i wanted to try to stop him. >> hallie adams takes the belt from her husband. >> i believe she got itway from him. she wanted to stop him. but at the same time she had to make it look like she was on his side, otherwise he would turn against her. >> you turn over, i'm going to spank you on your butt. you turn over like a 16-year-old and take it like a grown woman. turn over. >> she won't. she's disobedient. give it to me. >> turn over. >> she was trying to protect me by keeping hold of the belt. because if she took the weapon away from him, hopefully that would make him cool off a little bit. >> i took the belt away from him and he asked for a bigger one. >> hallie says she hopes he'll let it drop if she makes a show of disciplining hillary. >> i knew he was outside the room. i was talking loud, talking mean, hoping he would hear me. >> all the way on your stomach. thank you. >> hillary is stunned when her mother hits her with the belt. >> at that point i didn't understand the complexity of what was happening. i didn't know she was trying to protect me by doing that, by trying to end

hallie jackson, nbc news. >>> in the fight against ebola, health officials in north carolina said today they're preparing to quarantine a handful of missionaries returning from liberia. they worked with nancy wrightbold, one two of americans fighting ebola in atlanta. as a precaution, they will be closely watched for 21 days. the largest ebola outbreak ever killed nearly 1,000 people in west africa. >>> torrential rain overnight triggered flash flooding in greenville county, south carolina. officials say one woman was killed and the man she was with is missing after they were swept away by the rushing water. >>> cleanup continues on hawaii's big island after tropical storm iselle hit friday causing flooding and damaging homes. some residents are still stranded in areas where toppled trees are blocking roads and thousands are still without electricity. meantime, hurricane julio is expected to pass north of hawaii later today into tomorrow. >>> when nbc news continues on this sunday, controversy surrounding a strict new curfew now in effect in one of the country's largest cities. will oth

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we get more on that story tonight from nbc's hally jackson. >> reporter: paper or plastic? soon californians may not have the choice. since the state legislature just approved a ban on single use plastic bags. >> i think it's not that bifg a deal to bring your own bag. it is a big waste. people don't recycle them necessarily. >> many cities in california already outlaw plastic bags. if governor jerry brown signs the bill into law, starting next summer, shoppers who forget to bring a bag will have to pay at least 10 cents at the grocery store'paper or reusable kind. >> what do you think of that? >> i think it's a bunch of bologna. >> massachusetts and washington are also looking at bills to ban single use bags. and along with five other states are considering taxes or fees ranging from one to 15 cents per bag. >> the new scam would kill my job. >> and my job. >> but with ads like these, the plastic bag industry has fought hard against the california bill. the american progressive bag alliance saying this has never been about the environment. calling it a dirty deal to scam c

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it was shar hally destroyed in the fighting but we were allowed inside.s the as of their commander. and these are the cellars where he kept his prisoners. under the separatists slovyansk was a city of fear and what people dreaded above all was being brought to these rooms where people were held as hostages and where they were interrogated. on the wall, traces of what looked like blood. and here, marks, perhaps where someone has been counting off the days. a pro ukrainian activist was held in that cellar for 10 days, he thought he would die there. >> translator: they tied my hands together and blindfolded me. they beat me with a rubber stick. they kicked me. they put a bucket over my head and i struggled to breathe. >> reporter: he told me that a friends of his was murdered bicep tests, because they discovered that he was giving information to the ukrainian army. >> translator: at first i hoped these bandits would be punished but i am losing hope every day. the police didn't do anything when the separatists were in charge and still don't do anything. >> re

. >> reporter: leaning on each other to rebuild and regrow hally jackson. >>> we're monitoring the tropics. one in the atlanta and one in the pacific. hurricane staying away from the u.s. it could bring dangerous surf, however, and rip currents up the east coast. and hurricane marie is now a powerful category 4 storm hundreds of miles off the coast of mexico. it's expected to steer clear of the u.s. as well. our partners at the weather channel report it could mean the largest stir-up event off california in recent years. >>> now to the international hunt to identify and track koun the isis militants who killed american journalist james foley. tonight, british intelligence officials believe they know who the man in the mask is on that tape. the question now how will the u.s. respond. nbc's peter alexander is at the white house with what they're saying there. peter, good evening. >> reporter: good everyoning to you. with summer break behind him, president obama huddled with senior advisors and his defense secretary here at the white house. while the white house is facing growing pressure to

for "today," hally jackson, nbc news, los angeles. >> you guys still into denim?pairs for about a decade. >> so no leggings for you. >> most guys i know don't go for the jeggings. >> what about you? >> i don't wear a lot of jeans. let's go over to natalie. >>> earlier we talked about the skyrocketing cost of sending your kids back to school. the average now $650 per child. how can you lower that number? natalie morris is here with where you'll find the best deals. >> good morning. >> let's talk overall trend. where are people spending more? at the stores or online? >> people spend more in the actual brick and mortar stores because they tend to be more organized. according to mint.com, people who spent only online spend 30% to 40% more. they don't have it in a cart where they can see it. good rule of thumb is do resurgeon online, print out coupons and then pound the pavement. >> is this the time to go to shopping? >> we're in peak time right now through labor day. deals up to a couple of cents for notebooks, a couple of dollars. do the work now. >> let's talk about

