lowell wins the stae city title 7-0. lowell, which is probably the best public high school in san francisco. and i went to lake shore grammar school right next to them. i used to sneak up and buy their big cookies during recess. [ laughter ] [ male announcer ] fact: the 100% electric nissan leaf... is more fun than ever. sees better than ever. ♪ charges faster. and will charge. cool. and heat. from your phone. fact: leaf never needs gas. ever. good for the world. built in america. now, leaf's an easier choice than ever. ♪ shop at choosenissan.com. there you go. oh. [snickering] nice dress, ryan. it's not a dress. it's a kurta. [laughing] okay. tonight, one of our most ethnic coworkers, kelly, has invited us all to a diwali celebration put on by her community. what is diwali, you may ask? well, to have kelly explain it,

from george washington we have angelica (inaudible) and from lowell we have poly (inaudible) and bernadet (inaudible). from sala britan, we have christina (inaudible) and this is actually not a, complete list and i may have not mentioned maybe two or three names and any way you have a view of what happened that night thank you very much. [ applause ] . >> thank you. >> all right, we will move on to the latin american teachers association, lata. are there any representatives from the audience? >> no. >> okay. they could not make it tonight. >> okay. >> then we will move on to the san francisco achievers and i know that we have san francisco achievers in the audience. >> >> my name is henry (inaudible) and i am here with the san francisco achievers, and i want to thank miss casco is the superintendent of the board for inviting us and we are very happy to be here, the achievers is a scholarship program that awards scholarship to african american male students from the san francisco public high schools and with gpas of 2.5 and up. with financial need. and we awarded 24 scholarships this year,

i am attending lowell high school and i will be attending uc santa barbara as well. >> also winners are rosie perez, and she is going to san francisco state. lorena from mission high school and briana taylor from cal state north ridge, thank you very much. >> >> all right. and finally, but certainly not least, we have the united educators of san francisco. >> good evening before we get into our scholarships we have one other presentation that we would like to make first. >> we do have good evening. i am happy to say that we have certificates for the 2 student delegates for their thoughtful and determined service, as student members of the san francisco board of education. [ applause ] >> so you can see that wendy is here, windy ly and what should we do with megan wong? >> give it to justin right there. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> the united educators of san francisco had a ceremony in our office last friday, where we honored the following students, some of them cannot be here with us tonight as we understand. but if any of you are here they are welcome to come forward and be re

new at 11:00, the graduation trip lowell high school students saved and worked for all year long isn't going to happen. >> at least not the way they planned it. leslie brinkley is live in san francisco to explain what happened. leslie? >> well, at least 23 students here at lowell high school will get to take a consulation trip to italy, if you will. but they are still out an awful lot of money as their original tour company bailed on them. italian teacher judy bransburg had her students primed for a trip across italy after graduation. >> we have been waiting for this trip since we were freshmen and started our italian program. >> but their boston-based tour operator called the european institute suddenly stopped communicating. >> they just stopped answering my phone calls and my e-mails. i was sending them daily. >> and then on may 27th they found out their tour company went bankrupt and were out $120,000. >> they talked to the attorney general's office and the california attorney general lawfned an investigation, but they learned they were just out the money. and then a contact with t

new at 11:00, the graduation trip lowell high school students saved and worked for all year long isn't going to happen. >> at least not the way they planned it. leslie brinkley is live in san francisco to explain what happened. leslie? >> well, at least 23 students here at lowell high school will get to take a consulation trip to italy, if you will. but they are still out an awful lot of money as their original tour company bailed on them. italian teacher judy bransburg had her students primed for a trip across italy after graduation. >> we have been waiting for this trip since we were freshmen and started our italian program. >> but their boston-based tour operator called the european institute suddenly stopped communicating. >> they just stopped answering my phone calls and my e-mails. i was sending them daily. >> and then on may 27th they found out their tour company went bankrupt and were out $120,000. >> they talked to the attorney general's office and the california attorney general lawfned an investigation, but they learned they were just out the money. and then a contact with t

new at 11:00, the graduation trip lowell high school students saved and worked for all year long isn't going to happen. >> at least not the way they planned it. leslie brinkley is live in san francisco to explain what happened. leslie? >> well, at 23 students here at lowell high school will get to take a consulation trip to italy, if you will. but they are still out an awful lot of money as their original tour company bailed on them. italian teacher judy bransburg had her students primed for a trip across italy after graduation. >> we have been waiting for this trip since we were freshmen and started our italian program. >> but their boston-based tour operator called the european institute suddenly stopped communicating. >> they just stopped answering my phone calls and my e-mails. i was sending them daily. >> and then on may 27th they found out their tour company went bankrupt and were out $120,000. >> they talked to the attorney general's office and the california attorney general lawfned an investigation, but they learned they were just out the money. and then a contact with the san

