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a plane got blown out of the sky. >> he is not qualified to be president of the united states. >> unacceptable. >> whoa. good morning and welcome to sunday "today," i'm willie geist. settle in. this morning we're on tour and back stage with dierks bentley. he grew up with country music dreams, listening to george strait and johnny cash in the back seat of his dad's car. now with 14 number one songs and a head lining new tour, he's living them. >> i want to reach everyone in this whole stage. from the front row to people up in the draft seats.
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break down this fourth wall between us and the crowd. it's like okay, now we're on a whole other level. and for me, too. >> then as baby boomers retire at the rate of 10,000 a day we'll introduce you to the 29-year-old who's disrupting the american health care system with a great idea, and an ipad. >> i think we're building an incredible product, a transformative product and it's able to grow quickly and serve a lot of families in the highest quality ways. >> plus tom brokaw in paris with the gripping story of a survivor of the attacks there six months ago. what he saw and how he and his city are doing today. >> has it changed the way you want to live the rest of your life? >> of course. >> in what way? >> i want to live. >> for the moment? >> for the moment. >> let's begin with some breaking news overnight. the u.s. launching an airstrike saturday against the leader of the afghan taliban. today, top afghan officials and the taliban are saying he has been killed. jim miklaszewski is at the white house for us.
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mik, who is this guy? >> this is taliban leader mullah mans your. officials here in washington are confident they got their man but won't confirm it until they're absolutely sure. armed and unarmed surveillance drones watched mansoor get into a vehicle and drive off. not one but several drones fired hell-fire missiles obliterating the target. this should deliver a significant blow to the taliban, without mansoor's strong leadership the group could splinter somewhat. and diminish its mill temporary strength. but the taliban over these years has proved resilient, surviving 15 years of american military strikes. america's longest war. while this is a significant blow, it appears, so far, to be far from fatal. one more point. those videos and pictures show the attack occurred in a remote country road well away from any populated areas.
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that has been the u.s. strategy to avoid any tragedies. >> all right, jim miklaszewski at the white house for us on a sunday morning. thanks so much, we appreciate it. let's turn now to the race for the white house. with hillary clinton tangling with donald trump. the presumptive republican nominee has been saying clinton wants to abolish the second amendment. secretary clinton speaking at a trayvon martin foundation conference last night accused trump of pandering to the gun lobby. she also slammed what she called his dangerous gun proposals. >> he said that also on his first day in office he'd mandate that every school in america allow guns in classrooms. every school, he said. that idea isn't just way out there. it's dangerous. >> katy tur is outside trump tower this morning. trump speaking a lot about guns at the friday nra conference. he also called out clinton on
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twitter, writing this, crooked hillary wants to get rid of all guns and yet she's surrounded by body guards who are fully armed. no more guns to protect hillary. many national polls, and one we may see today, showing this race is tightening quickly, even some showing trump is leading clinton. what's the state of play right now? >> it's tighter, willie, because both of the candidates are now starting to consolidate the rank and file within their party. trump even more so because he is the presumptive nominee. meanwhile, both of them still have extraordinarily high unfavorables when it comes to the general electorate. but as you were say something, hillary clinton really fighting back, saying that she was not going to pander to the nra, as trump got the endorsement of the nra. falsely claiming that hillary clinton wants to ban all guns. meanwhile, he is calling for a ban on all gun-free zones. interestingly enough, he told this to a room at the nra, a room full of gun owners who were told themselves to leave their guns in their cars by secret
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service. trump's trip to the nra part of his trust me i'm a republican tour that's been going on of late, trying to get out the doubters to come onto his side and to back him. so far it's been working. there are still reports there are a lot of major donors out there who will refuse to back trump. >> katy tur, thank you so much. let's turn to some other news this morning and the investigation into the crash of egyptair flight 804. this morning for the first time we're hearing air traffic control audio from about two hours before the crash. >> egyptair 804 contact padova 10725, good night. >> 0725 padova control egyptair 804. good night. >> seems to confirm reports of a routine flight most of the way. investigators can't say if the downing of the plane was terrorism or an accident. investigators have said smoke alarms apparently were going off in the moments before the crash. two climbers have died after
