liberty super pac trying to get rand paul elected president. that does it for us tonight. it's tuesday, october 27th. right now on "first look," new disturbing scene inside a south carolina classroom. a school resource officer gets physical with a student, sparking a police investigation. millions of americans are dealing with a punishing mix of torrential rain, flooding and tornado threats. we'll take you inside the storm zone. before you pick up that next piece of breakfast bacon, you may want to hear what health officials are saying about meat and cancer. plus the woman at the center of the oklahoma state university tragedy faces the judge. a new poll with some not so surprisingly bad news for donald trump and much more on a busy tuesday. "first look" starts right now. good morning, everybody, thanks so much for waking up with us today. i'm betty nguyen. we want to begin with cell

phone video that some viewers may find disturbing and shocking. it appears to show a school resource officer body slamming a female student and then dragging her across the classroom. it happened yesterday at spring valley high school in columbia, south carolina. here's one view of the incident. >> hands behind your back. give me your hands. give me your hand. >> authorities say the student was first asked to leave the classroom by the teacher but did not. the officer was called and the student again refused to leave. the school does confirm the incident and has said it is cooperating with the police investigation. here's reporter chad mills from nbc affiliate wis. >> reporter: so many people have shared this video. obviously, many people say it's disturbing. many people say it's even worse than disturbing. they say they're at a loss for words when they see that video.

but again, sheriff's department, richland county sheriff's department, is asking people to let cooler heads prevail for now as they investigate whatever happened. i want to read you the narrative we got from the sheriff a little while ago. he said, the sro, student resource officer, was acting in response to a student disrupting the class. the student refused to comply to directions that the teacher and school administrators to leave the class. when she refused, the sro was requested to take action. the student was told she was under arrest for disturbing school and given instructions, which she again refused. the video then shows the student resisting and being arrested by sro ben fields. >> nbc news has not confirmed what led up to the violent encounter. the student was not injured and was released to her parents. a spokesman for richland county says the resource officer is on administrative duty until this investigation is complete. the mayor of columbia, south carolina, released a statement

saying we, quote, cannot and will not accept this kind of behavior from any law enforcement officer and i firmly believe that we need an independent investigation to get to the bottom of this incident and see that justice is done. breaking news overnight. republican leaders have reached a break through tentative budget deal with the house. the deal would modestly increase spending over the next two years, cuts in social programs and raise the federal borrowing limit. the tentative agreement which must be approved by both the house and senate would avoid a government sutdown and a debt crisis. it would be one of the last acts of house speaker john boehner who intends to step down by friday. a tentative vote is scheduled for tomorrow. weather that tore through texas is now pounding the gulf coast. high winds in galveston damaged a historic fire station. significant flooding from baton rouge to pensacola, an lsu parking lot became a small lake, and of course students decided to jump on the opportunity to play a little water volleyball. but many areas did not get off

so easy. nbc's janet shamlian has our report. >> reporter: high waves, heavy rain and tropical depression force winds pounding pensacola beach. days after hurricane patricia made landfall in mexico, the punishing aftermath. all along the gulf coast, remnants of the storm. a tornado touched down south of new orleans. baton rouge battered by more than ten inches, where 20 children had to be rescued from a school bus, stuck on a flooded bridge. in mobile, a tropical squall packed 46-mile-per-hour wind gusts. and this expanding sinkhole at the university of south alabama swallowed a white pickup. >> i grabbed a few things out of the back. then went out the passenger side window. >> reporter: there are flash flood watches and tornado warnings from louisiana to florida. >> a couple of our roads that run parallel to the beaches are under water right now. >> reporter: in texas they're trying to dry out after three days of rain from two separate

systems. flash flooding caused a freight train to derail south of dallas and sent rescuers into high water where drivers became trapped in their cars. >> that was janet shamlian reporting. this next story might have you rethinking what you have for breakfast. a world health organization group says bacon, sausage, hot dogs and other processed meats like bologna and ham cause cancer and red meat probably does, too. the report says eating 50 grams a day, about two slices of bacon, increases the risk for colorectal cancer by 18%. as for red meat, which it says probably causes cancer, 100 grams a day, a piece the size of a deck of cards, raises the risk 17%. the north american meat institute says the new report, quote, defies common sense, saying cancer is a complex disease, not caused by single foods. overnight a u.s. destroyer sailed close to a disputed area claimed by china. the navy ship reportedly passed

