i feel honored that we call it those in the know or good friends of mine call at this time energizer bunnyhe book that somehow kept going all these yeersz. i will tell you up front it was a book i thought that may be they wouldn't publish. my very first book was women of the silk. i knew that i was writing about something that was a little bit different because i didn't know about the women of the silk until i wanted to write something telling their story much the second book is the test book for us writers you hear that a lot where the publishers are wondering if the author has a second book. everybody here i feel sitting here all of you have one book in you. whether it's a family story or your story whether it's ancestors whether it's your history you want to write about. but it's the second one that's hard. i felt that when i turnod the computer and thought, now i have to write book number 2. i had in mind that i wanted to write something very different from women of the silk that was strictly about the feminist chinese women during the turn of the century and i wanted to write about my

here is chip, the energizer bunny and then bob who generally is reserved, but then i think that playsa young team because you are not going to see the panic at the top. you see curt young there as well, we talked about him earlier. everybody in the a's organization happy to see him back as well. >> dave: norris would not swing, 1 and 1. a's trying to rally here, down four. last time up, he got his first big league hit off madison bumgarner. one to remember for the young catcher and they did save the baseball. strike 2 to norris. there it is with the authentic stamp on there. that is the ball. >> eric: well there it is but what we did not show you is they pulled a switcheroo, throwing another ball in the stands hoping norris would see that at second base and panic a little bit. >> dave: he looked pretty calm to me but he could be in a panic now as this is not a good place to be. reddick breaks for third and makes it safely. daring base running. if you are down by five runs, two outs, already in scoring position. he better make it. that would have been an unbelievable mistake. romo just

you know jump off, i was samurai's garden, i said it was an energizer bunny. danville shoes samurai's garden the end of last year. they had the danville theatre which is a nice theatre and they were doing roamioand juliette and there was me in the middle of a balcony. it was a nice audience when i walked in my brain was exat that timic, look at the people here. it's almost as good as last years. i said who did you choose last year. and the year before. and told me. i said do you realize they are dead already? >> i'm alive and shouldn't i pull in a little more? [laughter] to go off, thank you for coming. >> my pleasure. i just this month read your book dreaming water. and i was -- i'm very glad to have read it. i'm wondering 2 things. there seems to be more of an advocacy voice in terms of the discrimination of being you know an asian american. and secondly, warner's disease. i'm wondering how you got into writing about that? and the characters were wonderful. >> okay. your first question, first. you know to be totally honest, when i sat down to write dreaming

he's like the energizer bunny of weather. >> not only that he can probably tell us what happened to surae. was there a storm at work? >> well, there is, although i can't guarantee that was the reason, but i tell you what, we have some good news. things are quieting down somewhat. we can't let our guard down, but somewhat. we do have still a tornado warning for anne arundel county until 7:30. but i'm not altogether that concerned about that storm. it's moving up toward baltimore and we have no shear markers on it. so that's some good news. the other good news, i'm going to pop the severe thunderstorms on, not that many. severe thunderstorm warning now for howard county in maryland, franklin, fulton county, pennsylvania, until about 7:45. so that's some good news. again, the second line, right here, all right, we've not seen the steady progression of the tornado warnings. that's a good thing. and the storm will continue to move off to the east, okay, so still going to get hit again. you are going to get hit again regardless. depends on how hard we're going to get hit actually. we do have a

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. >> energizer bunny mode. >> most mornings she has 45 minutes to get her two kids up, dressed, and outn 7:00 rolls around, gina has to face her biggest fear yet. >> when the "today" show comes on, if my hair is not even done, i'm really late. >> she says for these hectic mornings make for a long, tired workday. >> the frantic mornings set the pace for the day. you're getting off on the wrong foot. >> be careful, watch your step. >> laura, author of the book "what the most successful people do before previous." good to see you. >> thank you for having me. >> i've been whining for 20 years about getting up early in the morning. you say it may be the best thing to do. >> successful people know mornings are a great time to get things done. this is time can you have for yourself before other people's priorities invade, you can focus on important things. >> do you think there are people who are simply not morning people and are not just going to thrive in those early morning hours. >> of course, there are some people who are confirmed night owls. everyone else is more in the milling. with a

. >> somebody said when i was younger i was kind of like the energizer bunny. for some of the pressure is intense. >> the olympic trials, it's really exciting. it's almost more stressful than the olympics. >> for others, it's just another swim meet. >> i never get nervous for a race. the last time i've been nervous was when i was like nine years old. >> almost 2,000 athletes will be there vying for about 50 spots on the u.s. olympic swim team. >> it doesn't matter how fast you swim the rest of the three years in between the olympics, you can win multiple world championships, gold medals, it all comes down to one swim meet. >> a three-time olympic medalist and nbc sports analyst. he's cog covering those trials in omaha. good morning. >> good morning, willie. >> 2008 beijing in swimming, usa takes 31 medals, 12 of them gold. how do you top that in london? >> it's going to be very tough to do that but you've got real horses here, michael phelps, ryan lochte, like they said, between the three of them they could swim 20, 25 events. that's a lot of swimming for those

through it all i think it's fair to say that sherry has been that proverbial energizer bunny. she has more enthusiasm, more energy than most people combined. she listens patiently, she works tirelessly to help all. she helps those southeast residents and visitors deal with federal agencies, navigate the federal red tape, and then on top of it all, in that extra time, she volunteers to help her community and hem her state be a better place to live and raise a family. sherry's volunteer efforts were recognized by the community when she was named citizen of the year back in 2005 by the greater ketchikan chamber of commerce, but her accomplishments go far beyond being named the federal employee of the year. the ketchikan chamber of commerce's outstanding chamber emissary in 1991, is outstanding board member in 1994 and its chairman in 1996. she received the ketchikan rotary club's community service award in 1994. she received the ketchikan federal executive association's lifetime community service award in 2006, received the ketchikan visitor's bureau rain bird award in 1990 and g