A sunday sit down with talented maren morris whose anthem caught fire and the attention of the grammys on the long trip to the hit song and album that launched her to crossover stardom. Once i had written my church, i realized i dont want anyone to sing this except for me. That was a really defining factor in my life. It changed the whole course. A sunday sit down with grammy winner maren morris, and Hallie Jackson on the media echo chambers later in the show. Lets begin with the president enjoying the Holiday Weekend at one of his golf clubs, continuing to tweet thoughts about the press and explaining his use of social media. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell live in bridgewater, new jersey. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The president is hearing calls for him to tame twitter use and his answer is very clear. The president brought his own firecrackers to an event intended to mark the Independence Day holiday and to thank veterans for their service, but it also sounded a lot like a campaign rally. A salute to veterans brought the president back to the Kennedy Center saturday night. A red, white and blue evening. My very first Independence Day celebration as president. There is no place id rather be than with you. Tell you that. [ applause ] reporter the event hosted by a dallas evangelical megachurch, and the president knew his audience. We love our freedom and we love our god. Reporter the commander in treef in a trump friendly crowd waged his own battle. The fake media tried to stop us from going to the white house. But im president and theyre not. Reporter the president s war on media has a front line on twitter where saturday he blamed the, quote, fake and fraudulent news media for working hard to convince republicans and others i should not use social media. Ignoring a chore us of republicans who urge the president to stop tweets that overtake his own agenda. Tweets like this are inconsistent with greatness of the country and the office. Reporter the president kept up his stream of insults, calling frequent critics, morning joe hosts, crazy and dumb as a rock. The president who reveled in audience reaction made an all caps declaration of his dependence on twitter. My use of social media is not president ial, its modern day president ial. But its not the mode, its the message under fire. He insists his tactics on social media no matter how incendiary are no threat to his presidency. The Dishonest Media will never keep us from accomplishing our objectives on behalf of our Great American people. Reporter and the president is back here in new jersey this morning and the self described modern president says that part of his victory in 2016 is because of his social media use hes got to use it in order to go around the media. Weve heard him make this argument before and it looks like he will keep making it so expect more tweets coming soon. Willie . No backing down there. Kelly, thanks so much. Chuck todd is moderator of meet the press. Chuck, good morning. Good to see you. So, there is the dignity of the office question with some of these tweets we saw this week, but there is also something kelly touched on the piece, and thats the efficacy of the president coming out and tweeting while hes trying to get health care done. You can see the frustration on the faces of people like Lindsey Graham and paul ryan and others as they had to spend two days this week answering questions about our friends joe and mika my cohosts, morning joe, rather than trying to push through health care. Hes acting like a spectator. Essentially the biggest single promise the Republican Party has made seven years is going down in flames right now in the senate. Mitch mcconnell is like a oneman band desperately trying to salvage this for the Republican Party, and the president is sitting there tweeting ridiculous insults. Mind you, the attack on mika, willie, really offended a lot of women. The three of the republican senators most uncomfortable with the Health Care Bill right now also happen to be women and were extraordinarily offended by what the president did, Lisa Murkowski in alaska, Susan Collins in maine. So, hes not helping at all. Hes yet to give a speech. He didnt understand the policy details that really bothered a lot of republican senators when they met with him. To throw it all on there, he continues this absurd war with the press and undermining his ability to get anything done on capitol hill. This, were not expecting an apology from donald trump. Weve watched this long enough now that we know hes not going to backtrack on it. He dug in again yesterday as you said. This is part of being a modernday president. Im using social media to go around the media and the media doesnt like that i dont need them to get my message out. Is that effective . It certainly helped get him elected using social media to go above everything else. What about as president . Look, its effective to keep his 38 