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The presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their votes . If not, the yeas are 60, the nays are 37. And the nomination is confirmed. A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Harkin i ask unanimous consent that with respect to the nominations confirmed today the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and the president immediately notified of the senates action. The presiding officer is there ob...

Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. The number of deaths related to the flu continues to rise. Today, Californias Department of Public Health announced 202 people have died and 41 more cases are under investigation. Why is the current flu strain more potent than last seasons . Joining me to discuss the broader Public Health picture are lisa aliferis. Editor of kqeds state of health blog. And dr. Erika pan, director of Communicable Disease control and prevention for alameda cou...

Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. The number of deaths related to the flu continues to rise. Today, Californias Department of Public Health announced 202 people have died and 41 more cases are under investigation. Why is the current flu strain more potent than last seasons . Joining me to discuss the broader Public Health picture are lisa aliferis. Editor of kqeds state of health blog. And dr. Erika pan, director of Communicable Disease control and prevention for alameda cou...

Teachers have the blinds eye and its more work to get involved and more work and what do relationships look like, and i agree with tony this is the beginning of relationship building, or its a relationship going bad that could get worse. And so i think that we have a lot of educating to do. In my office we do a lot of Cyber Bullying training in our schools and its amazing how much access some kids have to the internet at a really young age. They have iphones. Theyre on the internet. They have or...

Peers if theyre not smart enough. In other schools its the opposite and bullied because they are smart when that is not the krult. Maybe in texas where its a different culture that we saw in the movie that perhaps football is everything and if a child isnt good at sports theyre an outcast. I would like to ask how or if addressing the cultural needs at each school how can we is this all one way of doing this, or do you feel there are different needs in different communities . And i think perhaps ...

More time to learn. The reduction in Adult Learning in schools is damaging all of us as a whole entire state, so i think youre absolutely right, but to then also understand that helping young people have a social filter, executive function and make lifes choices. We know about Brain Development but we can help young people to make good decisions and we stripped that out and doesnt incorporate that and social Emotional Learning and other folks to say we should in fact care deeply about young peop...

Just goes higher and higher. Our teachers need to be not only recognize what theyre seeing but willing to look at what theyre seeing and one of the unfortunate things we have seen with some teachers and i am not criticizing the teachers in general because i think this is a learning process for adults also to move from kids will be kids and we had someone who was mean to us in school to actual bullying, but we have talked to the School Districts around the state and sometimes the teachers have th...

Plan today to hire every single veteran who wants a job. In florida a fearless fisherman wanted to catch that tarpin by hand. All that did you ever talk to your family, father . Yeah we were in touch during the time. They said keep up the good work . What did they say . And all that matter. This new desire on your part not to negotiate, no one is talking to each other how to resolve this. A company developed a vending machine that sells marijuana. [ cheers and applause ] in a related story the r...

Function and make lifes choices. We know about Brain Development but we can help young people to make good decisions and we stripped that out and doesnt incorporate that and social Emotional Learning and other folks to say we should in fact care deeply about young people developing the capacity to make good decisions and to struggle productively with one another. That should be our teaching as well so more time for adults to grow and Learn Together and professional capital to build and help the ...

Forecasters predicting the temperatures are in the mid30s and expected to be breezy, as well. Big news in the debt ceiling, the house gop considering on raising the debt limit. Well bring you more details and the Senate Judiciary committee, Patrick Leahy announced hell be taking up issues of gun violence and immigration in the new term. Republicans and democrats recently announced Senate Committee assignments and well talk about that as well. This afternoon the president kicked off the national ...