Napa County Airport on green island road. Firefighters say the property had about 200 vehicles and was engulfed in flames, producing a large plume of black smoke seen across much of the bay area. Gusty winds helped spread the fire across a total of 20 acres destroying cars, boats, and the Property Owners home. A woman who lives next door said the fire moved at frightening speed. Speed. Ive been sick with the flu, so i was laying down, and then my neighbor texted me and said theres a fire. I got up and ran outside, and sure enough it was huge and i could see it traveling really fast and i panicked and got my keys and dogs and got in the car and left. Firefighters say smoky conditions will lesson around midnight, and that air Quality Control officials have been contacted to see what monitoring may be needed. The cause of the fire is being investigated. And breaking news right now. Another fire has broken out just a short distance from the fire we just mentioned. Authorities say this fire
How many kits they collected and how many are untested, and for those kits that are untested, tells a simple answer, why. Reporter under the law victims would get an id number to track their own kits and the bill has widespread support with both republican and democrat sponsors, only one single on the record opponent. The california Sheriffs Association. It is a fiscal concern, work load concern, in the contecht of many other context of many other mandates in terms of reporting data. Reporter we caught up with rory who represents the Sheriffs Association. How much will this cost . It is not a matter that we identified a particular cost to any particular county, it is an on going mandate that is in the it grows on top of other mandatewise the legislature imposed on Law Enforcement. Reporter according to him, the Sheriffs Association has no idea how many rape kits are untested and no idea what ab41 would actually cost, but whatever it is, they are sure it is too much. When you say this i
These are things that are not kind of accidentally detrimental to the political participation and people of color. We still have the struggles ahead of us. But it also is just simply the reality. Is it then that do we need to change attitudes first and the structural change, or do we have to go directly to changing structures and have attitudes change afterwards . I guess thats a question for all of you. I would go as is structures and change the structure. I mean, i think that the polling these things are always a little hard to read because people do say what they think that you want them to year, particularly when it comes to race the many polling on race matters. But i would say, you know, culturally we are very. The new american majority, you know, the tolerance and the attitudes of the millenniums to miami, we are so far behind. We have a saying in our office. Dont recruit people you will have to lobby later. It is moving, and we need to structure catch up. One of the things that
[inaudible conversations] hello everyone. Thanks for joining us today by an executive Vice President of external affairs here at the center for American Progress and im thrilled youre here with us today. Whitman of all races make up 18point 5 of the United States congress. Women of color makeup and abysmal 4. 5 of congress. These numbers exist in direct contradiction to the fact that women make up half of the population and are more likely to vote than the male counterparts. We will hear about the reflected Democracy Campaigns new research which shows the persistent upward under representation of women and women of color throughout the country at all levels of government. Over the summer the Reflective Democracy Campaign finished to the unprecedented new database of 42,000 elected officials throughout the country this survey showed the great disparity engender race and ethnicity between our elected lawmakers in those whom they represent i would think donna hall with the Reflective Demo
Trotter, an illinois lawmaker since 1998 charged with a class for4 felony. Ironically he has also been a vocal advocate of gun control laws. Does it concern you . Yes. It will make a lot of people think twice about him. Today at 7 00 a. M. He tried to board a d. C. Bound flights from ohare with a handgun in his back, the bullets were in a separate pocket, or is it may be linked to work that he does at his south side Security Company he said he was working late the night before into simply forgot that the gun into six bullets were there. He does have a valid owner id on his card and a permit to work as a security guard. A man Just Announced his bid to replace Jesse Jackson jr. In the second congressional district. Some voters say its the kind of situation that no matter what would make the questions to politicians judgment others say, stuff happens especially in the always interesting realm of illinois politics. He moves in the morning from the police lock up on milwaukee avenue to 26th