Counties. Sc fire is in the east bay in three areas calledded the canyon zone, calaveras zone and the deer zone. If youre wonders what the action hims stand for. Its the region tasked with fighting. Csu is the santa clara. As you can imagine theres a number of evacuations in all of these numbers. The czu is 22 fires merged together. Its posing a serious threat to homes and public safety. Thousands have been evacuated. To northwestern Sonoma County, the lat os the walbridge fire, evacuation orders for 15,000 people in that area. This includes guerneville, jenner and other areas north of the russian river. It has burned 1500acres and zero percent contained and expected to be bigger. Were looking at the potential for the fire to expand in new directions as the winds rise in speed and shift direction from the southerly to easterly direction. Smoke from that fire is hacking offing central Sonoma County. Jesse gary is monitoring the evacuationed on the san mateo and santa cruz border. We get
Womens equality act would have a 10point agenda. Shatter the Glass Ceiling by passing a equal pay law. Number two, have zero tolerance for Sexual Harassment in the workplace, period. Number three, strengthen employment lending and credit discrimination laws. Number four, strengthen Human Trafficking laws. Number five, end Family Status discrimination. Number six, prevent landlords from denying housing based on the source of funds. Number seven, stop housing discrimination for victims of the domestic violence. Number eight, stop pregnancy discrimination once and for all. Number nine, protect women from domestic violence. Number 10, protect a womans freedom of choice and enact the Reproductive Health act because it is her body, it is her choice. Because it is her body its her choice. Because its her body its her choice. I have been blessed with three daughters. Many of you know them, as a matter of fact my parents blessed with 14 grandchildren, 13 are girls. So we have been significantly
Extensive efforts to recruit from the provinces of the south. Some of these efforts are successful. As you can imagine if you put yourself as chairman in afghanistan, if you enlist as an afghan, you face Different Levels of [inaudible] the province is quiet. The taliban are not operating. Theres less threat against you and your family. Therefore despite the inferences being made, we still have challenges to recruit a member members of the Security Forces from those provinces. We purposely go and try to recruit students from the south or places [indiscernible] since the School System was not to this standard, i does not matter. Were not successful to bring them as much as we want. Do you want to talk about these issues . In terms of who revises the Afghan National army, in 2001, we had a plethora of offers. The pakistani, the indian, and the iranian fradkin to me and said it wanted to collaborate. I thought that we ought to try to devise some arrangement in which i and some limited aspe
I believe i firmly believe that each one of us in this chamber much opposed this session with a courtcutting principle. Until every person in our state who wants a job can find one, we have more work to do. [applause] we cannot stick our heads in the sand or simply hope for the best, not one other states are actively recruiting jobs from every corner of the globe. Jobs that can and should come to connecticut. We must compete for every single job. With that mind set, we began to tackle the challenges of Economic Development in an holistic way in our state. Our first five programs, along with the addition of jackson laboratories, has leveraged a 180 million commitment public funding to drive more than 2 billion in private investment. That same program it possible for connecticut to bring two fortune 500 companies to our state. The last time we talked about two fortune 51 companies was in 2006, and that was because they were leaving. In main streets across connecticut, the Small Business
We are live at the National Press club in washington. The National Governors association will lay out issues of priority to them. We will hear from the chairman and the vice chair, the better jack markell of delaware, governor jack markell of delaware, and mary fallin of oklahoma. It is the time of the year for state of the state addresses, and we have several to date. The governor of connecticut will talk about Hurricane Sandy relief efforts, and the recent shooting in newtown, andrew cuomo of new york is expected to oppose a weapons ban, and then talk about hurricane sunday Hurricane Sandy relief. Tonight, bob mcdonnell, who yesterday announced a tax for transportation funding over five years. Well have all of those live today beginning at noon with the governor of connecticut. Back to the issue of guns and gun violence, again, into is likely to propose an assault weapons ban, and Vice President joe biden will begin meetings, hearing with victims groups in gun safety organizations. H