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reaching the summit of mt. everest. a dutch man and an australian woman were coming down from the top when officials say they started showing signs of altitude sickness, and later passed away. it's been a dangerous week up on mt. everest. another 30 climbers are also sick or frostbitten. there will be no triple crown winner after exaggerator won the preakness on saturday. the horse came from behind to race past kentucky derby winner nyquist, who finished third. exaggerator will run in the belmont stakes in two weeks. nyquist owners have yet to decide if he will. and a beautiful moment at last night's detroit tigers game when an 89-year-old holocaust survivor fulfilled a lifelong dream. singing the national anthem before the game. ♪ for the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪
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>> that is so cool. she has been a tigers fan since she moved to detroit 60 years ago, after she was imprisoned in several european concentration camps. we've assembled another strong crew at the table to talk through the week. ladies, good morning. good to see you. >> good morning. >> soledad o'brien, a welcome face to viewers, given her work at nbc, cnn, hbo. soledad had a run as the anchor of this show in this country time slot -- >> many years ago. >> when she co-hosted "weekend today" starting in 199. she's the executive producer of the film war comes home about military veterans when they return from war. we're going to talk about that in just a moment. elise jordan served on the security council under george w. bush. she worked on rand paul's presidential campaign. she also was on our first ever show. you have a lifetime invitation here.
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we're like the masters that way. and kristen welker is nbc's outstanding white house correspondent for nbc. finds herself on the road these days covering hillary clinton in the presidential campaign and this is kind of a full circle moment for you kristen sitting next to soledad with whom you worked. >> we were here -- >> that's right. i was soledad's writer/researcher for "weekend today." helped work on a lot of the breaking news segments and soledad was really one of my first mentors in this business. >> i understand she helped you put together the tape for your first job. if only we had footage of that. there we go. >> my hair has some work. >> shoulder pads. shoulder pads. >> this is one of my first years from when i worked at krcr in california. soledad helped me get ready for that first job, put together my first tape. gave me so much incredible advice. one of the biggest pieces she said, always listen as a journalist. that's one of the most important skills and i try to remember that every day. >> the woman who was the executive producer of the show,
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many kajillion years ago. we're always sending screen shots. hey, have you seen kristen? so we're wildly proud of you. all done on your own. it was a pleasure to mentor you but you're amazing. >> honor to be here. >> great job covering this campaign. let's talk about it. elise, new numbers we've seen from a couple of different polls and later today from an nbc poll is nationally, i know this is not a national referendum, it's not the way we vote, the race is very tight between donald trump and hillary clinton and in some cases he's even leading. she leads in all these demographic groups we talk about. he's leading independents now. do these new tight numbers tell you more about donald trump or hillary clinton? >> i think it says more about the state of the race until now and having had so many candidates in the republican field. now it starts to narrow, i think donald trump's numbers were expected to rise. i think from this point forward, though, it's going to be interesting to see how they winnow down support and if donald trump is able to do better with women, with minorities, with groups that are really going to make a
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difference in important swing states. >> what's remarkable soledad is how unpopular both these candidates are. trump has pulled up a little bit and almost even in unfavorable ratings with hillary clinton. they're both upside down. >> it's been a really miserable -- you've been reporting on it. >> yes. >> it's been a miserable race, nasty, negative. all three candidates -- we'll keep bernie sanders in this conversation -- are flawed and i would say the populous knows that and i think the conversation around it is really unhappy. i think a lot of donald trump's rise, though, is the media's constant, nonstop coverage of donald trump and everything is framed through the lens of donald trump. whatever happens to hillary clinton, it's how donald trump feels about this thing that happened to hillary clinton. that's correlated as well to some of those numbers. >> he has convinced a lot of people to follow him along this road. bernie versus hillary. you covered this so closely, kristen. he's not backing off. >> he's not. >> if anything he's escalated. his attacks are more about the
