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>> muhammad loved to laugh and he loved to play practical jokes on just about everybody. he was sure footed in hisself awareness, secure in his faith and he did not fear death. yet his timing is once again poignant. his passing and its meaning for our time should not be overlooked. as we face uncertainty in a world of divisions at home as
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to who we are as a people, muhammad's life provides useful guidance. muhammad was not one to give up on the power of understanding, the boundless possibilities of love and the strength of our diversity. he counted among his friends people of all political persuasions, saw truth in all faiths and the nobility of all races as witnessed here today. muhammad may have challenged his government but he never ran from it or from america. (applause). he loved this country and understood the hard choices that are borne of freedom. i think he saw a nation's soul measured by the soul of his people. for his part he saw the good soul in everyone. and if you were one of the lucky ones to have met him you know what i meant.
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he awoke every morning thinking about his own salvation and he would often say i just want to get to heaven and i've got to do a lot of good deeds to get there. and i think muhammad's hope is that his life provides some guidance on how we might achieve for all people what we aspire for ourselves and our family. thank you. (applause). >> lanny ali with a tribute to her husband. saying she hopes his life could provide guidance to a divided country. we'll bring byron pitts back. lanny such an impressive woman in her own right. >> she was accomplished well before she married ali. a master's degree in business, graduate of vanderbilt. after he retired -- when ali died, he left his children more than just a great name. >> now muhammad ali's eldest
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daughter maryum. >> i want to say thank you to louisville kentucky all the love you've shown us in our lives has been unbelievable. also i want to thank the entire globe, my father was loved all over. the processional today was overwhelming but it was so beautiful. i just want to say we love you just like you love us. thank you very much. (applause). as you know my father loved poetry. he was always rhyming and promoting his fights and he had poems of the harder, -- heart and i wrote a piece for him to honor him on behalf of my sisters and brothers and everyone who loved my father it's called thank you our dear father. my heart was sore when your spirit soared.
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your physical body is no more. but my mind tells different tales of all that you taught me, your family and the masses. most importantly, the belief in god who created humanity to thrive in quality. you fought for a purpose to uphold the principle that we as a people have divine human rights. staring right into the eyes of oppression you proclaim your beautiful complexion. your god given skills. your independent will and the freedom of your faith. as your daughter, i am grateful for all of our conversations about men, women and relationships guiding me to first have a loving relationship with self, refusing anyone to chip away at my esteem and expect the
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respect of a queen. (applause). thank you, our dear father, for asking us to think about our purpose and showing us the beauty of service to others. we marveled at your sincere love for people as you treated all who approached you with dignity. whether they were rich or poor, your kindness was unconditional. never perceiving anyone as beneath you. so many have shared personal stories about what you have meant to them. as you have exemplified values and qualities that have enhanced their lives. if i had a dollar for every story i could paper the sky. your family is so proud of the legacy you left behind but i hope that the history of you can help turn the tide of self
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hate and violence because we are overwhelmed with moments of silence from tragic deaths. (applause). here on the soil, american soil in the middle east or anywhere else in this world, we crave for peace. the peace that you rest in now. we will forever cherish the 74 years you graced this earth. you will be greatly missed. but now we send you off in celebration a blown kiss and prayers as you enter your final round. god's last boxing bell will sound in heaven. i love you. we all love you. thank you very much. >> maryum ali muhammad ali's eldest daughter with a blown
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kiss. another daughter coming up now, rasheeda ali wall. international speaker for parkinson's wearness and an activist for research. >> ladies and gentlemen, rasheeda ali walsh. (applause). >> i am so honored that you have packed this room with your love. thank you all. (applause). thank you so much for being here today to celebrate our father. you were the greatest father to us and it was god's will to take you home. your family would try our best
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to make you proud and carry on your legacy of giving and love. you have inspired us and the world to be the best version of ourselves. may you live in paradise free from suffering. you shook up the world in life. now you're shaking up the world in death. (applause). daddy's looking at us now, right, and saying, i told you i was the greatest. [laughter] no one compares to you, daddy. you once said i know where i'm going and i know the truth and i don't have to be what you want me to be. i'm free to be who i am.
