be used for emergency preparedness grants to state, local and territorial health departments that macon front reductions to their existing budgets. with this total, up to $50 million is available for health programs targeted at prenatal care, delivery and newborn health assessments and care for infants with special needs related to zika. these funds are focused on states and territories currently experiencing zika outbreaks. the national institutes of health received $230 million to help expedite the research and development of zika vaccines, making sure these treatments can be made available to the public quickly and safely. for the biomedical research and development authority, $103 million will be directed to development and production activities for zika, including for new rapid rap i had diagnose gnostic tests and vaccines. our response to zika must also include cutting off the virus at its source since mosquitos know no boundries. for the state department and u.s. agency for international development, the bill provides a . tal of $119.1 million, includes funding for public educati

he went to make -- macon, georgia visited with parents, told him that he believed the sum was a great patriot, compared and the nathan hale, the revolutionary war hero and said that he would bring recognition to their son that he deserved despite the fact that the us military and government had refused even to award birch a purple heart because the us was not at war with the communists in 1945. robert welch never met birch and never visited china. but george and ethyl birch and they are with their children, holding a portrait of john, open to this proposition. ethyl birch gave welch material that she had been collecting for her home biography of her son. welch wrote a sort of a yahoo which was as much a political platform as it was a biography. it is a frustrating book. welch calls him a heroic young patriot who recognize the dangers of communism on before others. just echoing what no one had already said, the death was deliberate and unjustified killing and claimed that birch at sacrifice his life as a warning to others about the true intentions of the communists. so with the enthusi

grew up then in vineland, new jersey, which was his mother's home and macon, georgia. he moved there when he was teenager, which was his father's home. he graduated from mercer university, a baptist institution, in 1939. very bright young man who was at the head of his class. nominated by mercer to be a rhodes scholar candidate. but birch, following in the footsteps of his parents had decided early on that he wanted to be a missionary and of course so many americans aspireed to go to china as missionaries. was the largest country that received missionaries, both men and significant number of women as missionaries, and it loomed large in the emotional imagination of americans who aspired to do something great with their lives and who were looking for some kind of adventure. so birch decided that he wanted to go to china. in order to accomplish this, he hooked up with an evangelical preacher who, by the name of frank norris. he is not in this picture. birch is the second from the left. here he is graduating from a small bible institute in fort worth, texas. the leader of

south of macon it is essentially flat all the way to key west. it would have been hard to dodge and duck behind mountains and bridges. it was not a very appealing option. sherman could have gone in any of three directions. he could have dropped back to the chattahoochee river and gone down the right bank of the river, and cut the confederacy off from all available am a and mississippi. it would have been a total disaster. hood's other option was to do what he did. i would suggest a lot of the problems he ran into was the problem of not the idea but the execution of the idea. somebody, i haven't found out who, it was approved by jefferson davis, herded away his cavalry. they will replace them with forest, which was fine except it took 2.5 weeks to get there because they couldn't hurry. so they sit there in north alabama. it was a whole reinterpretation of this thing about the confederates. johnston is looking a lot worse than he traditionally has. sherman is not looking quite so brilliant. hood is beginning to look a little better. thank you, folk

in the end, they macon fess.have calculated up until now correctly calculated that people won't care. that's not going to happen here. there is not enough time for this to wear away. it's going to way on her in a sense that -- this is her own department. this is obama appointee. you can't say it's ken starr or it's the republicans or some right wing conspiracy. this is their own people and that's why it's so damning. there is no escaping it even with word games. it makes it worse. >> okay. so let's say bernie sanders pulls off a win in california and that poll is right and he closes the gap. and he wins and hats a great night she gets over the top with super delegates, ed, what does that mean for her heading into philadelphia? >> look, mathematically we will have what she needs just as donald trump is going to have to rely on the party official type tellings. they -- delegates. she would have to rely on the party elders in her party to help her out as well. she will go in and she will have the math to win. the qu

