so when he asked him, why is nick sending you money?viously, they're not going to say the true reason why i'm -- they're not going to tell on themselves. so the obvious reason is to say, yeah, he owed it to us for whatever reason it was. so ralph not believing what i had to say but believing them wrote me up for it instead. >> the thing about with mr. compton, this ain't the first time he's tried to pull something, not only here but at other facilities. tried to get protective custody. it's one of them things where he got caught up this time. i've got other information from other sources stating he likes to get in debt and can't pay his debt. so that's a behavioral thing. so what you do is discipline the behavior. that's what we're doing. he's still going to protective custody. we have to do something to protect him. he's going home here shortly. it might be moved a little bit further back because of the conduct report. but that's not my decision. at this point compton's case is closed. >> later with the video camera we provided him, co

what do you know, nick?ter: don, i just got off the phone with the pottawatomie county sheriff mike booth. he tells me that a fatality is an older adult male. died as a result of the tornado. he was a resident of the trailer home, trailer park. also, two people still missing and still unaccounted for. he tells me that the sheriff's office, deputies there are conducting search and rescue operations. there's piles of debris everywhere, don, making it really, really difficult for the sheriffs there. he also tells me in regards to the injuries. he says a few people, he didn't have an exact number for us, but he says a few people were transported by ambulance with minor injuries. he also said there were two serious injuries with lacerations, and currently the medical examiner is on the scene. don, the sheriff mike booth tells me they are going to be there a while. >> all right. thank you, nick valencia. safe travels to you. we'll get back to nick as he gets more information. i want you to take a look at this vide

it is the nick gillespie story by nick gillespie. and why is peta upset about chris christie?>> is he a thug for killing a bug? peta is upset at chris christie for squashing a spider in front of a group of fourth graders. the new jersey governor's office captured it on camera. >> we are are in -- >> any bugs you can kill them and not get in trouble. >> that's why he is protest penalty. he likes to kill things and it makes me sick to my stomach he took so much glee in killing the harmless spider. what was peta's take on the nonevent? said the group's president, quote, he probably did it without thinking. oh i think he did. some people put the spider outside, but spiders are often scary to people and it can prevent them from pondering their worth. so true. let's scaws this in -- >> lightning rooooouuuunnndddd. lightning round. >> peta called out president obama for killing a fly in 2009. so at least they are fair in their stupidity. >> they are not mammal centric. their primary function is to remind you of why you stop talking to people the minute you learn they are vegans. >> d

. >> this is the place where nick lost his friend. the steps of the town hall in the bulgarian coastal city. at the end of february, he stood outside the building, covered himself in petrol, and set himself on fire. >> i do not want to believe that he is not here. i am still believing that some day, he will come back. >> residents have piled up stones on the town hall steps. it is a bulgarian customs from the 19th century. if the stones reach a certain height, the local mayor has to quit. the huge protests that caused the government to resign earlier this year began over high energy prices, but there was also anger over shady links between officials and businesses and the control of the mafia. he is a vocal critic of a business group called t.i.m. it is the most powerful company in bulgaria. "out with t.i.m." says this placard. the country has a broad range of interests. nick says they have close links with politicians as well. he says they began making money through shady privatization deals in the 1990's after the fall of communism.

. >> reporter: nick springer and his dad are packing up his dorm room at university of maryland baltimore county. nick was among those alerted by text message about a stabbing on campus that occurred in his building in erickson hall. the crime is considered unusual. >> i think yesterday's incident was probably an isolated event. the security here like erickson is really intense. so i'm sure the other person must have been a student here. >> reporter: reports say campus police were called to the hall for a knife attack about 6 a.m. saturday. one student was found stabbed and taken to union memorial hospital in baltimore with nonlife threatening injuries. police took into custody a student who had withdrawn from school. students identified the potential probable with a campus that lies in the middle of -- problem with a campus that lies in the middle of a major metropolitan area. >> we've had some other things happen this semester and last semester, but nothing quite as big as this. >> we get e-mails and text messages about things going on around the area as well if

