our instructions are multi- lingual. supervisor chu: thank you. supervisor avalos? supervisor avalos: thank you. thank you for your presentation. just a question, there was a session earlier this year about making investments in credit unions and smaller financial institutions here locally, and wondering how that is proceeding in terms of projects moving forward and how that might impact our working to bolster the economy. >> absolutely. as we discussed previously, we managed the city's portfolio of investments. that averages between $4,000,000,000.705032704 dollars at any given time. when in that -- between $4 billion and $5 billion at any given time. earlier this year, we went out with an informational invitation to all financial institutions, including credit unions, asking them if they would be interested in receiving a deposit of up to the fdic-insured limit. at this time, we're still processing the responses we have got in. i think we have made three, four -- five deposits in financial institutions. a number of them at credit unions -- 1 credit union has respo

news4's megan mcgrath is live at oyster adams buy lingual school where they're preparing for the students. are they ready? >> reporter: i think they are ready. you can imagine there are a lot of alarm clocks going off right now and probably a couple of students whacking those snooze bars. but they can't delay it forever here. today is the official end of summer vacation. district students, more than 45,000 of them, are returning to class today. returning to class this morning. now, over the weekend there was quite a volunteer effort that was under way as thousands of voluntee volunteers went out and spruced up the schools across the district. they painted, they pulled weeds, they worked on the playgrounds. basically spruced up the buildings to make sure that everything is ready for when the students return to class this morning. school officials say they are indeed ready. ten schools in the district have been modernized. 59 schools have been awarded grand money so they can implement new programs. some of the schools are using the money to extend the school day. others are adding after sch

he was multi lingual last night. but many people say you are the secret weapon for your husband. tuesday night because you were so incredibly natural. for those of white house do this on a daily basis, maybe it wouldn't be so difficult, but for you, my goodness, you get up on stage. it looks like you do it every single day. how did you prepare? >> i couldn't wait to get on stage. the funny thing is, i was much more nervous last night for mitt than i ever was for myself. i was thrilled to death. i was excited about my talk. i knew what i wanted to say. i felt very confident in the voice that i wanted people to hear. i felt very confident that i wanted women to know that we hear their voices and that i have heard their voices. and we are not going to forget those voices that i've heard all across this country talking about how concerned they are about their jobs and how concerned they are about their children and the legacy of debt that we're going to leave those kids. so those voices were in my soul and i could hardly wait to give my speech. >> steve: you know, it was all about pe