. >> gregory macon is serving 40 years for murder. he's been at stateville since 1985.s when the prison had regular programs including theatrical and musical performances that used to take place here in the now long abandoned prison auditorium. >> the musical program was a great thing because of the fact we would have competition against other penitentiaries. and stateville was always number one. in here it's like a cage of awaiting execution because there's nothing for a man to do and no programs or nothing. you're just sitting here like a commodity. you know, a price tag on your forehead with nothing to do. >> rehabilitation, what's that? they erased that out of the dictionary here. there's no such thing as rehabilitation. it's not about rehabilitation. it's about money. it's all about money. if they can keep a number on you and keep you in here, they get their check and that's it. this is a new cattle drive. >> this is not the place where we want to do services to inmates to get them reintegrated back into society. stateville's not that place. we don't have all those

he went to macon, georgia, visited with birch's parents, told them that he believed their son was a great patriot, compared him to nathan hale, the revolutionary war hero hanged by the british, and said that he, robert welch, would bring the recognition to their son that he deserved despite the fact that the u.s. military, the u.s. government had refused even to award birch a purple heart. because the u.s. was not at war with the communists in 1945. welch, robert welch never met birch, and he never visited china. but george and ethel birch, here they are with their children, and ethel is holding a portrait of john, were open to this proposition from robert welch. ethel birch gave welch materials that she had been collecting for her own biography of her son. welch wrote a short -- [inaudible] which is as much his own political platform as it is a biography of welch. there are no footnotes, there's no documentation. it's a frustrating book. [laughter] welch calls him a heroic young patriot who recognized the dangers of communism long before others. here he's just echoing what noland has alr

. >> questlove: 478, macon. whoo! >> steve: and now, here he is, jimmy fallon! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: come on! that's what i'm talking about. welcome. welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. [ cheers and applause ] welcome, everyone, to the "tonight show." thank you so much for being here. you made it. thank you for showing up. i appreciate that. >> i love you, jimmy! >> jimmy: i love you too, sir. thank you so much again. it's going to be fun tonight. get ready. let's get to some news, here's what people are talking about. this is pretty big. it's been reported that the head of security for the tsa has been officially removed from his position. [ audience ohs ] that's right. he was told to turn in his badge, his uniform, his shoes, his belt, his keys, bottles over four ounces, his laptop, and any coins found in his pocket or keys. [ applause ] let's check in on the presidential election here. bernie sanders is still hanging in there. yeah, actually -- [ cheers and applause

one of the loudest voices in that camp talk radio host erick erickson who joins us from macon, georgia. nice to have you here. >> thanks for having me. >> sufficing to say, you lost, trump won. where do we go from here? >> there's a lot of us, not just establishment republicans but also conservative activists who have fought the republican establishment who are opposed to trump. and the fight on that side is whether or not you do form a third party or you just sit it out and let trump lose on his own. the calculus everyone needs to understand republicans have determined if there's a third party or not, trump will not beat hillary. trump is now saying, for example, this weekend the republican party isn't a conservative party. it's the republican party. >> to that point in terms of where do conservatives go, you wrote something about that back in 2015. august 19th, to be exact, when you were the editor of redstate.com. i am the editor of redstate.com, you write, we have long maintained we are conservative in the primary and republican in the general election. if donald trump is the repub

. >> woodruff: macon county sheriff tom schneider sings his praises. >> the amount of hours that he has put in with deputies, it is basically surpasses everybody else. he goes through training on a daily basis, and he's always educating himself to see how he can perform at a higher level. >> woodruff: so here you are, somebody who's seen the world, who's seen a lot, and yet this is something that only in the last few years you've been able to witness up close. >> i've witnessed in a way that a civilian, a normal citizen would not be able to witness it. you see it every single day. and you're making decisions about how to deal with it, which makes it very real. >> woodruff: well my question is then how do you decide where's your greater passion? because you clearly have that great passion to make changes in a place like rwanda, but you also clearly have a passion here. >> well your first obligation is always at home. i mean you can't ever walk away from the responsibilities that you have at home. but i also think we have a huge responsibility internationally because we are a leader. and

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ofgree with your criticism the a macon home finance system. -- american home finance system. i do not see the point of a 30 year mortgage or mortgaged about --to affect ability. deductibility. in canada, they have neither and have greater homeownership. in america, homeownership doesn't work, so i entirely agree. we have talked about the american dream. my hero in all this is abraham lincoln. forget the 1950's. i go back to abraham lincoln, who was a guy at his core all head. getting a he wanted everyone to have the same kind of chance that he did to rise from one year of schooling to become one of the best educated president in american history. process, more than anyone, invented the american dream. if you look at his speeches, that is what he kept talking about. i think that is a noble dream. host: frank buckley writes that there are also several reasons why we never expect to see perfect income mobility between generations. first, it always helps to have a head start that wealthy parents get 1 -- better schools, better networks, better first jobs. that's why countries wit

