was so thrilled. 4:45.our time is the woman accusing supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of sexual assaurefusing to testify unless there is an fbi >> news 4's tracie potts is following this. what's the president saying? >> reporter: the president is saying the fbi doesn't want to get involved. he's they person who doesn't want him to testify. he's ready and telling but overnigh we learned that lawyers for christine blasey forder is u stress. she has to bev before the facts come out. she along with other democrats are pushing more than the fbi investigation. ey're giving her a chance to testify next monday. if she doesn't want to do iten th, they'll move on on wednesday. >> tracie potts on capitol hill. thank you. >>> with more awareness about sports injuries, fewer kidsre turning out for football teams. today the virginia athletic department is wondering whether th could support it. >>> in so many sool districts is football itself getting sacked? >> a review of the kids. coaches say they worry there will be more cancellations in the future if this trendco inues. >> you're competing again

we may be just hours from learning whether the woman f sexual assau >>> a deadline looming iffer the -- for the aaccuser -- accuser of the supreme court nominee. we may be hours from seeing if she will head to capitol hill. >> time is almost up. they set a deadline for tomorrow for palo alto pretty far christine blasey ford -- professor christine blasey ford to decide if she wants to testify next week. . . >> reporter: as skormnominee -- supreme court no, ma'am fee brett kavanaugh pulled up -- nominee brett kavanaugh pulled up to the grounds, there's a deadline for christine blasey ford to temperature about sexual assault she said happened when they were teenagers. >> i'm focused right now on doing everything we can to make drflt ford comfortable coming before a committee. >> reporter: lawyers say the committee is running, quote, not a fair or good faith investigation. they and the democrats are still pushing for the fbi to reopen the background check on kavanaugh. the bureau investigated the allegations against justice thomas years ago. ? ? >> the committee is capable of doing the i

the woman accusing supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of s sexual assaus she won't testify until the fbi investigates her claim. president trump stands by his pick. pres. trump: as you know, justice kavanaugh has been treated very, very tough, and i think it is a very unfair thing going on. laura: beyond the pageantry in pyongyang, north korea says it will close a key missile site. after the summit with the south, is the move enough? plus, the role of bubbly in brexit. wy the makers why the makers of real champagne areried about protecting their products. laura: welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. night the pressure is mounting on christine blasey ford totonig ac christine blasey ford to testify about hesation that supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school. her lawyer says her client is not prepared to go before the senate judiciary committee on monday. she wants an fbi investigation to be conductefirst. the bbc's katty kay starts our coverage. katty: christine blasey ford says she has received death threats a

after story of women -- mostly women, although i have heard stories from men, as well -- what weo were assau and came to the city for help, and who were blamed, disrespected, not believed, shunned. we heard these stories from the supervisors, from the d.a.'s office herself. we were told that one woman was told by the d.a. and the special victims unit that because she was drugged before she was assaulted, it was just a case of he said, she doesn't remember, so they're not going to move forward with it. in another case, a woman came forward, and they had decided not to go forward with her case, and when she called the d.a.'s office to say you haven't even talked to me, why aren't you going forward with my case, the d.a. told her that he listened to the accused's pretext call and heard him describe the sex as consensual, and therefore was refusing to take the case forward. when the survivor finally tracked him down because she wouldn't give i am and said i'm -- up and said i'm not sure why you won't prosecute this, i've taught a sex assault class, and i know the law, he said the law is not like

the 81-year-old comedian has been under house arrest since april for drugging and assau assaulting andrea004. he faces up to 30 years in prison. legal experts say he is likely to get less time behind bars. > >>> i-95 has reopened. once the waters receded, the north carolina d.o.t. completed inspection and repairs. over on i-40, fire crews hoses down the highway found this. dead fish. scattered across the interstate. stranded. >> in wilmington, the inspectors expecting out the -- checking out the sutton power plant says there is no damage to the plant. and this drone footage shows the areas still flooded. the river has risen and the 22-foot crest for tuesday morning. >>> a desperate search in north carolina for a 6-year-old boy with autisautism. maddox scott rich was last seen with his father at the park in gastonia. 23 miles from charlotte. he started running and they ran after him and lost sight of him. more than 100 people have joined the search around the parkme. the park is closed to the public until further notice. >>> indiana school bus driver arrested after four people say she left

for those impacted by sexual assau assault. that quilt will be on display tomorrow ahead of the kavanaugh vote. we are back live here as these activists and students began this demonstration in support of dr. ford and against the nomination of brett kavanaugh. we're live in berkeley, cornell bernard, "abc7 news." >> cornell, thank you. >>> people were glued to today's hearing. this picture was taken on a flight from jfk to sfo. all the tvs were tuned in to the live testimony. >> it's partly because the witnesses were so emotional with fear and frustration. you see this professor joined us at 4:00. >> and she recalled her experience as a criminal defense attorney to break down judge kavanaugh's anger. >> lots of people who can display very calm demeanor when they're dealing with the problems of others can't be that calm when dealing with their selves. his whole life is coming unraveled. it's difficult to walk away from a situation like this with integri integrity. >> she also reflected on how supreme court confirmation hearings

