but nobody tells poor ger sham mott. meanwhile warren just decides to jump off early. he thinks he's got an opportunity. he launched at 4:30. his attack spends itself. ger sham mott comes across, these wide open fields, confederates have nothing else to shoot at, 30 cannon and prove with artillery at the tip of the salient they can defend it. mott is wiped off the field. upton finally launches at 6:00 with no support on either side. the amazing thing is that he runs across this field, punches through, splits open the confederate line, successful. nobody knows what to do next. it is such an innovative tactic. he's a victim of his own success. and there are no confederate union reinforcements to flood into this gap. so confederates come rushing to the front. richard ewell does a fantastic job patching the hole. upton is driven from the field. he will earn his star because grant recognizes the failure was not upton's fault but his own. and one of the things i admire most about grant is he a quick learner despite the stereotype of him he's always experimenting and always t

bartender at a place got hit a few hours before this mott street tavern. let's check him out. surprise this xxxxxxx detective we found the guy. i wanted to talk to you about the incident last night. the incident? i'm curious what was going through your mind, deciding a busted taillight warranted me and my wife being treated like, uh, bonnie and clyde. lieutenant, i regret whatever the inconvenience to your wife or yourself, but we got to protect ourselves out there. you wouldn't be here if i thought it was about protecting yourself. do you feel the sisiation was handled appropriately? it's me who pulled you over, sir. it's me you got the beef with. officer mccaslin can't speak for himself? how about it? well, police have gotten shot during car stops. we need to protect ourselves. - how long you been on the street? - ten monthshs you? six and a half years. queens the whole time? so what? so what did you perceive as so threatening about me that you reacted to the degree that you didid i knew. i knew you were gonna make this a black-and-white thing. you tell me one thing i said o

ron mott, nbc news. >>> now to arizona where a police officer has been placed on leave after video shows him punching a woman in the face during a confrontation, and the woman was subsequently arrested. it happened wednesday when someone recording the incident later posted the video on social media. an investigation is now underway, and we get details from nbc's miguel almaguer. >> reporter: cell phone video captured the confrontation in flagstaff, arizona, when the officer threw the punch. >> hey! >> hey! >> you can't hit a girl like that. >> reporter: police were responding to an eviction notice. it's unclear what led to the scuffle between officer jeff bonar and marisa morris, who was arrested, then today released. >> marisa, just let him. >> let him arrest you. let him arrest you. >> it's hurtful. it's embarrassing. it's the people who are supposed to protect us, and they me. >> reporter: today the police department placed the officer on leave. the chief saying he is concerned by what is depicted. >> it is our intent to conduct a very detailed and thorough investigation into this mat

nbc's ron mott is there. >> reporter: the script is set, the scene ready. and on a balmy november day in the 70s in cleveland, the action is sure to be hot when the indians and chicago cubs play ball in game six of the world series. fans here, primed and pumped for a championship celebration at home. >> why is this the year and not the cubs' year? >> it's the young guys, they got a team, they got the chemistry. basketball team was crowned, it's now champagne wishes and cavalier dreams for the indians too. >> reporter: but since the cavs won on the row, it's been 52 years since any major cleveland sports team has become championship on home ground. there's no substitute for the electricity that flows on the street when the home team gets top billing like the indians did in 1920. >> i hope they clinch it. >> reporter: nana is gearing up for a potential nail-biter. >> i'm hoping and praying that they do get the win. >> reporter: for the cubs, trying to break their own 108-year drought, chicago fans in cleveland, down but not out. >> a w. >> the w, here it is.

. >> this is ron mott in cleveland where last night's bitter pill went down with a thud? >> we're ready for it tonight. >> making matters worse, a cubs w flying atop the rock and roll hall of fame. so is cleveland still believe-land? >> i'm still in believe-land, until the bottom of the ninth. >> the locals are ready to send their visitors packing. >> cubs, get out of here! >> no one knows the stakes better than the king, lebron james, who took the nba crown in game seven. his words of advice? live in the moment and the game will play itself out. >> but the indians and their fans have been here before. game seven, 1997. they walked away >> tonight they hope to become champs for the first time since 1948. >> this is kevin tibbles in chicago. >> wave your arm if the cubs are going to win. >> after 108 years of losing, fans are delirious going into game seven and biting their nails. >> right now my heart is pounding. >> i think it's all over this place. i see you're bleeding cubby blue here. >> for stressed-out cubs fans winning poses new challenges for psychologists. >> in

