also expect the president to address russia s annexation of crimea? reporter: probably so just because this dominated the discussion so much. the g-7 meeting which was held as a part of the nuclear security summit wasn t really, the move wasn t originally part of the plan. it wasn t because of the esflepevents that happened in ukraine. suspending with the biggest economies in the world. russia was supposed to host in june in sochi. it is a big step. the question, though, is, specially among critics, will this have any effect? the u.s.ed administration, other countries repeatedly said, there is still a door open to discussion, to a diplomatic solution. there is a chance for deescalation. we can change things if russia decides to change course. for everything that has been said and all the talks that have been held, not only among western countries but talks with russia, nothing has changed that course. so it remains to be seen now what could constitute escalation for additional and more damaging sanctions to be issued and what could be deescalation. we ask that question yesterday. michelle, we re going to jump out. the president has now taken the stage with the prime minister of the netherlands. the two men are addressing the congregated press there. let s listen to what they are saying. i am proud to present our summit communique to you today. building of the progress remains early in washington and seoul. this communique sets the bar even higher. we have taken major steps towards meeting all three main objectives of the nss process. i will say a few words about each. the first objective is to reduce the amount of dangerous nuclear material in the world. the less dangerous nuclear material there is and the better the nuclear security, the smaller the chance that terrorists will be able to get hold of it. it s that simple. i m pleased that the 53 countries and four international organizations here have confirmed their commitment to continue reducing stocks of dangerous nuclear material, uranium and plutonium. a number of countries have announced the intention to hand over the highly dangerous to the u.s. as xhar chair of the summit, i naturally welcome these announcements. we are also making progress on the second objective, improving the security of nuclear and radioactive material. we have confirm our ambition to improve the security of materials that can be used to make nuclear weapons and the security of radiological sources that terrorists could use to make dirty bombs. the commitment of the nsa became more complete. the fear that the dirty bomb would cause doesn t bear thinking about, not to mention the possible disruption to society. i m specially pleased that we are including this area. furthermore, the nss countries have encouraged implementation of the iaa nuclear security guidelines. a significant number of us have decided to take this commitment even further. as chair of the summit, i m delighted to announce that two thirds of the countries on the initiative of the united states, korea and the netherlands, have pledged to incorporate these important recommendations into the national legislation. this is a message and represents potential progress. i can t stress enough how important it is. fortunately, in a group of countries supporting this initiative is growing. our ultimate goal is, of course, for all nss countries to follow this league and set an example for other countries. he many pleas i am pleased with the growing awareness of nuclear material. it is important to determine the origin of the material and trace that. we are listening. michelle kosinski, i wanted to bring you in briefly before president obama speaks. the president will also probably at some point have to address a rather large domestic issue which is brewing. the white house plans to change and modify and in some ways do away with the current system of the nsa collecting telephone data. can you explain what this change will be? reporter: yes. feel free to cut me off when this starts again. there is a delay in what i can see and here. we wonder how much this issue came up in discussions with other european nations also. during this series of meetings. it has been this highly controversial, really played out in the media, irritation, of how much spying was gone on. similar, was overplayed. it came out later that we know that the u.k., germany, other european countries do this same kind of data collection as well as spying. here is what the president wants to do. he has been working with congress. soon, in the coming days, his administration says, he wants to propose a law that would change the way this is done. right now, the nsa is the one that collects this bulk data, phone records, that americans make on a day it day basis. they keep it for five years. what s been highly controversial in the past is that the nsa can essentially choose its own investigations and authorize them. the president wants the phone companies to collect the data and keep it possibly. although, that might be done by some third party. the administration didn t make that clear. the president wants it such to be such that the nsa would have to go to a judge for every search it would want to do. that judge would have to say yes or no as to whether that specific phone number could be likely tied to terrorism. there are some other changes too. keep in mind, this is a proposed piece of legislation. what it would do would take the nsa out of the business of collecting and storing the data. of core, turse, the nsa would s be able to gain access to the data when needed. the bigger question is, will congress pass this law? how long could that take? in the meantime, the president has authorized for 90 days an will continue in 90-day increments to authorize the collection and the processing of that data as it stands right now. the president is about to speak now. let s go back to the the hague to listen to president obama. i would like to say a few words about the tragedy that recently took place back in the united states. over the weekend, a massive landslide swept through a tiny town called oso in washington state. while i won t get ahead of the ongoing response and rescue operations, we know that part of this tightly knit community has been lost. first responders acted bravely despite still dangerous conditions. the american red cross has opened multiple shelters and the people of washington state have been quick to help and comfort their fellow citizens. i just spoke to governor insly who swiftly declared a state of emergency and i signed that emergency declaration to make sure he has got all the resources he needs from my administration. they are in contact with them on an on going basis, fema and the army core of engineers has been on site to offer their assistance and expertise. i would ask all americans to send their thoughts and prayers to washington state and the community, oso, and the families and friends of those who continue to be missing. we hope for the best but we recognize this is a tough situation. now, as for our work here in the hague, i want to just repeat the extraordinary work that mark has done in helping to organize this. some of the people of the netherlands, your hospitality has been remarkable. your organization has been flawless. to all the people who were involved in putting this together, including those that are putting up with what i caused, i m told there is a dutch word that captures the spirit that doesn t translate exactly into english but let me say my first visit to the netherlands has been truly kozelik. i convened the first nuclear summit in washington four years ago, because i believed we need a series and sustained global effort to deal with one of the greatest threats to international security, the specter of nuclear terrorism. we made further progress at our second summit in seoul and under your prime minister s stewardship, we have built on that progress here. keeping with the spirits of these summits, this was not about vague commitments but about taking tangible and concrete steps to secure more of the world s nuclear material so it never falls in the hands of terrorists. in particular, i want to come mend bell judge and it will i for completing the removal of their excess supplies of uranium and plutonium. japan announced it will work with the united states to eliminate hundreds of kilograms of weapons from one of their experimental reactors. that s enough for dozens of nuclear weapons. dozens of other nations have agreed to take specific steps towards improving nuclear security in their own countries and to support our global efforts. some have pledged to convert their research reactors to low enriched uranium which cannot be used to make a bomb. we have set new goals for implemented or nuclear security measures, including sharing more information to ensure we are all living up to our commitments. i have made it clear the united states will continue to do our part. our nuclear regulator will develop new guidelines to strengthen cybersecurity at our nuclear power plants. we have pledged to pursue the production of a key medical isotope used to treat illnesses like cancer without relying on weapons useable materials and we are going to work to install more radiation detection equipment at ports and transit sites to combat nuclear smuggling. all of this builds on our previous efforts. 12 countries and two dozen nuclear facilities around the world have now rid themselves entirely of highly enriched uranium and plutonium. dozens of nations have boosted security or created new centers to improve nuclear security and training. the international atomic energy agency is now sfrotronger and m countries have ratified the treaties in international partnerships at the heart of our efforts. we have seepn a fundamental shit in our approach. we still have a lot more to do to ensure the ambitious goals we set years ago. i believe this is he sengs to the security of the entire world and given the catastrophic consequences of even a single attack, we can not be complacent. i ll clothes by reminding everybody that one of the achievements of our first summit in 2010 was ukraine s decision to remove all its highly enriched uranium from its nuclear fuel sites. had that not happen, those dangerous nuclear materials would still be there now and the difficult situation we are dealing with in ukraine today would involve yet another level of concern. so it s a vivid reminder that the more of this material we can secure, the safer all of our countries will be. we made progress. we have got more to do. we are going to continue our work. i look forward to hosting the fourth nuclear security summit in the united states in two years. thank you again, mark and all your team as well as the people of the netherlands for this outstanding summit. thank you, mr. president. we will go straight to the questions now. the first question will be the associate press. thank you, mr. president. you have been criticized during this dispute with russia as not understanding president putin s motivations. you and others said you thought putin was reflecting or pausing his encouragement to crimea. did you misread his intentions and what do you think his motivations are now? when you spoke about the nsa review in january, you said you weren t sold on the option of having phone companies hold meta-da ta and you thought it raised additional privacy concerns. what has changed since that time and do you think congress will pass the legislation you are seeking? mr. prime minister, there are leaders in europe who have concerns about the sector sanctions the president has proposed on russia s economy. do you think any of those leaders have had their concerns alleviated during their talks with the president over the past few days? thank you. let me see if i can remember all of these. with respect to president putin s motivation, there has been a lot of speculation. i am less interested in motivation and more interested in the facts and the principles that not only the united states but the entire international community are looking to uphold. i don t think that any of us have been under any illusion that russia has been very interested in controlling what happens to ukraine. that s not new. that s been the case for years now. that s been the case dating back to the orange revolution. what we have said consistently throughout this process is that it is up to the ukrainian people to make their own decisions about how they organize themselves and who they interact with. it has always been our belief that ukraine is going to have a relationship to russia. there is a strong historic bond between the two countries. that does not justify russia enroaching on ukraine s territorial integrity or sovereignty. that s exactly what s happened. i said, very early on, that should russia do so, there would be consequences. working with our european partners and our international partners, we have put in place sanctions that have already had some impact on the russian economy. now, moving forward, we have said and i want to be very clear about this, we north recognizing what has happened in crimea. the notion that a referendum sloppily organized over the course of two weeks would somehow justify the breaking off of the crimea and annexation by russia, somehow that would have a valid process. the overwhelming majority of the world rejects. we are also concerned about further encroachment by russia into ukraine. so what i announced and what the european council announced was that we were consulting and putting in place the framework, the architecture for additional sanctions, additional costs should russia take this next step. we also said and will continue to say is that there is another path available to russia. the ukrainian government has said it is prepared to negotiate with russia, that it is prepared to recognize its international obligations and the international community has been supportive of a diplomatic process. that would allow a deescalation of tensions, a moving back of russian troops from ukraine s borders. and rapidly organized elections that allow the ukrainian people to choose their leadership. my expectation is that if the ukrainian people are allowed to make their own decisions, their decision will be that they want to have a relationship with europe and they want to have a relationship with russia. this is not a zero sung game. i think that prime minister and the current government have shown remarkable strength and are prepared to go down the diplomatic path. it is now up to russia to act reresponsibly and show itself to be, once again, willing to abide by international rules and international norms. if it chooses to do so, i think there can be a better outcome. if it fails to do so, there will be additional costs. those will have some disruptive effect to the global economy but they will have the greatest impact on russia. so i think that would be a bad choice for president putin to make. ultimately, he is the president of russia and he is the one that s going to be making that decision. he just has to understand there is a choice to be made here. with respect to even though this was directed at mark, i just want to address this issue of sectoral sections. so far, we have put in place sa sanctions that impact individuals, restrict visas being issued to them, freezes their assets. we have identified one bank in particular in russia that was well-known to be the bank of choice for many of the persons who support and facilitate russian officials from carrying out some of these activities. what we have held off on are more broad-based sanctions that would impact entire sectors of the russian economy. it has not just been my suggestion but the european council s suggestion that should russia go further, such sectoral sanctions would be appropriate. that would include areas potentially like energy or finance or arms sales. or trade. that exists between europe and the united states and russia. what we are doing now at a very technical level, examining the impacts of each of these sanctions. some particular sanctions would hurt some countries more than others. all of us recognize that we have to stand up for a core principle. that lies at the heart of the international order and that facilitated the european union and the incredible prosperity and peace that europe has enjoyed now for decades. so although it could cause some disruptions to each of our economies or certain industries, what i ve been encouraged by is the firmness and the willingness on the part of all countries to look at ways in which they can participate in this process. our preference throughout will be to resolve this diplomatically. i think we are prepared, as we ve already shown, to take the next step, if the situation gets worse. finally, on ukraine, i think it is very important that we spend as much effort on bolstering the economy inside of ukraine and making sure that the elections proceed in an orderly fashion. so my hope is that the imf is able to complete a package for ukraine rapidly to stabilize their finances, their economy. . osce and other international organizations are sending in observers and monitors and we are providing technical assistants to make sure the elections are free and fair. the sooner the elections take place, the sooner the economy is stabilized, the better positioned the ukrainian people will be in terms of managing what is a very challenging situation. with respect to the nsa and i will be just brief on this, i said several months ago that i was assigning our various agencies in the i.c., the intelligence community, to bring me new options with respect to the telephone database program. they have presented me now with an option that i think is workable. it addresses the two core concerns the people have. number one, the idea of government storing bulk data generally. this ensures that the government is not in possession of that bulk data. i want to emphasize once again that some of the dangers that people high pott size when it came to bulk data, there were clear safeguards against but he recognize that people were concerned about what might happen in the future with that bulk data. this proposal that s been presented to me would eliminate that concern. the second thing the people were concerned about is making sure that not only is a judge in the program overall but looking at each individual inquiry that is made into a database. in new plan that s been presented to me does that. so overall i m confident that it allows us to do what is necessary in order to deal with the dangers of a nefarious attack and addresses the dangers that people have raised. i m looking forward to working with congress to make sure we go ahead and pass the enabling legislation quickly so that we can get on with the business of effective law enforcement. let me make it absolutely clear that the european union and the u.s. and yesterday we saw alignment within the summit. we are working very closely together. i can fully support all the answers which you just gave on the question you asked. maybe i can add one thing, which is the effect of the russian economy is very much gas and oil dependant. that means that economic sanctions, if they will be necessary, and we are not there yet, if economic sanctions would be necessary, because this conflict would escalate to the next stage, if this were to happen, these sanctions would hit russia very badly and obviously, you can never guarantee that the people in europe and canada, in the u.s., would not be hurt. obviously, with he will mae wil sure we will design these sanctions in such a way they will have maximum impact on the russian economy and not the european, the japanese, the american economy. we work very closely together and seek total alignment. next question. reportedly, there are about 30,000 russian troops on the border with ukraine. what guarantees can you give to the people of eastern ukraine and to the people in the baltic states, mole da va, other countries, that they will not be next when it comes to the russian politics of annex sayings. with regard to that also, is this a done deal? is there any doubt in your mind that putin will return crimea to where it belongs according to the west or is this diplomatic show of force basically to prevent another land grant somewhere else? on the second question first, on the issue of crimea, it is not a done deal in the sense that the international community by and large is not recognizing the annexation of crimea. the facts on the ground are that the russian military controls crimea. there are a number of individuals inside of crimea that are supportive of that process. there is no expectation that they will be dislodged by force. so what we can bring to bear are the legal arguments, the diplomatic arguments, the political pressure, the economic sanctions that are already in place to try and make sure that there is a cost to that process. i think it would be dishonest to suggest that there is a simple solution to resolving what has already taken place in crimea. although, history has a funny way of moving in twists and turns and not just in a straight line. so how the situation in crimea evolves in part depends on making sure the international community stays unified, indicating this was an illegal action on part of russia. with respect to the russian troops that are along the border of ukraine at the moment, right now, they are on russian soil. if they stay on russian soil, we oppose what appears to be an effort of intimidation by russia has a right legally to have its troops on its own soil. i don t think it is a done deal. i think that russia is still making a series of calculations. again, those calculations will be impacted in part by how unified the united states and europe are and the international community is in saying to russia, this is not how in the 21st century we resolve disputes. i think it is particularly important for all of us to dismiss this notion that somehow russian speakers or national inside of ukraine are threatened and that somehow that would justify russian action. there has been no evidence that russian speakers have been in any way threatened. if anything, what we have seen are provok coutours that have created scuffles inside ukraine. when i here analogy to kosovo where you had thousands of people who were being slaughtered by their government, it s a comparison that makes absolutely no sense. i think it is important for everybody to be clear and strip away some of the possible excuses for potential russian action. with respect to the broader issue of states that are bordering russia and what assurances do they have about future land grabs, as you put it, obviously, some of those countries are nato countries and as nato allies, we believe that the cornerstone of our security is making sure that all of us, including the united states, are abiding by article 5. the notion of collective defense. what we are not doing is organizing even more intensively to make sure that we have contingency plans and that every one of our nato allies has assurances that we will act in their defense against any threats. that s what nato is all about. that s been the cornerstone of peace in the transatlantic region now for several generations. so we will uphold that and there will be a series of nato consultations. it is going to be coming up in which we further develop and deepen those plans. i have not seen any nato members who have not expressed a firm determination with respect to nato members. now, those countries, border countries, that are outside of nato, what we can do, is what we are doing with ukraine, which is trying to make sure there is sufficient international pressure and a spotlight shined on the situation in some of these countries and that we are also doing everything we can to bolster their economies, make sure that through various diplomatic and economic initiatives that they feel supported and they