hinkel is a marine who served in iraq. he saw many of his fellow marines suffering from ptsd and had a friend who committed suicide. he started this to bring attention to veterans issues. >> there are that final, when you think there's no way out, pick up the phone and call a nonprofit. >> hinkel is expected to arrive in california in november. >>> new at 6:00 tonight, after two years in the planning and months of construction, the phoenix coding academy is up and running. it's a high tech oriented high school that just opened last month for ninth graders. students collaborating on this group project at the phoenix coding academy. the new school focuses on >> i don't feel like i'm wasting my time, learning something i'm never going to use in the future. everything feels useful to me. >> would that be controlling this? >> reporter: the school makes sure the students get the core classes and electives, but the foundation is computer science. >> i'll have coding skills when i graduate and have different options. there's web d

joining me now, bart hinkel, deputy editor of the times dispatch editorial pages. good morning.ning me. >> good morning. nice to be here. >> gary johnson could be on track to garner a significant number of votes for a third-party candidate. 11% support in a recent poll. and yet he is still nowhere near striking distance of clinton and trump. why would you want to use up an endorsement on a candidate in that position? >> well, we looked at the field, and we've endorsed republicans for at least since 1980. without fail. and this year, we looked at donald trump and concluded there was just no way that he would be acceptable in the oval office. and we looked at hillary clinton, and her long record, and her positions and concluded there was no way we would find her acceptable in the oval office. so we looked at gary johnson, and he's a two-term -- he was a two-term republican governor, he's got a good record, good positions on the issues, and we felt he was the best fit with our newspaper from a standpoint of political philosophy. and from a standpoint of individual character. >> wha

voice of dustin hinkel, county administrator, taylor county, fl our northwest corner of our county probably saw the eye of the storm pass right over us.heavy rain, high wind, flooding and power outages, all from the first hurricane to hit florida in 11 years. as the storm passes, officials now telling people to stay indoors. voice of ben guthrie, gulf county, florida, emergency management coordinator we are encouraging people to stay out of the water to avoid rip currents voice of trey morrison, wakulla county, fl sheriff's office we're asking the public to please if you can, stay home if it's not an emergency. this is not a time what the damage did. i know people are interested in that but it really hampers us and it's an unsafe environment right now.hermine now a tropical storm as it crosses florida -- heading towards georgia and the carolinas. in apalachicola, i'm dianne gallagher. toss to ro high pressure moves of wi today and as it moves to our east in the next few days we start warming up. lots of sun today with highs in the low 70s. by tomorrow, well move into the upper 70s and by su

larry hinkel will be making stops at fire stations, police stations, and v.a.'s across the country. tower in iraq. since then he's several of his colleagues struggling with ptsd waiting years to get help from the v.a. larry had to wait 5 1/2 years to get all of his claims resolved by the v.a. when a friend of his committed suicide, he knew he needed to raise awareness, starting this national campaign moving from the east coast to the west coast. he named this tour "the hump." larry left north carolina back at the beginning of april. he arrived here this afternoon. while he's here, he'll be making his way by foot within individual cities. he uses an rv to get city to city. by foot, he's visiting a variety of first responders, giving them meals, giving them gift cards in order to thank them for all that they do. >> this, more than anything, has helped me. getting to reconnect with your family, your brothers and your sisters, and these first responders that put it all on the line daily. if i can get one thing out of this, it's to let people know that there are options, that final -- wh

voice of dustin hinkel, county administrator, taylor county, fl our northwest corner of our county probably saw the eye of the storm administrator, taylor county, fl our northwest corner of our county probably saw the eye of the storm pass right over us.heavy rain, high wind, flooding and power outages, all from the first hurricane to hit florida in 11 years. as the storm passes, officials now telling people to stay indoors. voice of ben guthrie, gulf county, florida, emergency management coordinator stay out of the water to avoid rip currents voice of trey morrison, wakulla county, fl sheriff's office we're asking the public to please if you can, stay home if it's not an emergency. this is not a time to be out sight-seeing to see what the damage did. i know people are interested in that but it really hampers us and it's an unsafe environment right now.hermine now a tropical storm as it crosses florida -- heading towards georgia and the carolinas. in apalachicola, i'm dianne gallagher. milwaukee police chief ed flynn...announcing a record number of homicides this august headquarters downtow