in our city, including mental illness that we see on our streets. so, i am looking forward to the implementation of this measure once it's passed at the board. clearly we need to monitor it, make sure that it's being used as intended, that it's not being in any way abused, and i have no reason to think that it will be. we have an amazing department of public health and i am sure the department will implement it in the most effective way possible. so, i look forward to voting for this measure today. >> thank you. supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much, supervisor mar. you know, supervisor kim raised an interesting point that i don't want to just brush over. she brought up that one of her concerns was this disproportionate fact that mental illness is in the african-american community. i don't know if i misinterpreted your fact, but i think there is something very real there, and there is logical reason as to why when it come to health disparities to african-american, latino, largely working class people are off the charts.

currently, as many as 75% of mentally ill inmates in l.a. return to jail compared to 60% who are not mentally ill. >> in the criminal justice system, it can seem like groundhog day. you can see people in for the same low level offenses, the same no one serious, nowhere violent offenses clearly due to them being mentally ill and in crisis on the streets and they are arrested, and brought in here because there is no other place to take them. >> you're a prosecutor. have you had a change of heart. >> i don't think it's a change of heart. i became a prosecutor 30 years ago because i wanted to do justice, and it seems to me it is the prosecutor who naturally must take the lead when we see an injustice. >> l.a. county has the largest jail system in the country with 19,000 inmates, more than 20% have them are mentally ill, and more than 1,000 are behind bars for non-violent offenses, such as drugs, petty theft, indecent exposure. >> from her very first day on the job last year, assistant sheriff terry mcdonald felt there was something wrong with th

, and i worry that there is a danger of further stigmatizing people with mental illness. there are people in my family who are mentally ill and i feel that as supervisor yee said, we need much more culturally com petent community based services. and at department of public health, that uz doesn't reduce the number of beds in a multi-cultural ~ facilities like s.f. general, but is expanding them and is really looking at stronger services. i also wanted to add that i think disability rights california and the mental health association of san francisco and members of our own mental health board in san francisco have helped me understand more complexly how there may be only about 100 to 130 people that might fall within the guidelines and it's a small number of people that may be impacted, but i feel like it's going down a road of further stigmatizing already stigmatized population of people. i wanted to also add that i think voluntary treatment that's culturally com p/e he tent with strong community based but also san francisco department of public health services is the ans

it demonstrates how easily illness could devastate a family. all of them were acutely aware how often during their era life ended tragically early. once martha washington lamented to a niece in a letter, and quoting her exactly, it is the case with all parents that have many children. they lose them as soon as they raise them, generally. the words of john jackson to his sister-in-law, dolly madison, were -- are really a poignant reminder that death and illness were almost a daily occurrence at the time. arriving home late in the fall of 1808 shortly after he lost his wife to disease, he found his children, quote, very ill with a bill fever, when shall sick bs and death seek to terrify and distract me, jackson wrote in dispair. dolly madison, i don't know if people know dolly madison, herself, lost her first husband and a baby in the notorious philadelphia yellow fever epidemic in 1873, and only her and her 2-year-old son survived. really how this group of american founders coped with illness and tragedy and mustered the fortitude to go on with

i don't want to warehouse mentally ementally ill people. people matter. >> i think there's an awakening if you will of those of us in law enforcement and in prosecutors' offices where we are taking a serious look a much more intelligent look at the underlying causes of what leads people to be incarcerated. sure we contributed to it in some sense but we are determined, i'm determined that we are going olead this cause. my dream is that we'll be able to close down some wings of the jail. >> reporter: a dream to free people who don't belong behind bars. even if she helped put them there. michael okwu, al jazeera, los angeles. >> we return to the program: another shocking scene as a prisoner faces his death. >> to watch a man lay there for an hour and 40 minutes gulping air, i can liken it to if you catch a fir, and throw it on the shore, the way the fish opens and closes its mouth. >> raising questions about lethal injection and whether there is a humane way to put a prisoner to death. >> al jazeera america presents >> the bulling got two much

and also gun safety in the hands of mentally ill. i wanted to add that the mayor has a task force on human trafficking and it's really important to take a holistic approach and with sonia's background we can work on the issue of not only domestic violence, but of human trafficking which disproportionally affects our communities of color. thank you. >> hello supervisors. my name is cathy black and i'm the executive director at las casas de la madres. we're pleased and proud to support the nomination of sonia melara to the san francisco police commission. sonia started something big in the city that would change the course of history for women and their children seeking violence--free lives. in the face of opposition they started one of the world's first shelters for victims of domestic violence and from there a remarkable movement took off. addressing public safety and public health issues associated with domestic violence crimes have been a hallmark of sonia's career. as the department of department on the status of women she created

