lisa marie, julian plumbador. >> i want to appreciate the opportunity to speak here. i am a psychiatrist, i've been in practice since the mid-60's. in those days we had state hospitals and i actually supported the closing of the state hospital. but today without our state hospitals what we really come up with was a large increase in homeless population and the large increase in the criminal justice of mentally ill. america's statistics are unbelievable the number that we have in the criminal justice system of the mentally ill. and my biggest concern is that people who are mentally ill that are in our criminal justice system. i can certainly understand people who are really -- my heart goes out for them -- who are against the forced treatment, but i think their hearts go out for their mentally ill friend who are now being incarcerated. i think, we talk about we need more services but when we think if you incarcerate someone for one year it's $50,000 and if we could reduce the incarceration rate we would have much more money for the treatment of the mentally ill. so i u

. >> good afternoon, supervisors, lisa marie from the coalition on homelessness. and sort of the most disturbing piece that i want to touch on, because i think that one of the hardest parts about this hearing is you are hearing both ends of the spectrum about how people feel how we should respond to mental health, the people that is most striking to me is this is not an alternative to incarceration. i think that is actually the emotional piece that we're really experiencing here. folks don't want their loved ones to have to go through more trauma to stand in front of a judge to be demoralized, to have to be arrested, when things don't actually result in real healing and getting to people's basic needs and sustainability being met. so i think in terms of the criminal justice sector in our city and the moves we have been making to make sure we continue to lead the state and lead the country in alternatives to incarceration, that we continue to come up with slueptions to real issues we have been talking a lot about mental aelt and the way our criminal justice system

. >> hiagain, i'm lisa marie, i'm standing in front of you as an executive board member of the harvey milk club and as a queer woman who cares deeply about who is making decisions for me about resources and how resources are distributed in my city. and i stand in front of you representing many many people whose voices don't often feel represented by our elected officials and it's super critical for me and my communities to know we have the opportunity and the ability to take part in deciding who it is that will be representing us, who will be making decisions that will impact our lives and it's fascinating to know there are people who oppose this, that there are people who don't think we should be able to elect our elected officials. i have the feeling those are not folks that have walked through the world in ways me and my communities have walked through the world. i thank supervisor avalos for putting this forth as many of our most marginalized communities absolutely support this. >> hello, my name is patrick connors and i'm speaking on behalf of the league of pissed off voters. in

lisa, round two for mary barr. what do lawmakers want to hear this time around? >> reporter: last time they heard very little because the ceo kept deflecting questions say let's wait for the investigation. that investigation is now done and paints a troubling picture of a company where no one took responsibility really for safety. mary barr today called the report deeply troubling. she apologized to the families. she insisted that she is determined to change the way general motors does business. >> until these problems are resolved, as i told our employees, i'm not afraid of the truth. i'm not going to accept business as usual as gm. it's time, in fact, it's past time to insist on total accountability and make sure vital information is shared across all functions of the company. >> reporter: lawmakers are a bit skeptical the changes will happen. the chair of the committee, representative tim murphy, pointed out he could not believe of the 200,000 employees of gm that no one, no one over all these years had the integrity to go, hey, we're making a mistake here. th

here to discuss this further out of los angeles is lisa guerian and on keep from san francisco, erin marieaily, a freelance journalist and author of "generation rx: a story of dope, death and america's opiat crisis". >> erin lost her brother to drug addiction. thank you to both of you for joining us. your investigation to the "l.a. times" changed the topic you looked at the connection between prescription drugs and drug overdose deaths. what did you discover? >> right. well, scott glover, we first reported that we discovered out of cdc's statistics that drug deaths had surpassed traffic accidents as a source of mortality. at that point, we decided to discuss the overdose problem. at that time, conventional wisdom was this is this is an issue of abuse, kids taking pills out of their parents' medicine cabinets, that kind of thing. so we decided to take a look at that and see how valid that was. we collected nearly 4,000 death reports from coroners. all involved drug overdoses. what we discovered was in nearly half of the cases, people died all or in part on drugs that were prescribed to them

. >> general motors ceo mary barra was back on capitol hill. lisa stark has that story. >> family members of some of those killed and injured in the crashes sat in the back of the hearing room silent witnesses to gm's decade long failure to recall the defective vehicles. company ceo mary barra apologized and insisted she is changing gm's safety culture. >> i will not rest until these sieshes arissues are resolved. >> ignition switch problem was not considered a safety issue. even throw chevy cobalts and saturn ions would suddenly stall. testified about a culture of secrecy, and a lack of accountability, in gm's decision to close the safety probe of these vehicles back in 2005. >> one of the key problems that we found was the fact of lack of documentation. why did they close the investigation, there were no notes, everybody at the meeting pointed to somebody else at the meeting as having responsibility to close the matter. >> not a single one in that company had the integrity to say i think we're making a mistake here. not a single one. >> lawmakers

mary barra saying today she hopes those recalls been finished, that they won't have to do any more recalls after this month. >> lisa, the issue is blamed for 13 deaths. what did the families of the victims have to say about gm's response? >> well families were very emotional today. they held a news conference. they sat in and listened to the hearing. they feel that they still do not have a full picture of what went on and why it took so long to issue this recall. they also think that the company should be held criminally responsible. listen to the mother of answer young girl who died in a chevy cobalt accident in 2009. >> g.m. is a corporate person and should be held accountable for causing the injuries and deaths of so many people. >> the house committee saying they'll continue their investigation into this entire mess as well. >> lisa stark on capitol hill for us. lisa, good to see you. the national highway agency received 32 complaints from drivers they say the ignition key in jeep commanders and grand cherokees made between 2005 and 2007 turn odd when they accidently hit it with their knee. sound familiar? and

lisa? no, leslie. right there. guy with the glasses. (cheering) wow, very loving group today. everybody, sit down. mary, you stand on the end.