understand why i'm so attached to this vegetable garden, beyond the obvious reasons that i am a card-carrying member of the liberal vegetable lobby. but if there is a steady stream of images in bill clinton tilling the soil, deadheading stuff, that would be a legacy to celebrate. that does it for us tonight. a o celebrate. "first look" is up next. a scary moment on the campaign trail. the plane carrying donald trump's running mate, mike pence, skids off the runway at new york's laguardia airport. plus -- >> i have never felt more hopeful about the future. i feel that way because for the past eight years, i have had the great honor of being this country's first lady. first ladies, we rock. >> michelle obama makes her first appearance alongside hillary clinton and takes on donald trump's claims of a rigged election. and new reports out of iraq claiming isis fighters are going door to door, threatening civilians.

we'll get a live report in just moments. ♪ good morning, everyone. it is friday, october 28th. i'm alex witt. a scary ending to a flight last night for those aboard the campaign charter of governor mike pence, of course, the republican vice presidential nominee. around 7:15 last night, his boeing 757 went off the end of the runway at laguardia airport here in new york after spending the day in iowa. it came to rest in some grass at the end of the 7,000-foot runway after plowing through arrester beds designed for just such an occasion, to bring planes to a halt. in fact, as we take a live look now, they have been working on that patch of runway all morning, you can see there, but the incident shut the entire airport down for about 30 minutes. 37 passengers and 11 crew were on board.

no one was hurt, and the governor himself seemed to be in good spirits. he stepped off that plane before going to meet with fire crews on site to thank them. pence later tweeting, "so thankful everyone on our plane is safe. grateful for our first responders and the concern and prayers of so many. back on the trail tomorrow." and during a speech last night in ohio, donald trump had this to say about his running mate. >> i just spoke to our future vice president, and he's okay. know he was in a big accident with a plane. the plane skidded off the runway and was pretty close to grave, grave danger. but i just spoke to mike pence, and he's fine. he got out. everybody's fine. everybody's fine. but what a great decision it was to get mike pence. what a great guy he is. what a great job he's doing. >> hillary clinton tweeted her relief that everyone aboard was okay as well.

pence did not end up attending a big fund-raiser in new york at trump tower last night. he phoned it in instead there. by the way, governor pence joins "morning joe" coming up in the 7:00 a.m. hour. and in just about 30 minutes or so, we're going to hear from nbc's ed von hilliard, aboard the plane as well. we are glad to hear everyone is okay. former president bill clinton is defending his family's foundation amid new scrutiny as wikileaks continues their dump of e-mails. the release is the latest by wikileaks of e-mails allegedly hacked from the personal account of campaign manager john podesta. these e-mails have not been authenticated by nbc news. the clinton campaign and officials are continuing to blame russia for the hacking, but in an exchange between neera tanden and poe testa of last year, tanden changes the conversation from upcoming polls, saying "do we actually know who told hillary she could use a private e-mail? and has that person been drawn

and quartered? like, the whole thing is blanking insane" with an expletive there. and then in 2015, podesta focused on clinton's interview with nbc's andrea mitchell, in which she said she was sorry for the controversy over the revelations over the server but did not apologize for using it. tanden pushed for her to pom cries, saying "everyone wants her to apologize and she should. apologies are like her achilles' heel, which she didn't seem like a blank in the interview and she did say sorry. she will get to a full apology in a few interviews." bill clinton expresses frustration over the questioning of his foundation, telling "billboard" magazine, "it's hard to hear, because i know good and well that a lot of people that are saying, i know it's not true. it's an insult to the people who work there, but the people who have contributed know and the people who did the work know and that's enough." he focused odd it during an event in ohio yesterday.

