Liz wagner good evening, and thanks for joining us. Tonight, we investigate, and hold the powerful accountable. State investigators are looking into what sparked a series of Deadly Wildfires in wine country last month, including links to pg e power lines. Right now, in gold country, more than 2,000 plaintiffs are suing the utility for another deadly fire that started when a single tree fell into a power line. A judge already found pg e responsible. Now a jury will determine if the company disregarded safety. Tonight, we investigate pg es treetrimming program and why critics say its putting your safety on the line. Liz september 9, 2015, a ferocious wildfire in the sierra foothills chases thousands from their homes. Janet lucich it was horrible. Liz janet lucich was out of town when she got a call. Her husband and kids were caught in the middle of it. Janet you stop breathing. I thought if they were dead, my heart would break. Liz with flames nearly on top of them rick lucich fire is co
Sarasota. One, two, three, up. Reporter and our own nbcs Kerry Sanders helped reece queue stranded dolphins near margo island. Got to rescue them. Reporter while irma made a second landfall near margo island neighbors took the brunt of the storm. Mayor bill barnett on the today show this morning. Its hard to describe. The water was rolling around, rain was coming in so hard you could barely see out of the window, and it was scary. Very, very lucky. Reporter residents in the tampa area waking up grateful their homes were spared. I was expecting water. Reporter millions without power. Likely thousands waking with Severe Damage to their homes as irma refuses to release its hold on the sunshine state. And with most of florida without power local officials are telling people stay off the roads. There is a mandatory cfew in place tonight and officials will be out monitoring the roads to try to get a better look at the damage there. Were live in miami. Sarah rosario. Now back to you. Thank yo
Liz wagner good evening, and thanks for joining us. Tonight, we investigate, and hold the powerful accountable. State investigators are looking into what sparked a series of Deadly Wildfires in wine country last month, including links to pg e power lines. Right now, in gold country, more than 2,000 plaintiffs are suing the utility for another deadly fire that started when a single tree fell into a power line. A judge already found pg e responsible. Now a jury will determine if the company disregarded safety. Tonight, we investigate pg es treetrimming program and why critics say its putting your safety on the line. Liz september 9, 2015, a ferocious wildfire in the sierra foothills chases thousands from their homes. Janet lucich it was horrible. Liz janet lucich was out of town when she got a call. Her husband and kids were caught in the middle of it. Janet you stop breathing. I thought if they were dead, my heart would break. Liz with flames nearly on top of them rick lucich fire is co
We welcome you today. You were born in kansas . Guest i was actually born in buffalo new york. Armstrong bump know new york. Guest and moved to canada for a few years. And in 1977 when i was 4yearold i moved to pa parsons kansas, from from there i until high school i was there. What were your doctors. My dad is a urologist and my mom is an anesthesiologist. When you take interest in becoming a lawyer . It wasnt until i got into college. I started out premed, and i remember the first year being in the chemistry lab, and doing all of this work and thinking i dont really enjoy this this much. I was in classes write was writing and debating, and the law seems very much in keeping with that. Over time as i pursued my Academic Studies and i the debate team as well, went and applied for law school. I didnt have any lawyers in my family and flying blind and ended up going to the university of chicago and enjoyed that, too. Theres a lot of institutions and the university and chicago law school.
And gave us a little light. I was going to end my life. I had no purpose. But President Trump coming down that escalator that day and talking about illegal immigration stopped me in my track. And i had no clue at that point that i would ever be at the white house. And i thank President Trump, Vice President pence, everybody behind me. I thank you. I thank everybody out here. Make sure you get our stories out. I brought my son. This is what i have left, his ashes. I wear his ashes in a lockett. This is how i get to hug my son. So remember when you go home and hug your kids that there are many of us, thousands of us, who dont get to do that anymore. And lets Work Together and get this done. All politicians. I dont care what side you are on. You dont want your child in a casket or in an urn. So get it together for gods sake, for this country, for our citizens. Thank you. [ applause ] good afternoon. Im Chris Jansing in for ali velshi. You have been watching President Trump at an immigrati