constituency fired up and happy and sort of not walking away from him so that they dont Pay Attention that the promises hes made hes not been able to keep yet. But its not effective at getting a legislative agenda passed. Its not been effective at building coalitions. And, so, look, the irony here is he says the media is trying to get him to stop tweeting. The media is the one sitting there reporting on the tweets. The media is the one that went ahead and televised all of his speeches. Its members of his own staff and party that are desperately trying to get him to stop tweeting. So, it seems as if what ive learned, willie, is every time somebody tries to get him to stop tweeting he talks about that but he says the media was trying to get him to stop tweeting. Reince priebus was trying to get him to stop. Im president and theyre not was his explanation. The they is theyre not is about all of his staffers. I think youre absolutely right about that, chuck. Lets talk about the future, then, of health care. It wasnt but a few days ago Mitch Mcconnell hoped to get a vote on the Health Care Bill. Thats a dream. What happens when they get back . Is there hope to cobble this together . Maybe there is more funding on the open yoed crisis, maybe it works, maybe it doesnt. I was talking to somebody close to Mitch Mcconnell and the leadership. The plan is, willie, they come back, he has one more week period, one more week. And then hes going to cut, cut bait if they cant get it done. Then what youll see on health care is some sort of band aid. There will be a bipartisan deal, but not on something big. It would be sim plil to deal with the rural, the problem with the rural markets with the insurance exchanges and that will be about it. I think the republicans on capitol hill will try to move on to tax reform. My guess is the president who doesnt seem to really have an opinion on what bill he signs, he just wants to sign something, that might be enough for him. He said, hey, we dont get something done thats okay. That was his line this week. Chuck, thank you so much as always. Happy 4th to you and the family. Well be joined by senators tom carper and bill cassidy for an exclusive joint interview on the future of that Health Care Bill. Meanwhile, at least one arrest has been made this morning in connection to the night Club Shooting that left nearly 30 people injured in little rock, arkansas. Police this morning say its possible the incident was gangrelated. Nbcs Maya Rodriguez has that. Reporter that happened miles from here in another state. U. S. Marshals arrested Ricky Hampton known as finesse two times. He was the performer when the shooting started. He was arrested overnight in birmingham, alabama along with another man the Law Enforcement is not saying whether or not that other man is a suspect in the shooting. All of this comes as the Community Grapples with what happened here. As Police Search for clues, a community is looking for answers. And trying to heal. Were all in the fight together. Were all in the struggle together. We need each other. Reporter as more than two dozen people attempt to recover from a mass shooting at a night club in downtown little rock. That sickening feeling in the gut of your stomach is something you never want to feel. Reporter it all unfolded Early Saturday Morning during a rap concert. Cell phone video taken inside the power ultra lounge shows the moment gunshots rang out. Concert goers scrambled to get out. Wait for the shots to get through and everybody trying to get up, trying to run. You hear them again. So, its get down until they stop. Reporter neighbors were woken up by gun fire. People were going all over the place. I could see one person bleeding very badly. Reporter police now saying its possible there were multiple shooters involved. Not terrorism, they say, but rather potential gang activity. After a recent string of shootings in little rock, ten drive by shootings in less than two weeks. We certainly feel there could be a connection with the recent shootings that weve had. Reporter the fbi and the atf now investigating this latest shooting thats shaken the entire city beyond the club. I want to let you know that this feeling of har break has become all too familiar in our city. Reporter in the meantime, city owe sfishlz say they are taking steps to make sure the club does not reopen. It already lost its liquor license. The owner of the building has posted an eviction notice on the doorment willie . A real tribute to the First Responders in the hospitals in little rock that no one died in that incident. Maya rodriguez in little rock, thanks so much. A series of car bombs in damascus syria this morning have left eight people dead and a dozen more wounded. Officials claim to have disrupted a larger plot that would have caused mass casualties in the center of the capital city. It is unclear at this hour bl those killed and wounded were civil authorities or civilians. It comes after