Especially communities of color, with high latino populations. Folks didnt want to be counted. Took large invests in folks not concerned what the census could do for them, movement building, doortodoor contact, education to get people to fill that out so it could do two things. One it could build a case Voting Rights happening in different parts of the state, specifically in Yakima Valley and everett, north of seattle. It also brought more people facetoface with folks already invested in the political outcomes of their communities. They could meet people who could intro for them, that meant better sidewalks and street lights, right . Bringing macro down to the micro so people could see this affects everyday life. This affects my commute, my Childrens School and wages and census is first part of that as politicos, we look at census thing that doesnt impact us as much but is very important. We need to get out of the mind set to make sure our communities are counted. Second thing many of
Families trust and confidence. So now weve seen maybe not a change but certainly a significant orientation and how we are doing. This is all part of a change in policy over the last few years since 9 11. We had first and intensification of policy and the militarization to move to the acceptance of the complicated conflict. It had too much effect on the hostage policy accept the stuff i just talked about and thats been on a tactical level. However, many of the practitioners is taken on the transnational character as another talked about. Exacerbating the transnational Political Development in the insurgent activities with other types of transnational time for weapons of mass distraction and on and on. Criminal organizations as well as terrorist groups have gone global preventing a new challenge to government. Some of whom are overmatched and outgunned. The result is a global transnational exodus of political and criminal threats. The evolution of insurgency movements and terrorist tacti
The east bay but we begin with drew tuma. Its been raining for the better part of our day today and it continues right now. Live doppler 7 active this afternoon. Lets get you right down to street level, got a lot to talk about. Some light rain still falling around San Francisco, over the bay bridge, emeryville and berkeley. To the south weve seen pockets of dry weather but its beginning to fill in once again. Andersony veil, san mateo, fremont, some light showers. A couple of isolated downpours just to the east of san ramon. The roadways are damp and a couple of downpours around penn grove and santa rosa. But just in the past five minutes a flood advisory has been issued for the entire bay area until 8 15 this evening. What this means, the big concern is that smaller streams and creeks could overflow their banks, so be careful of ponding, especially on our roadways. This is still a moderate storm this evening, still scattered downpours, some strong winds and the possibility of Power Ou
Thank you, drew. We have Live Team Coverage across the bay area. Well get a look at the impact where you live in a few minutes. First to breaking news in san jose where four people have been burned in a condo fire. The fire broke out this afternoon in florence avenue. One firefighter is among those injured. David louie is live on the scene with the latest information, david . Reporter ama, we can tell you that firefighter received only minor injuries and is back on duty. The two occupants of the town hall are not as lucky. They are in the hospital after a fire broke out in their twostory townhouse shortly after 4 00 this afternoon. We have dramatic cell phone video from a neighbor that shows the flaming shooting out of the windows on the second floor as well as coming out of the ground floor quarters of this home. The residents were both up stairs and down stairs at the time and fire damage is still under investigation as to whether or not it happened broke out on the bottom floor or t
Today is day one of expected to be five Straight Days of wet weather. Lets get right to the Weather Center and abc 7 news meteorologist drew tuma, drew. Lets get you down to live doppler seven at this hour. I want to zone in, see all that yellow and orange over the pacific. This is about to move in. So i want to time out this heavy rain that yellow cell you see moving to the north and to the east, so about 6 04 moving into daly city, 6 23 around emeryville and 6 30 richmond and after 6 30, around 6 38 expect this downpour to move into your neighborhood. With the heavy rain were tracking a flood advisory in effect for the entire region. The big threat is that ponding on roadways this evening thanks to heavy rain moving on shore. Could lead to more hydroplaning. Be careful out there this evening. A moderate storm were tracking brief downpours, also the gusty winds that could lead to possible Power Outages. This is one of three storms were tracking on the horizon. Well take a much closer