i love you mary kay and i truly consider you one of my best friends.ly are always in my prayers. teresa. >> this has been a really difficult month, really difficult month. i'm so used to celebrating my birthday, i call it my birthday month. yeah. i would start with, you know, dinner dates with my girlfriends, taking the kids out for crepes and ice cream, just like last year, you know, this year's different. for the rest of my life, i don't ever want to celebrate my birthday again. i've told everyone that. because they were planning on something but i said, no, i don't want to. it's not that important anymore to me. it's just getting older. >>> coming up -- >> becky didn't have that spirit. she didn't take care of numero uno mentality. she had never leave a fallen comrade, even if it cost you your life, which it did. >> clarence butterfield has an emotional moment and mary kay concepcion writes to her deceased son. >> the last time i tucked you in and said good night, i never said good-bye to yesterday's long past. i would have marked the moments if i h

. >> mary kay i can understand facebook, one othe largest markets in the the universe and google where he can nears work and probably $15 is not a big debate. but that small business owner, that really is barely making it, or the people who want to be business owners because entrepreneurship is near an all-time low. this is a huge impediment and ultimately isn't it better to happen fight poverty with first getting people a job and getting them in the work force and then talking about higher wages later? >> that's a really good way to begin but we don't believe that the 64 million jobs that are poverty jobs in this country can just wait to become a good job. that's why workers coming together are making the jobs good jobs, and small business owners in seattle, and san francisco, that have already again to 15 report they're able to ad jobs because people have more money in their pockets to spend. so, this movement isn't just delivering on the promise of good jobs. we're making good jobs, year after year after year. and it is growing. we have more workers joining at this convention in ric

. >> meteorologist mary kay kleister, thanks, mary kay. >>> state funerals were held this morning for some of the 290 deadly earthquake in italy t. magnitude of the.2 quake was near the town of amatrice neat of rome. more than 1,000 aftershocks are hampering the search and rescue effort. >> good morning. today has been declared a national day of mourning here in italy. and the funerals today may begin to provide some sense of closure. still the longer-term questions of bu communities are only just beginning. in the hardest hit areas, key mound tony roads are still being cleared, while aftershocks continue to rock the region and catches set up for the displaced provide just a temporary fix. we have no idea what will happen next, this 12-year-old told us. despite the daunting scale of destruction, italy's government he is a deputy mayor in the region. >> this is an area two a lot of seismic activity. these buildings were not earthquake proof, why? . >> some of the buildingsle were too old. others were up to code but collapsed any aye. a recently bell tower was reduced to rubble, killing

mary kay, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anthony. showers and thunderstorms through chicago and also through central wisconsin heading into green bay. in fact, the hot spots today for severe weather is the green the tropics is getting busy. moving into the peak of hurricane season. we have hurricane lester in the pacific drifting to the west. further to the west, we are looking at tropical storm madeline. right now winds at 50 moving wes wes on land there. hurricane hunters are interested what is taking shape here in the florida straits, an area of disturbed weather over the bahamas is sheared by upper level winds and get into the gulf of mexico. wind 35 miles per hour so we will have to see the next couple of days if anything develops in the gulf but we do know future cast showing showers and storms along the gulf coast region this weekend. >> mary kay, thanks. >>> there is breaking news overni roman catholic nuns in mississippi. police say rodney sanders was a person of interest early in the investigation. no motive for the killing

mary kay writes summer of the media shill, campaign 2016 has obliterated what was left of our news media. >> yellow weather alert for tonight. big storms rolling through could produce flash flooding in some areas. >> topper shutt is tracking it all. >> if you are north of town you have seen one storm in hagerstown and north of frederick. in the beltway, you are going to make it home before everything rolls in here. yellow weather alert for storms and flooding and hail. wet commute, low, because they will occur after the commute. flooding, high risk, outdoor activities, after 7:00 tonight, there will be a high risk in terms of rainfall. some good news, the severe thunderstorm watch has been trimmed back a little bit, extended up to hagerstown and west of frederick, now trimmed back, that goes until 8:00 tonight. i still feel they will issue a watch due east of that, covering the entire metro area. so far nothing. flash flood watch covers the immediate metro area. doesn't technically include frederick or charles county. if you are near this shaded area of green, leesburg, winchester, hage

