>>he medine wasn't going to be available in guatemala. >> isabella received an outpouring of support over the past few days and a petition signed by more than 70,000 people and tweets from celebrities like eva longoria and a statement from children's hospital. politicians are also rallying around isabella. >>> house speaker nancy pelosi tweeting out saying, quote, u.s. citizenship and immigration services must tell the world you know equivocally that in our compassionate america the serious ill who request humanitarian relief will never be targeted for deportation. >>> it's 4:40 this morning. happening today the ribbon cutting ceremony at chase center in san francisco ahead of its big opening to the public on friday night. joining us with more on today's events, michelle griego is live this morning in san francisco outside chase center. michelle, good morning. how is it looking out there? >> reporter: good morning, kenny. it looks beautiful. the chase center is a gorgeous facility from the outside and from the in. today's event is a closed event to the public but, like you said, on f

. >> reporter: isabella has spent half her life in the driver's seat.. moving up to faster legend cars. and she's made a name for herself in a tie-dye ride, most are chasing. >> when i put my helmet on, my goal is to win. >> reporter: she is part of a small group of drivers, hand-picked by nascar for its drive for diversity team. >> you want to increase your fan base. you want more individuals to watch the sport, to like the sport, to come to the track, to see bubba. to see him get out of the car and take off his helmet. he looks like me. he represents me. that's what's important. >> reporter: the teammates spent their entire summer in charlotte, training with nascar weight trainers, practicing on nascar simulators and even driving on nascar tracks. 125 miles per hour. and it's your part. what is going through your head? >> you have to keep the wheel straight. >> reporter: isabella is one of four drivers in her class, and in many races, the only girl on the track. >> there's always a target on my back. the boys don't want to be passed by me. when i put

and they are both finding their niche is here, and all the food that they need. 17 years ago, isabellatheir exhausted soil. quit their struggling farm, and return the land to nature. you are trying to bring back dynamics into the landscape, and being hit hands off, so you are letting nature perform, letting nature do its thing, really. free—roaming animals, like pigs and ponies keep trees and foliage from taking over. they route the earth spreading seeds and nutrients. we need to have breeding hotspots like this one, so that our wildlife can be resilient into the future. there are now a growing number of similar real wilding projects across the country. the other projects we have seen are helping to prop up threatened birds and other species in the face of a rapidly transforming world, but for how long? birds are incredible creatures, they are adaptable and resilient, but only to a point. less sensitivity to changing habitats, changing weather, and a changing climate. sounds a warning to us all. and we need to listen. that's it for tonight, hope you enjoyed the show. hello there. good

the descendents of anthony and isabella, the tucker family are with us this morning. this weekend anniversary commemoration event began with yesterday's ceremony at the tucker family cemetery about eight miles northwest of here. another african-american family cometary family can trace its roots to charles city county in the mid-1600s. i want to acknowledge the organization and agencies that have cooperated the past 4-5 years to plan and execute not just weekends commemoration events but speakers, symposiums, panel discussions, cultural events, concerts and educational seminars over the last three years. these are the hampton 2019 commission. project 1619 incorporated. the commonwealth of virginia's american evolution the fort monroe authority a national monument of the national park service and the 400 years of african-american history federal commission. i would like to not acknowledge and recognize calvin petersen and project 16-19. began telling the start of the first african survival at comfort in hampton, not jamestown, the event annually since august 2008. encl

the other isabella dollar currently the country's chief executive the 2 have been in a government of national unity since 2014 after they both claim victory in elections marred by fraud whoever wins this time will have to find a way to deal with the taliban. and. to the taliban forces who have threatened this election process i would like to say as a citizen of this country and as a voter that threatening innocent people is not a demonstration of strength on your part. and that casualties among innocent civilians will not benefit you. after decades of war and misery and a number of fraudulent elections voters will be demanding bold action from the new president under what continue to be very difficult conditions. found some of the other stories making news around the world nigerian police have rescued more than 300 people held in chains in a building in the northern city of kut do you know most of the captives were children a police spokesman said the building housed an islamic school and that several teachers have been arrested. british prime minister bars johnson has been referred