the first full day after the muslim holiday of ede. Please say they are closing in on a brutal road rage killing in pennsylvania. They recovered the pickup truck who shot and killed bianca roberson. It comes a day after surveillance was released after a nationwide man hunt. No word whether the suspect has been identified. Former president barack obama spoke out in a public speech on saturday in the final day of a leg of a tenday vacation in indonesia. He commented on the trump policies and a warning against the rise of nationalism and withdrawing from the paris climate agreement. In paris we came together around the most ambitious agreement, even with the temporary absence of American Leadership can still give our children a fighting chance. And a stunning controversial defeat for boxtion legend manny. He lost his wbo welter weight title overnight to australian under dog jeff horn. Fighting in front of the home fans, the 29yearold former School Teacher horn beat him in a unanimous 12round decision despite being outpunched by a wide margin. The surprise decision caused outrage from other boxers, fans and ringside analyst teddy at last who was calling the fight. Dylan is here with a look at the weather. Hey, dylan. One time i was watching boxing and i got a bloody nose. Might not have been the fighting. I dont know what was going on there. Lets take a look at the weather going on across the country. Actually a pretty decent day for most of the country. We do have a couple of spotty showers and storms 340678imovine southwestern oklahoma and approaching mississippi. Heavier downpours, but nothing too severe. Best chance of severe will be the midwest as the cold front slides farther to the south. We could see large hail and damaging winds. No real threat. All this area in orange here including most of nebraska, parts of iowa and stretching partly cloudy skies in the south bay at 56 degrees. Nice and cool temps. A little bit of a breeze. And in San Francisco still waking up to that dense fog early on thanks to that marine layer that will keep us nice and cool at least through mid morning. The east bay looking hazy at 58 degrees. Right now we can see that fog is building over the area. We can expect that to burn off with mostly clear skies for sunday afternoon. Your latest forecast. Thanks, dylan. Much more on the bloody nose coming up next. Up next the highs and lows of the week. A young man whose work ethic was rewarded by a group of strangers with a new car. Well explain. And the toddler turned webb sensation whose laughter as he feeds the animals should become everyones ring tone. Plus, americas echo chambers, a look inside the modern media world where a divided country can hear exactly what it wants to hear. Its all coming up on sunday today. And as we head to break, our photo of the week, a Police Officer looking over a large sink hole that swallowed a car in st. Louis. Luckily no one was in the car. As moms, we send our kids out into the world, full of hope. And we dont want Something Like meningitis b getting in their way. Meningococcal group b disease, or meningitis b, is real. Bexsero is a vaccine to help prevent meningitis b in 10 to 25 year olds. Even if meningitis b is uncommon, thats not a chance were willing to take. 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Dylan and i are ready to whip through highs and lows of the week. First high to an act of generosity, reward for hard work in rockwell, texas outside dallas. Andy mitchell was driving through rockwell on another 95 degree day when he spotted a young man walking along the road. Mitchell pulled over, offered him a ride in his truck. 20yearold justin corbo accepted and told him ever since his car broke down on him, he walks three miles each way in the heat to his job at taco casa where hes a cook. Working there to save money for a new car. Mitchell dropped him at work, so moved by his story, he posted on facebook, began a fundraising effort to get him that car. A rockwell pizza place put out a donation box, mitchell pitched in money, and the local toyota dealer dropped the price of a 2004 camry with some 6,000 in donations to cover the price of the car, a year of insurance, two years worth of oil changes and 500 gas card. The other day, they surprised justin at work, asked him to come outside to the parking lot to see his new car. The hugs and tears from justin tell you just what that gesture meant to him. Thats awesome. Hes just walking to work. And to have a random person do that for you. And his facebook post, andy is like we need more people like this. He works his tail off, all he wants to do is make his life better, were going to help him get there. Great story. First low goes to the facetime requests you get when youre an nba star that gives out his personal phone number at a press conference. He was traded to the timberwolves, at his introductory meeting, he made an offer to fans and critics alike. Give me a call. Im fine. Everybody is