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corrt peter aer is here with us. lo to catch up on, peter. we go.good morni when the first an t brett kavan came out pres th out the window,laming de f what the president calls the politics of dest and new this morning we are lear about the veterar a prosecutor, the repus just hired to handle their questiing. presid lashing out, accu democ of trying to sink brett kavanaugh's nomina the democrats are playin con game.n, c- con game. they know it's a con game. they know he is highuaty and they wink at each other. the president also attag kavanaugh's second was totallybr ited and she was all messed up and she doesn know if it was him, m but itht have been him.

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to mt t republicans don't upsetou to be a fair process. repub hiring on outse female attorney to ques ford and kavanaugh at thursd hearing. ernit sen grassley's offi revealing that rachel mitche, an ari with decades of experience prosec sex crimes, will be aski the questions on behalf of r mitche m pr confid. lisa murkowski, a critical repu swing vote, warning her colleagues not to prejudge thes, while indi fbi inven is warranted. an investi certaiertainly clear up some of the questions that are oute.th and this morning new dey what tomorr hearing is going to look like. sccuser christine d is going to first starting wiem n time limi.

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they recalled the incident and told some of themhe couldn't be certain that was mr. kava did tt happen that happened. i wasn't representing her at the time that may have taken place. it goes back to the exact same poine wanted to be very, very care put forward a fo information the new yorker.s mindset right now? suddeny papee has been brought out here publ. e is she, how is she today? >> i think b she hasn kind of receiving., you know, it is frusg to see some of the remas by the senate,ut some of the remarks by the president. sheep is frustrated to see those and is becoming more and more the judiciary fate will allowerto. >> june clune, the attorney for miss ramirez. thank you. craig joins us wit.

waking up behind bars x offender g. sentd tue to three to en years in a pennsylvania pris a moment we will talk to the pros who helped seal cosby'st, face. stephanie goskk is outse that prison where cosby spent the night. good morning. th right. he was here at this maxit streed like any other inmate, given a jumpsuit, towel, bar, soap, a dinner oeaalls and rice. will be here for a few days while the state of pennsylvania looks for somewhere more america's funniest dad. brain?ill bopping to >> to one of its newe inmaors, thisning bill cosby's stunning fall, ending in a pennsylvania prison. theed1-year-old sentenco three to ten years behind bars.

handcued a led away. he is hidden behind a f hux that balance. ow finally bill cosby has been the decision nearly five months after cosby was convicd of drugging and sexual assaulting andrea cons atis home in 2004. judge steve o'neill considering several factors before handin g constand's emotional writn victim impact statement. bill c took my beautiful hey young spirit and crushed it. robbed me of my health and, y open natured my trust in myself and otheref the pushed for house arre. to cosby's age and heal. later d comedian, nobody is above the law. cosby, who must serve three yearr parole, is now classified as a sexu spre,

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ssan regime as long as their nuclr aggren continues. it was t line from the prest that drew the most no >> in less than two years my admini has accomplished more than almost any admi in the history ofr -- so true. i didn't expect >> the president spent much of the speech pushing his america first message, saying the u.s. y longer. e taken ad moth of that missing boy in nort who vanished in a park four days ago is now brea her silence. the fbi now expanding an already massive seash. nb gabe gutierrez joins us with the very latest. d story. hey, gabe. hoda, good morning. the gut wrenching search of this

park has captured the nation's fte now we are hearim the boy's mother for the first time as police say they are busy tracki down more than 150 s in a race against time. this morning the mother of 6-ye maddox ritch with a despplea. j my baby home, carrie ritch her silence. i maddox my whole world and reason for living. he isma 's boy. maddox was the park. he loved bouncy balls and he loves his teddy bear. police have been playg recordings of his pant voices hoping that drs him out if he is lost in the woods. the fbi says hisather has join searc teams at the park wher missing near char hend another adult were walkg wit maddox when his son took off running ahead.

author hope someo at the busy park that day may hold a clue talk with a profes and a jagg who may have been nearby. a specific ti li boats and sonar have been brought in to search a lake. specia choppers fly over held. i hope they find him ali hoping that the young boy last see wearing a t-shirt that says i'm the man will beis back with family soon. thank all for your love my baby back in myust want to arms. my gosh, so sad hearing from the mom. , as you mentioned, it's been four days since maddox disapp s going from the of offi hi there, hoda. authors b haven very tight-. they tryg to search this park. its a sprawling p acres. they he expanded the search.

they he not ruled out foul play and the fbi is now offering a $10, for any infon inda case. gabe, thank you. > it is 7:18. has the forecast. good morning. a look at the scene in the nort ye folks had to be rescd by front-end l in new jersey. way.literally getting mov massive flooding, eight to ten inch o rain throughout parts of new york, new jersey, and conn in fact, kids even had to b rescd in connecticut by school bus. unbeliev rain. we have more on the way. in fact, as you look here with a fron, br strong stor for 47 million pr seve r today, into tomorrow mornin that front stalls through the soutt bringing a flood thre through the southern appala. e heaviest in the southeast,

