. >> i want to go back to the seward thing. when i was young, my family vacationed in seward. we saw signs all around town for lydia. i texted my wife, do you remember when we saw the sign in seward? it was for lydia. >> so you have a personal stake in go, lydia. >> go, lydia. >>> a double standard for katie ledecky. she's going to compete in the 200 meter freestyle and then for the 1500 meter freestyle. then brown will face off in judo. then men's basketball will be on tonight at 9:40 on nbc team network. and the women's water polo team faces hungary tonight at 8:00 p.m. you can catch the highlights tonight on nbcbayarea.com and also on our trending bar. >>> we are getting closer to the recall election and a task for governor newsom. the reason why he chose a walgreen's to make his point. >>> another outbreak at a concert venue. now people are asking, are we opening too fast? >> you can see some storms longstanding. we'll talk about the heat and humidity. >>> we'll talk about the cdc's new mask-wearing guidance and a new concern about vaccinated people. we'll look at athletes

of state seward they had heard the secretary of state had been stabbed to death in his bed. and he almost was killed. he survived the wounds and when they got to seward's mansion near the white house, they heard that lincoln had been shot here at ford's theater. so they rushed over here in a carriage. by the time they got here thousands of people had gathered at the corner of 10th and f street and the carriage couldn't push through the crowd. so there they were the two most powerful members of the cabinet commanding the entire united states army and the navy had a disembark from their carriage and disappear into the mob and pushed their way through and come into this house. so stanton came through this door into this room and he saw mary lincoln here. and he decided he couldn't operate from here in front of the first lady. so stanton came through this room. and into the back parlor here. which was the francis's bedroom? and it was here at a table in the center of this room that the secretary of war began the manhunt for john wilkes booth. witnesses from ford's theater were b

and if you s -- saw it on tv, seward, alaska, monday night was probably the site of the best olympic watch party ever. i hope people saw that. ever. so i talked about lydia about a month ago when she cinched her spot on the team. she did that by actually swimming the second fastest time in the world in the women's 100-meter breaststroke finals in the olympic trials for the united states. so we in alaska knew that she was something. i'll mention this again, mr. president. you know, alaskans, we punch above our weight in the winter olympics. we do really well in the winter olympics for reasons that most people probably understand, and we've done pretty well in the summer olympics, particularly trap shooting, riflery. we have an olympic veteran rugby player right now, alev kelter who is also competing. her team made the quarterfinals. she might be on the field later tonight. good luck to her. we will be rooting for her as well. but alaska has never sent a swimmer to the olympics, ever. let aloin won -- let alone won a gold. as the nbc announcer said after the race, alaska, quote, is not

lydia has put seward, certainly seward high school on the map. folks are coming up to me saying i didn't realize that you didn't have olympic meter swimming pools in most of your communities. well, that is true. lydia did some training that i think most would say is going to be a long, hard slog to get to any olympics, but i think this dedication of this young woman has certainly played out the. the support that she's received from her parents over the years, the support that she's received from her community is just an example of just good, strong alaska roots. everybody working hard and just doing your best on a daily basis. and lydia jacoby has absolutely done her best. she has set the gold standard, and we're just extraordinarily proud of this young alaskan woman. with that, mr. president. the presiding officer: morning business is closed. the senate will proceed to executive session and resume consideration of the following nomination which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, national labor relations board, gwynne a. wilcox of new

jacoby, alaska's first olympic swimmer to win gold, placing her small town of seward on the map. fans reacting all over her hometown. now, the big question, will simone biles compete in the individual competition? well, she says she's taking it one day at a time. david? >> we're rooting for her. james longman, thank you. >>> when we come back tonight, the newest heat wave now set to grip much of the country. only 6% of us retail businesses have a black owner. that needs to change. so, i did something. i created a black business accelerator at amazon. and now we have a program that's dedicated to making tomorrow a better day for black businesses. ♪ ♪ i am tiffany. and this is just the beginning. ♪ ♪ we were alone when my husband had the heart attack. he's the most important thing in my life. i'm so lucky to get him back. your heart isn't just yours. protect it with bayer aspirin. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. press start and consider the job finished. finish quantum's three-chamber detergent works with bosch's precisionwash technology to clean

while back home in seward, alaska, a massive watch party erupting. [ cheers and applause ] >> it's like your favorite team winning the super bowl, but better. >> reporter: the first swimmer from alaska to ever qualify for the games, now etching her remarkable story into olympian lore. >> there's only one 50 meter pool and it's never really set up. >> how does it feel to be from alaska to know that you're an olympic champion and all it's taken to train? >> yeah. it means so much to have my whole state backing me and now the whole country, as well. thank you. >> reporter: ryan murphy coming up short in the 100 meter backstroke, trying to defend his gold from rio. murphy taking bronze. ending nearly three decades of golden dominance in the event by the u.s. men. murphy tipping his cap to his competitors after a great race. >> today i was third best. that's okay. >> reporter: in tennis, a shocker. the face of the tokyo games, japanese star naomi osaka beaten in the third round, knocked out of competition. while on the men's side, novak djokovic is crushing the competition with 14 aces in hi

