing home empire hi francisco this is melissa thanks for taking my call we called a researcher at the national union of health care workers they've been

investigating reckon it's 4 years and a lot is offering them. or talking nursing home operators and all of these changing years it's all about layers of basically themselves got into the 1st lady of legal liability or regulatory oversight or a number to use so when kingston pays the monthly rent whose owner is david silver . who is he paying to please the shop owner. won't give shorewall residents what motivates you what prompts you to give to some schlomo reckon it is a celebrated philanthropist and community leader but his nursing homes have a trouble track record. in 2014 then state attorney general kamel harris called him a serial violator of nursing home laws he's been sued at least 15 times for issues of negligence elder abuse and wrongful death in his nursing homes the issue with

the nursing home industry is the pressure that the owners of the nursing home real estate. put on the facilities and when the pressure to make money and fill beds. overrides. the the need the desire the mission to provide quality care and do the right thing that's when you get poor quality outcomes. that profit motive came into play during the pandemic last year a change in government reimbursement policy allowed to sing homes to get more money for new patients the cording to reports these facilities could get at least 600 dollars more per day for covert patient at that time you got to remember a lot of people weren't going to hospitals for routine services recruiting surgeries so the nursing homes were depleted of a lot of their normal. pathway to residence so they had to be creative if

they wanted to continue to make a lot of money and taking coburn 1000 patients probably seem like a good idea advocates say this encourages newsy homes to engage in a profit making scheme known as dumping or discharging some residents in favor of more profitable once it's been happening at nursing homes around the country and it's really based on who's paying for the care and where can the nursing home make more money it's not supposed to be legal the facilities are not supposed to engage in that actually we have filed lawsuits over dumping successfully litigated lawsuits over dog does that mean it doesn't happen i was all taught in the last few months it's picked up again we've heard of residents being sent up motels residents being sent to homeless shelters lots of residents being sent to unlicensed facilities where there's no care being provided it's really just room and board and use conical if you will dimension or. and just romel is

a wonder that's what daryl kennedy says happened to his 89 year old uncle r.c. kendrick r.c. had been a resident at the lakeview terrace nursing home in los angeles for about a year in early april darryl got a call from another facility saying that they had his uncle that's what i don't know about in chile so the next morning he walked up. walked over a very nice person showed the lady will walk or he would be better. and. you can come back on the bus and therefore you know downtown l.a. . then he got a call from the police. contacted me. down to a woman. confused and big interest looking for food in order it's a disgusting practice when it occurs we're talking about the most volatile people

in our society and they're entitled to the same dignity and respect and certainly the same health care recuperative care as anyone in our community but it's always worked out that way the city is suing make the terrorists over allegations that they're dumping patients during the pandemic who do you hold accountable for all of this i will say leave you to your. reason was you know. they negatives is. done in the middle of the night like you prove the truth of. we reached out to the primary owner of lake you terrorist you who dish muckler hi i may actually speak to you who. he told us we were wasting his time and would not answer our questions if. lakefield has a history of dumping in 2019 the city settled a lawsuit with a facility for illegally

a victim patients who were homeless or had mental health challenges and in the immediate aftermath of that settlement things appear to get better but then we allege the thing is to not get better in fact they got worse. we wondered why nursing homes with poor track records were allowed to keep operating so we went to talk to molly davies who investigates elder care complaints for los angeles county so what we've seen is that the regulatory in forstmann system favors the industry above consumers and that is precisely the opposite of what it is designed to do citations are a drop in the bucket to the amount of money the industry can make by. cutting corners on staffing why do you think some nursing homes with bad track records continue to get relicensed i think because the regulatory enforcement system feels like they're in iraq in a hard place there are only so many operators. they don't want to lose nursing home

beds because. nursing home beds are growing there you know people are building nursing homes the problem you have is if we start closing them down were we going to put the old people. which is why public health looks the other way. robert their grandmother delores was a resident a country villa westwick a nursing home in los angeles robert alleges that in october 2018 the facility removed her bed rails despite knowing she was at risk of falling i never followed complaint but that welled up what i had to do. now because this is life and death. no. i knew she was going to fall out of bed. 2 weeks later his mother fell and hit her head on the nightstand she was on life support for nearly a month. and. i was by her side i held her hand because i promised her i will hold her hand until your list of. stuff the.

invention i. robert is suing the facility which is also owned by shlomo reckon it's the nursing home magnate the lawsuit claims that the nursing home was understaffed and the people who did work there didn't have proper training they say this was an attempt to cut labor costs and increase profits if it's all about profit because labor is your biggest. gift right just. dollars and if you want to sure going to cut it always sure it was better for them so you start spreading things around where you don't get things of place like that little building or just basic things could have catastrophic results in 20 years of practicing elder abuse law mike moran has worked on a number of fragments cases have serious o.b.

noise concerns of both ocean level approaches you know sure business people who. want to have a business taken care of the offer would meet with them for. parts. after dolores's death country villa westwood was fined at least $20000.00 by the department of public health shellman reckon it's continues to own and operate the facility he didn't respond to our repeated requests for an interview or a comment. by never got a phone call from the country villa. expressing we're sorry for what happened. it's like. another day for business. and anyone has a loved one a day you are thinking about putting it definitely find out who owns the business how's the business set up. go to

a lawyer work in reverse. the problem has always been enforcement so the the results of violating the regulations is often very minimal punishment or no punishment at all. we asked the california department of public health operators with troubled track records continue getting relicensed they said each application is considered on its own basis and that their office conducts comprehensive investigations into complaints. as to kingston we eventually heard back from dr david silver he said they've been working closely with the state health department and as of september they had no new covert cases for 3 months. i believe that years in years of. an industry that his functioned as a business and not as a deliverer of quality health care. has led to

a lot of bad habits so every dollar that is spent on that real estate is not being spent on direct patient care there's just a level of acceptance for putting older people busy onto an island and casting them away from the rest of society that would not be tolerated with any other group. and i think that that's just a mainly a result of ages on and really poor government monitoring. if this pandemic isn't enough to sort of change the culture of the way we do policy for older folks in this country then than probably nothing is ever going to do it the problem being without oversight all we're going to see is the total number of deaths and the total number of deaths are going to be quite frightening once we finally know what they actually have been with nursing homes would be comed this country's killing

fields. the cove in 1000 pandemic has exposed deep cracks in the u.s. elder care system. raising questions of whether some nursing homes could profits over patient care. will growing older the whole world growing older. and how we take care of the elderly. tells us what kind of people we are.

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