good morning. back.ng >> i am not going to let false accusas dri me out ofs thi brett kavanau launches an unpreced bid to save his nomination, speaking out alongside his wife in a new interview, denying all allegas against him. >> the truth i i have never sexually assaulted anyone in high sl or otherwise. his feet on the high court hanging in the balance. does he have the votes or not? ?o after a dramatic day about his future, rod rosenstein now set to meet face-to-face with presidenp t week. his fate and the russia n n up in the ai we are live at the white house. > race again time.

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thank you f j us. what was that? >> this is gritty. thas new mt in philadelphia. i am thinking the fourth hou an ambush makeover? clean him up a little bit? >>. take care of that. i understand that thing is aring some children? our toptory.l get to that l supreme et with his wife by his side addressinghe troubling allegation threatening to derail his nomination. we have in depth coverage starting withbc national correst peter alexander. hey, gooa b week ahead of us. brett kah claiming his nocee and revealing fort time ss broke called his supreme court e telling him h stands by him and the president overnight tweeti kavanaugh was thef vi what he calls false accusati i am not going to let accusas dri me out of this process. overnight embattled judge kavan his wife by h

side vowing he won't wiprdraw. esidentrump' supreme pick in an unprecedented intervw with fox news defendg himself after two accusati surfaced. one while at college at yale, the other when he was a teenager in the 1980s. >> the truth ii have nev assaulted anyone in high sl or otherwise. i am not questioning and have not questioned that perhaps dr. ford at some point in her life was sexually assaulted by someone at someplace. se anyone. know is have never kavanaugh deflecti whe a if he would welcome an fbi invest instead cal for fairnes and i know i'm telling the tth. i didn't do this or anything resemb this. this is wrong. e decent. he is kind. he is gd. i know his heart. is not consistent with

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kasie, it's about one thing. countk votes. who is actually iind and could vo either way? >> that's right, savannah. itlls a s audience here. i would draw you to three critic, the sator from ndizona, lisa murkowski from alaska, susan collins of maine. she is the person we have been watchi most closely. when dr. ford first game forwar susan collins pushed her colleagues to say we absolute have to hear from this wom something she cared a lot about and she made that eown. that how ended up with this opening hearing. i think the question is, how does a story in "thee allegatioh a sensento this? capito among republi overplth say this bolsters the idea

that this is a smearpa cn instead of a sympathetic figure in dr. ford who came forward and clearly feels very strongly. so still a lot of twists and turn lot of peoe m think it's unusual for a supreme court nominee to go on tv before this w d you think this is playing amg republicans? >> right, it was unusual. this was remarkable. we haven't seen athing like this. th felt to me like something out of the playbook. , dig in, defend. now they are going on offense here. to kasie's point latest allegation from deborah w ramirez, heard from kellyanne saying that the first accuser shod be heard.ir after r came out yesterday she described this as a vast left wing conspiracy. they now pushing backre much aggressively on this. but republicans are also scared. they have rea concerns that he would not be confirmed, that there the potential for

erosion among republicans, those name a sense that needed to teify, he needed to speak to fox news yestery or he wouldn't make it to his testimony this wk on thursd in the background, reall the foreground on capitol hill, the midterms which are losing thank you so much. apprecia it. >> there is also major ni uncerty thi m over the fate of deputy attorney l rod rosenstein. speculatn swi on mon may resign or be fired. for now he does remain on the job. nbc's white house correspondent kristin welker has the latest on this story. go mornin good g you to. that's right. deputy attorney genel rod rosenste job may be hanging in the balance after a chainic mo on monday. ed conflicting about whether he wastaying in his job or leaving. appointed robert mur and oversees the investig so the stakes are monument. morning, will he stay will he go? that's the qstion looming over

deputy attorney gel rod ro who had a cordial handshe with chief of staff john kel after a tense mornin initially t word rosens w heading to t white e to resign, according to some close to the president, but other administration ofs tell nbc newsd r quit and would have to be fired. rosenstein met wh kell extended phonenv coer with p trump. thet. announcemen thursd meeting with mr. trump. job seemingly safe for now. >> we will be meeting at the white e andwill be determg what is going on. we want to have transparency, openness and i look forward to meeting with rod athat time. >> the drama started with that bombshell report in "the new that se discussed invoking the 25th am last spring to remove president tru from office and that rosenstein even suggeste wearing a wire to secret recd conversations wi mr. trump. rosenste