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(applause). now you are free to be with your creator. we love you so much, daddy. until we meet again, fly butterfly, fly. (applause). >> rasheeda ali walsh. we'll hear from a close family friend alexandra ali. she shares a birthday with muhammad ali 12 years old named after him. her father muhammad ali's personal lawyer for 30 years now the president of muhammad ali enterprises. ali denicola. >> hello. my name is ali dee nicola. i was born on muhammad ali's
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birthday and was named after him. he used to call me little greatest. we can all learn from muhammad's example of kindness and understanding. when muhammad was asked how he would like to be remembered he said i'd like to -- i'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, one table spoon of patience, 1 teaspoon of generosity, 1 pint of kindness, he took 1 quart of laughter, one pinch of concern and he mixed willingness with happiness. he added lots of faith and he stirred it up well, that he spread it over a span of a lifetime and he served it to each and every deserving person he met. thank you. (applause). >> natasha munker never met
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muhammad ali but she says he changed her life. she's a student at the university of louisville. >> ladies and gentlemen, natasha. >> and a member of the muhammad ali center. >> you have been watching an abc special report live coverage of muhammad ali's funeral. we will of course continue to stream this funeral live on our web side at 6abc.com and we will rejoin the celebration in kentucky when we hear from former president bill clinton's remarks coming up in a little bit. >> we'll take a break and be right back with "action news." stay with us. frustrated with your overactive bladder medicine not working?
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visit botoxoab.com and learn how botox can be a low cost option. >> good evening, i'm rick williams. >> and i'm monica malpass. the big story on action flies is the investigation into an after school fight that was caught on camera. philadelphia police are taking a closer look at this video of a brutal confrontation. according to the victim's family it shows a group of people including adults ganging up on a teenager. but officials say there may be more to this story. >> "action news" reporter john rawlins is live outside of east detectives in hunting park with the full story. john. >> reporter: hi, guys. the accusation is that misplaced jealousy led to the threats and then that attack that you just saw on tape that
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was targeted on a 15-year-old girl yesterday afternoon. what started as a one-on-one after school fight escalated according to the girl who got beat up. >> they jumped me. parents got in it. it was about six people. parents got in it students, boys. >> reporter: police were provided this video from the victim's family who said they found it on social media. the family says natalie is being pounded by multiple attackers. >> an adult did this. someone's mother did this. >> reporter: natalie is an eighth grader. her mom says she alerted the school of threats against her daughter. she said she called yesterday asking natalie be escorted out of school. >> i called them and asked them could you please have my daughter escorted. they said they would have my daughter escorted. >> reporter: the school which says it is cooperating with police disputes that saying the escort request didn't come until 2:59 as students were being released. in addition the fight on the video took place not on school grounds but some blocks away making this a community not a
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school issue. natalie's mother wants the attackers held accountable. >> i want them all in jail. i want the mom in jail. i want everyone in jail that touched my daughter. >> reporter: fueling all this apparently jealousy. another girl mistakenly thinking natalie had something to do with the breakup with her boyfriend. she got a third girl to target natalie so thinks the boy's mother. >> she not only has bullied natalie, she's bullied my son, told people she was going have my son beat up and it just shows the poor quality that, you know, these kids are getting brought up in a trashy way. >> reporter: the port richmond school says while this is a community not a school matter apparently its student code of conduct does apply to kids coming and going to school even blocks away. so, four students so far who were involved and in melee that was apparently targeting natalie have been suspended. not much school left. it means they will not be able
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>> time for a check of accuweather at the "action news" big board. >> meteorologist cecily tynan has a check of the weekend. how are you doing cecily. >> doing great. today is a beautiful day. take a look at the center city skyline we have a veil of some high thin clouds but seeing plenty of filtered sunshine. today the third day in a row of temperatures in the 70's. normal high for this time of the year 81. today philadelphia right now 77. it's a popular number, the same in allentown, trenton, wilmington, millville dover and the atlantic city airport, cape may currently 74 and reading right now 75 degrees. but there's much warmer air on the way. satellite6 along with action radar is showing there's a warm front, the leading edge of warm air across the ohio valley. what that will do, it will had move through early in the day tomorrow and that will unleash some heat and humidity and late in the day we have the threat of some storms. tonight, though, will be a beautiful friday night. a few clouds here and there. a comfortable night, 58 degrees in philadelphia.
