Dude. Look at that. And today it will only get worse with stronger category 2 hurricaneforce winds and up to a foot of rain. Dylan is tracking it all. Violent encounter. A Chicago Police officer recovering after being beaten by a suspect allegedly high on drugs. Why these Police Shootings may have stopped her from drawing a gun. And three Good Samaritans after a woman accidentally backs up into a pond. A terrifying scene. Luckily the woman in the car is expected to be okay. Today, saturday, october 15th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on saturday morning. Im Sheinelle Jones alongside craig melvin and dylan dreyer and stephanie ruhle. With the election just 24 days away, the state of the race today, donald trump pushing back against allegations of Sexual Misconduct. He had rallies in New Hampshire and maine today. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton will not be making any public appearances today, but her running mate, tim kaine will be in miami. We have a lot to get to this morning. Nbcs jacob rascon is in maine with the latest. Good morning, jacob. Reporter the candidate finds himself instead defending accusation after accusation that he kissed and groped women without their consent. The candidate and supporters defied as ever. Trump is blaming all of it on a vast left wing conspiracy. The whole system is rigged. Reporter his campaign on the ropes. His teleprompters broken. I like my speech better without teleprompters. Reporter donald trump lashing out in North Carolina. False smears for personal fame. Who knows . Maybe financial. Reporter implying his accusers are unattractive. She would not be my first choice. That i can tell you. Reporter trump is the real victim he insists. The political establishment is trying to stop us because they know we are a threat to their corrupt control. Reporter after denying groping and kissing women without sent. No i have not. Reporter eight women came forward to say yes. Minute difficult mcgillivray in maralago in 2003. Then summer zervos. I pushed his chest. I said come on. Get real. He repeated my words back to me. Get real. As he began thrusting his genitals. Reporter and Christian Anderson said she met him in the early 1990s. The person on my right who unbeknown to me at that time was donald trump put their hand up my skirt. He did touch my vagina through my underwear. Reporter nbc news is not confirm any of the allegations. Mike pence said the campaign would produce evidence to vindicate the candidate. That is coming through in a matter of hours. Reporter the evidence . The photographer from britain said he witnessed Jessica Leeds coming on to trump. Other women have come forward to defend his character. We know he is an outstanding man. Reporter Hillary Clintons campaign on defense after wikileaks released another round of embarrassing emails. One from Clinton Campaign manager robby mook asking bill clinton to cancel a speech. The speech would be an unforced error before she announced her white house bid. Nbc news has not authenticated the documents. Minutes ago, donald trump tweeted again and saying these are made up charges which will poison the American Voters minds. Donald trump is in New Hampshire and maine in a state where we are where the latest poll has him down by nine points. Back to you. Jacob rascon. Thank you. Lets bring in joey reid. And jessica flores. Ladies, good morning to you. Good morning. All right. Lets get to it. Lets start with donald trump yesterday. Going after the women who have accused him of misconduct. Going after the media. Again, this vast left wing conspiracy. A lot of folks say at times he seemed unhinged. Ripping apart his teleprompter. There seems to be an emotional breakdown. He seems to be lashing out at the Republican Party for not standing behind him. He seems to want the Republican Party to join this bizarre defense of attacking the women. It is not a good look. I feel for his campaign team. Put it that way. Not a good look. It has been an avalanche of bad news for donald trump. If you look at the battleground states. He is Still Holding his own. Are there people out there who view this as white noise and dont see the negative . Hillary clinton has not had a good week. The emails continue to drip, drip, drip. It is not helpful to her campaign. In the rock, paper, scissors of politics, sex scandals beat emails. He didnt do that in the debate. He won the debate, but did not expand the electorate. They are not that close and it is not enough. Losing by two points still doesnt make you president. You mentioned Hillary Clinton. I want to mention the obamas. You have Michelle Obama delivering that emotional speech on thursday. Saying she was shaken to her core by the allegations. How effective is that . Think about it. Hillary clinton has the current president of the United States and Vice President of the United States sort of a grab bag of all the political stars of the democratic party. Donald trump has a guy of questionable morals saying he was on an airplane with him in first class. There is a contrast there in the level of support that Hillary Clinton has. Listen, Michelle Obama is probably the most effective communicator on the scene right now. That includes barack obama. That speech was so impactful and effective because it got to what most people feel when they watch the horrid election that our children are watching this. This is impacting or girls and boys. It is impacting our image around the world. As parents, it is painful to watch our country slide into the abyss that has been revolving around the scandals. It is about the assault