. >> samantha: he's so i see a future valedictorian there, right? cedar point camera this morning showing you that big, beautiful, full moon out there. 6:11. you see the moon reflects off the water. if you're headed out to cedar point today, you want to take a locality -- lot of water, because it will be hot later. we look ahead to the weekend which could be a little wet. we'd never been in anything like that before. >> brian: we hear firsthand about the terror and devastation from louisiana from a northeast this. is. everything.ho of oats. it's this, this, this, and this. it is the mother of all cereals. it's that, and that, and all of that. it's the most cerealriffic cereal in all the history and will be for eternity. honey bunches of oats. >> brian: for the last five days we showed you pictures and video of flooding in southern louisiana. in that time we've reported on evacuations, rescues, and sadly 1 # 1 deaths, and a family from sandusky was there the entire time living through the nightmare that's the worst disaster since superstorm sandy. >>

. >> i think that's our future valedictorian. great job. >> i think it's a great reflection of our student body and the students that will come to this school to learn. >> reporter: bowling knows as students head back to classes, a lot of people will be watching to see if the new school succeeds and he knows now he'll be part of that focus. >> there is a huge target on my back now. it's a lot of high expectations for me. >> reporter: in the district, mark segraves, news4. >> i'm sure he's going to meet those. montgomery county is redeveloping the area around white flint mall. they are changing it to a more walkable community and now want to call it the pike district. it's located from the groves metro to the twin brooks station. chris gordon has more on the changes the pike d dining out in montgomery county. >> reporter: white flint is changing. so is rockhill pike. and in today's world of rebranding, it's now called the pike district. >> it hasn't gone away. it just has a new name. we've got all of the wonderful parts of white f

usa called you quote the valedictorian of the n fl combine. do you mind that smart label? you had to carry it with you four years of stanford. >> yes, a lot of people coming from stanford they assume hay you are a smart guy but i like to show that physicalness that nastiness that the lineman have. >> showing mow a -- me a lot in the preseason. moving up from 3-2. do you see yourself as a starter sooner rather than later? >> definitely. every day i am trying to get better at something and show the players i can be a consistent player. they know when the time is right they can though me out there with the ones, the starters. i will not be a liability. they are ready they will throw me in the fire. >> you just said that you like it. there is a nasty side even though there is an intelligent side. when a reporter from the news treubune asked you what your goal was on each snap you said run through the souls, right through them. that sounds like a jim arharbaugh-ismr, right -- jim harbaugh-ism, right? >> well, when you are playing football you can be a nice, smart, intelligent g

. >> the book came out a couple weeks ago about one week after it came out they decided valedictorians are no longer breaks up double ats insane. because what aut number twthroh 500? politics is liberal banks to dealobhe administratn it has always been leaning liberal. >> it is scary how fast. it is a freight train moving left. for to put the sign on the lawn. i am now suggesting again an argument which your professor. that is a death wish. but just tell now down in the classroom to uerstand where he comes from. >> with theducated baby doctris tse tt ve been llary. and i have a friend that runs judicial watchause n their are so many clinton in scandals and what was it. i thk its wrong you can fight it but who knows? bernie sanders got 40 percent and they'd voted for bernie sanders in the primaries? that is horrible.cef em of the 40% that is 10% of all democrat votes wilnever vote for hillary. that try to reach unto his name millennial says they the other night.ng dotted and also try to change the millennial frame of mind as well. >> as my mother was moving on she literally pulled me ov

. >> a valedictorian and on the football team. i -- >> yeah. you'd think he'd be just a jerk, right? >> yeah. >> just kind of a jock, mean-spirited sort of, who knows, stereotypical. >> reporter: but it was quite the contrary, said maria. >> he was always the calming force amongst family and friends. you know, he was the gentle speaker. he had this outlook in life where, "i wanna go out and make the world a better place. i wanna go out and do something with my life." >> reporter: so george did. he earned a prestigious appointment to west point, and after graduation became a combat engineer, served as a nation builder in panama. his childhood friend, aaron solano, went down for a visit. >> the stories he told me about the missions that he accomplished, building schools, clinics, roadways and bridges, really had an impact on his life. he finally felt like, "hey, i'm getting to do something." >> reporter: when george left the military with the rank of captain, he took a corporate engineering job, but soon realized that life in an office building w

