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Between vernon and waller avenues there. We have a live picture here as they continue to battle that fire on farwell drive. A live look at the morgan fire burning near mount diablo. This is from our dublin camera. The fire is active and covering a wide area. In fact, since last night, the fire has nearly doubled to 1500 acres. And we have Live Team Coverage of that fire this morning. Brian hackney is keeping an eye on the weather conditions in the area. Elizabeth wenger is at the Evacuation Center in clayton. But we begin with cate caugiran, who just spoke to fire officials. Cate, whats the la...

Members were contingent and unsecure with their jobs. Now its over 70 . That trend seems to be continuing. The trend of state legislatures defunding Higher Education gradually shifting the cost from taxpayers to students, thats now a 25 year trend. Trends like that dont always and quickly. I think theres a future for state funding in higher Public Education is not great. Both of those things do not mind mote bode well for maintaining Higher Education. If i were to recommend anything i would recommend the federal government pay for public Higher Education and make it freeforall children come to...

Has the library with double number of computers and importantly how we put it together. It took longer and the reason it took a little longer was because people who lived in this community wanted the input they hadnt had in a long time. They wanted this building representative of them. Its more than a library. It is a community center, it is an example of how you get a contractor like freddie carter, [ applause ] to become romantic after 50 years of struggle. How he and working with public works and the architects and the library and the commission were able to get some 68 percent local busine...

And pleasure to introduce our mayor, mayor ed lee. [ applause ]. Morning, everybody. Welcome to our bay view. As our poet said, hes about to wear a hat, so i was looking for a hat this morning. And i have a trunk full and i was looking for something that was representative, a world series type of hat because this is a world series event. When you look across our neighborhoods, you know its probably one of the best examples of building a community center. And you know as much as this brick and mortar is beautiful, its got a communicate Center Community center that is useful when the library is ...

Partnership with the library of congress paying our five salaries but, indeed, we have raised private money from the beginning to help support our array of programs and projects. There are center for the books now in every state, and i know we have a broad audience today, and i look challenge you to look up and learn about the center for the book in your state which works at state level in promoting books and reading and libraries. Here at the library of congress one of our Major Projects is the National Book festival which i hope many of you know about. Its a library of congress project invol...