i want to thank the oversight and reform committee, the gentleman from north carolina, the gentleman from maryland, and the chairman from south carolina for their hard work on this. i also want to thank the veterans' affairs committee and the gentleman from tennessee, mr. roe, for their expertise as they work through this bill. i want to thank the sponsors of the senate legislation, again, thank representative takano for joining me in this important effort and i urge my colleagues to support this commonsense, bipartisan legislation. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. sarbanes: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm pleased to yield five minutes to representative takano, one of the sponsors of this very, very important bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. taxpayer assistance center i thank the gentleman for yielding -- mr. takano: i thank the gentleman for yielding. 899, in support of s. the veterans providing health care transition improvement leave ich extends sick for those in the first year of work at the d

and he loved a modern north carolina, an inclusive north carolina, a north carolina that, as a leader leading on the integration of schools. but i think the thing i remember most about dick were those experiences that i had over in his office. it was easy for me to get to. oftentimes i would go there on a monday before i'd go to the airport to come up here. every monday for about 30 years ago he had lunge for all of his employees. and he would be there. he would serve them lunch and they would spend time together, and i had the opportunity to do that hon a few occasions. and there were a couple of special times after we met in the conference room and he's coaching me on how i should present myself or issues that were important for education and any number of things. he was truly a mentor. he said, would you like to see my shop? now, this office out on moorehead street, it is an unassuming office, just as humble as the off-the-rack suits that this man wore all of his life, or the old beat-up stationwagon that he would trive to the office. but this was an amazing experience. you go into

professor of history to the chancellor for community outreach and engagement at the university of north carolina here in nashville and also african-american and brazilian history also with race relations in the united states and latin america. along with his colleagues is the cohost of the show on public radio in nashville also available as a podcast please welcome doctor waters. [applause] >> it is a pleasure to be here so i should have brought my phone. [laughter] but i am honored to be here tonight to introduce mr. andrew lawler. why did the chicken cross the world and the most recent book that we are here to talk about tonight is "the secret token" and we had the opportunity to have that conversation yesterday so i am looking forward to this. we are happy to have him here and as a journalist he has written more than 1000 newspaper and newspaper articles from more than two dozen countries byline appears the new york times washington post national geographic smithsonian and many others a contributing writer for science and archaeological -- archaeology. it has appeared several times in science

jones of north carolina for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the request is granted. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. poe: madam speaker, i move that the house adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly, the house stands adjourned until noon on monday next for morning hour debate. ms. may: good afternoon. no two countries do more together than ours to keep their people safe and prosperous. and we want to deepen that cooperation even further to meet the shared challenges we face now and in years ahead.

hudson from north carolina worked very hard on the bill, and certainly mr. mullin for his partnership in leading this way. i urge my colleagues to support the important bill and i yield back the balance of my time. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. >> i would like to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. green: we have no further speakers and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma. mr. mullin: i'm so excited about the bipartisan approach and i urge a yes from all my colleagues and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 5455 as amended. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended and the bill is passed and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid n the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky seek recognition? >> i have a privilege

i know there's a resistance here in north carolina. i urge you today to take your resistance to the ballot box. forward together. thank you. >> one of the fundamental problems in our country right now and why people have that feeling in their gut that democracy is not working, it's partially because of the gerrymandering that we see in this country. the will of the voters is not often reflected in the outcome of our elections. even when you have the vast majority of americans that want rational governing and problem solving, it doesn't happen because the whole dynamic of the congress is skewed towards safe seats. >> when there's no competition, there's a lack of performance. you can do nothing about it. you cannot get rid of them. >> we're headed to do canvassing. we're going to canvas a neighborhood to make sure that i touch because with the people of this district. we want to make sure that they intend to vote and that they vote for me. hey, aaron. good to see you. >> we have the list, the literature. the doors are in order by street