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i gave a talk two years ago to the valedictorian, a high school valedictorians in florida, there were 50 these kids, incredibly impressive, bright, smart, inquisitive and during my talk i talked two or two minutes about energy, how great this is and they started to frown. this is kind of weird. how many of you in this room of view 50 kids think fracking is a good thing? about 12 raise their hands. how many think fracking is a bad thing? 30 raised their hands. to be against fracking is like being against a cure for cancer. this is one of the great size make technological breakthroughs giving us access to huge amounts of energy at very low prices. how can anybody be against it? record to meet these kids have been indoctrinated in his classes that fracking is a bad thing and this is a tough thing to defeat, this wacko propaganda campaign that infiltrates every area of our culture. >> right here in the middle. >> i am from west virginia. my question -- >> you are not over hillary? >> no. in the 520 years geographically where do foresee that taking place? >> one quick thing. coal has two p

he was the valedictorian at his high school. >> a young man with a bright future, and he will use the fuel to come back stronger. >>> check out katie ledecky with the first pitch tonight, and then helen marulus talking about being so happy she cried. that's later in the >>> in the turbulent times we live in, kareem abdul-jabbar has plenty to talk about. >> among the topics tonight, the obama presidency and the rise of donald trump. >> the fact that black americans and other people of color now have their hands on the reigns of power and influence, i think that donald trump is really calling for a nostalgia to bring things back to the way they were in the '40s and '50s when black americans and other people of color had no chance in being involve in the decision making. >> and now abdul-jabbar says the first thing that got him thinking of civil rights was a lynching in 1955. he was just 8 but remembers asking his parents to explain what happened. a fascinating story. >> you can see much more of him tomorrow on great day washington starting at 9:00 a.m. bruce johnson will talk more about

about one weeks later they decided the valedictorians are no longer except a bowl. so politics has become liberal face a did ministrations that has always been leaning liberal. in now which trickles into the academic life. is a freight train to put this line to supply of the lawn with uh twitter account. if i am not suggesting you get in an argument with your professor over liberal or conservative added said death wish adjust to tone it down in the classroom to understand ridley come from. >> so many educated people boomers who have been indoctrinated all their lives with somebody like hillary or a democrat. >> i am doing a special. it is amazing. and those to rest judicial watch with these corruption issues and then running a high profile that exposes corruption it goes on and on bill whole list in there so many clinton scandals we cannot cover them all in one hour so i wonder what is it? i have no clue. i do not understand laugh laugh i can't take into you what is wrong and how to fight it but who knows? no idea. white quakes is scarcely is young people think soci

besides leading the debate club and the girl's student council bessie was valedictorian and won the scholarship to attend tulane university's coordinate college for women. she spent two years there ranking among the top ten in her class. but the audacious bessie wanted more. bessie decided to attend law school. something no other girl from the orphanage had ever done. as tulane law school only woman at the time, bessie felt isolated and self conscious. but she and her male classmates adjusted her. when she was assigned a case about a bathroom everyone was embarrae embarra embarrassed to use the word toilet in front of a woman. in june, 1930, at age 21 bessie completed her liberal arts and law studies with honors in only five years and graduated second in her law school class and was an editor of the law review. tulane's law school urged yale law school theme charles clark to hire bessie or award her a fellowship for graduate studies. they found bessie worthy of a job but refused to accept the fellowship because didn't want to encourage the teaching law that didn't exist for a woman. he assured

the valedictorian of the high school and in college. he went on to harvard law school and it went on to age 30 he ended up in washington. he became an extremely powerful voice in washington and remained in congress for four decades from 1939 to 1977. 17 of those years were spent as the chairman of the house ways and means committee. no one has ever held the chair. he helped develop a back in the arkansas days in fact it was in the summer of 1974 which they managed to get back with the 12-14 vote. he was nervous about bringing it into th the hardware but then it became a midwestern a few months later on the morning of october 9. his wife went to hell in a handbasket. at 2 a.m. he was driving with no headlights on and he was drunk. his glasses were broken. he had cuts all over his face and he was in the company of a stripper who jumped out of the car and ran into the tidal basin. it is called a halfhearted suicide attempt. she claimed she was a washington neighbor and this is an about originally of argentina and all of that was certainly

