i grew up in gainesville lord -- gainesville, florida. we lost 41 soldiers from the county during the vietnam war. my question is, i took a trip back to vietnam in 1998. we flew into hanoi, vietnam. i was going there to revisit some of the areas that i served. what struck me was the way the vietnamese people were eager to engage me in conversation. the young people wanted my email address. it is amazing, the reception that i got. no one talked about the war. then a few months ago, we had a u.s. navy carrier denying for the first time in 50 years. here's my question to dr. kramer, as veterans, we were young and happened to be the age to be drafted. we just happened to be the soldiers at that time. i believe we did accomplish something in a sense that the last domino, maybe it fell but laos, cambodia, malaysia, they did not. the question is, do you see that we who served did have some change in the ending of the cold war? >> thank you for your service to the country george. i certainly appreciate it. the outcome of the war cannot just be ju

i-66ill be wet from gainesville westbound.ra current temres are steamy. 76 in august. 72 inorrince 's county. and 72 in leesburg. warm and humid day today. understorms opportunity increasing with time. 6:00 will be the severe thunderstorms. let's look at early morning commute. >>> hyattsville, still have the road work after route 50. now, a crash in the work zone. we're seeing some slow judowns here. this crashway, with it could be some ti n. laurel, juth of eathere, bound, skaggsville road. that crash, unaffected. 270 sonhbound, you're o time. going to take about 26 minutes. aaron? ak melissa, thank you. >>> bg news right now. a construction worker has been flown to a hospital. the worker was hit at a work site at monument drive and monument way. that road has reopened. news 4's nicole jacobs is headed to the scene today. >>> one little girl in d.c. is rekoving after being shot. she was one of three people on 56th street southeast. a car circled the block and someone started shooting. police are looking for an older model axus or acura wit wing on the back. this isless th less than t

and we were in orlando and last week in gainesville and of course, jacksonville and tallahassee todayay and the energy has been electrifying. i can't tell you how i felt like this was a done deal yesterday. we were driving up campus yesterday and when we got to the campus, i looked to my left and there is a rainbow in the sky, it is written and over. the energy of the students knowing they're going to go and support one of their fellow alums and knowing there are someone that looks like them and represents their interests and everyone counted out because he did not raise the same amount of money and everyone counted out because of his age because he was not the person whose turn it was supposed to be. it was his time and that's what we told the students of florida a&m yesterday. we told consequetituentsconstit. >> i was going to give up in 2016 but i got my faith back. >> steve, let me ask you, she saw the rainbow and we can all relate to that. i had one of our analysts earlier today. democrats got the candidate they wanted and republicans got the candidate they wanted, what does it m

i-66ill be wet from gainesville westbound.ra current temres are steamy. 76 in august. 72 inorrince 'snty. and 72 in leesburg. warm and humid day today. understorms opportunity increasing with time.

me lol just to see how this thing comes to educate and in gainesville equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. this is my love hate relationship with the united kingdom. and the a lot of it because it's shambolic and fraudulent. because tens of thousands of people had their lives destroyed by r.b.s. . a french opposition leader reaction furiously to finding his name on the list of suspicious twitter accounts forcing him to declare he is not a russian bought. the netherlands a real so from the shock suicide of an anti immigration party politician who claimed she was raped by a muslim gang last year also ahead. i know that. two palestinians are killed and more than two hundred injured in the latest flare up on the israel gaza border soldiers opened fire after rioters hurled explosives and broke through the fence.

any world peace just to shape our business comes to educate and in gainesville equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. superman superman to superhero is also a journalist clark kent is a journalist they're both fighting for the american way think about that stacy. i'm trying to think about it and it's confusing to me but you know what we're beginning to do a little bit of a summer solution sort of episode here to match the one we did last week at the same time whereby we talked about the united states of inequality and how that is impacting not only global trade but the u.s. political system and therefore the global geo political system we were discussing that perhaps this is a seismic shift in geo political power many people talk about china as being the next rising superpower they certainly have on a person saying power parity and economy bigger than the united states but whether or not china will be the new next superpower and one of the things you and i have been covering for the last few months is that one belt one roa

