always with the abuse that ten thousand new yorkers jailed at rikers eighty nine percent of which are black or latino suffer a deep seated culture of violence assaults from inmates and guards who have been found to use excessive force and countless department of justice and news investigation like this year the d.o.j. charged a writer's island guard with beating a handcuffed in maine and stabbings and slashings are still on the rise despite millions of dollars spent on these conditions are so brutal that after its eight months stay at rikers lil wayne. wrote a book in gone so much he said even considered converting to christianity while at rikers and started to think maybe i don't need some big booty to be creative and write the strokes varick world will wane spirit us in. this book is terrifying we need to shut this place down immediately another famous inmate though for different reasons police browder was arrested for allegedly stealing a backpack at the age of sixteen and spent three years at rikers the majority in solitary confinement with no conviction. three years wait wait wai

wrote a book in gone so much that he said even considered converting to christianity while in rikers and started to think maybe i don't need some big movie to be created right very little wayne spirit. in. this book is terrifying we need to shut this place down immediately another famous and me go for different reasons coolies browder was arrested for allegedly stealing a backpack at the age of sixteen and spent three years at rikers the majority in solitary confinement with no conviction. three years. wait wait wait what was in the backpack besides house keys was it a logger approved go pro what was it the kid carrying the backpack and in danger of drought a million air. wait wait wasn't this detail plot to get kennedy to make out with castro with a mouthful of l.s.d. . i like this mouthful of a like we did you. so. sometimes they're. here this week your fearless host. is planning to kind of go eyeball to eyeball. with. the probably go as well as yes oh yeah so this week he talks about cia director. he did this at the aspen security forum which is like the summit on national securit

but if you're too poor to post bail, then you end up at rikers island or a jail like facility like rikersend, let me say this because we're going to run out of time. >> so the rich are free and the poor go to jail. >> let me say this because we're going to run out of time, that is why ministers like you are important because all of that is the drop in the bucket. it is a system-wide nation wide-problem. >> it is a system wide nation wide-problem. and you're really blessed that the kennedys helped them out. we need to set a better example at the federal level because, you know, while we're being rough on teenagers, we're letting people in the white house getting away with bashing people and other stuff that needs to be criticized. >> carrie keep up the good work. reverend nixon as always thank you for being with me. up next my final thoughts on michelle obama opening up about issues she faced. to new heights with safe driver and paperless billing. but the prize at the top is worth every last breath. here we go. [ grunts ] got 'em. ahh. wait a minute. whole wheat waffles? [ crying ] why! yo

assistant mental health chief and charge of a five hundred cells solitary confinement unit on rikers island prison now in your book lockdown on rikers you said you sold words you never imagined can you give us an idea of exactly what you mean. yes certainly thank you for having me on the show . as the head of the mental health department i was called to cell doors regularly to monitor the psychiatric condition of the people who were being held for as you said twenty three hours a day inside these cells and i never expected to see people so broken down so broken down so badly head bash ing arm slashing makeshift nooses anything to try and escape the torment of solitary confinement. when i had first started to work there i was told that solitary was for the worst of the worst the baddest of the bad i was really shocked to discover that four out of five people behind those cells were there for nonviolent infractions such as walking out of a housing unit wearing a hat. the punishment is grueling it drives people to see. aside and virtually everyone in that five hundred cell unit was on p

she's only been to riker's island for a relatively short time. but they've it already she's already accomplished quite preasing things there to improve the quality of care for the -- mentally ill people who are in jail. now book tells the story up to this point in her career about the development of a young psychiatrist working in first in the bellevue hospital emergency room, and then in the psychiatric prison ward on the 19th floor of bellevue. and it takes you through all of the trials and failures and hard won battles of the early stages of her career as a psychiatrist. now i want to go back first -- first time i ever met elizabeth i was at that time as a i am now part of the, part of the faculty of the division of bellevue in nyu. this is the point this is the point in the book -- where she had had finished her specialty training in psychiatry and was starting and was starting her -- treens forensic psychiatry fellowship. the first time i met elizabeth i was impressed. and it wasn't just that she was a very smart and well trained and very en

