
0830-Drone School, Cloud Covered Streets, Trump
Season 2023 Episode 172 | 27m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Drone Program provides training. Organization helps homeless. Can Trump run for office?
West-MEC’s Drone Technology Program provides elite training in one of the most influential and innovative subsections in the aviation industry. Cloud Covered Streets provides showers, laundry and haircuts to the homeless. Two prominent scholars argue that constitutional language disqualifies Trump from running for office because of his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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0830-Drone School, Cloud Covered Streets, Trump
Season 2023 Episode 172 | 27m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
West-MEC’s Drone Technology Program provides elite training in one of the most influential and innovative subsections in the aviation industry. Cloud Covered Streets provides showers, laundry and haircuts to the homeless. Two prominent scholars argue that constitutional language disqualifies Trump from running for office because of his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> Ted: ," CAN DONALDTRUMP SEVEN AS PRESIDENT IF HE'S CONVICTED OF A CRIME OR EVEN SERVING TIME IN PRISON?
A LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT TEACHING THE LATEST IN DRONE TECHNOLOGY AND AN EFFORT TO PROVIDE SHOWERS, LAUNDRY AND CARECUTS TO THE HOMELESS.
THAT'S NEXT ON ARIZONA HORIZON.
>> GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO ARIZONA HORIZON.
A REPUBLICAN PARTY WANTS TO HOLD ITS OWN VOTE IN NEXT YEAR'S PRIMARY AND THAT THE PLOTS BALLOTS ARE COUNTED BY HAND.
IT WOULD MEAN THAT THE PARTY AND NOT TAXPAYERS WOULD PAY FOR THE PRIMARY VOTE, SOMETHING THAT COULD COST THE PARTY AN ESTIMATED 13 TO $15 MILLION, FAR MORE THAN THE $144,000 THAT THE STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS ON HAND.
REPUBLICAN BLAKE MASTERS SET TO ANNOUNCE FOR STATE SENATE WHICH REPORTS THAT MASTERS WHO LOST TO MARK KELLY LAST YEAR IS EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE HIS CANDIDATECY IN THE COMING LAKESCOMING WEEKS.
KARKYRSTEN SINEMA IS YET TO ANNOUNCE IF SHE'S RERUNNING.
AND GALLEGO IS THERE.
>>> RUDY GIULIANI IS LIABEL AND THEY ORDERED HIM TO PAY TENS OF THOUSANDS IN FEES AND THEY WERE FOR RUDY GIULIANI FOR FAILING TO TURN OVER INFORMATION AS A PART OF THE LAWSUIT.
THEY ENDURED A, QUOTE, LIVING NIGHTMARE, DUE TO HIS COMMENTS.
>>> AND HURRICANE IDALIA IS NOW A TROPICAL STORM.
THE STORM MADE LANDFALL IN NORTHERN FLORIDA AND SLAMMED THE COAST AS A CATEGORY 3 HURRICANE WITH MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS OF 125 HOURS.
TWO DEATHS ARE REPORTED IN VEHICLE CRASHES IN FLORIDA AND AS FOR DAMAGES -- >> WHILE IT IS TOO SOON TO ASSESS THE TOTAL DAMAGES, WE KNOW THE STORM MADE LANDFALL AS A CATEGORY 3, WHICH MEANS OVER 120 MILES PER HOUR WINDS AND TEN INCHES OF RAIN IN SOME AREAS.
A PEAK STORM SURGE IN SOME PLACES ALONG THE COAST, IT HAS PEAKED RIGHT NOW AND IT COULD SURPASS ONCE THEY MEASURE OVER 15 FEET OF STORM SURGE.
>> Ted: RESCUE WORKS REPORTEDLY PULLED DOZENS FROM FLOODED HOMES IN FLORIDA AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN THE REGION ARE WITHOUT POWER.
>>> FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH DOZENS OF STATE AND FEDERAL FELONIES IN FOUR CASES AND HE'S THE FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT TO FACE CRIMINAL CHARGES AS TRUMP IS CAMPAIGNING TO RETURN TO THE WHITEHOUSE.
