nerds are upset at black storm troopers in the "star wars" movie.o they have a problem with a storm trooper being black? no they have a problem with you changing their definition of a storm trooper. let me be a little clearer -- if the first time you introduce oatmeal to a nerd, it has maple syrup in it, it better have maple syrup in it every (bleep)ing time or it's not oatmeal. that's your fault. now, if you want to change it you need somebody who's part of your origin story to explain that change. like when star trek changed their origin story, they had the original spock come back to explain it to the new spock. that's why nerds were cool. well, they weren't cool, but you understand what i'm saying. so the only way to calm nerds about black storm troopers isn't to recast "star wars" but to have a cherished character explain. example -- lando carlissian could be talking to admiral akbar -- "calm down, everybody. it's a black storm trooper. it wasn't my fault!" or obi-wan -- "this is not the black storm trooper you're looking for. move along. move

nerds are upset at black storm troopers in the "star wars" movie. do they have a problem with a storm trooper being black? no they have a problem with you changing their definition of a storm trooper. let me be a little clearer -- if

joining me, the nerd olivia sterns. brendan greeley is off today. let's get some nerd news. olivia: all right, tom. nerd news. ftc staff members oppose the deal, concluding that it will not help consumers. they conclude that the merger should be sent to a hearing. that could be a significant roadblock for comcast and time warner. no one involved in the talks is commenting on the record. in brazil, the national oil company has put a price tag on its widespread corruption. petrobras will pay more than $2 billion. petrobras was linked to a decade of alleged kickbacks, bribes, and inflated contracts. the british trader accused of helping cause the 2012 flash crash spent the night in jail. sarao will fight extradition to the u.s. he must agree to stay at his parents' home and not use the internet. i am not making this up. lawyers say he helped to manipulate the market and helped wipe out more than $1 trillion of value. facebook said sales rose 42% in the quarter. facebook generates more than half its revenue outside the u.s. the chief operating officer said the company is finding

although my wife has now determined that not only am i a nerd, my son is a nerd, too.m very happy about that. we are nerding out. he is a four-year-old that loves arduino programming. emily: is he going to learn how to code? max: he already knows how to code! emily: and he's four? max: he is four and a half. one of his favorite games is playing with blinking lights and making them blink to music. emily: how much faith do you still have that yahoo! can be turned around? max: i have lots of faith in marissa. she has the drive. ♪ emily: if you could master one skill that you haven't mastered yet, what would it be? max: parenting. emily: what would you title your autobiography? max: "drive." emily: "drive"? max: i am not sure that is a good title, but the number one -- one of the, sort of, things i keep on coming back to as i age and try to be a better parent, i always come back to where did it all begin. what is the one thing that makes me who i am? and i am 100% sure that's drive. that i got from my grandmother. i remember vividly thinking to myself, my god, she is like

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coming up behind the scenes of the nerd prom.the star studded white house correspondents dinner where the lines between politicians and the press are blurred for the sake of comedy. but who was the funniest? ahead in the next half hour -- >> the national conversation, bruce jenner's interview with diane sawyer bringing transgender issues to the forefront. how jenner's revelation is paving the way. what an incredible interview. you're watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations. [female narrator] foods rich in folic acid like white bread and leafy greens can help prevent some birth defects before you even know you're pregnant. ♪ ♪ what great music for the nerd prom. they call it the nerd prom. i feel bad. some of our fellow correspondents are down there. they call it the oscars. >> don't feel bad. >> it really is the nerd prom. >> yeah. >> they call it the oscars of washington. others refer to it -- i can say nerd prom for the rest of the year every day. regardless of what n

>> nerd prom the movie.com. a great adventure for a former political reporter. your new life. >> i know. thanks a lot. >> good to see you. watch the white house correspondent correspondent's dinner here. alex will host live at 9:00 eastern tomorrow night. that does it for this week and "andrea mitchell reports." follow online on twitter. msnbc live with thomas roberts is up next. jeff... hey, scott! this is no time for lollygaggin', lad. the chickweed and the dandelions are reekin' mad havoc! now's the time to send in the scotts turf builder weed and feed, man! it kills weeds while it feeds and strengthens your grass. feed your lawn. feed it! sometimes the present looked bright. sometimes romantic. there were tears in my eyes. and tears in my eyes. and so many little things that we learned were really the biggest things. through it all, we saved and had a retirement plan. and someone who listened and helped us along the way. because we always knew that someday the future would be the present. every someday needs

