>> linsey davis leading us off tonight. linsey, thank you. >>> the other major story, the supreme court showdown. less than 48 hours away from that public hearing. judge brett kavanaugh fighting to save his nomination, denying accusations of sexual abuse. that have thousand been brought against him. tonight, you'll hear from his wife, as she now comes to his defense. and new tonight, how kavanaugh's college roommate now describes him and the drinking. as president trump stands by kavanaugh, tonight, taking aim now at kavanaugh's second accuser. abc's terry moran covering the court for years, back on this again tonight. >> reporter: with his supreme court nominee battling multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, president trump lashed out today, saying it was all just dirty politics. >> i think it's horrible what the democrats have done. it's a con game they're playing, they're con -- they're really con artists. >> reporter: and he went after one woman personally, deborah ramirez, who told "the new yorker" kavanaugh expose

abc's linsey davis in the courtroom today, and she leads us off tonight. >> mr. cosby, any comment, sir? >> reporter: tonight, bill cosby spending his first night behind bars. after emerging from the courtroom in handcuffs today, sentenced to three to ten years in prison. >> we got justice. >> reporter: just after sentencing, andrea constand, the woman who cosby was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting, with a smile, embracing former model janice dickinson. just one of roughly a dozen cose by accusers who sat in court to witness this moment, holding hands with silent tears and fervent nods as the judge delivered what they are calling justice. did you ever think that this day was going to come? >> i dreamt of this day for 32 years. >> reporter: the judge also ruled today that cosby will be classified as a sexually violent predator. while cosby chose to stay silent, a portion of constand's victim impact statement was read by the judge. "bill cosby took my beautiful, healthy young spirit and crushed it." cosby's wife of 54 years, camille cosby, was absen

david, they plan to bury her in that dress. >> all right, linsey davis tonight. linsey, thank you. >>> there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this thursday. the school shooting, images coming in at this hour. a student and a school employee hit when gunfire erupts outside this high school. authorities are searching for the gunmen right now. the details coming in. >>> the cabin pressure nightmare on this flight. three dozen injured inside this passenger plane. some reportedly bleeding from their ears. and authorities revealing how this dangerous pressure drop might have happened in the first place. >>> and then, your money tonight. with two new iphones out tomorrow, how to get the most money for your used iphone, the one you have right now. three very important tips right after the break tonight. stay tuned. mike and jen doyle? yeah. time for medicare, huh. i have no idea how we're going to get through this. follow me. choosing a plan can be super-complicated. but it doesn't have to be. unitedhealthcare can guide you through the confusion, with hel

>> linsey davis with us tonight. thank you, linsey. >>> there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this tuesday. the chilling robbery, the search for suspects tonight. and they need the public's help. the store clerk collapsing from a heart attack. the suspect seen on surveillance stealing money out of his hand and then stealing from the store. they did not help him. >>> there is also news tonight about elizabeth smart, that kidnapping case that made national headlines, of course. why one of her kidnappers is about to be set free. and what she's saying tonight. >>> and the pilot flying solo. it was her first trip across the country, trying to make an emergency landing because of something that happened mid-flight. you'll hear the emergency audio as the news continues. stay tuned. your privacy makes you my number 1 place to go number 2. i love you, but sometimes you stink. febreze air effects doesn't just mask, it cleans away odors. because the things you love the most can stink. and try febreze small spac

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linsey davis has more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning.a long road. 34 months since cosby's arrest and what a roller coaster ride of emotions. you know, when we first heard that guilty verdict in the courtroom in april, there was an eruption of reaction. but yesterday, as the sentencing was read, it was silent. i wand to just share one sentiment from a cosby accuser. yesterday she said of his sentencing this is a sad time. this is not a time of celebration. none of this should have ever happened. >> any comment sir? >> reporter: it is an image that some call surreal. others call it sad. but the bill cosby accusers we spoke to say it's justice. bill cosby shackled in handcuffs taken directly to jail sentenced to three to ten years behind bars convicting of drugging and sexually assaulting andrea constand in his home in 2004. >> we've got >> reporter: con zwrastand, and several of cosby's accusers who were in court tuesday, hugging after the sentencing. constand, just one of more than 60 women who have come forward accusing the star of sexua

