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Voters

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in colombia have spoken, the country's next president

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or a populace Real Estate Mogul. A

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runoff will happen in June. Why are

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Colombians opposing the political

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establishment? And how did the pandemic

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Americans? Who had serious mental health

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The

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police and Uvalde Texas admit

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that they made mistakes in responding to

1:28

the mass shooting last week. And now,

1:30

the Department of Justice

1:32

is investigating and for the second

1:34

time in as many weeks president.

1:37

try to comfort a community

1:39

devastated by a mass shooting skills

1:42

in texas yesterday with the first lady

1:44

they met with families of the victims of

1:46

the attack on broad elementary school

1:48

that last nineteen children and to teachers

1:51

dead and here is paying one is

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and you've aldi and joins is this morning thing

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there's been so much confusion

1:58

over exactly what happened

2:00

on that day and now the justice

2:02

department is involved toss what's going on

2:06

yeah there's a lot of anger from the community

2:08

a lot of questions over how law

2:10

enforcement on the to the shooting you

2:12

, first texas gov greg abbott

2:15

praised a quick response for saving someone's

2:17

eyes burn as a subpoena

2:19

public safety later reported that nineteen

2:21

police landfills and to the classroom for

2:23

the better part of an hour hour

2:26

the justice department's us are launching their own

2:28

independent probe into law enforcement

2:30

response has been requested by the

2:32

mayor of you valley has been asked to hold law enforcement

2:35

law dear jesus or

2:37

goals here are you explain what happened in ovale

2:39

the hand held on for some can avoid

2:41

these the stakes in the next active the

2:43

situation there's no clear

2:45

timeframe for the investigation but they have

2:47

pledged to make the results public meanwhile

2:50

others

2:50

community is getting ready to hold

2:52

funeral services for the victims

2:54

switches very grim work

2:57

to say the least

2:59

yeah absolutely mean of

3:01

next to one of these ah these two funeral homes

3:03

to force their as working nonstop

3:05

working nonstop reads and arrangements

3:08

kelly baker as owner of the sour patch

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some days are harder than others especially when you're

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sitting with families that you don't know it's

3:15

so hard because having new

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to do something very personal freedom the

3:19

other day a bigger sat with a high school classmate

3:22

who has lost a child in the shooting their

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babies favorite with empire as

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, start making these arrangement for to for the make

3:29

sure and save some flowers for the face

3:31

of it you know her family gets

3:33

a tiny bit as what she wanted

3:36

or what she would have wanted for her server

3:39

server for the first and starts today with

3:41

visitation for a ten year old amerigo

3:43

karzai who had celebrated her birthday earlier

3:45

this month and over the next

3:47

two and the next weeks for community will put

3:49

eighteen more children and to more teachers

3:52

service

3:53

president biden and the first lady were there yesterday

3:56

if you distill that visit down to

3:58

an image or to what would the db well

4:02

the president the first lady spent a full day here

4:04

and uvalde yesterday they placed

4:06

white flowers that at the memorial site at

4:08

rob elementary school where white crosses

4:11

for the names of the dead at ,

4:13

point the president wiped away a tear tear

4:15

biden's son attended sunday morning mass along

4:17

with six hundred parishioners at the sacred heart

4:19

catholic church those that were there

4:21

told us he was just there to there

4:24

outside a small crowds gathered in the ninety

4:26

three degree heat linda costs

4:28

us had driven in some san antonio

4:31

the parents i , nieces and

4:33

nephews ten ten

4:35

, and down

4:38

owners is shit you hear me

4:40

for some reason i said i woke up

4:42

this morning and i said you know what that

4:44

, and how it's received

4:47

i mean was it all universally warm

4:50

i'm all some people we spoke with for grateful

4:52

that the president came to visit and so solidarity

4:55

and support but as biden exited

4:57

the church and onlooker did shout do something

4:59

and buy it's a we will a

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pink one in Uvalde Texas. Thank

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you. Thanks for having me heading

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out to Columbia where former left-wing

5:16

gorilla and a populist. Real Estate Mogul are

5:18

headed for a presidential run off on

5:20

June 19th. And the pair of anti-establishment

5:22

candidates, were the top vote-getters

5:25

in the country's presidential election yesterday. It's

5:27

a rebuttal of the ruling class, which is predominantly

5:30

conservative reporter. John, Otis

5:32

joint is from goes.

5:36

Well, what do we about these two candidates? Well,

5:38

they're both quite in

5:41

first place. Yesterday was Gustavo Petro

5:43

with 40% of the vote. he's

5:45

a former left wing gorilla who later

5:48

served in congress and as the mayor

5:50

of bogota and is now on his third

5:52

run for the presidency and petrus

5:54

promise some pretty big changes here changes

5:56

here to phase out the production of

5:59

oil which is colombia's biggest

6:01

export wants to raise taxes

6:03

on the rich to fun antipoverty programs

6:06

and he's also plans to reestablish diplomatic

6:09

relations with the authoritarian regimes

6:11

next door in venezuela so all of

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this has colombia's business leaders

