in an affordable dream kitchen that works as hard as you do. get 15% back at the ikea kitchen event. good morning. one-two punch. first lady michelle obama delivers a stinging and emotional takedown of donald trump over his alleged treatment of women. >> it is cruel. it's frightening. and the truth is, it hurts. >> as the president slams republicans blaming them for trump's rise. >> they've been feeding their base all kinds of crazy for years. >> trump now lashing out at the women who claim they were targets of his unwanted advances. >> they're horrible, horrible liars. >> can the trump ticket bounce back from what's become an avalanche of accusations? we'll ask his running mate, governor mike pence, when he joins us live.

destructive winds and flooding rains batter the northwest overnight, with more to come, while in the atlantic, hurricane nicole roars across bermuda leaving behind major flooding. better safe than sorry. airlines stocking up on fire containment bags in case phones or laptops overheat, as samsung admits its note 7 failure will cost the company more than $3 billion. and jaw-dropping scare. great white somehow manages to break in to a shark cage. before wiggling its way out. but get this -- a diver was inside, and he's going to need a new cage. probably a new wet suit "today," friday, october 14th, 2016. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from

and good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a friday morning. remember that shark diving segment i wanted to do? >> forget it. you said he needs a new cage, a new wet suit. i think he needs a new hobby. all right? because that is terrifying. >> that's unbelievable. we'll explain more about what happened in that videotape later in the show. let's start though on this friday morning with raw emotion on the campaign trail. just 25 days to go until the election. here is today's state of the race. against allegations of sexual misconduct that have been leveled against him, while first lady, michelle obama, takes trump to task over those accusations. >> our latest battleground state poll show hillary clinton is now fun five points in north carolina. take a look at ohio though. two candidates locked in a dead heat. they've got 45% a piece there. >> hillary clinton is off the trail today while trump has rallies scheduled in north

here in manhattan. hallie, good morning to you. >> reporter: hey there, matt. good morning. donald trump is now basically declaring war against his rivals, and that is apparently a category that includes not just his political opponents, but members of the press and the women who have accused him of misconduct. allegations trump strongly denies. a defiant donald trump targeting hillary clinton. >> she should be locked she should. >> reporter: and his own accusers. multiple women in the last 48 hours who have come forward to say trump touched or kissed them without permission. >> the claims are preposterous, ludicrous, and defy truth, common sense and logic. >> reporter: the allegations, which trump strongly denies, have not been independently verified by nbc news. one of the women sharing additional details with cnn

decades ago. >> did he actually kiss you? >> yeah. yeah. >> on the face? on the lips? >> all -- wherever he could find a landing spot. yes. >> another ridiculous tale. no witnesses, no nothing. >> reporter: jessica leeds first shared her story with the "new york times." >> these attacks are orchestrated by the clintons and their media allies. >> why in the world he would blame the clintons for i phenomenal. but that's his wall of protection. he is -- this is how he is coping with the fact that he's completely rejecting the reality. >> reporter: "the new york times" is rejecting trump's demand they retract their article. in a statement, all but daring trump to take them to court, "nothing in our article has had the slightest effect on the reputation that mr. trump, through his own words and

himself." now, those words are getting fresh scrutiny. "vanity fair" finding footage of trump on fox news describing in 2010 how to win over women. >> move forward. >> thank you. >> even if you get smacked. >> reporter: trump's wife, standing by him now. melania trump demanding her own retraction from "people" magazine after one of its writers, that this tasha stoynoff, recounted how she case trur trump pushed her against a wall and kissed her during an te >> look at her. look at her words. you tell me what you think. i don't think so. >> reporter: and on a charlotte radio show thursday, donald trump jr. defending his father over those lewd comments made during a 2005 "access hollywood" taping, a show owned by nbc universal. >> i've had conversations like that with plenty of people where people use language off color. they're talking, two guys, amongst themselves. i've seen it time and time again. i think it makes him a human.

pressnd a the clintons, getting back-up from several women who for years have accused bill clinton of sexual misconduct, accusations the former president has long denied. >> hillary is not for all women. hillary is only for one woman and that's herself. >> reporter: this morning, we are getting a new snapshot of how the race stands nationally. a fox news poll out shows hillary clinton leading donald trump by seven points with more than half of those polls trump is not qualified to be president. matt? sv >> hallie jackson, thank you. the president and first lady tore into trump on the campaign trail with michelle obama growing emotional over the latest accusations against the republican nominee. nbc national correspondent peter alexander with that side of the story this morning. peter, good morning. >> reporter: hey, savannah. good morning. they may be two of the most effective speakers in all of politics right now, the president and first lady. michelle obama warning voters in deeply personal terms against electing donald trump, referring

clinton's opponent." president obama taking republicans to task for their role in the rise of trump. from the first couple, a powerful one-two punch aimed at donald trump. >> you've got somebody who each and every day, every time he talks, proves himself unfit and unqualified for this office. >> reporter: president obama in ohio tearing into republicans, blaming them for standing by as trump took over the party. >> if your only agenda is either negative -- negative is a euphemism -- crazy, based on lies, based on hoaxes, this is the nominee you get. >> reporter: first lady michelle obama equally passionate in new hampshire. >> it has shaken me to my core in a way that i couldn't have predicted. >> reporter: expressing outrage about trump's lewd comments toward women. >> this is disgraceful.

and it doesn't matter what party you belong to. no woman deserves to be treated this way. none of us deserves this kind of abuse. >> reporter: vice president biden punctuating the point in this new interview for "meet the press." >> this guy, as i said, has acknowledged that he has been a sexual predator. he's acknowledged that he's abused his power. the textbook definition of what constitutes sexual also attacking trump while fund-raising in california. >> the whole world has heard trump brag about how he mistreats women and the disturbing stories just keep coming. it makes you want to turn off the news. >> reporter: meanwhile, clinton's campaign is fending off new criticism after wikileaks latest release of hacked e-mails which have not been authenticated by the campaign or nbc news. in one e-mail a collin

ever sent classified material through a private e-mail server, writing, our "our portion is that no such steelmaterial exis. else it could be said she mishandled classified info." clinton now looking to lighten the mood with ellen degeneres. >> clearly the winner of the debate was the guy in the red sweater. ken bone. sometimes. google trends' data shows online searches for the terms "write-in" actually spiked last week more than 2,800%. the highest point since 2004. a lot of americans still unsatisfied with a lot of their options. coming up, we'll have more from chuck todd's exclusive interview with vice president biden, including what he says about former president bill clinton. >> peter alexander, thank you. let's turn to steve kornacki and nicolle wallace.

