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Sinking. >> this one is $15. >> reporter: prices are soaring at the nations largest nail company in missouri after the white house added 25% tariffs on cheap imported steel. mail orders dropped by 50%, forcing it to lay off 60 workers. >> they forget sometimes how we are fighting for us to live down here. >> reporter: some economists suggest 2 million american jobs could be at risk in a prolonged trade war. americans could soon pay more for everything from clothes to washing machines, tvs and ce...

When a 6-year-old lost his balanced and tumbled backwards in the open fire pit. his parents looked away for just a minute. >> i hear him scream and turn around and hes rolling through the fire pit and i ran and i grabbed his arm and yanked him up out of there. >> and then he just started screaming im dying. >> reporter: he was saying im dying? >> he was screaming im dying. >> reporter: jacksons scan was already peeling away. >> i was afraid. i didnt know what to do. >> reporter: rushed to john h...

House migrants in temporary shelters. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you. turning to the rough day on wall street. the dow plunging 320 points over more trade war fears and it comes the same day that iconic american motorcycle maker harley davidson announced its moving some jobs out of the u.s. to avoid spiraling costs after europe retaliated for president trumps tariffs on steel and aluminum. nbcs tom costello has the story. >> reporter: its been a fixture on americas roads since 1903 but today har...

Dont have anything to do with them, but what choice would i have? stand on the corner, i would probably get into a business. whats a good business? well-paying business? im sorry. thats where we are. ♪ >> anthony: yes, it used to be a very different world, towns like this one. and there were many. but like everywhere else, it seems the mills, the factories closed down, and with them a certain kind of social contract with the people who worked there. >> ed: my name is ed gregory, originally fro...

Than the chances of me growing two hairs on my head. >> theres a subtlety -- im closing in on you, it feels like, by the way. but theres a subtlety about this thats really important. theres kind of two ways to make steel. one is with a traditional foundry where theyve got a blast furnace and all of this stuff floating in on boats, and the other is with an electric arc furnace, which is an efficient way to make steel economically if youve got lots of scrap surface. so theres been a big surge of e...

An effort to stop the driver from escaping. >> she came barreling, hit him up against the fence. >> the old guy pushed the kids right out of the way, took the hit for the kids. >> reporter: parkhurst died at the hospital. now sanford police say he was responsible for a 1968 hit-and-run that killed a 4-year-old girl in upstate new york. the crime went unsolved for 44 years until his 2013 confession. but the statute of limitations expired, so no charges were filed. meanwhile, back in maine, police...

Vanilla and strawberry, too. and their not so secret ingredient, schoeps ice cream, family owned since 1928. and how important is it to support their local farmers? >> its very important. its part of what americas about. something made right in town. >> reporter: they tell me its ready. good to go? a taste test. their vanilla shake. its good. across town, dozens of made in america businesses and their madison mini maker faire. soaps, candled. stuffed animals and toys. and outside -- are you alys...

Takes to compete in the hard five sector. of the foundry does the model will disappear in the next few years to the contrary he perceives it gaining a foothold in the market cross the was it meant itll be a. month that our current test in his paper he says the job is a lot like eating chocolate even if your head says you dont really need it its almost impossible to resist temptation. today temperatures are two below zero celsius but it feels like minus eight she says kind that that might not sou...

Country to get tariff plan reaction. >> reporter: wheatland, mnnsylvania, is home to one of the largest steel pipe makers in s rth america. his inan industries has more than a dozen plants like this in the u.s. he in this facility, theres 275 people that work here. >> reporter: c.e.o. barry zekelman told us he expects to add hundreds of jobs in wheatland alone, and pick up toduction, if trumps 25% tariff on foreign steel becomes reality. >> steel is the backbone, and we can be the backbone again...

>> no, by humans. traditionally cast poured bronze in a foundry transported across the country and installed. steve: terry, this is beautiful. but it does come with a price. you are trying to raise the money, arent you? >> we are. it was mandated that it be placed in pershing park and built with public funds. so we have a fundraising drive underway and as i say its a national tragedy. these were the first men to deploy to a country that they never visited, fight in a war that they didnt start. a...