. >> i'm a country boy from tallahassee, florida.see in the country, without houses and chopping wood. >> with two awards under his belt including two sellouts on broadway thea the same time, it's been a long journey since his first play and director over a decade ago. >> my first broadway show was actually in 2004 which was a production with "a raisin in the sun" with p. diddy and phylicia rashad. >> what's the matter with you people? i didn't make this world. it was given to me this way and hell, yes! i want me some yachts and i want to hang real pearls on my wife's neck. ain't she supposed to wear pearls? >> raised down south leon grew up poor and he didn't know it and he won't forget it. >> my grandmother told me, no matter how much money you make, you're a country boy from tallahassee, florida. >> i think august wilson was the greatest artist in the last 20 years and he gave so many opportunities to us as actors and directors and he wrote stories for and about us. >> they're just trying to be on. >> i don't want him to be like m

right now what we have in tallahassee is special interests, have a seat at the table. but us regular people, people who have been through the tough times, i have lived on minimum wage, i know what it's like to have to meet payroll and won't if you're going to be able to do it during tough times, you wonder about your elememployeesw is it going to affect them or my own family. certainly as women we do not have that voice at the table and it's a very important voice that governor crist really felt that was important for us to have that. >> annette, do you think that you will get out the hispanic vote more so than any other candidate on the ticket? >> well, it certainly doesn't hurt and i hope so. but i will tell you, this is about all of us coming together. when i say together we can make a difference, i mean all of us floridians can make a difference. and it doesn't matter if you're hispanic, african-american, anglo or asian, the fact is that we're all stuck with a scott florida and we need to be scot-free. and together we're going to be able to do this. sometimes i kno

. >> july 1st, 2003, tallahassee, florida. officer chuck perry is patrolling a local bank parking lot when a slow moving car catches his attention. >> i looked at the two individuals who were the driver and the passenger. just -- they were completely surprised. they had a very shocked look. and it wasn't normal. they immediately did a very rapid turn out of the parking lot. they aroused my suspicion to such a point that i actually called james fairfield, my supervisor. >> he said i have something going. do you have any intel on a white crown vic or gray crown vic. he thought at first maybe this was a fraud suspect. >> it's clear to officer perry that the pair is deliberately trying to avoid him. with his suspicions and his dash cam now engaged, perry hits the lights and siren. >> i wanted to wait for backup, actually, but as it turned out, they ended up driving into a basically closed neighborhood. >> the car pulls over, and the passenger side door immediately opens. >> i was expecting a foot chase. i was expecting to have to

. >> so, he and another gentleman went to tallahassee with guns, and they hired one of these rival escorts. and once they had her in their presence, they pulled guns on her, told her to take them to her boss. >> a shoot-out followed. permenter shot and wounded his rival and was himself shot twice. he went straight from the hospital to a 12-year prison sentence. >> this is not somebody that you want to be messing around with. of course, karen, when she begins dating tim, has no clue about this. >> when karen learned the truth, she ended their relationship and started dating other men. >> tim, who is a very jealous guy, begins snooping around the house, going through her trash, looking through things, looking for clues. >> according to karen's friend, tim had found a used condom in karen's trash and was furious. >> this was not the first time that karen had had problems with tim in regards to her communicating with other male friends. >> i do recall one evening we were talking and karen said that mr. permenter had tried to choke her. and my response was that she needed to immediately contact

silver spring teen home, 15-year-old theresa pacheco last seen june 28th near the 4600 block of tallahassee avenue in rockville. her familiar tells police it's just not like her to take off. if you have any information about theresa or her whereabouts, call montgomery county police. >>> a bowie man convicted of molesting an 11-year-old boy at ate public pool today. the victim who is now 14 testified that michael -- brochu offered him a bar of soap in the shower. last year he was also accused of sexually abusing two other young boys. >>> yesterday a water main broke nestanton road and gainesville street earlier today. we are told as the water gushed from the ground, it took some of the pavement with it. about 40 homes have been affected by the water outage. >>> tonight new information about those missing irs e- mails, a second federal judge has ordered the irs to come up with some information about them. last week another judge said he wanted to know what became of lois lerner's hard drive. irs officials say it crashed in 2011. as the time lerner was heading up the irs division that processe

