he is more than a prodigy.ery well at southern university. >> reporter: already an inspiration on and off campus. >> you have to have a mind set to actually know, hey, i have to learn this. my life depends on it. act like your life depends on it, because it does. when you learn, you increase your life. >> okay -- >> i have my doubts, then i heard him speak. >> yeah. totally, i'm inspired. right? this kid is incredible. he can tie a bow tie? >> he carries himself -- >> incredible. >> he's special. i get it. >> man. we'll be watching out to see where he ends up. updates on facebook at wnnfans.com. >> more news is next. stay with us. wnnfans.com. martin luther king jr.: we hold these truths to be self-evident -- that all men are created equal. john f. kennedy: the torch has been passed to a new generation of americans. barbara jordan: the american dream need not forever be deferred. lyndon johnson: this is the richest and the most powerful country... " >>> making news in america this morning -- flash freeze. tempe

after that performance, you will hear a guitar prodigy, wilson zhang.orn in china, he has been playing classical guitar since he was nine years old. and in his short lifetime, he has earned a national gold medal from the royal conservatory of music, and was a finalist in the united states international music competition, and played in the winner's recital at carnegie hall in new york.g "eudio ♪ #16" for us right ♪ all evening long, they danced ra ♪ as swans, not missing a single step. ♪ ♪ and every single year, when obon time was near, ♪ ♪ i danced when i walked till i slept. ♪ ♪ i vowed that i would dance ♪ ♪ with them someday. ♪ when father used to ♪ talk about his barbershop, ♪ the one tha ♪ the thunderbolt destroyed, ♪ ♪ i'd said i'd help until ♪ when we finished, ♪ ♪ he had someday. ♪ how will life be different, how ♪ ♪ much will we change as we grow ♪ ♪ year to year, day to day? ♪ it's hard to imagine, it all seems so strange. ♪ ♪ but still it seems so far away. ♪ ♪ when we are finally grown with families of our own, ♪ ♪ i'll teach our daughters t

he's more than just a prodigy.ell as he already does here at southern university. >> reporter: already an inspiration on and off campus. >> you have to have a mindset to actually know, hey, i have to learn this, my life depends on it. act like your life depends on it, because it does. when you learn, you've increased your life. >> reporter: adrienne bankert, abc news, new york. >> love that kid. >>> b.a.r.t. in san jose is one step closer to actually happening. what you'll notice is different. >>> a live look outside from santa cruz. it's a revolution in sleep. the sleep number 360 smart bed is on sale now during the january savings event. it senses your movement, and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. it even helps with this. so you wake up ready to put your pedal to the metal. save up to $500 on select sleep number 360 smart beds, now ranked #1 in customer satisfaction with mattresses by j.d. power. plus, free premium delivery and 36-month financing. ends monday. sleep number... proven quality sl

a child prodigy is making history.hile most 11-year-olds would be content to get the latest iphone maybe, this preteen is doing big things, making history as he enters college on a free ride. >> reporter: he is an incoming freshman majoring in physics and he is only 11. >> i am very excited. so i have been waiting for this for a long, long, long time. >> reporter: elijah priestly the the youngest person ever to receive a full scholarship to southern university, a historically black college in baton rouge. he's just starting his first semester with much older classmates. >> he was always engaged, always teaching the class, you know, which was surprising. he knew way more than a lot of students. >> what really strikes me is when some people think that i'm 15. all right. either i'm a tall 11-year-old or a short 15-year-old. >> reporter: a sense of humor and discipline beyond his years. the university says, even a genius needs guidance and support. >> he is more than just a student. he's more than just a prodigy and he's g

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. >>> and preteen prodigy. how this 11-year-old is making history as hi starts his freshman year of college. >>> good monday morning, everyone. we begin with a daep freeze that is already gripping much of the nation. >> temperatures across the great lakes, ohio value lirks and mid-atlantic expected to be 10 to 20 degrees below amplg today. the arctic blast comes on the heels of a deadly storm that dumped more than asnow in some areas. this morning, that storm is on the move. the massive storm that slammed much of the midwest and northeast is moving off the east coast, as brutally cold temperatures move in. >> take a look at the single digits well into philadelphia. some in the new york area, as well. look at the wind chils here. this is dangerously cold. these wind chills,2 below. these wind chills, new york city will stay below zero with their wind chill values for 24 hours at least. >> reporter: as for the roads, drivers urged to make way for the snowplows before the snow turns into dangerous ice. >> they're