entitled to their opinion. With that being said, my phone is in my back pocket right now. If whoever has anything to say to me, feel free. 7738996071. So if you want to interview, there you have it. Please do. Thats the real number. As you can imagine, his phone immediately started to blow up and he answered. Here he is face timing with a fan who called in, eventually telling the guy after a good sized chat he had to run to answer a thousand more calls. Did you give him a ring . I havent called him yet. Should we hit him up . I feel like we should have. Hopefully the volume has calmed down. Or he changed his number. May regret it. Got to talk to some fans. I am sure they appreciated that. The next clip, a toddler in oregon rightly became an internet hero after video of him feeding ostriches at a Wildlife Safari went viral. Enjoy. [ laughter ] i could watch that all day on a loop. In fact, one more time, please. [ laughter ] that is pure distilled joy. Thats all that is im sorry, willie, no need for the rest of the show. I just want to watch that over and over. Just show this, we would have the highest ratings in the history of television. But we have to move on. Love that kid. Final low for the feeling you prepared your life for the moment you get to play with the Vienna Chamber orchestra and a dog completely steals the show. The orchestra was playing at the International Festival in turkey when a lab sneaking in on the left side of the screen, if you look at the bottom wanders onto the stage mid performance and the audience loves it. Theyre applauding for the dog. The dog then lies down, just sets up shop, facing the audience as the orchestra place on through the italian symphony number 4. He was just in the area, came to hear beautiful music, im in. Got the best seat in the house. Since it is a Holiday Weekend, bonus high this morning. Twoyearold elephant at an Elephant Rescue Center in southwestern china, discovering the joy of a good slide down a muddy hill. Stretches out her legs, flops on her belly, slips and slides on down in perfect mud slide form. So between the kid and the elephant, we have a tv show. I cant stop smiling. Did he know what was going on or was that an accident . He knew it was a muddy hill, wanted to get to the bottom of it. A sunday sit down with one of the brightest young stars in all of music, grammy did you know when you buy any bag of dog or cat food at petsmart we give a meal to a pet in need . Help us reach our goal of donating more than 60 million meals so hungry pets across the country get to eat. Buy any bag, we give a meal to a pet in need. Petsmart for the love of pets. The time now is 6 26. Good morning to you. It is july 2nd, 2017, and it is a beautiful 56 degrees out there, although a little foggy and mistq. A live look it at the bay bridge to start off this sunday morning. Im vicky nguyen. Vianey arana with a check of the micro climate forecast. Happy almost fourth of july. Happy almost fourth of july and, yes, we are seeing the fog right now. We have this nice marine layer and thats whats keeping the clouds low and temperatures cool. The south bay 56 degrees. Trivalley 54 degrees. In San Francisco 51 degrees. Chilly if youre going to be stepping out within the next hour or so because Doppler Radar does show that fog building in and it will stick around through midafternoon. Right before lunch hour it should start burning off and then that will make way for a much sunnier forecast not just for sunday but it will also kick off a good week. So far it looks like the fourth of july is looking pretty good. I will have a better look. Thank you. A hitandrun crash in concord takes the lives of two young boys on this Holiday Weekend. A driver who was suspected of being involved is now in an oakland hospital. 35yearold wilson is in stable condition. Investigators say he is a suspect in friday nights fatal crash. This is the mangled infinity suv. Chp officers say wilson was behind the wheel. That car collided with a Dodge Durango after veering off a highway 4 exit ramp. Two boys ages 10 and 5 both died after being thrown from the durango. The mother and 3monthold baby brother were rushed to local hospitals. I think about my own family or somebody else that could have lost a 4yearold, 5yearold son or any of their family. Its horrific. For the persons first inclination is to run makes it even worse. Police say witness descriptions and the trail of blood and evidence found inside the infinity led them directly to wilson. He is currently under watch of sheriffs deputies. Tense moments in the south bay after a brush fire burned close to home. Firefighters remained at the scene overnight to watch for hot spots. That fire broke out about 6 00 p. M. Yesterday in east san jose. Parts of the capital expressway were closed. Neighbors say they were relieved to see firefighters get to the scene quickly. An excellent job. And then they left because everything is under control. The brush area that