>> hillary clinton put the office of secretary of state up for sale, and if she got the chance, she'd put the oval office up for sale also. >> and donald trump's repeated claims that the election's being rigged against him, they are showing up in the polls. the "associated press"/gfk poll finds that only 35% of trump's supporters say they will accept the election results as legitimate if clinton wins. 64% say they're going to have some doubts there. it's practically the reverse with clinton supporters, as 69% say they will accept the outcome if trump wins and 30% have their doubts. as tensions grow, last night trump was asked what he would say to one of his supporters about a stolen election. >> can you reassure him that that's probably not going to be the case? will you do that tonight? >> i can't reassure him. i think things are going on that aren't good. and i think you look at texas, a lot of calls were made from texas. an incredible place. i love texas. the lines were massive, and they

were talking about flipping, where they press a button and they press it for me and another name comes up, called crooked hillary clinton. >> but do we have any facts on that? anybody -- >> no, they just call in. i've been here for years about philadelphia, chicago, st. louis, lots of other places. >> how exactly do you think the election is rigged? >> well, the system is rigged, bill. you look at the media, how horrible they are, how false they are. and i think the biggest rigging of all is what's happened with the fbi and the justice department with respect to hillary clinton, because she is so guilty in so many different ways that she shouldn't even be allowed to run for president. so, right there the system is really rigged. >> okay. >> and a day after introducing what he termed the new deal for black america, trump had this to say while discussing issues facing african-american voters. >> and we're going to work on our ghettos, so you look at what's going on, where you have pockets of areas of land where you have the inner cities and

you have so many things, so many problems, so many horrible, horrible problems. the violence, the death, the lack of education, no jobs. we're going to work with the african-american community and we're going to solve the problem of the inner city. hillary clinton and michelle obama hit the campaign trail together yesterday for the first time this election season, and the first time two first ladies have campaigned together. they were met by an audience of 11,000 people in winston-salem, north carolina. in spite of the hard-fought campaign eight years ago, the two women talked of their mutual respect for each other while also taking aim at donald trump. >> seriously, is there anyone more inspiring than michelle obama? as our first african-american first lady, she's faced pressures i never did. and she's handled them with pure

grace. by any standard, she has been an outstanding first lady who has made us all so proud! >> if people wonder, yes, hillary clinton is my friend, she has been a friend to me and barack and malia and sasha, and bill and chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office. >> michelle obama ended her speech by telling the audience to get out and vote, no matter what the other side says about a rigged election. >> when you hear folks talking about a global conspiracy and saying that this election is rigged, understand that they are trying to get you to stay home. they are trying to convince you that your vote doesn't matter. just for the record, in this country, the united states of america, the voters decide our

elections. they've always decided. voters decide who wins and who loses, period, end of story. >> donald trump responded last night on fox news, suggesting that what he said was no different than what president obama had when campaigning in 2008, when he responded to an ohio voter's question about whether the election would be rigged or stolen. obama called for voter protections and paper trails at the ballot box but joked, "it helps when democrats are in charge of the machines." >> her husband said, basically, those same words eight years ago, complaining about the system in chicago and laughing about it. and i think he says something to the effect, like he's lucky he's in chicago because it's rigged in his favor. well, take a look at it. i saw it on fox, and i thought it was terrible, especially since now he's holier than thou, and you know, like a thing like this could never happen. but go back eight years when he was running for the first time -- >> all right, but her messages -- >> -- you'll see some pretty nasty statements. now to iraq and the battle to mosul.

there are reports that isis militants are going door to door collecting civilians to be used as human shields, this as the head of u.s. central command tells nbc news to expect isis to grow more desperate as forces put more pressure on iraq's second largest city and that a victory in mosul will not end the terror group's presence in the country. nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley is in erbil, iraq, with more on the pressure to flush out isis. it's getting pretty dangerous out there for those civilians. >> reporter: that's right, alex. the situation here is becoming more and more dangerous for the suspected 1.2 million civilians who are still in mosul. and as you mentioned, the "associated press" and reuters have been reporting that isis is going door to door in neighborhoods south of mosul and forcing those civilians on pain of punishment or even death to move north into the city itself and act as sort of a human rampart against the mostly coalition air strikes against isis positions. now, this is, of course, very dangerous and this is very

