walk of fame. >> so many times people are struggling and self medicate n. this case, alcohol, cocaine. >> the nights you do cocaine and be like, oh, i'm going to die. i'm going to die. i'm going to die and then you wake up the next morning, i didn't die. let's try it again! >> here's what you need to know right now. police in california are going to hold a news conference in the next hour on the death of robin williams. the oscar-nominated actor and comedian found dead in his home yesterday. believed to have committed suicide. he was battling severe depression according to his publicist. tributes are pouring in for the man that brought us so many moments like this one in "good morning vietnam." >> good morning, vietnam! hey, this is not a test. this is rock n roll.

>> a tribute continues to grow around williams' star on the hollywood walk of fame. we'll talk to a movie producer who saw firsthand why williams meant so much to so many. over in iraq, new reports this hour that a helicopter of aid has crashed. there are injuries including a "the new york times" paris bureau chief. but thankfully, no fatalities. also today, u.s. military forces conduct add drone strike in the country on an isis position. thousands of the yazidi people are stranded on the mountain trapped by isis fighters. those that have been able to flee set off on foot for the syrian border of all places and the u.s. issued a warning to iraq prime minister nuri al malaki, leave or risk your country losing aid. >> we believe that the government formation process is

critical in terms of sustaining the stability and calm in iraq. and our hope is that mr. malaki will not stir those waters. >> secretary of state john kerry in australia earlier today with some of his harshest words yet. and in west africa, the death toll continues to skyrocket from the worst ebola outbreak in history. according to the world health organization 1,013 have now died that outbreak. more than 1,800 have been infected. a spanish priest seen here being transported to the home in spain for treatment has died. he was one of three to receive an experimental vaccine. the other two who did, american mission tears dr. kent brantly and nancy writebol are recovered in atlanta. back home, investigators are working to reconstruct the fatal accident that led to nascar

champion tony stewart striking down race car driver kevin ward jr. hast weekend. this video here shows the cars driven by stewart and ward colliding. in the moments before his death, ward appears to get out of the car, to confront stewart. police say all options we main open and no criminal charges are pending at this point. stewart pulled out of a race in indiana this coming saturday. ward's funeral will be thursday. all right. let's drill down on the top story today. breaking nulls in the death of a missouri teenager and chaos that it continues to generate. this hour, we're expecting a new conference in st. louis from the family of that 18-year-old, michael brown. we're also expecting to hear from police. they were scheduled to release the name of the officer who shot brown but we're now learning that that is not going to happen. nbc news confirming they're delaying releasing that information due to threats of the officer's security. here's the chief five minutes ago explaining. >> went out over social media that the officer that was involved in the shooting is michael white. it was not.

michael white was not involved at all. however, death threats coming in right away. from around the country. and based on that, and that is one reason officer safety is a reason that we can delay and we think it's prudent that we do that. >> there is a heavy police presence in ferguson again last night. emotions in that community still boiling over. joining me from ferguson is benjamin crump, the attorney for the brown family and represented the family of trayvon martin. let's start with the news of an affiliate that police decided to delay the release of the officer's name for fear of safety. when's the brown's family reaction to that? >> well, like many, they're

disappointed because most people have asked that this be a transparent process, ronan. they want to be able to have faith in the investigation and this is an opportunity to do that, but yet, think come up and cite reasons we don't think are as important. everybody knows our identity. everybody know it is the family identity. and we think it has to be a two-way street. it has to be an even playing field because as we've been saying all along, there's a color blind curiosity as to what happened on saturday at 12:00 noon that left a 18-year-old kid dead on the concrete being shot multiple times in broad daylight. >> we have seen protests out there, arrests, looting since michael brown's death. this community's in upheavel. his mother said no violence,

just justice. to this family, what is justice? >> you know, justice is being able to get the truth of what happened to their child. being able to make sure if the person who executed their child in broad daylight was not justified and we see nothing that -- to justify this, that he's held accountable. and we have to make sure that we understand why the people are upset. they're upset because the lack of transparency, the lack of due process, the lack of equal justice when it comes to our children being dead on the street. and so, that's what this is about. we want justice. we want transparency. we want the truth to come out, ron ronan. that's not too much to ask when it's your baby dead and you have a right to get answers. >> but in specific terms, what charges are you looking for? >> well, certainly, if he had his hands up and the police

