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onslaught of he said he said headlines out of washington on the eve of block buster testimony expected from james comey. >> chaos in front of the notre dame cathedral. >> courtroom testimony fro the woman accusing bill cosby of sexual assault. >> police search for the suspect in this random act of violence. >> rain and flooding continues in the south. >> and babies make four for george and amal clooney."ear to. good morng. frances rivera. a flood of dheadlines ahe of formerth new york times repo
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also t fy deputy attorney generalel for t comment on what the behind closed doors.bi director testifies tomorrow. it is much anticipated the fbi has given him the clearance to talk about essentially whatever he wants that's not classified. >> right. a lot of people will be watching that. tracie potts thanks. >> certainly the country's attention will be glued to james comey tomorrow. bars and restaurants are even adjusting schedules for the hearing. we'll have more in a moment. first nbc hallie jackson brings us up to speed. >> reporter: less than three weeks after reportedly calling
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james comey a nut job president trumple sending a more magnanimous message. >> i wish him luck. >> reporter: luck from the president to the fbi director he fired set to speak publicly thursday. coaxy likely to lay out a pattern of what he pleved were inthe appropriate conversations about the russia vaes gags according to sources close to him but not expected to accuse the president of obstruction of justice. the president who is consulting with counsel will counterprogram comey with a speech in d.c. thursday and maybe something more on line too. >> the president is expected to be tweeting on thursday in response to comey, not to stay quiet during the testimony because he himself wants to be the one driving the process. >> the president is the most effective messenger on his agenda. >> reporter: that seems jammed up for now with the capital consumed by comey. >> this is going to take all the air out of the room. >> reporter: the white house hoping to jump start movement on the president's priorities,
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health care and tax reform, meeting a it the white house with gop leaders. >> now the senate i'm sure will follow suit and get a bill across the finish line this summer. >> reporter: that timeline striking some as ambitious. >> i think the president's agenda is at a virtual standstill because of all of these distractions. >> reporter: leading anthem to pull out of ohio's masht leaving 10,000 without no provider come 2018. >> thank you. anding we'll have live coverage of james comey's testimony before congress beginning tomorrow morning at 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific on nbc. and bars in d.c. will have the hearing on tv, one is opening early thursday morning. a tavern will open for what it calls a comey hearing covfefe, a $5 russian vodka flavors and fbi sandwich if i is f like fried chicagop breast, b, bar bacon
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and i for iceberg lettuce. >> in a courtroom in philadelphia, bill cosby's i accuser came face to fails with the man she says drugged and sexually assaulted her. andrea constand telling the court her account of what happened. stephanie gosk was there. >> reporter: andrea constand arrived at court serious and determined. sitting across the courtroom from bill cosby she described her initial impressions of him while working at temple university, a friend, somebody i trusted, a mentor. in january 2004 she went to cosby's house to talk about her career. the comedian offered her three blue pills saying these will help you relax. moments later feeling unsteady and panicking a bit she said cosby moved her to the couch. with a shaky voice she told the jury, i was trying to get my hands to move and my legs to move but i was frozen. unable to fight back she says,
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cosby molested her. i wanted it to stop she told the courtroom. constand admitted she spoke to cosby several times after the alleged attack, and even attended one of his shows with relatives. she says i did not have the courage at the time to tell my family so i just went along with it. cosby is facing three felony charges of aggravated indecent assault, dozens of women have accused the once beloved actor of unwanted sexual contact. many say they were drugged. cosby denies all of the charges. >> she faces cross-examination when the trial resumes this morning. french authorities opened up a terror investigation after a man wielding a hammer attack add police officer outs of the notre dame cathedral. police shot and injured the man who yelled this is for syria, during the attack. the man is believed to be an algerian student however his identity has not been confirmed. the shot sent tourists running
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for cover. up to 600 people were blocked inside as police search forward possible accomplices. officials say it appears the man acted alone. this comes at the wake of the latest terror attack in london where three men killed at least seven people. at least two of the attackers were reportedly known to authorities. these new details revealed just ahead of elections in britain. lucy joins us live from london. what effect do these attacks have on the upcoming election? >> reporter: good morning. british prime minister theresa may has come under some fire over police cuts in the wake of the attacks, the terror attack in london. the issue is likely to weigh on the minds of voters but it's difficult to say how it will affect her chances. as recently as last month mays conservatives led the opposition labor party more than 20 percentage points in the polls but that lead has slowly been shrinking and more people dils approve rather than approve of her performance for the first time. one of the three men saturday