just like now i'm here with nick because i want to be here with nick because i don't wanna see him leave and he has college age children and they going to my hometown which is new york and then they will be a part of my family. they'll be going to college there. i thank you all in advance. >> thank you miss stacy. there's miss stacy rule here at the board of supervisors so we will now call upon our police department, inspector fong or keller. >> good afternoon, i'm [inaudible] on behalf of [inaudible] has filed an application with the california department of alcoholic beverage control seeking a type 21 general license for 522 sutter street. from december 2011 to december 2012, we have one police call for service and no police report. notification date for the [inaudible] on november 6, 2012 and the notice to the public was post on [inaudible] and this plot has 380 police report recorded for 2012 and the applicant premises is located in a high crime year. this premises is located on [inaudible] with population of 3833. the officer [inaudible] three and the [inaudible] so the applicants p

nick kingston-persons. i'm m.c.'ing the show tonight. - nick, nice to meet you. - you said my name. and said my name. - you're--you hurt my arm. - oh, i'm sorry about that. wow, i mean, it's just-- i used to watch you on espn when i was a kid. - oh, when you were a kid. oh, that's great. makes me feel good. - hey, sweetheart. you look great. - thank you. - we're getting ready to start. are you ready? - yeah. - oh, wait, uh, dan, this is my wife, suzanne. suzanne, dan patrick. - pleasure to meet you. - nice to meet you. - [high-pitched voice] oh, my god! the dan patrick! give me a hug! [laughs] oh, my god. oh! it's so good to meet you! okay, so i'm not a big race car fan, but, you know, i've just heard so much about you. - no, that's danica patrick. i'm dan patrick. i don't drive race cars. - oh, your daughter. you must be so proud of her. - oh, okay, they're getting ready to start. dan, you should have a seat. you ready? - yes. - good luck. - all right. - okay. - love you. - love you too. - ladies and gentlemen, welcome. and now your host for the evening, seattle's own nick kingston

nick is in turkey. nick, first of all, president bush sold the iraq war as an opportunity to bring peace to the middle east but the sunnis overthrew saddam hussein in 2003 become politicalically marginalized by the shiite, the prime minister, calling for an end to the violence seems pretty ineffective here. now you've got violence happening. i mean, what has changed since the u.s. invaded iraq? >> what has changed is that the sunnis don't feel that they're being properly represented by the shiite-led government. they feel that the prime minister, nour al mall ki by going after people like the sunni vice president who has now fled iraq completely wanted on various charges, many sunnis feel an indication that this shiite led government was against sunniism. that fueled a deeper sectarian division. on friday, for example, there were attacks on sunnis. over the weekend you saw some random attacks on shias. and then on monday today these much more organized multiple car bombs attacking neighborhoods, again,

ithink when nick begins this story he goes in and he didn't know who he is or what he is. ends the book-- does he want to write? what is it his life journeying if to be? what's his relationship with people. he starts on his own to find out who he is and what he wants at the end of book. >> stephen: do people have to have read the book to enjoy the movie? >> no, the film needs to stand-- in fact, i've met many people now who have seen the filmand have gone to read the book. look, when fitzgerald guyed, he was buying copies of his own book. >> stephen: because no one was reading it, right? >> just so there were some sails. he was that forgotten, and the idea that last week he sold more books in one week than his entire lifetime, that alone i think is a positive outcome of the experience of making the film for me ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: you're an artist-- why do you think-- you're an artist who was accepted in his lifetime. i'm an artist suspected in my lifetime. are great artists more send after they're dead? >> you know what. i was reading a criticism of can the

nick, thank you very much. we're going to be checking back in with nick. but those women and how they're still looking for their children who are in school bring how frightening this is and how little we know right now about the human toll that these storms will take. let me bring in chad meyers. there are a lot of places under threat tonight. this happens. the storms we've been watching over the past week, right? when we saw them in north texas. now this hitting an area that has 200,000 people. it brings home the power of these storms in a way that we have not experienced. >> you know, you look at oklahoma on a map or go to google and you do the satellite and you see a lot of land. you don't see many cities. but the cities you see are right in the way of a tornado like this. eventually a tornado is going to get there. it is almost like a random event. there is no such thing as a bubble over a city or a heat island that is going to stop the city from getting hit that just doesn't exist. it's been a long time since we had a big tornado hit a big town like t