COULD HE SERVE AS PRESIDENT CONVICTED OFCONVICTED OF A FELONY AND THIS IS WHAT THE CONSTITUTION SAYS OR DOESN'T SAY AND THANKS FOR JOINING US.
WE ASK BECAUSE THE WORD "UNPRECEDENT" ISED "IS ALWAYS USED AND HAVE WE SEEN THIS?
>> IT'S UNPRECEDENTED.
THE CONSTITUTION GIVES NO PROHIBITION IF YOU'RE UNDER INDICTMENT SERVING AS PRESIDENT.
IN FACT, YOU CAN SERVE AS PRESIDENT IF YOU'RE CONVICTED, AT LEAST ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION.
>> Ted: FELONIES OR MISS MISS MISDEMEANORS?
>> THE CONSTITUTION GIVES YOU NO BAR EVEN IF YOU'RE A CONVICTED FOLLOW LEN.
>> Ted: YOU CAN SERVE AS PRESIDENT IF CONVICTED, STATE AND FEDERAL CHARGES?
>> CORRECT.
>> CAN YOU SERVE IF YOU'RE AT THE TIME BEHIND BARSS?
>> THE ANSWER IS THE CONSTITUTIONAL DOESN'T GIVE YOU ANY PROHIBITION.
I THINK THERE'S CERTAIN LOGISTICAL PROBLEM AND I WOULD THINK THE SECRET SERVICE WOULD HAVE A HARD TIME ORGANIZING WITH WHAT THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF PRISONS TO DO ALL OF THAT.
BUT MY GAS IF THAT GUESS THEY WOULD SUSPEND HIM TO ALLOW HIM TO DO HIS DUTIES.
THERE'S ONE EXCEPTION, ARTICLE 3 THAT SAYS IF YOU ARE COMMITTED AN INSURRECTION, YOU CAN NO LONGER SERVE IN ANY HIGH OFFICE AFTER YOU HAVE TAKEN AN OATH.
IF HE'S CONVICTED OF THE JANUARY 6th EVENTS AND THE ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL, THAT WOULD PRECLUDE HIM UNDER THE CONSTITUTION FROM SERVING.
>> Ted: THAT STANDS SEPARATE FROM THE OTHER CHARGES?
>> YES.
NOTHING ELSE IN ARTICLE 2, SECTION 1, FOR PRESIDENCY, WHICH PRE-CHILDS APRECLUDES FROM SERVING.
THAT'S IMPLIED.
>> Ted: LET'S SAY YOU HAVE WON THE PRESIDENCY AND YOU HAVE BEEN CONVICTED AND LET'S SAY YOU'VE BEEN SENTENCED TO A PRISON TERM.
YOU'VE WON THE PRESIDENCY BUT YOU'RE NOT THE PRESIDENT YET, CAN YOU PARDON YOURSELF?
>> Mr. TRUMP SAYS HE CAN ALL OF THE TIME AND I DON'T BELIEVE YOU CAN.
THE PARDONING POWER THAT IT CAN PARDON OTHERS AND DOESN'T SAY HE CAN PARDON HIMSELF AND IF HI HE DID, IT WOULD UNPRECEDENTED.
[ Laughter ] >> Ted: ANYTHING SEEMS TO BE POSSIBLE BUT IF HE'S INCARCERATED AND WINS THE ELECTION AND I GUESS SWORN INTO OFFICE BEHIND BARS, CAN THEY THEN PARDON HIMSELF?
>> YES, IF IT'S A FEDERAL CRIME.
HE CANNOT PARDON HIMSELF FOR ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN GEORGIA.
>> Ted: THAT'S WHY GEORGIA IS BIG, ISN'T IT?
>> YES.
HE CANNOT PARDON HIMSELF OR CONFEDERATES FOR ANYTHING THAT GOES ON IN GEORGIA.
>> Ted: IF HE WERE TO PARDON HIMSELF, WOULD HE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE SUPREME COURT OR JUDICIARY PRIOR?
>> NO THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT'S PURELY AN EXECUTIVE FUNCTION AND DO VIEW ANY OF THAT.
ALSO, THERE'S AN OFFICE OF PARDONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND THAT IS A CREATURE OF RULES AND HE COULD SIR SIR CIRCUMVENT THAT.
THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PROSECUTED AND HE JUST DID IT.
THE CONSTITUTION CONSTITUTION ALLOWS HIM TO DO IT.
>> Ted: CAN THEY VOTE IF HE'S CONVICTED?
>> HE WOULD BE PRECLUDED IN MANY STATES FROM VOTING, AND ARIZONA WOULD BE ONE AND FLORIDA WOULD BE ANOTHER AND HE WOULD BE PRECLUDED IN THOSE STATES FROM GETTING ON THE BALLOTS BECAUSE A BALLOT DOESN'T LET A CONVICTED FELON RUN IF THOSE STATES.
A CERTAIN PORTION MEAN HE CAN'T BE ON THE BALLOT IN WHICH CASE HE COULD NOT WIN THE ELECTORAL VOTES TO BECOME PRESIDENT.
>> Ted: WE DETERMINED THIS AS UNPRECEDENTED BUT THIS HAR HARKENS BACK TO WHAT?
>> NOTHING.
THE 14th AMENDMENT, SECTION 3, WAS WRITTEN AFTER THE CIVIL WAR AND IT WAS PUT IN AND SAID THE FORMER CONFEDERATES -- THEY DIDN'T USE THE CONFEDERATES AND SAID ANY INSURRECTION.
IT SAID THAT CONGRESS COULD BY A THREE-FORCED MAJORITY REMOVE THAT SUSPENSION WHICH THEY BASICALLY DID IN 1872 WITH THE AMNESTY ACT.
SO A LOT OF FORMER CONFEDERATES ACTED PACK BACK IN THE GOVERNMENT AND AMONG MANY PEOPLE INCLUDING AFRICAN-AMERICANS.
BUT THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED.
THERE WAS ONE TIME IT WAS ENFORCED IN 1919 AND A PERSON NAMED VICTOR BURGER WHO WAS A SOCIALIST AND GOT CONVICTED OF KIND OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT IN WORLD WAR I GIVING AID TO GERMANS AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WOULD NOT LET HIM BE SEATED.
IT WAS OVERTURNED AND THE SUBSEQUENT HOUSE PUT HIM IN.
>> Ted: IT'S INTERESTING AND HISTORICAL AND NOT THE PRESIDENCY.
>> NO.
WE'VE NEVER HAD A PRESIDENT WHO HAS BEEN IN THIS SITUATION.
>> Ted: WHAT DOES THE CONSTITUTION SAY ABOUT WHO CAN RUN, WHO CAN SERVE AS PRESIDENT?
>> THE CONSTITUTION SAYS YOU HAVE TO BE 35 YEARS OLD.
YOU HAVE TO BE A NATURAL-BORN U.S. CITIZEN.
YOU CAN'T BE NATURALIZED, ET CETERA.
UNLESS YOU WERE A CITIZEN AT THE TOMBTIME OF THE WRITING OF THE CONSTITUTION.
AND THAT IS ABOUT IT.
35 AND A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN AND THAT'S ABOUT I.
>> Ted: IF THAT IS ABOUT IT AND SOME OF THE ISSUES WE TALKED ABOUT COME UP WITH A DONALD TRUMP, SUPREME COURT HAS TO WIND UP IN THE SUPREME COURT IN ONE WAY, SHAPE OR TOMORROW, THEY HAVE BIG DECISIONS TO MAKE?
>> THEY WOULD.
IT'S CATEGORICALLY DIFFERENT IF HE'S CONVICTED OF INSURRECTION VERSUS IF HE'S NOT CONVICTED.
LET'S SAY HE'S CONVICTED OF JANUARY 6th, HE WOULD HAVE AN APPEAL PROCESS WHICH MEAN IT DOESN'T KICK IN AND CAN PUSH THIS WELL PASSED THE ELECTION.
THE ISSUE, I FULLY AGREE HE COMMITTED INSURRECTION AND THAT HE SHOULD BE PRECLUDED, BUT WHAT'S THE MECHANISM YOU USE?
YOU CAN'T HAVE EVERY CLERK IN EVERY COUNTY MAKING THAT DECISION.