burned is surrounded by houses and a middle school. Its not clear yet how that fire started. Coming up at 7 00 on today in the bay a heartwarming meeting this weekend. A 14yearold girl meets the stranger who saved her life by donating his bone marrow. That plus all of your top stories all coming up at 7 00. Maren morris singing her song my church. Only a couple years ago morris was a song writer for other artists in nashville, a dream job she says she would have been happy to do forever. Once the music world heard her step in front of the mike and sing my church it was clear she needed to be seen out front. Shes collecting awards, singing with idols, singing the headline tour for her album. She found herself on stage at an arena in nashville being honored at the Country Music association awards. She and i got together for a sunday sit down at the palm restaurant across the street from the arena where just 12 months earlier she watched that same awards show on tv as a fan. New artist of the year goes to maren morris. This is so crazy. So last year i sat across the street at a bar and watched this show. This is kind of a Historic Place for you, this bar. You were sitting somewhere over there. I was in this booth with my manager janet and my boyfriend ryan. We were watching that tv over there. Did you have any dream, not the next year, thats too big a dream, that someday you might be on that stage . Definitely not a year later. But it was just one year later, maren morris was inside that arena outside accepting the new artist of the year award. She was only ten when she started to sing in bars like the White Elephant saloon at the stock yards in fort worth, texas. I was a shy kid but felt comfortable singing. At 17, morris stepped off the texas bar circuit and chased her dream by trying out for American Idol and the voice. She was turned down by both. Not even making it past the first round of auditions. So she went back home. It was hard. I think i hit a wall in texas. By the time i was 20, i had been touring a decade, which is crazy. It was almost like i was burned out at 20 years old. But she wasnt giving up. Maren packed a u haul, found a couple of roommates on craigslist and moved to nashville. Her singing demo wasnt catching on, but music city liked the way she wrote a song. Soon big name artists like Kelly Clarkson and particular mcgraw were singing her words. But there was one song only she could sing. I cussed on a sunday, i cheated and ive lied once i had written my church i realized i dont want anyone to sing this except for me. That was a really defining factor in my life, it changed the whole course because i was really protective of it, didnt play it or send it to anybody. If i was going to play it for someone, i had to do it from my phone. I was being so psycho about it. Rolled the windows down and turned out the lights. In 2015 morris recorded my church. Without a record deal, self released her single on the online Music Service spotify. Can i get a hallelujah, can i get an amen. It really encapsulates my world view on music and what it does for the human psyche and the heart. And i think like millions of people, i love to get in my car and just drive to think and listen to music and it is just you. Theres something cathartic about that and spiritual. Within days, marens song caught fire. My church was streamed on spotify 2. 5 million times in just over a month. At what point did you know that that was exploding . I remember someone had a label that passed on me twice as an artist. They were freaking out when they saw the spike with this song. With the whole town suddenly chasing her, morris signed with columbia nashville records. Maren launched her label debut album and it went to number one on the billboard country chart and crossed over to reach number five on the all genre billboard 200 list. Rolling stone called it the best country album of 2016. At the Grammy Awards in february, morris was nominated four times and won best country Solo Performance for my church. She then stepped from her acceptance speech to perform alongside alicia keyes, one of her heroes. How did it feel to be on the stage singing with alicia keyes . It felt iconic. It was oddly relaxed that day and winning my first grammy literally minutes before my performance with alicia calmed me down even more in a way ive never really experienced with Live Television because i usually get psyched out and stressed. Are you able to block out the circumstances generally, like not think about how far many million are watching at home, the grammys . Depends. Every awards show is different. I have these panic attacks mid song. There are no teleprompters at the acms during my song. I could use a love song. And i had the same thing happen with snl where you see the car crash about to happen and you just get too in your head for a second. I had that moment during the acms where i was like and heres where your career dies. Well, it doesnt show for