what saved him >> reporter: that sparing this driver from what could have been a tragic outcome maya eaglin, nbc news. >>> u.p.s. has reached a tentative agreement with its 340,000-person union, potentially avoiding a massively disruptive strike. the teamsters call the agreement historic it would allow full and part time workers to get $2.75 more an hour in 2023 and $7.50 more by the end of the five-year contract and increase starting pay to $21 an hour tentative agreements on safety issues were reached, including equipping more trucks with air conditioning voting ends august 3rd and ends august 22nd. >>> the u.s. department of education has launched a civil rights investigation into harvard's legacy admission policies after advocacy groups filed a complaint. it alleges that the practice puts students of color at a disadvantage and violates the civil rights act it cites data that 70% of legacy applicants are white and six times more likely to be admitted it stated if legacy donor preferences were removed more students of color would be accepted to harvard. they declined to comment further.

nbc's maya eaglin reports. >> aren't with just a scrap of paper and a red marker, a quick thinking 13ting herself to freedom. those two words, help me! held up to the window of a car parked at the easy wash laundromat in long beach, california, earlier this month. and spotted by a good samaritan. >> she's my customer. she always comes washer. she told me that yeah, yeah, i think there's a girl that needs help. >> the eagle eyed customer immediately calling 9-1-1 as the man now accused of kidnapping that young girl did his laundry inside. the owner of that laundromat recall the unsettling counter. >> a scary face. he looked down to me. i say, in my head, i say maybe something, something, yeah. >> officer swiftly arriving on the scene, placing 61-year-old stephen roberts saddling under arrest. according to a criminal complaint, the harrowing ordeal began more than 1000 miles away in san antonio, texas. satellite accused of pulling up alongside the 13 year old girl, holding a gun to her head, and saying, if you don't get in the car with me, i am going to hurt you. the girl telling police

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big change over the weekend, which comes more than 15 years after the first tweet was sent our maya eaglin look back. >> reporter: it started with a tweet. >> a lot of amazing things started. >> reporter: twitter co-founder and then-ceo jack dorsey launching the new social network in 2006, simply writing, just setting out up my twitter. the new website limited posts to 140 characters the popularity soaring thanks to celebrities like oprah and ashton kutcher >> one person's voice can be as powerful as an entire news network. >> reporter: but the ability to share might immediate breaking propelled twitter into the mainstream >> it is the easiest way to see what's happening in the world right now live and it breaks news for so many people a lot ofpeople use it to see what's breaking and what's new in the world >> reporter: in 2011, the word tweet was entered into the dictionary, and two years later the company went public in an ipo that raised $1.8 billion twitter front and center during the 2016 election with both hillary clinton and donald trump using the site through this campaigns. and on