Its friday. You have to know about this. Coming up on the show, we have donny osmond. Hes talking about run for a cause. Its an event about knocking out Childhood Cancer. Absolutely. Great thing. First up this morning, last night, i am so tired im sleep deprived right now. Im so tired, too. I usually wake up at a certain time. I woke up 40 i have not showered since yesterday. I have not brushed my teeth. What i did is i got up im actually wait a second. Im wearing the same underwear from yesterday. T. M. I. i gargled and put my hair under water because heres why. I had adrenalin from last night. I couldnt sleep because last night were at the North Las Vegas ballet theater. Hey our choreography miss bernadette. Yes. Well, it was a big gala for the shawn really stepped up. Me and my car. Shawn and i look at him with his car. You showed up. There we are. I mean, that kind of sums it up. We had been working on a two person dance. By the way, it was so fun for me to work with miss bernadette. I took ballet starting when i was 5 years old. I havent been in ballet shoes for at least 10 years. I was hearing terms like oh, heree so yeah i was hearing terms i hadnt heard in a long time. I mean the number started with j. J. Doing like classic ballet and i decide to ruin everything. So its just ironic. Look at this. Our hand rehearsal really paid off. We never got that right in rehearsal and we got it right, right there look at shawn just work in weve seen enough. So the fun thing was, too, is that you can hear the kids screaming. We got some great reviews from the judges. They had it set up just like dancing with the stars so the students at the Ballet School critiqued us. These kids were tyras, they were tough yeah, i was scared. I thought we were going to get because there was a councilman there who danced before us and they kind of tore him apart. Us because youre in that blue they liked us. Whatever i lacked in dance, i made up for in tight clothing. By the way, our scoring was pretty good. We got 11 billion. It was such a good time. I had such a good time dancing with you honestly. It was raising money for the North Las Vegas ballet theater, phenomenal organization. Yeah, if you can, help them out, really theyre doing great work a sweetheart. We have a little bit of time left. I have to address this. This is about two days worth of political mail. Political show and tell. I blocked out my address. Theres one, theres two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12. This is where all of this stuff goes initially. There we go. Hold i have to show, though, this is why im showing this. You know what im thinking . This all costs so much money. It costs so much money. And it goes straight to the trash. I just want you to know, it goes straight to the trash. Or the recycle bin at my house. I do recycle. I do recycle. I dont want people to think im a monster. You have got to see this mailer. This is brilliant. Ok. What is it . Here we go. Here we go. Elected . Call us, we can get your home sold fast. A realtor that was from a realtor. Realtor. Thats funny. I am proud of that. Thats fantastic. The one piece of political mail, i might frame that. That was brilliant. They should follow up with another one from, you know, free plane tickets to canada. Ive seen like jobs stuff where people are like, you know, radio stations, television stations saying jobs. Craziness. Is it over yet, by the way . No. Not only that, its about to heat up because the debate is in Las Vegas Next wednesday. Great. What your weekend plans . Share your comments with us on our facebook and twitter pages. You can perhaps, youre using your shredder at home. We can read your comments live on the air. J. J. , over to you. Thanks, shawn happening today, this morning, vegas culture fest is under way and the two day event celebrates unity through diversity by way of Delicious Food and live music. And our first guest here, Kimberly Bailey tureaud. Shes the cofounder of culturefest and also the publisher of las vegas black image magazine and speaking of live music, kimberly, you brought a band with you today. Yes, we did. We bring it every year. This is our 11th year and were just so happy that everyone comes out from the community. And its all about us coming together as and we celebrate diversity with channel 13 and so many other people. And were just happy, j. J. , to be here. We have our wonderful band infusion and its going to be a multitude of cultural entertainment and food. So yes you have the best soul food, chinese food. Just everything. Mexican, latin, caribbean, so be sure to come out to the fremont food experience today from 11 00 a. M. Until midnight. So well have a great time. I love it. So many cultures under one roof. Las vegas, we are a very multicultural city. Im a native of las vegas. A lot of people dont realize it took a lot of different people to make vegas what it is today. My father was equal rights commissioner, bob bailey. At one time in the 1950s and 1960s, africanamericans c go through the front door of establishments. He was the first africanamerican on tv. He had his first show on tv. The bob bailey show. Talk about coming full circle. You are promoting this great event. It is a great one, ill tell you, j. J. Its going to be so much fun. I encourage everybody to come out. Theres dancing. We have like a dance on every corner because we have different d. J. S. You might have a little latin music. A little soul music and everyone is dancing and its just a feel public. I love it. I love it. I love music and i love dancing and so does my cohost shawn, i mean, clearly, but lets kick it off right now. Yeah. With this band, yes. What are you going to play for us today . Well start out with i love it. Lets do it. Take it away. Thank you. Thats fantastic, thank you thank you so much for being here. Kicks off. Its from 11 00 a. M. To midnight and its free to the public so why not go down, learn more by calling the number or visiting the website on your screen. You can find them, the festival that is, on facebook and twitter and still to come