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KNTV Today November 13, 2017

Senate race. But with growing calls for him to drop out, is that really possible . All that plus aly raismans explosive allegations. Shes here live. Frightening collapse. The floor of a student apartment caves in during a party, sending revellers crashing. And what the a boy comes within inches of being run over by a semi truck. The video that will have you looking both ways before you ever cross the street again. Today monday, november 13, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this monday morning. Weve got a very important guest in our studio. A former Vice President right across the studio from us. Joe biden here to talk about his book and a range of things this morning. Well spend a lot of time with Vice President biden coming up. Breaking news. The skyrocketing death toll and a frantic search for survivors after an earthquake rocked the border between iran and iraq. Nbcs keir simmons has the latest on this. Reporter good morning. At least 330 killed, according to officials including irans staterun news agency and that agency says almost 6,000 injured now in iran and iraq. Rescuers have been battling through the night to find survivors. One senior official says there are still people trapped and the death toll is likely to rise. Pictures show patrons in a restaurant at a mall hurrying to safety and a crystal chandelier shaking from the force of the tremors. The u. S. Geological survey measuring a 7. 3 magnitude earthquake. In another video, a Live Television interview is interrupted midway through a question. The frightened guest calmly gets up and walks out. The aftermath being buildings collapsed and hospitals inundated with patients, many with head wounds. One young boy telling a Television Crew a wall fell on him in some of the worst hit areas people live in mud houses that can collapse so easily, matt. Again, the poorest suffering the most this morning. Keir, thank you very much. Lots more to get to this morning. The president finishing up his tour of asia with a visit to the philippines and a controversial meeting with its leader overnight. Nbc National Correspondent Peter Alexander is in manila for us. Peter, good morning. Reporter hey, good morning to you. President trump here now for the last stop on his five nation asian tour. Today, heaping praise on the philippines brutal president , Rodrigo Rodrigo duterte. Sharing a joke about reporters but at no time calling out Rodrigo Duterte for human rights abuses. President trump here for an economic summit, hailing his host, Rodrigo Duterte. Duterte, a controversial authoritarian, accused of ordering a bloody crackdown on his nations drug war, including killing of thousands of drug dealers and users. The white house says human rights briefly came up but the Philippine Government insists it wasnt raised at all. The president s visit sparking protests. Mr. Trump winding down his asian tour with a toast and a tribute. Duterte serenading the leader with the lyrics you are the light in my world. The president also appearing to o struggle with the customary handshake, seen here grimacing. Red carpet like nobody i think has probably ever received. And that really is a sign of respect, perhaps for me a little bit but really for our country. Reporter still looming over the president s trip, his relationship with vladimir putin. Former cia director john brennan questioning whether mr. Trump is being manipulated by his russian counterpart, noting the president s ambiguity on moscows meddling in the 2016 election. I think it demonstrates to mr. Putin that donald trump can be played by foreign leaders who are going to appeal to his ego, and to try to play upon his insecurities. Reporter brennan delivering that warning after President Trump slammed him and other former intelligence chiefs as political hacks. While appearing to give putin the benefit of the doubt. I believe that president putin really feels, and he feels strongly, that he did not meddle in our election. What he believes is what he believes. What i believe is that we have to get to work. Reporter the president trying to have it both ways, also supporting the u. S. Assessment that russia interfered. I believe in our agencies. As currently led by fine people, i believe very much in our intelligence agencies. Reporter President Trump will return home to the white house aboard air force one, heading back for washington tomorrow, where hes planning to make a major announcement recapping the trip on wednesday, that he says will focus on trade and north korea. Matt and savannah, back to you. Peter, thank you. And with the table set, we welcome in former Vice President joe biden. His new memoir is called promise me dad, a year of hope, hardship and purpose. Great to see you. We want to talk about the book of course but theres a lot to talk about in the news and lets start with russia, the president s controversial comments stating that he believed putin when he said russia didnt meddle in this election. You write in the book about meeting putin yourself and telling him, you have no soul. How do you feel about how the president is dealing with putin . Im reluctant to criticize the president when hes abroad but i dont believe putin and theres no good reason to believe putin, in my view. I dont think many objective person should believe putin on this score, and when i said that to putin, his response was, to me, that we understand one another. It wasnt meant as i wanted to make it clear to him that i understood his where he was coming from, as long as he understood that i knew where he was coming from, and but i dont believe putin at all. They did