serious, because isis has been shown to have done this before. the u.s. is saying that isis has been doing this in the shura town south of mosul already, but we've seen it many times before in fallujah and anbar province when iraqi security forces tried to move in on those places. and as you mentioned, alex, this is just a sign of the kind of pressure that's coming to bear on isis in mosul. they start to behave erratically, and we've seen this before. they set fire to a sulfur plant. they've made massive, almost suicidal attacks in areas south of mosul in order to distract attention away from the heart of the battle itself. so really, a lot of the progress has been made up until now has been significant, but a lot of that has been done in areas outside of mosul, where there have been no civilians, and that's all going to change once the iraqi security forces start to move into mosul itself and to seize its civilian population. >> thank you, matt bradley, from iraq. in a time of tragedy, he

helped calm an entire community. dallas police chief david brown came into prominence in the hours after that ambush which claimed the lives of five of his officers. last night he officially retired after being honored by various city officials and congressman pete sessions. brown spoke, bringing a message of togetherness to the community. >> i really do see this moment in time as just a transition to continuing the work in the community, showing people how families should love each other and extending that to others, not holding our love within, just for people close to us, but we've got to share everything that's in us. still ahead, it could be bad news for the chicago cubs as the team heads into game three of

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teachers, firefighters and nurss support prop 51. prop 51 repairs older schools and removes dangerous lead paint and pipes ensuring classrooms are safe for all students. for safe schools vote yes on 51. welcome back, everyone. a dramatic conclusion in the trial of the members of an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in oregon a bit earlier this year. all seven members, including brothers ayman and ryan bundy, were acquitted of conspiracy and firearms charges. the group was arrested after carrying out that standoff at the refuge back in january. it lasted more than a month. 11 people had already pleaded guilty, and one member of the group was killed by authorities during the standoff. meanwhile, the lawyer for ayman bundy was tackled and tasered by u.s. marshals. he was allegedly arguing with the judge demanding the release

of his client. by the way, ayman bundy is being held over charges in nevada in another high-profile standoff with federal agents there. quite the chaotic scene in north dakota yesterday as tensions between police and demonstrators, many of them native americans, boiled over after a months-long standoff. more than 140 protesters were arrested after refusing to leave private land as they fight to stop the construction of a controversial oil pipeline. nbc's miguel almaguer has more. >> reporter: near canyondale, north dakota, this is the intense face-off between an army of police and native american protesters blocking part of the highway, trying to shut down construction of a controversial pipeline on private land. officers in armored vehicles wearing riot gear are pouring in with air support. battle lines drawn, now making arrests. >> we are trying to avoid the confrontation, but they drew the line in the sand. >> reporter: after setting fires and blocking the bridge in the

path of the pipeline, months of tension have escalated. some promise a fight to the end. >> there's no fear here. we know that we have the moral high ground and that we're doing what's right. >> reporter: the nearly complete dakota access oil pipeline will cross four states, connecting north dakota and illinois with some 1,200 miles of pipe, a $3.8 billion project capable of transporting 570,000 barrels of oil a day. >> we're going to take our stand. we're staying put. >> reporter: the pipeline runs adjacent to the standing rock sioux reservation, where native americans say the project is destroying sake rhecred sites a could pollute the missouri river, a clean water source for millions. >> this is about protecting water, and that's a good thing. it needs to be protected. >> reporter: with nearly 300 arrests since august, the protest has become a movement said to be the largest gathering of native americans in modern

history. no comment from the oil company as celebrities and activists arrive in north dakota, vowing to fight on while facing arrests and a growing army of police. >> our thanks to miguel almaguer for that report. let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. so, we're seeing the back side of this storm here in the northeast? >> we are. >> good. >> and we'll get rid of it for the weekend, too. so, happy friday to everyone. yesterday we did get the snow we thought would happen. albany, new york, got over an inch and a half, so it wasn't just the high elevations. it was pouring all night long. people probably woke up in the middle of the night, windy, too, from boston to hartford and cape cod. that's ending now. it's mostly maine and new hampshire's problem through the day. the other story on the map is california, and this is a blessing. this is great. heavy rain right through central california. this is the heart of the hardest drought-hit areas, so we love that soaking today. and they actually have another one coming on sunday. that's the weekend, but you do need it. today's forecast, the record warmth is going to be very