valedictorian of high school in college, wilmer went to law school. he ended up in washington. he became an extremely power voice in washington and remained in congress for nearly four decades from 1939 to 1987. to this day, no one has held the chair longer. he helped develop medicare. in fact, mills with kennedy had been working on the universal health care reform bill in summer of 1974 which mills managed to get to the committee with little squeak of 12-13 votes. mills was nervous about bringing the bill to the house floor but then became a moot question a few months later on october 9th. his life went to hell in a hay basket. when his car was stopped at 2:00 a.m., he was drunk, he had cuts all over the place, in the company of a stripper, jumped out of the car and ran and cops called a suicide attempt. they brought it to the mental unit for the might. she was a washington neighbor, a mrs. anabelle of argentina but famously known as fan fox which she was known as the argentine fire cracker. my wife's broken foot prevented our entertaining at home and she insisted i take our f

coincidentally, this year's valedictorian of that school is a muslim.ng here, i am quite relieved to be up here before trump becomes president, because if he were right now, i would be giving this speech from a raft somewhere in the middle of the atlantic. needless to say, she was not impressed with trump's appearance this week. joining me now, via skype, the valedictorian at briarwoods high school in ashburn, virginia. thank you so much for joining us and congratulations on your impressive accomplishment. so let's talk about the silent protest that you organized when donald trump held a rally at your school, why did you decide to do this? and what was the reaction? >> first of all, thank you for having me. as far as the protest goes, i was always taught growing up to stand up against any kind of injustice is the thing to do. so a couple of neighbors and fellow classmates of mine, we decided to get a face group going and it kind of branched off and we got a lot of support through the group. while i didn't get to go inside the rally, my friends did. you

you were valedictorian at her high school class.ou have to give a speech quest. >> guest: no, i wanted to give a speech. the academic rank wasn't connected with who got to give speeches so this was actually a story i got to tell when i spoke at the commencement at my high school alma mater madison west high school just a couple of years ago. as the competition to see who could be class speaker and their work three class speakers every year. and i competed and given how much i do public speaking in my job may be remarkably and maybe not, i didn't get chosen and so i was just so sad that i didn't win that competition is one of my graduation speakers and i told the graduating class from madison west at their commencement a couple of years ago when i was asked to come back, i told them you know if at first you don't succeed try, try again because now i'm finally getting to speak at a west high school graduation. c-span: and that no senator tammy baldwin we thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. ♪ >> for free transcripts are t

succeeding and when you respect decides leading the debate club and girls a student council bessie was valedictorian and when the scholarship to attend new come college, tulane university college for women. bessie spent two years at new come ranking among the top 10 in her class, but the audacious bessie wanted more. bessie decided to attend law school, something no other girl from the orphanage have ever done. as tulane law school's only woman at the time, bessie felt isolated and self-conscious, but she and her male classmates soon adjusted to each other. when a professor assigned a case involving an accident in a man's bathroom, no one wanted to recite the backs of the case because they were embarrassed to use the word toilet in mixed company. when one poor fellow finally blurted out the word washroom they all sighed with relief. in june, 1930, at age 21 bessie completed her liberal arts and law studies with honors in only five years. she graduated second in her law school class and was editor of the bar review. tulane law school dean, rufus harris, urged gail law school deans charles clark to hi

the valedictorian of the high school and in college. he went on to harvard law school and it went on to age 30 he ended up in washington. he became an extremely powerful voice in washington and remained in congress for four decades from 1939 to 1977. 17 of those years were spent as the chairman of the house ways and means committee. no one has ever held the chair. he helped develop a back in the arkansas days in fact it was in the summer of 1974 which they managed to get back with the 12-14 vote. he was nervous about bringing it into th the hardware but then it became a midwestern a few months later on the morning of october 9. his wife went to hell in a handbasket. at 2 a.m. he was driving with no headlights on and he was drunk. his glasses were broken. he had cuts all over his face and he was in the company of a stripper who jumped out of the car and ran into the tidal basin. it is called a halfhearted suicide attempt. she claimed she was a washington neighbor and this is an about originally of argentina and all of that was certainly

. >> it is interesting as an education reporter more and more serious since the last four valedictorians have been immigrants and if you look at the top of the class across the state they are immigrants systemic i am a fan girl so much right now. [laughter] so as a young activist what did vice would you give to others like myself? >> one thing and have to remind myself everyday events never give up its sounds cheesy but know that your work matters and your effort to matters and in order to be part of a solution we get so disappointed. you can see what is held that in the courts right now but we can continue motivating and sharing information to be empathetic and know that if we give up that is the savings would hundred people giving up. think about the obstructionist in the past to obstructed any bill for immigration reform that have fought so hard and only a few people have made a of norway's to say no we don't want this and this happens from lack of participation and motivation and endurance we have to keep at it and never stop because imagine if we all use our voices and continue to b