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system and the dnc and the party but he's still going after her on the stump. what does he want to extract from her if she gets the nomination, what does he want from her? >> i think ultimately he wants to have a say in the party's platform and there are some indications he's going to get that. the dnc saying they're going to make him part of that process. and the clinton campaign as well. and he's not backing down. the challenge becomes how do democrats unify after what has been a blistering fight between the democrats? i think the answer is they have to fight until the very end and secretary clinton needs to put up a real fight until the very end in states like new jersey, in california. i'm told that that's exactly what she's going to do. because if you talk to top democratic strategists they say at the end of this process sanders' supporters need to feel as though she won, if she does win, fair and square. and that that's the first step in terms of sanders saying okay now it's time to rally around hillary clinton. by the way, president obama could be very pivotal to that process as well. >> is this part of the reason donald trump is doing better
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against hillary clinton because she's fighting a two-front war against him but also against bernie sanders? >> he is benefiting from that, the fact that bernie is still staying at it with hillary clinton. but i do think donald trump will give hillary clinton a very close race and i think that trump could beat hillary. if he actually shows discipline and if he can move his unfavorables. because the wrapping of hillary clinton is that she's a liar. the wrapping against donald trump is he's a sexist pig. or he could ostensibly change that if he wanted to. is he going to be able to do that? i don't know. >> he is winning independents right now, has the republican party lined up behind him after they fought him for so long. soledad i want to talk about your excellent film called "the war comes home" follows two iraq war veterans seeking help for post traumatic stress. let's take a look. >> it's like being in a burning building. the only way to get out is jump out the window. you don't want to die, but you don't want to burn either. i told my wife that --
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>> what's at the heart of this project with you? >> when he talks about being done he talks about he's going to kill himself. i mean he's done and his wife later in the film tells us, as she's crying, that she's made it very clear he's about to head off to this 5 1/2 day program and if it doesn't work he's going to kill himself. so the stakes are very high. we were really interested in very much embedding with two people who were struggling with most traumatic stress before they went off to a 5 1/2 day program, through the entire program, and then coming back with them and very closely sort of seeing what works and what does not work as they feel like this is their last opportunity to turn their lives around from this past that is likely heading to something disastrous for them. >> we all watched the v.a. scandal. we know the numbers, 22 veteran suicides per day. still hard to say that out loud and believe it's actually true. >> i think that number is is actually significantly off. that's not counting people who die death by cop. that's not counting people who become addicts and basically do
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drugs or drink themselves to death. that number i don't even think is that accurate. >> what are the solutions that seem to be working in small places if they're not working in the v.a.? >> in this particular program called save a warrior some of the things that they did are done across the board in other places and at the v.a. as well. they have equine therapy. you saw video of a ropes course where they bring people to the point of feeling like they're going to die because they're up on these wires and have to rely on each other. they do a lot of therapy and they also kind of create a brotherhood in this case, because it's all men, there's a women's program, as well, but they learn that they have to be responsible for other people. i think a big challenge is we send people off to war with a very specific strategy. it's about breaking people down and building this brotherhood. when you come back, there's not that, right? it's just like, and you're back. and you kind of need a system, i think, that helps reunite people back to what might be a civilian life. if they're leaving the military. >> good for you for shining a light on it. in theaters this tuesday. >> one day only, may 24.
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. i hope you get a chance to see it. >> we'll be watching for sure. stay with me for the highs and lows of the week, including death as political statement. hall of fame obituary speaking for many americans this election year. and in foreign policy news, iran's revolutionary guard has a warning for kim kardashian. sunday "today" will be right back after a short break and well, we've got more sunshine here on this sunday, look behind me, san jose, all lit up in the golden sunshine this morning. it's cool, 49 degrees, 50s across the bay area. it will warm up a little more than yesterday. temperatures will be close to p 70 in places like the south bay. cool along the inner bay, san francisco, 62 today. tomorrow, similar. and we have a chance of rain in the forecast. we'll talk about that this morning at 7:00. hope to see you then. neutrogena® ultra sheer.
