boyd hooper, leroy. >> told you that was a great story.ks to boyd and all our great friends in the twin cities and for all of our viewers who have come to love our "making a difference" reports here on the broadcast. we wanted to let you know, we'll have one each night all next week, all of them in keeping with the theme of this season of giving. for us, for now, that's our broadcast on a friday night and this week. thank you as always for being here with us. i'm brian williams. lester holt will be here with you this weekend. we hope to see you right back here on monday night. in the meantime, have a great weekend. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com .

boyd hooper, leroy. >> told you that was a great story.ks to boyd and all our great friends in the twin cities and for all of our viewers who have come to love our "making a difference" reports here on the broadcast. we wanted to let you know, we'll have one each night all next week, all of them in keeping with the theme of this season of giving. for us, for now, that's our broadcast on a friday night and this week. thank you as always for being here with us. i'm brian williams. lester holt will be here with you this weekend. we hope to see you right back here on monday night. in the meantime, have a great weekend. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com . >>> the first in a series of powerful storms arrive tonight, bringing a blast of rain, of wind and flood concerns. >> yes. and traffic tonight is moving slowly as commuters inch their way home on very wet roads. good evening, everyone. >> we want to get right to chief meteorologist jeff ranieri in the weather center with a look at where it's raining right now. it's pretty

people who wouldn't give a nickel to live in leroy, minnesota.dn't pay the quarter they charge for coffee at the senior citizens center. people who need to pull up a chair and listen. as eileen evans tells the story of small-town values, and a check. >> we didt know what to do. >> reporter: the envelope arrived from the estate of 94-year-old lauren krueger. a tired farmer, who had seen his share of sadness. having lost his first wife. then his second. having lost his only child, a teenage son, to cancer. but long before he passed away last year, lauren gned a reputation. >> very frugal. very frugal! he was very caref withis money. >> reporter: apparentl so. for as he humbly lived out his days in this white frame house on main street, lauren quietly amassed -- >>e held on to it. >> reporter: a fortune. >> i say let me see it. i've never seen a check like th before. >> reporter: that first $20,000 check was flowed by two more. $100,000 each. >> i said, my gosh, look at this, look at th! >> reporter: up to then, the seniors had been getting by on wh

robert leroy will be the last one to exit.t because after our dancers leave, as they are making their way out, a veteran should be the last one to leave that arena. when you are ready. please stand if you are able as our dancers make their exit. i want to thank each and every one of these dances for coming out, helping us to honor our own. no. traditional dancers, string dancers, grass dancers, no. -- northern traditional, southern coif, gene will dancers, seven traditional as well. our bets the war dancer. thank you. good singing, good

robert leroy will be the last one to exit.t because after our dancers leave, as they are making their way out, a veteran should be the last one to leave that arena. when you are ready. please stand if you are able as our dancers make their exit. i want to thank each and every one of these dances for coming out, helping us to honor our own. no. traditional dancers, string dancers, grass dancers, no. -- northern traditional, southern coif, gene will dancers, seven traditional as well. our bets the war dancer. thank you. good singing, good dancing, all right, one more time. let's hear it for our singers and our dancers. looking good. all right, good job. all right. we are calling all our veterans to come up. veterans, you do not need to be native american. all our veterans, come on up. randy surely, where are you at? lead them out. -- randy shirley. i had someone asked me why we honor our veterans. one of the dumbest question is i have ever heard. i was offended when i heard it. i'm still offended. you wonder why native people ho

people who wouldn't give a nickel to live in leroy, minnesota. who wouldn't pay the quarter they charge for coffee at the leroy senior citizen center. >> and if they take a cookie, that's another quarter. >> reporter: people who need to pull up a chair and listen. >> my god we never had this kind of money. >> reporter: as eileen evans tells the story of small-town values and a check. >> we didn't know what to do. $20,000. >> reporter: the envelope arrived from the estate of 94-year-old lawrence rupert. a retired farmer who had seen his share of sadness. having lost his first wife. then his second. having last his only child, a teenage son, to cancer. but long before he passed away last year, lawrence gained a reputation. >> very frugal. >> he was very careful with his money. >> reporter: apparently so. for as he humbly lived out his days in this white frame house, lawrence quietly amassed -- >> he held onto it for awhile. >> reporter: a fortune. >> i said let me see it. i've never seen a check like that before. >> reporter: that first $20,000 che

robert leroy will be the last one to exit.t because after our dancers leave, as they are making their way out, a veteran should be the last one to leave that arena. when you are ready. please stand if you are able as our dancers make their exit.