within 12 nautical miles of manmade islands in the sprattly island chain. a u.s. defense official says the destroyer is part of an effort to keep international waters open, and denied the u.s. is targeting china with this move. now the chinese state news agency says its foreign minister warned the u.s. against the mission. several nations, including the philippines, vietnam and malaysia dispute china's claims to the area. those countries were angered when, in september, china completed a two-mile airstrip on the artificial islands. a woman who drove through a crowd at the oklahoma state university homecoming parade is in custody this morning. 25-year-old adacia chambers is being held on four counts, suspicion of second degree murder and driving under the influence. she has yet to be formally charged. and while prosecutors would not explain why, chambers' attorney believes another charge will be added in a hospitalized victim dies. now at her arraignment, prosecutors argued chambers intentionally drove into that crowd. they requested a $1 million bond because she is considered a

flight risk. now her attorney later said there is no way chambers can post that bond. out at o.u. medical center, three adult victims remain in critical condition. two children are in good condition. both presidential front-runners are facing some serious disapproval. hillary clinton is being accused of downplaying the v.a. scandal in the comments she made to msnbc's rachel maddow. she claimed the v.a. scandal wasn't, quote, as widespread as it has been made out to be. senator john mccain, a vet himself, joined the house veterans chairman in condemning that statement. the clinton campaign said monday the democratic front-runner is outraged by delays for vets and plans to unveil a plan for change next month. now on the republican side, bad news for donald trump. a new ap/gfk poll find 72% of hispanic voters view him unfavorably, including 6 in 10 who view him very unfavorably. 11% view him favorably. and that's not all he has to worry about. nbc's katy tur has more.

>> reporter: donald trump feeling the squeeze, behind ben carson in now three iowa polls. but refusing to acknowledge the slip,matt lauer. >> i don't believe i did fall behind. it was one poll, a second poll. it was small polls. >> you ever been told no? >> my whole life has really been a no and i fought through it. i started off in brooklyn, my father gave me a small loan of $1 million. >> reporter: trump dodging, weaving and attacking. trump isn't letting up on jeb bush, ridiculing the once presumptive nominee for meeting in houston with his family. including his brother and father, two former presidents, to rethink his struggling campaign. >> he's meeting today with mommy and daddy -- >> reporter: as bush's frustration becomes increasingly evident. >> i got a lot of really cool things that i could do other than sit around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them. that is a joke. elect trump if you want that.

>> that is nbc's katy tur reporting. the bush family meeting stretched into late monday where george w. declared his brother would win because of his fierce competitiveness. jeb will have a chance to prove that on wednesday night for the fourth republican debate, 8:00 on cnbc. nine minutes past the hour. time to get down to business with cnbc's landon dowdy. >> good morning to you. after three years of waiting, halo 5 finally hit the shelves, making it the biggest salvo yet in this year's battle for video game dollars. gamers who have followed the game says its first iteration in 2001 to be among the first to get their hands on the latest game which went on sale at midnight eastern time. at a walmart will begin testing drones for home delivery. a sign that it plans to compete with amazon, the world's largest retailer by revenue has for several months been conducting indoor tests of small, unmanned aircraft systems that it's now seeking to test the machines outdoors for the first time. and a new federal rule forbids airline passengers from

packing electronic cigarettes or other battery operated electronic smoking devices in their checked bags to protect against in-flight fires. the rule still allows e-cigarettes in carry-on bags, but passengers cannot recharge the devices while on the plane. back over to you. >> all right. thank you very much. in sports now, monday night football, ravens, cardinals, down three, carson palmer hands off to chris johnson who goes right, breaking tackle, spins and puts arizona on the board. now, we want you to fast forward to the play of the game. >> from the 30, comes to the left. gresham blocking again, johnson may not -- have been down, he was not. stays alive and johnson takes it inside the 10 to the 8 yard line. >> look at johnson go! and in the final pass of that game, ravens joe flacco is picked off in the end zone. the cards hold on 26-18. to kansas city, site of this year's first and second games of

the world series. teams getting in last-minute warm-ups before tonight's opening match-up. the mets will throw matt harvey to face off against edison volqu sechlt z. golden state taking on new orleans in oakland. and now to a sport of a different sort as we take you to thailand for this one and the 144th annual buffalo races. look at them. the winners can take home thousands in prize money. fans gather to cheer on the favorite rocky. and as part of the tradition they also express gratitude to the buffalo for their hard work. speaking of racing, triple crown winner american pharoah will run the final race of his career on saturday at the $5 million breeder's cup classic. the 3-year-old colt is an early 6-5 favorite in a fieldful ten horses. you can catch all the action on nbc sports network saturday at 3:30 eastern. just ahead, find out what are this year's most popular halloween costumes.