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was not only known to the authorities but he was featured in a television documentary about british jihadis. the attacker was known to authorities so these things likely on voters' minds. where once in the last few days the discussion might have been on brexit or taxes or spending the focus now is on police numbers, intelligence and extremist ideology. that doesn't necessarily bode well for her. >> thank you. closer to home roads became rivers when flood waters in mip ep swept up a camper in forest county. they are expected to continue to rise but not reach flood stage. check out this atv water skiing in the florida ever dplads. most of the city is under water due to rains and dozens of roads are closed. >> let's bring in bill. any relief? >> we have flood warnings for southeast florida, 3 million in that, in the flood watches, 8 million, so the heavy rains
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continue from yesterday into this morning. look at the radar. this is over the last 12 hours. it really shifted from naples southward and now pretty good thunderstorms are going to roll toward miami and homestead as we go to the beginning of your early morning rush hour. we'll get 1 to 3 inches out of this over the next day or two and areas of northeast florida could get additional 1 to 2 inches also. and this is the rainy season but this is a little too much too fast. that's good morning. a very happy wednesday. here's a look at our radar and satellite view. looking better than it did yesterday morning. still sprinkles out there, and still talking cloudy conditions. plus, cool temperatures for your wednesday. things warm up for your weekend. we're going to get to all the details on that coming up at 4:30. >> thank you. here's a look at what we're working on for "nbc10 news today" -- >> teens arrested. police say a group of boys seen sucker punching a mentally disabled man are in custody, and they may be behind another
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farce forward into wednesday president trump travels to cincinnati to meet with what the white house calls victims of obamacare. he will deliver a speech on infrastructure. congressman al green of texas plans to draft articles of impeachment against president trump for obstruction offiousties over the firing of james comey. and bat man is popping the question. bat man's going to propose. big news in the comic book world. >> it's about time after all of the flirting. thank you. the united states is poised to hit a new record for oil, apple's next big thing involves some of hollywood's stars. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. yes, oil is tracking lower after the eia did up its forecast for 2018 u.s. crude production to
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around 10 million barrels a day. this number of course higher than the record 9.6 million barrels a day hit in 1970. the aia says the number of active rigs in the u.s. has more than doubled in the past year alone. we need to remember as well that companies underwent cost cutting so have a much lower break even price point around $50 a barrel, the eia also lowered its forecast for wti and brent prices for 2018 by 2.5%. over at sears rumors are they are planning to close additional 66 sears and kmart stores as they continue to seek return to profitability, the news came out on tuesday afternoon. sears has already planned to close 180, they announced earlier so this comes on top of that. and finally over to apple launching their first original online tv show, it will feature celebrities such as jessica alba
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cosby's accuser takes the stand. andrea constand breaks her silence in court claiming she was drugged and virgin islanola. the field is set. democrats and republicans have their candidates if the fight for new jersey's governor's seat. and powerball fever. are you feeling lucky? tonight's jackpot has soared to
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$375 million. good morning. this is "nbc10 news today." welcome back. i'm tracy davidson. >> and i'm vai sikahema. let's get right to meteorologist krystal klei and her first alert forecast. cool out for early june. it is, and it's going to stay cool. let's start with the first alert radar. unlike yesterday we're not tracking some line of heavy rain moving through, but we're tracking sprinkles. you see the dots of green even into philadelphia, south jersey, sprinkles are possible this morning. we kind of have a lot of moisture in the air after the rainy period we've been under for the last couple of days. cloudy and cool conditions, rain ikelt 55 in philadelphia. i had on a light jacket and wa
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building. so you might want to do that if you've got an early 50t,n pottso 54. we'll warm to the 60s, but that's whe e day. look in philadelphia at the trend we're expeg. low to mid 50s to in the early afternoon hours around the t and and cool conditions still hanging overgion. warmer air will move in and soon. weg up in a few mi and traffic. starting off on the vine street expressway. we're closed bro street, this is coming from the other direction. here is the eastbound side. here is in place. that's where they're diverting off the traffic off the broad street off ramp. we'll watch that for the next half hour or so. we'll see the closure in place. there's construction off of 95 on woodhaven road. the eastbound side of woodhaven road, the ramp to the north and southbound side of 95 is dealing with some lane restrictions
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there. you see 13 minutes from woodhaven to the vine. average speeds in the 60s. on the bridges, alternating lane construction on the burlington bristol bridge for last few wes. that now. clear on the walt whitman, as well. back to you. today is bill cosby's sex sexual assault trial, his main accuser expected to take the stand again. yesterday andrea constand claimed the comedian
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