." male announcer: nbc bay area presents "comunidad del valle" with damian trujillo. damian: we begin today with the busy construction industry, and how maybe can you know your rights to get around that workforce. with me on "comunidad del valle" is josué garcia, who heads the building and trades council, and al gonzalez is representing the plumbers union here in the area. welcome to the show. al gonzalez: thank you. josué garcia: thank you, damian, thank you very much, and you are correct. right now in the bay area, construction is booming. and with booming, there is an opportunity and a little bit of a problem that al and i would like to talk to the community about. one of them is the opportunities in construction, employment opportunities in construction, and the other one, which is a problem, it's wage theft that happens very often in construction. damian: see, i mean, we have the pictures. you see--you see the high rises in any downtown, you see the cranes, the construction. and it's--you know, it's raza that's doing the work. josué: yep. yes, in fact, 70% in the

." male announcer: nbc bay area presents "comunidad del valle" with damian trujillo. damian: we begin today with the busy construction industry, and how maybe can you know your rights to get around that workforce. with me on "comunidad del valle" is josué garcia, who heads the building and trades council, and al gonzalez is representing the plumbers union here in the area. welcome to the show. al gonzalez: thank you. josué garcia: thank you, damian, thank you very much, and you are correct. right now in the bay area, construction is booming. and with booming, there is an opportunity and a little bit of a problem that al and i would like to talk to the community about. one of them is the opportunities in construction, employment opportunities in construction,

damian trujillo: hello, and welcome to "comunidad del valle." i'm damian trujillo, and today, the niteliters, the bay area musical sensation, playing cali-jano music on your "comunidad del valle." male announcer: nbc bay area presents "comunidad del valle" with damian trujillo. damian: we begin today with the visit by--the monthly visit of the mexican consulate in san francisco. with me is the consul adscrito here in san francisco, guillermo reyes castro, welcome to the show, sir. guillermo reyes castro: thank you very much, damian, thank you for having me here. damian: thank you for being here. well, tell us the roles of the consul adscrito. what is it that you do for the consular? guillermo: well, my main role is to support the consul general, offering the services to the community here in the area, in the bay area. we are offering consular services, protection services, and naturally all of the other areas, such as location, health,

up next, on "comunidad del valle", a project super nova. stay with us. it's a great community group called the super nova foundation. here to share information with us on "comunidad del valle". welcome to the show. >> talk about the work that you do with the super nova foundation. >> i'm one of the directors. there's seven of us. we have several committee members. i help with our overall fund-raising everts and community outreach. >> what does your organization do for the community? >> we started approximately ten years ago now where my best friend adrianna espinoza, the president celebrated his birthday and we had a lot of community support. the following year at that time, i was working for next door solution to domestic violence. and we came up with the idea that instead of our attendees attending his birthday celebration, bring a gift. and then we turned around and then just decided to donate to next door. and it has just evolved since then. >> how rewarding is ha? we're looking at ins here. how rewarding is it to do something like that? >> it's amazi

damian trujillo: hello, and welcome to "comunidad del valle." damian trujillo, and today, we have the work2future program here. also, latina authors lending their work to the community on your "comunidad del valle." male announcer: nbc bay area presents "comunidad del valle" with damian trujillo. damian: we begin with the nbc bay area holiday food drive, the annual food drive. with me here is vicky avila medrano with the second harvest food bank here to fill us in. welcome to the show. vicky avila medrano: thank you so much, damian. damian: before we get into the need, the local need, you just got back from the fire zone in napa and sonoma counties. and i'm sure the need there is especially great. talk about what you saw there. vicky: i came back yesterday, exactly, and i was there for one week. it was an energetic situation because it's true,

principios de aÑo cuando rios de desbordaron y comunidades enteras se inundaron causando devastacion y estragos por semanas. ---el distrito del agua del vallea clara dice que estar listo con un plan de accion que hoy fue aprobado y el cual... aseguran, esta diseÑado para proteger a la comunidad de una situacion critica como la que se vivio el invierno pasado. --el concejo de la ciudad de san jose se unio a los esfuerzos del distrito de agua y ayudaron por 9 los ultimos 9 meses a delinear estrategias y actividades de coordinacion con la agencia durante las posibles inundaciones en san jose. ---por ejemplo, en estos momentos se construyen barreras temporales contra inundaciones en la zona de "rock springs", el area que mas sufrio tras las severas precipitaciones de febrero pasado y tambien se estan removiendo ya, arboles que estan en peligro de caer en caso de que el suelo se saturara. ---mientras que en concord, se esta ofreciendo a sus residentes bolsas de arena gratis que se pueden recoger las 24 horas del dia en una estacion especial de la ciudad., para mas detalles visite triple doble v city of concord sandbags. ---un mundo sin barreras.

del valle san joaquÍn, el estado de california. >> hoy se realizÓ por la orquesta sinfÓnica. anticiparon con su talento, junto a la famosa sinfÓnica. el objetivo es unir a la comunidad del concierto hay altares, celebraciones, actividades de danza, mÚsica en vivo. >> esto hoy y conmocionado por la variedad de los trajes y bailarines, ha sido importante caminar y ser recibida por todos los bailarines. >> esta celebraciÓn culminó con un concierto, interpretando mÚsica de antaÑo. pasamos con natalie juÁrez y un adelanto de contacto deportivo. >> te contamos cÓmo le fue al barcelona con el c villa, monterrey y lobo se enfrentaron barcelona con el c villa, monterrey y lobo se enfrentaron a la jornada 16 de la liga mx. cuando tienes médicos que trabajan en equipo por tu salud, obtienes el cuidado que necesitas para vivir bien. ♪ para saber más, visita kp.org diagonal viva bien. kaiser permanente. viva bien. ♪ locutor: regresamos con noticias y sin 14tu gente, tu voz. ♪ ♪ locutor: este es contacto deportivo. natalie: en un sÁbado cargado de acciÓn futbolera la liga mx.un error del guardametas dio la ventaja a rayados con un mal despeje a quien de rebote abriÓ el marcador.