the 81-year-old comedian has been under house arrest since april for drugging and assau assaulting andreage will decide if cosby should register as a sex offender. experts say he is likely to get less time behind bars. >>> a search in north carolina for a 6-year-old boy with autism. maddox scott rich has been missing since saturday. authorities say he was last seen with his father at the park in gastonia which is 23 miles from charlotte. maddox started running and they went after him and lost sight of him. more than 100 people joined the search around the park. all activities at the park have been canceled and it is chosed to the public until further notice. >>> indiana school bus driver fired and arrested after she let three children drive her bus. the 27-year-old joandrea mcatee allowed them to drive the bus for short distances in a rural area. parents complaint sparked the investigation. >>> wow. tiger woods back on top of the golf world winning the tour championship. andy scholes has more in the bleacher report. scholes, that walk up the 18th green unlike anything in sports today. >>

it came hours after s women came forward with claims he sexually harassed or assau them.nves deniedin propriate conduct since allegations first surfaced this summer. >> back now to the weather alert today, there's still a lot of clean up across our area this morning after a wet weekend. treesoell over i power lines and even cutoff roads in inrthern vi. right now the tide seems to be returning >> justin is live on king street now. f the o you see in terms water moving? >> i'm seeing it and feeling it too. take a look. you'll see t gt waterng clear out into the potomac out there. the tide rising in the past hour or so makingutts way o here to where we are right now. you might recall our earlier live shots. closer to the corner there. we can do that no longer. i want to take you to some video last night. much of t same. this happened last night just as many were out here enjoying their sunday night here at old town alexandria when all of a sudden the flood i water madet's way in. no secret we had heavy rain out here for hoursere in northern virginia. across our area, really

. >> doug, is it typical for an assault vict assau assault granted this is very public. >> y'all recall received death threats. i received death threats. >> from whom? >> people sitting home watching tv and crazy. when she was in custody, the new york post ran a custody calling her a prostitute. saying she was turning tricks while in police custody. these are the types of attacks that go onto sexual assault victims who try to come forward. >> it's fair to say in the grand scheme of me too there are gray areas but mark judge, that's the writer who was in the room supposedly with brett kavanaugh and with professor ford wrote in 2015 about what he calls, ready for this one? a middle ground between a woman saying yes and no. he writes, if that man is any kind of man, he'll allow himself to feel the awesome power, the wonderful beauty of uncontrollable male passion. mark judge, fyi, for guys who women want to sleep with, there ain't no middle ground, brother. we say yes. what in god's name is this man talking about? the beauty of the uncontrollable passion. please. >> it's not only mr. judge

automatic to reopen says something serious about how we as a society tend to disregard claims of sexual assaussault. it's is up setting. we will see this individual be targeted. i'm wonder who is first member of congress to start disclosing information about her background or about who she is or whatever else. again, yes we should pause. there's no question that we should pause and there's history and background and pres denceder it. the rush to confirm brett kavanaugh will get in the way of it. >> i want to you about the environment into which she is stepping. she talks about all she's seen over the last few weeks. her goal was to do this anonymously. first through the tip line and then her congresswoman. she said these are the ills i was trying to avoid. i feel like my civic responsibility is outweighing my anguish and terror about retaliation. this is p nnot 1991. we're many years beyond that. >> can you imagine the intimate, mental calculation to come forward. she heard about what happened to her 30 something years ago and she fell compelled that her public duty outweighed her desire to r

ford to detail those assau allegations for lawmakers. kavanaugh is expected to repeat his denial of those claims and those made by others. rachel mitchell, an arizona prosecutor who runs a maricopa county special victims division, will cross-examine both na kah and ford. you can watch this morning's hearing on nbc 4 and on the app. we'll have a special nbc news report beginning at 9:30. >>> along with the rest of the country, president trump will so e paying close attention to today's hearing. despite all the allegations so far,e's standing by his supreme court pick. he admitted at a news conference yesterday that christine blasey rd's testimony could change his mind. wa>> people want fame, the money, they want whatever. so when i see it, i viewt differently than somebody sitting home watching television where they say, oh, judge kavanaugh this or that. it's happened to me ma times. i've had many false charges. i'm going to be watching. believe it or not, i'm going to see what's said. it's possible that they will be convincing. >> now, s

so imagine what his real personal truth and his real personal history is on sexual assaul assau assault. his first wife accused him of rape under oath. and so an accused sexual assaulter has now given his opinion in a sexual assault case. and his opinion is that whatever brett kavanaugh did to christine ford, it just wasn't that bad. wasn't as bad as she says. presidents are not supposed to comment on criminal investigations, but donald trump has done that many times. presidents are not supposed to comment on ongoing criminal cases, but donald trump has done that many times. presidents are not posed spooto comment on a criminal trial, but he did that. he tried to influence the manafort jury because he had every right to believe there were trump voters on the manafort jury, and he was right. but the one manafort juror who we heard from was a trump voter, and she took her oath as a juror very seriously. and she voted guilty on every single count against paul manafort. republican united states senators do not take their oaths as seriously as paul manafort's jurors did. and so their minds a

