watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber and this is "cnn newsroom." the deadly prop gun shooting, new details about how alec baldwin accidentally killed someone on his movie set. >> the fda touts the benefits of the pfizer vaccine over its risks. how soon we can expect emergency authorization. plus, northern california and the pacific northwest brace for a bomb cyclone, we'll have the forecast ahead. live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with kim brunhuber. we begin here in the u.s. where new details are emerging about the fatal shooting on the set of alec baldwin's upcoming film "rust." the newly released 911 audio is shedding light on the incident. and a search warrant revealed

than assistant director handed alec baldwin a prop gun set up and yelled "cold gun" indicating it doesn't have rounds. the actor fired in the scene and injured and killed its director. and meanwhile the "l.a. times" reported several crew member has quit the production with safety concerns including gun safety protocol. cnn's nick watt has more. >> two people accidentally shot on a movie set by a prop gun. we need help immediately. >> reporter: this is the set the director joel souza was injured the director halyna hutchins was killed. two killed on the set of "rust" when a prop firearm was discharged by alec baldwin.

baldwin distraught in the sheriff's parking lot after questioning. the investigation remains open and active. no charges have been filed. a prop firearm should shoot only blanks. >> with a blanch k round you ha everything that you have in a real round. you don't have the bullet at the end of it, you get the flash, the recall, the explosion, but you don't get the beauty flying out. that doesn't mean that a blank round is safe. >> reporter: hutchins posted this video the day before on the day of horse riding. one of the perks of shooting a western. born in ukraine, hutchins started out as a journalist and then moved to the u.s. to study and work in the movies. named a rising star in 2019 by "american cinematographer magazine." she was 42.

>> she had this immediacy, this realism, as well as an eye for beauty. >> reporter: a sight like this rare but not unique. brandon lee was shot on the set of "the crow." after a live round stuck in the barrel. in 1984, actor john eric hexum jokingly put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. the pressure and wadding from the blanch killed him. "rust" starring baldwin hinges on the accidental killing of a rancher in kansas. this morning, baldwin tweeting there are no words to convey my shock and sadness. i'm fully cooperating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy has occurred. my part is broken for her husband, their son and all who knew and loved halyna.

>> halyna hutchins' husband is speaking out. he said the family needs some time to process her death saying, quote, i don't think there are words to communicate the situation. i am not going to be able to communicate about the facts or the process that we're going through right now but i appreciate that everyone has been very sympathetic. >> so what more do we know about halyna huppens. well she was born in ukraine and delivered in los angeles. during her career, she was involved in 49 film tv shows and including archenemy last year. she posted this selfie on a horseback ride. she wrote, one of the perks of shooting a western you get to ride horses on your day off. one of the directors she worked with tweeted she was a brilliant talent absolutely committed to art and film. the international stage union and set workers said it's heartbroken by the death of

halyna hutchins. its members were planning to go on strike just this week over safety standards until a deal was agreed with the studios. on set, workers will now have designated rest periods after working five days in a row. many workers are not satisfied. they have listed on a facebook page setting up concerns of working 36 hours straight. working so long they literally fell asleep at the wheel. joining me in idaho is chad hawthorne he's the co-owner of on set arms and the firearm safety coordinator. thanks so much for being here with us. so most sets, movie sets, have an armorer like yourself. the firearms expert who's on set to help coordinate. so, typically, what do they do to make sure no one gets hurt? do you test firearms? do you check inside them? talk me through the process.

>> yeah, absolutely. if is somewhat of an involved process, sometimes armors are known as armorers or weapons wranglers. essentially they make sure no one gets hurt. the armorer controls all proper firearms at all times. so what that entails, the armorer works with the director, with the film director, the stunt performer and the stormer performers, and you mentioned testing the props. absolutely. as far as the firing props they're all tested. we test for distance. we test to make sure the cartridge is the right load. there are high and medium sloweds. we want to make sure we get the calculations right. >> when you talk about a full