abc 7 news reporters nick nij and leslie brinkley are all live. let's go to sky 7 hd, live over a big rally at the civic center in san francisco. jonathan bloom begins our coverage using cell 7 technology. >> well, dan, you know the demonstration here at civic center plaza is kind of starting to break up at this point in time. we just heard a performance from a drum core, there are marching bands and speakers in english and spanish. speaking out on this day mai day about the fight for immigrant fights and fight for workers rights. representatives of several labor unions including fdiu. >> at issue was a bill on n.committee that could overhaul immigration laws. and we're looking at video. you can see a lot of people gathering here in san francisco civic center plaza it's a fraction of what we saw just hours ago. after the march from 24th and mission streets made rits l.res -- it's way up here to city hall. it's been very, very nice weather here this afternoon in part contributed to a huge turnout. somewhere between 1,000 to 2,000 people. slowly gai

nick valencia is in very hard hit shawnee, oklahoma. nick, what's the latest there?o the american red cross and they tell menu information, 200 homes damaged or destroyed. the hardest hit county in the state of oklahoma, potowme county. 300 homes damaged or destroyed. 28 people spent the night in two shelters. it's just a terrible situation for the people here this very hard hit community. behind me we're on the fringes of the trailer park. you see the images. that area devastated by the tornado. sometimes it's hard to get a sense of the damage. hard to understand the magnitude of just how powerful a tornado can be. this is a tree that's about 20 feet tall, 10-foot wide and its roots completely uprooted, lifted, put on its side. gives you a sense of how strong that tornado was that moved through here. overnight some good signs, a sigh of relief two people were reported missing initially unaccounted for in this trailer park behind me. the local sheriff here tells me those people were not here at the time the tornado hit they were staying with friends so that's a sigh

. >> next, we have nick. >> hello, i'm nick i'm currently a junior at abraham lincoln high school and i look forward to representing my school as an ac rep. >> thank you nick. i'd like to call elizabeth jones. >> hi i'm elizabeth jones i'm currently a sophomore and i'm looking forward to work with scc alongside the board of education (clapping). >> great neck we have fabian alvarez. >> hi i'm fabian alvarez i'm a tenth grader and i'm looking forward to working with you all. >> great. ashley >> hi my name is ashley and i'm a junior at george washington high school. i'm expected to work with you ail >> next, we have anthony chu. >> i'm anthony chu i'm at abraham lincoln high school i'm excited about working with you. >> next, we have miguel. fresh at the academy of arts and scientists. i'm excited to being an fcc member. thank you (clapping) >> thank you ma gel and hi i'm current a sophomore i looker forward to working with you guys the board of education. >> 15 we have evan lou. i'm currently is a jr. at gej george washington high school >> again let's giving up give is up one more tim

. >> nick i had one question. : >> are there any city gardeners that work on that square? >> yes, in 2002 we set up a structure, where we provided a baseline of services certainly in a communities benefit district and mjm provides services above that and we do have gardeners at the site. >> at square it's performed by city staff. >> thank you. >> and nick, i just noticed, in the supplemental maintenance agreement, that was executed in 2007 and had a five-year term with four automatic extensions. did they request an extension in 2012? >> we did an extension in 2012. >> that is the question. that is fine. thanks. okay. entertain a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> moved and seconded, all those in favor? >> aye. >> so moved. thank you. >> we are on item 9 union square park centralof understanding between the recreation and park department and the san francisco municipal transportation agency. >> good morning commissioners, katie petrucione, here to ask for our approval of a memorandum of understanding between the department and the san francisco municipal transportation agen

nick? >> it's about and back here i'm going to go back to video now. you can see the group starting to move down the street. they did not have a permit to gather so here about 125 people have taken off from 14th and broadway moving down 14th street. organizers behind fight for 15 oakland say it's all about learning -- earning a liveable wage. the current minimum wage is $8 an hour. the group says san francisco has $10 an hour. may day at the launch because it take they say saying many striking in new york and chick. the group started to move down 14th street and being followed by members of the oakland police department. they say they every intern on keeping property, and people safe. nick smith abc 7 news. >> a man who attacked police at last year's may day demonstration will go to prison. jesse nesbit found guilty of swault a deadly weapon for lobbing bricks off a person, one person hit in the face. >> another big story, fire danger due to a dry weather, firefighters trying to keep a fire from reaching more populated areas. that fire burned 1500 acre

and a sharp take on what is going on, my colleague nick robinson of the bbc.e will start with you. does tell us what we might expect today and is a good to be bold and ambitious or not gecko >> what will be striking about it will be what is removed before she reads it. there is a phrase used by the conservatives new election strategist about brushing off the barnacles of the boat as it heads to a general election. removing plans for new laws that will upset voters and said the tory parliamentary party as well. on plain wrapping for cigarette papers, no measures moral democrats -- liberal democrats about electronic communications. all examples of things the government wants to get rid of. what it will try to do is focus on the really important things, the economy and immigration. it will be an ambitious program. smoke these things are still being consulted on and not ready for discussion. we are concentrating on jobs, they have already announced that the insurance benefit all over -- thation businesses will help them employ more people. and some radical measure

