so the kidse in and we do math focus projects, hands-on learning, and combine that with s.t.e.m. >> and some of those experiences include what bay?g to the >> whenever i can create and make an academic nnection. definitely. we've taken our children to the esapeake bay and they had the engineers.y to be they're actual engineers, no air quotes, and they build ndbuoys get to go out into the environment and capture wildlife and water quality and talk about pollution. making all those connections. >> those are super fun field trips. >> they had a ball. they had a ball. they were picking fish up. it was a lot of fun. >> we'll continue talking right after this break. i like these yogurt bites. (phone buzzing) and i like these yogurt bites. (chuckling) ahh... ooh! (giggle, phone buzzing) apparently i... like them more than i like my phone. where... ah... oh, hello! ah, i missed it. it's my mother-in-law. i'll call her back. don't tell her i told you that. award-winning little journey baby essentials from aldi. >>> our topic right now is summer bridg academy, a program in prince george's county

thanks chief. 6:20:06 to - some of these kidse challenged growing up.trying to get in the right direction and both programs are helping. >> very good. could you give you more information about the program -- for teenagers that is part of the black firefighters. >> i can get that information for you. covingtoi spoke with friend of e ehefs and commissioner hardeman who works kids as well. he brought some kid bithe heads during the mo month. it was great talking to these kids. you reach them. that's very rewarding. i'll find out that information. >> commissioner covington: how many students did mr. griffin bring by? >> we were going to bring eight or five but it was three to the or four. jii thannian nothing throws up s always inspiring. thank you for your report. >> thank you commissioner covington. commissioner hardeman. >> commissioner hardeman: thank you chief gonzalez. you did remarkable job. the you didn't get into trouble. i followed you a couple of times. it's sad with all the video they have of that, they can't identify that vehicle. it's too bad

. >> while younger kids enjoyed getting their faces kidse til e a zip-line. >>> well, the dmv is takingew steps to reduce wait times that can sometimes take up to eight hours. abc 7 news was at the san jose driver's license processing center today where one of the new options is available. take a look. it's an automated kiosk to help customers check in. the dmv is also bringing in more employee, opening some offices earlier and working on a text notification program to alert waiting customers. people in san jose liked the idea of the kiosks, but weren't sure they would be effective. >> i don't see many people using them. i think because many people don't know how to use computers or something. but it doesn't seem to help. >> today state lawmakers questioned the dmv director about the wait time. she apologized saying they're caused by a higher demand for new federally mandated real ids. >> elon musk rocked investors with 61 characters on twitter about his multimillion-dollar plans to take the electric carmaker private. nasdaq even suspended the buying and selling of tesla's stock for a s

. >>> they are the people who hels kidsely cross the streets in our communities. >> but this afternoon we saw extra pneice at elementary after a driver yelled racist and derogatory words and then threatened a crossingnouard. police are looking into this the. it happened near lafayette y ementary in d.c.'s chevy chase neighborhood and te looking at it as a possible hate crime. news 4's pat collins is there re with details? >> they are calling it the man with the blue nissan car. they say hehreatened a crossing guard, that he threatened to run over thatcr sing guard, that he told the crossing guard that he shouldn'r beng in an area around white kids. >> the words in this police report chilling. >> told him this an him that. >> oh, wow >> mgeez. >> o gosh. >> that's horrible. >> when people in this neighborhood saw that police report, saw the words that were said, the threats thatere made, it was most upsetting. >> you don't really expect that to be happening in your neighborhood and statement, i mean, ignorance is all over. i mean, to do that to a crossin guard. >> to do that to anybody,

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