akron is our home office of the recently opened a halfway house in marietta. we are a nonprofit community collections agency that also treats clients for substance disorders also in a proven medically assisted treatment agency and we can give a vivid trawl that is a non opioid matt so what that does it treats the opiate to reduce those physical cravings and put together a treatment plan so they can unpack the psychological things they are dealing with . . . one in this room has been affected one way or the other, a be a know somebody, family member, coworker, friend, it affects everybody. the 2015 there's 2015 overdose results in death. in 2016 an increase to 64000. that's a 23% increase. in my home state of ohio, we are at ground zero. in 2015 we had 3050 overdoses that resulted in death. in 2016 it increased to a 36% increase. it's out there. it's affecting a lot of people, it's affecting families, children, employers, it is a national crisis. when i was coming out here waiting to board the plane i picked up a journal of the front page it reported that in ak

i oversee treatment over in akron. that's our home office but we recently opened up a halfway house and a recovery center in marietta, ohio. oriana house, we're a nonprofit community corrections agency that treats our clients for substance abuse disorders. we are also an approved medically assisted treatment agency and the -- at the m.a.t. that we are approved to provide is vivitrol. and that vivitrol is a nonopioid m.a.t. and we've seen some pretty good successes with that. what the vivitrol does, it treats the opiate addict's physical craving, so it reduces that so we then can put together a treatment plan where we can then unpack the psychological things that they're dealing with. you know, in counseling. so we apply those at the same time. we also have other locations, not only within akron and in marietta, but we're also in cleveland, tiffin, fremont, and sandusky. most of my client population, they're individuals that have been sentenced for substance related charges whether it was, you know, possession charges,

pretty early on in your life that you didn't want to stay in akron. because there was some fundamental rebellious streak in you, and is that connected to your music as well? well, i like cities, and the city of akron pretty much had collapsed by the time i was a teenager, you know with the mall culture, the car culture. american cities, from coast to coast, really, except for the obvious big ones that everyone knows about here — chicago, new york, even philadelphia — most of the cities lost their downtown and lost their urban feel and became more like what you could call a metroplex, a very suburban sprawl, where everyone would have to spend most of the day in a car, really, to get anywhere. that's what i was leaving. and how did you get into music? just listening to radio. i grew up when all the best stuff happened as far as rock and roll. you still feel that today? you've lived through various eras of rock and roll. are you kidding? the first album i had was the first beatles album. i was right there. i had the firstjimi hendrix album, led zeppelin,

when i was coming out here waiting to board a plane saturday i picked up the akron beacon journal. we had 58 overdoses. it was probably higher than that because we are pretty good in the summit county area. in one week. yes. in one week. it was probably higher than that. we are rety good about getting the narcan out to the families that their loved ones are effected with this disorder. you may have also read in a recent article that in one week they had 18 overdoses that resulted in death down in cincinnati and surrounding area. they had 180 overdoses that didn't in one week. and then there was 200 opiate uses. they either passed out in the car, bathroom, were driving. there was a possession charge and they were incarcerated in one of the local jails. 200 in one week. the saddest thing is the innocence. in that one week there were 15 babies born that had opiate related medical concerns going on just in that one week. you know, most of the clients that i treat that get to me they pretty much have lost everything by the time they get to us. okay. they lost their job, their insurance,

. >> akron ohio is a classic example of the rust belt that has transformed itself and you do not see the problems they see detroit and other rust belt areas because they were very active in encouraging other information technology and other new industries to come into akron ohio. it's a great success story. the media doesn't play that up like i should. i bring it up to let them know that there is a transition time but government has to be active to make sure you don't just sit on your laurels and say it will come together on its own. >> host: you talk about the transition time, at some point did industry get overregulated and so the factory owners and producers moved out? >> i think there is just new competition that came in. we have a free trade environment so for the automobile industry a textile industry these cheap labor produce products with good technology were able to find a market in the united states. it decimated the clothing industry unless not sugarcoat the problems we had. we did lose jobs but as i tell my students, labor we look at labor, capital which is the most but c