MAYBE ALL OF THE CONSPIRACY THEORY ABOUT BARACK OBAMA NOT BEING A CITIZEN?
>> Ted: UH-HUH.
>> YOU NEED A MECHANISM, A CONVICTION, A JUDICIAL FINDING AND YOU COULD ARGUE THAT THE JANUARY 6th COMMISSION IS SUFFICIENT TO DO THAT, BUT THEN THAT ENDS UP WHERE YOU SAID, IN COURT.
>> Ted: YOU CAN ARGUE THAT, BUT SOMEBODY WOULD MAKE A DECISION.
>> AND DONALD TRUMP WOULD TAKE IT TO COURT.
>> Ted: THANKS FOR HELPING US FIGURE OUT ALL OF THESE UNPRECEDENTED SITUATIONS.
>>> UP NEXT, A PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IS TEACHING ITS STUDENTS THE LATEST ON DRONE TECHNOLOGY.
>> Ted: WESTERN MARICOPA EDUCATION CENTER HAS CREATED A ONE-YEAR DRONE TECHNOLOGY FOR STUDENTS.
THOSE ENROLLED LEARN ABOUT BUILDING AND PROGRAMMING AND FLYING DRONES.
FOR HOR ON MORE ON THIS, WE WELCOME YOU BOTH.
GENTLEMEN, GOOD TO HAVE YOU AND THANKS FOR JOINING US.
ROBERT, THIS DRONE TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM, TELL ME MORE ABOUT IT.
>> SOMETHING THAT WE THOUGHT OF AS A REPLACEMENT FOR AVIONIC'S PROGRAM.
WE WEREN'T GETTING THE RESPONSE THAT WE WANTED SO WE SAID LET'S TRY DRONES BECAUSE IT IS THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY AND HERE WE ARE.
>> Ted: ONE-YEAR PROGRAM IF.
>> ONE-YEAR PROGRAM.
STUDENTS SPEND TWO AND A HALF HOURS DURING THE DAY AND FROM AUGUST UNTIL MAY.
SO IT IS 450 HOURS OF INSTRUCTION.
THE INTENT IS HALF OF THE INSTRUCTION IS UPFRONT IF THE CLASSROOM, LECTURE, DISCUSSION AND THEN THE OTHER HALF IS HANDS ON.
>> Ted: HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED IN ALL OF THIS?
>> JUST BECAUSE INTERESTED.
I MEAN, MY DAD WAS A COMMERCIAL 101 PILOT107PY107 PILOT AND HAD AN INFLUENCE ON ME GROWING UP.
I LOVE DRONES AND WANTED TO TAKE IT FURTHER.
>> Ted: WAS AVIONICS WHAT YOU HAD?
>> CORRECT.
I'M IN THE AIR FORCE 23 YEARS.
>> Ted: BUT THAT SOUNDS LIKE IT WASN'T AS INTERESTING TO YOU, MAYBE, AS DRONES.
IS THAT WHAT WE'RE HEARING HEAR?
>> YES.
>> THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HEARING AND SEEING.
>> Ted: ARE YOU SEEING A LOT OF PARTICIPATION?
>> YES, WE HAVE A 7:00 A.M. CLASS THAT STRUGGLES BECAUSE IT'S 7:00 A.M. AND THE OTHER CLASS, THE 1:00 CLASS, WE HAVE 15 STUDENTS.
>> Ted: AIDEN, WHAT ARE THEY TEACHING YOU?
>> WE LEARN HOW TO FODDER, LEARN HOW TO BUILD THEM, TAKE THEM APART, PROGRAM THEM AND HOW TO FLY, NUMBER ONE.
>> Ted: AND PROGRAMMING IS A BIG DEAL.
YOU HAVE SENSORS AND ALL SORTS OF THINGS INVOLVED.
>> YEAH.
>> Ted: THERE'S NO FOOLING AROUND AND HAVE TO KNOW THE IN'S AND OUT'S.
>> AND THE SAFETY.
>> Ted: IS IT DIFFICULT?
>> I MEAN, I WANT TO SAY IT'S DIFFICULT.
