Has barricaded himself a nows. An Armored Vehicle and helicopters have been deployed. They have been called in to help. We will be following this story and update as you get more information. Governor matt mccrory is taking the fight to the Supreme Court. Hes asking the justices to reinstate the law that was struck down by the Fourth Circuit court announcement yesterday. Whats he telling you today . Reporter russ, the governor knows were less than three months away from the election and he not only hopes to have the law reinstated he hopes to have it done before the election. A federal Appeals Court overturned the law to vote. The judges ruled law discriminates against minority voters. The governor says its time for this to go to the process and ask chief Justice John Roberts to give North Carolina our rights back to have photo id. As over 30 states currently have and if you look add other Court Rulings, Court Rulings have been been used. North carolina is a positive role model. Report
Issues in the south similar or different when it comes to wildfire . Again we talked about neopolitical boundaries answer with lots of wildfires do not as large but they are all catastrophic when we have them. We have again at the impact on the budget effects those states not in the west just like it affects the states in the west. If we look at the state and private programs and the mitigation efforts and the employment of the service forsters and others were doing work for the private land owners, they are so impacted outside the west as a result of these fires and what the budget is handled. So its a very Significant Impact for the country spend what more can we do on public lands since much of it in action stems from lack of public Land Management . Does speed is our focus principally is on private land and so thats what our focus is. But certainly the more management we have on both public and private lands, the more successful we are going to be a mitigating not only the risk but
Including the beautiful witnessing of the structure that is across the way that will house the history of the people in this country who have done so much to bring its truth to reality. In this country who have done so much to bring its truths to reality. So many of you may know the Legal Defense fund for its masterminding and being the architects of brown versus board of education, but our legacy in the area of Voting Rights is equally powerful. For decades we have worked to enforce and expand the protections under the Voting Rights act which itself was enacted to enforce the 14th and 15th amendments. Weve done that for well over five decades. We played a vital role in the pivotal events that led to the passage of the Voting Rights act by representing the marchers. We were the legal team that worked with the marchers that worked with the late dr. Martin luther king in not only mapping out the logistics of the march but even the root of the march, and we have the historic order that al
Sf, doca, grantees, pathways to grantees and the Language Access network so you know we have been were in year two of our pathway to Citizenship Initiative which is to try to get as many of the estimated 100,000 legal permanent residents in San Francisco on naturalized and thus far this collaboration of Community Based organizations has reached over 5,000 san franciscans who are eligible. They processed 15 new applications for citizenship and the doca grantees have reached almost all of the 5,000 estimated doca eligible youth and processed 600 applications and i have to commend the Unified School District because without christina and the School Districts partnership we wouldnt be able to get any of this done as well as lonnie. We also have 14 doca dream sf doca fellows on board this year and for them funding it and theyre doing outreach and education to their own constituency so we place them in the cbos to help with the outreach and of course were around partnering with the immigrant
Initiative which is to try to get as many of the estimated 100,000 legal permanent residents in San Francisco on naturalized and thus far this collaboration of Community Based organizations has reached over 5,000 san franciscans who are eligible. They processed 15 new applications for citizenship and the doca grantees have reached almost all of the 5,000 estimated doca eligible youth and processed 600 applications and i have to commend the Unified School District because without christina and the School Districts partnership we wouldnt be able to get any of this done as well as lonnie. We also have 14 doca dream sf doca fellows on board this year and for them funding it and theyre doing outreach and education to their own constituency so we place them in the cbos to help with the outreach and of course were around partnering with the immigrant partnering groups and on sanctuary city and immigrant rights. We were asked recently by one of the Senate Offices to provide information on immi