adoption throughout the pregnancy and found a family several states away that was willing to adopt laney. >> i wrote her letters throughout my pregnancy that she will read some day, letters telling her how much i loved her and how i was never going to stop loving her. >> reporter: that family and the mother committed to an agreement known as an open adoption. >> i just can't imagine going through life not having contact with my daughter. she's now the one person on the face of this earth who i love the most. >> reporter: she says her daughter's family allows her to visit laney. they even send her pictures and messages, letting her know how the baby is doing. the 23-year-old says she was shocked to hear what happened to the baby left abandoned in northeast d.c. >> it makes me think about how i would have been in this really desperate place, and this person who left their baby, they must have been in a really desperate place. >> reporter: she's offering these words to whomever is responsible for leaving the baby to die. >> i think the right thing to die would be to step forward and apologi

beyond the sparse comments found an expedition journals and goes into the rich oral history of the laney shawnee, and others. it includes dramatic reenactments and seeds of wild areas of montana, north dakota, wyoming, and oregon, that the youthful sacajawea new. the last program is "gallery, the national museum of native americans." this charts the unveiling of the first smithsonian museum exclusively devoted to american indians. the grand unveiling on the national mall coincided with a six-day outdoor first american festival and native nations festival and the colorful opening day ceremony that is captured in the film began with a native nation's recession, which was the largest gathering of native people in modern history. both gallery and a journey of sacajawea will be airing on sunday, november 20. i know we want to get to our heroes, and i want to congratulate all the heroes while i am up here. thank you for being here and thank you for giving kqed an opportunity to co-sponsor the event. [applause] >> how many native americans and do we have out there, by a show of hands? how about

it's pretty insane. >> laney lazari's pittsburgh, pennsylvania company simple sugars is grappling withllenges of a fast-growing business. five years into starting her all-natural sugar scrub company she juggles homework, business, summers off and after school. >> it's hard to balance everything. i get up at 6:00 in the morning, go to school, i don't get home until 7:30 at night, have homework and simple sugars work to do. >> with products in her local whole foods and a thriving business online the time has come to relocate simple sugars out of her parents' basement. her next move is renting office space and hiring employees. big steps for a teenager running a business in her spare time. >> it's starting to be too much volume for me to handle by myself. >> ron morris, professor of entrepreneurial studies at duquesne university and host of the radio show "an mean entrepreneur," says the novelty of her youth is what makes her business exciting. without it, simple sugars would just be another cosmetics company. in order to have her best shot at making simple sugars into a million-dollar co

it's pretty insane. >> laney lazari's pittsburgh, pennsylvania company simple sugars is grappling withllenges of a fast-growing business. five years into starting her all-natural sugar scrub company she juggles homework, business, summers off and after school. >> it's hard to balance everything. i get up at 6:00 in the morning, go to school, i don't get home until 7:30 at night, have homework and simple sugars work to do. >> with products in her local whole foods and a thriving business online the time has come to relocate simple sugars out of her parents' basement. her next move is renting office space and hiring employees. big steps for a teenager running a business in her spare time. >> it's starting to be too much volume for me to handle by myself. >> ron morris, professor of entrepreneurial studies at duquesne university and host of the radio show "an mean entrepreneur," says the novelty of her youth is what makes her business exciting. without it, simple sugars would nus be another cosmetics company. in order to have her best shot at making simple sugars into a million-dollar com

isaac white to 19 year-old laney college student was shot last night in the city's meadowbrook neighborhood. the equal was "a good kid on the right path." >>> three children killed in oakland last year. hiram lawrence, carlos nava, are and the first recent, gabriel martinez, who's seen in the middle there. tonight the mother of one of these children gunned down speaking out about the recent violence in an exclusive interview with kron4. >> after hi rack passing away from a -- hiram passing away, i thought the violence would showdown. but people didn't get that message. it was like i was back when my baby got shot, and it was like i was reliving that again. >> today would have been hiram lawrence's second birthday. no arrests have been made in his murder, nor the murder of gabriel martinez. >>> a house fire in oakland has left more than 100 birds dead. this was the scene at harbor and lake shore avenue earlier this evening. the woman who lived in the home raised birds. a small number of birds in the top floor did survive. >>> we're starting to see a little bit of fog out there right now. you

the protest started with a march to laney college where they faced off with police. vowing to occupy a vacant building, the group headed to the kaiser convention center where they started tearing down the fence. at night fell, the group stormed the downtown ymca building on broadway and 24 them street. police moved in and made arrests. nearly 400 in all-including protesters who broke into city hall. we had first-hand look at the damage inside the building. >> during an early morning show and tell tour, mayor jean kwan describes the damage to city hall. >> i think it was probably the architect's model. we got it from the museum. >> the original architectural model. >> that's what they think. >> which would make the model more than a century old. other damage was a smashed window, graffiti, and the california and united states flags were yanked from their place on the mezzanine. >> i'm tired of them using the city city as a playground. i think oaklanders are getting tired. >> that's the charred remains of northwestern flag that some demon straighters pulled down and bu

he was attending laney college to make something of himself. >> he was a good kid. he was a good kid. he wasn't involved in any violence or crime. >> it's bad. he couldn't even live out his dream, couldn't even complete college. the only one in his family that's going and he couldn't complete it because of senseless violence in oakland. >> reporter: the same gun violence that's taken the lives of three young children since last summer, martinez, 3-year- old carlos nava and hiram lawrence just weeks from his second birthday. >> one of the ways to combat the violence in oakland is the 100 block program. >> reporter: it's a program that mayor quan kicked off using agencies to target 100 blocks in east and west oakland where 90% of homicides happen. but for martinez and white help in these parts came too late. >> it's like devastating. now you end up dead the first homicide of the year. >> reporter: police are asking anyone with information on either of these cases to call the tip line on your screen. they say both of these investigations are developing but they have no

he was attending laney college to make something of himself. >> he was a good kid. he was a good kid. he wasn't involved in any violence or crime. >> it's bad. he couldn't even live out his dream, couldn't even complete college. the only one in his family that's going and he couldn't complete it because of senseless violence in oakland. >> reporter: the same gun violence that's taken the lives of three young children since last summer, martinez, 3-year- old carlos nava and hiram lawrence just weeks from his second birthday. >> one of the ways to combat the violence in oakland is the 100 block program. >> reporter: it's a program that mayor quan kicked off using agencies to target 100 blocks in east and west oakland where 90% of homicides happen. but for martinez and white help in these parts came too late. >> it's like devastating. now you end up dead the first homicide of the year. >> reporter: police say these cases are still developing and are asking anyone with information to call the tip line on the screen. they say that will serve for tips for both of these ca

he was just 19 years old he was a high- school graduate and attending classes here at laney college.im in this case was a good kid. he overcame a lot of diversity throughout his life he always did the right thing and he was definitely on the right path. >>reporter: cost police do not have any suspects descriptions and they are still looking for help from those in the community. >>reporter: 90 year old jamie only who was injured during a shootout at his home is recovering. his family since he is conscious and in fair condition we are learning new information about the suspect in this case he is a 300, who served time back in 2001 in an attempted murder case. he is also still in hospital recovering from his injuries. he was shot three times. >>reporter: the governor has proposed his budget for the coming fiscal year. calls for make cuts to health and human services but the poorest of californians are feeling the brunt of it most. the governor is also calling for a temporary tax increases and if that does not happen he is calling for even more dramatic cuts, some $4 billion to k through