know we stand by them. when it comes to a potential military response, that is defined by nato membership. that is what nato is about. jon karl from abc news. mr. president, thank you. in china, syria, and egypt and now in russia, we have seen you make strong statements, issue warnings that have been ignored. are you concerned that america s influence in the world, your influence in the world, is on the decline and in the light of recent developments, do you think mitt romney had a point when he said that russia is america s biggest geopolitical faux. if not russia, who? mr. prime minister, do you think these sanctions will change vladmir putin s calculation, cause him to back down? do you see where do you see a russian red line where if they go any further, into eastern ukraine and moldova where options beyond sanctions have to be considered? thank you. well, jonathan, i think if the premise of the question is that whenever the united states objects to an action and other countries don t immediately do exactly what we want, that that has been the norm. that would pretty much erase most of 20th century history. i think there is a distinction between us being very clear about what we think is an appropriate action, what we stand for, what principles we believe in versus what is, i guess, implied in the question, that we should engage in some sort of military action to prevent something. the truth of the matter is that the world has always been messy. what the united states has been consistently able to do and continue to be able to do is mobilize the international community around a set of principles and norms and where our own self-defense may not be involved. we may not act militarily. that does not mean that we don t steadily push against those forces that would violate those principles and eye deals we care about. so, yes, you are right. syria, the syrian civil war is not solved and yesterday syria has never been more isolated. with respect to the situation in ukraine, we have not gone to war with russia. i think there is a significant precedent to that in the past. that does not mean that russia is not isolated. in fact, russia is far more isolated in this instance than it was five years ago with respect to georgia and more isolated than it was certainly during most of the 20th century when it was part of the soviet union. the point is that they are always going to be bad things that happen around the world. the united states is the most powerful nation in the world. understandably, is looked to for solutions to those problems. we have put all evidence of our power behind solutions and working with our international powers. standing up for the principles and ideals in a clear way. there are going to be moments where military action is appropriate. there are going to be sometimes where that s not in the interest of national security interest of the united states or some of our partners. that doesn t mean we are not going to continue to make the effort or speak clearly about what we think is right and wrong. that s what we have done. with respect to mr. romney s assertion that russia is our number one geopolitical faux. the truth of the matter is that america has got a whole lot of challenges. russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors. not out of strength but out of weakness. ukraine has been a country in which russia had enormous influence for decades, since the break up of the soviet union. we have considerable influence on our neighbors. we generally don t need to invade them in order to have a strong cooperative relationship with them. the fact that russia felt to go in militarily and lay bare these violations of international law indicates less influence, not more my response then continues to be what i believe today, which is, russia s actions are a problem. they don t pose the number one national security threat to the united states. i continue to be much more concerned when it comes to our security when with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in manhattan, which is part of the reason why the united states showing its continued international leadership has organized a form over the last several years that has been able to help eliminate that threat in a consistent way. there is no geopolitical conflict that can be solved without the united states. therefore, i applaud the fact that president obama s administration is active in every aarenrena. the initiatives that secretary kerry was taking in the middle east. i was in the region and spoke with leaders in israel and the palestinian territories. they are extremely grateful for the fact that america is providing leadership. this is a difficult issue. it can t be solved overnight. there is no magic wand that can handle this. i spoke with the president in the economic forum in january. we have now the fact that i was label to over 30, 40 years we spoke with an iranian leader. it was possible. it seems it is holding. america provided leadership there. i applaud president obama s role in all these major issues. it is necessary, because the united states is the leader of the free world and needs to provide leadership and he is doing that. your question on president putin, it would be difficult to exactly judge what is happening in the leadership in moscow, in russia at this moment. as i said earlier, i highly undiversified economy like the russian economy, which is so much oil and gas dependant, which has not invested in infrastructure and other areas of the economy, will be worried in the financial sector or in weapons or in trade or indeed, in energy. there could be potential sanctions that will hurt them. we have to design in such a way that it will particularly hit russia and not europe, the u.s., canada or japan. that is what we are working on. we hope we won t need it. i cannot envision this conflict ending up in a military conflict. i don t think it is likely i don t think anybody wants it. i tote little agree with president obama s answers on article 5 where the conflict will be taken to the board in the nato countries. luckily, that is, at this moment, not the case. questions. you met a lot of leaders here. many were angry about the nsa story. have you fixed the relationships with these leaders and the second question is, many are shocked by the extent of which the nsa collects private data. today, we read in the new york times that you plan to end the systematic collection of data of americans but can you address the concerns of the dutch and the rest of the world about their privacy? first of all, we have had a consistent, unbreakable bond between the leaders of europe over the last several decades. it s across many dimensions, economic, military, counter terrorism, cultural. any one issue can be an irritant in the relationship between the countries but it doesn t define those relationships. that continues to be the case and that has been the case throughout the last couple of years. as i setd in a spooech i gave earlier thisser yoo, the united states is very proud of its record of working with countries around the world to prevent terrorism or nuclear proliferation or human trafficking or a whole host of issues that all of us would be concerned about. intelligence plays a critical role in that process. what we ve seen is as technology has evolved, the guidelines and structures that con train how our intelligence agencies operated have not kept pace with these advances in technology. although having examined over the last year, year and a half what s been done, i m confident that everybody in our intelligence agencies operates in the best of intentions and is not snooping into the privacy of ordinary dutch, german, french, or american citizens. what is true is that there is a danger because of these new technologies that at some point, it cob abused. that s why i initiated a broad-based review of what we could do. there are a couple of things we did that are unprecedent. in my speech, i announced that for the first time, under my direction, that we are going to treat the privacy concerns of non u.s. persons as seriously as we are the constraints that already exist by law on u.s. persons. we are doing that not because we are bound by international law but because ultimately it is the right thing to do. with respect to some of the aspects of data collection, what i ve been very clear about is that there has to be a narrow purpose to it, not a broad-based purpose but rather based on a specific concern around terrorism or counter proliferation or human trafficking or something that i think all of us would say has to be pursued. and so what i ve tried to do then is to make sure that my intelligence teams are consulting very closely at each stage with their counterparts in other nations. so that there is greater transparency in terms of what exactly we are doing, what we are not doing. so some of the reporting here in european as well as the united states, frankly, has been pretty sensationalized. i think the fears about our privacy in this age of the internet and big data are justified. i think the actual facts people would have an assurance if that if you are just ordinary citizen, in any of these countries, that your privacy, in fact, is not being invaded. i recognize that because of these revelations, that there is a process that s taking place where we have to win back the trust, not just of governments but more importantly of ordinary citizens. that s not going to happen overnight, because i think that there is a tendency to be skeptical of government and to be skeptical in particular of u.s. intelligence services. so it is going to be necessary for us, the step we took that was announced today, i think is an example of us slowly, systematically, putting in more checks, balances, legal processes. the good news is, that i m very confident it can be achieved. i m also confident that the core values that america has always believed in in terms of privacy, rule of law, individual rights, that that has guided the united states for many years and will continue to guide us in the future. thank you very much, everybody. thank you again. you have been listening to president obama in a news conference with the dutch prime minister. there is the president finishing up with the dutch prime minister. i think really some of his most expansive comments to date over the crisis in ukraine, the president is saying there is no simple solution. he is saying it would be dishonest to suggest there was a simple solution to undo what s already done. in other words, get russian troops out of crimea. he did lay down something of a marker about what the united states would do if russia acts further. he took something of a rhetorical slap at vladmir putin calling russia a regional power. the sanctions are meant to isolate russia economically and politically. also, taking a stab at a bit of a slap at his ego if you will and those kind of comments will make it back to vladmir putin. let s bring in wolf blitzer. he is nour in our d.c. bureau. we noticed the comments and the two leaders and president obama talking about the linking of arms between the remaining g-7 countries about what they are doing to isolate russia. they are pretty much united right now. i think there were some substantive disagreements on specific steps if, in fact, the russians up the ante if you will. if they do anything beyond holding on to crimea. the president basically said that s a done deal. the facts on the ground. he realizes that russia is now in control of crimea even though the u.s. and european allies, almost all of the world, still reguards russia as part of ukraine. they are in charge and the president himself even acknowledged a whole lot of people in crimea who are happy about that. he did warn if the russians do take steps going against other parts of ukraine or if they were to take steps against other countries in that part of the world, eastern europe, certainly, if any steps were taken against nato allies like poland, estonia, lithuania, latvia, charter 5 of the charter would go into effect. you attack one and you attack all. the united states would have to come to the aid of that ally. he did acknowledge for all practical purposes russia is now in control of crimea. he didn t lay out the limits. he said there would be military support if russia encroaches on nato countries. wolf blitzer, in washington, we know you will be covering much more on wolf at 1:00 p.m. we are going to take a quick bre break. when we do come back, we will take a look at the search for flight 370. would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was 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it s certainly a setback. i think the safety investigation needs to be ongoing, and, of course, you ve got to identify a crash site before you can begin the investigation in earnest. so a bit of a setback, but an act of nature so we ve got to comply with that and we ll be done with in a day or so. and hopefully they ll find the wreckage and the crash site soon. we appreciate that optimism. bob, let s talk to you about this information that we saw. the malaysian government deliver to the world and to the families of the passengers. and i think the families specifically were struggling with the fact that they said this information has led to us believe that the plane went down in the south indian ocean with the absence of any wreckage. how do we accept this information as a definitive cause or result of what happened? i really think, given the malaysian government s track record, it s a little hard to take it at face value here. this is a very, very sophisticated analysis. as you know, it s based on what they call the doppler effect. when you hear a siren coming towards you, that frequency changes, that s the doppler effect. well, they re looking at the satellite versus airplanes flying away from it. first time it s of been done. none of us have seen the data. i think the chinese are right. we want to look at this data to make sure they really got it right this time, because they certainly had it wrong most of the last couple weeks. and steve, as we know, we are in a race against time. quite literally here. those black boxes, they stop pinging after 30 days or so after the plane, you know, disappeared. there will not be some of the equipment they need, the tow pinger locater won t arrive. they won t get it on the ship until april 5th and could stop pinging by april 8th. that s very difficult. they re up against it here. i agree. the pinger is important in finding the black box. but keep in mind, air france 447, it was almost two years before we found the recorders on the bottom of the ocean. so, yeah, it would be nice if we could do it via pinger, and a navy ship can find it with their equipment. but if it s not found by the end of the battery life of the recorder the pinger battery life, that is, they ll at least continue to search with all their other sophisticated equipment until they find it. want to say a big thank you to bob arnot. a real delight. thanks so much. we talk about the families and it s really important to always bring the focus back to them. they say they re not going to believe the government s version of what happened until they see proof with their own eyes. joining us to talk about the grief and frustration they are displaying right now, you know, it s very hard for all of us to see is heidi snow. heidi understands this. heidi lost her fiance in the twa 800 crash. since then, she has become a leading advocate for survivors, founding the group a.c.c.e.s.s., and she has trained care teams and aid disaster responders for major airlines. she this also the author of the book surviving sudden loss. heidi, we re all looking at these pictures and hearing just the emotion coming from the people in beijing and kuala lumpur. when you see it, you have such a unique perspective. what do you see? well, for me, it always brings me and all of us back. we had over 1,000 calls to help to a.c.c.e.s.s. over the years for different air disasters and a lot of calls from people from past air disasters, as well as a few of these families now. and for those of us who have been through it before, it brings us back to that crash site, the family assistance center. we all remember being there, just looking for answers. just holding out hope. and i feel like they re very much in that situation right now. and basically, we just kind of went back and forth, hold south hope and then going back to facing the reality that they may never come back to us and our lives are going to be forever changed. and we re going to have to live without them. and until there s some kind of confirmation through wreckage or some type of remains, i really believe that there really is no closure or any way to really get out of going back and forth with this hope that we cling on to and going back it to the reality. i think there needs to be a lot more evidence for the families to really be able to accept that their loved ones actually are gone. and i remember so well at the site, the varying personalities, we really learned at a.c.c.e.s.s. everybody goes through their grief in their own way. and a lot of the emotions that we have seen do remind me of what it was like. we had people who were very quiet, who were in shock. then we had those people who were very angry. and then we had people who were just sobbing. and so it really does resonate with all of us who have been there before. and after interviewing hundreds of people for our book, so much of what we re watching now just really is what the common reactions are for all of us. and what distinguishes air disasters from other types of losses is this waiting period. is this not having answers. and we certainly have a lot of people at a.c.c.e.s.s. who still do not have any remains or any confirmation from other air disasters that their loved ones actually were on board. so it is something that we all live with and one of the things we find most important is really being able to talk to somebody else who has been down that road. and who has had to go through this process. by pairing them according to the relationship of their loss and specific circumstances that they re facing. so we match mothers to mothers, siblings to siblings, spouses to spouses. and if remains are not found, we pair them up with somebody else who also had to wait a long time. so we really find that what has helped the most for our families is really being able to validate some of these feelings that are extremely difficult. and this is such a difficult time, and the rest of the world, i think it s hard for them to understand the hope piece. but all of us know that. because we would do anything we could to keep them alive. heidi, we want to say thank you, because we know this work that you do is ongoing. you have spoken with us before about the ongoing need after the press conferences are over. after the cameras go away. thank you so much, heidi snow. it works with providing emotional support services to survivors and family members of air aviation disasters. it thank you so much for joining us. you can read more about heidi s support group, aircraft casually emotional support services at
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up and combine two things bad for you, donuts and cheeseburgers. a doughnut burger out of philadelphia. they have a lot of different varieties of burgers. i m trying to get the caloric intake on that one. yeah. politics and foreign wars that s the world news poka it s late at night you re wide awake and you re not wearing pants so grab your world news now mug everybody dance have some fun every guy and gal do the world news polka everybody that s the world news polka insomniacs only who cares what they think they re a goofy crew and if your neighbors call the cops here s all you have to do when they yell tell them it s news to me that s the world news polka they make us work the graveyard shift that s why we go for broke so why not tune in abc and join our joke 5 whole days every week we re here with a tongue and cheek and the world news polka it s the world news polka this morning on world news now ebola infection. a new york doctor who treated patients in africa gets sick. the big questions this morning about his condition and if the this morning on world news now ebola infection. a new york doctor who treated patients in africa gets sick. the big questions this morning about his condition and if the virus was spread in the city. extreme weather from a rare tornado in the pacific northwest to powerful winds and downpours in the midwest. it s mother nature s october fury. fearless bikers. defiance on the highway after cops try to stop cyclists on a wild ride. what to do if you get swarmed by motorcycles in your car you re beautiful you re beautiful it s true sorry song. james blount and his hit single. he s apologizing saying the song is anything but beautiful. that s in the skinny on this friday, october 24th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. tell them what i really like that song. still to this day? yeah, i think it is a nice song. he s even saying it s not a good song. well, maybe he ll change his mind after we again? discuss it later. hello. i m t.j. holmes alongside reena ninan. the big story, this just broke just a few hours ago here in new york. now has a lot of folks concerned. we re going to kick off this half hour. the latest on the ebola case. the doctor in new york city testing positive for the deadly virus after returning from west africa. a 33-year-old doctor treating ebola patients in guinea. one of the countries devastated by the disease. he is now in isolation at a manhattan hospital. his girlfriend quarantined. the doctor rode the subway, took a car service here in new york just the night before he fell ill. linsey davis has more on how this all unfolded. reporter: inside this ambulance rushing to bellevue hospital, 33-year-old craig spencer. a doctors without borders physician suffering from a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms. a confirmed case of ebola right in the heart of new york city. i know it s a frightening situation, but the more facts you know, the less frightening this situation is. reporter: dr. spencer had been in guinea, one of three hot zone countries. last thursday he flew home connecting through brussels before arriving at jfk airport. he d been monitoring his temperature and reported his fever. police officers in masks, neighbors anxious. a local councilman trying to calm fears. frankly, people in the neighborhood are scared, and some of them are panicked. i had one gentleman who wouldn t even shake my hand because he was scared. reporter: the health department says a team of disease detectives immediately began to actively trace all of the patient s contacts to identify anyone who may be at potential risk. the patient is now in isolation. the health department has a team of disease detectives who have been at work tracing all of the patient s contacts and we are prepared to quarantine contacts as necessary. reporter: in recent days, bellevue hospital has been holding drills in case a possible ebola patient comes through their door. those plans going into motion. reporter: it took only a few hours to determine that spencer did, indeed, test positive for ebola. linsey davis, abc news, new york. this is what we know about dr. spencer s past few days. he left guinea october 14th, stopped in brussels before arriving in new york on the 17th. he sticks to guidelines checking his temperature twice a day. this past tuesday he feels tired. wednesday, spencer takes the subway to brooklyn to a bowling alley and hops in a cab back home. he notifies authorities yesterday morning when he comes down with a 103 fever n also has diarrhea. at some point he also went for a three-mile jog, but health officials say there s no reason for alarm. you should stay with us here at abc news as we cover the latest ebola