-- a god in north carolina-- [upbeat music] ♪ - north carolina, we had planes on the tarmac. the planes. if we don't win north caroli, he goes home, and you'd never hear him at the convention. but nortlina, jesse helms bucked the party and came out and endorsed my father. - i think this campaign ought to be decided on the issues, what each candidate is for, the differences between the candidates and so forth, and that's what ronald reagan is doing. - byime he reaches north carolina he is $2, $3 million in debt. his own campaign is in secret negotiations witford to get out of the campaign and help reagan raise money to pay off his debt. he doesn't know this, of course. - reagan was campaigning in the state, drawing a contrast with his views and president ford's record on foreign policy and national security. negotiating the giveaway of the panama canal turned out to be a very strong is with a rage republicans. turned out to be a very strong is - he spends 13 of 15 days in north carolina, and his refrain is on the panama canal. now, the panama canal treatiesere scheduled to be

we've known each other since we are against errors in north carolina. nothing i've done would've been possible without her. three blocksol was away from the fayetteville ba hospital. -- fayetteville v.a. hospital. adam is here. he is playing hooky from his internship at the space center. my daughter megan is not with us. she is in her first day as an internet the smithsonian. the bible i will take my oath on reminds me of the 100th anniversary of the and of the war to end all wars. it was a bible taken into battle by my wife's grandfather, who had probably never ventured beyond three or four counties in north or south carolina but by the time he was 18 he was marching into the cauldron. on another part of that battlefield was a young captain of field artillery, my great father, who left a small town mississippilaw in to join the all-american division which, by the way had a relaxed and soldier. a farmer from tennessee by way of north carolina who would not only earn the medal of honor but go on to become the great hero of that war. those ordinary americ

mcheny of north carolina. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 99 , the gentleman from north carolina and a member opposed each will control five minutes. mr. mchenry: my amendment is very simple, it would bar the united states postal service from expanding on its current offerings of financial services and banking products. i think it's important that the postal service focus on delivering the mail while the cd of personal banking is nothing new, it is a terrible idea. in 2015, the inspector germ took the unusual step in proposing that the postal service should expand its banking service in pre-paid cards and money orders. used thel banking have report to argue that the postal service has the authority to offer more banking products all without congressional oversighte report to or consent and recent reports indicate that these efforts include using a pilot program to implement this awful idea. that's the reason i'm offering my amendment. rather than proposing, the current strategy is to institute the prog

the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentlewoman from north carolina, ms. foxx. ms. foxx: please join in the pledge to our wonderful flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. poe: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. poe: mr. speaker, this week president trump will join our allies for the important nato summit. at the top of this list must be countering russia's aggression and imperialism against our allies and the u.s. but to achieve this, everyone must contribute to the cause. of the 29 nations in nato, only eight members, including the united states, are meeting the 2% of g.d.p. pledge for defense spending. for years t

the gentlewoman from north carolina is recognized. ms. adams: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. adams: i rise in support of my bill h.r. 1700, the score for small business act. for nearly 30 million small businesses in the united states representing more than 99% of all businesses. these small firms employ nearly 50% of all private sector employees in the united states. these trailblazers play a critical role in the american economy and take great risks by launching new ventures and developing new products and establishing new industries and ultimately these efforts help spur growth in our economy. the small business administration is a vital part of their support system. the s.b.a. administers a portfolio of development programs which includes retired executives known as score. through this program, they have undertaken efforts to connect new entrepreneurs and small business owners with more experienced businessmen and women. this expansive network consists of entreprene

adams of north carolina. the chair: mur sunt that house resolution 996, the gentlewoman from north carolina, mrs. adams, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from north carolina. ms. adams: i offer this amendment to underscore the importance of the e.p.a.'s environmental justice program. h.r. 6147 cuts more than $700,000 in funding from this important program that has made an incredible difference in many communities across the country including my state of north carolina. environmental justice program supports and empowers communities that they work to address significant environmental and public health issues at the will call level. in north carolina, this program has provided funding for 13 different initiatives since 2001, including the environmental justice education and research center at shaw university which includes -- which engages high school and college students in environmental justice research and the jonesboro collaborative which works on ast

and just last week a north carolina judge ruled in king's fair against huizar to the tune of almost $9. >> i just thank god that it went down the way it did. >> reporter: according to the laurks often referred to as the heart bomb law, a plaintiff must prove that there was some genuine love and affection during the marriage and evidence that shows that love and affection was destroyed by the wrongful or malicious action of an outsider. >> these are antiquated laws from a very different era when women were effectively considered the property of their husbands. >> reporter: while most states have gradually abolished the law, it's still on the books in six states, including north carolina. >> one would think these days that a person can decide for themselves do i want to stay in this marriage or not stay in this marriage and that the other party doesn't end up being financially responsible, no matter what happened. that's not the case in six states. >> reporter: after growing suspicious in 2015, king says he began over time gathering text messages, facebook posts, hotel receipts and phone