impressive. i was just reading that atlanta from saturday all the way through wednesday could be near or break record highs six days in a row. i mean, we are in the mid-80s. this looks like an early september forecast through much of the country. the only cool spots are going to be right along the canadian border. even into saturday, near-record warmth. phoenix yesterday was 100, the warmest day ever, the latest in the season they've ever hit 100 degrees. 94 on saturday. still keeping it very warm and toasty. even into sunday, i did mention the new storm in the west, but everyone in the east very mild. 80 in d.c. already into november here? so, very mild conditions. and as far as monday goes, a lot of parents are wondering, worried about this. the halloween forecast looks very nice. we're still very warm. salem, massachusetts, 47. what's your favorite here, alex? witch lake? frankenstein, transylvania, louisiana? i like devil's elbow, california, at 50 degrees. >> yeah, deviled kills, right? i'm getting that as well. >> kill devil hills. >> yeah, we've got it all.

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welcome back. time now for sports. this one looked like a snoozer going into it, and it didn't disappoint, putting millions to sleep on their couch last night. thursday night football. to nashville.

titans bounce back on their home turf. they were up 27-0 at the end of the first half. blake bortles, eek. scoreless until the third. tennessee quarterback marcus mariota had two touchdowns and 270 yards while demarco murray found the end zone and also racked up 123 yards on the ground. the titans improve to 4-4 after a 36-22 win over the jags. turning to college football, number 25 virginia tech visiting unranked pittsburgh. the hokie edged the panthers for a three-point victory by a career-high 406-yard gain through the air by evans. they had more than 100 yards as the hokie offense racked up 556 yards in a close but entertaining 39-36 win. but this is the actual reason we showed you the highlights. how about this nifty play by pittsburgh in the fourth quarter? they fake up the middle and they give it to a 300-pound lineman, who like a swan -- well, not really -- but he rumbles there into the right corner of the end zone.

he actually has another catch on the year, too. he's 6'6", 300 pounds. well, now to the celtics and the bulls on the hard court. chicago, special night for dwyane wade, making his regular season debut with his hometown bulls after 13 hall of fame seasons in miami. wade finished with 22 points against the celtics, jimmy butler 24, but more importantly, the wade-led bulls won their home opener 105-99. time to talk world series. the tied series shifts to wrigley field for game three tonight, but the cubs may have lost a dangerous bat in their lineup. slugger kyle schwarber has not been cleared to play in the field, meaning at best he would be eligible as a pitch hitter in chicago where they don't have a dh. he returned in the cubs lineup in games one and two after missing almost the entire season due to knee injury. so far, he's 3 for 7 with two walks, two rbis. kyle kendricks will start against right-hander josh tomlin

on the mound for the indians. and alex, my best friend from high school is the assistant hitting coach for the indians. i know you're for the cubs, but i am all tribe all the time. >> oh, wow! that's pretty fun. are you getting some inside scoop on that? >> i am. but it's fun for him, too, because the coaches get that winning share. >> that's fun and then some. thanks, bill. still ahead, donald trump suggests canceling the election during a campaign rally in ohio. plus, the air scare from mike pence's campaign plane. we'll talk to a reporter that was on board at the time of the incident. >> i hate to disappoint, it wasn't that dramatic, man. it just sid skidded a little bit. there was mud all over the windows. everyone kind of laughed about it. >> were you skidding? >> yeah, the plane just skidded off the runway, that's all. $p

off the runway. governor mike pence's plane goes skidding into the grass at laguardia airport. one of the reporters aboard joins us live to talk about this surreal moment in a campaign full of surreal moments. plus, secretary biden? new reports that a clinton administration might ask him to be our man globetrotting the world. and later, an exclusive interview with one of the people who knows vladimir putin best. we are live in moscow. ♪ good morning, everyone. it is friday, october 28th. i'm alex witt. well, it has been a bumpy campaign season, to say the least, but last night, governor

