[applause] elaine was born in saginaw in the wake of world war ii. she was one of eight kids who grew up poor. after graduating from saginaw high school she worked odd jobs and got married and moved to om chicago . she came home to michigan with her son. she struggled as a single mom. one day over dinner in the parking lot of a fast food joint she made her sons a promise: one day she said they would be ableto eat at the olive garden across the street, the sitdown restaurant with metal forks and waiters who refill your class without you even walk asking. elaine worked hard , to keep a roof over her sons heads. she was a secretary for years but wanted to chase her dream and give a job that gave her purpose. she never thought she could quit. elaine, i'm glad you prove yourself wrong. she went back to wayne state with a pell grant and earned 2b0. [applause] after graduating with her masters in social work at 45 she has a successful career in saginaw and volunteers ata local shelter and even wrote a book , my grandchildren make me laugh. bewhat elaine is

elaine was born in saginaw in the wake of world war ii. after graduating from sagna high school she worked odd jobs and got married and move today chicago. after her divorce she came to michigan with her sons. she struggled as a single mom. one day over dinner in a parking lot of joint she made her son a promise. one day she said they would be able to eat at the olive garden across the street with metal forks and waiters that refill your glass without you even asking, elaine worked hard using foot stamps oh putting groceries in the fridge and housing assistance to keep a roof over her son's head. she wanted to chase her dream and job that gave her sense of purpose. she never thought she could do it,, elaine, i'm glad that you proved yourself wrong. she went back to duwane state and got two degrees. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >> after graduating with her master's in social work at 45 she had a successful career in saginaw. she even wrote a book my grandchildren make me life. what elaine is most proud of is who her sons have

host: let's go to valerie in saginaw, michigan. caller: good morning. listen. things get so complicated when it comes to the deficit, budget. mainly when democrat presidents are in. mainly to raise taxes. we are bigger, more populated. we can't budget like we did in the 70's. the population has increased. we have one president at a time. she is referring to trump as president trump. he has should not be given as much weight as you guys are giving him. we have a president named joe biden. if the republicans would stop running interference, making things worse. they always want to mess with the poor and working-class. they never want to start at the top. yes, we need more taxes. we need to make medicare for all. it's not about no intelligence, no money. it's about trying to keep a certain amount of people down struggling. they don't like the middle class. host: you brought up a lot of topics there. what would you like to talk about? guest: it is an incredibly partisan time, worse than i've ever seen. i worry about it because i am a political independent and havin

applause] >> after graduating with her masters in social work at 45 she had a successful career in saginaw. she volunteered in local shelters and wrote a book, my grandchildren made me laugh. what elaine is most proud of, however, is who her sons have become. she calls themselves fine young men who care for themselves and for their families. mark and cody are with her today. one works at the same clinic elaine did and the other heads back to college soon following in her footsteps. elaine and my mom were born about six years apart. they both worked hard and faced adversity and persevered. they are both strong, proud women from michigan and that's a branch of honor -- badge of honor. [cheers and applause] >> elaine's story is a michigan story. she had simple dreams for her kids. she wanted them to get a great education and eat at a restaurant occasionally. she wanted them to have hope and be good people. tonight's proposal that is we are focused on is that we can make more stories like elaine's possible in michigan. we will build a michigan, if you get knocked down, you have the support you

. >> reporter: vicky nguyen, nbc news, saginaw, michigan. >>> and up next, he is a major league star striking it big in batting and bowling. >>> finally, he is a baseball superstar, but this slugger spends his spare time in a very different lane here is morgan chesky. >> it's belted to left center field home run >> reporter: mookie betts is in a league all his own with a swing that's pure baseball >> gone! >> reporter: and swagger in another sport entirely, where three strikes is celebrated >> bowling's in my blood. >> reporter: you really did pick up a bowling ball before a baseball >> yeah, way before. >> reporter: that's right. the l.a. dodger, seven-time all-star, and two-time world series champ says some of that baseball success started in a bowling alley. >> bowling is so complex. you have to be creative a lot of visualization when it comes to bowling, just like baseball. >> reporter: he credits the sport with keeping a competitive edge, even wowing fans at the world series of bowling. >> 300 game! >> reporter: rolling so many perfect games since. how often are you calling and