. >>> and treating people with seriously mental illness. the law signed by mayor ed lee. >>> good afternoon. i'm tori campbell. a very unusual sight for july, after more than 25 lights were recorded across the bay area overnight. our cameras caught lightning near at&t park early this morning as well as the east bay. there were some reports of damage, including this tree that was reportedly struck by lightning in kentfield as well as several small fires sparked by the lightning. and with the lightning also came some scattered rain. this is video from solano county. the wet weather mostly tapered off by midmorning. now ktvu's steve paulson is here to tell us if any more is on the way. are we done? >> not yet. i will show you why. i stepped outside. it's not florida. but boy, it sure feels like it. hot and humid under mostly sunny skies. most of the thunderstorm activity was about -- from about 4:15 to 6:00 a.m., really lit up in marin county. we'll take you back 12 hours along the half moon bay, el granada, daly city and then also into san fr

and most importantly, positively impact the lives of families who are dealing with this illness. those in need deserve better and their families deserve better and our city can provide that option. i want to thank a number of people who have been supportive of this legislation. i mentioned my co-sponsors before. i want to thank mayor ed lee for his leadership. our department of public health, barbara garcia for her support and her staff, [speaker not understood], and all the people and psychiatrist at s.f. general who have been very supportive alongedth way. our district attorney george gas cone, our public defender jeff hadachi, dennis herrera. i recently received a letter [speaker not understood] president pro tem of

holder began to suspect that it was a mold causing the family's illness. holder owns the assured indoor air quality business that removes toxic mold from buildings. but melinda dismissed this possibility. she kept her home spotless and no one in her family tested positive for allergies. but during their conversation on the plane, holder said something prophetic. >> he's telling me these aren't allergens lady. this is a poison. >> now suspecting there was some kind of mold behind the wall or above the ceiling, ron and melinda moved out of the house and into a apartment over the garage. but even with the move ron's neurological problems continued to get worse. >> at the office i would be on a phone call and 10 or 20 minutes into the phone call just not have any idea what we'd discussed. >> if there was some kind of mold behind a wall or ceiling, how would investigators find it? >>> medical experts began to suspect that something in their home environment was making ron, melinda and reese sick. i'm living the life of dreams. i'm living the life of dreams, wit

. >>> and a powerful fred de sam lazaro story on treating mental illness in india, the slow acceptance of modern medicine alongside traditional practices of faith healing and magic. >>> welcome. i'm bob abernethy. it's good to have you with us. as israel launched its ground offensive in gaza, religious groups continued to raise concerns and special prayers about the crisis. some people of faith protested israel's campaign in gaza, highlighting the large numbers of civilians who have been killed. jewish groups and some christians rallied in solidarity with israel. several u.s. jewish leaders expressed concern about what they see as an anti-semitic tone in many anti-israel protests. meanwhile, some jews and muslims joined together in a day-long fast for peace. at the vatican, pope francis led tens of thousands in prayer for an end to the violence. he also personally called israeli president shimon peres and palestinian president mahmoud abbas urging a ceasefire. >>> the complex interfaith sensitivities provoked by the crisis were evident at the white house this week. president obama host

what's the connection between creativity and mental illness?one of the big questions is, should people who are creative have their psychiatric problems treated and does that diminish their creativity? that's a hard question because the very things that make people creative make them vulnerable. >> woodruff: in the last decade, nancy andreasen has been conducting her second study of creative minds: she has been working with highly accomplished and recognized individuals such as the filmmaker george lucas, the pulitzer prize winning novelist jane smiley, and mathematician william thurston. she invites them to visit her farm, before heading to the university hospital the next morning for a session inside a claustrophobic neuro-magnetic imaging scanner. andreasen observes how answering different questions affects different parts of the brain. >> i realized that people who are creative are better at making connections, what i have to do is figure out how to tap into the association cortex and then that actually made it very easy, you just give tasks

