dr. sander hernandez of the san francisco foundation will explain the latest on immigration reform. hear who is eligible now and what they must do to become citizens. >>> and while latino women face special challenges in the workplace, rose castillo gibo open her book to spanish women with this mantra, this is your century. she'll tell us why. i'm srk and that is on "bay area focus" next. . >>> welcome back to "bay area focus." i'm susan sikora. the agenda has been preock pied by the drama in syria. where does that leave immigration reform and what is the process of becoming a citizens right now. for answers, we welcome back dr. sanders hernandez, the department of health for the city and county of san francisco and is an assistant clinical professor at ucss school of medicine. dr. hernandez is the ceo of the san francisco foundation, one of several groups partnering with the city to help eligible immigrants become citizens. welcome back. good to have you. >> thank you. >> let's talk about this and seems like everything else is on the burner. this is going to be pushed back again. a

dr. sander herself and a round of applause, the california endowment and others provided tremendous financial support so thank you very much for that. [applause] . we really do appreciate it and the cohost and mary lee and tom torque son and who you met this morning and our next panel is planning for student safety opportunity and success and planning for action around the bay. our moderator is jill tucker an education reporter at the san francisco kron cell. i told jill it's hard to find bios online for reporters. they can stay out of google. she's award winning reporter and covered california schools for 14 years and knows a lot about this subject and was honored by the california teacher association and received the highest award about the growing number of homeless students in the school system. she is a san francisco native and was in the peace corps and tout in west africa and please welcome jill tucker. [applause] >> thank you. she just dated me with that 9090 peace corps thing. okay. i want to say how great it is to be here. i have been looking at everyone's name tags and awed by the

dr. robb and sanders. thanks for being with us this morning. >> thank you for having me this morning. >> now, you were the national security council africa director at the whitehouse when the embassy in kenyan was bombed back in 1998. and president obama, in fact, kenya considers president obama to be its native son so in this instance, is it different, and how should the white house react? >> no. it's not different. i mean it's a horrific event, and my heart goes out to all of the victims and their families. and i think that we need to continue to focus on the stattegic issues of how do we contain groups like al shabaab. >> american officials have been warning nairobi malls were vulnerable to attacks. did kenya not heed the warnings from the u.s.? >> i am sure that kenya did. i think that everybody in this day and age, the whole global landscape has changed so drastically that i think that everyone pays particular attention to security risks, but we just had a horrific event here in washington, d.c. last