. >> near akron. >> seth: near akron, of course. young lebron james would come to the best buy. >> yes, he did. he would come all the time. he was so tall. >> seth: yeah. >> and he would come to my brother's theater. he worked at a regal cinema. and it was very personal for us, always, this lebron james business. because my brother told my mother that if lebron left cleveland that he wasn't going to propose to his girlfriend. >> seth: oh, no. [ light laughter ] >> and so i was watching -- my parents were visiting me in grad school or something, and we were watching the decision on tv. and as soon as he said it my mom burst into tears. >> seth: oh no. [ light laughter ] >> 'cause she was horrified. now, my brother was just, you know, buying some time. he didn't really mean it. >> seth: yeah. >> she's a fantastic woman, they're married, they're very happy. >> seth: okay, good. [ light laughter ] >> has a happy ending. >> seth: it does because, also, 'cause lebron came back. and that allowed -- yes. >> yes, of course. >> seth: that all

connectors will ease the transition period but akron ohio is the example of the rust belt that's totally transformed itself into you don't see the problems you see in detroit and other rust belt areas because it was activist and encouraged other industries to come in so it wasn't just the rubber industry. i bring this up to my students so they know yes there is a transition period. at some point do they get overregulated and without? >> we have a fairly free-trade environment so for the textile industry these labor produced products with good technology were able to find a market in the united states and its decimated the clothing industry. what's not sugarcoat the problems that we have. as i tell my students again when you look at labor, capital, land, which is the most flexible and can be retrained com, the tractor or the oil rig? when the demand stops what is the alternative, they just sit idle but labor can become void. but you can get retrained, get an education and go back to school. all of us are heterogeneous as we see in economics and labor is extremely flexible. unemployment ca

i have never attempted to revitalize the city of akron. [laughter] i have lived in cities for much of my life and in fact, i guess to sort of burnish my urbanist i -- bona fides lived here in in , neighborhood in capitol hill for about seven or seven years. we've been in semirural connecticut for about the last two years. for various reasons some of them having to do with kicks that has been an unsuccessful experiment. we will be returning to walkable urbanism in new haven, connecticut this fall. i'm an admirer and enjoyer of walkable urbanism and urbanism in general. that being said, america's biggest cities are bad. they're bad in several different ways. ways that are effectively intertwined. basically one of the biggest stories in our society over the last 30 or 40 years, since the 1960's and has been a socioeconomic 1970's,particular educational sorting. where you have the increasing concentration of college graduates and people with post graduate degrees into a particular set of sort of knowledge economy, symbolic analyst cities. most

>> it's one thing in orlando, in akron , ohio or if fargo, north dakota. >> it's cold. >> no diss ont. >> it's for the turn down service, and the mint on your pillow and the wi-fi and the ne newspaper. 30 bucks is what they're adding customarily to these bills. >> and the fees come on top of the taxes that are already tacked on to your bill. >> it ain't cheap. >> no, it's not. tom, we look forward to more of your report coming up on nbc nightly news with lester holt. >> don't be hating on akron. >> we've been covering mental illness issues for three years with the project we call changing minds. our courts and prisons have plenty of people with mental illness. if they don't get the help they need, it can be impossible for them to escape the system and reach their potential. today a local court program that helps people with mental illness celebrated a decade of success in helping to break that the mental healthomd.c. court system, identifies defendants who need mental health help. 4,000 people have graduated from the program, including susan carol who is living successfully with schi

penn state shutting out akron, and barkley wrapping up 226 total yards, and oklahoma beating utep, and one incompletion for 329 passing yards, and he didn't even play the second half. the sooners have ohio state next week. gameday will be in while barkley and mayfield seem to be in mid season form, it was a bit of a learning process during the other ranked on the day. like michigan was facing off against 17th ranked florida who suspended ten players for the opener. these two teams meeting for the first time in the opener. and they didn't look good. they outscored florida 20-0 in the second half. the gators snapped their leading 2017 season opener winning streak. florida falling, but mark walton, getting four rushing tds, and continuing their strong start over toney brook, to charlie strong, 2-0 on the season. his former team, texas, a rough start to the year. taking on maryland, hill in for the touchdown. the and how about louisville? they beat purdue 35-28. they outgame purdue's entire team by 141 yards, and over on espn right now, lsu up 17-0 in the third over byu. darius geist datin