I THINK IT'S A LEARNING PROCESS, YOU KNOW.
>> Ted: CHALLENGING, HOW IS THAT?
>> YES, CHALLENGING.
>> Ted: IF THEY'RE LEARNING TO SODDER, JUST GETTING DOWN TO BARE BONES HERE.
>> YES.
THEY'RE LEARNING APARTS AND COMPONENTS AND PROGRAMMING IS A BIG PART OF THAT.
THE PROBLEM OR BIG ISSUE WITH DRONES IS SHARING THE AIR SPACE WITH COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT.
THAT'S A BIG CONCERN FOR EVERYBODY.
WE DON'T WANT A DRONE TO BE SOMEWHERE IT'S NOT.
SO OUR CLASS IS FOCUSED ON SAFETY AND RESPONSIBLE FLYING.
>> Ted: YOU DID MENTION SAFETY OUT OF THE BLUE.
>> YES, SIR.
>> Ted: THAT'S A BIG DEAL.
WHAT ARE THEY TELLING YOU ABOUT SAFETY?
>> THE DRONE HAS TO BE WITHIN 400 FEET, WITHIN A THREE-MILE RADIUS.
>> OR LINE OF SIGHT.
>> OR LINE OF SIGHT AND DON'T FLY NEXT TO AIRPORTS, OBVIOUSLY, AND I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE.
>> Ted: DID YOU WANT TO JUMP >> THIS IS A BRAND NEW PROGRAM IN THEIR FOURTH WEEK.
>> Ted: PRETTY GOOD FOR FOUR WEEKS.
>> THERE'S A LOT OF MATERIAL TO COVER AND I HAVE A LOT OF INFORMATION HE'S NOT FAMILIAR WITH.
>> Ted: THIS DRONE TECHNOLOGY, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH THIS AS YOU GET OLDER?
>> SO I WANT TO WORK FOR DRONE-UP, WHICH IS A COMPANY DOING DELIVERIES FOR WALMART RIGHT NOW.
OR MY UNCLE WORKS FOR A COMPANY CALLED EX ELEVATE AND I CAN DO MY OWN PATH, WHICH IS PHOTOGRAPHY.
>> WE KNOW WE'RE USING DRONES FOR AGRICULTURE AND DELIVERY AND WE'RE JUST WAITING FOR THE FAA TO COME UP WITH A RESPONSIBLE WAY OF DOING THAT.
>> Ted: WITH THAT IN MIND, AND I KNOW PHOTOGRAPHY IS INVOLVED HERE AND SPORTS COULD BE INVOLVED, AS WELL.
>> SURE.
>> Ted: BUT WITH THAT IN MIND, SPEAKING OF SPORTS, IT SOUNDS LIKE A MOVING OF THE GOALPOST.
DRONE TECHNOLOGY IS ADVANCING SO QUICKLY AND WHAT KIND OF CHALLENGE IS IT TO TEACH THESE KIDS WHEN, YOU KNOW, TWO WEEKS LATER HERE COMES THE NEXT BIG THING?
>> IT'S EXTREMELY CHALLENGING AND HEARD TO KEEP UP AND I JUST KEEP MY NOSE TO THE MEDIA AND THE INTERNET.
THE RULES ARE CHANGING AS WE SPEAK.
AND THAT'S HARD TO TEACH.
SO IN MY CLASS, WE STICK TO THE BASICS.
>> Ted: YOU'RE FOUR WEEKS IN AND GETTING THE BASICS AND ARE YOU HAPPY?
>> YEAH, IT'S AMAZING!
WHAT DID I EXPECT?
>> Ted: YEAH.
>> WHAT I'M DOING RIGHT NOW.
I DIDN'T EXPECT TO BE ON A NEWS STATION.
>> Ted: BUT THIS IS PRETTY MUCH WHAT YOU EXPECTED, HUH?
>> YEAH, YEAH.
>> Ted: ONE-YEAR PROGRAM AND YOU ARE LOOKING TO EXPAND AS YOU GO ON?
>> IIDEALLY, I HAVE 20 STUDENTS PER CLASS AND PREPARING THEM FOR THEIR 107 LICENSE AND AN INDUSTRY CERTIFICATION THAT THEY'RE REQUIRED TO HAVE IF THEY WANT TO FLY FLY A DRONE COMMERCIALLY.