infection. look for more live updates in our next half hour and on america this morning. we know more about the man who stormed canada s parliament building. he was a loner who had drug problems, criminal record and converted to islam. abc s karen travers reports authorities still want to know much more about him. reporter: this dramatic video shows bystanders scrambling as michael zehaf-bibeau races toward canada s parliament. this picture authentic but from an unknown source shows him up close with that weapon. police say zehaf-bibeau came to ottawa earlier this month to get a passport. his mother saying her son wanted to travel to syria. this rampage may have been a result of him not getting that travel document. i think the passport figured prominently in his motives and i m not inside his head, but i think it was central to what was driving him. reporter: canadian authorities said they have 93 citizens under investigation or surveillance as possible terrorists. zehaf-bibeau may have had extremist views, but he was not on that watch list. had we have known that he wanted to travel to syria, then he certainly would have been. reporter: abc news learned zehaf-bibeau crossed into the u.s. on four separate occasions. canadian and u.s. officials are trying to retrace his steps to figure out where he went and who he may have met with. concerns are growing in canada and in the u.s. about homegrown terrorists who may be trying to join isis in syria or iraq. canadian officials say they still have a lot to learn about how and why michael zehaf-bibeau turned to radicalism. karen, thank you. three people are dead after a midair collision in maryland between a helicopter and private plane. all three fatalities were aboard the helicopter which was on a training flight. the two men on the plane were injured but have already been released from the hospital. they were able to deploy a parachute which lessened the plane s impact on the ground. the helicopter hit a storage facility as it came down. a powerful storm system moving through washington state yesterday spawned a tornado. it was caught on video in longview, washington. meteorologists measured it at an ef-1. it carved a path of destruction other yards wide and a mile long. luckily caused no reported injuries. on the east coast, a powerful nor easter slammed much of new england leaving its own path of destruction. abc s rob marciano was in the heart of the storm zone just outside boston and has the latest. reporter: with howling winds near hurricane strength and nearly a half a foot of rain, the northeast is getting lashed by a nor easter. conditions in peabody, massachusetts, so severe schools canceled. drivers in high water. this man had to be carried out to safety by firefighters. along the coast, boats run aground, crashing waves up to 18 feet high. dangerously close to homes. across the northeast, a tangled mess of downed trees, crushed cars and debris. thick trunk trees snapped clean in half. in connecticut, downed power lines sparking this gas fire. we periodically go and monitor it to make sure the heat from the fire isn t spreading to the home. reporter: wind and rain so severe drivers abandoned their cars. this won t be the strongest storm new englanders see this winter, but certainly a large one and slow mover. it s done its damage as far as beach erosion already. it will move out through the day an friday but not before taking some of this coastline with it. rob marciano, abc news, massachusetts. wow. that was an interesting tag there. rob is the best out in the field. worked with him for a long time. he s fantastic out there. good to see him out there. now here s a look at today s weather. the nor easter is blowing out to sea lingering behind showers across new england. heavy rain in the pacific northwest and up to six inches. cool across much of the northern half of the country. 50s and 60s. but dry conditions in the midwest. 70s and 80s. 96 degrees for phoenix. a lava flow on the move threatening thousands of residents on the big island of hawaii. the flow is less than a mile away from the town of pahoa. it s only a matter of time before residents there are forced to evacuate. they hope to give them at least three days notice. that s scary stuff. it devoured 130 acres of terrain by thursday afternoon. unstoppable, huh? what do you do? you just have to get out of the way. probably just a matter of time. hopefully everybody will be all right. our friends out in hawaii. some of the big island residents are used to it. it began in 1983. i guess this is something they know comes with paradise. comes with paradise, right? we ve got a sight out of idaho coming up. a captivating sight here. as seen from high above, it s a bird s-eye view of the corn maze at the farmstead in meridian. this year it s carved out of the wizard of oz theme. emerald city, dorothy. planning the maze takes about a year. there s no place like home, though. if i could click my heels right now. you say that every morning. coming up in the skinny, hollywood a-lister who is selling lingerie but, of all places, at target. a big scare on the highway. motorcyclist who defy police and frighten other drivers. important safety advice on 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intense moments from the highway. a video you re about to see intense moments from the highway. a video you re about to see looks like a face-off between patrol officers and the bikers who suddenly surround them. seems to be happening more and more as bikers continually try to one up each other. brandi hitt has the story. reporter: watch as a swarm of motorcycle riders takes over this northern california highway speeding past a minivan, popping wheelies, then look on the right. a california highway patrol officer, his siren on, tries to pull over the leader. but the riders taunt him, waving at him to go away. that officer eventually forced to pull over and call for backup. they can t expect that just because they re skilled at doing this type of riding they ll not have an incident. reporter: it s not the first time we ve seen this type of biker swarm. just this week, 100 riders taking over the streets of philadelphia. and in new york last year, nine bikers charged after chasing down an suv and beating the driver in front of his family. the highway patrol tells us if you find yourself surrounded and feel unsafe, don t engage. instead, stay at a safe speed or pull over. if you feel really threatened, you can always call 911. california police combing through this video for clues. trying to identify these reckless riders who could now face criminal charges. brandi hitt, abc news, los angeles. some of these cops have stopped going after motorcyclists because they can maneuver around easily. a little faster. sometimes it hurts innocent bystanders in the chase. that s a good way to go. you aren t going after guys that are hard core criminals. yes they might be doing something wrong but it looks soy irresponsible. a lot of people love it because it does look cool. it looks dangerous. these guys are skilled. but, geez, guys. we ve got the skinny coming your way. a song you love, somebody is actually apologizing for even making the song that made him famous. i m sorry to hear that. and halle berry s foray into the lingerie world. you don t want to miss that next on world news now. announcer: world news now continues after this from our abc stations. because it is. we may not recognize it from this. this is not what you remember him looking like when the song was a hit. you re beautiful was huge and put him on the map. it was in 2005. there was fallout from it being overplayed. let s play it one more time for giggles. you re beautiful you re beautiful you re beautiful it s true you remember the song? even the video here was a little annoying. standing in the snow disrobing. he s giving everything to this beautiful woman that he saw in a crowded space. that s why the song was huge but he is now saying it was a problem for his career because some of the even the record company pigeon holed him into this thing marketing towards women. then you re shutting out 50% of your possible fan base. it did well and the song still sticks. marketing also painted him to be an insanely serious person, although he considers himself anything but. blunt has a new album out and hopes it will spawn a single half as successful as you re beautiful. don t be ashamed, james. milk it for as long as it s worth. you re welcome at this desk any time. joan rivers. news about her. her daughter melissa will be inheriting the bulk of her estate after her recent and sudden passing. it s no big surprise she d be the benefactor. but the amount is impressive. over $100 million. joan who had been performing just days before her death had amassed quite a fortune. $75 million just in cash. that will gall to melissa as well, including her $35 million condo on new york s upper east side. also melissa s son cooper will receive his own share of joan s estate. it s, of course, no consolation for losing their mother. we talk about all this money but they d much rather have joan back. halle berry back in the news for her latest business venture. no stranger to baring some skin. it s only fitting she ll launch her own lingerie label. the 48-year-old actress reviving a french luxury line named scandal. there s a twist. it s going to be sold at target. i love that. very affordable price range of $7 to $18. after searching its history, researching it, she decided to relaunch it. scandal is expected to hit target next week. fans of the web series between two ferns got their first episode since last high-profile guest interview and that was president obama. it continued with a-listers. this time brad pitt. and bradley pitt, that s how they introduced him. lots of signature and awkward moments including the two playing chicken with their chewing gum. also a brief intermission from louie c.k. who did a stand-up set that didn t go over well. also not going over well was this question. tell me what it was like the first time you laid eyes on angelina. was it like one of those classical love stories like when i don t know, when ross first saw rachel? you know that show friends. have you seen that? i ll be there for you that is awesome. you might recall pitt used to be married to rachel from friends. jennifer aniston. and he played it off pretty well. i can t tell if the guests are just playing into it or some get uncomfortable and it gets awkward. come on. they knew it was coming. brad was having a good time. seemed like fun. you have to be a good sport to go on that show. you do. good job, brad. but this year, we ll fight back at the first sign of sick. no more feeling coughy, mucusy.just.yucky. whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. is this about me? am i the yucky? 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(awkwardly laughs) get out. enough s enough! d-con baits are fomulated to kill in one feeding. guaranteed. spots and residues. wow, what a difference! all right. friday. we made it. it s been a busy week keeping track of a lot of stuff, including developments with ebola, the fight against terrorism and a familiar face we haven t seen in a while. the blessed lady who covered madonna. it s all here in our friday rewind. there s a man with a rifle shooting at a bunch of people. so we you know, i yelled at all my guys. there s a guy shooting. so everyone, get down, get down. but let there be no misunderstanding. we will not be intimidated. canada will never be intimidated. after 21 days of being on that watch list, there s zero chance that any of those young men or that louise carries the ebola virus. thousands of hours have been spent in an effort to find him. we think perhaps today proved their worth. he had actually turned towards me and that s where you could see the mud on his face, what height he was based off the truck he was standing next to. could go back as far as 20 years based on some statements we have. his level of cooperation and the things he s told us would indicate possibly other victims could surface. when you van air bag that s designed to protect you that can explode into shrapnel and kill you, this is an extreme situation. he honored women s features. he honored our bodies. he wasn t afraid to pull back and let the woman be the star of the look. i was just lucky to get to wear his designs. i fell in love with my boss in a 22-year-old sort of way. it happens. but my boss was the president of the united states. like a virgin touched for the very first time you know, there was an editorial by a conservative bishops and in it they said that nun, not even the americans of sister act would have thought of such a reckless move. reckless? that s a strong word. that is strong. i love her. did you download her song yet? not yet. i will after that comment. hope you liked our look back at the week. a whole lot more where that came from. and log on to our facebook fan page, wnnfans.com. announcer: this is abc s world news now, informing insomniacs for two decades. good morning. i m reena ninan. hello. i m olmes. good morning. i m reena ninan. hello. i m t.j. holmes. here are some of the top headlines on world news now. ebola has come to new york city. a doctor just back from treating patients in west africa is now in isolation. his manhattan apartment cordoned off. he took subways, went bowling but authorities are telling new yorkers there s no need for alarm. we have live coverage ahead. the nypd is investigating a potential terror attack on a group of officers. a man reported to be a former navy sailor wielding a hatchet wounded two officers, one of them critically before he was killed in a hail of gunfire. hazing forced a pennsylvania high school football team to cancel the season with just two games left to play. an investigation fond freshmen were forced to perform humiliating acts. the coaching staff suspended. peyton manning threw three touchdown passes as the denver broncos blew past the san diego chargers, 35-21 last night. it was denver s second decisive win in five days for a 6-1 record. those some are of our top stories on this friday, october 24th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. let s start with the latest american to test positive for ebola. a new york city doctor in isolation as we speak. the doctor had been treating ebola patients in the west african nation of guinea mean was out and about in new york before his temperature spiked yesterday morning. lana zak joins us with the latest. reporter: good morning. this morning the disease detectives have identified four close contacts they ll be actively monitoring while the bowling alley is being completely scrubbed. they are taking no chances. here in new york, the words no one wanted to hear. today testing confirmed that a patient here in new york city had tested positive for ebola. reporter: inside bellevue hospital, 33-year-old dr. craig spencer who had been in guinea fighting ebola for doctors without borders. he returned to new york via brussels last week. early thursday, his temperature hit 103 degrees. one of the first signs of ebola. emts in protective gear rushed him to bellevue hospital which had spent recent weeks holding drills, preparing for the possibility of ebola striking america s largest city. is this a worst case scenario, ebola in new york? it s really not. new york city has one of the best health departmhe couy so d t couy so d t reporter: though many in the city are on edge, the governor wants to reassure the pu that it s here in new it s more frightening. new york is a dense place. a lot of people o but the more facts you know, the less frightening this situation is. reporter: even though we now know that spencer took several subway trips, we re being told not to panic about that. it is extremely unlikely he could have transmitted ebola to anybody else on those trains. any sort of transmission from a dry surface to a person has never been found. reena, t.j.? lana, how is new york better prepared for this than, let s say, dallas. reporter: new york being an international city was also preparing itself for this possibility. so it has been training all of its doctors, its health personnel, as well as its first responders. and they believe they have put very strong protocols in place, including eight different hospitals throughout the state that were ready to accept any abc s lana zak for us this morning. has a lot of people concerned. a lot of anxiety. like the governor said, the more you know, just get thatio there and we shall s r as dallas nurse nina pham continues to recover from ebola, her things for her are looking up for her beloved dog. a new k is spending his days in quarantine. the playful 1-year-old spaniel has been enjoying play time with vets in hazmat suits three times a day. so far he s tested negative ebola. the ebola epidemic is keeping west africans in this country. reverend amel sampeel and his family were supposed to return to liberia two months ago after a conference in virginia. then airlines began cnce flights wes flights wes onier to is o and now there sress to suspend tsto still a lot of questions about that gunman who stormed parliament this week. michael zehaf-bibeau had a troubled past. converted to islam recently. wanted to go to syria. still unknown why he shot and killed a soldier standing guard at a war memorial in canada or why he went to the parliament building. dramatic video shows that attack on the seat of the canadian government and the act of heroism that ended it from start to finish it took all of about 90 seconds. we ll get more from abc s dan harris. reporter: this is the moment the attack on parliament begins. the new video shows the suspect leaving his car and sprinting toward the parliament building. fd nninthe parliament building. leaving his car and sprinting fd nninthe parliament building. is r, dpi and this is what happens next. gunfire echoing off the ornate historic walls of parliament. the bullet holes were visible everywhere. amidst the chaos, prime minister stephen harper quickly whisked away. but in a small room nearby, this member of parliament was trapped with her 2-month-old baby. were you terrified? of course. i thought how can i make sure the baby is not yelling and crying. reporter: he was saved by this man. the parliament sergeant at arms kevin vickers who shot and killed michael zehaf-bibeau. look at this video of vickers in the moments afterwards, gun still in hand seemingly completely calm. on the floor of parliament, he received a standing ovation. and there was also a moment of silence for corporal nathan cirillo, a reservist, father and dog lover who was shot and killed while guarding the national war memorial moments before the gunman attacked parliament. and one more emotional moment to tell you about. the prime minister of canada taking to the floor of parliament and vowing that this country will never be intimidated by terrorists. he received a standing ovation. dan harris, abc news, ottawa, canada. three men aboard a helicopter are dead after it collided in midair with a private plane. the plane on a flight from cleveland was able to deploy a parachute to soften its fall into trees. the helicopter came straight don between two storage units. its passengers had no chance. the cause of the accident still under investigation. longview, washington, cleaning up the damage this morning left behind by a tornado. the twister with winds of up to 110 miles an hour carved a path of destruction 50 miles wide and a mile long. it uprooted trees and damaged homes. no injuries to report. on the east coast, a nor easter slammed much of new england. the storm dumped nearly a foot of rain while near hurricane strength winds generated waves along the coast up to 18 feet high. it left a tangled mess of trees, crushed cars. now a look at today s weather. the nor easter blowing out to sea leaving behind lingering rain showers across new england. the pacific northwest will see up to six inches of rain. and a stalled tropical storm system will bring downpours to south florida. 50s and 60s across much of the northern half of the country. dry conditions prevail across the midwest. 70s and 80s. off the course of north carolina, this is the party you want to go to. a great beach party, right? sharks. feeding frenzy of sharks converged on the cape lookout national seashore. new footage of that frenzy happened earlier this month. see all that? they were feeding on birds up against the shoreline. the man who shot the video said he wasn t frightened at all. incredible to watch. if that doesn t scare you, this next story should. might want to look away. i haven t seen this video yet. spiders. they were celebrating spiders, the arrival of fall with tarantulas. there s a festival north of fresno, california. 17th annual festival they are having out there. it kicks off this saturday. they are celebrating tarantulas. they bite, too, don t they? you know what, most of them cannot harm you. they look scary. i learned this in some survival training i got. the overwhelming majority of tarantulas can actually do no harm. it features a tarantula race, pumpkin carving and pizza eating contest if your stomach isn t too squeamish. they have festivals for everything out in california. there s a garlic festival. they got everything. coming up in insomniac theater, keanu reeves dodging bullets. and also a coming of age movie. the reviews just in. also safety on the football field. protecting athletes with better helmets. we ll show you how they hold up. there s a week for apple cider. it s apple cider week across the country. we re in for a sweet celebration here on world news now. announcer: world news now weather brought to you by nice & easy hair color. s? 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[ male announcer ] while identity theft can t be completely stopped, no one works harder to help protect you than lifelock. you even get a $1 million service guarantee. that s security no one can beat. you have so much to protect and nothing to lose when you call lifelock right now and get 60 days of identity theft protection risk free. that s right. 