but the brutality of rikers stayed with him.ut he hanged himself at his home in the bronx. >> some of the most violent, dangerous institutions in the country are actually jails, like rikers island. people will plead guilty to things they didn't do. >> reporter: because of stories like caliphs flom helped create the bronx freedom fund, the first charitable bail fund for new yorkers charged with low-level offenses. >> 97% of our clients have shown up for every court date. which totally destroys the myth that we need cash bail in order to compel people to show up for their court dates. >> place was full of blood already. >> reporter: today flom's recording a new episode of his podcast. his guest, antoine day, was convicted for a killing that happened in chicago while antoine was in new orleans. >> you were 1,000 miles away. right? >> right. >> when the thing happened. >> reporter: antoine served ten years before getting a new trial and having the charges against him dropped. >> i appreciate you having this platform. for a guy like

is there an official partnership between town tape house and rikers -- fountain house and rikers island? >> that is an excellent question. i don't know. >> i love the idea of -- >> but that's a good idea. >> -- [inaudible] talking about integrating with everything you're talking about and really appreciate everything you've brought here this evening. >> a short one if there's maybe one last short one? anyone else? no? here's one. >> could you say something about, first of all, it was a fabulous book. >> thank you. >> really fabulous, and i really enjoyed it. >> thank you. >> i wonder if you could say something about what it was like working with some of the guards on the unit and how that impacts on the care you're trying to deliver. >> yeah. so the first thing i learned is not to call them guards. so they're correction officers. >> okay. >> and actually, so i'm going to go a off on a tangent here, but language is extraordinarily important. it's important in anything, but particularly in the system. and the words you choose show how much respect you have for the people that that you are

. >> this is pedro, he is currently incarcerated at rikers island. in 2016 when he is 60 he was charged with firing a gun into a crowd in a section of the south bronx. the entry it occurred in september of 2015. a teenager was shot in the like. pedro maintained his innocence since the day he was arrested. initially eyewitnesses told investigators that pedro was in fact the shooter, landing him in his cell. fast forward to today, everything is flipped. it's been reported that at least two eyewitnesses have changed their two and say that he was not the shooter. some claim that there are pressured by detectives to figure pedro in the shooting. the shooting victim has come forward to say that pedro is not the person who shot him, even with all of that, pedro remains in custody charge, not convicted of any crime. wednesday he had hearing and they got deal. probation for five years and if no incidents his record would be wiped down. he turned it down. his mother said he would never say he was guilty of something he did not do. pedro graduated high school t

rikers island is the main lockup facility for new york city. we will bring you updates as they are available. jonathan: debbie wasserman schultz her staff after he was arrested at dulles airport. towas apparently trying leave the country on a flight to pakistan when he was arrested on a bank fraud charge. investigators say that the man and his wife tried to defraud a congressional federal credit union. he is due in court in august. alison: 7 on your side with a warning for disabled veterans. a scholarship offer that is raising questions tonight. administration is sending letters to disabled vets offering their children something called the ronald cox scholarship to help with college tuition. problem ist, but the the scholarship does not give students any extra money. instead the v.a.'s using private scholarship money to replace the money they already owe. >> it makes me feel played they would say it's a scholarship when after talking to them it's not. >> as the family of a disabled veteran and a low income family, every little bit helps. alison

island prison within the decade as we've covered on this show before rikers has been home to carolus cases of abuse ranging from routine beatings of inmates to prison or actually dying from overheating in their cell the commission suggested that rioters be shuttered in favor of five smaller prisons one for each of the city's boroughs the cost of this moves expected to be almost fourteen billion dollars but it's estimated that the changes are going to save the city about one point four billion dollars every year meaning the project will eventually pay for itself while it remains to be seen whether or not the city will fulfill its promise to shut down this nightmare prison the fact that a specific plan is now on the table is a major victory for justice and human rights that's all for tonight i might have been tony on this is america's lawyer where every week we tell you stories that corporate media is ordered not to tell because their advertisers just won't let the great know. i do not know if the russian state into john podesta e-mails and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack

