Two new fires sparked today in Southern California, making a total of six fires that have forced people to leave their homes. Newest is liberty fire, started this afternoon in Riverside County and already burned 300 acres. You can see the trees blowing in strong winds fanning these flames so ferociously. Hours earlier lilac fire exploded, at least 20 structures destroyed before this neighborhood burned to ground. Last check, 2,500 acres and growing rapidly. Gained most ground on the smallest skirball fire near belair. 20 condetained. Rye fire is 7,000 acres. Thomas fire in Ventura County, almost 100,000 acres and destroyed 150 buildings. Creek fire, burned down five homes and ten other buildings, including this barn with 40 horses trapped, just six survived. Omar shows us what its like on the ground. Reporter strong winds and dry conditions are fuelling the raging wildfires in Southern California as officials continue to battle. 110,000 people evacuated from homes. Schools closed in at
Down. It was this time that five department of correction employees were taken hostage. Now, that starts at 10 30 and at 2 40 one of the five hostages that was injured was released identified as a 35yearold correction officer and struck numerous times in the face with fists and a mop ringer. He is ted to be awake and four hostages inside and one counselor inside of building c. A flow down unit where inmates from maximum security is processed into medium security and we dont have an official count of the hostage takers at this point and reports of as many as 35 and they are not confirmed. Nor do we have specific demands or threats against the hostages, authorities are not taking questions or answering questions at this point in time. They are trying to have a situation where they have an ongoing situation to negotiate peaceful resolution and the department of correctional personnel and fbi are involved. They are not taking questions but indicated every hour they will put outp dates abou
Spent by Education Departments you are going to miss some services that are provided in a Community School concept, maybe by social services. You might not count some of the services that are provided by a boys girls club. Excuse me for interrupting. I want to make sure everyone has their five minutes. Go ahead and wind up. Winding up now. If you count dollars district make in teacher placement decisions based on specific salary or benefit costs so things look, you will worry about things looking equal, instead of saying are we actually giving services to our students, all were saying is why in the world would you want to cut off reasonable flexibility that a district might have in giving something creative and meaningful to it our students and discourage districts from finding those creative solutions. We hope you will make your intent crystal clear. And in closing i would just say we are ready, willing and able to find those creative solutions. Were excited being at the table and app
Wondered what would happen, was a very positive experience. What about boston at that sometime. Yes. Boston was mixed. By and large, going to boston i had read about paul revere and his ride some lexington and the concord battles and the Boston Tea Party and also crispus attus was the first black to die in the revolutionary war. So i went to see the memorial for hem on the boston common. So i soaked up the hoyt the history of boston, so very positive. So my experience in boston really was very positive, but later in the late 50s the year i entered medical school was the year brown versus board of occasion, the Supreme Court decision, and so as this was implemented around the country, problems of not only in the south but in the north as well. And boston was one of those areas. So, my experience in boston was somewhat different from blacks who went to boston in the late 50s. They found with the political shenanigans of hicks i still remember him from south boston, running to be mayor, b
Of course, i think you make the same decisions that Mitch Mcconnell did, because the next election is always a chance that youre going to end up being in the minority party. Now, the only hope i have, and thats actually driven by my experience with students here, the change is going to have to be generational. The change is going to have to come from people who havent been typically getting involved in the political process and changing things. Its going to have to come from a new set of leaders who havent been used by the other side in certain ways, that havent been abused by the other side in certain ways. So that they dont feel that, you know, sort of sting that theyre going to do it to them, you know, because its been done in the past to their side. So im hopeful because i teach these tremendous students semester in and semester out, and i see the potential for leadership. But the key is getting these young people involved in politics rather than involved in Investment Banking or l