and my teachers would say reyna, you have such a wild imagination.laughter] and i had too fight so hard to get them to understand i was writing my truth, and my reality. so those were some difficulties that i had as a latino writer trying to write the kind of stories that i wanted to write. but i was grateful that i also made chick cono literature teacher who started to read my work, and encouraged me to keep writing and to not give up because i was tempted to drop out of the creative writing program because i felt so out of place there. and thanks to her i stayed in the program, i graduated, and then when i went out into the real world to finally turn this dream into a reality, and become a professional writer, i got a lot of rejection there too from the publishing business. and one editor i submitted to went as far as telling me that nobody was going to care about a story of a mexican immigrant girl. >> host: he wanted you to change the charactering? >> reyna: he didn't want any stories about mexican immigration, he wanted me to change the story an

detectives drove out to see reyna. >> we waited until she showed up. kind of surprised her. >> reporter: it's what you guys do in. >> you know, sometimes it works better that way, yeah. she was nervous and startled. ultimately she provided us the paper for the storm locker. >> reporter: reyna's storm locker, it was a big one, ten feet by 20. we rolled the door up. the only thing nit was a black mercedes benz with no license plate on it. >> wow. >> a huge moment. >> reporter: a black mercedes van had to be gavin smith. >> i kissed my partner on the cheek. that itself a true story. it was big piece of evidence. when we were able to get closer and saw our entire crime scene in our opinion was in that car. >> reporter: crime scene, yes, suddenly all other theories seemed to fall away. >> the passenger's seat was completely covered in blood and at one point it was very eerie where you looked at the blood and you can see a hand mark of gavin smith as he died in that seat. >> reporter: soon the news reached the pham lip. tara devastated. there is no going bac

[applause] >> reyna is helping lead a really important literary system that when we look back, to 20, 30, 40 years from now we could look at books in terms of what happened and more than that what happened on cable news which is so numbing but what is happening here like interior and that is what books are, the most intimate experience you can have to place yourself in someone else's place. i want to say that. as for what it is like, thank you for noting that. i didn't find out i was undocumented until i was 16, four years after i was brought here when i was 12 from the philippines. i should also note since i am in texas, 40% of the undocumented population over say their visa, they didn't cross the border, the southern border because we never talk about the northern border and i actually think being in texas, we owed the mexican people an apology for having racialized this issue as much as we have. [applause] >> the journalism can't help but note numbers, 1.8 million undocumented people in the state of texas. and we are not allowed to drive in a state like texas so i live in californi

también identificaron a la conductora del vehículo, reyna robles de 55 años de edad que podría estar para huir, por lo que se pide la ayuda de los televidentes para encontrarla. >> hoy se realizan vigilias para recordar a las víctimas de la masacre en el estadio de pensilvania. esta mañana un pistolero mató a 11 personas, todos judíos. >> este evento se celebrará en la ciudad de san josé y ahí está nuestro compañero, qué se espera que ocurra en el lugar? >> se espera que varias personas de distintas religiones se hagan presente en el arco césar chávez de la universidad. para hacer una vigilia en honor a las víctimas, el honor lo planearon varias organizaciones judías afiliadas al centro educativo. el mensaje principal que quieren enviar es, estar bien ser judío? si tienes miedos está bien pero no está solo. hablamos con varios estudiantes, ellos quieren que los tiroteos acaben. porque aseguran que todos son víctimas . >> me da mucho miedo que en cualquier lugar uno pueda estar en peligro, practicando su religión. >> el sospechoso de perpetrar este atentado disparó a mansalva, dentro

s >>> tonight, the search is on for this woman, 55-year-old reyna roblay. missay she hit and killed a cyclist october 20th and may be trying to flee the country. this is the minivan detectives say she was driving when she hit a 73-year-old man near central expressway. >>> a boy critical nfter being hit by a happened o. a 48-year-old man was driving the boat and slammed into the kid. the driver is under arrest, suspected of dui. it's up to the d.a. to decide if criminal charge also be filed. >>> police think whoever is on this bike is up to no good. they were caught on surveillance cameras near forest view avenue last week. it's hard to fell if it's man or woman. whoever this is, they've been looking into parked cars and have tried to get into someone's backyard. >>> up next, we're ready for some warriors' history, curty of chai klay thompson. we'll show you what he did. stay with us. proposition 11 solves two issues. second, it ensures the closest ambulance can respond if you call 9-1-1. vote yes on 11. four years ago, we rejected marshall tuck and his bill

la reyna on east 7th, is a late-night thing down the street from where cartoon and estevan used to live the place serves mulitas -- not quite a taco, not a quesadilla -- more of a taco sandwich. first, the tortilla on the grill, then marinated meat, and cheese, then another tortilla, flip and serve. la renya is located in the downtown arts district right across the bridge from boyle heights, a working-class, densely packed neighborhood of about 100,000 residents. nearly 95% are mexican or central american. >> anthony: now how mexican is l.a? i mean, how deep was -- >> mr. cartoon: this was mexico, you know what i mean? >> anthony: yeah. >> mr. cartoon: all the names, i mean, all the people, i mean, it's -- you could go into certain parts of east l.a. in the harbor area, hollywood area, and see nothing but latinos. a lot of other areas of l.a. are mixed, you know, but this side where we're at, if you go over that bridge, it's pretty much all mexican people. and l.a.'s mixed with salvadorian, guatemalan people, central america too, so they just get called mexicans anyways. you know, like,

our reyna advances southwards across scotland, some of that will be heavy and behind it we're lookingeather front it's going to start to cool down and a weather front will continue its descent south—eastwards through the course of this evening and overnight, taking its cloud and rain with it. a nippy night in scotla nd rain with it. a nippy night in scotland and northern ireland. temperatures in single figures in the towns and cities. as we go further south, with a fair bit of cloud around, and also once again mist and fog patches forming, in similar areas to the mind just gone, perhaps more extensively across the midlands, a mild night. as we head on from friday into saturday, our weather front will continue to go south —— of the nightjust gone. a week feature, cloudy, patchy rain, temperatures up to 21 or 22. behind it, cooler but drier and brighter with a few showers. one thing you will notice around heathrow, for example, is the temperature on friday will be 22 but on saturday there's a big drop. as this weather front continues to sink southwards and rejuvenate, producing heavy ra