kinsey >> speak into the mic. >> sorry >> you are too tall for the mic. >> every time, nick kinsey, director of property management for the rec and park department and happy to bring before the commission today a new lease and management agreement with one of our longest and cherished partners the botanical garden society and since 1955 the botanical garden society has provided crucial support to the department as we have managed and operated a really living museum. the botanical gardens support for the garden has included building and operating the hellonen crocker library and funding the botanical garden master plan that was completed as a submaster plan to the golden gate park master plan and providing important educational programss for youth and outreach to visitors. also importantly paying for an 11th gardener each year at the gardens to help us maintain it in world-class condition. and then providing critical curatorial and plant collection development support to assist the department in keeping that living museum thriving. most recently, the botanical garden support has incl

nick. i think that the pressure for vocationalism poses a very serious threat and it's also the case at least some of those who are pushing a vocational agenda for higher education are doing so on the basis of the perception that higher education leans very far to the left and this is a great opportunity to make sure that they get their comeuppance and replace the research university with liberal leanings with something quite different. i will say that there is more divergence here among conservatives than might be imagined there are interesting threads of conversation happening now between traditionalists conservatives and libertarian with the traditionalists saying, we're not comfortable with this new emphasis on vocationalism because it squeezes out the teaching of the western tradition, traditional liberal arts education, and would say they want to resist those urges so see what happens in the coming years but during periods of institutional crisis, many different possibilities rise to

nick smith, abc7 news. >> nick, thank you. people who saw the fire say it was intense. lilian kim talked with two witnesses. she is live on the west side of the san mateo bridge. lilian? >> ama, this is where it happened just over 24 hours ago on the decline section of the san mateo bridge. there were many people who drove by the burning limo including a brother and sister from daily city. daly city. >> oh there is traffic here. ma maybe there is an accident. >> she was driving home on saturday night with her brother, carlos when traffic slowed down in the westbound lanes of the san mateo bridge. they realized something was on fire when they saw a huge plume of smoke and then flames. this is video shot from their car. >> it was big. it was like fire. it was a lot. >> it happened just after 10:00 p.m. the chp is investigating how the fire started. witnesses reported seeing smoke come out from the rear of the vehicle before it was engulfed in flames. >> it was intense and the flames were pretty big. i could feel the window down and the heat from the fire. >> a couple of p

nick, this is really a stunning kind of terrorism. what is the latest we know about the victim and the man in custody? >> reporter: we don't have a name for the victim yet. he is believed to be an active service duty soldier. we have very few details about the two men involved. they both appear to be relatively young, early to mid 20s. described as afro caribbean, quite tall. beyond that, very few details. both being held in separate hospitals at this time. no indications yet, other than what they have said about where they might come from. but that is perhaps the biggest clue. their accents do appear to be very pronounced british accents, anderson. >> so, again, we don't know if they are british-born, raised in england. do we know anything about kind of the level of planning of this attack? >> reporter: well, the indications are, and this really frenzied attack that was utterly brutal and going through it for them would have been traumatic experience. the fact that they then stayed there for almost 30 minutes before the police arrive

i'm joined now from moore, oklahoma, but our nick valencia there reporting through all of this. nick, thanks for being with us this morning, and i know that you attended some of those graduation ceremonies that happened in the convention center in oklahoma city yesterday. what was that like? >> reporter: it was a very emotional day. it was the first time we saw a lot of people smiling, hugging. it's as if they had, you know, taken the day to forget about what happened just a few days before. a lot of these students, pope, that were graduating. they lost friends. they lost family members. they lost their homes. so it was really was for a brief moment in time a return to normalcy. we spoke to one student who had talked about how he had been so stressed out and really devastated with depression throughout week and how much he was looking forward to that day of graduating and just for a very brief moment putting what happened earlier this week behind him. you know, 24 people were killed. thousands of homes were destroyed, and many of these residents here were impacted. it's tough to