60 days risk free! use promo code: notme. order now, and get this document shredder to help keep sensitive documents out of the wrong hands. a $29 value, free! don t wait until you become the next victim! call the number on your screen for 60 days of lifelock identity theft protection risk free and get a document shredder free. use promo code: notme. call the number on your screen now. reporter: virginia tech university has tracked more than 300,000 impacts on its football team. it s the epicenter for research into safer helmets. using a simple but critical test. lift a football helmet rimmed with sensors six feet in the air and then drop it on to a rubber coated concrete and steel block. virginia tech says its test of football helmets mimics what players can face on the field. then it assigns a 1 to 5 star safety rating for each helmet tested. the school district puts out a call for proposals. it will say we only take bids for five star virginia tech helmets. reporter: they test three new helmets on the market. each boasting new technologies. two from sg and one from riddell. the sg helmets lighter, weighing half as much as other helmets. the shell is carbon fiber and kevlar. it s super light. and they use a different kind of padding on the inside. reporter: the one from riddell, the speed flex helmet. this part here deforms. theoretically that s going to help? that s their claim. reporter: the verdict five stars for all three helmets tested. virginia tech finding riddell s new flex design reducing head acceleration better than any helmet they ve ever tested. we want parents to learn that getting out of the old helmets into the new better helmets will reduce your risk. reporter: virginia tech hopes it makes football a much safer sport. jim avila, abc news, blacksburg, virginia. we love our football, but my goodness, the pounding these bodies and brains take. we re learning more and more about it. scary stuff. good to see. concussions, head injuries, side effects. i get nervous when my kid gets that age about actually letting him he ll want to play football. even soccer. concussions for girls who play soccer. it s a big deal. a lot of moms and parents are going that direction. dads, too, that don t want them to go that direction. i m hoping he s going to be a bookworm. he can be a bookworm that plays basketball. or tennis. or golf. cricket. whatever.5!hp how about apples now. he can be apple pickers. coming up, apples. how awesome they are. besides being a healthy fruit, they are a truly american fruit. we have some facts about apples. even how you can catch a buzz from them. now you ve got my attention. you re watching world news now. is a top of the weekend to-do list. thousands of families venture into the orchards. today starts national cider week. it s one of my favorites and one of the many benefits of apples. there s plenty more you may not know about apples. reporter: apples. there s more to them than meets the eye. with more than 70 million tons produced worldwide, it s one of the most valuable fruits here in the u.s. and they don t just keep the doctor away. they keep that waistline down. a new study published by science direct says apples promotes a friendly gut bacteria which stabilizes the metabolism and makes you feel full. it may stimulate the right microflora in your system that actually help you to stay thin. reporter: apple connoisseur and author of apples of uncommon character jacobson says apples are coming back in a big way. kind of a second golden age of the apple. people are paying more attention to where their food is coming from and they are looking for interesting character in their food. reporter: jacobson has profiled some 123 apple heirlooms. we re seeing apples better than we ve seen in decades. introducing new johnny appleseed hard apple cider. in the 1700s your best bet for getting drunk was apples. and we re kind of rediscovering that purpose of apples. reporter: speaking of rediscovering, we re at the farm house in new york city where we re going to learn how to make apple cider. come on. let s go. it s a little hard to walk. i don t recommend coming in heels. hi. the 200-year-old farmhouse gave a glimpse into what life is like. it s hard to think about manhattan and farming. those two things don t need to go together but that would have been the way of life for quite a few people. reporter: new york was the premier producer of cider. their cider press would have been over there. miles and miles of orchards here. manhattan was occupied by the british staying in military huts like these. what we re doing here is crushing the apple. reporter: we re just in time for their annual apple pressing. i m making apple cider. that is some good apple juice. every year fall rolls around and you have your apple traditions. it s just a really nice touchstone. like the perfect little apple. helps give a rhythm to life. and a recent scientific study found that in addition to all those health benefits, apples are also an aphrodisiac. participants who consumed one or two apples a day had increased sexual satisfaction. they link the anti-oxidants to increased blood flow and you guys can put together the rest. who knew. they said it keeps the doctor away. is it only a certain time of year people think, it s apple cider time? just during the holidays? usually thanksgiving. my family is serving apple cider. cider is making a comeback, like the hard cider. people are brewing these at very high levels. everything from your dry cider, like a fine wine, to your more tart cider. something sweet. this is made from an apple called red field which is a very rare apple. these apples are coming from apples we haven t heard or seen in a long time. this isn t cheap. this is going to cost you some. i m sure your family will love you for it. besides a white or red. or beer. it s not your wine cooler 2014. so it s cute. thank you for this. you re right. we didn t when i first read the tease and they said you d learn something about apples, i was skeptical. i learned a lot about apples in this. coming up, we ll see what s hitting the theaters this weekend. stay tuned. does your carpet ever feel rough and dirty? don t avoid it. resolve it. our new formula with a special conditioning ingredient softens your carpet with every use. because it s resolve, you know it cleans and freshens, but now it also softens. so your carpet is always inviting. resolve. a carpet that welcomes you. cat, what i say goes, and i say go to bed. the weirdest part was she had an this nightgown that was practically see-through. variety says it s easy to be distracted. it s a complex take on how teens must break away from their parents. everyone appears to be frozen in time and evil lurks behind suburbia s respected facade. one that some are speculating could become a reeves plays a title character who comes out of retirement to get back at the gangsters who pretty much mess with the wrong dude. a lot of guns, casual violence and pretty much what you d expect in a movie about a hit man. hey, john. perkins? i thought i d let myself in. i noticed. he dodges bullets, does that in a lot of movies he s been in. reviews have actually been good for this. chris of entertainment weekly says it s one of the most excitingly visceral action flicks he s seen in ages. roger moore says keanu s best role in years is shockingly one that doesn t require a lot of talking. would you see either of them? i m going to go with the keanu reeves flick. you are a big keanu reeves fan? going to see a teenager in a coming of age thing is not my thing. that s the news for this half hour. follow us on facebook, wnnfans.com. facebook, wnnfans.com. this morning on world news now ebola is in new york. a doctor who treated patients in africa returns to the city and gets sick. it s here in new york. it s more frightening. the big question for public health investigators, did the doctor spread the virus? trail of terror. the gunman who stormed canada s capital in a deadly rampage. disturbing new details. he was the kind of person that people around him wouldn t feel too comfortable hanging around. his behavior before the shooting and visits to the u.s. later, parental debate. should moms and dads spank their children? it s an age-old question about punishment and why it s heated up again this week. it s friday, october 24th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good friday morning to you all. i m t.j. holmes. i m reena ninan. we begin with the newest ebola patient. ebola has made its way to new york city. a doctor in the city fresh from a trip to west africa where he was treating patients is now confirmed he s stricken with the virus. a federal ebola s.w.a.t. team was dispatched to manhattan. that doctor now in isolation as health officials scramble to retrace his steps. lana zak is joining us with the latest. reporter: good morning. many are concerned this young doctor went bowling, even rode on the new york public subways. the question now is, when did he become contagious? here in new york, the words no one wanted to hear. today, testing confirmed that a patient here in new york city had tested positive for ebola. reporter: inside bellevue hospital, 33-year-old dr. craig spencer who had been in guinea fighting ebola for doctors without borders. he returned to new york city via brussels last week. early thursday his temperature hit 103 degrees. one of the first signs of ebola. emts in protective gear rushed him to bellevue hospital which spent recent weeks holding drills, preparing for the possibility of ebola striking america s largest city. is this a worst case scenario, ebola in new york? it s really not. new york city has one of the best health departments in the country. so they are better prepared than i would think just about any place in the u.s. reporter: though many in the city are on edge, the governor wants to reassure the public. that it s here in new york, it s more frightening. new york is a dense place. a lot of people on top of each other, but the more facts you know, the less frightening this situation is. reporter: a team of disease detectives are now tracing all of spencer s possible contacts. and we know at least one of those contacts, his fiance, is now in quarantine in bellevue hospital. live in new york, lana zak, abc news. reena, t.j.? we know this is incredibly dense city. a lot of people in this city. a lot of concern. he was on planes, trains and automobiles. so what is the threat? what are the chances? that s the question everyone else has. what are the chances this man that was moving around so much could possibly have infected other people? the department of health identified four close contacts that they are actually actively watching. as far as the cab driver they ve been told me and his passengers are not at any risk of contracting ebola. i know the 4.3 million new yorkers who ride the subway every day are sure to be wondering whether or not they ve contracted ebola. i m told by all the experts that it s very, very unlikely that any of them have. all the experts feel like they ve really found this early and have been able to isolate him. how likely is this to spread to other cities besides new york? new york is in a unique position because it knows that it receives so many international travelers. they ve really been preparing for this sort of possibility. and they really think they ve managed to get it on time. of course, all the experts still say that it is very likely that the united states will continue to see other ebola cases but that they hopefully will be isolated and that those that those people can be isolated within these special hospitals to prevent an outbreak from occurring in the united states. thank you so much, lana zak reporting from new york. stay with abc news as we cover the latest ebola case. look for updates on abcnews.com and more live coverage on america this morning and good morning america. new video of the ottawa gunman running into parliament as bystanders raced for cover. he s already shot and killed a young canadian soldier at the war memorial and with guards firing at him he ran down a hall past rooms filled with members of parliament. one had her 2-month-old baby with her. i was terrified, of course. the first thing i thought when i was sitting is how can i make sure the baby is not yelling and crying? the attack was ended by parliament s sergeant at arms who shot and killed the intruder. seen moments after the shooting, canadian authorities say the gunman acted alone in both attacks. the gunman 32-year-old michael zehaf-bibeau was a loner, troubled and frequent run-ins with police. brian ross reports the gunman was apparently on a suicide mission. reporter: 15 years ago, michael bibeau was a chubby student at a catholic high school. he was shot dead, carrying out a one-man suicide mission. this picture, which is authentic but from an unknown source, shows he was armed with a small caliber winchester hunting rifle as he stormed parliament, apparently upset because he d not received a passport to head to syria. i think the passport figured prominently in his motives. reporter: bibeau s rise to jihad began after he left the catholic high school out of montreal in 1999. over the next ten years he was little more than one of life s losers, a petty criminal and drug user, often homeless. his conversion to islam led him to this mosque outside vancouver three years ago where he was remembered as troubled. he was the kind of person that people around him wouldn t feel too comfortable hanging around. reporter: even without a passport, he was able to cross the border into the u.s. four times. most recently last year at a time authorities say he d already become radicalized. bibeau s parents said they had not seen their son for five years until his mother had lunch with him last week. in a statement they said they are cry, not for their son but for the soldier their son killed. brian ross, abc news, new york. new york police say terrorism may have been the motive behind a grisly attack on a group of patrol officers in queens. a man wielding a hatchet attacked four police officers in the street wounding two of them. one critically before he was shot dead in a hail of gunfire by two other officers. a bystander was also shot and wounded. the attacker is identified as 32-year-old zale thompson who once served in the navy. the manhunt finally over for murder suspect led out of a maryland prison by mistake. rodriguez was captured near his home in baltimore just blocks from the murder scene. he was accidentally allowed to walk free a week ago while awaiting trial. corrections officials took two days to notice the error. they d confused his old case with the current more serious charges. another high school football season has been canceled because of hazing. school administrators say the hazing at central bucks high school near philadelphia occurred during the preseason. investigators describe the incidents as humiliating initiation rights. varsity and junior varsity coaches have also been suspended pending further investigation. the team had two games left on the schedule. the football season is ending early for a colorado high school football team. this time injuries and a lack of players are to blame. cheyenne mountain high school started with 41 varsity players but ended with just 12 healthy players. the school ended last week s game early and will forfeit the final two games of the season. we probably started with 30 less kids this year, so that i m sure contributed but never seen never been in the situation around a program or working with a program where we couldn t finish a season. the colorado springs team ends with one loss and one win, nine losses. it was shut out five times. now turning to those air bags that can explode in the front seat of your car. the japanese company that makes them sat the center of a preliminary investigation. the lawmakers want to expand that to some 30 million vehicles. the recall could become the largest in history. manufacturers could take years to replace all those air bags. investors seem to be losing patience with amazon. amazon s stock lost more than 10% of its value after the e-commerce giant announced its worst quarterly loss in 14 years. amazon has been responding loads of money on products and services and its kindle fire smartphone has been $170 million disappointment. wall street was expecting a much smaller loss. wall street did like the news that more than 100 sears and kmart stores will close and lay off thousands of workers, some before the holidays. sears disputes the report from a financial tracking service, although it didn t fully deny it. the struggling retailer will disclose details next month about how many stores will close and where. topping our health headlines, continuing our theme here of giving you news of why it s good to drink. raise your glass once again this weekend. it may help your memory. researchers found light drinking light drinking after the age of 60 okay. i missed that detail. i have to wait until 60? may help maintain cognitive health. it helps the hippocampus, the brain s memory muscle. two drinks a day for men, one for women. the kind of alcohol doesn t really matter. what was it yesterday? beer is good for you if you are trying to have a child? yes, procreate. and there you go. good for your memory as well. happening today in london, the auction of an extremely rare bottle of 100-year-old champagne. it s not just the age here that makes it so remarkable. this stuff is special because of where it was harvested. the champagne region in france back in 1914. the sweetest of summers that s yielded the sweetest of grapes. and how much is it? it s expected to fetch more than $6,000. really? maybe someone like you who lives in the fancy apartment that you talk about all the time. do you know my apartment right now is around the corner from bellevue where the ebola patient is? i kid you not. we have changed our opinion on your apartment now. coming up in the mix, combining your favorite ingredients from doughnut bacon cheeseburger to make one treat. you ll hate this actually. you ll need a workout to burn off those calories. how about a trampoline routine. the ups and downs later on world news now. announcer: world news now weather brought to you by united health care. we do? 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reporter: in many cases highlighting a generational divide. those who spanked in the past saying it s fine for the present. i love this because i used to beat you with it. reporter: experts say that tradition may not be the best way to teach your kids a lesson. our discipline approaches should be around giving kids practice building skills, giving them practice doing things the right way. reporter: a funny take i told you to spank him, not crush his spirit. reporter: on a serious issue. mara schiavocampo, abc news, new york. crushing his spirit. that s key. that s an important point. you know, to each his and her own. lord knows i got whoopings often growing up and, you know, is there a is there a statute of limitations? well, that explains a lot. i turned out all right. really? apparently i can have my parents arrested. in the 80s they d send us home with these buttons, the child abuse hot line. i threatened my mom a time or two i was going to call the number. did you get spankings? no. now that explains a lot. two different parenting tactics. coming up, the latest exercise craze. working out on a trampoline. is this effective or just a gimmick. either way you look at it, it looks like fun to me. it s our try-day friday. in our next half hour, some intense high-speed moments caught on tape. bikers facing off with highway police. it s happening more and more often. we take a look at an alarming trend. you re watching world news born from 1945 through 1965 have the highest rates of hepatitis c, but most don t know they re infected? people can live for decades without symptoms, but over time hepatitis c can cause serious health problems. if you were born during these years, the cdc now recommends that you get a blood test for hepatitis c. so talk to your doctor and find out if you have hepatitis c. it could save your life. know more. the latestxercis the latest exercise craze you ll always hear about the new and creative ways people are trying to stay in shape. this next one seems like more than just a trend. it s called jump life. the workouts take place on trampolines. abc s lifestyle and travel editor genevieve shaw brown shows us how it s done on this try-day friday. reporter: workout warriors looking for a high energy fast-paced routine to help them reach their fitness goal? look no further. it s time to take a leap of faith on this latest fitness craze. literally. what has these fitness fanatics jumping for joy? the fun. they say they re working out but having such a great time. people leave with smiles on their face because they feel like not only did they work out, they come out all sweaty but they also feel like a kid again. reporter: i didn t want to jump to conclusions, so i went to jump life gym in manhattan to check it out. i m thinking this will be like jane fonda goes clubbing on a backyard trampoline. and that s pretty much what i get. you can lose anywhere like up to 600 calories. depending on your height, weight, intensity you take the class to. reporter: this major workout even safe for people who have been injured. it s low impact. a lot of people who have existing injuries like knee problems, back problems, find it a very, very comfortable way of working out and getting their fitness in. reporter: and it turns out people all over the world are jumping on this workout craze. berlin and frankfurt and hamburg, everywhere it s starting now. great energy. great vibes. great music and it s just a fun workout. genevieve shaw brown, abc news, new york. what are you grumbling about? 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[ male announcer ] don t wait. call today to request your free decision guide and find the aarp medicare supplement plan to go the distance with you. go long. now it s time for the mix. i love it when women or men overcome such adversity that people never expect them to. meet 25-year-old amanda perla. a huge mets fan and wanted to be a cover model for this calendar that is all about mets fans. and, boy, did she do it. she was wheelchair bound after a serious accident seven years ago that broke her neck. a driver fell asleep. her mother said you should go for it. and she made it to the top 31. then it went to the voters and she got the top votes bringing in 4,000 of them. she chose march. march is her birthday. she is in the calendar for the mets fans. mets fan, huh? the seven line calendar is what it s called out there. mets fan. poor thing, though. she looks beautiful. she does look great. i haven t lived in new york long but at least i know that much. quickly, i know you don t like this story but i put this picture up. combine two things bad for you. doughnuts and cheeseburgers. have a doughnut burger. this is out of philadelphia. they have a lot of different varieties of burgers. i m trying to get the caloric intake on that one. whatever it is, i will take it. bring the tums. politics and foreign wars all the weather all the scores that s the world news polka tapes that roll in way too slow stuff you saw on koppel s show it s late at night you re wide awake and you re not wearing pants so grab your world news now mug and everybody dance have some fun be a pal every anchor guy and gal do the world news polka everybody. that s the world news polka insomniacs only. that s the world news polka who cares what the bosses think they re a goofy crew if your neighbors call the cops here s all you have to do when they yell it s half past three tell them it s news to me that s the world news polka they make us work the graveyard shift that s why we go for broke why not tune in abc and join our little joke five whole days every week we re here with tongue in cheek and the world news polka not lip-synced it s the world news da, da, da, da polka this morning on world news now ebola infection. a new yorktor wh this morning on world news now ebola infection. a new york doctor who treated patients in africa gets sick. the big questions this morning about his condition and if the virus was spread in the city. extreme weather from a rare tornado in the pacific northwest to powerful winds and downpours in the northeast. it s mother nature s october fury. fearless bikers. defiance on the highway after cops try to stop cyclists on a wild ride. what to do if you get swarmed by motorcycles in your car. you re beautiful you re beautiful it s true sorry song. james blunt and his hit single. he s apologizing saying the song is anything but beautiful. that s in the skinny on this friday, october 24th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. tell them what i really like that song. you really like that? still to this day? yeah, i think it is a nice song. he s even saying it s not a good song. well, maybe he ll change his mind after we again? discuss it later. hello. i m t.j. holmes alongside reena ninan. the big story, this just broke just a few hours ago here in new york. now it has a lot of folks concerned. we re going to kick off this half hour. the latest on the ebola case. the doctor in new york city testing positive for the deadly virus after returning from west africa. a 33-year-old doctor treating ebola patients in guinea. one of the countries devastated by the disease. he is now in isolation at a manhattan hospital. his girlfriend quarantined. the doctor rode the subway, took a car service here in new york just the night before he fell ill. abc s linsey davis has more on how this