laney is pretty. >> i love laney. >> i do, too. >> should i wake up woodstock? >> yes.s that a question? >> if you wake him up, he is not in the mood. >> he's got a little tude sometimes. >> come here buddy. >> i don't know about you, reggie. but when i'm in a sadder state during these days i just love cuddling with my pup and playing some fetch in the apartment. it totally turns around your mood. >> it's the best. he also gives me an excuse to take walks. >> yes. >> so he gets me outside the house. >> is he tired? he is like, why did you just wake me up from my slumber. i was sleeping and i have that face on tv. it's so cute. i love woodstock so much. tracking warmer weather coming in today and then really ramping up as we head into the holiday weekend. the unofficial start of summer comes this way with memorial day and certainly feel like summer when we show you those temperatures. walnut creek, a live picture outside. you can see that sun rising sharing the space with cloud cover right now and find may gray as we show you the 12-hour day planner. warmer afternoon and

>> reporter: meet laney. golden retriever/therapy dog. set to begin her first medical mission, but then the pandemic hit. owner amy galacia torres knew amy was needed now more than ever, so amy went online, providing virtual visits who anyone who needs them, like jimmy harris. >> laney! say, i'm a pretty girl. speak! >> she's really good at responding to anything you're saying. she even watches you on the camera, which is cool. >> reporter: harris, national army guard vet, says visits with laney is what he needs during this difficult time. >> a connection with an animal helps bring a calmness over the person's mind, and they get to forget about whatever troubles they're having. >> a lot of the times patients need distraction, or they're feeling a lot of pain, so laney's a great way to distract them in person. what we've noticed, virtually it's pretty much the same thing. >> reporter: a dog love, man's best friend for a reason. >> dogs have always gone and given me hope and helped during difficult times. and so i wanted to be able to bring

new york jerry going out to jersey and working the playboy club he worked in something called the laney samurai home at the great gorge new jersey playboy club we all met up later to comic strip i remember we were all existing on burgers from but you know but doesn't monocle any striking out on a bench or put on a burger that's not broke we are very good like 175 bucks he said read it we boys we thought oh my god think you can think of. your rich you've made it you made it oh my god it was so great i mean that's what's interesting now like people keep asking me like so when is comedy coming back what's going to be like him and i you know i got an offer like i said to go to utah and do this show it's a 300 seat room with maybe 100 people they'll put in it so they can distance and someone said to me will what if they're all wearing masks would that be weird i'm like you don't understand. anyone that's a comedian that's has a career as a comedian has done far worse gigs than anything you can devise during the pandemic you know i mean we have fleet played ours where they didn't want comedy

think the most succint comment about jimmy carter particularly in his post presidency came from james laney the former president of emory university who said of jimmy carter he was the only person in history for whom the prosy was a stepping stone. i think it really captures what jimmy carter has done. apparently he is not terribly fond of that quotation but it does capture what he has been able to do. i called the book "redeemer" for a number of reasons. i think in many ways jimmy carter redeemed the nation after the sins of watergate. i try to impress this on students these days and they don't quite grasp i think how low we were as a nation in the mid 1970s in terms of our confidence in ourselves but also our confidence particularly in institutions and the presidency. lyndon johnson had lied to us about vietnam. richard nixon lied to us about pretty much everything. and i'm exaggerating a little bit, of course. but jimmy carter comes along and says, listen, i will never knowingly lie to the american people. again, i try to impress on students these days what a radical idea that was in the

number of parents, laney on twitter, for example, says if it is safe to send my children back, then yes of michael following an idea that what they want to do is minimise the rates ofjust transmission. they kind of accept that children are reader risk from this —— i think the government are following an idea. if they catch it, the risk they pose is giving it to others. so if we can get in place mechanisms that the children have a very low risk of catching it, that is the safe place to be because even if they catch it we will —— they will not have a problem, we are aiming that they will not catch it in the first place and they are doing it in a way that means they can try things in a small—scale, get the wrinkles out of the system without taking risks, then you can scale it up when it is safe to do so. scale it up when it is safe to do so. thank you, let me bring bryony back. i wonder if anything you have heard gives you a sense of reassurance? if i am heard gives you a sense of reassurance? ifi am honest, yes and no. some of what has just been said we're assured me, the fact that childr