"nerd prom" is online right now.oducers plan to release it on i tune amazon and netflix sometime soon. >>> metro concerned about passengers pushing their luck not on the trains but on the tracks themselves. the news 4 i-team obtained shocking videos. check out these surveillance cameras which police say show nearly a dozen metro passengers intentionally trespassing on the track since late last year. including one couple that decided to turn the train station into their own personal photo shoot. some people jumping up and down on the tracks and then a man then snapping pictures as she strikes yoga poses. they go down there for a variety of reasons. to retrieve personal property, some do it as a game. why they go down is a mystery. >>> as for the personal property part of things. metro training and police say passengers are increasingly losing cell phones on the tracks but should never try to recover them. instead, ask metro staff for help. chuck? >> all right. temperatures outside have made it into the upper 40s to ne

first of all works will be the biggest nerd at the nerd prom and then secondly when obama did that littleduring the state of the union when he said yeah because i won twice and clowned them. do you think we'll have a reprisal of some of that stuff? >> i hope so. he's always good when he's off script. looking very much forward to madeleine albright and the actress who plays the secretary of state of state tea leoni because that's great to have an actress. >> so at the end of the day do you think cecily strong is going to be very very funny or kind of funny? >> i think she's going -- i think she will be very good. don't forget she's not a stand-up, but it will be the strength of her writers and she will experience writing staff with "saturday night live," worked there for eight years. great people there. they will make sure this is good and tested and i have no doubt that the room will be cheering for her and want her to succeed and i think will go well. >> all right. dean obadiah, john fueling sang and zerlina. thanks for joining us. alex witt will anchor live coverage of the correspondent

z/ ♪ what great music for the nerd prom. they call it the nerd prom. i feel bad.of our fellow correspondents are down there. they call it the oscars. >> don't feel bad. >> it really is the nerd prom. the oscars of washington. others refer to it -- i can say nerd prom for the rest of the yearia every day. regardless of what nickname you use, this weekend's correspondents dinner was packed with all these punch lines. >> president obama had no trouble working the 2016 contenders into his routine. there was boos beautiful women, superstars, of course t.j. holmes was there on assignment and has all the highlights. >> look out washington hollywood's in town. >> i love this. this event is amazing >> our favorite celebs hitting the red carpet at the white house correspondent's dinner. >> for the stars of blackish it's a first. >> you've been landed die row copters on the lawn of the white house. i park myself next to the exit in case something goes down. >> this is my first. >> this is my first, as well. >> it's exciting. a bucket list situation. >> the perfect segue for

everybody calls themselves a nerd. so i think it is nerds have taken that word back. watch our full interview on our website. back with the roundtable now. ted, tim and connie all will be on the red carpet tonight. connie why are you here? what is about it a hollywood. i've met some people over the years. people are all showing for this thing. and you are here. >> creative coalition asked me to come and participate in their yearly advocation for arts day. and we did that today. we advocated for arts programs all over capitol. and it was an incredible day. and it was just also one of the most interesting days in my life. thank you so much tim for letting me come and be part of this. >> you're so welcome. yeah for us work today was a big workday workday. and tomorrow is -- i've said this before. but to me going to that big party is sort of like same zoo, different animals. we get to gawk at people who we're sort of impressed to see, who we've seen on tv a lot but not people we know from our own business. so it is a lot of fun. it is interesting and it's changed a lot. i

. >>> it is now known as nerd prom an event where politicians and press meet for a night to make fun of each other. >> it is also a chance for commander and chief to be comedian in chief. ron clay burn has a look at last night's classic one liners. >> reporter: saturday night live cecily talk about the president for sagging poll numbers and grange hair. >> your gray hair is at 85 percent. your hair is so white you can talk back to the police. >> reporter: nerd promise the night president can be roasted and poke fun at others. >> mr. president, do you have a bucket list. i said, well, i have something that rhyme was bucket list. take executive action on immigration, buck it. >> reporter: michael key repriced his comedy central character luther the angry translator what kind of super short sighted irresponsible. >> wow wow wow. >> you don't need a translator. you need cops. >> ron clay burn abc news, new york. >>> they call it the most fun you can have in a bed with the clothes on. twenty-third annual red ribbon bed race. the it rolled through key west florida once again this weekend.