navy's general van riker said this is completely ridiculous. seeking to ask hard questions and walked out of the war game and this whole scenario got liked to "the wall street journal," which of course leave it to the media to ask the hard questions for us. so i guess the final question and i'll turn it over to you, the audience, is i would imagine -- i have not written a book but when i write an article or paper i often start with a question. what question am i trying to ask? the question you presumably asked yourself when you wrote the book, how does that change or what was the initial question you did ask yourself and is that different than what kind of ended up in the final product? >> that's a great question. of course. so,so my lens on the book is my reality coming from silicon valley and that world ask the world of startups, a tiny speck it rating over to become flak and the same is true of all products like a book. so, i think the original thesis was, if i think back to one of my earliest drafts, few years back, it was that you don't ha

riker place henry scott in prison again until hacksaw could produce the will. further detail that henry had been brought to the city by his father. according to the confession of all parties and with the full x -- consent of his mother. -- theher goes to see father goes to seea from the port and maintains the child from school. the legal status is not stated. the community managed to raise henry's bail money and he went elizer and susan who later secret at him upstate who was reunited with his father. wright promises readers updates, but this was the last update in the emancipator. in august 1835 there was a brief story on henry in a little track on the anti-slavery society. it added some detail that when that was at wright's house he was so afraid he could hardly sleep. he would speak out in his dreams i won't go. he was free now and at school in the country somewhere. right's stated goals were on the documentation of public cases to affect change. to put the wrongs and woes before the public who would share his outrage at the use of a law and to put their cas

and in new york city, pedro hernanandez, a bronxnx teen wh's been held at the notorious rikers island jail while awaiting trial for a 2015 crime he says he did notot commit, wil be released on bail.l. the robert f. kennedy human rights group agreed to post $100,000. hernandez is fighting charges that he fired a shot that injured another teen in 2015, even though the victim and eight other teens who witnessed the shooting say hernandez is innocent. hernandez has been in jail since july of 2016. his plight has drawn comparisons to the case of kalief browder, another bronx teen, who committed suicide in 2015 at the age of 22 after being held at rikers for nearly three years without trial for a crime he did nonot commit. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. on wednesday evening, protesters gathered in front of the white house and u.s. armed forces are crewmen station in times square in new york to denounce president donald trump's surprise announcement banning transgender people from serving in the militar

the n-y-p-d says the inmate hopped a fence at rikers island prison and is still missing. that prison is now on lockdown as officials search the water nearby. we'll bring you updates as soon as they're available. take a look at this - unbelievable video showing the aftermath of storms in alabama. you can see a car getting swept away by a flooded creek. the driver was able to get out. this is in vestavia hills. a thunderstorm dumped more than three inches of rain on the city in a matte of hours. newly released 911 calls reveal the terrifying moments after a tornado swept through kent island in maryland. monday's twister destroyed 14 homes, knocked over trees, and caused boats to fly into the air. dispatchers were bombarded with calls from frightened residents. people are now the widespread damage. despite the severity of the tornado, there were no fatalities. a beautiful day for a summer swim -- and the ponies on assateague island took full advantage in this year's chincoteague pony swim. about 200 ponies, took to the water yesterday morning for the 92nd year. it's all to g