. >> meteorologist mary kay klise, from wbm-tv, thank you. stricken area, more than 1,000 aftershocks are hampering the search and rescue effort. >> reporter: good morning. today is declared a national day of mourning here in italy. and the funerals today may begin to provide some sense of closure. still, the longer term questions of rebuilding lives and beginning. the hardest hit areas key mountain roads are still being cleared, while aftershocks continue to rock the region. in camps set up for the displaced provide just a temporary fix. we have no idea what will happen next, this 12-year-old told us. despite the daunting scale of destruction, italy's government has promised more than $50 kelly is a deputy mayor in the region. this is an area with a lot of seismic activity but these buildings were not earthquake proof. why? some of the buildings were just too old, he told us. others were up to code, but collapsed any way. in a recently renovated bell tower was reduced to rubble and killing a family and should have been built to updated seism

[applause] thank you mary kay henry, my name is adriana alvarez, i am from chicago.re's chicago? [applause] i am a mcdonald's worker, i am also a single mom of a four-year-old boy. i'm here to tell you a little bit about how chicago has made victories. our mayor, don and manuel who has never been for raising wages, like never ever. he was up for reelection and of course fight for $15 came along and he saw how powerful we are. we are extremely powerful and he realized that the only way he would get reelected was if he would want to raise the minimum wage. guess what? he did that. he got reelected. and guess what lexmark chicago is on a pathway to $13 by 2019. [applause] i know, it's not 15 but it's a step forward. and were going to keep pushing. you know why? because we're powerful. we are 64 million workers they do not make $15 an hour. that's not right. we're going to keep pushing these politicians until they counterpart quote. they're going to come get our vote. why? they've got to work for us. they got to make it right for us. we are the working class. we also wan

thank you mary kay henry. thank you for those kind words. i am from chicago. where chicago? woo!l right. i have a mcdonald's worker and a single mom of a four-year-old boy. i will tell you a little bit about the shutout -- how chicago has made victory. our mayor has never been for raising wages never ever. he was up for reelection. he saw how powerful we are. he realized that the only way he would get reelected was if he -- if he wanted to raise the minimum wage. guess what? he did that. he got reelected. chicago is now on the path to $15 an hour by 2019. i know. -- $13 an hour by 2019. i know. it is not $15. we are powerful. 64 million workers do not make $15 an hour. that is not right. we will keep pushing politicians until they come get our vote. they are going to come get our votes, why? they have to work for us. they have to make it right for us. we are the working class. we also want paid sick days in chicago. that was us. that was the fight for $15. when the president is elected, it does not matter, male or female republican or democrat, we will be out there the next day.

do isn't work that cleveland teachers could walk off the job at later this week fox a elizabeth mary kay is here with how negotiations are going. >> tracy that strike that could start this friday the final day of school before the labor day holiday they say all along they were hoping the cleveland school district and teachers union met today to try to hammer out a deal is still meeting right now this could be the last meeting before a strike with we are told both the sides met before a federal mediator the last contract teachers had with the district expired in july and until a new deal can be reached to terms of that all the contractor in place some of the issues and teachers have are with pay raises where raises are based on a teacher's performance instead of the degrees that they hold or their years of experience in the 2014 ?-dash put the 15 school year the median teacher salary in cleveland was a little more than $76,000 the strike takes start this friday 3500 teachers along with other school employees would be on the picket lines instead of in the classrooms once again there's stil

. >> i came up with mary kay place. >> perfect. >> i totally love her. >> i'm going to text her rightnd tell her to do this. >> she would be great. she has the right quality. >> that's going to have to be it for tonight. thank you all. on msnbc friday morning, >>> good evening, chris. ended. president harry truman signed the employment act of 1946. world war 22 ii was over. the great depression was over. the competing economies had been laid waist by the war. our own economy took off like a rocket during and after world war ii. in that single moment when it was over and the congress came back to do the nation's work, congress realized we were a different kind of country in a different kind of world, and the congress decided to assert itself. economic policy from

was taken of mary with the chief tom lewis shortly before the presentation began taken by the charlotte sun newspaper photographer. there's a memorial today for local radio host dave mc kay at the mc he was a 5 years old. >>laura: one down, 175 more to go. first day of school is now back in the books for thousands of bay area children. classes are now underway in hillsborough, pinellas, manatee, highlands, hernando, hardee and citrus counties and no major issues to report so far. students in polk and pasco go back on monday. sarasota on tuesday. pictures. post them on facebook and twitter. we'll show them all into next week. >>russell: well, today's good day, good deed comes from clearwater fire rescue and this deserves two thumbs up. this is ernie. over the weekend, he was with his dad at a costco and decided to do what kids do. stuck his fingers in some holes underneath a display table. well, he got his finrs he couldn't get them out. his thumb got stuck. dad tried to use soap and water to loosen it up, didn't work. eventually they called 911. the crew from station 49 tried a number of methods before finally having to use a hacksaw to release ernie's thumb. his dad wro