. >> and she drank that wine and became violently ill later that day. she had nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. >> but that had been months earlier and didn't explain her illness now. >> even though i had suspected something foul play, but really can't -- you couldn't pinpoint anything. >> doctors sent nancy's urine samples for testing, but her condition began to deteriorate, her organs failed, and she was put on life support. >> it was clear that she was not going to recover. nobody could really understand it. >> six days later, nancy dillard lyon was dead. but doctors were suspicious, and they weren't the only ones. >> i was married to a nurse. she had taken care of nancy dillard in the trauma center. she said she looked like she had been poisoned to me. >>> when the daughter of a ♪ norfolk southern what's your function? ♪ ♪ hooking up the country helping business run ♪ ♪ build! we're investing big to keep our country in the lead. ♪ load! we keep moving to deliver what you need. and that means growth, lots of cargo going all around the globe. cars

so it's very hard to control, through isolating people who are ill and exposed for up to 21 days they have to stay under quarantine. >> dr. faucci, the two institutions that have the primary responsibility of looking for people in the united states, whether there's a spike like this overseas, is there an alarm this goes off? >> well, you certainly want to be vigilant, ray. we know a person can get on a plane and if that person from liberia got on a plane and went to nigeria. and particularly, in the cdc, which is a major public health surveillance here in the united states, and we might get a person here. the question that you just asked my colleagues on the line, what we have here in the united states would be a system that would make it likely unlikely that the kind of explosive spread, if we good happen almost by accident to get someone who flew over here when they were relatively well but got infected in a western african country and then came here and actually got ill and got infected and sick, so you need a protocol to keep it from spreading. and you mentioned the idea of people

ill inmates with illnesses commit 2/3 of infractions in the jail, and they commit an overwhelming majority of assault on jail staff members. yet by law they cannot be medicated involuntarily at the jail and hospitals often refuse to accept them unless they harm themselves or others. is that humane? shouldn't we have acted before they committed a crime to compel them to get help? according to the article, correctional facilities now hold 95% of all institutionalized people with mental illness. that is wrong. yet with all we know about mental illness and the streements to help those experiencing it, there are still organizations federally funded with taxpayer dollars that believe individuals who are too sick to seek treatment will be better off left alone than an inpatient or outpatient treatment. it is insensitive, it is callous, it is misguided, it is unethical, it is immoral, and congress should not stand by as these organizations continue their abusive malpractice against the mentally ill. the misguided ones are more comfortable allowing the mentally ill to live under bridges and behind

mers also could cause significant not only illness but economic dislocation. sars cost the world more than $30 billion in just three or four months. we're learning more about mers and that quiz i gave earlier was actually the key lesson we learned as we work close wli the saudis and we're now work very closely with them on a variety of investigations and control measures, we found that the overwhelming majority of mers cases in recent months or in the past six to 12 months have been associated with hospitals. they've been spread in hospitals, patients, staff, visitors, others associated with hospitals. that's bad news and good news. bad news because it shouldn't have happened and should be able to prevent it. good news because we know how to turn off that tap. we know how to protect health care workers and other through infection control measures and i received an e-mail last week from the saudi minister of health to our staff who reported that in the past ten weeks they not had a single case of mers in a health care worker now they they implemented stringent

communities of color often see mental illness as a weakness or character flaw.that is just part of the problem. lack of cultural understanding, inadequate treatment and misdiagnosis are among the reasons that blacks don't historically seek mental health care. national alliance on mental illness. finding cultural understanding can be hard too. african americans make up only 2% of psychologists and psychiatrists in this country. and 4% of social workers. >> when you start to throw in ethnicity and culp;kwyou start to say well, hmm. let me think. not only is this person not made like me but then this person brings with them a completely different set of experiences and expertise about just life. >> social worker patrick crawford acknowledges getting blacks to get counseling means building a bigger pool of clinicians. a study in 2011 indicated blacks are more likely to stay in care and provided treatment when treated by black professionals because they feel more accepted and understood. >> mental health professional groups understand they need to grow the workforce.