civil rights activists are demanding justice for a bronx teenager who's been held at the notorious rikers island jail while awaiting trial for a 2015 crime he says he did not commit. prosecutorors say 18-yeaear-old pedro hernandez fired a shot that struck another teen in the leg, even though the victim and eight other teenens who witnessd the shooting say hernandez i is innocent. hernandez has turned down a plea deal that would see him released on five years' probation. he's insisting on a trial by jury, but scheduling conflicts have pushed a trial date past labor day. hernandez hopes to be released by in order to accept a full september 1 college scholarship. his family has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise the $250,000 needed to bail him out. hernandez's plight has drawn comparisons to the case of kalief browder, another bronx teen who committed suicide in 2015 at the age of 22 after being held at rikers for nearly three years without trial for a crime he did not commit. the e senate on thurursday voted 51-47 along party lines thursday to confirm judge john k. bush for a lifetim

developing overnight the inmate who escaped from a riker's island jail in new york city has been found and it turns out he didn't go very far. 24-year-old burglary suspect that queen hill was found hiding in a trailer on the island around 3:00 a.m. eastern time. investigators say he jumped a fence and escaped yesterday afternoon. there were reports it happened as two inmates distracted guards who were watching after a small group. the missing inmate wasn't noticed until much later. >>> this morning we are hearing from experts about an alarming new study about the future of the human race. >> you may have seen the headlines at this point online. researchers say that men are significantly less fertile than they were 40 years ago. that study found that sperm count has declined more than 50% in men from north america, europe, and new zealand. they wanted some perspective and investigate and talked with researchers about what might be behind it. >> it can't be ga net tech tick, it's too fast for genetic changes and so it's got to be vierntdal. >> it's not something that is limited only to t

since in his comfort to say that he did not in fact shoot but he's still sitting a rikers island withollar bail. he just got his ba is out a awaa trial. were not sure what's gonna happen to the full ride scholarship he is being offered. we will see what happens during the trial. >> crisis in mahwah, somebody is putting up signs on the polls. >> on tuesday i give you the story of a rob. a thin white polo affixed to electricals. they denote an area of the area that is permissible for hasidic jews to enter. i found two at arabs lives there that seem to be dismantled. i do not think anything of it. it turns up those arabs are part of a larger group of arabs that have been dismantled and are part of an ongoing please investigation in the area. they think it has to do with a hate crime. >> we had a report of at least for being damaged. it appeared that whoever did it try to rip them down and take them off the telephone pole. >> there's a petition online demanding the electric company remove all and revoke permission for future installation. some of the comments on the petition speak to the

. >> coming up today in the bay the massive manhunt for a man who escaped riker's island jail is over. the reason why the search may not have been necessary. >>> and the world's richest man may soon not be the world's richest man and he probably doesn't care. we'll tell you why coming up in business and tech. ♪ what should i watch? show me sports. it's so fluffy! look at that fluffy unicorn! he's so fluffy i'm gonna die! your voice is awesome. the x1 voice remote. xfinity. the future of awesome. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> it's 6:14 with a cloudy start this morning. and as we look at temperature's temperature trend for cupertino it will be nice for most of the morning and that's when you want to get out there and go for a run and do some yard work as our temperatures will be heating up fast reaching in the upper 80s. going to be hot over the next few days so i guess we better get used to it. i'll talk more about it coming up at about 6:19. >>> about now looking at travel times in the tri-valley not showing a major problem over here. 580 is 24 minutes grant line over to the dublin interchange. >>> s

manhunt continues tonight for the new york inmate who escaped a high security detention center on rikers island. staff noticed the man didn't return from the outdoor rec area this evening. nypd is working with the department of correction to figure out how the inmate escaped. back with more news in a moment. food. water. internet. we need it to live. but what we don't need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. i see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. you got me, mark. internet for one everyday simple price and no extra monthly fees. food. water. internet. we need it to live. for all the streaming and the shopping and the newsing, but most of all... for the this. internet for one everyday simple price and no extra monthly fees. >>> amazon is going on a hiring spree. the e-commerce giant wants to fillmore than 50,000 warehouse jobs across the u.s. starting next week, the amazon will be looking for people to sort and pack orders in specific states including tennessee, ohio and wisconsin. they say some people will be hired on the spot and some managerial positions will