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allentown 51. cape may 61 and wilmington 58 degrees. so, future tracker showing that warm front moving through in the morning around 10:30 will bring us a lot of cloud cover and a few spotty showers maybe an isolated thunderstorm. as we head into the middle of the day, we get some heat and humidity and then we have the threat of some storms. future tracker showing around 3 o'clock, the storms developing in the far northwest suburbs and it looks like these are going to be racing to the east at about 40 miles per hour. so, moving through the i-95 corridor around 4:30 or so and then reaching the coast by about 7 o'clock. right now the big question, will it be a solid line or will it be more scattered? that has yet to be determined but there is the risk of severe weather with lightning, with heavy downpours and with strong damaging winds. at this point the threat of large hail and tornadoes is low. i think that threat is farther up to the north across new england. so, if you're heading down the shore tomorrow, 80 degrees, an
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evening thunderstorm. in philadelphia it will be steamy with some late afternoon thunderstorms and the poconos you'll get the thunderstorms first early to midafternoon with a high of 75 degrees. so, the five day at 5:00 showing tomorrow it's go to be hot, humid with the threat of some afternoon thunderstorms highlighting tomorrow a high soaring up to 90 degrees. on sunday, a cold front moves through. it will still be warm, 88 but windy with lowering humidity. we're back down 80 degrees on monday. tuesday the same with a threat of an evening shower and wednesday 84 degrees. we'll let you know if the warmup continues toward the end of the week in the seven-day forecast guys. >> thank you so much cecily. much more "action news" coming your way. we'll take a break and be right back. >> ♪
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>> back live in louisville kentucky for the funeral service of muhammad ali. right now actor and comedian billy crystal finishing or starting to make some remarks. he impersonated ali on saturday night live decades ago and then they later became friends. we're waiting for former president bill clinton to give eulogy. we're going to take a listen. [laughter] >> i was clean shaven when this started . >> [laughter]
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dear lanny, family friends, mr. president, members of the clergy, all these amazing people here in louisville. (applause). today this outpouring of love and respect proves that 35 years after he stopped fighting he is still the champion of the world. (applause). last week when we heard the news time stopped. there was no war. there were no terrorists, no global catastrophes. the world stopped, took a deep breath and sighed. since then my mind has been racing through my relationship with this amazing man which is now 42 years that i know him. every moment i can think of is cherished and while others can tell you of his accomplishments, he wanted me to speak and tell you of some
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perm moments. i met him in phone neap 74. i was just getting started but i had one good routine. it was a three minute conversation between howard cosell muhammad ali where i would imitate both of them. ali had just defeated george foreman and began the heavy -- regained the heavy weight title. sport magazine made him the man of the year and dick was going to host this televised dinner honoring muhammad ali. dick called my agent looking for a comedian who did some sports material. as fate would have it, that comedian was not available and she wisely said -- [laughter] it's destiny, man. and she wisely said listen i got this young kid and he does this great imitation of ali and cosell it would be perfect. i don't know why but dick said okay. i'll try him. if he stinks i can cut him out of the show. i couldn't believe it. my first time on television
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and it would be with ali. i ran to the plaza hotel. i met mr. shapp who would later become a part my family. he said how should i introduce you? nobody knows who you are. and i said just say one of ali's closest and dearest friends. [laughter] my thought was i'll get right to the microphone go into my howard cosell and i'll be fine. and then i nervously moved into the jammed ballroom and that's when i saw him for the first time in person. it's very hard to describe how much he meant to me. you had to live in his time. it's great to look at clips and it's amazing that we have them but to live in his time. watching his fights. it's experiencing the genius of his talent was absolutely extraordinary. every one of his fights was an aura of a super bowl. he the things nobody would do. he predicted the rounds that he would knock somebody out
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and then he would do it. [laughter] he was funny. he was beautiful. he was the most perfect athlete you ever saw and those were his own words. [laughter] but he was so much more than a fighter as time went on with bobby kennedy gone, martin luther king gone, malcolm x gone, who was there to relate to when vietnam exploded in our face? there were millions of young men my age eligible for the draft or war we didn't believe in all of us huddled on the conveyor belt that was rapidly feeding the war machine but it was ali who stood up for us by standing up for himself. and after he was stripped of the title. (applause). after he was stripped of the title and the the right to fight anywhere in the world, he gave speeches at colleges and on television that totally reached me. he seemed as comfortable talking to kings and queens as the lost and unrequited. he never lost his sense of humor even as he lost
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everything else. he was always himself willing to give up everything for what he believed in ands had passionate rhetoric about the life and plight of black people in our country resonated longly in my house. i grew up in a house dedicated to civil rights. my father was a producer of jazz concerts in new york city and was one of the first to integrate bands in the 40's and 50's. jazz musicians referred to my dad as the branch ricky of jazz. my uncle and my family jewish people produced strange fruit. billy holiday's classic song describing its lynching of african-americans in this country. and so i felt him and now there law just a few feet from me. i couldn't stop looking at him and he seemed to like glow and he was like in slow motion, his amazing face smiling and laughing. i was seated a few seats from him on the dais in the room were all these athletes in their individual sports great ones, geno marquette tea of the baltimore coax, franco harris of the steelers, archie
