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katie beck explains. >> time to wake up. >> reporter: waking up the kids is a struggle most mornings. to wake up. >> reporter: mother of three elizabeth turley says it's especially tough for her 15-year-old, alisa. on average she gets five hours of sleep a night. would you say among your friends, that's pretty common? five, six hours? >> yes. maybe even less. >> because most of them are doing this? >> yes. >> reporter: a study says sleep-deprived adolescents and teens shouldn't shrug off sluggish symptoms. now linking a lack of sleep to higher odds for heart disease, high blood pressure, and obesity. >> sleep is just as important as nutrition and physical activity in predicting our cardiovascular health. >> reporter: this study in the journal "pediatrics" monitored the kids' sleep patterns, tracking the amount of sleep and the quality of the rest. nine hours of sleep is the minimum recommended for kids 11 to 13 years old. eight hours for those 14 to 17. most in the study were getting wh -- weren't getting what they should. >> i'm so tired from not getting sleep. >> reporter: doctors s

nbc's katie beck has more. we're going to fight for change. >> reporter: army veteran and becoming the first openly lesbian and first latina to ever win a major party nomination for governor in the state. >> the truth is texas has a vart of people. we're not just one culture. we're not just one theme. >> reporter: the november ballot will reflect that. more thanlgbtq candidates are running for office in texas. that's three times more than the state has seen in any other election cycle. >> how are you? >> reporter: if elected, former intelligence officer gina ortiz jones will be the first lesbian iraq war veteran and first generation filipina american to represent texas in the u.s. house of representatives. also the firstom to serve from her district. >> that's a lot of firsts. >> it's a lot of >> is it a lot of pressure? >> to me i'm more concerned that i'm not the last. >> reporter: a groundswell in a conservative climate. the state hasn't elected a democrat to statewide office in nearly three decades. and dur

nbc's katie beck is staing by for us there in annapolis. you yesterdayndound out that annapolis is also your hometown. your l parents stille there. how is your community coping thisin mo >> reporter: a lot of people grieving, craig, as these five committed colleagues will be deeply missed in this community, but as this morning continues, police are shedding more light on exactly what happened inside that newsroom. they tell us that prior to this attack, the gunman actually barricaded the door so that employees could not escape. they are also ciaing saying he 12 gauge shotgun that he purchased about a year agoy legallo commit this crime. while she not cooperating with police at this time, they do believe his intent that day was to kill as many people as possible. those are hard words for a community that is still absorbing the shock of ahis traged trying to heal. this is a small community, a small cherished paper that people trust and depend on. the investigation continues and so does the grief. craig? >> that nnewspaper's b around longer th

>> katie beck for us this morning in annapolis, maryland. katie, thank you. >>> also this morning, president trump says he plans to announce his pick for the next supreme court justice nominee in just a week and a half. this as his team comes under fire for allowing a prank caller to talk to him while the president was flying aboard air force one. nbc's white house corporate kelly o'donnell is traveling with the president. she's near her new jersey home. kelly, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, chanel. the president has packed his supreme court short list for his weekend stay at his home on the grounds of his new jersey golf club. that list, we're told, will range from five to as many as seven names. the president says the formal search process begins monday but this weekend could be an important part of the selection. the president returned to his new jersey estate friday for the first time in nearly nine months. while aboard air force one, he revealed that his legacy-making decision, his second supreme court nominee, bill be announce

nbc's katy beck is in dallas for us.e some of the resolutions coming out of the convention? >> the resolution just passed yesterday, craig, is basically focused on honoring the dignity of women. this resolution was sort of groundbreaking for this church denomination. many here saying this was not an issue they've ever really discussed at this convention. but in the wake of these allegations and in the wake of the me too movement, discussing how the church treats women is a top priority. this resolution was passed without any contest yesterday. there was wide support for it. basically saying we need to respect the dignity of women. we need to protect them from abuse. and when they are abused, we need to report it to authorities. they're also very adamant the church pastors and leads neared normal education on what to do when abuse is rorted to them. that was just passed yesterday and that big deal for these folks. >> vice president mike pence spoke a short time ago. what did he say? what are you hearing from attendees abo

i want you to it stick around because katie beck who is touring that facility has get to n a -- gotten a look inside one of these buildings. we may show some of this video because when you went in you were not allowed to bring cameras, recording device, similar to jacob soboroff over in texas when he saw the brownsville facility days ago. you're in homestead, florida. the government released photos. away don't have any that we shot. tell me what you saw and what it was like. >> reporter: that's right. no cameras, no recording devices, no contact with the children as we pass through. this fill the houses teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17. >> boys and girls? >> reporter: right now there are more than 1100 of them. boys and girls. there are about 750 boys and about 400 girls. they are kept very separate inside this facility, different dorms, different classrooms, they don't actually eat together. but. >> i want you -- i'm going to disrupt you, your microphone probably our sprurs probably our viewers are notici has a weird buzz. this san important look, there are girls in this facili