ron mott, nbc news, cleveland. >>> that is goin >>> good evening. we begin tonight with decision 2016 and the battle for arizona for the first time in decades. >> that's right. arizona could be considered a swing state. traditionally red arizona voters are leaning blue making our state ground zero for politicians. >> a heavy stream of heavy hitters making their way to the dessert. eleven electoral votes. >> brahm is live in the news room with a last minute push. >> all about getting out the vote right now and new poll shows republican donald trump might have an edge. donald trump might be pulling away from hillary clinton in arizona. fbi looking at what might be new clinton e-mails shows trump with a fount that boosted him on the widely watched site 538.com the republican nominee leading democrat clinton by 1.75 points. still a toss up. now comes the two campaigns final get out the vote push. the next three days are packed. mike pence is at the mesa convention center at 10:00 a.m. wednesday. later in the day hillary clinton outlines a get out the

nbc's ron mott has latest. >> reporter: the boutique was closing for the night, employees still inside when an explosion blasted its storefront wide open. surveillance cameras capturing two angles at the moment of impact. >> it shook everything. it almost felt like an earthquake. >> just a massive rumble and a big boom and just everything came crashing down at one time. >> reporter: today the extent of the damage to the town square in canton, illinois, was clear. >> the sirens started going off. people were running. it was mayhem. digging outside the 125-year-old ope opera house hit a supply line. a crew respondsed, and the explosion happen head as the crew was about to make a repair. the cause is under investigation. 38-year-old worker arturo silva jr. was killed. 12 others taken to the hospital. the force of the concussion felt for blocks. >> everybody has to go three blocks. >> reporter: the latest in a series of recent explosions to rock communities around the country, 97 so far this year. gas line incidents have killed nearly 300 in the u.s. causing more than $1 billion in propert

ron mott, nbc news. >>> now to arizona where a police officer has been placed on leave after video shows him punching a woman in the face during a confrontation, and the woman was subsequently it happened wednesday when someone recording the incident later posted the video on social media. an investigation is now underway, and we get details from nbc's miguel almaguer. >> reporter: cell phone video captured the confrontation in flagstaff, arizona, when the officer threw the punch. >> hey! >> hey! >> you can't hit a girl like that. >> reporter: police were responding to an eviction notice. it's unclear what led to the scuffle between officer jeff bonar and marisa morris, who was arrested, then today released. >> marisa, just let hi >> it's hurtful. it's embarrassing. it's the people who are supposed to protect us, and they did not protect us. they ended up hurting me. >> reporter: today the police department placed the officer on leave. the chief saying he is concerned by what is depicted. >> it is our intent to conduct a very detailed and thorough investigation into this matter. >> repor

ron mott, nbc news, cleveland. >>> that is going to do it for us on a tuesday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for >>> hey, dolls. >> treats or trick? camera turns to social media, then her posts suddenly disappear. how kim's crisis has impacted the most profitable arm of her empire. >> to me what was fun in the game -- >> this is how i do it.

ron mott, nbc news, cleveland. >>> that is going to do it for us on a tuesday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and goodnight. lead story. the possible solutions - are buried down lower - maybe the next day - maybe we skip em all together and m >>> here's the typical tv news formula. bad news goes up top. lead story. the possible solutions, they're buried down lower. maybe the next day. maybe we skip the solutions all together and move to the next problem. let's stop and start with a solution. one piece of the puzzle addressing denver's issue with homelessness. denver day works is giving homeless people jobs working for the city. the program launches tomorrow. you get an early look through journalist mike grady. >> this is a beautiful park in a beautiful state. >> civic center park is a work site. >> that's sweat, boy, that's sweat. i'm working. my name is danny timms. i love here in the park. >> i'm the deputy director of parks and planning, and this is for homeless peo opportunities to get connected with jobs or get connected

. >>> let's start with nbc's ron mott. he also has made his way to chicago. hi, ron, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. i've got just one question for you -- how about them it was a memorable game. there were palpitations all across the country so not for a weak heart. but at the end of the day, the cubs' heart was just a beat or two stronger than the indians. >> reporter: a finish not even hollywood could muster. >> cubs win the world series! they finally won it all! >> reporter: the unbelievable win coming after a nile-baiter where the cubs first stormed to a thrilling home run tying it for the indians in the eighth. a rain delay. and extra innings in this game for the ages. then -- the clincher. ben zobrist in the tenth. and with that, the chicago cubs broke the curse and the drought. world series champions again for the first time since 1908. >> this is dream come true. >> reporter: the cheers from all outside wrigley field overnight, just as sweet as the bubbly bath players soaked in after beating the indians in a dramatic game seven. >> number one