officer continued to fire multiple shots in broad daylight into the body of a kid who had his hands up, obviously, you want him to be charged with homicide. he murdered that kid. and the problem is, this is a police officer who's trained. he should have a higher sense of training than regular civilians, you know, people ask me what's the difference between this and the tragedy that befell trayvon martin. and you have to scratch your head and say, this is a trained police officer. it's broad daylight. trayvon, it was the dark of night. trayvon was only shot once. and this young man michael brown was shot multiple times. so, even though there's some stark similarities, there's some stark differences. and we have to get to the truth of this so we won't have people saying they don't believe the

system works for us. >> so you think in some ways this is a worse case than trayvon martin, obviously, you represented that family, too. >> well, i think, you know, every tragedy where we see the loss of life of a person, especially a young person, is a tragedy. so you can't compare them. it's just both of them are terrible i know trayvon's father reached out to the parents of michael brown and had to do the terrible, terrible invitation, welcoming them into a fraternity that no parent wants to be in. and that is, having to be a martyr for your dead teenager. that is just the worst thing you could ever ask of a parent. >> our thoughts are with the family right now. benjamin crump, thank you. >> thank you. joining me from missouri is

reporter tremain lee and spoke with a friend of brown's and witnessed the shooting and the president of the national urban lead and john mcwarten, a senior fellow at the manhattan institute and written about this kind of police violence. tremain, you spoke to this man saying he was with michael brown at the time of the shooting, his friend, what did he tell you? >> that's correct. with so many questions of what happened in the moments that proceeded the death of michael brown, this young man was feet away as he says a police officer fired a single shot from inside his patrol cruiser. he said he and brown walking down the street and stopped by the officer and the officer demanded they walk on the sidewalk. he said they would be at the december nation in a minute or so and the officer heard that, he said he slammed on the brakes, backed up and that the officer and michael brown and johnson face to face with him and grabbed his friend's throat

and tussle with him and michael brown trying to pull away, this's when the officer threatened to shoot him and then did firing one single shot into the right side of the friend's body and the rest is detailed. at least part of what we know is that johnson and brown started to run and johnson says that the police officer followed them and fired another shot into the man's back and turned around, threw his hands up, said i don't have a gun. stop shooting. the officer fired off several more shots. this is johnson's scenario. the police say that there was a struggle for the officer's gun. brown tried to shoove him back into the police cruiser. >> without knowing how accurate that story is, it's extremely vivid. mark, is it surprising that johnson says that the police refused to question him? >> well, i think that there's large question that is have arisen already about whether the police department and the law enforcement authorities in missouri can transparently and

effectively investigate and potentially prosecute this case. that's why i am pleased that the justice department and the fbi have stepped in but what i think the authorities in missouri should do, they should step away and turn the matter over to the fbi and the justice department because already the failure to talk to this young man, the failure to release the name of the offending officer, those steps, those steps are simply going to encourage people to not have confidence in the ability of this police department and those law enforcement agencies in missouri to handle this. this has to be handled in an open, transparent, careful and competent fashion and that's why the justice department i think is best suited to do that. >> and marc, you make a terrific point. caution is required. we know so little. facts are still emerging. we don't know, for sure, john, just how much of a racial component there is, whether

there's a racial motivation to the attack itself. we know that the subsequent protests, these people taking to the streets has been extraordinarily charged racially. tell us about that. >> yes, we do. there's a racial component here and certainly there are times when america can exaggerate about that sort of thing. this is not one of them. if anybody wants to know why there are so many people think of america as a place that never gets beyond race, it's the relationship between young black men and police forces. this is the issue. i've been writing about this for 15 years now. that is what's on people's minds. if we got past this, we would be in a new america. very simple. there's something going on right now, kind of a pudgy faced white kid in aurora, colorado, where some gun related events took place with a gun and challenging the police saying that he is allowed to walk alive with a gun and quite sure if that kid were black, if that kid had been this one in st. louis, he would have somehow just been shot because

of the misunderstanding. there are differences here. there's a reason you don't hear about cases like this happening with white boys. there's a dehumanization of black teens and we need to work on it because until we do there is not just here and there. this is why so many people see america as what they call a racist country. we've got to work on this. >> it's incredibly troubling. marc, last question to you here. what can or should be done to stem the violence spilling over into the streets? >> well, i think that it's important to understand that civil rights leaders, responsible community leaders, the family of michael brown have suggested that violence is neither appropriate nor necessary. the tradition of civil rights is peaceful protest. the ability of people to exercise first amendment rights so i am hopeful that community leaders and ministers and civil rights leader, i know reverend al sharpton, the new president