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griffith from ohio state literary legends, neil simon george film ton all on the dais off an off and oning over i who then looked at me -- [laughter] with an expression that seemed to say, what is joel gray doing here? [laughter] mr. shapp introduced me as one of ali's closest and dearest friends. two people clapped. my wife and the agent . >> [laughter] >> reporter: i rose ali still staring at me. i passed right behind him got to the podium went right into the cosell. hello everyone howard cosell coming to you live from zaire m would pronounce zaire, they're wrong. [laughter] it got big laughs. and then i went to the ali. everybody's talking about
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george foreman. want to talk about george foreman. he's ugly, so slow. george was slow. i rope a dope, i rope a dope joy and i'm so fast at 33 years of age i'm so fast i can turn off the lights be in my bed before the room gets dark. [laughter] (applause). howard i'm announcing tonight i got new religious beliefs. from now on i want to be known as izzy. i'm a orthodox jew. i am the greatest of all time. (applause). the audience exploded. no one had ever done him before and here i was a white kid from long island imitating the greatest of all time and he was loving it. when i was done, he gave me this big bear hug and he whispered in my ear, you're my little brother . >> [laughter] >brother. >> laugh. which is what he always
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called me until the last time i saw him. we were always there for each other. if he needed me for something he came to everything i asked him to do. most memorable, he was an honorary chairman for a dinner at a very important event where i was being honored by the hebrew university in jerusalem. he did all of this promotion for it he came to the dinner. he sat with my family for the entire evening he took photographers with everybody. most famous muslim man in the world honoring his jewish friend. and. [applause] because he was there, because he was there, we raised a grateful money and i was able to use it to endow the university in jerusalem with something that i told him about. and it was something that he loved the theory of and it thrives to this days, it's called peace through the performing arts. it's a theater group where israelis arab and palestinian actors writers and directors all work together in peace
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creating original works of art. (applause). and that doesn't happen without him. i had so many -- so many funny unusual moments with him. i sat next to him at howard cosell's funeral a very somber day to be sure. closed casket was on the stage. muhammad and i were sitting somewhere over there next to each other. and he quietly whispered to me, little brother, do you think he's wearing his hairpiece? [laughter] so i said i don't think so >> [laughter] well then how will god recognize him? [laughter] so i said champ, once he opens his mouth, god will know
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>> [laughter] so we started laughing. it was a muffled laugh at first but then we connecticut taken ourselves. here we were at a funeral me with muhammad ali laughing like two little kids who heard something dirty in church. we were laughing and laughing and then he looked at me and he whispered howard was a good man. one time he asked me if i would like to run with him one morning. do road work with him. i said that would be amazing. where do you run. he said i run at this country club on a golf course it's very private we'll have a great time. i said clam i can't run there. the club has a reputation for being restricted. they don't allow jews there. they don't have any jewish members. he was incensed. i'm a black muslim and they let me run there . >> [laughter] little brother i'm never going to run there again. and he didn't. (applause).
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my favorite memory perhaps was 1979. he had just retired and there was a retirement party at the forum los angeles for muhammad and 20,000 of his closest friends in los angeles. [laughter] i performed a piece there i had created the imitation had grown into a life story it's called 15 rounds. and i play him from the age of 18 until he's 36 ready for the rematch with leon spinks. i posted it on the internet last week footage that nobody had ever seen before of me, portraying ali doing his life for him all those years ago in 1979. there were 20,000 people there. but i was doing it only for him. it's one of my favorite performances that i've ever done in my life. i sort of got lost in him. i -- i didn't even know where i was. at the end of the performance and suddenly i'm backstage with another heavy weight champion richard pryor holding
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on to me crying and then i see ali coming and eases got a full head of steam and he's looking only at me and he nudged mr. pryor aside and whispered in my ear with a big bear hug little brother you made my life better than it was. [laughter] (applause). but den make all of our lives a little bit better than they were? (applause). that -- that, my friends is my history with a man and i've labored to come up with a way to describe the legend. lahe was a tremendous bolt of lightning a fantastic combination of power and beauty. we've seen still photographs of lightning bolts at the moment of impact ferocious in its strength magnificent in its elegance. at the moment of impact it lights up everything around it. so you can see everything
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clearly. muhammad ali struck us in the middle of america's darkest night in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm, his power toppled the mightiest of foes and his intense light shined on america and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self realization, courage, laughter, love, joy and religious freedom for all. ali forced us to take a look at ourselves. this brash young plan who thrilled us angered us, confused and challenged us ultimately became a silent messenger of peace. who told us that life is best when you build bridges between people not walls. (applause). [cheers and applause] my friends, -- my friends
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only once in a thousand years or so do we get to hear a mozart or see a picasso, read a shakespeare. ali was one of them and yet, at his heart, he was still a kid from louisville who ran with the gods and walked with the crippled and smiled at the foolishness of it all. (applause). he is gone. but he will never die. law mhe was my big brother. thank you. >> you've been listening to comedian billy crystal share some funny and emotional memories of muhammad ali, a friend he said he was with for 40 years. in fact, muhammad ali called him his little brother. as we continue our coverage of the memorial service in louisville, kentucky we'll take a quick break, be back with more news. stay with us.