. >> ed leroy says he's concerned about cutbacks and how it will impact diablo state park. >> just riding up the top here, i thousand a -- i saw a couple people throwing garbage out the window. >> reporter: some may not notice this because some parks already had this reduced statewide. >> last year we did service reduction of about 150 parks. we may be expanding that. >> reporter: some parks will be closing campgrounds, some parks will be closing rest rooms and some parks will -- will have changes you may not notice at all. your best best is to head online to see what cut services are cut at your park. we have that under ktvu.com under the "right now" section. ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the u.s. environmental protection agency is giving san francisco's mid plaza the national award. mint plaza in downtown san francisco used to be the old jessie alley t was converted two years ago into a public plaza and festival space. >>> coming up at 6:00, it's c alled "operation second c hance." 1700 people here have take advantage of it and avoided spending time in jail over the holidays.

city ♪ ♪ i make a lot of noise ♪ the girls are so pretty ♪ riding up and down broadway in my stud leroyale. >> thank you, thank you. >> now, in las vegas, of course, you need more adult humor. so i'd like to introduce vickie the cougar. so vickie, you're going to do something -- >> if you haven't made out your christmas list, ladies, here's a few ideas. ♪ santa, baby, just see what's under the tree on me ♪ ♪ i'm also a good girl ♪ santa, baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight ♪ ♪ think of all the fun i've missed ♪ ♪ think of all the fellows that i haven't kissed ♪ ♪ next year i could be just as good ♪ ♪ if you'd check off my christmas list ♪ ♪ santa, baby, i want to not ask for a lot ♪ ♪ i've been an angel all year ♪ santa, baby ♪ so hurry down the chimney tonight ♪ ♪ hurry down the chimney tonight ♪ >> and the character that actually won "america's got talent" for me, winston the impersonating turtle. so, winston, it's a beautiful outfit. >> it's not an outfit. i am santa claus. >> the real saunt clause? >> i'm santa. >> i'm assuming since we have a christmas show at the mirage -- >>

but that night it was just her and leroy. >> thank you very much for this refreshing perspective on theivil rights movement. one of the things that to me here tonight is the title of your book, and as a historian myself i know that some of the hottest things to do in terms of writing history is to decide on a title. because you want your title catching. you want your title to be attractive. and i like the fact that you point to a new history of the civil rights movement. but i also wondered about the decision of using rosa parks instead of recy taylor, if you thought about that, and if it crossed your mind, and if it crossed your mind from recy taylor to the rise of black power, or the past, still suffer of drawing us to the familiar. and want you have that, then you come up with speech i'll be very honest about the panther come and the top part of the telecom "at the dark end of the street" is mine and mine alone. i picked that. my editor chose the subtitle. we worked on it together, but i wanted it to be black women, rape and resistant and she said no, no, no. it have to be more than

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leroy sites in new jersey, who i have now crowned the new poster boy of and arrogance in public education in new jersey. [applause] >> but as this fight is going on, let me explain to you that he is getting company. people are competing in new jersey for me to give them a new title. [laughter] why is this fight important? because shared sacrifice is going to be required of everybody to fix the system. it is not that we don't have enough money. we have more than enough money in the system. it is just that the money is being spent so infectively, so inefficiently, and again with the focus on the adults and not the children. we have to fight it at every level. so if you're going to talk about the teacher's union, and i know what you are here for. don't worry, i will get to it. if you are going to talk about the teachers' union, you have to talk about the people who are failing in leadership, who are being overpaid for that failure, and who need now to have the good ones stand up and say i will be part of the sacrifice in order to repair the system and make it better for the children who we a

this is doctor leroy sites in new jersey, who i have now crowned the new poster boy of greed and arrogance in public education in new jersey. as there fight goes on, let me explain to you, dr. sites is getting company. people are competing in new jersey for me to give them a new title. why is this important? why is this fight important? shared sacrifice will be required of everybody to fix the system. it is not that we have enough money. we have more than enough money. it is being spent infectively and inefficiently, again with the focus on the adults and not the children. we have to fight it at every level. if you talk about the teacher's union and i know what you're here for, so i'll get to it. you talk about the teacher's union, you got to talk about administrators also, who are failing in leadership and overpaid for the failure and who need now to have the good ones stand up and say i'll be part of the sacrifice in order to repair the system and make it better for the children who were supposed to be serving -- we're supposed to be serving and the family that is are paying the bills. n

there were the constable's carrying will ride -- leroy. they wanted to check if everything was ok.they said they saw the jacket on the roof. he said that he put the jacket up there. he said it was a cougar trap. [laughter] they asked what he used for bait. he said peppermint schnapps. [laughter] my parents, they defeated death. that was about nine months and 10 minutes before i was born. [laughter] so, we come through the other side. we survived. they had narrow escapes. somehow, here we are. a bunch of humorous people. what is humor about? really, it is about life. it is about the small, ordinary things of life. it is about what we have in common. that is what politics is about as well. these are times when we have so much less in common than before. the world is split up into little pieces. the most successful tv shows have rather small audiences of maybe 5 million or 8 million people out of this vast country. there used to be elvis and frank sinatra. there were the beatles. there are not people like that anymore, people who everyone would recognize by their voice. we have become

this is doctor leroy seitz in parsippany new jersey who i've now crowned the new poster boy of greed and arrogance in public education in new jersey. [applause] >> but as this fight is going on, let me explain to you that he is getting company. people are competing in new jersey for me to give it a new title. why is this important? why is this fight important? because it's not the we don't have enough money. we have more than enough money in new jersey in the system. it's that this money is being spent so ineffectively, so inefficiently, and again with a focus on the adults and not the children, that we have to fight it at every level. so if you're going to talk about the teachers union, and i know what you are here for, so don't worry, i will get to it that if you're going to talk about the teachers union, you've got to talk about the administrators also, who are failing in leadership, who are being overpaid for that failure, and who need now to have a good news to stand up and say i will be part of the sacrifice in order to prepare the system and make it better for the children who