and i want to talk about abby for a second.erstand abby because i came from the same kind of home, i came from the same kind of place, like most of you did, growing up believing there wasn't a thing i couldn't do because that is what my parents told me. not a thing. no, not a joke. my grandfather would say look at me.joey, look at i used to stutter really badly, don't let it find you, you can be whatever you want to be. her grandfather was a firefighter in dubuque. he didn't run away from trouble, ran in to trouble. and you heard her say her dad worked 16 hour shifts as a union-fitter and welder. her mom was a secretary. you all know the story, it is in iowa story, the story of the vast majority of people you know ricci comes from really good stock -- people you know. she comes from really good stock, but i will tell you what, she is tough, she is honorable, she is serious. [applause] and she is very authentic. [applause] take it from me, when you get elected and a very young age you have a lot to prove. [laughter] and she has

biden:, on, guys, get back up here, abby.ies and gentlemen, these people are not only optimists, they are smart as hell. thank you. congratulations. go get them. thank you all. this is it. come on. ♪ ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ later in the evening, our debate coverage continues with republican representative tom mcarthur facing democrat andy kim in new jersey's third congressional district. that is live from new york at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. your primary source for campaign 2018. >> a quarter of a century ago, c-span launched our longest running and most successful community outreach program ever, the c-span bus program. it has paved the way for outreach by engaging students, teachers, and citizens in all 50 states. arte 1993, the state of the mobile classroom and production studio has reached a just -- reached into communities. c-span educationa

abby, even more pacackages and bomb scares today where you are? abby: that is right. today i am in n midtown manhattn in front of a sorting fafacilit. can probably see behehind me. there is still a police presence, but t what happened earlierr this morning was an employee discovered a package that looked similar to those discovered at other facilities and similar to the ones delivered to cnn a couple e days ago. they elected a supervisor and the bomb squad was brought in. they extracted the device and it has been transported to a facility in the bronx. it is in the hands of the fbi for investigation, but rate relief here e in midtotown manhn ththat a suspectct is in ctodyd. laila: grereat relief for r you, but fbi director chrisphpher wray said that today's ararrest does not mean we are out of the woods. there may y be more packages in transit. what are somof t t measures lalaw enforcement are taking to ensure pububli safetety? abby: besidides the fact ththere could popotentially be packages already in thehe mail sysystem before he wa arrested, if it was in fact him t

has also been targeted abbi what have you learned have there been new developments. well at this time right now new york police have confirmed that the device that was found here via cloying in the very early hours of this morning has now been traced faithfully transported to a facility in the bronx and now the employee found this package and recognized right away that it looked very similar to the packages that you see on top of it in yesterday with this a manila envelope the same markings the same spelling mistake even so he called the police right away and now of course it's in the bronx and they will examine this package to see frank similarities to the other packages that they found they will also look to see how this device was built and packaged and also importantly they'll be looking for genetic material in a straight hair sweat can provide who still clues to the who could potentially be behind these incidents and now there is a great sense of urgency here because as you have mentioned there has also been a package that was intercepted it was addressed to vic

abby, not her real name, has had all five children removed from her.ays this way. three years ago, she was a busy mum. the school run, back, play school, back, scouts, back, horse riding, back, piano, back. i loved having to run around after them. but in a short space of time, abby suffered with post—natal depression, a marriage breakdown and business collapse. struggling with poor mental health, she started to drink. i went from living a fairly luxurious life in a nice four—bedroom house to sleeping in a car park stairwell with nothing. i literally had the clothes i had my back. clothes i had on my back. while living on the streets, she became pregnant — and just as social services had removed her olderfour children, they also put her newborn baby into care. it was the worst pain ever, not seeing my children. $085: to have someone take your child and you not to be able to see them. new research shows that in the last ten years, there is double the number of newborns coming before family courts. abby wanted to keep her baby, but she wasn't given any he