nick berg. >> my name is nick berg, the general manager of the soma grand. we have approximately 246 residential condominiums. we are very supportive of not just the renewal, but the expansion. currently we are just outside of the central market boundaries and this expansion will include us. our residents have obviously invested a lot to live in central market. they have a vital interest in not just cleanliness, but safety in the neighborhood. so i just wanted to express my support for the expansion. >> thank you very much. now i have no other cards. are there any other persons who would like to speak? fantastic, why don't you come up? >> yes. i am jim chapel and as an urban planner i have worked in central market for 30 years. and 7 years ago, things began to change, and i think you have all seen a great deal of change and i have to say a lot of the credit goes to the central market community benefit district and the work that they have done. for the last year i have had the privilege of welcoming on the mjm management team and working with the steering com

and nick in his vision, nick who served actually as the head of foundry for a kindred institution across the bay, the crucible came up with this amazing vision of this hand crafted bell that each speaker as they get up here today will put another ring on at the very end, we have a very special guest, who will do the final ringing and we will open up for the day. so for my ring, i want to honor our institutional history and memory and for all of those who have come before us. thank you, dennis very much. >> our next speaker needs no introduction, he is a advocate for redevelopment and believes in buildinging the peaceful communications and a great communitier and collaborative or and reorganizing agency to better serve all of us in the bay area and coming all of those to come to the exporatorium he is a walking billboard for this place. please welcome san francisco mayor ed lee. [ applause ] thank you, dan. dan i just wanted to say, thank you for your great work and leadership, you are quickly earning, this new title that we are creating here, explainer extradinaire. in fact when we were

that was the march against month and us director and social professional media nick barnaby and you now want to chevron the company that finds itself in court this time trying to reverse an earlier ruling granting billions in damages to ecuadorian villagers now this suit fined chevron liable to the tune of nineteen billion dollars for the deliberate dumping of toxic waste in aqua door as far back as thirty years ago but several it has hired almost two thousand lawyers to fight this payment well our teeth political commentator sam sacks tells us more. the more than a decade long legal battle between chevron corp and tens of thousands of ecuadorian villagers took another turn this week as a federal judge in new york ordered this guy's chevron c.e.o. john watson to testify in the case and defend his company against an eighteen billion dollar legal settlement now here's the story in two thousand and one chevron bought texaco a company that drilled for oil in ecuador in this area over here and it's alleged that texaco contributed to the environmental contamination of the ecuadorian rain

nick smith is live with the story. nick. >> you just heard laura mention that woman in her piece. that woman was a 36-year-old who is one of four women currently employed here at fruit veil health care center. all worked here at one time except for one. she tells me everything went wrong. >> i was sitting behind the driver. he said it's -- the fire came out. i said there is a fire, stop the car, stop the car! and he stopped the car. and he just got out from the car. >> she says she crawled through the glass divider. she got stuck, and called out to the driver for help. >> let me get out from the car. he just opened the door that. is all he said. i asked him, help me, help me. bring out my head from the compartment. help me! i just squeezed over and slide myself. in the back. one of my friends came out. and i heard someone yelling. they were stuck. i tried to pull her out from there she made two trips before a good samaritan stopped her. >> i need to go back and save them. but... the man said, you cannot go back anymore. >> speaking with her was gut wrenching. it's clear she's stil

nick smith, abc7 news. >> nick, thank you. people who saw the fire say it was intense. lilian kim talked with two witnesses. she is live on the west side of the san mateo bridge. lilian? >> ama, this is where it happened just over 24 hours ago on the decline section of the san mateo bridge. there were many people who drove by the burning limo including a brother and sister from daily city. daly city. >> oh there is traffic here. ma maybe there is an accident. >> she was driving home on saturday night with her brother, carlos when traffic slowed down in the westbound lanes of the san mateo bridge. they realized something was on fire when they saw a huge plume of smoke and then flames. this is video shot from their car. >> it was big. it was like fire. it was a lot. >> it happened just after 10:00 p.m. the chp is investigating how the fire started. witnesses reported seeing smoke come out from the rear of the vehicle before it was engulfed in flames. >> it was intense and the flames were pretty big. i could feel the window down and the heat from the fire. >> a couple of p

nick robertson is out front in london.you have new video of how this happened at the end. >> very dramatic video. it was shot from an apartment building where the soldier was lying in the room. you can see there, one of the attackers moves towards police. there are two shots. he goes down. you see the police rush forward again. another of the attackers goes down on the ground. another shots fired again. and the police now have both in custody. >> nick, what can you tell us about those suspects? it seems they were able to capture additional people relatively quickly. and do you know if they were specifically targeting that soldier, lee rigby. >> a lot of questions were getting some answers, too. not whole answers. what we know is one of the alleged attackers was 22 years old. the other, 28 years old. a british born of nigerian heritage living here in london. he was someone who was attending an organization that had sympathies with al-qaida. both of these men are now known to have been at least coming under skrutny of a numb

