went bone? >> that's what's making news in america this morning. >> do follow us at at atmfans.com. making news in america this morning, donald trump is hitting back at hillary clinton and the women accusing him of sexual advances. also a new interview this morning with clinton says she felt like trump was stalking her on the debate stage. extreme weather, hurricane nicole slams bermuda. the rare storm tearing across that tiny island. new video of the damage just coming in. plus, bracing for days of several storms on the west coast. chaos in the courtroom. a judge leaves the bench, rips off his robe and gets involved in a scuffle. and a shark scare. a great white pounces on a cage, gets in between the bars with a diver inside. it is a cringeworthy scene there. we'll get to that.

>> yeah, that story off of mexico. but here in the states it's good friday morning. it's a rough one in the political scene. we get started with both donald and melania trump fighting back this morning following a string of sexual assault allegations and taking direct aim at the accusers. >> donald trump is dismissing claims that he groped and kissed women without consent calling them outright lies and he claims he has evidence to refute them. >> trump's wife melania tweeted a letter from her lawyer demanding a partial retraction from "people" magazine. mrs. trump is specifically denying she had an encounter with an accuser after the alleged assault but did not dispute the claims about her husband. abc's angelica spanos is here with the latest. angelica, what are we learning? good morning. >> reporter: well, kendis and diane, donald trump continues to say that the deck is stacked against him in this election. he's denying every single word spoken from his accusers, and now he's pointing the finger at the media, the clintons and says his campaign will show substantial evidence that the

preposterous and ludicrous, the words donald trump used to defend himself against allegations of inappropriately touching women. >> these people are horrible people. they're horrible, horrible liars. >> reporter: one of those accusers, jessica leeds, who first told "the new york times" trump groped her on an airplane back in the '80s recalled more details of the encounter to cnn. >> did he actually kiss you? >> yeah, yeah. >> on the face or on the lips? >> all -- wherever he could find a landin >> these false attacks are absolutely hurtful. to be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly and before your family that you love is very painful. >> reporter: his campaign now planning an all-out assault on bill clinton and his past misconduct. >> they will lie, lie, lie. the clintons are criminals. >> but on the trail hillary clinton is unfazed.

obama. >> i can't believe that i'm saying that a candidate for president of the united states has bragged about sexually assating women. it has shaken me to my core in a way that i couldn't have predicted. >> reporter: clinton let the first lady take aim at trump while she sat down with talk show host ellen degeneres. >> i don't want anybody to think this election is over. we've got to work really hard for the next 3 1/2 weeks because who knows. felt like she was being stalked on the debate stage. >> he was really all wrought up. and you could just sense how much anger he had, and so he was really trying to dominate and then literally stalk me around the stage. >> reporter: and right now the clinton campaign is also still dealing with fallout from the wikileaks releases. the newest internal e-mails show clinton's advisers persuading her to apologize for using a private e-mail server.

>> yeah, and the clinton campaign has yet to verify whether those latest e-mails are real. angelica, thank you. as trump's accusers continue to speak out, ivanka hit the campaign trail for him. ivanka made a rare solo campaign swing through pennsylvania taking part in two events attended mostly by women. she refused, though, to address the sexual assault allegations against her father, just talking about politics in general and calling it bizarre and vicious. >> i felt like that i had, you new york real estate and, you know, could take some punches, but this is a rough sport, politics. >> ivanka talked about her father's child care plan and she depicted him as a mentor saying she wanted to emulate him as a parent. in other news now there is a lot of cleaning up to do on the island of bermuda in the aftermath of hurricane nicole. one guy stood outside in the storm as nicole's 115-mile-an-hour winds roared

you saw him there in the middle of the screen. the powerful storm knocked out to power to just about everyone and so far it's been restored to very few. what's left of nicole is spinning further into the atlantic. >> the northwest is now in the midst of a series of severe storms. high surf, strong winds and heavy rain are hitting the region, forecasters say some wind gusts could reach hurricane strength. some coastal areas could also see more than a foot of rain and this is just the beginning. pacific. a second storm rolls through tomorrow afternoon. it could bring widespread damage with wind gusts of over 80 miles per pour, flash flooding and possible mudslides. and we have some new drone video from north carolina showing the flooding emergency there is nowhere near over. that's the tar river still well out of its banks. north carolina's governor says parts of one town are still under up to 12 feet of water. all of it left behind by hurricane matthew, and the death toll continues to rise. at least 41 deaths are now blamed on the storm and its

the man accused of setting off bombs last month in new jersey and new york city has made his first court appearance. ahmad khan rahami entered not guilty pleas in connection with his shoot-out with new jersey police officers. now, because the 28-year-old is recovering from gunshot wounds, he appeared via a video link from his hospital room. bail was set at $5.2 million. rahami has not yet been arraigned for the bombings. and there was a stunning twist in the so-called new jersey bridgegate scandal. one that actually ul some serious consequences for governor chris christie. a judge has ruled that a citizens misconduct complaint against christie can go forward which means christie could face criminal indictments. the complaint accuses christie of allowing the bridge closure as political payback. christie's representatives say he will appeal. and president obama says he is the nerd in chief, and he is not ashamed of that. at a technology conference in

