making news in america this morning, donald trump is hitting back at hillary clinton and the women accusing him of sexual advances. so clinton says she felt like trump was stalking her on the debate stage. extreme weather, hurricane nicole slams bermuda. the rare storm tearing across that tiny island. new video of the damage just coming in. plus, bracing for days of several storms on the west coast. chaos in the courtroom. a judge leaves the bench, rips off his robe and gets involved in a scuffle. and a shark scare. a great white pounces on a cage,

diver inside. it is a cringeworthy scene there. >> just thinking about it gives me chills. >> that story off mexico. here in the states good friday morning. it's a rough one in the political scene. donald and melania trump fighting back following a string of sexual assault allegations and taking direct aim at the claims he groped and women without consent calling them outright lies and claims he has evidence to refute them. >> melon ya demanded a partial retraction. mrs. trump is denying she had an encounter with an accuser after the alleged assault but did not dispute the claims about her husband. abc's angelica spanos is here with the latest. angelica, what are we learning? >> reporter: donald trump continues to say that the deck

election and denying every single word spoken from his accusers and now he's pointing the finger at the media, the clintons and says his campaign will show substantial evidence that the allegations are all false. preposterous and ludicrous, the words donald trump used to defend himself against allegations of inappropriately touching women. >> these women are horrible people. they're horrible, horrible liars. >> reporter: one of those accusers, jessica leeds who first told "the new york times" trump back in the '80s recalled more details to cnn. >> did he actually kiss you. >> yeah, yeah. >> on the face or on the lips. >> all -- wherever he could find a landing spot, yes. >> these false attacks are absolutely hurtful. to be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly and before your family that you love is very painful.

bill clinton and his past misconduct. >> they will lie, lie, lie, the clintons are criminals. >> but on the trail hillary clinton is unfazed and brought out one of her most powerful weapons, michelle obama. >> i can't believe that i'm saying that a candidate for president of the united states has bragged about sexual assaulting women. it has shaken me to my core in a way that i couldn't have first lady take aim at trump while she sat down with ellen degeneres. >> i don't think anyone has to think this election is over. we have to work really hard for the next 3 1/2 weeks because who knows. >> reporter: clinton saying she felt like she was being stalked on the debate stage. >> he was all wrought up. you could sense how much anger he had and so he was really trying to dominate and then

>> reporter: right now the clinton campaign is still dealing with fallout from the wikileaks releases. the newest, internal e-mails shows clinton's advisers persuading her to apologize for using a private e-mail server. kendis, diane, back to you. >> the clinton campaign has yet to verify whether those latest e-mails are real. thank you. as trump's accusers continue to speak out ivanka made a rare solo campaign swing through pennsylvania taking part in two events att and refused though to address the sexual assault allegations against her father, just talking about politics in general and calling it bizarre and vicious. >> i thought that i was, you know, had sort of cut my teeth in new york real estate and, you know, could take sol punches, but this is a rough sport, politics. >> she talked about her father's child care plan and depicted him as a mentor saying she wanted to emulate him as a parent.

lot of cleaning up on the island of bermuda in the aftermath of hurricane nicole. one guy stood out in the storm as its 115-mile-an-hour winds roared across the island. the powerful storm knocked out to power to just about everyone and so far it's been restored to very few. what's left is spinning further into the atlantic. >> the northwest is now in the midst of a series of severe storms. high surf, strong winds and heavy rain hitting the forecasters say some wind gusts could reach hurricane strength and some could see more than a foot of rain, this is just the beginning. they are lining up in the pacific. a second storm rolls through tomorrow afternoon. it could bring widespread damage with wind gusts of over 80 miles an hour, flash flooding and possible mudslides. new drone video from north carolina showing the flooding emergency there. it's nowhere near over. that's the tar river still well out of its banks.

under up to 12 feet of water. all of it left behind by hurricane matthew and the death toll continues to rise at least 41 deaths now blamed on the storm and its aftermath. the man accused of setting off bombs last month in new jersey and new york city has made his first court appearance. ahmad khan rahami entered not guilty pleas in connection with his shoot-out with new jersey police officers. now, because the 28-year-old is recovering from gunshot wounds he appeared via a video link from bail was set at $5.2 million. rahami has not yet been arraigned for the bombings. there was a stunning twist in the so-called new jersey bridgegate scandal. one that actually could have some serious consequences for governor chris christie. a judge has ruled that a citizens misconduct complaint against christie can go forward which means christie could face criminal indictments. the complaint accuses christie of allowing the bridge closure

he will appeal. and president obama says he is the person in chief. he announced $300 million in grants and also played with new gadgets including using a simulate story dock a spacecraft at the international space station. now this isn't the first time the president has shown how much he loves technology. >> i confessed i am a science geek. i'm a nerd. and i don't make any apologies for it. [ applause ] i don't make any apologies for it. it's cool stuff. >> the president also took a picture with a little science fan. 10-month-old rowan wright in a nasa shirt. >> rowan will be going to mars for us someday. still ahead another airline is dealing with computer issues causing delays overnight all across the country. something new on board. how other airlines are now

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friends and fans remembered prince at a tribute concert in st. paul, minnesota. the headliners included stevie wonder and chaka khan and there was a video message from president obama. he died in april of an dental overdose. he was 57. united airlines is blaming a computer glitch for systemwide delays last night. the company is now apologizing saying there was an issue with its weight reporting system.

