years ago today, in one school in newtown, connecticut. five years on, the heartbreak continues, the loss still profound. it always will be. but tonight on this solemn anniversary we want to take a minute to remember and honor those lives that have been lost. most of the victims were just 6 and 7 years old. dancers, painters, budding readers, little sisters and big brothers. they should have celebrated their 11th or 12th birthdays this year. they should have been in sixth grade. you may recall a month after the shooting country music star kenny chesney performed amazing grace on this program in tribute to all those lives taken at sandy hook school. here s that performance and once again, we remember. amazing grace how sweet the
it s happened at your house, didn t it? there are things. that s google home, the home mini, been announced. that was not a few things being recorded. it was like 24/7, everything was being recorded and being sent back to google. it really boils down to so all these devices are out there that continue to have one little glitch after another, whether it s intentional hacker trying to get through or whether it s just a software glitch. there s two things to think about. one is these devices are given to us for our convenience and they have suckered us so good that we think we have got to have them. but, at the same time, these companies are really the new big brothers, what they want is the personal data that they are able to connect with. for example, amazon is coming out with a slew of new echos, one of which sits on your nightstand and looks like a clock radio. it s brilliant. that right there is amazon look. that will take a picture of
about getting made fun of and being able to laugh about it, i grew up with big brothers, if they weren t making fun of me, they were ignoring me. love equals mockery. tom: you are on the show friday, you demanded to be on the show monday. i a lot of demands. tom: in fact, tonight i will thank you for times instead of thanking the whole panel. the white house correspondents association, should we just can the whole thing? it s kind of stupid, i think th real reason he s not going is that they are mcdonald s. if i was him, i would go and i would just play the video of the 2011 white house correspondents dinner. he was in the audience and they took a dump on him from start to finish. seth meyers, obama, everybody there. he loved it so much he ran
near-peer role models and mentors for students. then they run after-school programs to keep kids out of trouble when the school day ends. you re pretty young, do they like that? do they like the energy that city year brings? yes. i think that s what makes city year unique is the peer-to-peer relationship, near peer-to-peer, i should say. the student love it because we re just old enough to know enough and been where they are and also old enough to know what s to come and how to prepare for that successfully. how do you recruit people like ty? do they come from all over the country? all over the new york. about half come from new york and about half of them come from outside new york. they re very diverse. about 50% of our core people of color so we re diverse ethnically and about 880% are college graduates. i m a big fan, we were talking on the commercial break, i m a big fan of mentoring. i was on the board of big brothers & big sisters. on this day, giving tuesday, i feel l
children facing adversity with mentors. the bigs help the littles realize their potential and build their futures. i ve been a proud volunteer and i ve watched my little, that s her on the left, grow from 6 years old, a little girl to a beautiful young woman with her own husband and child now. and i also served on the national board of big brothers, big sisters. joining me now, from essex, hudson, and union county, our big brother mike on the right, and his little brother roberto, a middle school student, fifth grade. yes. how did you get into big brothers big sisters? well, i was asked by one of the mentors in ps 5 your school. yes. in jersey city. mr. carlos, he asked me if i wanted to join. i said, sure, that would be a great experiment to experience. did it sound like a good idea to have somebody to hang out with a little bit?