load, you mean gunpowder for instance. >> exactly. >> so, get me through this. in terms of the guns used on set, you talked about prop guns are they typically real firearms that are modified? or prop guns that can't fire am institution and just fire blanks? the question i'm getting from people here, if it is a prop gun, firing blanks, is there ever a projectile that comes out that can hurt somebody? >> yeah, it's a great question. again, prop guns take all shapes and sizes. there are rubber stunt versions that you might use with a performer falling off a roof, running down the street. throwing a prop. that's made of some type of rubber. then you get the type of prop guns that are manufactured to only shoot blanks. they were never real guns. we call them nonguns. blank-firing nonguns. a blank say charge of powder

that propels hot gas, sustaining gas, burning powderous of the muzzle. and we want to make sure there's nobody downrange from that muzzle. on other extreme there is the use sometimes of a use of a real firearm that have been converted in some cases to fire blank rounds. so they will cycle a blank round. not having the actual projectile in the cartridge, you don't get the cycling. but those guns don't require the cycling, like a revolver, that would be in some cases a real firearm. that brings really to the forefront, obviously, there's never really any real ammunition capable of tiger a projectile allowed on a film set ever. >> so many people ask, how could somebody actually get hit and killed by something like this. so, how might that happen? >> well, as to how a real cartridge with a real projectile finds its way on a film set, if

that's what happened, we simply can't speculate. we have no idea. hopefully, it comes out so we can prevent that from ever happening again. there are protocols on set, to make sure that between each take. or before a blank is fired that the muzzle is clear of any obstructions. there could be an obstruction in the barrel. if a blank is fired that could have enough energy to push it out of the muzzle and potentially hurt somebody. >> are there different standards or projections, depending on the budget, in terms of the armorer that's used, if they're union or not? are they all operating under the same standards? >> i would say, yes, they are. i would say a competent armorer on set is following a set of industry standards. safety protocols. those protocols are universally standard, whether it's union or not. >> well, so many questions still unanswered but really appreciate having your expertise on this

tragic story, chad hawthorne, thanks so much for joining us. >> yeah, thanks for having me. the u.s. food and drug administration said when it comes to young children the bebs of the pfizer covid vaccine outwail the risks. the u.s. food and drug administration regulator posted that assessment late friday. earlier in the day, pfizer posted data showing the vaccine is more than 90% effective in children ages 5 to 11. the fda said while the vaccine carries a theoretical risk of causing heart inflammation, the risk from covid is higher if enough virus is circulating. fda advisers will meet next week to evaluate pfizer's application of emergency use authorization of the shot in young children. british ripples say soaring covid indications are within their expectations so they're sticking with the current plan and that means no mask mandates and no lockdowns but that's

enrage something health experts. cnn's salma abdelaziz that has is story. >> they're accusing of willful negligence over their reluctance to put safety measures in place. 40,000 new inflexections, that'n increase of 40 pores over the last several days. it has doctors and nurs worried about a surge during the winter that could push this country's health care system. still, the country's health secretary has said for now rules will not change. and those rules mean that masks are not mandate across england and neither are covid passports. it's divided opinion on the streets of london. >> i think we do need to consider maybe bringing back some of the restrictions that we had. whether or not that needs to be a full lockdown. i think that we need to bring

back some of the enforceable mask rules that we had last year and beginning of this year. i don't really see an alternative. we have to start bringing them back, i think. >> we don't need need wearing masks, they're not 100% effective. >> i think it makes a difference wearing a mask, so i'm not 100% comfortable here, inside some stores where people don't use any masks. >> i've systematically used the mask every day outside. and when not inside my own house, but everywhere i go. but it's fundamentally important that people wear masks. when you look around here, most people are not wearing masks. >> now prime minister boris johnson's government does have a contingency plan. it's known as plan "b." authorities say they're not rolling it out for now but it does include mandating face

masks, potentially the use of covid passports, encouraging people to work from home. and having the government explain and emphasize the risks at this time. but even if plan "b" was imposed it would really put the uk in line with other european countries. salma abdelaziz, cnn, london. >> joining me now is infectious expert keith neal, a professor emeritus from london. thanks for being with us. first, what's behind the rise in chases there? >> quite simply, people mixing there are more symptomatic, and the more mixing, the more spread and crisis. we've also moved things like going back to work, not wearing masks, all boosting the number of cases. >> and it seems that young people are contributing to this as well. this is all putting a spotlight

on vaccination rates of kids 12 to 15. but as we hear in the u.s., we're about to roll out vaccinations for kids 5 to 11. what is it that suggests the importance of getting kids vaccinated as quickly as possible? >> i think the fact that children's education is being disrupted. we even had a young girl age 15 die the day into she was vaccinated. so it can be a dangerous illness at this age. the issue at the moment, even if you're a household contact of a known case, you have a 1 in 6 chance of catching covid even if you've been vaccinated. and there's no requirement and so it's highly surprising it's spreading widely. >> and obviously, the dropping of the mandates, the mask mandates, so on, so forth. we heard a stark warning from union leaders representing 3 million workers.