the other isabella abdullah currently the country's chief executive the 2 have been in a government of national unity since 2014 after they both claim victory in elections marred by fraud whoever wins this time will have to find a way to deal with the taliban. the right to the taliban forces who have threatened this election process i would like to say as a citizen of this country and as a voter that threatening innocent people is not a demonstration of strength on your part. and that casualties among innocent civilians will not benefit you. after decades of war and misery and a number of fraudulent elections voters will be demanding bold action from the new president under what continue to be very difficult conditions. earlier i spoke to a journalist in the afghan capital kabul i asked him how the reports of violence and polling stations have affected by saying. the issue of violence has definitely affected voting and it's going to affect places where people who are already i'm sure whether they should vote or not but one thing that we have to take in consideration that's really affec

magnitude six and followed by 5.1, northwest of isabella. three after shocks. no reports of damage. offices were open in preparation for tropical storm karen expected to hit tomorrow. >>> two women face charges in connection with this theft of a wallet from elderly woman. sparked outrage and went viral. stockton police arrested the women three days ago. they face several charges including elder abuse and credit card fraud. >>> building a better bay area sometimes requires sounding an alarm. calling on drivers of san jose to slow down. >> amanda del castillo is live. >> reporter: dion, ama, the neighbors we spoke with said reckless driving has led to close calls. just a few weeks hit-and-run driver j hit-and-run driver injured a boy on his bike, neighbors want to be proactive. asking city for help. posted speed limit is 25 miles per hour. people living in northside neighborhood are fed up. feel safe crossing the street? >> no, i'm terrified. >> reporter: surrounded by several schools and short distance from b.a.r.t. station and booming downtown area. growth and activity have r reside

they were on the line due to damaged or lost m1 car bines, they would be resupplied with whatever isabella. we received the standard not airborne m1 carbine coming into play for this particular unit. this is a browning automatic rifle. it fired the same route as the m1 grand. 21 round box magazine. it was not part of their table of organization and equipment. in the case of the 517th, we saw evidence of them using it in the maritime alps. they found it was a good weapon to help clear out the dug-in germans in that area. for that type of warfare in that theater, it was a good way to put down suppressive fire. we we are very fortunate that the 517th prct association has a great website that was started by the vets and are run by their family members because many of the vets have passed away or up in years. there is a ton of information. photographs, history. personal accounts the vets had submitted. they have a great website. that is one of our resources. we take personal accounts, personal photographs that we are able to build our display based solely on those photograph accounts. there is

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the quake hit some 50 miles north-northwest, of isabella, puerto rico, late last night.ftershocks have followed. puerto rico governor, wanda vasquez, says there's been no reports of damage to the island. >> karen, looking to soak much of the island. schools are closed today. >> yes, this tropical depression, the best-case scenario, that you will get with a main storm across the caribbean. 6 we think landfall strengthening, as it approaches the island. some time this afternoon. the big story is going to be the rainfall. we watch this mooedle here. it will go to the north gradually. we'll see how things play out. this cone means it could go to the north and east or to the north and west. we go around the national perspective. severe weather to be had, as well. des moines in particular, and hansed risk. temperatures ranging from 67 in buffalo to 93 in new orleans. >> thank you so much for that. >>> an orlando elementary resource officer has been fired after arresting -- arresting, two 6-year-olds in separate incidents. orlando o orlando's police chief tried to make it clear