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schedud a confirmation vote on kavanah friday morning. meanwh o president t trying to sink kavanaugh's nomination. he says democrats are playing a, quote, cgame. > a vehicle explode inside a parking l in ohio. the frightening moment caught on camera. witness saidst the bla sounded like a cnon being fired. cincin fire officials say the woman was able to get out of her vehicle on her own. e extent of her injuries are unknn a this time. e tank in the back of tha > bill tues to three t ten years in state s assa a woman a decade ago. the 81-year-old was seen being walk hallway in handcuffs.d bail. the judge says a > and we are now jind by the

womanel whod put him behind bars, good morninto. what an image to see bill y in handcuffs walking out of that courtroom, going to pris. e sentenc three to ten years. do you think justice was served >> absolutely.. andrea constand and her family got to be heard. many women got to be heard. many women gave their victim impa statements in that difft forum. justice was definitely served. bill cosby statement. there seemed toe very little remo reactn. had h demonstrated any remorse thro the course of the trial, eve the sentencing y phas think that perhaps the outcom wou been difft for him? >> that would have been a miti factor the ju coul considered when senten an individual. i understand that he invoked his right to remain silent, which is his constitutiona right. that's why his counsel argued thers a lack of showing of

remo certai tha could have come in play. could bn a mitigating let me ask you about some remas his publicist,rew wyatt, said on the courthouse step. he said this was a racist and sexi trial. he said they persecuted jesus and see what happened. wew what this country has r centuries. you we the prosecutor, the pers. did those remarks sit wit u? e system dens me that someone wanner. a manho admitted administeri medica to a woman without ideng wha it was and then engagi in sexual contact with him, a man who admitted to givi quaaludes to woman to have sex, tot eequival in that man to jesus is you have worked in s crimes for a long time. you watch bill cosby in that cour you heard two trials. do you think was going on

in his head during all of this, he committed. i can only imagw going t his head. just from watching him and lookg at his body lanage, you know, i don't even know that it was clear t him that this was judgment day. judg day. it didn't appear to me that he thout this day would ever come.d you kw what? it cam most of us knew bill coss americs dad. you really dug d to paint a pic him for the jury and in the p tt i owin studd in terms of bill cosby we should charge this case or and then, obviously, once weas chard the i had to convey a picture to the jury of wh bill c was. i don' who he was in terms of how we should remember him.

y i can tell you that the individl who sexually assauld andrea constand wan art. a man who was two different indi a man who we saw onv and he utiliz tha as a cloak so he he coulde women, groom them, o then administer an intoxicant and sexually assault them. this was a long road and not easycase. i don' to tell you. the first t ended in a mist, a hung jury. u tried to again. was there ever a time in this whole periodre w you thought maybe we'll just give up? did you ever feel discouraged and think i tried but that was we are not going to getvi the cn we want? you know, that's an intereg question. i always look for my strength in the vi constand was amazing. emained like so courageous d brave throughout the entire proc did i ever consider whether i want to give up? i don'k so because her coure and her strength was

enou for me to say, you knowwh ? keep going. i just got to ask questions and deliver a closing and opening rema which i did so many times before. d was her whoad to withstand she was able to remain steadft and keep going. i had to. >> what did she say to you yest andrea constand? >> many things. i think most important was, i askedr, is she happy with the sentence, and she said yes. thank youei so much for with us this morning. we really appreciate it. > let's get a check of e good rning, guys. s in our temperature as we start to adjust to fall while to theayi warmer ong the east south. air in minneapolis, kans city even in lubboc texas, a 25 degree below avera mper 57. temper are warmer and more humid on the eastern seaboard. we move into tomorrow and that cool air stretches from the east coast all the way to the plains t happens this 57, washing

weeken cooler weather, fall is here for new york ci with in the 70s. raleigh sam thing for the week minneas wil see in the 50s. that's what's going on around the country. here what' happeni in your neck of th woods. good morning. we are we have some patchy fog. we are watch storms off to the west. some of those later today when they move in could be strong to seve. be tracking those through the afterno. in the low. by lunchtime still dry. temperur will get into the 80s ler today. the severe storm chance comes this and into the early evening hours. tomorr we are cooler but we also have shs still in the , even through friday. t so farhe weekend is looking ab >> and that's your latest weathe thank you, al. coming up, are you kids g autoames. what happene when natalie deci to take a little

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lot. ep from sarate rooms in the same house two a family trip thismm suer. last day of vacation and we it seems like they can't get enough. as a parent, very concern because setimes see them playing too much, and i feel like they are not presen and the not participati or they ar not listening to me. >> i decided to go my guys, thiss an uss my concerns. interv you know what that means? i think you guys play too many video games. do you think you play too many video gas, josh? when you are playg vid games, what are u getting out of that? >>ell, i'm socializing with fries t are far away, which is really nice. and some friendso that a live near but maybe i won't be able do you feel that eekends. sometis you are a little out

of t with what's going on in e real world? >> no. >> if you are so into your video games? >> well, you do have headphones my kids tuning me out is the least of my worries. resear shows screen time acts like astimulant, triggering a fight or flight response. vivid colors, and rapid pace could overwhelm chils senso system. the end result is a child in a stone of c stress, meacreativit compas, empathy, and impulse contl c become impaired over time. some brain scan studies show that damag caused by screen time loo similar to dame caus a dr. gary small is a leading neuros and expert on brain funn and behavior at ucla. dr small, how much video game playg is too much video game play >> eac is different. so kids are much more sense to the technologyhan