they were academically my daughter was promoted into lowell high school. i feel those teachers have given integrity and they have united the school of african-american, hispanic, and those two individuals imparted to my daughter extreme principle morales and i give my hundred percent support to those individuals they are outstanding. and the school board please take a close process that it goes through it it would find somehow so a teacher who gives so much of hers in difficult significance and then being fate out without being any process please bring them back >> can you tell me your name sir? >> i'm william. thank you very much. >> hello, i'm a uc student. i have given my time to do my part to secure the long term future with the hope of future generations including my own son about benefit someday. the culture is very important in my thesis research there was a lady who described her language barrier how much i am of asian. she fldz the rejection of her divisive backyard. the fact we're struggling to even maintain those taverns is really an alarming pr

here is lowell melser. officials,g to noaa this year's hurricane season is not looking good because of a number of factors. they are calling for up to 20 maine storms, three-six of those uld be a major hurricane. >> with the devastation from hurricane sandy still fresh in the minds of those along the seaboard, noaa is a grim outlook at the expected 2013 atlantic hurricane season. >> important news today for all of us is about preparedness. now is the time to think ahead about the hurricane season that is coming. >> officials are calling for an extremely active season. coulden of the storms become hurricanes when of 74 miles per hour or higher. out of those, three-six of those could be major hurricanes. the mud officials stressed the importance of having enough food, clothing, and shelter -- .ema officials christie ability to have another sandy in the same location a year later is good. if you are not prepared and you do not listen to the warnings and evacuation's, you are likely to be a statistic. >> as far

started where i grew up in lowell, massachusetts. used to be textiles.or is so cheap. i'm for improving standards, too. the companies set up shop over there because it is cheap. if you raise the standards do they just leave? >> such a huge point because -- you are from massachusetts. i'm from north carolina. i -- you know, my mother worked in a textile mill and came from massachusetts from -- to north carolina for that reason. and, you know, i share this great -- for on hundred years factories moved from massachusetts to north carolina because north carolina was the poorest state in the nation, the lowest wages in the nation and they had free rein to do what they wanted to do. that employed my mother and gave me the life hi and that -- you know, pushed forward our state. we have done a lot of great things from that. it was horrible for massachusetts but on that, we felt like that was a good. we felt like coming after -- coming here was good and employment was good. and -- so -- it helped north carolina. it improved standards of north carolina overall bec

. >> they are brushing up at lowell high school prepping for the ap program. advanced placement classes like this one are college level courses, so they are hard. so hard that they have ten commandments to keep it in check. >> thou shall not cram. thou shall get sleep. >> some take it to heart. >> i think it's fine. i'm not stressed out about it. >> i can get eight hours of sleep and still do track after school and get all my stuff done for ap. >> for others, it's a struggle. >> i had no sleep. it took a lot of my time. >> there's been a proliferation of ap classes across the nation. >> she's a senior lecturer at the graduate school of education. he's a co-founder of challenge success which examined common assumptions about the ap. >> it's a fallacy to say take every ap available at your school and that will help you get into college. itis not necessarily true. >> ap courses may not always live up to the reputation as the gold standard. >> the ap courses are narrow. they often will cause teachers to teach toward the test. >> it's the research into the belief a

. >> hi my name is angel and i will be graduating from lowell high school and attending cornell university next year. >> my name is richard lee and i am from mission high school. and i am going to uc berkeley. >> >> hi, my name is (inaudible) and i attend galaleo academy and i will be attending uc irvine in the fall. >> good evening, everyone, my name is (inaudible) and i am attending galaleo high school and in the fall i am going to uc berkeley thank you. >> hi, my name is wendy and i am going to be graduating from mission high school tomorrow, and i am going to berkeley as well. >> >> okay. >> thank you. >> so are we ready for the san francisco alliance of black school educaters? >> yes. >> so please come to the podium and do you have students with you? >> yes. bring them with you. >> >> good evening to everyone and to our president and for the superintendent and all board president and to sister ester and to all present, we would like to thank you for this opportunity to announce that on may 9th we gave away, 13 scholarships. and we have one recipient that is here with us this afternoon

