---el plantel "santa catarina de siena" de la ciudad de martinez, tuvo que ser evacuada esta maÑana,e que se recibiera una carta amenazante llena de obscenidades. ---segun la administracin de la escuela, los padres de los estudiantes fueron informados inmediatamente sobre la situacion. ---ahora, la policia investiga, si sta carta esta ligada a otra racha de amenazas, que se han lanzado en las ciudades de martinez, concord y walnut creek. top-vo ---la junta directiva del distrito escolar de oakland, se encuentra reunida esta noche, para analizar una propuesta presentada por el director, tony smith, de cerrar 5 escuelas primarias para ahorrar mas de 2 millones de dolares anuales. ---en la reunion, tambien participan casi 100 padres de familia, quienes tendrn la oportunidad de expresar su opinion. take half slabs ---las escuelas que seran clausuradas el prximo aÑo, son: lakeview, lazear, marshall, maxwell park y santa fe. ---el cierre ,afectara a mas de mil estudiantes, quienes tendrían que ser re-ubicados en otros planteles. cu ---el presidente barack obama, anunci un plan que quizs po

. >> and i'm siena. here's our top story for this week. >> we've all seen those cute paper balloons in stores. you fill one out when you donate money. but you may wonder, who does your dollar help? nicole has the story. >> ♪ a little bit longer, hey >> musician nick jonas, american idol david archuleta, and teen dream justin bieber -- they're just some of the celebs who support the children's miracle network hospitals. but 13-year-old alena, and millions of kids like her, are the real stars of the charity. alena gets a special present delivered to her house once a week. it's not clothes, jewelry, or games. alena's gift is medicine that helps keep her alive. >> so i have a rare genetic disorder called maroteaux-lamy, or also known as mps vi, and i take an enzyme replacement once a week to help me live and grow. it's my naglazyme. >> she has to go through a long procedure called an infusion, that pumps the medicine into her veins. >> it's 4 hours and 10 minutes on a pump. oh, she's beyond brave. she's very

. >> and i'm siena. here's our top story for this week. >> texting. it's been around for more than 10 years, but when it comes to text etiquette, most of us are in uncharted territory. tyler joins us now to talk about the dos and don'ts of texting. tyler? >> one sec, mwanzaa. i'm wrapping up this text. was that rude? most teens, in a recent survey, say "yes," yet for some reason, we still do it. when is the wrong time to send a text message? >> obviously, like, if you're in class. >> like, at the movies. >> way late in the evening, like, waking somebody up. >> when you're in the car. >> probably dinner, 'cause my mom, like, hates me when i, like, staran she's trying to talk to me. >> okay, we know it's wrong to text at school, dinner, or when talking with a friend, but have you ever done it? >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> yes, but i've never sent a text at school. >> margaret sullivan is with text plus, a mobile app that's very interested in texting trends. so, it did a survey and found that the average teen sends 100 texts a day. that's about 3,000 texts

. >> and i'm siena. here's our top story for this week. >> foods you probably eat every day may be threatening the lives of animals like orangutans and tigers. tyler reports on how some students are fighting back. >> these are teens with a mission. they're working to save rainforests in indonesia and malaysia and the endangered animals that live there. >> we really need to take a big part in helping our environment. >> this became their battleground. they fought to remove some snacks from their school vending machine. but it wasn't easy. >> the biggest challenge i faced was other students and teachers liking the products in the vending machines that we were taking out and they didn't want them removed. >> those products all had one particular ingredient in common. >> the entire rainforest ecosystem is endangered because of palm oil. >> palm oil is used to produce many things -- makeup, biodiesel fuel for cars, and, yes, even some of our favorite snacks. in fact, the world wildlife fund says 50% of the pa

. >> and i'm siena. here's our top story for this week. >> it happens on fields, rinks, and courts all across the country thousands of times a year -- a player takes a hit and suffers a concussion. even if he or she gets back up again, the damage can be serious. nicole reports on a national effort to make sure players, parents, and coaches know what to do about these injuries. >> i got hit from behind once, and then somebody came from the side and hit me, helmet to helmet. >> football is a contact sport. kids get hit and hurt. so, usa football, a youth-league organization, is joining forces with the government's centers for disease control. they're educating coaches, parents, and players about concussions. >> a concussion is any direct hit to the brain which changes the way your brain normally works. it's basically your brain getting rattled inside of your skull. so, what happens with a concussion -- and football players are great examples of this -- is that, while they're protected by all their helmets