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comes to educate and in gainesville equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back the united states senate has sent a military spending bill topping seven hundred seventeen billion dollars to the desk of president donald trump on a bipartisan vote of eighty seven to ten mr trump who used the recent nato summit as an occasion to push u.s. allies abroad to buy more bombs missiles and planes from american defense manufacturers of the spec to sign the legislation spending for defense now accounts for more than half of u.s. federal discretionary spending the legislation budgets for seventy seven f. thirty five fighter jets made by the lockheed martin corp well even defense biggest booster john mccain senator john mccain of arizona has called the f. thirty five a scandal and a tragedy the f. thirty five is fortunate to be manufactured in the district of congresswoman kay granger who chairs the house appropriations subcommittee on defense spending go figure the build notably does n

i went to the university of florida here in gainesville, and they diagnose me after several days, they could not figure out what it was, but they said it with a catchall term of sepsis. i'm wondering what different things were linked to south africa, south asia, and south america. when i got sick, it was right after hurricane irma came through. i had never been through a hurricane before. i am wondering -- i have two questions -- what is the potential relation between these gigantic weather systems coming from -- i know they originate off the coast of africa and generally kind of pick up winds all over the world and then carry them into the country, and also we have a very moist environment, florida is, and that is where yeast starts to grow. number two, i had a really bad experience here at the university of florida medical aller, because i am not at confident in the catchall diagnosis they gave me of sepsis. i am wondering if the university research labs that have these clinical microbiology labs how accurate are they actually pinpointing what is the blood infection? thank you. guest

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frederick, maryland, down to as ille, gainesville. 4:00, 5:00. 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, the chance of scattered storms comes into the d.c. metro area. temperure wise, it's just so sticky outside this morning. already in the upper snd low 80s. not the best cool day in the worl going to be blazing hot and super humid. rain chancesin easing. the gardening forecast, that's at 6:15. there's yr ten day now. good news there. today might be our last day in the 90s for the next week or so. >> chuck, that's good news cause tomorrow a lot of local animal shelters, a lot of people will be waiting outside. the last thing we want is temperatures in the 90s. i'm at the humane rescue, one of many locations that are participating. first of al wherere we? >> we're? the city now. loaded with cats. our locations here are flooded with cats. we are in the middle of kit ten season. >> we have ray behind us.'s big cat, by the way. i think he's looking to find a vantage pointhe to see w he can jump out. we have some kittens that were left or about 24 hours where clear the shelters are. what are you offering as far as w

for the deciding game, here are the three finalists -- a freshman at brown university, from gainesvillese cash winnings yesterday totaled... a sophomore at the university of central florida, from sarasota, florida... whose cash winnings total... and a freshman at tufts university, from los altos, california... who did not win anything on yesterday's show. and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! usthank you, johnnis the host of "jeopardy!" -- [ cheering continues ] it's good to be the "a" when it stands for "alex." [ laughter ] we're gonna get rid of these figures, which will be added to today's total to determine our $100,000 champion. good luck. here we go. ♪ all right, what are the categories? uh-oh. and finally, we want you to... william, you get to start first again. singularize, $200. -dhruv. -what is minimum? -good. -athletes, $800. dhruv. -who is upton? -kate upton. correct. forests for $600.

