JUDY WOODRUFF: In the days since the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, President Trump
and a number of other Republicans, as well as the NRA, have ramped up calls for arming
teachers and other educators.
There's no specific proposal, but the president has suggested it could be done for teachers
who voluntarily want to do so, and who would then be offered a small bonus.
It's an idea generating a lot of criticism in the field of education.
There are some districts and states that have tried variations of this.
In fact, last night, a school in Pike County, Kentucky, gave preliminary approval to allowing
teachers to carry concealed guns.
John Yang takes a closer look at all of this for our weekly education segment, Making the
Grade.
JOHN YANG: We get two views on the question of whether teachers should have weapons in
the classroom.
First, Texas State Representative Jason Villalba, a Dallas Republican.
He's the architect of the school marshal program which allows Texas school districts to train
and arm teachers.
Mr. Villalba, thanks for joining us.
As I understand it, this program allows districts, local districts, to make the decision on whether
or not to do this.
Is that right?
JASON VILLALBA (R), Texas State Representative: ®MD-BO¯That is correct.
These are volunteers at the school.
The district at the trustee level will determine whether or not they would adopt the school
marshal program.
JOHN YANG: And is there any role for the parents to play in this, to decide whether they want
this to happen?
JASON VILLALBA: Well, clearly, the parents are going to play an active role.
One, they elect the trustees who make this ultimate decision.
And, two, they can participate in any kind of meeting that would be used to determine
whether or not the schools would adopt this program.
JOHN YANG: And the teachers are selective.
It's one, I think, for every 400 students.
Is that right?
JASON VILLALBA: Yes.
The idea is the average-sized school campus in Texas is right around 400.
We wanted to make sure there are the necessary personnel to protect those campuses.
So it would be about one per 400.
If the school, for instance, had 800, you could have two marshals on that campus.
JOHN YANG: And what are the rules that the marshals -- these marshals can be teachers,
they can be any school personnel, is that right?
JASON VILLALBA: Yes.
It's anyone that is on the premises of the campus.
So it could be a vice principal.
It could be a teacher.
It could even be a janitor or a coach.
The idea is these volunteers would come forward.
They would ask for extensive training.
These are not just individuals who go to school for three hours and come back and say, I want
to be a school marshal.
They are going to be identical training that our peace officers go through in Texas, 80
hours to be able to confront and neutralize active shooters.
They go through extensive background checks.
They get mental health screenings.
And they have regular, recurring training to make sure that they're proficient in every
skill that they need to be able to act in this role.
JOHN YANG: And what are the rules about securing the weapons during the school day and when
they can act, when they can use the weapons?
JASON VILLALBA: If the marshal is within the immediate vicinity of children, let's say
it's a teacher, then any firearm must be under lock and key within the immediate reach of
the officer.
We don't want someone to have to go three campuses down or into a basement to be able
to reach the firearm.
It has to be within the immediate access, so that we can cut that confrontation down
to seconds, rather than minutes.
If the individual is not in the vicinity of children, let's say it's a coach in office
hours where there are no children around, then and only then can the officer carry the
weapon on his or her person.
JOHN YANG: And I know that this program is supposed to be sort of secret.
You don't want shooters targeting schools with these marshals, but do you have any sense
of how many districts in Texas participate in this?
JASON VILLALBA: We have talked to TCOLE.
TCOLE is the organization that administers the program.
We know that about 50 individuals have gone through training.
We know that the certification number is probably less than that.
They try to keep it confidential.
The last number we heard was in the 20 range for the independent school districts that
have adopted this plan.
It has not been more widely adopted, only because, when we passed the bill, there was
no funding for the training.
And right now because it's not widely known about -- the program isn't widely known, we
don't have a lot of ISDs adopting it.
Mostly, it's been rural areas and rural ISDs that don't have police officers on campus
or even within the vicinity.
JOHN YANG: Teachers groups nationwide, or national teachers groups have been responding
to this discussion absolutely this by saying that they want to focus on educating children,
that the security ought to be left up to professionals.
How do you respond to that?
JASON VILLALBA: Well, I would say that we need to distinguish what we're trying to do
here from arming the teachers.
I hear this program often called arming the teachers.
That's not what this is.
What we're really trying to do is train individuals to become peace officers.
The law in Texas actually created a new class of peace officer that would be the school
marshal to act in this one instance.
Look, no one wants to introduce more firearms into the school place.
Certainly, I don't, as a parent of children, in the public schools.
But in that instance where someone is seeking to do harm to our children, I, as a parent,
want a last line of defense to give my children a chance.
