where mary kay draws from an epis capallian background.rom both, and you come up with a hybrid model. first and foremost puts god at the center of your life. >> one of your daughters married recently in a church that raised a few eyebros, i imagine your opponents could use it against you that you are not proper mormons, what would you say to that? >> there are 13 million mormons around the world today. increasely a diverse bunch, we probably add to that diversity. i come from a long line of saloon keepers and rebelerousers in the bunch. the mormon plgz is a lot more free-thinking than people may give it credit for. >> you think you are the racier than boring old mitt romny. >> you started out calling me boring, end with calling me racier. >> a pleasure to meet you both. i want to find a piano, and see if you are as good on the piano as you are speaking mand rin. your daughter, a classic pianist. a thing or two about fast. it takes a lot to keep up with my hectic schedule, but quicken loans has never let me down. they closed my loan fast, t

her back was to us, a said, mom, mary kay said it dad. chris -- said dad put his hands down her pants. to finally turned to me and said, how could you ever think that your father would do something like that? i remember feeling such guilt, like, wow, what an incredibly horrible boulder in to think something about that. i should have known that my mother's reaction was typical of over 80% of families dealing with these issues. since then she has become the biggest supporter. it took me years to get through the process of grieving. how did i turn that into a message of courage and light? one thing never left my mind in the long process of healing. i refuse to have my life be defined by what happened to me. a one of my life to be about how to survive in rose above those events. in other words, each of us can turn a lemon into lemonade. but iran, those actions of those i love it devastated me. i felt incredibly alone. little did i know how many people were having similar experiences to mind. my personal views may be the victim of the disease

our path toward gracie began when my wife, mary kay, volunteered at a catholic church or to an -- ordge when we live together in taiwan in 1987. -- in an orphanage. 12 years later, on the evening of may 19, 1999, and i wanted to remember that date, we decided to adopt a little girl from china. several months later, while attending a christmas tree in a fit for adopted kids around the world, our family bought a tree, and when the vendor asked what name we wanted on its, mary kay said without hesitation, racemates huntsman -- gracie may huntsman. with a tear in her eye, my wife told the vendor that name at 8:15 p.m.. when we return home after the event, there was a message received at our home 8:15 p.m. from the adoption agency. notifying us they had found a child for our family. you guessed it, gracie may, and the date of birth was may 19, 1999. [applause] this could not have been a coincidence, ladies and gentlemen. greyson love to tell this story, and when asked who found her in the vegetable market, she simply replies jesus. [applause] now, why do i mention this? because in today's

mary kay hicks, i appreciate it. >> if only tropical storm lee had made lawful farther west in texas story. we have susan with our bulletin. >>> severe flooding from the remnants of the tropical storm lee as you spoke about. it's blamed for at least one death in mississippi. >>> a teenage boy is missing off the coast of alabama. the water is waist-deep in parts of louisiana and mississippi. and it spawned tornados near atlanta. four of them. officials say more than 100 homes were damaged because of it. in the atlantic. hurricane katia was upgraded to category 3 and maximum sustained winds of 115 miles per hour. forecasters don't believe katia will strike the east coast of the u.s. >>> the postal service announced today that it may default on an upcoming payment of a retire yee fund contributing noun a health care trust fund by september 30th. if it does default they say there will be no interruption in mail service. >>> and check this out. the black widow strikes again. sonia thomas, the woman in red, all 100 pounds of her, ate 103 chicken winni en wings in 12 mi. she won the contest

sciu president mary kay henry. teamster president jimmy hoffa.sident mike langford. we are proud of them and we're proud of your congressional delegation who are working every single day with your state and local elected officials to create jobs and economic growth and prosperity here in michigan and all across the country. i am honored. we are honored to spend this day with you and your families. the working men and women of america. this day belongs to you. you deserve a little r and r. a little barbecue. a little grilling. because you've been working hard. you've been working hard to make ends meet. you've been working hard to build a better life for your kids. you've been working hard to build a better detroit. but that's not all i'm going to talk to you about. i also want to talk about the work you've been doing for decades. work to make sure the folks get an honest day's pay forrance honest day's work. work to make sure that families get a fair shake. the work you've done that helped build the greatest middle class that the world has ever k

guest, jon huntsman, i'm joined, i'm delighted to say, of his extremely glamorous wife of 29 years, mary kay you first meet john? >> careful. >> met him in high school. i grew up in florida, he grew up in california and we met shortly thereafter in high school and i was a salad girl in a restaurant. he was a dishwasher. and i fell in love with a rock 'n' roll guy. what did i say? >> did you think you were marrying the next freddie mercury? >> oh, yeah. i thought we would have a rock band, a van, a bus -- but he still has that in him today and i laugh when anyone says boring. he is probably the most colorful guy i know. rock 'n' roll, motocross, harley, he -- >> harley? you ride harleys? >> 40-year motorcycler. >> you ride harley-davidsons. i'm told you play jazz piano. is that right? spl something like that. >> why should he be president? >> because i think he's the greatest leader out there. he's been there and done that and taken a state right to number one right there. i think the confidence is there and people would have confidence, knowing we are in good hands from day one with jon at h