clinton with a seven-point lead nationally. if you are the democrats, if you are the clinton ticket right now, you are probably feeling pretty good. on the other hand, steve, it is true that she is continuing to be a very unpopular candidate. if people think, well, this race is over, trump's not going to win, do the democrats have to worry about people who would otherwise come in and cast a vote saying forget it, i don't have to, and this becomes a much tighter race? >> i think it is always a good idea to worry in a campaign unpredictable as this one. the position the democrats are in right now has changed. position hillary clinton is in has changed significantly since last week for two reasons. it is a wider gap than we've been seeing. she was ahead last week, now she is significantly ahead in this race. the question of all the negatives around donald trump in the last week has that imposed a ceiling on him. if you are a democrat, if this thing gets tighter, you just have to start worrying about whether turnout will catch you in the end. but this is a significant change

i'm asking michelle obama to clear her schedule for the next three weeks because she resonates. she connects with an audience. but it seems like a double-edged sword because she does it so easily in ways that hillary clinton, the candidate, can't. >> let me first say, i don't know and never before has there been an example of someone's advocacy transferring to somebody else. what michelle obama did yesterday was perfection in that it was the perfect message delivered by the perfect messenger, at the perfect moment. she spoke truth in ali does what we do is afraid to actually call out what it is that we're seeing which is textbook misogyny. >> meanwhile, you see donald trump and he's on offense big time. he's going after his detractors in the press. he's going after the accusers saying that they're lying. is that the right approach? does he have any other option at this point? >> is it right? who knows? i think that the biggest mistake donald trump has made -- if you want to give him the most generous odds and say that

clinton. his best message is not this stuff. his best sort of basket of messages and his ability to connect was around economic isolationism. it was around trade protectionism. it was around foreign policy isolationism. it was around this idea that we would build a wall. that's what won him the nomination. >> what are you saying? you think he should have just denied it and move on to other subjects? >> he hasn't talked about the things that won him the nomination in weeks and weeks and weeks. so c burn. but what won him the nomination, what rallied more republicans to his cause than any of his 16 opponents was a message about economic isolationism and economic restoration. not this stuff. >> steve, what's going to win one of these two, the presidency, is what happens in four key battleground state states. why don't you go to the board and show us how it is going. >> we've got new polling numbers. nbc news/"wall street journal" polls. the key here -- these were

they get the tape, they get the debate. starting in ohio, a state obviously president obama carried four years ago. donald trump ahead right now after the debate, very small margin, is ahead by a point. that's not a huge lead but this is a state trump absolutely needs. let's say donald trump was able to get ohio. we also have a new poll to show you in north carolina. the significance here, this was a romney state four years ago. this is supposed to be part of the republican base. look at that. hillary clinton after that debate opening up a we've seen several polls in north carolina that show this. here's the key. if hillary clinton is able to flip north carolina, look what that does to the race to 270. she's over 270. this is a show-stopper state for hillary clinton. even then, if donald trump were to win everything else on the map, it is a tossup right now. look at that. he'd still be shy of 270, even given that district in maine. he would need something else. one of the states the trump

they are still spending time and resources there. but look at this -- 51%-42%. again, after the debate in pennsylvania. a huge gap donald trump is facing there. he is at a significant disadvantage at this point. >> he can't lose any of the states that romney won. >> he has got to find a way to win north carolina. that's the first thing. he's got about three steps after that. but lose carolina if you are trump, you've lost the election. >> steve, thank you so much. indiana governor mike pence is going his take on the race and the latest controversies surrounding the campaigns. united airlines suffered a problem with its computer systems overnight that caused widespread delays. early this morning passengers went on social media to complain about delays as long as six hours. still unclear, just how many flights were affected by 3:00 a.m., united officials announced the problem had been fixed and delayed flights were resuming. some airlines are now taking

smartphone or laptop battery catches fire during flight. at least two u.s. airlines have added five containment bags. a third airline plans to as well soon. the issue has taken on new urgency following incidents of overheating samsung galaxy note 7 phones, including one on a southwest airlines flight earlier this month. 2.5 million phones have been recalled. meantime, samsung says discontinuing the note 7 is going to cost that company about $3 billion during the current and next quarters. want to tell you more about that devastating flooding in k in. that state's governor, pat mccrory, is vowing to rebuild after hurricane matthew. on thursday the governor said the state will take steps to protect princeville, one of the country's oldest towns. princeville was inundated by floodwaters for a second time in less than 20 years.

north carolina as the result of a storm. and more than 40,000 residents remain without power. florida health officials have identified a second miami neighborhood where mosquitos have spread the zika virus to people. at least five people have been infected in a one-square mile area near little haiti. that brings the total number of zika cases in that state that more than 1,000. most people caught the virus while traveling outside the travel related. a michigan judge took matters into his own hands to help take a defendant into custody. look at this. the circuit judge sentenced the man to 93 days in jail for violating a protection order. he ordered the deputized court clerk to take him in to custody, but the man resisted. the judge left the bench, ripped off his rope and helped the clerk pin the defendant down. >> wow. multi-tasking on the bench

wh hurricane nicole did to bermuda. >> bizarre situation. but first to the pacific northwest. along the coast of oregon we had wind gusts over 100 miles per hour. but judging by the palm trees there, i think that was bermuda first. we did see wind gusts up near 119 miles per hour, the storm came very, very close to bermuda, although never officially made landfall but the fruk thur out there, we didn't see a whole lot of damage. though there was some isolated power outage. winds were up around 120 miles per hour. we are still looking at the storm system making its way just continuing to move to the north and east. it is no longer a threat to bermuda. but we have a second threat for the pacific northwest. again, wind gusts were up around 100 miles per hour along the coast. a stronger storm is going to move in this weekend.