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. >> apple macon tribute it to the nasdaq. the biggest point drag on the nasdaq 100. a good volume. this is behind the nikkei report looking at less orders on the back half of this year, which traditionally is a strong time to put in orders. there should be product launches and ramping up for the christmas season. this nikkei report zeros in on the largest contract maker of the world. we are running at 80% of 2015 orders this year in 2016. there's no comment on this report. they tell the market maybe there's deceleration when it comes to smartphone demand and there won't be ground breaking features when it comes to the iphone 7 launch in september. back to you. >> thank you. susan li at the nasdaq market site. we are watching the market capitalization of apple and alphabet formerly known as google. alphabet has taken over apple here. >> it's down 32% from the record high, in february 2015. again, it is the worst performer on that index since then. not the only time that's happened, but probably one of the more memorable ones in terms of how that works. >> highly notable, that is for

again, we have no idea what the package macon ty contain and whe package looks like.hese professionals that do these kinds of things for a living are highly suspicious, they called in these extra gears. >> nick, where is the president? >> the president as far as we know is in the white house whether he is in the resident or the west wing is unclear. as you know, he had gone over to arlington ceremony this morning for the memorial day ceremony laying a wreath at the unknown soldiers or unknown and his speech at the amphitheater there and he will return in about an hour ago and the white house announced at the time there was a travel -- meaning reporter and camera crews could stand down because the president has no intention to leave. there is no sense here that the president or first family or anybody in the white house or anybody in eminent danger and what's going on here is maybe out of an abundance of caution. the activity is setting up a decontamination unit and seeing these firefighters dressing in hazmat here with their tanks and indicating it is a highly suspici

that plus the presence of john macon the board, how does that sort of muck up the picture?muck. >> it's very mucked up. i don't know what mac's role on the board is compared to the others. as you say it is a wall street heavy board. summer, mack. although not necessarily the most experienced board. actually on the board of square which is also in the online lending business. when they made the announcement monday morning they were o cagey about it. the original statement was almost intelligible. you couldn't understand what it said. a bunch of us said to each other what does this mean? people on the call didn't seem to know what it meant. i don't know why the board hasn't come clean and said this is exactly what happened. instead they led this giant breech of trust with shareholders and buyers etc. and i think it is one of the things killing the stock. >> we showed their statement saying we took swift action and got that out. it sort of appeared. there are others out there. it's going to kill wall street, change finance, disrupt everything. does this set that entire model b

ofgree with your criticism the a macon home finance system. -- american home finance system.not see the point of a 30 year mortgage or mortgaged about --to affect ability. deductibility. in canada, they have neither and have greater homeownership. in america, homeownership doesn't work, so i entirely agree. we have talked about the american dream. my hero in all this is abraham lincoln. forget the 1950's. i go back to abraham lincoln, who was a guy at his core all head. getting a he wanted everyone to have the same kind of chance that he did to rise from one year of schooling to become one of the best educated president in american history. process, more than anyone, invented the american dream. if you look at his speeches, that is what he kept talking about. i think that is a noble dream. host: frank buckley writes that there are also several reasons why we never expect to see perfect income mobility between generations. first, it always helps to have a head start that wealthy parents get 1 -- better schools, better networks, better first jobs. that's why countries with high

audrey joining us from macon, georgia, the state of black america, audrey, what is it? caller: first of all, steve, i love your program. i do not care for the term african-american. i am not an african-american. i'm a black woman. and as far as the state of black america, i think black america is growing. i have four black grandsons, every one of them is college educated. one just graduated two weeks go, political science. i voluntary in the school. -- i volunteer in the school. i have raised my children. i have helped my children raise their children, and i adopted two little boys that i'm raising. i think black america is growing. but at the same time, we are being oppressed because we're black. don't push us down. just stand back. if you don't to want help us, stand back and let us roll. we going to be ok. host: audrey, thank you very much for the call. this is a story this morning, front page of "the washington post," a new poll from abc news and "the washington post" basically showing a dead heat between hillary clinton and donald trump. they write, the coming camp

peters: macon, georgia, december 12, to 1. derek jackson, 38. george henley, 34. corey, 25. dallas, texas, january , 2015. -- 4, 2015. max, 54. jose lopez, 21. norfolk, virginia, january 1, 2014. melvin, 32. marcus -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one inute. >> mr. speaker, i rise today to honor the life and service of, ohio police officer sean r. johnson who passed away last week in a tragic training accident. officer johnson's dedication to public service was evident when he made the decision to join the air force right out of high school in 19 8. after serving in the military and earning the rank of senior airman, he was hired at the sheriff's department where he served until 1997. officer johnson joined the hilliard division of police in october of 1999 and he stayed -- would stay with the department for the next 16 years. throug