WE OFFER THE TEST ON OUR CAMPUS FREE OF CHARGE AND THAT'S ONE OF THE BIG ONES.
I HAVE ANY SUCCESS RATE WITH MY FIRST RATE 17 OUT OF 18 STUDENTS GOT THEIR LICENSE.
>> Ted: EXCELLENT.
>> I THINK I'LL KEEP MY JOB.
>> Ted: YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB!
GOOD TO HAVE YOU BOTH HERE AND GOOD LUCK TO YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU AND KEEP IT UP, GUYS.
>> THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
>> Ted: THE FOUNDER OF CLOUD COVERED STREETS WORKING TO PROVIDE ESSENTIAL SERVICES AT THE HOMELESS BY A WAY OF LAUNDRY TRAILER.
THE ORGANIZATION WILL SOON HAVE UP TO THREE OF THOSE TRAILERS AND WE WELCOME BACK THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF "CLOUD COVERED STREETS."
>> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.
>> Ted: FOR THOSE THAT DIDN'T SEE YOU LAST YEAR, WE'RE STILL LEARNING ABOUT IT AND WHAT IS THIS IN.
>> A NONPROFIT AND BUILT MOBILE LAUNDRY SHOWER TRAILERS ACROSS THE VALLEYER MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY, PROVIDING SHOWERS, HAIRCUTS, EMPLOYMENT AND FOOD, CLOTHING AND A LOT OF OTHER THINGS TO THOSE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IN THE VALLEY.
IT'S A 24-FOOT CARGO TRAILER AND WE DID THE WORK AND TWO FULL-SIZED ROOMS WITH SHOWERS IN THE FRONT AND THE MIDDLE ROOM IS WHERE WE HAVE TWO STACKABLE WASHER AND DRIER UNITS AND THE BACK IS A RAMP WITH ADA ACCESSIBLE CHAIR.
>> Ted: CLOTHING AND SUPPLIES AND PEOPLE CAN GET HELP ON RESUMES?
>> EVERY SINGLE PERSON GETS SHOWERS, SHIRTS, UNDERWEAR AND A HYGIENE BAG WITH GOODIES TO STAY CLEAN.
>> Ted: HOW MANY TRAILERS ARE UP NOW?
>> THE ONE IN PHOENIX IS THE ORIGINAL AND IN JANUARY OF 2022, IN TEXAS AND WE'RE BUILDING OUR THIRD AND WE HAVEN'T TOLD ANYBODY, BUT I THINK IT'S GOING TO END UP IN TUCSON.
>> Ted: I THINK YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT TUCSON LAST TIME.
HOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE TO GO?
>> BASICALLY CITIES REACH OUT TO US AND A COUPLE OF TIKTOK VIDEOS AND A TON OF PEOPLE HAVE REACHED OUT AND PLANS TO CONTINUE GROWING AND GET WHERE THERE'S A NEED.
>> Ted: AGAIN, THE CITY SUGGESTS THIS AREA NEEDS HELP OR DO YOU FIND OUT FROM OTHER FOLKS?
>> IT'S US.
WE GO OUT ON STREET MISSIONS AND MEET PEOPLE AND ASK THEM, WHERE ARE GOOD SPOTS TO BRING THIS AND SEE AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE.
>> Ted: I WOULD IMAGINE A REWARDING ASPECT IS THAT THOSE WHO ARE EXPERIENCING HOMELESS IS TO FEEL GOOD.
>> OUR GOAL IS TO MAKE THEM FEEL CARED ABOUT.
WITHOUT HOPE, THEY STAND NO CHANCE OF BUILDING A BETTER LIFE FOR THEMSELVES.
>> Ted: ARE YOU GETTING THAT RESPONSE IN.
>> WE?
>> WE BUILD GENUINE FRIENDSHIPS WIT PEOPLE THAT USE OR SERVICES AND OR VOLUNTEERS HUGGING THEM AND HAVING THESE GREAT CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM AND JUST MAKING THEM FEEL CARED ABOUT.