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>> all right, linsey, thanks to you. >>> president trump traveled to north and south carolina today, where thousands are still in need after hurricane florence. they will be for months to come. he was pitching in to hand out hot food and sharing a hug with a small volunteer there. five days after the hurricane, some rivers are still rising. and what you're looking at right there is not a river. that's actually interstate 40. flooded and shut down in parts. abc's eva pilgrim is in fayetteville, north carolina, tonight. >> reporter: tonight, president trump in the storm zone, touching down in north carolina, bringing a message of support. >> to the families who have lost loved ones, america grieves with you and our hearts break for you. >> reporter: visiting the hard-hit town of new bern, where the water rose so quickly, families were told by dispatchers to run to their second floors. he was there today with governor roy cooper. >> how are you doing? >> how are you? >> reporter: handing out hot meals and a hug at a relief center. reassuring families in this neighborhood who have a long

linsey davis, abc news, new york. >>> cbs news has f fager, the executive producer of "60 minutes" who is under investigation for sexual harassment. cbs says his firing was not directly related to those allegations, but fager was ousted shortly after sending a text message to a cbs reporter after she asked him to comment on the accusations against him. that text says in part, be careful. there are people who lost their jobs trying to harm me. fager later admitted his language was harsh but says he does not believe it should result in his termination. >>> now, we have new information about why cbs chief executive les moonves was fired. "the new york times" reports the network learned that moonves was being blackmailed by an alleged harassment victim and was trying to get her a job at cbs in return for her silence. >>> police near detroit say a love triangle appears to be the motive for a deadly stabbing at a high school involving two straight "a" students. the suspect, a 17-year-old girl, is in police custody and facing murder charges. a male student was allegedly involved with both gir

here's linsey davis. >> reporter: tonight. the man once dubbed "america's dad," one step closer to become the first celebrity sentenced in the me too era. >> guilty, guilty, guilty. >> reporter: on monday, bill cosby will be back in a pennsylvania courtroom for the first day of his sentencing hearing. cosby was convicted in april of three felony counts for drugging and sexually assaulting andrea constand in his home in 2004. cosby has insisted any sexual encounters with constand and other accusers were consensual. but 1 of the 12 jurors who convicted him says there was one key piece of evidence that led to his stunning fall from grace. >> i think it was his deposition, really. mr. cosby admitted to giving these quaaludes to women, young women. >> reporter: cosby and constand may come face to face again as she takes the stand to deliver her victim impact statement. >> it's not unthinkable that the judge could sentence him to jail time, and order that he be turned over immediately to correctional officers there. >> reporter: now

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here's abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: first caught on surveillance video and now caught by police. authorities in washington, d.c. say this is the man responsible for the brutal stabbing of a jogger. >> we arrested and charged 23-year-old anthony crawford of northwest d.c. >> reporter: crawford was taken into custody just one day after wendy martinez was stabbed seven times around 8:00 tuesday night. this is martinez jogging just moments before. the 35-year-old tech executive stumbles into this restaurant bleeding profusely, causing some customers to flee. but others tried unsuccessfully to save her. she later died at the hospital. >> she asked for help, so that makes us so proud to know our girl had the energy, the strength to fight. >> reporter: her family, heartbroken. martinez had just gotten engaged last week. crawford is now being detained. the defense is calling that a rush to judgment. meanwhile, officials say that the attack was completely unprovoked. martinez's mother says that her daughter had just bought a wedding dress, david. they plan to bury her in that dress. >> al

