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I am just back from taping Letterman for tonight. I met Sanjaya, who is also a guest on tonight's show...so I consider my life now complete.
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Link to thisThere was seemingly nothing that could mar the idyllic setting yesterday as I watched my son's high school baseball game on a sparkling Spring day under a cloudless sky. On the field, it was one of the most remarkable baseball games I've ever seen: the final score was 28 to 23 -- 51 runs scored on 59 hits in nine innings -- more scoring than some major league teams see for weeks at a time -- hardly a pitchers' duel. My son was one of the starters, and yet, there it was in center field, looming over the action and the spectators and the setting: the massive gleaming flagpole with the giant American flag at half staff -- the same flag countless Americans saw at countless public gatherings this weekend. It was ordered so by the President as a public reminder of the great loss suffered by families we will probably never get to know. It made all of us who saw it feel sad and fortunate and blessed, all at the same time.
Discuss (8 comments) Email this | Link to thisToday I was assigned to act as Pete Williams’ proxy in an interview with Dennis Henigan for tonight's Nightly News. The interview focuses on the impact of current gun control laws on the sale of two firearms to Seung-Hui Cho, who had previously been treated for depression and had at least on one occasion been deemed a danger to himself in a court of law.
Dennis Henigan, from the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, explained that given the information released thus far, Cho would be considered an ineligible buyer under current federal gun control laws intended to keep guns out of the hands of mentally unstable individuals.
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Brian anchors the broadcast tonight from New York. Virginia Tech and Boris Yeltsin are the day's big stories, but in today's vlog Brian also previews a story you won't want to miss about social networking for the six-year-old set.
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Discuss (1 comments) Email this | Link to this”Turn OFF the computer, we’re late for soccer,” I called upstairs for the third time yesterday. It’s been like that in our house lately. When the computer is on, my children lose their hearing. What a reversal from times when parents used to fight to get their kids to stop playing baseball and come in for dinner or homework. Now, it can be a struggle to get them outside to play.
Discuss (1 comments) Email this | Link to thisTonight on Nightly News we're following-up a story that was breaking as we came on the air last night: the fatal crash of a Blue Angel's jet in South Carolina. By the time we go on tonight we expect to be able to report the name of the pilot who was killed. We're also hearing from additional eyewitnesses as investigators try and figure out what happened.
Like many reporters I've had a chance to fly with the Blue Angels as well as their Air Force counterparts the Thunderbirds, and even the Canadian Snowbirds. To a person I have always found members of these elite teams to be meticulous professionals, and proud ambassadors of their respective military branches. But there is no denying a fighter pilot bravado that makes them often downplay the inherit danger of what they do. What happened in Beaufort Saturday reminds us all. The fraternity of military precision acrobatic team members is a small one. They will take Saturday's accident hard. They will mourn the loss of a teammate, but will also learn all they can from this and get back into the air. I wish them well.
In addition to coverage of the Blue Angel's crash, we're in Blacksburg, Virginia tonight where emails, EBay purchases and a van are telling investigators a lot more about the shooter in the Virginia Tech massacre.
And on this Earth Day we're asking the question: is "green" a passing trend, or are Americans in this for the long haul?
I hope you'll join me this evening for NBC Nightly News.
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