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We provide food support and clothing support but also childhood care and afterschool care to ensure opportunity for those in our community and washington, d. C. What area do you serve . All over the city. We want to meet people where they are. Hunger is everywhere. We go into the public schools. We know food stamps and families bills are challenging. In terms of food, we are everywhere. 14 different locations. In terms of childcare and afterschool, we are at the corner of 14th. You came from a diverse career. How long did you serve microsoft in the state of washington . I was in the tech field for 20 years and 10 of those at microsoft. The other washington. How did you get into tech . I was also fascinated by journalism and the written word. I was a letter writer. I loved to write in my family encourage my writing. I dropped out of school, putting a husband through school and having two children and got off of journalism track. The tech world was booming. The combination of being great
Having two children and got off of journalism track. The tech world was booming. The combination of being great at math and technology and writing and communicating brought me the opportunity to move into this new era of micro computing early on. I just gravitated toward it and the opportunities were so great. How do somebody who is one of nine children, indianapolis, get into writing . Who spurred it on . My parents were very good at keeping us busy. In addition to School Activities and social service, i was always writing relatives. My mother encouraged that it greatly. Relatives would write back. Beautiful letters. Cousins across the country. I just got to where that was something i was encouraged. I was always a chatty child. They called me chatty patty. Putting that chattiness into writing and encouraged and reinforced through the ongoing communication i had. How about those eight siblings . Where are they . My family is all over the country. They are tied together by one thing my
D up onplto sacramento around this way. There is no thought for what is going to happen to them next. The help of support being offered to a group of migrants being sent to california from texas. Thank you for joining us. Right now we have unusual september storms and it is reaching the bay area. Lets get get to our first alert meteorologist. Widespread rain already this morning. It started a little after midnight. We will pickup a a quarter of an inch of rain in the north bay. We take a look at at the doppler. You can see a lot of green and yellow showing up equally spread across much of of the bay area. First, here is how we have done so far while you have been sleeping. Got 2700 already. Once you go further south, the totals have not added up. It is nice to see cupertinos register. San ramon has registered hundreds of an inch of rain. If we go back, you you can see how those places have at least gotten something. There has been a widespread arrange showing up bay area wide. It has b
Velshi starts now. Welcome back, im ali velshi. It has been five months since the novel coronavirus, which causes covid19 was first transmitted to humans, and since then more than 102,000 people have died of the disease. New york is now the covid capital of the world. The state itself has more confirmed cases of the disease than any other country reporting positive test results. The death toll in new york now stands at 7,844. Heres how several er residents at new york citys st. Barnabas hospital described the situation. Ive into intubated more patients in the last week and a half than six months before this all started. Were seeing the worst of the worse. Were seeing the 20yearolds, the 30yearolds j it looks like a war zone. Our Emergency Department has turned into an icu. Essentially the hospital is turning into an icu. What normally goes into like a small area of the hospital comparatively to the rest of the hospital is now essentially the entire hospital. Joining me now live from ne