Women accepted for emergency volunteers or waev. She was one of the first women to join. She had a degree in business and was one of the first women to take courses at harvard. As the war moved out, women took on greater and greater roles. They went from administrators to intelligence specialists to parachute riggers and to gunnery technicians. Maybe women were not allowed to serve overseas. Until 1944. We decided that hawaii was once again safe enough, it was a base of Planning Operations and we we would send waev to help continue fight the war. Lieutenant winnifred quick was selected with two of her friends to go and set the stage to bring in over 5000 wavsevs to support the war effort. She was pretty excited. She told me this remarkable thing happened. I was astounded at the story because im from colorado and nothing like this has ever happened to me. A denver millionaire offered the use of his oahu mansion while they were stationed on the island. A large living room and he left it
Even when people told me i couldnt win. The truth i learned along the way was pretty basic. You cant win what you dont fight for. So, i say to each of you, you want to change something . Nobody is going to give it to you. Youve got to fight for it. I wanted to be here today not just to be on the same stage where the boston symphony orchestra, james taylor, and lady gaga do their stuff. I wanted to be here because i believe in what you can do. I believe in what you can do if you fight for what you believe in. No matter the odds, no matter who you are up against, if you fight, Amazing Things can happen. Amazing things will happen. After all, we are here to celebrate your amazing graduation and to think of many more Amazing Things to come. So, thank you all and keep fighting. [applause] senator Elizabeth Warren thank you. Thank you. [applause] admiral Michelle Howard delivered this years commencement address to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in new york. She encouraged graduates to stay
Lets head right to Spencer Christian for a look at our forecast. Weve got snow levels down to about 2,000 feet. That will be the situation tonight overnight. Right now on live doppler 7 were looking at patches of mainly light rain but up in the north bay i its a bit more widy scattered. Its heavier near hillsburg and eastern sonoma county, up around mt. St. Helena area its quite active there. Lets take a look at our storm impact scale. A significant storm is on the way. It will hit us mainly tomorrow. Well see windy conditions in the afternoon and evening. The commute will be a messy one. Generally rainfall totals range from half an inch to 2 inches. Starting at 6 00 this evening as we get later into the evening hours, well see more snow developing up in the Higher Elevations of northern sonoma county, parts of mendocino county, lake county and pockets of rain becoming more widespread across the entire region. By 5 00 tomorrow in the morning as the morning commute gets under way well s
Are cleaning up, pumping out and drying out tonight after a week of rain. We could really use some clear weather. Sandy has been tracking when we might see some more rain. Sandy, it sounds like me might be getting a nice break. Yes, indeed, ama and dan. Say so long to the rain. Live doppler 7 is quiet tonight. When you take a look at the sevenday rainfall totals, topping 12 inches. Over a foot of rain. Mount saint helena and kent field, we got about a half a foot in danville. Ben lomond almost 11 inches of rain. Lower elevations 1 1 2 inches to three nuinches in after. It has pushed our season to date well above average. Santa rosa 203 of normal. 183 in livermore. 152 oakland. Were doing good in the rainfall department. Flood warning continues for the russian river. Minor flooding has been reported. Thats going to continue through tomorrow morning. Rivers take a while before they begin to recede. Central Sonoma County also under a Flood Warning until 8 30 tomorrow morning. Primarily Ma
A few months after he got a flu vaccination. Thats why she strongly is against anyone in other family getting the shot. I believe in safety and efficacy. Unfortunately, its not safe and its not effective. Reporter its been several years since they have had a flu shot and rene says they have not gotten the flu. Chelsea is just the opposite. She says she made sure her kids get the shot every year. I am big on vaccines. So i think that every child should around tons of other children and germs all the time. Reporter they have also never gotten the flu. And people suddenly arent shy about this topic, especially on social media. Rosemary writes on our 10news Facebook Page no one in my family gets the flu shot. Its poison injected into your system. Get the flu shot and you get the flu. And then on the other side, nicole writes, neither i nor my four children have suffered ill effects from the flu and we was a good two weeks of misery. Finally, there are people that walked the line on this is