>> move pretty quick. >> daniel: look at emmett's corner. a right hand to the body and starting the combination. he has already started the cause bruises on the body. left hook. >> jon: emmett is going high with a kick. about 2 minutes have gone by in round 1 of five. how might that change the approach? stephens has headlined several times for the ufc. >> daniel: both of these guys want to finish. i am pretty confident that this one might go five rounds. >> jon: will up there, they were guaranteeing it.

>> daniel: >> daniel: once agaie stephens always goes for the body first. >> jon: nice combination by stephens. i met misses with the right hand. >> daniel: that body shot is set up. really trying to get off. >> jon: emmett misses with the right hand. >> daniel: follows up with the left. >> jon: emmett has never been finished. >> daniel: just noticed, he's going to start coming. >> jon: that right hook certainly got emmett's attention.

a little bounce on the forehead for emmett. >> daniel: how hard can jeremy stephens get? he always gets those types of reactions from his opponents. >> jon: growing up, he was an amateur at 16. it was training full-time by 18 years old. oh, counterweight for emmett and he gets the knockdown! he surprises himself and puts stephens on his butt. about a minute and round 1. >> daniel: you can't get overzealous with either of these guys. they are just too powerful. he has that great guillotine choke. >> jon: stephens back to his feet. might be going right back down.

>> daniel: jeremy stephens, right foot forward. >> jon: very good footwork out of josh emmett. stephens continues to advance down the stretch. nicely placed leg kick by emmett. >> daniel: josh emmett is so confident and so comfortable in his skills. >> jon: the start of round 2, and 30 seconds.

>> daniel: jeremy stephens gets a little zealous here, throwing the back uppercut. you cannot throw a back uppercut, it leaves you to open. right there, if he blocks it, boom, returns with a big right hand. stephens down in a close round. a win for josh emmett with the knockdown. >> jon: the confidence of josh emmett -- with a reputation like jeremy stephens, to be that confident? josh emmett is doing that. >> daniel: and he's fighting well because of it. >> jon: one of the best corner men in the game, the message for jeremy stephens, don't fake.

don't get desperate. >> daniel: the only reason he has knockdowns was because you overextended yourself. take your time. it will come. >> jon: coming up next, don't miss the recap of all the action in orlando with our post flight show over on fs1. you can also stream it live on fox sports go. stephens advancing here. emmett with the early lead with strikes landed. >> daniel: josh emmett does a good job of actually moving, taking punches from the outside. he will fake right and go to the left hand. it's a very tricky set of skills

he has, because he's so powerful. he's banking on one of them landing. >> jon: oh, emmett goes down, jeremy stephens is going to close the show! oh, no. emmett drops, jeremy stephens! jeremy stephens with a win tonight! >> daniel: jeremy stephens shut the lights out! once again, it takes one shot to take the game from both of these guys. jeremy stephens lands his shot. over and over. if you get something off, he will put the opponent to sleep. josh emmett, at the first

decision, jeremy stephens took the chance. >> jon: jeremy stephens wife, who jeremy says has made all the sacrifices, no one has believed in him and his martial arts more. this is sponsored by metropcs, covering 99% of people in the u.s., bringing knockout coverage closer to your hands. >> daniel: there it goes again, boom. left hook. left hook on the chase, emmett drops. when josh emmett is on the ground, let's see if it's illegal here. i mean, it is hard to see from that angle, but he finishes with them big elbow. look, boom. once he goes for the finish, emmett goes to his knees. it looks like jeremy stephens throws a knee. i don't think it landed.

i don't think it landed. it may have landed a little bit, the shin and hit the knee it looks like the knee missed, jeremy goes in and finishes this fight. just nasty jeremy stephens fashion. unbelievable performance by "little he then." >> jon: great for stephens. we will talk to them right after this, "ufc on fox".

