Veterans began . This actually started which stems from a documentary i did on the mississippi delta chinese. And i needed to find the right hook to tell the story of the Chinese Americans in the mississippi delta. Chinese American History is not sexy, so it took me almost 20 years to find the right way to tell this story, compelling enough to bring it a full audience. And i had the good fortune of meeting doctor Gwendolyn Gong who did a tremendous amount of research on the veterans, Service Personnel from mississippi delta. And from there, we discussed and talked about how to create a three part series that aired on pbs on the chinese and mississippi delta, and that got me interested in the world war ii veterans. So, honor and duty is really a compendium that all 22,000 plus Chinese Americans that served in world war ii, is that correct . Thats correct. This research was conducted over three years time. Actually, just a bit more than three years. We have been able to identify 22,827 w
Urutro tamera in San Francisco which is about 66 miles away. And this is a time lapse of the fire as the wind just whips up the flames. You can see a large burning section to the area to the left and suddenly a new section of flames you see suddenly right there burst out to the right. The big worry is how high winds overnight will affect this fire. This will be hopefully one of the fire tests of these fire perimeters. Were entering the critical period of extreme fire danger as we come on the air tonight. Along with the threat of fire thousands of people remain evacuated and 435,000 people are without power. Its 50 contained, 189 structures have been destroyed. With the northeast winds that we still are currently feeling up there on the mountain everybodys still anticipating those high rates of spread, the erratic fire behavior. Were also seeing that push some of those fire embers back into the main burn. So its very advantageous for us in some areas but very destructive in others. Full
Poor air quality for the north bay, moderate for most of the bay area except for santa clara county. Those temperatures are falling in some spots like santa rosa, Half Moon Bay in the low 40s a look at the kinkade fire right now. Right now. But look at San Francisco, 52 this is live picture of the fire degrees with that northeast from our sutro tower camera in wind. Emeriville camera showing you a San Francisco which is about 66 stunning view looking back towards San Francisco. Miles away. And this is a time lapse of lighter winds for halloween, and we are looking at cold the fire as the wind just whips conditions the next few mornings. Up the flames. First thing tomorrow morning, you can see a large burning windy in the hills for the early section to the area to the left part. Most areas are going to be in and suddenly a new section of flames you see suddenly right the 30s and 40s, so definitely chilly enough to require a there burst out to the right. Jacket. But 54 in San Francisco.
A neighbor. Dies with iran go along way back from saudi arabia. Has been one of our closest friends saudi arabias whole process when we have needed well when we have been in need and so the reason for the strip that we do not want a conflict between saudi arabia and iran we recognize that its a complex issue we recognize that but we feel. That this can be resolved through dialogue. President rouhani was speaking alongside him on khan and he said that iran while comes talks with regional countries but this is a country thought that they could sew instability in the region without a response they were terribly mistaken. We discussed recent developments related to the middle east region particularly to the persian gulf and the sea of oman as we believe they are very critical regions for the gulf and the whole region we also him to side on the strengthening of stability and more peace in the region. Tensions have been high in the region since the attack on the Saudi Aramco Oil facilities o
Enclosures in the best way forward and handling payment disputes. This is two hours and 20 minutes [inaudible conversations] the committee on Health Education labor and will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she has asked me to proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you. We want the senators to have a chance to ask questions of each of these so patty should arrive around 10 lock. When she comes we will enter and let her make her Opening Statement and then we will resume the hearing. Good morning senator murphy. Nearly a year ago after brent james from the National Academy testified before the Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up 21 2 of what the American People spend on Health Care May be unnecessary. Let me repeat that. Up to half of the 3. 5 trillion the United States collectively spent on health care in 2017 was unnecessary according to dr. James and many