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i'm such a happy chewbacca. [ laughter ] >> it goes on that way for a full four minutes. that's now been watched, are you ready for this? more than 125 million on facebook, the most facebook live viewed ever. candace said simply, i think our world needs that amount of joy right now. it was such an antidote to everything else you see online, what's happening in our political culture. >> it's nice to hear someone laugh like that. >> cokohl's is now completely sd out. you have to go on to amazon. >> now kohl's is laughing like that. >> i am sure they sent her some stuff. accusing kim kardashian of working with instagram to corrupt iranian women.
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in declaring her vast catalog of selfies a threat, quote, it is a foreign operation we're taking this very seriously. we dug deep into this. it's a real thing. they're looking at kim car da kardashian. >> you would think they would have more important things to look at. >> what could be more important than the kardashians? >> she might be running for president in 20 years. >> you laugh now. >> stranger things have happened. >> you laugh now, elise. our next high come from an unlikely place, obituary page, announcing the pass of 60-year-old mary anne noland. it red faced with the prospect of voting for hillary clinton or donald trump she passed. they wrote the tribute as a sense to his mother's sense of
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humor. >> emblematic about how so many people feel about this race. >> she should have held out for gary johnson. >> our next low comes from the cannes film festival and dive-bombing hawks that are brought in to protect the delicate rich people. seagulls were apparently so annoying to people eating dinner outdoors, the grand hyatt brought in a team of five hawks to go after the gulls. if it gets too close, bam, hawk swoops in for the kill. celebrities walking the red carpet are wearing unique dresses. if a drink spills, it's all over. >> back to focusing on the important thing. >> exactly. it's also all over for the seagulls. google is at the forefront of the self-driving car movement, you plug in the destination into the gps and let the vehicle do the rest of the work.
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at some point there's a chance they could hit a pedestrian. google is on it. the company received a patent for this, layer on the front of the car of what amounts to fly paper. if it hits someone crossing the street, the person sticks to the front of the car instead of being thrown out on to the road. the fly paper activates on impact. >> it seems like an elaborate idea. >> way to go. >> i need to see it in action. >> our final low to mike webb, running as an independent for congress in virginia's 8th district. screen shot from his own computer. see the google map until you get up to the tabs. i'll spare you reading the names aloud, but it seems he was doing voter out reach to the adult voter out reach to the adult entertainment i've had a wonderful time tonight. me too. call me tomorrow? i'm gonna send a vague text in a couple of days that leaves you confused about my level of interest.
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good sunday morning to you, your time is 6:26. let's start you off now with a live picture of the golden gate bridge. beautiful out there. we'll get some sun peaking through. standing by with a microclimate forecast. >> good morning. >> a little gray yesterday, but maybe some changes today. >> showers finally, good news, a little news to put off that fire season we've been talking about, the f word, towards may and june, but we'll see more sunshine today. we'll take you up into the clouds and another shot from the sutro cam, but as we mentioned, we've got sunshine.
