Since awe that are john stein back published his book. The valley today is mostly peace full n. The time at stein back it was not always so. At the time there was battles between the haves and the have nots. Diana ross prepares this looking back in the year 2000s. In the 1930s with the nations of the deep depression, californias farmers demanding better working. Agriculture was making some people rich. Green gold and lettuce have pushed the city to the top of the nation of per capitas income. The exporters were getting more money and the need of the workers were neglected. Men who lived alone. In california it was a crime for philippine men to mary women of different races. And then we went to the fields because no one would take this work. Philippine lettuce cutters organizing one of californias first armed labor union. They formed an alliance with the shed workers. The strike was effective for a few weeks until the white packers settled with management. The filipinos soon went back t
Peshmerga in northern iraq. Phil black is in erbil. Phil, whats the latest there . Reporter everything we have seen and been told by front line fighters on the ground suggest that there has been a significant uptick in air strikes on isis positions in and around that isiscontrolled city. We were at a distance of some ten miles from the southern gates of mosul. We heard, saw multiple detonations. The sound of fastmoving aircraft overhead was pretty constant. This as kurdish fighters are digging in on the ground and holding defensive lines, a small distance away from that city. Thats what they call phase 1 of this operation, to contain isis within that city. Phase 2 will be hard. It will be dislodging isis from that city. The kurdish fighters say theyll be ready to take part. The time frame is not yet clear. Some u. S. Officials suggest it could be as soon as april. Kurdish officials think it will be longer than that, but ultimately it comes down to when the iraqi army controlled by the
Constitutional law scholar loren stride has more to say on impeachment. Should trump be impeached . You might be surprised by trides answer. Picking winners and losers in the Silicon Valley is no easy task. Getting in on the ground floor of google and amazon, among many other amazing successes. What is his secret . But first heres my take. Teachers are striking in states all across america, and since last week was Teacher Appreciation week, i intended to write on the subject. That is a mehtaphor for what is happening with teachers today. We live in a media environment in which the urgent crowds out the important. But this weekend, im going to stick to my plan and talk about teachers. In eastern east of eden, John Stein Beck writes, in the country, the teacher was not only an intellectual para gotten and a social leader but also the matrimonial catch of the country side. A family could indeed walk proudly if a son married the teacher. The average pay for a teacher in america adjusted fo
trying to fix it, putting as many boulders, ballasts, debris and riffraff between alate now and tonight you have this shimmering river that is a neighborhood street, tons of homes filled with migrant families. you know, we are in a part of california that s next to pebble beach, john stein beck country close to silicon valley. but there are fields over here where people work the land, unchanged social dynamics since 1989. if we come over here to my left you can see things still drawing out. this would have been knee-deep high-water yesterday, but again the stakes so high of trying to fix this levee before even more water is expected tonight. incredible images there. thank you so much for your reporting on this. the chair of the monterey county
kim, back to you. and before we go to break, we want to leave you with the word, sounds and images from this week s storms across california. have a look. we ve been watching the storms since december 26th, that s a long time. that s over two weeks. and we re concerned about because it s a slow moving 18 unlike wildfires when rivers are cresting we re watching the crest, right now, we re watching it in the area, we re talking about the slay news river, like john stein beck it can be dangerous, we only have three ways to get in, all areas can be overcome by flooding depending on mother nature and the amount of rain, when it comes to water, for whatever reason maybe because we don t get enough in the state of california they see the river think it s pretty and