i'm linsey davis, new york. >> and professor ford's testimony triggered a spike in calls to the national sexual assault hotline. they reported a 147% increase in call volume. >> it also inspired a call to c-span from an older woman who shared her story of sexual assault for the first time in years. take a listen. >> i'm a 76-year-old woman who was sexually molested in the second grade. this brings back so much pain. i thought i was over it, but it's not. you will never forget it. you get confused, and you don't understand it, but you never forget what happened to you. without my family i would never have been able to go through this, and now i'm 76 years old, and i thought i was over it until i heard that it happened to someone else, and it is just -- >> the woman who identified herself as brenda from missouri told c-span her attacker was a seventh grade boy at her school. and since then she says she battled a weight problem because she was always afraid someone was going to hurt her. >> so many decades later, indeed. >> absolutely. >>> wemi u a m bust in connection with a string of robb

linsey davis, abc news, new york. >>> when we come back, are bert and ernie really gay? >> big question. and what bieber is doing at buckingham palace. "the skinny" is next. >> we live in amazing times. buckingham palace. "the skinny" is next. >> we live in amazing times. (boy) grandpa, look what i got! (woman) oh dad, wait 'till you see the bike we got for jake. (narrator) hearing loss happens gradually with age... making it easy to ignore. yet most older americans aren't getting their hearing tested. untreated hearing loss can keep your loved ones from enjoying what they cherish most. (woman) dad, can you hear me? (narrator) don't let that happen. speak up about hearing loss. you'll be glad you did. ♪ skinny # >>> "the skinny" on this wednesday starting with new questions about the sexual orientation of two beloved "sesame street" muppets. >> a former "sesame street" writer has reignited the controversy over bert and ernie. he reportedly started his 15-year career back on the show in 1984 tells a gay magazine he wrote the relationship between the two muppets based on t

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linsey davis, abc news, new york. >> it just gets increasingly sad there.sey. >>> former rap mogul suge knight has agreed to plead no contest to a murder charge and will spend 28 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter. >> knight was accused of running over two men, killing one of them. his attorney says he was acting in self-defense, trying to get away from a man armed with a gun. >>> well, coming up, reunited after more than 30 years. >> what triggered this emotional reunion between these two siblings who were separated so long ago. that's next. " in that washer. with unstopables in-wash scent boosters by downy. ah, it's so fresh. and it's going to last from wash to... ...wear for up to 12 weeks. unstopables by downy. >>> those popular dna kits constantly bringing people together, reuniting them with family members they never even knew they had. >> and this morning we're learning about one of those reunions more than 30 years in the making. here is abc's david muir. >> reporter: justin was just 2 1/2 years old when he was found crying outside a theater

i'm linsey davis. tonight the fbi launching its probe into sexual assault allegations against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. the result of yet another stunning day on capitol hill. a power play by one politician after last-minute pleas from the people. >> i was sexually assaulted and nobody believed me. i didn't tell anybody. you're telling all women that they don't matter that they should just stay quiet, because if they tell you what happened to them, you're going to ignore them. >> reporter: the lasting pain of sexual assault laid bare for one senator to see. >> that's what you're telling me right now, look at me when i'm talking to you, don't look away from me. look at me and tell me it doesn't matter what happened to me. >> reporter: jeff flake, the republican from arizona, cornered in the elevator, unable to avoid hearing the raw pleas of anna may roo yeah archilla and maria gallagher who say they're survivors of sexual assault. >> what you are doing is allowing someone who actually viola

abc's linsey davis is there in lawrence, massachusetts. and linsey, investigators have now identified the cause. >> reporter: they have, cecilia, and also good news. all the homes in this area have now been given the all-clear as far as gas is concerned. thousands of residents returned to their homes yesterday with the exception of about a dozen like this one where there is simply nothing left to return home to. only a charred skeleton remains. emotional residents returning home, surveying the wreckage after a horrific string of gas explosions set three towns in massachusetts ablaze. a firefighter from the town of lawrence and his family, now back in their home of 20 years, telling us they are still afraid. >> i don't want to be here at night. it's a little unnerving. >> reporter: amid the chaos, the off-duty firefighter dashed door to door to save lives, turning off his gas meters after an explosion destroyed his neighbor's home, taking the life of 18-year-old lionel rondon when a chimney crashed on the his car. 12 others were injured. >>

