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newme devel this is morning in the ongoing confirmation battle for supre court nominee brett kavanaugh. now lawmakers are set to here rectly from the woman accusing the judge of sexual assault. >> we're going to tell you about a heartwarming reunion. a mother seeking asylum finally reunited with her son after he newas detaid at the border over a year ago. >> we just madey. hist this is one of the biggest oments in hampton roads sports history. arguably the biggest moment ind ol dominion history. >> it might be the upset of the year in college football. did you see it?
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old dominion shocks 13th ranked virginia tech hokies and naomi is thrilled about. >> it she's excited. graduate of odu and tech fans not so happy about it but, hey, listen, you're here with us, t that's reason enough to smile on your face. i'm adam us the. >> i'm megyn fitzgerald i for angie goff. sorry about this. splatter right here. that's the kind ofay it is but it's still the week end. >> and it's fall and there is the time of where these things start happening. you should stop laughing. stopusaughing and pay do the forecast before you getn trouble. >> listen -- >> you want to fight. >> you keep talking me, l do my forecast. we'll talk tomorrow when the redskins win and the eagles lose. let's talk about the redskins
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and nats game because i have people asking me if the nats game will be rained out and's always hard to tell but it will be raining all day. we may get a few breaks but for the most part it will rain all day and it's t fall sos is the type of weather we get in fall. visibility down qui a bit as well so theud low c and fog are play iing around the roadwa. grab the jacket and maybe the one. it will be chilly. temperatures in the 60s. it will be wet with rain throughout the we'll talk about that sunshine which i have some sun on the ten-day forecas in a few minutes. >> you are a ray of sunshine. thank you very much, lauryn. switching gears. it appears the woman accusing supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh o sexual assault is going to testify before the senate judiciary committee this week. but there's still a.
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>> s attorneys say's tipping an invitat bn for thursda when and where is an issue. a decision was made late last night and negotiations are expected to continue today. dr. ford alleges that judge brett kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were t teenager inhe '80s.na kah has categorically denied the allegations. >> but last night the white house responded saying one week ago dr. christine fsd cla she was assaulted at a house party attended by four others.n since t all four of these individuals have provided statements to the senate juciary committee denying any knowledge of the incident. >> many areri won if judge kavanaugh can survive this. this morning moderator chuck todd will take a deep dive into that question. you can watch it right here
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ginning at 10:30. >> as the senate judiciary committee investigates claim b ma dr. ford, they're trying to clean up another issue. nbc news first broke this story. a press adviser helping the gop senate judiciary committee resigned amid allegations of his own sexual misconduct. garrett ventry hadeen servi as communications aid to the committee. he was brought on to help with the dr. ford investigation. ventry denied any past allegation of misconduct. a group of catholic mothers are demandegular form within the catholic church and they say that starts with getting rid of cardinal donald wuerl. >> clean god's use. >> yesterday they chanted clean god's house. the group consisted of mothers whose children attend catholic schools in d.c. their protests center around the ongoing church sex abuse
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scdal, particularly with cardl.al wu they say he covered up abuse by priests during his time as bishop in pittsburgh. wuerl denies the allegation. >> we want clean leadership. you are supposed to be the moral authority. act ilike. wuerl is expected to travel to rome to ask pope francis to accept hi resignation as archbishop of washington because of the sex abuse investigation, maryland's attorney general brian frosh wants to know if that is happening in maryland schools or places of worswep. heed out a form where victims of abuse or knowledgeover abuse caneport incidents to his office. thousands of people signed an on line petition calng for frosh to investigate. it's been one year since hurricane maria. yesterday people honked their horns out-ade the mar-lago
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resort as puerto rican flags hung from their vehicles. demonstrators say te angry at the president's t response help those on the u.s. territory island. reports show nearly 3,000 people died. the president says that number is too high. time is this morning a family is backge er again and a mother from honduras is reunited with her son. they were apart for an entire ye year. you can imagine what that felt like. our cameras were there for the emotional reunion. karen gutierrez came legally to the united states to petition for ylum. her 11-year-old son was detained at the southern border as he tried to join her. she sued and a fedal judge here in the district allowed them to be reunited. mpof course the t administration has increased the legal hurdles for immigrant
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families whose relatives css the boarder on their n. >> the search is on for the driver who hit and killed a tellagers in gaines maryland. police say the 17-year-old and a relative were sitting insidewo truck parked on sudley road around 2:30 in the morning. th jumped outo avoid an on coming car, that car hit the teen.ve igators say the driver paused and then kept going. they say the work truck was parked facing therong way. police say the headlights were on but there were no cones or signs to warn coming cars. >> we also now know the identity of the man killed an accident while riding an electric scooter in dupont circle. d.c. police say h name was carlos schez martin. the 20-year-olded in silver spring and police say he was riding a scooter when he became pinned beneath an suv friday morning. he ler died at the hospital. the driver stayed on the scene until help showed up.
