they said this is a lot worse than they expected. >> reporter: vaughn endured six surgeries. nearly 2 pounds of dead tissue was removed as they worked to keep the infection from spreading. as he works to reclaim his life, the young patients he left behind haunt vaughn. >> i had a chance to sit down with a lady that has tting in t that has about 70% burns to her body. >> reporter: the critical care children vaughn encountered moved him. >> when you hear a baby cry in pain, it does something to you. >> reporter: vaughn says his company alpha and omega landscaping is already involved in charitable works, but he wants to do more. in coming weeks vaughn will establish a charity for bartow county children who need a helping hand. witnessing the suffering of young patients during his time in the hospital he felt compelled to do more for his own community. >> this pain i felt has made me want to give everything i've got and that's what we're going to do. >> vaughn says he's still in a lot of pain, but he says his friends and co-workers have been incredibly supportive during his rove.

and i went into that world with vaughn. and vaughn is the first one who proposed it to me. he said, you know -- >> the pastor. >> the pastor. he said, nobody who has access to this world writes books. you do. and you should write about -- you should give witness to these people. and i thought, wow, that's a really -- because it hadn't occurred to me. and it certainly had not occurred to me to wrin nte nonfiction. so i started keeping notes. and i was keeping notes. the moment. you talk about -- this is my damascus road moment, i'll confess to you. you, me and, you know, the viewers. >> and for the benefit of the rise of generation of atheists in the secular world, that damascus moment is when -- >> oh, yes. >> paul is converted in a blinding flash on the road to damascus and becomes the apostle who changes the world by preaching the gospel. >> for better or worse. >> your damascus. >> this is my damascus road. >> you said it, i didn't. >> it was a blinding flash of smoke, pretty much, not light. but i was at this place, the brickyard. it's outside of tecate where our beer c

vaughn. >> vaughn. vaughn gilchrist. >> just one name. >> like cher? >> sets him up for celebrity.re you go. >> okay. >>> 5:26 is the time now. coming up this morning, ready to move on. a look at the candidates looking to replace d.c. council member harry thomas jr. as voters head to the polls. >>> getting inside the george huguely murder trial. the evidence we will soon see. >>> looking at the stories making headlines at 5. . 29. a man is dead and a police officer injured after a late night shooting in the district. police say the officers were trying to question the man who had a gun when shot were fired. >>> shareholders will have a chance to express frustration with jpmorgan chase today. for the first time since the bank admitted bad investments cost it $2 billion. >>> and voters are heading to the polls to pick a new council member to replace harry thomas jr. eel have much more throughout the morning. >>> first, good morning, i'm eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. welcome back to "news4 today" on this tuesday, may 15. our top story is the weather as we take a live look outside

my name has sue -- is sue vaughn. we have been discussing this issue for months now. before i get to my recommendation, or the recommendation of the ctac, there is an error in the agenda. it said the hearing requesting presentations from the u.s. will transportation agency and the police department to mitigate destruction of commercial tour buses and shovels, this should be by the commercial tour buses and shovels. this is what we are trying to deal with, the way that they disrupt the traffic in san francisco. i am very concerned about the destruction of the service and i was there a couple of months ago and there was a tour bus that was parked in the bus stop, discharging the passengers. and there were a couple of buses waiting to pull into the bus stop. we were told about the possibilities of charging rent, and we were told that the agency itself suggested that gavin newsom said not, and the cuapc regulates tour buses. the recommendation is that you -- that the board of directors gets an opinion, and a memo from the city attorney about what you can and cannot do reg

sue vaughn. thank you for getting out of trouble. [applause] >> hello, my name is sue vaughn. i live in the richmond district. i was appointed to the mta citizens advisory council by supervisor mar. thank you, supervisor, for appointment to

sue vaughn. thank you for getting out of trouble. [applause] >> hello, my name is sue vaughn.e in the richmond district. i was appointed to the mta citizens advisory council by supervisor mar. thank you, supervisor, for appointment to that and for inviting me to participate in this event. when it comes to transit, municipal transportation agency is an enterprise agency, so it is -- there are budget discussions around the transit agency, but it is supposed to have its own budget, that is past due balance annually. the mta already did its budget and balanced it, but there are ways the general fund budget can impact the mta. when i come to the issue of transit, on a personal level, i look at the big picture. in our current transportation system, we do not have enough money in general every year. we are cutting corners here and there in the agency. we might be cutting service, we might be raising fees. we might be raising fares