miles per hour. this is the rain we've seen in the last 12 hours. two to four inches of rain with even isolated higher amounts up around six inches. because of all the wind we are expecting with 80 to 100-mile-per-hour wind gusts, even for areas farther inland, we do have hurricane force warnings along the coast. we have high-wind warnings, high-wind watches. we could see a storm surge and significant power outages are possible especially as we go into saturday night and through sunday. that's something we really have

>> bri: good morning, everybody. i'm meteorologist bri eggers in with this weather update. we have sunshine in, in store fs all weekend long. the high pressure is bringing in that cold air from the north and the west. it starts out breezy today, but the winds die down as we get into the afternoon. next couple days topping out near 60 degrees. then a warming trend as we head into sunday. very mild. temperatures upper 60s. if you're headed to gillette, here's a will be at the 7 on 7 forecast. >> and that's your latest forecast. >> all right, dylan, thank you very much. coming up with, more on michelle obama's powerful ta takedown of trump. is the first lady hillary clinton's most important ally on the campaign trail. and "rossen reports" sets out across the country to find the dirtiest places on your morning commute. the surprising results of me america's germ challenge. but first, this is "today" on

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>> this is 7 news now. >> sarah: good friday morning, everybody. it is 7:26 as you take a live look at braintree. look at those beautiful fall colors out there.

you block out the traffic. chilly temperatures north and west of boston. we have tempings in the upper 30s. it's even colder tomorrow morning. sunny as we head enter tomorrow afternoon. breezy early but the winds definitely die down this afternoon. we'll keep the sunshine aaround all afternoon long. sarah? >> sarah: 23-year-old josh josha hart and 27-year-old brittany smith will answer to murder and robbery charges. theyer earlier in the week. officers say the suspects killed a 95-year-old man last week. a sexual assault suspect due in court today. ronald brown will appear in court for a dangerousness hearing. brown, a level 3 sex offender, broke enter an apartment in the south end tuesday morning and background, threatened and sexually assaulted the two women inside. we're back in 25 minutes with another update. imagine if your child were trapped in a failing school. imagine if your child couldn't read or write at grade level.

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? we are back. it is 7:30 on this friday morning, it is the 14th of october, 2016. our plaza is packed. the crowd is ready to rock into the weekend. we've got a live concert from kings of they'll take our stage in the 8:30 half-hour. >> that's right. perfect morning for music, cool and crisp out on the plaza. let's check the headlines first. a new zika zone has been identified in miami, florida. at least five people infected in a one square mile area near little haiti. that brings the total number of zika cases in that state to more than 1,000. nearly a week after striking the u.s., the death toll from hurricane matthew is still rising. officials now say that storm

22 of them were in hard-hit north carolina. donald trump held a massive rally in cincinnati last night. he didn't mention allegations from several women who claim he touched them inappropriately, but trump did launch new attacks against hillary clinton. >> she doesn't have the strength, she doesn't have the aptitude, she doesn't have what it takes. >> trump did address those assault accusations earlier in the day calling them totally and now to "today's campaign moment." vice president joe biden in an interview with chuck todd for "meet the press" was asked if bill clinton's past should matter in this election. >> no, it shouldn't matter. i can't make any excuses for bill clinton's conduct. and i wouldn't attempt to make any excuses for the conduct. but he paid a price for it. he paid a price. he was impeached. and he was -- he expressed his deep sorrow and acknowledged what he did.

interview with the vice president this sunday on "meet the press." as we mentioned earlier, first lady michelle obama hit the campaign trail on thursday and took direct aim at donald trump. some are calling her speech a defining moment in the race. nbc's andrea mitchell has more on that. andrea, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. michelle obama is carving a new political path for a first lady, delivering a powerful indictment of the republican nominee and speaking to women across party lines in a way that hillary clinton, very >> reporter: in a 25-minute blistering take-down of donald trump -- >> this is not something that we can ignore. >> reporter: michelle obama didn't once mention his name. >> i can't stop thinking about this. it has shaken me to my core in a way that i couldn't have predicted. >> reporter: at times, her voice shaking as she reacted to that lewd 2005 recording of trump boasting about his behavior with women. >> this wasn't just locker room

speaking freely and openly about sexually predatory behavior. >> reporter: aides say the first lady's speech was one she's long wanted to deliver, based largely on her own words. >> the belief that you can do anything you want to a woman? it is cruel. it's frightening. and the truth is, it hurts. >> reporter: first lady michelle obama. >> reporter: convention -- >> when they go low, we go high. >> reporter: mrs. obama has become hillary clinton's most powerful advocate and shield. collin borrowing the first lady's mantra to stay above the fray. >> when i hear something like that i am reminded what my friend michelle obama advised us all. when they go low, you go high. >> reporter: even thursday when

women accusing trump of unwanted advances, the former president invoked first lady. >> i think michelle obama said it best. i have nothing else to say. >> reporter: michelle obama has a 56% favorability rating in our august nbc news/"wall street journal" poll. a whopping 68% with women under 50, making her uniquely positioned to reach women, especially. millennials who have been resisting clinton. >> she is an incredibly powerful messenger, first of all, because these millennial voters, many of them were firsten politics by her husband's campaign, and by her campaigning in 2008. >> all right, let's get to work. thank you all. god bless. >> reporter: a powerful weapon for clinton, this was the first lady's sixth campaign rally in just the past month. five on college campuses. eight years ago hillary clinton and michelle obama were in rifle camps, and in the years since, they were not natural allies. but when it comes to defeating donald trump, the first lady says this fight is deeply personal. and she is all-in. matt and savannah?

