how are you doing? pretty good. welcome. thank you. we re very happy to have a chance to talk to you today. um, can you tell me a little bit about your childhood? i m interested because it seems like your independent, fighting spirit seemed to emerge early. perhaps earlier than for most. yes. i spent part of my childhood in georgia, in the middle part of georgia. however, i was born in jacksonville, florida, and i think from age probably 3 to 8 was spent in georgia, wattela, georgia, which is considered middle georgia and not that far from augusta, georgia. after that, i went to with my family to st. augustine, florida, and that s where i came of age as a teenager. i came by my activism very early. i always had sort of an innate sense of what was right and what was wrong, and i don t know exactly where i got that from, but the idea of segregation and things that white people could do and black people could not do, i understood very early, maybe as early as 7, 8 year
diverted. back to you. let s check in with doug with severe thunderstorms. it s daily this time of year. that s why we are in red mode here. we have severe thunderstorm warnings. this is down to the south. new storm including rappahannock county and fauquier county. you can see a warning in frederick, loudoun county, fairfax county as well as prince williams. now, take a look, these are the storms that we re watching. these are the strongest to the north. very strong winds and we have chopper 4 up over montgomery county and, wow, look at that picture here. a very ominous picture of the showers and storms moving in. you can see the very dark clouds at the top of your screen. those are the clouds that do not have rain. the lighter clouds is where the rain is. you can see the very low cloud hanging there. it s a result of the rain cooling the air and then lifting it back up as the warm goes ahead of it. the storms move through the night tonight. let s zoom in and do a couple
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prince in 15 years but still stands to inherit millions. miss my brother because my brother was everything in the world to me. alfred shared these personal fami photos with e.t. that s him with his mom and his younger siblings, prince and tyka. together or sing together? in my mother s ho the basement, there was a piano. and she says, alfred, go down there and play your i go down there and hit a note and prince would come down there and do it faster than me and do it better. fr young kid, he was always good. yeah. that s fantastic. yeah. he was a genius. today is a of a milestone for alfred jackson. he is meeting with his brothers and sisters to start discussing what will happen to prince s else tat and this will be the first time he s seen any of them since prince died. you think he knows that you loved hi yeah, he knows. he knows. god knows it now. yes, indeed. superstar tributes to prince continue. last night beyonce lit the stage purple as her so