And he will perform live in our studio all on our show today. Well, swimming offers a lot of unique challenges, and some swimmers take it even further such as being part of the Youngest Team ever to swim across the bonifacio channel, a 15kilometer stretch of the mediterranean from france to italy. Oh, did i mention the rough waters and jellyfish . Here are the swimming sisters. Mitali khanzode was not only part of that Bay Area Team, but shes also the youngest person to swim the strait of messina in italy at 15 years old, and her sister, anaya khanzode, started young as well, swimming competitively at 6 years old. She was the youngest member of that Bay Area Team and was also the youngest person to ever make the alcatraz crossing. She did that at 8 years old. Both are preparing for the upcoming Golden Gate Bridge swim on september 22nd. Welcome to the show. And i made such a big deal about the alcatraz swim and you guys have both swam it like 50 times, right . Both yeah. Robert you kno
Robert well, to start us off on our clear the shelters mission is the founder of a group called love and second chances. Joining me now is melody chen, who decided to start this rescue, love and second chances, because she loves animals and met many, as she put it, amazing people along the way. Welcome to the show. Melody chen thank you for having us. Robert and, now, you brought another guest as well . Melody yes, this is nemo. Robert nemo . Okay, so you found nemo. Melody nemo was one of our international rescues from korea. He was actually going to be sold into the meat market there before a rescue was able to get him, and now hes been adopted and even have his own instagram page. Robert wow. Melody hes just having a good time. Robert gotten into the social media right away then, huh . Melody yes. Robert that is amazing story becausei dont know. I dont think people would necessarily know all the dramatic situations sometimes that these animals come from. Melody yeah, a lot of people
Over the years there. It has been a driving force on this front for a long time, a Model Program nationally, and a crucial member of clear the shelters. Joining us once again is a good friend of the show, dr. Cristie kamiya. As we pointed out before, dr. Kamiya is one of the very few residencytrained veterinarians in the specialized field of shelter medicine. She provides support to organizations throughout the world while overseeing both shelter and medical operations at Humane Society Silicon Valley. Welcome back to the show. Dr. Cristie kamiya thank you for having me. Robert and who is our special guest here . Dr. Kamiya this is jeanie. She is a 14yearold, mature girl. Shes up for adoption. She was transferred from another shelter that did not have the resources to give her the medical care that she needed, got her the care, and after awhile, shes now up for adoption. Shes ready for her retirement home. Robert we talked about this last week, and ive been posting about this, asking p
Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. Today were going indepth on this weeks two big stories. The future of puerto rico now that the governor has been forced to resign. And the growing threat of White Supremacy in america. We begin there. Just last month, fbi director chris wray warned about the rise of domestic terrorism related arrests. He said a majority of the cases are motivated by some version of what you might call quote white supremacist violence. Last weeks massacre in el paso is now being investigated as a domestic terror attack. George selim is the former director of homeland securitys office of Community Partnerships which used to administer grants to organizations working to counter violent extremism. He has served under president George W Bush and president todae antidefamation league. So, how long has the u. S. Been really tracking these White Nationalist groups . George historically, as we look at these trends, it really starts with the signing into law
And relaxing after a school year and getting ready for the next one. It never gets any easier for students, especially those in ur schools there are groups trying to make sure students get what they need to succeed. First from the family giving tree, here is drive leader coordinator Evelyn Nguyen and franchisee and backtoschool leader lisa tran. Welcome to the show. Thanks for having us. We had family giving free on the show. We are a Nonprofit Organization in the south bay, and we run two drives a year, in the summer, we do a backtoschool drive which we are working on vigorously now and winter we focus on a drive. We service our local community of low income folks in need, so for the summer for the backtoschool drive we are servicing the low income students in the bay area all throughout the various schools. As we say, it never gets any easier and sometimes even gets more difficult. Yes, absolutely, rising housing costs, people find it harder to buy the basic needs. Were trying to hel