that's why you need fred and abby.eers and applause] we are democrats but if you ask why you became a democrat in the first place it will be the answer because we do not have the abuse of power whether man or woman or child or corporation to take advantage or governmental pressing people. [cheers and applause] we need a fighting chance but to do that i haven't always known as an optimist so with this 21st century so sick and tired of democrats and republicans what are we going to do? with the largest economy the largest nation in the world. with more bio research universities in america than all of the rest of the world combined. anytime it is productive are those in asia. no other nation can match us right now it's about china. known better than any other world leader roughly 25 hours. changing the heartbeat of america. they don't have enough replacement workers because of the one child policy. that they will have more people retired working and they can't keep up with that as you know, phobic momentum they not only n

democratic state representative abby finkenauer. there on the stage ready for tonight's debate. >> i am abby turpin. we will be serving as the moderators for tonight's event. >> tonight's debate will go as follows. we would like to keep it as formal as possible. each candidate will have 90 seconds to deliver an introductory statement followed by our questioning. the debate will conclude later this hour of course, and will leave enough time for up to two minutes from each candidate for closing remarks. the order for the opening and closing statements and who will answer the force question, this has all been predetermined by coin tosses. >> each candidate will begin in 60 seconds to answer a question on a certain topic. both candidates will have the opportunity to offer additional thoughts and rebuttals for 30 seconds. we ask the audience to save your applause for welcoming the candidates and thinking them at the very end of tonight's debate. let's begin. please give a warm welcome to congressman rod blum and representative abby finke

is also been targeted today abbi what more have you learned. well as you mention in that report showed us as well there is a nationwide manhunt underway not attention just for one serial bomber but more because of law enforcement officials are just not sure if this is the work of a single individual or group of people as you mentioned i'm standing outside the trifecta girl this is the restaurant that's cole owned by actor robert deniro the building is also home to the offices of his production company early this morning a security guard saw fact that you recognize the package based on the one on television yesterday it looked very similar to the one that had been sent to the c.n.n. offices and one he says covered this he called the local police officials right away a bomb squad on it was sent here to extract the device and it has now been taken to a secure facility in the bronx and they will now look at the device and try to figure out how was built how it was packaged they'll look for things also like genetic materials people that do things li

abby phillip live at the white house with the latest. abby? >> reporter: good morning, john. it has been a bit of a balancing act for the white house over the last day, trying to figure out how to make this visit, but the president did ultimately decide to make this visit to pittsburgh this afternoon, he's going to be leaving this white house early this afternoon with his daughter, ivanka trump, and her husband, jared kushner, both of whom are also jewish. they are going to be paying their respects to that city in mourning, but at the same time as jean pointed out, there are some mixed feelings in pittsburgh right now. the mayor has asked the president to perhaps delay this visit, and others have said perhaps he shouldn't come at all, but president trump last night defended his decision to go. >> i'm just going to pay my respects, i'm also going to the hospital to see the officers and some of the people that were so badly hurt. so -- and i really look forward to going. i would have done it even sooner, but i didn't want to disrupt any more than they already had disruption. >>

abby: in the earlrly stages, tht is right. the e new york policee commissir came out, the first ththing he said was, new w yorkers are safe and there is s no crediblee information at this point that there are further packages that they know about. that is a major piece off informatation that has come through at this press conference at nypd headquarteters. in terms of suspects, have not named d anyone or any group spececifically in the presss conference. we do know they're looking for onone or more serial bomrsrs. there have bee1010 packages asas wewe heard that have beeeesent out. none have been detonated, but they are saying there is no further credible source of information that would suggest there are further packages out there. they are askining new y yorkersd americans to remain vigilant. they're a aing anyone with information to report to the authorities as soon as possible. laila: what more do we knonow about the actual devicices thememselves? abby: according to the fbi with regard t to the devices, ththeyy they're all

