Is There A Connection Between Prison Gangs And Terrorist Plots?; Sacramento Update: 850 Bills And Only A Month To Go; Preventing Mad Cow Disease In Humans: Are We Doing Enough?; The Gaza Pullout
Is There A Connection Between Prison Gangs And Terrorist Plots?
Law enforcement and counter terrorism officials are investigating a possible terrorist plot hatched by three California prison inmates to attack a number of sites in Southern California including National Guard recruitment centers and synagogues. Patt Morrison talks about the investigation into the alleged plot and the possibility of a connection between Islamic terrorism and gang members in California prisons and elsewhere. Patt talks with J.P.Tremblay, Assistant Secretary for Public and Employee Communications, and Joseph Garcia, senior team leader of US Corrections-Special Operations Group.
Sacramento Update: 850 Bills And Only A Month To Go
Guest host Patt Morrison takes a look at the latest news from Sacramento: ballot measures, the special election compromise scenario and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s crime victims’ bill with KPCC reporter Tamara Keith and political analyst Sherry Bebitch Jeffe.
Preventing Mad Cow Disease In Humans: Are We Doing Enough?
Inspectors have found more than 1000 violations of rules aimed at preventing mad cow disease from reaching humans, the USDA announced Monday. The USDA also declared that no contaminated meat reached consumers. How can they be sure? And, are current inspection procedures adequate? Guest host Patt Morrison talks with James Cullor (COLOR), UC Davis’s Veterinary Medical Teaching & Research Center, and state Senator Mike Machado, who has sponsored legislation addressing mad cow disease testing.
The Gaza Pullout
The deadline has passed for Jewish settlers to voluntarily leave the Gaza strip. Israeli officials report about half the families have left the area. Soldiers went house-to-house trying to persuade residents to agree to leave voluntarily. Those who remain may be forcibly removed. Patt Morrison talks with Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles Times reporter in Gaza, Yuli Edelstein, member of the Israeli Knesset for the Likud party and the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, Daniel Sokatch, Executive Director Progressive Jewish Alliance, Rabbi David Eliezrie, President of Rabbinical Council of Orange County, and Ehud Danoch, Consul General of Israel to hear their perspectives on the disengagement and what it means to the future of the peace process.