. >>> this is mott the way you want to go into the holiday. loran count city, poisoned by >> we will make sure we get the contractor in here and get everything fixed. >> they call it the silent killer. if everyone would have pass i am glad we are okay. >> the fire department says they are working on an official cause for this incident. >>> also developing exclusive pictures of a watt team looking for the suspect in an aggravated robbery. officers followed an suv to the 300 block of woodland avenue. one suspect is? custody. we are making calls to learn one mom struggling to pick up the pieces after a fire destroys her home almost killing her three year old son. they are counting on conditionedness this holiday season. >> reporter: she was planning on hosting thanksgiving at her home. >> we were going to have thanksgiving here. >> reporter: tonight she is sorting through the ashes of her life. >> a toddler bed. >>> space heater. >> it was against this wall. >> reporter: williams of working the third shift while her sister watched the kids. >> it

the focus offing mott south and you have this nice line making its way into towards san josi right now, and near fremont seeing scattered shower. this is sliding to the southeast, so the nest few minutes going to be picking up in san josi. looks like there is more to come off the coastline. as you make your way to the east bay, seeing widely scattered shower east of livermore and quieting down a little bit, but along the peninsula into south san francisco, looking at more rainfall that is making its way into the bay as we speak. in the north bay seeing more showers over the north bay hills and into san rafael and seeing raindrops there and still plenty move to come. we have this storm system moving through and maybe thunderstorms tomorrow and a whole new storm system moving through late on tuesday into wednesday. we'll have more on your holiday forecast coming up in a just a couple of minutes. j.r. back to you. >> continuing our team coverage of the weekend storms the first of many winter storms is here to stay for the next few days. drivers are on high alert, while travelers and other

ceoational civil war museum motts highlights the defense of cemetery ridge. areaosby heritage association hosted this hour-long talk. mr. burden: wayne motz has been a licensed guide at the gettysburg park for 13 years. he is had 25 years of service there. he is the narrator of the popular gettysburg audio field guide driving tour of the battlefield that was reduced -- produced where he was a senior historian. an ohio native, he received his degree in military history from ohio state and his masters in american history from shippensburg university. he was appointed chief executive officer of the national civil war exam located in harrisburg, pennsylvania in 2012. he was selected to that position from a field of over 100 candidates. the national civil war museum is a 65,000 square-foot building housing a renowned collection of artifacts and historical interpretations. the mission of the institution is to serve as a national center to inspire the lifelong learning of the american civil war through preservation and balanced presentation. before becoming the ceo

he breaks mott one, not two, but three tackles on his way into the end zone. the man run puts them up 20-19. then later in the quarter, michael conlin puts one money for jack jenson. he does the rest. 68yards on the score. 27-19 regina with the regals just couldn't stop the wolfpack in the second half. tyson connects with ben gay sick and that is the dagger. western christian snaps the streak. >>> we came out. they were a better team today. they made play-off play. you have to give it to them, mistakes to be in this game. >> i'm more proud. i know how hard they have worked and prepared and when you do that, i believe there is no remorse. there is no reason to have any second doubts about what happened. >> mount vernon finished one win short but us mustangs had something to cheer about. he received that a lucy yellowier sy this morning making it official. he will la all-american bowl. he is the first mt. vernon native to play in the game. >>> it is really exciting. last year i remember getting nominated and i was excited about that. to get invited to play is su

probably over on, like, mott and baynard. he be over there dealing most of the time. - what's he look like? - i don't know. he got a thing on his neck. - what? like a growth or something? - no, it's like a tattoo, man. he's got a couple of tears. look for the thing on his neck. - it's-it's like a dagger. - all right, just sit still a minute. hey, greg. i apologize. i lost control. he's a scumbag gangbanger. you got results. don't worry about it. okay. all right, listen, we're gonna give you a break 'cause you did the right thing. can i go? yeah. when they're through with you, get out of here. [ martinez ] greg. you think i killed marina? go ahead, arrest me. you want to be arrested? i don't care what you do. what we're gonna have you do, vitali, is take a seat. er your load down. accusing me of drunk? yeah. it's a real pleasure imagining you on the city streets in your hack. drink this. no. you can't make me.

he would talk to them no mott -- matter how long they wanted to talk. kids should love going to school. we as a society so you -- should be doing all we can to assure that every child feels learn, he wrote. >> what a powerful message more important now than ever. he is such a star on the field and off the field. >> he is such a big man, i can't imagine him ever being small enough to be bullied. that's part of the impact. -- he looks like a super hor -- hero. he can talk to the other kids out the -- in phoenix. team 12 win -- and the winner that's coming up. >>> another night of anti-trump protests going on all cross the county tlichlt comes as president-elect trump noujss two major pick -- picks in thinks -- his white house staff. he chooses rnc chair reince he also named steve bannon as -- as chief strategist and counselor. >>> prayer vigil at the capitol tonight was organized by promise arizona who were concerned about issues after theil -- election. >>> new tonight a mother of a chandler woman killed while crossing the street with two the children re