but first, linsey davis is here with the story. reporter: good morning, robin.rry, the prolific filmmaker, actor and activist is known for his hit comedies and dramas and now he's trying to help solve two real-life mysteries, keeping the cases in the national spotlight and even offering reward money. this morning filmmaker and actor tyler perry -- >> help me, jesus. help me, jesus! >> reporter: now announcing he's seeking justice in real life. >> we have got to come together as one to fight injustice and fight what is wrong. this is wrong. this is wrong. >> reporter: perry is now offering a $200,000 reward for any information in the disappearance of two florida men who mysteriously vanished after being apprehended by former florida sheriff's deputy steve calkins. perry says he was moved to act after watching an episode of discovery i.d.'s "disappeared." back in 2004, witnesses say they saw the former sheriff's deputy taking 27-year-old terrance williams into custody near a cemetery in naples, florida. williams was never seen again.

good morning, linsey. >> reporter: good morning, robin.ning, look, this is a common practice to have multiple side jobs to support yourself as a working actor. for 15 months he did that working at trader joe's and said some shoppers recognized him but it was never an issue until now. >> can i come in? >> do you have to? >> reporter: he played the ever optimistic alvin, cliff and claire huxtable's dutiful son-in-law. >> i'm sorry, mrs. huxtable, i didn't think you did that kind of thing. >> what kind of thing? >> reporter: getting big laughs for putting his foot in his mouth. >> serve whom? >> serve him. >> reporter: infamous for wearing his emotions on his sleeve. >> contraction. >> reporter: but this morning, 26 years after "the cosby show" went off the air he is going viral all because a woman shopping at trader joe's snapped photos of him working at a new jersey grocery store. outlets pounced posting the pictures accompanied by headlines like "cosby show" actor geoffrey owens spotted bagging groceries at new jersey trader joe's. many on

abc's linsey davis has covered cosby's story from the very start. >> reporter: the man once dubbed as america's dad is one step closer to becoming the first celebrity sentenced in the me too era. >> guilty, guilty, guilty. >> reporter: on monday, bill cosby will be back in a pennsylvania courtroom for the first day of his sentencing hearing. cosby was convicted in april for three felony accounts of drugging and sexually assaulting andrea constand in his home in 2004. cosby has insisted any sexual encounters with constand and other accusers were consensual. one of the 12 jurors who convicted him said there was one piece of evidence that led to his stunning fall from grace. >> it was his deposition. cosby admitted giving quaaludes to women. >> reporter: cosby and constand may come face-to-face again as she takes the stand to deliver her victim impact statement. >> it's not unthinkable that the judge could sentence him to jail time and order he be turned over immediately to correctional officers at that hearing. reporter: now his defense team will be desperately fighting to stop the cour

linsey davis, abc news, norristown, pennsylvania. >> quite a fall from grace it is. >>> we turn now to make or break hearing just a day away. >> nominee brett kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of sexual assault are preparing to testify as the president depicted the allegations as a con job by democrats and took direct aim at kavanaugh's second accuser. abc's emily rau has these details. >> reporter: in his strongest defense yet of supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh, president trump belittled the sexual assault allegations against him. >> 36 years ago, nobody ever knew about it, nobody ever heard about it? >> reporter: calling democrats con artists. >> they know he's high-quality and they're winking at each other. they're winking. they know it's a con game. >> reporter: kavanaugh also denying allegations from both accusers in an interview with his wife on fox news. >> i never did any such thing. never did any such thing. >> i truly -- i don't understand it. i -- i know brett. i know who he is. >> reporter: kavanaugh will testify thursday along with his first accuser, professor chr

