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the phoenix house program was a life changing program for myself. it totally changed my behaviors and helped me to appreciate the person that i was, and help me to really like myself better. going through there was one of the most single influential events of my entire life. it was an opportunity that presented itself at a time when i was ready to change my life. it provided me with the tools, the social support, in order to move forward in a more positive way with my life. everything that i have i really do believe, to the bottom of my soul, is because i was accepted into this program. somebody knew that i was going to need this before i knew i was going to need it, and had it set up and it was in place. and when i got here, the phoenix house was ready for me to come in. i had been through a few programs before and i had always failed to create a social support system for myself. through this new start program at [inaudible] i developed a core group of men that have, to this day, become my close friends, and supporters. i do have that sense of secu

that certainly said you off. >> we were in phoenix, we were in phoenix, this is a heavily mexican-american000 out to a mexican-american serviceman at this same show. it was nothing like that the night of the show. this happened 19 days ago. it's just happening in the news yesterday because it's my birthday. >> help me understand it. what was it? it's clear that you were visibly upset. you said you're a proud american, you're defending this country. >> i was. >> is that essentially what he was, he was clearly out of line in your opinion but he really got you hot. >> i was offended because he was making a statement that we're not allowed to make in this country. in this country you have to pledge allegiance to america first and your country of origin second. and so the fact that he was blatantly disrespecting the law that we all follow, black people work too hard to become black americans in this society and we were slaves here. we did a lot of free work. whatever they did was in another country. we certainly applaud their history but don't come here talking to sons of slaves about that. if

. [ male announcer ] university of phoenix is proud to sponsor education nation.an educated world is a better world. >>> education nation is sponsored in part by the university of phoenix which believes an educated world is a better world. >>> and as we finish education nation week, we have an update on a teacher we have gotten to know over the years. nbc news was there during her first year on the front lines. and now, several years later, we caught up with her again to see how she's changed and what she's learned. here's nbc news education correspondent rehema ellis. >> welcome to 6th grade. my name is ms. groves. >> reporter: we first met monica groves in august of 2004. with a degree in english and spanish p from the university of virginia and five weeks of intensive training through teach for america she landed her first job teaching 6th grade english in atlanta. >> i want my kids to like me. i want this to be a supportive, loving environment. raise your hand if you don't have your homework today. >> reporter: despite her optimism, the first year in the class

. >>> la desconbianza de la población hispana en la policí es una alidad, para reconquistarla, en phoenixstró la pidez, y cidez de un oficial una situación peligro. o mi armara, la te ó a correr, que pones, ymoverme pero hacer algo, y no disparar. >>> latinos participamos en un enste simulacro y más, como la p academia de phoenix en españ >>> la comunidad hispana tiene s egunta. cualquier >>> durante 20 hora de entrenamiento, se ecieron mitos. >>> un mito que es letal y mata persona. >>> y se revelaronácticas cómo el ofl que busca refugio en su vehículo cuando siente peligro. >>minerva paicipó. >>> se ladrenalina aunque es entrenamiento. dispararía si elicía siente que su vida está peligro, o la de otraperson>>> de la policía, p toma segundos decisiones. >>> la ademia permiti tener un nto de una escena de casosabuso narcóticopandillas, y cómo funcionan los helicópteros de la policía. >>> no tenemos idea de cómo se trabaja interiormente, fue un descubrimiento y periencia inolvidabl >>> son embajadores de la policía.los oficiales cuyoto, y responsabilidad esprotegerno desdeenix joana rodríg

attorney in phoenix wasn't enforcing gun laws.e authorized and overseeing a program to let high powered weapons walk to mexico. there's something wrong with both of those circumstances. >> sean: you did point out, i read a comment you made. that the president, you feel is kind of parsing his words specifically. and gave a clintonian answer. can you explain that? >> well, when he says, did not authorized, as far as he would go. i don't expect the president to have authorized a specific investigation or program. i don't expect the attorney general necessarily to have authorized every aspect of this. but i would be shocked that the attorney general was not briefed on how u.s. agent or two u.s. agents died. on the day that gabrielle giffords was shot, there were e-mails flying everywhere. people were concerned this was a fast and furious weapon that shot her. that kind of panic doesn't stay just at the local level. it goe»ÑÑ up and down. it is one of the reasons that the stonewalling they are doing and the cover-up just makes us belie