. >>> there may be no valedictorians in one school. >> the school district in -- clark school district, across the boarder from louisville calls unhealthy competition. he wants to honor the top 10% of students in each class. >> the superintendent says the new system would recognize more students for their hard work. opponents of the idea say it amounts to participation award. school board will discuss the changes during a meeting set for next week. >>> if you have college loans you know what a burden they can be. loan forgiveness programs catch your eye but consumer reporter john matarese shows us the trouble with many of these so you >> reporter: this election season we're hearing a lot about college debt and talk about reducing our even foregiving some student loans. so when a woman heard about a loan forgiveness program from president obama she was thrilled. until she learned she had been scammed. nichelle culver is struggling to pay her college loans and captivated by a ad that says billions have been forgiven. $350,000 of student loan forgiveness. >> she called the washington, dc

couple of weeks ago, and about a week after it came out wait county in north carolina decided valedictorians are no longer acceptable because being number 1 was offensive through 2-500. insane. but that's exactly what happened. so politics has become liberal thank toss the obama administration -- thanks to the obama administration and the like. it's infected the media which has always been leaning liberal. now they get what think want, they have all the fuel they need, and now it's trickled into academic life too. it's scary how fast the country's moving left. it's a freight train moving left, and all we're trying to say is take a minute. put the sign on the lawn and keep the twitter account going, keep it on campus, the republican group, and tell your kids, listen, i'm not suggesting you get in an argument with your professor about what's right, liberal and conservative. that's a death wish. just taupe it down in the classroom -- tone it down in the classroom and understand where he or she's coming from and call home once in a while. bring book. i haven't heard from you yet. hi. >> i want t

. >> reporter: audrey is not ready to attend school where she was a candidate to be valedictorian.he expects to be ready for water polo. >> i'm competitive. so it's -- it's just like -- feel good in the water and doing swimming helps a bit of that too. >> reporter: for her mother watching audrey regain her abilities is a joy but one laced with uncertainty. >> has a little bit of fear mixed in with hope. very complex and emotional situation to be in. >> through it all audrey's family is receiving support often from people they don't even know. >> a lot of angels in the world. and they come in a lot of different, surprising places. >> reporter: in american canyon, rob roth, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> nice to see her doing better. >> what a story. coming up, a discovery years in the making, the closest planet yet that could support water and life. >>> also chief meteorologist bill martin tracking cooler weather. creamy swirls of pure indulgence. silky sifts of total transcendence. tempting accents of sheer pleasure. introducing "unicorn whispers." this should be the name. or something more

who came without a choice of their own, their parents brought them here undocumented and are valedictorians are stuck. and he said, you can't get in that college because you're not a dreamer. he's not productive, not adding to the conversation. my concern is after this is done he will be in this big tower and communities have to figure out how to heal themselves after what he has unleashed. >> how long do you think the trump softening is going to continue? >> you're asking me to predict something donald trump is s saying? i have no idea. the softening is disturbing to me. i worked for ted cruz and we fought really hard during the campaign, one and of the things no one wanted to get attacked with is amnesty and now donald trump has adopted a position you cannot tell the difference between his position, jeb bush's position, johnny kasich's position and marco rubio's position, remarkable and unbelievable. hard for me to believe all the people who cared about the immigration issue he positioned himself on that. >> none of this is amnesty. terminology in word really matter. >> i'm glad -- >> it

hillary made like every valedictorian, at every high school graduation this year and quoted hamilton. >> and though we may not live to see the glory as the song from the musical "hamilton" goes, let us gladly join the fight. let our legacy be about planting >> seth: you know i imagine when lin-minuel miranda saw that, he thought, i'm really glad i didn't go with an all white-lady cast. [ laughter ] and then the speech concluded like so many convention speeches do, with adults having their minds blown by balloons. [ laughter and applause ] "i am the candidate who will not be afraid to take on isis! oh! [ laughter ] what's this plastic orb?" [ laughter ] when it was all said and done it was an historic evening. the first woman ever nominated for the office of president gave a speech that will always be remembered for that. and in honor of that, i would like her to say, this has been -- >> a closer look. ?? [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: we'll be right back with more "late night" everybody! ? ? hey, is this our turn? honey...our turn? yeah, we go left right here. (woman vo) great adven

