Effective Youth Mentoring Organization in the United States is Big Brothers Big Sisters, the bay area chapter was founded in 1958 and covers alameda, couldnt San Francisco mateo counties. Joining me is the organizations ceo kathy bella and chair of the board of directors tom kaiser. Kathy, i want to start with you. Thank you. Why is mentoring so important . Well, i think meantoring is important for both the mentes and our meantors. For us, we serve children who are really going through some very tough straits. Most of our kids come from lowincome families. About 90 of them come from single parent or guardian households. And a significant portion of them have an incarcerated parent. So theyre living through very challenging times. Theyre living in tough neighborhoods often. And there are lots of just daily challenges in terms of navigating all of the intricacies of live. How many children do you serve . We serve 1,000 kids through the five county area. For our kids meant rg really makes
Oakland before a rally. Clintons motorcade gets stuck in the evening commute. Abc7 News Reporter Laura Anthony spent the day in oakland following the events. We begin with Wayne Freedman where protest are tonight. Reporter its safe to say if a fundraiser is not running on schedule, its still running on time. Let me show you the protestors protesting this event. People are paying from 45,000 to 5,000 to hear Hillary Clinton with senator feinstein and barbara boxer, here are shots of people. Lets show you videotape. Security here was tight, but not suffocating. There are more women than men and a certain fervor. We asked one hillary supporter why this years election is more important. More important because trump is the republican nominee, or at least the presumptive. We cant let him be in the white house. Would you say that about any other republican . A quiet protest. Nothing like what we saw in los angeles last might. I asked Erin Brightwell why she came. Representation, she said. Or
Live from the kgotv broadcast center, this is abc seven news. Good morning, i am kristen sze. The Sonoma County sheriff is investigating a mans body found in the truck of a car parked on Petaluma Hill road. Am mishollyfield is live in santa rosa. A new twist, amy . Yes, a new twist. The man was found in the trunk of his own car. Right now investigators are processing that car. Here is a look at the car. Detectives believe someone left it on Petaluma Hill road on saturday. The deputies found it last night. They found the body of a 31yearold man inside the trunk of the car. They discovered blood in the drivers seat. They believe the blood is of his girlfriend from an incident that happened friday night. Domestic violence incident that occurred in santa rosa on friday night involving our deceased and his girlfriend. We dont know at this time if that incident is related to what occurred here or if there was some or factors involveed. He was the suspect in the domestic violence. Investigato
Breaking news from the north bay where authorities confirm the body pulled from the creek last night was 23yearold from novato who was missing since december 14 when police say he dove into the truck after being stopped on suspicion of d. W. I. A search turned up nothing until the body was pulled last night around 8 00. Breaking news from oakland where crews are mopping up after a house fire. It started at 9 00 this morning. We were overhead as flames burned through the roof. Thick smoke could be seen for quite a distance. It took an hour to knock the fire down. Investigators are looking into a suspicious fire that destroyed an abandoned pier this morning with crews responding in crockett near jackson avenue near the c h sugar plant at 3 45 the firefighters let the fire bun itself out. A crew fought from the water. Here is the pier before it burned. It is suspicious because there is no electrical wiring on the pier. Santa clara sheriff is investigating a fatal accident in cupertino whe
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