carla: isabella ha logrado ganar la batalla con su enfermedadnecesarios tratamientos que ha recibido.i libro. sacar mi maestrÍa. >> cabe mencionar que este lunes el servicio migraciÓn anunciÓ que reabrir y en ciertos casos de acciÓn diferida pendientes y que enviara cartas a los beneficiarios del programa que habÍan solicitado una prÓrroga de sus permisos de permanencia. reportando en vivo noticias univisiÓn 14, pasó contigo, ramÓn. ramÓn: y precisamente esta tarde se llevÓ a cabo la protesta la universidad estatal a favor de isabel. los manifestantes le exigen al gobierno de trump que le permitan quedarse a quien estados unidos. para conocer mÁs sobre este caso puedes cargar nuestra aplicaciÓn de univisión Área de la bahÍa.allí encontrarÁ todos los detalles. el aplicaciones completamente gratuita. y hoy hice de septiembre a las 12:40 p.m. la policÍa arribÓ en estacionamiento en san josÉ. en la escena encontraron a un hombre herido de bala que poco despuÉs perdiÓ la vida. las circunstancias que rodean este incidente permanecen bajo investigaciÓn. si tiene detalles sobre el homicidio r

like that and they are both finding their niche is here and all the food they need. 17 years ago, isabellaaining their exhausted soil and quit their struggling from and return the land to nature. we are trying to bring the dynamism into the landscape and being very hands—off so you're letting nature perform and do its thing really. free roaming animals like pigs and ponies keep trees and foliage from taking over and they spread seeds. we need to have breeding hotspots like this one so that our wildlife can be resilient into the future. there are now a growing number of similar real wilding projects across the country. projects we have seen are helping to prop up threatened birds and species in the face of a rapidly transforming world. but for how long? birds are incredible creatures and they are adaptable and resilient but only to a point. their sensitivity to changing habitats and changing weather and a changing climate sound a warning to us all and we need to listen to that. that's it for tonight. hope you enjoyed the show. see you next week. hello, it has been a fine start to the weeken

joining me now from new york city is isabella steger, the deputy bureau chief for asia at quartz newsrent to the one that we saw pushing for more human rights improvements in china about a year ago, mostly because of the trade war between the us and china that's left many economies affected globally. so it's not purely a us—china problem. merkel has brought a big business delegation to china, as well as signalling that in fact business is an important part of the trip. that may put pressure on the human right angles to understand the germany wants greater access to chinese markets. what are the obstacles beijing is putting in the way? many of the western developed economies, a lot of these economies have issues with unfettered access, for example, to the chinese market, and that's one of the big things like donald trump's trade war with china. and particularly for them, because china's economy is slowing and they gone into recession, the delegation that she is bringing with her, especially the car industry, is very keen for her to press for the greater access when the global economy i

under new immigration laws imposed by the trump administration, isabella might get deported tomorrow. today she got her weekly treatments. isabelle says if she goes back to guatemala, she won't get the weekly treatments that she needs to survive. >>> well, here it comes. president trump is scheduled to make his first visit to the bay area since becoming president. he is expected to be here next tuesday for a campaign fundraiser hosted by the republican national committee. sources tell us the president will be in atherton at a private home. tickets are a thousand bucks per person. if you want to sit with the president it'll cost you $100,000. >>> we are back in 60 seconds with the decades old mystery solved that it was all because of what one man saw when he was looking at google earth. >>> also reversing the trend. how administrators are looking to curb the use of vaping in south bay schools. >>> storm ranger on mobile doppler radar is scanning right now. and of course dry conditions, but there are changes on the way. i'll show you when this storm could bring us some showers, coming u

joining me now from new york city is isabella steger, the deputy bureau chief for asia at quartz news relationship? to the two countries? the germany of right now is quite different to the one that we saw pushing for more human rights improvements in china about a year ago. mostly because of the trade war between the us and china that has left many economies affected globally. it is not purely a us china problem. that's a business delegation. it's signalling that in fa ct delegation. it's signalling that in fact business is an important part of the trip that may put pressure on the human right angles to understand the human right angles to understand the germany wants greater access to chinese markets. the obstacles of beijing — make the badging puts in the way? many of the western developed economies, a lot of these economies have issues with u nfettered economies have issues with unfettered access, for economies have issues with u nfettered access, for exa m ple, economies have issues with unfettered access, for example, to the chinese market, and that's one of the big things like d

