Efforts. Hello, everyone. Welcome to the center for stra tee teethic and international studies. Im a senior fellow here and also the Deputy Director of the project on prosperity and development. We really appreciate everyone coming out on a thursday afternoon thats gorgeous before labor day i think this is a really important topic. And a really important report that were putting out right now. So i appreciate all of you taking the time out to do this. Before give a brief summary of the report which i hope all or most of you were able to get, it will be posted online right after this event. I you want to say a couple of thank yous. The first is to the Ford Foundation that has were just completing our second year of funding with the Ford Foundation. Theyve been really great partner with us. So thanks to the Ford Foundation for believing in in us. A slightly nontraditional partner for them on this. I want to thank my coauthor who is currently in laos working for unicef. If shes watching,
Grant about 300people gathered on the uc berekely campus to recognize International Womens day. Participants listened to several speakers address subjects. From wage equality. To the black lives matter movement. Some people at the rally told us. There is now a greater need to advocate for women. Because republicans are in control in washington. Laura hayes womens day supporter this is for us to come together and feel more empowered and understand that we can make a difference if we can come togethermelanie feakins uc berkeley professor im also resisting the possibility of cuts to planned parenthood. This is one of the things that ensures womens access to medical carePamela Williams International Womens williams internatipamela Pamela Williams International Womens want to be able to tell my children that i girls, so they will be able to stand because we got a family grant the womens day rally lasted about 3hours on the cal campus. Uc police were there, but not needed because although th
Ranks near the top of the list as one of the best places to celebrate st. Patricks day. It looks like fun. Im Lindsay Lohan logue along with bill logan. A jammed packed event weekend. It looks as though we will get a break early and then get muchneeded rain later on. Current view from our tower cam or our live camera. Its not really on a tower, its on top of the mainsail beach in, that is at the end of 60 theres 66th. There is some blue and clouds. As you look to the west, there is a bunch of clouds. And a lot of showers out there. Right now we are mostly clear across the region. Nothing showing up on titan Doppler Radar but we are seeing showers push onshore around the big bend area and through the nature coast. 72 in walk chile. 70 in apollo beach. We still have brooksville in the 60s. As we go through the day, floridas most accurate dayplanner shows we will get up into the low 80s but that will be around noon. Then we get showers pulling through. We will pinpoint the location of the
Laughter Robin Williams gave the worlds. Mementos lining his bay area home and his star on the hollywood walk of fame. Good afternoon, im frank mallicoat. Michelle is on assignment. Right now, flowers and other tributes are growing at the tiburon hope of the late Robin Williams. Just minutes ago, a marin county sheriffs spokesman gave new details on the suicide of the comedian and actor at his home. Kpix 5s mark kelly joins us live at the Sheriffs Office in san rafael with more. What did we learn . Reporter this is a preliminary report at this point. But the Coroners Office says Robin Williams committed suicide from asphyxia due to hanging. Now, williams was last seen alive by his wife 10 30 the night before he was found dead. The following morning, it was his personal assistant who found him in a room in his home dead. 24 hours after Robin Williams was found dead in his bay area home, officials released the preliminary cause of death. Preliminary results of the forensic examination re
Jodi williams. Discussing her rented recent auto biography. My name is jodi williams. Jodi williams, what role did a pamphlet play if your life . I was living here in washington, d. C. It was february of 1981, i was rushing to the metro trying to get on the train early and get home to virginia. Some scruffy looking individual shoved a policeman threat pamphlet at me. You and i are old enough to remember the ink came off my hands. I was getting a tad irritated. I looked and it said el salve so when i saw juxtaposition, i was curious and instead of throwing it away, i read it. The next thing i knew a week later i went a meeting. I was stunned to hear about u. S. Intervention there. I ended up volunteering shoving those same brochures in to peoples hand in d. C. Gloition who handed it to you . Guest it was an organization. I volunteered for eight months, then decided that our philosophies to dealing with the region were slightly different. I thought since the Reagan Administration was tak