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Worked at a catfish restaurant. And that was sort of a part of my life and i paid my way and pay my way through high school. And yes, these were part of the inspiration for the research that i do right now. So my last job were going to graduate school was in a pepsi plant and holds up. And it sort of went from nine to a phd program in Political Science at princeton. And it was a night and day difference. And that contrasts when i came from. That brought up the a lot of the issues and focusing on...

Good evening. Im Joshua Johnson of qkqed news. Imagine that your fate was determined by a coin toss. Heads you win, tails you lose. Or die. Sounds extreme. But that is what many africanamerican boys in oakland face as they work to complete high school. In the last decade, the number of black males who have died on the city streets is nearly equal to the number who have graduated from its high schools ready for college. But now there are new efforts in the School System to turn this around. The s...

Temperatures. Boy, they are going to get punched in the next 90 minutes around the peninsula. So thats down in the south bay as you can see the showers for the rest. We just got a drizzle at this hour, but that will change over the next three to four hours, showers from time to time. Up in the north bay, widespread light rain this morning. More for the way. Well have what to expect this weekend as it will continue to look unsettled today with a complete forecast a few minutes from now. Thank you...

Morning with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Shut the front door. Lebron is back. Cleveland celebrates as lebron james comes home. Three great words from lebron james. Im coming home. Cleveland cavalier fans are celebrating big time. So what if its baseball game. Put your basketball game on. Theres a lot of excitement. Theres been a lot of People Killed today in the israeli air strikes on gaza. The militants missiles are striking further better than before and jolting isra...

And iraq needs a longterm friendship with the United States. A friendship though based on the values of democracy and the respect of human rights, and stable states. Not state that is working outside with discrimination. I think that in washington, americans understand and im convinced they should concentrate on iraq once again in order to protect it from the lack of stability. And, of course, the situation in syria, the americans also do not want iraq to be another region that exports problems ...

Move that to even, even greener with each budget cycle and those are the next two slides, five and six in your packet and then, again, the replacement strategy is outlined here and targeting the oldest vehicles in particular, to help with the particulate matter reductions in the environment as well as following the department of environments green, vehicle grid and Compliance Standards and then, we dont have a eligible vehicle and we look at what the greenest in the class will be for that specif...

Vehicles . Do we know that . Good question. Bill . Or todd . Question from commissioner tores . Do they give rebates. Not at this time, they usually come through the state and from the California Energy commission, carb and sometimes through the air district. But the bay area air quality district. And we manage, a lot of those grants. And we had a very Successful Program that you will notice that all of the taxis are hybrid and there was a program that was started by the department of the enviro...

Chiu. I know this is a joint hearing of the board of education and board of supervisors. This is a policy hearing and so id like to turn things over to commissioner haney for opening remarks. You all are a little more 21st century over here. Before i start on this particular item, and im excited about this conversation and to be here. I want to say how wonderful it has been to have such strong supporters of the School District and of children in San Francisco here in the board of supervisors and...

Meet High Standards and these standards we develop in conjunction with the puc and the dph and we dont need to develop the standards but we help the businesses meet the High Standard by providing on site consultations. And so, my take away here and i know that there was a lot of information here but the big take away is when we design the programs and implement them, they are always, we always recognize that the chemicals are products that do not belong in the trash or in the sewer and so we wor...

Raleigh 67, chicago 58. We are dealing with fog early in virginia. It is spreading further north. Dulles fog, cull pepper fog. Must of the activity will stay to the south. Well have risk of scattered showers in the our forecast. It will not rain all day like yesterday. Temperatures warmer than yesterday, 80 for daytime highs. Plenty of clouds. Back into the sunshine along with warmer temperatures. Details in just a few. All right. Thank you, tucker. Lets check in with julie wright. Prince george...