from my home to yours, this is your communidad del valle. >> nbc bay area presents "communidad del valle" with damian trujillo. >> our first guest on our virtual communidad del valle this week is dr. elayer yeah bauer, superintendent of the alum rock school district. thank you for being our guest. how have you been handling covid? 19? >> glad to see you back. i can't believe that we're already in may. for all practical purposes this has gone so fast. this is week seven of shelter in place. we started this in march 13, that's when the district went into lockdown. then right after that happened, the county went and officially said, we're going to move into shelter, that was unprecedented times. you know, for all of us, in all of our different areas. i'm pretty sure none of us were expecting to live something like this. but i believe that given the circumstances, we have been able to survive all of this. so i'm happy about that. >> you shouldn't have gone to do what you did at talon rock, one of the poorest districts in the state. yet on day one the kids were ready to learn from home. how d

so from my home to yours, this is your "communidad del valle." >> nbc bay area presents "communidad del valle" with damian trujillo. >> and we begin today here on "communidad del valle." welcome to the show, connie. >> thank you. thank you for having us on. >> before we get into voting, tell us where are you guys at and what do you do in the community? >> we are a nonprofit based out of redwood city. we work with families and children. we have different programming for both children and adults. and right now, our programming is online. but we do have a lot of online programs that the children and the parents are accessing via zoom. and we just have a lot of different programming when it comes to art. we have music programs. we also have online programs for adults and we're just trying to make a difference in our community and do a lot of programming, get the families to participate in a lot of community events and programming. >> let's talk about the census first, because that's one of the hot topics that you're undertaking right now. the census, as we all know, said that we can now --