husband bobby vaughn has been hospitalized for two weeks with a flesh eating bacteria.in the same augusta hospital as amy copeland, the desperately ill university of west georgia college student. >> he's worried, of course. everybody's worried. >> reporter: the cartersville landscaper fell from a tree two weeks ago and was injured at work suffering a cut to his side. >> he got a cut on his side and took him to the hospital. my son said he was throwing up and took him to the hospital. they treated him. he chose to leave. got up the next morning and it had spread. >> reporter: nicholson said vaughn spent a week at cartersville medical center. she says the infection quickly spread from his abdomen to his back. he was eventually of ited to doctors hospital in augusta -- transported to doctors hospital in augusta. >> for some reason it was like every two days when they would go to check, it was spreading still. so they finally -- that's when they sent him to augusta. >> vaughn has had five surgeries. doctors have removed nearly two pounds of infected tissue. >>> up next find

bobby vaughn has overgone several surgeries ass infection spread from his abdomen to his back.n made progress and is not out of the woods yet. >> reporter: an agonizing time for amanda and her two children. the ex-husband has been hospitalized for two weeks with a flesh-eating bacteria and is in the same augusta hospital as amy copeland, the despresident lay -- desperately ill university of college student. >> he's worried. >> reporter: the cartersville landscaper was injured at work when he fell from a tree two weeks ago today and suffered a cut to his side. >> he got a cut on his side and took him to the hospital. my son said he was throwing up and i took him to the hospital. go and they treated him and he chose to leave and it spread the next morning. >> reporter: he spent a week at the medical center and the infection spread from his abdomen to his back. he was eventually transferred to doctor's hospital in augusta. >> it was kind of scary at first because we, for some reason, it was like every two day when is they would go to check if it was spreading still and finally, th

the best thing is this has a plug from vince vaughn on the back.s to be a good book. >> eric: facebook in a couple minutes. peg your questions. >>> i'm greg gutfeld or as you know, the guy in the gym in the sauna. let's go to andy levy for a pre game report. what is coming up on tonight's show? >> the exhibits that were shown were exclusively our own, america. president obama finds himself taking heat for his

we don't know a lot of details about bobby vaughn. he and i were just on the phone.ot a doctor or a nurse and he is a patient. he is a guy trying to get through this. we haven't been able -- his doctors don't want to talk to us, so there is a lot that we don't know. one of the things that i find interesting about his case, bobby, you were explaining you had this lump that just grew and grew and grew. >> yeah. >> and it sounds like you felt fine one minute and terrible the next minute. >> right. yeah. it was that -- it wasn't even a minute. it was a second. as soon as -- i mean, this thing, i couldn't explain it to you. i was just weed eating and just fine and one second it is like somebody hit a light switch, boom, i felt like jell-o, you know, and i wasn't feeling well and i went back to my truck and sat down for a minute and started dry heaving, and i started drinking and threw it all up and it was awful. i just felt really sick, and like i said it wasn't something that was within five minutes. it was a split second i felt that hit me. >> here is my question, bobby

i want to welcome one of our board members, bill vaughn, who is here today. thank you for coming. and i also, before we start, would like to thank congressman john conyers for helping us get this room for this important briefing. and more importantly, for the leadership that he's shown for so many years and continues to show in protecting social security, medicare, and medicaid. we need congressman conyers to be here to do the things he's done so well for so many years. i want to thank everyone for being here this morning. the national committee has joined the national organization for women's foundation, the institute for women's policy research to release a report that we believe is important not just to our various constituencies, but to the entire country. breaking the social security glass ceiling, our report provides a desperately-needed reality check to a washington debate that increasingly and almost exclusively addresses social security in terms of how much money can be saved by cutting what are already very modest benefits. rather than what those benefit cuts would actua

. -- warrick vaughn and those guys. i love movies in general.hen i watch movies, something that started to strike me was, i started to understand where the moments worker it -- where the moments were. there were a lot of moments that i did not understand. i was usually on the left-hand side of the bell curve. trying to sit next to the one who was on this side of it. the idea about film made sense to me. tavis: you were not a good student, but you're a pretty good athlete. >> i was ok. i could play a little bit. with the idea of movies, it was the first time i understood that i could be a good student. i went to ucla while i was stage manager and i took classes. i remember reading the entire book before the first class. i did not read the entire book when i was in college. like most people, i pulled and all-nighter before finals. i was harder to compete with. i showed up the first day and the book was read. i want to know if we could move on from the book. the teacher was like, wait. i was like, i have waited for a longtime area i want to know wh

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