house, thank you. by the way, we'll have a lot more on the presidential race in our half-hour, including a live interview with donald trump's running mate, governor mike pence. as al continues to be on the mend, dylan is here with another check of the weather. >> we are looking at warmer temperatures through the middle of country where it's been pretty chilly the last couple of days, well below average. we'll replace that with unseasonably warm weather into the weekend next week. wichita, 85. even across the upper 70s in cleveland. going into next week, washington, d.c. by tuesday, should be up to near 80 degrees. indianapolis hovering in the 80s. atlanta, mid 80s. panama city in the mid 80s as well. temperatures staying well above average, possibly even some near-records today. keeping an eye on the pacific northwest storm. >> bri: good morning, everybody. i'm meteorologist bri eggers in with this weather update.

all weekend long. the high pressure is bringing in that cold air from the north and the west. it starts out breezy today, but the winds die down as we get into the afternoon. next couple days topping out near 60 degrees. then a warming trend as we head into sunday. very mild. temperatures upper 60s. if you're headed to gillette, here's a will be at the 7 on 7 >> how could you forget, sunday night is "foll houston to take on the texans. it is a retractible roof, but outside it should be nice and warm, temperatures around 90 degrees. 82 by game time. i really don't know how they decide if the roof is open or not, so either way, can you catch all the action, the texans and the colts, sunday night on nbc. coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. eastern with "football night in america." >> announcer: this "sunday night football" weather is brought to

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commutes. jeff, good morning. >> savannah has learned this lesson the hard way. as you know, we've tested for germs before, but this time something a little different for you. we are setting up a little challenge hitting three big cities and testing your morning commute in each one. what spots will be the dirtiest? what spots will be the cleanest? we have never seen results like this. we are hitting the chicago, in los angeles, and new york city. swabbing for germs in cabs. buses. and trains. >> i am actually blown away by this. >> reporter: where will we find the most germs? and the least. armed with our official bacteria meter, we're about to find out. first up -- new york city. >> time to check this out.

you think of all the people who grab on to this thing every single day. >> reporter: health experts say any reading over 100 is -- fail. >> 195, nearly double the bacteria limit you want to see. all those people all day. they're not wearing gloves. >> reporter: let's see if we have better luck in this new york city taxi. >> see how grimy it is. >> reporter: all right, let's test this seat. shall we? 62 on the seat which is below that magic 100 nbe acceptable bacteria limits here. go new york city. >> reporter: but i'm nervous because we are about to test the place with the dirtiest reputation of all -- the new york city subway. >> just a guy swabbing for germs with latex gloves on. there are weirder things that have happened on the new york city subway today. >> reporter: time for the moment of truth. 31. i am really blown away by this one. i thought this would definitely be dirty.

clean. but now let's take this challenge to los angeles. >> all right, here's the l.a. metro. let's go. >> reporter: swabbing this train pole. you can actually see the dirt on the swab. i don't know what it is going to come out with but that's dirt. visible dirt. 189. really dirty. the pole, really dirty. >> reporter: not going so well in l.a. but what about the germs above ground on this l.a. city bus? 259 on this bus pole. teeming with bacteria. gross. >> reporter: think that's bad? this cab's credit card machine. that credit card machine is dirty. more than three times the bacteria level you want to see. use cash. >> reporter: the surfaces we test in l.a., all dirty. we shared our results with nbc medical contributor dr. john torres. >> exposure to bacteria can make you very, very sick. you touch the pole, wipe your nose, wipe your eye, you don't even think about it. bam, you're sick.

these results are the most surprising of all. >> come on, chicago buses! >> reporter: chicago calls itself the cleaner new york. but right out of the gate, things are bad on this bus. remember, anything over 100 is a fail. no, chicago, no. you're on the bus today, look -- 3 730. this is filthy. >> reporter: and things are about to get much worse in this chicago taxi. >> highest reading so far of all the cities. 909. that's more than nine times acceptable limit of bacteria. >> reporter: but the biggest surprise of all. the chicago l train. >> you wouldn't believe it unless i showed you. 4,000. i have never, ever seen a number so high! stay away from this pole! >> reporter: sorry, chicago, the surfaces we tested, the dirtiest of all. what kind of illnesses are we talking about here?

very common. during the flu season, you can get the flu. you can get more serious things. norovir norovirus. mr mrsa. >> matt lauer is sitting next to us. if you have cuts or scrapes on your hands, don't grab that pole. >> elbow grab. >> but people don't like that because then you take up all the space. i do it, too. but i get a dirty >> meanwhile, why would the new york city subway pole be in the 30s and the chicago one be 4,000? >> because we live in the best city in the world, matt. >> wash the hands. coming up next, carson has the story behind what we think might be the wildest shark video we've ever shown. a great white breaking into a diver's cage with the diver still in there. >> inside, people.

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ever. best shark video today, ever. if you have a fear of sharks, this video is going to do nothing to get you back into the water. this is shot off the coast of mexico. a great white is chomping down on some tuna when it crashes into the diving cage. shark freaks out, actually gets inside the enclosure. everyone? watching, stunned. the shark frees himself, swims away. more panic. uninjured. was able to escape to the bottom of the cage until the shark just swam off. you see some light celebrating there as the diver gets back into the boat. let's go to social media reaction of this video. thomas writing with be this guy sur vif survivors being trapped in a cage with a great white shark and gets a golf clap. and that is why i don't swim in the ocean.

and just quick little math conversion, four meters may not sound like much. that's 13.1 feet. that's a big boy. >> i don't care if it was a baby nurse shark. >> the cage is supposed to hold the shark out. carson, thank you. >> i'm sure there is a full