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so to get us started, we have a question from janice in saginaw hills, ohio. janice writes, jackie kennedy, family included emma bouvier, drexel and katharine drexel, the latter a saint in the roman catholic church, and co-founder of historically black colleges and universities and schools for native americans. but there has been minimal acknowledgment of such great women by jackie's descendants or by the kennedy library. do you have any idea why jackie would want to minimize those two great women? i have no idea. in fact, this is the first i heard about it. and what's interesting, i was just reviewing and editing a book chapter on jackie anita mcbride, who's a member of the board of the white house historical association. nancy keegan smith, who worked at the national archives for many years. and i have a textbook and i was looking at that chapter today and it's not included. so we may need to have to go back and find that, but thank you for letting me know about that. i was not aware. and i'll just say to janice included a link to a washington post article r

ice, frozen in time, we have a mere 5% of the entire great lakes covered with ice really near the saginaw bay and portions of northern lake michigan. this is following that trend of declining ice coverage across the great lakes every winter since the '70s and this of course has major impacts on the outdoor winter sports activities like ice fishing, perhaps the snow sports industry as well. here you can see temperatures well above average, well above freezing so we're going to keep that warmth in the forecast to go. lots of rain across the deep south, a storm system will bring the potential for some severe weather across the deep south, especially into louisiana by saturday and sunday, so monitor that, and there is the potential for heavy rain from mobile, alabama, all the way to atlanta, georgia. >> i'm just -- i'm doing math, i'm not sure i should keep doing this on air. you said it was 63 degrees in des moines, when i was there it was negative 20, that's an 83-degree difference from january to february. >> that's winter coat versus shorts and short sleeved shirt. >> this does not seem n

sitting at 5% we should normally have about 37% of the great lakes covered in ice right now, only saginaw bay and the green bay region. this has major implications on let's say the fishing industry, for instance, the economy of the great lakes and it's part of a wider trend of declining ice pack across the great lakes since records began in the middle of the '70s. so see this warmth, it will shift to the east coast and this is kind of the fingerprints of climate change written across this story. phil, poppy. >> we see it every day. derek van dam, thank you. >>> tucker carlson's interview with vladimir putin, we have reaction from ukraine straight ahead. >>> and what donald trump's potential vp pick says what she would have done if she was in mike pence's shoes on january 6th. stay with us. before i started playing basketball, i was kind of quiet. i wasn't really that confident or outgoing. but now, with basketball, i feel like a leader. yo, cayden! sport for good means to me that i'll be able to give back to my family and my community. goals can be accomplished, dreams can be accomplished

but again, especially once you get north here, basically, we could say saginaw, it's a bit arbitrary. but once you get north of there, it is basically trump country. in small, rural counties with large populations of non- college white voters, the core trump base. you could just see what is happening here, as they start to report it. and you are going to see margins like, that cumulatively. they're going to add up and they're going to buttress that trump number statewide. now, taking a look here at the democratic side overall now, 10% of the vote, uncommitted, at least for the moment, over that 15% mark. 15% statewide, 15% in congressional districts in michigan is the threshold on the democratic side to begin collecting delegates of the democratic national convention. now, with a margin like, this, biden is going to take the lion's share of delegates here. but the possibility of uncommitted gets delegates is certainly alive in the returns. nearby basically, the uncommitted story on the democratic side that we are following for the rest of the night is gonna be concentrated in a few pl

only for michigan but down towards the ohio river valley, pa duke dude can a, kentucky up towards saginawhere is the detroit forecast. again, get out there early. we think the rain is going to start in the evening. depending on where you live. you know, the northern part of the state you are going to get that rain but we are looking at the severe threat, the threat for even tornadoes later in the evening and into the overnight. so just keep that in mind. have a wait to get those watches and warnings. here is the storm system we are watching moving across the plain states in towards the northeast. that risk of severe weather today and tomorrow because we have got an artic cold front that is going to crash into above average temperatures. how above average? in some cases 40 degrees above where they normally are this type time of year. we are going to set dozens of records the next couple of days. look at dallas, l.j., 94 yesterday. sixth 90 day on record. breaks the old record of 90 degrees of course when was that? i don't know. >> steve: seems like yesterday. >> ainsley: still a broken rec

and basically, let's just draw a line here, north of saginaw.e got -- a lot of land area, including the u.p.. this is only going to total about, all combined, about 15% of the republican vote tonight. but these are largely, with a couple of exceptions, these are largely rural counties, working class, filled with white voters who don't have college degrees. and that has been trump's really strong core group. and in some of these counties, when trump first ran for president in 2016 against hillary clinton, they move 20, 30 points from their 2012 levels. a lot of these counties were blue, a lot of them voted for barack obama. they became red, deeply red, in the era of trump. they stayed there in 2020, so this is going to be a source of strength for him tonight, even if it's not a huge share of the statewide vote. so trump country up here, potentially trump trouble country up here. and a tale of two counties, we want to be watching, in oakland county, and then right next door in macomb county. but again, all we have right now a, so i should reset th

