have great one. making news in america this morning -- brett kavanaugh's nomination to the supreme court in jeopardy. he and his accuser now agreeing to testify about sexual assault allegation. how the white house is defending him. and what republican senators now say could disqualify the nominee. a new flood alert after florence. major rivers in north carolina rising overnight. a pregnant woman desperately holding on the a tree. a deadly string of tornadoes. this morning, a new estimate. just how much the damage could cost. the world's first moon tourist revealed. a health alert. some common house hold products now being linked to obesity in

children. plus, roseanne not happy with how her character is being killed off in "the conners." >> and the college football team that ran up the score, winning 90-6. should the winning coach apologize? and we do say good morning on this tuesday, everybody. i'm kendis gibson. >> and i'm janai norman in for diane macedo. the future of brett kavanaugh more uncertain than ever. >> a public shaerg scheduled for monday. a college professor who claimings kavanaugh sexually assaulted whern they were teen arnlgs will tell her story. he'll get a chance to answer her claim irnd oath. >> reporter: good morning. yes, a committee vote on kavanaugh nomination was planned for this thursday. but now, that's on hold.

the stage is set on capitol hill with both supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and his accuser ready to testify. >> i insisted we have an open hearing. i would have voted no this week absent her being able to tell her story. >> reporter: senator jeff flake, a key republican on the senate judiciary committee is adamant that the accuser, christine blasey ford be allowed to testify. seen here in a yearbook photo first told her story to senator diane fine stooind the washington post. alleging kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and groped her. adding, i thought he might inadvertently kill me. she says she managed to get away. the alleged incident happened when they were both in high school, some 35 years ago. in response, kavanaugh say this is is a complete ly false

allegation. >> it is an insult, insult to the women of america to rush this through. >> obviously, if judge kavanaugh has lied about what happened, that would be disqualifying. >> reporter: president trump while defending his nominee also uncharacteristically called for patience. >> i want the american people to be happy. think to do that, you have to go through this. if it takes a little delay, it will take a little delay. >> reporter: the hearing is set for next monday morning. two will testify separately but before the same page. kendis? >> a lot of people will watch it on monday. in rare move, president trump ordered intelligence officials to declassify fbi documented related to the russia investigation. the records include text flaujs former fbi director james comey.

and from the two former fbi officials who exchanged anti-trump text messages before tlex. democrats call the move reckless and irresponsible. they claim it's a desperate attempt to distract from special counsel robert mueller's investigation. overseas, an historic meeting between the leaders of north and south korea just getting under way. kim jong-un hugging the president. it's the first time in more than a decade that a south korean leader has visited the north. the two will discuss ways to establish peace on the peninsula. a new report estimates damage from hurricane florence could top $20 billion. that storm not over yet. the cape fear river is set to crest today. residents have been warned to pick a side of the river stand there. as the storm moves north, it's already spawned a deadly tornado in virginia. millions of people in the

northeast are under flood watches. emily rau continues our coverage in will miniton, north carolina. >> reporter: good morning, janai. the remnants of the storm are proving deadly five days after making landfall. the food and water supply is running short here. another deadly day in the path of what was hurricane florence. >> a tornado! oh! >> reporter: the storm spawning tornadoes as it moves inland, killing a person near richmond, virginia, after a building collapsed. water wes cues still happening. in kelly, north carolina, cruise helping this pregnant woman and her 4-year-old through neck-high water. >> this ma ha has suffered tragically. >> reporter: outside of charlotte, help did not come in time for kaiden lee welch. floodwaters pinning his mother's car against trees. she freed him from the car seat but lost her grip.

>> i was doing everything i could. it gets worse. water gets to your car. you start to panic. you're sinking. you think you're sinking fast. everything happened too fast. >> reporter: and if flood water creeping higher. the water expected to be over these tracks. >> that river is rising fast. real fast. >> we've been here for a few mourps we're just watching it rise. >> four foot in the last couple of hours. >> reporter: in lumberton, eva pilgrim riding along with people boat to boat. >> this is a main highway. we're in the middle of history town road. >> this is a real road? >> if you stand up and look, you can see the back of the highway. >> reporter: the man in the back of the boat is on facebook live. when they get an indication that help is needed. >> you good? >> we're going get her water and

whatever snax you have. >> reporter: the cape fear river is right behind me. it's being watched very closely. it's expected to crest this morning. officials trying to get the message out. pick a side now. you might be stuck there if the bridges are closed until they can get them reopened. kendis? janai? >> emily rau. thank you. the head of fema could be facing something else. criminal charges in connection with his travel expenses. fema administrator brock long allegedly used government vehicles to make personal trips to his home in north carolina. the case is being referred to federal prosecutors. he denies any wrong doing. time to look at your weather forecast for this tuesday morning. >> good morning. well, the rain is continuing to shift along with florence. florence now starting to develop more of a beeline path from the west to the east instead of to

the north. we'll have showers and thunderstorms in abundance across a good portion of the east coast. the southern new england states will still watch it. rifs that will be flooded throughout portions of north and south carolina. it will happen for the next one to two weeks in a row. with accuweather, i'm meteorologist paul williams. coming up, soaring salaries on wall street. what the average paycheck looks like. a promising young golf star is found murdered on a golf course in iowa. a suspect now under arrest. later, why roseanne is not happy with how her character is written off in the conners.