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>> this is 7news now. >> sarah: good morning, everybody. let's send it over to bri eggers now with more on your forecast. >> bri: sarah, we get the keep the sunshine around with us, current temperatures fairly chilly. but starting that slow climb up. 39 in bedford. that's my coldest number on the map. today we're in for highs mid-50s, close to 60 degrees. and even milder getting into sunday. sarah? >> sarah: now for your top stories. the two suspects in a deadly home invasion will be in court later today. police say 23-year-old joshua hart and 27-year-old brittany smith killed a 95-year-old man and seriously injured his wife after breaking into their home

virginia earlier this week. police making an arrest in connection with the sexual assault case in mission hill. investigators say 32-year-old jose cepeda approached a woman near fitzgerald park last weekend. he pushed her to the ground and tried to sexually assault her before taking off. we're back in 25 minutes with another update. hope to see you then. bob hillery: i spent 21 years in the navy, defending america. if i only showed up half of the time, i'd have been court-martialed. but that's what senator kelly ayotte did. homeland security hearings. vo: on critical homeland security hearings, ayotte was mia... even missing a hearing the same day she went to a washington fundraiser. for ayotte, collecting campaign cash comes first. bob hillery: when it comes to fighting terrorism, fifty percent doesn't cut it. vo: votevets is responsible for

i'm maggie hassan, and i approve this message. nothing matters more than our security. that's why i hired more state troopers... support aggressive action to destroy isis... and put our security before my party-- opposing president obama's plan to close guantanamo. narrator: all while kelly ayotte skipped nearly half her homeland security committee hearings on border security and drug trafficking. even attending a fundraiser right after she missed a hearing.

it's 8:00 on "today." coming up, donald trump fires back. >> these attacks are orchestrated by the clintons and their media allies. >> the gop nominee takes on his accusers, his opponent, and the media as he looks to get back on unwanted advances against multiple women. >> the claims are preposterous, ludicrous. >> this morning we'll talk to trump's running mate, governor mike pence. plus, special surprise. >> surprise! >> hoda pulls off another heart-warming moment treating one remarkable mom to the day she'll never forget. >> there is a lot of love on

and we're not wasting a moment. rock superstars kings of leon kick off the weekend with some of their biggest hits and a brand-new song. and they've got a big announ announcement "today," friday, october 14th, 2016. >> we love kings of leon! >> all the way from vermont for kings of leon! >> late for work to see kings of leon! woo! ? someone like you ? >> celebrating my 18th birthday of kings of leon! >> we're here for kings of leon! woo! 8:00 now on a friday morning, the 14th day of october, 2016. which makes it a great day for

>> well, first, i have to say happy birthday to my husband, mike. >> happy birthday. >> we love you. all these people out here clapping for you. >> secondly, because we have kings of leon. >> carson is the guy we turn to on music. you've been looking forward to this one. >> one of my favorite bands. the charming sounds out of nashville and new york city. a new record out which i think is some of the best record i think they've done. they've won out stadiums. this is a real treat for us to have such a great, great rock band. we'll get to them in our next half-hour. but first, let's take a look at your "news at 8." we begin with the race for the white house. i'm peter alexander in washington. our new battleground state poll shows hillary clinton up four points in north carolina, that's a must-win state for donald trump. he will campaign there today. but now take a look at ohio where it is basically deadlocked.

advantage. >> mr. donnald j. trump. >> reporter: this morning, donald trump trying to get back on message. >> every day between now around the election, we are going to talk about our plans to make america great again. >> reporter: back to bashing hillary clinton. >> she should be locked up. >> reporter: no hint thursday night that his campaign is reeling from an onslaught of allegations from multiple women acng badly. jessica leeds offering new details on cnn about an alleged incident on a plane 35 years ago when she says trump groped her. >> i was wearing a skirt and his hand started going toward my knee and up my skirt. >> reporter: earlier thursday trump called his accusers' allegations preposterous and ludicrous. nbc news cannot independently confirm any of the accusers' claims. >> these claims are all fabricated. they're pure fiction and they're

>> reporter: hillary clinton attending a fund-raiser in san francisco took a swing at the republican nominee. >> the whole world has heard trump brag about how he mistreats women and the disturbing stories just keep coming. it makes you want to turn off the news. >> reporter: the clinton campaign also rolled out the first couple. the president blasting trump for saying things -- >> no decent person would even think, much less say, much less brag about, or joke about, much less act on. >> reporter: echoed by michelle obama. >> and i can't believe that i'm saying that a candidate for president of the united states has bragged about sexually assaulting women. >> hillary is only for one woman and that's herself. >> reporter: on fox news, three women who have for years accused bill clinton of sexually assaulting them, accusations long denied by the former president. trump with a dire message to the

or we lose our country. >> reporter: a different view from clinton. >> in 26 days, donald trump will stop being on the news every single day. [ cheers ] >> right now donald trump faces a significant deficit nationally. seven points according to a brand-new fox news poll. but perhaps more striking, two-thirds of those questioned say clinton is qualified to be president, while 56% say t 49% saying trump's not qualified at all. matt and savannah? >> peter, thank you very much. we are joining now by donald trump's running mate, indiana governor, mike pence. governor, good to see you. >> good morning. >> one week ago today we heard donald trump in his own words brag about making unwanted sexual advances on women. now we have six women who have come forward saying in fact that was more than bragging. he did those things to them. you've heard what they've had to

>> well, let me say first and foremost, i think donald trump, particularly sunday night, and over the weekend, showed his heart to the american people. he apologized, said he was embarrassed for words that he had used 11 years ago. and i think that was right. >> i want to take us past that and go to what these women are claiming. do you believe them? >> well, what i would say is these are unsubstantiated allegations. i think the reality donald trump yesterday categorically denied that these things ever happened. and i believe him. we've talked about it privately. i heard him publicly. what we're going to do in this campaign is not allow the other side to change the subject to slanders and lies. we are going to continue to focus on the issues that really matter most to the american people. i think the reason why you saw 19,000 people come out for donald trump last night in cincinnati, ohio is because american people know this country is in a lot of trouble.

