. >> reporter: deena lives just a few houses down from the hield sburg border. >> i come a couple of days and pick these. >> reporter: her lawn used to look a lot of different. >> this used to be grass. >> reporter: lots and lots of grass. >> we don't have any grass anymore. >> reporter: the backyard is fake grass. the lawn mower gone. >> we gave it to gardener. everybody stops and looks and we get comments all the time. >> reporter: that can only be good for a business that specializes in giving yards a california make over. >> californians have a tendency to want to grow tropical stuff and make it look like hawaii. >> reporter: because the hawaiian look doesn't work in a drought. that nursery owner says what all this means is people are going to have to rework their minds on what is beautiful. >>> and involving a distracted mother and her 7-year-old boy. take a look. the car landed upside down on a playground slide on solano avenue. police say the driver veered off the road, over the sidewalk, through a cyclone fence then slid like a skateboard down an enbankment and slid down that

deena, you've been charged with -- we're going through the history and emotions of this. you've been charged with the somewhat dry challenge, speaking about the religious and intellectual references made these young ladies just gave us portions of. >> i always love the exciteing opportunity to be the guy that closes the evening down. i've killed more partyies than i can even think of. a couple of thoughts about these two addresses. first of all, we live in a time of a great -- even in my own lifetime our own lifetime decline of political oratory. what we have here are two wonderful examples of very different kinds of oratory. king is a great high style speaker. in many ways a lot of common with speakers like churchill and kennedy and a lot of high style rhetoric. lincoln is in many ways a plain style speaker. king is expansive and tells stories. lincoln really -- it's almost like reading an emily dickinson poem, very compressed. the thing about lincoln's speech i just love so much, it starts out almost like a shareholder's report. it's extremely dull at the beginning. he

deena: the events that happened two years ago gave me such faith in the running community and how strong we are. it made the running community a lot tighter that day and it is an honor to be a part of a sport that can create so much good in people's lives. the strength they have exhibited has been just phenomenal. the first responders and the people affected getting through this and inspiring a nation to move forward. their lives have changed. our lives have changed. we have to be aware of our surroundings. running is good for us. alix: we will celebrate that on monday. we are looking forward to your documentary. coming up next, it is early days but the cubs are in first in the n.l. central. chicago will need the bat of anthony rizzo to stay hot. ♪ alix: here are the top stories we are watching. time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people hits newsstands tomorrow. the law -- the selection will be celebrating five different covers. this is the 12th year time has released its annual top 100 list. for the first time ever, all six star wars movies will be released in dig

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