[ice rustling] missy elliot: ♪get ur freak on ♪ morgan freeman: new mountain dew ice. a clear, refreshing lemon-lime dew. >> jon: back and sign the amway center in orlando, where they are all still standing for jeremy stephens, one final time tonight. here is bruce buffer. >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the referee called a stop to this contest in round number 2. declaring the winner by knockout, jeremy "little heathen" stephens! >> jon: orlando, we saved the

best for last tonight. jeremy "little heathen" stephens. congratulations. >> orlando, it's time to party! >> jon: 28 ufc fights, you've never looked better. biggest, coming against one of the best in the world. >> now we know who is the hardest 145 now. no disrespect, josh put me down on my butt but you cannot break me, i am unbreakable, baby! that's what's up, i've had a lot of ups and downs in my career. never give up! >> jon: we will take a look at the finishing sequence. and of course the left hand that ultimately put him down. you are able to finish and from there. your thoughts? >> emmett was tough, doing really good. good movement. i don't know, we were swinging.

the dude swings -- i know he comes from a great camp. no disrespect, i did thing a -- i didn't say a bad thing about his camp. we are always going to be top competitors. we came here to give you guys a show. >> jon: i know you have fought the champion max holloway before. you've never been closer to a ufc title in your career. your thoughts on what the rest of 28 he may for you? >> dana, give me my time to shine? please, give it to me. we do it for the company, baby. i always win on the show. they can run, but they can't hide. >> jon: no doubt about it. go enjoy it. >> thank you, orlando. i'm coming home tomorrow. >> jon: the best winner, jeremy stephens. great performance by jeremy stephens. >> daniel: i have to admit, when he knocked down josh

emmett, it looked as though a couple of the elbows landed on the back of the head on the finish. watch right here. i'm not trying to rain on his parade. as he's going to finish, i understand you are in the moment. watch the elbow. boom. that one lands behind the head. that one lands behind the head. and then, i know it wasn't a hard strike but it looks like the knee was illegal. but it is on the referee to catch this, i think. it's on the official. the official did not get it. it did look like there were a couple elbows. >> jon: and an illegal knee. >> jon: hard to take any shine off of the 28 time ufc champion

with his knockout career. for daniel cormier, i am john annex. we now send it back to the desk. i am jon anik. take it away. >> we went from a thrilling, exciting finish to a now controversial finish. was it an illegal need? as d.c. pointed out, he said that's on the referee to call. did you think, even though he is your teammate, that that was an illegal knee? >> it's the judges called to do it. he didn't call it because i don't think it landed. i think it went past his head. maybe on the way down, it might have touched the back of his head but i don't think that was an illegal knee. if you would have landed it, yes, it would've been illegal. >> when you are in the moment, you sometimes get carried away.

what we see on the replay, it looks to me like the knee did not connect. officials are saying that it did. still, the fight continues. if josh emmett got knocked out, there for, there is no argument. jeremy stephens is the winner. >> i don't see what people are arguing about right now. i just don't. >> everybody needs to look at this replay. they have the new unified rules. but there's no replay. we can see it at home but if you think it's illegal or not, it doesn't matter. they can't change it. the referee inside the ring decided not to call it. i think we should be allowed to have replay. >> i don't know why they don't use it and let the judges see the scorecard. the rules are, they stop to be keyed up perfectly. i think there's time for that. the elbows could've been partially illegal. the knee, he missed. but that's the ref's job keep that from happening.

>> the elbows were definitely illegal. that looked to me like it didn't connect. josh emmett's head did not react to a blow. that thoroughly connected, that was illegal. beautiful finish. absolutely fantastic. two elbows to the face josh emmett, i told you there was going to be a knockout. i guaranteed there was going to be a knockout. pay me my money. >> one of these guys was going to get hurt. come on. >> look, you don't know how every second is going to play out. there were still 3:30 minutes left in that round. it looked like it was going to be finished one way or another, in favor of jeremy stephens. >> it looked like josh emmett was getting a little too comfortable. he was going back down and just a second, he was rushing him. wow, that's dangerous. he paid the price. >> he had been working with him

for so long. he knows he has to calm jeremy down sometimes. jeremy wants to force things and so he calmed them down and said yo, stay patient. get the bigger shot. >> watch the head. all don, here, hold on. >> he's not stopping it. he continues. >> watch the head. >> is not jeremy's job to stop in the middle of finishing somebody. his job is to finish the person. it's the refs job to say hey, not that one. i don't think there's anything wrong there, personally. >> big picture, what does this mean? >> look at how impressive that victory was. impressive knockout. 28 fights within the ufc. give this man a title!