all unfolded. reporter: inside this ambulance rushing to bellevue hospital, 33-year-old craig spencer. a doctors without borders physician suffering from a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms. a confirmed case of ebola right in the heart of new york city. i know it s a frightening situation, but the more facts you know, the less frightening this situation is. reporter: dr. spencer had been in guinea, one of three hot zone countries. last thursday he flew home connecting through brussels before arriving at jfk airport. he d been monitoring his temperature and reported his fever. police officers in masks, neighbors anxious. a local councilman trying to calm fears. frankly, people in the neighborhood are scared, and some of them are panicked. i had one gentleman who wouldn t even shake my hand because he was scared. reporter: the health department says a team of disease detectives immediately began to actively trace all of the patient s contacts to identify anyone who may be at potential risk. the patient is now in isolation. the health department has a team of disease detectives who have been at work tracing all of the patient s contacts, and we are prepared to quarantine contacts as necessary. reporter: in recent days, bellevue hospital has been holding drills in case a possible ebola patient comes through their door. those plans going into motion. it took only a few hours to determine that spencer did, indeed, test positive for ebola. linsey davis, abc news, new york. this is what we know about dr. spencer s past few days. he left guinea october 14th, stopped in brussels before arriving in new york on the 17th. he sticks to guidelines checking his temperature twice a day. this past tuesday he feels tired. wednesday, spencer takes the subway to brooklyn to a bowling alley and hops in a cab back home. he notifies authorities yesterday morning when he comes down with a 103 fever and also has diarrhea. at some point he also went for a three-mile jog, but health officials say there s no reason for alarm. you should stay with us here at abc news as we cover the latest ebola infection. look for more live updates in our next half hour and on america this morning. we know more about the man who stormed canada s parliament building. he was a loner who had drug problems, criminal record and converted to islam. abc s karen travers reports authorities still want to know much more about him. reporter: this dramatic video shows bystanders scrambling as michael zehaf-bibeau races toward canada s parliament with a small caliber hunting rifle. this picture authentic but from an unknown source shows him up close with that weapon. police say zehaf-bibeau came to ottawa earlier this month to get a passport. his mother telling authorities her son wants to travel to syria. this rampage may have been a result of him not getting that travel document. i think the passport figured prominently in his motives and his i m not inside his head, but i think it was central to what was driving him. reporter: canadian authorities said they have 93 citizens under investigation or surveillance as possible terrorists. zehaf-bibeau may have had extremist views, but he was not on that watch list. had we have known that he wanted to travel to syria, then he certainly would have been. reporter: abc news learned zehaf-bibeau crossed into the u.s. on four separate occasions. canadian and u.s. officials are trying to retrace his steps to figure out where he went and who he may have met with. concerns are growing in canada and in the u.s. about homegrown terrorists who may be trying to join isis in syria or iraq. canadian officials say they still have a lot to learn about how and why michael zehaf-bibeau turned to radicalism. t.j., reena? karen, thank you. three people are dead after a midair collision in maryland between a helicopter and private plane. all three fatalities were aboard the helicopter which was on a training flight. the two men on the plane were injured but have already been released from the hospital. they were able to deploy a parachute which lessened the plane s impact on the ground. the helicopter hit a storage facility as it came down. a powerful storm system moving through washington state yesterday spawned a tornado. the funnel cloud was caught on video in longview, washington. meteorologists measured it at an ef-1. winds up to 110 miles an hour. it carved a path of destruction 50 miles wide and a mile long. luckily caused no reported injuries. on the east coast, a powerful nor easter slammed much of new england leaving its own path of destruction. abc s rob marciano was in the heart of the storm zone just outside boston and has the latest. reporter: with howling winds near hurricane strength and nearly a half a foot of rain, the northeast is getting lashed by a nor easter. conditions in peabody, massachusetts, so severe schools canceled. drivers there in high water. this man had to be carried out to safety by firefighters. along the coast, boats run aground, crashing waves up to 18 feet high. dangerously close to homes. across the northeast, a tangled mess of downed trees, crushed cars and debris. thick trunk trees snapped clean in half. in connecticut, downed power lines sparking this gas fire. we periodically go and monitor it to make sure the heat from the fire isn t affecting the home or spreading to it. reporter: luckily, no injuries. in rhode island, wind and rain so severe, drivers abandoned their cars. this won t be the strongest storm new englanders see this winter, but certainly a large one and slow mover. it s done its damage as far as beach erosion already. it will move out through the day on friday but not before taking some of this coastline with it. rob marciano, abc news, massachusetts. wow. that was an interesting tag there. rob is the best out in the field. worked with him for a long time. he s fantastic out there. good to see him out there. hope he s in a warmer area right now. now here s a look at today s weather. the nor easter is blowing out to sea lingering behind showers across new england. heavy rain in the pacific northwest and up to six inches. cool across much of the northern half of the country. 50s and 60s. but dry conditions in the midwest. 70s and 80s. 96 degrees for phoenix. a lava flow on the move threatening thousands of residents on the big island of hawaii. it s advanced more than five football fields in the past 36 hours. the flow is less than a mile away from the town of pahoa. authorities say it s only a matter of time before residents there are forced to evacuate. they hope to give them at least three days notice. we see these pretty pictures, but that s scary stuff out there. it devoured 130 acres of terrain by thursday afternoon. unstoppable, huh? what do you do? you just have to get out of the way. probably just a matter of time. hopefully everybody will be all right. our friends out in hawaii. some of the big island residents are used to it. it s been erupting it began in 1983. i guess this is something they know comes with paradise. comes with paradise, right? we ve got a sight out of idaho coming up. a captivating sight here. as seen from high above, it s a bird s-eye view of the corn maze at the farmstead in meridian. this year it s carved out of the wizard of oz theme. all right. okay. i see it now. emerald city, dorothy. lots of detail. planning the maze takes about a year. i would imagine so. there s no place like home, though. if i could click my heels right now. you say that every morning. coming up in the skinny, hollywood a-lister who is selling lingerie but, of all places, at target. first, a big scare on the highway. motorcyclist who defy police and frighten other drivers. important safety advice on the road. you re watching world news now. announcer: world news now announcer: world news now weather brought to you by metamucil multi-health. there are two reasons why i need to keep an eye on my health. ugh! we won! that s why i take metabiotic, a daily probiotic. with 70% of your immune system in your gut, new multi-health metabiotic with bio-active 12 helps maintain digestive balance and is proven to help support a healthy immune system i take care of myself, so i can take care of them. experience the meta effect with our new multi-health wellness line and see how one small change can lead to good things. does your carpet ever feel rough and dirty? 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even the video here was a little annoying. standing in the snow disrobing. he s giving everything to this beautiful woman that he saw in a crowded space. that s why the song was huge, but he is now saying it was a problem for his career because some of the even the record company pigeon holed him into this thing marketing towards women. then you re shutting out 50% of your possible fan base. it did well and the song still sticks. he also points out that marketing also painted him to be an insanely serious person, although he considers himself anything but. blunt has a new album out and hopes it will spawn a single half as successful as you re beautiful. don t be ashamed, james. milk is as long as you can. a lot of people have a lot of apologizing to do for a lot of songs if this is the direction we re going to go. joan rivers. news about her. her daughter melissa will be inheriting the bulk of her estate after her recent and sudden passing. as melissa is joan s only child, it s no big surprise she d be the benefactor. but the amount is impressive. over $100 million. joan who had been performing just days before her death had amassed quite a fortune. $75 million just in cash. that will all go to melissa as well, including her $35 million condo on new york s upper east side. an insider divulged this information also saying that melissa s son cooper will receive his own share of joan s estate. it s, of course, no consolation for losing their mother. we talk about all this money, but they d much rather have joan back. halle berry back in the news for her latest business venture. no stranger to baring some skin. it s only fitting she ll launch her own lingerie label. the 48-year-old actress reviving a french luxury line named scandal. there s a twist. it s going to be sold at target. i love that. for the very affordable price range of $7 to $18. berry discovered the label while shopping in paris. after searching its history, researching it, she decided to relaunch it. scandal is expected to hit target next week. it s target and scandal. fans of the web series between two ferns got their first new episode since last high-profile guest interview and that was president obama. it continued with a-listers. this time brad pitt. and introduced as bradley pitt that s how they introduced him. the satire was heavy with lots of signature and awkward moments including the two playing chicken with their chewing gum. also a brief intermission from louie c.k. who did a stand-up set that didn t go over well. also not going over well was this question. tell me what it was like the first time you laid eyes on angelina. was it like one of those classical love stories like when i don t know, when ross first saw rachel? you know that show friends. have you seen that? i ll be there for you that is awesome. you might recall pitt used to be married to rachel from friends. jennifer aniston. and he played it off pretty well. i can t tell if the guests are just playing into it or some get uncomfortable and it gets awkward. come on. they knew it was coming. brad was having a good time. seemed like fun. you have to be a good sport to go on that show. you do. good job, brad. but this year, we ll fight back at the first sign of sick. no more feeling coughy, mucusy.just.yucky. whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. is this about me? am i the yucky? 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they needed to remove bone and go into the area around the brain. i ll just show you. it takes you into this area in the front of the brain here on the left side, again, as you know. so, whether it was on top of the brain or in the brain, whatever this abnormality was, they re calling it a blood clot, we don t know. it did involve going into the brain. five centimeters is about two inches. from here to here. pretty sizeable, what we re talking about. we don t know what this is. the pathologists have to look at this under a microscope and determine for sure what it is. it could be a blood clot, which would probably be the best news of all but pathologists want to be sure it s not something else as well. what are the important things that would lead neurosurgeons like yourself to look for something like this? you won t typically scan for something like this. i ve read a lot about the fact that he has had this history of melanoma that can cause bleeding in the area. is that why they would have been there s anything that indicates this could be melanoma. you try to remove this early and aggressively. very quickly before you go you have to go to your other job at the hospital, real importance is where it is. is it between the skull and membrane that covers the brain or further in? we just don t know. we don t know that. but i think even upstream from that, if this is melanoma, i think that s going to raise a series of questions is is this adequately treated now? is he going to need further treatment? will that delay his recovery? even if it s outside the membrane, as you point out, of the brain, that will raise all those questions for him, poppy. dr. sanjay gupta, thank you very much for the expertise. appreciate it. here to discuss the politics health care and also wishing senator john mccain a quick recovery. washington post political blog the fix and patrick healy political analyst. nice to have you here. amber, let s listen to republican senator susan collins speaking to jake yesterday about where things stand in her mind. there are about eight to ten republican senators who have serious concerns about this bill. and so at the end of the day, i don t know whether it will pass. amber, it s interesting. you say she says seemingly the more time that passes the harder this is getting for mcconnell. you say this delay could be a blessing in disguise. why? i think it could allow mcconnell to rally more votes. as mj said it is really, really tight right now. they can afford basically no one else to come out against this bill. that being said, that is one option and one perspective to look at this delay in the vote. senator susan collins is speaking a degree of truth when axios had an interesting note this morning. they quote a senior administration official as saying if at the end of the weekend nobody else has jumped out of the box, that s a win. that s a pretty low bar for a win. that s a pretty low bar, poppy, but it s true. the governors meeting in providence this weekend came out many of them came out very strongly against this bill, including republican governors from vermont, nevada, like you said, brian sand dbls oval, governor of kentucky had concerns. kind of all over the map. what s interesting, poppy, a month or so ago, you had two governors in particular, republican governor of ohio, john kasich and the democratic governor of colorado, john hickenlooper who made strong statements against this bill. now you re getting many more governors sort of coming to the fore. the problem here for mitch mcconnell and the senate leadership in terms of the delay of the vote is that if this vote is delayed one or two weeks that only gives more time for people who rely on obamacare in states like nevada to keep up the pressure on governor sandoval, on senator dean heller and to oppose this bill. and you don t really have forces on the other side who are coming out in those one or two weeks and saying, oh, okay. these are all the great reasons why this isn t going to affect medicaid recipients in a state like nevada. right. you re seeing such an escalation here. so, shannon, this white house needs a win. they re having a hard time getting a legislative win on health care. we ll see what happens. this delay yet again. and we ll see what the reaction is to the cbo score when that comes later this week. at the same time, despite the president tweeting otherwise, this is a very bad approval rating number that has just come down in the latest polling for the president. 36%, according to the abc news/washington post poll, lowest since modern polling began 70 years ago. now he goes into his second six months. what do you do with this if you re sitting, strategizing at the white house? as you mentioned, getting legislative wins points on the board will be difficult at this point because that low approval rating gives him very little leverage in congress. the president with 36% approval rating, you can t twist many arms with that. it s going to be difficult in congress. he picked a lot of the low-hanging fruit he can pick legislatively with these executive orders, with these regulatory rollbacks he has done. so now i think they turn overseas. they ve been trying to focus on isis, trying to take the message there, on improving relations with certain countries but they re also going to try to get the messaging back on their own turf. it s made in america week at the white house. they ve been doing these theme weeks like infrastructure week and energy week that haven t really gone over. they have another opportunity here. and remember back to november, december timeframe. president donald trump president-elect donald trump was going after companies on twitter. he was going after ford for sending jobs overseas. he was going after boeing for charging a lot for these fighter jets. that was an effective message. and even democrats then were afraid of that guy. and they like that guy who goes after companies and create jobs. he can get back on comfortable turf there. the problem become then his companies, the trump organization companies and ivanka truch companies with all the things made overseas come into the spotlight and a lot of questions they need to answer there. patrick, let me get your take if you dig into other new poll williing numbers. abc/washington post poll really telling. yes, but the president is doing very well among his base and counties that flipped for him. here are the counties that flipped from obama to president trump and now holds only 44% approval rating, a 51% disapproval rating. is that more telling than the overall approval rating number? yeah. that s clearly bad news. these are the counties that the white house is very much looking at, both for the 2018 midterms, congressional midterms, the degree to which president trump is an albatross around the neck of candidates and then certainly 2020. president trump is already very seriously taking his re-election prospects. and he looked with a real point of pride at counties in states like michigan and pennsylvania that he was able to flip to himself from obama. those are states that he very much wants to carry again. it s kind of an open question. another danger related to that is that president obama excuse me, president trump is also playing he s making some veiled political threats to republican senators who aren t necessarily getting on board with him. jeff flake in arizona is one who president trump has been meeting with possible candidates to jef. you re seeing trouble he may get into in states with the senate republican caucus, if seen as going after his members. it s a thinning base of support. a hard way to start your second week of the year. they re trying to start with these theme weeks which we ll talk about in a moment. thank you. the white house is unveiling more of these theme weeks. will russia and the controversy surrounding it trump all? and a violent weekend in chicago. anti-violent activist, one of the several people shot and killed in weekend alone. dozens more wounded. we ll have a live report coming up. sexual harassment claim continue to rock silicon valley. now survivors and their candid stories. it was the moment that i felt my leg being grabbed under the table that i thought holy moly this is real. thank you for being here. thank you, poppy. thank you for your service. good morning. let me get your reaction to the republican chair of the house oversight committee, trey gowdy. let me quote him. this drip, drip, drip about russia is undermining the credibility of this administration. is he right? is it hurting the credibility of the administration? i think in many circles, yes. listen, it s important that the white house certainly pivot. you just said that they re going to be doing that to talk about what the priorities are for the administration. there s also been great work that s been done both on capitol hill and with the presidency. but it is important that they sort of pivot and get off of this. let s face it. there are self inflicted wounds here, too. at the same time there s a lot of hysteria and overplaying from the other side, too. i talked to a lot of folks on the street, regular american folks who may not watch cable news, for example. and they re not so swept up and they re not so hell bent on every single thing being a russian conspiracy. they want to see results. but, congressman, you would agree, surely, your constituents care that american elections are secure. i know that to be the case. yes. because i hear that very often. let me get your reaction. let me touch on that quickly. people are concerned about the integrity of elections tochlt see a russian conspiracy on every single corner, they are not. they think it s overplayed. you said, look, there are self-inflicted wounds here and also that there s some hysteria. i know you mean, for example, some democrats calling this treasonous. of course. you said that before on our air. yes. here is what conservative columnist and fox news contributor charles krauthammer writes. it s entered a new phase this is not hearsay, not fake news, not unsourced leaks. what donald junior and kushner and manafort did may not be criminal but it s not only stupid, but deeply wrong, a fundamental violation of any kind of civic honor. it s troubling, it s inappropriate. i said that also, too. so is the dnc, trying to get information from ukraine. those are all inappropriate. that s not apples to apples. frankly, you know that. that is not the highest levels of the ukrainian government meeting with members of the clinton campaign. that never happened. so i m asking you, do you believe that it is a violation of civic honor to have had this meeting, knowing that it was from a concerted russian government effort? what i said was and certainly something that someone else did doesn t excuse behavior of someone else. let s get that clear. but sometimes we tend to focus on what s just going on now and not other facts as well. i said it was inappropriate. i think it s inappropriate. i think it was a grave mistake. i think the administration, if anyone had contact with russians or anywhere, get it out there. get it all out there, just like chairman gowdy said before. no more drip, drip. get it out there. do you think it s believable, then? the ranking democrat on the senate intelligence committee, mark warner, i m sure you heard this also, he thinks it s, quote, unbelievable that neither the son nor the son-in-law ever shared that information with the candidate, with their dad. do you buy it? do you think it s believable that kushner and donald junior never went to the president with this? i really don t know. think about when this was. think about what the context was. this was before all the russia hysteria. this was in june. i know they had many meetings. i do think my senator, who i have respect for we talked about this i think he s making a huge mistake in terms of what people really care about. that s the integrity of these elections. there has to be a policy that gets put forth by democrats, by republicans that deters and makes it very clear to other nations that they will not, in fact, mess or meddle within our elections. hysteria as well, too. i think he s overplaying it. i really want to get to health care but would like an answer to that question if irs. which one? i m sorry. do you believe that the son or son-in-law jared kushner went to the pre president? i believe that the meeting was inappropriate. i said that before. that s not whatty i asked. do you believe that they didn t tell their father about this? do you believe that or not? i have no idea. let move on then. vice president mike pence and representative susan kolins on very different pages when it comes to the medicaid portion of the senate s new health care bill. listen to both of them. president trump and i believe that the senate health care bill strengthens and secures medicaid for the neediest in our society. this bill would impose fundamental, sweeping changes in the medicaid program and those include very deep cuts. that would affect some of the most vulnerable people in our society. you can t take more than $700 billion out of the medicaid program and not think that it s going to have some kind of effec effect. so does it help the most needy, as the vice president said or does it hurt the most vulnerable as the republican senator says? two things. they ll have to work through their differences, of course, to get something in the senate. virginia didn t expand medicaid because we knew it started out at 5% of our budget, at 22% now and unsustainable trajectory. there s not a sane person on capitol hill who would tell you that medicaid is on a sustainable path. furthermore, you have a weird distortion, a bad one, that has medicaid expansionist states and medicaid expansion reimburses able-bodied childless adults at a rate of 90% as opposed to 50% or 60% for those who the program was actually designed to deal with, the needy, poor kids, pregnant women and such. the most vulnerable of our population, i believe, to get in on a sustainable track, you do have to slow the growth of medicaid so we, in fact, can deal with the most needy of our population. so you don t think sorry, i can t hear you. can you hear me now? okay. it s like a verizon commercial. so you don t think that the reduction in growth is $772 billion reduction in medicaid expansion growth for these states over a decade is going to hurt people in senator collins is saying it hurts the most vulnerable. you argue that will not happen. despite your state not expanding, i m just asking, is that what you re comfortable with for folks across america to rely on it? there will be states who did expand who will fight against that, who did they re sort of incentivized to put people on the rolls. you have to get a handle on this or will end up hurting more people if you don t deal with the growth of medicaid, an unsustainable rate. here is what i m not done yet. okay. look, you also have to deal with the fact that we are hurting families across this country. there s a huge swath of families who have way high deductible. their premiums are insane. they re paying more than they pay on their mortgages. we re hurting more people right now by not getting this done. i sat with those families. i sat with a couple in kentucky who said it s over $800 a month for us. we can t afford it. i hear you. look at these new numbers from this abc poll that are revealing. half of americans still want obamacare, just in a little bit different form. 50% want obamacare. 