#baltimore #[bleep] nerd prom that's a [bleep]. >> nerd prompt! >> jon: yes. >> has baltimore forgotten district 13? they best apologize to the capitol press corps or the odds will not be in their favor! >> jon: thank you jessica. jessica williams everybody. we'll be right back. (cheers and appl after a long day of doing man stuff, me and fellas trust dial for men power scrub to give us a clean we can be proud of. over engineered with unstoppable orange oil and micro scrubbers [band]: unstoppable it leaves us honkingly gorgeous. dial for men. proudly over engineered. sometimes the present looked bright. sometimes romantic. there were tears in my eyes. and tears in my eyes. and so many little things that we learned were really the biggest things. through it all, we saved and had a retirement plan. and someone who listened and helped us along the way. because we always knew that someday the future would be the present. every someday needs a plan. talk with us about your retirement today. well, he's leveraged to the hilt. [shrieks] [laughing] avvo? i

it's dubbed the nerd prom.lmost forgot that. >> i love that. >> are we nerds as journalists. >> i think we kind of are. >> good to have you here. >> good to be here. >> on a pretty day. >> turned out beautiful. 64 degrees below average felt so warm today. >> it was so pretty. it was a slow walk inside today. >> yes, absolutely. kind of day you wanted to be outside. yesterday ended up being nice in the afternoon. it was my dad's wedding. shout out to him. >> congratulations. >> it was wonderful. turned out to be a really beautiful afternoon for pictures so we have that. let's take a look outside now and you can see a lot of folks down on the ocean city boardwalk enjoying a cool but pleasant evening. live on skycam3 it's still nice and bright outside down in ocean city cape may county, some people walking onto the beach right now and down the shore a little cooler at the coast it always is unless you get that nice west wind but the wind off the water on the immediate beach and boardwalk you definitely need the ja

united states is buying up nerds, nerd mercenaries "nerdcenaries."elcome back our senior international correspondent mr. trevor noah. trevor! ( cheers and applause ) >> thank you. >> jon: very delighted to have you here. >> thank you very much. jon. it's an absolute pleasure to be back here to talk about chess. the game of kings smart checkers ( snoring ) black and white hockey squares. the history of chess stretches back centuries -- come on, jon jon! >> jon: i'm sorry, i didn't realize how boring chess was until someone else started talking about it. all right. >> if americans are so bored by chess why are you stealing everyone else's players. >> jon: we would like to win. let's face facts. we could patiently build a home-grown chess team through years of hard work but years of hard work. we'd rather just buy them. >> you know what jon, does america really need to be the best at everything? i mean you already dominate world in economics, military power, obesity. ( laughter ) >> jon: you're very kind. we have the most dakotas. >> you have so many da

nerds like me, we watch c-span and we can pick out those people. >> i am a proud nerd who needs to getn here. if you are the head of white house correspondents' association and you want to book cesily strong for dinner, who do you call? her publicist? no, you call her dad. seriously, that's what happened. how she found out she was the one. why do we do it? why do we spend every waking moment, thinking about people? why are we so committed to keeping you connected? why combine performance with a conscience? why innovate for a future without accidents? why do any of it? why do all of it? because if it matters to you, it's everything to us. the xc60 crossover. from volvo. lease the well equiped volvo xc60 today. visit your local volvo showroom for details. get ahead of the curve with t-mobile. and get your hands on the new samsung galaxy s6 edge all for just zero down, now nothing is holding you back. get it today. at t-mobile. we alwith a shout,world and we see no reason to stop. so cvs health is creating industry-leading programs and tools that help people stay on medicines as their doc

definitely still raining but more scat nerd nature, you get the idea. things will really start to taper off for us here very quickly, meantime our temperatures are actually still off to mild start. tends to have sort every delayed reaction when

definitely still raining but more scat nerd nature, you get the idea. things will really start to taper off for us here very quickly, meantime our temperatures are actually still off to mild start. tends to have sort every delayed reaction when it comes to the cooler air really catching up in the wake every frontal boundaries, so it will and it will balance out our temperatures today not going to even though we start off so mild, warm up, anywhere past probably the mid or upper six's here in any given location, down the shore currently in the mid and upper 50's but the best you can hope for here today. wet with more sunshine on these icons for you, yes even though we start off with the rain, should quickly clear out of here, so mid 60s the expectation at the shore points in philadelphia, little cooler in the mountains as is typical, but much nicer day coming up hereby comparison. >> i know yes had nice weather but man fired up last night. >> certainly d those storms woke me up. i thought i left my electronic dance music on in beat, but no. >> sure, you