can you tell us what was halli was happening there. >> there were teenagers marching through the community wanting to bridge a gap between law enforcement and the african-american community. there has been tension and they're trying to defuse that and bring the two sides together. >> what will the hours ahead hold? are more protests planned for the funeral on monday? >> there will be some rallies tomorrow. there will be some church services in his honor. some of the things, some of the activities that we've been seeing over the last couple of weeks particularly over the last few days will be continuing tomorrow as well. >> the funeral for michael brown will be held on monday. diane estherbrook. thank you. on the heel of the confrontation between police and residents in ferguson. senior white house officials said they would be conducting a full review. we'll look at programs equipping police are military gear. president obama called for more separation between the armed forces and civilian law enforcement. >>> thousands of people marched in new york city today protesting police brutality. t

so i -- we said, how can we show that hoover goofed by signing hally. he should have hesitated more. and we look for imagery and we knew that hoover played with medicine balls, like a big heavy ball. it was dr. the doctor there was the coolidge doctor, found him a medicine ball and he would heave it around with whatever staff were lucky never to get to play with him and it was kind of a -- a little bit funny, nonyoung person, man or woman, acting all macho about sports and working out in that way so we played on this, and this is too small for you to see and that's one problem with the book. even too small on the page but you can see hoover in the bottom row of the frame, talking he can catch the ball but what happens, he gets knocked over by it, and that's really what happened with smooth halley, and then the -- the -- said, how are you? and we tried to -- this is the way of capturing the goofiness of it all. ... in this particular letter that he wrote to roosevelt he saying you shouldn't be so mean to business because then business will be too tired a

hally jackson has the extraordinary story. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we learned from officials here the girls were checked out of the hospital but look healthy and are now reunited with their family. this command center is still active as police try to find whoever abducted these children. after a tense and terrifying 24 hours, relief for people in this close nit community. >> when the news name, there was a lot of high fives and hugs. everybody was relieved. very emotional. >> reporter: a 12-year-old and 6-year-old found safe. police say they were taken from this family farm stand on wednesday prompting a widespread search, but an ordeal that began on a quiet roadside ended on another quiet roadside less than 20 miles away. the officials say the girls were dropped off in a small village and then walked to the closest house they saw. >> the person in the residence knew who they were based on how they were dressed and the immediate attention this had gained. the girls asked them to take them home. >> reporter: police face an unusual challenge in the sea

longer than that because in 1986, the european space agency did the first ever fl fly-by ofe comet hally1986. then flying by in a few seconds and seeing a few minutes of data is good. but what would it be like to go and stay there for about a full year and maybe land? by 1993 the mission had been improved. it took ten years to build it. then it had to launch. we had a year's delay -- not on our side, the mission was ready, but one of the rockets exploded and we had to revisit and work out what was wrong with that. we lost the first comet we were supposed to be going to, it looped off, we had to pick another one quickly, and now we have been in space for ten years. what i'm saying, been in the cars ten years, the kids in the back are a bit irritated, are we there yet? we're there now, haven't gotten out of the car, looking out the window and there's disneyland waiting for us. what an amazing place to land, we couldn't have wished for better. >> sreenivasan: you're going to try to land on the comet, i've even heard the word "harpooned." >> yes, you might think we would take off today and h

hally jackson has the story. >>> daniel "the miracle man" jacobs!s stepped into the ring, a world title on the line. [ bell ] >> reporter: this match far from jacobs' toughest fight. that came about three years ago. >> that's how i looked at cancer. i looked at it as an opponent. >> reporter: when doctors diagnosed jacobs with a rare type of bone cancer, he barely heard a word. one sentence stuck out -- >> the only thing i remember was, "i don't think you'll be able to box again, daniel." it was mind-blowing. >> reporter: the cancer left him partially paralyzed. losing boxing, he says, broke his heart. jacobs did what he knows best -- he turned to his training. >> you got to get back up. you got to continue to fight. >> reporter: through therapy and radiation, jacobs built back his strength all the way to the top of his middleweight division. he wasn't given the nickname "miracle man," he earned it. >> working the body -- >> reporter: saturday night in his hometown of brooklyn, he again came out swinging. >> fletcher in the corner and down he goes.

one woman, a chemist, working for a state crime lab has tainted spine hally 40,000 cases. when reasonable doubt returns. >> edge of eighteen only on al jazeera america >> al jazeera america >> this is the very tail section it was burning when we got here >> unbiased reporting... >> the violence has continued >> the violence has continued just a couple of miles from here >> in depth coverage... >> we've got a military escort allowing us to feel a further than everyone else... >> real global perspective >> this was clearly an attack against them... >> from around the world, to the issues right here at home >> ...shouldn't been brought here in the first place... >> we're not here to take over >> real stories... real people... real understanding... >> where you scared when you hear the bombs? >> al jazeera america real... news... >>> welcome back to reasonable doubt. our criminal justice system relies on evidence to prove guilt or innocence. our next story is about a woman who turned that process on its head, a state crime lab worker who tampered with the evidence, causing the

