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wrong? hey there, good wednesday morning. we begin with developments in the race to r rlace john boehner. >aul ryan says he'll take the jo as speaker but only if his gop colleagues agree to support him. he's given them a friday deadline to make their opinions known. abc's stephanie ramos has been monitoring the situation overnight from washington. >> reporter: paul ryan is no longer resisting the pressure to run for house speaker. >> i consider to do this with reluctancece >> reporter: a aer weekses of loying to take on the job of leading a divided house. now the wisconsin lawmaker and former vp candidate finally says he's down to do the job agreeing he'll run to replace john boehner as house speaker only if republicans unify behind him. >> if i can truly be a unifying figure then i will gladly serve. >> reporter: but ryan's's got a few conditions. even though he has support from most republicans he says he'll only run if supported by all the key groups withinhe gop
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including the hard right house freedom caucus, the group that helped push boehner out of his post. he wants to make it harder to overthrow sitting speaker and the 45-year-old's father of three school-aged kids wants a better work/life balance. >> i cannot and will give up my family time. i may not be on the road as often as previous speakers but i pledge to try to make up for it with more time communicating our vision, our message. >> reporter: california congressman kevin mccarthy was up for the job but abruptly withdrew following outcries from some conservatives and these comments about hillary clinton and the house benghazi committee. >> everybody thought hillary clinton was unbeatable, right? but we put together a benghazi special committee. a select committee. what are her numbers today? her numbers are dropping. >> reporter: kevin mccarthy says he does support paul ryan as speaker.
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some democrats, though remain cautiously optimistic. reena and kendis, back to you. >> stephanie ramos live in washington. stephanie, thank you very much. also in washington vice president joe biden still silent on his possible presidential run. but biden has taken a number of not so subtle shots at front-runner hillary clinton over the past few days and now he's back-tracked on his version of the decision to go after osama bin laden. biden had long s sdhat he was not in favor of the raid but yesterday he said something entirely different. >> i told them my opinion, that i thought he should go but to follow his own instincts but it would have been a mistake, imagine if i had said in front of everyone, don't go or go and his decision was a different decision. >> reporter: t t white house not going to touch this one. they won't say which versisi i the accurate one. if biden gets in he'll face one less primary challenger. jim webb. he's dropped out but is
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considering a run as an independent. he complained about the lack of typing in the debate. a surprising meeting between the kremlin between russian president vladimir putiti and cia gentleman's bashar al assad. reports are they discussed russia's continuing military operations in syria. the trip was assad's first outside the country since the civil war erupted there four years ago. it took place as the same day the u.s. and russia signed an agreement aimed at minimizing the risk of flights oversyria. it i iludes a pledge asof a safe distance between warplanes. new york city mourning the loss of another police officer. the fourth to be murdered in the past 11 months. randolph holder killed during a gun battle last night in the east harlem section of manhattan. holder and his partner responding to call about gunshots. a suspect i i custody.
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a kentucky police officer is hospitalized after being shot in the chest during a standoff. the suspect barricaded himself inside a home in prestonsburg. police in albuquerque are looking for who shot a 4-year-old in a car on a busy interstate. the little girl died in t t hospital. her f fher said it was a case of road rara. that a car pulled up alongside his and started firing. police d not have a suspect. clues may be spread ove a large area of interstate 40. and part of the southwest is bracing for more severe storms today after yesterday's extreme weather. small hail pounded the albuquerque area while heavy rain poured out of the skies. ere were several severe thunderstorm and flash fod warnings in effect overnight. to the west near phoenix look at this. one funnel cloud spotted in the metro area. they could see more than 3 inches by noon today. flash flood watches and warnings have been issued for parts of utah, arizona, new mexico, as
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well as west texas. as we take a look at the radar this morning that large system you see right there moving through severer states in the southwest, flash flooding possible in texas and new mexico, in colorado the higherr elevations of the central rockies likely getting its first big snowfall of the season. well, some pomp and pageantry as queen elizabeth hosted a state banquet for china's president. duchess worere a pearl and diamond lotus tiara inhe royal family for more than 80 years. the duchess was seated next to the chinese president and she looked absolutely glamorous. >> so did the queen. >> not on outdone. still aheaea nene guidelines for mammograms causing a lot of confusion. high school hack.
