he has a new book coming out and a new exhibit at the billy graham library in charlene israel. great place. the exhibit show cases graham's personal writings and late wife ruth. in a rare interview graham shared how working with his dad prepared him for the ministry. >> absolutely. then the work with the men on the farm, that became a team of people. a team of people all these things contributed to my ministry and the years to come. >> wow. he is looking pretty good for 93. graham's new book is called "nearing home: life, faith, and finishing well." it comes out next month. >> gray-head friends, he is 93 and has a book out. >> until next week good-bye

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charlene harrison. all right. when you are ready, make them dance.ight, doubled the -- double beat. this style of dance once again coming to us from the north. the ojibwa, lakota, dancing throughout indian countries. again, one of our most competitive styles of dance. ♪ alright, one more time, give it out -- up for our jingle time dancers. [applause] coming into the arena, our women's fancy shawl dancers. make your way into the arena. when you are ready, make them dance. all right, one more time. good singing, dancing. all right. [applause] how are we looking over there, robert? good? all right, calling out our double bustle fancy dancer, mr. edgar santiago. all right. [applause] edgar, are you tired from last night? all right. when you are ready. make them dance. ♪ all right. [applause] thank you, mr. edgar santiago. [applause] all right, calling all our dancers into the arena one more time. a round dance. dancers, come on out. how about another hand for our dancers, singers? all right. rocket, city hall. here we go. all right, when you are ready, m

charlene's in there working it. what do you do to motivate the teachers here?rst, we hire teachers who buy into our mission. so once we know they they've bought into the mission and that they believe my vision and the vision of the leadership team and the board of trustees, then we're half way through. then i get the most talented people i can find. i get educators, teachers who have gone through training. we have a partnership with teach for america, and we bring in top-notch teachers. they are really professionals and they've honed in on their craft. so they're teachers. and they love teaching and they don't give up. >> and joe, under charlene's leadership, she's gotten the teachers to buy in where they'll come in early, stay late, and do the extra work. and if a kid can't read, it's not, oh, we'll work it out tomorrow, let's help that kid read right now. >> i tell them, this child has only been on earth for 60 months, it's not their fault. you have to figure out why. it's not their fault, it's our fault if we can't teach them how to read or do math or anythi

. >> martin: price and charlene westbrook, whose husband was grievously wounded on another part of theattlefield, have spent thousands of dollars of their own money campaigning to draw attention to what happened at ganjgal. >> charlene westbrook: we both lost a huge part of our hearts to this mission that was clearly caused by negligence. >> martin: sergeant kenneth westbrook died at walter reed hospital, but lived long enough to tell his wife what happened. >> westbrook: he told me that, "we were surrounded. we were ambushed and we called for help. no one came. they kept telling us '15 minutes, 15 minutes,' and no one showed and we were just sitting ducks." >> martin: as recommended by the investigation, letters of reprimand were issued to the captain who was in charge of the watch in the operations center, and to the major who was absent from the center at critical points. the army has not released their names. >> price: how do you equate a piece of paper, a reprimand, to human life? >> westbrook: these letters of reprimand are just clearly slaps on the wrist. these officers need to

charlene spierer writes packing about her daughter's belongings in 19 boxes.uciating. she disappeared after a night partying with friends. suspicion has swirled around three young men. surveillance tape shows s e of them, walking toward his apartment with lauren in the early morning hours. he claims that he was punched in the head that night and has no memory of what happened. >> the advantage of time is that people make mistakes. people talk to other people. and they also, there may be people who never stepped forward and provided information. >> reporter: that's what the spierers are hoping. we're just as determined today as we were day one, we will never give up. for "good morning america," barbara pinto, abc news. >> such a difficult story. >>> a few notes from the world of sport. a dramatic crash at the baltimore grand prix. look at this. it happened during a practice run. he lost his brakes, he soared over another car, before finally coming to a stop. neither driver got hurt. they did, however, have to use their backup cars during the real race. >>> tenn

rob and charlene have been in bloomington all summer, putting flyers and full-page ads in the studentspaper. >> hope by getting the message out that lauren still is missing, that someone will come forward, give us a piece of information, something they heard. we desperately need it. >> reporter: with students back on campus, university officials are focusing on a practical lesson, personal safety. >> we educate students what they need to educate themselves, the buddy system, looking after each other, so on, i think the safer the environment will be in the future. >> reporter: in hopes that no other parents will have to experience what the speiers have gone through with no end in sight. john yang, nbc news. >>> a came across something last night on the internet a letter written by charlene, an open letter to the person or persons who know what happened to lauren and it is heartbreaking. you're going to hear excerpts from it at 10:30 eastern. i'll be reading them. she writes very, very eloquently. >>> in libbia, rebels say they're ready to take another of gadhafi's remaining strongholds

