escalating very quickly and it is going to have consnsequences and talks so far dd not bringng us cler to o a solution.. we are h hearing from m beijingt the chinesee government thinks that the u.s. is trying to punish china for its ecoconomic growth. experts say that president trump is trying to increase pressure to get china to makeke more concncessions, however we have o say thahat b because our economs are so connected today, in the long term, this dispute is going to hurt china and the united states. brent: our correspondent on the story tonight at the united nations in new york city. thank you. there are n new allegations tonight of sexual misisconduct against supreme court nominenee brett kavanaugh. a third accuser claims she witnessed sexually abusive behavior by kavanaugh directed at girls at high school parties in the early 1980's. the woman also said she was gang raped at one of these parties, although she did not accuse kavanaugh of taking part. this comes one day before a critical senate hearing at which kavanaugh's initial accuser is expected to testify. he has denied the

but gradually he is moving cler and closer. not only has he got manafort, former campaign chairman, helping the mueller investigation you have , former personal lawyer michael cohen opening, you have the chief financial officer of the trump organization apparently f lping in a limited degree, you have the publisherhe national enquirer," who had all sorts of information, helping the mueller investigation. on all sorts of levels, i would guess that the anxiety levels in the white house are increasing, and donald trump's mood darkening. rajininever a dull day in washington. jon sopel, thanks very much for joining us. you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come on tonight's program, 10 years after the lehman brothers crash, we go to a orida suburbo see what the lasting impact has been of the financial crisis. hu --:nv the human thn envoy to syria has been in meetings with officials as a major offensive is planned for the rebel strongld of idlib. more from beut. reporter: actual defiance by rebels in i -- a show ofls de

. >> cler >> clerk: item eight is orders to not to exceed the amount of $5,000 for -- >> commissioner: i think this is mainly for our possible interns and supplies? >> exactly, madame chair. currently they don't have authority to sign purchase orders without approval from the commission. this would grant me some spending authority so i don't have to come back to the commission with every request and not to exceed $5,000 subject to available funds and approval by the chair. there's a resolution attached to this which i have which say final line the executive officer will exercise the authority with approval from the chair and be it further resolved the executive order shall provide an annual report outlining the contract and purchase orders. >> commissioner: thank you very much. colleagues, any comments or questions? >> i have a quick question. it's not to exceed the amount of $5,000 for each purchase order so we're not capping you at $5,000 for the year. >> that's correct. >> commissioner: i make a motion to authorize the executive officer to approve contract and purchase orders for p

look at that, that is theig boundary there that is bringing some cler air. here i is the whole thing, thi to our north and west. it has a lot of moisture associat with it, some showers and storms during the day tomorrow. even leftovers from gordon still down to the south, this will ride along the front and give us a chance of showers for the weeken tonight again an isolated shower, but most of us on the dry tomorrow 9:00 a.m., we're dry. by noon, we start to see the showers and storms vep. so heads up tomorrow afternoon. expeing a good deal of showers and storms. 74, breezy on sunday with showers likely. more storms likely on monday. a high of82. and then what about florence? i'll have the lates the track and what it means no the east coast at 6:45. >>> secret e-mails in the spotlight on the third day of brett kavanaugh's supreme court hearings. >>> plus a tragiciscovery as a father arrives at his home in herndon, what police are saying about what happened inside. >> reporter: all this talk of amazon bringing their second headquarters to ourarea. we'll check

the figure includes deaths caused bys mari impact on fundamental needs like cler wa and electricity. house disagrees with the number but has offert' no proof wrong. >>> a massive $3 milliononzi scheme is no more this morning. federal agents busted a man from maryland and two ot the suspects asked their victims to invest in consumer debt portfolios and then pocketed the money to fund their lavish lifestyles. the victims include bankero, lawyers, athletes, business owners, and retirees. investigators say the scheme was so widespread that there are likely more victims all over the country, some of whom may not even know they've been schemed. >>> we have an update on a story a lot of you were talki a homeless high school football player desperate to return to the field. the story got a lot of attention w the nbcashington app, on our social media pages too. d.c. public schools tells us now that jamal speaks isack on the team at ballou high school. he wasitarred from playih the knights because he didn't have a permanent address. he was homeless and sleeping on friends' couches. speaks was

ask them occasionally, well, why do you think it is that i end up hiring predominantly female lawsk cler? she said it's easy, your honor. we're smarter and we work harder. [laughter] so with that, we're going to take a 30-minute break. we'll be back about 6:15 and then senator booker, senator tillis, senator harris and i will ask questions before we go to the third round. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> taking a break in this third day of supreme court confirmation hearing for judge kavanaugh. still to come, expecting questions f