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loss. were you surprised how huge this outpouring is? >> not really. i think that what is -- there's nothing really surprising he had troubles. it's not surprising that he was already considered a living legend. i think what people are right now is just confused because they had seen him a lot. i talked to neighbors saying he looks pretty normal. he had lost some weight and pretty much the robin they had always known and just up the street at the san francisco zoo doing a charity event and i think they were confuse. they thought he grappled with the problems successfully. suffering with severe depression as of late and gone to treatment earlier this year and we were told preventive so i think right now people are very confused. you are right. the remembrances are very, very heartfelt. from all ages, spans generations. people know him as mork from ork

and people who know him from the guy playing teddy roosevelt and amazing scope of a career from drama to comedy to stand-up and that's why people are feeling such a loss. >> tony, you have new pictures from when you produced "dead poets society." what went through your mind when you heard this news? >> great deal of sorrow, ronan. robin and i were relatively close, not only from doing "dead poets society" and "insomnia" but he did spots for st. jude's research hospital and it was so, so touching to watch him work with the children, and care so much, no matter what his schedule was like. very busy that day or perhaps even his mood not the greatest. when he sat down with that child, he just opened up and gave everything he could to the child and spent time, much, much time with the parents after the shoot to take care of them, to

see how they're doing. spend the movies to hem. he was an adorable, adorable man. i mean, you have all spoken of his talent but it was truly the inside that made him so wonderful. >> tony, we have a seen here from "dead poets society," your collaboration with him. >> i have a little secret for you. huddle up. huddle up! we don't read and write poetry because it's cute. we read and write poetry because we are members of the human race and the human race is filled with passion. medicine, law, business, engineering, necessary to sustain life and noble pursuits but poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. >> tony, was there a favorite

moment from your experience working with williams? >> in that particular picture? >> sure. >> well, again, i must tell you my favorite moments working with him for the st. jude research hospital spots and where i bonded with him. the film was absolutely brilliant. we were all slightly nervous about making this particular choice because robin hadn't shown as much of that side of him in his work, and after speaking with him and after peter, we're really wanting him for the part. the great director peter weir. after two days of dailies we knew, you know, the right decision had been made and that guy, that heart, that man you just saw in the scene, that was the kind of man i knew who spent all the time with the children and supported us so much with all of his efforts for the hospital. >> one reason why that project stayed with so many people and the legacy continues to stay with so many.

ken, tony, thank you both for joining us to remember him. williams laughed often about the problems with drug and alcohol in the stand-up and talked openly in interviews about the battle with addiction. but now with this news it is the brutal fight against depression that people are looking to understand. dr. gale salts is a psychiatrist at new york presbyterian hospital. thank you. is there a recognized connection between this kind of a creative individual and mental illness? >> well, actually, that's a really come by nated question. certainly, mental illness doesn't make one necessarily creative. but the brain of someone who actually does struggle with certain kinds of mental illness can, let's say, lend itself in certain ways to various attributes. that doesn't mean a person ill shouldn't get treatment or that treatment would affect their ability to utilize that attribute. so, for instance in the case of

depression, some people report that even though they struggle with terrible depression, they also feel that the ability to intuit what other people, to have great and deep empathy, to be very, very sensitive and pick up on the nuances of things around them, to see the world in actually a much more realistic way than somebody who's not depressed and utilize those things toward a craft of, say, comedy, or acting, is not unusual. but it doesn't mean that that person shouldn't seek treatment and that treatment wouldn't help them and still allow them to have the attributes. that's understand that people understand and sadly depression carries a 15% more tallty. suicide is not unusual. >> and dr. saltz, we have heard so many people talk about how it resonates with their family experience of severe depression. what would you say to people