they said, quote, without decisive action, we risk sleep walking into another winter of chaos. so what can governments do to prevent this? >> i don't understand why masks have become such a political issue because clearly people seem to think they've got a right to not wear a mask. but the european rights gives a right to life and a preference, i have a right not to catch covid. we now know that if both parties are wearing masks, the transmission rate of covid drops to 50%. >> do you think it's a mistake to drop the restrictions? >> wi think we have to face whe cases were learned in attempt to get back to some normality. also people not just having jobs is deleterious to health.

people working from home, why not? well, it actually affects the economics of the city. so people therefore will possibly buy their lunch going out where they live. so, the economy has just moved around. it doesn't get destroyed. >> we really appreciate your expertise, keith neal, thanks so much for joining us. >> good morning, thank you. >> the manhunt for brian laundrie is over. but many questions remain. straight ahead, what the discovery of his remains could mean for the investigation into the death of his fiancee gabby petito. plus, haiti's new police chief calls for a big fight against crime and wants the entire nation to play a part in it. stay with us. yourur day.s a tasty way to cr try centrum multi gummies. now with a new look. ♪ is someone trying to steal your butterfinger?

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randi kaye has more on where the investigation goes from here. >> reporter: one day after the fbi confirms brian laundrie's remains through dental records there's even more questions and still not enough answers. >> yesterday was very hard on him. >> reporter: the laundrie family attorney sharing how chris and roberta laundrie are dealing with the finding of their son's remains. >> distressed. distraught is the word i'd use but i don't think i've accurately described it. >> reporter: but now, questions remain what if anything did brian laundrie tell his parents before he left their house last month. >> chris and roberta knew their son was grieving. they knew he was so upset. they just couldn't control that he was leaving. he left, he walked out the door, chris has said to me i wish i could have stopped him but i couldn't. >> reporter: but what will was he grieving about?

a notebook found they are laundrie's remains could shed some light on that. a source says the notebook is possibly salvageable. >> we want to make sure that's handled sass well as possible. >> reporter: their son left the home on september 13th.the laundrie lawyer said he notified the fbi the same day he left. something law enforcement disputes. >> making a statement that we haven't seen him is not reporting that information. there is a million things we would have done. >> reporter: did laundrie's family tell law enforcement anything about petito before he left? >> that's not something that i can comment on right now and just leave it at that. >> reporter: we sktill don't knw when laundrie died. they discussed the possibility that it could have been a possibility. >> we had that conversation, chris, roberta and myself several times. we just do not know. of course, knowing his mental

state when he walked out the door, that was always the concern. let's wait for the medical examiner. >> reporter: and in that "good morning america" interview, the lawyer for the laundrie family was asked if brian's family had anything to say for the petito and also saying we have something to say with the gabby petito incident. it's a homicide. he called it an incident. he also said that brian laundrieie's parents were distraught. he said in the future there could be conversations or discussions perhaps with the petito family to be had. randi kaye, cnn, north port, florida. a popular beach resort tow police presence after two tourists were killed in a shoot-out during rival gangs. it happened in a restaurant in tulum wednesday night. three locals were also wounded.

