Éste es el resumen que nos presenta miriam guzmÁn. : miriam: una semifinal muy intensa se se viviÓ en la pista se vistiÓ de gala con lucero, que presentÓ su mÁs reciente sencillo. sucediÓ algo histÓrico, con el 70% de los votos, el pÚblico vo que dejar pista para siempre. >>agradezco como siempre el apoyo de toda la gente por tomarse el tiempo de leer nuestros mensajes, por vernos en el show, por divertirse con nosotros. mri para la ronda de salvaciÓn, los concursantes suelen de nuevaam: en taizÉ bailaron inconformes porque dijeron que no habÍan tenido tiempo para ensayar. los jueces decidieron que el Último baile, determinarÍa quiÉn pasarÍa a la final. santiago reymundo tuvo su pase a la gala pasada,mientras que gracie rendÓn, fue la primera elegida para la gran final unto emanuel palomares fue el segundo y al momento de elegir al Último finalista, hubo un gran desencuentro entre el jurado. joaquÍn y dayanara votaron por sara. lola cortÉs votÓ por tropel, pero salió de la competencia.el prÓximo domingo cuando el prÓximo domingo a las 8,7 centro univisiÓn. >>voy a hacer una sugerencia

miriam and hagar regularly staged concerts in these hallowed halls and sometimes performed tango dances to the couple and their daughters used to live in argentina where they fell in love with the country and its tango culture these flowers the costal and even music from my homeland in his i'm beyond the atmosphere here along the water is amazing you're in the city yes away from it all. as evening approaches it's time for a well deserved refreshment i've called in at at star palla one of the many former public restrooms in hamburg that have been transformed into stylish eateries or bars i'd step palla is a hit with hikers tourists and locals alike. and how hamburg has many beautiful spots to take in the sunset. but here along the ide stuff it's truly splendid. the people of hamburg are said to be proud of their city after spending a day on the i stuff i now know why. magic finished the show today we're talking spy ease and not the fictional ones like james bond or jason bourne the real ones that are still very much a part of the world that we live in thanks to the museum in berlin visit

...miriam rodriquez/hurricane maria survivor:"that wasn't a normal death, that wasn't."natalio's family is just one of many who believe hurricane maria contributed to their lossthe kind of losses trump now says, have been fabricated for political gain. (vicki)(vicki) trump's tweet said democrats were behind the report of nearly three- thousand hurricane maria deaths in puerto rico.(grant) he said they were trying to "make him look as bad as possible." (vicki) thousands of people have evacuated and others are hunkering down as the east coast waits for hurricane florence to make landfall. reporter deni kamper - in bentonville, arkansas to show us how the world's largest retailer walmart is preparing its stores to handle the potentially catastrophic storm. deni kamper, knwa -- "walmart has more than 700 stores either in hurricane florence's path or just outside of it and here in the emergency operations center is where the company is tracking and preparing for the storm." ((ááásotááá))lucas mcdonald, director of emergency operations, walmart - "human resources, logistics, m

miriam nos tiene un recuento de la gran final.corazÓn no pensÉ que fuera a llevar llegar tan lejos. yo creo que lo mÁs importante de todo es disfrutar toda la vida y aprender. >>la jueza dayanara torres, recordÓ cuando ella ganó el primer lugar, la temporada pasada. >>ella tenÍa una cosa dulce, muy pura y genuina. yo creo que el pÚblico lo notÓ y por eso ha ganado esta noche. estoy muy feliz por ella. le entregÓ 10.000 $ tambiÉn,> a mi fundaciÓn en estados unidos. esto es una bendiciÓn para mÍ, ayudar a todos los hispanos. emanuel palomares es hijodejÓ lola cortÉs cautivada por su baile de la mÚsica disco. le dejaron un gran aprendizaje. asÍ, una vez mÁs la pista de baile nos dejÓ grandes momentos que serÁn inolvidables para los participantes, los jueces y para el pÚblico que disfrutÓ cada domingo las galas de "mira quiÉn baila". ramÓn: vamos a lo que podemos esperar del clima para el comienzo de la semana. pasamos con elenay la ventana al tiempo. >>comenzamos viendo la temperatura mÁxima durante el domingo o en san josÉ. la mÁxim

