cynthia pettway was too sick to be able to attend her high school graduation in alabama, so her schoolother plan. cheering she have this idea that she could roll across the state. but i didn't think it was going to work. so she was like, she would get the high school to help me. they set up a comfort room so my family could come in and they set up a big tv so i could see my graduation and i drove myself across the stage. the whole stadium was cheering for me, the whole thing. the chair came and then i got emotional. i was crying tears ofjoy. i found an elementary sized cap and down. i made this doll so it was the colours, gave it to her. i just wanted to walk. it was my big day. i wasn't going to miss it. always trust your mum, the moral of the story. ajapanese rail operator has apologised after a train left a station twenty—five seconds early, saying the great inconvenience it placed on customers was "truly inexcusable. " the driver said he had shut the doors early, not realising there were still passengers waiting to board. last november, a similar apology was made after an express t

cynthia pettway. >> jimmy: clever, right? congratulations to both of you. we didn't have robot dogs and ipads when i graduated high school. we had like teddy ruxben and light bright. which makes you wonder with the streaming and apps and games, are people still reading books? you remember books. the things from oprah's club? so according to recent study from the pew research center, almost 1 in 4 americans has not read a book in the past year. that actually seems high to me. i bet it's even fewer than that. so to find out, this afternoon we sent a team out to the street to ask pedestrians to name a book. any book. could be the bible. could be "fifty shades of gray." all we wanted to know is can you name a book? here's how that went. >> can you name a book? >> oh, yes. uh -- uh -- i don't read, but -- but -- what's it called? >> can you name a book? >> uh -- no.o.o.o.o.o. >> can you name a book? >> um -- uh -- i don't read books. >> a book? "the lion king." >> the movie? >> the book. >> you read the book "the lion king"? >> ye

cynthia told she couldn't leave for three weeks. she couldn't attend her high school graduation and lost home. when the mobile county public school system stepped? >> they brought out their robot that utilizes two ipads allowing pettwayo be in another place without leaving the hospital and able to stay put while the robot walked, quote unquote, across the stage for her. maybe just rolled more like it. >> got the di employploma. high five missing but that's the best you can do under the circumstances. >> amazing and even a speaker i think down below. >> would help me if i could not go to class and just send the robot. see you on channel 7. >> see ya. - well, sir, looks like it's time for me to begin my long overdue vacation. - vacation? uh, a little heads up would have been nice. - i've emailed you daily, left you dozens of voicemails, and for the last six weeks, there's been this. - i can't decipher your cryptic clues. - anyway, here's your schedule for while i'm away, sir. - "shedule." bless you. [chuckles]