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california. by the mud. it could be the first death related to the mudslides and severe flooding north of los angeles. the vehicle was found upside down and tilted sideways in a it was six feet deep in the dirt. in san francisco, this 39-year-old man was arrested after staying at a vacant mamaion and selling piecec of art that were inside. he sold ten works valued at more than $300,000. the guy claimed to have bought the multimillion dollar mansion that's been vacant for years. neighbors were suspicious and called the cops which led to his arrest. >> made himself at home. "consumer reports" is no longer recommending the tesla model s. thth magazinin says the $100,000 electric car is tops in performance, but its predicted reliability is worse than average. the automaker's ranking tops in reliability are lexus, toyota,
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way, number six ranked kia is now considered more reliable than honda or any american branan a deal is in the works to settle a class action suit over subway's foot long sandwiches. that suit was filed two years ago when foot longs were found to be only 11 inches long. the proposed settlement would force subways to measure their bread. it could be approved next year. hershey is making something special for the holidays. hershey kisses deluxe have a lovely hazelnut center filled with little specks of rice krispies. they are double the size of the usual hershey's kiss. you can look for them on shelves early next month. i wonder how the pumpkin spice hershey kiss -- go that would be a great idea. >> i think there is one. >> nice. when we come back without warning, a bus suddenly going up in flames. the passengers scramble to exit as the flames grow beneath them. and seeminglunstoppable. the mets one win away from a world series.
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fly by, 15 years from now. >> a a right, stay away, y yng fella. and closer to home here for those traveling a little sooner, roads this morning could be flooded in much of the southwest and up into the rockies. drivers are also likely to encounter wet roads near the great lakes. if you're flying, airport delays likeliest in phoenix and denver. new details now in the fatal police shooting of a south florida man. >> the musiciaiacorey jones was killed while pulled over when his car broke down on an interstate in palm beach gardens. the police chief says a handgun registered to jones was found at the scene. family members say they can't imagine why he would have had a gun. >> i can't explain it. i cannot understand it. >> we have confirmed that palm beach county sheriff's office recovered a firearm from the incident. detectives have located paperwork showing mr. jones purchased the handgun three days
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shooting. >> the police officer who shot jones was in plainclothes at the time. he was not wearing a body camera and there is no dash cam footage of that incident. a dozen n ople are in the intensive care unit of a hospital i isan jose, california, after suffffing an apparent case of food poisoning. a mexican seafood restaurant has been closed since sunday after more than 80 people who ate there got sick. lab tests on at least 15 of those cases have shown the presence of what's called chignon bacteria. it usually forms from unwashed contaminated food. a major health alert this morning. new breast screens recommendations from the american cancer society. the group says healthy women should start getting mammograms at 45 instead of 40, and beginning at age 55 women should be screened every other year. it's over concerns about so-called false positives according to abcbc dr.
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jennifer ashton. >> the reason for the delay back from 40 to 45 is because they found that in women 40 to 44, a screening mammogram in terms of saving lives may, in fact, do more harm than good in some women, so this is frustrating, and you need to speak to your doctor about your plan. >> the group also says it no longer recommends a clinical breast exam in which a doctor or nurse feels for lumps. three teenagers from lonon island, new york, are in big ouble this morning for hacking into their high school's computer system. they're accused of changing grades and altering the schedules of 300 other students. and now they're facing charges including burglary and identity theft. all the changes that were made were corrected before students received schedules and their grades. well, a dramatic rescue on the e gh seas off the coasasof aska. coast guard videdecaptures the moment when a french sailor with s cat tucked in his coat makes a jump from his disabled sailboat to an oil drilling vessel which sped to the rescue. the waves crashing at about 20
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feet high and winds at nearly 50 miles an hour at the time. absolutely incredible. surveillance video shows the frantic moments inside a commutut bus before it burst into flames in washington state. the driver asked passengers to leave the bus because of a fire. they exit as the flames start to spread. commuters line up along the side of the highway while the bus burns. the cause of the fire, under investigation. okay, got to show you this video in brazil. a truck attempts to cross a dilapidated bridge with disastrous results.. check it out. moments beforerettempting to cross, the driver examines the bridge. the truck crosses but as the driver accelerates, the truck begins to fall and plummets into the ravine and the bridge crumbles and sends dust flying into the air. we are told the driver is physically okay. his underwear needed changing. >> oh, boy. >> after that. well, now some sports. by this time tomorrow we could know which teams a a going to e world series. >> all right.
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we get some highlights now from our guys at espn. he's stan. i'm neil. we're doing baseball highlights. >> i'll go first. mets and cubs. >> batter up. >> mets up two games to none, they shifted to wrigley field for game three. daniel murphy still hitting home runs everywhere. he had homered in four straight games, make it five, that's off kyle hendricks and the fifth straight game of the postseason home run ties a major league baseball record. mets up 2-1. top seven, they're up 3-2. yoenis c%spedes and kyle schwarber probably should have made that play. david wright agoing to score. >> you think so. >> and kyle schwarber telling himself in his glove, i should have made that play. mets up three games to none. blue jays, their idea, hey, we're at home and we'll tie our series up 2-2 and got the former cy young winner, r.a. dickey throng that knuckleball and ben zobrist goes knuckle sandwich. two-run shot. i mean this is the top of the first.