. >> hallie jackson for us this morning. our top stories this morning. >>> governor rick perry has been indicted by a grand jury, claiming he abused his power by trying to pressure a district attorney to resign. abuse of his official capacity stemming from his threat to veto funding for a statewide public integrity program led by the d.a. unless she stepped down. his lawyer released a statement that says, in part, the veto in question was made in accordance with the veto authority afforded to every governor under the texas constitution. we will continue to aggressively defend the governor's lawful and constitutional action and believe we will ultimately prevail. >>> we have new details this morning about the utah woman who is in critical condition after drinking toxic iced tea. authorities say an industrial cleaning solution was unintentionally mixed into a bag of sugar that ended up in the iced tea dispenser. 67-year-old jan harding drank the tea at dickeys barbecue in a salt lake city suburb, severely burning her esophagus

hallie? >> reporter: i'm standing in front of what used to be the tasting room.hn thing is leaning. you can see where the building buckled from the quake on sunday. the family here is trying to get back to business as usual, but this is some of the worst damage we've seen in wine country. at robert viali vineyard, owner is still cleaning up and counting up the costs. >> a new leak or something that's sitting funny and not right. >> reporter: an all-too familiar sight as vineyards in napa valley take stock of the 6.0 quake. industry with a $50 billion on the national economy. vast mantle of the approximately 430 wineries in napa are family owned. >> we have a lot of clean up to do. you've seen it in the napa community. it's here, too. everyone is banding together to do it. >> there are those who came out absolutely unscathed and there are those that could lose, you know, 10, 20% of their production. >> reporter: most say they don't expect the price of a bottle to go up but it could take weeks to understand the full impact of the destruction. as california struggle

here is nbc's hallie jackson. ♪ o say can you see >> reporter: janine stang has sung this song so manyle call me at 2:00 in the morning and i will sing it to you without any problem, i promise. >> reporter: she's belted it out at madison square garden. ♪ and the rocket's red glare." >> reporter: and in wallace, idaho. >> the entire town showed up, all 900 of them. >> reporter: from florida to alaska, 49 states in all so far. where did the idea come from? how did you think, hey, let me do this? >> i love our military. i'm always a big supporter of people who embody the meaning of the national anthem. i thought it was a good fit. >> reporter: that's why stang is on a mission to take the anthem national, to thank the people who protect the star spangled banner and the freedom it represents. instead of giving autographs after her performances, she asks her audience to do the signing. over the last two years stang has collected hundreds of thank you notes from members of the military. >> they don't know us personally, but they'll do it because they love this country, they love the people th

hallie jackson has the latest. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning.lawsuit filed by a utah attorney who says the feds are hiding evidence. the government argues that's not the case in what it calls a conspiracy theory. in the days after the oklahoma city bombing, justice moved fast. timothy mcveigh named as the man who drove the ryder truck filled with explosives. >> john doe number two has not been identified and remains at large. >> reporter: but whatever happened to john doe number two? utah attorney believes his brother who died months after the bombing was mistakenly identified as john doe number two and paid for that mistake with his life. >> this was a case that began as one man's search for justice for his brother who died under what he believes is mysterious circumstances. and it has morphed and evolved into a conspiracy theorist's dream. >> reporter: he insists the fbi is hiding video showing another man leaving the ryder truck with mcveigh. in which federal agents appear to describe surveillance videos which have never been seen publicly. >

hallie jackson is in los angeles. how wha can you tell us?ouple wanted it. they said their i dos in front of their close friends and family. a crush of cameras trail the most famous celebrity couple almost everywhere. but somehow they managed to keep the most hyped wedding under wraps for five days until pitt finally flashed his new ring in england. >> that's really what it was. a stealth wedding. but in this case angelina i know is pulling the strings. >> reporter: the superstars' super secret wedding took place at their chateau. it was a true family affair. >> i think the children may have played as big a part in this wedding as anything else. i think they might have waited until their twins were six years old so they could all participate in the wedding, all have a say in it. >> reporter: maddox and pax walked their mom down the aisle. za r zahar threw petals. and her father jon voight was not at the wedding but he tweeted it must have been fun. jolie who's no stranger in white dresses, went for a traditional look down the aisle. she donne

hallie jackson is in napa, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. i'm standing in front of what used to be the tasting room for this family vineyard. but now it looks like a fun house. you can see the building leaning. the family's working to get back open for business. this is some of the worst damage we've seen in wine country. at robert vialle vineyard, they are still cleaning up and counting up the costs after busted barrels spilled wine everywhere. >> every minute as we go through we're finding a new leak or something that's sitting funny and not right. >> reporter: it's an all too familiar sight as the area takes a look at the damage from the quake. an industry with a $50 billion impact on the american economy. the vast majority of the 430 wineries in napa are family owned. >> we have a lot of cleanup to do. you've seen it in the napa community and it's here too. everyone's banding together to do it. >> there are those who came out unscathed and there are those who can lose 10%, 20% of their production. >> reporter: most say they don't expect