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dan merkel was gunned down in his tallahassee home.ith no clear motives. >> few details are coming out police are saying this was not a random act of violence. authorities have not named a suspect and they are asking the public for help. >> reporter: tallahassee police canvassed the area around dan merkel's home tuesday. >> this is a puzzle we need to bring the case to a close. >> reporter: at about 11:00 friday morning, officers were called to the house where they found the popular law professor with an apparent gunshot wound. he was rush to the hospital but died day later from injuries. >> if it was an burglary or home invasion gone bad, that's very alarming. if it's targeted to professor mark el, that's a whole different reason. >> reporter: police say there is no indication of forced entry at markle's home calling his death a homicide. >> it was not a robbery, or a burglary, it does appear that he was the intended victim in the case. >> reporter: a 41-year-old father of two young boys. merkel was in the middle of a divorce. he taug

he was gunned down in his tallahassee home. police are releasing little information.coming up but police are saying it was not a random act of violence, and police are asking for the public to help. tallahassee police canvassed the area around his home on monday looking for any clues into his death. >> this is a puzzle and we need to get all the pieces and put it together and bring this case to a close. >> officers were first called to his house where they found the popular law professor with an apparent gunshot wound. he was rushed to a local hospital but died a day later from his injuries. >> if it was a burglary or home invasion gone bad, or if it was targeted for the professor that's frightening for a whole different reason. >> while a spree of break-ins had neighbors on edge there was no forced entry at his home making his death a homicide. >> it does not appear it was a robbery or burglary and it looks like he was the intended victim in the case. >> a 41-year-old father of two young boys he was in the middle of a divorce. he taught criminal law at florida state

tallahassee police say they've questioned adelson but have not named her or anyone else a suspect. >> reporter: her client is devastated and scared because she doesn't know who did this or why. and at this point, neither do police. for "good morning america," matt gutman, abc news, miami. >> let's talk to dan abrams about this right now so the biggest clue, no sign of forced entry. what does that tell you. >> that in conjunction with the fact that he was shot in the head has made it clear to the authorities that this was targeted. this was not random. it wasn't a break-in. it wasn't a robbery. that he was the intended victim here. and i think that's the reason that they've gone public with that information. they want to reassure the public there, the neighbors, et cetera, you don't have to worry, there's not a killer out there on the loose. this was someone who was specifically targeted and that's a really important clue. >> why they start to focus on everyone who might have known the professor. >> look. we tend to always talk about the personal side of it, right? involved in a div

. >>> joining us al jazeera contributor michael shore, in los angeles and from tallahassee, rick wilson joined us, he worked on mayor giulian giuliani's campaign. >>> ongoing border crisis. michael, even one of the president's strongest supporters representative loretta sanchez of california talked to us earlier and she says she thinks president obama should have made a visit to the border part of his fundraising trip to texas. what do you say about the president's katrina moment? >> this is about the 44th time that people are saying this is the katrina moment. a katrina moment is a katrina l moment. the president, they said the financial crisis was his first katrina moment. they called haiti his katrina moment. they understand why if i was in the white house i would advise the president to in fact not go to the border and i understand why some democrats and some republicans especially in border states are saying go there. this optically is a challenge for the president. he holds children he hugs children he visits with children. send them back and repatriate with their country they thi

tallahassee, florida, police officer, donald poppy, is on patrol. dash cam rolling.ad. the driver hits 65 in a 35 mile-per-hour zone. and he also hits a fence. the speeder, antonio givens, tries to bolt. poppy responds, taser drawn. >> stop, now! on the ground, now! >> givens drops his gun and grabs for it. poppy fires at givens with a tase of up to 50,000 volts. but givens isn't done. poppy goes for his firearm. as givens rises, his weapon in hand. poppy fires twice and givens goes down. incredibly he's only wounded. given is convicted of attempted aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and sentenced to 11 months 29 days. more and more, police are relying on tasers. >> it's an excellent tool. it keeps us from having to fight somebody hands on. >> detective jared mathern should know. he along with two other officers are with the homer, louisiana, police force. they were uninvited guests who brought tasers who a wedding that went very, very wrong. instead of a toast, the broom got a taze. and the bridal party got a shower of mace. >> what is going through my

and we have miss tallahassee '96. [ laughter ] who could forget her inspiring speech.0. platform, education. famous quote, "we should all have the stuff that everyone has so that we all equal should we ever try to it for the children." [ laughter ] as true today -- as it was the day she said it. oh, look at this. we got a big old pack here. i wonder what this is. oh, it's the "game of thrones" characters pack. [ cheers and applause ] stick of gum. all right. so "game of thrones" character pack, we have -- there's this guy. there's the lady with the red hair. there's the kid with the sister who goes around with a stark boy who can't walk. [ light laughter ] let's see what it says about him. name jo jojen? might be jojen? allegiance, house graylocke. is it that one? i'm pretty sure he's not a lannister. he dead? not yet. [ laughter ] okay. [ cheers and applause ] moving on. stick of gum. [ laughter ] [ cheers ] one thing i always -- [ laughter ] one thing i always liked about clark cards is their more obscure categories, like this one called cartoon knockoffs. let's see