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it was unbelievable to watch, you know, what he did. you watch someone do sff like that as a 7 or 8-year-old, hat the person you are pret to make a putt to beat. t pas weekend at the tour championship another top ten for justin and a front row seat to history, watching the guy he grew up idolizing retu to the winner's circle foth. justin and tiger are part of a star unite squ in one of golf's premiere team tees off friday.cup, which every two years, the best amer players take on europe top talent in front of roardsg to be a great expe. ye that y have the oppoy to represent your couny and just play with so d a win sion, play with so muc for you? >> it would mean a lotor all of us. it's not about me. it about the entire team. it abouttrhe co we are playing for the red, white, and blue. you are 25.ery excited. you have had so much success so

far.ho do you stay grounded? w do you stay in the moment? >> i don't look at my career thus far that i have this record that record. it's n only about the w to be a great ambassador for the game. i want to be a great role model for kids. you just kin of sta hungry and keep wanting . mo re stay off the cours very long. we are g to play? >> yeah. >> can you handle it? >> i don't know. we wil see what i got. first, it was time uh-oh!tice. >> rep come on, come on, come on! oh, come on. >> that was a bad read. bang. >> rep what's it like now being oneouf the golfeer genera it's cool to have little kids it may be.ke me, play li i

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usa won it two years ago. tiger is back. will be fun golf. and it's ro. you don't really expect that pa g at it with the finger waggin that's awes you can catc -- usa 2:00. eas on the golf channel here on nbc. > cominup, al made itthnto pages of "people" ma his favorite place to grab breakf we will share some of his this is "today"

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among those picks, a list from the well traveled al roker here. we have people's food and fee director with us. thank u f being here.u for brin where do you want to start? i will tell you how we came up with thet. l we worked with yelp to come up with the list of the best rests and best breakfast in every state. we went through thousands of online revinws to the most highly rated ones, the ones with the most reviews and the dish ever what are the results? what state is this? >> indna. thiss maplewood, ohio. this is their 11 ri panc. it makes these pancakes fffy and the lemon gives it a lt of tartness. d you like to try it? >> yes, yes, i would like to try it. pancakes toe make cake. breakf i am not a big ricotta person, but these are terrific.. a few other ones aroundst the

e in indiana, they have the cinnam rol frenc toast at breat cafe. they use cinnamon roll dough h . and also norwegian w this is th mi it's sd cheese. instead of regular bread, it's a butter you know, caramelized on the a nice panini press type of te a bite. ly. >> al is not eating bread. am not o bread right now. that's go it's good. yeah. >> and tn, i mean, cinnamon roll pecan t buns,s is he here it really is. this is from -- >> what state is that? >> alabama. buzz coffe and sweets. these are their cinnamon rolls. they a big anduffy and covere in different toppings. the best part, if you order a breat sandwich, they put it roll.n the cinnamon

this is something we should all are we talking beignet here? >> yes, we are in colorado at lucille' creole cafe. they a thep puffy d fried donu and they smother them in powd sar. don't wea black when you eat them, basi that's good. everyby talksbout avocado l just skip it. >> they e delicious. this is from dottie audrey's in new is thisalifornia? >> new york. it's california cuisine, but new york oh, yes. guys, come in here. dhelp. they have fresh avocado, pickled vegetables, cilantro.oa it's avocado turned up a notch. the are some of my a gr. e of the owners is a prodon designer for "late

i go there all the time. they make breakfast sand >>yes. they he johnny there who makes d baconstic breakfast sandwich. s you can get that. it's got egg and greens. so there is someealthy stuff in there. what cheese do you prefer? >> any cheese that's in fnt of me. gorgeous. and tht this fantas place, henrietta's table in, cambrid masss cinnamon fren toast. . ni done. we want to finish ligh this ise in los angeles. the best breakfast - the line foe griddle is on sunset, down the street. crazy. c bacon here.al my jodie has been running that for 15 years. this is so good.

s a big cuisine, the biggest m o day? >> it is. it's so popular. every resta is serving it. i feel like with all the option there is something for so much. >> you bet. people food issue hitsws nationwide on friday. r the full list, head to today. are backt. in a momen♪ ♪ he turned around the naacp. businessman. ben jealous. "marylander of the year". he's helped grow twenty companies and a thousand jobs. ben's vision: medicare for all. a plan to lower prescription drug costs and fully fund our schools. the sun says jealous has "the stature and gravitas" to lead maryland.

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