announced $300 million in grants and also played with some new gadgets including using a simulator to dock a spacecraft at the international space station. now this isn't the first time that the president has shown how much he loves technology. >> i confessed, i am a science geek. i'm a nerd, and i don't make any apologies for it. [ applause ] i don't make any apologies for it. it's cool stuff. >> the president also took a picture with a fan. >> ah. >> 10-month-old rowan wright in a nasa shirt. >> that rowan will be going to mars for us someday. still ahead, another airline is dealing with computer issues causing delays overnight all across the country. and something new on board. how other airlines are now taking extra steps to prevent a disaster from overheating smartphones. plus, not in his courtroom. a judge rips off his robe when a

friends and fans remembered prince at a tribute concert in st. paul, minnesota, last night. the headliners included stevie wonder, you see and chaka khan and there was a video message from president obama. the singer/songwriter died in his minnesota studio in april of an accidental overdose. he was 57. united airlines is blaming a computer glitch for systemwide delays last night. the company is now apologizing saying there was an issue with its weight reporting system. at one point overnight the airline's website and app also went down. the issues have since been resolved but delays could linger. this is the third systemwide computer failure for a major airline since july.

now have a fire containment bag system on some flights. in case electronic devices catch fire. delta, virgin america and alaska airlines are first putting them on overseas flights. the bags come in a variety of sizes because there have been incidents involving more than just cell phones. other airlines are now considering the bags, as well. miami has a third zika zone and the disease has been confirmed in five people in the one square heil area. two women and three men, it's a setback coming less than a month after anothemi was declared free of the virus. florida's governor says his state has not yet received any federal funds to fight zika even though the money has been approved by congress. hp is cutting more jobs and the company plans to cut up to 4,000 over the next three years. hp was formed a year ago when when hewlett-packard was broken up. it makes printers and personal computers. hp has 50,000 employees.

on the flip side amazon says it will hire 20% more seasonal workers than last year as retailers expect growth this holiday season. amazon expects to hire roughly 120,000 seasonal workers and last year about one in seven stayed on for a regular full time job. this year the online retailer says that number should be even higher. when we come back, a frightening situation for many parents. investigators say he's cold and calculated. the desperate search for a serial abductor whoing its kids. a great white jumps into a shark cage.

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no structures were damaged. checking morning road conditions, flooding possible for the northwest and into california because of those storms we mentioned earlier. roads will also be wet from texas up into kentucky. some weather-related airport delays possible in san francisco, memphis, as well as dallas. testimony resumes today in georgia in the trial of ross harris, he's accused of leaving his 22-month-old son cooper in a hot car to die. >> a day care worker described the routine for little cooper which was usually would drop him off in the morning and mom would pick him up in the afternoon. then came that horrible day in 2014 when his mother arrived as usual to get her son. >> i told her, i was like, well, what are you doing here, cooper is not here. >> and during the course of that, what was her demeanor as far as -- >> she was confused. she looked frantic. >> now, prosecutors say ross harris intentionally killed cooper by leaving him in a sweltering car for hours possibly because harris was being unfaithful. his lawyers say cooper's death

if convicted, harris faces life in prison. this morning the fbi is stepping up efforts to try to find a man investigators say is a serial kidnapper targeting young children. the suspect was caught on surveillance video walking down an alley wearing a hooded sweatshirt. investigators believe he took a 6-year-old girl from her cleveland home last may and also tried abducting a 10-year-old in february. both girls survived their ordeals. a 911 operator in houston is accused 6 hanging o who desperately needed help. creshendo williams has been fired and authorities say she may have hung up on thousands of callers over a six-month period. in one case the caller was a man reporting a robbery at a store where a clerk was killed. officials at the london zoo want to know how a gorilla escaped its enclosure. the gorilla was seen actively and aggressively acting out before escaping his den entering

part of the zoo and was tranquilized and recaptured after less than an hour but some zoo visitors were locked in a cafeteria for their own safety. meanwhile, back at home, an unusual scene in a michigan courtroom. watch as judge john mcbain growing increasingly frustrated with a defendant. he starts mouthing off and talking him right into a jail sentence. when an officer tries to escort him out, things get physical. that's when the judge jumps down robe and rushes in to help the officer. >> put your hands behind your back. tase his [ muted ] right now. >> the defendant didn't end up getting tased. the judge said it's the first time he's ever had to do something like this but says he court officials say the judge didn't do anything wrong and that he was just maintaining order in the court. the super bowl champion denver broncos have now lost two straight games after being defeated by the san diego chargers. but there was another game played last night as well.

