One of our nations seemingly intractable problems, homelessness. Thats a problem big cities are taking on especially on behalf of veterans and families. And homelessness is not just an urban issue. It lives often unseen in rural path. America tonights producer ryan lockland, traveled to rural arizona and he found a woman whose strength was creating home. One night, 2013, 3 36 in the morning, i woke up with a strong voice in my head, you need to take over transitional motels and turn them into transitional housing. What . Really . That morning i woke up, wrote the business plan, i found a motel and a year later we opened up. My name is laurie barlow, im the founder and executive director of a new living. I think we have a solution, you know, we have our emergency family room. We took over the motel, the whole entire property and we turned it into a transitional housing facility. The motel 66, off route 66. This. It is for Homeless Individuals who are working or on a fixed income. We fig
Intractable problems, homelessness. Thats a problem big cities are taking on especially on behalf of veterans and families. And homelessness is not just an urban issue. It lives often unseen in rural communities, far off the beaten path. America tonights producer ryan lockland, traveled to rural arizona and he found a woman whose strength was creating home. One night, 2013, 3 36 in the morning, i woke up with a strong voice in my head, you need to take over transitional motels and turn them into transitional housing. What . Really . That morning i woke up, wrote the business plan, i found a motel and a year later we opened up. My name is laurie barlow, im the founder and executive director of a new living. I think we have a solution, you know, we have our emergency family room. We took over the motel, the whole entire property and we turned it into a transitional housing facility. The motel 66, off route 66. You constant get better than this. It is for Homeless Individuals who are work
Of it. Case in point. One of our nations seemingly intractable problems, homelessness. Thats a problem big cities are taking on especially on behalf of veterans and families. And homelessness is not just an urban issue. It lives often unseen in rural path. America tonights producer ryan lockland, traveled to rural arizona and he found a woman whose strength was creating home. One night, 2013, 3 36 in the morning, i woke up with a strong voice in my head, you need to take over transitional motels and turn them into transitional housing. What . Really . That morning i woke up, wrote the business plan, i found a motel and a year later we opened up. My name is laurie barlow, im the founder and executive director of a new living. I think we have a solution, you know, we have our emergency family room. We took over the motel, the whole entire property and we turned it into a transitional housing facility. The motel 66, off route 66. This. It is for Homeless Individuals who are working or on
Stephen stock thank you for joining us. We begin our program in oakland, where we found two cities, prosperity and violence. While many Tech Companies are now bringing Economic Prosperity to oakland, we discovered many other neighborhoods still struggling with record violence. Last year, 83 people were murdered in the city. We spent 6 months investigating a crisis there that some experts compare to an affliction suffered by veterans returning home from war. John jones oaklands really a beautiful city. Stephen in the shadow of the homes of hightech tenants such uber, ask, and pandora john this is where it starts at. Stephen we walked the streets of east oakland. Stephen so i see cops already here. Is this a nightly occurrence . John oh yes. Absolutely. Stephen where residents say theyve been left behind. John there was money here. It moved out. Stephen we met john jones here. He grew up in this neighborhood, where he said there was little hope, and lots of drugs and violence. This, acco
Were talking about a tenth of an inch or less. Then maybe a quarter of an inch rounding out the day tomorrow. That will be the first storm. In fact, that first one for tonight and tomorrow kind of weak. The one behind it fork for the weekend will pack some punch with strorng winds and heavy rain. Here is the first storm system moving in tonight and into tomorrow. Well time this out. As we zoom in closer today its all about the clouds increasing. We wont see any showers until the sun goes down. Around 11 00 p. M. , the north bay will see the showers first, some of those yellows denote some of the heavier rain. A after midnight the rest of the bay will see the showers. It continues tomorrow and friday. We get ready for a bigger storm system this weekend. Well talk about that coming up in about 15 minutes. We know we need it. You can track the storm in the palm of your hand with our nbc bay area app. Get to our live Doppler Radar or get your personalized forecast for where you live. Our a