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Follow me along. We would set it up. They would get up and play music. A crowd would gather. I would make a speech. Sometimes i would play the trombone or washboard. And then we would go to the next place. It was sort of a throwback to a campaign from 50 or 60 years ago. So i walked across the state 1,000 miles. Spent the night every night with someone in their homes. I went home on weekends. Usually saturday and sunday night. Then i would go right back to the same place. People would give me wa...

It was a levi shirt that they made right there in that factory. I had to think about what am i going to wear . You dont walk across the state in a blue suit. I had this red and black plaid shirt in my closet. I went to the Friedman Army surplus and bought a dozen more. I wouldnt want to wear the same one every day. Then as i walked across the state i auctioned them off to raise money for the campaign. I knew i was doing better by the time i got to middle tennessee around nashville, one shirt wen...

Staff would say put your shirt on and go back out and walk with people. So even today we have an annual mule day parade, the first saturday of the year in columbia, tennessee. There might be 100,000 people there. I wear my red and black shirt and walk in the parade. The rule of thumb is walk in parades. If its the mule day parade, walk in the front. It affected everything about my political career. I dont think i would have been elected without it. Because it gave me a personality or a story tha...

Trombone slide froze. So i just took off walking. I think my parents were probably pretty embarrassed. They raised me to be a respectable young man. I was standing on their porch announcing i was going to walk 1,000 miles across tennessee. I would rye to shake 1,000 hands a day. Usually we would plan ahead. Maybe i would stop and have lunch with certain people. By late afternoon, particularly as the weather got better, i would get to a town. And i would have a family to stay with. It might be th...

With and looking for people to say things he could take offense to. In the managers words, we dismissed him. Walter perez is in the satellite sender and both victims were involved in relationships with people from this area. Tv news a Small Business and from the Delaware Valley to virginia and across the country, many people are mourning this hideous crime. They were living out their dreams as tv journalists. Im Allison Parker now photo journalist, adam ward and 24yearold reporter, Allison Parke...

Four trading sessions with yesterdays strong gains. Now the major u. S. Averages all turned positive for the week. The nasdaq now positive for the year. Check this out. The dow and nasdaq are now on pace for their best week in a month and a half. Stocks are now out of correction territory sitting less than 10 from record highs from mondays intraday low. The dow is now up 8 . If you had caught it at the bottom this would be a great week for you. The s p has risen nearly 7 . The nasdaq is 12 highe...

Tropical storm harvey keeps pounding texas and even though it is heading slowly back to the gulf of mexico over 25 inches of rain had fallen in galveston and houston. The flooding could get worse as it keeps raining and the army corps of engineers began releasing water from the reservoirs this morning and that is adding to the water that has already turned streets into rivers. Fema administrator brock long has almost 5000 female employees helping the storm victims fema employees helping the stor...

Excessive heat warning. Looking at the shade of orange, that is a heat advisory for the bayside communities as well as portions of the north bay, sonoma, and very widespread. With that said we take a look at these shades of orange, a reminder to stay hydrated and out of the sun if you can. Thankfully a lot of people were able to escape the heat by staying indoors but today folks are back to work and some of us have to be outdoors, construction workers and postal carriers. Just take it easy. The ...

Next heat wave ends. Lonny rivera has been out in the heat all day, but first, lets check in with drew tuma to see if any records were set. Today, no records were set. They were safe, but that didnt stop temperatures from soring into the triple digits inland. It was hot. Highs today, 108 in fairfield. 103 in gilroy. 106 in choef loverdale. The only place it wasnt hot, the coastline in the 60s. Changes are coming. The fog, going t expansive tomorrow morning to help cool us off. By midday tomorrow...

Today is monday. I didnt prepare at all. Areporter alana lopez admits se didnt wear sun screen. Its nice to be inside for the air conditioner. Reporter they work in rotations, but the guys that clean the cars are the real troopers around here. I give them props. Yo i dont know how they do it. I dont personally do well with the heat. They work so hard. And i want to give them the bigger tip. Reporter some say the heat is more bearable under a shady tree. The breeze out here is so nice, it makes i...