jordin sparks live in our studio.d let me take a moment to say today is glad spirit day and we let our studio in purple, my favorite color, to show support for lgbt qi youth to stand up against bullying, 7 out of 10 lgbt qi students experience harassment in schools and more than half report they feel unsafe and that is unacceptable to me and i know it's unacceptable to you. for more information on this important initiative to go to tamronhallshow.com and join in the conversation on cyber hall. let's say hello to the tam fam at home. brian banks from michigan who watch us on ww i.d. and stephanie gibbs from ford to new jersey, she's watching on one of our favorite stations, thank you for joining us. okay, we like to keep it real on this show and one of the real things is debt. credit card debt. student loan debt. can i get a debt a man? don't me hanging. americans owe over $1.6 trillion in debt, that is trillian with a t, and one woman went viral the other day, she pit of her dad come over $100,000, and celebrated with

jordin sparks after the break.the next tamron hall the opioid crisis is killing an average of 130 people every day. join us for a conversation with those battling addiction and how they are finding new hope on the next "tamron hall" ." ♪ shine for the rest of your life ♪ >> tamron: we are back with broadway actress music store extraordinary, mom, jordin sparks. a jordin you costarred with whitney houston right before her death. you are the last as i pointed out to sing with her. bickley s. >> tamron: now she is inducted, hopefully come into the rock 'n' roll hall of fame. she deserves that for sure. [applause] what was that experience like being so close to greatness? >> oh, my gosh. it was amazing. i remember our first table read. we all got there. i got there early because i was like i want to be ready when she walks in. i don't want to cause any problems. we were there and she walks in and we all were just like i don't know how this is going to go and it was amazing. she was so warm and so welcoming she was real

jordin sparks will be here, and mr. al has a huge announcement. >> i asked the producers.so you know the answer? >> jordin sparks has the announcement. >> i'm actually intrigued as to what that will be. >> there's a bignn

with jordin sparks playing jenna in the lead role there and the last show you did was october 2018, whyave to go back to my vocal coach, to get a little tune up. >> how is the hip, going to be all right. >> i'm playing old joe >> you're back in the diner look sitting down, eating pie >> your run last time was less than two months, a lot of people wanted to go and couldn't. >> me and jordin, take it from an old man >> can you do your day job >> just a second, i'm going to walk over here young man >>> verizon, the network more people rely on >> get off my lawn anyway, we're looking at a lot of wet weather from the great lakes all the way down into texas. that pesky nor'easter, that's moving away. unfortunately we do have that fire danger continues from bakersfield all the way down to san diego, potential for rapid risk of fires, and we're also looking at these blizzard warnings, october snowstorm, this is the last time they had a blizzard warning in october for the dakotas was 2010, so life threatening and possibly dangerous travel look at these snowfall amounts, 2 feet of snow, a histori