mike pence's campaign jet went off the runway around 7:50 p.m. as it landed at new york's laguardia airport, and it came to rest in some grass at the end of the 7,000-foot runway right after plowing through arrester beds, those, of course, designed for such an occasion, which brings planes to a halt. the incident shut the entire airport down for about 30 minutes. 37 passengers and crew were aboard. none was hurt. the governor himself seemed to be in good spirits. he stepped off the plane before going to meet with fire crews on site to thank them. pence later tweeted, "so thankful everyone on our plane is safe. grateful for our first responders and the concern and prayers of so many. back on the trail tomorrow!" hillary clinton tweeted her relief that everyone aboard was okay as well. pence did not end up attending a big fund-raiser in new york at trump tower last night. he phoned in instead. joining us now here in studio, nbc news 2016 campaign embed vaughn hilliard. you've been covering mike pence, but i've got to tell you, nothing like this. we've talked about bumps and shake-ups and all the like, but

let's just play right now some video that you rolled as this plane came to a stop. here it is. >> oh, my god. >> remain seated. remain seated. >> okay. and by the way, this is a pretty big contrast, because i want to show the video that you filmed of the vice presidential nominee there, throwing the football hours earlier in sunny ft. dodge, iowa. >> it's not a bad iowa day. >> no, that's actually a pretty good throw right there. oh, the catch. well, maybe not so much. but anyway, let's talk about this. >> sure. >> the relief that i heard there was somebody said, oh, wait, what was that? so, how dramatic was this? >> the crazy part is that this plane has had a couple tough landing in the past, so we were almost bracing for the moment it happened. kind of swerved over to the right and came to a standstill. and that's when suddenly everyone was looking around like, is this just another rough landing or are we actually off the runway?

that's when mike pence stood up and said there is mud on the front windshield of the cockpit. and you see the fire trucks roll up. and the crazy part is 50 yards away, you see the fence and the highway, and that's when it really became real. >> there was nothing to prepare you for this, simply the landing. that was the problem. was there any explanation given to you guys? >> no, not yet. we're still trying to get our baggage. >> really? >> and he's supposed to be taking off for a campaign stop in pennsylvania this morning, on a separate plane, but there's been no explanation yet. the plane was actually delayed coming in from iowa. we had been on the tarmac, as you saw, the reason we're pl playing football in the first place for one, two hours. and came in through the rain and just skidded along. >> maybe sort of a weather delay. so, he did not go to the fund-raiser in person. why is that? were you stuck at laguardia? do you think he was shaken up? >> it was supposed to be earlier in the evening, so it was already delayed at that point. it was the trump victory

fund-raiser. he phoned in for the event because we were coming through laguardia. he was on the tarmac meeting with first responders for a while, so as you see on the scene, i think a the lo of the fire trucks didn't know what was taking place. everybody was fine. the governor even came back to the back of the plane before the firefighters opened up the plane door, and he said, is everybody okay? is everybody doing well? and one of the press members actually goes, "2016, eh, governor?" and he just kind of pauses and goes, just like that, so. >> sounds like almost a paternal approach, making sure everybody's okay, and you are, too, vaughn hilliard. looking forward to talking to you again. >> we've got 11 days. >> by the way, governor pence joins "morning joe" coming up in the 7:00 hour. joe biden is under consideration for secretary of state, should hillary clinton prevail on november 8th. a trusted source confirmed to nbc news last night that the democratic nominee is considering the former chair of the foreign relations committee. according to politico, neither

clinton nor their aides have informed biden he's on the short list and discussed other names, including former undersecretary of state wendy sherman, former deputy secretary of state bill burns, nicholas burns, and retired admiral james tav reeds. now biden talks about remarks trump made in the 2005 "access hollywood" tape. >> i got biden. he said, i'd like to take him behind the gym. oh, i dream of that. you know what you do with biden? you go like this, and he'd fall over, just. tough guy. mr. tough guy. mr. tough guy. just a little bit of a, ha, and he's gone. another beauty. can you imagine if i ever made