meddle. He was responsible for it. Do you think the president is being naive or worse with regard to putin . I dont believe putin. Well take you at that. Let me go on to some other things. As you come out and talk about this, were learning some things that you were thinking during the election and the campaign. You said that about a month out from election day, you had a very strong feeling that Hillary Clintons campaign was doomed, that she was in real trouble. All the polls, all the pundits, the press, the campaigns themselves thought this was turning into a Hillary Clinton win. What did you see . Was it just a gut feeling . I tell you what i saw. I was getting off the plane and it hit me like a ton of bricks that there was no discussion of the issues. I thought at first that the president was the the sitting president was just making so many mistakes. Then i realized that if you know for example, a school up in Harvard University did a study. Only 4 of all the coverage of hillary was about an issue. So the last thing he wanted she didnt get a chance to get her message out. No one can tell me what her position was on the things that affect the middle class. How were we going to pay for child care, how were we going to make sure they had is that on her as a candidate . Its not on her as a candidate. Its on the nature of the way the campaign was run. Like for example, the second debate, first thing, you know martha, shes a tough reporter, she was going to ask a question to trump about the tape and the groping and she was going to turn to hillary and say, what do you think . Well, my argument was, you should have said, Everybody Knows donald trump. Let me tell you what i think about how im going to change your life. But the nature of the coverage was so intense about everything from his dalliances as well as the alleged impropriety of her emails that it never got to the issues. Thats why i thought that. Let me ask you about Something Else that happened during the campaign. That muchtalked about tainting incident. Donna brazile thought, do i have the power to replace Hillary Clinton at the top of the ticket and turn to joe biden. Did anyone ever discuss that possibility with you . Would you have taken the nomination under those circumstances . I give you my word, the first time i or any of my staff heard anything about that was in the book and number two, i never would have taken it. I was for hillary. I did 83 Campaign Events for hillary. I think i can say i did more events and worked harder for hillary, as hard for hillary, as anyone else. She would have been a first rate president and at that point, i made the judgment, well before that, that i was not prepared to run for president. I was not ready in terms of my family. So, no, i would never have done that. Hindsight is 20 20, but now President Trump dispatched 16 republican opponents and Hillary Clinton. Do you think you could have beaten donald trump . Oh, gosh, i dont know. I mean, you know, the polling data at the time said yes, and since then, but you know, this is i wasnt in the race. You got to be in the race. Its a tough game. Im glad you said that. You got to be in the race. Are you in the race for 2020 . Thanks for setting that up, by the way. Are you in the race for 2020 . I can tell you honestly, if the lord almighty came down and sat in the table and said, joe, the nomination is yours but you have to take it now, i would say no, because i am just were working through a whole lot, were getting there, and i want to focus on my boy. We were in an irish pub last night and i brought that up last night. I said, are you running and instead of answering me, you turned to the crowd and you said, what do you think . I was joking. And you got a big round of applause. Sounded like a little informal polling to me. No. Look, i honest to god havent made up my mind about that. Right now i want to focus on the book and i want to focus on winning off year elections. Im not closing the door. Ive been around too long. Im a great respecter of fate but who knows what the situation is going to be a year and a half from now. I dont have any idea. Im in good health now. Im in good shape. Knock on wood, as my mother would say, but you know, i just dont know. I honest to god, thats the truth. We want to talk about the book, of course. Because it is from your heart, and matt and i were both saying there are parts that are hard to read and i can only imagine how they were to write. How are you doing . I mean, how are you feeling in this moment . Well, to tell you the truth, im a little im a little apprehensive about whats coming up now. It was much harder to write than i thought it would be. I wrote it because i want them to know what an extraordinary man my son was. He truly was an extraordinary, honorable man to his brother and sister and i wanted the public to know about him, depth to the sense of duty. But i also want people out there who have gone through what ive gone through and worse, that theres hope. You can find hope and purpose. You can really find hope and purpose and thats the main reason i wrote the book. You wrote something in the book and is a vsavannah and i b choked up. In your diary, you wrote, may 30, 7 51 p. M. , you knew the exact time. It happened. My god, my boy, my beautiful boy. So hard to read those words, Vice President biden. Howd you write them . Well, it was much harder than i thought it was. I went through my diary, which i keep episodically, but i kept more during that period, and i realized 90 of what i wrote in the diary when i would come home and sit down by myself late at night, i couldnt write. But it was it was hard. I couldnt help but notice the reaction. We have