grecia: para miriam es importante hacer ejercicio. esto se debe a una -- ejercicio. todo esto se debe a las malas costumbre. [hablan inglÉs] >>esto me da energÍa. seÑalan expertos que uno de los principales riesgos de la inactividad de desarrollar una enfermedad. afecta la incidencia de cÁnceres y afecta la salud mental. grecia: busquÉ una actividad que le gusta y tratÉ de hacer los 150 minutos a la semana. quiebran si hay elevadores,tomar las escaleras. si usa las escaleras mecÁnicas, que tratÉ de moverse activamente. formar parte de ese porcentaje de hombres y mujeres que no hacen ejercicio. recuerde que mÁs allá de la vanidad, primero estÁ su salud. beatriz: autoridades de salud del condado de santa clara anunciaron que ya empezÓ la temporada de vacunaciÓn contra la influenza y piden que vayan a inmunizarse. indicaron que para los niÑos de seis meses en adelante y para mujeres embarazadas y adultos mayores es importante recibir la vacuna para estar protegidos de este virus. >> es importante porque la influenza comienza a circular e

despair that the next generation of we may be stripped of the language and identity they hold so dear miriam holland al-jazeera. the leader of yemen's who feel rebels has called on his supporters to stand firm against the saudi amorality led coalition trying to defeat them as thousands of people filled the streets of the yemeni capital sana'a to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the he's takeover of the city the u.n. is trying to mediate peace talks to end the fighting between the government and he sees the conflict has killed more than ten thousand people and left millions more displaced. in the interview with al jazeera the un's actually general antonio terraces renewed his calls for all parties to avoid a major escalation in the who three control city of a data. our concern is first of all humanitarian concern elation to a battle for a day that needs implications for the civilians and it is also a concern about the harbor and the possibility of harvard to suffer if the conflict . you know they the becomes acute so that is why we have been recommending to the parties to avoid a mess of b

in the u.s., rapper mack miriam found dead at his home in l.a. after an apparent drug overdose. we'll speak t a deejay who knew him. ♪ >> hello and a very warmwe ome. barack obama has given a speech attacking president trump and accusing the republican party of abusing power, dividing america and threatening democracy. in his first major address of the u.s. midterm election ason, the former president said the u.s. were living in dangerous times and urged democrats to come out to vote in november as nick brian reports. reporter: this was barack obama returning to political center stage, using wha has alway been the strongest weapon in his armory, the power of speech and deploying it again donald trump. and he addressed this week e-- week's explosive revelations that trump appointees working secretly. >> they're not doing us aut service actively promoting 90% of stuff that's comingut of this crazy whuste white house by saying don't worry. we're prese. inghe other 10%. this is not normal. these are extraordinary times and they're dangerous times. reporter: these were his strongest

yes miriam it cough a senior research associate at the university of johannesburg says a lack of proper primary education is the two half of high school students dropping out she says the poor not only need access to education but also a good education in south africa by create for the gap in performance between it the the wealthier families and the poorer families is marked after four years of schooling and that gap just increases all the way to metric we have to intervene earlier in a positive way to ensure that a quality of education last year eight hundred thousand students took the final year high school exam that's a drop of five percent compared to the previous year while ball children are starting school fewer a completing their education and it's thought that persistent inequalities a worsening the problem for me to al-jazeera johannesburg. now they were invented in japan where a complex alphabet made texting cumbersome in the past few years emerges a become part of the way we communicate or now they're being used in everything from trying to eradicate malaria modern conceptual

