Fish and wildlife Officials Say they damaged a half mile of creek. Its not a human safety hazard, or a threat to wildlife but cant help. It happened on wednesday after a subcontractor poured 106 cubic yards of cement into a creek. It allowed the gooey material to fall into a creek. Almost like styrofoam. In oakland, abc7 news. There is a traffic mess after a ups big rig crashed in marin county just after 5 30. One trailer caught fire. It happened at main street off ramp and this is what it looks like right now. Behind me the bridge is still a mess, at least its moving a little bit now. It will go down as a get away den which anyone went nowhere and this after 5 00 this morning a big rig hit the center divider. That ignited a trailer inside there are 800 packages the clean up lasted until noon. Then patching and fuel made its way onto the pavement. That took work into the rush hour, now traffic is moving on the shoulder. And its worth noting that the driver is 37 years old. He tested ne
Nine people are dead after a house fire in western kentucky, most of the victims were children. It happened that was about 130 miles southwest of louisville, police say 11 people were inside when the flames broke out around 2 00 a. M. Al jazeera Jonathan Martin is live at the scene, and jonathan, have we learned anything else about the victims . Wilt, dell, those nine presumed dead they range in age from four to 15, right now on the scene, investigators say they have located the bodies of six of them, and searching for the three others, again, all nine presumed dead. As you mentioned 11 people were inside when this started. The father and his 11yearold daughter they were the only two able to escape the fire and get out. At there point they are now at vanderbilt hospital, they were airlifted there, this fire started around 2 00 this morning and it was a neighbor we have learned who called 911 after hearing the commotion. It didnt take First Responders very long to get here. They were ab
Yourself as a traditional wife a traditional mother. What does that mean . Well, actually i said that i have always had traditional jobs. Ive had jobs that were traditionally womens jobs. I was a School Teacher and school librarian. I was a public librarian for one year in houston. I think in a lot of ways, ive been lucky. Ive been very fortunate to have the opportunity to stay home with my children after i have had children after i had twins. I stayed home taking care of them and had a really great time being the wife of the governor of texas first lady of our state. Ive had the opportunity to work on issues that ive been interested in my whole life that had to do with education and reading and libraries. And ive loved that. I think ive actually had the opportunity to make a little bit of an impact. And i think thats been great. But i also think our country has benefited from the first ladies. Always we have two very revered first ladies in our state my motherinlaw barbara bush and La
Yourself as a traditional wife a traditional mother. What does that mean . Well, actually i said that i have always had traditional jobs. Ive had jobs that were traditionally womens jobs. I was a School Teacher and school librarian. I was a public librarian for one year in houston. I think in a lot of ways, ive been lucky. Ive been very fortunate to have the opportunity to stay home with my children after i have had children after i had twins. I stayed home taking care of them and had a really great time being the wife of the governor of texas first lady of our state. Ive had the opportunity to work on issues that ive been interested in my whole life that had to do with education and reading and libraries. And ive loved that. I think ive actually had the opportunity to make a little bit of an impact. And i think thats been great. But i also think our country has benefited from the first ladies. Always we have two very revered first ladies in our state my motherinlaw barbara bush and La
First Lady Laura Bush along with then library of librarian of congress and the current librarian of congress has continued. Carla it is so delightful to see people line up outside waiting to hear authors and get their books signed and all of these things. There is just so much excitement. After two years of being virtual, that was good for when we all had to hunker down, but being in person is just delightful. What is your role today . Carla my role is head cheerleader, and also to open up the main stage to actually get a chance to moderate a panel of young adult authors. This year we are having a stage for the young and young at heart, teenagers, specifically. The interesting part is we had a Youth Advisory Committee which could all happen during a pandemic, and they zoomed in through the country and gave us advice about authors they would like to hear from. They recommended the books and so i am just being led on to the stage but young people will be interviewing some of their favori