a fellow scientist living in california. >> ann says, my husband is gravely ill. but if i could buy you a beach house and spend the night with you, i would do it in a heart beat. >> she also said in na e-mail communication that he could call the house and they could speak by phone because their in laws wouldn't know any better and they wouldn't suspect anything. >>> no one knows if derril knew ann miller was involved with other men, but it was clear to investigators that derril willard and ann miller both had a motive to kill eric. at the pharmaceutical company where both ann miller and derril willard were employed, police found arsenic. >> they were using cacodylic acid to clean their glass wear and at first glance you might not note what cacodylic acid is, but it actually is arsenic. >> this was the same type of arsenic found in eric miller's body, which meant the poison that killed him probably came from the lab where his wife and her lover worked. >> there were some controls with regard to arsenic and access to arsenic in the lab. those controls were not parti

she brought up that one of her concerns was this disproportionate fact that mental illness is in the african-american community. i don't know if i misinterpreted your fact, but i think there is something very real there, and there is logical reason as to why when it come to health disparities to african-american, latino, largely working class people are off the charts. and i think a large part of the reason has to do with toxic stress. and for those who don't know, toxic stress shows in people who are exposed to trauma, violence, much like what we're dealing with in the city, the number of shootings that we've had in this entire city. so, it's not a surprise that the numbers would be very high when we think about how many shootings we've had in the bayview and visitacion valley neighborhood alone. it is of epidemic proportion. so, i want to give some voice to what supervisor kim has raised. i think she's nailed it, which is interesting, because i've come to the conclusion to support laura's law because of that, because we need to provide support for people who are hurting. i apprecia

. >> at the age of 70, olgie died after a lengthy illness. >> shortly after the funeral, his wife leita checked herself into a hospital. she hadn't been feeling well for weeks. >> i was just sick. just vomiting all the time. just death little sick at my stomach and i just get weaker and weaker. >> leita blamed the stress of her husband's death for her illness but doctors found nothing wrong and released her. within days, the nausea and vomiting returned. and leita developed another symptom. numbness in her fingers and toes. >> i woke up one night and i was so sick. and i got up, tried to get in the chair. and, of course, my legs didn't hold me and i just went down to the floor. >> leita went to the hospital once again. this time, doctors performed a whole battery of tests and found the problem. leita had been poisoned. the level of arsenic in her system was three times higher than a lethal dose. >> it made you wonder who in the world it could be that was doing it. >> arsenic is a tasteless, odorless element used in rat poison. leita could think of only one person who could have done thi

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in chains instead of therapy -- how some mentally ill are treated in ghana. and breaking with tradition -- attempts to change vietnam's attitude towards wildlife. so here it is -- the football world cup is coming home to brazil. but many brazilians are feeling the hangover even before the party has got started. there have been protests over the billions spent on stadiums rather than much-needed healthcare and education. this is believed to be the most expensive fifa world cup to date. at an estimated 11 billion euros -- the tournament in brazil is expected to cost almost twice as much as the 2010 world cup in south africa. this is set against some 4 billion euros the government is hoping to recover in extra tourist revenue. some 150,000 security personnel are to be deployed during the matches. it is estimated more than half the population expect more disadvantages than benefits from hosting the fifa cup. the final will be played in the famous maracana stadium in rio de janeiro. once, the largest stadium in the country was viewed as a symbol of unity. now it d

>> let me start on the chronic illness side. almost the first thing that physician practices do when their given a different set of incentives if they focus on the patients with chronic illness because those are the patients that they see the most, are hospitalized most regularly, and most of the time those hospitalizations could be prevented if the patient chronic conditions could be managed more effectively. i sat with a practice in california that has eliminated and missions for patients with congestive heart failure because they are monitoring the patients in the home with electronic scales tied to the physicians offices, making sure the medication interactions are working appropriately, having a lot more home-based care. this is common to end-of-life care and chronic illness -- trying to move the care out of the hospital and with all due reverence to the hospital were presented on the panel, i am sure he would agree that we only want the patients in the hospital who must be there. most patients with chronic illness, they ca

and there is every indication that prisons are ill equipped to deal with the mentally ill with reportsl abuse, poor mental health care and desperate overcrowding. >> these officers don't know what they are doing, they don't know how to operate. with little helpful i am on 800 milligrams of air quell. i am diagnosed with tear notice schizophrenia. i need helpful and they don't offer me help. >> tonight we'll hear from inside the los angeles county jail for a look at life for the mentally ill on the inside. and he introduces to us a surprising crusader for change. that's coming up at the top of the hour. we hope you join us then. >>> we'll see you then, joie. thank you. >>> tomorrow president obama meeting with the presidents of honduras, el salvador and guatemala those countries have been home to most of the children who have been illegally crossing in to the united states from mexico. heidi jo castro spent 24 hours along the border on the front lines of the immigration debate. >> reporter: the border at midnight. quiet, dark, and full of travelers. border patrol agents arrest an averag