what its worth. Thank you. Having a tiny panic attack on stage. I havent told anyone that. She was more relaxed back stage before a recent show in nashville on her hero tour, hanging out with her musician boyfriend, ryan hurt. I like to take a shot of tequila right before i go on. Then show time. So i look at my life, and yes, the last two years have been just insanity, chaos, beautiful, but i look at the time line of when this all really began and i think thats why im sitting here today. Of all the recognition maren received in the last couple years, one moment stands out. I had two missed calls from a south london number. I was like thats weird. My manager janet like texted me, she was like elton john is trying to contact you. Oh my god. He called me a third time, he was like is this maren . This is elton, he said. Im a huge fan of what youre doing, i have your record on vinyl and i love what youre doing. And im just hearing that voice ive heard my entire life, been a fan of, so influenced by, saying that to me over a phone call. And i had no witnesses to the phone call. We know youll answer next time south london pops up on the phone. Absolutely. Be like adele next time. Exactly. Not bad to have elton john as a fan of your first major album. By the way, years as a song writer paid off. Maren wrote or cowrote every song on her hero album. Since we visited her in nashville, she added more dates this fall by popular demand. Check her website for the fuel schedule. For back stage access and more on how she sits down to write a song, check out extras at today. Com sunday. Next week, the man that makes us rethink everything we thought we know, malcolm god well, bringing pop science to the people by the millions. Thats next week on sunday today. And dylan is back with another look at the weather. Hey, dylan. Good morning, willie and everyone. Lets look at what you can expect for the fireworks if theyre happening in your neighborhood tuesday night. Were looking at a couple of spotty showers in and around chicago area, back through the midwest. Western half of the country is nice and quiet. Temperatures are fairly comfortable, in the 70s and 80s, cooler in San Francisco and in the northeast nice conditions. Strong storms as you start the week through the middle of the country. As you get to middle of the week, pushes closer to the great lakes region. By end of the week, scattered showers and storms up and down the a very nice and cool start across the bay area. Right now in the south bay 56 degrees. 58 for the peninsula. Trivalley, 54. Its still foggy out in San Francisco at 51 degrees. 58 in the east bay. And now in the north bay nice and clear at about 52 degrees. We can expect to see the fog burn off and the temperature trend does show temperatures climbing into the upper 60s for San Francisco by midafternoon. And thats your latest forecast. Dylan, thank you very much. Coming up on sunday today. Inside americas echo chambers. How a divided country is being tugged further apart by a divided media. Hey katy, im going to go ahead and invade your personal space to run some things by you. Its going to look like im listening but im actually just paying attention to nugget. Cool. Ill pretend youre answering the questions i have. Ill scroll through my feed and avoid making eye contact. Im just going to keep hovering. Wouldnt it be great if everyone said what they meant . Hovering away. Boo boo boo [making noise at nugget] the citi® double cash card does. Only citi lets you earn 1 cash back when you buy, and 1 as you pay. The citi® double cash card. Double means double. Oreo thins. A thin twist on the oreo cookie you love. The moment you realize, how could there possibly be this many blues . Dont worry. At lowes, we guarantee youll always love your paint or well replace it. Now save an additional 10 to 40 off paint, exterior stains, and resurfacers via rebate at lowes. Be a powerful force. Nature valley i think that we have gone to a place where if the media cant be trusted to report the news, then thats a dangerous place for america. White house Deputy Press SecretarySarah Huckabee sanders hitting the media for what she called the constant barrage of fake news. Fake news is a favorite term, as you know, of President Trump. What you consider real and fake in many cases has become a question of where youre sitting and who youre listening to. In our sunday spotlight, nbcs Hallie Jackson goes inside the increasingly polarized American Media culture that has us talking past each other. Network televisions first daily half hour news program. Reporter back then, there were three. Sit back, be an eyewitness to happenings that made history in the last 24 hours. Reporter before breaking the news down to views that we choose. I dont know how we have a conversation with each other when were not speaking the same language. This is an impossible choice. Reporter for professional organizer in progressive portland, it is npr in the car. On