deliverance and one of the things we had to deal with was how do we deal with the civil war what seward called the irrepressible conflict and tim grew up in louisiana when he came to tennessee, he was excited because we have electricity. i know you also this way it goes for the whole talk. i just entire time very it was very exciting. we had heard back books. he'd never seen that. big moment for him. hopefully, there's someone from louisiana here that are there any louisiana's way in the back. all right, that's close to the bar. okay. yeah well done. no problem there. my roommate in college was jack daniels, so i'm with you. so we had to deal with dixie and the south and if you think about the civil war you can understand the tensions with dixie and the battle hymn of the republic right now your thoughts on dixie are pretty interesting. well, you know, i like john said i grew up in the south and in the deep south of louisiana and i grew up literally in the middle of cotton field tomorrow. my first memory is being in a house that used to be a heyborn that was in the middle of a cotton fi

this was in seward, alaska. this is a magical moment. you can't help but smile. lydia jacoby was here with us behind the scenes. keep in mind, she is still in high school getting ready for her senior year. she brought her gold medal with her and she told me about all her friends back home cheering her on in alaska. >> it was just amazing. those are all people in front of the videos some of my best friends, and just to see them so happy for me means a lot. it means the world. my phone is blowing up, so i've been scrolling through texts. i responded to my parents and a couple people, but not everyone yet. working on it. >> that phone is going to be blowing up for days and weeks to come. some local olympians here, the news not so good. kate courtney from kent field, she is a world-class mountain biker, but she was expected to medal here but it didn't work for her, just not in the cards. mountain biker finished in 15th place. and palo alto's lily zhang eliminated in table tennis. we followed both extensively. not the ending they wanted but we admire their passion and

look at her reaction as they watch this race back in her hometown of seward, alaska.ments we will remember from these tokyo olympics. and behind the scenes lydia jacoby was here with us. keep in mind she is still in high school getting ready for her senior year. she brought if her gold medal and told me about all those friends cheering her on back home this alaska. >> it was just amazing. those are all the people in front of the video are some of my best friends. just to see them so happy for me means a lot. it really means the world. my phone is blowing up, so i've been scrolling through texts. i've responded to my parents and a couple people, but not everyone yet. working on it. >> reporter: lydia, take your time. make sure you respond to your parents. everyone else, they can wait. but, you know what, her phone was blowing up during that interview, ding, ding, ding. can you imagine, 17 years old. she still has her senior year and is committed to going to the university of texas in austin. really cool to spend time with her today. >> congratulations to her. exciting.

out of nowhere winning that race and eruptions happen at watch parties across america including in sewardonly one 50-meter paul in all of alaska where she trains. she's only 17 years, the first gold medal winner from alaska in swimming, so we are so happy for her and incredible moment also today in the pool, katie ledecky who gold medals in the first time ever the 1500 meter a mile-long swim but her strength is she's a long hauler so this could be another gold medal for team usa we're watching the action from tokyo, shep and bring it to you. >> tom, can't wait thank you. >> gymnastics legend shannon miller has experienced that immense pressure of competing on the world stage. she's the most deck tated woman gymnast in olympics history with a total of seven medals in barcelona and atlanta and look who's here, shannon miller herself. most of us can never relate to the pressure that's on biles you can. help us understand >> it's always hard to put yourself in a position of another athlete because every athlete comes to the games with their individual experiences and what they're dealing with

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i would like to quickly congratulate lid lydia jacoby from seward, alaska, on winning an olympic gold medal in the 100 meter swim. she's 17 years old. that's something to smile about. i want to thank the majority side because thank you for getting me elected every time. which you do. because you each and every time we have an appropriation pros seses you add a provision in there that limits access to building roads in the national forest. as long as you keep doing that, i'll keep getting re-elect. in other 60 years i've lived in sce -- in alaska, i've lost tens of thousands of jobs in the tim ler industry. these are good jobs. it's not because of a poor timber market but because of radical environmental. i. the timber industry supports great job, year-round. even though they have succeeded in locking up 90% of the congress, they are at the remaining 4% of that land mass. where this idea came from other than extreme environmental alan massengaleists i don't know. it's nothing less than economic terrorism, hurting a community in alaska which i represent. it's just not about timber. the

it is a huge event in seward. runners from around the world, and our 85-year-old alaskan just completed it. so who is this tough, now-fabled person in my state? chad was born in hawaii. his parents are filipino. he spent most of his younger years with his parents on a sugar plantation in maui. he was an active kid, ran with his high school running team, and on his off time sometimes ran up mountains. good training for mount marathon later in his life. after high school, he spent seven years in the seminary. he's a deeply religious man. at the end of his time, he and his mentor decided that he should serve god not as a priest but as a layperson and as a longtime member of our lady of guadalupe parish in anchorage, he stayed faithful to his mission since. when my team was talking to him yesterday, he was on his way to mass, which he does very, very, very regularly. after the seminary, chad was open to a new experience. someone told him that the wages in alaska were high -- $2.50 an hour at the time compared to about

and i guarantee you that lydia's hometown of seward, alaska, a beautiful, incredible town, 3,000 people, wonderful people, they are not going to forget it. so, history right here on the senate floor. lydia jacoby, gold medalist, as "the washington post" called it in a headline, "an alaskan stunner" is our alaskan of the week for a second time. so, madam president, you know, i always talk a little bit about alaska before i do my alaskan of the week speech. a lot of people, particularly at this point of the summer, when they're visiting are curious about the light, if the sun ever sets in the summer, when it rises. so what i always try to do to people is say, come on up and see for yourself s we'd love to have you. we're having a beautiful summer. i'll give you a hint right now. in seward, alaska -- that's the home of our gold medal olympian athlete, lydia -- the sun will rise today at 5:32 a.m. and set around 10:35. that's a l