JOHN YANG: Representative Jason Villalba of Dallas, thanks so much for joining us.
JASON VILLALBA: My honor.
Thank you so much.
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Foam Rolling Common Mistakes | Stowe Training Systems | Personal Trainer Austin Texas - Duration: 1:20.
- Hey guys.
This is Nate at Stowe Training Systems,
and today I just wanted to go over
a few common mistakes with foam rolling.
Number one.
When you're foam rolling, you always wanna be
on your elbows, on your forearms.
You do not wanna go up onto your hands.
Stay on your forearms.
This basically just puts your lower back
in a more favorable position so that our risk reward ratio
is a little bit more towards the reward,
and way less towards the risk.
Number two.
You want to make sure that you only roll foam rollers
across muscular meaty parts of your body.
You do not want to roll this across like say
your elbow joints, or roll it through your knee joint,
or across your lower back.
So basically that foam roller should not have
the opportunity to touch a bone.
It needs to stay on the side of a muscular
kind of part of your body.
And number three.
We don't wanna foam roll within 30 minutes of waking up,
or really engage in any sort of intense exercises
within 30 minutes of waking up.
The reason is that during the day,
all the discs in our back are getting compressed this way,
up and down due to gravity.
Then at night we lay on our side,
and they get compressed left and right.
Then in the morning, stand back up.
Gravity starts to compress it back up and down,
and it's just gonna take roughly 30 minutes
for that entire phenomenon for that to happen.
Don't wanna be exercising while that's going on.
Again, risk and reward.
Alright?
So there you go.
The top three common mistakes with foam rolling.
Outside of that, really hard to get it wrong.
Have a good day.
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Welcome to Texas, Where the Fracking Boom is Back! | Texans For Natural Gas - Duration: 2:44.
This roaring activity, once again is the soundtrack out here in West Texas and southern New Mexico.
The sound, signaling that after years of bankruptcies, layoffs and cutbacks, the American shale boom is back.
I'm Ernest Scheyder with Reuters News, just north of Fort Stockton, Texas. While the global oil industry is struggling to match supply and demand,
it's oil producers here, in West Texas, that are setting their own rules, boosting drilling at the fastest pace in years.
Here, at the well, operated by Scandro, which you can see right over my shoulder, crews are drilling deep into the Permian Basin, the largest oil field in the United States.
Oil producer, Lilis Energy, plans to add 12 wells and expand production seven-fold in 2017, a complete turn-around for a company that a few years ago, wasn't even able to pay it's workers; it barely remained afloat.
That's when oil prices tumbled from around 60 dollars per barrel to below 30, partly because OPEC and it's allies, including Russia, decided to keep global production high, even as demand slipped.
Many describe the move as a price war designed punish America's oil industry.
In 2015, through the middle of 2016, oil prices took a precipitous drop and the basin struck the country, the vast majority, that we're not economic anymore.
But, OPEC this year finally agreed to cut production, helping to stabilize global oil prices; that fact, and basic geology, means the Permian Basin is now back in action.
It's relatively cheap to drill out here and it changed last year in long-standing U.S. law now allows American oil producers to export their crude overseas.
The giants are getting into the land rush, as well. Exxon Mobile, the world's largest publicly-traded oil producer, earlier this year paid nearly seven billion dollars to double it's holdings in the Permian Basin.
But hanging over all this activity is a question: how long will the higher oil prices last?
The eyes of the global oil industry are focused here, on West Texas, especially as oil production increases.
Texas, right now, pumps more than two million barrels of oil per day, and that number is rising.
OPEC leaders are meeting in Vienna later this month to decide whether and how long to extend their production cuts.
A change in policy, while unlikely, could upend the Permian shale boom all over again.
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Are Carbs Bad? | Stowe Training Systems | Personal Trainer Austin Texas - Duration: 0:49.
- This is Nathan Stowe Training Systems
just answering the question of, "Are carbs bad?"
Carbs are not bad.
Processed simple carbs are bad and sugar is bad.
However, if you're eating real food, you're fine.
With that being said, certain body types can process
grains and potatoes and things like that better than others.
The only way to know is to start
with a higher level of carbs and a lower level and compare
and see where you're feeling good with your energy levels
as well as able to drop body fat.
So carbs, if they're real food, totally fine.
With that being said,
some people can eat more potatoes than others.
The only way to know is to try one way, take some pictures,
see how your body adapts, and then try another.
And also consider energy levels.
That's it, have a great day.
