>>> hello and welcome to "comunidad del valle." 1,000 homes for 1,000 homeless within two years. how will they do that? plus, are restoring trust in your real' state agent. this is your "comunidad del valle." >>> we begin today with a local winner of the education nation contest, a recipient from nbc. he's here on "comunidad del val valle." you won a good chunk of change for your high school in the south bay. congratulations. >> thank you. >> so education nation is a nationwide campaign by the nbc network and tell us how you found out about it, and you had to write an essay. tell us about your essay. >> in the beginning of the year when i first started in my broadcast journalism class, which is a pretty underfeunded class, my teacher came across it online, i think, and asked if we were interested, if we wanted to submit an essay. so i took her up on the offer and sent it in. >> what was your essay about? when you're writing essays, you have your topic and you describe it and you defend it and you have to defend it. tell us about yours. >> i talked about how the broadcast journalis

. >>> hello and welcome to "comunidad del valle." today helping families stay in their homes. housing trust of santa clara county and wells fargo bank are in our studio. this is your "comunidad del valle." >>> we begin today with the loop us. foundation of northern california. our guest in the studio is a patient but also here to talk about fitness and exercise. she has a special program. this is thing that afflicts everyone, latino, african-american. it doesn't matter. tell us about lupus, briefly, if you will and the good work you're doing. >> the good work we're doing at the lupus townation of northern california, we're focused on research. lupus affects more than 1.5 million americans, more than ms and aids combined. a lot of people don't know that. i was shocked as a patient to first learn that. we are partnered with the lupus research institute out of new york city. the private novel funder of public research. we provide services for patients where patients can come from just newly being diagnosed to people who have had the illness for a while to people who are interested

>>> hello, and welcome to "comunidad del valle." i'm damian trujillo. today, george lopez and carlos santana, touring together across the nation. so you don't want to miss that. plus, the lieutenant santiago scholarship foundation. this is your "comunidad del valle." ♪ >>> we begin today with the flamenco society of san jose. eddie and catherine diaz are with me here. they're bringing la rena? is that the title? we'll talk about her in a bit, but tell us about the flamenco society first and foremost, if you will. >> sure. we're a non-profit organization. we've been around over 25 years. and what we do is promote the art of flamenco. we have presented some of the greatest pla meinko artists from traditional to modern flamenco and different styles from the guitar, dancing, and now we have a flamenco piano guitarist. >> and tell us about her a little bit. we're going to play a quick -- let me play this quick clip, and then at the other end, you can tell us a little bit about her. play about 15 seconds of this. ♪ ♪ >> so, tell us about her. there she is in w