>> Ted: HOW DID GET STARTED IN ALL OF THIS?
>> JUST DRIVING AROUND TOWN AND SEEING SO MANY PEOPLE THAT NEEDED SOME HELP, YOU KNOW.
IT WAS TRYING TO FIND THE MONEY AND WE'VE BEEN LUCKY WHERE MERCY CARE GAVE US A GRANT THROUGH THE MERCY CARE'S COMMUNITY REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM AND GOT US ON OUR FEET.
WE'RE TRYING TO DO FUNDRAISING TO KEEP OUR TRAILER ON THE TREATS AND JUST MAKING A DIFFERENCE.
>> Ted: BUT LAST TIME WE TALKED, YOU MENTIONED A GUY NAMED DANIEL HELPED YOU TO GET IN STARTED.
>> YES.
DANIEL IS THE FIRST GUY WHO WHEN I GAVE HIM A TEST T-SHIRT, HE DIDN'T HAVE A T-SHIRT AND SOMEBODY STOLE HIS CLOTHING AND IT BLEW MY MINE, MIND, THAT PEOPLE THAT GO YEARS WITHOUT A HAIRCUT AND WE HAD A GUY BAWLING BECAUSE HE WAS ABLE TO GET A HAIRCUT.
>> Ted: THIS WAS BASICALLY AN AH-HA MOMENT FOR YOU.
>> I NEVER IMAGINED I WOULD BE DOING THIS AND NOW THAT I'M DOING IT, I LOVE IT AND WORK 12 TO 6 HOURS1216 HOURS A DAY12TO 16 HOURS A DAY.
>> Ted: ARE YOU PLANNING TO BRING PEOPLE ON BOARD?
>> IF WE COULD GET THE FUNDING, I WOULD LOVE TO BUT EVERY DIME GOES TO KEEP THE TRAILER OUT THERE.
WE'VE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH THE CITY AND HOPENY WE'LL BE HOPEFULLY, WE GET THEM ON BOARD AND I WOULD LOVE TO GROW OUR TEAM.
>> Ted: YOU HAVE VOLUNTEERS WORKING FOR YOU NOW?
>> OUR VOLUNTEERS ARE AMAZING.
WE ARE LAURIE, BRANDY, MADDIE AND MICHELLE AND THEY HAVE BOUGHT INTO IT AND LOVE BEING OUT THERE WITH US.
>> Ted: YOU WANT TO EXPAND AND YOU HAVE FORT WORTH AND THINKING MAYBE TUCSON.
ARE THERE CHALLENGES IN EXPANDING?
>> FUNDING IS BY FAR THE BIGGEST.
TO KEEP OUR OUR TRAILER ON THE STREETS, IT'S $350,000 A YEAR.
IF WE CAN GET THE MONEY, WE HAVE THE BLUEPRINT AND KNOW HOW TO DO IT.
AS LONG WE GET FUNDING, I WOULD LOVE TRAILERS IN EVERY CITY.
>> Ted: THE MORE CITIES YOU'RE IN, I WOULD IMAGINE THE FASTER THINGS MOVE.
>> KNOCK ON WOOD AND THAT'S THE GOAL TO KEEP ON GROWING.
UNFORTUNATELY, MOST OF US KNOW THAT HOMELESSNESS IS AN ISSUE IN ACROSS CROSS THE COUNTRY.
>> Ted: THIS SUMMER WITH ALL OF THE HEAT, DID YOU FIND AN UPTICK OF FOLKS?
>> EACH YEAR, WE LOSE ABOUT FIVE TO TEN DUE TO HEAT EXHAUSTION.
>> Ted: WHERE DO PEOPLE GO?
THEY LIKE THIS IDEA AND GET INVOLVED.
>> CLOUD COVERED STREETS, EMAIL ME, GMAIL ME.
I TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING AND LET'S HELP SOME PEOPLE IN NEED.
>> Ted: CLOUD COVERED STREETS IS THE GMALIL?
>> YES.
TED THAT'S >> Ted: THAT'S IT FOR NOW.
I'M TED SIMONS AND YOU HAVE A GREAT EVENING!

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