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pitchers in baseball square off. and a holiday favorite, fao schwarz isom making aack in a big way. "early today" starts right now. good wednesday morning. i'm phillip >> and i'm marlie hall. the numbers have been drawn, but no official word yet on whether anyone has won tt record-setting $1.6 billion mega millions jackpot. the winning numbersre 28, 70, 5, 62, 65, and mega ball 5. the odds of hitting the jackpot, 1 in more than 302 million. but if a lrky winne does emerge, they'll have the option of taking a cash sum of $904 million or breaking that down into 30 yearly payments. the record-setting jackpot sent the nation into a lotteryi frenzy w about 280 million tickets sold since last friday's drawing. in california alone, tickets were selli at a rate of 200 per second.

according to the a. mmpth. now, if noinne this jackpot, it could grow to a mind-boggling $2 billion, and that drawing would happen on friday. but there'still a chance for powerball. tonight's drawing is worth 20 million. long lines everywhere i went. >> mm-hmm. well, at least six children are dead in new jersey from an outbreak of adenovirus that health officials say struck a long-term care facility. more than a dozen others in the facility havedeen sickeney the flu-like illness. the outbreak is happening atqu wa center for nursing and rehabilitation in northern new jersey, and children are especially at risk. nbc's kristen dahlgren has the latest. >> reporter: a deadly outbreak in a pediatric ward. six children dead and 12 more severely ill at a children's rehabilitation center that treats young people with compromised immune systems. this according to the nth jersey heal department. the cause, adenovir, a normally mild virus associated with colds and minor childhood illnesses. but serious for children like

paula kosty began's son william, who is on venllator. >> they shouldn't have let him get so bad that his one lung was completely shut down. >> reporter: this strain of adenovirus, number 7, associated with respiratory viruses like pneumonia, croup, and bronchitis. 60 of the pediatric patients are on ventators. the wanaque center says it promptly notified all appropriate government agencies when the virus was initially identified and continues to fully cooperate with these agencies and hought out their medical guidance. according to reports, the department of health said it was notified by the facility of some respiratory illnesses on october 9th. when the center was inspected or thursday, m hand washing redeficientsies were disco >> it's hard to get rid of when it gets into a closed environment. once it's in there, it can stick on rfaces. 's hard to clean off, and it's very easy to spread from person

to person. >> reporter: and the facility has a history. cited in 2016 and 2017 for violations involving the spread of infection. it is not allowed to accept any new patients until the outbreak is under control. this morning the investigation ind what cau the outbreak continues while that mother we familiessays the weren't notified until they got a letter two days ago. th's after her son was already inen intsive care. phillip and marlie, back to you. >> thank you. less than two weeks until election day, president trump ig hitthe campaign trail hard as he tries to shore up epublican support in key swing states. tonight he is going to stop in wisconsin to stump for governor scott walker and senate candidate leah vukmir. and it's all but certain he's d going toble down on his attacks against the migrant caravan marching toward the u.s. border. but some of his more incendiary claims are facing serious scrutiny this morning. for more,let's go to tracie potts joining us from

washinon, d.c. acie, good morning. the president is pushing to make this caravan a major, major issue in thems midt >> reporter: well, phillip, he knows and republicans know that nothing gets the republican base fired up like the issue of immigration. they have had success there, success meaning driving people out to the polls, and that is e end game at this point. so, yes, the president is talking about this caravan of migrants whoppear to be headed from central america, through mexico, to the u.s.border. but the question is, is this a caran of poor migrants hoping to get to the u.s. to build a better life, or as the president suggested, could the be other people mixed in? listen. over the course of the year, over the course of a number of years, they've intercepted many people t from middle east. they've intercepted isis. they've intercepted all sorts of people. >> reporter: but when pressed on he issue, the president