customers across the world not just british customers let's try to get you some answers now joining us isabella bathurst a travel lawyer in london who can help explain what the demise of thomas cook means for those on holiday or with trips booked so good to have you here with us miss batters the number of people affected is enormous we're talking about more than half a 1000000 people around the globe britain says they're going to take care of the british customers is going to be the biggest repatriation in peace time what happens now to those thomas cook customers that are abroad. well there's customers that covered by what's called the atl scheme a specialist insurance that same place when things do go horribly wrong as they have to here it's devastating but there is a plan in place to put those holiday makers back on planes at the time they were to come home preferably but it's made me want that financially in terms of putting them back in the position they would have done this not happen such that they can get the flight home but also have their accommodation paid and deal with those custome

. >>> it's very good news for isabella and her family. i believe that her case will be extended. however we don't know if that is a one time extension. >> she plans to testify before congress in the coming days about the immigrants receiving life saving medical care. >>> happening today a german man accused of flying to the east bay in order to sexually abuse a teenage girl is due in court. police say the 31-year-old abused a 14-year-old from brent wood. he was arrested after he engaged in sexual conduct with a teenager at a hotel who had been talking online for almost a year. if he is convicted he faces up to 30 years behind bars. >>> a preliminary hearing set this morning for the santa rosa doctor accused of killing patients with opiate prescriptions. he's charged with second degree murder for the death of four patients. prosecutors say he wrote prescriptions for hundreds of pain killers without a legitimate medical purpose and pleaded not guilty last month and claims the four deaths were suicide ci and police chase in san francisco officers from the trga at eddy and lagu when

students, doctors, nurses and politicians rallied yesterday in oakland and hayward for supporting isabella who is from guatemala. she and her family received a letter from the federal government saying their alteration to stay in the u.s. had expired and we're going to be extended. the administration has reversed course saying it will reconsider her application to stay in the country. >> i am happy to be the voice of the families going through what i am. we are all in this together. >> the president with the stroke of a pen could allow humanitarian and medical care. >> reporter: this rare genetic disorder causes dwarfism and other deformities. a bill has been introduced to specifically let her stay in the u.s. so she can continue getting treatment. she will be in capitol hill next week to speak before congress. >>> major repairs are underway and one of san francisco airports busiest runways. for the next 20 days crews will be removing and rebuilding nearly 2000 feet of runway. it is one of the principal runways for international arrivals. passengers can expect up to two hours of delays. >>

vivian, nicole, isabella, holly. thank you for putting this event together. i am carmen. i want to welcome you to the second annual w challenge kickoff for women's equality day. i have been on maternity leave for just a bit, for two months now. it is something else. (laughter). >> i think i have a newfound respect for mothers everywhere and fathers everywhere so a big round of applause to every mother and father who is out there, including the ones on the stage. we are here today not only to celebrate women's equality day. it is so more to bring people together to remember women fighting for the right to vote. it is important to make sure we ask for action. you know, in the united states we have gone a long ways to getting women the right to vote, fighting for the right to vote. we have gone a long ways in terms of better representation than before. we know we still have a very, very long ways to go. we have yet to see the first united states president be a woman. in california we have yet to see the first governor who is a woman, right? in many of our corporations and bu

i am isabella. i am 12 years old. i am here because i believe age doesn't matter.ure, we can't vote, but we still have a voice. the earth is really messed up. we should have fixed it a while ago. it is not fair. trump is lying. stop denying the earth is dying. >> i get worried about our future because i keep seeing a bunch of post-s or things that say, like by 2030 the world could be at its peak, that we can't do anything anymore. i keep thinking, why don't people listen when things are right in front of their face? >> i am 21 years old. i was born and raised in new york. the reason i'm here today is because i am tired. i am tired of climate inaction. i'm tired of our world leaders ignoring what is really happening to our earth and profiting off of the extension of our planet, really. prioritizing profit over lives instead of lives over profit. being latina, the hispanic community, they are disproportionally affected by climate change because of the institutions placed in our community. we have fossil fuel plants, garbage waste plans, bus depots that pollute our en

