And he will perform live in our studio all on our show today. Well, swimming offers a lot of unique challenges, and some swimmers take it even further such as being part of the Youngest Team ever to swim across the bonifacio channel, a 15kilometer stretch of the mediterranean from france to italy. Oh, did i mention the rough waters and jellyfish . Here are the swimming sisters. Mitali khanzode was not only part of that Bay Area Team, but shes also the youngest person to swim the strait of messina in italy at 15 years old, and her sister, anaya khanzode, started young as well, swimming competitively at 6 years old. She was the youngest member of that Bay Area Team and was also the youngest person to ever make the alcatraz crossing. She did that at 8 years old. Both are preparing for the upcoming Golden Gate Bridge swim on september 22nd. Welcome to the show. And i made such a big deal about the alcatraz swim and you guys have both swam it like 50 times, right . Both yeah. Robert you kno
Pacific American Community since 1972. Making ksw the oldest Arts Organization in the country. Nurturing that creative spirit is the artistic director, a multitalented artist as well as visionary. Welcome. Thank you very much. Give us a little in tirms of people who have heard of it. It is the oldest multidisciplinary Asian Pacific Arts Organization in this country. We are entering our 45th year this year. We started out over in the ihotel. And you know, what happened there when they were evicted from the hotel we were too as well. We moved around all over the city in those 45 years. Its been most in the south market district in San Francisco. It was a very thriving artistic area. Give me an idea of multidisciplinary arts. Its hard enough to focus on one and your group was sort of dedicated to try to make sure that a lot of the arts were covered. Yeah. How difficult is it that. Its a balancing act, but i mean, we try to make sure we give equal time to where we can get it but there are
Sabata. Then we continue our tradition of showcasing artistic and cultural performances from the Dance Academy showing us some of the classical dance styles of south india. All that on our show today. While it is important, maybe crucial, that this world be an inclusive place, when we use the terms asianamerican and Pacific Islander, thats the name that many hapas would think of. We have an east bay author. You write about racial characters and they seem relevant to our world today. Thank you for having me. We were talking earlier about hapas and characters like that. I know thats not what you always do. You were the first to showcase them as major characters. Tell me why you do that and whats the importance of that . Right. It wasnt something that was a big event for me. I thought that, you know, there arent a lot of mixed race people in books to begin with. With diversity being such a huge topic, i thought, why not contribute to that. And you want to speak through your own voice . Ye
Still climing in some spots. 57 in san jose. And this is a snapshot of your morning commute. Youve got some reduzed visibility and some mist falling. Theres a view of the clouds. Periods of light rain at times. Weve seen that mainly up in the north bay with some showers and sprinkles. So between now and around lunchtime tomorrow, might see another 0. 25 inch of rain. For your morning commute like were seeing outside right now, some patchy light clouds. Coming up well let you know how much longer the rain chances are sticking around. Thanks, very much. Remember you can check the forecast with our nbc area app. A truck used to deliver fresh food to thousands every day, stolen just before a charity makes it easter deliveries. An important lifeline for people in the east bay, live in Pleasant Hill with the message theyre sending to that thief tonight, rick. Yeah, terry were with this organization here much like this one, stolen from this organization. Been in operation for three years unti
Separated by a heavy armed border, emotional reunions for north and south korea. How cyber thieves stole a doctors patient files and the rann son demanded for their return. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. A truce in ukraine has had no impact on the spiralling violence gripping the country. You are looking at live pictures in kiev, where there are reports of more deaths as a result of clashes between protesters and riot press today. Demonstrators are throwing gas bombs while police are using water canons, gun fire has been heard there, its not clear who is doing the shooting. Todays violence comes after a truce was called. The two sides had great to resume peace talks today. The deal had no effect on the escalating conflict that killed more than two dozen people. Todays violence forced an evacuation of the people. Jennifer joins us on the phone. Tell us what you see and here . Its been a confused morning in kiev. Each side accusing the other of starting