the nittany lions cupping off a 62-nothing drubbing of akron. they'll host pitt this saturday on 6abc. >>> temple and villanova saturday at the linc. the mood at temple practice today rather loose. appears the players put that notre dame game behind them. the owls were manhandled. they fell behind early and lost through 33 points. today coach collins explained that he didn't need to remind his players about moving on. they were already doing that on their own. >> we've got to go one and o today. we got to go one and o tomorrow and i just think that when it's coming from the players that's when it's real. coaches are going to say the right thing but when it comes from the guys in the locker room i think that's awesome. >> hurt us too much with the confidence. i think it was little things we messed up on but this week we're more dialed in i think. watching more film paying more attention to details. >> we'll have much more on the owls on temple football playbook. coach collins will join us each and every weak. that's saturday during the 9:30 a.m.

in ohio klan supported of idates became mayors toledo, akron, columbus and other cities. at the national democratic new york in 1924 it is estimated at least 350 klansmen and they were responsible for the deviate of smith as the democratic. business was big almost six million americans belonged to the klan and the $75 ization was grossing million a year. klansmen and women down pennsylvania avenue to help the klan coffers a flag catch money thrown by spectators. imperial 0's the was indicted ana on a number of charges and found guilty. caused a sharp drop in klan membership. mild 0 there was a flirtation between the german american bund the believers in master race appear ku klux klan the believers of the supremacy of the white race. they joined at a camp in new jersey. there is evidence it the klan nazi friendship is being revived. this year had houston gerald was interviewed by ktrh and paid by check for his appearance. when the canceled check was returned it had been endorsed by head of the ell merican nazi party with a swastika. bill from eceived a internal tor of rev

in ohio, klan-supported candidates became mayors of toledo, akron, columbus and other cities.the national democratic convention in new york in 1924, it is estimated that at least 350 delegates were klansmen responsible for the defeat of governor alfred smith as the democratic nominee. by 1925, the ku klux klan was big business, almost 6 million americans now belonged to the klan. and the organization was grossing $75 million a year. some 40,000 klansmen and women crowded into washington on august 8th, 1925, to parade down pennsylvania avenue. to help the klan coffers, a glag was used to catch money thrown in by spectators. in the 1920s, the imperial wizard of indiana, david c. stevenson, was indicted on charges of assault and battery, rape, mayhem, kidnapping and murder. and found guilty. the scandal caused a sharp drop in klan membership. in 1945, there was a mild flirtation between the german-american bond, the believers in the master race and the ku klux klan, the believers in the supremacy of the white race. they joined up in a rally at camp nordeland, new jersey. 25 years

taking on akron today. akron last year they allowed 224 per game on the ground. he's a guy to focus on especially since they have the balance on offense. and sam darr noeld. i'm going to pro -- i had james washington from oklahoma state the outstanding receiver he other night their ball game. but he has a sports hernia and he blew by everybody in the tulsa hurricane. i took him off the heisman list because of the sports hernia but i may have to put him back on there. >> who do you think the four playoff teams? >> you're going to dog me -- hey, that was last year. we're talking about this year. okay, i have auburn. they have a quarterback they can believe in since marshall and cam -- right, last year. their quarterback couldn't hit a bull in the back side with a palmful of rice. florida state. penn state, trace mcsorley. no one picked penn state to win the big ten last year. i think they repeat as big ten champions. sooners, did i mention the sooners twice? that's three times and that hurts. >> awfully mad at you. >> all right. >> all right, brian jones, thanks. c

emily mueller is from akron ohio... she made a business with her husband saving honey bees.her pregnant belly with 20- thousand bees for her photo shoot. emily held the queen bee in her hand, and the rest started to cover her body. she says she fed the bees sugar water before the shoot so they were full, making it harder to sting her. she says she was only stung four times during the photo shoot. (mark) ahead at eight on the kron 4 morning news... in just a few minutes... the white house will announce a decision that will impact hundreds of thousands of immigrants. we have live coverage as we await the announcement. and a major threat as hurricane irma is now a category five storm. details on the states that are in its path and when it could hit. and cooler temperatures across the bay area after several days of intense heat. james will have your forecast. (darya) good morning i'm darya folsom..(mark) and i'm mark danon. lets start the morning with a check of weather and traffic... (james)it's warm and humid once again this morning, but that should change by tomorrow morning