she calls me her favorite giants nerd. that's what works for us. >> reporter: you're very well equipped for tonight. going to the game tonight, but over the weekend as well, right? >> yeah, going to hit sunday's game. going to be great. go giants! >> reporter: if you are heading to the game this weekend for both saturday and sunday, we have the forecast right now. we will have some patchy fog to deal with for both games and temperatures will be in the upper 50s to right around 60 degrees. overall, looks like a great starting week for the games here at at&t park in san francisco. lot of excitement here, as you can see out toward the park. just all around me. bill? >> great night out there. first friday night game for the giants. how great is that? >> what a spectacular night to be out at the ballpark. >> clear skies. it's beautiful out there when it's like this. looking forward to a good weekend. we'll have more with you coming up. bill will be back in 10 minutes with the rest of your forecast. the ktvu weather team is post

what's great about that is i feel like nerds everywhere sit with their friends and have conversationso then answer the question you discussed and it's like what everyone would hope is that one day you're going to get asked that question you wasted all this time talking about. [ laughter ] >> you were the ultimate nerd. >> seth: you are the ultimate nerds. [ applause ] george has said he wrote these books to almost make them impossible to film. he never thought they'd be adapted. one of the things you guys found out that is especially tricky about this show is how hard it is to work with horses. >> yeah. i mean, i think when -- [ light laughter ] when we went into it, we had no idea that it was going to be hard because we were [ bleep ] idiots. >> seth: right. [ laughter ] we had no experience. we'd never produced a television show. we never produced a movie, an internet thing, anything. >> seth: your credit was knowing who john snow's mother was. [ laughter ] >> yeah. i mean, you laugh, but that's the truth. >> ignorance is a powerful weapon. >> seth: absolutely. >> and so going into

>> reporter: the 89th annual white house correspondents' dinner fondly referred to as nerd prom, and i was right in the middle checking in on the annual event's unique blend of political powerhouses, business moguls like donald trump. are you going to be the one headlining on the stage at this event? >> stranger things have happened. >> reporter: and a-listers like "modern family's" julie bowen. >> it's chaos here. i kind of like it. >> reporter: "scandal" star darby stanchfield. >> it's good to be back. >> reporter: i even ran into domestic diva martha stewart. this is actually my first time at the dinner. what would you warn me about? >> don't miss a thing. >> reporter: the dinner hosted by the white house press corps gives washington reporters the chance to turn the tables and play host to the president who traditionally comes armed with wisecracks for the media. >> usually the only people impersonating journalists on cnn are journalists on cnn. >> reporter: even landing a few punch lines on the vice president and himself. >> after the midterm elections my advisers asked me, mr. p

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joining me, the nerd olivia sterns. brendan greeley is off today. let's get some nerd news.erd news. ftc staff members oppose the deal, concluding that it will not help consumers. they conclude that the merger should be sent to a hearing. that could be a significant roadblock for comcast and time warner. no one involved in the talks is commenting on the record. in brazil, the national oil company has put a price tag

this wall of america has been transformed in to the wall of nerds. hello, herds. -- nerds.hese are your homes and all of the stuff in the background is real memorabilia. how many of you have marvel comic-related tattoos on your body. >> i do. >>. >> jimmy: we have one, two. let's start with shane here who's in the corner. shane has the account america thing on. shane -- >> hey. >> jimmy: let's bring up other ones that had tattoos. where's shane? he seems to have disappeared -- oh, hi, shane. you are in new city, new york. >> yes. >> jimmy: show us your tattoo. what do you have? >> okay. >> jimmy: oh, no. what is that? >> it is hsl. the tree of the universe. it is from thor's world. >> jimmy: wow. >> yes. and we have raven who watches over the universe. probably watching your show right now. >> jimmy: looks like he is watching your jgenitalia right now. who else has a tattoo? let's go to ashley right now. ashley, what's your -- >> don't make fun of me, all right. >> jimmy: i'd never make fun of you, ashley. i will leave that to -- oh, my god, you are naked. i don't think thi