not being ashamed of what the united states, this government has done to this individu individual, isabellaere invited by the federal government to come to this country. >> we'll be covering your hearing and looking forward from what we can learn from this. thank you so much for joining us. i really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> hurricane dorian has now killed seven people. we'll talk to the survivor of the hurricane in the bahamas next. next is just a button. that a speaker is just a speaker. or - that the journey can't be the destination. most people haven't driven a lincoln. it's the final days of the lincoln summer invitation even. right now, get 0% apr on all lincoln vehicles plus no payments for up to 90 days. only at your lincoln dealer. play it cool and escape heartburn fast with new tums chewy bites cooling sensation. ♪ tum tum tum tums with new tums chewy bites cooling sensation. so you're with the ups store? yes. in fact, we printed these right here. oh, i thought you guys just did shipping. no we do printing, packing, faxing, notarizing, shredding, mailboxing, copying, taping,

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authorities ought to be able to look at the context of each particular case and determine, in this case of isabella, this is a case of life and death as you heard from dr. ha harmatz. to expel her from this country, to deport her from this country? it's frankly an act of murder. because she can't get this treatment in guatemala. how i would persuade this administration? somewhere we've got to find a way to appeal to that -- there must be some humanity in them somewhere, don't you think, lawrence? >> i do. and that's exactly the perspective from which i'm covering this story. and i hope that it can reach people who have access to the president. to make this case to him. this is a president who reportedly at the time was moved by photographs of a child in syria who was a victim of what was happening there. he was moved to missile strikes, according to the white house reports on this. his daughter presented him with these photographs. and so if there's any truth to that, if there's just a sliver of truth to that, it seems to me that somewhere in that area is a space where something like this could bre

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if i could begin by introducing first my wonderful wife trish seated next to my daughter isabella, my daughter megan, jack, bridgett, my oldest son neno and certainly not to be forgotten is my 10-year-old daughter erin. beside her, my deeply understanding parents in law, susan and chris larson. and my son luke. welcome. i'm very grateful to my brother for joining and i -- next to matthew, my formidable mother, marie scalia. thank you for being here. my brother, john, my sister-in-law adel, my brother chris and my sister kathryn is here as well. my -- with her husband, i believe, my sister mary claire, her husband, michael murray. my -- and my baby sister meg with her husband john bryce. and, trish, did i miss anybody? i thank them all for coming. thank you for your patience and thank you for allowing me to introduce them not on my five-minute clock for my opening statement. chairman alexander and ranking member murray, thank you for the opportunity to appear today before this committee. it's an honor to be here and an honor to have been nominated to serve as secretary of labor. i'm de

scalia: i see that isabella left, the 5-year-old. sen. enzi: she was probably the one understanding the questions, too. i appreciated senator murray's comments about pay gap. it's something that i've been concerned about for a long time, but i'm an accountant. you have to settle for the accountant's questions. and if anybody isn't being paid the same thing for the same job in the same company, i'll help get an attorney that will prosecute on it. that's what the law is. it isn't everybody's going to get the same wage that's doing the same job regardless of what company they work for. and the other person might work for. and some of the most fascinating hearings that i've been at here have been ones where people were -- had gone into nontraditional jobs -- i remember having a young lady sitting where you're sitting and talking about how she had always wanted to be a brick mason and she was and she got to build some flower boxes and then she got to build some patios and then she got to build some fountains, and at the present time she was ha