>> we will have a full breakdown in the post show over on a fast one. next week, the ufc's loaded 2018 schedule, women's fighter with an eye on making history herself. >> when you talk about chris cyborg, you talk about power and is true is form. >> good lord! >> she isn't worried about her opponents counter attack. >> fantastic striking ability. >> she isn't worried about her opponents power. >> she is scary. she hasn't lost a fight since 2005. because one of the most dominant champions the ufc has ever seen. when you talk about cris cyborg, you know this fight is going to be crazy. >> for a complete recap of tonight's action right here on fox, head over to fs1 for the ufc fight night post show. you're late local news coming up

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kind of the weather that makes you just want to stay indoors this weekend. >> while we're not in the clear just yet, more rain moving through our area. but the good news is, there is some light at the end of the the tunnel. it can't come soon enough. >> not soon enough. >> thanks for join us. i'm dawn timmeney. >> i'm joyce evans. just nasty weather out there but there is a trade off. monica, we're talking about a buff average temperatures as the rain moves out? >> yeah, but year not able to enjoy it because rain throughout most of our saturday. kind of on and offspring kell here and there and then as we head into sunday we're looking at heavier rainfall right now when it comes to on and off rain it's on for some of us. you can see all the way up into the upper dublin area, back through philadelphia and then down all the way into pitts grove south jersey we've got scattered shower activity. it's just another round. now it is light but take look at this. as we expand this map back, i want to you see what's to our west, and building into the area. look at this big swath of at

times very heavy rain that will be moving through late tonight and as we head into the early morning hours of our sunday. we are expecting sunday to not be all rain all day it does seem to move as we head to two, 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon. but when this is all said and done, some of could you say see near an inch of rain i'll let you know who is expecting the highest accumulations in the full forecast and also what to expect as we head into monday it looks like it will be more sunny by then, guys. >> sounds good, thank you moni monica. happening now, people in south philadelphia in disbelief a driver barrels into more than a dozen parked cars leaving behind a mountain of damage. that man is now in custody thanks to several people who jumped in to action. fox 29's brad sattin caught up with the men who held down that driver until police arrived. brad? >> reporter: yeah, dawn. you'll hear from them momentarily. this guy slammed into 15 cars it all came to a crashing end at the energy this corner where we're standing here at third and porter. in fact, behind me here, this is

the very last car he hit. you can see the damage he left behind. and this is where neighbors then jumped in and took control. >> my god! >> reporter: unbelievable video. >> somebody get that bleep out of that car! >> reporter: blue pick up engine revved barreling down south third street late friday night slamming into one car after the next. a neighbor looked outside, grabbed her cell phone and started recording. >> it was something like a monster truck going over like one side of his truck just going over every parked car. >> reporter: at the end of the block, the corner of third and porter, the pick up after one final collision may have stalled. neighbor mike magee caught up to it. >> i opened up the driver's side door. dragged him out of the car. >> reporter: two other men then assisted. you can see the driver who police have identified as 43-year-old james keyser face down in the white sneakers. >> he resist add little bit. we were able to get him down to

the ground and secure him until the police came. >> reporter: 15 cars were hit sideswiped, some pushed on to the sidewalk. others potentially totaled. side view mirror after mirror ripped off. debris everywhere. i heard first hit was actually my car he hit. >> reporter: zac ran to the corner and hemmed restrain the driver. >> he kept just saying let me go, let me go. we weren't letting him go. definitely seemed to be out of it. in shock or under the influence of some sort. >> reporter: arrested for dui and hospitalized. two people who came to the door of his home said he was okay but declined to comment further. a scary couple of minutes. neighbors like brian finding his car damaged on the sidewalk but he's actually relieved. >> i'm happy that nobody got hurt. >> reporter: or worse. >> absolutely could have killed somebody. there's kids out here playing an hour earlier. all the kids just went in. like i said it just turned 10:0. nan thank god nobody was hurt or killed. it could have been a very very bad situation.

>> reporter: yeah, it sure could have been. this one of the car still sits here most have since been towed away. neighbors trying to deal with insurance issues and some of them having a few problems including one guy who says that his girlfriend is eight and a half months pregnant. right now as a result of this, they have no car. dawn? >> not good. all right, brad, thank you. in wilmington, two people are facing charges in the death avenue 15 month old baby. police have charged 37-year-old lavar harris and 22-year-old tam mick wright. she's not pictured here. police were called to the hospital on february 17th for the death of a child. investigators learned the child's mother left the baby in the custody harris and wright. the child's death ruled a homicide by blunt force trauma. harris and wright arrest add few days later and charged by murder by abuse or neglect in the first degree. young man is in the hospital recovering tonight after he was shot in the head in the frankford section of philadelphia. this happened this afternoon just before 3:00 on the 1700 block of scatter good street.