6:15

and social elites on edge

6:18

he came in first but he didn't win

6:20

an outright victory right what happened

6:23

in colombia unlike the u s you you need

6:25

to win more than half the votes to avoid going

6:27

to a run off and that didn't happen at

6:30

rodolfo hernandez was runner up with

6:32

twenty eight percent of the vote and

6:34

he's a really colorful character he made his fortune

6:37

in real estate he went on to become

6:39

mayor of the northern city of book at a monga

6:41

an ideologically he's just all over the map

6:44

is pro business but for example he also supports

6:46

abortion rights of legalizing marijuana

6:49

his , claim to fame as

6:51

mere was getting caught on video

6:53

slapping a city confident in the face

6:55

in an argument over corruption well

6:58

he's seventy seven and he's also

7:00

prone to gaffes on one occasion he praised

7:02

adolf hitler when he

7:04

meant to say albert einstein he's

7:07

, he's he's candidate debates he's

7:09

conducted most of his campaign on tiktok videos

7:11

and he even granted a tv interview

7:13

in in his pajamas crime

7:16

that with a colorful character but what's the

7:18

political appeal what's the appeal of

7:20

this platform to voters

7:23

well hernandez appeals to colombians

7:26

were sick of political corruption

7:28

and business as usual he plays

7:30

up this image of himself as as kind of

7:32

groth fun foul mouth the

7:34

anti corruption crusader against

7:37

rand is made millions in real

7:39

estate which and columbia is an area

7:42

riddled with corruption that his campaign

7:44

a self financed we claimed that if

7:46

he wins the presidency says he's not

7:48

gonna owe anybody but he

7:50

also faces graft accusations

7:53

from his time as mare and that case

7:55

is set to go to trial in july

7:58

so if the next residency

8:00

the be the real estate developer or this former

8:02

left wing the real i mean these are political

8:04

outsiders either way

8:06

and that's it

8:07

right yeah you know in know

8:09

in or the winning candidates his balls

8:11

of outcome from centrist stored conservative

8:13

political parties and neither of the current candidates

8:16

are not gustavo petro not read all fernandez

8:19

substances bills but columbians have

8:21

become really frustrated by political

8:23

scandals and rising poverty

8:25

as covered in eighteen drove up by

8:27

poverty from thirty five to forty two percent

8:29

of the population and triggered a protest

8:31

last year so at this time

8:33

around colombians are really seem ready

8:36

for something completely different

8:38

in a be a tight race in that run off john odis

8:40

reporting from bovis ah thank you so much

8:42

time i can manage

8:51

more than one in many americans experienced

8:54

serious mental illness and

8:56

this was before the pandemic

8:58

for some people struggling with these kinds

9:01

of health issues the masking lockdowns

9:03

and misinformation made it harder to distinguish

9:06

reality from delusion

9:07

if you're using a good she's been looking into this

9:09

and she joins me now hey yuki the morning

9:12

rachel or a i think it's probably

9:14

than before we really start talking

9:16

to just define what we mean when we

9:18

say series

9:19

his mental illness yeah

9:21

experts say a core part of it involves

9:23

psychosis in a loss of touch with reality

9:26

and this can happen with schizophrenia bipolar

9:28

disorder major depression which effect

9:30

about five percent of the population okay

9:33

so how did cool

9:35

did affect people who have

9:37

serious mental illness or

9:40

, people with schizophrenia are more likely

9:42

to contract with it and also to die

9:44

from it but as far as mental health there's

9:46

not much data in talking to researchers

9:48

and doctors a lot seems to depend on

9:51

a person's circumstance you know whether they had

9:53

housing family jobs

9:55

or access to healthcare those

9:57

were already challenging for the many people

10:00

because these illnesses often strike

10:02

young adults and therefore

10:04

interrupt school careers are dating

10:07

so the already faced high rates

10:09

of isolation and poverty pre pandemic

10:12

on the other hand people with serious mental

10:14

illness also told me the dealing with crisis is

10:16

just old hat to them so

10:19

me nuts might be part of lies

10:21

a winner suffering from serious mental

10:24

illness did they describe how this

10:26

particular a crisis of the pandemic

10:29

affected them what i'll give you an example

10:31

of a boston manning peter he grew up

10:33

in romania in the nineteen eighties under the brutal

10:36

to test you receive it was constant

10:38

government surveillance so a certain amount

10:40

of paranoia was a survival skill

10:43

but to this day fear causes

10:45

epileptic seizures and blackouts for peter

10:47

the pandemic made it hard to know what

10:49

to believe

10:50

the people wearing masks i was thinking

10:53

that the they're trying to protect

10:55

themselves from themselves invasive cameras

10:58

are posted all throughout the city

11:00

old called the someone

11:02

misinformation about kobe and vaccines

11:04

made reality feel even slippery

11:06

or social media seem to control

11:09

political discourse and all this validated

11:11

this years

11:12

the i read the news which i do every

11:14

day feel like i'm not you

11:16

know but then of course i read my diagnosis

11:19

and though because rather than on

11:21

schizophrenia and i'm i have personally the news

11:26

the reality felt delusional sometimes

11:28

right yeah so so

11:30

what did he do how did he get through it

11:33

while peter has price is a familiar

11:35

to him he knows how to handle it he take long

11:37

walks in meditation and that helps benjamin

11:40

draws draws health professor at emory university

11:43

says here that kind of thing a lot

11:44

the proved to be pretty resilient

11:46

many as the coping mechanisms

11:49

that people have developed they're able to

11:52

put in to good use when

11:54

enormous stressor like covered

11:56

head you have of course tell health health

11:58

at least if you have an intern

12:00

connection but joblessness homelessness

12:02

and social isolation or unfortunately

12:04

common among people with serious mental illness

12:07

now represents a lot of the patients hannah brown

12:09

sees she's a psychiatry professor

12:11

at boston medical center and works in the yard

12:14

she says patients were more acute

12:16

and required longer hospital phase two to

12:18

three times longer than prevent them neck it

12:21

speak to the severity of the disease

12:23

worse and a over the past two years like

12:26

significantly worsening the rachel

12:28

you know how much social support people

12:30

had was a huge determinant

12:32

of how they did yeah i

12:35

can imagine if years you can you can we

12:37

appreciate your reporting on the thank you you

12:45

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