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our white house correspondent abby phillip has all the details. abby? >> reporter: good morning, john. we have about two weeks before these midterms elections and president trump is sticking to the same playbook that got him elected in 2016. he's hoping to drive republicans out to the polls by stoking fears and misinformation about migrants. >> the democrats have launched an assault on the sovereignty of our country, the security of our nation and the safety of every single american. >> reporter: president trump ramping up his anti-immigrant rhetoric ahead of the midterm elections, again, targeting thousands of central american migrants who may be seeking asylum in the united states to try to drum up support for texas republican senator ted cruz. >> people are seeing how bad it is, how pathetic it is. that is an assault on our country. that's an assault. and in that caravan you have some very bad people. >> reporter: the migrants are more than 1,000 miles from america's border with mexico and the individuals who have spoken to cnn, largely women and chi

congressman rod blum is running for reelection and faced abby think an hour -- abby finkenauer. "tooace is considered close to call." >> final debate for islands first congressional district. >> it is one of the most-watched house races in the country. >> both call eastern home and asking for your vote. ms. finkenauer: i wanted to know it is personal. mr. blum: i want to give back. >> tonight to go head to head for the final time. cbs 2, fox 28 bring you the first congressional district debate. and we welcome you inside our studio here. for the final debate for iowa's first congressional district. cbs 2 and fox 28 news reporter on my right, a program director jeff stein. we are the moderators tonight. featuring the candidates rios house district 1. congressman rod blum and step state representative abby finkenauer. in a moment i will explain the rules of tonight debate. but first, let's meet the candidates. by the flip of a coin, representative abby finkenauer, you will go first. one minute for an opening statement. finkenauer: thank you so much. i'm excited to be here tonight w

i am abby finkenauer, state representative from i'll -- from dubuque. my mother just retired from the dubuque community school district. there were four of us in our family. we're all first-generation college graduates. two of them actually graduated from the university of northern iowa. i am still state -- i am still paying off student loans. at the end of the day, i grew up in a state and in a country where we were promised if you work hard, you can make it. that is what we were told and that is what we were promised. now, thately right promise is being broken in washington dc because of politics being played with policy. i want to get there, actually get something done, fix health care, make sure we invent -- invest in our schools and stand up to an administration that wants to start a trade war on twitter and made -- make sure we are investing in our infrastructure and rural iowa as well. bring common sense and decency back to washington dc and i am excited to be here tonight to chat about that. >> thank you very much. congressman rod blum, your ope

congressman rod blum and step representative abby finkenauer. in a moment i will explain the rules of tonight debate. but first, let's meet the candidates. by the flip of a coin, representative abby finkenauer you will go first. one minute for an opening statement. >> thank you so much. i'm excited to be here tonight with rod blum and the moderators thank you for putting this on.i'm state representative abby finkenauer and i'm running for congress in this district because this is personal. i grew up a daughter of a union welder. my mother actually just retired from the community school district as a secretary back in february. there were four kids in my family and who all first-generation college graduates. still paying off student loans so not always easy. but at the end of the day, i grew up in the state and in a country where if you work hard, you can make it. again, that was what we told and that's we were promised. unfortunately right now the promise is being broken in washington d.c.. it's about time we spend some iowa values to stand up f

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his axel, wife abby, mary and alison. >> it hasn't sunken in yet. seems like a bad dream. >> reporter: eric steenburg is richard's brother and his sister-in-law. >> does it feel like one big family? >> yeah. >> you can't wrap your head around it. you just can't. zmoor they were celebrating amy's 30 th birthday who lost four nieces in the crash. >> one of the girls, they'd do anything for you and they were very close to each other and they loved their family. >> reporter: abby jackson was a teacher and mother of two, married to adam. shane and aaron mcgowan were newlyweds, married this summer like axel and amy. some of the victims were also veterans including mary dyson, matthew coons and michael. many were also parents. rich steenburg's daughter is just 10. >> she's angry. she's asking if he's coming back from the hospital. she doesn't understand what's going on. >> reporter: all 20 victims will be memorialized here at this packed vigil tonight including passenger's robert dyson, amanda, rachel and savannah. the vigil is being held here in amsterdam