i gave a talk two years ago to the high school valedictorians and they were incredibly impressive and bright and smart and inquisitive and so on. i remember during my talk to them i gave two or three minutes about this and how great it is and i remember they started to follow. how many in the room think fracking is a good thing? twelve raised their hands. how many think it's a bad thing? thirty raised their hand. you'd think it is the cure for cancer. it's one of the seismic technological breakthroughs and the rest of the world. these kids have been indoctrinated the high school classes as a bad thing. there's this wacko propaganda campaign that infiltrates every area in the culture. >> right here in the middle. >> i'm actually from west virginia. my question just so i can i guess in the 520 years in the future of coal just geographically where do you see that taking place? spinnakers to problems. two problems. one is that natural gas is cheap and we believe in is pre- marketeers that creative destruction if something comes along that's better, then use it. we should be using coal as

very accomplished lady, valedictorian of her college dallas and got a law degree here at the university of nebraska. studied german so she could read the european newspapers to see what they were staying about bryan. she was a very active in his political career. this desk is a replica of the desk that was in his study. you can see the two chairs, bryan used to sat in one chair and mary sat the other. reflected the team of his political career. there is as couple of telephones over there that i would point out, at the time there were two independent telephone company in lincoln. if you just subscribe to one, you could not talk to somebody that just subscribe to the other. they had to subscribe to both. here ace political newsletter they published close to 20 years which was similar to the national review. had a huge circulation of the country and probably greater than any of those magazine that i mentioned. he got a chance to tell his political view in that circulation. he's famous for being one of the greatest of the country of the time. he's the most famous by far of the speech he gav

a very accomplished lady, valedictorian of her college class and got a law degree at the university of nebraska and studied in german so she could read the european newspaper to see what they were saying about bryan. she was a very active participant in his political career. this desk is a replica of the desk in his tstudy. you can see the two chairs, mary sat in one chair and mabryan sa in the other. there is a couple of telephones at the time, there were two independent telephone companies in lincoln, if you subscribe to one, you could not talk to somebody just subscribe to the others so they had to subscribe to both, of course. here is an example of a political newsletter that they published foreclose to 20 years, which is similar to the standard or the nation or the national review. had a huge circulation of the country and probably adjusted for population changes and greater than those magazines mentioned. he got a chance to tell his political views in that circulation. he's also famous for being one of the greatest in the country at the time. he's the most famous by far of the sp

my own child graduated valedictorian. this child, people told me, i remember when he was about 12, someone suggested i might want -- want to send him to an institution because he was just out there and not doing well and breaking all the rules. he turned out to be a fine young man. the best example of what the program has done for the children of the district that i have had exposure to is tiffany, a young woman raised by her grandma for whatever reason, and told me when she was 13 that she had to be the hope of her family and i did not understand that. what do you mean? as she talked, i found out she had lost a cousin through violence, who had been the hope of their family and she felt like she had to take on the role. she was there by herself applying for a scholarship. we had worked to help her get through it, but she brought herself there and was determined that she would really do well in life and tiffany got a scholarship to syracuse, went to syracuse, did well, and i lost track of her and about a year ago, i got a

very accomplished lady, valedictorian of her college class. got her law degree here at the university of nebraska, studies german so she could read the european newspapers to see what they were saying about bryan. so she was a very active participant in his political career. >>> this desk is a replica of the desk that was in his study. you can see the two chairs the bryan sat in one, mary sat in the other, reflected the team they were in his political career. there are a couple telephones over there that i would point out that at the time there were two independent telephone companies in lincoln. if you just subscribed to one, you couldn't talk to somebody who just subscribed to the other, so they subscribed to both, of course. here's an example of a political newsletter they published for close to 20 years, which is similar to the standard or the nation or the national review. had a huge

up from 14% 20 years it's the most accomplished school class with 181 valedictorians and salutatorians. i barely know how to say that. >>> model and actress tyra banks is preparing to trade the catwalk for the classroom. the former host of america's top model will go to stanford next may. she's serving ags a guest lecturer on protecting a personal brand. she's her own brand. about 25 graduate students will and showcase business acumen. she'll work with the class for two weeks. >>> miss a chance to see her perform. she's canceling two pefrpss at radio city set for september 15th, also a solo show on september 23rd. the queen of soul is on doctor's orders to get rest. she will be back. she's suspending the tour until hopefully she'll be back. >> she's amazing. >>> it's 5:21 right now. the one thing that many parents do not want to admit. can you do your child's homework? >> no. >> i know for sure. >>> we'll tell you how many moms and dads are cheating. you're watching "today in new welcome. it's me! the extra crispy colonel. my extra crispy, twenty dollar fill-up feeds a family of four.