browns of california, the family dynasty that transformed a state and shaped a nation is written by miriamowell. she spoke with scott shafe >> welcome to "kqed newsroom." >> thank you. thanks for having me. >> so this book part history. it's part biography. why did you decide t tell the story of california through the brown family? >> because i thought that the four generations of browns just so mirror the -- the arc of that family mirrors the history of the state of cifornia, that it was a great vehicle for saying some really fundamental things about the history of this place. andrn in the family was so important and influential in shaping it. i mean between pat and jerry ro n, they have governed the state for more than half of its modern history. >> yeah. and pat brown, of course, born in san francisco as was jerry brown. jerry brown's grandmother moved here from the ranch to get to the big city, i guess. and pat brown was elected governor in 1958. what knd of a politician was he? >> pat was the perfect politician for that era of this criminal expansi credible expansion. how california w

despair that the next generation of we may be stripped of the language and identity they hold so dear miriam hall and his era the president of vietnam has died in hospital aged sixty one the government says tran dayak one has been sick for several months he was one of at arms three most powerful leaders but his presidential role with ceremonial i have a morgan takes a look back at his life. grand icon's time in office was brief but marked by domestic crackdowns and a bid to stabilise relations with the united states he was sworn in as president of vietnam in equal time to sixteen the sixty one year old had been a public security minister and police general areas which had been the focus of criticism of the nation's human rights records under his rule vietnam launched a crackdown on corruption and dissidents posting on social media he'll also be remembered for a major expansion of the power of the ministry of public security and the police in the larger vietnam political system he quite clearly has made the ministry of public security now one of the preeminent organs of power in that country

despair that the next generation of week may be stripped of the language and identity they hold so dear miriam holland al-jazeera in the philippines the president's proposed changes to the constitution have provoked more demonstrations opposition groups say with regard to territories plans for a federal state will lead to dictatorship the march in manila was on the forty sixth anniversary of the declaration of martial law by former president ferdinand marcos many filipinos called him a dictator and activists say there are similarities between then and now now the president of vietnam has died in hospital at the age of sixty one the government says tranda kwang had been sick for several months he was one of vietnam's three most powerful leaders but his presidential role was largely ceremonial he will morgan looks back at his life. grand icon's time in office was brief but marked by domestic crackdowns and a bid to stabilise relations with the united states he was sworn in as president of vietnam in equal time to sixteen the sixty one year old had been a public security minister and police gener

due to the mission sytems treatment of native americans.sot miriam leshin/standford phd student 21-27a univerisity committee found "because the mission system's violence against california native americans is part of the history and memory of current members of the community, we believe that features named for junipero serra, who was the architect and leader of the mission system, are in tension with goal of full inclusion." stanford's board of trustees has accepted those recomendations and decided to remove the names. students support the move.sot stephanie robillard/stanford phd student 57-104sot117/complicated history (anchor) taking a live look outside-- overlooking downtown san francisco. (anchor) time now to check on our weather... with chief meteorologist lawrence karnow. lawrence karnow: it was a nice start to the work week with mostly sunny skies and nice temperatures. highs today were in the 70s inland with 60s and a few 70s around the bay and 60s at the beaches. on the satellte you can see a low pressure trough along the west coast. it will keep temperatures down all across

the middle school book, the beloved world of sonja sotomayor, kids, you're going to meet my cousin miriam was six months younger than i am and i tortured her, always telling her i was older. now we're older and she tortures me, telling me i'm younger. but she's a middle school bilingual education teacher. and when i wrote my parents book, my beloved world , she asked me immediately to start writing a middle school book. but you know, i have a dayjob . and sometimes i'm very, very busy and it took me a number of years to try to make the time to write this. so i decided to write this and as i was thinking about writing it, i thought really, how about young readers? this may not quite be appropriate for them yet . so if i'm going to do one, i should do the other, shouldn't i? and then i thought it's a real challenge. how do i tell my story to young readers in a way that they can understand the words, but they could see as well? so i thought about it and i said, and illustrated book . and then i had the pure tfortuity to find an illustrator who could turn my story into pictures. and beautiful