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. >> she was she loves it, man, she's proud, which makes me proud >> how old is isabella. >> 15. >> ilost i said it didn't matter if we lost i got a big hug. what were you doing up so late >> yeah, yeah. it was fun >> congratulations, we'll be watching, the new season premiers tonight at 9:00, 8:00 central on nbc. >>> straight ahead, we are tagging along with kerry sanders as he helps save the turtles >> dolphins weren't enough. >>> how to make takeout favorites at home with the so called king of ramen looking forward to that after your local news. >>> very good morning to you, it is 8:26. we're just getting word of a deadly shooting in south san jose. one woman was shot and she died at the scene. she has not been identified. police say right now no arrests have been made. as we look at our forecast today we're under a miccrmicroclimate weather alert. all of those hearts in the ahead adds vie zero and that is included in much of the bay area. temperatures today will reach up to 83 degrees and we will see highs over 100 in the inland, east bay, and north bay. and another hot day in the

. >> isabella mendoza cumple cuatro aÑos. >> y el que ya tiene 20. >> miren que hermosa ya eileen conan dÍa. este domingo se estrena "reina de la canciÓn". en vivo, desde nueva york, le damos un adelanto exclusivo de lo que veremos en la primera gala. >> asesinaron a mis padres. y a mi tÍa. enfrente de mÍ. alan: yolanda andrade pide que Ónicaastro no se retire de los escenarios. hoy en "sin roo" verÁs todo lo e tiene que decir, lo que espera que suceda con la carrera de la madre del gallito feliz. karla: bienvenidos a una nueva hora de "despierta amÉrica". ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [mÚsica] alan: ahÍ estÁ luego de su Éxito con el tema "rebota". [risas] el artista boricua estra hoy es nuevo sencillo. vayan a escucharlo ya mismo. [mÚsi] Éste es el nuevo. mÍralo. karla: buenos dÍas. gracias por continuar con nosotros. hoy es viernes! la pancita lo sabe. andrea: se fue al baÑo, pero yo preparo el desayuno. alan: quÉ tal los antojos? andrea: muy bien. me voy a comer tres. alan: lo que no estÁn comiendo muy a gusto ni comparten nada de nada, parece que la relaciÓn de canelo Álvarez y oscar de la hoya no va

seated next to my daughter isabella and my daughter meghan, jack, brigitte, my oldest son n nino andtainly not to be forgotten is my 10-year-old daughter erin and beside her my deeply understanding parents-in-law susan and chris larson and oh, and my son luke. luke, welcome. i'm very grateful to my brother matthew for coming up from fort benning and thank you, matthew, for joining and i -- next to matthew my formidable mother maureen scalia, thank you for being here. my brother john. my sister-in-law adele, brother chris and i -- my sister katherine is here, as well. my -- with her husband, i believe, bill heenan. my sister mary claire and her husband michael murray, my -- and my baby sister meg with her -- with her husband john bryce and trish, did i miss anybody? i -- i thank them all for coming. thank you for your patience and thank you for allowing me to introduce me not in the five-minute clock that i have in my opening statement. chairman, alexander and ranking member murray, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today and before this committee. it is an honor to b

for: this is on our line democrats, isabella, good morning.or c-spannk heavens and the dialogue you allow people to have. i would like to eliminate the necessity of getting rid of the electoral college. i think it is important enough to do that. we desperately need public financing. that is such a corrupting influence and paper ballots are essential for this day in age. we are worried about being manipulated by other countries a democrat, i would like to say my party needs to reform. we could get rid of superdelegates entirely and basically the principle of our democracy is one person, one vote. all of these reforms are necessary to ensure that is what we really have. host: can you expand on your interest in getting rid of the superdelegate? caller: it is simply undemocratic. the party is stacked with cronies who have been there forever and it is not responsive to the principle of democracy one person, one vote. discouraging. look at what debbie wasserman sanders.id to bernie i think that should illustrate how extremely corrupt the party .s me