good morning, america. lisa kerney and kevin connors here with you and what a game we had. game five and dave roberts said, no way are you going to see my ace. no way, kev. >> well, until he needed him in the ninth inning. we'll talk about clayton kershaw in a minute. jansen on. first time he ever pitched in the seventh inning this season but gets anthony renndone to swing out. gets michael taylor swinging at that so jansen out of a jam in eighth. bottom nine, jansen still out there. walks jayson werth on his 51st pitch, a career high, that's enough for roberts. he goes and pulls out his ace kershaw who he said earlier in the day no chance he'd pitch. but he needed him and he brings him on and gets daniel murphy who kershaw called the best hitter on the planet to pop out to second. the dodgers, one out away from

defoe, swing and a miss and threw to first gets him. clayton kershaw locks down his first career save first since doing it in the mining fors in 2006 with kenly jansen as his catcher and the dodgers are headed to the nlcs to face the cubs. they win it, 4-3, your final. >> but we don't have to wait for baseball. alcs later friday night between the blue jays and the indians. have a great friday, everybody. >> all right, you two, up next, in "the pulse," an elephant rushes in the river to save a friend. at least he thought so. yep, and a clumsy customer causes thousands of dollars in damage in a matter of seconds. i've been taking probiotics gx from nature's bounty to maintain healthy digestion and help with the occasional unwanted gas and bloating. so wherever i get stuck today, my "future self" will thank me.

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? your friday "pulse" kicks off with a shark surprise off the coast of mexico. >> you could say that. >> that's creepy. yeah, so first a 13-foot great white got into a shark cage that is supposed to keep the predator out. it injured itself against the bars and couldn't wait to get out. >> oh, my god. >> oh. >> eventually the shark does get out, but look at this. there was a diver in the cage at the time. >> oh, my god. >> the diver gets out a moment later after keeping very, very still while the shark was in the cage with him, and luckily that diver was not hurt. >> but he did have to change his wet suit after that. >> oh. and then let's shift on to a cuter animal, shall we.

sanctuary in thailand. >> okay, so a park staffer is her bff apparently. a human named derek. when she spotted him taking a dip in the river, she thought he was in trouble and rushed in to save him. >> handlers at the sanctuary say that as a baby the elephant was tortured into becoming a performing animal, that, is until she was rescued and brought to the sanctuary where derek took a special interest in her, and the two apparently bonded for life. >> but how smart of her to know that, you know, he might be in trouble and then rushed in there. >> you could see him just hugging her trunk and saying thank you, thank you even though he was okay. >> yeah. finally, our ken bone-free "pulse" hallelujah admittedly ends with skepticism calling it one customer's epic fail in an electronics store in england. >> watch the guy in a dark outfit. he makes his way over to check out some fancy wide screen tvs just like anybody else and then -- >> that happened. whoa. that's more than $6,000 worth of

we don't know if the guy had to pay for any of the damage. but some of the tvs were curved tvs so pretty pricey ones. >> ooh. you got to feel bad for him, though, it would be so easy to do something like that. >> really? no. >> yes, you move an arm, you touch it a little too rough. oh. i'm not paying for that. >> and just on cue. i think that worked. >> our graphics department. more news after this.

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checking our top stories, donald trump is campaigning in north carolina today after firing back at his accusers. he's calling their sexual assault allegations pure fiction accusing hillary clinton and the media of conspiring against him. powerful winds from hurricane nicole have most of bermuda without power this morning. the storm left behind some damage and flooding before spinning away further into the atlantic. the northwest here in the states being struck by a series of strong storms from now through monday. high surf, strong winds and heavy rain have forecasters concerned about flash flooding and mudslides. checking the map you can see a lot of rain along the west coast, still warm across the southwest. thunderstorms stretch from texas into ohio valley and sunny and dry along the east coast. it is friday so finally from us the presidential candidates are still giving the late night comics plenty of material. >> here now your "friday funnies."

for hillary clinton at a florida rally attended by 1,600 people. unfortunately for gore, a recount showed it was only 1,300 people. trump urged his supporters to vote on the wrong date. >> there's never been anything like this so go and register. make sure you get out and vote november 28th. >> no, wait. >> supporters thought the electric was november 28th, so the election is rigged. it should be november 28th. sitting president as a first lady and -- >> below 40%. >> is that a question? >> this is a question. what are you talking about? you think hillary should be further ahead because she's running as the first female president. if running as the first female president was an advantage, it probably would have happened before 2016. >> edgar mitchell wanted to meet

chairman to discuss alien life. and hillary is like, trust me, if there were alien, i already would have asked them for money. dear zorb. >> i went from seven twitter followers, two of which were my grandmother because she had to remake it because she forgot her password to 700. >> his grandmother follows him twice on twitter. this guy is so naturally appealing. you know right now hillary's campaign is analyze iing everything about him and she will show up at the third debate in a red sweater and fake mustache. what are you talking about? i've always looked like this. >> that's hilarious. >> we almost made it throughout without a ken bone reference. and yet we love him. >> by the way, he's up to 238,000 followers on twitter. >> big debate on wednesday. more fodder for the comic, i'm

right now, at 4:30, a live look outside. the sun came out, but are we going to be the same. let's go to lisa del castillo. >> i'm not ready. i'm doing my