and the way women are treated. I think hillary was having a problem with enthusiasm with voters. Donald trump had a more enthusiastic base. What i think Michelle Obamas speech is gin up that enthusiasm. People who watched that were Hillary Clinton voters, but better Hillary Clinton voters. You said something earlier that piqued my interest. The trump strategy is to gin up his base. The design and conspiracy stuff. This is the same stuff existed in that part of the web for some time. Is that what we are seeing . Is he trying to drive down support on the other side . I dont think it is a strategy. I think donald trump is lashing out. I think he is angry and hes losing. I think he has been losing for some time. The structure of the race has been clear for some time. I think donald trump is sliding into an emotional abyss and lashing out at everyone. We didnt get to talk about why you spend your saturday in maine. Maine. It is not winner take all. Part of the strategy is getting a little tenous. Maine before vegas. Thank you, guys. You can see more of joy reid this morning on msnbc. It is a pretty good show. Now we have to turn to a huge storm system taking place out west. What could be the worst to hit the Pacific Northwest in over a decade. It has already spawned two tornadoes and brought 100mileanhour winds. Today, the storm is expected to go from bad to even worse. Nbcs joe fryer is here with the latest. Joe, good morning. Reporter good morning, stephanie. You could say this is the calm between the storm. The Pacific Northwest is getting ready for another strong blast with destructive winds later on today. The first storm left a path of destruction. Thats a straightup tornado. Reporter the oregon coast is nowhere near the path of tornado alley. Yet a water spout sailed across the pacific friday unleashing a twister on land. Look right there. Oh, my gosh. Reporter the tornado, a rarity in the parts, tore through the beach down damaging houses and businesses. This is how i support my family. Its like having your gut torn out in some sense. Reporter neighbors are hustling to help each other clean up. I did not hear anything. Heavy rain. Reporter constantly reminded more bad weather is on the way. From British Columbia to North Carolina, they are ready for a second blast powered for a typhoon. This has the possibility to be a fatal storm if you dont take the precautions. Reporter it could be the strongest wind storm in the region bringing massive waves and flooding. Waves are raging up and down the coast. It is hard to walk around. Reporter the coast guard helped rescue 40 kids and 6 adults stranded in a camp with no power. No one was hurt. Crews are rushing to repair downed power lines and 9 million hunker down bracing for the possibility of hurricaneforce winds without the hurricane. Some forecasters are already dubbing todays storm the ides of october. If you want to know how rare tornadoes are in the region. The Weather Service in portland issued ten tornado warnings in one day yesterday. Before that, the record was just three. Stephanie. That is a wow. Joe, thanks. Ten tornado warnings. How bad will it get, dylan . The storm we will expect today is worse than yesterday. It is actually the equivalent of a category 2 hurricane. It doesnt develop the same way, but the onshore flow. It will be replaced by torrential downpours. We could see the gusty winds. Yesterday, we had the tornadoes, we had wind gusts along the coast up near 100 miles an hour. This includes big cities like seattle and eugene, oregon and crescent city. Winds gusting up to 100 miles per hour. That could lead to Power Outages and downed trees. It is a big storm that will affect the area as early as late this morning and into the afternoon and into the overnight and we start to see the rain taper off as we go into tomorrow morning. It becomes more or less spotty showers. After the big storm moves through, we will see a cold front move in. That will reinforce the rain. Especially across northwestern california. Winds through the day will be on average around 50 miles per hour. Right along the immediate coastline and beaches, wind gusts in excess of 100. We are looking at 10 to 15 inches of rain. Especially in crescent city, california. That could lead to flash flooding as well. The combination of wind and rain. A nasty weekend in the northwest. Thanks, dylan. Wildfires burning in nevada destroyed at least 22 homes and forced hundreds of evacuations near lake tahoe and hundreds of structures are in danger this morning. In North Carolina, a slow motion disaster. Rivers still rising today a week after Hurricane Matthew pounded the carolinas. The death toll in North Carolina has risen to 24. Starting at noon today, you will no longer take a galaxy note 7 aboard a flight in the United States. The faa issued an emergency ban because the phone can spontaneously burst into flames. Samsung stopped making the note 7s. Passengers who tried to take one on the plane could face a fine. This is not good. Police all over the state of ohio are on the lookout for a man they believe to be a serial child kidnapper. Willing to abduct kids from their homes. The fbi is offering a 20,000 reward for anyone with information. Here is nbcs Kevin Tibbles with more. Reporter a mothers plea for the return of her 6yearold daughter. My life. Reporter snatched from her home in cleveland in may. Found 17 hours later after being assaulted. He made her ride in the floorboard of the car. Reporter now the fbi says it fears a serial child abductor may be on the prowl and circulating these videos of the suspect. Months earlier, just miles