for the call we will go to merriam in las vegas, republican line did you watch the entire hearing, miriam? >> i did. >> what did you think? >> morals, family, god, it is a shame that the republican party continues to be so adamant on overlooking victim voices. and continues to shame victims. this party needs to do better pick >> how so?>> they need to stop shaming victims. they need to listen. they need to see that these people did not just come forward, with the allegations years ago, they were scared and they were traumatized. >> did you find the hearing today respectful toward doctor ford? >> i did. >> thank you for the call, we will go to, eugene oregon? >> hi, being a past victim, i do believe doctor ford. i do believe that something happened to her in her past, but, in this case, this has gone past victim, it is, the democrats, in this case, and i used to be one, and i have become so ashamed of the democratic party. i do not know where i lie, so i guess i am an independent now. i believe that somewhere along the line i do believe that there was a leak, but the democrats, and i do no

. >> i don't know if you have anything to add miriam? >> you did a great job.i do think -- i think something about that question i always find really interesting which is -- it's that you already have in your mind certain things that are your -- issue. you know? like there are some thing what is in in the world that are so harmful that you believe can never be transformed -- and i'm always like you are allowed to have those feelings. you are allowed to hold that you know that's you. you've decided that there are certain things that cannot be transformed. into something else -- that's not a judgment. i get worried when people do things like -- so y'all are abolitionist what's your alternative that's not my problem and the reason it is not is because it is not a solitary person's job to transform harm. we live in a culture and society where all implicated we have to have to come up with something different or better if we think current thing that we have doesn't do what it is supposed to do right so it is not up to me to give you alternative. what i try to do --

miriam webster.com just added 840 new words to its dictionary.ake up a large portion like instagram, and haptic, the science of touch. the dictionary has accepted abbreviations like avo, guac, zuk such as avocado, guacamole and zucchini. is food making you hungry? that is in the dictionary too. hangry. >> don't get hangry. it's not good. >>> candytopia of all things candy soaping in san francisco this week. >> droneview7 glides through some of the many, many exhibits exhibitors can expect. pretty cool us along on this sneak pick. >> willie cowonka has nothing o candytopia opening thursday in san francisco. this is a candy wonderland, an experiential, really a fantasy world where all things are sweet. >> call it a dentist's nightmare or a sugar lover's dream. from the moment you step inside candytopia, be prepared for sensory overload. >> i want a theme park. >> where kids and adults of all ages can admire sugar sculptures and frolic in foam marshmallows. the brainchild of candy queen to the stars. jackie sorkin's love of sugar started early. >> o

continue to move into the cooler water of the pacific and weaken from a category 2 to a 1 and then the miriam category 1 will weaken into a tropical low, as well. that is good news and back home we are still looking at comfortable conditions. 50s right now and in fact, a little bit on the cool side in some of the valleys and 50 in santa rosa and 5 degrees cooler than yesterday and east bay valleys in the mid-50s is a little bit cool this morning right around livermore and san jose, 3 to 5 degrees cooler. a live look outside and this is our roof camera and you will notice that it's nice and dark out there. the flag not blowing too much and the fog moves quicker today and feeling like summer tomorrow into the holiday on monday. so as we look at your forecast through your sunday we have 90s that will be arriving inland and that will warm you up east of the caldecott tunnel. very little change for the holiday on monday and as we go through the early part of the week, tuesday back to work still feeling much like summer. so while all of august pretty much is on the cool side, have a good weekend he

