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Chris Jarman, from 98.1 The Max, passed away Tuesday night. Author: Local 24 Staff (Local 24) Published: 10:38 PM CST December 15, 2020 Updated: 12:50 PM CST December 16, 2020 MEMPHIS, Tenn — A Memphis radio voice has been silenced. Chris Jarman with 98.1 The Max died Tuesday. He was a graduate of West Memphis High School in 1989 and was a part of the well known "Drake and Zeke" show before coming to Memphis. During his many years on Memphis radio, Jarman, who was also known as The Jar, was very involved in fundraising for the Ronald McDonald House. Wednesday morning 98.1 the MAX made the announcement of his passing on air.

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he didn't try to deliver some grand national message. it was just an old-fashioned commencement address directed to the children, and they soaked in every word of it. >> and we know also part of the president's visit was to meet with flood victims. despite the joy that we are seeing at this graduation ceremony, there's been certainly some heartache in your state with the epic flooding there. tell me a little bit about the president meeting with those victims. may mayor, are you still there? i believe we've lost that. we apologize we lost the audio connection to the mayor of memphis, a.c. wharton, but you heard there he felt the president spoke directly to the kids. it was not about a grand national speech as the mayor of memphis put it. it was about connecting with these kids who really have turned their lives around and improved the graduation rate tremendously at that school. well, caught on tape, a horrifying moment as a young boy is hit by a car. the child is okay, but police are looking for the driver.

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significant successes. we know that not just from press releases, but from al qaeda itself. a number of very senior al qaeda leaders, both al qaeda and also pakistani taliban, have come out in the last few years and have honestly said we are hard up for cash right now. in some cases we have bombers that are ready to carry out suicide missions and we don't have the cash to pay for the vehicles and the explosives. please help us. clearly, we have made some significant progress in that regard. al qaeda wouldn't be complaining so publicly if it wasn't the case. >> evan coleman, nbc news terrorism analyst. >> thank you. chuck e. cheese is known as a place for children to have fun and play games. but listen to this, one mom is now suing that restaurant chain for, get this, $5 million claiming that the games encourage kids to gamble. it is today's "news nation" gut check. but first, president obama gis the commencement address for seniors at a memphis high school. up next, what students at the

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we have some breaking news to report on "news nation." this out of miami. authorities are investigating a suspicious van at the miami international airport. police say a bomb dog alerted authorities to something inside the van near the southeast gate. a robot is standing by the van right now. you see this video coming in. we'll certainly continue to watch this breaking news story and bring you any information we receive. and developing now also out of florida, a south florida imam and his two sons are in court right now accused of aiding terrorists. the three men are charged with sending at least $50,000 to the taliban which may have been used to buy guns and fund a school for militants. the indictment also named three more suspects who are still at large in pakistan. nbc's kerry sanders is live outside the courthouse in miami. kerry, what can you tell us about what's happening inside?

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>> nbc's nick bogart is live for us in chicago. nick, i lived in chicago for ten years. the problems there are vast, like so many other cities that are facing a downward spiral as a result of the recession but the headline in one of the paper said meet the new boss referring to rom emanuel but he's got a big plate to fill. >> he absolutely does. what you heard in that snippet was rahm emanuel laying out his four priorities, schools, improving the situation regarding crime, reforming the city budget process, and creating jobs. he offered very few specifics other than saying he has new police and school superintendent and saying he'd take advantage of newly granted power to lengthen the school day and school year. it was a real who's who of the national government as well as city and state politicians including joe biden and his wife for this midday ceremony at a downtown park, millennium park, which is one of the crown jewels of richard m. daley's legacy of mayor. emanuel spoke affectionately of the mayor for quite some time.

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the administration said we won't be there that long. >> carol, thank you. here's a rundown of some of the stories we're covering over the next hour. first, small business owners hurt by the flooding, will they anticipate long-term pain? i'll talk to a restaurant owner in mississippi coming up. think manufacturing is dead in america? think again. making cars in the south. then we take a boat ride to survey the incredible glad damage in one small town. also a memphis high school win ace presidential visit. i'll be talking to a graduating senior. and a 10-year-old caught with a bomb strapped to his body talks about being forced to be a suicide bomber. for pain?

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what we call a sand boil, looking like boiling water or boiling mud. that's where you can lose the bottom of the levee, all of a sudden it washes out and you have a surge of water coming into this floodplain. so far army corps -- they're finding sand boils but so far taking care of them. >> concrete or steel levees better? yes, no, doesn't make a difference? >> i don't know how you make that much concrete. these levee, 100 feet here, 20, 30 feet this way. cubic yards of concrete would be enormous. >> i grew up in louisiana. i thought everybody had levees. >> doesn't everyone know? not everybody, no. >> all right. thank you, chad. >> we appreciate it. >> seniors at a memphis high school getting a star speaker at their graduation, president of the united states. i'll talk with the principle and senior at this race to the top, winning school. that's next.

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infrastructure, all of the way from educational programs as the congresswoman spoke about to family structure and all of the way to the responsibilities in the community. i have spoken to church tonight in memphis i raised this very issue about what is going on in the schools. why are the churches? where are the disc jockeys that glorify and make it bold to have this kinds of ir responsibility? i think we have to deal with this as a crisis where yes, we need government to do more but we need to do more in our community, families, parents, churches, everyone has to be involved just the blame game is not going to solve the problem. >> amen to that. here's the other statistic. you and i talked about it before. i heard you lecture about this at your own church uptown. they have a social breakdown in the minority community in 2009. two out of every three black

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rate. >> we have national network in memphis tonight barbara lee chairwoman of the congressional black caucus author most recently of renegade for peace and justice. congresswoman lee, i know that -- welcome first of all both of you. >> glad to be with you. >> i am the former chair. >> i should have updated that. >> thank you, though. >> geraldo let me also say her book went paper back. you should get it. >> all right. we get it. liberals don't buy books. you have to get on board. you talk about getting pregnant yourself at the age of 16. that one resulted in a miscarria miscarriage. why did you get pregnant? did you know anything about birth control or did you not care? >> it wasn't that i did not care or know anything about birth control.