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chilly, 49 degrees, and clearing. coast will stay similar, low 60s, san francisco, 62, inland, warming up just a little by a couple of degrees. rain in the forecast, an then as we move toofwards june, cooler temperatures, fire season getting underway. we've had a great rain season this past year. as we move forward, hopefully not a bad fire season. >> anthony, thank you. new details this morning, a man missing for two weeks, may now be a victim of foul play. two people have been arrested on murder charges following a recent raid in hillsboro. this comes after the body of keith green was found. police, sheriff and s.w.a.t. teams surrounded his home yesterday about 3:30 in the morning. they're not saying who was taken into custody from that incident, but we do know green's alleged ex-girlfriend, tiffany, lee is
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in jail, along with another man believed to be her boyfriend. one man describes waking up to the commotion. >> there were police cars in the driveway, on the street, there were police officers in my yard. they had a loud speaker, they were first speaking in english, then they switched to i think it was mandarin. and they were asking for the suspect, they said female suspect, come out. >> green was last seen at the pancake house on april 29th. the hiker later found his cell phone in golden gate park. police are looking into a possible homicide in the south bay, a body discovered in san jose on friday night. investigators say the man was found on bonita avenue, close to highway 101 and 680. no word on the tied ty or the cause of death. nine people without a police
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to live take a look. the house engulfed in flames, happening yesterday afternoon on sage wood lane in the neighborhood of san jose. they first noticed smoke from the gar range, when they went to check, they discovered the fire. the home is gutted. it also damaged the outside of a neighbor's house. no word on how the fire started. coming up at 7:00, old with the old and in with the new. we'll show you what the hospital is offering to patients and its ties to mark zuckerberg. all next.
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what can i get for you two? >> i'll have a beer. a new brand that people are flocking to. something refreshing and revolutionary. something that draws huge crowds. >> and i'll have whatever beer no one likes, but gets the job done. >> larry david's bernie sanders and kate mckinnon's hillary clinton bellying up to the bar together in last night's season finale of snl. dirks bentley was just the latest of country musicians carrying a guitar from bar to bar when he started out. for dierks, the dream has come true. i caught up with him backstage
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before the first show of the tour. >> what does it say down there? >> it says dude. >> who is the dude? >> i use the word quite a bit. >> here you're the dude? >> i think anything here for me is labeled dude. ♪ got a new girl she's got it going on ♪ >> back on the road. >> yeah. >> first show. >> what's the feeling pretour? >> everyone is here excited to be back at whiskey row hang stage, first one of the year with you. >> i feel honored to be the first whiskey row hang of the tour. >> cheers, man. >> in terms of size and scope, compared to your last tour? >> biggest tour we've ever done. heads up, y'all. sorry. coming through. coming through. what's up, boys? >> i'm always interested in how artists adapt their songs to the venue they play. you look at a place like this
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outdoor amphitheater, what does it tell you about the show you want to put on? >> i want to reach everyone, from the front row to the grass seats way up there. that's where i would watch my first concerts from, grab beer from people when they weren't looking. bon jovi, skid row first concert. >> was it really? >> yeah. >> that's huge. ♪ >> his new album "black," you said it's autobiographical to a point. >> "black," my wife's maiden name. her first response was where are all the love songs? i was like, well, "black" is the love song. ♪ i just want to feel your love make my world go black ♪ >> something going on later at night that's where the interesting components of love
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are to me, just the darker corners of -- >> she bought that? >> she bought that. you guys buying it? >> i'm in. i'm in. ♪ i'm a riser >> where does the love and the passion for country music that you've had since you were a kid, where does that come from? >> it started with my dad listening to country radio in the car. my dad liked country music so i listened to it. randy travis, george strait. jack brown, a buddy of mine, sat me down, made me listen to a hank jr. song i was like, wow this is awesome. loud electric guitars, singing about beer, girls. i was hooked ♪ i got to get your number girl ♪ >> were there points where you, someone in your family or maybe cassidy said, dude, it's not going to happen? i mean, you're playing for beer, you're playing for a little money here and there. did you ever have doubts? >> yeah.