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known as the dream defenders have been staging a dramatic sit-in at the florida state capitol in tallahasseefenders octobcupied the state capitol of florida. we had a list of substantive demands, repeal of stand your ground, wanted to dismantle the pipeline and wanted to address racial profiling. almost a year late, a lot of great experiences and great learning, but to be frank we have a republican legislature that's not going to budge much. we have a lot more work to do, that's the number one lesson from the 31 days in the capitol. >> if it hadn't been for selma, the march, bloody sunday there wouldn't be a jimmy carter as president, a bill clinton or barack obama. selma helped bring about what like to call a nonviolent revolution in american politics, a revolution of values, a revolution of ideas. >> there's a huge physical and emotional toll on anybody who says that i want to break away from the normal and fight against a system and try to build something productive for people. we've got to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. >> and find a way to get in good trouble, necessary troubl

let's go to glenn in tallahassee, florida. i just wanted to pay a compliment to c-span. if you want gossip go to the regular tv programs. if you want to be exposed to the fact is, listen to c-span. knows what the facts are this time? i don't blame obama because we just don't know. it seems like 95% of the black black folks in -- calling and always defend him regardless of the issue. i don't understand that. why don't they have a mind of their own and consider history a little deeper rather than knee-jerk support just because the president is black? good luck to c-span. this is from "the washington times." the headline -- raul --actually we will go to john next in maryland. good morning. everyone seems to fail to miss the point that short of us actually talking about it there is nothing we can do. republicans and democrats don't want to go to war. the second point is we have to do something because if we don't stand up -- if we don't stop them now -- they just shot down an airline and they are breaking to the press and photographers who take pictures. if we don't stand up

kerry sanders is in tallahassee with the latest on this.morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. investigators say the death and the murder of florida state university professor dan markel was not a random act. and this morning they're revealing details of what happened moments before he was shot in the head. new details this morning in a murder that shocked this quiet tallahassee community. police trying to unravel who would gun down 41-year-old dan markel. a prominent law professor. and why? in a newly released report investigators say a neighbor called 911 after hearing a loud bang at markel's house. the neighbor found markel in the garage in his car and tells dispatchers the driver side window is bashed open and the driver is bleeding. markel was alive, but had been shot in the jaw and was unable to talk. the neighbor later saw this vehicle captured on a nearby surveillance camera driving away from the scene. police describe it as possibly, a silver prius. >> we believe this was a targeted specific case. it was not a case of randomnes

even in the tallahassee area.ith othercome up things, like claimed that there is memory impairment, and we get reimbursed based on that code, but there is still not a specific code for multiple hmo's that will reimburse a concussion in the civilian world. >> is that true in medicare as well? >> in medicare, people are fornitely supported dementia-related conditions and weessments, but often what are seeing with this disease of chronic traumatic encephalopathy is it does not develop exactly the same way as alzheimer's .isease and other dementias there could be mood changes without the memory problem, initially. in those cases, they may be treated as having a psychiatric disease or illness. the funding is quite different in those cases and much more limited. before i return to you, i want to get an understanding of how could concussions have an effect upon lou gehrig's disease? als. that our special guest is with?ed with -- afflicted i want to stress it is not necessarily concussions. it is repetitive brain trauma,

host: all right, we will go on to brenda in tallahassee, florida, republican caller.caller: i am on medicare advantage. i am a senior citizen. ever since obama took over and started this affordable health care act, he brags about that he has done away with the doughnut holes, my medicines in july popped up to almost $300 a bottle for medicines for my heart. i bought one which is normally a $27 co-pay, and it is now $281. from july through do sober, it dumped up almost $300. i also have to get plavix and crestor. you know what i am doing, i am not buying my medicines, thanks to obama, from july until december. how about that? host: what is going on with medicare advantage? guest: i do not know what she is talking about. the law does close the doughnut hole. one of the parts that the administration has been most willing to talk about and talk over the last few years. another sort of big question with medicare advantage is, of course, the cuts to the plan. that was supposed to bring in some more revenue to help pay for the law. the administration has actually scaled back

nashville in the mid-80s and tallahassee ending the day at 94.u the hook across the nation. >>> good morning. i'm mike ni o. clouds remain at the coast near 58 to near 09 inland. accuweather seven-day forecast, >> all that weather brought to you by swiffer wet jet. i got to say when i start seeing those september-like temperatures, you know we're about to see the school supplies. not to cut anybody's summer short. >> come on. thanks, ginger. >>> coming up, "gma" investigates employment agency fakeout. people paying hundreds of dollars to get a job with nothing to show for it. our reporter confronts the man accused of ripping them off. >>> a new warning about spray-on sunscreens, what all parents need to know before putting it on their kids. >>> behind the scenes as prince george gets ready to celebrate his first birthday. what's it really like growing up a royal. i've always wondered that. we'll find out. and we're new to the pacific northwest. the rain, the mud -- babam! it's there. the outside comes in. it's kinda nasty so you start the towel-m