resident but someone more interested in the district and representing all the issues, and graduate of lowel high school. both of my daughters are blowing kisses to me from new york as they also graduated from that fantastic school. she has a very distinction have gone to u c davis. obviously some very strong intelligence, a double major, of course it is a proper time to thank mr. and mrs. tang for that great lineage of parentage that is demonstrated there. i have no doubt that katie will fulfill these incredible obligations responsibly for the district, representing everybody. she has been literally every corner and again the residents have continued to say can we have continuity. we want to have things done. we don't want name calling or disputes. really the collaborative experience that this board is demonstrating, they wanted the same thing representing district 4 which is something they felt in supervisor's chu's representation for the last five years. i have no doubt that she'll be an effective representative of the district and also can be having things running and as you know we have

so for example at maybe a high end school like lowell ore gunn you might have bullying because you're not taking enough ap class. i have heard this and there is so mush pressure and criticized by the peers if they're not smart enough. in other schools it's the opposite and bullied because they are smart when that is not the krult. maybe in texas where it's a different culture that we saw in the movie that perhaps football is everything and if a child isn't good at sports they're an outcast. i would like to ask how or if addressing the cultural needs at each school how can we -- is this all one way of doing this, or do you feel there are different needs in different communities? and i think perhaps the law enforcement folks feel the cultures in the communities and see that come out in the adults. i would like to hear about how do you affect a culture and even in san francisco we have many cultures affecting what is valued, what is criticized. >> you know i think that richard touched upon this. it's a relationship of power and it's clearly going to differ from community to community; ri

joseph's hospital and lowell high school. i am a mathematician turned attorney and i have been employed at the state department of insurance for the last 12 years as an enforcement attorney. i also serve on the board of directors of st. francis memorial hospital and the democratic platform committee as the co-chair and i am extremely pleased to be here to work with my esteemed colleagues as well as the police commission. we have a tremendous amount of work to do and we have come so far and we couldn't do it without the community and great leaders are involved with the community so in thatinto the meeting. >> thank you. please call line item two. >> line item two consent agenda and support the reauthorization of violence against women act and the project on domestic violence policy reform. >> right now i would like to call up justice encourage project oversight panel, the past and present people who have made it what it is today. and if i could have commissioner shorter actually announce the names. >> thank you commissioner. a

. >> i'm lowell melser on the set of "house of cards." find out why kevin spacey is calling maryland, hollywood east. have a good night. here you go. you, too. i'm going to dream about that steak. i'm going to dream about that tiramisu. what a night, huh? but, um, can the test drive be over now? head back to the dealership? [ male announcer ] it's practically yours. but we still need your signature. volkswagen sign then drive is back. and it's never been easier to get a passat. that's the power of german engineering. get $0 down, $0 due at signing, $0 deposit, and $0 first month's payment on any new volkswagen. visit vwdealer.com today. >> good morning. we're waking up to some fog, a bit of drizzle as well, but temperatures are pretty mild. right now we're around 60 degrees. closer to 61 at the airport and we head north. we normally expect to it warm up a lot more but today we'll probably only see 10 more degrees for an afternoon high temperature. with fog and drizzle earlier on. e will have cloudy skies and at any moment we have a chance

so for example at maybe a high end school like lowell ore gunn you might have bullying because you're not taking enough ap class. i have heard this and there is so mush pressure and criticized by the peers if they're not smart enough. in other schools it's the opposite and bullied because they are smart when that is not the krult. maybe in texas where it's a different culture that we saw in the movie that perhaps football is everything and if a child isn't good at sports they're an outcast. i would like to ask how or if addressing the cultural needs at each school how can we --

so for example at maybe a high end school like lowell ore gunn you might have bullying because you're not taking enough ap class. i have heard this and there is so mush pressure and criticized by the peers if they're not smart enough. in other schools

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. >> graduates from san francisco's lowell high school are leashing in a few days for a trip they nearlysed when the tour company went out of business. bought-based tour operator european institute, went bankrupt. the graduates were out $120,000 collectively when the san francisco mayor's office contacted them and connected them with another tour company called world strides and the c.e.o. kicked in $50,000 of his own money. >> we have been waiting if this trip since freshman. they just stopped answering my phone calls and e-mails and i sent them each day. >> the students have to cut their trip authority but they will get to italy. >> the state assembly approve add bail to make it easier for immigrants in the country to get a california driver's license. the legislation would allow people to get a license even if they don't have a social security number and said they would have to provide multiple documents to establish their identity including a birth certificate and proof of resolution danny. two million would be eligible for a drive's license or i.d. card. >> the so-called third rail

