[no audio] hello. Volunteered and they took him. They put him on an aircraft carrier. He flew small fighter planes during world war ii, got two distinguished flying crosses from the navy. And then he came back, so now weve got a young guy, probably by this time he would be 23 or 24 years old, and the interesting thing is, he got back to the midwest and he actually went from one job to another for a short periodof time, not such a short period of time, finally became a used car salesman. Had a cadillac dealership in st. Louis missouri. And at age 35, having moved up in the organization of sales, he said to his boss can i go in the car leasing business with you . Well, itll cut your salaryin half. 25,000 what you borrowed. We can become partners so my friend jack started at age 35 at the car leasing business and he has seven cars. It was pretty slow. One of the things he did was whenever the phone rang, even if it rang three or four times people would think that he was very busy answerin
7 as they came in, mike was talking and he talked about immigrants. I echo his remarks. I would like to tell you. Women, each sold business to me for many millions of dollars. Both of them started with 2500. It was the exact same amount of money, it was everything in the world. One of them was a woman, who landed in seattle in 1917, couldnt speak a word of english , had a tag around her neck. Iowa. G said the red cross got hurt to 40 dodge where she was reunited with her husband, and she lived for two years. She felt like a dummy, she said. She couldnt pick up the language. She decided to move to omaha with her husband. They came to omaha in 1919. Found a small colony of russian jews. She started to feel more at home. As her oldest daughter went to school, she would come home, this daughter, frances. She would teach her mother the words she had learned in school that day. Rose, spent 20 years saving money, bringing her siblings over, her mother and time. , 50 at a she sold used clothin
Members showed us how bad it was. People are living here, starting fires. Reporter last year it burned twice. Gyos says the city got a 1. 5 million Insurance Payment after the fires. Instead of fixing the building, they plan to sell it to a church below market value and use the insurance money to make up the difference. Now that sale may not happen. But he still has hope someone will buy the land. In oakland christin ayers, kpix 5. After shaking in the east bay, 30 earthquakes in contra costa in less than 24 hours. All of them centered around danville. The biggest one a magnitude 3. 5 at 12 30 this afternoon just east of 680. Scientists at the usgs say the quakes are centered on the fault. They say this does not indicate a bigger one is on the way, but kpix 5 tells us the jolts may keep on coming. Reporter so Scientists Say an earthquake swarm could last for a few days as long as a month, but right now were on day seven. As people here in danville can attest, it is not slowing down, at
Something like now at 11 00, this abandoned bay area building goes up in flames. Tonight neighbors tell us Something Like this was bound to happen. Good evening, im veronica de la cruz. And im elizabeth cook. The blighted library burned down this afternoon on miller avenue in east oakland. Kpix 5 chris nair says it has been used by squatters. Reporter investigators say the building is a complete loss tonight after the third fire in less than a year. Neighbors say the city of oakland should have closed it up years ago. The top floor of the building that was once east oaklands library looked nothing more than a fire ball. The whole top floor is gone. When we arrived on scene, the whole building was engulfed in flames. The Structural Engineer red tagged the cityowned building, which had been abandoned for decade. Some neighbors say the fire began with a brawl between squatters. Someone set the fire intentionally. But a woman who did not want to show us her face said the place was a drug d
Conference. Thank you. I appreciate that. W when you get to be 87 people stand around up and applause because tlaheyre not sure if youll be around at the end. It was eight years ago. I just turned 80. I never really talked to any graduation groups of any sort. It was not on my bucket list. Then i got invited to go to la guardia to the la Guardia Community college. I met a threwly Remarkable Group. Whatever it might be, these people have one thing in common. They knew they had it in hemss. They knew they could be something beyond where they were. They were willing to put their time, energies to better themselves. Behind them as i saw when i got to graduation they had parents who were crying. They had spouses, siblings. I went to new orleans, detroit, chicago, cleveland, baltimore. I met the most Remarkable Group of people. Those people would be here eight years later of having proven yourself, what you could do with more skills, its just remarkable. I would like to tell you a couple of