ted walsh is mine.yet in life, he is still teaching lessons we can all learn from. it was a rock star reception in a los angeles school gym at a gathering to honor a teacher who's profoundly impacted thousands of students, some you probably know. >> ted walsh, never enough never, never, never. ♪ children will listen ♪ >> this is ted walsh's final show honored at the place he spent the past 32 years of his life, harvard west lake school, teaching theatre, cinema studies and philosophy he's made a market on students across the country, some who have gone on to touch so many of us. >> he shows up time and time again. >> he sees who you are and helps you reach your potential. >> he's the reason i'm doing what i'm doing now and why my life is the way it is. >> reporter: ted walsh was my high school drama teacher more than 20 years ago. >> for me the way you touched me it was not through aggressive overteaching it was simple. >> if i do one thing with my student it's treat them as a fellow adult, even though

he'll be here to honor ted walsh's amazing career this guy if you go to los angeles and mention his name was talking about it this is how the story was born >>> right to our news at 8:00. after more than two months without rain, parts of the south getting drenched nonstop flash flooding has turned deadly travel is a mess and there still could be a long way to go. nbc's sam brock has the very latest sam, good morning. >> reporter: hoda, good morning. what a difference a day makes. people in texas for months, as you said, hoda, were asking themselves, when are we going to get rid? it had been 67 days without a drop in parts of texas now a historic output. in dallas, for example, 15.3 inches in a 24-hour period compare that to the previous a months that was under 14 inches now this does not come without a heavy price to pay harrowing scenes of rescue in the dallas area. high-water incidents dallas police say nearly 100 people had to be rescued, and we are now learning about our first fatality a 60-year-old woman who is inside of her car underneath a bridge on the phone with loved ones they