agraduates from lowell high school still get to take their trip to italy although the tour operator wentt of business. another tour company is helping to pay for part of the trip for 23 students although it will be shorter and they still out money. >> we are starting off with mainly clear and cooler sky this only but this afternoon, the transition to possibly excessive heat this weekend and that is in the seven-day forecast. >> we have an accident in gilroy that is tying up traffic. we will look at construction projects across the bay area and look in the east bay where traffic is heating up at this hour. >> thank you, we are getting our first look at the san francisco zoo's newest resident, a one week old healthy giraffe born on wednesday. she is 5' 11", and usually they are 6'. she is getting along well with the adults. mom is 11 years old. look at that tender picture, they will spend a lot of time bonding before the calf is put on display at the african exhibit. she doesn't have a name yet, perhaps there will be a contest if the kids. >> shorty? >> tell us what you think the name shou

she is out of lowell, massachusetts.s not that long ago that she and her mother were recovering from their injuries in a hospital. >> like i keep feeling like i'm going to cry because i'm happy to be back. but, you know, i'm going to start crying. it's good to see everyone. >> very nice. her next milestone is high school graduation. that's coming up on june 7. very nice. >> yes. nice. >>> an amusing moment involving president obama and a white house reception. >> yeah. had to do a little explaining after greeting people at the asian-american and pacific islanders heritage month event. mr. obama wound up with a lipstick smudge on his collar. here's the president. >> i have to say i think i know the culprit. where's jessica sanchez? jessica, no, it wasn't her, it was her aunt. where is she? [ laughter ] >> auntie right there. look at this. look at this. i just want everybody to witness. [ laughter ] >> so i do not want to be in trouble with michelle. that's why i'm calling you out right in front of everybody. >> a little s

. >>> a group of lowell high school students are leaving monday for a trip to italy that almost didn't now, since their freshman year, the 23 students have been working with the east coast company european institute to set up a 17 day italian tour. the cost of that trip, $5000 each. but a couple of weeks ago they were suddenly unable to reach the company or get their money back. now, a different company, world strides is covering the cost of the trip. parents are planning legal action against the european institute. >>> later today, a bay area teenager will be competing in the semifinal round of the national spelling bee. >> prosciutto, p-r-o-s-c-i-u-t p-r-o-s-c-i-u-t-t-o. prosciutto . [ applause ] >> nice job. that was 13-year-old audrey bantug correctly spelling prosciutto, an eighth grader at iron horse middle school in san ramon. another also made it far in the competition but eliminated yesterday. semifinal round starts in maryland at 11:00 this morning. the finals are later tonight. >>> 6:48. sal is in the south bay. >> busier, right now traffic on 237 for example is slowing down

they say the company, european institute, has been working with lowell high school students since freshmanr to plan a 17 day italian tour. it cost each of the students $5000 but a couple weeks ago parents and school staff were no longer able to reach the company. now a rld rides, has stepped up to send the students to italy. they are scheduled to leave on monday. >>> later today a bay area teenager will be competing in the semifinal round of the national spelling bee. >> prosciutto, p-r-o-s -c-i-u-t-t o, prosciutto. [ applause ] >> that was 13-year-old audrey bantuge correctly spelling prosciutto. nina also made it far into the competition but she was eliminated yesterday. the semifinal round starts in maryland at 11:00 this morning. the finals are later tonight. prosciutto, go. sorry, i didn't mean to put you on the spot. >> i can spell prosciutto but we can go to traffic. prosciutto, a lot of us know what that word is, a lot of the other words we don't know. >>> take a look at what we have starting in the east bay this time around on 80 westbound as you head out to the mcmargareter -- ma

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. >> guest: i grew up outside of lowell, massachusetts, which has strong similarities. older city, roughly the same size, 100,000 people, strong industrial heritage. lowell is a great example to redefine risk of itself quite successfully over the last decades. massachusetts recognized its older cities have challenges and i know when i go home to visit family, there've been efforts to revitalize the state solar cities, which they have lots of turns on their own. new bedford has a wonderful whaling history tradition going back to those days. >> host: marc perry is cheaper of the population distribution branch and the census bureau population division. he's worked since 1997 and we are looking at a steady with the latest numbers that show population changes. our other guest is lisa sturtevant with george mason university where she serves as deputy director for the center of regional analysis, also an associate public policy teaches statistics program policy and also survey methodology. clearly, south dakota. >> caller: i just have some observations and comments. i sent the

last night on crutches she traded in a gown for a gown at lowell prom voted prom queen.>> from the finish line and brought them out to the pitcher's mound to throw out the first pitch. >> we'll be right back. >> we'll be right back. [ cheers ] >> ah! we're at the exclusive el chorro lodge in paradise valley, arizona where, tonight, we switched their steaks with walmart's choice premium steak. it's a steakover! this was perfect. it was really good! one of the best filets i've had. see, look how easy that is to cut. these are perfectly aged for flavor and tenderness. you're eating walmart steaks. really? shut up! oh, is that right? are you serious? best steak i'd ever had! i would definitely go to walmart and buy steaks. walmart choice premium steak in the black package. try it! it's 100% satisfaction guaranteed. she would help her child. go! goooo! [ male announcer ] with everything. but instead she gives him capri sun super-v. with one combined serving of fruits and vegetables. capri sun super-v. with one combined serving of fruits and vegetables. with greek nonfat yogur