website and app also went down. the issues have since been resolved but delays could linger. this is the third systemwide computer failure for a major airline since july. at least three airlines will now have a fire containment bag system on some flights. in case electronic devices catch fire. delta, virgin america and alaska airlines are putting them first on overseas flights. they're in a variety of sizes because there's incidents other airlines considering them as well. miami has a third zika zone confirmed in five people in the one square heil area. two women and three men, it's a setback coming less than a month after another miami neighborhood was declared free of the virus. florida's governor says his state has not received any federal funds to fight zika even though money has been approved by congress. hp is cutting more jobs and plans to cut up to 4,000 over the next three years.

hewlett-packard was broken up. hp has 50,000 employees. the cuts will be made across the board. on the flip side amazon says it will hire 0% more seasonal workers than last year as retailers expect growth this holiday season. amazon expects to hire roughly 120,000 seasonal workers and last year about one in seven stayed on for a regular full time job. this year the online retailer says that should be even frightening situation for many parents. investigators say he's cold and calculated. the desperate search for a serial ab ducter who targets kids. a great white jumps into a shark cage. see what happens to the diver

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>> prosecutors say ross harris intentionally killed cooper by leaving him in a sweltering car for hours possibly because harris was being unfaithful. his lawyers say cooper's death was a tragic accident. if convicted harris faces life in prison. this morning the fbi is stepping up efforts to try to find a man investigators say is a serial kidnapper targeting young children. the suspect was caught on surveillance video walking down an ally wearing a hooded sweatshirt. investigators believe he took a 6-year-old girl from try abducting a 10-year-old in february. both girls survived their ordeals. a 911 operator in houston is accused 6 hanging up on people who desperately needed help. this woman has been fired and authorities say she may have hung up on thousands of callers over a six-month period. in one case the caller was a man reporting a robbery at a store where a clerk was killed.

silverback gore rill escaped its enclose sure at in a london zoo. he never made it into the main part of the zoo and was tranquilized and recaptured after less than an hour but zoo visitors were locked in a cafeteria for their own safety. new vodka shows an unusual scene in a michigan courtroom. watch as judge john mcbain growing increase will goly frustrated with a defendant. he stars talking him right into a jail sentence. when an officer tries to escort him out, things get physical. that's when the judge jumps down from the bench, rips off his robe and rushes in to help the officer. >> put your hands behind your back. tase his [ bleep ] right now. >> the defendant didn't end up getting tased. the judge said it's the first time he's ever had to do something like this but says he doesn't regret it. court officials say the judge

just maintaining order in the court. the super bowl champion denver broncos have lost two straight games after being defeated by the san diego chargers. but there was another one played as well. good morning, america. lisa kerney and kevin connors here with you and what a game we had. game five and dave roberts said, no way are you going to see my ace. no way, kev. >> until he needed him in the ninth inning. we'll talk about clayton jansen on. first time he ever pitched in the seventh inning this season but gets anthonyrendon out. michael taylor michael taylor swinging at that so jansen out of a jam in eighth. bottom nine, jansen still out there. walks jayson werth on his 51st pitch, a career high, that's enough for roberts. he goes and pulling out his ace kershaw who he said earlier in

brings him on and gets daniel murphy who kershaw called the best hitter on the planet to pop out to second. the dodgers, one out away from defoeng this series, wilmer defoe swing and a miss and clayton kerr schauer first career save first since doing it in the mining fors in 2006 with kenly jansen as his catcher and dodgers are cubs. 4-3 your final. alcs later friday night between the blue jays and the indians. have a great friday, everybody. >> all right, you two, up next, an elephant rushes in the river to save a friend. at least he thought so. yep, a clumsy customer causes thousands of dollars in

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? ? your friday pulse kicks off with a shark surprise off the coast of mexico. >> you could say that. >> that's creepy. so first a 13-foot great white got into a shark cage that is out. it injured itself against a bars and couldn't wait to get out. >> oh, my god. >> eventually the shark does get out. look at this. there was a diver in the cage at the time. >> oh, my god. >> the diver gets out a moment later after keeping very, very still while the shark was in the cage with him and luckily that diver was not hurt. >> but he did have to change his

and then let's shift on to a cuter animal, shall we. this one lives in an animal sanctuary in thailand. >> a park staffer is her bff apparently. a human named derek when she spotted him taking a dip in the river, she thought he was in trouble and rushed in to save him. >> handlers at the sanctuary say as a baby the elephant was tortured into becoming a performing animal that is until the sanctuary where derek took a special interest in her and the two apparently bonded for life. >> but how smart of her to know that, you know, he might be in trouble and then rushed in there. >> you could see him hugging her trunk and saying thank you, thank you even though he was okay. >> yeah. finally, our ken bone-free "pulse" hall luau admittedly ends with skepticism calling it one customer's epic fail in an electronics store in england.

out fancy wide screen tvs just like anybody else and then -- >> that happened. whoa. that's more than $6,000 worth of televisions hitting the floor. we don't know if the guy had to pay for any of the damage. but some of the tvs were curb tvs so pretty pricey ones. >> you got to feel bad for him, though, it would be so easy to do something like that. >> really? no. >> you move an arm a little too rough. oh. i'm not paying for that. >> just on cue. >> i think that worked. >> our graphics department. more news after this. >> happy friday

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live, from the station taking action for you, this is abc action news. back in the bay area, now at 4:30, where the man accused of kidnapping a four-year-old and hitting back hard. how trump's campaign plans to fight back against reports that he groped women. good morning. thanks for joining us on this friday morning. >> we start this morning with tragic news in polk county. a young boy riding his bicycle is hit and killed in a horrible accident right in front of his own home. >> abc action news reporter explains one thing neighbors say mrooivented the accident in the first place. >> the crash happened on the