her phone, facebook. Her evenings, network news. Most reporting nowadays would fail journalism 101. It is so clear the media hates donald trump. John barry used to be part of the media in redlands, california. Starts his day this way. Sometimes read the l. A. Times just for laughs, it is so outrageous, they put antitrump stories on the sports page. Reporter the self described twitter addict, now runs on the run. The only political show my liberal wife and i can agree on is morning joe. But the rule is, when joe is not there and mika is there, i get to turn it to fox and friends. I would not watch fox news because it would drive me insane. And it would make me angry. Reporter today, so many choices, but many reflecting a single point of view, easier than ever to limit the ones we often leaving us in socalled echo chambers. We are not listening to each other at all because there are so many choices. Its like pick your own adventure. Pick your own news. And that is what eli pariser calls the filter bubble. We live in kind of our own personal information universe curated by facebook and twitter base on who they think we are and what they think well want to know. He points to 57 indicators that google uses, for example, to sort what you see based on everything from where youre sitting to what browser youre on. That could keep you inside your own news universe. In a society that depends on everybody kind of having a sense of whats going on for the greater po greater pool, that becomes a real problem. And that is something both sides agree on. Its hard to unify the can tr country with the news media being split up. When i was president you mattered more. We become so secure in our bubbles we accept information whether its true or not that fits our opinions. But in truth, it began i did not have under another president. The drudge report is a media gossip page known for below the beltway reporting and it is gaining a reputation as a irritant to the white house. You are a conservative and you have targeted the Clinton White house. I go where the stink is. The democrats and their fear mongering. What was once relegated to talk radio exploded on tv. The launch of fox news in 1996 taking it to another level against the liberal bias in the media. You said you were on my side. You got us confused. When administrations changed, the pendulum swung the other way. I accuse you mr. Bush of lying this country into war. Today even more tangled with the webb, the results, what can feel like permanent po polarization. Ive lost friends on facebook. Were talking past each other. We want to hear different things. It is not clear what the impact really is. List tone this. A recent pew study finds half of us on facebook and more than a third on twitter say we have a mix of political views inside our network. Bottom line, though, in this deeply divided country, theres never been more opportunity to remain so. For some, leaving us red all over, for others giving us the blues. For sunday today, halle jackson, washington. Halle, thank you. Next on sunday today, roller blades are so 1990s. Well meet the women behind the Company Bringing back the disco days of roller skating. And later, a life well lived. The man who created a well mannered bear that was a friend to generations of children. Thanks for the ride around norfolk and i just wanted to say, geico is proud to have served the military for over 75 years roger that. Captains waiting to give you a tour of the wisconsin now. Couldve parked a little bit closer. Its gonna be dark by the time i get there. Geico®. Proudly serving the military for over 75 years. Did any bag of dog or buy cat food at petsmart we give a meal to a pet in need . Help us reach our goal of donating more than 60 million meals so hungry pets across the country get to eat. Buy any bag, we give a meal to a pet in need. Petsmart for the love of pets. Bee to the hive to the comb combing that honey. Into some gold gold to the o. Its the yum in your bowl good goes around. And around, and around. Good goes around and around. As you get outside to enjoy this fourth of july weekend with y your family and friends, you may notice an american classic rolling onto the scene. To many of us, roller skating is a different era, many recall a Dark Birthday Party in a disco rink of the 1970s, or guy wearing giant head phones and short shorts rolling through the park in the 1980s. One Company Wants to bring back those days and those wheels. Nbcs Morgan Radford has the sunday closer. I am careless, i dont have worries. If the wind is blowing my hair. Doesnt matter the way you look, where youre from. Were kind of like moving in a world of our own. Reporter you might say this group of women has a lot of moxie. Moxie means bravery, strength and like a womans gusto. Reporter this roller skating gals and guys in long beach, california are taking their skates out of the rink and into the streets. Reviving an american past time because, well, thats