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mucinex 12 hour. breaking overnight a new iranian provocation of u.s. forces in the region as an american drone is shot down. a war of words is heating up between joe biden and many democrats running for president over segregationist comments from the former vice president america's most trusted airline piled who landed on the hudson speaking out over the two fatal crashes in the boeing 737 max. >> our current it have failed us this should never have happened. interview when he hears
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screaming and manages to tackle a man running from authorities one movie changed the way hundreds of millions viewed the ocean. glad to be with you right now. breaking news this morning out of the middle east iranian state media reporting the revolutionary guard has shot down a u.s. drone claiming it entered iranian airspace courtney, what are u.s. officials saying this morning? >> reporter: so the u.s. is saying in fact this rq 4, which is a global hawk, was shot down over the straut of hormus and e remained in international airspace they're sawing it veer under to iranian airspace, a claim u.s. denies they're sayinging it was shot down by an iranian suffrface to
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air missile, which they're not denying. we're hearing morabout the ongoing tensions we're nearby at the port we got access to one of the tankers that was damaged in an attack last week we saw the u.s. military's evidence that in fact it was hit by a mine. and while they didn't point the finger dr finger directly at aran, they say it was the kind iran has in their arsenal. another round of severe weather that has hit multiple states a very powerful thunderstorm brupging massive hail and wind gusts up to 45 miles per hour. and a possible tornado ripped the roof off of a church sanctuary. the pastor says about 20 people were inside at the time but they were not hurt. there are numerous reports of
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downed trees and powerlines in little rock, texas power lines and trees were knocked down in pennsylvania by this land slide. fro officials say the heavy rain has caused land slides dominican authorities revealing it was a case of mistaken identity, claiming the hit was meant for another guy sitting at ortiz's table there that night feet away and not moving when the shots were fired. in the dominican republic with the latest >> reporter: and we're learning shocking new details into the attack on slugger david ortiz when he was shot at nearly point-blank range in his native if santa demingo ortiz was not the intended target
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instead we're told it was supposed to be his friend that frequented that restaurant and sat at that very table the shooter was sloan a photo showing the target wearing white pants when in fact ortiz was the one wearing the clothing so the gunman mistaken shot ortiz in the back thinking he was the target laevl people were arrested including the alleged gunman authorities are still looking for the person who paid less than $8,000 to have ortiz's friend killed. meanwhile big papi has been taken back to boston where doctors are currently listsiing him in good condition. former vice president joe biden facing fewer from some of his rivals over comments he in
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the senate >> he defended his remarks after cory booker called for an apology. >> apologize for what? >> cory booker's called for it >> koor cory should apologize. there's not a racesest bone unmy body i've been involved in civil rights my whole career period, period, period >> the thing that bothers me is a guy the head of my party can't acknowledge he's made a mistake. instead saying cory called me a rossest which is not what i'm calling him or said. >> peter alexander has more on how this feud got started. joe buden made the remarks at a fund raiser who claim his willingness to work with adversaries is old-fashiono seg
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calling african-americans inferior he said he never called me boy he always called me son. at least there was civility. we didn't agree on much of can anything we got things done the backlash immediately >> to caudal the reputations of segregationist, who if they had their way, i wouldn't be standing here as the united states senate, it's informed and wrong. >> reporter: saying you don't joke about calling black men boys i have to tell vice president biden that he is wrong for joe biden has strong support in the african-american community a top house democrat arguing biden didn't say anything more than what described my work with
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strom thurman and several others >> he certainly didn't endorse their puzugzs. the point of the story is you have to be able to work with evd positions repugnant to you >> reporter: biden made the comments despite his aids urging him not to discuss his relationships with segregationest senators. the house judiciary committee grilled former trump aid and close confident. but she dodged question after question her lawyers say she's absolutely immune from having to testify. a train derailment shut down a 60-mile stretch of a major interstate officials say the train was carrying hardses materials when more than 20 cars over turned,
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sending a thick white smoke in the air. miguel almaguer has the latest >> reporter: smoke and a white powereder could be seen billowoing from a train, loaded with amun ugzs more than 20 cars flew off the tracks near elco, nevada officials confirming aluminum oxide was on board >> or at the back of the train >> reporter: local sheriff says a decontamination process is underway but there's no threat to the public. it's believed the weapons were not in the cars th railroadr placement of such dangerous commodities. >> reporter: after fearing the worse, authorities shut down interstate 80.
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officials say they dodged a bullet after train carrying high grade weapons overturned miguel almaguer, nbc news. thrjts the pilot who is a hero on the hudson river is blasting boeing and issued a new warning about what needs to happen >> reporter: he may be the most trusted pilot unamerica. the man who saved 155 people on the hudson river ten years ago took boeing and the faa to task for the three falt crashes that killed 346 people overseas >> our aerocraft design and certification have failed us >> reporter: before last october's crash, boeing never told pults of a new antistall system blamed for both crashes now captain sully who simulato
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have simulator training before they can fly the max again >> we must face it >> reporter: and boeing suggesting a simple ipad training will be enough. >> they let the traveling public down in a failed and catastrophic way >> reporter: boeing says safety is a shared priority and we are working closely with our industry partners to learn from these tragedies, answer their questions and take steps to gain trust. they have not yet scheduled a test flight or submitted for aprievl the new update meanwhile the new airlines that fly the max say they hope the max is aprovinged for flight by late august. >> thank you we have anauthorities
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authorities in alabama received a tip that a man was feeding meth to a squirrel to keep it aggressive the man is now denying the allegations. he appeared in the facebook live vid you holding the squiele he' meth, i'm pretty sure. heicize his pet came back to him when he whistled >> maybe we'll have another update for you let's check in with what's ahead. >> once agon we're going to see rounds of heavy rain across parts of the area. let's look at where the flash flood watch and warn are so 35 million at risk. we could see one to three inches of ron in a short amount of time and we're going to see the ron storms throughout the day. unadditi
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unaddition -- in addition very big cities and then stretching from philadelphia down to atlanta for the risk of severe storms. we're looking at thunderstorms and very warm temperatures we do have some good news. we're go doing dry out finally and more rain in the ohio valley >> michelle, thank you designer ralph lauren received a honorary knighthood espn is banning lavar ball
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she'll fund her plan >> we have the resources unthis country and we do. we just need to take them from the people who have been profiting on addiction and get them to the people to get off of the drugs. >> reporter: that's her big idea >> next up massachusetts senator elizabeth warren talks her big idea tonight on nbc nightly news and ahead of this "big idea series, they're speaking in sound bites until the next big idea >> and who's going to be able to breathe it all un. from my big idea to others as well, president regan famously loved jellybeans what did the 2020 candidates eat? they asked 21 presidential
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right now at 4:30, breaking news overnight. a 26-year-old sacramento police officer shot and killed in the line of duty. >> a very intense situation playing out for hours when the suspect pulled up and fired at officers. good thursday morning to you. thank you for joining us. i am laura garry saw. >> i am marcus washington.
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