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door not only here but elsewhere, and just hasn't been able to finish it off. he's about ready to finish rickie off here in the fourth playoff hole. >> the pendulum has been swinging pointing towards both of them. different occasions here. either one of them could have won this. >> for par. >> this move a little left towards that water to his left? >> rog, i think that's a good call. it's not a lot. wants to go that direction. >> based on everything we've seen, we think this is going down. >> he's been making all of these.
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. >> well -- >> i think he can handle this one. >> you bet he can. matsuyama finally closes the deal on rickie fowler. three bogeys on number 17 this week for rickie fowler. on a hole that he should birdie half the time. >> he had a two-shot lead in regulation as he went there for the first time today. a bogey there. another costly one in the water there. hideki matsuyama with his second pga tour victory. if you missed any of today's action, you can get caught up with golf central on golf channel. next stop for the golf channel on the nbc team is the honda classic where the top players in the world pick out the bear traps. that's february 25th. coming up next "date line."
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on the civil grand jury. and with me is the presiding judge of santa clara county superior court. so, differentiate for me, if you will, the difference between a civil grand jury and maybe a criminal grand jury. rise: sure, the civil grand jury is selected once per year, and that's pursuant to the california constitution. the criminal grand jury is selected four times a year. so, the criminal grand jury serves for only 90 days at a time. so, after 90 days are over, then i select another criminal grand jury. now, the criminal grand jury is responsible for reviewing cases brought by the district attorney. if there is sufficient answer to--information to believe that a crime has been committed, and that the defendant or defendants
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have committed those crimes, then an indictment is issued, and they are arraigned in the superior court in the criminal division. the civil grand jury is very different. they do not handle criminal matters. they will investigate the local government. their investigation work includes our county government offices, as i said before. and they come up with their topics themselves. with the criminal grand jury, it is the district attorney bringing the case to them that they wish to prosecute. for the civil grand jury, they themselves come up with what they would like to investigate. so, they can get their information from something that appeared in the news and decide, "we'd like to investigate that," or they might have some interest themselves and decide they would like to investigate that, or they might get a citizen's complaint. and as long as they feel that the citizen complaint is credible, then they may investigate that. so, in investigating those things, they do interviews, they
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do research, and then they do reports, and then they do a lot of writing. they have to discuss it amongst themselves, and they can't take a topic unless all of them agree to it. damian: oh, very good. and we're talking about maybe what kind of teeth these reports might have at the end of the fiscal year. do you have investigative, investigatory powers? you don't have subpoena powers, i would imagine. rise: they do because they are an arm of the court. damian: oh, nice. rise: yes, they're a part of the judicial branch of government. and so, the court gives them subpoena powers. so, they may subpoena people to come in and to be interviewed, or they can go to the facility that they wish to investigate and they can do interviews there, and they can do investigations at the facilities. so, like i said before, they receive training so that they know what they do, what to do, and how to write their reports. damian: and are there--at the end of the year, do these reports, do they have any teeth to them? or are they mostly advisory for those agencies?
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rise: well, some are advisory, but some actually find things that are wrong, or things that haven't done right, and the local government-- damian: and they have to respond back, right? rise: yes, the law requires that a response be given back. and if nothing happens after a grand jury makes recommendations, they can pass it on to the next grand jury, they can refer it to the court, and they can also go to the media. damian: so, it's--i mean, i always look through the reports to see if there's anything juicy that's there. and every year, there's one or two items that are pretty juicy there. describe your role as the presiding judge of santa clara county. you're kind of--you don't take any cases on, obviously. you're there to kind of administrate the courts. rise: yes, well, like i said, i do select the criminal grand jury four times a year. now, they meet alone, very, very confidential. but, when they have legal issues that can't be resolved, then i'm called into the courtroom to resolve them. but i don't resolve them with the grand jury sitting in the courtroom. usually, there are legal issues that i work out
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with the district attorney. and if there are any defense counsel at that point, i can work it out with the lawyers. but only the da and the grand jurors are present. now, that's the criminal grand jury. the civil grand jury, we do like we're doing now, this is our recruitment process to bring in citizens who are qualified to be civil grand jurors. they will submit an application, and the application is screened. and once they get past paper screening, then i interview each and every one of them. so, if we have 100 people apply and they're all qualified, then i will interview all 100 people. so, a lot of my time does go there for a short time of the year. now, i will select, along with my director, we will select 30 qualified individuals. and then those people will be sent to the full bench. so, all of the judges will vote to recommend them for--to be a civil grand juror. now, once they are nominated by the full court, we'll have the
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day when they're sworn in. and on that day, those 30 names are placed into a hopper, you know, like when you play bingo. and 19 names are selected from the hopper. and those will be the 19 grand jurors. now, for the remainder of the 30, they are selected individually, but they will be the alternates. damian: got it. well, what an opportunity to serve on a civil grand jury in any community. but here in santa clara county, we are recruiting more folks to participate. there is, again, the website for more information and the number to call for more information. any final thoughts before we let you go? rise: well, we really need qualified individuals, and we need a number of people to apply so that we have a good cross-section of our community. diversity is very important. we really hope that you will apply. damian: all right, thank you for stopping by. rise: thank you. damian: thank you. and up next here on "comunidad del valle," "valley of the heart" by luis valdez.