the senator from north carolina. mr. tillis: madam president, i want to talk about my motivation for offering this unanimous consent request for people listening to this debate may not understand. we have a courtesy where we make colleagues on the other side of the aisle aware of our intent. should i yield pending senator durbin's -- madam president, i yield the floor. mr. durbin: madam president, i have a unanimous consent request. the presiding officer: assistant democratic leader. mr. durbin: madam president, i want to make it clear to my friend from north carolina as well as others on the floor, i would like to have this colloquy. i would like to make a formal unanimous consent request and enter into debate or colloquy as the chair will allow. madam president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. 3263 submitted earlier today. the bill be considered read a third time and passed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening ac

the commercial fishing industry in north carolina has controlled the the legislature for years. i became an avid surf fishermen and pure fishman back in the '70s and i have watched since then the spot fishing, the bluefish, the trout, the flounder, every coastal fish sponsor decimated. people do not understand that for every pound of shrimp the comes out of the water, five to nine pounds of juvenile fish are killed i've watched last year there was not a single spot down the coast. back in the '70s and '80s you could fill up a bucket and our. it's not changing but still control by the legislature and they are killing the species of fish on the coast. .. people in the government speak of as regulatory capture. regulateda industry, for instance, the fish in >> the industry is able to shape the regulations and would tend to lose a number of them but i don't know that what happened in north carolina is not at all uncommon for the regulated industries have sufficient and some might say undue influence over the way regulations are shaped. >> as far as you are interested in continuing t

we have known each other since we were young and north carolina. nothing i have done would have been possible without her. as the president noted, our high school was three blocks away from the va hospital. that experience left a lasting impression upon me. mr. vice president, as the head of the space council, my son adam is here. he is playing hooky from his internship. my daughter is not with us today. she is in her first day as an intern in this missoni and. -- smithsonian. the bible i will take my oath on reminds me of the 100 anniversary of the war to end all wars. it was a bible taken into battle by my wife's grandfather, who never ventured beyond two or three towns in south carolina. by the time he was 18, he was marching into the cauldron of france. on the battlefield was a captain of field artillery, my great grandfather, who left a small town law practice in mississippi to join the all-american division. which, by the way, had a reluctant soldier. a man from tennessee. honor andthe medal of will go on to be the greatest hero of that war.

are sitting in one of the most beautiful places in north carolina in my opinion. ve is a place that mother and daddy fell -- they had a vision of a place that people would come and study the word of god. many people cannot take six months off and go to bible school, but they can come for for days to the cove infants bible study. that was their vision, to bring people here to study the word of god. the only book we use here at the bible. the every teacher that comes here textbook.ible as the we have two hotels on the property and the main conference center. where we are sitting right now is the chapel. my mother was very influential in a lot of what happened around here, but she loved the chapel and she wanted to keep it simple. she said, no stained glass windows. you can't beat what god has put outside these windows. no stained glass windows. she was also here when they were putting the steeple on and she was not pleased at all because it was not high enough. would say, it's not high enough. well, mrs. graham, how high do you want that steeple? she said how high c

bessemer city, north carolina. n on ouris ia independent line. caller: hi, this is chaste. 0 it says ian but that is fine. caller: thank you. but i to be a democrat would never vote for a democrat again, they take us her grandson, they take all the different minority races advantage of. they think they own our votes but they don't. i helped run for people to vote i finde democratic party out if it is independent or republican. i will take one of your questions. host: this is kind of a multiple-choice. are two cabinet level position. caller: you have secretary of state and secretary of transportation. host: very good. caller: and i just wanted to say that people who called earlier lady fromuy -- the california and the gentleman who said he was an activist from texas. when you asked them questions, they had all these answers but they don't even know the basic simple questions about our constitution or the declaration, that shows you what democrats are and how public schools and universities go. and: people do get nervous can't come up with the answ

almost all of north carolina from central to eastern north carolina is under flood watches, too.et's try to time out the mess for you. regardless, it is going to be humid. on and off downpours. it will not rain continuously all day long. it is not that type of pattern. this is at 8:00 a.m. as we go through the afternoon hours, the storm will move a little further to the east. we still will continue to see the heavy downpours, and the rainfall forecast through wednesday, this area of pink, that's three-plus inches of rain. that's going to -- all of central pennsylvania, much of central new york, down through virginia, eastern north carolina, that's where the flooding concerns will be greatest. if that wasn't bad enough, if you're not in the soup on the east coast, 63 million people are under heat warning, watches and advisories from texas through much of the west coast. for today, what you see is what you -- what you got yesterday. ayman, it is what you are going to get today. just we haven't had a week like this this summer and it is going to stay like this. it is just a sticky,