they have no problem being called nerds. >> i am definitely a nerd. >> nerds have jobs. >> he's not kiddingthese kids already have after school jobs and it's not flipping burgers. >> some of us work at the local engineering firm. sometimes they forget we're in high school. >> they're calling us at like 1:30 i'm in the middle of my fifth period. >> just listening to these kids talk is easy to forget they're only in high school. >> cyberwarfare is really attractive to other countries, it's affordable and allows them to strike at other countries and whatever political interest they don't like with relative impunity and takes damage. >> it's unique to attack but very difficult to defend. >> all the experts agree, america needs lot more kids like the ones in huntsville. hacker attacks aren't just occasional headlines any more they have become routine. >> secret service is investigating one of the largest threats of credit card and debit card information ever. >> reports say hackers may have stolen up to $8 -- 80 million records. >> suppose i pick 100 american companies at random. how many of the

. >> welcome to nerd prom. >> well this is the scene inside the washington hilton ballroom right now.he president, first lady and a sea of high powered guests getting ready for the big moment. before they got inside, the crowd braved the red carpet where we saw on full display, a pretty amazing mix. it only happens here in the nation's capitol america's most powerful rubbing elbows with some of america's most famous. >> what are you most excited about? >> seeing our president. i've never been never seen him in person. and everybody just tells me it's a really wonderful, fun time, so i'm so excited to be hear here. zpl i already met the person i most wanted to meet who was norman reedous, from the walking dead. my one goal was to say hello to him. he was so nice so my work here is is done. >> is oprah going to be here? i heard that and i will absolutely die. >> we were just standing next to martha stewart. >> i was shaking. i didn't get a picture. >> there's still time. >> we're going to tackle her, don't worry. >> i've been asking people who they most want to meet. is that the person

>> that's what i'm saying, presidents should be a nerd. don't want an accountant that rolls up on a motor bike with a leather jacket. i want a nerd. >> i mean, reagan was the cool actor rock 'n' roll guy. but that's then. tonight is now. out of all of hillary's accomplishments, what is your favorite one? >> i think it's living really the american dream for a powerful woman which is to marry a powerful man and ride all of his success to the heights of power. >> i can be president, too. >> he will be cheating on you quite a bit. >> the thing that i think is going on here, she's trying to balance her fear of interacting with regular people with the demands of doing so to become president. she's being living the 1% life for so long and you're surrounded by people who just look up to you and are always kissing up to you and things like that. now she's going to have to touch people who have been in iowa. this is just a very frightening thought. she would really like to be able to run this campaign being on the spruce goose and not having to inte

they're using the same hash tag, nerd prom, but talking about baltimore. looking at one that is saying, the red carpet is happening at the same time police are fighting in riot gear with protesters 30 miles away. people want to be a part of that conversation. >> yeah, it's important. i do want to get to the red carpet, to brianna keilar, jon favreau. >> hey >> i'm joined now by a special guest, kate anderson brower, whose new book, which is a scintillating work inside the white house to the men and women over the decades have served the president. it's called "the residents." it goes to number one on "the new york times" best seller list. so congratulations. >> thank you. also kevin spacey's production company has bought the rights to it. it's kind of like a "house of cards," the butlers, the maids, the chefs, you know how they interact with the first family at the white house, the human story. >> you were a white house correspondent and this is how you came up with the idea. tell us about that. >> i was a white house correspondent for bloomberg news for s

this is beyond nerd element.billion. j.j. abrams in my opinion is the perfect director to bring the series back to where it needs to be because episodes one through three i did not really care for. four, five, six i am more of an empire strikes back. did a really great job with rebooting the star trek series. now we get episode seven. everything about this trailer. tell me you didn't get a little teary eyed when you saw him say we are home. >> a lot of people did not see that particular thing you are talking about right there. let's play it for you. watch this. >> chewy, we're home. >> it's just something about it. years later with chewbacca who has not aged a day. they are back in action. and here is the beauty of it all. it hit all nostalga elements. they are bringing back carey fisher harrison ford, r 2 d 2. they have bb 8 who looks unbelievably cool. i was online yesterday late for an important meeting because i was streaming the character and they brought out the character. i had nerd tears down my face. you