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i think my mom and dad had doubts for sure. i never doubted. looking back on it now, it's like an obsession. it wasn't something i was trying to do or it wasn't something like i had practical steps in my mind of how to do it. i was just obsessed with country music. ♪ but what was i thinkin' >> the big breakthrough for you was 2003, i think it was, "what was i thinkin'" was the single that took you to another level. >> yeah. >> do you remember the day that blew up or do you remember getting the phone call, everything is different now? >> i started getting all these e-mails. somehow i amh given out my e-mail in-to-fans. you were just trying to keep the correspondence going. my inbox had 200 e-mails in it, which was a big deal back then. trying to respond to 200 fans and quickly spun out of control. in a good way. i remember being in texas when the song went number one. i was doing something with jack ingram, took a call. i was at a bar, found out it was going to be a number one song,
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my very first single. >> it struck me coming in here today, having seen you from those early days playing in bars, three semi trucks with your picture and name on it loading in. >> it's got to be crazy. is there only three? should be seven. >> seven? okay. i only saw three. >> semi truck with my picture on the side of it. we never had that whole thing going on so that's kind of fun. ♪ so i hold on >> why do you think that country music has exploded in the last decade? >> songs that people can relate to. "i hold on" resonates with most of my audience. people just relate to that song so much. it's so personal for me. really breaking down this fourth
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wall between us and the crowd. okay, now we're at a whole other level. and for me, too. ♪ i hold on >> when you talk about writing personally, one that comes to mind is "here on earth." >> oh, yeah. ♪ there ain't no answers here on earth ♪ >> your dad was such an influence. you talked about him introducing you to country music. >> yeah. >> he was a huge factor. obviously not just to music but in your life. >> yeah. he was, man. and now i've got a son of my own and two daughters it's a great position to be in, to be a father. get a chance to make a strong impact on someone. he always loved this. he loved coming to shows, loved being part of it. love the fact that we're here now and i got seven trucks out there with my picture on it. >> is that the song that gets people going the most at this point?
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>> yeah. "drunk on a plane," it's huge. >> do you know who likes that song? my 6-year-old son. >> sorry about that. >> well, i played it. it's my fault. ♪ got the 737 rockin' >> what's the dierks bentley signature mo everybody? >> shotgun and a beer. i'm wearing the undisputed title weight belt. >> i was doing a music fest. it was going to air. big deal. i'm going to bring a girl up instead of a guy. i get her up stage, cameras are rolling and she goes, i don't drink. i'm like, oh, no. so i think i shotgunned both beers but now i make sure i pick someone that i know is a beer drinker. >> you want that guy. >> i want that guy. ♪ getting drunk on a plane >> dierks will have his wife,
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cassidy, and three young children with him on the road all summer. as for that rock star life you can find him all summer at 6:30 in the morning chasing the kids around the walgreens in whichever city he's in. dierks will play a live show on our "today" show plaza. head to today.com/sunday for our web extras. yes, it did involve that bon jovi show. why a generation of baby boomers may soon put their health care in the hands of a 29-year-old who quit his job this might look like a zero-gravity drop... but it's actually a triumph of predictive analytics. because of optum. through population health data, they provide insights so doctors and hospitals can identify high-risk patients. like me... asthma... potential hospital visit. so now thanks to optum, this asthma thing's under control. gravity not so much.
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>> how about? >> my mom would kill me. >> nursing homes, we think of old, old people, old facilities, old technology. the guy from harvard who struggled to take care of his 93-year-old grandfather instead started a business turning health care on its head. okay, josh, this looks like instagram, snap chat or something but -- and don't take this the wrong way but we're at senior home 2.0. >> that's right. bathing, shopping, doctor's appointments, whatever you need to stay happy and healthy in your own home and provide all this technology. >> this app allows people to monitor their loved ones, all using an app to collect data, input daily by in-home caretakers, who are also managed by home teenl. >> the most important stuff is the summary of the day. that's the headline that our
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families just want to know. how was the day? >> in here, the summary of the day. martina was in a good mood, happy to have me around. >> i went through this with my own grandparents and found having a calm, logical and reasoned approach in a highly emotional situation can really be helpful. >> hi, this is geraldine, one of our older adults that lives in southern new jersey. >> she is a client. >> she just had her 102nd birthday party a month ago. >> oh, man. can i meet geraldine? >> i think so. >> this might be the first interview i've done while holding hands with my interviewee. >> oh, are you happy? >> very. >> so am i. >> good. have you ever heard of uber? >> who? >> uber. >> buber? >> uber. >> the taxi company? >> yeah, you've heard of it? >> oh, sure. >> this is like uber for -- >> uber uber. >> like uber in your home.