24% want the gop proposals that are out there right now. outside of what it takes to get the wins on this for senate republicans, what about what the american people want? that s double the amount of people that like the gop plan that say stick with what we ve got and, of course, there are revisions that need to happen. uh-huh. here are a couple of things. obamacare has been with us eight years now. good things have come out of it, like pre-existing conditions, letting folks stay on their parents plan until they re 26 years old. we re not changing that. number one, we could do a better job explaining to the american people our philosophical differences. aca is one-size-fit-all washington. health care is consumed at the local level. we believe it should be the states and local localities that should be dealing with that much closer to the patient themselves. i think that we have to do something about it. aca is fundamentally flawed. i think that health care before could have been changed or tweaked, if you will, to deal with the issues, good things that came out of the aca. i think it s fundamentally flawed and to not act is wrong. i think leaders must act. dems should come to the table, too, and work with us to fundamentally fix aca and health care. i think americans would really welcome bipartisanship in washington. congressman scott taylor, thank you for joining us. thank you, poppy. appreciate it. thank you for your service to this country. thank you. all right. so, if the russians that donald trump jr. met with had this motive and were so bad why did the secret service allow the meeting to happen, right? that s the latest defense out of the white house. issue is, secret service wasn t even protecting donald trump jr. at the time they came back and pushed hard on that one. 7 and. 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as far as you can go is, well, it wasn t illegal. they re sort of like, okay we can do it again. it wasn t a high cream and misdemeanor justifying impeachment. that s the next line of defense. that s true but i mean, they do have some good arguments. it is still not clear whether any crime was committed, even if you believe more sinister interpretations of what the trump campaign was doing. right. we hear this word over and over again, collusion, collusion, which is sort of agreements between the campaign and the russian government, is not a crime. right. under most circumstances. and there s no crime except under anti-trust law involving coll collusion. what is a value to the campaign. i hear you. the white house now add ace new guy. from all i ve read, very high-powered, experience white collar defense attorney, ty cobb. how does this change their approach? is this pushing kosowitz out? i don t know whether he s in or out. that s beyond my knowledge at this point. the purpose of hiring ty cobb is to keep an organized face on all these inquiries. that doesn t answer whether, a, he will have access to donald trump to get answers when questions come up and, b, whether trump will continue tweeting on his own, stuff that is relevant to the investigation and whether cobb will have any influence on the president s statements or his tweeting. no one has before. no one has before. the record is not good. maybe you would, jeffrey toobin. i am out of that business. i am a journalist now. because you re here. exactly. jeffrey toobin, thank you very much. ahead for us, deadly weather. one second a family is spending their saturday swim nth arizona river. next, a flash flood carries trees and rocks right at them, killing at least nine. that s next. for your heart. your joints. or your digestion. so why wouldn t you take something for the most important part of you. your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is now the number one selling brain health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember. theso when i need to book tant to mea hotel room,tion. i want someone that makes it easy. booking.com gets it. and with their price match, i know i m getting the best price every time. visit booking.com. booking.yeah! chad myers. how could this happen with no warning? it happens every single day in the desert in the summer. it s called monsoon season flash flooding. it is the most dangerous, most tragic thing that happens in the desert. you think it isn t going to rain. it rains on top of a hill. that water washing downhill. it s not even raining where you are. it rained up there. you don t expect it to come downhill. and it does. the rain came through payson, all the way down through tucson who had their first wet day in almost half a year. in fact, 138 days ago was the last time it truly rained in phoenix. the rain was on top of the mountain. it rained hard. probably an inch of rain. something else on top of this mountain, about a month ago, a wildfire. a wildfire scorched the ground that this water, this rain was raining on. that wildfire makes the ground what we call hydrophobic. it makes it like asphalt. the rain will not soak in. even the rain that we re going to see today. here is the forecast for today. it will not soak in. so, here is the southwest. it happens every summer. it is called monsoon season. people drive from phoenix. they go up here to the water wheel. and then you take that waterwheel, climb up the canyon, a beautiful cool little splash here. back into the canyon through here, where the cold spring is. but it rained on top of the mongola rim. and that water was tragically running downhill at a pace they could not get out of the way. poppy. six children killed. unbelievable. tragedy also in chicago over the weekend. a deadly weekend. multiple shootings killed at least 11 people, 9-year-old boy among them. also a man who dedicated his life to preventing violence. ryan young is live with more. you know, we talk about the same thing, ryan, right after the fourth of july. once again. reporter: yeah. really staggering numbers t hasn t really stopped since the fourth of july. think about that weekend. 100 people shot during that weekend. and then 40 killed shot the following weekend and now this weekend you have 58 people shot during the weekend. you look at the numbers. just staggering. talk bay 9-year-old sitting in the car with a stepfather when someone roll bid and started opening fire. that young man was shot in the back and he died. later on this weekend, someone pull pulled up with an ar-15 saturday and hitting the crowd, hitting that activist several times before he died. a lot of people in the community are asking that question, why and when will it stop? people are just so cold hearted. how could you just take somebody s life? he helped everybody. i just don t understand. i met him when i was a little boy and all through time, there s so many stories of him doing good in the community, him paying for funerals for other people, people to go to school, whatever anybody needed, whatever anybody needed. you think about this. the activist dedicating his life to trying to stop violence ended up getting killed, standing there on the street with a crowd of people. people are definitely asking for help. they want more help from the federal government. the police department obviously has changed some of their procedures. when you look at this summer, how hot it s been, how violent it s been, people are just hoping it gets better before it gets worse. no answers right now, poppy. heartbreaking and it s happening consistently. ryan young, thank you for the reporting for us this morning from chicago. up next, something you will not want to miss. silicon valley exposed. a culture of sexual harassment and assault. now six women come forward and tell our laurie segall their stories. you preyed on a group of women that you thought were too afraid or not in a position to speak up and, clearly, you were very, very wrong. adult 7+ promotes alertness and mental sharpness in dogs 7 and older. 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Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with in-depth reporting and investigations. what it does is put a huge number of seats in play for democratic enthusiasm. now, that s going to result in a lot more republican spending than we had before. maybe both sides get motivated on the money but republicans will have more money. so that s a big concern for democrats. i think the ground game in a close election like this matters. that infrastructure is there, and we have the money for that. it s more speaking with the voters. like i said before nancy pelosi could be the speaker, they could have subpoena power and essentially grind to a halt. things are going well. they need tawao wake up and understand democrats are motivated. if we can motivate our base i believe that can happen in november. they all know it s an election in november and we tend to turn out in higher numbers in mid-terms. the complacency thing is november in almost every one of these races. it s about district. you know, that what happened with the joe crowley-cortez race, that district worked for there. that s not going to work in the conor-lamb districts in 2018. so i think for democrats this interm fight is very interesting. what s going on with them is being overshadowed obviously by what s happening with republicans and trump. but that is something to watch. there is certainly tension there. i think that tension is overplayed. mike, i ll let you go in after this quick. mike said earlier the republican party has enough room for trump supporters, enough room for everyone. the republican coalition, there s traditional republicans and new republicans that are more trump. so hold on that thought. why is it different? stoohave a cortez or a bernie sanders which a bit more progressive than i think you re going to see the nancy pelosi part of the democrats or the establishment welcome them in where it works but then shun them where it doesn t, where it s not beneficial to them. it s a different dynamic, though. they re not looking at the progressive the left wing progressive part of the democratic party the way that the republicans and the trumpers are looking at those of us who have questioned what happened to the party based on the way they ve sold out a lot of their principles for trump. some of the left wing, the radical left hasn t won as much, but they have pulled all the other capped dts to the left. so you have many of these democrats that are winning these primaries that are for abolishing i.c.e., affordable health care, and the tax increase it pushes them out of the mainstream of suburban voters i can t believe you didn t jump in on the radical left. here s the point, you make the argument that mike is making and can say the exact same thing about the trump coalition. what we do know, though, is that the trump coalition as it stands is actually decreasing its numbers. that s true. what we saw tonight in ohio 12 was a reduction in the trump vote. and, you know, normally you have a president who works to expand their base. and what we are not seeing with this president, what we are not seeing with the republicans is an effort to expand the base. i do have to say just in my limited in my, you know, i m not one of you political experts. i observe. republicans always come home. republicans always come home regardless of who the candidate is. the democrats are split a lot on policy. we have the cortez wing. the sanders wing is more socialist and more to the left on policy issues. republicans overall i feel we re still united on policy. we want limited government, most of us are pro-life, most of us want immigration reform that s still reasonable. but it s the tone and tactic. you ve been awful quiet tonight. i want to take this republican primary race of governor in kansas tonight, really close. running neck and neck now with the incumbent jeff collier. that was a risky move for the president. kansas is not one of the super trump states. he did not relative to romney say in 2012, trump did not do funom funf phenomenally better in kansas. so this is not necessarily a state where trump has more juice, but if kobach pulls out tonight i think there s no doubt you have to give the president do we have to sound bite? i want to discuss that. go on. most republicans think kobach is the weaker of the two capped dts in the general. and this was a four-way primary race, two. and i believe the other two lesser candidates on the republican candidate side pulled double digits away from the top two guys. so where are those people going? those are anti-incumbent votes. when you have other people that vote against the incumbent, those are all a coalition of anti-incumbent voters. kobach, he was part of the commission that was set up to investigate election fraud, and members of the committee who were ton there said nothing really came out of that and they were pushing really to confirm what the president thought was happening when it comes to election fraud and none of that was true. someone who actually sued and got the information that was on the committee i spoke to him the other night, watch this. we didn t find anything. in fact, this is one of the things, when we got the documents this past week, we went thru them and we published them. there was actually a draft report. we never discussed the report, what it was going to look like and include, but there was a draft included with sections of cases of demonstrated voter fraud and those were left very tellingly blank. so there was nothing at all. what do you think was the ultimate goal of this commission? was it to prove the explanation the president came up while he lost the popular vote to his rival. i said at the time if you would have found a fraction of the number he was talking about we would have had a problems on our hands. but it seemed to be very evident that the purpose of the commission was to validate his statement, whether there s any evidence to back it up or not. is that what this endorsement was all about? absolutely. republicans have this two-part strategy they win elections when there are fewer voters in the election and then you have the president claiming that the fix was in for democrats in 2016, and this committee was meant to reinforce that idea. everybody stay with me. much more ahead on our breaking news of tonight s coverage of elections. gas, bloating, constipation and diarrhea can start in the colon and may be signs of an imbalance of good bacteria. only phillips colon health has this unique combination of probiotics. it helps replenish good bacteria. get four-in-one symptom defense. my lineage was the vecchios and zuccolis. through ancestry, through dna i found out that i was only 16% italian. he was 34% eastern european. so i went onto ancestry, soon learned that one of our ancestors we thought was italian was eastern european. this is my ancestor who i didn t know about. he looks a little bit like me, yes. ancestry has many paths to discovering your story. get started for free at ancestry.com chicken! that s right, chicken?! candace new chicken creations from starkist. buffalo style chicken in a pouch bold choice, charlie! just tear, eat. mmmmm. and go! try all of my chicken creations! chicken! where we re changing withs? 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in the mid-term election mid-terms are referendums on the economy. and it was about even with this approval rating, and that s where we end up about a 50/50 race. if you look at the polling towards the fall you see that voters who approve of the president s job are overwhelmingly voted for republicans, those who disapprove overwhelmingly voted for democrats. nationally the disapproval rating for the president of the united states is far above his approval rating and that s why democrats are favored to take back the white house come november. it has been said that democrats are doing better in suburban areas. these races are all about the suburban area but you sttypical do better in urban areas. how important is the divide here moving forward. you saw it tonight in franklin county which is the urban part of the district danny did very well and other districts which are much more rural he did quite poorly. but if you look at the nation overall the nation overall is much more urban than this particular district is. if you extrapolate out to the nation as a whole democrats will be fighting at much better ground. we ve been talking about ohio, kansas, michigan, missouri, but there are important races going on in washington state. talk to me about that. washington state has a system if you remember all the democrats running against the republicans in the primary, if turns out if you look at the votes in past years there was one congressional district i was really looking at which is the washington 8 district. republicans want to hold it in the fall, but if you look that the cumulative democratic vote right now it is outpatesing the cumulative republican vote, and that could be a good sign for democrats. are you seeing warning signs in some of the reiss in washington? big warning signs. i m not just seeing it in washington. if you look at other races as well what you see are a number of republican incumbents below 50%. and it s very close even in districts where you might not necessarily expect it. if you look for instance at congresswoman rogers, that race is very, very close. she s obviously a high ranking member of the house on the republican side and she is below 50%. if she went down in defeat come the fall, that s a very bad seat for republicans. i say the president has been bragging and tweeting about the win or at least the perceived win they think is happening in ohio. but did his endorsement you think help chris kobach in kansas? if you look at the kansas resu result right now you have a tight race. if you look at the endorsements before kobach was still ahead. that may have in fact held back any positive advance for kobach based upon the trump endorsement. harry enten, appreciate your time. we have much more on our election night coverage straight ahead. but up next rick gates and paul manafort s trial cross examined on the witness stand. we re going to see what kind of questions he faced. let s do this. ugh we re gonna be late, we re gonna be late! hold on, don t worry, there s another way [siri: beep beepá] directions to the greek theater. can i get a connection? 