focused on a new york teenager, recognized as an honor student, his cry of innocence from infamous rikerssland has inspired the kennedy family to help. that's later in the show. >> in other news, outrage, real outrage this morning over the president's comments to the

for people to heal in seek genuine rehabilitation this individual any vidual individual who goes to rikers island or any prison in this country often comes out more criminal more battered more beaten down themselves so we seek genuine solutions of healing and rehabilitation. and what do you think that i might do you think it's on the individual and you think it's on society. well it's on board for culture house too and again this is where that xenophobia kind of comes in as we know a lot of people in america like to talk about how apparently america's a terrible place for women and for the rest of the world even really wants to come here but the truth is that the western world treats women far better than any of these other countries and when you allow people into your country who don't share your values we as a culture and civilization have to enforce those values and that isn't being done because people are being afraid of well maybe they'll call me a racist or xenophobe eric or some other is and attack me unfairly and destroy my life through my career which is what a lot of people are t

the inmates who escaped from riker's island in new york city has been found. that escapee was located by two department much corrections staff members on the island before 3:00 a.m. there was concern that 24-year-old hill may have tried to get to laguardia airport across the river from the prison. you can see on the map here that jail is in the middle of several boroughs. the department of corrections says he jumped a fence. he was missing around 7:30 p.m. when the head count was off by one. >>> we're also staying on top of a developing story out of ohio. one man is dead and seven others hurt after a ride malfunctioned on the opening day of the state fair. people were thrown from the fireball spinning ride. officials say that ride was inspected thoroughly before the fair started. now the governor has ordered all rides to be safety inspections are done. witnesses describing the scene seem to be in shock. >> i saw somebody fall and a minute later the whole row the seats fell to the ground. >> three of the injured are in critical condition this morning. >>> now t

the same page here, but again, you know, new york city, one of those places where we can't get into rikers island and put our hands on people. when it comes to gang members, gang members walk out of county jails of sanctuary cities every day across this country. that's what we need to change. >> how are things -- how are suspected gang members being identified for i.c.e. enforcement? is it just through local law enforcement? are there databases that you're using? like how do you know how to find these gang members? >> local law enforcement, they're usually the ones that, you know, they have the most intelligence on gang members. as far as what we look for to find gang members, i would rather not discuss that because i certainly don't want to share that information with the gang members who may be watching and say, we'll just do this a little bit different. there's a myriad of factors. we don't arrest people for the way they look. i've seen media accounts about people with tattoos and clothing. that is one of many, many factors relo factors we look at. so it's are really quite law enforceme

again, new york city, one of those places where, you know, where you can't get rikers island.members walk out of county jails and sanctuary cities every day in this country. that's what we need changed. >> ma'am? >> how are things -- how are suspected gang members being identified for ice enforcement? is it just through local law enforcement? are the data bases that you are using? how do you know how to find these gang members? >> local law enforcement, they are usually the ones that -- they have the most intelligence on gang members. as far as what we look for to find gang members, i would rather not discuss that because i certainly don't want to share that information with a gang member who may be watching. okay. we will just do this a little bit different. there is a myriad of factors. we don't arrest people for the way they look. i want to make that clear. i have seen media accounts with people can w. tattoos and clothing. that is one of many, many factors we look at. it's law enforcement intensive how we target gang members. i can tell you the men and women of ice are wel

i literally interviewed tupac at rikers island in january of 1995 and this letter is dated january 1995t were supportive of him and it's been kind of a qui quiet secret that's a-- he and madonna had a relationship and he was grabbing with it and was considered a spokesperson but dating a white sister who he had a great affinity for and talked about do i publicly acknowledge these relationships or not. he didn't talk about the romance part of it. >> did he discuss just the problems he was having with race and relationships. >> absolutely. here is someone who was in high cool in baltimore in the performing arts high school met jada pinkett smith and some of his biggest mentors were white brothers and sisters but felt this responsibility to be a spokesperson for his race. that's where the conflict came as you see in this letter. >> just 25 when he died. what do you think his stance would be today? would he still have concerns. >> i think he would be talking about race across the board. i mean there's video interviews trump in 1992, talking about, you know, his version of black lives matter