just how they roll. My name is michelle. I roller skate for a living. This is the skate shop reporter michelle is founder of moxie roller skates, a line of retro colored skates that let you experience the world on 8 wheels as we did decades ago. Sf. When roller skates were invented, they were thought of as the shoe of the future. The shoe of the future. Late 70s and 80s around when i was born, dance skating in california became really popular. Reporter by the 90s, roller blades gained momentum. Michelle got an idea. Lets create culture around bringing roller skating back. What kind of people come in here . We get all sorts of different people from young kids to people that used to skate when they were kids decades ago. Reporter owns the shop, as a member of the skate crew. Shes a skate mom and a boss. Then we have legs, shes incredible, solves a lot of problems with a Big Fat Smile on her face. Mel ee, our youngest member is an artist and student. Reporter just a few of the fearless women who believe the best way to get from point a to point b is on wheels. So how often are you on the skates . Im on the skates all the time. I skate to the grocery store. I skate to and from work. I state on the airplane. Everywhere. So what do people say when they see you roll into the airport on skates . The security guards are yelling at us to get off. And probably envious theyre not on skates themselves. Reporter while they concede skating may not be for everyone, for these moxi girls, it is about finding where you belong. What does this kind of Community Offer to young women . It helps you embrace who you are as an individual. In high school i didnt have many friends. With moxi roller skates i found my girl gang, and more than that girl gang, found a family. Reporter a roler skating revival bringing back confidence. Believe you can fly. This is really the closest feeling. Life is so much better on roller skates. Reporter for sunday today, Morgan Radford, long beach, california. That looks like fun. Morgan, thanks a lot. We highlight another life well lived. Christmas eve, 1956, michael bond walked into a london toy store and saw a lonely teddy bear sitting on a shelf. He bought the bear for his wife as a gift, and began to write its story, the story of paddington bear. First published version appeared in 1958. In the original book, wearing a blue coat, floppy hat and pair of red boots is found at paddington station with a suitcase and tag around his neck that reads please look after this bear. Since then, bond sold some 35 million copies of paddington stories, with his writing translated into 40 languages. Over six decades since bond introduced the world to paddington, there have been tv series and movies, including one in 2015 that grossed 268 million around the world, with a sequel on the way. Bond was born in birk shier, england, in 1926. Dropped out of school at the age of 14, later served in the Royal Air Force and british army during world war ii. Paddingtons story was inspired in part by the refugee children of war, with ids around their next. Michael bond whose character was a friend to those around did you know when you buy any bag of dog or cat food at petsmart we give a meal to a pet in need . Help us reach our goal of donating more than 60 million meals so hungry pets across the country get to eat. Buy any bag, we give a meal to a pet in need. Petsmart for the love of pets. All right. We close this morning with a look at whats next this week. On friday, President Trump will attend the g 20 summit in germany. Among the many meetings the president will have is one on the sidelines with russian president vladimir putin. It will be the first time the two leaders met face to face, and comes amid investigations into russias interference in the 2016 president ial election. Be interesting to see if President Trump says anything to president putin about that. What are you looking at . I like the accent, ham berg. Got to break it out. Tuesday, fourth of july, the mother of all american events, nathans hot dog eating contest on long island. Contestants have ten minutes to stuff as many dogs down as possible. Money on nine time champion Joey Chestnut who won with an incredible 70 hot dogs. This is how i watch it. I cant see it. Gross but i want to know who won. Chestnut lost a few years ago, won a your time is 7 00 this sunday, july 2nd. We want to give you a live look outside this morning at San Francisco, the embarcadero there. Its 56 degrees outside. Some cool, misty fog earlier but that should be burning off on this holiday morning. Good thank you for waking up with us. Im vicky nguyen. Vianey arana with whats to come. A lot of people have a fiveday weekend. Lucky you guys. And for those of you who do get a chance to enjoy either staying at home, go outside because its going to be nice. Nice and cool right now. Were still in the 50s in the south bay and it was a little bit breezy along the coast and even here in the south bay