The country, or about 17 . California has the largest overall population of 14. 7 million, or nearly 40 , and since 2000, births in the United States have been the primary driving force for the increase. Abc7s Lyanne Melendez is here now with some local leaders to talk about some of the Current Issues in our bay areas hispanic communities. And thahank y you, cheryl. Grgracias. Before we begin ouour didiscussn today, lets learn a little bit about a recent big shift in californias population. Its now official. Latino residents have surpassed whites as californias largest racial or ethnic groups. Now, demographers had expected the shift for decades. Abc7 News Reporter chris nguyen took a look at the shift throughout the state when the numbers were released in july. At the dia de pesca restaurant in san jose, Xavier Sanchez savors the chance to share his passion for food. I call it the path of the heart. You follow the path of the heart, and you know when youre doing right. You feel good i
traffic. all of the motorist trying to get out of the citity this evening and just jock using for position. good evening. get ready for another day of disruption. strike continue at least for now. no new talk scheduled between the union and bart m management. now getting that t the city today was rough cars were stacked up at the toll plaza. strike put clamamp on the commumute to be sure. different story short timeme ago though.. roads were virtually emem spokesman for the metropol transpoportation commission mtc says fewer vex pass through the bay bridge totoll plaza this morning compmp to last monday. now just more than 39,000 today comparar to just over 40,000 last monday. mtmtc said higher percentage of cash pairs and the other bridgege dissea more drivers today as folk maybe skirtete bay bridge. too much of the day people for much of the day people stood ine up to an hour to grab a bus atat the transbay terminal. ac transisirker says this is quite a change from a typ