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1 month ago | 
cbsnews.com | Skyler Henry |Laura Geller |Kerry Breen
Five years after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, the city is still reckoning with the calls for police reform that followed. Police chief Brian O'Hara, who was sworn in in November 2022, has been adamant about implementing changes from within that lead to safer streets and more positive interactions with Minneapolis police. Still, O'Hara said Floyd's death is still an "open wound" in the city.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Skyler Henry |Laura Geller |Kerry Breen
4 hours agoThe future of George Floyd Square is in limbo, many Black Lives Matter murals have been erased and policing reforms rolled back. But family members and advocates are determined to protect his legacy. Five years after her nephew’s murder, what Angela Harrelson misses most is hearing her phone buzz …
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1 month ago | 
cbsnews.com | Tom Hanson |Stations. His in-depth |programs. He |Laura Geller
New York City — Every time Jorge Badilla shifts into gear, he's sitting in the driver's seat of an industry that's running on fumes. According to the American Trucking Association, the industry is currently facing a shortage of about 60,000 drivers. With each mile, the 48-year-old Badilla is filling a critical need and mapping out a future he never thought he'd have. "I have an opportunity to do something positive for my life," Badilla told CBS News.
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1 month ago | 
cbsnews.com | Laura Geller |Tom Hanson |Stations. His in-depth |programs. He
Niamh Winright's worst nightmare began with a loud bang. Then came the sound of shattering glass and the piercing echoes of gunfire. Reality set in. She was caught in the middle of a school shooting. On the morning of Oct. 24, 2022, panic swept through the joint campus of the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School and the Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience in St. Louis, Missouri. The 911 calls began pouring in as a gunman entered the building.
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2 months ago | 
cbsnews.com | David Schechter |Laura Geller
For the Lenape Nation, an indigenous tribe in Pennsylvania, the Delaware River is their ancestral home and a place they come to pay their respects. Clan Mother Shelley Windamakwi DePaul and her son Chief Adam Waterbear DePaul have dedicated their lives to protecting the river.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | David Schechter |Taylor Johnston |Grace Manthey |Justin Sherman |Laura Geller
Nationwide, more than 60% of the water we use comes from rivers, streams and lakes. For example, New York City gets 90% of its water from the Delaware Basin. Philadelphia gets almost 60%. These waterways are continually under threat from pollution, development and climate change.
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2 months ago | 
cbsnews.com | David Schechter |Laura Geller
An estimated 40 million Americans live in floodplains, facing a risk of catastrophic flooding that puts them and their homes in danger. That includes Steve Rodriguez, whose home near a creek in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, floods so often, he paid to raise it 10 feet. Some of his neighbors went even higher, 20 feet or more. The flooding risk is made worse by more intense rainfall driven by climate change and by unchecked development.
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2 months ago | 
cbsnews.com | David Schechter |Laura Geller
Across the U.S., rivers are in crisis. One of the major issues they face is contamination by sewage and other forms of pollution, but some communities are impacted more than others. In Philadelphia, trash littered part of the Cobbs Creek, a tributary of the Delaware River, not far from where people live. Jerome Shabazz, who runs the non-profit Overbrook Environmental Education Center in Philadelphia, took CBS News along to clean up some of the trash.
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2 months ago | 
cbsnews.com | Dave Malkoff |Laura Geller
No matter where you live in America, there's a tornado radar system in your region scanning the skies to keep you informed. But the aging technology, which dates back to 1988, is in desperate need of an upgrade. Tornado activity across the U.S. is increasing, with more than 470 tornadoes reported through early April. The National Weather Service has also issued the most tornado warnings in nearly 40 years.
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2 months ago | 
cbsnews.com | Laura Geller |Nicole Valdes
How Baltimore is reducing violence on the streets Baltimore, once a poster child for big city crime, is now becoming the model for a turnaround as gun violence has fallen more rapidly than in any other major U.S. city, according to the Center for American Progress. One way the city has reduced crime is by tapping into the expertise of people who used to perpetrate it. Sean Wees grew up in Brooklyn, a neighborhood in south Baltimore, where he saw the violence firsthand.
