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katie brown always has tips and cookie monster here with us live. >> i'm so jealous >>> "good morning. welcome back cookie monster. good to see you again. i love this idea you're going to be a life coach. >> you know me just being me. that's all me can do. >> we all have to balance the craze schedules and work and life and family. how do you do it? >> it's hard to eat cookie from both ends. [ laughter ] >> you got to figure out what works for you. me love cookies but me got to have balance. all about the balance. >> you always have a lot of questions. let's get one from sharon. >> what does sharon say? >> cookie monster is it okay if my daughter chooses her own clothes in the morning? >> sharon, of course it's okay. you know what me just guessing here but me just think she trying to, you know, express who she is, you know what me say let her choose. >> all right. >> yay! >> freedom. >> thank you. >> and she's been waiting all morning with a question. >> what's your question? >> what book should i read at school? >> oh what book should you read? >> uh-huh. >> it's important to read all

that investigation followed the shootingp unarmed teen michael brown. katiewith more on the report that is expected to be released today. >> reporter: from racially charged e-mails between officers and court officials to alarming arrest statistics the report essentially echoes what many civil rights advocates have been saying for months. this report was ordered by the attorney general eric holder following the police shooting of michael brown last summer. and, it is expected to be released in full today. the doj reviewed some 35,000 pages of police reports. and african-americans made up 93% of arrests while only accounting for 67% of the population. the records also show that african-american people were involved in more incidents where police used force including cases where police dogs bit citizens. a brown family attorney hopes the report to be used to bring change to a fractured community. >> we have to take now what is publicly known to be a situation, come up with solutions, then execute whatever those solutions are, go back and measure the results and

it was investigated after the shooting of unarmed african- american teen michael brown. katie is in the newsroom to tell us what investigators found. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the report vindicates many critics who report to a pattern of abuse in ferguson. some calling for the chief of police to resign. expected to be released in full today the report reviewed some 35,000 pages of police records. investigators uncovered racist comments from officers and statistically alarming arrest practices. african-american made up 93% of arrests while only accounting for 67% of the population in ferguson. the records also show that african-american people were involved in more incidents where police used force including cases where police dogs bit citizens. now, some are calling for the chief of police to resign. >> it demands a certain level of accountability and i think the chief out there has to resign. >> the report also points to problems in the court system with some of the racially charged e-mails exchanged between officers and members of the court. african-americans

it followed the shooting of unarmed teen michael brown. katieoins us with the pattern revealed by this investigation into tens of thousands of police records. katie? >> some may be surprised by the findings but civil rights activists have been crying foul for month. the d.o.j. points to a pattern and practice of this. expected to be released in full today, the d.o.j. report reviewed some 35,000 pages of police records. african-americans made up 93% of arrests while only accounting for 67% of the population. the records also show that african-american people were involved in more incidents where police used force including cases where police dogs bit citizens. the brown family attorney hopes the report will be used to bring change to a fractured community. >> we are to take now what is publicly known to be a situation, come up with conclusions, then execute whatever those solutions are, go back and measure the results. and see if we made progress from there. >> the report also points to problems in the court system with some of the racially charg

katie couric. we haven't seen that much of her. but there she was. >> she was stranded at the airport this weekend. just made it. bobby brown was there too. >> made it just in time. >> yodel had some ump to it. >>> almost a year to the day after the disappearance of malaysian airlines flight 370. new efforts to make sure something like that never happens again. >>> daughter's picture went viral and not in a good way. what the mother has to say who mocked her sick toddler. >>> let's take a live look outside this morning. sun breaking through the clouds in the south bay. we've got news, weather, traffic all together, stick around, a lot more ahead. >>> you're watching "today in the bay." >>> welcome back everyone, taking a live look outside, looks like the traffic at a crawl over the san mateo bridge this morning. got our eye on the morning commute. that's mike does across the bay area. we'll check in with him in moments, 6:39. >>> six months after michael brown in ferguson, missouri, the justice department is close to an nounsing it's findings. the federal government is looking into whether to file criminal charges against d

herther indicate lynn vote, gregg dean and assistant counsel clint brown, editor elizabeth keystone x.l. joe brinkle and staff assistant katie wuchou. without all their work which began last year we would not be here this evening standing on the verge of passing the senate's fiscal year 2016 budget resolution. i got to mention that they didn't even change offices when we got the majority so that they could be working on this budget, knowing that since it was our first opportunity in the majority that we had a lot of work to do. as well, thanks are due to my personal staff including my legislative director tera a shaw and the legislative team, graph is becky renee kristin chaplin and elizabeth swartz. i particularly have to mention my chief of staff flip mc mcconahey. the we have been assisted by elizabeth mcdone owe and her team. colloquy staff leaders leaders from senator mc connell's office have been very helpful including his chief of staff his policy director and his budget and appropriations policy advisor john burkes. i also want to thank monica pop and johnny sulrod from senator cornyn's whip office. after five days o