we have known each other since we were young and north carolina. nothing i have done would have been possible without her. as the president noted, our high school was three blocks away from the va hospital. that experience left a lasting

dangerous heat making things miserable from maine to north carolina. a tent has been set up at the national mall to help people out. the temperatures yesterday, no way. >> off the dial. >> yeah. heat wave will stick around. have aog. you s golden gate bridge. it will help keep it cool. we have patches of fog in the north bs out to the bart station this morning. we are in the upper 50s and upper 60s by noon. in san jose 78 degrees. we are going to have hotter temperatures ahead for the weekend. so today we are able to wear light long sleeves and pants and still be comfortable throughout the day. we are going to see warm temperatures. tomorrow upper 70s and clear skies for the inland areas. for the rest of the week into the weekend it is going to heat up fast. low to mid-90s in time for saturday as well as sunday and cooling down early next week for san francisco. you can see the flashing lights. we have cars at westbound 80 and eastbound 80. now, right around central there was a report of a small brush fire. if these are what's going on there it would b

for "nightly business report," i'm jackie deangeles, charlotte, north carolina. >>> finally tonight,california beat the odds. the lucky winner of the mega ilmillions jackpot porch are purchased the ticket at ernie's liquors in san jose and if that person took the lump sum she would be left with $308 million and even after federal taxes that's still not too shabby. >> no. we didn't win. we would haveome back to work. >> we would have. >> that does it for us. i'm sue herera. >> thanks for joining ius. bill griffith. >> have a good evening. we'll see you tomorrow. >> this is "bbc world news america." >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs, and purepoint financial. >> how do we shape our tomorrow? it starts with a vision. we see its ideal form in our mind, and then we begin to erisel. we strip away evything that stands in the way to reveal new possibilities.

walters: i yield to the congresswoman from north carolina, mrs. foxx. ms. foxx: thank you, congresswoman walters. i appreciate you leading this special order tonight to bring attention to the american people the fact that they are better off now than they were two years ago. this is an important message for us to share with the american people, many of us are doing it individually, but we appreciate your leadership on this. mr. speaker, two years ago, house republicans promise todd eplace our broken tax code and rein the run-away administrative state and made it harder for businesses to create jobs and growth. we proposed a better way to grow the economy for solutions with hard-working americans that were being chewed up by our system and struggling to get by. this congress, we have delivered on our promises. and i am pleased to say that the people of north carolina are better off now. we passed the most significant tax reform in over 30 years and every day, americans are already reaping the benefits. according to the tax foundation, the average increase in

pickens told morgan that if he retreated to north carolina that most of his men would not follow him. if he stayed and fought, they would fight. morgan put the militia up in the front lines. this is a simplified version of it. the militia were not good at standing and fighting with traditional tactics. withilitia were armed rifles. rifles had a greater range but you could not affix bayonets to them and could not reload as quickly as with muskets. iftish officers knew that they could stay in ranks and wit hstand that first volley of rifle fire and fix bayonets and charge, the militia would run. so, morgan just went along the front ranks. not much is recorded about anything that pickens said. morgan just said, give me two vollies and you can go home. you can reform behind the continental line. he hoped they would rejoin the battle. give me two volleys and you can go home and how all of the old folks will bless you and the girls will kiss you. that is what they did. they reform behind the continental line, pickens led them back into the battle and played a decisive role in the final seat

look at these heat advisories, from maine down to north carolina. the numbers don't go anywhere the next couple of days. the heat indexes, 104, washington, 102, little rock. and tuesday, the numbers soar. 102 in memphis. this slides east even more and that means new york city, for example, would be close to a seven-day stretch of 90-plus, if we do that, it will be a one in 33-year event. tom? >> we'll track that. ginger, thank you. >>> now to the supreme court showdown. president trump promising one week from today he will announce his nominee to succeed retiring justice anthony kennedy. the president revealing he interviewed four potential nominees today and plans to meet with two or three more before making his decision. abc's kyra phillips is at the white house tonight. >> reporter: president trump tonight ramping up his search for a supreme court nominee. >> i interviewed and met with four potential justices of our great supreme court. they are outstanding people and they are really incredible people. >> reporter: the president says he'll meet w

