iryna shenkarenko, jenia dulo, voice of america, huntington beach, california. our next story is about rimusoritis, an american woman of lithuanian origin, who has been teaching the basics of first aid in ukraine for more than a year. she conducts classes for military and civilians. the woman came to ukraine for the first time in the fall of 2022 as a volunteer, and since february last year she decided to become a medical instructor. however, it started helping ukraine much earlier, since 2014. anna kostyuchenko and pavel sohodolsky will tell more about her. we will talk about tamponade of the wound. this is one of the most important things. rimazoritis, a 36-year-old american woman of lithuanian origin from chicago, teaches the basics of medical care for the wounded at the united help ukraine international tactical medicine center in kyiv. in the early summer of 2022 , rima quit her job at a financial company and joined the charity organization blue and yellow, which helps ukraine. she first came to ukraine in september 2022. i came during the counteroffensive

huntington beach is one of the few cities in california that homelessness has gone down.h less money. because what we are doing is enforcing encampment laws and making sure we get those homeless the services they deserve and get them off the streets. not compassionate to leave the homeless on the street and then give them drugs and alcohol. we need to get on the services they deserve, at them off the street and out of our parks so our kids can play and away from our businesses so people can go into our businesses. >> trace: we are going to try to get the sheriff on the show and you have to watch him. this is riverside county about 75 miles east. watch. >> hello california. riverside county sheriff. for the past 30 years i've been doing everything i could to keep our community safe by arresting criminals and putting them in jail and i'm getting tired. i'm getting tired and i'm wondering if i'm having a change of heart and deciding that you know what maybe i've been wrong. and i think i'm going to change teams. instead of letting them out of jail and giving them alcohol and

chef, this is for you because this is a kid out of your neck of the woods in huntington beach and hethere. we had him on last night,'s name is jamie. he was on with his mom. he was running for commissioner of spirit and patriotism in the school, the school said you need to take the patriotism out of your speech and he's like i don't want to do that. here's what he told us last night. watch. >> she told me to remove everything regarding patriotism. and so i immediately knew, no, i'm not? to do that because i knew that that was wrong. when i came to school and next day, i went up to her and she's like i need your speech. i need to see it before it goes out and i'm like okay i have a right here but i did not remove the parts regarding patriotism. >> trace: and it's interesting, chef, because you have these kids, and he really wants to be patriotic, and the schools and all of us everywhere are so reticent to attach ourselves to the flag. they call it a race assemble or it's just kind of sad. >> it is. first things, this kid eats for free at all of my restaurants. intelligent, well spoken

now, why that's important, isn' b t because i live there, but huntington beach is actually the tip of spear when it comes to fightinei figh the crazy liberal administration in sacramento l.g and he's opening his restaurant, not in hollywood, not in l.a., not in beverlyt notla hills, not ine posh areas, but in the conservative hotbed of souther ien california. >> so some some underlying story there. or >> see if i can make your feel good story. i feel bad stories. oh, please do it. are you worried it's going to compete with your restaurant? >> no, because the space he picked is horrible. it's a restaurant graveyard, guys. >> okay, i like that. okay. i believe you're going to be okay. great. e >> greg, you're going to love this story. so do you guys remember in 1982 when duran duran came out with the rio album? ye durs you have up there? beautiful cover. totally. for years, not the band knew who she was. and guess what? we not a w only know who she is, but she lives now in napa valley. she owns a vineyard with her totally awesome husband. her name is marcy hunte al, the cover cover was

there's people from huntington beach, california, representative from engineering, a representative from this mission. -if there were going to be any changes, she headed up this team that would have to approve any changes. -she was effectively the deputy to ron dittemore, the program manager in those days. linda has excellent judgment, can grasp complicated problems very quickly. she was the first woman to be certified as a flight director. linda was recalling sts-112, a flight two flights before. -[ indistinct ] -main engine start. two...one... we got booster ignition and liftoff of the space shuttle atlantis. -sts-112 had a very similar piece of foam come off from almost the same location, but in that case, the foam hit solid rocket booster and put a dent in it. -the foam traveled -- traveled down. it struck right here, these three lines. -it didn't hit the orbiter, so it was no effect to the flight. the management team, they analyzed it and came up with the conclusion that no safety of flight issue existed. -we dodged a bullet on that one. here's your warning, and you only get one. ♪