lawrence is joining us from gainesville, florida. good evening. >> good evening. hello, jonathan. president trump has the portrait of president andrew jackson in the oval office. there have been several references that he has the intention of pulling the u.s. government away from the federal reserve. i would like for you to share some of your insights about what you know for the reasons why andrew jackson pulled the united states government away from central bankers and did basically what lincoln did, instituting the u.s. currency during his presidency. can you share your insight on what you know about that and whether you are aware of some of these references that president trump might do the same thing with the federal reserve? >> a very good question. i haven't seen anything major from trump that he intends for a major overhaul of the federal reserve. however, a few weeks ago, there were some comments in which he seemed to be critiquing the chairman of the fed, powell, about the interest rates. which caused an issue in wall street circles, that the president was getting involve

here are our three finalists -- a freshman at brown university, from gainesville, georgia...the university of central florida, from sarasota, florida... and a freshman at tufts university, from los altos, california... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! [ cheers and applause ] thank you, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. these three young people work well together, don't they? that last shot, william, was a swish. [ laughter ] net only. ladies and gentlemen, this is the college championship trophy that one of these three -- william, hannah, or dhruv -- will get to take home with them at the end of tomorrow's program. they will also have their name inscribed on the big college championship trophy, which does not travel. it's too big, too heavy. oh, by the way, they will also go home knowing that they have won at least $100,000. dhruv, hannah, william, good luck. here we go into the first half. ♪ now the categories. first off... oh, gosh. next... followed by... you'll love 'em. and finally... each correct response will be a shorter word composed of t

and in gainesville because betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. when a loved one is murdered it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer it be known as the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying there's just no way that doesn't mean that we hear even many of the dems families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in saying. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. in a world of big partisan lot and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on th

and a freshman at brown university, from gainesville, georgia... host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! [ cheers and applause ] thank you, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. we had a great game yesterday, and i don't know why, but i got teary-eyed at the end of the match. so, dhruv, rishab, and alli, don't do that to me today, please, all right? take pity on an old man. here we go into the jeopardy! round, and here are the categories you three are dealing with... followed by... mm. and finally, double letters in the exact middle of each correct response. dhruv, you start. kids', $800. alli. -what is "bridge to terabithia"? -you got it. kids' books, $600. alli. -who is the grinch? -right. kids' books, $1,000.

warnington, gainesville. could see rain possible throughout the evenin after about 5:00 or 6:00.a concern, some of thoseies under a flash flood watch. the mountains, this is going to bearhe best for our area to see some stronger storms. west of that en in west virginia, strong storms through the late evening, possibly even oa little bit rain through the overnight. flooding techb flding definitely possibl along the shenandoahle v this to be west of d.c. that's why we think some of the stronger storms could stick around the shenandoah valley. it looks like that tomorrow well, amelia, storms mainly th the west a area of high pressure in the atlantic hangs out in the western atlantic pushing everything this way. >> exactly. it's pretty much the epitome of a summer day out there tomorrow. a mix of clouds a sunshine. hot and humid. we see thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening hours. becahee of the , because of the humidity, some of those storms could have very heavyra fall. the best chance for thunderstorms is going to be north and west of washington. for the same areas that a

a freshman at brown university, from gainesville, georgia...omore at the university of oklahoma, from tulsa, oklahoma... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! [ cheers and applause ] a senior from the university of ottawa. thank you, johnny. hello, ladies and gentlemen. the second of our quarter-final matches today with these three talented young people. i give you credit even before you perform. good luck. here we go. the jeopardy! round today contains these categories... you should do well in that. each correct response will be a word from the dictionary that appears before "rec." and finally, this... hamlet -- clues about the prince of denmark from his native land. all right, thatcher, you go first. let's do vocabulary for $1,000. jordan. -what is a reed? -good. pre-rec for $1,000. thatcher. -what is reactionary? -that's right. pre-rec, $800. dhruv. -what is a rebar? -good. let's do hamlet, $800.

