. >> she's always putting her four-year-old daughter, alana, to the test. even at snack time. the 25-year-old single mom learned to improve her daughter's vocabulary through a pilot program called 30 million words. it comes from a gap that researchers say sometimes exists between higher and lower income parents, and lower income kids who sometimes don't. it helps them to improve their vocabulary by teaching them different ways to talk to them. newel was astonished by alana's quick problem. >> my daughter started and it was like, who are you talking to? >> the doctor specializing in it developed 30 million words after noticing that some of her lower income patients didn't progress as fast following surgery. >> it really had nothing to do with the hearing loss, but rather the language that they were being exposed to. >> some of the research conducted back in the 1990s by two university of kansas child psychologists. they found that three-year-olds who interacted more with their parents and were exposed to more words were better prepared for kindergarten and attended to be better

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admitted a strong vocabulary is no guarantee kids will succeed in school, but newell thinks it will give alana an advantage as well as her little brother. diane eastabrook, al jazeera, chicago. ♪ >>> i'm meteorologist dave warren the weather pattern here is fairly stuck. we have the cold air to the east, warm air to the west. this trough of low-pressure. cold air continues to move down. we see storms move through. high-pressure out west is dry and we get that windy weather especially east of the rockies, and the santa ana winds keeping it cold there. light snow in the plains, just a winter water advisory in effect with the cold temperatures. still warm across the southwest, and mild weather one more day here across the mid-atlantic states. the light snow just lingering a little bit, winter storm warning will remain in effect, but it's just a winter weather advisory, meaning not a lot of snow, just a little bit to make it troublesome on the roadways. wind will continue to gust, increasing the fire danger because it is dry and making travel a little troublesome there. here is the light snow thro

joining me now, alana shore, reporter at green wire., the context for cliff forrest and coal is this incredible kind of upsurge of political activism that we saw from the coal industry and coal companies and coal owners around the 2012 election, which became for them, a kind of waterloo battle, right? this idea that coal was going to be killed if barack obama was re-elected. >> absolutely, chris. and you know, this started, in fact, in 2010, when coal companies just packed money into john boehner's coffers, when his republicans, ultimately, took over the house. and it got even bigger in 2012, in terms of the industry's involvement on the congressional, as well as presidential levels. they hate the obama epa's regulations for power plants. they are still determined to stop them, even though they're already going through the process. >> you know, i am so confounded by how we are watching this play out in west virginia right now. because it just seems to me that no one is in charge and no one can give a straight answer on the basic questio

clark county which is the wealthiest and most sizable county in montana at that time and it's where alana is located. an old friend of her father's help her win the election that she's the first woman to run and she serves in that position throughout the 18 eighties and then has what i consider to be the most fascinating installment of her career which comes in the 1890's when she travels to oklahoma which is then indian territory to serve as an alloting agent breaking up the indian reservations and other groups that had been targeted for the allotment by the federal government because of the act passed in 1887 wichita indians needed to live as the historians called the plots of land and so on and the idea was to sort of break up the great tribal masks that theodore roosevelt said some years afterwards and so she was sent out in the field to do this job expressly because of her indian heritage in the group she was sent to a lot more particularly reluctant to accept and so the commissioner of the indian affairs who knew of them because they were a prominent family suggested and as many wor

. >> alana wish forward a van for the family because the old one was breaking down >> a couple times kids are late to school because the car just won't start. and this so this is unreal. >> general salesman ger wanted to help out. >> watching their expression hit down there. felt g >> alanis isn't sure why her wish was granted >> maybe because it was for the my whole family? i don't know. i'm still shocked by it. >> some wishes were fun, one teacher challenging hisston a tro trisickle race before he goes off to college. >> that is the best assembly, ever. that does it for the news at 4:00. abc7 news at 5:00 begins right now. >> that sounds decent. wipe outs earlier, everybody is okay. >> what a day it's been. and do have a winner. >> there was pressure not to stop. >> candid comments and mistakes made on the new bay bridge. >> most areas cooler today. what you can expect for the weekend coming up. >> wow. unbelievable. that is one of the biggest of the day. >> yes. >> high surf pounding the coastline today, and it was perfect, just in time for the xhet tigs and we have a winner tonig

. >> now, michael finney is here answering questions and alana asking can a store refuse to cash out a gift card worth less than $ten? >> the law is clear, once it's worth less than $ten, they've got to give you your change back in cash if you ask. now, if they wanted to jerk you around they'll say we'll give you a check. >> good to know. >> must i give out my social security number or driver's license number on personal new patient paper work? before i can see a doctor? >> nope. you don't have to do it. but if you don't the doctor doesn't have to see you. this is up to the doctor. cash there is no reason for that information. but... if they refuse to take care of the patient they have that right. >> i don't put it on flchlt they ask, we have a conversation.. >> i put 000, 000. they say they only want it for identification purposes. that is it. you'll never find me. >> michael finney, difficult patient. larry asks if a store does not display a return policy are there laws i can refer to? >> this is the time of the year everybody is returning and exchanging. here in california says ha

he writes a series of articles from the alana tech calling for a german victory and was never published on the everlasting which calls for the german conquest. it existed in that connection but when you go to talk to the library and they will not bring it forward to you know. i will come back to this an eminent. let me turn to the here the profession has been imposed and there is a good deal of repression. world war i is. in 1917 on entering the war in the american left including people like max or part of the pacifist groups that visited washington were enamored and you will see this and we will get to that. they see what role wilson as one of them and it sounds like one of them. he is opposed to many of the same grounds. the imperialism, triumphed, he studied socialism and he's not a socialist but he studied socialism and he sees an american progress of islam. those years him between 1920 were traumatic. in 1916 many of them embraced willson as a former leader of the province. by 1919, he was seen who's in frederick was the spy. wilson's 14 points to the republic of the labor unions a

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