fire in california s state history. it s being fueled by extremely dry conditions and canyon winds. cnn was escorted through the fire zone by the u.s. forest service. here in yosemite national park firefighters are making progress but they re dealing with a lot of hot spots like these. it s critical at the time we have so many teams out nationwide we do have to share resources. but because i say we are number one priority we re getting what we need. reporter: what these firefighters also say they need is for the weather to cooperate. so sob rously there is still a long way to go. question is the weather going to hurt or help firefighters today. we re going to turn to our meteorologist alex and dra steel. it s not helping.
video, a big part of the waldorf way is to keep students engaged through constant movement. does that help the brain in terms of retaining information? it does. movement does a couple of different things for learning. it help orient the person and anchor them in their experience as to what they re learning but it also helps with memory consolidation dung there s a negative impact of too much testing in young kids? i mean based on what you were saying earlier, do the kids brains process tests in. i think testing it s important that people understand that it has a specific context and has specific goals and that sometimes those goals apply to everyday learning and in the real world army sometimes they don t always transfer or apply that well. and the impact of a lot of testing or having kids early on learn that testing, you don t want them to think that testing
all mighty. president obama will be here at the steps of the lincoln memorial to mark the 50th anniversary of martin luther king jr. s i have a dream speech. chris lawrence with rousing speeching from yesterday. also in washington there was another birth last night. sadly know the second panda cub was stillborn. the zoo s panda cam show her grooming on her lifeless baby for 17 minutes before finally letting it go. zoo staff retrieved the cub, said it wasn t really form and wasn t ever alive. the first cub fortunately continue to do well if you re looking to grab life by the horns you don t have to two all the way to spain, do you? you don t. up next thousands of runners are gearing up to run with the bulls right here in the u.s.
doctors treated over 3,000 patients for neurotoxic symptoms, convulsions, difficulty breathing and things like that, and hundreds of them died. so you ve got both seeides sayi each used chemical weapons. a blame game under way, but what s even more confusing is that the chemical weapons seem to have hit neighborhoods where the rebels control. so why would they use chemicals on their own people. this is the difficulty for the u.s. and other observers in figuring out where this was used definitively. there is a bit of hope. let s talk about that wildfire
there s this big debate of high stakes testing. so imagine a school then with no tests, no technology, not even traditional text books. it s the waldorf way. in a waldorf school, learning just looked different. instead of writing a book report on a literature lesson, they take that same story and create a play or a song. you can go to the store and buy bay a bit of new technology an the man there can tell you how to do it and you re clueless. when you ve done it comes into your soul and your limbs in a way that you never forget. it s true that most people learn by doing and that s the approach of a waldorf education. it s been around now for more than 90 years. we know for example how related math and music are in the brain. 36 minus 6 plus 1. 31. rhythm and using the limbs is