i got the information from the gainesville police department.e was arrested for aggravated assault of a pregnant female like you said, his wife was eight to ten weeks pregnant. ironically the assault occurred on their one year anniversary. after that i started looking into zach smith's past in ohio. i did public record request. i uncovered a domestic -- a protection order civil order which basically is a five year restraining order. that was issued friday which was two days before big ten media days. at that point urban meyer said he had no knowledge of what happened in 2015. eventually i was able to track downcourt any smith. she agreed to talk to me. i spent three days in columbus and i went through everything, all the evidence, text messages, photos she had. i saw all the police reports. it was very disturbing. all these domestic violence issues, but let me say, zach smith was never convicted. people can ask police why that happened but it was very disturbing. >> it is disturbing when you look at the pictures and you hear, you read the text e

it's not severe, but it is kind ofacking a punch around the gainesville area, there right al ng 66. th a lot of lightning within this north of manassas, but you can see heading further up to the north and west. this is a lineer of thuorms that we're really keeping an eye on. this is moving towards theorth andast. here's some impact times. hagerstown towards 5:50 and towards carlisle at about 6:00, and moving towds hampden at about 6:30 in the evening. d.c. metro area,till some scattered showers and thunderstorms to contend with. be nationals game might delayed, but i do think that they will get that game in. what you're looking at right now as a severe thunderstorm risk. the a outlined in yellow has the greatest risk for additional severe thunderstorms through the 10:00. hours until about this includes loudoun, fauquier and frederick counties. the district just on this line. the risk for severe thunderstorms off to the east a little bit lower. again, we'll continue toit trac it stormy weather continuing until about 9:00, 10:00 p.m. tonight. >> keep your nbc weather app handy. you ca

. >> you're a guy that's been in miami, lived in gainesville and mayor of tallahassee.e it better be rattlers first. >> it's always rattlers first, let's be clear about that. >> the way i looked at it, the other green and orange in the state of florida. >> that's exactly right, but we love all our florida schools. >> let me start with the controversy today by your opponent, congressman ron desantis. you heard something and you said it was a page from the donald trump campaign manual. do you want an apology from congressman desantis? do you think you're owed one? >> let me be articulate and clear here, which is we're better than this in florida. i believe the congressman can be better than this. i regret that his mentor in politics is donald trump. but i do believe that the voters of the state of florida are going to reject the politics of division. they believe that we're better than that, which is why i'm going to spend my time the next two plus months getting around the state talking about the issues that matter to everyday voters in this state. kitchen table issues,

two george, next -- to george next, in gainesville, florida. caller: good morning. a happyish everyone mother's day. i want to ask dr. kramer. i grew up in florida. soldiers in the vietnam war. my question, as i have come back and read a lot about the vietnam -- i took a trip back to vietnam in 1998. we flew into hanoi, and i was to reader there mainly books and the area where i served. but what struck me, the eagerness of the the emmys people wanting to engage me in conversation, the young people wanting to get my email address -- it just is amazing the reception i got. and no one talked about the vietnam war. just recently a few months ago we had the u.s. navy carrier denying for the first time in 50 years. here is my question for dr. kramer. i believe in a sense, we as veterans, we were young, we just happen to be the age of being rotc.d or serving an i believe we did accomplish something in the sense that that --t domino, maybe it fell laos, cambodia, thailand, malaysia, those countries did not. question, do you see maybe we changeved did have some in the sense

kramer, i'm a two tour vietnam vet, 71 years old, i grew up in gainesville, florida, and we lost 41 young soldiers in the vietnam war. but my question as i've come back and read a lot about the vietnam war era is, i took a trip back to vietnam in 1998 and i was just -- we flew into hanoi and i was going over there mainly just to revisit some of the areas i had served, but what struck me was the way the vietnamese people, the eager of them wanting to engage me in conversation, the young people of wanting to get my email address. it just was amazing the reception i got and no one talked about the vietnam war and then just recently a few months ago, we had a u.s. navy carrier call on denying for the first time in 50 years, here's my question to dr. kramer, i believe in a sense that we as veterans that served over there, we were young, we were just -- we just happened to be the age of being drafted or -- i was in rotc, i think we just happened to be the soldiers of that time, but i believe we did aaccomplish something in the sense that that last domino, maybe it fell, but laos, cambodia, mala