brenda is in tallahassee, florida. what is your thought? caller: we are an exceptional nation.m one who has worked for 35 years. from 17 years old when i began working. at age 50, i had heart problems. i filed for disability and it took three years to get on my disability. thank god i finally got on. that was after working 35 years and paying into the social security system. i was diagnosed with breast cancer. i am glad i got on it. i stayed out of debt. i paid off my debts. my home is paid for. host: let's go back to the concept of exceptional nation. what is it mean to you? we are a country where we let freedom reign. we are soon losing that. if hillary clinton is voted and we will totally lose it. that is what the democrats are doing to our great nation. john is in mississippi. think america has an exceptional country but i also have a problem with it. be exceptional and has to address the oppression of african-americans. it's applied wealth for europe. it's applied wealth for america. as america has gotten wealthy off of the poor, we still have the downtrodden. i live in th

will go onight, we to brenda in tallahassee, florida, republican caller.ler: i am on medicare advantage. i am a senior citizen. ever since obama took over and started this affordable health hee act, he brags about that has done away with the doughnut july, my medicines in popped up to almost $300 a bottle for medicines for my heart. i bought one which is normally a $281.-pay, and it is now from july through do sober, it dumped up almost $300. i also have to get plavix and crestor. you know what i am doing, i am not buying my medicines, thanks to obama, from july until december. how about that? what is going on with medicare advantage? guest: i do not know what she is talking about. the law does close the doughnut hole. one of the parts that the administration has been most willing to talk about and talk over the last few years. another sort of big question with medicare advantage is, of course, the cuts to the plan. that was supposed to bring in some more revenue to help pay for the law. the administration has actually scaled back those cuts over the last

the contributing editor joining us from tallahassee, florida this morning to talk about this piece. the title of this piece is the neutralizer. what are you talking about here? guest: the neutralizer is designed to destroy chemical weapons. a deployable hydrolysis system. takenaratus that can be apart, put together from a world. anywhere in the it can be put together in 10 days and then run around the clock. it's a portable chemical weapons destroyer that can be deployed anywhere in the world. host: what is it supposed to destroy? caller: it can destroy anything out there. the current mission lists two types. weapon.primary if you are able to get it to a battle site as is, the mustard is already weaponize. chemicaldary precursor , the components of sarin gas. it would have to be mixed with a catalyst in the cold to be weaponize. some kind of alcohol. quite as dangerous as the severn itself. arin itself. , as it's neutralizer called. why was this machine built? how did the government know it would need this machine? reference torliest beginning the building of it mentions the fact th

journalists were left speculating when he would miss conference tallahassee u calls and had no voice.ide from that, they have been forth right. >> i think they have revealed, we don't need minute by minute update. i think when we had a ceo of kraft who is now the chairman of pinnacle foods disappeared for weeks, nobody knew what happened to him? >> did which monitor lachey's treatment? >> he was straight forward. >> i know he was. >> he stayed on four years later, longer than he intend, by the way, until they named his successor. >> we will very well leave the conversation there. thank you for helping us through this. we appreciate it. up next, private payroll's data the number the market reaction and our special guest standing by with reaction. as we head to a break, check out the "squawk box" indicator, this morning the gains from yesterday, we continue to see green arrows, s&p futures up by two points, dow futures up by 17. "squawk box" will be right back. , but we're not in the business of naming names. the fact is, it comes standard with an engine . >> this is consolidating new h

that's going to generate more strong storms from new orleans all the way down into wilmington, tallahassee, charleston. can't rule out tornadoes, damaging winds, and a decent amount of rain, guys. we're talking 2 to 3 inches of rain that may cause flash flooding on top of everything else. >> wild weather coast to coast. al, we'll talk to you in a couple minutes. thanks. >>> now to the heavy fighting in the middle east. israel and hamas exchanged new attacks overnight following a temporary truce. and with the death toll now topping 1,000 people the u.n. security council is calling for an immediate and unconditional cease-fire. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in gaza city for us. richard, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, willie. the u.n. security council held this emergency meeting overnight calling on both sides to stop their hostilities to implement this unconditional cease-fire. president obama in what has been described to us as an especially blunt conversation spoke with israel's prime minister to stress the same point. israel has agreed to stop most of its of