. >> around calistoga, nick and his friends and family know the difference 24 skmours a night of high winds can make. >> we were aslee. it ended up being the oak tree it took down a power line. >> it was horrifying for my wife and i. for those minutes we're down there askplon i knew people were coming but minutes are lake hours. >> with five fires the darkness turned a little surreal with light policed being the dawn and smoke dominating the day this, is the yellow fire named after the ranch on chit continues to burn very smoky. and windy. scary. >> mostly wood and brush are burning. officially fire season has not bee gun will have you a mer intense season? its hard to tell. we'll have an earlier than normal fire season. >> sounds like we are. >> we are. >> more than enough for nick who lost much of what he obed including pictures of him and his wife in these frames. the photos burned. >> i was watching it go up saying i forgot by bicycle. you know? medicine. and i said i've got giant tickets up there. >> did you find them? >> yes. >> two silver linings. not only did he manage to find

nick have a learnsia.ound, john berman, pam la brown and george howell. they had to be moved because police have asked that all the media crews move out of the way. apparently there are a lot of houses in that area and they want to be able to hear in case there are people trapped under the rubble so they can get in and rescue them. so we are relocating them and they will be with us shortly with a live report from there. 145 people were sent to the hospital with injuries. ranging from minor to serious. about one-third of them are children. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen at the cnn center in atlanta with more on the effort to help all of the injured. and elizabeth, what type of injuries can we expect to see there? >> you know, zoraida, if you look historically at the kind of damage that other tornadoes have done. about half of the injuries are going to be from flying debris. especially wood. because so many homes are made out of wood. that they're used to dealing with that kind of issue. and th

nick. reporter: you know, at least two of the women who survived the fiery accident are in stanford medical center behind me. we have new to the abc newsroom video that shows how alarming this smoky, fiery car really was. look at this video. this is new to abc7 news, given to us by a viewer who happened to be passing by the burning limousine stopped on the bridge. now, traffic had already started to slow, so the driver pulled out the camera to capture the action. you can see the thick dark smoke covering the back of the stretch hem seen, even more disturbing are the flames in the back. you can see two cars pulled off the road. possibly attempting to help those trapped inside. today, family members and friends are shocked by what happened. ivy and roy knew one of the four women who escaped from the burning car. nelia arellano, and she is being treated for minor injuries, and they also knew the bride who did not escape the smoke and flames. [inaudible] >> friendly. yeah. reporter: the bride w

nick. reporter: you know, at least two of the women who survived the fiery accident are in stanford medical center behind me. we have new to the abc newsroom video that shows how alarming this smoky, fiery car really was. look at this video. this is new to abc7 news, given to us by a viewer who happened to be passing by the burning limousine stopped on the bridge. now, traffic had already started to slow, so the driver pulled out the camera to capture the action. you can see the thick dark smoke covering the back of the stretch hem seen, even more disturbing are the flames in the back. you can see two cars pulled off the road. possibly attempting to help those trapped inside. today, family members and friends are shocked by what happened. ivy and roy knew one of the four women who escaped from the burning car. nelia arellano, and she is being treated for minor injuries, and they also knew the bride who did not escape the smoke and flames. [inaudible] >> friendly. yeah. reporter: the bride w

nick valencia joins us live now. of things are you seeing, that say that people are trying to move forward? i know this is also a big graduation day. >> you talk about normalcy, fred, that is what a lot of the kids that are graduating today from south moore, west moore and moore high school are focusing on. this is a day where they can sort of do away with the depression, do away with the sadness they've all been feeling over the course of the last week. we spoke to a couple of students at the graduation today earlier today. one of them said they're just very thankful that they're able to move on. >> i know a lot of kids lost family members, i mean i know tons of people that lost their homes. so it's one of those things that they thought about moving it back to where they could go to funerals and stuff like that. >> so you're glad it's today? >> yes, i'm glad it's today. it means to me that we're not going on different routes, we're staying on the same path that we were meant to be on. >> fred, i want to read you som