families, as professor thompson explained, children with more unfortunate backgrounds enter kind garten00 word vocabulary. a very big differential and makes it difficult for those children to begin to learn and keep up with their peers. so our objective is to close that work gap before it happens, focusing on the first three years of life where the centers of the brain are developed language and literacy are most active, 80 prosecuti 080% of brt takes place in the first three years of life. it's important to talk, read and sing to their children and by the time they reach kindergarten will be able to succeed in school and beyond in life. >> your campaign is very aggressive, not only have the kit you can get but also the outdoor signage that will be everybody where. why is this signage so important? >> we're launching in oakland with a pilot program. you'll see these bill boards and bus shelters going up in oakland in the next month or so. we're partnering with a national organization called too small to fail and they have a number of national collaborative partners, bill and hillary cli

. >> the irony is we have all of the data supporting prekander garten education with fewer spokes ending up in prison, fewer folks that don't achieve in school and good on to high school and higher education. we have to make the investment and make a strategic investment into the country's future. >> another component is reforming the criminal justice system. president obama is expected to speak more on that tomorrow when he addresses the naacp conviction here in california. he with we heard some of that conversation earlier today. there was a top panel discussion with lawyers and american prosecutors and lawyer in the country are working on that for 6:00 and i'm rosemary conners, nbc 10 news. >> well some pretty blue skies with blew clouds over the sent are city skyline. but this scene will look a lot different this time around. a few showers tonight. by tomorrow big changes. >> first alert chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is here with us. glenn? >> today was a lot more like the weekend was with hot sunshine and relatively low humidity. we have moisture increasing across t

garten did not dispute it but said it was no way a decision about the breast pump. it was about appearing to do it in the middle of a deposition although no one involved suggested she went beyond just displaying the pump. today donald trump tried to assert a somewhat different account. >> what happened was in the middle of everything. it wasn't breast feed. it was breast pump. she wanted to pump in front of me during a deposition. >> the way she described it was that she wanted to take a break so she could take it out if you ask my lawyer who was there, emi've never seen anything like it. she wanted to breast pump in front of me. and i may have said that is disgusting. i may have said something else. i thought it was terrible. she's a horrible person. she knows nothing about me. i see she's now the great expert on donald trump. >> joining me now, the attorney involved in this story. the one who was taking donald trump's deposition. miss beck -- >> hi. >> this is a surreal situation you find yourself in. first, do you want to respond to mr. trump calling you a horrib

reporter: healther is holding on to hope she can see her daughter, brie, off to her first day of kinder garten but if she loses her battle before then, she has a safety net. >> hey, brie. i'm always, always proud of you. >> reporter: writing her daughter advice. >> be yourself. >> reporter: encouragement. >> my love is always with you. >> reporter: and memories. >> every minute with you, you made me happier than i ever thought i could be. >> reporter: a letter for every milestone from a bad day to her wedding day. >> that one was emotional. that one was a tough one. >> reporter: letter by letter writing herself back into her daughter's life. >> you know, it was difficult once i was done looking at this, you know, this pile that's this physical representation of everything i'm going to miss. >> reporter: heather says if the letters are too hard for brie to read or just make her sad she doesn't care if they ever get opened, just that brie has them if she ever wants them. >> it makes me really happy because i'm lucky to have the opportunity to do this stuff. >> reporter: holding on to hope every

reauthorizing this education bill, we have the chance to help more students start kin gear garten ready to learn p. with the amendment that senator casey offers, we have the opportunity to set kids 0en a path towards success not just in grade school but into adulthood. and we have the chance to fortify our economic competitiveness for years to come. i urge my colleagues to support his amendment to support this bill that already contains bipartisan recallly learning grants -- early learning grants and then take a step further and support the casey amendment. thank you mr. president. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from ten tennessee. lockboxmr. alexander: i have five requests for committees to meet during the senate today. i ask that the requests be agreed to and the requests being printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: mr. president i would say to the senator, we are hoping to be able to lock in an amendment but ware not quite -- but we're not quite ready yet. and so what i might do is request ask him to yield during his spe