did not see the glass that she went into a coma -- this is phoenix. the folks that found her thought that she was dead. they brought her to mark and me to bury. she came back to life. that is why she is known as phoenix, and we have been taking care of her for 10 years and will take care of her for the rest of her life, because she has a vision problems as a result of that crap up with the glass windbreak. -- that crack up. supervisor mar: she is one of the wild parrots? >> yes, and the babies come out in september, and they are coming out now. they are trying to fly for the first time. they are smashing into windows like crazy. it is not just the migratory birds, but it is our own wild. -- wild parrots. i personally think this legislation does not go far enough. supervisor mar: what is your next project? >> thank you for asking. it is about the california brown pelican. supervisor mar: sir, it is great to see you. >> thank you, supervisor mar. for those of you who do not know me, i am a wildlife rehabilitator, and i have also worked with the santa cr

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phoenix is sitting on the runway in st.y is spent two years in iran. now they could be coming home this week. >> reporter: what happened at a juvenile facility in contra costa county that forced a shelter shelter in place in two hb communities. that when "mornings on 2" continues. >>> good morning. welcome back to "mornings on 2." i'm tori campbell. >> i'm dave clark. it's tuesday, september 13th. we're following developing news for you right now. this is coming from st. louis this morning. a u.s. airways flight from new york to phoenix was diverted to lambert field in st. louis. these are live pictures. there's the plane right in the middle of your screen. the transportation security administration says there were three passengers on board this plane acting suspicious. the plane landed safely. everybody got out. this is the latest in a series of security scares around the 10th anniversary of september 11th. >>> 8:00. international diplomacy may finally win the release of two uc berkeley graduates caught hiking in iran over

i manage a network of over a thousand nurses, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] university of phoenixponsor education nation. because we believe an educated world is a better world. >>> it is a ponzi scheme to tell our kids that are 25 or 30 years old today you're paying into a program that's going to be there. anybody that's for the status quo with social security today is involved with a monstrous lie to our kids. >> every talk show in america was on that sound byte today. that was rick perry, tossing out red meat to the base last night. the republican presidential frontrunner didn't shy away from his previous claims that social security is what he calls a ponzi scheme. in fact, it's catching fire. and sure enough, rush limbaugh, fox news, they are the cheerleaders and they're eating it up. >> i want to applaud perry for hanging in, sticking with it. he wrote the book, fed up, has the description in the book of social security as a ponzi scheme. how can it not be a ponzi scheme? >> social security, this notion of a ponzi scheme. a lot of people do believe it is a ponzi scheme. >> hi

i manage a network of over a thousand nurses, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] university of phoenixs proud to sponsor education nation. because we believe an educated world is a better world. >>> there's been a potentially grim development in the case of a missing utah woman. two years ago, susan powell, a 28-year-old mom of two vanished without a trace. yesterday, they found human remains in a desert not far from where her husband claims she was last seen. susan's parents now say they're just waiting for word from police. >> it raises our hopes that we're going to have some kind of closure of what happened to her. but on the other hand, it also takes away the hope she's alive. it is both edges of a sword, i don't know where we go with that, it is something we're living with. >> michelle, it feels like the family has been on a roller coaster ride a dozen times or more in the last 22 months, trying to get clues. it is not the first time bones have been found in the powell case. remind all of us about the case, what might make this discovery different. >> well, susan went missing, tho

