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Working with African American youth, latino youth, working in the southwest area of the city. Ive been a part of the School District since probably the mid80s when i started at c commodoresloat elementary school. For too long, the focus has been to try to find professionals to come in and try to save young people. Hopefully, this is the start of an ever growing trend of the district trusting students and families to be leaders to help get us to where we need to be. Although weve made a lot of progress, we still have far to go. Thank you. [applause] hi. Hi. My name is mari luna. I want to say f...

I believe that it is important for students to be able to speak to other students because it pretty much eliminates the kind of uncomfortable, like discomfort between students and staff that may arise. And allows us to get an unbiased and unfiltered response on the problems they feel are happening inside the schools. And it allows the district, as a group, to be able to follow the problems that the students feel theyre dealing with. As a parent in the district, one of our core values is to be studentcentred. You cant get any more studentscentred than getting it from the students. Were grateful...

The United States [indiscernible] and so are our champion sponsors , the costar group and the john center. [applause] and, we have many friends, and Media Partners and exhibitors. [applause] now, the National Book festival is and has been one of the most inspirational free events in the Nations Capital and it is only possible because of you, our sponsors. And it does take a village to put on a festival like this, so i want to acknowledge the more than 1000 volunteers, most especially the Junior League of washington. [cheers and applause] which has supported the festival since 2003 with over 40...

Headed back to school today, the serious concerns over Pedestrian Safety this morning, plus an update on the ongoing investigation. Some of us got burned on our arms because we had to go through the fire. Theres space, but its so hot that you can feel it. As the recovery search intensifies on maui, were hearing harrowing stories of survival from the island. Now one San Francisco family was able to make it out of the burning chaos alive. Plus, sounding the alarm about our kids and Mental Health. The all new warning from pediatricians. This is today in the bay. Thanks so much for joining us on t...

Hospital. Were live with more on what weve learned about the moments leading up to the deadly crash. Plus, search teams and cadaver dogs are now on the ground in lahaina as stories of survival continue to come out. We hear from a San Francisco family who escaped the flames in maui by jumping into the ocean. Increasing community outreach, the way officers in one east bay county came together to assure residents theyre doing all they can to deter criminals from breaking into cars. What they hope to install soon to help. This is today in the bay. Thanks so much for joining us on this wednesday mo...