the tens of thousands of people affected by mental health issues in britain's prisons i'm joined now by andy bell deputy chief executive of britain's center for mental health and he thinks for coming on the show so why do you think this year's or the largest levels of self holloman record is movie a number of factors one of which is that i think self harm has always been common among the prison population because of the nature of imprisonment i think possibly people are now better recognising that. but i think we also know that as the prison population gets larger and prison officer numbers did reduce in recent years that does increase the risk of some people were will be unwell and not getting the one to one support they might need locking up people with mental health issues before sentencing. it does sometimes happen i mean inevitably a large proportion of people that come into the criminal justice system will have preexisting difficulties with their mental health they may not be evidence of the police or to the courts only a little time because it's not always easy to identify but someone's got the difficulty lots of people have if you lik

and to provide triage centers across the state so that we are adequately assessing a person's need for mental health care. they would be taken by law enforcement to jail. it would be turned back into the community. we decided to take this on this year with governor reynold's leadership. we set up these triage centers around the state. it will provide more access for people who need it. a tremendousll be benefit for people in the state mental health benefits. that's a big issue, one of the reasons iran in the first place. and it is a big problem. places like des moines are doing well. and they are trapped -- they are attracting people. they feel like they don't have the opportunities in their hometown. we are seeing an inflow into the metropolitan center. and has created some issues in the rural part of the state. there are a lot of rural jobs. as people retire and move out of the workforce. the challenge is to try to keep people in rural iowa that provides the skills necessary to fulfill those jobs. they don't feel the need to come to the large metropolitan centers in the first place. the unemployme

reformed a mental health bill which sets up triage centers around the state to lift a cap that has been in place on care beds. providing more access to care for people who need it. and i think it will be and is benefit people in the state to rely on public support for mental health benefits. schneider -- is trade this issue in iowa? guest: a big issue. -- from our state. and it is a big problem. places like des moines -- large metro areas -- are doing well. they attract people. unless those people come from the rural communities who feel they don't have opportunities in their hometown that they once did. so we see an inflow of people into metropolitan areas. issues inill create the rural parts of the state that we need to address. there are a lot of jobs in the world parts of the state that aren't going to be filled. as people retire and move out of the workforce. so a challenge for us is to try or keep people in rural iowa fulfilling job so they don't feel the need to come to large metropolitan issues. the unemployed it right iowa is one of the lowest in the region. diane calls and from dallas, iowa. where is that? caller: by knoxville. knox

treatment, efforts to prevent doctor-shopping to provide for more behavioral and mental health providers, to support componentive opioid recovery centers, to provide help for babies born in opioid withdrawal, help for mothers with opioid use disorders, more early intervention with vulnerable children who've experienced trauma. these are just a portion of the more than 70 provisions in the opioid crisis response act. this is, as senator mcconnell, the majority leader has said, landmark legislation that represents the work of nearly a quarter of the senate -- nearly three-quarters of the senate, five committees, and countless staff to try to help states and communities put an end to this crisis that's ravaging virtually every community in america. the house of representatives has passed its version. we have our bipartisan urgency to work together. no mother should have to go through what becky savage has gone through. it's time to finish our work to help states and the communities bring an end to the opioid crisis. this legislation would give us many of the tools we need to do just that. i thank the president. i yield the floor. mr. flak

mental health treatment, making sure we are not using jails and prisons as our behavioral health treatment centers, then you have to use every tool in the toolbox including edicaid. in addition, has voted for every opioid budget proposal and appropriation in congress and the current administration is not leveraging any of those investments. we have to have all of those investments to have a robust comprehensive behavioral health treatment program. >> mr. pearce? rep. pearce: first of all, i would probably disagree that your methamphetamines are just out there on meth. hey are some of the most violent of all. when i talked to people who work with drug addiction, when i talked to the people who are running the cyfd, they say it is people on metadata mean for selling their children for sex acts. meth is extra nearly dangerous and it is very hard to get off of. if you get on heroin you have a 40% chance to get off. people who have gotten off of eth say it will cause you to do crazy things. >> someone addicted to opioids committing crime in our community. rep. pearce: you should be getting treatment. methamphetamines should be a question on the phone. heroine, absolutely. we should be looking a