i manage a network of over a thousand nurses, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] university of phoenix is proud to sponsor education nation. because we believe an educated world is a better world. >>> after years after raking in excess profits off an unfair and anti-competitive system, bank of america is trying to find new ways to pad their profits by sticking it to the consumers, i hope their customers have the final say. they might. the good news, the transaction fee will take effect on october 1st. that limit will be 24 cents per transaction for debit card purchases. it's not enough for bank of america. so they're adding in the monthly fee. so good of them, huh? you can bet other banks will do the same unless customers leave in protest. >>> coming up, a new poll shows democrats just can't get excited about reelecting the president. i've got a message for them next. bill o'reilly's conspiracy theory about muffins lands him in the zone. >>> and the republicans have been attacking the poor with a malicious talking point about the economy. we'll straighten them out with the facts. stay

and when i got here, the phoenix house was ready for me to come in. i had been through a few programs before and i had always failed to create a social support system for myself. through this new start program at [inaudible] i developed a core group of men that have, to this day, become my close friends, and supporters. i do have that sense of security for myself. i always know i have a place to go. at my worst moment i can come up here and just sit and hang out if i need to. what i do to help people that are still in the program is i like to come back to this place, the phoenix house, i like to offer up support, i like to be a guiding light, someone who has gone ahead of where they are at now, because people did that for me, and that is what gave me hope and encouragement and helped me along the road of sobriety. i think what keeps adults coming to phoenix house is the modality of treatment that we have, which is peer driven. they get a lot of support from their peers and they begin to have a sense of family, and i think that community feeling and ha

i want that in the united states here in phoenix to help us with the economy. that brings me to the third point and that is the notion of dynamic talent is a tricky concept in the united states. we don't know in modern economies what helps an economy continue to grow and to remain strong and to prosper as it

i want that in the united states here in phoenix to help us with the economy. that brings me to the third point and that is the notion of dynamic talent is a tricky concept in the united states. we don't know in modern economies what helps an economy continue to grow and to remain strong and to prosper as it inknow vates, particularly as the economy and the culture and the society becomes relatively well off. it is a known phenomena that it is hard for individuals who are relatively well off to take outsized risk and put everything on the line. back to my original story, if you think about the swimmers in the contest, in order for the united states to prosper, we need lots of swimmers who are willing to get in the water and swim and save nothing for the trip back because they are the type of person who will do whatever it takes, work as hard as is needed and get to the as is needed and get to the other side without saving

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after months of cyber attacks, it's the government's turn to go on the offense, making arrests from phoenix to this homeless man with a laptop in san francisco. the fbi arrested this man, cody fetesinger. reporters fired questions as he

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it's the fourth major dust storm to hit phoenix this year.iggest on which occurred july 5th. >>> thunderstorms kept engineers from repelling down the washington monument today. climbing ropes were put into place on the monument to climbers can inspect the landmark after it was shaken by a 5.8 quake last month. engineers say the elevator system was damaged and a few exterior tiles cracked. they say over the next several days they hoped to scale down the monument to further assess the extent of the damage. >>> people went on a two hour tour which gave them an up close look at the new bridge. it's part of an architecture festival going on in san francisco. the group was treated from special insight from caltrans and architects. >>> a typhoon blew a shore today bringing torrential rains. at least 16 people are reported dead. the storm hit the capital manila causing flooding. some 100,000 people have been evacuated from low lying areas. >>> in israel the government today approved construction of 1,100 new housing units. the area is already home to

university of phoenix is proud to sponsor education nation.ecause we believe an educated world is a better world. >>> back now with a death penalty drama that is compaaptu attention around the world. barring a last minute reprieve, troy davis will be executed for the murder of a police officer 22 years ago. but but his supporter say there is plenty of reasonable doubt in this case with a string of witnesses recanting their testimony. we get more on this story tonight from nbc's thanh truong. >> reporter: it is a fight for life and death. on the side of georgia death row inmate troy davis, thousands rallying in his support, plus petitions from more than 600,000, many sent online. >> we're in a very urgent and troubling situation because we are within days of an execution. >> reporter: on the other side, police, prosecutors and the family of slain savannah officer mark macphail. >> he was the apple of my eye and i love him, i would just want to tell him how much i love him. >> reporter: macphail was killed in 1989, shot in the face and chest at

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