a miriam hace un aÑo le da cÁncer en el ovario siendo tan jovencita.on el trÁiler de la muerte, pero antes escogieron a una persona en base al dinero que cobraba. cobraba mucho mÁs barato. esa persona no las asesorÓ como deben estar asesorados todos los hispanos que vayan a una cita tan crucial como la de tu residencia permanente. carlos: lo mÁs triste es que eso te puede dar frente a los ojos de la ley, ese carÁcter de pollero, de ilegal, de criminal. simplemente, en gente que estÁ buscando una mejor vida. marÍa antonieta: nunca hicieron nada malo. nunca tuvieron un ticket de trÁfico. este domingo: condenada por la verdad. lo puede ver a las 10:00 de la noche en "crÓnicas". carlos: no se lo pierdan. muchas gracias. una historia increÍble. seguimos con mÁs de "despierta amÉrica". ♪ raÚl: aquÍ estamos todos. mira quiÉn llegÓ! [aplausos] alejandro! alejandro: buenos dÍas. un beso para marÍa antonieta collins. te quiero! vamos a tener una historia en vivo. hoy te voy a decir cÓmo tonificar un cuerpo con simples pasos que van a transformar tu vida. vas a p

. >> reporter: miriam rodriguez's hunt natalia relied on this machine to breathe. when they lost power, he lost air. >> it wasn't a normal death, it wasn't. >> reporter: natalia's family is just one of many who believe hurricane irma contributed to their loss, the kind of losses trump now says has been fabricated for political gain. jake, this week i was in the interior part of the island really hit hard by hurricane irma. the emergency management director there told me he believed at leave 95 deaths came out of that municipality, and he said that is what president trump should have seen, the interior part of the island, the area where still today roads are not able to hold the buses to take the children to school, the roads that he had to these 95 deaths. >> thank you so much for being on that story. let's talk about that with our experts. anna navarro, your reaction to president trump's tweet? >> how stupid, how tone deaf, how surreal, how insensitive, how offensive, how offensive to the relatives of the 3,000 people who died in puerto rico. just, you know, how w

despair that the next generation of we may be stripped of the language and identity they hold so dear miriam hall and his era. the kingdom of swat seanie formerly known as swaziland is holding elections half a million registered voters will elect fifty five parliamentarians while the remaining ten will be appointed by the king the third himself human rights activists have criticized the run up to those polls political parties were banned from running and campaign rallies were restricted the southern african kingdom is among the world's last remaining absolute monarchies vietnam's president trained has died in hospital after a serious illness he was sixty one the communist government says he had been sick for several months while his role was largely ceremonial he was one of the country's most powerful leaders with a record of cracking down on dissent he was the front runner to become general secretary of the ruling communist party conservative ecuadorian politicians are calling for the south american nation to strip julian a songe of citizenship speaking in quito the group presented document

despair that the next generation of we may be stripped of the language and identity they hold so dear miriam hall and his era let's speak now to adrian cents in stuttgart germany via skype he is a china analyst who researches china's ethnic minority policy thanks very much for being with us so what is your reaction to this a.p. investigation then to what extent does it match or perhaps conflict with your understanding of what is happening in the region. it is very consistent with the very intensive policies implemented by the region's new pontiff secretary chu and church was responsible not only for a massive securitization and police recruitment campaign as well as the re education campaign but he also has been recruiting tens of thousands of chinese language teachers for rico and other muslim majority regions in shinjiro that to see the extent to which children are being separated from their parents is really a new level and so i am despite my research shocked by the a.p. report so what do you expect to happen then do you think that this this investigation what will make any difference wil

my older sister, miriam, died of a drug overdose.ple all across the state of texas, 70,000 people a year are dying of drug overdoses in this country. we have an opioid crisis. i think talking about legalizing all narcotics, i think that is profoundly dangerous. it does not represent the interest of texas. [applause] >> that is your time. senator cruz come you get the next question for you fought for the repeal of the affordable care act. texas has the highest rate of uninsured people in the nation can more than one million residents lined up for the federal marketplace and how do you propose addressing the health care needs of texans? sen. cruz: i believe obamacare has hurt millions of texans. it was sold to the people of this country on a promise from president obama. if you like your health insurance plan, keep it. if you like your doctor, keep it. the left-leaning organization rated that 2013 lie of the year as millions of americans have their health insurance canceled against their will. the biggest reason people are unhappy with