that statement? donald trump is a bully. he threatened vice president biden. donald trump is a bully. can you imagine? but he can say it. everyone thght, oh, that was a wonderful statement. >> donald trump will return to arizona for a seventh time this weekend, which according to "the arizona republic" is a record for a gop nominee in a state that has voted for the republican in all but one election since 1952. this as both candidates head to iowa tonight, trump in cedar rapids, clinton in des moines. it is a state where trump has been leading, but a new quinnipiac university poll shows clinton vaulting seven points since last month to a tie now, 44% to 44%, gary johnson dropping six points to 4%. the new q poll in georgia also shows a six-point swing in clinton's direction, trump barely ahead there, johnson coming in with 8:00. and in north carolina, quinnipiac has hillary clinton leading 47% to 43%. according to the latest early

voting analysis, over 13.7 million people have already voted nationwide, more than half of which have been cast in 12 battleground states. and the new q poll gives clinton the edge with early voters, ahead of trump by six points in georgia, 34 points in iowa and 28 points in north carolina. donald trump barn-stormed across ohio yesterday, where he placed the blame for jobs lost in ohio on trade policies supported by the clintons. >> every time you see a closed factory, a wiped-out community here in ohio, the clintons were really involved, because nafta's been such a disaster. employees at dixon ticon darerow-ow-oo. dixon ticonderoga, right? is that the name? i mean, they're gone, who cares? but maybe we'll get them back. should we try getting them back? see, now with me, they wouldn't be able to leave, because whatever the hell they make,

when they go to mexico and they make their product and they want to send it back over the border and they leave us with closed plants and unemployment, and mexico gets the cash, the employment, the factories, everything, what happens is they make their product. they want to send it across. i say, no, thank you. it's a 35% tax to get your product. right? hillary clinton wants to raise taxes on small businesses up to 45%. what a difference, you know? difference this is. i'm just thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the election and just give it to trump, right? what are we even having it for? what are we having it for? her policies are so bad. there's been no shortage of awkward debate moments over the last year or so, but let's add one more to the pile. this is from the illinois senate race where republican incumbent

mark kirk, who's actively run against donald trump, appears to be in trouble. here he is in an acrimonious debate with challenger tammy duckworth. >> my family has served this nation in uniform, going back to the revolution. i'm a daughter of the american revolution. i've bled for this nation. but i still want to be there in the senate when the drums of war sound, because people are quick to sound the drums of war, and i want to be there to say this is what it costs, this is what you're asking us to do, and if that's the case, i'll go. families like mine are the ones that bleed first. >> senator kirk, 30 seconds to rebut. >> i had forgotten that your parents came all the way from thailand to serve george washingt washington. >> move on to the next question. this is bernie shoneberg. now your chance. >> all right, let's clear that up here. duckworth lost both legs and earned a purple heart in the iraq war, and according to politico, duckworth was born in thailand to a thai mother and an american father who traces his military roots back to the revolutionary war. kirk's campaign later issued a

statement only partially addressing the comments, saying "senator kirk has consistently called representative duckworth a war hero and honors her family's service to this country, but that's not what this debate was about. representative duckworth lies about her legal troubles, was unable to defend her failures at the va and then falsely attacked senator kirk over his record on supporting gay rights. trump's campaign manager spiked the football, saying "the same mark kick then unendorsed his presidential nominee and called them out in paid ads. gotcha, good luck." tyler clementi was the rutgers university student who killed himself six years ago after his remote used a web cam to spy on him while he was having sex with another man. that inmate has now pleaded guilty six years later to attempted invasion of privacy, 1 of the original 15 counts against him, so the deal drops all other charges after an appeals court threw tout a previous conviction. ravi was sentenced to time

served and fines paid. still ahead, their jobs are among the most dangerous in the world, but there's new concern over the men and women who protect the president and presidential candidates are being paid enough. plus, if it's a day ending in "y," that means there's a new mac product on the market. we'll talk about that and number than anticipated earnings for alphabet.

