Break for the middle class. All it does is provide benefit to corporations some say. Well sit down with one congressman about what he thinks about the proposed plan among other plans. And fire crews preparing for an increased chance after a big fire broke out in the week up in the oakland hills. High winds and low level have prompted a fire watch and mark tamayo is in for rosemary. This is the time of year where you would expect that. You can expect high fire danger. That fire weather watch has been extended. It was supposed to expire sunday morning but it has been extended into sunday night. Heres the plan, heres our live camera towards San Francisco. Already the clouds clearing out and will be a little bit warmer after having some stubborn overcast. Headline, a bit of a breeze. Coastal temperatures, around the bay, lower 70s this afternoon. Clearing skies up and down the coastline. The main reason, we have a pretty good northerly wind. Lets check in on some of the current wind speeds
Next, a forum on race and education with members of congress. Education advocates, students, and former officials. The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Hosted this event. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us today. Todays Education Brain trust is called from brown to fisher, increasing racial diversity to improve Educational Equity. Im melanie newman. Im the chief strategist for the naacp Legal Defense fund, the organization that i am proud to say i work for and that is responsible for brown and fisher. And so i want to give a little bit of hello. Sorry. I want to give a little bit of background about myself. I am i have been with the Legal Defense fund since march of this year, but worked in the Obama Administration and on the hill for quite some time. But this issue and the reason im happy to be here with all of you today is personal to me. I am originally from new orleans but also went to school in selma, alabama. Which im sure all of you are familiar with
Catholic organizations. Read more at thehill. Com. Next up, lawmakers education advocates, students and former Education Department officials talk about race and education, including improving urban School Systems, desegregation and Minority Access to Higher Education. Its from the Congressional Black Caucus foundation from last month. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us today. Todays Education Brain trust is called from brown to fisher. Increasing racial diversity to improve Educational Equity. I am Melanie Roussel newman, the chief Public Engagement and Communications Strategist for the naacp Legal Defense fund, the organization that i am proud to say i work for and that is responsible for brown and fisher. And so, i want to give a little bit of hello . Oh. Sorry. I want to give a little bit of background about myself. I am i have been with the Leal Defense Fund since march of this year but worked in the Obama Administration and on the hill for quite some time.
Hit florida, in this morning tracking this monster storm. A lot of people talking about this. No question, women sitting for in front of what we havent seen in a long time, since 2007. In the caribbean, welldefined. National hurricane center, 150 mile an hour winds, incredibly lowpressure. Outer rain bands beginning brush against southerns manual as it moves to the north in east. Hurricane warnings flying. This will be a devastating storm for haiti no question, not only because of the wind, monday night 125 miles per hour, but they cant deal with the amount of rainfall that will come as a result of matthew. Also jamaica impacted along southeastern bahamas, and making the closest pass to florida. For the time we get into thursday and friday but notice the cone is quite large, forecast errors are significant , we still have to finetune that insurance the cone for you. But it still looks good for florida as it will be east of us, the reliable models, none have pushed this into florida so
For people, that is somewhat of an individualis thing what yu can afford to pay. That depends on priorities. Be careful about the amount of debt. The student can borrow. Well cosign the loan. Well take care of later. Never borrow over the course of a degree more than what the average starting salary for the career yourehe interested in. Gerri your total debt shouldnt be more than the firstyears salary. Students. Gerri you can figure that out. That is not impossible to figure that out. That isit tough for some peoplen some careers to actually do. What careers really pay off for students . Those tend to be stem careers. Those require a lot of discipline, prep work. Stem is the science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Some areen even in liberal art disciplines, the mathematics but those are very rigorous courses of study. The average starting salaries are quite high for those jobs. If you can get them. Gerri i know a lot of people, a lot of ceos are pushing the next generation to