heritage of san francisco's latinx community. i would like to thank my colleagues for working with the extraordinary paul of my office for making this celebration possible. as you all know, paul recently joinedmy office a few weeks ago and he's already pulled off this incredible celebration. i feel really lucky. there he is. very lucky to get to work with you every day, paul. thank you for all you've done. this is our second year of hosting these commendations and the celebration during latinx heritage month and we're hopeful this will become a lasting tradition, so we can celebrate the contributions that the latinx community has made to our city. this year's theme, we are san francisco. specifically recognizing some exemplary community members from across the city, who are either immigrants themselves or have made notable contributions in serving latinx communities. despite all of the hateful receipt recognize that continues to spew from our federal administration and in light of the white supremacist killings in texas that targ

guest: it is generally used to describe people of african american latinx, -- african-american, latinx, and asian-american dissent. --.sually means host: john, that is the definition. your final word on this? caller: my sixth grade art teacher taught me that black is not a caller. white is a caller. why? white can reflect and refract light. i know this is a catchphrase someone made up, just like how jackson made african-americans back in the 90's and that was the new catchphrase. we are supposed to call them african-americans. blacks in this country's are more un-american than -- american than whites. they have been here for 400 years and have more ancestors in this country. host: we will hear from sarah on our democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i have been very disenchanted with the infighting between the democrat and republican parties, and i feel like they don't listen to the people and they and things up in congress, we the people, none of our business gets done. my question to you, why do we need to parties? -- need two parties? if we

latinx is just gender neutral.ge of inclusion and understanding was successfully delivered. >> when they think of latinos they mostly think of mexicans, but there's so much more like salvador, guatemala, costa rica, puerto rico. >> reporter: in oakland, lyanne melendez. >> 1, 2, 3 -- >> reporter: abc 7 news. >> that's great. >> yes. >>> after a weekend of 80s and up temperatures, we broke out the storm impact scale this morning. >> we haven't needed it since may 26th but did you see rain where you live? >> laura anthony tweeted this video with the rain coming down, so much for the morning bike ride. >> we even saw snow falling in the sierra today. this is just over 7,000 feet on highway 267. >> abc 7 news meteorologist drew tuma is here to let us know what to expect this week in the weather. >> the seasons are certainly changing. we had wet weather with level 1 on the storm impact scale. behind that cold front that brought the rain, it's going to be a cool night. live doppler 7, all the showers have moved out and t

he'll then go to miami to speak with members of the latinx community. now, mariana sotomayor. mariana, this really seems to be the first speech biden has directed at the latino community specifically. >> that is correct, tomorrow will be the first time he is speaking directly to a latinx audience. his message will be one of inclusion, following that message of unity, trying to unite the country from the divisions of donald trump that he's going to deliver in alabama. here in miami he's going to talk to the community saying, listen, you all play an integral part in the united states, in the fabric of the country, and what's to come. he wants to make sure they continue to feel included and represented and not necessarily bogged down by the inflammatory rhetoric we've seen increase in the last couple of years. so his main message, he will continue to stress, and he will continue to deliver, actually, this message to different communities, latino communities across the country, not just in miami but also in places like des moines where he is going to say, l

minority and female voters, so some of these include people like laurie yaminez who will be focusing on latinxers. the goal here is really to kind of capture that coalition of peopleeoters that kind of gave him a leg up against other candidates. >> let me get your finals thoughts on this. i know "axios" has been looking at issues that have been dominating spending this year. which issue is dominating advertising so far? >> so what we've found is that more than half of all issue advertising spending in the spaces like television, radio, digital has been spent on health care issues. i think that that's only going to -- it's only going to continue as we head into 2020 and get closer to the elections. we found that most of what's taking up that space are focus on surprise medical billing, which one campaign has actually spent 26 million on alone and drug prices, things that are really key, especially to democrats that they focus on in 2018 and help them really gain back the house, and an issue that a lot of voters are angry about is something republicans haven't really been able to issue on great.

latinx is just gender neutral.ir message of inclusion and understanding was successful. >> don't hate people for any other reason. accept them. >> in oakland, lyanne melendez -- >> one, two, three! >> abc7 news. >>> well, it is likely the end of an era for the surging oakland a's who return home tonight after a highly successful road trip. th a's play the kansas city royals at the coliseum at 7:00. today crews are battling time and the weather to transform the field back to the baseball configuration following yesterday's raiders game. the raiders don't play at the coliseum again until november. and with their pending move to las vegas, this is likely to be the last time the a's will play on a torn up outfield surface, which you can see here from sky 7. >>> it's no secret warriors star steph curry is also an avid golfer. today he hit the links for charity. at tpc harding park in san francisco this morning for the stephen curry classic. >> the game of golf has been a big part of my life future a long time. and to se