♪ this is the second apple announcement in two months. and i have to say, it's not as exciting as it used to be. it used to be, you know, what's going to happen? but in a way, they get hurt by their own success. they made these amazing products with the computer and the ipad and the phones, but now, unless they come out with a light saber, it's like, oh, all right, whatever. apple is now focused less on what we're buying and more on why. >> you love your iphone. but you've had it for a while. now you need something else to distract you from the gaping hole inside. introducing a new thing from

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>> okay. thank you, jimmy. welcome back, everyone. another big announcement from apple, not like the one you just saw, but about the new macbook pro. google's parent company alphabet reported higher than expected forecast earnings yesterday, thanks to youtube and mobile ads there. lucia boisen is joining us from london. jimmy kimmel is great, but investors are feeling pretty good this morning. >> they are, just on apple. i think i was one of the last people standing who had, you know those old, white laptops that they originally came out with? >> oh, yeah. >> i had one of those until about two years ago, because i loved it. then i took it down to have something done to it or whatever and they said it was vintage. >> and you can't get service anymore. >> i know! exactly. let's talk about alphabet. as you mentioned, the google parent. they've beaten expectations on third-quarter numbers, a bumper set of figures. and that income was that up to $5 billion versus $4 billion, a

20% rise in their quarterly revenue, and that's the important part, because here we were anticipating to see a little bit of a weakness seeping through and we haven't seen that. they're really dominating in this mobile ad market alongside with facebook, and it's the market that's growing fast. get this, the number of times that people clicked on ads on google's own sites was up around 42%, so people are actually clicking on those things that i find so irritating. twitter is closing vine, the video-sharing service they launched only around four years ago. this is a service that lets people share these six-second-long clips that run on some sort of a type. so, they're not giving any reason for why they're closing vine down, but they did announce same tansly yesterday earlier, that they're cutting about 9% of their workforce. we speculated on this. we did a story on it before that cutback happened. and again, they had already announced a very large portion of jobs to go here a while back. so now they're cutting more jobs, and it's speculated that could be a part of this bigger restructuring that's happening. have a fantastic weekend.

we'll see you next week from here. >> thank you, same to you. let's check on the weather now from meteorologist bill karins. what say you, mr. bill? >> we had the snow yesterday, and it's moving out. we just have a little snow left up in areas of maine, still rainy around portsmouth, new hampshire, up through maine, but that's about it. this time of year, the leaves are near their peak some spots, so it makes for pretty pictures. that happened yesterday just around the capital of albany. saratoga springs. the saratoga racetrack is one of the best places to visit in the summer. an inch and a half to two inches of snow they got yesterday. thankfully, some of the trees have lost their leaves so it wasn't heavy enough for power outages. if you want to do viewing of the beautiful leaves, they're still at their peak through much of the northern half of the appalachians, pittsburgh, detroit, buffalo, but we're past peek in all areas of new england. it's going to be very windy today, so the leaves will be blowing all over the place. the other story, the building heat. temperatures over the next five to six days are almost unheard of for the end of october into the beginning of november.

so, building heat on saturday, near record highs in wichita, tucson will be kind of close, memphis will be very close, montgomery. so, we're about three to four degrees away from record highs in all of these areas, and that's going to continue, even as we go into saturday into sunday. memphis, nashville, montgomery, charlotte. i mean, even into halloween where temperatures are going to be very, very warm for this time of year, alex. so, it's great for the trick-or-treaters. the forecast looks great for 95% of the country on halloween but unusually warm. a little extreme. >> okay, thank you, bill. just ahead, the chill with moscow. nbc's keir simmons joins us live with his exclusive interview of a top aide to vladimir putin. back after this. using 60,000 points from my chase ink card wire. needed to give my shop... a face... no one wl forget

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welcome back, everyone. a ukrainian group has released hacked documents allegedly showing russia's involvement with ukrainian separatists in connection with the annexation of crimea. the hack is said to have gone deep into the inner circle and could be wider than the hacking of the dnc. the kremlin's top spokesman says russia is ready to work with the u.s. but will not back down from confrontation. joining us now from moscow, nbc news foreign correspondent keir simmons. keir, welcome to you. what are the chances of relations with russia improving any time soon? >> reporter: hi, alex. it's not looking easy, i have to say. by the way, i asked president putin's spokesman about those hacked documents.

