. >> elana held her first fund raiser when she was just 9.he raked in $4,500 retiredle women for little women in afghanistan was born. chapters spraining up in the united states, and canada, and soon it was helping buy school supplies and train teachers. >> and how did you and nile rogerses comment together? is. >> in 2011, i was selected to be a team leader. which is a part of the we are family foundation, which is nile, founded. >> each year, three.dash flies it's teen leaders to new york, and teaches them how to get their message out. the way matty did. >> matty had oprah winfrey, and larry king, so we had this big international platform. some of our kids don't have those -- the benefit of those powerful media platforms. so what we do, is we try and amfully final rules their message, and we give them the means to do that. what else did you learn that helped you? >> i was able to learn how to get my word out there on things like facebook, and twitter, and really using different things like youtube. lain that has raised almost half a million

host: elana schor, are democrats defending tom stier?ry reid himself defended tom stier soon after that speech. myself and other reporters asked him about tom stier afterwards. he basically offered what tom stier has offered, that he and the democrats want to see campaign spending limits and is about to call up a constitutional amendment to do so but that in the meantime, democrats should not disarm or refuse money from guys like tom stier. for republicans, that is highly debatable. your we are here to take questions and comments. mike? you are on with elana schor. caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. the big earthquake that we had, if you spin and rotate over the this, it isrs like going to change the requirements. lot inrter inch being a your measurement, you take the and we haveearth seen changes in our son. we get up when the sun rises in the east. years ago my my cousins and friend lost a son. at the end of the school year, it was directly in line with route 30. >> coming into the 2014 election is climate change a top

elana was born in pakistan, she focused on advocate. elana, welcome. >> thank you. >> hi. >> you work with a lot of the children and communities in pack span, are families scared to send their children to school especially girls? >> i say they are in some areas probably in the northwest frontier and some of the villages in the swat valley where the taliban are still quite prominent. they are scared. the taliban is insisting that their education is against -- islamic religion. and a lot of these parents are even ill lit rate and they carry on believing that concept. so they do whatever they can to try to stop the kids from going to school. is the afghanistan military doing enough to protect the schools as well as the pakistani military? >> because they are targeting schools i think what they are fearing is children who become educated and then literate enough to know that tall ban's concept of education is correct, and of course imlamb promotes education. is she views a a hero. >> she is by many, but unfortunately there have been certain

. >> thanks in part to skills learnt in 3.dash, elana raised half a million. little women for little women trained more than 5,000 teachers and helped you educate more than 5,000 in afghanistan. tell me what elana's work was meant to the foundation. >> she is the perfect example. not only is her own programme and her own work amazing, what she does with young women in afghanistan, but she's got a huge heart and she's always there to help us. >> we are family. that's what it is. >> our picture of the day is from san diego county. it's our top story. where a family looks at the remains of their home destroyed by wild fires. several are burning out of control. it's calmed down a little bit. they are worried about tomorrow. thousands have been evacuated. richelle carey with the headlines after this. see you tomorrow. >>> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm richelle carey. here are tonight's top stories - raging wild fires in southern california burnt thousands of acres, the governor has declared a state of emergency, several homes have been destroyed, one is dead.

host: elana schor, are democrats defending tom stier?arry reid himself defended tom stier soon after that speech. myself and other reporters asked him about tom stier afterwards. he basically offered what tom stier has offered, that he and the democrats want to see campaign spending limits and is about to call up a constitutional amendment to do so but that in the meantime, democrats should not disarm or refuse money from guys like tom stier. for republicans, that is highly debatable. your we are here to take questions and comments. mike? you are on with elana schor. caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. the big earthquake that we had, if you spin and rotate over the this, it isrs like going to change the requirements. lot inrter inch being a your measurement, you take the and we haveearth seen changes in our son. we get up when the sun rises in the east. years ago my my cousins and friend lost a son. at the end of the school year, it was directly in line with route 30. >> coming into the 2014 election is climate change a t

troy and elana were killed by a driver on prescription drugs and the patients safety act bearing theirame would change the state's medical malpractice law. something that hasn't been done in nearly 40 years. we have the story from danville. >> what we want is for other families to be safe. >> for danville's bob, it brings some measure of satisfaction after a decade of mourning and healing. it's the ballot measure pat created in memory of his late son and daughter this will go before california voters in november. >> if a doctor harms someone, they need to be held accountable so people can understand what happened, and secondly, they need to change whatever went wrong. right now if you don't go to court and hold them accountable, they feel there's no need to change. >> the 10-year-old troy and 7-year-old elana died in october, 2003. struck by a driver high on alcohol and drugs just a few blocks from their home. the gold mercedes jumped the curb and struck and killed the children as they walked with their mother and friends on the sidewalk. the driver had been abusing vicodin and other p

our guest is elana schor. at 8:30 eastern, james brown, executive director of the stem program. at 9:15, our spotlight on magazines features paul barrett of "bloomberg businessweek" on his recent article on why gm keeps moving from apology to aggression in the recall -- regression in the recall process. >> so much of our foreign policy was focused in the wars in afghanistan and iraq. when i took office, we had nearly 180,000 troops in harms way. by the end of this year, we will have less than 10,000. host: that was president obama yesterday at the white house laying out his plan for the u.s. troops presence in afghanistan over the next 2.5 years. this

of guest is elana schor environment and energy news. then, james brown, director of the stem education coalition discusses the plan to train more science technology engineering and math teachers. later, our spotlight on magazines features paul barrett of bloomberg businessweek on why gm keeps swerving from apology to aggression in the recall crisis. washington journal is live every day at 7:00 eastern. >> house armed services macittee mik vice chair thornberry speaks about national security policy. congressman thornberry is considered by some to be the next likely chair of the armed services committee. at 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> if you go back and look at coolidge, he was a conservative hero. his tax rate was a gold standard tax rate that we saw, 25% was what he got the top rate down to. he fought like crazy. it started with wilson in the 70's. when you look at what all the socialites said about coolidge in washington, how cold he was, remember that they were probably also from primaries that endorsed different policies. a le

our guest is elana schor. then james brown discusses the obama administration's plan to train more science, technology, engineering and math teachers. later, our spotlight on magazines features paul barrett of bloomberg business week on his recent article on why g.m., as he puts it, keeps swerving from apology to aggression in the recall crisis. "washington journal" is live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> house armed services committee vice chair speaks at the heritage foundation today about national security policy. congressman thornberry is considered by some to be the likely next chair of the armed services committee. live coverage of his remarks at 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span2. >> if you go back and look at coolidge, he was a conservative hero, and his tax rate was a gold standard tax rate that we saw in the video 25% was what he got, the top rate down to, and he fought like crazy and started to remember and when you look at what all the socialites said about cool nidge washington, how cool he was, wou