in that -- since that report, the latinx work force in the smithsonian has risen 2.7% to 10%. unfortunately that growth hasn't met the same numbers at the executive level. so you started to answer mr. butterfield's question about e higher levels, cue rators, scientists, executives. can you talk to me about what's being done to increase diversity at the executive level? mr. bunch: one of the things that's important to me as i look at whatever changes individuals i bring in to the senior level i want to make sure diversity is at the heart of what i'm trying to do. i would be unbelievably disappointed if i didn't by the end of my tenure have a staff that is more diverse. it's a challenge in many ways because, one, people never leave the smithsonian, but my goal is to make sure that the smithsonian is made better when it has those diverse voices around the table. mr. aguilar: i appreciate the answer. thank you so much. chaug, madam chair. ms. lofgren: thank you. all members have had an opportunity to ask questions. the record will remain open for five legislative days. we would li

of the groups that trump's proposed rules would hit hardest include rural communities, black and latinx america, people with disabilities, people with criminal records that are trying to move on, those in the lgbtq community, women, in rural communities given that 76% of rural adults report that good jobs are scarce in their areas, rural communities will be among the hardest hit by trump's proposed rule. as it would tie states' hands andry move the flexibility they need to help residents of high unemployment areas put food on the table. indeed, while urban areas experience a net gain of 3.6 million jobs from 2007 to 2015, rural areas lost 400,000 jobs during that time. meaning that many rural areas have struggled to recover from the great recession. additionally in black communities, black and hispanic households are especially likely to be food insecure and thus disproportionately rely on snap to help them meet basic needs, accounting for about 30% and nearly 20% of snap benefits in 2016 respectively. this this is due in large part to the systemic barriers that african-americans and la

guest: it is generally used to describe people of african american latinx, -- african-american, latinxian-american dissent. --.sually means host: john, that is the definition. your final word on this? caller: my sixth grade art teacher taught me that black is not a caller. white is a caller. why? white can reflect and refract light. i know this is a catchphrase someone made up, just like how jackson made african-americans back in the 90's and that was the new catchphrase. we are supposed to call them african-americans. blacks in this country's are more un-american than -- american than whites. they have been here for 400 years and have more ancestors in this country. host: we will hear from sarah on our democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i have been very disenchanted with the infighting between the democrat and republican parties, and i feel like they don't listen to the people and they and things up in congress, we the people, none of our business gets done. my question to you, why do we need to parties? -- need two parties? if we are just

history of housing discrimination and redlining have resulted in segregating neighborhoods in black and latinx communities. black people are disproportionately more likely to be victims of gun violence. violence is made worse with the access of illegal guns. we cannot continue to criminalize black and brown youth for so-called tough on crime bills to add to mass incarceration. a federal background law would prohibit people from buying guns by requiring background checks run gun sales. state laws requiring background checks for all handgun sales are associated with the 48% lower trafficking in cities and a 29% lower rate of gun trafficking across state lines. we can't forget that suicide with a firearm makes up 2/3 of gun violence. for suicide attempts not involving a firearm, but for gun firearm, less than 5% will result in death, but for gun suicides, more than 85% will result in death. every day, future leaders are taken from us. my friend describes losing someone to suicide is an unbearable pain, an comparable -- incomparable to anything she has ever felt before. gun violence steals mothers

there are 44 latinx members of congress and 55 african-americans, so sort of under representation of really every group except for highly educated older white men. when it comes to staff capacity, it's more difficult to retain quality staff and staff are not diverse along with others on this panel and others in this room, i'm part of an american political science association task force on congressional reform, and one of the things that the task force has been charged with looking at is staff retention and staff diversity, and so we know that there's more turnover than there used to be, and staff members are leaving capitol hill to do things that are more lucrative including but not limited, going to sort of the lobbying and interest group community. so, again, many of these trends have been brewing for a long time, and so we can't say that they all change with the election of president trump or the most recent congress, but in many ways sort of they've been on display in the weakness of congress as an institution has been on display. now we don't just have members of congress commun

we appreciate the opportunity to welcome latinos across the country and to ask about latinx issues during these challenging times. [ speak iing spanish ] let me just give you a little translation here. i'm telling latinos that despite the fact that we are facing difficult times, this is our country, too. linsey? >> we are delighted to be on the beautiful campus of texas southern university. one of the largest historically black colleges and universities in the country. and here in the health and physical education building tonight, we are joined by a live audience of 3,500 people, most invited by the democratic national committee and, of course, some of the brightest minds of the student body here at tsu, go tigers. >> we can feel the energy in the room, can't we? the rules of this debate are very basic tonight. it has been agreed to by all the campaigns in advance. candidates will have one minute, 15 seconds to answer a direct question and 45 seconds for a rebuttal or response. candidates will each see green and yellow lights, there you see them right there, indicating how much time they