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>> ♪ >> "action news" at 5:00 continues now with the 2016 race for the white house. a day after receiving president obama's endorsement democrat hillary clinton is moving full steam ahead towards the general election. >> this as republican donald trump continues to try to smooth the waters with gop
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leaders. >> both presumptive nominees spent the day in washington, d.c. clinton met privately with one of the most powerful women on capitol hill, senator elizabeth warren. >> while the democrats are uniting behind their candidate the republicans continue to grapple with theirs. trump is still feeling the heat from comments he made about a travel judge who he accused of being biased because of his ethnicity. >> lauren lyster has more from the nation's capitol. >> reporter: hillary clinton in the nation's capitol addressing planned parenthood. >> rights that women should be able to take for granted are under attack. >> reporter: and taking on trump in her first speech as the presumptive democratic nominee. >> we are not going to let donald trump or anyone else turn back the clock. >> reporter: donald trump also in d.c d.c. speaking to evangelical voters. >> we want to uphold the sanctity and dignity of life. >> reporter: with help of his supporters,.
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>> u.s.a., u.s.a. >> reporter: fending off protestors. trump has been fielding attacks from both sides of the aisle. house speaker paul ryan responding to trump's suggestion that mex san ancestry of a federal judge made him biased telling george stephanopoulos. >> that comment is beyond the pale. >> reporter: democratic senator elizabeth warren on the attack. >> donald trump is a loud nasty thin skinned fraud. >> reporter: warren endorsing clinton thursday night and arriving at clinton's d.c. home for a private meeting friday following this major announcement from the current commander-in-chief. >> and i'm with her am i. fired up. in fact, i don't think there's ever been someone so qualified to hold this office. >> reporter: trump preparing for the presidential general election with a rally in virginia then heading to florida and pennsylvania, all considered battleground statements lauren lyster, abc news, washington. >> let's check that traffic scene friday night.
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matt pelman in the "action news" traffic center. >> hey, matt. >> hi, guys. we know it's going to be a fun weekend down the shore but it hasn't been the most fun getting there this afternoon. all approaches to the walt whitman bridge have been jammed. the ramp from 95 northbound to the bridge is still jammed. and traffic remains jammed across the bridge into new jersey but our pair of problems the earlier crash and earlier emergency construction on 42 southbound by 130 are gone so the lanes are opened but delays linger. still have a downed pole an 130 itself south of 42. bottom line is this afternoon as you travel into new jersey i would do so via the ben franklin bridge instead of the walt whitman bridge. westbound ben a little bit slow coming into center city and don't forget our good buddy ben will close sunday morning for the bike-a-thon, bridge to beach bike-a-thon from 6:00 to 7:30. if you're headed down the shore via 38 this afternoon eastbound lanes are blocked at 206 by the white dot dairy bar in vincentown because of an accident. stay on woodlane road. 95 northbound in delaware
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still jammed up from about newark on up toward churchman's marsh. earlier truck fire throw is long gone. rick and monica, have a good weekend. >> thanks matt. >> much more "action news" and we'll take a break and be right back. i'm so sorry, ms. maroney. this personal essay is way harder than i thought, it's just not in my nature to brag on myself. not even a backdoor brag? what's a backdoor brag? sneaking something wonderful about yourself into everyday conversation, like when i tell people, i can't watch musicals cause i have perfect pitch. (vo) some carriers promise unlimited streaming, but then automatically shrink your videos so they're not hd quality. it's not pretty. really? switch to verizon now, buy two samsung phones, and get a free samsung 50 inch smart tv. only on america's best network.
