thorpe added, yeah, that september 19 was rough. questioned about this reply, cooper explained that's the day we thought we was going to be taken to the electrocution chair. we waited all day and all night expecting to be electrocuted. cooper felt the pressure so acutely, he did not utter a word for the next two months. english asked the reporters why couldn't they tell us? my cell was right next to the execution room. i saw them take three men in there. i saw them carry three men right past me. it was rough. the next thing i want to read was written, the letter written by betsy mitchell, the for of english, who was -- the sister of english who was termed to find them help -- determined to find them help. this was when they were in the death house. she wrote a letter to eleanor roosevelt. my name is betsy mitchell. my brother, my brother-in-law and four other men are sentenced to the electric chair and are in the death house. maybe you heard or read of the horner murder case or better known as the case of the trenton six in trenton,

nick thorpe is a friend of agnes gereb and has campaigned on her behalf.is personal view of the case. >> >> a film about the birth of my second son matthew. he, like all my five sons, was born here in our fight in budapest. each birth was such a good, safe, positive experience. that is why we have had so many children that was very much thanks to the work of one brave, pioneering and geary and midwife, agnes gereb -- the hungarian midwife. like many other couples who have given birth, she is something like a second mother to our children. but 15 years on from manthey's birth, the hands that delivered our baby are tied. she has been ostracized from the medical profession, sentenced to two years in prison, and banned from doing the work she loves. >> win agnes gereb appeared in the courtroom behind me, the judge in justifying her sentence said this is a woman that hon. society needs to be protected from. what did she do wrong, and how well her fate affected future of birth in eastern europe? >> agnes gereb has been under house arrest for the past 16 months,

i challenged chancellor thorpe to a rubik's cube contest and got my butt whipped. i drank out of the old well for good luck. someone told me to be careful, since some fraternity guys had just been there but i went ahead anyways. and finally, i joined a flash rave at the library. but i watched and for the record, did not join a group of speakers run across the pit into the u.l. and then sing the alma mater. it has been a great morning and i haven't even played a few rounds of senior bar golf yet. so in any case, i'm feeling almost prepared for today as you graduates are. you've made it. you've done it. you've earned it. and i'm sure this week has been spent reliving memories and retelling stories and i know there will be more of that tonight. but right now, i want you to take a look around you and think not about where everyone has been, but where they are going. the guy in front of you could win an academy award some day. the girl behind you could be a future president of the united states or even better than that, the mayor of new york city. the guy sitting to you

i didn't even know we had a town named after jim thorpe.t the abrons arts theater in new york. leon, thanks for being here, buddy. i appreciate it. [ cheers and applause ] such a great -- such a great distinct voice. did you always have that singing voice? [ squeakily ] >> i think so. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i mean, that must be -- it's just like -- [ imitating leon ] it's just so distinct. >> it is. >> jimmy: i don't even who else you would sound like, who else would i compare your voice to? no one. [ growling ] >> mm -- hard to say, really. >> jimmy: yeah. now, i think this is a true story. i might be making it up, like wikipedia does. [ light laughter ] but -- i want to say that you were on "saturday night live" before you even had a record contract, right? didn't lorne michaels and howard shore find you? or they discovered you in toronto, or am i making this up? >> not to my knowledge, but you'd have to ask them that. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: how did you end up on the show? >> i think they needed somebody on the show and phone number

get us started, we're delighted to have two speakers, joe antos from american enterprises and ken thorpe from emery, to speak respectably about the roles of technology and chronic conditions. and joe, we're very happy to have joe with us today. he decided to have an authentic health care experience over the weekend in order to have a legitimate grip on his subject. but joe managed to come back from a case of sciatica and be us with today. thank you for being with us. we know it was only with considerable effort you were able to join us. so joe has a presentation and then we'll move directly into ken's presentation. joe, all yours. >> thank you. okay, there we are. so i promise to stay on the subject -- oh, sorry. i promise to stay on the subject for whole minutes at a time, technology. and you saw the picture of marcus welby. if you got up this morning and took a pill, you used medical technology. that's probably what almost everybody in this room did. i took quite a few pills. they didn't do much good. rick, get to work. but virtually -- what's that? >> i need incentives. >> i'll be get

watching us on kntr news, eugene, oregon, with the summer games fast approaching, learn about jim thorpe, one of america's greatest athletes in olympics history. at the museum of natural history. well tied in. >> yes. synergy. thanks so much. >>> and now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. rapper 50 cent was involved in a serious crash monday night on a new york expressway. the 36-year-old, a passenger in a chevy suburban, rear-ended by a mack truck was briefly hospitalized with back and neck injuries but is now said to be doing just fine. >>> cher will write and star in an autobiographical broadway show. the musical will cover three stages of her life, "the sonny & cher" era, her solo stardom days, and finally cher today looking back. cher has won an oscar, emmy, and grammy, but never a tony. >>> all five spice girls, scary, sporty, ginger, baby, and posh, all reunited in london tuesday. they announced a new musical by the creator of "mamma mia!." seriously it's based on their song "viva forever." >>> and, finally, england's "daily mirror" reports on her c