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4-0. alex rios, he said, zobrist, can u make another one o othose knuckle sandwiches? dickey, 1 2/3, 4 hits, 4 earned. he got pulled. the royals busted out the whooping sticks, 14-2. your final. >> mets/royals? >> well, that's what it's looking like right now. >> yeah. >> all right. back to you. >> stan and neil, thank you. up next in "the pulse," "back to the future" day. so what did the movie get ri and talk about a saver. how a google emploloe puts away 9090of his income. 90% of his income. ...are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes... ...with non-insulin victoza . for a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar. but it didn't get me to my goal. so i asked my doctor about victoza . he said victoza works differently than pills. and comes in a pen. victoza is proven to lower blood sugar and a1c. it's taken once a day, any time. victoza is not for weight loss, but it may help you
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marty and doc brown traveled to -- from 1985 in "back to the future part ii," walking out of the alley getting his first view of hill valley in 2015, so what do we see? flying cars. unique outfits and a movie billboard. >> and, of course, the hoverboard. since that scece many companies claim to have built t working one, although most need a special electromagnetic field underneath to work. t else did they get right? facetime. future marty is seen talking to his boss needles on a video call. >> wow. and an accurate rediction of smart glasses. marty's future children wear strapped glasses. google g gss would come out two decades later.r. >> what did they get wrong? not a single smartphone in the movie. in fact, marty is seen in a phone booth at one point.
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and don't do what this guy did. newly released video reveals a passenger desperate to catch his flight runs on to the tarmac in denver. >> what were you thinking? >> prosecutors say the man pushed open a secure emergency door exit. he was arrested, of course, after the door triggered an alarm. this week he pleaded guilty to tampering and was sentenced to two years probation. >> the passenger was trying to get to his high school reunion, something tells me he did not make it in time for cocktail hour. >> something tells me he hit cocktail hour before running occupant there. northern california real estate can get expensive. a young google employee is living in this 16-foot truck. take a look. parked at googog headquarters. >> that's where he's living? >> yeah. so instead of spending $2,000 a month in rent, he paid $10,000 for the entire truck. he figures he'll break even today. >> he showers and eats at google and chas his batteries at work, as well. >> in a way, the commute is only a matter of seconds instof hours in traffic.
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top stories this morning, congressman paul ryan says he'll run for the house speaker job but onlyf has the full support of his republican collllgues. he's given them until friday to make up their minds. secretary of state john kerry heads to europe and the mideast today hoping his meetings with israi and palestinian leaders can help stop the rising violence there. russian president vladimir putin and syrian leader bashar al assad have held a secret meeting in moscow. their discussions yesterday centered on the continuation of russia's military campaign in syria. and taking a look at today's weather, heavy rain in the southwest all the way up to denver. showers around the great lakes and much warmer than usual along the mid-atlantic states. and finally this morning we've already told you about some of the stuff that they got right and they got wrong in "back to the future ii" but we didn't mention the delorean. >> oh, the delorean.
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you can have one jususlike the one e the film but it comes at a price. darren rovell explains. >> we're just heading towards hill valley, california, at 4:29 p.m. on wednesday, october 21st, 2015. >> reporter: well, we're finally here. the future as imagined in the 1989 film "back to the future ii." there are no flying cars, and "jaws" stopped way before 19. but the cubs could still win the world series this year. >> cubs win world series. >> reporter: and there are these, fully tricked out converted deloreans on a side road off a highway in a dallas suburb made to look like the time traveling vehicles used in the film. >> this thing is a hobby that turned into a crazy business. >> reporter: turning these vintage deloreans, a short-lived brand of the early '80s, into so-calletime machines is the
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brainchild of bob mosley, a former restaurant owner who as a fan himself bought a delorean. >> the thing about it is if you own a delorean you're going to have to deal with "back to the future" references. >> reporter: and of course when the car hits 88 miles per hour, the required speed to travel in time according to o e movie, which are being re-releaseded mosley has it rigged with all the bells and whistles. >> everything lights up, the dates change, speedometer goes to 88, so you really have the full experience of the time travel event. so what do you think? want to go for a ride? >> am i driving? >> no, i'm driving, but i'll let you ride in the passenger seat. >> okay, all right. all ririt, here we go. >> w wt to flip that. >> yes! i'm darren rovell in duncanville, texas. >> that still looks pretty cool. >> it does.
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not sure what year he's in.have a thin band of showers moving northeast through eastern nebraska. rain chances are pretty small for today once this line passes. temperatures are currently very mild in the 50s and 60s. we have a somewhat breezy northwest wind between 10 and 20 miles per hour. let's go through yoururayplanner whicicreveals a high temperature in the upper 60s this afternoon. we'll have your complete forecast coming up - your news starts " jessica rae: coming up this morning on abc9 news. paul ryan is now saying he's willing to run for speaker of the house... under one condition... we'll explain in just a moment " jessica rae: and... a sioux city mother charged in theheeath of her 2-2-nth old son has accepted her role in the child's death and has plead guilty.
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