then, his family moved along the border of pop in south carolina -- border of north and south carolina when he was 13 or 14. he looked again at the age of 24 west and south to the edge of white settlement in south carolina, near modern-day abbeville. calhoun, thebecca aunt of the future statesman and they started a family. he began to prosper as a farmer and a merchant. he was a justice of peace and the leader of a presbyterian church. at the beginning of the revolution and south carolina in 1775, he was a lieutenant and immediately joined the patriots side. he participated in the first he fought in a charity 1796. campaign playing a key role with the cherokees. later in the same campaign, he was the hero of a fight at tomasi, where he and 35 of his men were surrounded by a large band of cherokees and miraculously survived and won. in 1777 and 70 and he continued 78, to participate in preservens to work to order and the sprawling 96 district south carolina of the south carolina frontier. in 1779, he won a spectacular victory over a large enemy force georgia, aseek, well as several othe

all those strange things down south in north carolina. fayetteville is an old town, steeped in revolutionary and civil war history. smack in the middle of the bible belt. but now, cargo planes buzz in and out of pope air force base. all past the confines of the city sprawls the immense ft. bragg, home of david shannon. his house was here, a few blocks off-base. the major, his wife joan, and their four children. it was july, 2002. like a sauna that night, so hot and humid. and then a light rain that cooled it down again. david and joan watched a movie on tv, fell asleep. and then -- >> i don't even remember hearing the first shot. i remember something woke me up. >> and then you heard a shot? >> and i know whatever woke me up, i know my ears were already ringing. and i turned the light on. and i see that he's shot. you know, it shocks you. never, ever forget that image. that's burned in my brain forever, no matter how much i try to -- here is the person i love. he's dying. [ sirens ] >> and by the time the police and the ambulance wailed u

we'll time that out and talk about hurricane chris,e off of ter banks of north carolina. let's hear n if traffic mal or average. >> i would say nmal. everything is looking good here. in the south toward washinon, they a doing a paving project there. both directions, northbound andg southbound, bimpacted. the left lane is getting by that paving each y. works nt southbound with just the left lane. >>> your time is 32. staying on top of breaking news in the districtight now. >> firefighters battle a two alarm house fire this morning. >> reporter: look at this vid of that fire. just a few hours ago, it broke out in a row home in columbia heights. several people have been displaced, just a few block from the metro station. the heat was so intense, it ignited a roof across the alley. we will have live report from the scene at 5:00. >> thank you. >>> we're following breaking news out of thailand. rescuers are fe hours into the second rescue phase to extract an entire soccer team and coach om a flooded cave. >> divers rescued four from that cave. they auny but in fairly good heal

we were following high water rescues in north carolina. flash flooding in baltimore. the entire region hammered by storms. a tornado in virginia. a woman there was killed by a falling tree. authorities warn the ground is saturated now, and that the high winds will break tring trees do. in the west at this hour, severe flooding near colorado springs, and that major wildfire burning near oyosemite. tourists told to get out. rob marciano is standing by with the track of all this, where the floods hit next, but first, linsey davis with the images and the man missing tonight, believed to have been carried away down the hudson. >> reporter: tonight, millions are on high alert. and in north carolina, dangerous flash flooding. >> the caller stated that the water was coming into the business. >> reporter: that rescue scene in charlotte unfolding live on our affiliate wsoc. >> we are watching the last two employees being fulled out. five people now safe from this recycling business. >> reporter: a firehose of flash flooding extending north to virginia. >> this vehicle was almos

near north carolina, georgia, alabama. all of our companies are foreign companies from europe. i have never -- i have only worked for one american company, and i am 77 years old. in my lifetime. if they decide that they want to shut their plants down and take their jobs away, there's already that islabama, i think going to lose about 20,000 jobs. it is a car, where they make cars. we make toyotas in tennessee. we make b&w where i live in self-care -- bmw where i live in south carolina. host: that you, caller. guest: absolutely. by sunday thaty has 20,000 jobs which are being lost, and in your home state bmw , it is quite interesting that that plant in spartanburg is the biggest exporting car plant in the united states, and bmw is the biggest american car exporter by value, not an american brand. when you think of american exports cars, a lot of them are these foreign brands coming from foreign investment. that is a really vital part of the u.s. economy. tariffs do bring some of that into question because a lot of these companies are bringing in parts from abroad and trying to s