on the Morning Blend, donny osmond straps on his Running Shoes to benefit Childhood Cancer. Hes in studio with all the details. Youre watching the morning the university of phoenix is opening a first of its kind Innovation Center in downtown las vegas. Redflint provides visitors with a handson learning environment aiming to innovate companies and ignite careers. Thats right, ruth veloria is both of you. How are you . Doing great. Yeah. Great to be here. Redflint is right up my alley. Im a technology guy. I am a geek. I am a geek. Alex trebek would call me a loser. Thats ok. Losers are the richest people on this earth. Ill take it. Ill tell you. Redflint as really taking all of the best of technology and brought it into one place. Absolutely. Were so excited. We had our v. I. P. Grand opening last night. We have our official opening to the p and we brought in some of the technologies that well have in place. Theres many more we can talk about and ruth will talk about what were doing for entrepreneurs. Were so excited. We did ribbon cutting. Had a couple hundred people show up and see and play with everything. This is so exciting. Im so glad you chose las vegas for this. Las vegas is the hub of innovation and the mayor has a Great Initiative around making las vegas an Innovation Hub and loves the fact that were right las vegas area. Absolutely. Some people call this stuff toys, by the way, theyre toys maybe to some. These are really where our future is going. You know, it starts at gaming and toys, applications for health care, the applications for telemedicine, the applications for doing brain surgery are all based on these types of technologies that initially everybody sees them as toys but theyre much more sophisticated than that. Talk about sophisticated toys, what are you holding . Well, the simplest version of what we actual Virtual Reality is Google Cardboard and basically, it comes in as a flat cardboard panel, you assemble it up and you can take your phone and basically, you just slip your phone into this case, do not do this with the note 7, by the way. And then and then basically, you immerse yourself in a virtual world. There are games. Theres educational modules and basically, its the cheapest way to get yourself immersed into that virtual world. It really is incredible and the price point of entry is 10 bucks. Which is awesome. Phenomenal. You would have a certain app, im not quite as Technology Savvy but i love learning. You would have a certain app running. Right. So you download these you have an app running. Oh my gosh, where am i . Youre looking down when youre looking up. When youre looking up, youre immersed in a world. How cool would it be to have a Virtual Reality map of las vegas in front of you . Well, this one here this whereas, this is the chi entry. This is like where the future is going. This is the microsoft hollow lens so this is augmented reality. And basically, its like a headsup display that you would have as a fighter pilot. You put these on and you launch you actually can go and do a variety of things but what weve done at redflint is we have a variety of education applications and we send you to rome. You put these on and basically, you are a visitor with a bufrm of other people in rome. Cafes and have coffee and go to the museums. Put it on, shawn, come on. I dont know if it will fit on my head. I stood in line at the vatican for hours. I like this idea. The difference with the Virtual Reality, sort of immersed. Here augmented you have a better view. You are essentially seeing a headsup display that could be all around you. Were not wearing this today. This is leading, leading edge technology. Lets say theres a sale going on at a coffee shop, it will pop up. It will pop up or if you wow, what car is that . It puts a popup next to it. Thats the brand new tesla. This is top of the line in technology. Absolutely. Like remember the pokemon craze a couple of months ago. People went nuts. This is a much more serious application for education. Who is that guy next to you . This guy here is redflint 2, our telepresence robot and basically, this is an application where you say youre accident. Youre in the hospital and youre home recovering and dont want to miss school. You send the robot to the school and the robot, you control the robot remotely from your home and it will go around and you control it. So is this your facility . This is our beautiful redflint facility. Wow. Look at how modern it is. Its beautiful. Neat. Im glad we get to see the room. Is the robot being controlled by somebody Walking Around and doing their thing. This is actually in use in a lot of places. Absolutely. They use it for telemedicine and a ruth, all of this stuff is really cool. Lets get back into redflint. What does that offer other than really cool stuff . I mean, the platform is really three things. Education. Its incubating new businesses and we actually have an official accelerator. Accelerators are groups of companies coming together in a 13week period. Basically compressed the launch of a new business from what might take 24 months to 90 days so we actually have seven accelerator working on building their new business. Thats what were doing for business and entrepreneurship in las vegas. Imagine the job creation from that. Its super exciting. We had a gal on wednesday with the cheer boxes. What a neat thing for small businesses. What a great opportunity. Its true. Exactly. So the incubation services, people with an idea about a new business can come in, take a workshop. How to start a new business. Fundamentals of a new business. We have a really cool board game called lean startup. Hours and learn all the principles. How to start up your new business and network with people like you who are also trying to start up a business. Get mentoring from your faculty and before you know it, youre on your way to launching the next thing. Exposed to the newest technology. You figure by your new business, how can you integrate the new technologies for tomorrow . Coming fast. Exactly. Youre opening up officially, officially