rent hikes by the balancing the production by supervisor stafani mentioned the city counsels in huntington beach is talking about say to people the headlines of that political art is republicans for rent control basically web anyone wishing to speak, if no objection, receive and file this measure saying the state can't do anything with rent control and maybe a situation we're going have - this was it was stated by city council strickland. and this will enable them - so i think that one line that one sentence beyond the castro hawkins is the problem that's why i'm not not that concludes my report. this resolution. >> where's is that? >> all i see that the castro hawkins act is fully eliminated i see one 95.552 the castro hawkins act that is stricken out and one 95.4 may not limit the city and county to maintain an act or expand residential rent control that line is. >> taking the state completing out of this and including the local governments could be bad actors and it what would be by impacting that makes housing production and i think the c side resort this is. >> (multiple voices). >> local g

we are in a great area in huntington beach and educating consumers how we are serving the right typeshe community environment and get people talking about things and give food, customer service, work your self which iran 35 restaurants prior to this but i am only going to open one restaurant right now, not in california or any of these cities where they are trying to drive business out. you have to make strategic decisions. neil: what do you do? >> i said before, i will say again, you have to get creative. give them something that gets them excited to spend money at your establishment. they said there's a lot on us these days and giving people the ability to come in, spend money, get value for their money is on us as business owners. neil: you all are destination dining spot so your customers are loyal to the extent they can be. i want you to listen to something donald trump came up with recently that would affect your workforce if it came to pass, this is donald trump talking about service workers. >> i will emanate taxes, tips for restaurant workers or hospitality workers. >> a lot

and then six months ago, we opened one in huntington beach. our customers are loving it.y love the speed, the accuracy, the quality coming out of it. our team members love it. our turnover is significantly lower in those restaurants. and we have seen -- what we said is we expect seven points of margin expansion at the store level for those restaurants. >> seven points, like full percentage points? >> seven full percentage points. in q1, the two infinite kitchen stores, we saw about ten points of leverage. so it's a huge opportunity for us. right now, we're in the process of rolling this out to more locations. so we're opening starting this summer, we will open seven new restaurants featuring the infinite kitchen. next year, that pace will continue to accelerate. we believe automation is the next platform shift in food. >> i kind of like -- can you franchise? i run a sweetgreen operation? i would like 28% profits, that sounds good. >> today, it's all company owned. but one day we may explore other sorts of opportunities. but we like to control the end-to-end experience so

yesterday across this country, you sawgrass roots voters forming rallies and car parades from huntington beachzed by our campaign. they were organized by the people. there is an uprising and shift in momentum across the country. we will continue to fully capitalize only it and president trump is going to win in cheryl: here's the thing. we know his base is loyal. we know those people who loved and supported donald trump from 2015 to now were going to be there for him but the campaign is the issue of the undecided voters, that's a small amount of voters that are going to decide this election and what the democrats are going to do is -- there's a new york times piece pout this, it says democrats push biden to make trump's felonies a top 2 2024 issue. they say interviews with dozens of democrats reveal a party hungry to tell voters that donald trump's conviction is unfit for you office. let's listen to the former president. i want to get your reaction to all of this. >> a lot of people said we have no choice but to elect trump. republicans, because he's the only one that can withstand this. don't

a family in huntington beach is crying foul after their three children were expelled from school.tells us the boy planned to deliver a speech promising to make the school great again, but the school never gave him the chance. >> my love for america is my motivation for running for commissioner of patriotism and school spirit. >> this is part of jimmy hayward's campaign speech recorded in front of his home with his baby sister holding the make. sbs great again sign. >> it is an honor to live in this country. >> he expected to address the student body of saint bonaventure catholic school in may, but he says the principal wouldn't allow it because he didn't follow her orders to remove the references to patriotism. >> i didn't remove the patriotic part. that's one of the most important parts of the speech, if not the most. so i'm not removing, sadly. some people take their citizenship for granted, whether it is disrespecting the people who protect us or eating nachos during the national anthem at a sporting event was patriotism the issue, or was it his trump like sign off? i will make

rent hikes by the balancing the production by supervisor stafani mentioned the city counsels in huntington beach is talking about say to people the headlines of that political art is republicans for rent control basically web anyone wishing to speak, if no objection, receive and file this measure saying the state can't do anything with rent control and maybe a situation we're going have - this was it was stated by city council strickland. and this will enable them - so i think that one line that one sentence beyond the castro hawkins is the problem that's why i'm not not that concludes my report. this resolution. >> where's is that? >> all i see that the castro hawkins act is fully eliminated i see one 95.552 the castro hawkins act that is stricken out and one 95.4 may not limit the city and county to maintain an act or expand residential rent control that line is. >> taking the state completing out of this and including the local governments could be bad actors and it what would be by impacting that makes housing production and i think the c side resort this is. >> (multiple voices). >> local g