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well, vbts we re all interpreting this from the outside, but it appears a couple of things happened that are worth repeating here. one is that he was contrite. he addresses the jury, apologizes, says he s trying to make things right. and at no stage during this cross examination was the defense able to separate gates from manafort. in other words, the defense strategy has got to be gates acted by himself, that he was doing this all on his own. and i think just from the testimony we ve seen so far the defense failed in that regard. manafort is clearly pushing gates or conspiring with gates to do all of these illegalities. in fact there s a liep in one of the documents where manafort says to gates, you told me you were on top of this. that s the statement from the leader to the worker bee, fix this. i think in that sense the defense did fail to do the one thing they needed to do, which was gates was doing all this illegal stuff on his own. but he was forced to admit an affair and that he had embezzled money from paul manafort. do you think the defense succeeded in painting gates as a flawed witness? julia? yeah, so i think obviously the corruption and the sort of icyness of all these characters is sort of rampant. so it s for the jury to decide whether the guy who s trying to come clean now is better or more trustworthy than the guy who s not speaking. and i think that the prosecution sort of, you know, prepared the jury for the bad news about gates. but what we have to remember about gates, and this is true in all these national security cases is it s not like gates is just saying something is there s no corroborating evidence. what gates is doing and he s essentially validating the documentation prosecution already has. the e-mails, the tax forms, the faulty financial dealings. and then remember the five witnesses who have already testified, the book keeper and others in the office saying, yeah, this was all illegal. so i m not saying gates is irrelevant, but he s not he s just simply validating the documents, the electronic information and the other witnesses. so so in that sense he s more valid. so michael, rick gates claiming that manafort tried to secure jobs for associates in the trump administration, this trial is really about bank and tax fraud. is this testimony something you expect the prosecution to pursue further? i don t know how far they ll go into that. at this point it s really about showing that manafort was trying to kwluz h to use his position. i don t know how far they ll dieg ddig into it. i think julia is right in the sense it was not a good day for the manafort team. essentially rick gates comes in, he gives his statement, owns up to what he s done. we can talk about an affair or seekia secret money. but his attorneys say he had a great day, michael. well, that s fake news i guess what i m trying to say. because they didn t have a good day. it s never a good day when you have to come out and say it s a good day in court like that. so really gates came in, he stuck to his deal, he was contrite in some things. he knew he was going to have to talk about that, but he was prepped. and there s nothing new the mueller team did not know going in. all this information already came out. the bottom line is he is piecing together and corroborating evidence already in the case. the jury is sitting there thinking, well, why didn t they bring this guy in. and now gates is here, and gates has come in and said, look, i did some stuff wrong here. but i m here to tell you i did wrong. but, michael, it s tough because gates worked for manafort for 20 years, and so do you think it s potentially a mistake for the defense to paint gates as a corrupt liar without even painting manafort with the same brush? well, i think they probably splattered paint on manafort through their cross examination today. and really what do they have? at the end of the day you ve got these e-mails, these statements, the book keepers and accountants that say manafort told them what to do, so what other choice does the defense have? i don t think it s a winning strategy for them. i ve said this and i have every expectation that manafort is going to be convicted. but they really don t have great facts on their side. the only thing they can kind of do is throw darts at gates and hope they can deflate him somehow. but it s hard to change some of the things manafort puts into e-mails and records. julia, i heard you say yeah when you said he s going to be convicted. it s his first real chance to show what he s got. how he s doing? it appears to be a very strong case and i think you want to lead with a very strong case. and i want to remind everyone this is trump s campaign chairman and deputy campaign chairman. the case is not about trump, and obviously that s the atmospherics. i want to remind people while we re talking about the legalities or illegalities that put manafort in debt and sort of drew him to the trump campaign money train, he was so in debt baz he knew on the other side of this he might make money. i think from the national security perspective take a step back. think how corruptible manafort and gates are through this process because they re getting foreign money to support this lifestyle. they are doing all sorts of illegal things that are pretty well-known to probably their clients. and so from the perspective of the national security perspective, these guys are so easily corrupted by a foreign entity, and i think that s where the trump aura and the mueller stuff all is in play here. these guys were, you know, they were just, you know, ripe for a foreign entity to take advantage of them. listen, thank you both. i appreciate that. listen, i do want you to stick around. but i want to bring in alice stuart in, because alice, you went to the courtroom. you visited this morning. give me your impression. it was clear gates was being forthright. he was putting it out on the table. manafort sat there and he seemed pissed, you know, that everything was being laid out there on the table. and while we spent so much time talking about manafort spending so much on the ostrich jacket and now we know gates spent money on a jacket in london. those are the juicy details, but a lot of today was document after document after document which clearly outlines what they were doing to hide money, to setup shell corporations to claim income as loans, and it was all very dirty and underhanded. and i think so far they ve made a very good argument that they broke the law, and i don t know see how the jury can come to any other conclusion. clearly he s guilty. but the key is we didn t hear a lot about trump, we didn t hear about key things that really directly connect them with the trump organization. they can t really bring that up. they can t bring it up, and the judge was very clear. and the one time gates had the opportunity he said a presidential campaign and were talking about some other people that were sitting in there. they have done a good job of separating it. this looks like two crooks who capitalized on their ability to get clients overseas. and they re two dirty guys. one is coming clean and the other is not. but what they did bring up today is the bank of cypress, one one of the russian oligarchs who bought that property from trump which was questionable because the property was overinflated in price. and our commerce secretary wilbur ross took over that bank. and the bank of cyprus is notorious for russian money laundering. so that aspect of it and the connection to our commerce secretary and russian oligarchs and trump is of significance and shouldn t be ignored. when we come back, how robert mueller s investigation could be playing with voters. what linda graham warned the president about. that s next. sometimes a day at the ballpark is more than just a day at the ballpark. stadium pa : all military members stand and be recognized. sometimes fans cheer for those who wear a different uniform. no matter where or when you served, t-mobile stands ready to serve you. that s why we re providing half off family lines to all military. when you combine ancestry s with its historical records. you could learn you re from ireland donegal, ireland and your ancestor was a fisherman. with blue eyes. just like you. begin your journey at ancestry.com i receive travel rewards. going new places. 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this doesn t matter? clearly based on the approval numbers amongst his base it doesn t matter. are you surprised by the world that we re in i just want you to imagine, but can you imagine if this were the clinton administration and all of this was happening? what do you think you d be sitting here saying as a republican? i don t think we d be talking about this if this was happening under the obama administration under clinton, if all these people were charged and pleaded guilty? but we would be bringing it up, republicans we would never let this stand if this was going on. there s another channel that dedicates like hours of their prime time programming still relitigating hillary clinton who lost and what the clintons have done since 25 freaking years ago, so there s no way republicans would ever allow this if a fraction of what trump s people have done. we knew about his past with women, about his past with business, we knew about a lot of things he did in the past. at the end of the day even surrounding himself with sketchy people? that is new revelation? let her finish her thought. the reality is people knew the kind of person he was and the people we surrounded himself and he still won. in my view i voted for him because of his policies, not his tone and tactics and that s why republicans voted for him and they will vote for him again. yeah, people did know the kind of person he was, they had a sense of what he was. but he said i will hire the best people, we ll have the best people come in there and make the best decisions. he s proven he s incapable of acting presidential as it s been traditionally defined. he described himself one way, winked and nodded to voters and the people around him have been because if you have 4% economic growth, you have wages going up, you have kavanaugh and gorsuch on the court, you have tax cuts, especially the republicans and the people that voted for president trump think this is all noise. yes, politicians in d.c. do stuff and they ll go through five staffers on that one job and he doesn t care it s up around 30% under trump. unemployment went down around 3% under obama, it s down a point under trump. it can t be the economic results. it s that republicans like their guys. you see no hypocrisy and no double standard here? no, what i m saying is this comes back to that you re taking it literally thing. i m going to do things differently, things are going to be different. the results for the party, what they actually care about is not who was the epa director who s winning and who s losing, right? that s what this is about. who s winning and who s losing. the people who are winning are getting a big fat tax cut. the people who are losing are the ones getting their education benefits cut, people not being able to get health care, everybody losing because the federal budget is all going listen, i got to go. when president obama agreed to extend the bush tax cuts for a year, that didn t it s a double standard. all that moral high ground stuff, economic anxiety stuff, it was all b.s. total, complete hypocrisy and a double standard. it s a terrible standard. when we come back, i m going to get answers to this question. will race be a factor in november s midterm? chicken?! chicken. chicken! that s right, candace new chicken creations from starkist. buffalo style chicken in a pouch bold choice, charlie! just tear, eat. mmmmm. and go! try all of my chicken creations! chicken! where we re changing withs? 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if you re donald trump, he can. and not only can you say insulting things about lebron james and you, he did it on the heels of ohio. and it appears to be okay when you re donald trump. when you look at 7 of the 8 special elections in the cycle have been won by republicans. so it hasn t been a tremendous detriment for republicans coming out to vote. i think it will be a factor for some people, i ve talked to farmers about the tariffs, and they ll still vote for trump. at the end of the day, they ll come home to the republican party. well, of course race will be a factor. because it will be a referendum on the president and the president is a racist. race will matter. one of the most disappointing things that donald trump has done in his year and a half as president, he has ripped a lot of scabs off of racial wounds in this country, and he s removed the social taboo of being a racist. and he s given certain people permission to say certain things. and that could rebound sadly to his benefit in come circumstances. but i think at the end of the day, history will show that that doesn t you don t get away with that for too long. and i think the key point is, too many people during the campaign in 16 saw donald trump s behavior as an act. when he becomes president, he s really not going to be this way. he doesn t really believe it. but if you talk to people in new york, who went through the central park five and the history of donald trump, they tried to warn people, he has a long history of racist behavior. and i think what people have learned is that this actually is much more ingrained. not only will he be racist, but he has no problem associating with people like that. and i think the one piece is, the only place that could matter more is turnout in urban areas. as harry said before. and also, whether it turns off suburban voters. go ahead, mike. race plays a role in every ejecti election. when you talk to democrats and republicans, look at the ohio race we looked at tonight. there are urban and suburban voters, and rural voters. you always do a race breakdown, and line them up with a party. i wish he would go to chicago. his inaugural address talked about stopping the carnage. they re being killed there at 9/11 level rates. the president has policies to do that, i think he should go to chicago the president doesn t care about chicago. i m giving him my advice. the reason i wanted to hear from you, you re a woman of color in the republican party. you still consider yourself a republican. yes, conservative first. when you see what s happening
turned out he wasn t a very good lawyer. i don t know how you can impeach somebody who s done a great job. when you see mueller with the conflicts, he s so conflicted. comey is his best friend. considering a proposal to let states use federal money to buy guns for teachers. but let s begin today with that extensive interview that even by president trump standards is extraordinary. in it, he dismisses the law. he excuses fraud that rips off the american taxpayer. and suggests that the economy depends on him being president. and that s just for starters. we ve got a great team here to break it all down for us. but we have to start with the details of that interview itself. the president sitting down with fox and friends ainsley ernheart yesterday for 22 minutes and turning on michael cohen so completely now. dismissive of the man he employed for more than ten years. he was a lawyer for me for Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. existence, the washington post fact checkers call it a lie. his explanation of the payments, they ve concluded, is an outright lie. in the bigger picture it does bring to mind a watergate-era question, of interest to investigators now. what did the president know and when did he know it? the president also doing something of an about-face on paul manafort. remember, that s the guy he once dismissed as only working for him for a very short period of time. but now, not ruling out a pardon. and, in fact, had nothing but praise for convicted manafort. though he was very critical of his attorney general, jeff sessions, for his decision to recuse himself from the investigation. what kind of a man is this. by the way, he was on the campaign. you know, the only reason i gave him the job, because i felt loyal to him. he was an original supporter. he was on the campaign. so the end game from democrats for this investigation is impeachment. but the majority of democrats on the hill yesterday steered clear of any talk of the i word. while during the interview, the president put the i in impeachment. i get it s something like high crimes. i don t know how you can impeach somebody who s done a great job. i ll tell you what, if i ever got impeached, i think the market would crash. i think everybody would be very poor. so much to get to with nbc s kristen welker who s at the white house for us. so kristen, look, the president s list of grievances is long. he seemed to touch on so many of them, including reviving that totally bogus claim that the obama administration bugged trump tower. you ve got reporting that the west wing is now preparing for a blowup. lay that out for us. hi chris, good morning. the team here at the white house has been working all of our sources and according to multiple sources, the president is definitely calm about all of this right now, however, some of his allies and advisers are bracing for a potential meltdown. let s go back to the very beginning when all of this news broke earlier this week. he was headed to west virginia. he was on air force one. we were told he was calm. he was even joking about how this would be overplayed in the media. you ve seen some of his frustrations being reflected in his tweets, chris, so there s no doubt that this is getting under his skin to some extent, as this entire probe has done. just overnight, the president tweeting rigged witch hunt yet again. for right now, the president hasn t completely started to sort of blow his top as some are concerned he might do. remember, this is an administration that is used to being on defense. is used to dealing with chaos. i think that s the sense right now. look, this is yet another challenge. they ve got to get through it. they ve got to fight through. we saw that yesterday from sarah huckabee sanders at the podium. repeating that line over and over again. the president has done nothing wrong. she was steadfast in that comment. really didn t move from her talking points much. one source explained it to me this way. it s like a boxing match. sometimes you take a hit, but at the end of the round, you re still standing and ready for the next round to begin. that i think really encapsulates the thinking here at the white house. what about outside of the white house? what about republicans? they re concerned about holding on to critical seats in the midterm elections. they re starting to get nervous. the sort of public response has been a bit mixed with some saying look, this looks very bad, this is unprecedented. others saying look, there s no real smoking gun here yet. democrats, as you pointed out are staying away from that word impeachment right now. they want to see how this plays out. trump supporters in the swing state of florida are steadfast in their support. he s planning to hit the road, 15 states after labor day, chris. joining me, ben white, chief economic correspondent for politico, host of the politico money podcast. noelle kimpoor. most legal experts will tell you it isn t, then, a crime, here s the problem though. prosecutors say they have audio recordings, they have text messages, they have phone records about cohen s payments and the intent. ben white, what do you make of this interview? it s sort of hard to pick a spot to attack on that interview because there s so many bizarre things. on the point of michael cohen and yes. and even if i did this, it s not wrong. of course it s wrong, obviously. it doesn t make any difference whether it came from the campaign or his personal bank account or the trump organization. the fact of the matter is, it s chief law enforcement officer? well, you ve got to look at how the republicans as a whole view donald trump. they think he s very successful. that he has checked off promises that he has made to them. they voted for him because they expected certain things done. and he is going through a check list of marking them off. you ve also got to realize he s a lot of republicans, or maybe a lot of people that support trump or his base, are looking at this repeated attack on donald trump, the person. and it s but not so much anymore. i know this whole witch hunt mantra seemed to be working. there s a new fox news poll out. 59% of registered voters approve now of mueller s investigation. that s up 11 points from just july. that s a fox news poll. should that give those same people you re talking about pause? nobody s happy. nobody thinks this is an awesome thing that s going on. a lot of people are looking at trump. saying all you re doing, that this is nothing but a witch hunt because you re looking for a smoking gun to get trump out because you don t like his tactics and you don t like the way he handles business. it is different. it is unusual. it s blowing a lot of people s minds. this is not business as usual. this is the most different presidency we ve ever had, right or left. but you can t use that as an excuse. you have to look at a lie and call it a lie. if there is illegality, it is the job of prosecutors to look at it. i want to show you a moment when senator mcconnell was asked for a response to the whole cohen/manafort news. senator, do you have any reaction to the cohen/manafort news? do you think it s concerning at all? you you think it will affect the midterms? [ no audible comments ] you still support mueller, right? [ inaudible comments ] how long can republicans they re going to get asked about this on the campaign trail. they are. how long can they defend the president? they re in an exquisite political bind here. trump is popular among republicans. they do not want to be on the record criticizing him. at the same time, this midterm election is going to play out in a lot of suburban swing districts where independents are running away from trump. female educated voters are running away from trump. they re in danger, if they defend him too hard, of alienating those voters. they haven t gotten to the point yet where they feel that their conscience demands they come out and speak out against the president and support mueller publicly and talk about hearings on some of these allegations. we could get to that point where there s something out there so egregious they have to take that stand. right now, if they speak out against the president, they alienate their base. if they speak out for him, they alienate swing voters. is that maybe that point, that where people draw a line, if he decides to pardon paul manafort? one of the things that struck me about this, noelle, is he used to have really good things to say about michael cohen and now he used to be kind of not kind of, he was dismissive of paul manafort and what he did at a critical moment of his presidential campaign. now, in this interview with fox friends, he sounds like he s his best friend. i just want to play a little from the interview, what he had to say about paul manafort. i have great respect for what he s done in terms of what he s gone through. he worked for many, many people. many, many years. and i would say what he did, some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant, every lobbyist in washington probably does. if you look at hillary clinton s person, i mean, look at the crimes that clinton did, with the e-mails and she deletes 33,000 e-mails after she gets a subpoena from congress. and this justice department does nothing about it? so he again diverts to clinton, which is something he does often. but is what we re to take away from that, that almost if not every consultant and lobbyist in washington is a criminal, because everybody does it, and if people do it, everybody does it, even if it s against the law, it s forgivable. is that what the person who the chief law enforcement officer really of the united states, he takes an oath. the oath that you take on the inauguration day talks about upholding the constitution, upholding law. is that what we take away from that? it s okay? paul manafort broke the law. i m not going to dispute that. i don t think donald trump is trying to dispute that. i think what donald trump is trying to do is tee the ball up for, number one, they were looking to get trump on something. and in the midst of this, they discovered all these crimes. which are crimes. and paul manafort some of the charges they threw against him, the president said, every consultant, every lobbyist in washington probably does. he s trying to set this up to where a lot of his base feel this is a witch hunt. they were looking to paul manafort to press on paul manafort and look through him to try to get something on donald trump. and in the midst of this investigation, they found all these crimes, all this activity that, you know, paul manafort it s bad. it s bad. but i think that to, you know, to imply that every lobbyist is doing something wrong, who knows. i guess if you look who knows? who knows? well, not everyone taking tens of millions of dollars from the ukrainians and hiding it from the government. they re not laundering money the base of this was set up to say what he did was a crime but he is a nice guy. he worked for reagan, this, this, this. he s probably going to tee him up to be pardoned. people will go nuts if manafort is pardoned. i don t think so. you don t think so? no. coming up, investigators in new york issue a subpoena for michael cohen. saying he could be a source of information regarding a new legal challenge facing trump and his eldest three children. a swrjuror reveals it was o person, a single holdout that blocked special counsel robert mueller s team from scoring a conviction on all 18 counts. and, by the way, that juror s a trump supporter. with a maga hat. applebee s to go. order online and get $5 off $25. now that s eatin good in the neighborhood. a hotel can make or break a trip. and at expedia, we don t think you should be rushed into booking one. that s why we created expedia s add-on advantage. now after booking your flight, you unlock discounts on select hotels right until the day you leave. add-on advantage. discounted hotel rates when you add on to your trip. only when you book with expedia. counts but now he s been served with a subpoena as part of a new york state criminal probe into the trump organization. let me bring in tom winter. a robert beianca, a former criminal investigator. we ve been focused on the counts as it relates understandably to michael cohen and the president. the first five counts that he pled guilty to have to do with tax evasion. and so federal prosecutors have said he didn t declare over $4 million of income on successive tax returns from 2012 to 2016. if you re the new york state division of taxation and they re the ones who issued the subpoena, you would look at this and say wait a minute if he didn t declare to the feds $4 million of income, maybe he didn t declare to us $4 million of income. we re entitled to our pound of flesh here. and so in for michael cohen, he would have to pay both new york state tax as well as new york city tax. the implications only for him or for the trump family as well? so we can get beyond that. in the trump organization, depending upon how they accounted for certain of the payments that were given to michael cohen. so remember in count eight, that s the stormy daniels count, michael cohen pled that he received payment from the trump organization for what he was able for the payment he made to stormy daniels. they were also and it s in the criminal information, there was text information and communications that occurred saying we re going to pay you above and beyond that $130,000 because if we were to pay that as a paycheck, viewed to pay taxes out of it. is there any issue with respect to the trump organization as far as did they properly account for and was this all proper the way they accounted for payment back to michael cohen for the payment to stormy daniels? so, again, very much like, though, the case that was laid out in court against paul manafort. there s a lot of paperwork there. but bringing it down to i think a more understandable level in some ways. something extraordinary happened here. in that cohen gets a subpoena. 