he says all of the e-mails in those documents he says are fabricated. meanwhile, president putin using colorful language against allegations that russia may have been backing hackers hacking into the dnc and hillary clinton's campaign. president putin saying, what is america, a banana republic? does anyone really believe that americans could be swayed by russia? but president putin's spokesman saying that russia is not in support of any one candidate in the elections. here's what he had to say. >> he's not looking for any favored persons, any favored politicians. he's in favor of any politician who is in favor of good relationship with russia. and he will be ready to work with any administration that is going to have a constructive stand on the relationship, coming relationship with russia. what we have to do is just to have a fresh look, and we have

to think about a possibility of having a fresh start, and he will be waiting for a new administration to do that. >> reporter: all of this amid rising tension, big build-up of nato military on the border with russia, the largest since the end of the cold war, alex. at the same time, russia moving some nuclear-capable ships and missiles closer to european capitals. dmitri peskov, president putin's spokesman, saying they do want to try to get back to friendlier relations with the u.s., but they are prepared to defend themselves. alex? >> keir simmons reporting from moscow, thank you. good get on that interview. the u.s. secret service is carrying a heavy load as ever during a hectic campaign year, and yet, many of them are not getting paid for all the overtime they've put in. nbc's justice correspondent pete williams reports. >> reporter: it's not a nine-to-five job, safe-guarding presidential candidates on the road and keeping alert for potential trouble in boisterous crowds, not to mention the core

mission of protecting a sitting president. unlike most federal employees, secret service agents do get overtime, but a third of them maxed out months ago at about $160,000. because of salary caps, they've been putting in brutally long hours with no extra pay. >> there's no reward to the family. you're not seeing any income coming in out of it. all the things that are broken in the house aren't getting fixed. so, there's a major morale issue for that. >> reporter: the numbers are staggering. agents are now protecting 26 people -- the current president, the candidates and their families, four former presidents, and some other top u.s. officials. and they've provided security at more than 7,000 events here and overseas this year, screening more than 8 million people. this year's been especially taxing. the political conventions, the u.n. general assembly, and a year of unusually harsh rhetoric with threatening images displayed openly, some of them seeming to advocate violence, and a hiring freeze limiting the number of agents. >> as many of them have told me,

they'll take a bullet for the president, but if they'll take a bullet for the president, we ought to be able to properly compensate them. >> reporter: some in congress are now working on a fix so that secret service agents won't have to work overtime for nothing. >> our thanks to pete williams for that report. up next, a look at the day ahead. ♪ h. what else? wh if weire re sales reps? ♪ so people can customize their. that worked better th expected. i'll dial bk. yeah, dial it ck. just aittle. live busess, powered by sap.

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so, before we toss it over to "morning joe," we're going to get a check on the stories you're going to be hearing about in the day ahead. the world series, of course. >> that's it! >> windy city. the cubs host the indians in game three tonight. the series split one game apiece, of course. both titletowns, well, cleveland, chicago? who are you going with? chicago, aren't you? >> chicago. my dodgers, makes it look better. >> their doubt. >> that's at 8:00 eastern tonight for that. hillary clinton makes two stops in iowa today. tim kaine will be in florida along with president obama. he's going to be stumping for clinton. and former president bill clinton has got two events in battleground pennsylvania. meanwhile, donald trump will kick the day off in new hampshire before heading to neighboring maine. he's going to wrap up the day with a stop in iowa, and his running mate, mike pence, will be heading to pennsylvania on a different plane he was on today. >> safe travels, everyone. >> exactly.

before heading to north carolina. before he takes off on those events, governor pence will be right here joining the conversation on "morning joe." >> i want to hear about the seconds they were going off runway. >> that's it for >> i just spoke to our future vice president, and he's okay. do you foe he was in a big accident with a plane. the plane skidded off the runway and was pretty close to grave, grave danger. i just spoke with mike pence, and he's fine. everybody is fine. everybody is fine. but what a great decision it was to get mike pence. what a great guy he is. what a great job he's doing. >> he's talking about that frightening ending to a flight last night for those aboard mike pence's campaign charter. his boeing 737 went off the end of the runway at laguardia in new york cit