locals say the two got caught in the cross fire and weren't the intended target. haiti's new police wants to crack down on frame. frantz elbe said all haitians have to play a part in the big fight against criminals. he spoke about the recent ab abduction of the missionary group from ohio. held by the notorious game called 400 mawozo, demanding $17 million for their release. we want to give you an idea what it's like to be in the hands of that infamous gang. a fresh priest was abducted by 400 mawozo and was in captivity. and he spoke with matt rivers. >> reporter: the threat of 400

mawozo is chilling. if the demands aren't met he will kill the missionaries of last week. the bang has tourized this community for years kidnapping now a hallmark tactic to make money. something french priest michel br briand knows first hand. he said we had to go to get to a work event. and on our way we were intercepted by a young man with guns. the driver forced our driver to follow them. that's when i knew we were being kidnapped. i kept calm. they were taken to a more rural area, first forced to sleep on cardboard under a tree. and then moved into a house one another with difficult conditions to say the least. he said it was like a dark hole, like a prison cell, the last place we were in with no

windows. in the beginning they were giving us food once a day but by the end they stopped feeding us, they forced to us go hungry believes it was an intimidation tactic. a source tells us they believes the 17 missionaries could be going through a very similar situation right now, somewhere several miles down the road. made even more difficult by the fact that five of them are children, with the youngest being just eight months old. in the small town where the missionary group is based, a protest calling for their release. palpable anger rising to what they see as an incompetent government. this protesters says these missionaries do for us in our village that the government doesn't. they've handed the country over to the gangs. we demand their release because these missionaries are everything for us here. people remain angry because there have been little updates by the government what though a government source says

that's on purpose so as not to make the litigation harder. but it remains to be known how the missionaries remain captive. for father briand it was nearly three weeks in total. he said the kidnappers tested time, test the nerves of their victims. so the victims can't lose hope, they need to keep their hopes up. in our case, our faith was our best allies, matt rivers, port-au-prince, haiti. a few simple words with taiwan quickly landed president biden in hot water with china. just ahead, we'll see how the white house is rushing to handle the remarks. plus shutting down extremist posts that led to the capitol insurrection. we'll share what we're learning from the trove of papers. stay with us.

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call today. ♪ welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." the biden white house is scrambling to tamp down a new firestorm over taiwan, insisting that america's military policy toward the island hasn't changed. now, the controversy erupted at a cnn town hall thursday night when president biden said this. >> you hear family saying biden wants to start a new cold war with china. i don't want a cold war with china. i just want china to understand that we are not going to step back. we're not going to change any views. >> so are you saying that united states would come to taiwan's

defense? >> yes, we have a commitment to do that. >> administration officials say the u.s. remains committed to assisting taiwan's self-defense, but the long-standing policy is intentionally vague about what the u.s. military might do if taiwan were to be attacked by the mainland the u.s. policy towards taiwan has wider implications towards the region especially japan. our blake essig is live in tokyo. blake, biden raised plenty of eyebrows with his comments. what's been the reaction from beijing? >> kim, they aren't pleased. as you might expect the reaction in the region specifically between beijing and taipei was very different in taiwan, biden's words were met with biden and indicating their capabilities to fully defend taiwan. and china, the foreign ministry

ed essentially said the u.s. should be cautious on its words and not send the message that one that threatens peace and stability across the taiwan strait. take a listen. >> translator: on issues concerning china's core interests such as sovereignty and territorial integrity, china has no room for compromise. no one should underestimate the chinese determination to defend their sovereignty and territorial integrity. >> the foreign minister also condemning the united states for raising military tensions by commenting on taiwan affairs. there's no questions tensions are high between taiwan and mainland china. in fact, in the first five days of this month, china sent more than 150 planes including fighter jets and nuclear bombers into taiwan's air identification

zone. that, of course, say record high. and recently, taiwan's defense minister said he believes taiwan will be able to launch a full-scale attack on taiwan by 2025. and the military tensions between beijing and taipei are the worst they've been in more than four decades. of course, if the conflict does make out the big question has been and is for a while will the united states come to defense. thursday night during cnn's town hall, president joe biden seemingly answered that question. kim. >> let's hope it never comes to that. blake essig in tokyo, thanks so much. while president biden probably won't have much time to think about taiwan in the coming days almost all his energies will be focused on convincing two democratic senators to get behind this ambitious spending plan and trying to get them on board by late next week. the legal fate of steve bannon rests with the u.s. justice

department. the department voted thursday to hold bannon in criminal contempt of january 6th insurrection, but one former trump ally will apparently comply with the subpoena. source, say that jeffrey clark is expected to testify next friday in the january 6th investigation. clark was an essential player in trump's efforts to overturn election results in key states. now, we're learning more about the role of facebook in the january 6th attack. cnn has reviewed internal facebook documents that revealed the company knew it wasn't doing enough to stop extremist movements ahead of the insurrection. that's at odds what facebook has said publicly. cnn's donie o'sullivan reports. >> reporter: on january 6th, facebook executives condemned the attack on the u.s. capitol, but certainly, some employees began to push back. facebook, they suggested was culpable. one writing in an internal facebook company chat, all due respect but haven't we had