military, stand tall on the world stage again -- >> americans deserve that conversation, but these are serious allegations. let me just ask you. because you just said a minute ago. he has denied these allegations and you believe him. he has also made another statement. he has said that he likes to grab women by the genitals. that he'll just go right up and kiss them. so those are two different statements that donald trump has made. you choose to believe one of them where he denies the allegation. why not take him at his the words that we hear and that are on tape and believe him? >> savannah, you know i expressed myself on that over this weekend. the concerns i had about those statements. i think he was right to say that he was embarrassed about that, that he was in a private conversation and that -- >> but you don't believe he does the things he says he does. >> he said very clearly that it was just talk, that he regrets what he said 11 years ago.

allegations with be which, frankly, are very similar to what "the new york times" published six months ago and was widely discredited by the same reporters. i would say as a dad of two daughters, a is a public person, you always take these issues seriously. but these are unsubstantiated claims. donald trump has categorically denied them and we'll work hard to continue to focus this campaign on the issues in the next 25 days that are about a stronger and more prosperous america. >> but h substantial evidence to prove that what these women are saying is wrong. if there is a time to come up and show us that evidence, this is the time. has he shown you that evidence? >> matt, i think it is coming, and it is coming in, frankly, probably a matter of hours. i know that melania trump, through her attorneys, has already reached out to one of the publications, "people" magazine, to call for a

there is more information coming forward. but donald trump has made very clear that he's categorically denied these allegations. yet he can't be more definitive than that. and the difficulty is that at this point in a campaign, it is astonishing to see, with all due respect, astonishing to see the enormous coverage of these really unfounded allegations, unestablished allegations, comparo e-mails coming out of hillary clinton's years as secretary of state. we found out this week through one e-mail that despite the fact that she said there was never a decision made of the state department when she was secretary of state to benefit their supporters or their donors, that there is now an e-mail that shows that in the haitian recovery effort after the earthquake, that -- that -- that the state department was directed to remember businesses that were friends of the clintons. that's exactly the kind of pay

never happened, and now we see hard evidence, not unsubstantiated allegations -- >> we have covered that story and with respect, if she were here or tim kaine were here, we'd be asking her. you're answerable to your campaign, they're answerable to your campaign. there have been talk about the accusers in bill clinton's past, sometimes by you. voters are trying to figure this out and it is really difficult. you have claims on all sides. the donald trump accusers and the bill clinton accusers, who we saw at the debate the other night that donald trump brought, do you think they're all entitled to the same presumption of believability? that they're telling the truth. all of them. >> i think we should always take these kind of allegations seriously and respectfully. but in the case of bill clinton, bill clinton actually admitted to being involved with a 23-year-old intern at the white

bill clinton actually paid a settlement of over $800,000 to one of those women. >> donald trump has paid settlements. >> the claims against bill clinton now for decades have been quite well chronicled in books and in history. they've been quite well substantiated. and, frankly, those women have gotten scant attention this year or in previous years from many in the mainstream media. so my view is that those claims have largely been established through the record o that -- but the people need to know that these unsubstantiated allegations have been completely denied by donald trump and we're simly not going to allow this campaign to be drawn off to defending slander and lies. we're going to focus on things that will make america great again. >> let me compliment you. everybody says you are a really good guy. you are a really intelligent guy. you're a guy of faith. you have said that you're a christian first, a conservative next, and a republican last. >> in that order. >> and yet there are some people

issue, governor pence, and the fact that you say you believe him and you don't really believe these women and they're wondering if you aren't putting your loyalty to the republican party and to this man, donald trump, ahead of your faith and your gut and your heart. how would you answer that? >> i would answer it first and foremost that part of my faith is i believe in forgiveness. when donald trump apologized this weekend to the american people. i believe in extending grace and i think millions of americans but let me be very clear that in this case, i think it is very important -- as i said, as a dad of two daughters and as a public person, that you take allegations of this nature seriously. but it is important to establish that these are, you know, unsubstantiated allegations. and, frankly, they wire will bee information that comes out on these things. donald trump has made it very clear that he is -- he has

categorically. and for all the world, matt, i truly do believe that this looks more and more like the kind of thing that comings up in campaigns, the kind of accusations that fly in the final weeks of a campaign when at the end of the day, the 19,000 people that came out in cincinnati, ohio last night, the thousands of people that will be out at our rallies over the course of this weekend, they know that this country is in a lot of trouble. we have iranian warships moving now yemen. we have missiles being fired from yemeni militia that were provided by the iranians at u.s. warships. we have radical islamic terrorism. two police officers shot in boston. we have an economy that is struggling and failing millions of americans. >> can we go back to this issue of faith? >> that change only comes if we elect donald trump as president of the united states. >> i wanted to just end on a grace note, and this issue of faith. because, frankly, at my church,

and we hear about message of forgiveness and mercy and grace. would you agree that that forgiveness -- the same measure of grace and forgiveness that many people are willing to extend to donald trump, that as christians, people should also extend that to hillary clinton or to bill clinton? i mean what would it look like? what would this campaign look like if all of that grace were applied equally? >> well, i think it is a wonderful question. but in the case of hillary clinton, with what we're different hillary clinton behind closed doors than we've seen in public. and we've heard no apology for that. when she advocated for open borders at a speech in brazil, when she advocated for socialized medicine at a speech in canada, and now when we hear that they were directing contracts in the haitian recovery effort to friends of the clintons, all we get is silence, all we get is denials. so the beginning of grace is an

waiting for hillary clinton to apologize for being a different person in private than she is in public. >> with all due respect though -- >> donald trump and i are going -- >> -- what these women are claiming about donald trump is he is a very different person in private than he is in public as well. >> i understand that. let's be very clear, he's categorically denied these allegations. these are unsubstantiated allegations, matt. there will be more information that comes out on these in the hours and in the days ahead. but i promise you, this campaign is going to cone focused in the next 25 days on the issues that matter most to the american people. security, prosperity, the supreme court, and i think that's why you're going to continue to see tremendous momentum evidenced in these incredible crowds driving toward november the 8th. >> you are always generous with your time. we appreciate you coming by, governor. thank you. just ahead, hoda is going to be here. she's going to pull off another great surprise for a deserving