99.9% of the time, you tell me if i m wrong about this, your lawyer then is in touch, right, with the new york state authorities who have issued this subpoena. he picks up the phone. that s the reporting, that he picks up the phone. what s going on here? okay, listen, people are misunderstanding what s going on because they hear there s not a quote/unquote cooperation agreement. the data is already there. they have him locked up. he s got multiple federal and state jurisdictions. not physically locked up he s locked up, his investigation. he is splayed on to the mercy of federal and state prosecutors in multiple jurisdictions. even though there s not a cooperation agreement, there s kind of a wink and nod or understanding that says if you fully cooperate, if you do what we ask, if you go and give all the data and information, even though as a defense lawyer you don t want to do that because that opens them up to more criminal liability, that s not where michael cohen is now. his wife didn t get charged. he s going on team and state usa and state attorney generals. he ll go to the hill. he ll give every data he can. in the hopes that those jurisdictions will not go after him. remember, that cooperation let me stop you there. that plea deal was something that really got the president going in his interview on fox and friends. so let a s listen to that. there s this whole thing about flipping they call it. i know all about flipping. for 30, 40 years, i ve been watching flippers. everything s wonderful. and then they get tenu years in jail and they flip on whoever the next highest one is. it almost ought to be outlawed. it almost ought to be outlawed. in other words, he s saying people should not cooperate with legitimate investigations. is that what you heard? i want to give credence to the comment in one way. there s a body of people that are out there that have said this idea of flipping and where a person who is more culpable, more responsible, gets less of a sentence than somebody who may be a bigger fish or bigger target winds up going down for it. look, it s a prosecutorial tool that needs to be done. it shouldn t be eliminated. certainly, this is not the wrong piece in order to argue that because they re getting plenty of data to show there s a lot of activity and they re moving up the chain of command. we heard from one of the jurors last night. let me play just a little bit of it. how close i want to know did this jury come to convicting paul manafort on all 18 counts? by one. there was one holdout. what was their reasoning, if they shared with you? reasonable doubt. the person, a female juror, was we all tried to convince her to look at the paper trail. we laid it out in front of her. again and again. and she still said that she had a reasonable doubt. and that s the way the jury worked. very quick reaction from each of you. that woman is a trump supporter, but she said that the evidence the rest of them all saw it as completely overwhelming. does that discount the argument that s been made they re afraid there will be just one trump supporter and that could ruin some of these cases? i agree it completely discounts it. i always say have faith in the jury. they re a jury of your peers. having covered an incredible amount of trials, i ve always seen the jury typically gets it right. trying cases as a prosecutor and defense lawyer, i agree. it would be nice to know our politicians and elected officials would have the same integrity that the jurors did. well said. thank you both. many teachers struggle to provide the necessary supplies for their students. they often dip into their own pockets to do that. but education secretary betsy devos is considering a plan to use federal funds not for educational purposes says a report but for guns. the fact is, there are over ninety-six hundred roads named park in the u.s. it s america s most popular street name. but allstate agents know that s where the similarity stops. if you re on park street in reno, nevada, the high winds of the washoe zephyr could damage your siding. and that s very different than living on park ave in sheboygan, wisconsin, where ice dams could cause water damage. but no matter what park you live on, one of 10,000 local allstate agents knows yours. now that you know the truth, are you in good hands? 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i think it would be better if the nra would i think they d make a lot of people happy. maybe make a lot of people more sympathetic to what the nra really does and what they stand for if they would implement that safety shield program again to where, you know, they would let s just say they put a security guard or they would do something like that. you have to defend yourself from these school shootings. look, gun control, not gun control? whether you re for it or against it, you ve got to do something because they re unarmed. they re using desks and safe rooms as their only alternative to protect from a crazed is that the only alternative, ben? i mean, you have a gun or there s no other way to protect yourself? no, of course there are other alternatives to trying to keep guns out of the hands of crazy people who come in and shoot up schools. so but i think when it comes to devos and this program, congress has been pretty clear in its intent it doesn t want federal funds used to arm teachers. in the specific program that language isn t there. in this program, the money is supposed to be spent on school enrichment programs for kids. it s not supposed to be spent to keep ak-47s in the hands of teachers. why can t homeland security take this over? why is this the department of education? why does betsy devos have the burden of having to do gun control? why isn t homeland security it s not gun control, let s not but, robert, i know you think teachers should be armed under certain circumstances. you have some background on this. you were a chief law enforcement officer where you set policies for officers and schools for people who are against this, for teachers. and i ve heard a lot of them. i ve covered far too many school shootings. who want to spend their time, their talent, their energy, on teaching children. what do you say to them? i ve listened to all the arguments. the bottom line is our kids are soft targets. these kids cannot be properly secured. more and more this happens, you have a perimeter around these kids. there has to be something done to interdict. it s like the bank robbery scenario. they know there s no guns and they can get in and out. i m sorry to say, with the proper protocol, most of the law enforcement officers you have to put a law in place there s no liability for the teacher? you know this, most law enforcement officers on the job never discharge a firearm that s right. right? as a teacher, as a teacher, and you ve got a classroom of 20 or 30 or 40 kids and you have to get it right, really? the training has to be done exactly police are train and they re trained on a regular basis. and they should train that s the point it has to be properly trained on a regular basis exactly as the cops do about use of force. i m not saying it s a great thing to do. we can t allow our kids to be subjected to be shotting up like this and you know what we have to do, we have to come to the scene with body bags. because we have no opportunity at that time to do anything because we re not proactive. i m sorry to say. it s just thoord beliehard te alternative is put guns in the hands of teachers. that s not i will i will they have a security guard who has a gun we ve done all that. we ve done all the target analysis are you saying the answer in this question is to put guns in the hands of teachers? i m telling you as a guy who really did it for a living. it is impossible to secure the schools so there can t be ingress here, period, end of story. i m not saying i like it. i m going to make one more point. according to the national center for education statistics, the average teacher, out of their own pocket, and they re not getting rich being a teacher, spends $479 to help kids get school supplies. so we re talking about not taking money to make sure that a kid has a pencil or a notebook or a book. that s why another department needs to fund homeland security. coming up, the trade war between the u.s. and china is escalating to a whole new level with a fresh round of punishing tariffs going into effect just this morning. there are frustrated apple and cherry farmers who are feeling the impact. look at this, whale watchers getting the surprise of their lives. patiently waiting and boom, that humpback off the coast of pleasant island just leapt out of the water right in front of them. they got drench bud thed but th it was thrilling. mom: okay we need to get all your school supplies today. school. grade. done. done. hit the snooze button and get low prices on school supplies all summer long. like these for only $2 or less at office depot officemax. you might or joints.hing for your heart. like these for only $2 or less but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical trials to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. time for money, power, politics. and the trump administration is escalating the trade war with china today imposing a new 25% tariff on $16 billion worth of chinese goods. the new tariff will impact 279 products that includes farming equipment, plastics and chemical products. posing an even larger threat to farmers across the country still recovering from the last wave of tariffs. nbc s vaughn hillyard is in washington state with some of the growers who have seen firsthand the effects of this trade war. so, vaughn, apple and cherry producers, some of my favorite people, frankly are facing consequences for last round of tariffs. what are you hearing from people on the ground there? yes, exactly. good morning, chris. the growers were impacted by the retaliatory tariffs levied by china last month. that was in the middle of cherry harvest. about 80% of the u.s. cherries come here from the pacific northwest, idaho, washington state, oregon. $127 million alone worth of cherries went to china, which accounts for about 12% of the cherry market here out at washington state. i want to introduce you to burt. he s a cherry grower in washington. cherry harvest just wrapped up. this is what he told us. washington is the largest producer of sweet cherries and of apples in the nation. so agriculture in general is very important to this valley but those are two of the biggies. what s your concern with the current trade standoff right now? well, it definitely costs the cherry industry quite a bit of money this year. most of my cherries have been going to either japan, taiwan or china. you cut off one of those pipelines and that puts more pressure in the other markets. what is your hope from this current trade effort that the president has engaged in? i would hope that the long-term effect counteracts the short-term effect of the money we lost this year. i would hope it goes a long ways toward reducing the trade deficit and creating a lot more jobs for americans, putting more money in hard-working american s pockets and offsets the losses we ve had this year. chris, short-term effect burt was talking about was about a $60 million to $80 million effect in this region alone. yakamo, where apple production here is beginning, a 25% tariff on apples from china, 20% from mexico. also in just three weeks from now, india s looking at adding an addition aal 25% on the appl industry here. there will be more here later on this morning. we re looking at the impact on cherries and washington state growers. back with me is ben white. u.s. and chinese trade officials meeting today in washington. is anything going to come out of that? i don t think so. they re not close to any kind of agreement to stop this trade war between the u.s. and china. it s good they re talking. i think that s hopeful for markets and for people like you were just reporting on. the exporters are getting hit by these retaliatory chinese tariffs. we re a long way from some kind of agreement. perhaps there will be a meeting between president trump and chinese premier xi jinping later this year. the problem with all of this is it s not clear what the united states wants exactly from china. china has agreed to try and reduce its trade deficit with the united states. take other steps to end these back and forth tariffs. it s never been clear what trump want, what the administration wants. so until you have a clearer set of demands on the table, it s hard to get to a final agreement. the president today not talking about trade said just generally that, you know, he gives himself an a-plus and he basically said the economy is great because of me. let me play some of that sound from that interview. i guess it s something like high crimes and all. i don t know how you can impeach somebody who s done a great job. i ll tell you what, if i ever got impeached, i think the market would crash. i think everybody would be very poor. everybody would be very poor. you want to weigh in on that? yes, i do. not the case. you talk about this longest bull market run. obviously it started under obama. march 9th, 2009, 9 1/2 years later most of it happened under president obama and the economy was improving under president obama. it is true the market is performing well under trump. it is not true that everybody would be poor and the markets would collapse if somehow trump got impeached and removed from office. there would be some tumult in the short term. markets don t like uncertainty. but i talked to i m going to stop you there. just because there s been so many times when we ve done these stories and said look, in the old world, this would have been something that made things move and it didn t this time because we re in new territory. i don t know. if there was even the serious thought of impeachment with that. yes. i don t know. it would make some difference in the short run but i ve talked to a lot of traders and market analysts about this very idea. what would happen if we had a constitutional crisis and the consensus is short-term volatility. but the markets and wall street would be 100% fine with a president mike pence who had trump s policies on taxes and deregulation without trade wars, without waking up every day to crazy tweets, without the absolute chaos of a trump presidency, markets would be absolutely fine with that. the markets are not where they are because of donald trump. they re where they are because of tax cuts and because of deregulation, because we have a strong economy and we ve laid strong economy for multiple years that has nothing to do with president donald trump. so his idea that everybody would be poor and the markets would crash without trump is an insane and ridiculous idea. ben, what do you really think? thank you so much. we would not all be poor. coming up, indicted republican congressman duncan hunter taking a page from president trump, claiming that he is the victim of a politically motivated witch hunt. david. what s going on? oh hey! that s it? yeah. that s it? everybody two seconds! dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations on your acceptance. through the tuition assistance program, every day mcdonald s helps more people go to college. it s part of our commitment to being america s best first job. helps you quit smoking. chantix, without a doubt, reduced my urge to smoke. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. some people had changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, or suicidal thoughts or actions with chantix. serious side effects may include seizures, new or worse heart or blood vessel problems, sleepwalking or allergic and skin reactions which can be life-threatening. stop chantix and get help right away if you have any of these. tell your healthcare provider if you ve had depression or other mental health problems. decrease alcohol use while taking chantix. use caution when driving or operating machinery. the most common side effect is nausea. i don t think about cigarettes anymore. talk to your doctor about chantix. california republican congressman duncan hunter and his wife are scheduled to be arraigned today. a grand jury indicting them for misusing $250,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses and for falsifying campaign records. he was the second sitting member of congress to endorse president trump taking the page from his book now, calling the whole thing political, blaming democrats and the doj. you have a partisan biased department of justice employees that are doing it to trump and doing it to me. this is political, period. this is this is a u.s. government what i would call the deep state or folks in the u.s. government that don t care what the election does, that they want to rig the election their own way. ben and noel are back with me. i want to read so people know about misuse of campaign funds from the couple who they say evidence overdrew their bank account 1100 times. among the things they spend the government says or deep state depending on perspective, money on, trip to hawaii, italy. there were many other vacations by the way. las vegas, boise, las vegas again, pittsburgh, london, washington, a lot of people s favorite is they bought their pet rabbit an airline ticket for $600. is this a witch hunt? no, he s trying to do a little mini trump fake news. there s a witch hunt epidemic. this is the theft of campaign funds to pay for river dance tickets and bunny rabbits and golf shorts and saying it s golf balls for wounded warriors. that s particularly despicable. he stole the money, obvious he stole the money and trying to play the trump card which is nonsensical. did they think i guess this is the question as to how stupid they think people are, do they think that $250,000 in campaign funds can just go away and nobody is going to notice? apparently they did. i ve got to say, trump has his reasoning justify fibl for his witch hunt. duncan hunter? it s not #witch hunt. it s #caught. busted. this has nothing to do with anything. this is blatantly out here. blatantly what he did. moon dogle trips he had campaign money paying for. this has nothing to do with trump let me make the argument this way though, that there does seem to be a large number of people both within his administration, within his inner circle and who endorsed him early on, who have either been proven to be or are accused of being in court crooks. yeah, i mean, you ve got a universe around president donald trump of people who have pled guilty or been convicted. in this case duncan hunt ter, the second person to endorse him has been charged with stealing money. it does not speak to the administration that hired the best people for every possible job. it does not look particularly good for his choices to people who have worked for him. maybe these are not specific things that implicate donald trump but also the fact he has poisoned the political culture to the point where a guy like duncan hunter can try to invoke trump in the deep stake and all of this nonsense. people will believe it. there another thing that is going to make it harder if bordering on impossible for republicans to retain control of the house? no, i think that the republicans will retain the house and the only reason i think that. i think that there is and in duncan hunter s case, i do not know. but in general i think it s looking strong for republicans to take the house and the senate again. i think it s going to be okay. i think these are isolated incidents. on what basis do you think they have a strong number one, they are looking at pocketbook issues and looking at the economy, they are figuring out we ve got jobs, we re being paid, the housing market showing that things are okay. everything is indicating that it s going up. and that is going to be very hard for a democrat for somebody that is looking at the republican party saying why do we want to cancel out a vote here when we are living better than we did? so this is what this is what the democrat the last 15 seconds. it is helpful to republicans that the economy is good. it s not great. wages nor n s are not outpacing inflation. the midterms are a referendum on the sitting president and democrats have a good shot to take the house. thank you, both. it s been a lively day. coming up, president trump sparking a fierce new debate after using the murder of 20-year-old student mollie tibbetts to push for his border wall. it s pretty amazing out there. the world is full of more possibilities than ever before. and american express has your back every step of the way- whether it s the comfort of knowing help is just a call away with global assist. or getting financing to fund your business. no one has your back like american express. so where ever you go. we re right there with you. the powerful backing of american express. don t do business without it. don t live life without it. at&t provides edge-to-edge intelligence, covering virtually every part of your retail business. so that if your customer needs shoes, & he s got wide feet. & with edge-to-edge intelligence you ve got near real time inventory updates. & he ll find the same shoes in your store that he found online he ll be one happy, very forgetful wide footed customer. at&t provides edge to edge intelligence. it can do so much for your business, the list goes on and on. that s the power of &. & if your customer also forgets socks! & you could send him a coupon for that item. on the go and want to rent a movie? 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