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4::=take live== li team coverag levi's stadium. the fans have filled the stands and the players are on the field. soar, no majoproblems reported. but how is all the action impacing businesses just outside the stadium? that story, plus we're tracking traffic, and the weather. here's rob. ==wxwall== it's called the "valley of the heart." it's coming to san jose. with me on "comunidad del valle" are two of the actresses, christy sandoval, who plays maruca montano, and
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rosa maria escalante, who we like to call maybe the madrina of local actresses. and the nation's actresses here on "comunidad del valle," she plays paula montano. welcome to the show. rosa maria escalante: gracias. damian: what an opportunity because you used to perform in "valley of the heart" at el teatro campesino playhouse, and now you're bringing it to the stage here in san jose. talk about the opportunity. rosa: well, both christy and i have had the opportunity of, beginning with the show in san juan, where we did two workshop productions. they were highly successful, and they were still developing. we have brought them now to the san jose stage company on first street, and we're having a really lovely time there. everybody from the stage company is wonderful, they've been very supportive, they've been very helpful, and are bringing it here also because a lot of the japanese-american community has pushed for it to come further north. it is a story about this area of california, in particular
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cupertino, and before it was silicon valley, and during the 1940s. and so, luis was brought up and raised also in part in this area of california, and so he very much wanted to bring it up here to bring it home, to bring it home. damian: i hear good luck getting tickets because they're going fast. rosa: we are very, very pleased. there has been an extension, one extension for a week, but we are encouraging--we are encouraging everybody to please call. there's a possibility that it could be extended for another week, but we need to have the audience in order to be able to do that. damian: that's right. luis valdez was an original cast member here on knt, when we first opened our doors. he was one of the first employees here at kntv, so he's a veterano also from the station. so, christy, you're young, but you're a veteran of el teatro campesino as well. what brings you back maybe to these actos
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and to this type of performance? christy sandoval: yeah, so my history with the company spans probably about the last 10 years. i began just as a community member, a community participant in the annual christmas shows that are performed inside the mission in san juan bautista. didn't really consider myself an artist, but got the opportunity to get some training in the teatro style and the classic actos work. and ironically, had not worked with el señor luis valdez until "valley of the heart" 3 years ago in our first production. but i feel i've really created a home with el teatro. it's really the first theater company that i've laid claim to, that i've felt really part of a family. i've done all sorts of acting works with them. i also am managing the education programs, so taking some of the lessons i've learned and putting teatro in the schools, directing shows.
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i'm also the resident choreographer, so every and any opportunity, it's always a learning experience. i'm still learning things that are new, and creating more opportunities for myself. damian: that's wonderful. i know that you're learning from luis valdez, but what's it like to learn from la madrina as well? because, i mean, you talk about veteranas, this is her right here. christy: absolutely. rosa: it is wonderful. it is what keeps those of us who are--who have done theater for luis. we're celebrating, in case you didn't know, and i don't know if it was in there, this is our 50th anniversary of el teatro campesino. and i--like i tell everybody i wasn't there from the beginning. damian: well, you know, and i'm going to date myself because i went to the 25th anniversary party at the fairmont, so. rosa: exactly, exactly, exactly. well, i was there also, but so this is really special for us. and again, i would like to say since luis has written this, and bringing it sort of back to his hometown too, is an opportunity.
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it's celebrating, part of celebrating our 50th anniversary, and we're very happy to be doing it in his hometown, in one of his hometowns here, so. but it's lovely working with people younger than me. it keeps us energized and keeps us going. damian: and when you look at the clips, because you showed us a clip, this play is--i mean, there's kind of a culture shock [speaking in foreign language] the latino family is shocked that their son is trying to date the japanese-american young girl, and the japanese-american's family is shocked, vice versa. rosa: well, what we've discovered is that in the beauty of this, of this play, has been that our communities are not that separate. one of the beautiful things that i felt that luis specified is that we, as the mexican family, even though we are also in a lot of the same position as the japanese family, we're the
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witnesses, we are the storytellers of what's going on. a lot of them were not allowed to tell the story because they were whisked away. and because our family was integrally part of that and became part of their family with the marriage, we are the ones who are being allowed to tell this story. damian: that's wonderful. well, again, it's called "valley of the heart." it's coming to the stage here in san jose, and there are the dates. there's a website for more information. we'll be back and speak more with these talented actresses when we continue on "comunidad del valle." stay with us. [music]
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but listen to this: (family talking) that's a different kind of sound. the sound of the weekend. unleash the power of dough. give it a pop. production by luis valdez. with us here on "comunidad del valle" are a couple of the actresses in this great performance. now, talk about the research, if you will, that goes into putting something together like this. rosa: well, luis came to us. he was given a grant in order to be able to research this. this is very much a memory play, as it's called, and part of this is part of his own life. this actually--not that he married into a japanese family or anybody from his family, but his family actually took over a japanese ranch for the few years that the family was gone, and stopped being migrants. this was very important to them.