ron mott live in chicago. more on "the today show" in just a minute. >>> chuck bell is joining us now to tell us more about the back to reality forecast. >> back to november. yesterday felt a little bit more like mid-september than early november. tomorrow, november r second warmest temperature recorded so late in the year. the only day later than yesterday's date that had a warmer temperature was when we reached 84 back on november the 4th of 1974. so very unusually warm yesterday. now the cold front is to our south. colder air will spill in on a gusty northwest wind today. hold on to your hats and have your wind breaker ready to go. temperatures are in the mid-50s across much of the suburbs but the northwest wind bringing the cooler and drier air in. temperatures will be in the mid-50s through 8:00. mid afternoon temperatures up to around 60 degrees. planning out tomorrow, down right chilly, they will be 30s in the rural areas. great weekend to get outside and look at the color. it is past peak once you get

ron mott is there. when does the celebration even end? it's a continuous celebration there for cubs fans. >> reporter: hey there, andrea. i'm not sure the celebration even stopped. maybe people went home, took a little nap, a 60-minute nap and they're back out here. this is an extraordinary scene. this many hours after the cubs clinched their first world series since 1908. there are people coming from all over the city, bringing their kids and families, taking pictures. they want to see the three famed words on this marquee saying, world series championships. i'm sure they'll leave it up because people want to memorialize this moment. they know no one who was alive the last time the cubs won the world series in 1908. they got back in 1945 but lost to the tigers that year. it was a huge deal just to qualify to get back into the world series this year. it would seem people weren't real sure they should have hope the cubs would win the world series. that seems almost a dream that was outsized that could not become reality. so this morning wh

ron mott, thank you very much. hillary clinton watched the end of that game backstage after a campaign stop in arizona and then tweeted her congratulations to her hometown team. earlier she spoke before one of her biggest crowds of her campaign. she says she has a real chance of to win arizona since bill clinton 20 years ago. today she's campaigning in north carolina. donald trump will also be in the tar heel state and in florida. on wednesday he urged himself to stay on point and dismissed hillary clinton as totally unhinged and the candidate of yesterday. the election now five days away. >>> chaos erupted in new orleans last night where former kkk leader david duke was participating in a u.s. senate debate. who were trying to enter the auditorium at dillard university, a historically black college. six people were arrested for obstructing traffic. nobody was seriously injured. in response to the growing outrage over duke's presence, the university released a statement on wednesday, saying that it stands by its co

. >> last mott the florida department of hoif safety and motor vehicles announced two backup workers to resolve the crashes. technology is it flays by june of next year. >> we're working every day constantly on them. so the systems work now. >> but for how long? despite the system dock back auto line saturday night, they had another outage on monday morning. >> fen if we can wait that long. >> if there's a major half a daily out looj like saturday. you're talking about 67 counties affected and toe terrible hi he still had to pay his employees, so so he had he sent a letter to the state asking them to reimburse that money to his office. cynthia. >> good luck on that one. >> we'll see how it goes. >>> coming up, a terrible accident on i-75 that killed a father and his two children. >> after the break, of differing reports on how it happened from investigators and the sole there have been a rash of break-ins spreading across pat coast county. paul it's a nice night out there. >> pretty good. locked in the past couple of nights and partly cloudy skies with a couple of changes on the cars

we'll know soon enough here exactly what the turnout was. >> ron mott, critical state of ohio. steve kornacki is at the board with more of our numbers. >> yeah, well, we are waiting now. poll closings coming up in ohio, north carolina. i think you know the stakes. in both states, north carolina, president obama was down there a week ago. he said, if hillary clinton wins this, she wins the election. story of the night here. it really is about demographic composition. just how divided we are. take a look in ohio. the black vote here is critical for democrats in ohio. remember, president obama carried ohio four years ago, narrowly. that was pretty much the state that re-elected him as president. so one of the keys to that four years ago was that 15% of the electorate in ohio was black. and that represented an enormous turnout among african-americans. if you think back pre-obama, when john kerry was the democratic nominee back in 2004, that number was only 10%. so that reflects extremely high turnout. and again, that is one of the critical questions here. barack obama not on the ba

i'm ron mott in chicago. there are more than a few sick calls phoned into the office today because this must see tv went late into the night. waking up to a dreeg. -- to a dream. >> the cubs win the world >> reporter: long imagined, long delayed, the chicago cubs are the winners. >> what a game. what a series. >> reporter: down three games to one to the cleveland indians -- >> what a start! >> reporter: the cubs battled back bit by bit. with a don't quit attitude. >> 8-6, >> reporter: cubs become the sixth team ever to win it all from the edge of elimination. the last two victories on the road in cleveland against an equally game and scrappy indians team. meantime, back in chicago, delirium. unabashed emotion unleashed. >> i don't believe it. the whole game i was like is this really going to happen and then it happened. i don't believe it. i don't know what to say, man. >> i have been a cubs fan since i was a young man, a young boy, and my father worked the grounds crew. so this is a dream come true. >> repor