As best we can. Im going to talk to you a little bit tonight about america the ingenious. This book i wrote. The best thing about writing books is hopefully you learned something. I learned a great deal writing this. Americansof how invented, developed or learned to exploit so many of the things exploit the world. What i found even more telling was how things are invented. How invention itself is encouraged and nurtured. At least how it has been encouraged and nurtured in this country in the past. , as i do in myy book, that we are a nation of tinkerers. We americans like to think of ass natural adventurers, risktakers and entrepreneurs. But what does that mean exactly. I am a believer in american exceptionalism. It hasnes like to say, to be earned, never given. How did we earn it . How did we do what we did and how could we get back to doing it right . As the first nation to exist wholly in the modern age, United States has also insisted when making things when we were extracting them
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Copacabana beach today, wednesday, august 17th, 2016. Dont know if ive seen him do quite that good ever and that may there and then have been the gold medal jump. That one just about perfect announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games with matt lauer live from rio de janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special splitedition of today. [ cheers and applause ] hoda, were here to covering the olympics, so its all about the athletes. Were going to be talking about a lot of medalists this morning, but with we could give out an olympic gold medal for sportsmanship and supporting team usa, the guy standing down on the deck, get it this morning. He flew all the way from los angeles here to surprise the final five. Hes been watching simone biles tweet. He was keeping up with all of it. He said, what am i doing at home . He got on a plane. There was a lot of cloak and dagger. Were going to
Neighborhood tonight. Armed officers perched on roof tops searching for a dangerous man on the loose in one San Francisco neighborhood tonight. Good evening. The the police are stationed at steward and 19th street right now where they set up a perimeter around a park. Kpix5 is live at the location with the latest on the search, christian . Reporter the perimeter is set up for a little over an hour. You can still see some officers on the outside here. A lot of the police cars, very active situation we got going on right now. 19th here. We know it extends all around the neighborhood. They believe the person are is at a nearby park and they are in the process of searching that this park. This all started in the Mission District on 19th when the suspect pulled out a gun and tried to rob someone on the street. As he ran off the police were able to track him down and they chased him into the kite hill park area over this way. That is when the police set up the perimeter and plotted their nex