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meantime, a deck collaps in howard county sent several people to the hospital. this happened yesterdayt afternoon j after 4:30 in ellicott city. we're told 20 people were on the back deck on bonnie branch road when it fell, sending them tumbling 12 feet. eight people had to go to the yohospital. ev expected to be okay. more than 40 firefighters and paramedics showed up to help. new notes will play throughout the cavalry c presbyterirch for their morning service today. >> this is very cool. an organ onc belonging to another church is officially going to be welcomed into its new home wit the dedication ceremony. calvary perez attorney church legs ment was on its last and they didn't have the money to buy a new one. but oregon presbyterian church was shutting down and it gave them their old one. cavalry's organist is excited
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about the new edition. you can tell from her reaction a that he's excite. arlington presbyterian church isn't being torn down but it wi be part of the housing complex going into that ea cavalry gets to keep the othrga. it's still early but we may have the biggest upset ofeg co football all season long. >> virginia tech fans not so happy. old dominion, you'rehappy. the odu team beat virginia tech to make it the biggest upset. the final score here, 49-35 and old dominion has only had a football teaor ten years. second half n the
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and felt like we could wear t down. believe in it and we madehi story. this is one of the biggest moments in hampton road sports history. arguably the biggest moment in old dominion history. >> old dominion takes on east na caro carolina. >> a miracle in the middle of tragedy. the death toll soars as crews recover more people who were on over.t that flipped the researchers foundomething w
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here from a capsized ferry you'll see. the engineer was fnnd in a air pocket alive as the ferry overturned on thursday. he shut himself inside the r enginem and manages to survive. officialth say 209 people died on the ferry. fir officials say the charlie fire initially started at three acres and grewe to m than 3,000 acres in a short time. ae flames were initially reported around 2:40. officials say no structures are immediately under threat but up to 50 homes have been evacuatedd 't mess around with a new york woman on the subway. >> or jersey. >> a woman attacked on a new york subway fights back.
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this surveillance footage, she's going after that guy with her purse. you can see herowhasing him the hallway. this happened as they were riding the train in new york city. the victim says she was heading home from work last month when the man touched her behind. it's a no-no. he was at the grand central station. police continued to look for the suspect after this's but s not going to take that. >> good for her. >>extly. >> anyway, the cat walk the watt walk may never be the same. computer generated images are dividing the fashionngworld. >> u them to attract younger digital savvy client. >> the models almost look ike life. it's hard to tell the difference eaom the human model but no surprise here, life models not having it >> models say real life models
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nominee. >> we have the moderator of "meet the press," chuck todd, to weigh in on this. los like dr. fors going to be in town this week to testify. so there's a lot ofai d that need to be worked out. even if she duds testify, what will we learn? >> i don't know. shat's the thing. i say t because i just had -- sat down with the w-2 senators, i had a panel that was polite but would say contentious. a reminder that this is going to be an eye of thebeholer hearing, pure and simple. i don't think there will be the mason moment or some law and order moment where you feel like ah-ha, we've got the truth, the dna test is back and w know what happened. that won't be there and you ask yourself okay. and these two senators, both seem to admit that it's going to be a gut feeling. there will be at political i
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impact. there is fear or hope depending on your point of view oth what status of the senate will be. i just don't know how he becomes more confirmable after this hearing if it ends up simply being he said she said. that doesn't mean he won't be n confirmed bu moree. confirma >> we read reports that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein secretly recorded the president and tried to recruit people like jeff sessions and now acts chi of staff john kelly to invoke the 25th amendment to t an o the president. what do you make of all this. >> do you remember all of thisa acly happened? it took place in the wake of the firing of james comey, in that two to three week period in may of 2017, the contentiousness
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between new members of the nt justice depart eyes wide open going oh, my god, is he obstructing justice. and so i think in some ways the yearong attacks the president has waged against the justice department of this dispute. the question will be whether they can use it as a rationale. they say it's a trap, you're being suckered into is. i will say i thought rod rosenstein's denials have been interesting. he said i was being sarcastic, which means the comment was uttered and on the 25th amendment he said my interactions with him i see no reasons to invoke it. >> not denying. >> correct. and so it's clear this is concerning to justice departmenr folks but w learning i think the president likes to have an enemyo beat up on. >> we'll see. >> exactly.