for the rest of the news team, a full day of college football is next at 9:00 a.m., akron takes on penn7 news at 4:00 p.m. then at 5:00, florida state battles alabama at mercedes-benz stadium in atlanta. that will be follow ed by cash creek after the game with larry and mike around 8:30. news continues now online, on twitter, facebook and instagram. again, abc 7 news returns at 4:00. until then, leave you with a live look from our mt. tam camera. make it a great day, efrk. you're going to be hanging out in here. so if you need anything, text me. do you play? use the chase mobile app to send money in just a tap to friends at more banks than ever before. you got next? chase. make more of what's yours. >> announcer: the following is a presentation of espn on abc. >> mark: and welcome, everyone, to university park, pennsylvania. that is what big ten championship

and he is also done a lot in the community, in miami, and hometown of akron, ohio, so a lot of people, professional athletes are looking to see what is the reaction from curry and lebron james, and those guys are extremely active in the community, and this just inspires them all to want to do more after the president's remarks friday and then the subsequent remarks from this weekend and today as well. >> i want to get your reaction, dante, to the president's team that the nfl right now is in his words ruining football in trying to limit kconcussions. listen to what the president said friday night. >> you know today if you hit too hard, right, they hit too hard, 15 yards, throw him out of the game. they had that last week. i watched for a couple of minutes. two guys just really beautiful tackle. boom. 15 yards. referee gets on television. wife sitting at home so proud of him. they are ruining the game. right? they are ruining the game. hey, look, that's what they want to do, they want to hit. >> what's your reaction when you hear that? >> it's disturbing, especially in light of all in

. >> overnight, the storm hammering cuba and the bahamas as the death toll rises in the akron. and another huge storm, hurricane jose, follows right behind. islands devastated already right in its path. now, the focus is on irma as it takes aim at florida with landfall expected in less than 24 hours. today, saturday, september 9th, 2017. >> from nbc news, this is a special edition of "today: hurricane irma." with sheinelle jones, craig melvin, and dylan dreyer. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning. welcome back to "today" on this saturday morning. i'm craig melvin. a look there at some of the images that are starting to come in. >> you can feel it already. i'm sheinelle jones. all eyes are on hurricane irma this morning. check out the category-4 storm. it is massive. wider than the state of florida, and bringing top winds of 130 miles per hour. >> here's the very latest on the storm. overnight the path shifted slightly, putting florida's west coast in peril. of course, storm surge from the east to the west coast is a huge concern this morning. >> cuba and t

so joining us now from her home in akron is miss back-up ohio. [ cheers and applause ] welcome to the> hello. thank you. hello, jimmy. i am overjoyed, and so happy to be here. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: we are happy to have you here, miss back-up ohio. are you ready for the first question? >> yes, so much. i am so ready for this moment. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: okay. here's one of last night's questions. there are multiple investigations into whether donald trump's campaign colluded with russia on the election. did they? you're the jury. guilty or innocent, and please explain your verdict. [ laughter ] >> colluded -- [ stammering ] >> jimmy: colluded, not precluded. >> colluded. >> jimmy: colluded. did trump's campaign collude -- >> colluded -- did trump pollute. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: did trump's campaign -- >> the verdict. >> jimmy: do you think the campaign colluded with russia? >> the colluded is the verdict. the verdict is colluded. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: no, no, no. the verdict is -- >> is colluded. >> jimmy: please explain your verdict. >> and it's verdcit. >> jimmy: okay