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frustrated with your overactive can't handle the side effects? botox® treats symptoms of leaking, going too often, and the strong sudden need to go. ask your urologist if botox® can help calm your bladder
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changes for the weekend. >> abrupting coming too. beautiful outside. enjoy the rest of the night. showers and storms move in by tomorrow afternoon. we'll show you what's going on with storm tracker6 live double scan radar. it's dry. high pressure is dominating our region. we had ample sunshine to get our temperatures close to average but still pretty comfortable. the high today in philadelphia coming in at 78 degrees. and right now at this hour we're going to send it back over to monica and rick with more news. >> former president bill clinton is about to speak at the funeral of muhammad ali and let's tune in and take a listen now. >> i can just hear muhammad say now, well, i thought i should be eulogized by at least one president. [laughter] and by making you last in a long, long, long, long line i guarantee you a standing ovation . >> [laughter] i am trying to think of
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what has been left unsaid. first lonnie, i thank you and the members of the family for telling me that he actually picked us all to speak and given me a chance to come here. i thank you for what you did to make the second half of his life greater than the first. (applause). and thank you for the muhammad ali center and what it has come to represent to so many people. here's what i'd like to say. i spent a lot of time now as i get older and older and older trying to figure out what
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makes people tick, how do they turn out the way they are, how do some people refuse to become victims and rise from every defeat. we've all seen the beautiful pictures of muhammad ali as a boy and people visiting and driving by. i think he decided something i hope every young person here will decide. i think he decide very young to write his own life story. [applause] i think he decided before he could possibly have worked it all out and before fate and time could work their will on
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him, he decided that he would not be ever disempowered. he decided that not his race nor his place nor the expectations of others positive negative or otherwise would strip from him the power to write his own story. he decided first to use these stunning gifts, his strength and speed in the ring, his wit and way with words in managing the public and his man and heart to figure out at a fairly young age who he was, what he believed and how to live with the consequences of acting on what he believed. a lot of people make it to
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steps one and two and still just can't quite manage living with the consequences of what he believed. for the longest time, in spite of all the wonderful things that have been said here i remember thinking when i was a kid this guy is so smart and he never got credit for being as smart as he was. and then -- (applause). i don't think he ever got the credit for being until later as wise as he was. in the end, besides being a lot of fun to be around and basically universal soldier for our common humanity, i will always think of muhammad as truly freeman of faith and being a man of faith, he
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realized he would never be in full control of his life. something like parkinson's could come along. but being free he realized that life still was open to choices. it is the choices some that muhammad ali made that have brought us all here today in honor and love and the only other thing i'd like to say, i think we all need to really, really think about, is that the first part of his life was dominated by the triumph his truly unique gifts. we should never forget them. we should never stop looking at the movies.
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we should thank will smith for making his movie. we should all be thrilled. it was a thing of beauty. but the second part of his life was more important because he refused to be imprisoned by a disease that kept him hem strung longer than nelson mandela was kept in prison in south africa. that is in the second half of his life, he perfected gifts that we all have. every single solitary one of us has gifts of mind and heart. it's just that he found the way to release them in ways large and small. i asked lonnie if she remembered the time when they were still living in michigan and i gave a speech in
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southwest michigan, an economic club there and it's sort of a ritual when a president leaves office, you have to get reak plated, nobody plays -- i acclimated. nobody plays a song when you walk in the room. and this club it's called the economic club i think where you can still act like you get listened to. they sat with me at this dinner and he knew somehow he knew that i was a little off my feet that night. i was trying to imagine how to make this new life and so he told me a really bad joke . >> [laughter] and he told it so well and he laughed so hard that i totally got over it and had a
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great time . >> [laughter] (applause). he had that feel about -- you know, it was no textbook for that knowing where somebody else is in their head. picking up the body language. then lonnie and muhammad got me to come here when we had the dedication of the muhammad ali center and i was trying to be incredibly old gray haired elder states man dig any of if i'd. i got elevate this guy. i'm saying all this stuff in very high tone language and muhammad sneaks up behind me and puts his fingers up. finally after all the years that we had been friends, my enduring image of him is like a little reel in three shots.
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the boxer it, toos as a boy. the man i watched take the last steps to light the olympic flame when i was president and i'll never forget it, i was sitting there in atlanta, by then we knew each other, by then i felt i had some sense of what he was living with and i was still what was thatting like a baby seeing his hands shake and his legs shake and knowing by god he was going to make those last few steps no matter what it took, the flame would be lit, the fight would be won. i knew it would happen. (applause). >>

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