we according to y people close to rosenstein, he wonder if he was compromised and should step down. even discussing it with a top white e official. meanwhil presi trump's allies urged him to lay off, fearing a political backlash in have a message for the presidt tonight. under zero circumstances should e president fire anybody. rosenstein oversees robert mueller's investigation into rus meddling in the 2016 election. r attorney genel attorney d himself, rosenn has become a firewall prtrump, prompting man democrs to renew calls for legislatn to protect him. >> firin rod rosenstein would be a direct threat to that investig and even some republics expressed concern rosenste cou be removed. inwell, i he did sog like that, it would

cause a fur that we don't need right now. so rosenstein is the preside on thursday. if he leaves under some ircum, who would replace him? right. well, if rosenstein leaves on thursd or at any later date, e solicitor gen would take over and oversee th russia invest so that means francisco would superve special counst mueller, discuss everything from budgets to approving indict he would also be t persono decide whether to fire mueller if there wer cau to do so. franci a conservative republ lawye who worked i the bush administratio he has never overseen a criminal investigce to the cs within the justice depart right now, attorney genel jeff se almost certain to steper down ahe november a right. a lot of changes. thyou. and those dramas play out in e president is in new york e wi deliver a high stakes sech to

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we're back. and meet gritty. this is the new mascot for the nhl's philadelphia. flye he just made his debut. he is happy about 'sit. een called adorable to terrifying. coming up, we have the overnight reaction. the biggest question peopleave is what is that? what are you, gritty? >> looks like he stumbled off of "sesame street." let's start with a check of today's headlines. embattled supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh says he's not going anywhere. in an interview with fox news, he d he isef notoing to let false accusati dri him out of the

process. the truth is i neveruay assaulted a in high school or otherwise. i am not questioning and have not questioned that perhaps dr. ford at some point in hear life was sexually assaulted by someone at seplace. i know is i have never sexuallyed assauanyone. kavanaugh and his first accuser christi e scheduled toes tfy before thursday. judiciary com > pope s acknowledged today that the sex abuse scandal the catholic church were driving people away from the faith. he told a gathering of youngop pe in estonia the church wants to keep futur generations. th a quote. he acknowledged ma people felt the church had nothing to offer them> incredib a brave alpaca stopping at nothing to save her baby survei camera. u can see a cougar approachi

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saturd while walking with relatis in a north carolin os k. autistic last s bn his father wearing e man.e t-shirtay sg i am the boy took off running ahead of themos until they sight of him. no piece of information is too small. something you think is insignt could be helpful in our case. >> r more than two dozen local, ndstate, federal law ent personnel with help from local residents sur more an 1,400 acres in and aroundth . k9 units combing the grounds, police hicop searchi the sky and divs in the nearby lake. ges also using record mess of maddox's parent voices to try locating if he is lost in the woods he wille able to hear those messages played. heartbroken community in a ot

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>> you don't know this person. so don't trust them. don a give them personal information. >> rorr:ho words after a recent unde investigation in new jersey netted 24 arrests, accused sexpro using games like fortnite and minecraft to prey on teens, all charged with second-dree child luring. all but one a registered sex offender released on bail. among those arrested a police sergeant usi kik to set a meeting with a girl he thought was 15. he is now suspended and on house arrest. >> anything that gves stran access to children through the guise of a game has the potential to be dangerous to a child. >> reporr:t 125 million playerg on to fortnite and 250 million copies of minecraft sold experts sayvichchurs virtual wors cong playground where predators blsd in. >> hehe and i am not paying attti to it. obviously, i shld be. >> reporter: exrts say paren

should not talk to their children abt the dangers but set ground rules about playing online. never sharesofoatn or photo on play with people you know in real life, only allow game play in wi room where parentsod hear and never behind closed door. and dible chat functions whenever possible. we reached out to minecraft, fortnite, a ki onded microsoft re saying helping keep kids safer online is a priority for microsoft. pantalsn be aware of what their k are actually doing online, making sure it really is just fun and games. >> fortnite is meant to be played. it's a video game. if someone ever tries to meet you outside of the game, that's no-go. >> all right. that's run red flag. what are some of the otherag re that paren should be talking to kids about? >> yeah, that's a good question. craig. when are your parents coming