going to be 10 to 30 degrees above average around the great lakes into the midplains look at this saginawould be a record in minneapolis, 53 degrees. williamsburg going to be warm. degrees. we could see that break a record. toledo, ohio. springfield, illinois, we're plattsburgh tomorrow, 47 degrees. we could see that break a record toledo, ohio springfield, illinois, we're looking for some warm temperatures and cooler air comes in behind that system. so temperatures dip whereby d.c., monday, 53 >>> good thursday morning. i am meteorologist, kari hall. it's just very chilly out there. we will have one more chance of some isolated showers going into the afternoon. we only make it into the mid-50s today. we're back down into the 30s for tonight. we will see upper 50s tomorrow. it will be a nice and clear weekend with our temperatures in the low 60s. we will see those 60s continue into next week. it will be also cool in san >>> and that's your latest weather. >> thank you, al for some it may feel like yesterday, but this week marks 60 years since the beatles invaded america, and harry smith t

between flint and saginaw you had 4-6 inches.sing it was coming down fast and heavy for a short time. in western new york, with a little lake enhancement and a little elevation, you added up to a foot in some places. so that's the first storm that's passing on. but we've got another one that, by tomorrow morning, baltimore, washington, d.c., philadelphia, trenton all will be waking up with snow. we're talking on the order of 2-4 inches. even in new york city we could be in that 1-2. a slide of snow in the middle of february when we've had barely anything. behind it, by the way, sunday is going to be downright brutally cold. wind chills in the teens. local weather now in 30 seconds. >>> we'll be right back here on gma. stick around. see for yourself. behind! you kiss your mother with that mouth? [lion roars] we been doing this for years. hello. wow! i love you. i hate this place... it's the worst. win or lose, we'll do it together. i might even give you a hug. maybe not. hulu and disney+. better together for one low price. we work

host: let's go to valerie in saginaw, michigan. caller: good morning. listen.s get so complicated when it comes to the deficit, budget. mainly when democrat presidents are in. mainly to raise taxes. we are bigger, more populated. we can't budget like we did in the 70's. the population has increased. we have one president at a time. she is referring to trump as president trump. he has should not be given as much weight as you guys are giving him. we have a president named joe biden. if the republicans would stop running interference, making things worse. they always want to mess with the poor and working-class. they never want to start at the top. yes, we need more taxes. we need to make medicare for all. it's not about no intelligence, no money. it's about trying to keep a certain amount of people down struggling. they don't like the middle class. host: you brought up a lot of topics there. what would you like to talk about? guest: it is an incredibly partisan time, worse than i've ever seen. i worry about it because i am a political independent and having two

with paying less in federal taxes than a teacher in bay city, michigan, for example, or a nurse in saginaw or a factory worker in midland. so let's just quickly review the facts. under president trump, republicans had an $8 trillion -- added $8 trillion to the national debt including nearly $2 trillion alone from the trump tax scam that gave overwhelming, overwhelming benefits to the wealthiest millionaires and billionaires in america. and now we see a desire to extend those tax giveaways to the super wealthy. so, mr. swagel, the cbo issued a report last may, and i know mr. doggett addressed this, but i wonder if you might be specific on this issue if you could. the cbo report last may dealt with this issue. how much would extending, according to your report, how much would extending the trump tax cuts for the wealthy add to our national deficit? >> after, after 2025 when many of the provisions expire, extending all of the expiring provisions would run about $300 billion a year. >> but just to be clear when you aggregate that, the may 2023 report found that extending the trump tax cuts to

the results will come in and marquette, which is an area that democrats perform well in saginaw, has predicted the winner statewide. every race since 1992, and is a boomerang pivot county where you have obama obama, trump, biden so we'll see what happens inside these most populous counties. and as bakari was pointing out, and are you with me? >> i don't know how feel about this. well, listen, i career. >> when you, when you dig deeper into the results to get a measure of where import is of, of both parties. alyssa was talking about this as well. there's a gender gap, but it's not as big as maybe president biden would want. >> the poland. most recent polling that's come out and shows a closer race amongst women then i think president biden would want college age voters. president biden won by 17 votes. most recent polling is showing it closer, more like six. independence was won by president biden, but the current polling is showing president trump op right now. >> so >> digging deep into these most populous counties and seeing what's going on inside the democratic party. i think my a