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drought in this region. one to two inch rainfall. a lot of airport delays possible up into the northeast. then we'll track some cold air behind this storm. it's not like bitterly cold. i mean we're talking 40s and 50s. and it's almost november. so, we're still holding onto, you know -- >> hey -- >> we haven't had a lot of snow forecasts yet. >> let's hold off on that. >> exactly. >> thank you. search crews are still looking for one person missing from the whale watching boat that capsized off the coast of british columbia on sunday. >> there was only about 20 feet of it sticking out of the water. and it looked like it was standing on end. >> out of the 27 passengers on the 64-foot ship, five british nationals died, and 21 others were hospitalized. initial reports blame high waves. authorities are still investigating. according to an ap report, the u.s. troops who requested an airstrike on the doctors without borders hospital in afghanistan mistakenly thought it was a taliban hospital. the october 3rd attack killed 30 people. critics have called the

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their relatives -- >> make them build a wall. >> make them build the wall, and beat up on jorge ramos, somehow they just don't love you as much as you would expect. >> why in his head he thinks he is so huge with them? >> because he thinks everybody loves him. which group does he not think loves him? >> that's true. >> so i'm going to be mean to them, and they're going to love me and they're going to -- >> on a similar token, marco rubio and jeb bush are not faring much better with hispanics. does this mean that the gop really needs to rethink its message? >> immigration talk has been very tough on the gop. and especially donald trump's immigration talk. you know, that if you pound on people over and over again and you don't seem sympathetic to their plight, they're going to support the other party. i don't think it's any more complicated than that. >> seems pretty cut and dry. jeb bush has done something that a lot of people thought, hmm, why haven't you done this before? he's been hunkering down with his dad, and his brother, two out of 44 people on the planet who've ever held a position of

u.s. president. shouldn't he have, i don't know, maybe done this a little bit earlier? >> well, you know, you're absolutely right. you assume that those two guys know something about getting elected president. >> right. >> i mean, they both did pretty well at it. but listen, to me, the issue isn't whether they know something, but the times are different. right? first of all, we've already had two bushes. so there's a certain amount of impatience with that. and you know what? this is just not the year of the insider. all right. you notice people at the top of the poll, your friend trump and others -- >> not my friend, trump. >> -- who haven't had a -- >> well my daddy didn't give me a little, small, million dollar loan as trump says. it was a hard-knock life growing up for him. does he really think that makes him look more, i guess, open to regular people? accessible? more relatable? >> let's you and i do an experiment. >> okay, what? >> will you give me a small million dollar loan? >> if i could, i would. >> oh, you know.

no! of course not. listen, most of us were lucky to get allowances as kids. right? >> exactly. >> you probably had to work for it. >> i had to work for even getting something from the tooth fairy, right? >> oh, poor baby. >> and i got a lot more than donald trump, i'm sure. >> imagine what you could have achieved with a million dollars. >> that tiny little million dollar loan. i'd take it right now. >> my parents clearly didn't love me. i don't know. >> all right. just ahead, a possible new strategy in the fight against isis. plus, adele's new album isn't out for another few weeks, but she's already causing quite a stir and breaking worldwide records. you're watching "first look." food is committed to truth on the label. when we say real meat is the first ingredient, it is always number one. we leave out poultry by-product meal, corn, wheat and soy. and, we own where our dry food is made - 100%. can other brands say all that? for grain-free nutrition you can trust, does your food go beyond?

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>> did you hear about the mash yesterday with lionel richie and adele because they both have the songs hello? >> i've got to look that one up. thanks, bill. i'm betty win. this is "first look" on msnbc. don't forget to like us on facebook at facebook.com/firstlookmsnbc. poor jeb bush is trying to get some momentum going by releasing a new book. it's a collection of e-mails he sent and received when he was governor of florida. the book is called, reply all. because nothing gets people excited like a group e-mail. this is a cover of the book. as you can see, his enthusiasm is overwhelming -- really looks like the print ad for a prescription drug. don't lit irritable bowel syndrome get you down. >> jeb and george w. bush huddle in houston as the former president assures donors that jeb can deliver. but the latest polls this morning still have him behind.

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