tomorrow and Community Event going on. Yes. Tomorrow is the opening event. Visitors, we will have Google Cardboard for everybody. Awesome. Everybody can play. These two are for you. Thanks. There it is. Its cardboard. Thank you. Thank you so much, thank you guys for sharing. This is so exciting. In our backyard, too. Open to the public tomorrow in downtown las vegas, fourth street. You want to learn more. You head to the website on your screen. You can also find them on facebook and twitter. Im goingig this is a roller coaster, oh my goodness. Youre in a roller coaster and still getting my note in. Ill get there. Up next on the Morning Blend, how you can join donny osmond tomorrow morning and step up for Childhood Cancer. I love the fact that the worlds nerdiness are catching up to me. Are you there . Im Catherine Cortez masto and i approve this message. Theyre bringing drugs, theyre bringing crime, theyre rapists. Narrator and joe heck says i have high hopes well see donald trump become president. I dont know what i said, aah. Narrator heck says he completely supports trump. I would bomb the [bleep] out of them. Narrator and heck . Reporter you trust him having his finger on the Nuclear Button . Heck i do. Reporter why do you say that . Wrong for nevada. For over 20 years, the Childhood Cancer foundation has been going the extra mile for children with life threatening or critical illnesses. Now its your turn to go the extra mail for them. Thats right, the champions run for life is tomorrow at town square and here with all the details is the runs donny osmond. Go over here. How are you doing, buddy . How are you doing . Its friday now, the other man, jeff gordon who, of course, is the president and c. E. O. Of the foundation. Hi, guys. How are you . Good to be here. Youre going to do your show tonight at 7 30 over at flamingo. Ill be there first thing in the morning and running like to get rid of this cancer. Its horrific and this is my seventh year. Can you believe its seven years already . Seven years and i took over for danny ganz when i lost him. Sad loss. And amazing man to start this. Its an honor to be a part of this for seven years. Absolutely. You know what ive been seeing in the news lately is people are pretty fed up at the little amount and tiny amount that goes to pediatric cancer research. It seems as though this missio this goal that you have is building up a lot of steam. It is. It absolutely is. And, you know, medical science through the years, shawn has done an amazing job. When i started doing this almost to 20 years ago, you know, the cure rates for leukemia which is the most popular pediatric cancer that we see out there. Define popular. Popular, meaning it affects more children than most. Of course. There was a 53 cure rate at no kidding medical science is doing great in that one area and almost declared victory on it so it helps us at the nevada Childhood Cancer foundation at least give that hope that, hey, there is a light at the end of this tunnel. Its going to be a rough journey. We take them by the hands immediately within the first diagnosis and make sure theyre ok emotionally and educationally and psychologically and take them by the hand. And for life that donny hosted for us and the kids look forward to because they get to run with donny. Last night, after the show, we have a meet and greet. And theres these group of people that have flown in from the east coast. I mean, this thing is getting biger and bigger and bigger. And the lady turned to me and said im going to make sure im in the back of the crowd. I said why . Because im going to cry. Its that emotional. That are suffering so much. Yet, we give them hope in the last run, the silent run. I started crying. Its the most beautiful event that takes place every year. Come on out. Come on out and be a part of it. It sounds like its a lot of fun and thats the point of it, too, is to bring a little bit of joy to these children, you know, who many of which are going through something pretty darn heavy in their families. Last year, you spoke about a young girl named danielle. You have friends now. Ive known the watched them go through all of this and some of them make it through. Some we have lost, unfortunately. And we do a memorial run for them at the very, very end. Its so it tugs at the heartstrings. It really does. Its a wonderful event. And its a celebration of their lives. And to help get rid of the cancer. Lets get people into the event. Registration ends today, right . It is today over at town square right outside of whole foods right there. And get their shirts and bibs and everything. Thats nice. They dont have to come quite as early tomorrow morning. Yeah. Be there. Do a show late at night. Yeah. Are you done . That opens at 10 00 today and if they dont get there today over at town square, they can come to the race and registration at 6 30 and our first race, one mile fun run starts at 7 30 tomorrow morning and the 5k starts at 8 00 and after talking about, the culmination of the whole day is where we do our champions victory lap and donny does a victory lap with each one of these kids and i cant tell you how much they look forward to that. And the group and the fans stand around and give the kids high fives. Thats the best part about it. Thats a moment in time you dont want to miss. Not at all. Its just great. Theyre running around and people giving them high fives. Smile on their faces says it all right there at that moment. Its a great way to raise money for the foundation. But you do many things all throughout the year for children including this camp cartwheel that i know have you been there . I havent. You got to go. You have to go to this place. Activities that they have for these kids, its just beautiful. I mean, the place is huge. And i never got on the lake. Next time i go, i have to get on the lake. Well do that. You know, its only 45 minutes out of town and best kept secret in nevada. Kids come up here and we have two weeks of just away from parents, doctors, nurses, although we have the medical shed that we can do