. >> just deal with it says charlene reid. that lottery drawing works out to an acceptance rate here of 1.7%. even harvarded admits 7% of student who is want to go here. much more on this school coming up on "morning joe." our guests include howard schultz, the ceo of starbucks. also, gloria estefan will be with us. that's all ahead on "morning joe." when we come back here on "way too early," we'll huddle around the water cooler where we're reminded that the first ladies of the united states are just like us. michele obama goes shopping at target incognito. "way too early" is coming right back. if insurance were sold in the grocery store, it'd be easier to compare. you think these all cost about the same. they all give safe drivers a discount. but what's this? only allstate gives safe drivers something more. a bonus check every six months you drive accident-free. so what's it going to be? eenie, meanie, miney... or more. shop less. get more. make one call to an allstate agent. [ female announcer ] call allstate now and you'll

charlene? >> thank you. it's a great pleasure to be here today. i thought i would just pick up on the last panel and talk briefly about china's innovation policies and what that might mean for business operating in china. there are a number of challenges to doing business in any developing country, particularly as you're moving toward middle market development country status. there's typically fierce internal competition, a lack of transparency, idiosyncratic government decision making, corruption, state meddling, red tape, so on and so forth. each of these generic challenges is magnified in china because of its size and its importance to business generally. but if you add to those generic challenges a specific series of interventionist actions by the chinese government, particularly for businesses that have a lot of intellectual property or a lot of technology, these challenges become maghame tied -- magnified. it isn't that there aren't extraordinary opportunities and many win/win chances in china, of course there is, but it's a much higher risk

charlene. >> it's a great pleasure to be here today.t i would pick up on the last panel and talk briefly about china's innovation policies and what that might mean for a business operating in china. it there's a number of talent to deal with business in any developing company to the country particularly as you look at the standing with typically the internal competition, lack of transparency, idiosyncratic a government decision making, corruption and state meddling, red tape and so on and so forth. each of these challenges is magnified in china because of its size and importance to the business generally. but if you add to those generic challenges a specific interventionist action by the chinese government, particularly for businesses that have a lot of intellectual property or a lot of technology, these challenges become magnified. it isn't just the extraordinary opportunities and many situations in china of course there are, but the challenges are also greater, much higher risk. as a policy that drop it's important for business to app

. >> reporter: charlene foxall wonders how she'll pay her rent after the plant suspends operations tomorrow. >> i'm worried. if there's no work, how am i supposed to feed my family? >> reporter: and that scares you. >> yeah, it scares me. it scares me very much because, you know, i'm the only provider for my kids. >> reporter: and the storm's rainfall was also a concern. parts of the new orleans metro area saw actually up to 15 inches of rain and here in bar the area we saw eight inches. >> mitchell: thank you very much. to another storm, katia. today it was upgraded to a category three hurricane. it's churning about 500 miles south ofer be due in with top winds of 110 miles an hour. katia is expected to turn away from the u.s. later this week but its winds could affect the east coast. here's what else is happening on this labor day. jobs and the economy took center stage. president obama flew to the preview his plan for putting americans back to work. with the jobless rate topping 9% and 14 million americans officially listed as unemployed, sharyl attkisson tells us a lot of folks wanted t

charlene sutterland is the woman we are talking about.t is she left two children, ages 11 and 6 unattended. they say it was for seven hours on three separate occasions, although she claims she was only gone for an hour each time. arthur ey idala is a former defense attorney. arthur jackson is a tofrpblt. >> if i told you i dropped l u.k. a off at barnes & noble, i went out and did my laundry. martha: how old he is. >> he's 5. martha: he's old enough to go to barnes & noble. >> the younger kid is 7. if it's a seven-year-old and the 12-year-old and the 12-year-old is responsible, you said it was for an hour maybe and they've been in the store before. video surveillance shows not only was it for a much longer period of time, but it was like the third time this has happened within the realm of two weeks and the people who work there were like, you know, we are not equipped to do this and handle this. what did they eat? jelly bellies? >> come on, let's talk about this for a minute. first of all we'll be thanking this mother when these kids end

. >> charlene, i just wanted to hear from you.if you could do one thing to take advantage right now of chinese investment, what would you do? some fix to attract more. >> one thing generally for the u.s. would be changing the visa system. it's irrational. the united states has add version to smart people. you get your ph.d. here, and then we say good-bye. it's an irrational system in that chinese business people cannot get visas here and chinese officials cannot readily get visaings here. we took the principles developed after 9/11 and expanded it to cover situations to which it should not pertain and does not pertain. eng if i could change one thing about doing business in china or chinese doing business here -- chinese doing business here, i think that the vast bulk of chinese investment in the u.s. is easy. it requires no approvals, no filings for national security even those that are filed for that reason, typically a reproof. there's few transactions turned down under the process, less than 13 in the last five years. unfortun

barbara pinto shares the letter charlene speier has written. >> from the start, charlene lashed out, pleading to know what happened to her date year the person who has lauren or has harmed lauren, lame on you. shame on you. >> now after teleagonizing months, with no answers, lauren's mother is unleashing her emotions again. you are responsible for lauren's disappearance, she writes. you know where she is. you were guilty of a heinous rhyme. that are -- charlene writes of packing up boxes. >> the fashion student with a hard condition disappeared after a night out party wkyc friends. suspicion has swirled around three young men. one of them walked toward his apartment with lauren in the early morning hours. he claims he was punched in the head that night and has no memory of what happened. >> the advantage of time is that people make mistakes, people talk to other people, and also, there may be people who never stepped forward. >> reporter: that is what the spears are hoping. we are just as determined today as we were day one. we will never give up. >>> had a fire earlier this morning