>>> next on kqed "newsroom," the politics of water conservation. >> it's a political headache. >> building safer homes in the world's poorest country, and meet the american children left behind in china. why they spend years separated from their parents. ♪ ♪ >>> good evening, welcome to kqed "newsroom," let's talk about the drought. you already are conserving water, but soon, you may have to reduce water use even more. next week the state water resources control board voting on a plan requiring water districts to cut usage by 36%. what's that look like? scott schafer spoke with the managing editor and the environment writer. >> paul rogers, let's talk water. >> happy to do it. >> four years in the droughts, we have teeth on state regulations over water use. give us a sense what it means for sense for cities that have to have a 36% reduction in the water use. >> yeah. what the governor's done here, in a lot of ways, is fair. he's essentially said we're going to look at all the cities in california, all the water districts, and we're going to see based on per capita use, who has already done

why they spend years separated from their parents. ♪ ♪ >>> good evening, welcome to kqed "newsroom,"alk about the drought. you already are conserving water, but soon, you may have to reduce water use even more. next week the state water resources control board voting on a plan requiring water districts to cut usage by 36%.

. >> reporter: host of the venerated kqed newsroom. >> i feel proud of what we've been doing on thisporter: it's hard to imagine 40 years ago a violent and chaotic moment in history would change her life so dramatically. >> thousands of people were roaming da nang airfield. >> reporter: it all began in vietnam. >> i look back and think what an incredible journey and it has been quite a journey. >> reporter: her parents married and settled in saigon where they raised a family. >> i was the second to the youngest of eight kids. >> angry men left behind. >> reporter: in 1975, as the vietcong invaded the south, fear and panic gripped the streets. when saigon fell, thuy and her family had to flee. >> i didn't really realize that we would probably never return to vietnam to live ever again. i didn't realize we were losing our country and our home. >> reporter: to get out the family had to split up. half went by cargo ship, the other half by plane. on the boat, thuy and several siblings. on the plane, her mother who made sure to bring one son. >> she said she wanted to have at least one boy

. >> hi ken with the san francisco cab drivers director reiskin was on the kqed newsroom and was asked my muni on time performances is so far blow mandated goals and cited schedule and maintenance and antiquated street design didn't mentioned traffic gridlock caused by thousands of tmcs i also see dpreblg tmcs lined up at bus stops and then double-parked next to those cars for the mission 14 bus to cross across the lines to get around the triple parked

. >> hi ken with the san francisco cab drivers director reiskin was on the kqed newsroom and was asked my muni on time performances is so far blow mandated goals and cited schedule and maintenance and antiquated street design didn't mentioned traffic gridlock caused by thousands of tmcs i also see dpreblg tmcs lined up at bus stops and then double-parked next to those cars for the mission 14 bus to cross across the lines to get around the triple parked tmcs there are so many traffic infrastructure not only this year causing gridlock but epidemic of u-turns in the middle of the block and bicycle lanes, etc. and i understand regulation of tmcs is not in our jurisdictions but controlling the streets i believe is and in a number of ways i want to see that sort of thing thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> (calling names) those are the last two speakers. >> guarantee good afternoon. i'm here to voices you thought issues a paper issued by the department the task force on the drivers seats two medallion holders wish i could have made copies i requested the director to change that she did

>> by by khraoeu /* pwaoeu bye bye bye bye bye bye >>> welcome to kqed "newsroom." i'm thuy vu.ry week there are questions about the safety of the bay bridge. drivers want to know one thing. will the bridge withstand a major earthquake? we'll pose that question to the chief engineer for the bridge later in the show. but first we talk about the state budget. the state has taken in $6.7 billion in additional revenue since january. that may sound like a lot of money but governor jerry brown said that surplus is not as big as it might seem. >> is what we've

welcome to "kqed newsroom." i'm scott shafer. tonight we're going to talk about drought burnout water wasters and grass, the kind you mow, not the kind you smoke. and later in the show we're also going to talk about school funding and reforming teacher tenure with the state schools chief. but first let's talk about lawns. ever wonder how a state with millions of acres of desert ended up with so many green lawns? well, the answer, in part, has to do with nostalgia. sally taylor lives in the shadow of mt. tamalpais. she can identify the types of birds and hawks that fly by and point out the native plants that grow on her five acres. >> the drones i love. they've all come

