Fresh produce, which is a wonderful contribution. Fresh produce is something that low income people and people in need often dont buy because its expensive and they have to decide how to spend their funds. However, it is some of the most nutritious food we provide. So the 15,000 allowed us to contribute about 60,000 worth of produce by the way in which were able to make a dollar stretch. And you can also help toys for to the. Now through december 134th visit shop disney. Com toys for to the and disney will donate 1 for each toy. Find out more about how to help any organizations we support. Go to abc7news. Com take action. Another great local organization. We want to talk about. The organization is known as alas. Helping latinos to dreams. Joining us to talk more about this, the executive director Belinda Hernandez and an eighth grade volunteer, el kin lopez. Good afternoon to both of you. Good afternoon. I like your tshirts. Dont think i dont notice that. Your organization is based on
Frightening tactic and we need to stick with our neighbors. We have to hold on to them. I cant believe anybody would try to do that. Im so proud were a sanctuary city. Reporter you look at the crowd and what do you think . I love everybody is here to protect the children, the families, the immigrants and we have to stick up for everyones rights because its totally unfair. Reporter like i said, the over riding feeling here is oakland is a bit on edge going into the weekend. With this kind of big raid, you catch a lot in the net and not just people that are intended to but innocent people that have left their families day. Ut the main breadwier rorter the immigrant fami d fund geang uporee busnd of phone calls and rescuing those who are detained by paying out bond money. Is there fear this weekend . I see it amongst a lot of my family members and people that i know. They are concerned. Reporter this 39yearold born and raised oakland resident didnt want to be identified. He said most of t
Of several suspicious devices found late saturday near a bar and a train bridge. The mayor of elizabeth had this to say i dont think any mayor prepares for this or wants this to happen in their city. The incident, about forty minutes from where a blast in manhattans chelsea neighborhood injured dozens. An intact Pressure Cooker with similarities to the exploded device was found blocks away. With residents again worried new york mayor bill de blasio says officials are working hard to keep people safe you will see a very substantial nypd prescence this week. Bigger than ever earlier saturday in seaside park, new jersey one of three pipebomb type devices wired together detonated in a garbage can. No one was injured was probably meant to distrupt a marine corps charity run. Police say theres similarities in that incident and the one in new york but have stopped short of saying theyre linked. And the two blasts came on the same day as a man stabbed nine people in a minnesota mall. An offdut
Ahmad khan rahami down to a location in linden, new jersey. Police got in a shoot out. Rahami seen on surveillance video. Rahami shot and two officers, both officers are expected to be okay. Overnight five explosive devices found in a backpack on a train station. Thankfully no injuries reported. That came after 29 people were hurt in chelsey neighborhood manhattan saturday night. This bomb used a Pressure Cooker when detonated. Same man dropping a second device. Hours after another bomb exploded before the beginning of a marine core charity run. The race was delayed. Event postponed as authorities began investigating a was an isolated incident. President obama spoke and here is what he had to say. Moments like this i think it is important to remember what terrorist and violent extremists are trying to do. They are trying to hurt innocent people. They also want to inspire fear in all of us and disrupt the way we live. To undermine our values. And aggressive both in preventing senseless
Bullied. I have been bullied. I know what its like. Its not cool. You need to stop. Telling them your personal story or personal story and making them realize its real makes them want to do something about it. I know i talk a lot. Im sorry. The thing that i would say is get youth involved with some kind of Youth Development organization like one of the best in the world 4h. We do a lot you can tell i love 4h very much. We do a lot with bullying prevention. We do a lot with preventing the bad stuff and promoting good stuff. Our biggest motto to make the best bester. Thats what we do. Thats what we live by. Thats my biggest thing. We have mentor programs. It mentors youth into a better living. Those programs are designed for kids in troubled lives, kids that are being bullied. That is what 4h is all about is making the best better. Getting people from the bad feeling part or im not sure if im looking for the right word. The lowest thing up to a great organization, up to a great feeling.