looking to shine a light on this in their own lives? >> number one -- i mean, we are educating people. but really, stigma is still the number one thing that keeps people from seeking treatment. but they feel ashamed and that either keeps them from knowing their ill or the family member is ill or keeps them from getting treatment even when they know something is wrong. treatments, there are very many varied treatments for depression. they work sometimes you have to try more than one but the fact you got depression, say, months ago over something doesn't mean that months later when you're struggling again, you don't need to go in. and, you know, sadly this may be the case. >> dr. gail saltz, thank you for that. we want to leave you with his own words about whether heaven exists. >> just a nice if heaven exists to know there's laughter. that would be a great thing. to god go, two jews walk into a bar.

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fast forward eight years. obama administration is dealing with an increasingly beleaguered malaki who refuses to leave power. even in the face of a new program being named to replace him and an escalating political conflict that threatens to tear apart an already fragile iraq. with devastating consequences for the tens of thousands of refugees stranded still on a mountain top. the tounder of women for women international, also an iraqi. this is interesting, both shiite and sunni descent. good to have you back. >> good to be back. >> first of all, this malaki question. is his leaving a prereck sit to seeing a unity government in iraq? >> it is, indeed. iraq is in a crisis and no longer sunni veer sus shia but a division of shia parties and this is never been as bad as it has been since 40 years ago,

actually. the last time it was this bad there was a major bloodshed. the least malaki can do is to let go. because his departure will help calm the situation down. >> of course, we have had news in the past few days that there's more and more military cooperation between the u.s. and kurdish forces. do you see that as a hopeful sign, particularly for those people who are still facing death on that mountain? >> well, so there are hundreds of thousands of refugees right now in the mountains and in iraq the temperature is about 130 degrees fahrenheit. this is very, very hot. a lot of these refugees do not have water and do not have food. and so, this is a humanitarian crisis. not counting the millions of internally displaced people who have been displaced in iraq in the last ten years. which they're still living in mud homes and with no access to food and rather electricity or water. so the country's going through a crisis at the moment. now, america cannot -- it's an

identity crisis, as well. what is iraq? what is a national unity of the country? what america can do right now is to do the minimum intervention to stop iraq from breaking apart because for the country to break apart, it then creates a regional crisis and regional war and no one can afford that. >> you have more and more of the vulnerability minority populations stranded. >> this is not only a minority, iraq was known for having all kinds of religious and ethnic minorities coexisting together. the community is one of the most ancient community but also the christian community truly targeted, as well. it is the shias, the kurds. everyone right now. >> we're looking at the yazidi faces. incredible. you say minimum force required and calls to the contrary here. let's listen to the responses on the hill. >> we can't wait for malaki or the iraqi parliament to fight isis. we start with massive air attacks.

>> we have to have a sustained air campaign in syria and iraq. we need to go on offense. >> i would be rushing equipment to erbil. launching air strikes not only in iraq but in syria against isis. >> what ld a more aggressive american military campaign mean for the people so vulnerable out there? >> what america can do is, yes indeed, help stop isis but the iraqi army needs to intervene to stop isis ultimately. to do that, iraq has to have a unity, national government to protect, supporter of iraq which we do not. america has to do something but this something is never going to be the fundamental solution. it has to be a rise from within the iraqis. you know, it's a very tough situation for america to be at. i think the president is doing just the right thing, a bit too late and never too a little. >> we are looking at some of the human stakes of that. these people really caught in the crossfire at this point.

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april. is it working? >> it is. there were pilot programs before, the most famous in massachusetts. 2010 to 2013. saved over 200 lives. since starting to giving out the kits which are small, this is one right here. >> let's take a look at that. >> cost about 60 bucks. last for about two years and easy to use. the drug, since they turned it into a nasal spray a few years ago, every police officer can administer in the field. it stops the process of someone dying from a heroin overdose because you die because the breathing is constricted and -- >> what's in the kit? >> you just take it out. there are plastic gloves to keep it sanitary. put it in the nose of the people od'g. within minutes they come back. over a 95% success rate. no counter indications. if someone is having a different kind of a ep departmentic seizure but not an overdose doesn't hurt them and saves

lives and people get into treatment because this is a wake-up call to even some of the most hard core addicts and a lifesaver and it's an important part of the process of moving from mass incarceration of people with addiction to getting them into treatment and the police officers in new york state can save lives. >> others say the answer is enforcement not this kind of treatment. >> well, we are -- we're taking an all levers approach. we repelled the rockefeller drug law. crime rates are down and prison population come down. we work to disrupt the supply of the drug with traditional law enforcement but treatment is the answer. there are many, many people who are addicts first and sometimes they steal to support the habits and we know the difference and we can tell that in drug court and you have to save the lives of people od'g. they're more likely to get into treatment after this.

