>> the idea was that this anonymous poster, who people refer to as q was giving secret clues about becoming, quote, great awakening. >> reporter: political science professor joe studies conspiracy theories. >> it's almost an incitement to violence. there isn't anything worse you can say about your political competitors than that they are satanic, sex traffickers who molest and eat children. >> reporter: this sounds like something out of a bad sci-fi movie. >> it has a lot of floorts make it more like a cult. >> reporter: qanon signs are seen. some are seeking office with them. >> i stand with president president trump. thank you anones. >> reporter: this senate hopeful in oregon is one of at least 19

gop congressional candidates who have paid lip service to qanon. >> the democrats areokee down.e taylor greenmho oeren offices. yet several republican leaders congratulated her on her primary win last week while the president called her a future republican star. >> she had a tremendous victory, so absolutely i did congratulate her. >> what is qanon? >> reporter: that bothered adam rebuttal on line. >> there are a mass amount of -- >> reporter: he told us he's worried d anon could erode democracy. >> it has to be called out. for the president to say no i don't believe these theories -- >> reporter: but its made him a target. >> i have are twitter people telling me i created isis with john mccain. >> reporter: do you think that's

why more republicans don't speak out because they're worried about the attacks they'll get on line? >> i can't speak for everyone but i think there are some who are concerned about that. >> reporter: facebook announced restrictions on qanon ads, fudged raising and searches. nearly 800 groups have already been removed and 100 pages tied to the conspiracy theory. >> know anything about it other than they do supposedly like me. >> reporter: despite warnings from federal law enforcement, one media watchdog estimates president trump has amplified the tweets of qanon believers more than 200 teams. he says there's a reason for that. >> they brought him to the prom and he needs to continue dancing with them. so that's exactly what he's going to continues doing. >> reporter: and he told me that these predictions, as nutty as they sound, aren't even that new. some of the theories resemble

the blot of oliver stone's movie "j.f.k.: 30 years ago." yet polling minds five to ten percent of americans actually believe this stuff, that president trump is this secret crusader working to take down a cannibalistic cabal within government. >> nancy cordes on capitol hill. iowa and other yeft states are still picking up the pieces after last week's storm called a derecho. it came t out of packing winds over 1,000 miles an hour. it devastated the nation's corn crop. adriana diaz reports. >> reporter: this massive storage win was no match for g . >> reporter: hurricane force winds plowed through this iowa farm and much of the midwest last week, leaving behind

hurricane-life aftermath. just look at this mangled mettle. >> yeah. >> reporter: it's unbelievable. >> this is tough stuff. this is not tinger toy stuff. >> reporter: the storm hit fast. >> these are flattened back here. >> we're standing in a 290- fie essentially flat corn. this will be very di to harvest. this corn plant is trying to figure out what happened to it, trying to repair its leaf damage and trying to upright itself. >> reporter: it has cost him over $2 nsh aps will cover most of it but not the lost time. >> we don't feel like we need to taking incredible risks outs here on a daily basis with ra, somere living in r lively tents. the derecho, which means

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discover what's good - pantene nutrient blends in lighter news, nancy giles has an overnight news history lesson about one of the nation's most popular summer retreats. >> here's george. ♪ yum >> it's whole some. on a hot summer day, who doesn't like a popsicle. ♪ popsicle >> yes, it's delicious popsicle. >> but did you know the original popsicle sprang from the mind of a 10-year-old-way named frank

eperson? on an unusually cold he h g and frank's granddaughter. >> in the morning when he came out it was frozen solid. so he took it out and that was the beginning of the popsicle. >> reporter: he would have to grow up before he'd patented the idea. yes, the popsicle had a patent, in 1924. >> he called it ep-sickle, ep or eperson and sickle because it looked like an icicle. he ran up and put his arms around his fath and said, pa, pop, can i have a sickle? i want a popsicle. >> i love that. >> reporter: frank took his popsicled to neptune beach the

coney island of the west. >> each week it would be a different kid going in and asking for a popsicle. and the guy would have to say we don't sell popsicles. after several weeks of different kids asking for popsicles, my grandfather would go in and say, can i interest you in selling popsicles. that is marked t sell all his rights for $50,000. >> what i can tell you is that we make over the two billion popsicles a year. >> a senior marketing director at unilever, parent company of the popsicle makers. >>sctied, light of cool, its turned championed by the likes of justin bieber. >> since there's no one in the room to share it with, i'll eat

it myself. >> i won't tell anybody. >> thank you. >> and creative folks are still being inspired by frank eperson's original idea. >> we saw the need for it and went for it. >> he and his wife created island pops in crown hei ago. >> look at that. hmm. >> everything we do is hand made, small batch and contains memories we grew up with in the caribbean. >> craving for flavors of the home land inspired them to open the familybusine. >> we saw need f experience, t authenticity. a vacation in a spoon. >> a vacation in a spoon. it really does take you away. >> oh, my gosh, that is so pineapple. >> hmm hmm. >> a vacation. >> oh, hey.

engineers in puerto rico are still struggling to repair one of the world's most powerful middle of a forest listens for radio telescopes. a freak accident knocked it off line and it could be months galaxyies year and far. before its back peering into the it played a major role in the >> reporter: it's been a siti organization. backdrop for hollywood films like the 1997 sinai drama now radio communication both incoming and outgoing will be site for a while. "contact." technicians have been working >> it will do. >> oh! wo>> w tryingnder rying to l bu >> it's where james bond stopped the villain in "golden eye" but ts we don'te >> repter: since it was built the observe attorney is more than a scene stealer. in 1963, the observatory has it's one of the world's survived hazards, storms and largest telescopes acting as a giant ear. until this week. on monday morningcae above a pl earthquak earthquakes, but it is other

threats the telescope is look out for. tracking ast stroids. it's been partsd of the search for other planets that may be tearing a slipp f its msessnts able to sustain life. all reasons why the scientific community hopes it is back up and running soon. >> we'll find a way to repair this particular issue and continue to move forward. we've overcome a lot in our 50-year history frourricane maria to ce ofe ing to figur ou to continue to movard, doingitgenor reporting from washington, i'm catherine herridge. 'd tonight m5 days until the election, and it's the final night of the democratic national convention. but the other big story:

president trump's former top white house adviser accused of ripping off donors in a scheme to build a southern border wall. steve bannon taken off this 152- foot yacht, owned by a chinese billionaire and taken into custody. how prosecutors say he stole $1 million from thousands of howhis triple amputee war veteran allegedly used donations to buy a boat, a golf cart, and cosmetic surgery. tonight, the president responds. >> i didn't like that project. i thought that was a pro