ours opponent abby think in -- who is that? whon extreme liberal supports mass amnesty. anybody like amnesty? says "no"} amnesty and wants to take away your health care. e,u have to vote for rod blum david young, and these 2 characters. they are learning so much, i wasn't even going to bring them up. get out and vote anyway, just in case. you never know. you never know. a majority of house democrats have signed up for a socialist

robert de niro's restaurant and as we heard that's where one of the latest devices was discovered abbi do we know any more about who may be behind these devices. we just heard law enforcement officials say that this is in fact an issue of terrorism but the first thing that the police commissioner when he came out at that press conference what he said was new yorkers are safe they do not believe that there's any credible information at this hour to suggest that there are further packages in the mail system and so where i'm standing right now is in front of the tri backer grow as you mentioned this is one of the packages with sand and discovered by a security official early this morning it was extracted and delivered to a facility in the bronx where f.b.i. officials are now looking at how it was built and packaged in hopes of finding more clues as to who is behind these incidents now abbi what more do we know about the actual devices themselves. so the packages appear to be similar but the f.b.i. officials have confirmed that they're slightly different they are pipe bombs functional ones

toobin, and former white house press secretary, joel lockhart, and cnn white house correspondent, abby phillip. it's interesting what we have seen overnight, the reporting they are working on getting their story straight which is remarkable to put it mildly. any further clarification out of the white house this morning on what that story should be and whether it should be, in fact, based on fact? >> what we know is president trump has one thing he said that is maybe his line in the sand, which is if the crown prince and king knew in advance this was going to happen to jamal khashoggi in the embassy, that would be different than if there were rogue killers and went off the reservation and did this without their knowledge, and at the same time we know the administration wants the saudis to do their own investigation. there are a lot of people that call that into question, that the saudis investigate themselves. the president wants the saudi to take the lead on this to figure out their own story before making a determination, and one of the things the president will talk about is whether

the president has made -- there we go, they are trying to quiet you again, abby. the president is doing everything they can to make this a mid-term issue, and they are talking about the group of maybe 4,000 migrants trying to make their way up from honduras to the u.s. border. why is this so important to the president? >> this is a simple of everything he does not want. think about the idea that president trump explaining to his supporters that there's a caravan coming up to the southern border from central america and there's nothing he can do about it. he hates that idea on a visceral level, and that's why it set off so much controversy inside the white house. it angers president trump, but it also motivates a lot of people, and the hard liners in the white house, especially miller, and they use it to an maa animate the base. republicans know the central issue to this election is -- in a lot of races -- it's health care, pre-existing issues. so the white house sees it as an opportunity to do things along the margins and keep their base intact, and if they don't

robert de niro's restaurant and as we heard that's where one of the latest devices was discovered abbi the investigation as the authorities just told us is still in its early stages to know do we know any more about who may be behind these devices. in the early stages that's right lay a lot of the officials when they came out new york police commissioner actually the first thing that he said was new yorkers are safe and there is no credible information at this point that there are further packages that they know about so that's a major piece of information that's come through at this press conference at n.y.p.d. headquarters in terms of suspects they have not named anyone specifically or any group specifically in that press conference we do know they're looking for potentially one or more of these serial bombers or have been ten packages as you heard in that report that have been sent out none of them have been detonated but they are saying that there's no further credible source that information that would suggest that there are further packages out there but they're ask you to yorker

abby has invited she to japan right next year. in ireland blasphemy is still a serious crime that carries heavy penalties but like many of the country's religious traditions that may change soon irish voters are heading to the polls today to elect a new president and they're also being asked to decide whether blasphemy laws should be removed from the constitution the issue is uniting both catholics and atheists one man has been fighting the law for years. the christian god is an evil maniac for giving babies bone cancer jews are of there for the devil all i said was that peace of halliburton was good enough for jehovah blasphemous statements like peace could come at a high cost literally up to twenty five thousand euros to be precise micronutrient head of atheist alent is complaining in dublin shopping zone he's informing irish voters about a longstanding law that could soon be history if you say anything that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by only religion and cause over age by doing so that's