that the next generation of weaker may be stripped of the language and identity they hold so dear miriamholland al-jazeera. the leader of yemen's hooty rebels has called on his supporters to stand firm against the saudi iraqi led coalition of trying to defeat them thousands of people filled the streets of the yemeni capital sanaa to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the hoody take over the city the united nations is trying to mediate peace talks to end the fighting between the government and booties the conflict has killed more than ten thousand people and left millions displaced when an interview with al jazeera un secretary-general antonio good terror has renewed his calls for all parties to avoid a major escalation of the hoody controlled city of what data. our concern is first of all humanitarian concern in addition to a battle for a day that needs implications for the civilians and it is also a concern about the harbor and the possibility of harvard to suffer if the conflict . you know they the becomes acute so that is why we have been recommending the parties to avoid a mess of b

despair that the next generation of we may be stripped of the language and identity they hold so dear miriam hall and his era us secretary of state my phone pale has announced reports of reeducation camps where we gores in western china he was speaking in washington at a conference on the stage of religious freedom around the world hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of leaders are held against their will and so called riyadh to kazan camps were forced to endure severe political indoctrination and other awful abuses their religious beliefs are decimated yet noms president has died at the age of sixty one the ruling communist party says trying dyke won had been sick for several months here morgan looks back at his life. grand icon's time in office was brief but marked by domestic crackdowns and a bid to stabilise relations with the united states he was sworn in as president of vietnam in april to sixteen the sixty one year old had been a public security minister and police general areas which had been the focus of criticism of the nation's human rights records under his rule vietnam l

despair that the next generation of we may be stripped of the language and identity they hold so dear miriam hall and his era cambodia has pardoned an australian filmmaker who was jailed on espionage charges james ricketson was arrested in june last year after using a drone to film an opposition party rally he was sentenced to six years in prison last month. the it mom's president has died at the age of sixty one the ruling communist party says train dying kwang had been sick for several months he morgan looks back at his life. grand icon's time in office was brief but marked by domestic crackdowns and a bid to stabilise relations with the united states he was sworn in as president of vietnam in april to sixteen the sixty one year old had been a public security minister and police general areas which had been the focus of criticism of the nation's human rights records under his rule vietnam launched a crackdown on corruption and dissidents posting on social media they'll also be remembered for a major expansion of the power of the ministry of public security and the police in the larger viet

that the next generation of we get may be stripped of the language and identity they hold so dear miriam hall and. or oil prices have risen in the run up to sunday's opec meeting some investors don't think producers will be able to fully cover the predicted shortfall of iranian oil that's once new u.s. sanctions take hold well ahead of the opec meeting in algeria the us president donald trump tweeted we protect the countries of the middle east they would not be safe for very long without us and yet they continue to push for higher and higher oil prices we will remember the opec monopoly must get prices down now but opec isn't expected to boost output the price of brant crude oil is close to a four year high is trading at just under eighty dollars a barrel that's still well short of the two thousand and eight peak of one hundred forty seven dollars there is growing pressure on opec to avoid a further rise in prices when a short talkin is an international oil and energy consultant and former researcher at opec he says opec countries will be united in their decision. i think overall the ope

despair that the next generation of we may be stripped of the language and identity they hold so dear miriam hall and his era the president of vietnam has died in hospital at the age of sixty one the government says tran di kwan had been sick for several months was one of vietnam's three most powerful leaders as hippo morgan reports. prime di kong's time in office was brief but marked by domestic crackdowns and a bid to stabilise relations with the united states he was sworn in as president of vietnam in april to sixteen the sixty one year old had been a public security minister and police general areas which had been the focus of criticism of the nation's human rights records under his rule vietnam launched a crackdown on corruption and dissidents posting on social media he'll also be remembered for a major expansion of the power of the ministry of public security and the police in the larger vietnam political system he quite clearly has made the ministry of public security now one of the preeminent organs of power in that country and it continues to affect the lives of daily via the maze a

