You might say there's a tectonic shift going on in morning television. TV critic Eric Deggans says that ABC's "Good Morning America" is doing something that seemed unthinkable for more than a decade: it is rocking NBC'S "Today Show" off its ratings pedestal.
ERIC DEGGANS: Even "Today" show co-host Matt Lauer admits it.
MATT LAUER: The show is not where I want it to be right now. The ratings are not where I want them to be right now.
When a raindrop hits a mosquito, the mosquito and drop join together, and the mosquito rides the drop for about a thousandth of a second before its wings, which act like kites, pull it out of the water.
Imagine how tough life would be if raindrops weighed 3 tons apiece as they fell out of the sky at 20 mph. That's how raindrops look to a mosquito, yet a raindrop weighing 50 times more than one can hit the insect and the mosquito will survive.
How?
Put yourself in a mosquito's shoes — or rain boots — for a moment and step outside into a downpour of seemingly gigantic raindrops.
Geneva Hunter (left), who runs the secretarial operations for a Washington, D.C., law firm, decided to take a hands-on approach to her mother's care and moved Ida Christian, 89, into her Maryland home.
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Natasha Shamone-Gilmore smiles at her father Franklin Brunson, 81, during a Sunday church service in Capitol Heights, Md. She has taken on the daily challenge of caring for her father, who is suffering from mild dementia.
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Natasha and Franklin visit her mother, Luella Brunson, at a local hospital. Along with caring for her aging father, Natasha keeps a close eye on her 80-year-old mother, who is often hospitalized with complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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LaDonna Martin (left) smiles with her grandmother-in-law AnnaBelle Bowers, 87, in her family's living room in Harrisburg, Pa. LaDonna shares full-time care of AnnaBelle with her sister-in-law Kelley Hawkins. Both are nurses with two children each, and move Annabelle, who has limited mobility, every two weeks from one home to another.
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David Martin sits with his grandmother AnnaBelle before leaving her at his sister Kelley's home. "Hopefully they will learn how to take care of someone else, like me ... when I'm old," says David of his children.
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Geneva Hunter (left), who runs the secretarial operations for a Washington, D.C., law firm, decided to take a hands-on approach to her mother's care and moved Ida Christian, 89, into her home in Odenton, Md.
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Ida, who has dementia, needs around-the-clock care. Geneva's daughter, Yolanda Hunter, quit her lucrative job to become Ida's full-time caregiver. "My daughter is a fantastic individual," Geneva says of Yolanda. "She said to me we are in this together ... and I don't know what I would have done without her."
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LaDonna Martin (left) shares full-time care of her grandmother-in-law, AnnaBelle Bowers, 87, with her sister-in-law, Kelley Hawkins. Both are nurses with two children each. AnnaBelle, who has limited mobility, moves every two weeks from one home to another.
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Kelley talks with AnnaBelle in her family room. Although caring for AnnaBelle is demanding, LaDonna says, "I grew up down South, and I think your family should stay with you. That's how I was raised ... but the expense is a big thing."
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Natasha Shamone-Gilmore smiles at her father, Franklin Brunson, 81, during a Sunday church service in Capitol Heights, Md. She has taken on the daily challenge of caring for her father, who is suffering from mild dementia.
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Along with caring for her aging father, Natasha keeps a close eye on her 80-year-old mother, Luella Brunson, who is often hospitalized with complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. "The Lord has blessed us to make it all smooth," says Natasha, "but we are taking it day by day."
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Geneva Hunter (left), who runs the secretarial operations for a Washington, D.C., law firm, decided to take a hands-on approach to her mother's care and moved Ida Christian, 89, into her home in Odenton, Md.
Over the last two months, NPR's Morning Edition has been following three families who make up the growing number of multigenerational households in this country. All became multigenerational unexpectedly, when elderly relatives could no longer live independently and the families took them in.
Workers at a carpet-making business in the town of Kairouan are paid about $2.50 a day. Many carpet buyers are tourists, but the number of foreign visitors has dropped since the revolution.
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Women talk with a police officer in Tunis.
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Women in a range of styles pose for a picture near the entrance to the old medina, or marketplace, in Tunis.
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Lawyer Ferida Lebidi heads the commission writing the "rights and liberties" section of Tunisia's new constitution. She belongs to an Islamist party that is considered moderate, though she advocates capital punishment for adultery.
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A woman walks through the marketplace in Kairouan, where some street scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark were filmed.
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Tunisian women walk through the narrow streets of Tunis' medina, or marketplace. Compared to women in other Arab countries, Tunisian women have had access to education and job opportunities for decades.
Over the next couple weeks, NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep is taking a Revolutionary Road Trip across North Africa to see how the countries that staged revolutions last year are remaking themselves as they write new social rules, rebuild their economies and establish new political systems. Steve and his team will be traveling some 2,000 miles from Tunisia's ancient city of Carthage, across the deserts of Libya and on to Egypt's megacity of Cairo. In this story, he looks at the changing role of women in the new Tunisia.
And for our last word in business today, we go to Tacoma, Washington, home to what is now the newest and largest automobile museum in the country. It just opened over the weekend.
David Madeira is chief executive of LeMay, America's Car Museum. Madeira says part of the museum's largest label is based on exhibition space. It has 165,000 square feet in the four-story building.
Tyler Sullivan will return to class Monday with a note explaining why he skipped school on Friday. The fifth-grader had gone with his dad to a Honeywell plant outside Minneapolis, where President Obama was speaking. When the president shook Tyler's hand, he offered to write an excuse note for him.
The summer tourism season is what keeps Branson, Missouri thriving. Last year, Branson's live music venues helped draw more than seven million visitors. And so when a tornado tore through the city's popular strip this past February, Branson's future seemed uncertain. As Missy Shelton of member station KSMU reports, city leaders are working hard to let people know that Branson is open for business.
The NBA is halfway through two riveting conference final playoff series, and there's absolutely no indication how they're going to turn out. Last night in Boston, the aging and creaky Celtics proved that they are really a match for the star-studded Miami Heat. Boston beat Miami 93 to 91 in overtime to tie the Eastern Conference Finals at two games apiece. In the Western Conference, the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder also are tied 2-2, and they play tonight in San Antonio.