abby phillip is at the white house.ld you say jared kushner's words there, abby, crystallize the administration's position in that they're still reserving judgment and that at the end, the alliance will come out on top? >> very much so, jim. it's actually striking the degree to which you heard from jared a few minutes ago is almost exactly what you hear from president trump eventually every time he's asked about this. he talks about how serious this issue is, but also emphasizing how important the u.s./saudi relationship is, and how they want to reserve judgment until more information comes out. now, it's important to note that that answer was in response to a question specifically about the discrepancies in the story given by the saudis and how many people here in washington, including many people from the president's own party, say that it does not hold water. kushner declined to talk about that at all, saying that they were still waiting for the fact-finding mission to play out. but it's really telling that the admin

this is outside abby road after we laid the crossing picture.es. somebody said you better warn him. >> reporter: that's why you have the glum look? >> i've got the i need to talk to you about your taxes look. he's got the glum look. >> reporter: what about this one? >> this is in our back garden, and yoko's in it, and you can see by the looks on our faces, looks like john, we're all kind of going, why is she in the beat lgs photo? >> reporter: how did it happen? that she was allowed in the photo? >> because they were madly in love. i think none of us dared say, john. it was a bit awkward for us, i must admit. >> reporter: this is my very favorite photograph. >> a little baby in my jacket has four children of her own. >> reporter: his father jim raised paul after his mother died when he was 14. today the man who wrote mother nature's son has four grown children and eight grandchildren. we showed mccartney what amounted to home videos. >> it's cold and we're coming out. >> reporter: from their last live performance together. >> this is me testing

abby phillip, a mutual agreeable look at the events, and another way is to say cover story? >> that's another way of saying that, and it's a huge risk of the administration being seen to help the saudis cover up a alleged murder, a dismemberment in their consulate of somebody who is a journalist, a columnist that wrote about free speech and wrote about being able to speak freely in that part of the word, and it's all happening because president trump is not comfortable of blowing up this relationship over this, and he's fixated on the fact that khashoggi was not an american citizen, and fixated on the fact that we need the saudis for financial reasons, and those issues have prevented the president from trying to look at the broader picture here and that's why we are in the position. mike pompeo is over here, he is adviser to the president and he is known to be able to carry out the president's objectives, and that's exactly what he did when he said we want the saudis to investigate themselves, which is not a likely scenario for a fair and thorough investigation. >> it's also

abby, not her real name, has had all five children removed from her.t always this way. three years ago, she was a busy mum. it would be school run, back, sports, back, scouts, back, horse riding, back, piano, back. i loved it, i loved having to run around after them. but in a short space of time, abby suffered with post—natal depression, a marriage breakdown and her business collapsed. struggling with poor mental health, she started to drink. i went from living a fairly luxurious life in a nice a—bedroom house to sleeping in a car park stairwell with nothing. i literally had the clothes i had my back. whilst living on the streets, she became pregnant and just as social services had removed her older four children, they also put her newborn baby into care. it was the worst pain ever, not seeing my children. to have someone take your child and you not to be able to see them. new research shows that in the last 10 years, there's double the number of newborns coming before family courts. abby wanted to keep her baby, but she wasn't given any help when she

all right abbi quite a son reporting from new york city thank you so very much and that concludes our special live coverage sure we'll be back at the top of the i work with more news see them. on the lead we will. we know we want to. be the first americans at some point in our lives will experience hardship.