[captioning pe >>> next on kqed "newsroom" surviving in east oakland -- >> the outside world looks at us as gangs and cliques. most of the time we look at them as family. >> they already got a guilty sign do you get what i'm saying? >> what happened in baltimore can happen here. people were tired of being tired. >> hello and welcome to kqed news room. earlier this week i interviewed three young people who grew up in east oakland in some of the bay area's poorest neighborhoods. they were all involved in street life at one time or another. what they told me was quite

>>> welcome to kqed "newsroom." i'm thuy vu. every week there are questions about the safety of the bay bridge. drivers want to know one thing. will the bridge withstand a major earthquake? we'll pose that question to the chief engineer for the bridge later in the show. but first we talk about the state budget. the state has taken in $6.7 billion in additional revenue since january. that may sound like a lot of money but governor jerry brown said that surplus is not as big as it might seem. >> is what we've seen over the last decade or so where you have all this red ink and the surpluses are rather modest. and you see where we are. we barely have a surplus. even if you add the rainy day fund that would come up about where that black bar is. and nothing like all the red bars. or you know, i thought of another way to do this. if we put it this way, you can see that we're really doing well. >> there are a lot of restrictions on how the state can spend the money but the governor has plans for some of it. scott shafer is going to dis

>>> next on kqed "newsroom" surviving in east oakland -- >> the outside world looks at us as gangs and cliques. most of the time we look at them as family. >> they already got a guilty sign do you get what i'm saying? >> what happened in baltimore can happen here. people were tired of being tired. >> hello and welcome to kqed news room. earlier this week i interviewed three young people who grew up in east oakland in some of the bay area's poorest neighborhoods. they were all involved in street life at one time or another. what they told me was quite movi

. >> >>> welcome to kqed "newsroom." i'm thuy vu. every week there are questions about the safety of the bay bridge. drivers want to know one thing. will the bridge withstand a major earthquake? we'll pose that question to the chief engineer for the bridge later in the show. but first we talk about the state budget. the state has taken in $6.7 billion in additional revenue since january. that may sound like a lot of money but governor jerry brown said that surplus is not as big as it might seem. >> is what we've

>>> next on kqed "newsroom" surviving in east oakland -- >> the outside world looks at us as gangs and cliques. most of the time we look at them as family. >> they already got a guilty sign do you get what i'm saying? >> what happened in baltimore can happen here. people were tired of being tired. >> hello and welcome to kqed news room. earlier this week i interviewed three young people who grew up in east oakland in some of the bay area's poorest neighborhoods. they were all involved in street life at one time or another. what they told me was quite moving. later in the show, we're going to talk about crime and crime prevention strategies, but first i want you to hear from the young people i met. tell me about your childhood. what was it like? what has it been like growing up in east oakland? >> in one word -- deprived. we knew there was breakfast, lunch and dinner but i wasn't privileged to that all the time. not having a father around i always tried to believe the lie, which was i didn't care that he wasn't around. was but really, the truth was i always heard that he knew about me b

welcome to "kqed newsroom." i'm scott shafer. tonight we're going to talk about drought burnout water wasters and grass, the kind you mow, not the kind you smoke. and later in the show we're also going to talk about school funding and reforming teacher tenure with the state schools chief. but first let's talk about lawns. ever wonder how a state with millions of acres of desert ended up with so many green lawns? well, the answer, in part, has to do with nostalgia. sally taylor lives in the shadow of mt. tamalpais. she can identify the types of birds and hawks that fly by and point out the native plants that grow on her five acres. >> the drones i love. they've all come up in recent years. and that to me is a tremendous compliment, because madrones don't like people and houses. so if a madrone grows, you feel like you're doing things right. >> she spends much of her free time in her garden as her mother once did. >> my mother who had a house on this same ridge and who came from the east, was determined to put an eastern garden on