enough time to manage discourse without enabling violence. we've been fuelling this fire for a long time and we shouldn't be surprised it's now out of control. another wrote they were tired of the leadership. there were dozensen stop the steal groups. stop the steal, the conspiracy movement that helped fuel the insurrection had been on facebook for months. how did you guys hear about this event today? >> through facebook. >> reporter: facebook events instagram? how you have been promoting it? >> well, i created a facebook event for yesterday's event pipe posted after the fact that we will again be coming today. i will be again making another event with regards to tomorrow. >> facebook providing the fundamental coordinating structure. they were sharing ridesharing information. they were sharing resources. they were talking about what they were going to wear. and if they were going to have

trump flags. >> reporter: we know that an internal facebook group that cracked down on stop the steal as piecemealed. that is revealed by frances haugen who spent time with thousands of documents. >> these are what we've been saying has been true all along and that facebook knows it. and could take action on it. and decide not to. >> for many years, people have been talking about the facebook effect. what facebook is doing to culture. to society, to politics. but we didn't really know from data, from facebook, whether these theorys were true. what frances has given us is an extraordinary archive of material that helps us see exactly what what's going on and what they know is going on. and it is the biggest and most

important contribution to understanding this incredibly important problem that we've ever had. >> reporter: the leaked documents, many just becoming public, were given to a consortium of news organizations including cnn form the basis of a complaint to the s.e.c., where haugen alleges the company misled investors and the public about its role perpetuating misinformation and violent extremely related to the 2020 election and january 6th insurrection. >> facebook executives like nick clegg both say it's unfair to blame facebook for the insurrection? >> it's a red herring to say people are blaming facebook for the entire thing. that's not what's happening here. you can't at the same time be facebook and try to take you responsibility and being very proud of all of the organizing work that you've helped black lives matter do or the occupy movement. or stand and lock. you can't take credit for all of that and then say, oh, that

thing called the insurrection, we had nothing to do with that. >> reporter: another revelation from the documents, an internal memo including details of a facebook staffer setting up a test account to see what facebook's algorithms were recommending to users. 2019, a facebook employee sets up an account designed to look like a 41-year-old conservative mom live north carolina income. her name is carol smith. she likes a few pages. she likes trump. she likes fox news. but in a week, she's getting a qanon recommendation. i saw in there after three weeks there was actually a recommendation for a page that was the three percenters, the self-described militia involved in the insurrection. >> yeah. no, again, we expect his dynamic. >> reporter: yeah. >> what's striking about what frances has revealed, we now know that facebook saw this precisely. so, these are like potato chips

that they feed to somebody who has a potato chip addiction. and that is the reality of the platform. it is an addiction engine. and it profits, the more can it manipulate us, to consume what we want to consume. >> reporter: donie o'sullivan, cnn, new york. u.s. workers have flexed their muscles in ways that they have leverage now and u.s. bosses still reeling from the pandemic. stay with h us. (vo) i am living with cll

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they're using it. according to cornell university there have been strikes or labor protests at more than 800 locations so far this year. one labor leader says that has a lot to do with how some workers were treated these past 18 months. >> well, i've had work throughout the pandemic. and they've been called essential but unfortunately they've been treated as expendable. right now, people just -- again, they want their piece of the american pie. they want their piece of the american dream. so that people will have a better life for their family information the future. >> now, all of this comes as unions fight an ongoing decline in membership. according to federal statistics, only a little more than 6% of more than 110 million u.s. workers were union members last year. that's up very slightly from 2019. but the percentage of unionized labor has been steadily dropping for nearly four years. the retail sector is one of the largest employers in the country