away, another ohio girl age 10 managed to escape her attacker. Worst feeling in the world having your daughter scream at you at 3 00 in the morning. Reporter forensic evidence in each case matches and are intensifying their search for the driver of the chevy malibu. It has a different front color fend fender. They have contact through social media and urge parents to take precautions. It is important to know who your kids are talking to and know the information. We lock our doors at night, but we put a lot of information on the computer. Reporter soliciting the publics help for a predator before another child is harmed. For today Kevin Tibbles, nbc news, chicago. Dash cam shows a Chicago Police officer under attack, but holding her fire to avoid scrutiny. Officers trying to hold a man high on pcp this month and found themselves in a wrestling match on the street. The suspect slammed her to the pavement and she said she declined to shoot the man because she was worried about the scrutiny her family could face in the Police Shootings nationwide. Outrage after a doctor who is black posted on facebook she was discriminated against while on a recent flight on delta. The woman says when she tried to help out after someone on board had a medical emergency, a Flight Attendant did not believe she was a real doctor. Nbcs sarah dallof has more. Reporter a fire storm online after a houston area doctor posted an open letter to facebook accusing a Flight Attendant of discrimination. The doctor says on a recent flight to minneapolis, the attendant asked if there was a doctor on board to help a sick passenger. When dr. Cross volunteered, she said she was turned away. She immediately applied saying oh, no, sweetie, put your hand down. We have an emergency right now. We dont have time. Reporter after a plea for assistance, cross rang her call button and explained she was a doctor. She said the Flight Attendant questioned her credentials. As another passenger, a white male, examined the sick passenger. The post prompted a full investigation on delta. They said they are troubled by accusations of discrimination and take them seriously. They added three medical professionals identified themselves. Only one was able to produce documentation. That was the doctor asked to assist. Meanwhile, a show of support for dr. Cross on social media. Black doctors tweeti tweeting whatadoctorlookslike. The Flight Attendant apologized offering frequent flyer miles. She said that will not be enough. She could benefit from sensitivity training to ensure that her inate bias doesnt get in the way. Reporter for today sara dallof, nbc news. A 68yearold woman accidentally backed her car into a pond. Three bystanders jumped in to help. They could not pull her out. As the car sunk under water, the woman did reach the surface and she was treated for hypothermia and is expected to be fine. Great americans right there. Dylan is back with the check of the countrys forecast. Besides the storm in the Pacific Northwest, things are quiet across most of the country. We are looking at possible recordbreaking heat across the plains and midwest too. We have Crystal Clear blue skies across the northeast. A couple of clouds in the midatlantic. We are going to really focus on the heavy rain and strong winds. Especially in the Pacific Northwest. We could see gusts near category 2 hurricane strength. A strong st and thats your latest forecast. Dylan, thank you. With halloween two weeks away, police are keeping an extra eye peeled for scary clowns popping up all over the country. It is not just a problem here in the United States. Nbcs matt bradley reports the creepy clown craze has gone global. Reporter the clowns are coming. The creepy clown epidemic which has terrorized americans for months has gone global. Sightings in britain and europe and now australia. Most turn out to be stunts. A man frightening people on a campus. That clown later apologized. Acclaimed to be filming a movie. Even batman got in on the act. Why not try scaring me. Reporter that was a stunt by a costume company. So far, the injuries in sweden. Where a clown stabbed a young man late thursday night. Scary clowns are not new. They figure into pop culture ever since stephen kings hit. The u. S. Has seen clown pranks before. So has europe. An evil clown craze in 2014 led to the arrest of a dozen armed teenagers. Among the victims . Real life clowns. Their livelihoods are at risk. Putting a lot of children off a real clown. Reporter there is no evidence of coordinated clowning, but police in britain are not laughing. The perception of a clown in a circus tent is not applied here at all. On the level of threat that is exhibited is not something you would see in a circus. Reporter police throughout the world are expecting the clown craze to increase over the next two weeks in the runup to halloween. For today matt bradley, nbc news, london. Are you scared of clowns to begin with . Yes. My Dentist Office growing up was decked out in clowns. You lay back with clowns on swings and clowns on the wall. And the dentist with the needle. Too much. So many people are afraid anyway. This takes it to another level. Halloween is going to be a hard night. Still to come, our look at the stories everyone is talking about this week. Including the moment when jimmy fallon learned how to milk a cow. And bringing back coach brickma hoping to help the cubbies. But first this is today on nbc. Still ahead, Important Information for women during Breast Cancer awareness month. What you need to know when you hear conflicting advice. And plus how one actress went for millions of vie