my wife sharon, my son jonah and my daughter leanna and my sister miriam who's come down from bostonbe with us today. they keep me grounded, and i'm grateful for that. they've already taken to calling me ambassa -- dad, although i reminded them they can't call me that until i'm confirmed by the u.s. senate. the life journey that led to my sitting at this table started in ohio where i had the good fortune to be the son of louis and evelyn rosenblum. my mother was an educator who passed on to me her love of learning and fascination with history. my father worked at massa for over 30 years -- nasa for over 30 years developing rocket fuels that took the first americans into space and later solar cell technology for use on earth. my dad was also a human rights activist who in the early 1960s helped organize the grassroots movement that provided moral and material support to jews and other oppressed minorities living under soviet communism. his advocacy efforts eventually led to package of the jackson-van ec amendment and mass emigration of soviet jew swrks to israel and the united states.

he planned on attending miriam university's nursing program next year. september is national suicide prevention month. it is my hope we can remove the stigma of mental health issues so all of us can help people like evan who believe their only way to finding peace is by making a decision that can never be undone. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? o >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i rise to support the food and agribusiness merger more moratorium and antitrust act of 2018. i'm proud to be an original co-sponsor of this bill, introduced by representative pocan, and original founder of the antitrust caucus. this bill is good for our farmers. it would place a short-term moratorium on the large agribusiness mergers that we're seeing across our nation. fewer farmers means fewer choices for consumers and higher p

to middle school, which one of my cousins you mightave met in my parenting book, d "my belo world, miriamthought, i want young leaders to know a little about my life. that'shere turning pages came in. >> there are so many lessons here. why young people, though? if you couldrite a book for anybody? >> they are our future. we as adults haven't donegr a t job of leaving them a perfect world. we're so far from it. kids have a better chance. for me, insring them to follow their dreams, more importantly to think about their invvement in the world, that's my reason for writing books and the theme in this book, turning pages, which is how books opened up the possibil in my life. >> turning pages, the one you hold in your hand, really is a love letter toeading and to books. you kind of tell how they transported you throughout your li life. >> so instrumental in my development. all of us live in a microcosm of the world. you have a house, a mom and dad if you're fortunate. some may not hav all the members of their parents there. we sort of travel in the circles we know. books take us outside that c

we need to protect our family. [ applause ] >> our next speaker, miriam mendoza of arizona, she's co-foundern mendoza who was killed by three times drunk illegal alien and high on meth in a head-on collision. her son was killed on may 12 , 2014. my heart goes out to her. ladies and gentlemen, press and media, mary ann mendoza. >> thank you all for coming and hearing angel family stories. it's important that our fellow americans know the magnitude of crimes that are being committed against americans. it's being kept from you as the media and from our politicians. they don't want us to use the words illegal aliens, and i will continue using those words because it indicates it's a person who is unlawfully present in our country, and that is exactly what every one of us have been affected by who are here today telling our stories. my son was an incredible man. he was one of four of my children. he knew from a very young age that he wanted to be a police officer and serve his community. and as he grew older, we spent a lot of time together going on vacation and just really having a really strong

the middle school book, the beloved world of sonya sotomayor, kids, you're going to meet my cousin miriam she's six months younger than i am and i tortured are always told her i was older. now we are older and she tortures me telling me i'm younger. [laughing] but she's a middle school bilingualer education teacher ad when i wrote my parents book, my beloved world, she asked me immediately to start writing a middle school book. but you know i have a day job. [laughing] and sometimes i'm very, very busy and took me a number of years to try to make the time to write this pics i decide to write this as i'm thinking of writing it, i thought but really, how about young readers? this may not be appropriate for them yet so if i'm going to do one i should do the other, should i? and then i thought it's a real challenge. how do i tell my story to young readers in a way that they can understand in i the words but tt they could see as well? so i i thought about it and i said, it was a strange book. and then i had the pure for 280 to find an illustrator who could turn my story into pictures, and beau