he went on to play division one at the university of akron. for tyler, heroin wasn't a party drug. wayne and christy campbell, say his heroin habit grew from his addiction to opiate painkillers, prescribed legally after he injured his shoulder. what were the pills? >> christy campbell: it was vicodin. >> wayne campbell: vicodin. he had 60 vicodin for his shoulder surgery. >> whitaker: that's a normal prescription? >> wayne campbell: for that procedure. >> whitaker: it's easy for kids to sell their excess pills. they're popular recreational drugs in high schools and colleges, so much in demand that one pill can cost up to $80. pill addicts like tyler often switch to heroin because it's a cheaper opiate with a bigger high. tyler was in and out of rehab four times. the night he came home the last time, he couldn't fight the uncontrollable urge that is heroin addiction. he shot up in his bedroom and died of a heroin overdose. he wasn't the only addict on his college football team. >> wayne campbell: unfortunately, the quarterback died four months after tyler, in 2011, same situation. >

well you know what, the guy donated $40 million to education in akron, in his community.alizing that education is one of the biggest barriers for income disparity. >> brown: blake writes of many athletes, including from his own sport-- lesser knowns such as amir hadad and aisam-ul-haq quereshi, an israeli jew and pakistani muslim who played doubles together at wimbledon in 2002 and beyond, in the face of opposition. and more famous names: arthur ashe, who spoke out about apartheid and championed civil rights as well as support for those with h.i.v./aids which he himself battled. and billie jean king, who has accomplished so much for gender equality and social justice in tennis and beyond. and he writes with sympathy for the most controversial figure today-- former san francisco 49'er quarterback colin kaepernick, who publicly ¡took a knee' during the national anthem before games last year to protest police brutality. he's is now out of football, and blake and others believe it's because of his public stance. >> people are criticizing saying oh he makes $15 million, he sho

. >> overnight, the storm hammering cuba and the bahamas as the death toll rises in the akron. hurricane jose, follows right behind. islands devastated already right in its path. now, the

. >> overnight, the storm hammering cuba and the bahamas as the death toll rises in the akron.ricane jose, follows right behind. islands devastated already right in its path. now, the focus is on irma as it takes aim at florida with landfall expected in less than 24 hours. today, saturday, september 9th, 2017. >> from nbc news, this is a special edition of "today: hurricane irma." with sheinelle jones, craig melvin, and dylan dreyer. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning. welcome back to "today" on this saturday morning. i'm craig melvin. a look there at some of the images that are starting to come in. >> you can feel it already. i'm sheinelle jones. all eyes are on hurricane irma this morning. check out the category-4 storm. it is massive. wider than the state of florida, and bringing top winds of 130 miles per hour. >> here's the very latest on the storm. overnight the path shifted slightly, putting florida's west coast in peril. of course, storm surge from the east to the west coast is a huge concern this morning. >> cuba and the bahamas are feeling irma'

the thing about sports being a positive unifying force for good and that talks about his work in akronone who's given back tremendously to the inner city where his firm is worthwhile. bob costas spoke eloquently on this issue and called out: kaepernick is an imperfect messenger, which is something on the left people are unwilling to do and they should start talking about messaging issues because it's getting too complicated. kaepernick came out and said he was taking social and racial inequality in our country but a few things made it sound militant and they could be disrespect in the flag. dagen: let's be clear about sunday. jeff brewer said this yesterday. those players taken any on sunday, roughly 200 of them, that was an anti-trump message. they don't want to be called in slb. >> don't you think also is not only anti-trump in fighting back against being called a horrible name that they should not have been called by a sitting president, but to the point of unity and team seen some people on this team who have been taking any. some people feel this in my life and they want to all st

think a lot of democrats will sit down and say hey, is this going to benefit working class people in akrontown, ohio? i think they'll be willing partners. but, again, we've got to make sure that some of these things, like any corporate tax reform, for example, that is revenue positive. you have 100 of the top fortune 500 companies not paying any corporate tax at all. so that's not a progressive tax. if you want to lower the rate you have to make sure that you're closing the loopholes and getting some money. and the president is saying we're not going to hurt the middle class on this. so, we'll see. >> carol? >> congressman, you have health care, tax reform, daca. what do you think that you -- that congress can actually get done? and how do you feel about democrats cutting deals with this president? >> we got sent there to get something done. i don't think you need to violate your values in the process. but i think we should try to be willing partners. we have got to get the political process moving forward here and no one is going to get what they want 100% of the time. i think it's encour