tonight, he's facing attempted arson and hate crime charges, and here's abc's linsey davis with the images just out. >> reporter: tonight, for the first time, we see what prosecutors say was part of an alleged plot for a massacre at a florida condo. 72-year-old walter stolper, now behind bars, caught on surveillance video to, quote, "kill all jews" -- a reference to his neighbors. back in july, police in miami beach say they stopped stolper before he was able to set fire to his condo after receiving a knowive of eviction. in the newly released video, we see him pushing a shopping cart down the halls and then inside an elevator. once inside the elevator, he lifts the cloth, revealing gas containers. police located this storage room with 28 additional containers with gasoline, sulfur powder and potassium nitrate. >> he had already poured gasoline down 15 floors of this building. >> reporter: he allegedly bought padlocks and planned to place them on the fire hoses to prevent the fire department putting a fire out. but before he could carry out his alleged plan, police tipped off by this man.

here is abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: this newly released video shows harvey weinstein with a youngfore she claims he raped her. in melissa thompson's recorded presentation from 2011, we see weinstein hug the 28-year-old. it was part of a pitch for weinstein to use her tech start-up company. only portions of the video aired on britain's sky tv. >> what's that? >> it is hot. >> reporter: weinstein asked if he's allowed to flirt with her. a little bit, she answers, but then she says he touches her under the table. >> it's a little high. >> i was trying to save face. at first i was trying to kind of manage the situation. there was a combination of confidence and naivety. >> reporter: at the end of the meeting, weinstein asks her to meet him for a drink at a hotel. she says they thought they were going to close the deal, but instead, thompson says he raped her. weinstein denies all nonconsensual sexual contact. thompson is currently suing weinstein. weinstein's attorney says when viewed in its entirety, the video shows there was nothing forceable, says they were both flirting and this i

linsey davis has the story. >> reporter: good morning." yesterday marked her first appearance on this, the ninth season of the cbs talk show. in her video departure, she didn't reference the allegations against her husband, only saying she's leaving the show to spend more time with her family. at times choking back tears. >> i will miss you all very, very much. >> reporter: julie chen ended the speculation on tuesday, making it official that she will not be returning to "the talk." >> right now i need to spend more time at home with my husband and our young son. so i've decided to leave "the talk." >> reporter: the decision announced on a video played during the show comes after les moonves, her husband of 14 years, was forced to resign from his role as ceo of cbs last week after a dozen women came forward accusing him of various forms of sexual misconduct. when the allegations against moonves first emerged in july chen initially defended her husband on the show. >> i issued the one and only statement i will ever make on this topic on twi

george. >> linsey davis, thanks very much.. >>> now we move on to an incredible rescue caught on camera. a teenager lost at sea for 49 days with no food, no water and no way to steer. the stunning video shows the moment he was finally pulled to safety. our chief national correspondent matt gutman has the story. good morning, matt. >> reporter: hey, good morning, michael. the most harrowing part of that journey, you can't see in that video. he apparently jumped off that raft and swam towards that giant tanker in the open ocean. crew members threw him a life preserver and he said he survived by eating fish he caught and drinking seawater he filtered through his shirt. this is the moment 49 days in the making. 19-year-old aldi adilang rescued from the pacific ocean after nearly two months lost at sea. he lives and operates this wooden fishing vessel and on july 14th, blistering winds snapped the rope which was anchoring the floating hut in place and sent him drifting 1200 miles taking the teen from the shores of indonesia to near