. >> mary kay hicks, appreciate you talking to us again.est to you and all the others battling the flames right now. >> thank you. >> those who are in harm's way. you hear a lot about flames racing over dry land. no exaggeration. take a look at this. >> see the fire line moving, several feet in just a few seconds and the line stretches back as far as the eye can see. the pictures come from a state park southeast of austin. 6,000 acres almost all of it now burned not far from there. dozens of families burned out. more of that now from david mattingly. >> reporter: shelley olensky hasn't seen her neighborhood since she left it behind in a cloud of smoke. >> you know what's waiting for you there. >> absolutely. there's nothing. i live on a street. >> reporter: i'm going with her to see if there's anything left. she's already confirmed the worst. hers is one of 24 houses destroyed by fires in a neighborhood outside austin, texas. the only question is, will there be anything to salvage? >> my heart is pounding. it's pounding so hard right now. b

we are joined on the phone from mary kay hicks from the texas forest service.ng like this in texas? >> i have not. i have been here 18 years. this is one of the things that you trained for and you worry about for years. you hope it never happens. but all the pieces of the puzzle came into place in a bad way this weekend. >> to hear 0% contained, is that the case? have you made any progress? >> you know, there are so many fires going on in the state. they are making progress on some of them. some of them, they are not calling contained at all. they cannot get around them. the winds haven't died down. >> yesterday we talked about a mom and her baby were killed. they refused ordered to leave. are people taking the warnings seriously? >> you know, yesterday i was on fires and i talked to a lady. she said this is all she had, she wasn't leaving. you know, it's a house. it's just a house. we encourage people -- that's our number one goal is to protect firefighters first, volunteers that are out here. you know, fight the fires and protect property. but mainly lives. y

. >> mary kay hicks, we appreciate your talking to usb and aga, an our best to you and all of those inarm's way. you hear that the dry land is no exaggeration. take a look at this. you can see the fire line moving in a few seconds and the line skre stretches back as far as the eye can see. the state park in awetustin and 6,000 acres burned and more from david mattingly. >> reporter: this woman has not seen her neighborhood since she left it behind in a cloud of smoke. you know what is there for you? >> absolutely. >> reporter: i am going with her to see if there is anything left. she has confirmed the worst. hers is one of 24 hours destroyed by fires in a neighborhood outside of austin, texas. the only question is will there be anything to salvage. >> my heart is pounding. it is pounding so hard right now, because i -- i don't know how i'm going to react when i actually see it and stand in front of it. >> reporter: a short walk down the street reveals friends and neighbors burned out as well. >> katy and brian's house. >> reporter: and then the moment that michelle had been dreading. >

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. >> thanks general ark the greatest human being i've ever known, my wife mary kay. i've been married 28 years. she is turning 50 years old tomorrow. i wish her a happy birthday. i love her dear leave. she is from florida, here we sit in florida campaigning even through her birthday, jenna. jenna: that is a very special birthday wish. its nice to know more about a candidate's family as well. all of this adds to the picture of who might be the next president of the united states, sir. we appreciate you taking the time to cover bonn much of topics with us and we look forward to having you back on. >> thanks, you're terrific jenna thank you. jon: a massive air assault trying to flight flames burning across central texas. coming up we'll talk to the mayor of bastrop about the worst fire in that state's history. the lights coming back on now in the southwest. a big black out across several states leaving millions in the dark. you won't believe why the power went out. that is next. jon: right now the biggest aerial assault yet is underway on a devastating wildfire raging a

and daughters of michigan representing working people here and across the country, seiu president mary kayry. [applause] teamster president jimmy hoffa! [cheers and applause] uaw president bob king! [cheers and applause] utility workers' president mike lang ford. we are proud of them, and we're proud of your congressional delegation who are working every single day with your state and local elected officials to create jobs and economic growth and prosperity here in michigan and all across the country. i am honored, we are honored to spend this day with you and your families, the working men and women of america. this day belongs to you. you deserve a little r and r, little barbecue. [laughter] little grilling. because you've been working hard. you've been working hard to make ends meet. you've been working hard to build a better life for your kids. you've been working hard to build a better detroit. [applause] but that's not all i'm going to talk to you about. i also want to talk about the work you've been doing for decades, work to make sure the folks get an honest day's pay for an hospit

one, and i thank them very much for the work and other colleagues in the labor movement including mary kay henry, as well. i was thinking about the idea of intolerance, and violence, and with the civil rights movement and the themes of peace and violence and nonviolence, and the choices that we all make as activists today, and those around the country who share in all of our collective struggles. and i want to talk about it in this way, and that is that i think what we are seeing is a playing out of intolerance and violence that we've seen many times before. and we all have choices to make about how we will stand up to that, or speak to it. and really, i would talk about it first in a sense of physical violence. .. and people who are we would say gender variant. people who don't -- people who don't fit how they are supposed to move through society. those are the people who most often experience physical, intense violence. we have seen that in baltimore with the transgendered woman who was not only attacked but videotaped while the attack was going on and there were people who stood up for

and daughters of michigan representing working people here and across the country, seiu president, mary kay i, teamster president jimmy hoffa, the uaw president bob king. [applause] utility workers' presence mike langford. we are proud of them and brought of your congressional delegation who are working every single day with your state and local elected officials to create jobs and economic growth and prosperity here in michigan and across the country. i am honored. we are honored to spend this day with you and your families, the working men and women of america. this day belongs to you. you deserved littler &r. a little barbecue. [laughter] a little grilling. you have been working hard. you have been working hard to make ends meet. you have been working hard to build a better life for your kid. you have been working hard to build a better detroit. that is not all i will talk to you about. i also want to talk about the work you have been doing for decades, work to make sure that folks get an honest day's pay for honest day's work. [applause] work to make sure that families get a fair shake.