ms. taylor: my product is an additive.s named a finalist in the regeneron science talent search, a national science competition for precollege students. past finalists include nobel prize winners and macarthur fellows. >> please welcome 17-year-old dacia taylor. stephanie: her work landed her on that ellen degenerate show where she was declared the winner of the science fair, not a thing. [applause] >> all i had to do was come here. stephanie: her next big step is college. she heads to the university of iowa in the fall. ms. taylor: i will major in political science. social sciences and getting in tune with that in creating this equitable plan on a greater scale. stephanie: she is not done with her infection detection sutures. she says she will not stop until the people who need to stitches have them. what are you pinpointing as the challenge were are focused on currently? ms. taylor: it is a focus of making the suture commercially viable so everything can go smoothly when everything goes to market and the stitches get to

ms. taylor's home. >> hello and welcome to washington post live. i'm tom jackson, middle justice reporter with the washington post. today is my pleasure to introduce erica shield, as we continue our conversation about the rise in violent crimes around the country, protecting public safety and role of policing, previously police chief in atlanta, thank you for joining us, chief. >> thanks for having me, appreciate it. >> bradley. i have no easy questions for you, as you would expect and will start off being in louisville, crime was up in atlanta were previously worked for 25 years. crime is up in washington and virtually everywhere. shootings, homicides up. recently you noted homicide rose 95% in louisville last year end on the rise right now. having without 104th so far this year. last year was 170. why is this happening? after so manyy years of decline, we used to see this staticallyts going down year after year. what start of the change in 2020 which has continued into 2021? >> i appreciate it, i think you're asking the right questions. that is,

ms. taylor's home. >> hello, and welcome to washington post life. i'm a criminal justice reporter. today is my pleasure to welcome louisville police chief erika shields and in we talk about the rise in crimes and protecting public safety. chief shields was previously the public chief of safety in atlanta. thank you for joining us. i have no easy questions for you, as you would expect. crime was up in louisville and in atlanta where he previously worked, in washington, and virtually every big city, shootings, homicides up. recently you noticed homicides rose in the we the last year and they are on the rise now and i think you've had one of four so far this year when the total for last year was 170. why is this happening? after so many years of declines, we used to see these stats going down year after year. what started the change in 2020 which has continued into 2021? chief shields: i appreciate that and i think you're asking the right question. what is different? you have to find the solution and figure out where the operation is -- the aberration is. when i look at louisville, it

ms. taylor's home. >> hello and welcome to washington post live. jackson, middle justice reporter with the washington post. today is my pleasure to introduce erica shield, as we continue our conversation about the rise in violent crimes around the country, protecting public safety and role of policing, previously police chief in atlanta, thank youor

ms. taylor's home. >> hello, and welcome to washington post life. i'm a criminal justice reporter. today is my pleasure to welcome louisville police chief erika shields and in we talk about the rise in crimes and protecting public safety. chief shields was previously the public chief of safety in atlanta. thank you for joining us.

ms. taylor bother me at all. if they want to go out and act like uncouth people -- the first sign of a good education is good manners. they're simply not showing good manners. >> congressman jim clyburn, thank you for being with us tonight. >>> coming up on "politicsnation," time to reform the laws that still have black and brown people behind bars because of marijuana related offenses. i'll tell you about how you can rise up. >>> and later, ohio congresswoman joyce beatty joins me just days after arrest for depending our constitutional right to vote. what is next in her quest to protect access to the ballot? but first, richard lui with today's other top stories. >>> some of the stories we are watching for you. as of this weekend, new covid cases increased by 70% since a week ago. while hospitalizations increased by over 35%. states like california and florida and those who are not vaccinated have been some of the hardest hit. the british prime minister's health secretary tested positive for coronavirus. the prim