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shows the fun side of gymnastics which has mostly been left out >> reporter: years ago as a young prodigykatelyn dreamed of going to the olympics. oke her body and worries about self-image that shattered her spirit. >> i was so mentally, like, drained and devastated.the sport as much. >> reporter: so katelyn retired from elite gymnastics and became a college athlete. a risky move, but one that like all her other moves is bringing her so much joy. >> it just proves that hard work does pay off. >> reporter: joe fryer, nbc news, los angeles. >> what an amazing spirit. that's "nightly news." i'm lester holt. for all of us here at nbc news, thanks for watching and >>> it's just unacceptable to us. the citizens, the businesses, they demand, they deserve better. >> an audit uncovered it. we're going to show you a big problem facing one of the bay area's biggest police departments. right now on storm ranger. this ahead of the main event which includes high winds and the potential of flooding ahead. >> but first, the pg&e bombshell. the move pg&e is hoping to make in the wake of those deadly wildf

. >> remember the early online service called prodigy? it was a joint venture between sears, ibm and cbs. >> gets sports scores faster than on tv, shop at home. >> 11 years before jeff besos founded amazon.com. it was just a little ahead of its time. >> what happens when you lose your way is you don't even know what you have anymore. >> 20 years after writing his book about sears, he left journalism to found the audio book company audible which in 2008 was bought by amazon. he says all companies, even his own, can learn from what happened to sears. >> they needed to reinvent themselves in a really it just didn't happen. >> the remaining sears stores are still open for the holidays and just last week, edward lampert's hedge fund offered to buy the company out of bankruptcy for $4.6 billion saying they believed in sere's potential to evolve. but the retail professor isn't optimistic. >> the company has zero chance of success. i hate to say that because there's still quite a few people in the u.s. at least who look to sears for their employm

committee and mick mulvaney who was a congressperson from south carolina received a prodigious amount of money from the payday lending industry and you can see what he's done he's stymied the rule so is his successor likely to stymie the rule and he pulled punches on some of the c.f.p. cases against payday lenders he eliminated the penalty reduced the penalty in one case he charged the guy one dollar. i start i finish where i started off and say thank you for being there looking out for average consumers bartlett naylor policy advocate of public service thank you thank you. and time now for a quick break but hang here because when we return here inside the washington beltway while the way has been charged with myriad crimes as senior u.s. government officials ramp up the rhetoric in the ongoing conflict with china on the eve of u.s. china trade negotiators pyrogen the nation's capitol in d.c. alex behala vision hillary for it will be with us on the other side of the break to discuss and as we take a super quick pause for the promotional cause here the daily numbers from new york at th

. ♪ >> reporter: in 1972, stuart, a self-taught prodigy joined lester flats' legendary bluegrass band a burning ring of fire ♪ >> reporter: and by age 21, playing backup for johnny cash. ♪ a string of solo hits came in the 1990s, including "tempted." and "hillbilly rock." ♪ doing a little thing called the hillbilly rock ♪ >> reporter: but then country music had changed, gone corporate. country's roots seemed at the edge of nothing. ♪ >> reporter: patsy cline's train case for $75 in a junk store in nashville about 1980 or '81. and i thought this is wrong. this is wrong. i thought there is a bigger mission here. and it became my heart to preserve, hang on to, promote and further the cultural of country music any way i could. >> reporter: he bought patsy cline's case and started collecting what others had forgotten. >> roy rogers. >> reporter: or left by the curb. >> this is wearable art. and the artist that created these things, everything is hand-stitched. everything is hand-sewn, and there is a lot of work in these suits. and they just deserved to not be thrown away. >> reporter: one

a prodigious appetite for hard work. and a neck for getting along with people of different political persuasions. icholson,d hannah n the daughter of a feisty navy commodore who have become one of the writ leading republican organizers here in new york city. it was indeed a tax or vaults that brought gallatin to national attention. six years before jefferson became president, thousands of men and the pennsylvania backcountry took up arms against andlton's tax on distilling what we now remember as the whiskey rebellion. burned the local tax collector's house, robbed the mail, and marched on pittsburgh. to theh gallatin opposed violence, hamilton blamed him and his anti-federalist friends for the protests that had sparked it. washington called out the militia, and hamilton led these troops into gallatin's home district. he slipped away to safety in philadelphia. neighbor wrote to tell him that there was never more industry made than that set of men that was here to get a hold of you. violenceition to the won him and electi

he was a prodigious creator. so there are -- there is more. and he did write. yes, there are other -- and then at the ellicott plans, the later plans have plans of buildings which i believe are connected with l'enfant. how directly, it's hard to say. anybody else? >> i had the pleasure of watching this process unfold and i was wondering if you could comment on how long this took you and a comparison between the two paintings. which was more difficult? the one of what wasn't built or the one of what was built? were there particular challenges for each? mr. waddell: well, it took two years. and i had been thinking about it for a long time before that. the idea of recreating l'enfant's plan had been in my head for years before that. and i had been talking to people about it and people had been encouraging me. small for actually turning it into reality. i thought the painting of the unbuilt city would be much more difficult, but, strangely, because there was much less information -- there was a lot of information about 1825, most of it unknown, but people wrote a l

. >> is more than a student or prodigy. think he is a young gentleman and a man of the holy spirit. >> even though he is only 11 years old elijah says he is already thinking about graduate school. >> you have to have your mind set that i have to learn this and you have to have that mindset to know that i have to learn this and that my life depends on it. act like your life depends on it because he does. when you learn you increase your life. >> in addition at school he runs a weekly radio show and he is inspirational. he plans on bringing new programs to the university community. >> he will be a ceo or president one day. we will have president elijah. >> he is great at physics and blowing the young sheldon out of the water. >> he also knows how to tie the bowtie. he is a smart young man. >>> traffic is getting busy and we have more cars filling in at the bay bridge toll plaza. it is already stacking up with the metering lights on. it is busy with people working their way out of oakland heading into san francisco. the drive

saying what he was thinking about running for president was repeating or ripping off or stealing prodigiouslyrom the trump agenda. it is silly what these supposed to. >> romney talking about bipartisanship but that would be whatever nancy pelosi once, i want. every single major issue that's been bipartisan including criminal bill that kushner just pushed through always the democrat bill and never republic and bill. in my sense, having bipartisanship and move the ball forward. democrats get to run with it and senate has to align and present will be no. lou: meanwhile, first agenda has to move ahead despite this. ed, great to see you as always. entire quarterly sales warning from apple sent investors tumbling and markets really. dow jones industrial sold off 660 points down at the close and s&p lost 62, nasdaq snapping a five-day winning streak down to a two points. president and ceo of wealth management rebecca walser and senior analyst at banyan hill, ian king join us later. we take up what in the world we should all be thinking about when we have the courage to look at these numbers coming f

and he's a prodigy. >> true. >> in that sense, the players justified -- although if i was to predict 20 years ago who was going to make it on broadway, i would have never ever predicted it was hamilton. >> i would have said franklin. >> yeah. and they would have been, like, who is this guy? he's like a comet that came through. we're the stars in the firmament. but who else? adams. and adams, you know, is the most well read in politics especially, i think. and he's a contrarian, but he's my favorite one because he spills the beans. >> right. >> if you're a historian or a biographer, you can't do it unless the letters give you stuff, okay? there are 1,200 letters between abigail -- >> plus a diary. >> and a diary. that's right. the adams papers were edited in a brilliant way, what is it, the library of america. you can get them through the library of america, which is a significant contribution. >> absolutely. >> those are the -- now there's then these lower-tiered people that you sort of want to let people know they were important, that they were more important then. like jay is -- >>

destroy the reputation of his one-time prodigy, proposing burns had little political intelligence and was consumed by sexual dalliances. with theked the cause scottish resistance to english rule. -- it closesine with a call to resist tyranny in the abstract. liberties in every blow, let us do or die. the message was easily decoded. england was to radical and scotland needed to attach itself to the cause of the french republic. 1793, the movement for franchise reform and regeneration found focus in a series of conventions held in edinburgh. by the british convention because of the twoide -- presence of individuals from the london society. both men were arrested for sedition in the following year. the aims of the british convention were constitutional. the gathering was dismissed on the fifth of december, 1793, as a result of recent legislation passed to foreclose political assemblies in ireland. south of the border, further measures were introduced to constrain the republican movement, culminating in the suspension of habeas corpus. one historian contended this legal prosecution amount

there was rain coming down prodigiously to say the least. there is some winds . they are actually blowing the trees around a bit. sometimes those trees are leaning over because of high winds. we have had some big squalls and wants this other stuff comes in from the ocean, we will see something quite different. all of this water is drainage not only from today with the other raids we've had in recent times. it hasn't had time to dry out. it's a little bit of a nailbiter. again, you had to be here for the big floods to understand what could happen. >> tom, thank you. >>> for people worried about flooding, there are plenty of places to fill sandbags. most bay area counties have distribution sites for free sandbags. here is a look at a partial list. in san francisco, the san francisco public work operations yard, in the south bay sites include the san jose city central service yard on center road and mitchell park in palo alto. contra costa county has some backing sites at the county public works yard in martinez and the byron airport. for a complete look at the list

mckenzie sought to destroy the reputation of his one-time prodigy, proposing that burns had little political intelligence and was largely consumed by his sexual dalliances. an image that persist even today. burns linked the cause with the scottish resistance to english rule by william wallace. opening with clear historical locators, the poem closes with a general play on a liberty and a call to resist tyranny in the abstract. i will not try the scottish accent. liberties in every blow, let us do or die. the message was easily decoded. england was too radical and scotland needed to attach itself its maturity to the cause of the french republic. 1793, the movement for franchise reform and republican regeneration found focus in a series of conventions by "theedinburgh friends of the people of scotland" a radical organization. it was named by the british convention because of the presence of two delegates who apparently made it british. both men were arrested for sedition in the following year. scriven, william thomas muir and others, collectively known as the scottish martyrs. the aims of the b

prodigy's new album "the fat of the land" enters the billboard pop chart at number 1. ♪ fight the pressureed electronica which is edm, which is techno really started to kind of take hold beyond dance clubs. ♪ all these artists end up laying the seeds for what would become a pretty huge revolution of music. ♪ ♪ around the world >> everybody's talking about them and they're headed to america. it started with the beatles and then the stones. well, move over, boys, and roll over beethoven. the spice girls are coming. ♪ if you want to be my lover ♪ you got to get with my friends ♪ >> there's never been a group where every person had their own personality and every fan could choose a different one that they related to. and it was brilliant. ♪ taking this too easy ♪ but that's the way it is >> there needed to be some music to be the sorbet and the palate cleansing for the intensity that was the earlier part of the '90s. >> the recording industry doesn't need to be told that it's a teen/teen world. >> there were about to be more teenagers than any other time in america's history. teenagers wanted

northern california had begun to uncover details of a double life which had been, shall we say, prodigious> it seemed like at every turn there was another woman this guy had some involvement with. >> it was coming out of the woodwork. >> there was quite a few of them. >> he said he was recently single. >> like pamela icles, for example, who responded to ernie's ad in 2008 in the dating section of craigslist in las vegas. she met him for drinks. >> ernie's personality was very nice, friendly. >> the two had plans to have dinner march 14th, 2008. but about 2:00 in the afternoon, said pamela, ernie called to cancel. >> saying he needed to go home. that his parents' house was broken into and burglarized. and they were both murdered. >> but in the weeks after the murder ernie's craigslist conquest resumed. >> he did it in las vegas. he did it in new orleans. >> he did it everywhere he went. and he got lots of responses. >> does that surprise you? >> it surprised me that he was able to form the level of intimacy very rapidly with so many different women that he did. >> kimberly olson was one of

he was a prodigy, a very bright man. to the course of his life, he used his brilliance for mostly the dark arts of manipulation and self-enrichment, and later in his career, even literally, mafia activities. he became the number one mob lawyer in this country. i call them the ceo of the favor bank. amy: the mob is where donald trump comes in, in is early years of being a developer in manhattan. but go back even further to the rosenbergs. from before the mccarthy hearing. >> sure. got his teeth in public life as a junior prosecutor in the rosenberg spy case, which was an famous trial of two jewh americans who were acsed of d coicted o sring atomic secrets th the sieiet uon.. amy: conspirg to. >> yeah. and c was amo a groupf jesh lawyersndust -- judges w were apinted to give t impressn that iwas not an anti-semitic prosecution. he proved himself to be incredibly aggressive and very, very savvy and gaining publicity for himself and for the cause that he was pushing. and he is perhaps most famous in a veryr engaging in quest

. >> we all know she has a prodigious work schedule working well into the wee hours of the morning goingfter these briefs. we know she works from home. >> we fknow from katie tur that she was reading on the plane on the way up to have her surgery. >> pete williams, thanks so much. thanks for that update. of course, the high-profile ruth bader ginsburg, and coming up, first in the nation, iowans pack the house for elizabeth warren's first swing to the hawk eye state. who is heading there next? you'll find out on "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. andra mitchell reports" on msnbc by rootmetrics and j.d. power. buy the latest galaxy phones, get galaxy s9 free. at humana, we believe great things are ahead of you when you start with healthy. and part of staying healthy means choosing the right medicare plan. humana can help. with original medicare, you're covered for hospital stays and doctor office visits when you're sick. but keep in mind you'll have to pay a deductible for each. a medicare supplement plan can cover your deductibles and co-insurance, but you may pay higher premiums than yo

. >> 16, so he was a prodigy >> i would say he was an overachiever, for sure. >> still is.ontessa, thank you. contessa brewer. >>> it was interesting to talk to the nvidia guy just now and ask him about china, how much of nvidia's demand for that was related to that video game ban they tried, versus consumer slowing and he said it's consumer slowing. >> you have to wonder the degree to which things slowed down in china. in mid-november, they revised their fourth quarter outrook it's the second time they're saying fourth quarter will come in worse in mid-november they were saying things are going to be worse and now they're saying things are even worse. >> this reminds me of what you pointed out about apple, when it first talked in november about the outlook for china, it was, you know, fine and then they came out and said, no, actually it's deteriorating. >> nvidia will have the full earnings report on february 14th but for all these conference calls we're going to have in the next week or so, when it comes to apple, when it comes to boeing this week, we're all going to be

barr, that your family is showing a prodigious level of patience. that should be marked for the record. you're a very lucky man. you know that about 30-plus states have legalized medical marijuana. you're aware of that, correct? yes. >> in 2018, jeff sessions rescinded the cole memorandum, which provided guidance to u.s. attorneys that the federal marijuana prohibition should not be enforced in states that ahav legalized marijuana in one way or the other. do you believe it was the right decision to rescind the cole memorandum? >> my approach to this would be not to upset settled expectations and the reliance interests that have arisen as a result of the cole memorandum. investments have been made. so there have been reliance on it. i don't think it's appropriate to upset those interests. however, i think the current situation is untenable and really has to be addressed. it's almost like a book door nullification of federal law. to me, it's a binary choice. we have a federal law that applies to everybody. >> i'm sorry to interrupt, but how would you

there is definite training uses and there's definite ability to affect the national defense prodigy with arctic activity.>> iq mister chairman. >> thank you very muchsenator sullivan, senator kane . >> secretary spencer, i'll talk with you. i chatted with you about the requirement and the end the aa from 2015 and is now live about audited financial statements for all functions within the dod. we view that as a tool not just for congressional oversight, not just for public oversight but as a tool for militaryleadership . to manage, to create i think you described in your testimony aculture of continuous improvement . if we are going to be reliable on budgetary, ample budgetary requests and budget certainty, it helps us if we believe the dod is using tools like this to promote improvement, to let go of lesser performing priorities or lower performing programs that invest in other areas. as you described, bringing somebody from southwest to deal with, help you figure out their new strategies on maintenance, that sounds like a good one. how are you using tools like the audited financial stat

his services to israel as the former governor of the bank of israel and prodigious in first rate resourceo a few years back on foreign exchange. lovely to visit you each and every year here at davos. ofant to go back to the idea then it was fixed exchange rates and now it is variable, floating exchange rates, and we don't have to worry about slow down because currency will fix things for everybody. it just seems too good to be true. is too good to be true. the important thing is that there has been big developments since the recent theories were developed. the big development is the growth of international financial markets. this has been the source of fragility as well as the source of growth. great financial -- it is not the cure for wrong economic --. tom: what is different this year versus 2006? francine mentioned global slowdown. this time is different. jacob: the important thing i want to emphasize is that i have the impression whenever there is even a tiny moderation of growth, i would not even call it a slowdown, there is already the ingredients of we are about to enter another re

alongside this prodigious development, nearly half of singapore remains green and lush, including they, there are few better sources of wisdom than the former prime minister of singapore of three decades, and influenced a generation of leaders, including henry kissinger and margaret thatcher. let me start by turning to his lecture on the fundamentals of singapore's foreign policy, delivered in 2009. friendship in international relations is not a function of goodwill or personal affection, he said. we must make ourselves relevant so other countries have an interest in our continued survival and prosperity. words we in britain should heed in this momentous year in our history. thanks to that history, the uk probably has better connections across the globe than nearly any other country. but we cannot depend on sentiment or affection to be releva nt to on sentiment or affection to be relevant to others. nor should we assume it because of past achievements. 0thers assume it because of past achievements. others will have an interest in our future success. not u nless we interest in our futu