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rowling revealed that there be -- count them -- five movies in that series. "fantastic beast" hits theaters on november 18th. that's your "popstart!." >> are you so happy? >> all we're miss somethiing isf and mashed potatoes. carson, thank you. dylan, check of the weather. >> good glass of milk will be good, too. we've got this big storm system in the pacific northw this is going to be big story going into the weekend. first one made its way onshore yesterday producing wind gusts up to 100 miles per hour along the coast. the next one is going to move in as we go into saturday afternoon. the second one is going to produce even stronger winds, perhaps in excess of 100 miles per hour. we could see rainfall totals upwards of around 10 to 15 inches, especially across northwestern parts of

i'm meteorologist bri eggers in with this weather update. we have sunshine in, in store fs all weekend long. the high pressure is bringing in that cold air from the north and the west. it starts out breezy today, but the winds die down as we get into the afternoon. next couple days topping out near 60 degrees. then a warming trend as we head into sunday. very mild. temperatures upper 60s. if you're headed to gillette, here's a will be at the 7 on 7 forecast. >> this just in -- >> what? >> national meatloaf today is next tuesday. >> yes! >> next tuesday. >> yes! just ahead, kings of leon rock out on our plaza. >> kings of meatloaf. >> kings of leon getting ready to go.

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when it really mattered. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. >> this is 7news now. >> christa: good morning. 8:27. it's sunny outside. downtown boston and a little blustery, as well. here's bri eggers with a check of your forecast. >> bri: christa, it's a good thing we have the sunshine, because temperatures are quite cool. a bit of a breeze making them feel about five degrees cooler than what you see. afternoon, keeping the sunshine around, the breeze dies down and we top out in the mid-50s to near 60 degrees. >> sarah: all right, bri. thank you. checking our your top stories, two murder suspects are due in court in orange. joshua hart and brittany smith will be answering to murder, home invasion and robbery charges. police arrested the pair in florida earlier this week. officers say the suspect killed a 95-year-old man inside of his home. and a sexual assault suspect will appear for a dangerousness hearing today. officials say ronald brown, a

an apartment in the south end tuesday morning and bound, threatened and sexually assaulted the two women who were inside. and the fairhaven teenager who prosecutors say encouraged her friend to commit suicide with text messages will be back in court today. michelle carter's attorney is planning to argue the statements she made to investigators should be thrown out, saying that carter was not fundamentally aware of her constitutional rights. "today in new england" comes back at 9:00 with your latest headlines and of course your weather for the weekend. if you're hea "today show" is coming your way next. when i listen to families across new hampshire, all i hear is that washington is locked into a system where the special interests come before people. where drug company profits come before affordable medicine, the koch brothers and big oil come before clean energy, and powerful corporations beat out entrepreneurs looking to grow their small businesses. i'm maggie hassan. washington won't change overnight.

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ts is responsible for the content of this advertising. it is 8:30. it is a friday morning, kicks leon out here on our plaza. so happy to have them here. you guys have some big news that we want to announce right now about a tour? >> yes. our north american tour starts january the 12th. >> yes! >> january 12th. >> isn't it true you are coming to the garden as part of that? >> we are. i think the 20th. >> can you hook us up?

>> great news for citi customers when kings of leon hit the road, you will get special presale access to that tour. citi presales begin next tuesday, the 18th of october. check out today.com for more information there. which is great. >> we cannot wait. we'll see you guys in a little bit. coming up, i have an incredible story about this woman that you will love. we were lucky enough to treat her to a day of pink power surprises. >> we love those stories. by the way, guys f of "fit pregnancy" yet? did you get that? you may have noticed savannah guthrie on the cover of "fit pregnancy." you got a great article inside as well. >> i love that you mention that mike is actually -- your husband -- the best person to have in the delivery room. >> yes. because his line of work is crisis communication. also he is the son of an ob-gyn. his whole life, the phone would ring at dinner and it would be

pinch. >> ironically enough when my son was born, "sex on fire" was playing in the delivery room. i kid you not. >> seems appropriate. back to business. let's do the weather. >> yes. this weekend we are going to see pretty decent weather across most of the country. especially up across new england, check out the fall foliage, it is peaking, especially across northern wisconsin, north hampshire and upstate new york, too. we're getting patchy color in southern new england and across the east. it is going to be really nice in the northeast on saturday, temperatures in the 50s and 60s, record highs back through the plains. scattered showers through the western great lakes. that big northwest storm could produce wind gusts in excess of 100 miles per hour. on sunday we'll see scattered storms continue to move into the northeast through the afternoon. record highs. elsewhere through the southeast, through the plain states and

>> bri: good morning, everybody. i'm meteorologist bri eggers in with this weather update. we have sunshine in, in store fs all weekend long. the high pressure is bringing in that cold air from the north and the west. it starts out breezy today, but the winds die down as we get into the afternoon. next couple days topping out near 60 degrees. then a warming trend as we head into sunday. very mild. temperatures upper 60s. if you're headed to gillette, here's a will be at the 7 on 7 >> and that's your latest forecast. guys? >> announcer: pink power "today" is sponsored by netjets. the worldwide leader in private aviation. time now for more of our special series "pink power today." in honor of the breast cancer awareness month. >> we asked our viewers to tell us about people who are battling the disease had really deserve a special day. >> it is a great day.