center. in fact she has asked banded the message to adults. >> i think this will help someone. so for bringing hope and help to people with mental health conditions, this week's jefferson award goes to nadia. >> nadia sits on various advisory committees, she has won several local and national boards for her work. and she plans to earn degrees in psychology and law and go into the mental health field. >> what a great story. thank you, sharon. >> will you ken locally -- nominate your local hero on our website. >> >>> get your cameras ready it's going to be a fantastic sunset outside but i want to show you some students in piedmont were school today is on's television news. >> thank you kpix 5 >> frank c haven elementary school got a visit from one of our journalists, man is that going to be a beautiful sunset in piedmont and and all of the bay area. it is only 68 degrees next-door in oakland but san francisco, is 90 to in livermore in santa rosa. amazingly with the 40 degree temperature spread during the day, it will be a one degree temperature spread. concord time -- tonight cooling down. clouds turning down you saw earlier tonight, coo

mental health outreach. north beach has experience an uptick -- uptick in violence. they will hold public meetings about the violence as well as a new navigation center in the weeks to come. >>> time now for a look at what's coming up later on cbs4 this morning. dale king joins us from new york. >> reporter: we are here getting ready. we will begin with their world and 90 seconds. hurricane florence is being called the storm of a lifetime because it's huge. listen to this, three feet of rain is expected. the booming popularity of electric scooters is leading to more emergency room visits. we will look at how some companies are looking to protect their riders. also we will introduce you to the first woman to leave the citadel court of -- corps of cadets in its history. it must be special and she tells us why her desire to lead is not about making barriers. those stories and more. we will see what 7:00. >>> a walt -- wall street is paying close attention to the apple event and seeing how it impacts the stock. joining us now is our financial reporter, jason brooks. >> reporter: there's always a lot of anticipation over what will happen on what apple puts out there. new watches, -- the key th

center to bayview hunter's point on bayshore so we can fight homelessness. besides mental health support and substance abuse, we'll have a jobs program included. we need somebody who can go in and get elected on for 6 and fight for our issues right away. i'm supported by eight current members of the board of supervisors. a current senator. and all of-colleagues on the board of education and many people in this room and community leaders. thank you. [applause] >> hi, everyone. i'm tony kelley. in the last 15 years -- i know a lot of people in this room already because we've worked together to save schools and parks, create the first green benefit district in the country to, get more open space out here in district 10. i worked with bayview's hunter's point to close power plants, clean up soil, diesel fuel out of muni buses and fight for cleanup of nuclear waste for over 12 years now. i worked with neighbors all over the district to save and create affordable housing and blue collar jobs and demand way have development without displacement. also help to create coalitions against police violence and housing homeless families. and for creating a public bank that can finally get us the housing and inf

centers. they're capped at 16 beds for medicaid reimbursement which is really a vestige of a previous policy to get people out of institutional care mostly mental health focused but it's having an effect now in this opioid crisis we talked about, because people who are ready to get into treatment are told there is no room. this is for residential treatment. we have a solution to it. we introduce election on that -- introduce legislation on that tomorrow. the house has legislation that addresses this. i appreciate senator alexander's willingness to do that. senator cardin who was on the floor earlier, and i talked about this. he's part of a bipartisan group that is putting our ideas out there to allow these good treatment centers to be able to take in more people without an arbitrary cap. this package builds on the two legislative projects i talked about earlier, the comprehensive addiction recovery act and the twenty first century cures legislation. the cara legislation, the comprehensive addiction recovery act, provides resources directly to evidence-based programs that are working. prevention, treatment, longer-term recovery, helping our first respo

reformed a mental health bill which sets up triage centers around the state to lift a cap that has been in place on care beds. providing more access to care foreople who need it. and i think it will be and is benefit people in the state to rely on public support for mental health benefits. schneider -- is trade this issue in iowa? guest: a big issue. -- from our state. and it is a big problem. places like des moines -- large metro areas -- are doing well. they attract people. unless those people come from the rural communities who feel they don't have opportunities in their hometown that they once did. so we see an inflow of people into metropolitan areas. issues inill create the rural parts of the state that we need to address. there are a lot of jobs in the world parts of the state that aren't going to be filled. as people retire and move out of the workforce. so a challenge for us is to try or keep people in rural iowa fulfilling job so they don't feel the need to come to large metropolitan issues. the unemployed it right iowa is one of the lowest in the region. diane calls and from dallas, iowa. where is that? caller: by knoxville. knoxvi