19-year-old man was found by police at the scene. he was taken to the hospital where he is in stable condition tonight. no arrests have been made. if you know anything police would love to hear from you. developing to night in the florida school shooting, a new report says several broward county deputies waited outside marjory stoneman douglas high school instead of rushing in as a 19-year-old killer stalked the halls. the allegation comes just two days after the school resource officer resigned. police say security footage showed deputy scott peterson failed to go into the building during the shooting. 17 innocent lives lost when 19-year-old nikolas cruz opened fire at his former high school. senior brandon huff says he could hear gunshots from outside. when he got near the freshmen building he saw peterson standing there pointing a gun at the building but never moved. >> despicable. you didn't do your job. you were trained for this.

you were armed. you had a bullet proof vest you were pro decked more than anybody else who died hook lost their lives and you did nothing. you froze. you got scared. you know, you did nothing at all. you could have saved a lot of lives. >> peterson resigned after he was suspended without pay pending an internal investigation. the broward county sheriff says his office will investigate the additional claims that two more deputies did not enter the high school. meantime in orlando, survivors of the pulse nightclub shoot log have soon have a place to pay respects. permanent memorial is being built to hahn in the memory of those who died. these are pictures of what the memorial will look like. construction begins on monday. >> amazing. this memorial site is going to, you know, it's going give healing. it's somewhere you can mourn. you know, and people from all over the world to come and see what happened in orlando, florida. >> another meeting on the memorial is set for next saturday at the public library in downtown orlando.

the permanent memorial is expected to be finished within two years. we're leaning more details tonight about the woman accused of driving a van into a security barrier around the white house. she is 35-year-old jessica ford from tennessee. the secret service says this was not the first time that ford has come into contact with agents near the white house. she's been arrested several times for a variety of criminal violations. authorities say yesterday was the fourth time that ford has tried to unlawfully gain access to the white house. but this time she was armed when she reportedly drove a white van into a security barrier prompting a lock down on the premises. i heard a dull pop it sounded like a dull firecracker. it didn't sound like a crash or anything and then i turned around seen all the smoke and as soon as i saw the smoke and all the police were starting to pile out of the back of the white house and from across the street and then everybody just scream going, go, that's when i told

all the kids go. >> the secret service says she did not get beyond the barrier. no shots were fired and no law enforcement officers injured during that incident. a special celebration in moorestown, n, the guest of honor, eagles head coach doug pederson. our jennifer joyce went to the coach's hometown where crowds of people came out to honor the winning super bowl coach. ♪ hit em low, hit em low and watch our eagles fly ♪ >> bleeding green three weeks after a super bowl win. >> e-a-g-l-e-s, eagles! >> reporter: this crowd of birds fans is hanging out on the front lawn of the moorestown community house in new jersey to honor two local sports heroes. >> we want did you go! >> reporter: moorestown's own doug pederson angeles sift tan coach eugene chung. >> what's up, moorestown?

[ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: took the stage to receive township honors for bringinbringing home the lombari trophy. >> here by proclaim february 24th, 2018 to be coach doug pederson day. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: honor for the modest and down to earth championship coach. >> never had a day before. never had a day. >> reporter: while the crowd snapped photos and posted on social media they smiled as they listened to coach peterson's inspiring message about overco overcoming adversity during the 2017 season. >> i kept telling them, week in and week out, it's not about one person. i said one perp can make a difference. but a team can make a miracle. >> pederson says those words helped to bond the team mid season a super bowl victory has united the entire delaware valley. >> and it was amazing how the city came together, how the town has come together. it's just great. it's so exciting. >> my husband got his hat signed by the one beautiful most to be admired doug pederson and all

the eagles and what he talks about team makes it a miracle. it's just so inspiring. >> reporter: green hearts, green hair. >> i'm going to keep this for awhile yeah. probably until next season. >> reporter: green hometown hype. >> fly, eagles, fly. >> reporter: that's not going any way any time soon. >> this is going to be an energy for a long time to come. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: in moorestown, new jersey, jennifer joyce, fox 29 news. our jenny joyce wasn't the only one asking questions today. moorestown township held a mini news conference during the event and three local boys were allowed to ask one question to the coach who played along very nicely. >> how did it feel to win the super bowl? >> how did it feel? i tell was. i think we're still on a little bit of a cloud nine here, right? [ cheers and applause ] >> doug pederson saying he liked today's kind of news conference better quite a thrill for all the eagles fans there young and old today. one dog protecting his family no matter what.