tell us how special this one particular woman is. her name is erin, she's from virginia beach, virginia. after spending time with erin and her family, we completely understand why. erin and jason ludwig love playing outdoors with their two little girls, savannah, 5, and aubrey, nearly 2. >> get mommy! >> reporter: erin, an athletic trainer, and jason, a parole officer, have always been an active and devoted couple ever since meeting lifeguards 15 years ago. >> i mean one of the things that made me fall in love with him is his caring and compassion. >> how passionate she is about things, how loving and caring she is toward everyone else. the feelings's always been there but over the past year-and-a-half it actually makes it stronger and actually tests your commitment toward another person. >> reporter: in early 2015, erin was breastfeeding their

felt before. doctors confirmed their worst fears of breast cancer. after a double mastectomy and chemo and radiation, tests this summer revealed the cancer had spread. >> it is the worst pain ever. yeah. it is the worst pain ever. seeing what she goes through every day and what she has gone through and what she has in the future. like we of her life. but it's just hard to know that right now there's no cure. >> the difficult talks, they've been difficult. and so we've talked about like the future and everything like that, but not too much. we treat it more as tomorrow is not promised, live every moment

go, erin was about to find out we had preparing a few for her, a few surprise moments. >> hi, erin! >> your husband said that one of the things you wanted was a family portrait. well, guess what? tomorrow morning we have hired a local photographer to take that special picture for you and your family. oh, erin. little did you know, you were far from getting rid of us. the next morning, erin, jason and the kids headed to the beach for their photo shoot. it was filled with smiles, laughter, and, of course, more bubbles. but there were more smiles to come. earlier that day, hundreds of miles away in florida, erin's

so they could throw a surprise party for her with 30 of her loved ones, all of whom had written us about erin. >> erin, it's me again. okay, the surprises aren't over yet. take the blindfold, put it on your eyes, on your way home. >> can't see. i can take it off? >> sure. >> yes? >> >> surprise! >> hi, honey. >> so good to see you, erin. >> hi. >> reporter: all her friends and family gathered in one place to celebrate this special woman. but we still weren't quite done yet. >> me again. could you please go out into

>> yeah! >> where's erin? >> woo! yeah! >> woo! >> hi, erin. >> hi, hoda. >> okay. so, wait. irnd tell you that i'm part of the surprise. but can other part of your surprise is? you see this ford explorer? the warriors in pink wanted to make sure that every day was a good day. so they are gifting you this beautiful car. >> are you serious? >> yes. do you guys like your new car?

there's a lot of love on this driveway right now, isn't there? >> they're an incredible family, by the way. >> you need to stop. >> i can tell you something about them? they had this car that has been giving them trouble. it didn't accommodate for wheelchair and stuff like that. so the ford warriors did that. they are an amazing family. >> yeah. >> so great. to bring their family to them and of all the ts could have won, like a car. she wanted that family portrait. >> yeah. namaste. by the way, thank netjets for helping us out getting the family in members for the party. more heartwarming surprises next week. thank you so much and our love to erin and her family. >> now we need some music. coming up, we've got kings of leon live on the plaza. but first, this is "today" on

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>> announcer: the citi concert series on "today" is proudly presented to you by citi. welcome back to "today." we cannot wait any longer. it is concert time, performing "waste a moment" off their brand-new album, "walls," kings of leon, everybody. ? ? ?

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when i listen to families across new hampshire, all i hear is that washington is locked into a system where the special interests come before people. where drug company profits come before affordable medicine, the koch brothers and big oil come before clean energy, and powerful corporations beat out entrepreneurs looking to grow their small businesses. i'm maggie hassan. washington won't change overnight. new senator who puts your priorities ahead of special interests can make a difference. and that's why i approve this message. this is a huge day for grammy winners kings of leon. this is album release day, their seventh studio album. it is called "walls." >> we are so thrilled, you guys, because they are doing it right here on our plaza.

jared and matthew. seventh studio album, new tour coming up in january. do you still get nervous at all in a time like this? >> yeah, definitely. i think the day that you stop getting nervous, that's when you need to kind of done it too much. yeah, we always want to go out there and kind of be better than we were the night before and every album we want it to be better. yeah, we get nervous. >> this album's called joke? i read it stands for we are like love songs. >> all of our albums are five syllables. we knew that we wanted this to be "walls," but we also knew we wanted it to have a deeper meaning. so, yeah, we are like love songs. feel like there are some really honest songs on this album. we kind of feel like they were love songs. >> you guys have been together,

band, 13 years. when you guys first started playing music together, what did you think your band would turn into down the line? . wh when did this begin? >> we were just having fun in my mom's garage. we never thought that it would -- our goal was to sell 10,000 albums. we thought if we ever sold 10,000 that meant we could play concerts. that's all we wanted. >> you guys announced you got a tour what do you guys do to get prepped and primed for this tour? >> rock the plaza with the "today" show! first place. >> well, we just have to put our heads together and think about what the show's going to look like. we've got a lot of songs to work with now. because we actually have an album. so we can write a good set list. rehearse a lot. >> my job is to gather

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>> we're back in a moment on a friday morning. this is "today" on nbc. bob hillery: i spent 21 years in the navy, defending america. if i only showed up half of the time, i'd have been court-martialed. but that's what senator kelly ayotte did. she missed nearly half of her homeland security hearings. vo: on critical homeland security hearings, ayotte was mia... even missing a hearing the same day she went to a washington fundraiser. for ayotte, collecting campaign cash comes first. vo: votevets is responsible for

we're back. it's 8:55. how good did the kings of leon sound? willie, you got a bit coming up on sunday "today." >> we'll be talking about this wild presidential campaign as we

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answer. donald trump and hillary clinton continuing to bat batted l for the granite state. we have an exclusive poll breaking down the numbers. the bruins tearing up the ice all the big moments from their season opener against the blue jacket. chilly this morning. but colder tomorrow morning. the area that could expect frost or even a freeze coming up in the forecast. all that and a wlot more.

two boston police officers in critical condition as we learn more about what set off a violent fight in east boston. first lady sounding offen donald trump's treatment of women as trump himself continues to deny sexual assault allegation. tom brady playing at home on sunday for the first time this season. and how you can still score tickets to the game. 9:00 on this friday morning. thanks for joining us. i'm nancy chin. >> i'm christa delcamp. it's brisk out there. it is. yet wasn't bad during the late part of the afternoon. today certainly waking up to chillier start. >> hopefully we warm things up. it might be time for it. because tomorrow temperature dropping below freezing for many of us. so if you think it's cold now just wait until saturday