where only 4.5% of its workers were union members last year. now, one exception, nearly 40% of government workers were represented by unions. >> joining me from los angeles is brian patel, he's a board member and senior fellow at the drucker school of management at claremont university. thank you so much for being here with us. all of this labor strife is happening in the context of what many are calling the great resignation. more people left their jobs in august, than any month in history, i believe. some 4.3 million, about 1 million more than usual. so what kind of workers are quitting? and why is this happening? >> well, there's a couple buckets. i think, kim, you know, the first bucket is people are leaving the job that they currently have and are finding other jobs because of benefits and/or the compensation is also better. so there's that one bucket of group of people who are finding better opportunities because companies have to up their game

to be able to attract better talent. and that means not just compensation. but all kinds other benefits held. education. it's getting really competitive. and then there's the second bucket. you and i were talking and thinking a lot about strikes. people want to get paid more. people want to have a work/life balance more. part of it you can point to the pandemic. over the last two years people have realized, workers specifically, where they would like to have that balance, what's worth it, what's not. it made a lot of employees question about what they want to do moving forward. >> so, is all this lgiving more leverage to the unions then? is that why we're seeing so many labor actions? >> yeah, definitely, think about the unions in general. they typically haven't been favorable in percentagewise. there's a recent gallup poll that said 68% of respondents have a positive view of the union, best reading of that question, since 1965.

so, yeah, there is a lot more, you know, togetherness. unions know they have some leverage. and the companies actually do. when you look at john deere where they just announced today, the last 24 hours, even on strike, they're going to be offering benefits to the workers that are on strike. kim, kim, that doesn't happen, that doesn't happen on strike. i think there's that collaboration. and the power of social media, don't forget, is on their side. >> lastly, how do we marry what's happening on the labor side with what's happening in terms of inflation? i mean if this keeps going and prices keep going up, will that pressure people to go back to perhaps the jobs that they left that they didn't want? >> yeah, you know, it's always great when you have a small portion of a dose of something. when you start getting a bigger dose and when you've gone through months and months and months of not meeting demand, not meeting retail sales.

you know, payments are not being hit. and outlook starts to get cut from many of these companies, profitability starts to decrease. that's when we start to seat demand and spend a little differently. that's going to naturally owe occur over a period of time. you know, if this thing gets settled in three, four months i think we're okay. but, you know, just like covid when things start to affect for more than six, seven months, it has a detrimental effect to the economy as a whole. especially with recovery, kim. you talk about fast recovery, you want the gdp to increase, not take a flat line. you want it to pass where we were in 2019. and i think we're starting to see this will have an effect through 2022's outlook if companies can really reach those high potentials that they want to. >> hate to leave it on a downer there, but we will have to leave it there. ryan patel. thank you so much for joining us. really appreciate it. >> thanks, kim. we're tracking a strong

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for a powerful storm this weekend. a bomb cyclone of hurricane-like strength and tropic river moisture will clash saturday night, unleashing heavy rain, snow in parts of california and pacific northwest. it's time to bring in meteorologist derek van dam. derek, how bad will it be? is there a chance to help those areas out west that are suffering from drought and fires? >> well, i think it's important that we're clear to our viewers that this will not be a hurricane-like storm impacting the west coast, but it will have hurricane characteristics especially just offshore. it's going to be a powerful storm, lots of wind and lots of precipitation as well. in fact, knew to pass along to you this morning, just updated from the weather prediction center they have now included a high risk of flash flooding across the northern sections of northern california, the west-facing slopes of the sierra

madre range. and just to the south of the san francisco bay region and south as well. that is new there, seeing increased likelihood of atmospheric river event shaping up over the north section of the state. you can clearly see this on water vapor imagery. look at that line of moistmoist. that's a plume of moisture streaming in over the pacific ocean. it's to what this can do to the drought, atmosphere moisture of this nature can provide 10% to 15% of average rainfall for the state of california, depending on where it lines up. california currently under 100% drought. the entire state with some drought conditions and with this amount of copious precipitation moving in, that can put a dent

in that drought weather. we'll look for improvements. we'll see snow in the sierra nevada and the cascades. and strong winds with gusts over 50 miles per hour that will take down limbs, we'll call that a normal day for the pacific northwest. and over the open seas, there's the flash flood watches in northern and central virginia. the recent burn scars, kim from the dixie and caldor fires could cause concern with heavy rain and wind moving in. >> with the storm following through the weekend. derek van dam, thank you. houston astros are back in the world series for the third time in five years. >> here comes the 0-1. fly ball into left. that should do it. astros win the pennant!

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