the 18-year-old lowell high school senior suffered serious injuries to both 6 her legs in the marathon for her because a few short weeks ago sydney wasn't sure if she would ever make it to her prom, let alone be crowned prom queen. >> when i was in the hospital i didn't think this was going to be possible. when i got to the rehab, and i just, because i was up and i was doing stuff, it just, it felt more like i could do it. i'm just feeling like i'm going to cry because i'm just happy to be back. but, seeing them i'm going to start crying. it's just really good to see everyone. >> sydney's mom celeste lost both of her legs in the marathon bombings. she's now waiting for a pair of prosthetics. >> pulling for them. >>> so if you squint your eyes just the right way this teapot may actually look like adolf hitler. why this ad has jcpenney in hot water. hey, look! a shooting star! make a wish! i wish we could lie here forever. i wish this test drive was over, so we could head back to the dealership. [ male announcer ] it's practically yours. test drive! but we still need your signature. volk

is so thirsty for a lowell beer. getting a good response locally here?> every time we ex pants we are like, we are going it to launch maryland and it was like, where did all of the beer go? >> i have to say, now we want to get into the beer, but i want to say one thing: i feel like -- i feel naked sitting here, and i think peter looks naked sitting here. we have our sleeves rolled up. look at my arms. look at peter's arms. then look at yours. >> never too late to get a tatoo. >> my grandfather always told me never seeget a tatoo where a judge can see it. >> i know a good guy i can recommend you guys highly. >> you have the whole body tatoo? >> it's one of those things it's kind of addictive. i guess it is. >> once you get started, you can't stop? >> yeah, you know, i love every one of my tattoos. i can't imagine. i don't know what i would feel like them now that i have had them for so long we hadve john stanton from buzz feed. he said he in that you. he has the same thing. it's not quite as at that timed out as you? >> i had them so long. i can't remembe

general benjamin butler came from lowell, massachusetts. so a great tradition of service.spirit having grown up in a service, as well. it is a great committee. it is one of the least partisan and congress could we are committed to producing a bill every year. we understand how important it is that we create and put in place the resources to protect our country and to protect those who are serving on our behalf. host: if the last name sounds really, niki tsongas of the widow of paul tsongas, former senator of massachusetts and residents of canada of 1991. daniel is in indiana -- and presidential candidate of 1991. thank c- would like to span for not hanging up on me today. i want to enlighten people on the issue of drone strikes. specifically state that the only argument really coming out of this is how these four americans killed were still classified through customs as american citizens. if the founding fathers had had their way, they would have either exterminated them as traitors or capture them and treated them as such. e line wejust a fin have to find, and i'm not say

. >> lowell is in some ways one of the scariest components of the discussion, because you have so fewvenues. you do not see the overseas the medications to monitor. you do not have financial transactions with known terrorists. necessarilyill not show up in the normal interactions that you have that you are monitoring that give rise to information. on the other hand, and this is comforting, this is not a new problem. there have always been people who, for reasons of their own, be they ideological or things they have read, a turnaround and do terrible things within their communities. this is in some ways the least novel component that we think of when we think of counter terrorism prevention. i think we have time for one or two more questions. what about access to nonconventional weapons by terrorists? how big a threat is this? how can you prevent it? >> we see this in syria, where one of the questions is dealing with chemical weapons is -- what if there is a breakdown of order and the jihadis get hold of them? so far, this has not happened. governments that control nuclear weapons have

. >> lowell is in some ways one of the scariest components of the discussion, because you have so fewavenues. you do not see the overseas the medications to monitor. you do not have financial transactions with known terrorists. the people will not necessarily show up in the normal interactions that you have that you are monitoring that give rise to information. isthe other hand, and this comforting, this is not a new problem. there have always been people reasons of their own, be they ideological or things they have read, a turnaround and do terrible things within their communities. this is in some ways the least novel component that we think of when we think of counter terrorism prevention. i think we have time for one or two more questions. tot about access nonconventional weapons by terrorists? how big a threat is this? how can you prevent it? we see this in syria, where one of the questions is dealing -- whatmical weapons is if there is a breakdown of order and the jihadis get hold of them? so far, this has not happened. governments that control nuclear abouts have been good maint