a lot of them go immediately into treatment. this is a lifesaver and a way to move towards more people in treatment, move towards the problem, ending the addiction and an epidemic in america. >> national epidemic like you say. the national rate of deaths from overdoses spiked 45% from 2006 to 2010. and now 23 different states passed some kind of legislation providing more access to narkan. you're not here eneric holder said it should be the norm, all officers maybe should have the kits. take a listen to him. >> it's almost in some ways like a wonder that you can take people out of the symptoms of an overdose and bring them back to life. and so that to the extent that, you know, first responders in your jurisdictions are not familiar with it, you know, spread the word about narkan. >> what would you say to other states looking to implement this kind of a program? >> i have to tell you them how easy it is and attorney general holder held a conference trying to get states to look at it.

this is cheap. we have had over 200 police departments request over 30,000 kits. we are providing them to them. it's considering the cost in human life and the cost to the state, this is something our law enforcement officers love to have. and we're training people to use it all the over the state of new york and we should be all over america. every police officer on the beat in every town in america should have narcan kit with them. my investigators carry it. $60 a kit. and you're going to save a lot of people's lives and get them in treatment. this is not the complete solution to the problem. this is a very important lever to pull in the all-levers approach to end the heroin problem. >> for the debate about this, there's one thing not contentious. that's that it saves lives. >> saves lives, gets people into treatment. good thing to have. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> appreciate this. and for this week's call to action, we want you to weigh in on the narcan debate. do you think police and first responders should carry narcan.

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call it amazon versus everyone. battle between amazon and the publishing giant over how amazon prices ebooks is heating up this week. 900 major writers under the banner authors united signed a letter in "the new york times" this weekend supporting the publisher and called for readers to protest the amazon chief bezos. they say that the demand could drive the industry into the ground and accuses the tech giant of dirty tactics like making it harder to purchase the

books. and now the movie industry is part of that battle, too. amazon.com isn't accepting preorders of disney dvd and bluray titles.upcoming disney blu-ray and dvd titles. "maleficent" is the latest. >> i must say, i felt quite i did stressed at not receiving an invitation. >> you're not welcome here. >> oh, dear. what an awkward situation. >> an awkward situation for sure. and with really high stakes. the future of book and movie sales hanging in the balance. joining me now is kara swisher, co-executive editor of the tech and news analysis site of recode. good to have you back on the program. >> thank you. >> is there an argument amazon

is helping the publishing industry? >> there's always been a push/pull with amazon since it started, especially as it began to gain power in the industry. this is just another manifestation of it, showing how much power amazon has over these publishers, which is quite vast now. one of the things that's been noticeable is these authors' sales have dropped rather precipitously. >> i guess this is the fright thing. there are so few financial incentives to get into writing. how do authors sustain themselves when the only players in the room are these 800-pound gorillas intent on lowering prices further and further? >> that's nothing new. there used to be big changes. now it's big amazon. now there's google, apple, and some others that are distributing books. but amazon still rules the roost in terms of retail. so the question is, can these other -- can there be enough players for the situation that publishers and writers can go to in order to try to make more money. now, consumers are super used to cheap prices.

