mchugh says nbc was resistant througut the reporting process and three days before going to interviewcredible rape allegation, wa mchugh says ordered to stop, not to interview this woman and stand down on the story all together. in a statement, nbc news says it supported farrow's reporting for eight mont while furrow believed his story was ready for air, the network disagreed because he did not have a single ssvictim of or wit to misconduct by weinstein who was willing to be identified. the network calls the malicious distortion anonymous "daily beast" report that sus susan wiener threatened to sue. he never made any threats and nbc says it was texted we don't want to stand this your way when he asked to take the story elsewhere. in october after the weinstein scandal broke, the story ran in "the new yorker" with sevennterviews on the record, none of which nbc says were part farrow's reporting at the network. ann thompson, nbc news. >>> still ahea the feel good story that turned sour. a homeless veteran accusing a couple offu ng to turnover $400,000 they raise for the him. now a judge

mchugh, a former abc news producer, resigned in protest from nbc news this month, telling abc, "as theather of four girls, i knew that if i didn't pursue this story with everything i had, how could i live with myself?" tom, the president of nbc news gave his blessing when farrow asked to take the story elsewhere, effectively ending their working relationship. >> adrienne, thank you. >>> now to detroit, and what has been a daylong celebration of the life of aretha franklin. the funeral service in her hometown. stevie wonder there, among those delivering powerful performances. and bill clinton remembering aretha franklin as a breathtaking rld -- got taken to urch today. as family, friends, fans, presidents, and pop stars packed the greater grace temple in detroit to say farewell to the undisputed queen of soul, aretha franklin. >> she was classy enough to sing on the most prominent stages in the world, but she was homegirl enough to make potato salad and fry some chicken. in a class all by herself. >> reporter: aretha, in that solid bronze, gold-plated casket, dressed head to toe in gold

rich mchugh worked on the story with ronan farrow whose reporting was eventually published by "the new yorker" magazine. mchugh says they were about to interview a woman with a rape allegation against weinstein when nbc executives told them to stand down. he tells abc news those orders came to me from the highest levels of nbc. that was unethical and a massive breach of journalistic integrity. overnight nbc responded saying at the time the story wasn't ready for broadcast because no alleged victims were ready to go on the record and it says the assertion that it tried to kill the story is an outright lie. >>> the silent sam statue may be gone but protests over the confederate monument are not. people on both sides of the debate clashed at the university of north carolina overnight. opponents moved the statue without permission last week. heavy police presence and pepper spray kept the two groups apart last night. three people were arrested. >>> time now for a look at your weather on this friday morning. >>> good morning. we're watching for severe weather today across iowa and minnesota

that was an ethical and a massive breach of journalistic integrity mchugh is the first person linked to n.b.c. to publicly accused the network of meddling in his for his and his freelance correspondent run in pharaoh's attempts to pursue the story and q. and farrow spent months collecting material on the allegations of sexual misconduct against weinstein two months after they faced resistance from the network farah went to the new yorker and published the first in his series of articles on weinstein the series won him a pulitzer prize since the publication of pharaoh's article in october two thousand and seventeen over seventy women have come forward with allegations of sexual harassment against the film producer weinstein handed himself into new york police in may of two thousand and eighteen and shortly afterwards was charged with rape and several counts of sexual abuse he denies all allegations of sexual assault with the court case still ongoing and b.c. says that the aster station that they tried to kill the weinstein story is an outright lie and stead the network suggests that f

it was a hiker who found her body floating in mchugh creek a few miles from anchorage. at first they didn't know who it was, no i.d. on the body. alaska state troopers finally figured it out from the class ring she was wearing. but karen could not take it in. not bonnie, her model child, her conscientious college freshman who she knew was going to school that day, not hiking, miles and miles from home and the university. >> none of it made sense. she didn't drive, so how did she get out there? somebody would have had to be with her. and she would not have missed school. she absolutely did not go out there on her own. >> reporter: in fact, bonnie's sister heard her get up that morning at 5:00 a.m. and set out on her 45-minute walk through the predawn dark to catch the bus that would take her to her 7:00 a.m. class at that time university. she usually didn't return home until about 10:00 p.m. packing most of her classes into a few days because she had a job at sam's club. >> she was incredibly responsible. >> reporter: responsible and nurturing toward her younger siblings