the screen here. We brought it in. Heres this beautiful picture of your beloved, and the book talks so much about how hard he fought and i dont know if people knew that. Well, he did. Look, heres the thing that everybodys wondered. He just would say to me, i think you met him, he would say, dad, look at me, dad. When people ask you about me, smile, dad. Smile, dad. I dont want anybody feeling sorry for me, dad. And every single day hed get up and go to work, even though he had aphasia and he was starting to lose control of the right side of his body because of the left side of his brain and the treatments were affecting his immune system, but he was to him, everything was duty. I mean, i know that sounds but thats what i want people to know about him. Everything was a matter of honor and duty and this is what youre supposed to do and you got to do it and thats why when i said it was, promise me, dad, it was promise me everybody thinks it was promise me youll run. It wasnt that. It was promise me, dad, that you will barack asked me a question early on. He said, what do you want to do with the rest of your life . And i told him that, what i want to do with the rest of my life was what i wanted to do since i was 15 years old. I want to make a difference. I want to be engaged, and beau was afraid i would withdraw. So his promise me was, promise me, dad, you wont walk away from what you care about, what you work on. Thats why i had this institute in penn and delaware and im working on initiatives i care about and i hope hes proud. Were going to speak about many other topics with a group of people here in the studio in just a couple minutes, talk more about the book and some of the other issues youre dealing with. Vice president biden, its awfully nice to have you here this morning. Thank you very much. Now Something Else that is dominating political headlines, Embattled Senate candidate roy moore, hes fighting back against those accusations of Sexual Misconduct threatening to derail his campaign. Amid mounting pressure to drop out late last night, the alabama republican labeled those allegations against him fake news. Nbc White House Correspondent Kristen Welker is on capitol hill this morning. Reporter good morning to you. Republicans are making a major push on their tax reform bill this week, but its all being overshadowed by their efforts to contain the mounting fallout over the roy moore scandal and this morning, moore is digging in after that bombshell Washington Post report which said that moore molested a 14yearold girl in 1979 and pursued three other teens ages 16 to 18 when he was in his 30s. A growing number of republicans in washington say moore should drop out of the race if the allegations are true. Well, moore denied molesting a 14yearold, he didnt outright deny dating underage girls, telling sean hannity he always got the permission of their moms. Overnight, more of his supporters were defiant, casting the allegations as a political hit job. Moore is even threatening to sue. Three days ago, the Washington Post posted another attack on my reputation. These attacks are completely false and untrue. And which they will be sued. Reporter now under alabama law it is too late to remove moore from the ballot. Before the special election. If this seat were to fall into democratic hands, it could sink key parts of the president s agenda. Still, it is making it very difficult for republicans to focus on policy issues. Kristen welker, thanks. 7 17. Lets head over to al. Whats going on . Well, we got a big storm system and a series of storms coming into the Pacific Northwest that are going to march across the country and affect a good portion of it. You can see weve got some still in the upper elevations rain along the coast but the big story is going to be the wind. This is a vigorous storm system and look at these winds along the coast. Gusts of up to 80 miles per hour. Seattle could see 50mileperhour wind gusts, and the kacascades up to 65 miles p hour. Wind advisories for downed trees, power lines, damage to homes. This is going to keep marching across. This first system comes across bringing inland rain and snow, strong winds along the coast but then this one, this is going to be the big one that brings in heavy rain, heavy snow, strong winds and thats going to march across the country and probably cause some travel delays by this time next week. So were going to be watching this very, very closely. Were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Good monday morning, im meteorologist, kari hall. We will see times of mostly light rain in San Francisco today. High temperatures reaching the low 60s. All dry, then another storm system is set to arrive on wednesday. It looks heavier and lingers into thursday as well. For the inland areas, highs up to 67 degrees, not a lot of rain in the south bay, but areas farther to the north will see showers, up to 64 degrees tomorrow and then, once again, rain on wednesday. And thats your latest weather. Al, thank you. Coming up, sixtime olympic medalist aly raisman is here. She will open up about the abuse she says she suffered at the hands of the u. S. Gymnastics longtime doctor. She will share her story in a live interview. And will you dare to enter the controversial attraction that putts you inside the lions den. First this, is today on nbc. Much more of our exclusive live event with former Vice President joe biden. Hell answer some of your questions. And good morning to hoda. Glamour magazine honors the women of the year tonight. I love my mom. My mom. I love my kids. My kids. My job. Taking care of everybody. Everyday. My mom. My kids. 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