then we heard from ken thorpe about how it now looks as if 60% of the spending growth over the last couple of decades has been attributable to the growing treated prevalence of chronic disease. much of this as he said is driven by rising obesity, whether it's diabetes or oth other -- or cardiovascular disease or other diseases linked to diabetes. and he spent a good amount of time talking about the problems that we have encountered with respect to these populations, lack of care coordination, lack of use of interventions that we know work. he mentioned the diabetes prevention program and the substantial evidence we have that loss of 5% to 7% of body weight can halt prediabetes to diabetes and really as he said should be a low-cost intervention that could be rolled out rather broadly. that, plus care coordination in many respects he mentioned as a real force that could arrest some of the health spending growth that has been attributed to those causes. we then heard from our reactors in sequence. melanie talking about the purview of the poster children for the mix of technology and cost. we

. >> yeah, i'm wearing it on my sleeve thorpe. >> you put it on display every single day in this studiove for, what, almost 20 years? >> her replacement has not been officially named. >>> who's it going to be? phelps just ahead of lochte this time. >> the world's two greatest winners put on a show last night. they kept it close in a thrilling 200-meter freestyle at the wall. it was phelps ahead by .05 of a second. lochte won the first showdown of the meet in the 400-individual medley. phelps competes in the butterfly tonight. that's a beautiful stroke. you can catch the action tonight at 8:00 here on news4. >>> coming up next, more drama today unfolding in the bernie madoff ponzi scheme. >>> coming up tonight at 6:00, yet another shooting just a few blocks away from where somebody shot a couple kids earlier this week. a woman who claims a priest meted her during an exorcism wants it all settled in court. >>> and it's real lir hot out there, and it's going to get hotter. we're going to show you where it snowed today. [ female announcer ] the son of a single mom. proud father of two daugh

. >> governor, secretary row here, ethan thorpe. >> hi. >> hi, ethan. >> in 2008 i voted for obama underthat he would change many of the policies from the bush administration. things like detentions at guantanamo bay or abuse of executive privilege and disappointed he hasn't come through, but more than anything i'm disappointed in myself to be so naive that one man could effect so much change and it's tough not to give into apathy or cynicism when so many elected officials from both sides constantly make promises they won't keep. >> mike: you know, i hope you don't give up. because the fact is, the only way to really make the changes in this country is for you to decide you're not going to let people just make promises they don't keep, that you'll keep pushing and pressing, until people keep their promises or you throw them out. that's really what it has to come down to. [applause]. >> mike: we're going to hear from more of our millennials when they speak, laboring like derrick, earned a masters in economics, sent out 300 job applications, never got a single offer. those stories and more

and i particularly wanted to thank chancellor thorpe in the u.n.board of trustees, including my friend and your fellow alum, peter growler for inviting me here. i also want to thank the president of the umc system, thomas roth and a former umc system, my old friend spangler could you should know into the habit business school just because neither of us could get antique umc. [laughter] i am thrilled to be standing here today, not only because umc is one of our country's oldest and greatest institutions. and actually thrilled to be standing here because it means they did not trip on the bricks walking over here. it is really treacherous out there. but i know this is only one of the many challenges to overcome on the way to your diplomas today. you had that out your way through trying to find a parking place on campus. you've battled your way through trying to register for classes on connect carolina. you have battled through listening and helping james to attend class at grandmama rana and you've got it your way through many games of zombies and hum

>> what we are working to do is really ensure that we are responsibly managing these sites, to do thorpeinvestigation to determine if there are any environmentle impacts that need to be cleaned. >> pg&e is currently drilling on beach street near webster. five families have already been relocated, and notices have been mailed to other people in the area. so far, there is no evidence of any health problems. >>> three men are dead after the rental truck they were in weren't off interstate 80 if davis and slammed into a tree. it happened just before 10:30 yesterday morning. police say the truck collided with an suv, and then the truck driver jeer corrected and lost control. the identities of the men have not been released, but officials say they're in their 20s and 30s, and are from the sacramento area. >>> well, the 7th grade guys responsible for taunting a bus monitor to tears have received their punishment. the four boys will be suspended from school for a year. they there also need to complete 50 hours of community service. a video of the bullying went viral about two week ago, causing w

started, we're delighted to have two speakers, joe antos from american enterprise institute and ken thorp from emory expect about the roles of technology and chronic conditions. and joe, we're very happy to have joe here with us today. he decided to have an authentic heal care experience over the weekend in order to have a legitimate grip on his subject, but joe managed to come back om a case of sciatica and be with us today. joe, thank you so much for being here. we know it was only with considerable effort that you were able to join us and we appreciate that. so, jo, we're going to start with you. joe has a presentation and then we'll move directly in to ken's presentation. joe, all yours. >> thank you. what do we aim at? okay. all right. there we are. so i promise to stay on the subject for whole minutes at a time, technology, and of course you saw the picture of marcus welby. you know, if you got up this morning and took a pill, you used medical technology. that's probably what almost everybody in this room did. i took quite a few pills. they didn't do much good. ck, get to work. but