Many different Leadership Programs across the states and for that reason my brothers and i rarely saw her pure kind of in and out of the house, but linda is amazing inspiration to me and thats why im an education policy and management student here. I am inspired by her every day. I hope i dont have to do that 5 00 a. M. Wakeup to be just like her, but thats my own wish. Linda is wonderful and also alongside carmen torres. Carmen and linda are my inspirations and im so lucky to have this opportunity to introduce my mom, my favorite educator and best mom to talk about when grit isnt enough. [applause]. Not going to could be introduced by your daughter. Kind of cool. I think they are opening up the back, so if you are a little too hot in here come i think we are getting more seats, so if anyone wants to get up. Lets give it up one more time for those kids. [applause]. Kind of why i did kind of why i do what i do because i believe deeply in the power of the arts in those kids came all the
Theres a new worry for firefighters. This stt first mandatory evacuation weve had on the Northern Edge of the fire. Several Housing Developments are located there. More than 1500 firefighters from across the west are battling this fierce fire through unforgiving steep rugged hillsides. Finally, the weather is helping firefighters. We shifted a little bit. We dont have the high winds out of the north. Humidity is starting to come up a little bit and temperatures are coming down. Just keep an eye on it to get back in there. Reporter davids family has been living in this rv. Many of their animals are here, too. Firefighters told the family to leave their home on thursday as the rocky fire crew more intense. Luckily davids house survived. A scary time for you. Absolutely. You dont know how the wind has changed. Reporter the red cross evacuation shelter at Middletown High School is open with room with more. Were expecting a possibility of more if the evacuations in clear lake become mandato
And im joe torres, Health Officials were seeing new cases popping up in the coming days. Tonight there are four deaths linked to this outbreak in the south bronx and 65 people have been diagnosed with the disease and five locations texted positive for legionella and all have been disinfected. Eyewitness News Reporter aj ross is at one of those locations and shes in monthaven tonight. Aj . Reporter joe, sandra, well Health Officials narrowed down five sites including this one as a possible source of that legionnaires cluster. We are not out of the woods just yet. They do expect cases to increase over the next seven days and tonight i spoke with someone who battled the bacteria firsthand. I was about to wait one more day to go to the hospital and if i would have waited that one day i dont think i would have been here right now. Reporter for Daniel Tejada being back in his home surrounded byname is something hell never by family is something hell never take for granted again. Now just rel
Muller is widely respected on capitol hill. But Mitch Mcconnell didnt have much to say. The Justice Department has a special prosecutor. All of this comes days after President Trump fired fbi director, james comey, and word that the president might have leaned on comey to drop the investigation into ties against russia and former National Security adviser, michael flynn. Muller has a lot of work ahead of him. Here are a few fast facts about him. A career prosecutor, and he was fbi director from 2001 to 2013. Normally, serve a tenyear term, but president obama asked him to stay on two extra years. Denying any collusion between his campaign and russia. He hasnt tweeted about his thoughts since yesterday. He did share one today during hi academy commencement. Look at the way ive been treated lately. Especially by the media. No politician in history, and i say this with great purity, has been treated worse or more unfairly. The president faces some growing trouble on capitol hill, too. Rep
Administration. We will also look at how in newt and lawyers haven, connecticut, successfully fought back a decade ago against ice over immigration raids launched after new haven adopted the first minutes ago id card in the nation. Then we speak to the acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit about resistance, hope, the fight against climate change, and her new book, a followup to our bestseller men explain things to me. Because all myt life, men would explain things to me that they do not necessarily know better than i did and sometimes i knew much better than they did because there was this assumption that because of gender, they were inherently knowledgeable and superior and in control and i was inherently ignorant and in need of an injection of their knowledge, wisdom, insight, etc. TheRebecca Solnit on mother of all questions. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Top democratic lawmakers are demanding House In