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♪ the casket bearing the body of billy graham was driven from ashville to charlotte today. it will go to the united states capital where mourners can pay respects on wednesday and thursday. private funeral for graham will be held onofre day. the legendary evangelist died on

wednesday of natural causes. he was 99 years old. afghan officials says at least 18 soldiers have been killed after their checkpoint came under attack by taliban insurgents. two other soldiers were wounded in the attack which took place in a western province. two security personnel were killed in a suicide bombing in the country's capitol of kabul. the islam tick state group is claiming responsibility for that attack. now to a developing story out of our nation's capitol. after weeks of waiting, the democratic rebut tell to the republican's claims of fbi and doj surveillance abuses is now out. fox's catherine herridge has details. >> reporter: the newly released ten-page memo a direct reply from the house intelligence committee's top democrat congressman adam shive to the republican staff member that was released earlier this mom the gop memo says the fbi and justice department abused rules to spy on members of the trump campaign. republican house intelligence committee chairman devon nunez

reactioned to the news moments after the memo's release. >> we wanted out because we think it is clear evidence that the democrats are not only trying to cover this up, but they're also colluding with parts of the government to help cover this up. >> reporter: the top democrat on the intelligence committee disagrees speaking earlier this month shive said the counter mammo was important to set the record straight. >> we think this will help n the public of the many distortions and inn act kuras cease in the majority memo. >> reporter: democrat memo found that the fbi and justice department had already started an investigation into the trump came ties to russia long before they received a hillary clinton campaign funded dossier. but republicans claim that document was actually used to acquire and execute surveillance warrants on trump aid carter page. >> they're advocating it's okay for the fbi and doj to use political dirt paid for by one campaign and use it against the other campaign. >> reporter: president trump

also weighing in on the democrat's memos release tweeting that the memo is quote a total political and legal bu bust. just confirms all the terrible things that were done. so illegal! white house's official response is that the democrats memo was designed to under cut the president politically and also that it fails to answer serious questions about surveillance during the 2016 election. in washington, catherine herridge, fox news. >> president trump now weighing in on the redrawing of pennsylvania's congressional map. in a tweet this afternoon the president said "democrat judges have totally redrawn election lines in the great state of pennsylvania. this is very unfair to republicans and to our country as whole. must be appeared to the united states supreme court asap! >> the pennsylvania supreme court recorded a new map to be drawn saying the previous one was unconstitutional. this week republican state lawmakers tried to block the new map from going into effect but suffered a set back yesterday

when federal judges declined that order instead they scheduled a hearing for marc march 9th. today thousands of people rallied at thomas pain plaza as part of national working people's day of action. those who turned out coming from all walks of life. labor unions, womens and civil rights groups, faith based groups, all with the goal of calling for an end to policies that rig the economy and political system against working people. they want to build on the legacy doctor martin luther king, jr., who supported striking sanitation workers in memphis. it was their demand to be treated with dignity at work. >> it's all for a better way of life. fair wages. retirement with dignity. health and welfare. everything you could ask for in work force. >> strength in numbers. >> strength in numbers. we all got to stick together. >> eighths says on the penny or the dollar bill, e pluribus. out of many we are one. >> the rally comes just days

before u.s. supreme court hearing that could outlaw public sector unions from requiring non members to pay dues or fees as part of a lawsuit which aims to dramatically change national labor law. soon nasa might not be the only ones in space and we're not talking about aliens here but rather a little competition. fox's phil keating has details about the launch of a new space station. >> reporter: blasting off modified space x falcon heavy rocket or another powerful launch system, bigelow aerospace plans to launch it's own space station three years from knowledge nasa and its global space partners would no longer be the only game in lieu of earth's orbit or i don't know. the b330 where sick people could live and conduct no non-governmental commercial research in space. found and ceo robert bigelow gave fox news exclusive access and tore of the larger olympus space station which could house up to three dozen people. it's four levels also provide