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in typical burns sty t loo at the clinic's history. >> she had her vision of building hospital. a place she insisted that would be open to all sick persons regardless of their color, sex, financial status,or professed religion. >> buco that with the contempor humanity its health care providers deal with every day. >> melana is o of the most prominentce c that can spread evo fetus. >> and chronicles more than50 years of re and compassion. >> sometim i deal with people that die. i feel that the only way that i can give themop is if i know in my hrt of hearts from trying to push the boundaries. wow, kim burns, tom brokaw. good morning.

ken, okay, we know about the mayo clic. i no idea about the origin this place. >> they ha the best origin story. there is a tornado, w.w. may owe and his sons have a local ractice. thek the sisters of st. francis i they c use the emty seminary rooms to house them. the mothe comes back and says i had a visi from god i am to build you hospital in the cornfield and it will become arts.rendor medical he is an agnostic who defends darwin by day. says, right, you will not be able to do this. if you do do it, i will be injuo surgeon. those nones a s there. the vaes them, they run parallel to the most superbly engineerey of delivering health ca wha found. rated as the best hospital in the united states. therefore, world again.

and i went there just to get a checkup a w blown away by tuality of the care. so it's t story of the history, alse contempor stories of regular people getting extraordinary are. >> tom, your connection is personal. youav st on the board. you were a patient at the mayo clinic. whatre t doing at the mayo clinic th hospitals around the country le from? what's theec sauce?i >> i the team approach is the most impta part. never in a meetin just yo physician. you have the whole team. they are lookingt the same screen at same time. the whole id is to make you better. oth thing is that these are doctors who are onsalaries. they are not on fees. everybody a according to a salary scale that they have. so you are not getting extra tests to beef it all up. and the other thing is, a million pnt t ough the mayo clinic y year.

and the asshfien of a what they do. everybody w comes back from it, as ken did and other people as well, are blown away by how well it works. the town of rochester is the mayo clinic. it's all integrated. modest. are very nice people. they get the best physicians in the world. all they t do is worry about being a good doctor. >> what's cool, not only do miracles pethere, they are an open book. you said, hey, look, if i find something,t y end up in my documentar sometng flattering? >>no we arin the busess and in public broadcasting we have a distinct line between church and state. i said to the ceo, what if we find somei bad? he paused and said if u we'd want about it. it'snot aerfect place. there are miss diagnoses and mistakes a made, patients die. as you see, every physician there has their own intimate personalreyard where -- of the patien t lost and they want to do better.

that culture of collaboration that's doneefrom salary means they select for people to are designed for this team effort. en you e there, you never feel like youre alone. like we al think that the patient first. that's tir motto. it's not. it's the or first or the administr or the insurance gu here because they are nonprofit, they pour everything back into educationnd research and invasion d patient care, the patient is first, and the differences night and day. sit's not a secretce in a way. they share everything with everybody. and we wish that the rest of our health care could be so good. >> ken, thank you. tom brokaw, love having you as always. the mayo clinic airs tonight on pbs. tmr roker for a check of the weathe >> weloo we are watching that low pressure system off southeast atlantic coast. it's not going to cause, other than some srs along the carolina coast, severe storms firing up in the upper

mississip and ohio river. valle feinli f i the northern plains. at fire threat continuing out west. that's what'sg gon around the cou > metroch bell. another gray and rather gloomy morning outsid most of the rain for now is in e northernf of the viewing area. but ery has a chance of getting ra asater on t morning or early this afternoon. it will be a warmer day though. we are the upper 60s and low 70s already. future wea keeps most of the steadien in a north half of our viewing area, but again a stray sho or two is possible. drier for the second half of the day. warmeromwiha some afooms en the k burns effect? guys. >> all right. al, thank you. there a new sensation in the sport wod thrn mng. carson is in the orange room. introdu us, carson.

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