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Jetblue flight flight attendant. the year was 2010, flight attendant steven slater got into an argument with a passenger on a jetblue flight. he told everybody he had had it, and jumped down the emergency slide but not before grabbing some beers from the beverage cart. so nine years along and friends have reported he has vanished into one of them. slater reportedly moved to mexico about a week ago and posted to facebook that he was going to visit a monument and hasnt been seen since. his stunt i...

>> so what were you doing for these? >> i was helping mccray pick up ballots. >> easton says mccray dallas paid her $75 to $100 a week to go around and pick up finished absentee ballots. dallas is the soil and water conservation supervisor who appears to be at the center of the state investigation. he was named twice in sworn affidavits as a worker for the mark harris campaign. eason said she never discarded ballots or saw who they were voting for. but after picking them up, she didnt mail them,...

With him in collecting ballots. take a look. >> so what were you doing for these? >> i was helping mccray pick up ballots. >> easton says mccray dallas paid her $75 to $100 a week to go around and pick up finished absentee ballots. dallas is the soil and water conservation supervisor who appears to be at the center of the state investigation. he was named twice in sworn affidavits as a worker for the mark harris campaign. eason said she never discarded ballots or saw who they were voting for. bu...

>> lets look at this. in last nights debate there, current tallahassee mayor andrew gillum took a shot at former republican congressman ron desantis. lets watch. this is what you watch debates for. >> my grandmother used to say a hit dog will holler. and it hollered through this room. first of all, hes got neo nazis helping him out in the state. hes spoken at racist conferences. hes accepted a contribution and would not return it from someone who referred to the former president of the united st...

Split national weather service, local reporting. newport is the main highway where we have seen the heavy flooding. also crossing it and they have pictures up to twitter showing that the newport river is above the bridge between morehead and newport on the way to new bern making it impassable. the river above it. hopefully in the rain subsides a little more, it will become a little passible so emergency crews, construction and power trucks. duke energy made a pledge to get everybody up to power....

This week and voters there are confused about what to do. you have the die hard moore supporters who are standing by him and you have some democrats in the state who are with doug jones but a whole lot of people are still trying to figure out just what happened with roy moore many years ago and whether they could stomach that and vote for him or whether that is enough for them to vote for a candidate they may not agree with in jones. >> that is a good point, jonathan. over to you laura, there is...

Northern illinois university and is working with police to go after anyone who broke the law. this is but the latest death in the result of a hazing incident. police in florida say a drum major died on a school bus last year after classmates purged and kicked him during a ritual. the list is long. we could go on the whole hour. we have former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney who has been following this story. what do we know about this? i understand this is a ritual that had been employe...

Coastline. >> there was a tsunami that hit the coast, no doubt about it. it happened minutes within the initial quake and now that the tsunami is rippling across the pacific and hitting very small islands on the way to hawaii, as we mentioned, hawaii under a tsunami warning, expected to get there about 11:00 a.m., the entire pacific basin with the exception of california, oregon and washington. and british columbia, of course. >> but theyre under advisories. >> under advisories but wont see much...

Passengers who will pay a boat load of money to get up there. we heard cal reporting they are trying to bring the cost of this down. we had four minutes of weightlessness and there was some experiments that were being done there. also experiments being done as to the panels, the instruments, those kinds of things and how they reacted to weightlessness. they want to get all this documented and continue to enhance and particularly from a safety standpoint make sure that these flights are absolutel...