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big show comingp in just about ten minutes. >> go packers. oh, did i say ythat. won't offend me. fine by me. >> i know that. eagles y, doesn't matter. let's go packers. how bad is the rainbeoing to >> bad. listen, i have someone on my fantasy teem. >> stop the rain. i don't want him to play. i think it's a bad ea. a terrible idea. >> let's talk sports! >> give me keiser. >> i don't know. i'd like to see the packers lose because i'm a bigfa redskins >> just stop the rain. >> please. >> who'll stop the rain? i've been trying to figure out for years. who'll stop the rain? >> thank you, chuck. >> we got rain, you guys. it,ill continchuck, sorry, it's going to rain through the redskins game. people are asking me about the nats game, the lravegame.
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we are going to be cool and wet outside. this is what the radar will paint throughout the day. heavy rain in spots but most of this will be on the light side. we have some drizzle. the rain will fill back in. for rain back in kentucky that will head into our region we have the frontal system dropping the humidity but now it's hanging out down the south. high pressure to the north, winds wrap around this clockwise so what is happening is we're oming off the re atlantic and into our area we're
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only headed into the mid to upper 60s today. not going to touch the 70s. as far as rain isconcerned, i'm not worried about flooding right lightcause we'll have a amount of rain in a lg period of time. this is as we get into tuesday n morn the heaviest rain will fall along i-81 into tuesday night but we are looking at moderate amounts of rain, one to three ches over the next couple days and here as far as your packers and edskinsgame, temperatures will be in the 60s with rain chances. let me show you this real quick. futurecast again, rain chances throughout the day, tomorrow morning you head off to work, we'll have rainndog rain chances will last into tuesday morning. by tuesday afternoon we can get sunshine big spread in temperatures, 60s to 80s with the warm front lifting through.
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in the mid-atlantic because we have rain here, rain through philly and baltimore so through the mid-lantic going to be soggy. we have rain through the day tomorrow. you'll wake up foggy conditions. tuesday morning we'll have rain, tuesday afternoon dry. sdmore rain th, i cannot wait until friday, we dry out. >> been like that around here for a twhile. nks so much for joining us. "meet the press" coming up next. >> have a great day everyone. >> have a great day everyone. go
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i put criminals in prison during the day i'm jennifer wexton, and as a prosecutor, and changed diapers at night. later, when i had a law practice, i volunteered to help moms collect child support. then, as state senator, i worked across party lines to target sexual offenders and take guns away from domestic abusers. in congress, i'll stand up to president trump. i approve this message because, like every working mom, what's ahead is as important as what's in the rearview mirror.
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>> this sunday, supreme battle. brett kavanaugh's nomination in jeopardy over an accusation he sexually assaulted a girl when he was a teenager. republicans are divided. >> i would think if the incident occurred as she described it that would be disqualified. >> don't get rattled by all of this. we'll plow right through it and do our job. >> but president trump is standing by his man. >> he is a nefine, person. >> and now there's an apparent agreement for kavanaugh's cuser, christine blasey ford to testify before the senate judiciary committee onmy thursd. uests this morning, repuican senator david purdue of georgia and democratic senator patty murray of washington state. plus how serious
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