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Welcome To Virtual Training | Stowe Training Systems | Personal Trainer Austin Texas - Duration: 3:17.
- Welcome to virtual training with me, Nate.
I'm glad to have you here, and if you're watching this video
then clearly not only are you highly intelligent,
you must be very, very good looking.
Right now, today, I just wanted to welcome you all
as well as set the expectations to make sure
that you kind of understand what to do
to make this whole thing work
so that you can reach your goals.
So a few things, number one, I need you to check in
every single day through the app, okay.
So every single day, you will have a chance to check in
either yes, I did what I was supposed to do yesterday,
or no, I didn't.
In this case, it's did I work out.
So if you worked out yesterday, you'll check yes,
if you didn't, you'll check no.
And it's about the day prior, 'cause sometimes it might
take you all day to get that workout in.
Now what I don't want to see is no check in at all,
where I have no idea that you're actually following along
and paying attention.
So even if you didn't work out, please check no,
that way I know you are watching the videos,
you're following the lessons, you're engaged
and that you do plan on doing this later in the week,
versus seven days go by, nothing happened,
and you're not getting any better or reaching your goals.
On top of that, there's gonna be a weekly check in
every Friday, there'll be just three quick questions
that'll take you two minutes.
It's just gonna be,
what have you done well this week?
What's worked for you?
So we can do more of that.
What did you struggle with?
Which is my job, is to help you with that.
That's why I'm here, I'm your coach,
to help you through the situation.
And what do you think I can do to help you out more?
So what else can I bring to the table?
'Cause I'm ultimately here to help you be successful.
Finally, every Saturday you're gonna update your workouts
through Google Sheets, you may be updating it the week
as you go along, but by Saturday,
please have that completed,
'cause on Sunday I'm gonna sit down, I'm gonna go through
and see what you've done in your workouts,
sets, reps, weights, what kind of changes,
that way every single week I can dial things in
and get it a little bit better for you.
Outside of that, you have open access to me,
so please message me through the app, not in my inbox.
If you email me it's probably gonna get lost.
If you message me through this app,
I'm gonna see it every single time,
be able to get back to you promptly.
Also, if you have videos of any exercises you're not sure of
please get those videos, please send them to me,
I want to help you as much as I can.
If you're on Facebook, please post them
in the Facebook group, 'cause chances are,
if you have a question, 10 more people do also.
If not, you can message those through the app,
or if you, if that doesn't work, technology issues,
you could just text message them to me,
my phone number's gonna be in this email
that you're reading right here, okay.
All right, finally, open access,
you guys can ask me as many questions as you want,
send me over as many videos, just two things on that.
Please use bullet point format when you ask those questions.
And leave each question to three, or each bullet point
to three sentences max, that'll kinda help us stay on point,
so that I can help you in a better manner,
when I actually truly know what it is that you need.
Also, please give me up to 48 hours to respond back to you.
I'm not saying I can't be a little faster than that,
but as far as expectations go, 48 hours.
And if it takes me longer than that,
feel free to feed me to the sharks.
That's it everybody.
Tomorrow you'll get a new lesson, go to the app,
check in, watch the video, and if you have questions
in the middle, contact me, I'm on your team,
that's what I'm here for.
Have a great day.
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Texas girl, 17, stabs newborn to death minutes after giving birth, police say - Duration: 1:54.
A 17-year-old Texas girl repeatedly stabbed her newborn just minutes after it was born
then dumped the body at a neighbor's home and went to sleep, police said.
Erica Gomez of El Paso faces capital murder charges for the Feb. 9 killing.
"I cannot understand what she was thinking or feeling," said Erica Martinez, who told
KFOX she was Gomez's confirmation teacher.
According to court documents, Gomez admitted to giving birth in her bathroom, wrapping
the baby in a bathrobe, and putting it in a shed at her neighbor's house.
She then went
Gomez didn't tell anyone because she was scared, according to police.
While she was sleeping, Gomez's mother noticed she was bleeding and took her to the hospital.
Doctors at the hospital told Gomez she had a miscarriage.
The newborn's body was eventually found by a 13-year-old neighbor who entered his
shed and made the grisly discovery.
Police determined the baby had been left in the shed for 12 hours, from the time of birth
until the boy found it.
"It really upsets me, children shouldn't be abused," said Thomas Moreno, who lives
on the street where the incident happened.
The baby had been stabbed nine times – three times on the neck, once on the side and five
times in the back.
Forensic Examiner Doctor Janice Diaz determined the death was a homicide.
Gomez was arrested on Feb. 23.
She is being held at El Paso County jail on $800,000
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