and like ever increasingly lower prices, the same thing when they went from hard covers to paper backs. that was a huge controversy at the time. so the question is, who has the power here? ultimately, it is the distributor, amazon. >> you made an interesting point earlier saying that basically this is something that retailers do all the time across the board. that walmart does it. what's different about amazon, given they have something of a monopoly on the kind of speed of delivery and market penetration? >> i mean, walmart does it all the time with every product. it decides -- you know, it makes and breaks products. same thing with costco, another big seller of books. so the issue is that -- and amazon is making this case -- that e-books don't cost anything. there's no delivery, no paper, no movement of it. therefore, the prices should be lower and prices are artificially too high as it is. that may actually be true. these are bits. they really don't cost anything. the question is, should the prices be so high? what is the cost of content? and, you know, it is coming down. it will be coming down. especially as people are doing different things with music and

movies. the prices are not going up. they are coming down. and we'll see how that goes. but it changes the economics of the industry rather drastically. >> kara, what does it reveal about amazon themselves? one of the interesting things is the tactics in this fight. they put up this letter that's quite scathing. here's one quote. the famous author george orwell came out publicly and said about the new paperback format, if publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them. yes, george orwell was suggesting collusion. a lot of people said that's miscon trueing that quote. the point being, they're bringing out the big guns. they're really -- it's low blows. they're asking people at home to e-mail the publishers themselves. what does that tell you? >> they have a thing called readers united or artists united. this is typical in these fights. look what's going on between netflix and comcast and verizon. this is a battle over how we get our information, how we pay for entertainment. hollywood or the book publishing have sort of, you know -- it's

sort of like uber and the taxi industry. the taxi industry has been abusing customers for decades. here comes another competitor. you're going to see these fights everywhere where thing z are digitized. anything that can be digitized is going to have this fight as new players come in. amazon is hugely aggressive. jeff bezos, as much as he has that happy laughing, he's a very aggressive person. he has a lot of leverage, and he's using it the way sam walton did with walmart. >> you mentioned some of the stakes here in terms of the future of how people consume content. how do you see that fight shaping up? is it like the uber situation where the most efficient solution is going to win? >> yes, absolutely. because consumers like lower prices. wouldn't you rather pay less for a book if you're getting it digitally? it does make sense in a way. my get all my magazines and newspapers digitally now. there is no cost to "the new york times" or "us weekly." i'm a big fan of "us weekly." their costs have not changed in

terms of editorial. and they're making less money. that's always been the big push and pull going on here. it's just continuing. you know, players like amazon and google and netflix, these are the power players going forward. >> a lot at stake. you make a good point that this is something of an old fight just in new trappings. kara swisher, thank you for that. everybody at home, follow recode. they're doing great reporting on this and other really important tech stories. really high stakes for all of us. that wraps things up for this edition of "rf daily." thank you all at home for joining me. time for "the reid report" coming up with my colleague joy reid. what's up next? >> thank you very much, ronan. coming up next on "the reid report," new information on the tragic death of robin williams. moments from now, the sheriffs office will hold a news conference on the investigation into the apparent suicide. also, the latest on the shooting death of unarmed st. louis teen michael brown. and targeted drone strikes continue in iraq as the politics of president obama's response to isis heats up. "the reid report" is next.

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hello, everyone. i'm joy reid. this is "the reid report." we're following three big stories this afternoon. starting with the death of an icon. robin williams. we remember the beloved comedian and actor whose untimely death shocked the world. we'll have the latest, including from some of the actors whose lives and careers can impacted. then tensions run high in the st. louis suburb of ferguson after protesters and police face off again over the officer-involved shooting death of 18-year-old michael brown. also, back to iraq. the obama administration tries to influence political stability as the iraqi government struggles to form. and the terrorist group isis continues to advance. we'll discuss the political stakes here at home. but first, a live picture from the sheriff's office in marin county, california, where we're awaiting a news conference

on the death of actor and comedian robin williams. he was found dead in his home monday morning. the coroner's office said in a statement that it suspects the cause of death to be suicide by asphyxia. meanwhile, we wait for the news conference to begin, let's bring in nbc news halle jackson at the hollywood walk of fame where a memorial is growing at robin williams' star. what are we seeing is out there? >> reporter: hi, joy. a lot of people have come out, as you might imagine, to pay their respects to robin williams, to lay flowers and candles near his star here on the hollywood walk of fame. take a look. about 90 minutes ago, the hollywood chamber of commerce came out and laid a wreath here. the president and ceo talking about how there will never be another robin williams. he was so singular in the minds of so many. it's tough to see now, but there are people absolutely jamming hollywood boulevard. everybody taking photos. they want to be here to see the scene. because for many, this is a once in a lifetime experience. you talked about the press conference, the news conference that we're waiting for from northern california from the