the accusations come from former nbc producer rich mchugh until this month worked in nbc's investigative unit. in august of last year mccune and ronan pharaoh were working on the harvey weinstein story as they were about to fly to los angeles to interview a woman with credible allegations of rape against weinstein rich mchugh told fox news that from the highest levels of nbc i was told quote not to do the interview and stand down thus effectively killing the story that was unethical and a massive breech of journalistic integrity. nbc says mchue's assertion is an outright lie claiming at the time ronan pharaoh didn't have a single on the record victim or witness by any misconduct by weinstein. going on to say quoting fair ferraro believed his reporting was ready for air. he chose to leave for print outlet that was willing to publish immediately. of course two months later the story ran in the new yorker. so far ronan far row has last october fa farrow did go on members talking about why he left nbc. >> you would have to ask nbc executives 'the details. i'm not going to comment on any news

mchugh resigned in protest from nbc news last week, nearly a year after farrow left.etwork tells abc news overnig overnight, the assertion that nbc news tried to kill the weinstein story while ronan farrow was at nbc news or even more ludicrously after he left nbc news is an outright lie. adding that farrow was allowed by nbc to take the story to the "new yorker." mchugh who formerly worked at abc news said nbc owed it to those brave women who spoke to us to get their stories out. but nbc says at that time farrow did not yet have a single victim of or witness to misconduct by weinstein who was willing to be identified. according to an nbc official who spoke to "the times" one of those women, rose mcgowan was willing to go on camera but at the time unwilling to name weinstein and eventually became his most vocal accuser. >> i have a visceral need for him to have handcuffs on. >> reporter: farrow went on to publish in "the new had on the report accounts from asia argento, mira sorvino, rosanna arquette and four other women and nbc says not one of these seven women was i

at the company's headquarters in derry salaam tommy mchugh from who also the team of twenty partner has none have ever worked in the field before and only four of them are trained ingenious they all learned how to build wind generators on the job using you tube to turtles when they started later they had the idea of connecting them to water pumps which turned out to be their most important innovation to date. whether we want. to be able to distribute water in most of the villages so even the government can come in and help in distributing water to us. areas especially past released in families the same meaning as the muslims are we really wish to get to the point of helping the entire community we have our podium of course you know i don't understand why. a good idea. the government has been planning a major wind path for years but it is a long way from being finished meanwhile local solutions like to mimic the phone was providing water and electricity at least to some villages. fascinating ideas but that's all we can take on this week's edition of eco africa we will be back next week w

i know well that was going through a thank you for thank you note joined by mark mchugh of a much. journalist rock one the top radio station catalunya you've got your finger on the possible one of the people seeing the events of the last few months well i think there is a lot of worry from people about what's going on in catalonia so maybe some years ago. paul's didn't show a lot of people thinking about this issue people by then were more worried about unemployment economics corruption but from the latest events of last year polls show that people is now thinking about independence as i think unsolved and asking politicians to solve it so well in the middle worst bustling radio station what are your listeners falling on a boat on whether they footing in a boat in the promise of the falling down the politicians to go on with what was the word of the street well i think that there are a lot of people thinking that this issue should be tackled with a referendum other people thinking that there is no way to solve it in an agreed or through an agreement with margaret and that catalan g

mchugh said they were told to stand down on the story. nbc news denies the accusations saying farrow's story was not ready for air. they said he didn't have a single victim of or witness to misconduct by weinstein who was willing to be identified. nbc news executives told the "times" farrow asked if he could take the story to another outlet and they agreed. it was published in the "new yorker" two months later after the story was first reported by the "new york times." in a statement, nbc news said "the assertion that nbc news tried to kill the weinstein story while ronan farrow was at nbc news or more ludicrously after he left nbc news is an outright lie. >> colin kaepernick's fight is heading to the courtroom. he claims that nfl owners conspired to keep him out of the league because of his protests over social injustice. on thursday an arbitrator denied the league's request to throw out the complaint and said the case will go to trial. kaepernick began a wave of protests by nfl players two seasons ago when he kneeled during the national