you are looking right now at live pictures coming out of wtvd out of north carolina.have been seriously injured, burned, in fact, after a fire and explosion at a propane center. this is sampson county, north carolina. multiple agencies are on the scene of this fire. the surrounding area's being evacuated. the two injureds have been airlifted now to the university of north carolina burn center. we're going to keep you posted, but again, live pictures out of sampson county, north carolina. the local affiliate bringing us live pictures. >>> well, at this hour yesterday we brought you the news on the shocking pet be of epa add morer scott pruitt after months of controversy. but this latest change in husband administration isn't -- his administration isn't derailing president trump from monday's big announcement on who's going to be replacing justiceny kennedy on the supreme court. that replacement literally in a position the transform the tone and the face of the court for decades. blake burman at the white house where the supreme search seems to be in its final phase. th

in 1996, north carolina which had a significant fishery was given a seat on the council. this amendment would extend the same right at the seat of the table to my state. i thank my colleague for his work on this issue and strongly encourage adoption of this amendment particularly out of a sense of comity. rhode island deserves to be treated fairly. our fishermen deserve a voice. i urge support for this excellent amendment. and i yield back. . mr. young: i yield. the chair: those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. he amendment is not agreed to. it's now in order to consider amendment number 4 printed in house report 115-786. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. huffman: mr. speaker, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 4 printed in house report 115-786 offered by mr. huffman of california. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 965, the gentleman from california, mr. huffman, and a member opposed, each will contro

it's a family atmosphere. >> reporter: danielle grew up in walnut cove, north carolina.of just over 1,000 people sits right along picturesque beluse lake. the lake that was a big reason to move into this area? >> dream location. it had everything that we needed. the price was right. >> reporter: the price was right because just over those trees is the beluse creek steam station. one of duke energy's largest coal burning power plants. one of the realities of coal burning plants is you need a place to dispose of the waste. and that traditionally has meant coal ash ponds like this. it may look like a beautiful lake but it is basically an unlined pit in the ground with millions of tons of ash. mercury, cardmeum, arsenic, contaminants associated with cancer, right in her backyard. in 2009, she began experiencing headaches. >> they told me i had a brain tumor. they said it was the size of a drink box. >> reporter: she was dieing an notioned with stage 3 astrocytonoma, brain cancer. what do you think caused this? >> i'm 100% sure i know what caused it, duke energy. >> reporter:

we travel to asheville north carolina. he died in february of 2018. religion without a personal encounter with jesus christ will not save the soul. searching for god through religion and not finding him. you've got to know christ for yourself to read when you know christ for yourself there is a peace and fulfillment and life takes on a purpose and there's a sense of forgiveness for your sins. and there's a joy unspeakable and full of glory. >> this is that his official office here the training center of the co-area he would meet important people here delegations from foreign countries and things like that. he would bring people up there to meet him. this is the family's favorite picture. jokeamily has a private that behind there is a man plowing. he stayed by the farm that was the family joke that he stayed by the farm. it shows daddy sowing the seed of the gospel around the world. i am the eldest daughter of ruth and billy graham. of being introduced as the eldest and oldest, especially the older i get one they love the the longest. daddy was in char

summer vacation outer banks, north carolina. emerald ill, nortaisle, take a look. several swimmers trapped by rip tides. had to jump into action. formed a human chain extending into the ocean. they held strong in the rough waters, arm in arm pulling swimmers out of the dangerous depths. you will never know where you find a hero. this week there were a bunch of them on the beach in north carolina. >> trish: looks pretty cool. >> dana: extremely dangerous stay out of the water. jesse? >> jesse: we tackle the most important stories on water world week after week. probably the most famous weather girl in the world take a look at her picture. she is famous and dating this guy. this guy breaks up with this weather girl, are you ready? he breaks up with her to play video games. all right? he just wants to play video games. doesn't want to date her. he just wants to dedicate his life to video games. diamond and silk tackle that issue saturday night. we also have charlie kirk and michelle malkin, hell of a show. >> greg: you stole that h