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testimy releas wednday, dr.lasey fo calls kavanaug"the boyho sexuay asulted meand descbes the night ofhe assau, statin-- "ielieved was goi to rape me." e adds, don't have a the aners, and don't rememb as muchs i woullike to. buthe detas about at night at bringe here tay are ones i will never forget." speaking of the second solo news conference of his presidency from the united nations, trump did not once mention the names of kavanaugh's accuserss. instead, he attacked julie lawyer, parsley is michael of a naughty, and accused democrats of running a "con game" and that derailing the nomination. president, you have daughters. can you understand why it victim of sexual assault would not reported at the time? don't you understand -- ," by the way, i only say this, 36 years, no charge, no nothing. >> but that happens often. pres. trump: people are going to have to make a decision. 36 years, no charge. all of a sudden, hearings are over and the rumors start coming out. then you have this other con aventatti. i only say you to look at the facts. nermeen: meanwhile, kavanaugh has denied dr. blasey for

duty as a victim to educate us, but she's educating us about the impact of being a victim of a sexual assau what it means to be disregarded when two people are having fun and you're suffering. so really women, so many women watch this and said, that could be me, that could be my daughter, and we ned to rally around this woman. >> woodruff: reactions, of course, playing out across the country, not just on a purely political but human level to what we saw today. yamiche alcindor, lisa desjardins, we thank you both. f woodruff: we will listen to more pivotal momenm the hearing throughout the program: in her opening testimony, ford described the alleged attack, and why she didn't tell her story publicly until years later. let's listen to what she told wmakers. >> brett's assault on me drastically altered my life. for a very long time, i was too afraid and ashamed to te anyone these details. i dinot want to tell my parents that i, at age 15, was in a house without any parents present, drinking beer with boys. i convinced myself that because brett did t rape me, i should be able to move on and ju

vex yule assau sexual say saassault is a state crime. once a background check is closed if they get information like this, they will forward it on to the requesting agencagenc this case would be the white house. then what the agency would usual l usually do if there's concerning information that's come up as has happened in this case, they'd go back to the fbi, ask them to re-open it. go interview other corroborating witnesses either who can speak on behalf of, this case, dr. ford, it would be her therapist, husband, others she's talked to, speak to the friend of brett kavanaugh she claims was there in the case. the reason they haven't done that, the white house hasn't asked them to do it. the senate judiciary committee, democrats on the judiciary committee asked it. they won't do it unless the white house to whom they report ask them and they're very deliberately not asking the fbi to do this investigation. clearly, it seems pretty obvious, they don't want to know what they'll find. >> michael steele, it's no secret that donald trump's

. >>> happg today supreme oourt nomibrvaug and the firstn accusing him of sexual assau dr. christine blasey fo will testify. this is a scene of people already lgp for today's capitol hi hearing. you can watch the hearing this morning right here on nbc4. we will ha an nbc news special t report30. >>> checking on your commute with melislenur first4 tra. >> rtou 395 the express lanes have a tow truck on the scene. so wereslouis morning. northun 95 after woodbridge a broken do v blocking the right side of the road. and headed up to 270, 30 miles per h son southbontgomery village at 270 a cran the right lane. >> ank you. we will g ak yo forecastin >>> we have some hit and miss pockets iginovg into ta n take your umbrellaut rachbl so be heavy. flood watches are up into early tomorrow tempere midper 60s now. we willy the 60s all day with rain chances increasing with time. again hea ra tonight. the goodom news isrow the rain isve ve early. we will be back to sunshine tomorrow anot st through wd. >> keep the umbrellas handy for now. nuanother up in 2tes. >> back "da." 7th>>t' of sep

ford has offered the clnate four people whoua assau including a friend and her husband. is the evidence mounting against your client? y those are ldn't say that. statements that were made relatively recently. and sadly, this is an allegation aom almost 36 years ago and there are, there was at the reporno report. which is understandable. legationfirst time these allegations came to light as far as we know, from reading the reports in the media, dr. blaise we y told her husband and therapist. had beeni understand it, they did not turn notes or lie any to ctor test over to the senate committee. so the information that would wve shown that would have said at the very first time when she revealed these allegations has evealed turned over to the senate. ed you're saying that that lie detector test that they referenced has not, the results of that have not been shared kno you or with the senate tn, we all received a request aom the senate. o provide any information. and we did not receive from the documents that they sent in, any inform information or the results of a lie detec