abby phillip is at the white house. abby, what are you hearing from the white house? >> hey, jim and poppy. at the white house here, we are expecting to see president trump and nikki haley in the oval office shortly. white house press secretary sarah sanders says they will appear together at 10:30 this morning in the oval office. my colleague, jeremy diamond, just saw nikki haley. you just mentioned that on air. just saw her in the west wing. she's in the building. she declined to answer any questions about her fate, but i think it's notable that if this is in fact the moment in which the president acknowledges her resignation, announces it to the world, it's a sign that they are trying to show a sign of unity or at least an amicable departure from the administration, but i have to say, jim and poppy, this is an interesting time for nikki haley to make this decision. president trump is coming off an extraordinarily good week. he just had a supreme court justice confirmed, just did his victory lap at the white house last night. great economic news, but to be losing bas

so more people think yes. >> it's interesting there, abby.wo things, number one, is that brett kavanaugh is in a worse situation now after america has seen all this testimony on both sides. however, the white house and republicans are calling this a smear campaign and they are getting some support with that argument. >> reporter: yeah, i think -- you know, on some level it does seem that these poll numbers bear out that republicans and the white house have lost the war of public opinion here on kavanaugh, but they are gambling that that doesn't matter because if he's confirmed then that's the long game, they've already won that part of it, he's going to be on the court for the rest of his life and he has a lot of life left to live. it does pose a problem for the court. i think it's just an issue when the american public believes that there is someone on the court for the rest of his life who shouldn't be there. so that's a problem that republicans will have to deal with probably at the polls in november and beyond, but for the time being they

in may, she said good-bye to the show after 15 years of playing abby shoe toe. >> i will always be so proud of everything abby. >>> coming up -- >> you're getting older. >> i don't feel it. >> kevin hart is still a kid at hart, so why is he retiring. >>> then, two sheldon's? our exclusive sneak peek. >>> move over mcdreamy and >>> rory butler assembled a team of navy s.e.a.l.s. "e.t." was >>> hello. >> hello. >> is sheldon seeing double? the brainiac is left a little bit puzzled when howard dresses up at him. the "big bang theory" halloween episode airs tonight on cbs. >>> thank goodness there's only one kevin hart. the hart family gets ready to celebrate his first birthday. >> every you go, kenzo is with you. >> she calls him baby bear. >> zo bear. >> how do they feel about having a big brother? >> they love it. >> it's exactly what i imagined to be and so much more. >> kevin and eniko have that instagram life. nonstop workouts, success. there's one thing hollywood's $150 million man is scared of. >> as you get older, you seem to appreciate your children more. >> i'm not getting olde

. >> i was in your neighbor, i thought i would stop in and do a little tv, it's abby, abby- normal. nothing like it was yesterday. 60s, 70s and 80s, this will be the warmest day. it looks a little cooler tomorrow. we'll get a bigger push on the coastal fog. it's nice, yesterday, about 5:30, last year at this time, it's getting hot. 80s and 90s and fog, and rain, go north. you can find rain and high pressure, i'm hanging out in california for another day or two. 40s and 50s on the temperatures here. and freemont, and for the fog, not as much inland as we had yesterday. that didn't run off for 10:00 for some. it will allow cooler weather to come in. 60s and 70s for many and upper 70s and low 80s, tells us it's friday light. >> hopefully it will stay this way steve. it's light in solano county. we did the solano county supercommute.

democratic state representative abby finkenauer. there on the stage ready for tonight's debate. >>

let me turn to anna and abby.president is answering questions from reporters on the south lawn. normally i'd be there, but i'm here with you on in respect set. the president is talking a lot about rod rosenstein saying to kristen, i don't have plans to fire him. that is new. that is significant. he said he is looking forward to being with rod rosenstein today, will be talking to the plane. and he said i have a good relationship with him other than there has been no collusion. so the president still talking about the russia investigation here. your reaction. >> well, i think it is smart politics for the president because he is on this sugar high with the kavanaugh confirmation and if he fired rows steesenste would derail all of this. >> i agree, he wants to set the tone. this isn't a cliffhanger yet, but as we know, this is a white house where things can change at a moment's notice. so while he might not be in the firing line today, it could bet. >> and reminder that you will see this tape play out, it is not live,