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you are able to -- or david is able to -- you tell me, david. you go on this app and you're able to tell geraldine's family everything that's going on with her, right? >> in the office i'm aligning myself with the rn to enter all the daily tasks and when she's in the home she has a list of tasks and provide ace summary of all the things she's done and that gets sent out to geraldine's friends and family. >> david is -- i don't know how to -- i love him. >> how does that feel? >> nothing else like it, to be honest. >> home team is currently in three states with 1,000 full-time caregivers but they plan to expand to ten new cities in the next year. >> i do want to see you again. >> in person? >> why not? >> is that a date? >> i'll go on a date with you. >> well, i live in los angeles. >> oh, damn. >> but i'll be back. i'll be back. i know you're doing something that's really nice for older people, but is this something, to you, that is good
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financially? are you doing well? >> raised $40 million to date. we've invested heavily in our training programs for caregivers. >> bought a lot of ipads, basically? >> ought of ipads. received investment from kaiser permanente. >> are they getting a good return on their investment? >> it's early yet. we're biflding a good product, transformative product. it's able to grow quickly and serve families in the highest quality way. >> jacob joins me live. i would love to talk about geraldine for this entire segment. >> my new best friend. >> she is so great. >> it's an $84 billion industry, 1.5 million home health care workers across the country, 50,000 agencies you have to sort through to get one of these people to come to your homes, $9.50. people don't trust they'll be committed to the patients, the
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clients. when you have an agency like this that's doing full-time work, $15 an hour and their competitor is doing the same thing on the west coast, people are much more comfortable with it. >> it just took somebody to step forward and do it. >> exactly right. edward snowden will tell you one thing they're facing is privacy. there's a lot of data. ask about encryption if you have questions about that. >> give my best to geraldine when you talk to her again. >> yes, sir. tom brokaw is in paris with a survivor of the attack you, anthony slaughter here s clouds in wine country, you can see we're looking at low clouds, fog. same deal across the golden gate, east bay, but chilly, 49 degrees right now in the south bay. later on, 69 in the south bay, peninsula, the same.
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on november 13th of last year, the joyful sounds of a
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friday night in paris were shattered by the blasts of bombs and gunfire, part of a coordinated terrorist attack on the city. in the end, 130 people were killed, several hundred more were injured. tom brokaw traveled back to paris, six months after that terrible night to visit a survivor from inside the bataclan theater. >> reporter: is there ever a day when you don't think about that concert, what happened? >> no. i think about it all the time. >> reporter: julian pierce went to the bataclan rock concert as a fan, sitting close to the stage, when all hell broke out. >> gun shots at first i thought it was fireworks. i turned and i saw these three guys in masks, holding assault rifles. and shooting randomly towards everybody. people began to scream.