ms. taylor is a one-woman traveling salesforce, trying to sell the vaccine across her community to people who haven't gotten it. she drives around looking for pockets of unvaccinated neighbors having personal one-on-one conversations to convince people to get the shot. she went to a conference for teachers and talked to them about boosting mississippi's vaccination rate before the school year starts. she talked to this one teacher for a full half an hour. watch this. >> say that again. tell me so you're going to do what? >> i'm going to get vaccinated. >> why are you getting vaccinated? >> because of you. because you really stress the importance. it's okay. it's safe. and it's the -- if i want to be an -- make an investment in my family, i need to do it. and my students. and i thought about with this new variant, that the youth are -- most of the deaths and people being in the icu are the youths. so i can't imagine bringing it to my students or having the students share with me. and school is about to start. i'm going to get vaccinated. if i get vaccinated, it's probably about a hundred p

ms. taylor was not the subject of that warrant.ly been deepening and grave concern about equal justice, due process, the extent of brutality, harassment, discrimination faced by black americans in the criminal justice system, growing over the last year given incidents such as this one. without commenting on the specifics of the late ms. taylor's case, is the fbi prioritizing investigations of cases involving color of law viels violations and what resources have you instructed your field offices to commit to those investigations. >> as you say, i can't discuss the taylor case specifically. we have an ongoing federal investigation there. but we are definitely trying to push forward on color of law cases. we do that through our civil rights division within our criminal investigative division. in addition to the investigations we're pursuing, and we have quite a number around the country, we are also trying to contribute by doing different forms of training and outreach to state and local police departments so they understand better ki

ms. taylor, preempted what i was going to say i would like to comments that i totally support what commissioner that we have done our job as we have passed this higher up the chain. thank you. >> [diane matsuda, president] thank you, commissioner so. >> [michelle taylor] sorry i have done it myself. i am very connected and personally also to architecturally with chinatown in the community. seeing my daughter and also participating with her alongside the annual chinese new year parade we have inevitably had to go underneath the pedestrian footbridge. it always makes me wonder, we always wonder is there any better way to see the parade without having to actually pay through the noes to private sponsors and actually that is something that the general public could enjoy it. i am just so happy and thrilled to see that there is a really big community center that is going to be right there and right in the corner. that will allow everyone to access and to build a chinese new year parade and i'm also expecting there also be a lot more festival and seasoning and holiday celebration in there. i really lo

ms for georgia. cbreporter liz ford s thlatest fromst. petersburg. >> reporter: tropical storm elsa made landfall in taylor county, florida, flooding roads and bringing heavy wind and rain. the store made for treacherous driving along i-75 in central florida as it moved inland. overnight elsa pounded florida's west coast with winds up to 75 miles an hour and up to 15 inches of rain. this tree collapsed on a condo in clearwater. no one was hurt. water flooded streets in the st. petersburg neighborhood, but residents say they prepared for even worse. many in this flood prone area are still recovering from trop trop ada last fall. now neighbors tell us alpha didn't do nearly as much property damage. >> i lost my fridge, my stove, hot water heater, washer/dryer, all my furniture. it was awful. >> reporter: in sarasota, the cleanup is already underway. >> pretty much what i was expecting. >> way calmer than i thought it would be. i thought there would be limbs down everywhere, but it sort of missed us. >> all things considered, where we looked at 72 hours ago, i think the impact have been less than what we thought would be reasonable, so we a

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that is according to myles taylor, former chief of staff, inside the trump administration on ms nbc withal security threat i've never seen in my life, the party that i'm in, the republican party, the number one national security threat in the united states. >> the climate of increasing hyperbole, think about president biden saying more than any point since the civil war. or matthew dowd describing events of january 6th as worse than 9/11 and add to that there is no end to this hyperventilating, this really divisive rhetoric. >> a couple things on that. myles taylor is running out of media hits, no one is interested in this boring life. he said if i say something outrageous i will get on tv and come on and say the republican party is -- you know that is what happened so let's not pretend this is deeper than that. he is a superficial hero with nothing going for him. who is on that - the chinese spy guy, a panel on msnbc, the chinese spy guy, and the chinese spy on the battle, and i give up. >> i thought isis and al qaeda from my keyboard, national security guy. >> leading the charge. >> st