laughter] the cast of game of thrones is here, and they tell me that even they have never seen this many nerds before. naomi campbell is here. naomi, you are lucky hillary is not here, as if you through your blackberry at her she would delete everything right off of it. [laughter] hillary said she used her private e-mails because she didn't want to use more than two devices. if that sounds familiar, it's also one of the roles from the sex contract in 50 shades of grey. the cast of downton abbey is here. thanks for the generous donation -- speaking of aaron, you may notice i'm a little tan. i just got back from the most fabulous trip that aaron took me on, and i from a instagram photos to share with you, so. you are probably familiar with this picture of him surfing in hawaii. see, there's me. i didn't even need a surfboard, i just use his abs. then he went diving into this swimming pool he had built. it hurt when i landed. here is me and aaron skydiving. he said his made his own parachute out of gifts his constituents made him. his netsuite? -- isn't that sweet? here we are at the eiffel tower

for the white house correspondents dinner affectionately known as nerd prom.ily strong was the featured entertainer at the political joke fest. >>> back to drew for the weather. no joke. cool outside. dry though. >> cool and drier conditions are prevailing and now we are tracking a rapid warmup over the next couple of days. rain we had earlier today is out of here. in the wake of the cold front the winds are active. sso had a peak wind gust of 45 miles an hour. now down to 24. oakland 10 mile an hour wind gusts. half moon bay 26 miles an hour. the winds today kept temperatures below normal. open up the almanac on the 25th day of april everyone was below where they should be this time of the year. san jose up to 64. that's shy of their average high of 72. outside on this saturday evening cool in spots like danville 47 degrees. 56 concord. 54 oakland. the same in mountain view and san jose at 53. satellite and radar will show you the area of low pressure responsible for the morning rain. that's exiting. high pressure is moving in. these are opposing forces and i

is this indeed the nerd prom?al little become a celebration of celebrity now. i started going to this dinner in the mid-'80s errand ran the dinner one year when i was president of the white house correspondents' association. boy, has it changed since then it's really become a spectacle in some ways but an example of our celebrity driven culture and president obama is the perfect sample example of how presidents can intersect with this. he understands popular culture, he participates in it and we'll see him participate in this top of the line dinner font celebrating celebrity. >> what do you expect will be the focus of the president's jokes tonight? what or who will take it the hardest? >> reporter: well, president obama has shown a willingness over the years to zing not only members of his own party and the opposition party the republicans but zing the media. i think you'll see a lot of that. i think you'll see a lot of his making fun of the media in many ways and the republicans, particularly the republican presi

announcer: that was patrick gavin, an interview done with with him regarding his "nerd prom: inside washington'sst week." if you have a criticism of a dinner or something you want to say about it, you can tweet us as well. you can follow and make comments on facebook, as well. ♪ announcer: the predinner program is due to begin in 10 minutes. they often push it late. as you can imagine the logistics , serving 2600 people are not necessarily simple. the washington hilton has gotten used to it. we talked to the general manager about what it takes. >> our staff is 1000 team members. about 700 full-time. maybe about 300 onside, 200 banquet servers. we have 50 managers that serve as human greeters to get everybody where they need to go. and then, we have three folks that focus on nothing but tying bowties. you wouldn't believe the number of people who don't know how. >> some of the staffers have worked the dinner fairly often in the past several years. >> our executive chef, this will be his 11th dinner. he began with us 11 years ago. and his first night working was for the white house associations di

. >> samome fans of game of thrones are here and then of them saw so many nerds before. >>> amelia'sg rain on the storm team 4 radar, she'll show us when things will dry out and when we might get a warmup. >>> and he spent more than four days in what he calls a concrete coffin. tonight in >>> our team coverage of that deadly earthquake picks up in ashburn. a local man spent four days in the rubble when another earthquake hit india in 2001. he made it out alive and shares his story. >> lie down. >> okay. okay. >> reporter: the man emerging from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in india is vira. he was 25 years old. he spent 4 1/2 days in what he described as a concrete coffin unsure if he would ever be rescued. >> i was in total darkness. i didn't know where i was. >> reporter: it happened in 2001. he was staying in an apartment with relatives, and he heard thunder. >> the sound of thunder was coming from beneath the ground. >> reporter: then everything began to shake. >> it was 8 to 10 inches i had no control over myself. >> reporter: he remembers looking up and the ceili

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