a white man calling police on a black family a naghborhood pool in north carolina. the mother in the video calls it racial profiling. tonight the man explains his side of the story to snbc' gabe gutierrez. >>> the fourth of july when he recorded the now viral video on her cele. ph >> why do i need to show you my i.d.? >> thisun man vered at the winston-salem neighborhood pool and asked to see her i.d. he also calledpolice. when officers arrived, she said she felt unfairly targeted. police verified her pool pass wo >> nobody else was asked for their i.d. i feel this is racial profiling. >> reporter: this comes after recent incidents from a starbucks. >> african-americans are being questied on ordinary tasks in life. >> but he says he was making sure she lived in the neighborhood. >> reporter: would you have handled it differently if she were white? >>, i wonder if i made her feel uncomfortable,, unwant unwelcome. especially with her child thereo i want give a serious apology for that. >> reporter: can you imagi why many people online are labeling you a racist? >> whe

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we this week because it's just meandering along the north carolina coastline.s high pressure system is suppressing chris to hang out right around the outer banks. i'll show youhat in a minute. otherwise, as we continue into your d,week we have sunny skies and higher humidity. the humidity drops on wednesday, the sunshine returns on wednesday. current temperatures out there with plenty of sunshine in the 6 60s and 70s, 73 in the distric right now. we're headed into the mid 80s today. yesterday we made it into 82, a few degrees warmer today. if you are headed to the afternoon game, the nats playing the marlins, and plenty of sunshine around the game at nats park. nothing happening on the radar right now, but here, take c look, this iis right here, you can see the spinning of that, and it's just kind of hanging off the coast right now. in fact the waters are pretty warm just off thetl mid-atic coastline right there. so it' actually going to intensify a little bit, but it's not going to make it on to the shore. it's going tontensify int hurricane later on tonight,

(ken) new at 8 what was supposed to be a summer vacation for a north carolina family... has turned into a story of uncertainty... (pam) as one mother fights to bring her sick child back home from canada. candace sweat has the details. last week, the colalillo family hit the road for a long drive from north carolina to canada. 19-year-old troy and his younger sister slept a good portion of the way. joan colalillo/mother: "he slept most of the way that night, but we left at night so that's not unusual for my kids to fall asleep in the car. they always do that."but even after 12 hours, troy woke up feeling tired, still.joan colalillo/mother: "i said something's just not right, and i said we need to check and make sure before we go into another country.they stopped in new york at an urgent care. a doctor ran tests and sent them on their way with antibiotics.that same doctor called back after they'd already crossed into canada.joan colalillo/mother: "the doctor told us he needed to be hospitalized immediately and that he needed a blood transfusion immediately."since that call

. >> reporter: the alienation of affection law exists in six states, including north carolina, whereis claim. >> what i've endured, i've compared it to like a nuclear bomb going on around my surroundings. >> abc news has reached out to danielle king and francisco huizar's lawyers. we have not heard back yet. to offer context on this, while $8.8 million is a lot of money. >> yes, it is. >> in 2011, a jilted wife in north carolina was awarded $30 million in this type of suit. so it could be worse for huizar. >> people are actually paying this money out? >> a lot of times they get settled. they end up going for a little bit less. >> yeah. >> but north carolina is where these suits get field the most frequently. and they do about 200 of these cases annually. not usually at this amount but 200 cases a year on average. >> if you're going to be cheating, don't do it in north carolina. >> in those states. yeah. >> that was the lesson. >> i don't think that was the lesson we were supposed to get. >> maybe i took it in a different direction. >>> coming up, if you're running out of ideas when i

in the east, flood watches are posted from north carolina to new york, rising water, forcing evacuations and rescues, at least one person swept away, while blistering heat takes a deadly toll in the west, heat advisories and warnings from oregon to arizona taxing the power grid and fueling wildfires. we have it all covered with nbc's miguel almaguer. miguel, good evening. >>> that fire threat stretches across several states and going to get worse. in downtown los angeles behind me, the temperature hit 94 degrees a new record. tomorrow, it is only going to get hotter, and more dangerous. >> reporter: tonight the west faces a triple threat. fires, floods, and heat. 42 million are suffering through dangerously hot temperatures. in phoenix, a record 116. with first responders scrambling to calls of heat exhaustion. >> don't go out if you don't have to. >> reporter: in southern california where the heat has already killed six, the power grid is strained. as cooling centers open. >> it was hot as heck. and in here it is wonderful. >> reporter: the record break heat is also fueling ferocious fi