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and linsey davis is here with the story. >> reporter: good morning. hear it and see it for ourselves. weinstein is recorded by a woman who says that he later sexually assaulted her. weinstein is not being investigated for these claims made by melissa thompson but she is suing him in a class-action lawsuit. harvey weinstein, behind closed doors, meeting with a young businesswoman just hours before she says he raped her. >> don't interrupt. don't interrupt. all right, hello, melissa thompson. >> hello, harvey weinstein. >> reporter: portions of the video aired on britain's sky news, recorded in 2011 by then 28-year-old melissa thompson in weinstein's new york city office where she pitches her tech start-up. weinstein appears touchy from the start. >> how are you? >> how are you? >> that's nice. let's keep it up. it's not bad. >> reporter: thompson recounts her experience in an interview with sky news. >> i was thinking, okay, he's hugging me, what do i do now? i was sensing i have to be a little bit more vigilant of this situation than i originally thou

here is abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: throughout the country, from hospitals to classrooms, in theunderground and around the world -- [ speaking foreign language ] >> the stakes are high. >> let's listen in. >> reporter: supporters of both judge brett kavanaugh and dr. christine blasey ford taking to the streets. >> hey, hey, ho ho, kavanaugh has got to go. >> reporter: highlighting the bitter partisan divide in our nation. >> we are here today in support of brett kavanaugh. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: filling the hallways of the senate and spilling out on to the sidewalk. more than 50 people arrested on capitol hill. the explosive hearings gripped the nation. >> if i could see her right now, i would tell her, i believe you. >> i don't think brett kavanaugh had any part of it. >> reporter: and a press conference on capitol hill where survivors and advocates shared reactions and personal stories. >> i thought dr. blasey ford was powerful, she was sincere, she was heartfelt. >> today's hearing, dr. blasey ford's testimony gives me great hope that the next person who comes fo

linsey davis is here. good morning. >> good morning, robin.n initially released a statement saying she would take a few days off to be with her family. since the no-show monday for "the talk's" season premiere, there has been great speculation that her absence would be permanent. after nine seasons on the talk show, it appears that's the case. >> hello, everyone and welcome to "the talk." >> reporter: this morning, a new report that julie chen will not be returning to "the talk." she added her married last name for the first time in public at the end of last week's "big brother." >> i'm julie chen moonves. goodnight. >> reporter: her role on "the talk" has been in question after her husband was forced to resign from cbs after facing numerous charges of sexual misconduct. she initially used "the talk" to defend her husband. >> now, some of you may be aware of what's been going on in my life for the last few days. >> reporter: she referenced a tweet she put out calling him a kind, decent, and moral human being. >> i issued the one and only state

abc's linsey davis has the story. >> reporter: overnight family and friends gathering to remember wendynez, the 35-year-old tech executive brutally murdered while jogging in the heart of the nation's capital. friends and family emotional, opening up about their loss. >> my daughter was a beautiful person. my heart has been broken in a thousand pieces. >> reporter: martinez had just gotten engaged last week. on thursday police zeroed in on 23-year-old anthony crawford seen here, they say, in this surveillance video moments before the attack. prosecutors say crawford stabbed martinez seven times while she was on a run around 8:00 p.m. tuesday near her home in washington, d.c. this surveillance video shows the moments after she was attacked running into a restaurant bleeding causing some customers to flee. others tried unsuccessfully to save her. she later passed away at a hospital. crawford is now in custody. police this morning are searching for a motive. >> we don't have anything to suggest that there was any type of confrontation between the two. it looks like it was an unprovoked atta

linsey davis is here with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. women's wellness tips is worth $250 million. but now there's a bit of a gaffe for goop. the wellness empire has agreed to pay $145,000 for allegedly promoting what critics say are unscientific claims. gwyneth paltrow's self-described modern lifestyle brand goop -- >> enriching face oil which is an organic face oil. >> reporter: featuring plush products and promotions that help you attain a certain cache. >> hi, everybody. welcome to my bathroom. >> reporter: but this morning goop settled a lawsuit filed by a consumer advocacy group called truth in advertising alleging goop made unsubstantiated health claims about some of their products. >> we found crystals that said they could treat infertility. perfumes that said they could heal lung disease. >> reporter: one product mentioned in the suit, the provocative jade and rose quartz egg products, which marketed themselves to women as a way to balance their hormones and increase bladder control. last year paltrow spoke about the benefits of