. >> ellington and riker. >> there we go. i know you have a big show in baltimore tonight.ce day, a happy birthday, america. see you back here tomorrow. happy ipdz pence day, a happy birthday, america. see you back here tomorrow. because with citrusy peel shine, i might as well be spraying orange juice on...grape juice. get serious, get a cleaner with bleach in it. that's right...i'll get it. clorox means clean. >>> good morning. it is fourth of july at 8:59. and oh, say, can we see the fireworks tonight, mike nicco? >> where have you been hiding that one? >> i know. >> and i have ten seconds, so on the north bay, encroach iing in petaluna about 9:30, and richmond and san rafael bridge, fog there, but south of the san mateo bridge and east of that into the inland area of the eastland bay, you will be fine, and the temperatures warmer inla inland. alexis? >> the volume is very light. and 14 minutes to the highway to the maze. >> you have the city to yourself if you are up. and of course >> announcer: happy independence day. you're invited to "live's" 4th of july party. today

. >> ellington and riker. >> there we go. i know you have a big show in baltimore tonight.y birthday, america. see you back here tomorrow. this is a good morning washington update. >>> good morning, washington, i'm melanie hastings tracking the top stories. a teacher aide whose work in four schools is accused of sexually abusing students. police tell us is hiv-positive. authorities say carlos bella allegedly assaulted at least 10 boys and made pornographic videos. police are searching for more victims and they want to make sure they are tested for hiv. >>> a busy fourth of july here in the nation's capital, security checkpoints to get onto the national mall open in an hour. the parade downtown and constitution avenue starts at 11:45 tonight, it is the capital sports concert. the fieworks shows are just after 9:00 p.m. >>> and weather is of course a big factor for all of the events, so let's head over to eileen right now. >>> pretty typical for independence day in washington, hot and humid, day five of the current heat wave climbs into the low 90s. stay weather alert with st

. >> ellington and riker. >> there we go. i know you have a big show in baltimore tonight.rthday, america. see you back here tomorrow. >> ♪ >> goodgood morning, it's 8:56 n this tuesday the fourth of july. karen rogers is off. matt pelman is here getting us ready for independence day. >> yeah, and for the most part you are free to move freely on the highways on this independence day matt. you just can't use this ramp from the schuylkill eastbound to spring garden street. that's because spring garden eakins oval ben franklin parkway are all blocked off as we get ready for the celebration later on tonight. just getting word of downed wires in lower salford montgomery county blocking hunts burger lane. cull and road would be an alternate. parade a palooza. one in doylestown at noon. one in new britain starting in a half hour along the town center shopping center. some delco clifton heights has a parade starting at 10 o'clock. one in prospect park in a few minutes starts at baltimore and 16th avenues. get out there and cheer them on matt. >> thank you, matt. out there right now

will hold a hearing today to talk about the modernization of nafta joining us now congressman david rikerof the ways and means trade subcommittee, and congressman it's good to see you. get to trade in just a second. but i reference the house, and it's saga, with obamacare repeal is like trying to read war and peace and i don't even know what we just saw now in the senate. any comments on this and where it goes from here? >> i guess i would describe the situation much like you already have i feel like we've been on a roller coaster ride here so i'm going to patiently wait and see the final bill that comes out of the senate before i make any decisions on how i vote. >> you have optimism that we go, or that you gentlemen now move straight to tax reform, and that that might have a better outcome? or what is a casual observer to think of the way congress is working these days >> well, you know, tax reform and health care together, well separately, are massive undertakings as you've seen. but together even more massive and complicated. so, my hope is after being on the ways and means committee