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and so, he has always carried this and always carried the image of his friend that he had, the friends that they were. because as little kids, we don't make those distinctions as well as adults do, and so he got to see his friend being taken away. and so, he always carried that. we've had the opportunity, he had more than a year to be able to look into this. the materials that he looked into were made available to us when we first started the project. he encouraged and has continued giving us things for us to read, to be--to look at. the japanese-american citizens league has been wonderful about being very supportive. we have here in j-town, they have the little museum. there will be things from the show will actually be in the museum, and vice versa i think. and so, it's been--it's been very exciting that it's opened
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up a lot of our eyes, a lot of our younger actors, a lot of us even--i was born right after world war ii, but the thing is that nobody talked about it, nobody did any of that. so, this is all new to ourselves as well as a lot of--it's been wonderful having people who were actually in the internment camps come to our--come to the shows. damian: oh, i bet. and i mean, it's got to make you also a better actress, christy, knowing that you are learning the history of--it's not just about hitting the stage and memorizing your lines and performing. you're kind of feeling, you're in the motion, you're in the mood, and you're learning the history of what you're doing. christy: yes, i'm such a hugee fan of theater for educational purposes, for social change. and i think the mission of the teatro to use theater as a tool to educate from the very beginning, and here's luis valdez in 2013 when he first developed the show, but now in 2016 and his world premiere still doing that,
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still staying true to his roots. but the rich history, it always amazes me just how much he's able to pack into a show. and there was so many issues at play. just it's a beautiful human story. talking about the acting and the emotions, you just cannot help but feel compassion. and i think theater does that too. hopefully, the audiences will learn something. they'll learn about it and get it through their head, but also the show's also called "valley of the heart." it'll hit the heartstrings, it'll make people feel compassion. and as rosa was saying, the japanese americans, so far in my experience, people don't talk about it. it's part of their history, but they don't open up to what really happened, and the show opens people's eyes and creates a discussion. damian: and it's called the "valley of the heart" because, of course, this was--it's now the silicon valley, it once was
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the valley of heart's delight because of the orchards and everything else that was here. what's it like on a personal level to know that there's young blood coming up the ladder, and taking--carrying the torch, if you will? rosa: yes, it's amazing. i'm very happy our, you know, our artistic director, kenan valdez, is one of luis's sons. and he and christy and a lot of newer and younger actors are taking it upon themselves to continue with el teatro campesino. we want to make sure that it survives past the 50 years, and i think it will. i think we've got wonderful talent. damian: yeah, is this long-term for you? is this something that you're going to stick to? christy: i hope so. i think it'll always be part of the work that i do, part of my mission as an artist now. now i can fully own my artistry, and teatro has always been an inspiration, working alongside rosa.
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it's always great to have all these ideas. and nothing's new to her, right? been there, done that. yes, i tried that. but it's the intergenerational exchange too within the company is something--a great opportunity to learn from each other, to lift each other up, and continue the legacy. damian: that's great. well, it's "valley of the heart," again, at the san jose stage company. and there are the dates that it's running. there is a web address for more information. it's the new work by luis valdez. well, it's what, 3 or 4 years old now, right? rosa: now it is. but it's very new, it's very new. it is new for san jose. damian: any final thoughts before we let you go? rosa: please, you know, don't hesitate. if they tell you that it's sold out, tell them that you're interested. please continue. we may be there for a little longer if there is enough interest. damian: open some more dates. any final thoughts? christy: just a big thank you to the community. coming into san jose, this is my first production in san jose.
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i'm used to little san juan bautista, but the outpouring of support and the welcoming has been greatly appreciated. so, we hope to--we do hope to stick around a little longer. damian: very good, all right. well, good luck, thank you so much. what's that, break a leg, is that what they say in theatre? rosa: yes, but we hope to see you there. damian: yes, we will be there. rosa: because we talk to the audience afterwards, so we'll be looking for you. damian: you'll know if i'm there or not, gracias. and now here's what's happening in your comunidad on que pasa. [music] [music] [music] [music]
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damian: and now, saludos to those celebrating their special day, felicidades. [music] damian: and here's our address for next week's saludos. you can follow me on twitter. my handle is @newsdamian. also, pick up a copy of el observador newspaper and support your bilingual weeklies all across bay area. also, watch us on telemundo channel 48 every saturday at 5:30 p.m., "comunidad del valle" in español. we'll see you again here next week. [speaking in foreign language] [music]
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