. >>> this morning heat advisories or warnings are posted from north carolina to maine. triple-digit heat indices are expected. the national weather service says more than 113 million americans are affected. laura podesta is here in new york. laura, good morning. >> good morning, hena. cooling centers have been opened along the east coast. if you couldn't find an air conditioner, a dip in a pool, pond, or lake was a must. unfortunately there's no relief in sight. in some areas, the heat wave is expected to last through the july 4th holiday. people did everything they could to stay cool this weekend. >> we've been in the swimming pool. >> going inside. >> going inside and watching movies. >> we're at about 140 degrees on the asphalt. right there, 140, yep. >> in harrisburg, pennsylvania, temperatures hit 95 degrees on sunday. the captain says even his crew needs to consider the heat this week. >> our gear does not breathe, so we tend to overheat. >> 96 in new york, 95 in st. louis, 104 is what it's going to feel like in memphis, tennessee. >> at this ace hardware store, p

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gabe gutierrez, nbc news, salem, north carolina. moment with a wild chase in texas today and caught on camera, one family setting out to make a dramatic rescue. >>> why are so many americans having fewer babies? the u.s. birthrate at a record low for the second year in a row. a new survey by the "new york times" says the top reason is child care is too expensive. others said they wanted more time for the kids they already have. and a third factor, fears about the economy. >>> a dramatic end to a police chase outside of houston. a tow truck being chased by officers after police say it was involved in a crash and left the scene. it ended when the tow truck crashed again at that intersection. the driver was taken into custody. >>> caught on camera, a family rescuing a baby deer in danger of drowning after spotting the fawn struggling in the waters north of seattle. they brought it on board their boat. the family says the deer didn't appear to be injured. so they released it later on land. >>> we'll meet rescuers going above and beyond

north carolina is the only state that held a convention.fferent kinds of processes, but it didn't have a convention that voted to not ratify. north carolina said the statement said no, we're not going to ratify until you pass a bill of rights. the rest of the states said, okay, well, maybe we'll go along with this, but here's all of our suggestions for amendments by the nature of a bill of rights. he's my boyfriend. isn't he so cute? [ laughter ] i love james madison, for lots of different reasons. the most important reason is he was a philosopher of the greatest order, and he was a practical politician. that means he knew how to take grand ideas and help put them into reality. and he was willing -- today he would be called a flip-flopper, because as a federalist supporting the constitution, and in the virginia ratifying convention, he took on patrick henry. here's james madison, and here's patrick henry. and james madison takes him on about approving the constitution. patrick henry is having none of it. he said, we, the people, who gave th

i was just in north carolina yesterday on the beach here in you could see some of the rough surf thatas coming in. a lot of rip currents around the carolina coastline up to the outer banks. it's meandering off the southeast coast. the winds are likely on the eastern side of . watches. no warnings are issued on the u.s. coastline right there. the strongest winds are east of this. and really, that's going to head out to sea with really low impact for us. you can see a lot of clouds are going to stay just off the coast of the outer banks. it's going to continue to push out to sea while we are here with punnty ofine even through the day tomorrow. spinning off the coast. not animpact to our area. not impact for tomorrow. temperatures in the mid 80s. plenty of sunshine. we keep sunshine going monday, tuesday. now, temperatures start to go up a little bit. the humidity starts to come back tuesday night. wednesday, thursd t,t's our next chance of rain. humid starting on wednesday and the humidity lasts until the end of the next workweek. we have >>> well, tonight a performance 30 years in th

flood warnings and advisories are posted from north carolina to new york. out west dangerous heat is fueling wildfires that has scorched tens of thousands of acres. two of those fires are burning on the outskirts of california's yosemite national park. today a main part of yosemite is being shut down. chris martinez has the details. >> reporter: summer getaways at california's yosemite national park are closed now. authorities closed two parts of the park wednesday in an attempt to keep a growing wildfire at bay. >> due to the fact that visibility is severely impacted, you've got the air quality issues, it's really important that we basically shut down operations. >> reporter: the iconic half dome and yosemite falls are barely visible. at least 1,000 campground and hotel reservations are canceled. yosemite hasn't been closed for fire since 1990. >> and now we've got to leave. >> sean shay and his family have been planning this trip for a year with their kids. >> it's the first time we've been affected by anything. it is what it is. it's nature. >> reporter: