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the stadium was home to the rockford peaches featured in the 90s classic, a league of their own.ears since the all american girls professional baseball league ended its run. now women have made great strides playing professional sports, but tournament organizers say baseball still remains a few plays behind. >> at buyers stadium in rockford, illinois, sports history is being made. 200 girls, age 7 to 17, have come here for the largest girls only baseball tournament in u.s. history. 15-year-old kendra plays third base. >> why is that so important to be around other girls at this level? because other girls know what it is look to be a girl playing baseball on an all boys team back home. and they know, the extra work that they have to put in to be as good or better than the boys. >> i love this game. the greatest game on earth. >> justine, the tournament organizers and founder, baseball for all. a group whose mission is to empower girls, through baseball. there's no crying in baseball. inspired by "a league of their own." ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the 1992 film about the first all-american g

rockford emergency management texas with people trapped inside. this storm will sit there for days. want to show you wind gusts from the center. galveston reporting 40 miles per hour. can't report from the station because the power has been shutdown but we have storm trackers reporting maximum wind gusts 140 miles per hour making landful near rockford right now. this is the first to hit texas since karla in 1961. once it moves inland, it will stall along the coast. what that means, the storm surge of six to 12 feet continues for days. we are looking at epic amounts of rain falling from the sky, some areas 30-inches of rain, a year's worth of rain in a matter of days. we'll talk about this storm system for a long time because it will likely effect the area well into next week. we have the local forecast later on. jim? >> let's go to "action news" reporter jeff chirico at international airport. what are arriving passengers saying about all of this? >> jim, we saw a number of flights from houston. the paperings had plans to fly to philadelphia. the storm pushed their plans up a day or

host: eric is calling from rockford, illinois, on a republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. i think with these accidents with the warships and freighters, with the person standing out in the rain, looking at his phone to see what the weather is, i think the navy can depend a little bit less on sophisticated radar and their --a houple" h ackable computers, i have a concern of the security of our country when our most sophisticated ships, 800 the long, crash into other folks. it is like two cars crash and they are the only ones on the road. it does not make sense as a taxpayer to be funding any of this without a guy looking through a pair of binoculars along the line. host: what is your reaction? guest: eric's reaction is common and it is not logical. it is very difficult for most people who have not been active and around the oceans, especially these spectacularly crowded areas to wonder how can this possibly happen? one of the things i can say is we will find that out. in-depth investigations are underway into both of these collisions, and there will be

we will go back to clinton from rockford, michigan. thank you for taking my call. i am rather appalled by president trump's comments. i know people are questioning the media, whether they have the right to question him. yes, they do have the right. the media can help uncover things that politicians are not going to present. the sickly did not want to address any questions that they asked, he just wanted to make a statement. which back to the original ,tatement that he made --ginally talking about well, i am so upset and his response. now he is trying to say that both sides were at fault. problem was, in charlottesville, many people showed up from out of the city, from out of the state with weapons. are calling from michigan, which president trump was carried by a small margin last fall. how do think the president is doing now where you live in michigan? how is his support in the state of michigan? asking thank you for that question because, i don't the key would win the state if the election were to be held this year. people were trying to choose between what they

pulgadas, tres veces ha tocado tierra, ha tercera en cameron, en luisiana, y antes en el Área de rockfordo y estÁ produciendo problemas en los embalses y represas. levantamos la ciudad para que vean cÓmo funciona este sistema. cuando tenemos un rÍo o un embalse sirve para controlar la cÁndido de agua que esta ocurriendo. ¿quÉ estÁ pasando en houston? estÁ lloviendo muchÍsimo, inundadas las calles y los rÍos han empezado a subir. tambiÉn las aguas que se van moviendo por cierra. con ese nivel tan alto estÁ haciendo necesario abrir las puestas de los diques para empezar a soltar el agua. lo que ha complicado mucho mÁs la situaciÓn en la ciudad. ¿cuÁl es la soluciÓn? esperar que no llueva mÁs en los prÓximos dÍas. porque si sigue lloviendo los embalses o las represa nos serÁn capaz de almacenar mÁs agua. tendrÁn que seguir soltando y si no se hiciera esto podrÍan explotar y destrozar cualquier ciudad que estÉ al lado. de aquÍ la importancia de tener las represas controladas y sirve para que no se inunde tanto una ciudad, pero con 50 pulgadas ninguna represa es capaz de soportar el agua. marÍ

right now until 7 people, people are meeting at rockford park. in ardmore, an event at linwood park. and at 7:30 on high street outside the courthouse. in philadelphia, a vigil is planned at 7:00. >>> well, this fiery accident caused all northbound lanes of the jersey turnpike to close in chesterville today. just after noon a tanker carrying liquid asphalt overturned, and despite this serious scene with a lot of smoke out there, no one was hurt. the driver got out of the truck safely and no other cars were involved. the cause of the accident is still under investigation. >>> taking a live look outside on this warm sunday evening. the philadelphia skyline looking bright and sunny. nbc 10's cameras taking a live look at boat house row, a great day to be out on the water today. >>> let's take a live look at cape may where it is a beautiful evening to be on the beach. erika martin has the most accurate forecast. really a pleasant evening to be outside tonight. >> that's right, denise, and we're in here. really pleasant right now. very comfortable, no

vp and texas governor greg abbott helped clear debris from a rockford neighborhood that had been damaged by the hurricane. >> president trump sent us here. to say we are with you. the american people are with you. we are here today. we will be here tomorrow, and we will be here every day until this city and this state and this region better than ever before. >> you might recall when hurricane harvey closed in on the texas gulf coast. the mayor of rockport had told those choosing to ride out the storm, to write their social security numbers on their body so they could be identified. some people did explain they had nowhere else to go. alex shrek spoke to one family about their near death experience. >> i was scared. i thought i was going to die. thank god i'm here. >> reporter: the haynes family had nowhere to go, and nowhere to get to. >> we're just grateful for our kids. none of them are hurt. >> reporter: they rode out harvey. should mark an arm with a sharpie to be identified. >> the ones that didn't get out. tough. and i don't think that was the right words to say. >> reporter option

people spoke at a peace at rockford park tonight, by local religious look at the crowd of people tomheeakers showed a to express their building a cherishes everybody. philadelphia rabbi mordecai was in charlottesville the violence broke out. he returned he spoke to nbc 10. described the experience as >> on one side of us w screaming racist, anti-semitic homophobic other side of us were the groups that were slogans opposed to the and white supremists. he was not near where that went into the crowd killing of the counter protesters. he planned to be part a nbc's brian thompson was there. ♪ >> reporter: the spiritual lift ever voice as new york leaders of the muslim, jewish and christian faiths stood against white supremacy violence. donald trump with his denunciation of violence on quote, all sides. the reverend said, quote, the devil is alive. >> in the name of all mighty god, resign. leave us. resign. step down. >> reporter: and a standing ovation from a congregation in need. >> there's hope and i'm looking forward to a change. >> and should president trump resign? >> absolutely. >> re

in fact, already one refinery that was shut down a fair corpus christi area in rockford that they are going to try and bring back online. they'll do everything they can to bring it back online. as you mentioned, it continues to rain. if we get flooding it takes a very long time. restarting a refinery is one of the most dangerous parts of the entire process of burning oil. they have to be cautious when be cautious when they bring these things back online. if you have a lot of flooding you have to dry it out. cheryl: will talk about the gas price situation obviously. we have to pay a few more cents for gas, were all okay with that considering what is happening, but there is a longer-term effect on the overall gas price situation correct, sir overnight. the highest price in 2.5 years. not only gasoline prices. this could slow down food prices and everything else. cheryl: phil flynn, thank you for the update. lauren: want a catastrophic damage from tropical storm harvey. live report from chris jenkins on the ground in houston. one years worth of rain in one day. guess what, more rain is d

. >> there's a chrysler plant just east of rockford just as well because [inaudible] they were earlier than here so i didn't look specifically that i know that there were people from the employment for a region. it's in the time the whole economy was bad so there were lots of jobs that have gone aw away. the customers didn't have the income they have had so it wasn't just gainesville and it wasn't just the auto workers. >> one of the things i already read the book. the parts that you left out you talked about the suburban leaving but you didn't make any mention at all that actually was kind of a unique story in itself in the relationship between union and management. there were actually two plant closings. >> i had to think about how to handle that, because if you are one of them working on that other contract, this book i'm a journalist, not a fiction writer and i try to make it as true as i can make it. some books don't do that so there is something i'd written but i didn't report that i don't know to be true but i decided it would be confusing to say there was a book that was done i

they are going to be meeting with victims of the hurricane and they'll be traveling to the town of rockfordthe population about 10,000. it took a direct hit from harvey when it made landfall, so the vice president on his way. >> representative taylor: it's a great question. when you look at these pictures and some of the stories that you have played here and you see folks who are in need, whether black white khmer brown, mccright, republican,, straight, who cares? i think it's important to make sure that congress is held accountable, whatever you felt about somebody in the past or moving forward, that should fall by the wayside right now. i don't know about a specific number, but it's important that we come to the aid of our neighbors, no question. >> sandra: we continue to watch his live images. the vice president has landed, he's on the ground there and your thoughts immediately return to those nearly 200 patients who just got word of having to be evacuated one by one, airlifted out of that hospital in southeast texas as a result of flooding, leaving them with no water. >> kennedy: by the

a crowd gathered for a peace rally at rockford park in wilmington. the senator and wilmington mayor were among many people who spoke at the vigil. local religious leaders also took part. >>> and in the lehigh valley another clear message, hate is not welcome in allentown. rallyiers gathered there yesterday. clergy members joined the community and denouncing the violence in charlottesville and asking for everyone to unite in love. you can count on nbc10 to bring you the very latest developments after that violence in charlottesville. head to the nbc10 app for a gallery of photos from vigils that had been held around our region. >>> bloody and beaten, a couple is found dead inside a home in south philadelphia and this morning police want to know sacramentoly how they died and who killed them. nbc10's pamela osborn is following the investigation for us live from south philadelphia. what do we know? >> reporter: george, this is a busy area. it's not just a neighborhood street. it's about a couple of blocks up from broad where we're standing right now whe

this comes as trickling in reports of building collapses in rockford port which is where it made landfall across the path there from aransas pass. it's a little closer out toward the gulf. it's where our reporters say it's relatively tame especially in places like corpus christi where the western edge of the storm but we have matt where you saw the storm surge coming up into the high tide in you see power outages and you get these trickle reports coming in from places like we can't get into and it certainly seems like daybreak which is now about three and half hours away in texas could bring utter devastation from the storm. they talked about 130-mile an hour winds and dust 165 rockport, texas, city manager kevin said multiple people there have been taken to the county's jail for assessment which seems strange but they're going to the jail and to get treatment after a roof of a senior housing complex collapses. this proof that they are doing whatever they can to try to take care of the residents stayed there but the medical facility and i don't propose a hospital is there going to the loc

just outside of rockford with how folks are coping there.ut we begin with casey stegall in galveston with the latest on the storm. >> the conditions to continue deteriorating out here rather quickly. this is happening up and down much of the texas coast. i will hop out of the way and showing one look at what we are talking here in galveston. you see stuff like this all over the place. a roadway taking on water right up against neighborhoods. it's impassable the water levels are rising fast because these torrential rains simply will not let up. look at this video shot not long ago earlier this morning of an actual rescue happening in houston, a human chain being formed pulling someone to safety. galveston county and the city of houston have received highest rainfall totals so far. the national weather service says the rain has been coming down at a rate of five to 6 inches an hour in some places, in fact 24 inches falling in the houston metro, which is just to the north of us. local emergency management officials say area 911 call centers are

my third economic roundtable of the week discussing a better deal with the hard-working people of rockford. iowa republican steve king this morning tweeted bambi grazing just off my back deck this morning watching the drink coffee. this is the day the lord has made. >> cook tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> one book i just about finished. it's called tribe. he's the author of perfect storm. i cherished the veterans affairs committee in washington. it's a book about ptsd and reintegration of veterans into society. such a great book i recommend that you read it. i serve on the literary caucus here in washington. i encourage everyone to read this summer. we read a lot of boring rings. washington. papers and policy papers and all of that. just for fun this summer i'm ldacci.o read david ba i have read every book that he has ever written started with his first one and have never given up on him. he's a great writer. i'm also going to read john meacham's book on andrew jackson. andrew jackson was the first person to hold my congress

although you know again, these are more -- >> in rockford illinois over the weekend. >> the issue with the postal facilities, they are much more like factories and office space. so they need some resources in order to renovate them and make them suitable for office space. there's a lot of potential for consolidation. again, until you get really excited handle on the data and the accuracy, it is very difficult for agencies to make these kinds of decisions. so yes, your point is well taken that the issue around management and federal real property has a potential relationship to the fbi issue at hand today. >> last thing i was a mr. chairman, during my time in delaware, we still we actually have three budgets. -- but we know that the fiscally smart decision for providing for space, whether it is for the fbi or anybody else in the federal government. often times it is for the federal government to build and own property. it is a smart way to do it. senator cardin -- in a year or maybe over two years for something like the fbi building. it is just very hard to do. in the end we save money.

there's a lot of potential there, although these are more like -- >> my wife and i just go by one in rockford, illinois, over the weekend. >> the issue of the postal facilities are more like factors than office space. they need some resources in order to renovate them and make them suitable for office space and there's potential for consolidation, but again, until you get really a solid handle on the data and its accuracy, it's very difficult for agencies to make these kinds of decisions so, yes, your point is well taken that the issue around management of real property certainly has a tangential relationship to the fbi issue at hand today. >> last thing i would say, mr. chairman, dug my time as state government, we worked then with the capital budget and one is the operating budget and one is the capital budget to help the non-profit organizations which is small compared to the other two, but we know that the fiscally smart decision for providing for space whether it's for the fbi or anybody else in federal government that oftentimes it's for the federal government to build and own property.

rockford, illinois shall distance to wisconsin in the paul ryan. -- and paul ryan. manzul us this morning. i have always been told south korea is the most american asian economy. do you buy that? donald: i think so. the english is taught as a second language in korea. toh year probably close 70,000 korean college students come to the united states to study here. so it is a very western country located in northeast asia. tom: we talk about missiles, the navy, and military and geopolitical response, so it's a south korean need from washington and from president trump? what do they need? itald: south korea needs, has, but it still needs the continuous assurance that the u.s. is going to stand behind south korea in the event of any encouraging by the north. the south koreans are very durable people. they appreciate the fact that the united states is standing shoulder to shoulder with them. and they have grown up on the assumption that if anything happens to them and south korea, the u.s. will be there with troops in south korea and japan, ready to repel any invasion fro

well, the man who helped me do it, bob wells, that was my teacher at rockford high school.dances we did in class. there are so many stories like mine in "raising america" sponsored by target. you can see all of them. mr. wells, you guys, life changer. >>> we're working on our selfie skills. let's head out to george. >> thank you, ginger. we have a great guest to bring to the table right now. grammy winning rapper, executive producer of "power" now stepping onto the late night stage with his new show "50 central." welcome 50 cent, curtis jackson. ♪ good time everybody have a good time ♪ ♪ good good time good time ♪ everybody have a good time [ cheers and applause ] >> welcome. what is that on your suit? >> bees. gucci. >> you're coming from the fight. floyd mayweather. >> yeah, i just came from out in vegas. i drove myself. it was a better fight than i thought it would be. >> a lot of people -- >> they didn't anticipate mcgregor's arm and the way -- it was a little difficult to get to him and it took till the tenth round. i thought he would have got him by the fifth round. t

bob wells was my teacher at rockford high school. of the dances we did in class. there are so many stories like mine in "raising america" you can seem them all. mr. wells, you gfrom nhc to see has formed - warmer tomorrow; dry through friday - rain from harvey arrives this weekend (saturday) - dry labor day monday today: wet and windy. unseasonably cool. highs: 67-70 winds: ne 10-15 g 25 mph >>> we're working on our selfie skills. let's head out to george. >>> a great guest to bring to the table. grammy winning rapper, executive producer of "power" now stepping out with "50 central." welcome 50 cent. ♪ good time everybody have a good time ♪ ♪ good good time good time ♪ everybody have a good time [ cheers and applause ] >> welcome. >> what is that on your suit there. >> bs. >> gucci. >> you're coming from the fight. floyd mayweather. >> yeah, i just came from out in vegas. i drove myself. it was a better fight than i thought it would be. >> a lot of people -- >> they didn't anticipate mcgregor's arm and the way -- it was a little diff