admitted there just wasn't a lot of evidence of some of those claims. >> no proof that they're in the caravan now. >> they could veryell be. >> but there's no proof. >> there's no proof of anything. there's no proof of anything. but they could very well be. >> reporter: in fact, aorr senior intelligence official tells nbc that middle easterners and african immigrants make up less than 1% of people apprehended at the border last year. phillip. >> doeh't need m proof to drum up a lot of fear and loathing. thank you. thousands of people in that caravan are now resting in mexico. the organization for migration says about a thousand have decided to seek asylum there with the mexican government sang about10 of them have instead decided to turn back. but the rest intend to continue the dangerous trip to the u.s. border. ianbc's m atencio is with them >> reporter: a group of

thousands is in mexico. it is a day of rest. you can see a line of migrants in this caravan trying to get food, water. the local government has been supporting them and is cheering them on their move north. a there's beeot of questions as to who the caravanrganizers are. here on the ground, it is a groupti esc them through mexico where they have been doing this long before donald trump was president. also there's been back and forth as to the numbers in this caravan. the u.s. saying it is 6,500 people, not 7,000 as the mexican government is saying. keep i mindt is such a perilous journey. fire crews in massachusetts battled a masve five-alarm fire that broke out at a church tuesday night. the huge flames were pouri out of the now decimated building. the historic first baptist church was a local landmark.

it's been there for nearly 150 years. no word yet on what caused the inferno. some reports are saying that lightning sparked the flames after a wild thunderstor rolled through that area. no injuries known at this time. nbc's myn kelly issuing an apology to her staff after she defended wearing blackface as a halloween costume. her comments came during asc pal sion on "megyn kelly today" and quickly sparked backlash over remarks many viewed as racially t deaf. nbc's morgan radford has more. >> reporter: during a segment about halloween costumes, "today" show anchor megyn kelly stirred controversy with her bo remarks blackface. >> you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface at halloween or a black person whon puts whiteface for halloween. when i was a kid, that was okay as long as you w ue dressin as a character. >> reporter: the conversation continued. >> there was a controversy on the real housewives of new york

with lou ann. he dressed as diana ross and she made skin look darker than it was and people said that was racist. who doesn't love?iana ro if she wants to look like diana ross for one day. >> reporter: a tv host tweeting because caricaturing another race pertuates the dehumanization. >> santa claus shoul be a white man anymore. yet another person claiming it's racist to have a white santa, you know. by the way for all you kids watching at home, santa just is white. jesus was a white man too. >> reporter: later kelly apologized to hertaff in this e-mail for using the term blackface, a practice lo associated with minstrel shows mocking african-americans. i realize now that such behavior is indeed wrong, and i am sorry. the history of blackface in our culture is abhorrent. the wounds too deep. i've never been a pc kd of

person, but i understand that we do need to be more sensitive in this day and age. morgan radford, nbc news, new york. hurricane willaed sla mexico's coast tuesday with powerful winds blowing up to 120 miles an hour. the monstrous categoryrc 3 stor thousands to evacuate before making landfall. as the fierce weather threatened a major resort there. the life-threatening storm surge totehed down near the s of sinaloa, sweeping through beach towns fishing villand farms ands you caed power blackouts ines some plnd damage to homes. forecasters say willa has been downgraded to a tropical storm. it could still bring six to 12 inches of rain with flooding and landslides possible. >> meteorologist bill kins is here. >> willa is going to send moisture and add to a storm b that's going t forming over the south. p're already seeing that storm spinningnty of rain through new mexico, near el paso. that's going to combine with t moisture from willa and

eventually all this will roll through the southeast. so we're watching t rainfall this morning in west texas. by this afternoon it's a soaking rain from san antonio to dallas to waco at 5:00 p.m. as we wake up form morning, rainyro morning southern arkansas to mississippi. then tomorrow afternoon we watch that heavy rain threat along the gulf coast. eventually this whole storm strengthens and comes up tst east c for an all out nor'easter on saturday. here's a closer look at your day ahead. temperatures are actually pretty cool too withte that storm s coming through new mexico. again, this isn't primarily going to be the hurricane that's goingo come up the east coast and turn into a nor'easter. just moisture from the hurricane will be added to this storm. and it does look like a very ugly saturday in areas of the northeast. we'll have details coming up. >> ruining weekends already. let'sk t a little world series now. dodgers and red sox. game one of the world series at

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