no, this is real, we came really close, we wanted to get this and we couldn't. >> reporter: rich mchughhe will not disclose which executives told him to stand down on his reporting. the president of nbc news says weinstein had no influence on the network's handling of the weinstein story. weinstein denied all allegations of sexual assault. >>> we're learning more about the extraordinary rescue efforts after a massive explosion at a chicago water treatment plant seriously injured ten workers. officials say yesterday's blast may have been caused by a build-up of methane gas. a roof collapse trapped two workers under tons of concrete and steel. more than 70 first responders freed the first trapped worker within minutes. fire officials say the other was entombed in the rubble. >> the company had to dig down, six feet down, and then tunnel their way approximately 20 feet to the victim. >> it took about two hours to rescue the man. he was hospitalized with a broken jaw and shattered leg. investigators are trying to determine what ig nilnited the methane gas. >>> people in detroit are saying f

the problem with working with perfectionists like mchugh and tom cruise, when it's not right, you keep? [ laughter ] >> yes, two guys on camera. >> jimmy: yeah. may i ask, who is the actor who's beating you guys up? he is awesome. >> he's amazing, isn't he? liang yang. he was a member of eastwood action stunts for that scene. and -- >> jimmy: is he some kind of champion fighter? >> he's really, really good. >> jimmy: yeah, he is good. >> a great performer too. like he really sells that scene. if it wasn't for his performance, it wouldn't be the same scene. >> jimmy: he does, he's fierce. he's scary. >> he kicks ass. >> jimmy: he does. >> i think he's gone on to do fight coordinating on big projects. >> jimmy: oh, really, boy. yeah, all right. >> a step up. >> jimmy: yeah, i gotcha. >> very good. >> jimmy: he is very, very good. did tom cruise give you a big present? he's a big gift giver. did he give you a present at the end of this film? >> the famous christmas thing which happens every year, tom sends a christmas cake. >> jimmy: a coconut cake. >> coconut cake, yes. i heard about thi

rich mchugh spent months working on the story.en he was told to stand down. he says those orders came from the highest levels of nbc. it was unethical and a massive breach of journalistic integrity. in response, nbc news says at the time the story wasn't ready for broadcast because none of the alleged victims were ready to go on the record. the allegation that it tried to outright kill the story, they say is a lie. >>> a system could grow into a hurricane by monday. >> for more on the weather, let's go to accuweather's julia weiden. >> we are watching for severe storms across the north central region as a cold front drops its way through. we're watching potential for high gusting winds and heavy downpours, possibly even producing tornados. now meanwhile, in the tropics, we see a wave here that's bringing intense rain to the region. this will press on into the southwestern u.s. as we head into early next week. for labor day we are watching storms across florida and the gulf coastal region. a look elsewhere around the country, and w

now mchugh mentory is a style that has infiltrated not just cinema but television.oa trajectory has been mocumentary. >> hey, judge. look at me. >> his stuff is very specific. >> it's in the crate. >> where is it? >> it's in the crate. >> the fact it was improvised, that became a style of story telling. ♪ midnight at the oasis >> any time you introduce something that is effective and nothing like everything else -- >> really good. >> -- that's where you get something that's revolutionary. ♪ like a surgeon cutting for the very first time ♪ >> i've just always thought rock 'n' roll should be fun, which is why its healthy for me to sometimes prick the bubble of pretentiousness that sometimes pervades the industry. ♪ i love rocky road why don't you go have a gallon baby ♪ ♪ i love rocky road have another dip with me ♪ >> i give myself several guidelines and parameters when i'm writing my parody songs. it needs to be funny even if people aren't familiar with the original source material. but i would say 90% of the time i'm just dealing with what is a very current, popula

mchugh claims nbc news told him to stand down on the story days an alleged rape victim.view nbc deniesing farrow's story was not ready for air. ye network says at the time, farrow did not have a single victim of or witness to misconduct by weinstein, who was willing to be identified. nbc news executives told the "times" farrow then a could take the story to another outlet, and they agreed. it was published in "the new yorker" two months later, after de story was first repory "the new york times." in a statement, nbc news said, "thetssertion t nbc news tried to kill the weinstein story while ronan farrow was at nbc news or even more ludicrously, after he left nbc news, is an outright lie. >>> colin kaepernick's fight against the national football league is headed to the courtroom. the former san francisco 49ersa rback claims that nfl owners conspired to keep him out of the league because of his protests over social injustice. well, on thursday, an arbitrator denied the league's request to throw out that complaint, and instd said the case will go to trial. kaepernick, of course, began a