How are you doing . Pretty good. Welcome. Thank you. Were very happy to have a chance to talk to you today. Um, can you tell me a little bit about your childhood . Im interested because it seems like your independent, fighting spirit seemed to emerge early. Perhaps earlier than for most. Yes. I spent part of my childhood in georgia, in the middle part of georgia. However, i was born in jacksonville, florida, and i think from age probably 3 to 8 was spent in georgia, wattela, georgia, which is considered middle georgia and not that far from augusta, georgia. After that, i went to with my family to st. Augustine, florida, and thats where i came of age as a teenager. I came by my activism very early. I always had sort of an innate sense of what was right and what was wrong, and i dont know exactly where i got that from, but the idea of segregation and things that white people could do and black people could not do, i understood very early, maybe as early as 7, 8 years old that there was s
Diverted. Back to you. Lets check in with doug with severe thunderstorms. Its daily this time of year. Thats why we are in red mode here. We have Severe Thunderstorm Warnings. This is down to the south. New storm including Rappahannock County and fauquier county. You can see a warning in frederick, Loudoun County, Fairfax County as well as Prince Williams. Now, take a look, these are the storms that were watching. These are the strongest to the north. Very strong winds and we have chopper 4 up over Montgomery County and, wow, look at that picture here. A very ominous picture of the showers and storms moving in. You can see the very dark clouds at the top of your screen. Those are the clouds that do not have rain. The lighter clouds is where the rain is. You can see the very low cloud hanging there. Its a result of the rain cooling the air and then lifting it back up as the warm goes ahead of it. The storms move through the night tonight. Lets zoom in and do a couple of zooms here. Lets
No laughing matter. Will ferrell under fire for his plans to play Ronald Reagan suffering from alzheimers in a new film. The former president s family in an uproar. What they are saying this morning. And good morning, america. Happy friday. What a morning it is here in times square. We are kicking off the finale of our huge wedding event. Its huge. Final touches under way as you can see. The countdown is on for the big finish to our 24hour marathon 100 weddings in one day and it has been an incredible event. Look at elvis there. Yes, absolutely and were calling it our wide world of weddings. Taking place all over the globe. Right here youre about to look at a ceremony in south korea just moments ago and so much more of our celebration coming up and some very big surprise guest, as well. A lot of surprises this morning. I hugged one of our surprise guests this morning. It was very nice. Were excited about that. A lot more to come but first we want to get to the big headline this morning
Begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Im Thomas Roberts in for lester tonight. We begin in california, where for the second day in a row, police and protesters clashed over the appearance of donald trump. Just south of san francisco, in burlingame, dozens of protesters stormed barricades confronting police in riot gear outside of a hotel where trump was scheduled to speak at the republican state convention. The clashes captured on live tv, forcing trumps security detail to an alternate route. Halle jackson has the late details. Reporter busting down barricades theyre breaking through the barrier, rushing into the front of the hyatt regency. Reporter donald trump appeared late this afternoon. Swarming the entrance, clashing with police in full riot gear. A scuffle with one trump backer trying to get in. Its a revolution. Its come to violence. Reporter trump and his security detail forced to ditc
Which celeb is dating a dancing pro. And our mariah carey exclusive. Front row for her paris sh her adorable twins cheering her on. We know shes proudly a diva. Bo but she also i tried my dress last night, if you must know. Now for april 28th, 2016, this is entertainment tonight. Its been one week music icon prince was found dead in an elevator in his paisley park mansion. The pieces of the pu on how he died are starting to come together. For the first time were hearing from one of princes siblings. Nischelle tu returned to minneapolis to sit down with his brother for an exclusive interview. First what weve uncovered about painkillers in our prince drug investigation. Did prince overdose on painkillers . Well, there are new claims about his death. Law enforcement sources say prince had prescription drugs in his possession and in his paisley park compound when his body was discov this is what killed otherwise a young, healthy adult, not illicit drugs, not street drugs, prescription medi