siena has the story of a campaign to help kids defend themselves from being ambushed by advertisers. >> outdoors, indoors, on the air, on the page, online, advertising is everywhere. in fact, we see more than 3,000 ads every day. ads do serve a useful purpose in our economy. they inform and entice people to buy products. and they help pay for programs like "teen kids news" to be on the air. so instead of telling us not to look at advertising, a new approach is teaching kids how to look at it. >> who is responsible for this ad? >> teacher oscar ramirez is using a lesson plan called "admongo." it was created by a government agency called the federal trade commission with the help of scholastic. the goal, to help kids think critically about commercial messages. >> what else can we ask? >> what does the ad want you to think or do? >> we're trying to give them the tools to navigate through this advertising-rich environment as they move forward in life. >> but as they say on late night commercials, "wait, there's more." the admongo interactive computer game invites you to explore the world

in other news russia's new ice hockey coach siena to libya yet the north has named an experimental squad for his first game in charge and is relying heavily on his former club five after the twenty three places like this for the korea cup in finland next month off from the khazan side only one player has been called up from the reigning champion sell about you live alexandra to love retaining his place in the squad featuring great experience and young blood crawley cup marks the first leg of the euro for the tour which also features sweden the czech republic and world champions. in boxing russia is in confident mood ahead of next week's non-title cruiserweight battle against james toney that sci fi just held a joint media joint media conference in the russian capital ahead of their bags on the fourth of november but the american more than happy to pose for the waiting press however tiny's ensurance couldn't compete with that of his opponent with lebedeff arriving by helicopter along with his trying to cross this is the eleven have is the cruiserweight divisions number one contender for t

siena maintains much of its medieval character.awling main square and towering city hall recall the days when it rivaled even florence. assisi -- with its walls, gates, and castle -- was home to st. francis. its massive basilica remains a favorite destination for countless pilgrims today. volterra was an etruscan capital centuries before christ. within its wall, the town's rustic center offers an evocative tuscan charm. and san marino -- all 24 square miles of it -- is unique in that it's still an independent country. while novel today, tiny two-bit dukedoms like this were once the norm. medieval italy -- like most of europe before the rise of modern nation states -- was a collection of independent, little san marino-style city states -- many of them no more than fortified towns on hills.

dame college in seneca, new york 79 how has al smith's legacy been reflected in -- so nar i went to siena. so far so good. one of the things that's a great parallel between the two is working with a legislature that is seen as hostile, that is seen as the two-party, the partisanship. smith faced that every year that he was in office here in albany. he only had control of the senate for two years and that was by a single vote. the other eight years it was eight years of republican dominance here in this chamber -- chamber and in the other house he only had the one term. so i would think that the problem of dealing with the other party is something that smith had to battle with and undertake. that's something that the current president has a problem with as well. the other thing that he was -- has is it's remarkable the sense of humor. president obama has a very good sense of humor and handled press krses very with. al smith was the same way. he knew he could be funny on occasions but not all the time because then people wouldn't take you seriously so he could really play a very good states

>> i went to siena. so very good.ne of the things that's a great parallel between the two is working with a legislature that is seen as hostile, that is seen as the two-party, the partisanship. smith faced that every year that he was in office here in albany. he only had control of the senate for two years and that was by a single vote. the other eight years it was eight years of republican dominance here in this chamber and in the other house he only had the one term. so i would think that the problem of dealing with the other party is something that smith had to battle with and undertake. that's something that the current president has a problem with as well. the other thing that he has is his remarkable the sense of humor. president obama has a very good sense of humor and handled press conferences very well. al smith was the same way. he knew he could be funny on occasions but not all the time because then people wouldn't take you seriously so he could really play a very good statesman with a sense of humor, which

>> i went to siena. so far so good. -- so very good. one of the things that's a great parallel between the two is working with a legislature that is seen as hostile, that is seen as the two-party, the partisanship. smith faced that every year that he was in office here in albany. he only had control of the senate for two years and that was by a single vote. the other eight years it was eight years of republican dominance here in this chamber and in the other house he only had the one term. so i would think that the problem of dealing with the other party is something that smith had to battle with and undertake. that's something that the current president has a problem with as well. the other thing that he has is his remarkable the sense of humor. president obama has a very good sense of humor and handled press conferences very well. al smith was the same way. he knew he could be funny on occasions but not all the time because then people wouldn't take you seriously so he could really play a very good statesman with a sense of humor, whi