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everybody laid down on the floor. and a man, who was just as close as you are from me, received a bullet in the head. and his -- and his body fell on me. and he probably saved my life, because i could hide under his body for about ten minutes. >> reporter: pierce and several others hid in a small room off the stage but quickly realized the gunmen would find them. when one shooter stopped to reload, they ran for an emergency exit. >> and i saw the gunman who was looking toward us. he didn't finish to reload his gun and he was smiling. and then i looked at the crowd and there were -- it was a blood bath. >> reporter: less than three hours later, 90 people were dead. nearly all of them young. pierce's life and the lives of so many others, forever changed. do you talk to your friends about it? >> yeah. i was there with a bunch of friends and we are experiencing
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the same thing. >> reporter: you're really a veteran of a war. >> yeah. that's what my doctor said. she said to me, you are ptsd. >> reporter: ptsd, right. the hall is now all boarded up. they do hope to have it reopened on the first anniversary, this november. meantime, just some sad reminders of what happened on that god awful night. do you see a light at the end of the tunnel for you in which you begin to emerge from the trauma? >> no. this is just the beginning. it will take years. it will take years. i still can't sleep. i sleep a few hours a day, only three to four hours a day. no. it's just the beginning. >> reporter: six months, hardly long enough to dull the shock that pierce and others here are strong in their resolve. has it changed the way you want
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to live the rest of your life? >> of course. of course. >> reporter: in what way? >> i want to live. >> reporter: for the moment? >> for the moment. i don't want to waste any second of my life. >> tom brokaw reporting from paris. our friend, tom, was there this week he stopped to pick up france's highest honor as well, tom was given the legion of honor and the rank of knight for his work on behalf of world war ii veterans. members of what he called the greatest generation. he was in good company, too. tom hanks and dr. nick mueller, president of the world war ii museum in new orleans, also received that honor. congratulations, tom brokaw, knight of the legion of honor. this week we highlight another life well lived. jane little made her orchestra debut as a bassist on february 4th, 1945. the same day fdr, churchill and stalin were gathering at yalta. she was 16. as a little girl during the great depression, she taught herself to play piano at the next door neighbor's house in atlanta. early in her high school years,
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jane's orchestra leader needed a bassist and suggested the 98-pound student give the bass a try. she did and never stopped. for 71 years, jane little played with the atlanta symphony orchestra. the longest run ever for an orchestra musician. she met her late husband there. he played the flute. this week, she died during a performance in atlanta, right there where she had started all those years ago. she collapsed as the orchestra played an encore performance of "there's no business like show business." jane little, record-setting virtuoso on the bass, was 87 years old. as 87 as 87 'kay, babe, i think we should head north, past the park. 'kay. oh, hit up jimmy's for some chicken and waffles. oh, and those truffle fries. truffle so good. it's less than a mile. come on, we can do better than that. okay, uh... ooh, juanitas! oh yeah, those chimichangas. oh, with the mangoguac. stop it! 3.5 miles. oh... so worth it. yeah, we got this. 3 point nothing. hey! yeah? baby.
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we close this morning as we do every time this week, with some predictions for the week ahead.
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tomorrow is the deadline for tom brady's lawyers to appeal the nfl's four-game suspension of brady in deflate-gate. that sis pension was reinstated in april. we predict historians will wonder why the story about partially deflated footballs was given the same legal scrutiny of marbury versus madison. holler when this one is over. this week is fleet week here in new york city, the 28th annual visit of sailors and coast guardsmen as they steam into new york harbor on their mighty ships. we predict we'll be in the guys with the bar late night and take the intrepid for a joy ride up the hudson again. and the finals of the scripps national spelling bee will be held on thursday in maryland. it's the annual competition where brilliant young teenagers ask for the origin of words no one has ever heard of, then ask for them to be used in a sentence, then spell them perfectly while millions watch on espn. we expect that the winner will qualify on a special waiver will be, gary busey. that's b-u-s-e-y.
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busy. coming up, chuck todd has an exclusive interview with hillary clinton and mark cuban, as well on "meet the press." and tune in tonight for "on assignment" when richard engel sits down with an american who joined isis and then escaped. thank you for spending part of your morning with us on "sunday today." i'll see you tomorrow morning on "today" and a programming note, we are preempted for the next two weeks so we'll be back here with you on sunday, june the 12th. like the canadian band glass tiger said in '86, don't forget me when i'm gone. enjoy your sunday. y.
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>>announcer: from nbc bay area, this is today in the bay. your time is 7:00. good sunday morning to you. it is sunday, may 22nd, and take a look at that beautiful sunrise out there, absolutely gorgeous from our cameras on top of communication hill in san jose. good morning, i'm victim coup k -- painting the sky for us. she handed it off to old man winter yesterday. >> it was really gloomy outside. >> we had rain believe it or naught across the bay area, a little more than a 0.1 of an inch in the south bay. waking up to clouds and the clouds are extensive across the entire bay

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