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a golf bag was found with nobody near it. she was from spain and attended iowa state university. she won the big 12 champ onnonship in april. the suspect who was also 22, was arrested. no word on motive. the average wall street salary last year was $422,000. that's about seven times hire than rest of america. how about the? the average bonus, $184,000. and new trade tensions between the u.s. and china. president trump says the u.s. will impose new tariffs on another $20 billion worth of goods imported from china including everything from handbags to bicycle tires to salmon. china plans to impose tariffs on american goods. coca-cola may go ahead with plans to put cannabis in a can. they're watching the market for

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saying fly me to the moon. he'll be the first space tourist flown into orbit. he'll be on a new rocket built by spacex. >> david kerley has the details. >> reporter: i'm david kerley. you're in spacex's factory in hawthorne, california. one of the old dragon cap suls here. a big announcement from spacex about the first private citizen who has purchased a ride around the moon. his name is yasuka >> ever since i was a kid, i have loved the moon. just staring at the moon fueled my imagination. it's always there. and it has continued to inspire. >> reporter: not only does he want to go, he wants to take six to eight artists with him on this trip around the moon and

have them create art. he's an art cure not just you. you want to take artists? >> yes. >> why? >> i love art. i want the artists to see the moon where up close. and to see the earth in full view. after that, i hope they can create something very new. >> reporter: they're not saying how much he's paying for this trip. it's supposed to happen in 2023 on what is called the bfr, the big falcon rocket. it's not even built yesterday. elon musk says he's not sure he can get it off the ground. he says it will cost $5 billion to get this big falcon rocket up into space. i'm david kerley in hawthorne, california. talk show host julie chen is leaving "the talk." she's not appeared on the show

since her husband, cbs exe exe e les moonves left hiss job. roseanne barr has a spoirl alert on the show that bears her name. she says the character will be killed off by an opioid overdose. >> it wasn't enough to just do what they did to me. they -- they had to -- so cruelly insult the people who loved that family and that show. they had to cruelly and -- >> "the conners" debuts next month here on abc. in health news, there may be a link between house hold cleaning products and weight gain in children. kids in homes where disinfectants were used on daily basis tended to be overweight by

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in front of all these people and in front of my mom and your parents watching from above. will you marry me? [ cheers and applause ] >> aw. so -- they have been dating for about ten years. his mom just passed way. he just won an emmy for directing when he asked his girlfriend to marry. well, that's a yes. and betty white got standing ovation when she was honored at the show. she reflected back on her career spanning seven decades. >> somebody -- somebody said something -- i don't know -- the other day about first lady of television. and i took it as a -- as a big compliment. and then i -- heard her talking to her daughter a little later. she said, oh, first lady, she's that old. she was the first one way, way back. >> well, betty white is 96.

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feed the good. . good morning. it's tuesday, september 18th. natasha is off this morning. thanks for joining us. >> 4:27 in the a.m. how are we looking so far in the a.m.? >> cloudy. it's going to lead to our coolest afternoon this week. let's take a look at the temperatures if you're stepping out. we have some 40s out there on the periphery. in the north, clear lake and ukiah. novato is 43. clouds along the coast this afternoon, the rest with sunshine. 59 at half moon bay to 63 in oakland. san jose, 73. same thing in napa, san rafael. same thing in livermore. we'll take the latest look at

florence. here's your traffic. >> not a lot going on. that's what we hope at 4:27 in the morning. we're looking at a couple of slow patches getting out of tracy. 30 miles an hour on 205. 580 down to 45 miles an hour. all things considered, that's not bad for that stretch of the roadway. a little lineup in the cash lanes for the bay bridge toll plaza. no meters lights yet and that's not so bad this morning. we'll take a look at drive times coming up in a couple of minutes. the parents of a 6-year-old boy have been praying for a miracle to heal their boy. >> he's been in a coma for more than a month. last night they moved the boy to a new hospital after they said an oakland facility originally wanted to take him off life support. matt keller live for us in palo alto. >> reporter: little kingston homes is here at stanford. his parents holding onto hope

pulls through. 6-month-old kingston holmes has been in coma since going into cardiac arrest. they received a letter informing him his life support would be discontinued by 1:00 p.m. monday due to irreversible brain injury. they said doctors made the decision without consulting them. a rally was held in oakland for the boy. eventually the decision was reversed to give the family more time. he was transferred to stanford children's hospital last night. >> he is moving. he's wiggling his toes. he is moving his foot. his feet as well as his hands. his breath has gotten tremendously better. >> reporter: ucsf said they couldn't comment on kingston's case due to privacy laws but said the parents were notified

about the pending decision for weeks. reporting live in stanford, matt keller, abc 7 news. more help is on the way to north carolina's community hit hardest by florence. >> food and water will be delivered to wilmington. at the latest count, 32 people are dead in the wake of the storm. a team of san francisco first responders got the call from fema and so now they're in north carolina where they're helping coordinate rescue efforts. they say it's been eye-opening to watch folks from across the country work together to keep fellow americans safe. >> when they find out there's a team here from san francisco, they always tell us we're a aym help out. >> the biggest challenge now, safely getting people back into their homes. the american red cross is ordering a relief effort for those affected by the storm. you can make