Hes downtown, jet skiing at the bellagio, hes everywhere. If youhavent heard the song, google it after the show. Were going to do something here. I think that for the ladies to go to commercial break. You should watch the commercials. I dont know. After our show. While you sleep. Here is the point, it features vegas in the video. Fremont street all over the place. And it makes vegas just look so fantastic. It looks pretty cooed. Welcome. Im Shawn Tempesta columbus day, wow. It is. Ive been living under a rock or something. I have no idea whats going on. Yes. Some people have today off. Wow. So cheers to you guys if youre at home watching this. Jealous. This weekend was a kind of a little bit of a sad weekend for a multitude of reasons. First of all, we said goodbye to micah. We did. Our producer, micah, who has been with the show since the beginning. Yeah. I was like you sure . Hes like, well, beach. Im yeah, the taxes. Hes like, beach. Yeah. Hes got his board shorts on. He has his mug popeye, that he lives with. Poppy is an adorable dog. He probably shed a tear doing that. He shed a little bit of a tear saying gog to us. He hugged me 14 times, which is more affection than i have ever received from micah. I said micah, this is a beautiful thing. He said come another hug. Did he give you a little pat . He didnt give me a little pat. He gave me one. I was just wondering . A pat . A little i think he likes me more. Thats what i was trying to get to. Wow man. Six years, micah. Six years. What else did you do this week . I hosted girls day. Oh, man, did we have girls day were the boys not invited. No. They had boys night. Ah. On thursday. Girls day, it was amazing. Hundreds of girls that participate in the boys and girls club from town paired up with adult women, women from every business, every corner of las vegas. Amazing group of women. I got to host in front of everybody. I lost my voice a little bit. The former owner of tropical smoothie was there. Phenomenal woman. Dina. Im sorry. Of course she was there. She won first place in one of the games. There was a game i didnt know there was a game. Yeah. There was competition. There was a lot of girls are competitive, too. There is no question. Ill tell you who is competitive. Metro. Yeah. We had a d. J. To get the crowd warmed up before the event started and i got pulled down to dance. I am telling you, talk about talent in this valley. There are some girls who have wow there we are so thats the crowd. So all the girls are in pink shirts. All the blue are the adult women paired up with them. It was just such a great day of camaraderie. If you can see in the front row, see the three women in tan . Thats metro. Thats metro. I see. So i got pulled up to dance. I was so mortified because im in front of all these young girls who, like theyre shuffling and im like oh, wow. I got to step it up. Soy grabbed the the metro ladies got moves. Nice. Yeah. They threw down. I did not know. I didnt know they had moves. Yes. Next time im pulled over, ill be like hey, dance for me. I dont know if that will work. Chances are it wont. How was your weekend . It was good. Sunday i stayed home. I watched the patriots win. Im like very low key. Low key patriots. Its the browns. I feel bad beating the browns. Come on i cleaned around the house cause i like to use the floor as my closet and my wife doesnt enjoy that. And i watched that grease fire that is called the president ial debate. We dont get political on the show. But i watched the debate as well. Wow. Yeah. America. No comment. I will say we have the third debate to look forward to next wednesday, the 19th, he las vegas. Yes. That is cool. That at least will bring something to our economy. Ill be watching and crying. Its gonna be fascinating. We want to hear from you about your weekend here. We got links at vegasmorningblend. Com, could read some of your comments live on the air and take a look at this. Fight hard, were behind you. I love that. Were just looking at touching video upload fluid a mobile app called video fit. Its helping people around the world share supportive video messages with friends and family affected. Yeah. The app has partnered up with the American Breast Cancer Foundation for the month of october to raise awareness about Breast Cancer through social media. And here to tell us how we can participate and help pred the message, paul loube, ceo for American Breast Cancer Foundation. And laura steward, ce, and founder of video fit, welcome. How are you . What is happening here with this app . Its so amazing. Youre really reaching people in a new touchy way. Tell me all about video fizz. The idea was that we would use the month of october for Breast Cancer awareness and instead of just wearing a pink shirt, wed do something to uplift cancer patients. Our app makes montages. So you film a video, you are same thing and inside we had a category called cancer sucks. It does, yes. Cancer sucks. And when a friend of yours or Family Member gets cancer, its really touching to have everyone in the family and their support group let them know that youre behind them. When we saw the adoption and the am of people that were participating in how meaningful these messages were to the men and women who received them, we approached the American Breast Cancer Foundation and donated our app for the month of october. For the month of october. Weve also programmed it so you can make a donation that would help jackie and his organization, the American Breast Cancer Foundation, touch the lives of women. Absolutely. Lets talk about the American Breast Cancer Foundation. Nonprofit. You help underinsured people that are affected by this, tonight you . Correct. Underinsured, uninsured, who need assistance. As you know, one out of eight women will be diagnosed with so we provide grants to those individuals regardless of age or gender, who need assistance and get mammograms and diagnostic testing and if they do are diagnosed with Breast Cancer, we try to assist them through that entire process. Thats awesome. Its an amaze thing what you do. I cant believe one in eight women. Thats a jarring statistic. And so youe underinsured people. But anyone can reach out to you. Anyone can reach out. Yes. Through our web site. Abcf. Org. And we have someone, bilingual taking applications every day. Absolutely. To line up with video fizz, to have a connection like this, to be able to have within the app to be able to donate v a connection like this is phenomenal. I think thats like a challenge . Yes. You dump water on someones head separate to make a donation. We want to do do is let you uplift someone and you see the videos, right . People get crazy creative and the people who receive them sometimes watch them even during treatment. And then right there you can make a donation. If you do so, you get a little i donated pink ribbon down on the bottom, so at the same time youre uplifting your friend and honoring them, youre helping patients in need. Youre sending the challenge. Theyll see it be like, i should donate. You can invite in the app. You can download, reco video, invite, donate and share socially or privately. If it ends up being really personal and you want to email it to them privately, you can. If you want to post it on facebook or twitter you can. We have some sports icons an personalities that are going to be starting to make videos here in the next week. Were excited for that to happen. Excellent. Very cool. Laura, its really exciting what youre doing. You mentioned to me that so many people are participating because i mean, when you know someone with cancer, you want to reach out and help in some way. A little gift of inspiration, right . Not everyone is techy, too, right . So you might want to do it and cant put it together. We just make it simple. You basically download it, decide who youre sending it to and then you invite people through a code so that can happen anywhere in the world. We i didnt tell jackie this yet. But we got a pinking of you video that came from australia. So we saw that yesterday. Twas upside down . It wasnt. Apparently this australian person lives in the United States and the people in australia did it for her and there were multiple videos. So there is no world boundaries. This is also no gender boundaries. Men get Breast Cancer, too. I dont think a lot of men understand that. So the American Breast Cancer Foundation, was a logical pick for us because they dont discriminate their awards based on age or gender. We love that about them. We have an educational piece male Breast Cancer. So we have had donations on behalf of individuals who have male Breast Cancer and we just had a woman in the office the other day whose son was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Wow. So she want to do get some information. And men arent getting mammograms. To be able to that much is really a miracle. I think its they think its a torn muscle. My goodness. A great thing youre doing. Thank you so much for being here. Love the app and thank you so much for your hard yes. Go to the pinking of you video. Com site and download. If there is somebody in your life, Family Member or friend, let them know youre pinking of them. Thank you. Thank you. Download the video fizz app at videofizz. Com. Learn more about the american Breast Cancer society at abc f. Org. Video fizz and abc f are both on facebook and twitter. And still to come on the morning blend, a home for the holidays. The local business making it blend. Blend. Stay with as a marine combat veteran, i understand the sacrifices our military makes. Our benefits are earned, and we rely on them. Politicians like joe heck should understand that. Narrator joe heck voted to shut down the federal government, risking Critical Services for nevada veterans. And during that shutdown, heck continued cashing his congressional paycheck. His military record deserves respect. But back in dc, joe heck is putting politics before nevada. And that doesnt work for me. Responsible for the content living in the digital age were accustomed to everything right at our fingertips. From ordering coffee on an app to shopping from the comfort of your couch. In had it comes to our money s really safe to bank online . Allied bank ceo and president diana morais, she shares why we should ditch the line and go online. Its great having you. Thank you so much appreciate you having us. The whole brick and mortar bank experience. I personally have not been inside a bank in years. I havent written a check in probably longer than that. Whats the difference between Online Banking and banking at right. So its pretty simple. Online bank like ally doesnt have branches. Therefore, were able to take that expense that were not using to keep the buildings up to date and translate that back into better rates for customers, lower fees, and leading digital capabilities. And so what we see with over a million and one customers at ally now is that that model really has been resonating with consumers. Absolut and mortar and the rent and having the sign thats illuminated. You save a lot of money there. Exactly. So then explain cause i think one thing that worries people about Online Banking is its not going to be able to fulfill all the needs i have of Online Banking. I know ever since the take a picture of your Check Technology came out, thats really blown up, hasnt it . It really has. You can virtually do almost everything with an online bank that you would do at a at ally is allow customers to send us cash, but quite frankly, most people dont want to do that anyway. So we have a full set of products and services. We match that with world class digital capabilities and our human component, which is our call center, which is open 365 days a year, 24 7. And so customers absolutely, they are in control. They get to do decide when and where they do their banking. To your p standing in the lines. So it really works for millions of people. Absolutely. Lets talk about the security cause i think a lot of people worry, the internet, oh, my goodness. Is it secure . What can we say about the security of Online Banking . Right. So all banks have the highest standard in place to protect customer information, protect their money. And ally is really no different. In fact, we believe that we go tremendous amount of security measures and protocols because keeping our customers money and safe is o top priority. Its a mandatory thing we must provide. So you should feel very confident banking online with a bank like ally. And today just happens to be national Online Banking day, which i have put on my calendar. How did this come about . Where did this come from . Right. So we named national day this time last year on columbus day really as a way to raise Consumer Awareness about the benefits of banking with an online bank. And we are choosing columbus day. Its a day when many banks are closed and really just to highlight that difference that were always here. And so were celebrating the Second Annual national Online Banking today and as part of our celebration, weve actually launched a new program, select so anybody can go on to ally. Com, see that great rate. Its 15month cd and its just another demonstration of why online banks are a great logical choice for consumers. Absolutely. Ive trusted ally with my last two cars, including my current one. Now i should trust them with my bank as well. Why having you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Really appreciate it. Discover the ease of managing your money instantly, dont scared. Great stuff online. For more information on branchless bank, the lines, be gone. Ally. Com. Go to the web site. Thanks. Here at 13 action news, we want all kids in las vegas to be able to stay warm this winter. So our annual coats for kids drive is underway. Once again this year our partner is tropical smoothie cafe. Please donate gently used or new childrens coats at any of their locations. To find one near you, go to smoothie. Com. A special thanks to the Salvation Army for distributing the coats to families in need and a big thanks to tropical smoothie cafe, a proud sponsor of action news and this community project. 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Get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month for one year when bundled with a qualifying home phone plan and autopay. Speed may not be available in your area. Call today. . . Holidays are a time of giving. And Walker Furniture is leading us into the season with their kickoff of the annual home for the holidays give away. 30 families or individuals in the county will be selected to furniture. Thats pretty amazing. Lets kick this off. Here to tell us how you can nominate someone in need, patti gerace, marketing director for Walker Furnitures. Great having you again. Thank you. That time of year. It is here already. Unbelievable. Lets discuss the kickoff for this program. For those who havent heard. Home for the holidays is a program that Walker Furniture has been doing, this is our 23rd years. And this year were supply families in need in the community, 30 of them, with an entire house full of furniture. And the kickoff starts now so that we can get the letters in. Last year we had over 2500 letters received. Wow. Huge need. Its a huge number. To narrow that down to 30 families, we want to make sure we help the ones that really truly need it. No question. You were mentioning there was a committee that helps and narrow down and choose the people they feel are most its a tough choice. They go, they read through thousands of letters, literally. Its helping hands of vegas valley. They are a preliminary committee. They have volunteers that go out and they verified the needs of the family. It really is a big help because we want to make sure that the family truly, truly need what we can play for them. The stories you hear, kids sleeping on the floor, there is no table, there is no chairs to do there is nothing. Its not like youre just coming in. Here is a couch, goodbye. Everything. Explain like the process of what ends up happening once a family is chosen. Once a family is chosen, we assess their needs and we supply furniture for every room in their home. We do a living room, a do you remember. We do a master bedroom and then we do for all the children in the home. It could be five. It could be ten. Weve had as many as ten in some families. Ten kids . We supplied beds for all of them. Wow. Were looking at some video here. So many moving stories, im sure. Yeah. Youve been involved in this for a while. Does anyone come to mind from last year . This will be my first year experiencing it. Last year we had a grandmother who took in her six great grandchildren. The youngest being was 2 1 2 to three years old. And it was amazing. She had a very little house, but she tried that furniture in and get beds for the kids. He was adorable. He just was so excited to have a bed to sleep on and a christmas tree. And all the things that we and toys. We have so many wonderful partners. You also are one of our wonderful