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cesar ---esta tarde en oakland, la escuela primaria "bret-harte" fue puesta en alerta debido a un tiroteo al frente de la institucion. take vo ---los hechos ocurrieron a eso del mediodia cuando 2 sujetos ingresaron a una vivienda y posteriormente se escucharon disparos. ---las autoridades escolares decidieron cerrar las puertas de la escuela para proteger la seguridad de alumnos y empleados. -----mas tarde, la policia logro detener a los sospechosos cerca de las calles harold y champion. blanca ---un nuevo reporte demuestra que ha habido un pronunciado descenso en arrestos en la ciudad de oakland de 2008 a 2011. take vo ---segun la policia, el aÑo pasado se registro un 44 por ciento "menos de detenciones que en 2008", en casi todas las categorias. ---muchos atribuyen la disminucion por el despido de cientos de policias trabajando. blanca ---se aproximan grandes cambios al menu de la comida que se sirve en el distrito escolar de san francisco. take vo ---hoy en dia, los alimentos que se sirven son congelados, pre-cocinados y preparados en otras partes del pais. ---pero el distrito tiene p

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blanca ---esta tarde en oakland, la escuela primaria "bret-harte" fue puesta en alerta debido a un tiroteo al frente de la institucion. take vo ---los hechos ocurrieron a eso del mediodia cuando 2 sujetos ingresaron a una vivienda y posteriormente se escucharon disparos. ---las autoridades escolares decidieron cerrar las puertas de la escuela para proteger la seguridad de alumnos y empleados. -----mas tarde, la policia logro detener a los sospechosos cerca de las calles harold y champion. stop open roll open blanca ---las autoridades de salud del pais esperan que la temporada de gripe en el pais sea mas severa que en aÑos anteriores y por eso estan invitando a la poblacion a vacunarse. take vo ---hasta el momento son 5 los estado del pais que ya han reportado un incremento en los casos de gripe o influenza... y una de ellas es considerada severa, a la vez que aseguraron que la temporada se ha adelantado. ---california solo ha reportado algunos casos de gripe hasta el momento. blanca ---ahora es tiempo del pronostico... cesar ---pasamos con irene sans... adelante irene... take pkg cesar --

so we go back and we find a general population so proud of the connection to henry james and bret harte and just a little bit further east to emily dickinson and a little bit further south to say hi to an old friend walt whitman they have this sense of the cultural heritage. it helps to amplify the writers sense of being a part of the larger story which is very important. it is a whole sense of the literary tradition. so there is this rich ground that is here already and then the writers institute comes in and becomes a begin debate could begin -- beacon and resources nothing else and the rest of that sounds too high but it becomes something that feeds the whole system. it gives fuel, fuel to the fire of people's imaginations and it's very rewarding to see that, to encounter that and to see people in the writing workshops to catch fire with their own creativity because the have been given stuff to work with. they've been challenged by excellence. .. >> tell us about the reasons you decided to write the book and your findings. >> two main drivers that led me to write the book. number one

harte or a little bit further east, emily dickinson or further south, say hi to our old friend walt whitman or edith wharton, when we have this sense of cultural heritage, it helps to amplify the writer's own sense of being part of a larger story, quite important through the whole sense of literary tradition so there is this ridge crowd that is here already and the writers institute comes in and becomes a beacon, a magnetic pull, it becomes a resource if nothing else. it becomes something like -- that feeds the whole system, it gives fuel to the fire, and rewarding to see that and encounters that and see people in our writing workshops really catch fire with their own creativity because they have been given stuff to work with, they have been challenged by excellence that they have been able to see themselves. >> albany, new york, is one of the oldest settlements of the original 13 colonies and the longest continuously chartered city in the united states. next, we hear from jack casey whose book tells the story of a mohawk woman born in 66 who was recently named the first native amer