space for 12 eco systems sleeping and research. >> it's whatever you'd want to do with this kind of volume, and you definitely could turn this into a farm, um, you know, or a hospital. it could be a dormatory. it could be a lot of different uses. >> reporter: this as the national space counsel met at kennedy space station emphasizing the trump administration's refocused direction for nasa. one that gets americans back to the moon in about ten years and defunds the international space station in the year 2025. turning over much of the $120 billion orbiting out post to private space ventures. bigelow space operations will now explore how big of a market is out there on earth for its space stations. unlike the international space station, which was put together one module at a time, bigelows would launch on one single rocket and then expand in space once it gets there. like the beam habitat already on the space station. and then on successive rockets a crew and paying customers would

launch aboard space x and bowing capsules. rendezvousing with the new space station and living and working until returning home. >> you want to have an entertainment ability on a deep space mission like that. so people can really enjoy themselves. you know, why suffer? if you don't have to, right? >> reporter: the skins of the expandables are made with about 3 feet of thick multi layered soft fabric which actually better protect people living in space than the aluminum modules current until orbit specifically from the non-stop barrage of radiation and space debris that making living up beyond earth even riskier. phil keating fox news. >> want a birds eye view of the grand canyon. now you won't to get into an air play any more to get that spectacular view. >> and what's that smell might be bad breath. millennials are slacking when it comes to brushing their teeth

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new jersey gov are in phil murphy vows to sign bill on control gun this is not only to fulfill a campaign promise but it also comes in response to that deadly school shooting in florida last week. 17 innocent students and teachers died when a gunman opened fire. some of the legislation murphy is introducing would reduce the

number of rounds of magazine clip can hold from 15 to ten. it would also require background checks for private gun sales among other regulations. right now, the national rifle association los losing sut following that mass school shooting. but will the organization bow to public pressure. fox's matt fin is in parkland with more on the sponsors who are already cutting ties. >> they want to do the right thing. they'll dot right thing. i have no doubt about it. >> reporter: president trump speaking just days after a gunman opened fire at the marjory stoneman douglas high school with legally purchased ar-15 rival. while the commander in chief backs the gun advocacy organization others are backing away. delta and united two of the world' largest airlines tweeting today that they are joining a growing list of companies cutting ties. and politicians like iowa republican chuck grassily coming under pressure to stop taking campaign contributions from the group.

>> ask me that same question in four years i'm not going to be anybody for any money in between now and there. >> reporter: nra digging its heels in on the possibility of assault weapon bands at the c pam conference near washington, d.c. the organization's president and spokeswoman pointing the finger at other sides. >> chris murphy, nancy pelosi and more cheered on by the national media eager to blame the nra. >> many in legacy media love mass shootings. [ applause ] >> you guys love it. >> reporter: we're seeing a history act against the nra in comparison other mass shootings across the country. many people say the mobilization of students here at stoneman douglas fueled the calls for wider gundy bait. in parkland, florida, matt fin, fox 29 news. >> in our area local students are learning from some pro who's have worked with the biggest

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>> too good to believe that this could be the break budding song writer and app per clinton mills has been dreaming of. ♪ >> and he's learning it all in a free after school program. he's not the om one. >> ♪ >> this will be the first song i've ever recorded. i was always very nervous about recording and being out there with my vocals. >> i'm gonna let go everything in and believe. >> we're going tweak it and mack sure it fits your vocals. >> for me to learn how to do everything and for them to take on all of our skills and teach us everything new is amazing. ♪ >> you don't have to be singer, writer or producer to benefit from the skills learned here. says station manager shelly wo wolf. >> we allow them an innovative space where they can be themselves, tell their stories and really have hands-on experience with new technology. >> to give kids the opportunity

not only have a creative outlet but also start to get them prepared for jobs after they graduate. ♪ >> never expected the level of relationship building that our kids would have with these fol folks. >> the experience is mutual for philly's own song writers crystal oliver and ivan bari u.s. >> having these talented and amazing kids who are willing to listen and want to learn makes it worthwhile. >> when i started to feel how much they were really opening it, it -- that was fulfilling right there. >> destined to chief successful heights. the dash program is part of philadelphia school's tv studios. funded movely by comcast and verizon franchise fees. opening all kinds of doors to city kids. >> now that i'm in it and it's like i can't take it for granted. >> even if some of them don't end up becoming the next artists you'll know in the next ten or

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