gainesville, 29 northbound under 66, earlier crash has now cleared. new trouble north on the baltimore washington parkway before 198, a downed tree in the roadway blocks the left lane of two, causing some unusual slowdowns. back to you. >> jack, thank you. >> check on yourorecast is up next. mo >>> gooing, everybody. cloudy and humid outside this morning. temperatures in th m low to 70s to get your thursday going. it's going to be a very hot and humid day. afternoon highs in the mid to upp upper 80s.70 chance of rain and thunderstorms. flash flood threat is high today and tomorrow,se as are t rain chances. >> chuck, thank you. another update in 25 minutes. >> for now, back to the "today" show aftershort break. have a great day. so> 7:30 now. there's a good rean that crowd is so big and happy. keithurban, the king of counvey, takingr our concert stage for the entire 8:30 hour. we're so excited we just lost focus. >> yes. and it's rare we have a thursday concert, but this is special. and we're happy that he is here. we're going to begin a check of the h

. >> hilton next tried to use meredith's cards a a bank 50 miles south in gainesville, georgia.e in a remote spot in the forest. the next morning, hilton attempted to use meredith's bank card still again at an atm in canton, georgia. nothing. they returned to his hidden campsite. he held meredith altogether for four days in the woods. and what nature of man is gary hilton? listen to the confession tapes about what he says about meredith's dog ella. he said he knew the dog had the identifying chip when he let the go in the supermarket parking lot. >> if i wanted to ensure that no one would have associated the dog with her, i would have killed the dog. there's no way i could do that. he was too much of a softy to kill the dog as he explained it. but ella's owner never had a chance. >> she was dead from the beginning. because i just told you, once you've done it, you're either going to kill her or get caught. there's no other solution. that sounds cold and cruel, yeah, it was. >> in his unbelievable cold recollection of the crime, hilton told meredith he was going to let her go aft

last caller, from gainesville, virginia. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. couple of points. democrats are not doing a good job in their messaging. in 2009 theook over economy was in deep crisis. longest job growth, and he handed over to trump, unemployment over 4%, no more , and training the resources. trump took over. obama realigned the u.s. economics. it goes up and up. trump took over, because of his cut, screaming we are the best economy and the pride of the world but he forgets obama brought it to the brink of that position. that is number one. they keep talking about that. host: we are going to have to leave it there. we are going to feature several guests. the team behind the progressive , here toindivisible talk about the plan in the upcoming midterm elections. a survey of america's biggest companies shows the cost of health care is going up with no end in sight. and the group national business group on health on what these companies are doing about it. those conversations and more coming up. >> this weekend on the tv author interviews for this yea

let's go to steven, who's calling from gainesville, florida, on the democratic line. steven, good morning. caller: mccain of 2012 at the grand canyon, and he was coming out of the men's bathroom at the lodge. and when he opened the door, there stands john mccain. his infectious smile was overwhelming. all i could say was thank you for your service in vietnam. he's a true american hero. thank you for your time. god bless. host: sympathies are still coming in from people from all parties. house democratic leader nancy pelosi tweeted this statement his morning -- host: let's go to ed, calling from winchester, virginia, on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. thanks for taking my call. my first comment is it didn't take long for donald trump's swamp people to come out and start criticizing a great american, john mccain. a i'm a fellow vietnam veteran. i served in vietnam. i fully respect john mccain. he's a man who's moral compass has never -- whose moral compass has never waivered. i think the fact that donald trump disparaged that man and said he's

ago was they were banning voting from the student union building at the university of florida in gainesville, a campus, by the way, that enrolls some multiples of tens of thousands of students. well, a federal judge, in a scathing opinion, overturned this ruling, saying that the ban by florida law was unconstitutional and that it seemed to put in place a prohibition of a geographical location of voting as a means by which to hinder younger voters, specifically students, from casting their ballots. and because of the judge's ruling, the federal judge, there now will be an early voting location on the campus of the university of florida during the general election in this coming november. but according to press reports, it doesn't look like that's going to be the case in all places around florida's colleges and universities. we have just read a newspaper report that supervisor of elections in duval county -- that's jacksonville -- says he might not be able to set up an early voting location on the campus of the university of florida in time for the general election due to logistical and financ