i have a chronic suicidal thoughts and a mental illness that is not going anywhere.e to fight live well every day. i it's very difficult. and it's about going through the trenches and coming out on the other side and working towards changing your life. if we can be self aware with having mental illness, we can do anything. >> thank you both so much. good luck and god speed and thank youoko?ñ for joining us. this has been wonderful. thank you even kevin. and go to nbcwashington.com and search "changing minds." you can find a link to this book. i'll put a link up to the documentary "the bridge"nd also links to the suicide prevention hotline and sources and resources here in our community. thank you so much. have a wonderful weekend. >>> "news 4 today" starts now. >>> more information coming in on the victims of that malaysia airlines plane shot down. what we're learning about another victim's ties to the u.s. >>> and moment of impact. this morning a different view of the bombs hitting homes right now in the middle east. >>> some really incredible images from that regio

there were four tam ills on the boat, and the rest from senegalese. they were effectively briefly assessed on board while in custody of the south australian cost on the seas. there was an assessment after a short interview. it lasted less than five minutes, that the australian government weren't entitled to application, and were handed over to the sri lankan navy. the australian greens and myself and other activists and human rights advocates are concerned about the fate of those people. >> why are you concerned. if they bring up dash darn the australian government's line is it's giving people a proper assessment. it's in line with international obligations. what is wrong with them doing it at sea, rather than on land? >> look, it's very dangerous because the assessments are not thorough and they are not particularly - they are not in line with australia's obligations under the refugee convention. i have to go, i'm in the australian parliament, and we have boats - the bell is ringing for the vote. i'll have to leave you. before i go the one thing i sa

and here's the problem for americans, in the jet age the spread of a dangerous illness like ebola is no longer someone else's problem. in a world linked by air, a case of ebola is only a plane ride away from coming to this country. so far there have been over 1,000 confirmed cases. over 600 patients have died. public health officials here in the u.s. are moving fast and issuing warnings. it's where we begin tonight with our chief medical editor dr. nancy snyderman. >> reporter: because deadly viruses now have the potential to travel to any part of the world within 24 hours, today u.s. health officials put out an alert asking american health care workers to be on the look out for ebola symptoms in people traveling back from west africa. >> this outbreak highlights the need for us to enhance our efforts around global health security everywhere in the world. >> reporter: the alert comes after two american health workers contracted the ebola virus in liberia. dr. kent brantly and nancy writebol were helping ebola patients and now fighting for their lives. dr. brantly sent a message today

with mental illness, they don't. >> i think mental illness is a big elephant in the room right now ando get up, wake up, and look at it. >> reporter: peter rodger's son, elliot, was only 22 when he died, taking six other lives with him. the videos and so-called manifesto he left behind provided a rare glimpse into a mind broken by mental illness. >> i don't know why you girls aren't attracted to me. but i will punish you all for it. >> reporter: what's the most shocking revelation to you? >> that he could hide. that he could hide these feelings from everybody. i can't wrap my head around it. >> it's extremely difficult to predict future violence. people have spent their careers looking at ways to predict violent behavior. and we're terrible at it. really the only prediction of future violence is past violent behavior. again, in this case there was apparently no evidence of that. >> reporter: but inside that shy, quiet young man was hidden rage. elliot's journal documented a master plan of revenge, once writing, "if i can't have it, i will destroy it." andrew solomon has studied the pat

>> let me start on the chronic illness side. almost the first thing that physician practices do when their given a different set of incentives if they focus on the patients with chronic illness because those are the patients that they see the most, are hospitalized most regularly, and most of the time those hospitalizations could be prevented if the patient chronic conditions could be managed more effectively. i sat with a practice in california that has eliminated and missions for patients with congestive heart failure because they are monitoring the patients in the home with electronic scales tied to the physicians offices, making sure the medication interactions are working appropriately, having a lot more home-based care. this is common to end-of-life care and chronic illness -- trying to move the care out of the hospital and with all due reverence to the hospital were presented on the panel, i am sure he would agree that we only want the patients in the hospital who must be there. most patients with chronic illness, they ca