i want to begin at the white house with abby phillip. what more can you tell us about what the president, what nikki haley are talking about in the oval office right now? >> well, kalt, in a few minutes, you'll see president trump and nikki haley side by side, putting a very positive face on this departure, talking about their mutual respect for each other. nikki haley telling reporters she decided after two years -- >> hold on. let's listen in to the oval office. the president and nikki haley. >> before we begin, i'll just say that we're very well prepared from the incoming hurricane. we have another one coming, so we have done very well. north carolina, south carolina, texas, florida, puerto rico, so many places. and we have another one coming, and a big one. much bigger than they anticipated a week ago. seven days ago. i heard for the first time there was a very small drop of weather that looked like it was forming, and now it's pretty close to a category-3 if it's not already a category 3. we're well prepared. fema is ready, we're al

cnn's abby phillip has the latest from the white house. we heard from the president there in the rally that he was at last night. he seems still confident in his nominee. what are you hearing from the white house today? >> hi, kate. well, the white house is waiting for this fbi investigation to wrap up. but they're also playing defense, as we're hearing more and more from the classmates of brett kavanaugh, both from high school and college, about what they say that he did at the time. what is not clear is whether or not the fbi is taking all of that into consideration. what we know right now is that the fbi has interviewed four key people who were part of the allegations they're looking into. three are related to ford, one is p.j.smyth, who is a friend of c kavanaugh's, mark judge, also a friend of kavanaugh's. his testimony lasting two days. and then there's leland keyser, a close friend of christine blasey ford. a fourth person, deborah, ramirez, had made an allegation about kavanaugh's behavior while he was in college, and she's also be

who died saturday with his brother axel steenburg, axel's wife amy, and amy's three older sisters: abby, mary, and allison. >> it hasn't really sunk in yet. it seems like a really bad dream, i guess. >> reporter: eric steenburg is rich and axel's little brother. andrea orokos is rich's sister- in-law. >> reporter: does it feel like one whole big family? >> yeah. >> you can't wrap your head around it. you just can't. >> reporter: they were celebrating amy's 30th birthday according to aunt barbara douglas who lost four nieces in the crash. >> they were wonderful girls. they would do anything for you. and they were very close to each other. and they loved their family. >> reporter: abby jackson was a teacher and mother of two, married to adam. shane and erin mcgowan were newlyweds married this summer, like axel and amy. some of the victims were also veterans including mary dyson, matthew coons, and michael ukash. many were also parents. rich steenburg's daughter is just ten. >> she's angry. she's asking when he's coming back from the hospital. she doesn't understand what is going on. >> re

she remarried, and now there's a little baby brother for lilly and abby. picture, isn't it? they look quite a lot younger! yes, they look different. what was he like when you met him? well, he was teaching in the same high school that i was teaching, and i was like, "ooh, who's that?" who's that chap? right, right, and we started having coffee, and writing letters to one another, so we fell in love with letters. and to me, i think part of the reason i was so attracted to him, because he was this really strong, powerful man, but he was always a little emotionally standoff—ish. hejoined straight out of high school, and within months, was deployed to a frontline hospital during the first gulf war. he returned to build a life, which looked happy and successful, but under the surface, rick was struggling. i came home and i noticed he was off. i reassured him, i held him, and i am so glad i did. the next morning, he dropped lilly off at school, and later, lilly would tell me that he looked at her with really sad eyes... and then walked away from her. so that's..

this is three weeks before the mid-term election, abby. this seems to me, as much as you can have an announcement without announcing elizabeth warren just announced she was running for president. you don't just release that. that's not why you do it. this is a declaration that she is running and wants to be earlier than everybody else who will jump in the day after the midterms. >> no question, john. she's running. this is what this means. if you are going to go out there and put this out there, it's because you want to start this process of putting out -- of prebutting all the potential dirty laundry you will have to deal with in a democratic party or with president trump, who in the recent weeks has been talking about the add tphauzam. i do think we should put it in the broader context. in the last couple of days, we heard a lot about elizabeth warren doing a lot to help her party, and it shows not only is she running but she's trying to lead the party in 2020. i think this is her declaration, she's out there and doing this thing. >> tha