well, in the studio with me right now is keisha nzewi. she is the advocacy manager at the alameda county food bank. and thank you for being here with us today. >> thank you so much for having us. >> there is so much that you're gonna talk about today that i am learning for the first time, and i am just in awe of the work that the food bank does. so, first of all, start with who you serve. >> well, the truth is we serve everyone's neighbor. in alameda county, we are serving one in five of our neighbors every year. >> one in five? >> mm-hmm. that's 20%. >> oh, my gosh. >> which is surprising because we're in such an affluent area. >> right. that's incredible. >> mm-hmm. >> so, one of the things that you did -- and i just learned this today, and i don't know why i don't know this -- but you actually eliminated one kind of beverage. >> yeah. in 2005, our executive director, suzan bateson, made the very bold move to stop distributing soda. but by doing that, that eliminated a lot of poundage that our food bank was distributing, and at that tim

complain to the school's top brass, fox5's keisha lewis joins us live from arlington with the story, tisha? >> i want to let you know 39 minutes ago the school removed the teacher's information from its website, what i can tell that you there are few things that stands out about this story. one parent said it best able of the potential victims so disturbing, talking seventh, eighth, ninth graders, 12, 13, 14 years old, and to make matters worse police believe that there could be several more victims, plus, one parent says that this teacher was very well likes, very popular, and in her words her son will be devastated when he hears about this news talking about 32 year old zachary vandike tonight, he is charged with contributing to the delinquency of minor distribution of marijuana, police say all stems from incident that happened as recent as friday, take a >> i would be pretty appalled, because, as a parent, when i send my kid to the school, i am under the impression they are the next in line guardians and they would take care of my kids the same way i would. so totally inapropriate

there's also been one more victim of this, young woman and her name was keisha, she was shot in the legand she lives in philadelphia. she is also 29. >> it hit so close to home. it's one of the eerie things i heard heard coming out of this is when some of the first responders reported that they sounds he could hear as they were cleaning up her cell phones that were ringing of the victims. i don't know if you heard that, it's so horrific. i will tell you this, think you're getting as much sadness and thoughts and prayers as you are getting anger. people saying that we are outreach. this can happen. >> one positive thing that is coming out of this, is that yesterday when is on facebook for example, i got pop up left and right for my friends in florida saying, this person registered safe, facebook has no put in this material where you can go online as a here i am, and safe. so that your family and friends, etc. that we have to do that, but is something coming out of these tragedy. >> allison your chasing the second local connection to this terror attacks. >> marcus duane robinson who alleg

in this case, it was keisha's idea. she wrote the outline. talked to her a little bit about how maybe to make the outline better. she will give me 30 or 40 pages at a time and we'll talk about it. >> this is all because of master class. you are a huge proponent of it. why is it unique and exciting platform? >> it's a good idea. the idea of going online and helping people to realize their dreams. whether it's writing or dancing or playing a sport. men they execute it beautifully. >> this is so exciting. congratulations. james, thanks for being here. >> absolutely. >> guys. >>> dylan, thank you. wow. talk about hands-on learning. >> what is opportunity for the average joe. somebody like us, we can take a class with usher or james patterson. that is cool. >> serena williams, usher, annie liebovitz. >> people at home saw my face. >>> up next, the story behind these flamingos in the everglades. but first this is "today" on nbc. ♪ to you, they're more than just a pet. so protect them... ...with k9 advantix ii. it not only kills fleas, ticks and mos

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keisha, i'll begin with you. why, and do you think it was fair? >> it was so unfair. sentences are different is because ramirez pled guilty to a charge that required a mandatory minimum of three years. whereas with turner his conviction did not require that. i still think the judge was wrong. with ramirez his hands were tied, but with turner his hands weren't tied. he should not have abused his discretion. >> ramirez had to get three years but he could have given turner more? >> right. his hands were tied with ramirez, the law he pled to was different than the law that turner was convicted of. but with turner, his hands were not tied. he could have given him at least six years, he could have given him ten years. he gave him six months, i think that can go down to three months. that sentence was ridiculous. >> was he biased, should he be removed from the bench? >> you can't say that he was biased based on the ramirez sentence, because that's mandatory. you can't just take that one example and say that he's biased. but looking just at the turner, just looking at that, y

melissa: but, keisha, she can be a conspirator, can't she? if she helped, if she drove him. seen reports that she drove him to the club in the past, you know, when he was casing it. >> right. melissa: we've also seen reports she was there when he bought different ammunition. if she helped in any way, opportunity that make her a co-conspirator? >> absolutely. and that's where she will be criminally charged. it wouldn't be helping to prosecute her husband, but if he assisted him in any way and if there was a meeting of the minds, she would definitely be charged as if she actually, you know, followed through with the plot like, you know, what he did. melissa: yeah. >> so that's what her biggest concern should be right now. melissa: yeah. mercedes, how do you battle back against that? i can see some sort of obvious things that they seem to be setting up so far, you know, i mean, he's -- was obviously an incredibly violent person, but even before this point we heard about him abusing, you know, if not one, both of his wives. that could play a role if she said she was coerced? >>

thank you so much, keisha, for being here.ew information, a lot of people say turner lied, about what happened that night, about past drug and alcohol abuse. is there a chance prosecutors did not know this information during the trial and could it change the outcome in any way? >> normally, when an attorney is arguing that a judge abused his or her discretion, it is the defense attorney arguing that the judge imposed a sentence that is too harsh. here we have a judge that imposed a ridiculously lenient sentence and that information just discussed with those documents, that's all in the pre-sentencing investigation report. the purpose for that investigation report is to let the judge know a little bit about the defense. that information is supposed to be used in imposing a sentence. knowing that this defendant lied, that he did have experience with narcotics and that he did have aggressive behavior to someone else prior to committing a sexual assault, the judge should have seen those things as aggravating factors instead of mit